Re: Install potato & woody from floppy disk
#include Liu Tao wrote on Sat Oct 27, 2001 um 01:37:39PM: > ask me insert root disk, when I insert the root disk and > press enter, a kernel panic occured: > Kernel panic: VFS: can't mount root fs on 00:20 Try another floppy disk. Many of them get errors after few weeks of use. If it does not help, you floppy drive may be broken. Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- * Das Verhalten von Gates hatte mir bewiesen, dass ich auf ihn und seine beiden Gefaehrten nicht rechnen durfte. Karl May, Winnetou Bd. 3
Help with pipe command
I think this should be simple... I want to run a command (traceroute) and have the date/time listed before the trace output. I'll do this multiple times and want to keep appending to the same file. The results will ideally look something like this: 'date/time' (trace results) 'date/time' (trace results) and so on... Thanks in advance Hall
Japanese fonts in X
Hello List I have installed a potato box for a friend. She would like to use japanese fonts in GNOME, so I have installed the xfonts-intl-japanese and xfonts-intl-japanese-big packages, selected "japanese" on gdm login, but all I get is useless crap-symbols (þþæßþþµµ¢ß?...). I have also generated the japanese locales. What else do I have to do to get japanese symols? thanks joerg
video card detection (follow up)
My pc has a diamond v770 tnt2 and my laptop has some kind of ATI mobility rage 128. I can't possibly see my tnt2 as being too "new". Anyway, I need to do some manual configuration right? Where can I find info on this?
Re: apt-get sources.list question
On Saturday 27 October 2001 03:17, Karsten M. Self wrote: [...[ > Once you've updated your sources lists from online and switched to > Woody, you're likely going to find none of the packages on CD are > considered up to date. This is among the reason few seasoned Debian > users install from CD -- base tarball plus boot floppies is generally > sufficient, packages are snared over the 'Net. I'm just curious, what exactly are these files? My own mini-Debian installer consists of the following files: base2_2.tgz basecont.txt drivers.tgz kernel-config linux rescue.bin [2.88MB floppy version] It would help newbies with a little bandwidth to burn if somebody cooks up an official Internet friendly Debian ISO image. Pop the mini CD in. Tick whether you want stable, testing or unstable. And voila, an up-to-date Debian system. Defenestrate those half-GB+ ISO's. __ Virus scanning services by Mindgate Systems, Inc http://www.mindgate.net http://www.i-snapinternet.com http://www.pinoybattle.net
www-data sends email to itself (bad interpreter)
I have just found out that www-data sends emails to www-data. What's the point of that? nobody logs in as www-data and the emails are invisible. here's what the email says: /bin/sh: /usr/sbin/awstats-update: bad interpreter: Permission denied the bug was already filed for this problem but isn't sending the email a problem in itself? TIA erik
Test
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Re: Mozilla package (was Re: Mozilla 0.9.5, font sizes)
Hey, On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 01:54:58PM -0700, Gordon Paynter wrote: > As an aside, does there exist an up-to-date Mozilla debian package? > The one I can currently apt-get is the milestone 18 (!) release, so > I've been installing the recent builds by hand. Is there a better way > to do this? Hehe, I did that for a long time to. Then sid got the new packages, so just edit your /etc/apt/sources.list (temporarily of course), and then apt-get install mozilla-browser (or i think just mozilla if you want mail and everything). That's a little more convenient than doing by hand though. Enjoy, Cameron Matheson _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: Mozilla package (was Re: Mozilla 0.9.5, font sizes)
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 13:54:58 -0700, Gordon Paynter wrote: > As an aside, does there exist an up-to-date Mozilla debian package? Yes, in "unstable". See http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/update_excuses.html for why it's not in "testing" yet. HTH, Ray -- POPULATION EXPLOSION Unique in human experience, an event which happened yesterday but which everyone swears won't happen until tomorrow. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
something wrong with the RealPlayer
Hi, There is something weird happening with my RealPlayer. Everthing worked fine in the past but when I started RealPlayer 7 today there are no letters or numbers anymore. There are dotted rectangulars instead of letters and numbers. I thoght that might be a problm of RealPlayer 7 (although it worked in the past) so I installed RealPlayer 8. But there is the same effect - when I start the installation I can't read anything - all I see is a dotted rectangular instead of a letter. But it still works! I can play audio and video files but I can't read anything. What is wrong here?? thanks, Philipp
Re: Mozilla package (was Re: Mozilla 0.9.5, font sizes)
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 01:54:58PM -0700, Gordon Paynter wrote: > On Monday 15 October 2001 09:45, Christopher S. Swingley wrote: > > I just moved from Mozilla 0.9.4 to 0.9.5 and noticed that it doesn't > > seem to be respecting font sizes. For example, > > As an aside, does there exist an up-to-date Mozilla debian package? > The one I can currently apt-get is the milestone 18 (!) release, so > I've been installing the recent builds by hand. Is there a better way > to do this? I grab mozilla from unstable, which is up-to-date. You'll need to put unstable in your sources.list in order to do this, and probably would want to read the apt_preferences man page. David
Re: Mozilla package (was Re: Mozilla 0.9.5, font sizes)
Gordon Paynter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Monday 15 October 2001 09:45, Christopher S. Swingley wrote: > > I just moved from Mozilla 0.9.4 to 0.9.5 and noticed that it doesn't > > seem to be respecting font sizes. For example, > > As an aside, does there exist an up-to-date Mozilla debian package? > The one I can currently apt-get is the milestone 18 (!) release, so > I've been installing the recent builds by hand. Is there a better way > to do this? > Personally, I like to install recent builds by hand... however, if you want a debian package, you'll have to get the most recent out of sid/unstable (stable and testing still have M18 for some reason).
OT: Bootdisk that hands over to boot from CD?
Hi all, my system _should_ be able to boot from CD, but right now it doesn't, so I wondered if someone knows about an image of a diskette, that just hands the bootprocess over to the CD, when booted into. (I'd just use it as a boot image for grub, that should work ;-) kind regards, Ingo
mouse doesn't work with xdm
Hi all, I've got a little problem with my mouse: Microsoft Intellimouse PS/2 Debian Woody with XFree86 4.1.0 When booting into the console, and using startx, my mouse works (/dev/gpmdata as mousedevice, Protocol Intellimouse). At least I get 3 Buttons, the wheel doesn't work, though. Now when I use xdm / gdm / kdm the mouse doesn't work (just jumps around on the screen). Any ideas which files I have to change, to get it working under xdm? (Or to get the wheel, but that's not that important). Kind regards, Ingo
Re: Q: dns /exim / inetd (?) slow startup (2)
Hi all, Once upon a time Ingo Hohmann spoketh thus: > Hi to all, > > I'm still trying to find out what may make name resolution > and exim startup to slow down to a crawl ... > > (smrgol is my local host, ip: 10.1.1.1) > > If I do a > > ping smrgol > > I get an instant answer, but if I > > telnet smrgol > > it takes about 30s until I'm connected. On the other hand > > telnet 10.1.1.1 > > connects instantly. > > Another problem is exim. It normally is started from inetd, > so I do > > telnet 10.1.1.1 smtp I've tried all your ideas, but nothing helped, seems there's something more hidden in my system ... (It happens locally, without netconnection, /etc/hosts is there and right, /etc/host.conf, too ... to start exim by hand takes 30 secs, too ...) Thanks again, Ingo
Re: Mozilla package (was Re: Mozilla 0.9.5, font sizes)
* Gordon Paynter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011027 12:32]: > > As an aside, does there exist an up-to-date Mozilla debian package? > The one I can currently apt-get is the milestone 18 (!) release, so > I've been installing the recent builds by hand. Is there a better way > to do this? Unstable has 0.9.5+ (Version: 0.0.20011024.14.trunk-1 << that's dated 10-24-2001) available. Hall
Re: libc6 dlopen problem
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 03:37:40PM -0400, Andy Wingo wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I've been having a number of issues this afternoon with the dlopen() facility
> on
> my debian unstable system. I didn't want to submit a bug report until I was
> sure, so here it is:
>
> $ cat test-dlopen.c
> #include
> #include
>
> int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
> void *handle = dlopen(argv[1], RTLD_LAZY);
> if (!handle)
> puts(dlerror());
> exit(0);
> }
>
> $ gcc -ldl -o test-dlopen test-dlopen.c && ./test-dlopen ./libalsa.so
> ./libalsa.so: undefined symbol: gst_bytestream_peek_bytes
> $
>
> This is crazy irritating. With the .so I'm testing, I load another library
> that
> defines those symbols before they get a chance to be called. Isn't that what
> RTLD_LAZY is supposed to do? This used to work, I'm thinking it's a libc6 bug.
>
> Running this little test program on other machines works with the exact same
> code that produced libalsa.so, so I don't think it's that issue. Please let me
> know if this is my problem or someone else's, as I'm a bit frustrated right
> now
> :-\ BTW, the same thing occurs with gcc 2.95.4 and 3.0.2.
Seems to me that gst_bytestream_peek_bytes might be used as part of the
libraries _init code. Which means RTLD_LAZY wont help it.
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Re: Aliasing a NIC
> it on a Debian woody box running a 2.4.10 kernel. I need to know what files > to edit and what the format of the configuration. I run potato and 2.4.x kernels. You don't need anything special in the kernel anymore, just CONFIG_INET. Have a look at linux-source/Documentation/networking/alias.txt. Then, put something like the following in /etc/network/interfaces: iface lo inet loopback iface eth0 inet static address X.Y.Z.W0 netmask 255.255.255.0 network X.Y.Z.0 broadcast X.Y.Z.255 gateway X.Y.Z.1 iface eth0:0 inet static address X.Y.Z.W1 netmask 255.255.255.0 network X.Y.Z.0 broadcast X.Y.Z.255 up route add -host X.Y.Z.W1 dev eth0:0 -Igor Mozetic
qmail -- supervise: fatal: unable to obtain lock
Hi everyone, I am experiencing a problem mentioned many many times on various mailing lists (a google search turned up several), but I have not been able to find a resolution anywhere. I followed the instructions in the qmail HOWTO v2 (posted many places, one of which is http://www.flounder.net/qmail/qmail-howto.html). When I start my computer (or manually start svscan or qmail) I get the error message: supervise: fatal: unable to acquire log/supervise/lock: temporary failure supervise: fatal: unable to acquire qmail-send/supervise/lock: temporary failure supervise: fatal: unable to acquire qmail-smtpd/supervise/lock: temporary failure supervise: fatal: unable to acquire log/supervise/lock: temporary failure I have found many people also had this problem, but I could not find any thread that solved it for me. It seems the common problems that were causing this symptom for other people included missing files and incorrect permissions. I'm pretty sure neither is the case for me. I installed using the .deb packages for qmail, uscpi-tcp, dot-forward, etc. from ftp://ftp.innominate.org/pub/pape/Debian/potato/unofficial/binary-i386/ and then configured them as instructed in the howto linked above. Could any of you point me to a link describing how to fix this? Or perhaps walk me through the solution? Please cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] in any replies, I'm not on the qmail-help list (and [EMAIL PROTECTED] is not on debian-user). I feel like a bit of a dolt, because I just started at a new company and was extolling to them the virtues of debian and qmail, and I just spent an entire day trying to install just those two on one computer, and failed miserably. :( I'm cross posting this to debian-user because I am installing on debian and using (unofficial) .deb packages; perhaps one of you has run into this before. Final twist: I don't have access to the machine as I'm writing this mail, so can't give you folder listings etc. I can on monday. But I do remember most of them. (from memory) /services/ drwxr-xr-x qmail-send -> /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send drwxr-xr-x qmail-smtpd -> /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smptpd drwxr-xr-t /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/ -rwxr-xr-x /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/run drwxr-xr-x /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/log/ -rwxr-xr-x /var/qmail/supervise/qmail/send/log/run Thanks, -ben -- Ben Hartshorne ...Discarding smoothly, as we disembark, [EMAIL PROTECTED] All thoughts that held us wiser for a moment ben.hartshorne.net Up there, alone, in the impartial dark. -M. Oliver My PGP key is at /pgp.txt. Please encrypt all communications. pgphWBsHumGUq.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Remote Installation
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 07:34:22AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > Has anyone every tried to figure out how to set up a remote installation > that can be automated? 'fai' reportedly does this job quite nicely. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
trouble with acer usb cdrw drive and cdrecord
Hello. I've been having trouble with cdrecord on my Acer 4406eu usb cdrw drive. Just as a check, I have verified that it works fine under windows 2k. In fact, for a day it worked fine under linux, and I haven't been able to figure out what changed that made it no longer work. :( It has no problem with reading, only with writing (using cdrecord). I consistently (regardless of the cd image I'm writing) get the same error after the same number of bytes are written (this is using -V output): Executing 'write_g1' command on Bus 0 Target 0, Lun 0 timeout 40s CDB: 2A 00 00 00 02 4D 00 00 1F 00 cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 2A 00 00 00 02 4D 00 00 1F 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 03 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 0C 09 00 00 Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x0C Qual 0x09 (write error - loss of streaming) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 1.968s timeout 40s cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 2A 00 00 00 02 4D 00 00 1F 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 03 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 0C 09 00 00 Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x0C Qual 0x09 (write error - loss of streaming) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 1.968s timeout 40s write track data: error after 1206272 bytes The usb drive is connected to a thinkpad X21 computer. If any of you have experience with this (or a similar) drive, or have any suggestions as to how I might debug this problem, please let me know. Oh yeah, and I'm running kernel 2.4.12 and unstable, although I've also tested this with 2.4.10. -- David
Install Debian into a Windows partition report
Instrall Debian into Windows partition report: loopback approach: stopped at mount :-( UMSDOS approach: I did not VFAT approach: copyied everything to disk. I stopped short of running lilo but may likely to work. :-) YMMV See below for details: On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 08:48:36AM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: > > Could somebody please advice me on a safe approach whereby , I can > > have Debian on a Windows partition , sans data loss . ie : I want > > both the OSes , for different reasons . > > There are a couple ways to do it (UMSDOS and a loopback filesystem in > a file on the Windows side) but I don't believe the Debian installer > supports either one. You'd have to set things up by hand, though > someone may have set up something to help. Just as reality check, I tried installing through "loop" device. Debian 3.0 woody boot disk i downloaded few weeks back had loop back devide node /dev/loop* and vfat support. After booting, I swiched to console ALT-F2, mounted /dev/hda1 as vfat, created large file by dd where Debian shall be installed. WOW it worked up to here. I failed at mounting this because mount command on boot disk works only on block device as error message reads. Maybe next time, I will try installing Debian into MSDOS partition using regular mount command unser dual-boot condition. If only I could mount, I see no reason not to be able to install Debian into DOS/Windows partition using loop device. As you mention, UMSDOS is another option but I am not familiar. Last option is use vfat. If I mounted /dev/hda1 as /target and proceeded to install linux, it did install system. I just did not feel like trashing my boot sector so I did not run lilo but maybe possible to boot system. Maybe next time. :-) It was a fun puzzle. But I can gurantee, it aint for faint hearted. Disclaimer: I stand by my words but not my spelling nor grammer :-) -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + My debian quick-reference, http://www.aokiconsulting.com/quick/+
Re: video card detection
on Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 11:26:11PM -0700, Cary Cherng ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > These are my first attempt at installing Debian. Both my laptop and pc > seem to have video cards that cannot be identified. Is this normal or > am I missing something? Install lspci: $ apt-get install lspci Run it: $ /sbin/lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440FX - 82441FX PMC [Natoma] (rev 02) 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371SB PIIX3 ISA [Natoma/Triton II] (rev 01) 00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371SB PIIX3 IDE [Natoma/Triton II] 00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX [Linksys EtherFast 10/100] (rev 25) 00:0f.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7881U 00:11.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1370 [AudioPCI] 00:13.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86c988 [ViRGE/VX] (rev 02) I've got an (old) S3 ViRGE/VX card in this box. If that doesn't resolve the issue, pull the box open or refer to documentation on what kind of card you've got. Take a number off the biggest chip(s) on the video card and run 'em through Google. Peace. -- Karsten M. Selfhttp://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html pgpDTDZ7yQHGc.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: video card detection
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 11:26:11PM -0700, Cary Cherng wrote: > These are my first attempt at installing Debian. Both my laptop and pc seem > to have video cards that cannot be identified. Is this normal or am I missing > something? > > It's not abnormal. If you're using potato then you're probably using Xfree 3.3.6 which has knowledge of many cards, but not all. Best bet is to find out what Windows calls your cards and select them by name when setting up Xfree. Ian -- FreeSoftware Developer and user of Debian GNU/Linux _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: security for woody
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 03:13:43PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: > Thus spake shock: > > pardons for asking this, but i can't remember or locate the answer. > > what entry should i use in sources.list for security updates to > > woody? > > > > thanks. > I have http://security.debian.org/debian-non-US woody/non-US main > contrib in my sources.list file - works fine, although it may just be > a redirect to the non-US branch. Good luck, Steve security.debian.org and non-us.debian.org are the same machine. So apt source you specify above is just a non-us source; It has nothing to do with security at all. Woody is *NOT SUPPORTED BY THE SECURITY TEAM*! Keep this in mind, because when you see an announcement of a new Debian security fix there is no guarantee that you'll get it installed on your woody system when you next do a dist-upgrade. In fact it's really more likely that you won't, since the fix will have to be applied to sid first. If you keep this in mind, and keep up with security news, then it is possible to run a reasonably secure woody system. I'd wager that it's usually at least as secure as any "out of the box" Redhat installation, but you really never know. noah -- ___ | A subversive is anyone who can out-argue their government | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html pgpPJp96gLLf3.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Keyboard loss
on Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 12:26:52PM -0400, Mark Carroll ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hmmm - strangely, although my laptop works fine normally, if I start gpm > or xdm then the keyboard becomes inoperative. If I log in remotely and > kill them, it works again. > > Any clues as to what's going wrong? I can only confirm that I've had similar issues with GDM. Occasionally mutiple starts/restarts of GDM and X will resolve the issue. I've since removed gdm from on effected machine. Peace. -- Karsten M. Selfhttp://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html pgpzYw7hXpW13.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: File corruption
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001 23:12:29 Russell Coker wrote: > [...] > BTS. It's either a kernel issue or a hardware issue. It turns out to be a hardware issue. One corrupt bit in 256 MB. Thank you for your response, Steven. -- Steven Mooij Kavezet Automatisering Korvezeestraat 37 2628DB Delft Telefoon: +31 6 44960226 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:63799400
Re: xchat font problems
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 23:41:45 -0500, shock wrote: > i'm running xchat on a woody installation. the problem is that when xchat > starts, instead of letters, all i see is square boxes. See http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2001/23/ under "Fonts missing after upgrade" and http://bugs.debian.org/107554 . HTH, Ray -- Obsig: developing a new sig
Re: funny ps output
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 03:23:11PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: > The only thing I can think of is to look at the timestamps of System.map > and your kernel - are they the same? I've gotten this error after > copiling a new kernel but then forgetting to copy over the new > System.map to /boot. > Good luck, ls from /boot: -rw-r--r--1 root root 436314 Oct 24 10:49 System.map-2.4.13 -rw-r--r--1 root root 838056 Oct 24 10:49 vmlinuz-2.4.13 The timestamp is not an issue. Any other thoughts? Jonathan -- Jonathan B. Leffert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | "So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark, that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back." -- Hunter S. Thompson
Re: X can't init font path elements?
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 03:47:40PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > yes.just edit the file in XF86Config-4 and add the fixed font in your > fontpath lists. actually, > xf86 always falls back to the default font 'fixed' if it's having problems > rendering your fonts Well, instead of this workaraound, I just purged all fonts and xfs, then reinstalled them, and X worked. But it was quite a funny thing... I wonder why it hapened to me only! :-) J. --
Telnet
G'Day all, I would like to set up ssh and to disable telnet for security reasons. Is this just a matter of installing the ssh components, and to disable telnetd? in inetd.conf? TIA, Martin :-)
Test
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dpkg -rfakeroot
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Re: Woody and kernel 2.4.13 ide cmd erros on shutdown
According to Hanasaki JiJi: > I wish it was harmless fsck runs for all the filesystems, becuase > they were not unmounted cleanly, on reboot. The bad news is that there > are quite a few errors that show up. Never happend in Potato with the > stock kernel. > > Thoughts? Comment out the hdparm call in /etc/init.d/umountfs. That should take care of the (IMHO harmless) errors that get printed. If you then still have problems with not cleanly unmounted filesystems it's something else. Please let me know how it turns out. Mike. -- "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former" -- Albert Einstein.
Re: (OT) I am offended by the wording
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 03:15:43PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear Osamu, > I was offended by several of your usages like : > "Judging from your question... Not for you." , etc. > I have done OS - installations before (including dual-boots) . > I also know that there is a very high probability for data loss . I concur with Nathan that you need a much thicker skin. Also, I would have replied in exactly the same way to a questioner wanting to be "100% certain that no data loss will ever occur", and would have concluded that the person asking the question needed to do more reading. Asking for help on reliability is one thing, but I think most people who were already proficient wouldn't expect 100% certainty to be possible. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Microsoft bullies again
Thought may be interesting for the debian community: NEW YORK (October 26, 2001 4:29 p.m. EDT) - Microsoft's premiere Web portal, MSN.com, denied access to millions of people who use alternative browser software such as Opera and told them to get Microsoft's products instead. http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/158273p-1497208c.html
Re: Acroread broken?
On Oct 26, 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 11:23:57AM +0800, Arne Goetje ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > ok... I will use gv, I think... > > Then I don't need acroread... > > I'd drop acroread based on Adobe's prosecution of Dmitry Sklyarov under > the DMCA. > > I use both gv and xpdf as free alternatives to acroread. I prefer gv's > navigation, though xpdf handles some files gv doesn't. xpdf provides > cut-and-paste capabilities. Does gv or xpdf work with netscape? Larry
pipe help
I think this should be simple... I want to run a command (traceroute) and have the date/time listed before the trace output. I'll do this multiple times and want to keep appending to the same file. The results will ideally look something like this: 'date/time' (trace results) 'date/time' (trace results) and so on... Thanks in advance Hall
Re: Lost Debian Unstable Package Archive
Craig Dickson said: > site down or scale it back somehow. (Can Apache be told to limit > its total bandwidth usage?) closest you can come is probably mod_limit. im not sure if it can limit total bandwidth but i believe it can limit realtime bandwidth. never tried it myself..i believe it was in potato and maybe woody so i expect it to be in sid ... my dsl is 1024kbps upstream. isp doesnt care how much bandwidth i use. i love 'em (www.theriver.com) nate
Re: variable ramdisk greater than 4megs
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 11:38:54AM +0200, Timo Blazko Boewing wrote: > > Has anyone of you an idea? When baking my last kernel (2.4.12), I > somewhere activated "tmpfs", is it that what I may use? That's what I'm doing. It's like a ram disk that can get swapped out. It's not too hard to set is up, and seems to work beautifully. David.
nvidia tnt2
My diamond v770 tnt2 for some reason doesn't get detected and obviously this is a problem when X configuration happens. Is there some device module I need or something?
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unstable and libexpat.so.0 and db2 problems!!!!!
in a fresh debian-unstable, it seems as though a lot of packages depend on libexpat.so.0. these include: libapache-mod-perl php4 and possibly lots of others I have lost track of. libexpat.so.0 isn't delivered by any current package AFAIK. So I've been recompiling these things. recompile using current libexpat.so.1 and libdb3 works just fine... G'day, eh? :) - Teunis Peters
Re: wine build error: specmaker?!?
Thus spake Peter Jay Salzman: > just downloaded wine tonight, and got a build error: > > # apt-get -b source wine >(snip) >make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/wine-0.20011026.033955/programs/winver' >make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/wine-0.20011026.033955/programs' >dh_testdir >dh_testroot ># distribute the files in debian/tmp into debian/ ># according to the .files files >dh_movefiles >dh_movefiles: debian/tmp/usr/bin/specmaker not found >find: usr/bin/specmaker: No such file or directory >make: *** [binary-arch] Error 1 >Build command 'cd wine-0.20011026.033955 && dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc' > failed. >E: Child process failed > > anyone have any ideas what specmaker is? it's not on any of my debian > systems. > > thanks, > > pete Can't fin it either - but the build process failed in exactly the same way for me. It looks like the script expects to have already built a program named specmaker, and then fails when it can't find it. Don't know where to go from here - I'm not good enough at scripting to want to mess with the build scripts. Good luck, Steve -- Killing turkeys causes winter. pgpriTIw09Daa.pgp Description: PGP signature
OT: Firewall question
Hi, I'm getting tonns, and tonns of messages like this from my iptables script. I'm suspectiong that this isn't nust evil trafic, but other trafic beeing stopped for unknown reasons. Has anyone experienced things like this? from the log: kernel: ipt_unclean: TCP flags bad: 4 MAC=00:40:33:d2:41:34:00:00:c5:76:50:00:08:00 SRC=194.19.1.186 DST=195.204.129.18 LEN=40 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=61 ID=26086 PROTO=TCP SPT=3718 DPT=25 WINDOW=0 RES=0x00 RST URGP=0 I'm funning the gShield iptables script. tarjei
"Daddy, something's wrong with the filesystem..."
(Herein is an apparent problem with free space reporting. Presented in
"Rambling Story" format for the author's and possibly even your
entertainment.)
So I woke up this morning, looked outside and found that the winds were
sufficent enough to do the raking for me, and decided, let's go for some
sort of activity that involves indoor work. I decide, I wanna do a firewall
or something, or at least poke around with same. Of course, this requires I
compile in the capability into my kernel, so I figure that this serves as
the perfect excuse to upgrade to 2.4.13, just because I'm a bleeding-edge
weirdo that way (why else would one run Unstable?).
So, after doing the apt-get upgrade of the week, download kernel source
(always fun on a 56K modem), untar, make menuconfig, yadda yadda yadda. Make
dep, make bzImage - eep, out of space? Apparently I'd overfilled /usr to the
point that it only had space left for untarring the kernel source, and there
was *just* not enough left for it to compile a kernel.
Ahso. Delete a few archives of source in there; who needs the backup tarball
of the current kernel source anyways? Live dangerously, that's not my motto.
Search through dselect, remove a few packages, et cetera, et cetera. Yay,
/usr should now have some space!
Type df to check this. It reports 0 blocks available on /usr.
The hell.
Remove a few more bits and pieces. That ought to fix it, right?
Type df. 0 blocks available.
Okay, something's screwed. Bring down system (fortunately it's a laptop and
I'm the only user), get copy of tomsrtbt, pop it in, run e2fsck -f.
No errors. Plenty of inodes and blocks available.
Ohhhkay. Now this is freaky. Bring system back up, get on IRC, consult with
Older Sister *nix Guru. She puzzles, says essentially "this is a type of
voodoo that I ran into with Slack once" and suggests I yank out the hard
drive, put it in another computer, boot that computer into Linux
(+GNU+whateverelseisintheOS), and run e2fsck from *there*, and all will be
well.
Bleah. Oh well. Pull out hard drive, spend half hour looking for 2.5" to
3.5" connector converter, plug hard drive in alternative computer, boot,
e2fsck -f.
No errors reported.
Right-O. Ohkay. Well, maybe it did some sort of voodoo incantation thereon.
Put hard drive back in laptop, boot up laptop.
Type df. 0 blocks available.
Ohkay. The f**k.
Get back on IRC. Report to Older Sister *nix Guru that her voodoo didn't
work. Am asked "Can you back up and reinstall?" Which I can't - don't have
the available backup space, time, bandwidth or sanity. So. Ugh.
In last great act of defiance, decide to try apt-get installing something
anyways.
This is how I reported it to IRC:
/dev/hda7 963911923505 0 100% /usr <--
from earlier.
Then I try "apt-get install wmmatrix" (little wm applet) just as a
test.
Install is successful.
/dev/hda7 963911923613 0 100% /usr
Note how the number of used blocks has changed.
So. Attempt to restart kernel compile. Make clean, make dep, make bzImage
modules modules_install. No problems or reports of "no more space". Used
block count increases. Available block count always stays zero. Et cetera,
et cetera. New kernel is all compiled.
*whimper*
So, in short, I seem to have this problem with free space reporting on my
/usr partition. It's not currently a blocking problem, but it's slightly
disturbing. I don't know if this is a bug in df, or a bug in my filesystem.
Enlightenment (not the WM!) on this matter would be much appreciated, as I
get extremely paranoid when things like this seem to mystically happen. Is
my /usr partition about to explode? Or am I the victim of a vicious bug in
fileutils?
Remember, only YOU can enlighten the worried ones. *AuntSamanthaposterlook*
And thank you for making it this far through my rambling. :)
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Re: ldso part 2
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 11:49:13AM -0700, Greg Wiley wrote: > As suggested by orphaner, I gave removing > ldso a shot on a non-critical testing machine. > No adverse affects as far as I could tell. > > Today's upgrade put ldso right back on. > > Now orphaner says, again, that nothing > depends on ldso and that it may be safely > removed. > > Is this a bug? If so, against what package > should it be filed? I'm not sure ... However, the background is that ldso used to be essential on potato, but now libc6 includes its own versions of the code in ldso and so it's no longer needed. libc5 still needs ldso, but if you had that installed then orphaner wouldn't have suggested removing it in the first place. Try 'dpkg -p ldso' and 'apt-cache show ldso'. Do either of those display an 'Essential: yes' field? What tool are you using to upgrade? I hope this comes a little closer to working out what's going on. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getting Grub to Recognize Kernel Update to 2.4.12
> the make-kpkg and dpkg -i "The result Package" commands add all the > needed for boot with the new kernel. > Best regards. Jose Luis. "make-kpkg" causes error: "su: make-kpkg: command not found" Now what, please? Thanks! Doc
how to switch drives around with LILO
I am trying to isolate some disk problems, which may be in the disks or the motherboard. It would be helpful if I switched cables so the disks connected to the IDE 0 connector on the motherboard go into #1, and vice versa. The problem is that this completely throws off my drive mappings for LILO, wired in the kernel (I think they are wired in) and /etc/fstab. For example, all /hda become /hdc. An additional wrinkle is that lilo.conf includes append="hdc=ide-scsi" because hdc is an ATAPI CD-Writer. What's the best way to handle this? My boot process starts with the NT loader, which I then point at an image of the Linux boot sector. It would be easy to add another boot sector image.
Re: Re: gnucash dependencies in unstable
Hi All, :Erik Steffl wrote: > Jose Juan Iglesias wrote: > > > I've been trying to install gnucash package from ustable, version 1.6.1-4. > > dselect says that gnucash depends on libgal9 (>= 0.10) and on libgtkhtml14 > > (>= 0.11.1). And none seems to be available. > > looks like that's fixed (you might need to do update): > > ii libgal9 0.10-1 > ii libgtkhtml14 0.11.1-5 :No, it doesn't seem to be available. I just ran update from dselect, and :it still shows libgal9 and libgtkhtml14 as "obsolete or local". > but still no cigar: > > > jojda:~>gnucash > ERROR: no such module (g-wrapped gw-runtime) > > bug is already filed... :That would probably be libgwrapguile9, also obsolete. :Gnucash needs a rebuild; that's all there is to it. :Craig -- I am getting confused. I downloaded gnucash 1.6.1-4, installed it, and then had it running. I then got gnucash 1.7.0 from cvs, run dpkg-buildpackage, and then installed all the extra packages to compile it. Now when I tried to run gnucash 1.6.1-4 I get the following error. ERROR: no such module (g-wrapped gw-runtime) What do I do to get it going again. Cheers, Stephen Grant Brown
sid + potato + ext3 problem
Hello. I have a box with both potato and sid installed. Instead of rebooting to get the other system, I did this: I have a script in the sid box does: #!/bin/sh sudo chroot /potato su - -c"/root/init" And in potato's /root/init, there's: #!/bin/sh umount /proc mount -t proc proc /proc /etc/init.d/ssh start And that's it. potato's ssh will be listening on port 23, so I can log into potato doing "ssh -p 23 localhost". But then I installed ext3, on both systems. It quite nice, but... When I first run the script to get as root in the potato box, and start ssh the filesystems are mounted like (this is from the /proc in the potato root, not the sid root): /dev/hda3 on / type ext2 (rw,errors=remount-ro,errors=remount-ro) /dev/hda6 on /usr type ext2 (rw) Even though potato fstab says all filesystems should be ext3. And I can't unmount them (umount says theye busy). (Ie tried to just chroot there and not run init, and that's what mount shows then) Does anyone know why, and if there something I could do to get potato to mount the filesystem as ext3 also? Thanks! J. --
Re: Proposed Updates for "Potato"
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 12:02:06PM +0200, Holger Rauch wrote: > This is a repost of the message I sent on Oct 22. It obviously didn't get > through. In case it did, and I was overlooking it, I apologize for any > inconvenience. > > I got a few questions concerning proposed updates: > > 1. Are there proposed updates for "Potato"? Yes. deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ proposed-updates/ deb ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates main contrib non-free > 2. Is it ALWAYS a good thing to install proposed updates for "Potato" or > are there situations where one should refrain from installing them? If > there are such situations, what are they? 'proposed-updates' contains exactly that: it's whatever a developer decides to upload to the 'stable' distribution. As such, it carries no more guarantees than an upload to unstable. The cautious person would only upgrade packages that have been checked in some other way: packages that appear on the security.debian.org source above will have been verified as a reasonable addition to the stable distribution, as will anything that appears in a stable point release. Each package in proposed-updates comes with source code, of course (unless perhaps for certain packages in non-free), so you can check then out for yourself. > 3. What's the exact URL where I can get proposed updates from? > > 3. Is it recommended to install proposed updates for "Potato" manually or > via apt? > > 4. If the apt method is the one to choose, what line(s) do I have to add > to my /etc/apt/sources.list file? apt is a reasonable method to use, and the lines above should be fine. Copy each line and replace 'deb' with 'deb-src' if you want to use 'apt-get source' to fetch source packages. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
WinBook soundcard now works
I'd like to share how I got my WinBook XL's Yamaha OPL3-SAx soundcard going under Linux with kernel 2.4.9. I couldn't find specific and helpful enough documentation online, so hopefully this message might help the next guy. I included CONFIG_SOUND_ADLIB=y, CONFIG_SOUND_YM3812=y and CONFIG_SOUND_OPL3SA2=y in my kernel's .config file. I'm not sure what modules these relate to, but judging from the makefile I'd look at adlib_card, opl3, opl3sa2, ad1848, mpu401. In my lilo.conf I put: append="pci=irqmask=0xafff adlib=0x388 opl=0x388 opl3sa2=0x370,5,0,1,0x530,0x330,1,0" (The irqmask thing is unrelated to the soundcard - it's to stop the yenta pcmcia cardbus controller grabbing the wrong IRQ, making it impossible to use the mouse.) Finally, at boot time I do a: setmixer synth 100 pcm 100 cd 100 The 'synth' is for playmidi, the 'pcm' for mpg123, the 'cd' for cdplay. All three of those programs now work fine. (-: -- Mark
Install potato & woody from floppy disk
I want to install woody from floppy, so I downloaded rescue.bin and root.bin. After booting up computer using rescue disk, installer ask me insert root disk, when I insert the root disk and press enter, a kernel panic occured: Kernel panic: VFS: can't mount root fs on 00:20 I tried potato, and got the same result. What's wrong with my installation? Thanks Liu Tao
Mozilla package (was Re: Mozilla 0.9.5, font sizes)
On Monday 15 October 2001 09:45, Christopher S. Swingley wrote: > I just moved from Mozilla 0.9.4 to 0.9.5 and noticed that it doesn't > seem to be respecting font sizes. For example, As an aside, does there exist an up-to-date Mozilla debian package? The one I can currently apt-get is the milestone 18 (!) release, so I've been installing the recent builds by hand. Is there a better way to do this? Thanks, Gordon
video card detection
These are my first attempt at installing Debian. Both my laptop and pc seem to have video cards that cannot be identified. Is this normal or am I missing something?
problems with tnt2
My diamond v770 tnt2 does not get detected. am i missing something
