dhcp-client modifies resolv.conf

[Raghavendra Bhat]

Hello:  In my  home machine  (sid+dhcp-client  3.0final-1+kernel 2.4.x),
/etc/resolv.conf does  not get modified  when I do a  'networking daemon
restart'.   At a  location  machine (potato+dhcp-client  2.0pl4-2+kernel
2.4.x), the  same gets modified  with entries of the  service provider's
DNS  numbers written onto  the file  forcibly, even  after the  file was
chmoded 444.  I do not want  the resolv.conf file to be modified after a
'networking restart'.  How do I go about it ?  Am I out of luck or is it
that I have missed reading some documentation ?
 
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Solved: xinetd refuse connect

[Brian P. Flaherty]

I am cutting out the past writing in the interest space.  The answer
turned on the xinetd entry, hosts.allow, and hosts.deny.  Thanks
Mike, for suggesting xinetd configuration issues.  I was thinking in
terms of one machine providing the proper information to another.

I had the wait line in the rsync entry set to yes, and that was
related to the  message I was getting in the logs.  When I
changed that entry to no, rsync started getting my laptop's ip.  I
thought limiting wait to yes would limit the number of connections.

Also, I had called the service rsyncd, but it must be rsync and then
rsync must be the daemon name in hosts.allow.  Finally, the rsync call
in the server_args field of xinetd.conf must look like this "rsync
rsyncd --daemon".  I don't understand why this is, but it is.

Here is my working xinetd.conf entry for rsync.

service rsync
{
 flags= REUSE NAMEINARGS
 socket_type  = stream
 protocol = tcp
 wait = no
 user = root
 port = 873
 server   = /usr/sbin/tcpd
 server_args  = /usr/bin/rsync rsyncd --daemon
 only_from= 127.0.0.1 192.168.2.25
 log_on_success += DURATION HOST USERID
}

The only_from above is redundant with hosts.allow.  Here is the
relevant portion of my hosts allow:

rsync: 127.0.0.1 192.168.2.25

Have a good night.

Brian Flaherty

Re: A libpng problem (i think)...

[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Eric G. Miller  I don't think you understand just how much I
love you right now :) after you made me think of ldd, i went looking and i
found some older libraries in /usr/local/lib instead of /usr/lib. I
removed those libraries, and i think things are working now :) so far so
good :) and it was with gdk-imlib1 :) thank you so much for putting that
idea in my head :)

> i don't really understand what you're trying to say...I too have version
> 1.9.11-3 of gdk-imlib1 (i'm assuming that's the package of which you were
> referring to). What were you saying about ldd, i don't quite understand.
>
> 
>
> Rob Hensley
> E-email:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Text Message: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Eric G. Miller wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 12 Nov 2001 22:36:28 -0500 (EST)
> > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > For the past week or two I've been getting a bunch of errors (all of which
> > > are the same, just a different file name) that makes it so I can't do much
> > > of anything with E, Gnome, XPlanet, Gkrellm, and probably a lot more that
> > > I don't know of. I've waited this long hopeing some upgrades and
> > > dist-upgrades in the unstable tree would fix my problem, but nothing has
> > > yet. Here's the errors I'm getting:
> > >
> > >
> > > Cannot load file image: /usr/share/gkrellm/themes/spiffE/bg_panel.png
> > > libpng warning: Application was compiled with png.h from libpng-1.0.1
> > > libpng warning: Application  is running with png.c from libpng-1.0.12
> > > libpng error: Application must be recompiled; versions <= 1.0.6 were
> > > incompatible
> > > /convert: No such file or directory
> > > gdk_imlib ERROR: Cannot load image:
> > > /usr/share/gkrellm/themes/spiffE/bg_meter.png
> > > All fallbacks failed.
> > >
> > >
> > > I can pretty much see exactly what the problem is, but since I have libpng
> > > and gkrellm (along with all the other problem apps) installed by their deb
> > > package, why am I getting this error. Does anyone have any idea how to fix
> > > it or how to go about fixing it without breaking everything? I don't know
> > > why I'm getting this considering all the packages have been installed with
> > > apt-get install (or dpkg, either way you want to look at it). Hopefully
> > > someone out there has a clue as to what I should do, Thanks in advance.
> >
> > I don't see this problem and have libpng2 (1.0.12) installed.  Perhaps it's
> > a problem with libgdk_imlib (have 1.9.11-3 here)?  Looks like libgdk_imlib
> > dynamically loads libpng at runtime so "ldd" won't show the dependency.
> >
> > --
> > Eric G. Miller 
> >
> >
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> >
>
>

Re: A libpng problem (i think)...

[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

i don't really understand what you're trying to say...I too have version
1.9.11-3 of gdk-imlib1 (i'm assuming that's the package of which you were
referring to). What were you saying about ldd, i don't quite understand.



Rob Hensley
E-email:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Text Message: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Eric G. Miller wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Nov 2001 22:36:28 -0500 (EST)
> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > For the past week or two I've been getting a bunch of errors (all of which
> > are the same, just a different file name) that makes it so I can't do much
> > of anything with E, Gnome, XPlanet, Gkrellm, and probably a lot more that
> > I don't know of. I've waited this long hopeing some upgrades and
> > dist-upgrades in the unstable tree would fix my problem, but nothing has
> > yet. Here's the errors I'm getting:
> >
> >
> > Cannot load file image: /usr/share/gkrellm/themes/spiffE/bg_panel.png
> > libpng warning: Application was compiled with png.h from libpng-1.0.1
> > libpng warning: Application  is running with png.c from libpng-1.0.12
> > libpng error: Application must be recompiled; versions <= 1.0.6 were
> > incompatible
> > /convert: No such file or directory
> > gdk_imlib ERROR: Cannot load image:
> > /usr/share/gkrellm/themes/spiffE/bg_meter.png
> > All fallbacks failed.
> >
> >
> > I can pretty much see exactly what the problem is, but since I have libpng
> > and gkrellm (along with all the other problem apps) installed by their deb
> > package, why am I getting this error. Does anyone have any idea how to fix
> > it or how to go about fixing it without breaking everything? I don't know
> > why I'm getting this considering all the packages have been installed with
> > apt-get install (or dpkg, either way you want to look at it). Hopefully
> > someone out there has a clue as to what I should do, Thanks in advance.
>
> I don't see this problem and have libpng2 (1.0.12) installed.  Perhaps it's
> a problem with libgdk_imlib (have 1.9.11-3 here)?  Looks like libgdk_imlib
> dynamically loads libpng at runtime so "ldd" won't show the dependency.
>
> --
> Eric G. Miller 
>
>
> --
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>
>

Re: A libpng problem (i think)...

[Eric G. Miller]

On Mon, 12 Nov 2001 22:36:28 -0500 (EST)
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> For the past week or two I've been getting a bunch of errors (all of which
> are the same, just a different file name) that makes it so I can't do much
> of anything with E, Gnome, XPlanet, Gkrellm, and probably a lot more that
> I don't know of. I've waited this long hopeing some upgrades and
> dist-upgrades in the unstable tree would fix my problem, but nothing has
> yet. Here's the errors I'm getting:
> 
> 
> Cannot load file image: /usr/share/gkrellm/themes/spiffE/bg_panel.png
> libpng warning: Application was compiled with png.h from libpng-1.0.1
> libpng warning: Application  is running with png.c from libpng-1.0.12
> libpng error: Application must be recompiled; versions <= 1.0.6 were
> incompatible
> /convert: No such file or directory
> gdk_imlib ERROR: Cannot load image:
> /usr/share/gkrellm/themes/spiffE/bg_meter.png
> All fallbacks failed.
> 
> 
> I can pretty much see exactly what the problem is, but since I have libpng
> and gkrellm (along with all the other problem apps) installed by their deb
> package, why am I getting this error. Does anyone have any idea how to fix
> it or how to go about fixing it without breaking everything? I don't know
> why I'm getting this considering all the packages have been installed with
> apt-get install (or dpkg, either way you want to look at it). Hopefully
> someone out there has a clue as to what I should do, Thanks in advance.

I don't see this problem and have libpng2 (1.0.12) installed.  Perhaps it's
a problem with libgdk_imlib (have 1.9.11-3 here)?  Looks like libgdk_imlib
dynamically loads libpng at runtime so "ldd" won't show the dependency.

-- 
Eric G. Miller 

Re: Eth0 detected in dmesg, but not by 'route add'

[hmike]

On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 15:48, nate wrote:
> tom schuetz said:
> 
> > I am confused, and would appreciate some advice.
> 
> include a full copy of dmesg output maybe i can help.

plus ifconfig /etc/network/interfaces and route output please.

--mike

Re: Quake 3 Framerate Issue

[Nate Custer]

Deven,

Do you have dri installed and working? Sounds like you are running
software open-gl.

Read this at debianplanet for howto info:

http://www.debianplanet.org/debianplanet/article.php?sid=163&mode=thread&order=0

Best regards,

--Nate Custer

On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 17:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi, a bit off topic I know, but here goes. I've got a Duron 880mhz with 196mb 
> RAM, VooDoo 3, and kernel 2.4.5. When I run the Quake 3 demo, I get a 
> framerate of about 1-2 fps. I checked the readme and it says to change the X 
> server's color setting to 16 bpp. I did this, but it still does it! Does 
> anyone know what I should do?
> 
> Thanks,
> Deven Gallo
> 
> 
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Re: network card problem

[hmike]

On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 19:59, Richard Weil wrote:
> I tried this and still no progress ... I think the
> problem must be from the cards using the same I/O
> address. I noticed that on bootup, before the first of
> two error messages related to eth1, it says:
> 
> SIOCSIFADDR
> 
> and then before the 2nd error:
> 
> SIOCSIFNETMASK
> 
> COuld this give an indication to the problem?
> 
> Richard
> 
> --- Truong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi, Richard
> > 
> > I don't know if it could help you but I got the same
> > problem to put my
> > second nic recognized by the kernel 2.2.19. By
> > default, the kernel would
> > only use one nic (eth0) . I said by "default" this
> > means the feature .
> > That was I learned from
> >  few month
> > ago. Go there to get better advices.
> > 
> > I don't know whether if it's still remain in kernel
> > 2.4.x .
> > 
> > Assume that you have the module 3c509.o on linux-box
> > .
> > So, if you use lilo to boot then put this line in
> > /etc/lilo.conf
> > 
> > 
> >   append="ether=0,0,eth1"
> > 
> > 
> > Next, add this two line in the file
> > /etc/modules.conf 
> > 
> > 
> >   alias eth0 3c509
> >   alias eth1 3c509
> > 
> > 
> > Then you reboot and see if the kernel could detect
> > the two cards
> > (by reading /var/log/messages or by command
> > "ifconfig -a")
> > 
> > If somebody could give a better help .
> > 
> > Have fun !
> > 
> > 
> > % *** Richard Weil wrote: ***
> > % I installed the 3c5x9utils package as suggested
> > and I
> > % think it's indicating the problem, but I'm not
> > sure
> > % how to interpret the results (or what to do about
> > it).
> > % I run the diagnostic and it finds both cards. The
> > % output is approx.:
> > % 
> > % Generating the activation sequence on port 0x100
> > for
> > % card 1
> > % Activating the card at I/O address 300
> > % EEPROM contents: [a list]
> > % An ISA Etherlink III board was activated at I/O
> > 0x300,
> > % IRQ 5
> > % eth0: 3c509 found at 0x300
> > % Window [0: ... 7:]
> > % 
> > % 
> > % Generating the activation sequence on port 0x100
> > for
> > % card 2
> > % Activating the card at I/O address 300
> > % EEPROM contents: [a list, different from above]
> > % An ISA Etherlink III board was activated at I/O
> > 0x300,
> > % IRQ 10
> > % eth0: 3c509 found at 0x300
> > % Window [0: ... 7: (different from above)]
> > % 
> > % So, it seems to be finding both cards at the
> > different
> > % IRQs and configuring them both as eth0 at 0x300
> > % (whatever that means). The 3c5x9utils package
> > includes
> > % a setup utility, but I'm not sure what to change.
> > Any
> > % suggestions? Thanks.
> > % 
> > % Richard
> > %
> > % > I'm running testing with a Debian 2.4.12 kernel.
> > Any
> > % > help is appreicated. Thanks.
> > % > >
> > % > > Richard
> > % > 
> > % > The cards may be setup for using the same
> > resources.
> > % > Use 'el3diag' from the 
> > % > 3c5x9utils package.  This only reports the
> > settings,
> > % > to change them you 
> > % > would need the DOS utility for the card. 

Get the dos utility and a windows 9x bootdisk.  Just configure it all
manually.  I had to do this for 41 cards for a cluster of 20 machines. 
I just set them to 0x300 irq 10 and 0x310 irq 7 which worked for me.  I
even have one machine with 3 in it 3rd is 0x320 and 5, all machines
detect all three cards with the one module loading when properly
configured with the NIC pnp off and my bios(s) to pnp-os=none.

--mike

Re: customized debian cd

[hmike]

On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 12:55, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> 
> On 12-Nov-2001 Patrick Hsieh wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I'd like to made a customized debian cd. Can I dpkg --get-selections to
> > get my installed package selection and put all of them into 1 or 2 CDs?
> > Is it possible? How?
> > 
> 
> I forget the name of it, but there is even a package that will do it.  Search
> around the package list.

Look into apt-move and read up on dpkg-scanpackages to move your custom
kernels/modules into the debian package directory format and be apt-get
enabled.

--mike 

Where to find Debian kernel patches?

[Jeremy Zawodny]

There's s README.Debian file in the kernel-source packages which lists
a variety of patches that have been applied to the source.

Where can I find those patches?

Jeremy
-- 
Jeremy D. Zawodny |  Perl, Web, MySQL, Linux Magazine, Yahoo!
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  |  http://jeremy.zawodny.com/

Re: Frustration (cablemodem woes)

[Jeff]

Cam Ellison, 2001-Nov-12 16:37 -0800:
> 
> > > Nov 12 10:51:47 white kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth0 PROTO=17
> > > 24.8.30.89:13
> > > 7 24.8.30.255:137 L=96 S=0x00 I=148 F=0x T=64 (#7)
> > 
> > Looks like you firewall is denying and logging packets it's
> > recieving for the qotd protocol...qotd 17/tcp "Quote of the Day".
> > I don't know of an exploit that this might indicate, but it
> > doesn't have an effect on the problem at hand.
> > 
> I may be reading the output wrong, but I think that says that the protocol is 
> #17 (tcp?), and the port is 13, which is for the Daytime protocol (RFC 867).  
> Maybe he needs to look at his firewall?  Can you be certain that his ISP 
> isn't using this?  Sounds odd, but it seems strange that he gets good 
> downloads with Windows and not with Linux.
> 
> Cam

DOE!  Thanks Cam, you're right.  

-- 
Jeff CoppockSystems Engineer
Diggin' Debian  Admin and User

Re: Q3 Horrific Lag on VooDoo 3 [ PLEASE HELP!! ]

[Erik Steffl]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> Hi, sorry for the extreme subject. Not sure if my last message got through. I
> installed Quake 3's linux demo, mesag3-glide2, but when I run it, it runs at
> 1fps! I have seen 2 other people online with this problem, but no one had a
> solution. The best thing I heard was "it can't find libGL.so" so it's using
> MESA software rendering. It's right there in the directory with it, though! I
> installed the 3dfx device too, from the sources .deb available on
> Packages.debian.org, no help .. The game works fully, but from the moment I
> run it to the moment I quit it's unbelievably slow. I have a Duron 880mhz
> with 196mb RAM, VooDoo 3, 2.4.5 kernel, and XFree86 (dunno what version,
> whatever comes standard with 2.2.19pre17 Debian ISO image-made discs). Can
> someone please help me?

  try to run glxinfo, you should see a line like:

direct rendering: Yes

  if it's very slow it probably does not use HW rendering. remember, you
have to run X in depth 16 (not 24) for openGL HW acceleration to work
(pretty stupid if you ask me but that's hw limitation of voodoo III).

erik

Re: Frustration (cablemodem woes)

[Raghavendra Bhat]

[Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 02:40:16PM -0800] Paul 'Baloo' Johnson :
> On Sun, 11 Nov 2001, Jeff wrote:
> 
> > one that I think is coming from my cablemodem itself (?).
> 
> What's the  source IP  on the one  you think  is your cable  modem?  I
> don't  *think* any models  generate traffic  on their  own, but  I can
> check that...

My Motorola Surf Board SB3100 was generating traffic, actually it was the
built-in modem  dhcp-server which was  broadcasting.  The source  IP was
192.168.100.1 (cable  modem's) and it continued to  send broadcasts even
after switching off the dhcp-server  via the web config interface of the
modem.

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A libpng problem (i think)...

[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

For the past week or two I've been getting a bunch of errors (all of which
are the same, just a different file name) that makes it so I can't do much
of anything with E, Gnome, XPlanet, Gkrellm, and probably a lot more that
I don't know of. I've waited this long hopeing some upgrades and
dist-upgrades in the unstable tree would fix my problem, but nothing has
yet. Here's the errors I'm getting:


Cannot load file image: /usr/share/gkrellm/themes/spiffE/bg_panel.png
libpng warning: Application was compiled with png.h from libpng-1.0.1
libpng warning: Application  is running with png.c from libpng-1.0.12
libpng error: Application must be recompiled; versions <= 1.0.6 were
incompatible
/convert: No such file or directory
gdk_imlib ERROR: Cannot load image:
/usr/share/gkrellm/themes/spiffE/bg_meter.png
All fallbacks failed.


I can pretty much see exactly what the problem is, but since I have libpng
and gkrellm (along with all the other problem apps) installed by their deb
package, why am I getting this error. Does anyone have any idea how to fix
it or how to go about fixing it without breaking everything? I don't know
why I'm getting this considering all the packages have been installed with
apt-get install (or dpkg, either way you want to look at it). Hopefully
someone out there has a clue as to what I should do, Thanks in advance.



Rob Hensley
E-email:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Text Message: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GNUPG and multiple keyservers?

[Justin R. Miller]

Thus spake Ron Farrer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):

> Basically what I would like to do is have GNUPG request a key from
> keyring.debian.org and if it's not found then try
> seattle.keyserver.net. 

An alternate, somewhat-similar suggestion would be to use
seattle.keyserver.net as your keyserver but do this in your options
file:

keyring /usr/share/keyrings/debian-keyring.gpg
keyring pubring.gpg

Then you could make use of the Debian-provided keyring, which falling
back to your regular keyring as well as using it for key downloads.  

Not sure how debian-keyring.gpg compares with the keyserver though...

-- 
Justin R. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
PGP/GnuPG Key ID 0xC9C40C31 (preferred)


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galeon libgnomevfs-pthread.so not found?

[Lance Hoffmeyer]

Trying to install galeon.  It installs fine but when I
try to run I get

GNOME-VFS-ERROR **: Could not open libgnomevfs-pthread.so ...

How can I fix this?

Lance

Re: Unable to umount filesystem whe shutting down

[Justin R. Miller]

[sorry, can't find the original post, so no quoting]

Try going to single-user mode (init 1) and then use 'fuser' (I forget
the options) to find open files.  You should be able to figure out which
process is using the open file(s) that may be the reason the partition
is not unmounting. 

-- 
Justin R. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
PGP/GnuPG Key ID 0xC9C40C31 (preferred)


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Re: Cron & At Permissions

[David Raeker-Jordan]

Thank you very much, Andras.


Andras BALI wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 01:04:52PM -0500, David Raeker-Jordan wrote:
> 
> > When my system boots and when I try to create an `at` job, I see
> > `at` permission errors. I am running the latest potato.
> 
> > Here is what I have. Is this wrong?
> 
> Yes. The /var/spool/cron directory should be 0755.
> 
> $ ls -l /var/spool/cron
> total 5
> drwxr-xr-x5 root root 1024 Aug  5  1998 .
> drwxr-xr-x   14 root root 1024 Oct 28 01:31 ..
> drwx--2 daemon   daemon   1024 Nov 12 06:55 atjobs
> drwx--2 daemon   daemon   1024 Nov 12 06:55 atspool
> drwxr-xr-x2 root root 1024 May 31  2000 crontabs
> $
> 
> -- 
> BALI, Andra's  GPG keyID: 78560E1C
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

-- 
David Raeker-Jordan
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Harrisburg, PA, USA

setting up mirror

[Stephen E. Hargrove]

i'm working to set up a local mirror so the machines on my intranet can
apt-get from a local mirror.  i've successfully set up the mirror at
/misc/debian.  ftp is disabled on this machine, but there is access
through port 80.  so, i've set up the following in each machine's
/etc/apt/sources.list file:

deb http://192.168.1.10/debian woody main contrib non-free

however, atp-get update returns the following.  (i have a symlink in
/www/httpd/debian which points to /misc/debian, and have set the
permissions on /misc/debian to 777.  my httpd.conf allows symlinks.  
any thoughts would be appreciated.

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get update
Password:
Err http://192.168.1.10 woody/main Packages
403 Forbidden
Ign http://192.168.1.10 woody/main Release
Err http://192.168.1.10 woody/contrib Packages
403 Forbidden
Ign http://192.168.1.10 woody/contrib Release
Err http://192.168.1.10 woody/non-free Packages
403 Forbidden
Ign http://192.168.1.10 woody/non-free Release
Failed to fetch
http://192.168.1.10/debian/dists/woody/main/binary-i386/Packages
403 Forbidden
Failed to fetch
http://192.168.1.10/debian/dists/woody/contrib/binary-i386/Packages
403 Forbidden
Failed to fetch
http://192.168.1.10/debian/dists/woody/non-free/binary-i386/Packages
403 Forbidden
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://192.168.1.10
woody/main Packages
(/var/lib/apt/lists/192.168.1.10_debian_dists_woody_main_binary-i386_Packages)
- stat (2
No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://192.168.1.10
woody/contrib Packages
(/var/lib/apt/lists/192.168.1.10_debian_dists_woody_contrib_binary-i386_Packages)
- stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://192.168.1.10
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Re: Message fron chron: cannot get ip address for localhost

[Richard Cobbe]

Lo, on Monday, November 12, Cheryl Homiak did write:

> Ok, fitst I checked and made sure I do have a dynamic isp. I do.
> Secondly, I now have got it to recognize my fqdn as
> maranatha.chartermi.net and my dnsdomainname as chartermi.net.

> However, if I put localhost in between the "127.0.0.1 and the
> "maranatha.chartermi.net" I will start getting "localhost" as the fqdn.

Right.  As I explain in my description of how the whole FQDN thing works
(being sent in a separate message), your FQDN needs to be the first
hostname on the line, immediately after the IP address.  Putting it on the
127.0.0.1 address should be fine; this is what I do at work where I have a
DHCP address.

(This is actually documented in the /etc/hosts manpage, kind of.  You have
to combine that manpage with about three others to really understand what's
going on.)

> Also, as soon as I put localhost anywhere in the/etc/hosts, fetchmail
> hangs right after looking at the first message; no delivery and no
> explanation even on verbose.

That's surprising: I've got localhost in my /etc/hosts, and fetchmail does
just fine.  See below for one possibility.

> I also tried putting my internet address in the /etc/hosts file; though
> it's dynamic it has remained constant. When I did this and ran fetchmail,
> I got something about "neighbor table overflow".

I'm not entirely sure I know what that's about.

> When I type "ifconfig" my loopback interface doesn't show; if I type
> "ifconfig lo" it shows but not as running. Only if I mannually bring it up
> does it appear to be up.

Ok.  This may have something to do with why fetchmail is having issues.
Check your networking configuration; your loopback interface should be up
all the time.  Make sure that /etc/network/interfaces contains the line

iface lo inet loopback

in addition to whatever you've got for your ethernet interfaces.

> I also did notice when using pump "maybe dhcpcd would tell me this with
> the proper options; I don't know) that my isp's hostname is showing up as
> mad.chartermi.net (I assume mad for Madison) but I wasn't told to use the
> "mad" anywhere.

That's probably not that important.

> While I do of course have an email address with my isp, they apparently
> don't use a hostname to identify me, so I don't have a hostname per se
> with them.

This is normal.  There most likely is a hostname associated with your IP;
you can do an nslookup to find it out.  However, if your ISP is like most
others, the hostname is not going to just roll off your tongue; my
*official* hostname (changed slightly to make it slightly harder for folks
to break into my system) is d9c2358f.gw897.dsl.airmail.net---not terribly
memorable.

By the way, you don't actually have to use your ISP's domain name as your
own.  I used to do this, but I ran into problems when I tried to send mail
to other addresses in the same domain: exim thought they should be
delivered locally and complained because the usernames didn't exist.  The
easiest solution was just to give myself a unique hostname; now, all mail
goes where it's supposed to.

apt-get question

[Jijo Jose A]

hi all

i am trying to download packages from http://pandora.debian.org/debian-non-US/,
using apt-setup, it update the packages lists and after it don't work with
apt-get , the error occured like

apt-get -f install deity
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Package deity has no available version, but exists in the database.
This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and
never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents
of sources.list
E: Package deity has no installation candidate

this will repeat on all the pakages and other ftp & http sites!! 
how can i tackle this ?
TIA
-jijo jose

Re: network card problem

[Richard Weil]

I tried this and still no progress ... I think the
problem must be from the cards using the same I/O
address. I noticed that on bootup, before the first of
two error messages related to eth1, it says:

SIOCSIFADDR

and then before the 2nd error:

SIOCSIFNETMASK

COuld this give an indication to the problem?

Richard

--- Truong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> Hi, Richard
> 
> I don't know if it could help you but I got the same
> problem to put my
> second nic recognized by the kernel 2.2.19. By
> default, the kernel would
> only use one nic (eth0) . I said by "default" this
> means the feature .
> That was I learned from
>  few month
> ago. Go there to get better advices.
> 
> I don't know whether if it's still remain in kernel
> 2.4.x .
> 
> Assume that you have the module 3c509.o on linux-box
> .
> So, if you use lilo to boot then put this line in
> /etc/lilo.conf
> 
> 
>   append="ether=0,0,eth1"
> 
> 
> Next, add this two line in the file
> /etc/modules.conf 
> 
> 
>   alias eth0 3c509
>   alias eth1 3c509
> 
> 
> Then you reboot and see if the kernel could detect
> the two cards
> (by reading /var/log/messages or by command
> "ifconfig -a")
> 
> If somebody could give a better help .
> 
> Have fun !
> 
> 
> % *** Richard Weil wrote: ***
> % I installed the 3c5x9utils package as suggested
> and I
> % think it's indicating the problem, but I'm not
> sure
> % how to interpret the results (or what to do about
> it).
> % I run the diagnostic and it finds both cards. The
> % output is approx.:
> % 
> % Generating the activation sequence on port 0x100
> for
> % card 1
> % Activating the card at I/O address 300
> % EEPROM contents: [a list]
> % An ISA Etherlink III board was activated at I/O
> 0x300,
> % IRQ 5
> % eth0: 3c509 found at 0x300
> % Window [0: ... 7:]
> % 
> % 
> % Generating the activation sequence on port 0x100
> for
> % card 2
> % Activating the card at I/O address 300
> % EEPROM contents: [a list, different from above]
> % An ISA Etherlink III board was activated at I/O
> 0x300,
> % IRQ 10
> % eth0: 3c509 found at 0x300
> % Window [0: ... 7: (different from above)]
> % 
> % So, it seems to be finding both cards at the
> different
> % IRQs and configuring them both as eth0 at 0x300
> % (whatever that means). The 3c5x9utils package
> includes
> % a setup utility, but I'm not sure what to change.
> Any
> % suggestions? Thanks.
> % 
> % Richard
> %
> % > I'm running testing with a Debian 2.4.12 kernel.
> Any
> % > help is appreicated. Thanks.
> % > >
> % > > Richard
> % > 
> % > The cards may be setup for using the same
> resources.
> % > Use 'el3diag' from the 
> % > 3c5x9utils package.  This only reports the
> settings,
> % > to change them you 
> % > would need the DOS utility for the card. 
> % > -- 
> % > Greg Madden
> % > 
> % *** END of Message From Richard Weil ***
> 
> -- 
> ---
>   Truong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  
> ---
> 
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Q3 Horrific Lag on VooDoo 3 [ PLEASE HELP!! ]

[JakeCatfox]

Hi, sorry for the extreme subject. Not sure if my last message got through. I 
installed Quake 3's linux demo, mesag3-glide2, but when I run it, it runs at 
1fps! I have seen 2 other people online with this problem, but no one had a 
solution. The best thing I heard was "it can't find libGL.so" so it's using 
MESA software rendering. It's right there in the directory with it, though! I 
installed the 3dfx device too, from the sources .deb available on 
Packages.debian.org, no help .. The game works fully, but from the moment I 
run it to the moment I quit it's unbelievably slow. I have a Duron 880mhz 
with 196mb RAM, VooDoo 3, 2.4.5 kernel, and XFree86 (dunno what version, 
whatever comes standard with 2.2.19pre17 Debian ISO image-made discs). Can 
someone please help me?

Thanks,
Deven Gallo

Re: xinetd refuse connect

[Michael Heldebrant]

On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 11:43, Brian P. Flaherty wrote:
> Michael Heldebrant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > On Sun, 2001-11-11 at 12:16, Brian P. Flaherty wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > I am trying to run an rsync server from xinetd.  I have a desktop
> > > connected via eth0 to a DSL line and eth1 connected to a little hub.
> > > My laptop is on the hub too.  When I start the rsync server from the
> > > prompt, I can access it from my laptop just fine (on the internal
> > > network).  But, when I run it from xinetd, I get this message in my
> > > daemon.log:
> > > 
> > > Nov 10 14:48:25 localhost xinetd[2468]: warning: can't get client
> > >  address:  Invalid argument
> > > Nov 10 14:48:25 localhost xinetd[2468]: refused connect from 
> > > 
> > > This message appears 10 times and then rsyncd is "deactivated because
> > > of looping."  In what form or from where is xinetd asking for
> > > identification and what is my laptop failing to provide?  I thought it
> > > might be related to ident, but all those services are running on my
> > > laptop.  I checked the xinetd docs and webpage, but did not see
> > > anything related.  When searching google groups, someone had a similar
> > > problem with linuxconf running from xinetd, but there were no
> > > solutions posted.  Thanks for any suggestions.
> > 
> > Have you looked in your /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny for
> > possible rejections (most likely a PARANOID directive is stopping your
> > connection)?  Does /var/log/messages (or syslog) have anything to say
> > about this?
> > 
> > --mike
> 
> In an effort to test this, I commented out everything in hosts.allow
> and hosts.deny, so I believe this will allow everything in.  Then when
> I try to connect to "rsync --daemon" started in xinetd, I get these
> interesting messages in daemon.log, servicelog, and syslog/messages.
> 
> Here is the part of syslog:
> 
> Nov 12 12:28:05 localhost xinetd[22066]: warning: can't get client address: 
> Invalid argument
> Nov 12 12:28:05 localhost rsync[22070]: warning: can't get client address: 
> Invalid argument
> Nov 12 12:28:05 localhost rsync[22070]: connect from unknown
> 
> The laptop just sits there waiting for some response from the
> desktop.  [daemon.log says the same thing]
> 
> And then in servicelog, it indicates that rsync starts from 
> :
> 
> 01/11/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:28:05: START: rsyncd pid=22070 from=
> 
> What is interesting here, is that I can telnet and ftp from the laptop
> to the desktop and my laptop's ip are determined.  Both ftp and telnet
> are started by xinetd too.  So, for some reason, the address is not
> getting to rsync.  Could this mean that there is a problem in rsync or
> in my configuration?
> 
> Later, when I restart xinetd to try again, this message appears in
> syslog when xinetd stops and starts:
> 
> Nov 12 12:37:42 localhost xinetd[22066]: Exiting...
> Nov 12 12:37:43 localhost xinetd[22158]: bind failed (Address already in use 
> (errno = 98)). service = rsyncd

I think bind failed error indicates that rsyncd is still running.  You
can kill the process and then retry to connect.

I have no clue why it keeps getting no address.  Does your rsyncd have
any special care and feeding instructions in the /usr/share/doc/rsyncd
about inetd/xinetd issues?

--mike

Re: Frustration (cablemodem woes)

[Paul 'Baloo' Johnson]

On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Jeff wrote:

> I can think of 2 things that may be at issue:  1) your cable
> modem could be losing it's registration on the cable loop, which
> means the cable head-end no longer see's it on the loop and stops
> forwarding traffic onto the loop for it until it recieves
> registration packets from it again.  This would be a cable
> provider problem, but you cable guy say's the modem is
> fine...hmmm.

Which gives me an idea.  If I know what username this is with, I can
give the configuration a repush when I get into work tomarrow, see if
that helps.  Can also check for line noise then...

> Looks like you firewall is denying and logging packets it's
> recieving for the qotd protocol...qotd 17/tcp "Quote of the Day".

Protocol, not port.  I'm told this is SMB.  Do you have windows machines
on your network with file and printer sharing enabled?  They're
advertising thier shares...

-- 
Baloo

Re: Freeze on HD access during boot (installer kernel)

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Carl Fink wrote:
> My system board died, and I've replaced it with a new Biostar board
> and AMD Athlon 1.2 GHz.  Now I'm trying to boot up.

VIA686a/b chipset? If yes, you either need a very very new 2.4.x kernel, or
the "Athlon bug stomper" patch, or to NOT optimize the kernel for a K7. Or
2.2.20, which isn't K7-optimized and won't trigger the bug.

Search for the patch in the linux-kernel ml archives (or google), I don't
have it... I'm still using 2.2.20.  The bug is not present on all
motherboards and BIOSes, but one never knows until one checks the
northbridge configuration.

Oh, and userland programs that are K7 optimized could trigger the bug as
well and hang the machine, even with 2.2.20, so you really want the fix if
you use any of those.

> Any suggestions? 

You could try turning off PCI byte merge, but it is weird that the chipset
IDE controller would get confused by that...  Also, make sure nothing weird
is sharing the IRQ of the "mass-storage controller" (the IDE controller).

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh

Re: Reiser and Potato

[nate]

\
> I can't be the first person to find themselves in this quandry. Any
>  suggested approaches?


i run reiserfs on a few systems, 3 of them are on 220GB
partitions(raid10 arrays). what i do is download the kernelsource and patches 
that i like, install them. compile the utils
(they are included with the patches) and copy them to /sbin.
reboot with new kernel and mount away..or mkreiserfs on some
drive to use it.

ive done it on 4 or 5 different potato systems and 1 woody
system. all on kernel 2.2.19 i wont go near 2.4.x for another year
or so. its waay too iffy for my tastes.

nate

java2?

[Michael P. Soulier]

Hey people. 

I notice that jdk1.1 is in unstable, and I was wondering if Debian ever
plans to include Java2. Is there a licensing issue I don't know about? 

Cheers,

Mike

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Debian Install fails to bring up X windows

[NICHOLSON,DICK \(HP-USA,ex1\)]

Hello,

I have created distribution cd's for 2.2_r4 - lists from UK, bits from
ftp.us.debian.org and 
rsync via archive.progeny.com and appear to have a successful build.

I am trying to install on an Omnibook 6100 (hp) and have also tried a vectra
( desktop 386)
and am having errors on a number of packages listed - some of which resolve
on an update from the same media - Biggest issue is that it fails to bring
up X  with

X11TransSocketConnectUNIX error=111 after choosing an X server (you get two
stabs at it
first is a 16 and the a SVGA) I have tried all kinds of sync rates
(listed at 75hz )
with no success either on the desktop (elsaGL II) or the laptop (ati Rage
Mobility).

I am on my 11th attemppt and appear no closer to resolution. 

Any ideas

Dick Nicholson HP

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

630-724-5313

Re: Vim help file problem

[Wayne Topa]

Marc Wilson([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
> On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 02:00:57PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote:
> > Error detected while processing function GZIP_read:
> > line3:
> > E21: Cannot make changes, 'modifiable' is off
> > E434: Can't find tag pattern
> 
> I had to remove stuff I had in ~/.vimrc dealing with reading/writing
> gzipped files in order to get help working again.
> 
> AFAIR, on the first install of vim 6.0, there was a debconf message saying
> that parts of ~/.vimrc might be incompatible with the new version, but I
> ignored it at the time.

Thanks Marc.  I found that too, after I sent the message.  I had
commented most of the old .vimrc but hadn't reached the gzip stuff.

I must have missed, or most likely forgotten, that debconf warning.

Thanks again

Wayne
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Re: Frustration (cablemodem woes)

[Cam Ellison]

* Jeff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> 
> Michael Patterson, 2001-Nov-12 11:14 -0700:
> > > Does it take a long time to initially make the connection to a
> > > web site and then after it finally connects the web page popps up
> > > quickly?
> > 

> > Nov 12 10:51:47 white kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth0 PROTO=17
> > 24.8.30.89:13
> > 7 24.8.30.255:137 L=96 S=0x00 I=148 F=0x T=64 (#7)
> 
> Looks like you firewall is denying and logging packets it's
> recieving for the qotd protocol...qotd 17/tcp "Quote of the Day".
> I don't know of an exploit that this might indicate, but it
> doesn't have an effect on the problem at hand.
> 
I may be reading the output wrong, but I think that says that the protocol is 
#17 (tcp?), and the port is 13, which is for the Daytime protocol (RFC 867).  
Maybe he needs to look at his firewall?  Can you be certain that his ISP isn't 
using this?  Sounds odd, but it seems strange that he gets good downloads with 
Windows and not with Linux.

Cam


-- 
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From Roberts Creek on B.C.'s incomparable Sunshine Coast
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RE: apt-get problem

[Howland, Curtis]

Ha! Excellent! I was very much concerned that any such mass-deletions on
my part might cause an irreparable disagreement between the
installed-version database and reality.

Many thanks. I will try it tonight, and if there are any further
problems I will post again.

Many thanks, Aniartia-san.

Curt-

-Original Message-
From: Aniartia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 09:21
To: Howland, Curtis; debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: apt-get problem


On Tuesday 13 November 2001 00:12, Howland, Curtis wrote:
> > Hi. Last night I was doing a Woody install of some various Japanese
> > and Chinese language input software, as well as the incremental
> > updates. It was a 5 hour download, so I went to sleep to deal with
it
> > in the morning.
> >
> > However, the dial-up session died during the night, and more than
half
> > of the packages did not download. dselect shows the packages as
> > "dependency broken" or "to be upgraded" still, but when I try to
> > restart the download, apt does not think there are any packages to
> >
> > download. I get the following error:
> > > Reading Package Lists... Done
> > > Building Dependency Tree... Done
> > > Correcting dependencies... Done
> > > The following NEW packages will be installed:
> > >   canna canna-shion chinput cjk-latex dialog expat freetype1-tools
> > > imlib1
> > >   kdelibs3-cups libcanna1g libexpat1 libkpathsea3 libpaperg
libpth13
> > >   libtabe-db libtabe0 libwww0 libxmltok1 perl-tk psutils rxvt
> >
> > rxvt-ml
> >
> > >   tetex-base tetex-bin tfm-arphic-bsmi00lp ttf-arphic-bsmi00lp
> > >   ttf-arphic-gbsn00lp unicon-im xa+cv xcin xcin2.3 xcingb
> > >   xfonts-arphic-bsmi00lp xfonts-arphic-gbsn00lp xfonts-cmex-big5p
> > >   xfonts-intl-chinese
> > > 50 packages upgraded, 36 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0  not
> > > upgraded.
> > > 3 packages not fully installed or removed.
> > > Need to get 0B/95.4MB of archives. After unpacking 130MB will be
> >
> > used.
> >
> > > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
> > > Abort.
> >
> > So how do I tell apt that its database is broken, the .deb's have
not
> > been downloaded yet, and it should be "Need to get 95.4MB" of
> > archives", not "0B/95.4MB"?

By deleteing the contence of /var/cache/apt/archives but keep 
/var/cache/apt/archives/partial

Ani

Re: apt-get problem

[Aniartia]

On Tuesday 13 November 2001 00:12, Howland, Curtis wrote:
> > Hi. Last night I was doing a Woody install of some various Japanese
> > and Chinese language input software, as well as the incremental
> > updates. It was a 5 hour download, so I went to sleep to deal with it
> > in the morning.
> >
> > However, the dial-up session died during the night, and more than half
> > of the packages did not download. dselect shows the packages as
> > "dependency broken" or "to be upgraded" still, but when I try to
> > restart the download, apt does not think there are any packages to
> >
> > download. I get the following error:
> > > Reading Package Lists... Done
> > > Building Dependency Tree... Done
> > > Correcting dependencies... Done
> > > The following NEW packages will be installed:
> > >   canna canna-shion chinput cjk-latex dialog expat freetype1-tools
> > > imlib1
> > >   kdelibs3-cups libcanna1g libexpat1 libkpathsea3 libpaperg libpth13
> > >   libtabe-db libtabe0 libwww0 libxmltok1 perl-tk psutils rxvt
> >
> > rxvt-ml
> >
> > >   tetex-base tetex-bin tfm-arphic-bsmi00lp ttf-arphic-bsmi00lp
> > >   ttf-arphic-gbsn00lp unicon-im xa+cv xcin xcin2.3 xcingb
> > >   xfonts-arphic-bsmi00lp xfonts-arphic-gbsn00lp xfonts-cmex-big5p
> > >   xfonts-intl-chinese
> > > 50 packages upgraded, 36 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0  not
> > > upgraded.
> > > 3 packages not fully installed or removed.
> > > Need to get 0B/95.4MB of archives. After unpacking 130MB will be
> >
> > used.
> >
> > > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
> > > Abort.
> >
> > So how do I tell apt that its database is broken, the .deb's have not
> > been downloaded yet, and it should be "Need to get 95.4MB" of
> > archives", not "0B/95.4MB"?

By deleteing the contence of /var/cache/apt/archives but keep 
/var/cache/apt/archives/partial

Ani

adding APT sources

[Harry Palmer]

The nice blue and white ncurses interface you get on an initial debian
install where you get the choice of adding another package source or
continuing the install  -  is it possible to run this on an up and
running system, or must new sources be added manually?

Thanks again,

H.

Re: network card problem

[Truong]

Hi, Richard

I don't know if it could help you but I got the same problem to put my
second nic recognized by the kernel 2.2.19. By default, the kernel would
only use one nic (eth0) . I said by "default" this means the feature .
That was I learned from  few month
ago. Go there to get better advices.

I don't know whether if it's still remain in kernel 2.4.x .

Assume that you have the module 3c509.o on linux-box .
So, if you use lilo to boot then put this line in /etc/lilo.conf


  append="ether=0,0,eth1"


Next, add this two line in the file /etc/modules.conf 


  alias eth0 3c509
  alias eth1 3c509


Then you reboot and see if the kernel could detect the two cards
(by reading /var/log/messages or by command "ifconfig -a")

If somebody could give a better help .

Have fun !


% *** Richard Weil wrote: ***
% I installed the 3c5x9utils package as suggested and I
% think it's indicating the problem, but I'm not sure
% how to interpret the results (or what to do about it).
% I run the diagnostic and it finds both cards. The
% output is approx.:
% 
% Generating the activation sequence on port 0x100 for
% card 1
% Activating the card at I/O address 300
% EEPROM contents: [a list]
% An ISA Etherlink III board was activated at I/O 0x300,
% IRQ 5
% eth0: 3c509 found at 0x300
% Window [0: ... 7:]
% 
% 
% Generating the activation sequence on port 0x100 for
% card 2
% Activating the card at I/O address 300
% EEPROM contents: [a list, different from above]
% An ISA Etherlink III board was activated at I/O 0x300,
% IRQ 10
% eth0: 3c509 found at 0x300
% Window [0: ... 7: (different from above)]
% 
% So, it seems to be finding both cards at the different
% IRQs and configuring them both as eth0 at 0x300
% (whatever that means). The 3c5x9utils package includes
% a setup utility, but I'm not sure what to change. Any
% suggestions? Thanks.
% 
% Richard
%
% > I'm running testing with a Debian 2.4.12 kernel. Any
% > help is appreicated. Thanks.
% > >
% > > Richard
% > 
% > The cards may be setup for using the same resources.
% > Use 'el3diag' from the 
% > 3c5x9utils package.  This only reports the settings,
% > to change them you 
% > would need the DOS utility for the card. 
% > -- 
% > Greg Madden
% > 
% *** END of Message From Richard Weil ***

-- 
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  Truong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  
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Re: vorbis encoder/decoder for potato machine?

[Eric Richardson]

Stephen Gran wrote:


Thus spake Eric Richardson:


The problem I had is that XMMS 1.2.5 is needed to use the ogg plugin and 
this won't compile as it needs:

gnomexmms.c:24: applet-widget.h: No such file or directory


That comes from libpanel-applet-dev. :-)




Wouldn't you know someone would look at this message when just after I 
posted I got xmms to compile by locating the dev package above. Xmms 
will not work though: neither the compiled or the apt-get'ted version. 
It just races thru the file but produces no sound. I must have messed 
something up via the make install. It seems I messed up /usr/local.


Both alsaplayer and ogg123 work although alsa races through a half 
quality mp3 but plays sound anyway.


Any ideas?

Eric

re: apt-get problem

[Howland, Curtis]

Sumimasen, please address any replies directly and to the list, I cannot
subscribe to the list directly at work. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Curt-

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KVH Telecom Japan, Ltd.IDC Division

Re: Frustration (cablemodem woes)

[Jeff]

Michael Patterson, 2001-Nov-12 11:14 -0700:
> > Does it take a long time to initially make the connection to a
> > web site and then after it finally connects the web page popps up
> > quickly?
> 
> The web page takes a noticable, but not prohibitively long time to connect.
> it appears that the site "www.thex-files" (to name a specific page) will
> load part of the flash presentation, then pause for a long period of time
> before continuing.

This mostly rules out a dns issue, if you connect to the desired
web site quickly and start downloading.

> > Do downloads go really slow?  Do uploads go really slow?
> 
> Downloads go extremely slow. The "game of the hour" here is Dark Age of
> Camelot, and I've been using the install of this program as a method of
> testing download speeds. (it gives a download rate while updating over the
> net)
> 
> A win98 machine hooked directly to the cablemodem gets 60k/sec download.
> A win98 machine masqueraded through my debian box on wantweb gets 10k/sec.
> A win98 masqueraded through my debian box on the cablemodem gets 0.3k/sec
> before stopping entirely.
>
> The fact that DaoC stops downloading entirely after a short period of time
> is puzzling. It worked fine with masquerading through wantweb.
> 
> As a second test to verify, I told Morpheus to download a number of files at
> once. It seems to be doing significantly better. The speed of the files
> being downloaded adds up to 12k/sec.

I believe there is a layer 1 or 2 problem here.

> > Does network traffic simply stop altogether for a period of time?
> 
> Yes. Eventually, the traffic stops completely, requiring a reboot of the
> cable modem for it to start up again.

I can think of 2 things that may be at issue:  1) your cable
modem could be losing it's registration on the cable loop, which
means the cable head-end no longer see's it on the loop and stops
forwarding traffic onto the loop for it until it recieves
registration packets from it again.  This would be a cable
provider problem, but you cable guy say's the modem is
fine...hmmm.  2) you NIC is bad and either the NIC just goes
belly-up after awhile or it's sending garbled packets which the
modem eventually just stops listening to.  You'll need a new NIC
(known to be good) to swap out and test.

> > Add anything else you can think of.
> 
> I had someone come out from the cable company to check my setup. They
> verified that the cablemodem was working fine (which I also verified by
> hookng up a win98 box directly to it).
> 
> The connection has stoped three times since I started this email. In all
> cases, the "PC" light has remained on, and the cable light has blinked
> slowly (in normal behavior, the PC light blinks off with traffic, and the
> cable light blinks faster as traffic is transmitted). The modem is a
> scientific atlantic.

This particular cable modem's status light blinks to indicate one of
the following conditions:
- The cable modem is booting up and not ready for data.
- The cable modem is scanning the network and attempting to register.
- The cable modem has lost registration on the network, and will continue 
  blinking until it registers again.

> > Also, check your /var/log/syslog file for messages regarding
> > dhcp, your ethernet interface and aything else suspicious.
> 
> There is one string of messages that appears suspicious, and repeats itself
> over and over again.
> 
> Nov 12 10:51:47 white kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth0 PROTO=17
> 24.8.30.89:13
> 7 24.8.30.255:137 L=96 S=0x00 I=148 F=0x T=64 (#7)

Looks like you firewall is denying and logging packets it's
recieving for the qotd protocol...qotd 17/tcp "Quote of the Day".
I don't know of an exploit that this might indicate, but it
doesn't have an effect on the problem at hand.

jc

-- 
Jeff CoppockSystems Engineer
Diggin' Debian  Admin and User

apt-get problem

[Howland, Curtis]

> Hi. Last night I was doing a Woody install of some various Japanese
> and Chinese language input software, as well as the incremental
> updates. It was a 5 hour download, so I went to sleep to deal with it
> in the morning.
> 
> However, the dial-up session died during the night, and more than half
> of the packages did not download. dselect shows the packages as
> "dependency broken" or "to be upgraded" still, but when I try to
> restart the download, apt does not think there are any packages to
> download. I get the following error:
> 
> 
> > Reading Package Lists... Done
> > Building Dependency Tree... Done
> > Correcting dependencies... Done
> > The following NEW packages will be installed:
> >   canna canna-shion chinput cjk-latex dialog expat freetype1-tools
> > imlib1
> >   kdelibs3-cups libcanna1g libexpat1 libkpathsea3 libpaperg libpth13
> >   libtabe-db libtabe0 libwww0 libxmltok1 perl-tk psutils rxvt
> rxvt-ml
> >   tetex-base tetex-bin tfm-arphic-bsmi00lp ttf-arphic-bsmi00lp
> >   ttf-arphic-gbsn00lp unicon-im xa+cv xcin xcin2.3 xcingb
> >   xfonts-arphic-bsmi00lp xfonts-arphic-gbsn00lp xfonts-cmex-big5p
> >   xfonts-intl-chinese
> > 50 packages upgraded, 36 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0  not
> > upgraded.
> > 3 packages not fully installed or removed.
> > Need to get 0B/95.4MB of archives. After unpacking 130MB will be
> used.
> > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
> > Abort.
> 
> So how do I tell apt that its database is broken, the .deb's have not
> been downloaded yet, and it should be "Need to get 95.4MB" of
> archives", not "0B/95.4MB"?
> 
> Curt-
> 
> ---
> Curt Howland  +81-3-5772-5832
> KVH Telecom Japan, Ltd.IDC Division
> 

Re: Converting From Red Hat to Debian

[Stephen Gran]

Thus spake Mark Seven Smith:
> I ordered install CD's for Debian (prob. a year ago), and 
> found that my video card wasn't supported...it WAS 
> supported in Red Hat, and SuSE, so I used SuSE for awhile 
> (I had used RH5.2 and 6.1 before that), and now I am 
> running RH7.1.
> 
> What I WANT to do, is to install the latest Debian version 
> onto a second hard drive that I have; then I will put that 
> hard drive as drive hda, and use the second drive (the one 
> that now has Red Hat) as my /home directory.
> 
> That being said--what I want to know is, first of all, is 
> how can I install Debian on my second drive, without having 
> to go through the install procedure (which is incompatible 
> in *text mode* with my video card)?
> 
> Also which version of Debian should I use?  (What I am 
> going to do once I have Debian working, is to install the 
> latest version of XFree86; it has full support for my video 
> card, which is an ATI Rage 128).
> 
> This has been asked many times on this list I am sure; if 
> you could just give me some links to the right pages 
> (FAQ's, HOWTO's, or whatever), it would be greatly 
> appreciated.  I have read the help and the installation 
> instructions on the Debian site until I have begun to bleed 
> from my eyeballs; but everything seems to be geared toward 
> getting you to the point of running the installation 
> program (which runs automatically when you boot the 
> installation CD).  And this seems to go bonkers with my 
> card!
> 
> I would suspect that my video card is bad--but I am using 
> it right now, in Red Hat 7.1, and it is working fine.
> 
> I would purchase a new card; but I'm poor! 
> 
> My system is an ABIT motherboard with 256 MB, 2 6-gig 
> HDD's, D-Link 530-TX 10/100 ethernet card, PII, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> cable modem, ATI Rage 128 video card
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> --Mark VII

That is odd - I have the same card, and I installed from a slink disk
without a hitch.  Works fine in both text and X4 - X3 didn't do so well,
though.  If you can see the BIOS messages, then your card should work
for standard VGA/SVGA stuff.  Maybe your install set is bad?  I don't
know.
Good luck,
Steve

-- 
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Quake 3 Framerate Issue

[JakeCatfox]

Hi, a bit off topic I know, but here goes. I've got a Duron 880mhz with 196mb 
RAM, VooDoo 3, and kernel 2.4.5. When I run the Quake 3 demo, I get a 
framerate of about 1-2 fps. I checked the readme and it says to change the X 
server's color setting to 16 bpp. I did this, but it still does it! Does 
anyone know what I should do?

Thanks,
Deven Gallo

Re: DC Modem

[JakeCatfox]

No, sorry, Sega isn't about to support Linux on the DC, let alone modem Linux 
drivers. They won't even make the machine anymore. You may be able to do it 
with the Broadband Adapter though.

-- Deven Gallo


In a message dated 11/12/01 6:23:25 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

<< So, no one actually knows if it'll work modem to modem?
 This really interests me because I'd love to stick the DC on the network
 
 w/o spending anything. =)
 And, if not, would anybody be interested in writing drivers for it? 
 (Assuming Sega will give out the specs =) ) >>

Re: vorbis encoder/decoder for potato machine?

[Stephen Gran]

Thus spake Eric Richardson:
> Stan Brown wrote:
> 
> >I'm trying to get abcde working on a potato + progeny + 2.4.3 kernel
> >machine.. I actually have it working using lame, but In the spirit of
> >Debian, I'd like to get rid of the questionable mp3 format.
> >
> >I grab vorbis from sourceforg, but I had a problem getting one of the
> >libraries to compile (missing header file). I was wondering if anyone could
> >point me to a version of vorbis tools that is suitable for using woht the
> >lates abcde, that works on a potato machine?
> 
> 
> 
> I got this to compile on potato. You need to compile libao, libogg, 
> libvorbis, and then vorbis-tools. I can't remember what the dependencies 
> are but I just compiled the ones that compiled without dependencies 
> first and then had to add LD_LIBRARY_PATH to get I believe the tools to 
> compile. This should work with standard potato -dev packages.
> 
> The problem I had is that XMMS 1.2.5 is needed to use the ogg plugin and 
> this won't compile as it needs:
> gnomexmms.c:24: applet-widget.h: No such file or directory
> 
> Thus the only player I can use is ogg123 or some such command line player.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Eric
That comes from libpanel-applet-dev. :-)
Steve

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Re: X broken in current Debian/Sid/Unstable ?

[Colin Watson]

On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 01:44:24PM -0500, Timothy Webster wrote:
> This brings to mind a much bigger question.
> Package configuration tool that using debian dependences to construct
> config files. It would be nice to have general package configuration
> tool that could read rules from the deb package and generate config files.

debconf is the framework most people use for this.

-- 
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Announcement: Automatic ATLAS support under Debian GNU/Linux

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

[ If this is considered off-topic please let me know in private mail. ]

With the current version of the glibc library in Debian's "testing" and
"unstable" distributions, ldconfig now loads the ATLAS optimised BLAS without
any user intervention beyond installation of the Atlas and R or Octave
packages.

ATLAS can lead to very dramatic speed increases (up to a factor of ten, see
below for simple examples) for common linear algebra operations.  The ability
to use these optimised libraries along with either R or Octave without having
to compile any code is probably a first among Linux, and Unix, distributions.

The README file below (included with Debian's R and Octave packages) provides
a few more details, and has the appropriate acknowledgements.

Comments or questions are welcome.  

Best regards, Dirk



 Notes on using Atlas libs with GNU Octave and GNU R

I. Overview

As of the Debian releases 2.1.34-6 (for GNU Octave) and 1.3.0-3 (for GNU R),
both Octave and R can be used with Atlas, the Automatically Tuned Linear
Algebra Software, in order to obtain much faster linear algebra operations.

To make use of Atlas, Debian users need to install the Atlas libraries for
their given cpu architecture. Concretely, one of

atlas2-base - Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software
atlas2-p3 - Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software
atlas2-p4 - Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software
atlas2-athlon - Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software

must be installed. Here, 'base' provides generic libraries which run on all
platforms whereas 'p3', 'p4' and 'athlon' stand for the Pentium III and IV as
well as the AMD Athlon, respectively.  The actual libraries are installed in
/usr/lib/atlas (in the case of 'base') and in /usr/lib/$arch/atlas for the
cpu-specific versions. Here $arch stands for the cpu code used by the kernel
and shown in /proc/cpuinfo.

The Atlas libraries can be loaded dynamically instead of the (non-optimised)
blas libraries against which both Octave and R are compiled.

Section III below briefly describes how Atlas libraries can be compiled for
your specific machine to further optimise performance.

II. Using the Atlas libraries

II.A New default behaviour with automatic loading of the Atlas libraries

In order to have the libraries loaded at run-time, the location needs to be
communicated to the dynamic linker/loader. As of the Debian release
libc6_2.2.4-5 of the glibc library, a patch to ldconfig automates the use of
the Atlas library. If an Atlas package is installed, and correctly registered
in /etc/ld.so.conf as done by its postinst script, ldconfig will
automatically load the Atlas' version of the Blas instead of the (slower)
default Blas.

The following text is hence only relevant for systems which have not yet
upgraded to libc6_2.2.4-5 or later.

II.B Old behaviour requiring LD_LIBRARY_PATH for Octave

For Octave, use the variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH. On a computer with the
atlas2-base package:

$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/atlas octave2.1 -q
octave2.1:1> X=randn(1000,1000);t=cputime();Y=X'*X;cputime-t
ans = 7.9600

$ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> octave2.1 -q
octave2.1:1> X=randn(1000,1000);t=cputime();Y=X'*X;cputime-t
ans = 61.520

For R version 1.3.0-4, the R_LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable has to be used, and its
value needs to be copied out of /usr/bin/R (or edited therein). For R version
1.3.1 or later this is done automatically in the R startup shell script.  For
an Athlon machine, and with the explicit definition which is no longer needed
as of R 1.3.1, the example becomes

$ 
R_LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/R/bin:/usr/local/lib:/usr/X11R6/lib:/usr/lib/3dnow/atlas:/usr/lib:/usr/X11R6/lib:/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/2.95.4:.
 R --vanilla -q
> mm <- matrix(rnorm(10^6), ncol = 10^3)
> system.time(crossprod(mm))
[1] 2.38 0.04 2.84 0.00 0.00

$ R --vanilla -q
> mm <- matrix(rnorm(10^6), ncol = 10^3)
> system.time(crossprod(mm))
[1] 28.28  0.08 33.54  0.00  0.00
> 

Running such a small example is highly recommded to ascertain that the
libraries are indeed found, and to "prove" that the speed gain is real (and
significant) for problems of at least a medium size as the 1000x1000 examples
above.

Note that the example use "/usr/lib/atlas" for the atlas2-base package;
Athlon users should employ "/usr/lib/3dnow/atlas", Pentium III users should
employ "/usr/lib/xmm/atlas" and Pentium IV users should employ
"/usr/lib/26/atlas".

Lastly, it should be pointed out that it is probably worthwhile to locally
compile, and thereby optimise, the Atlas libraries if at least a moderately
intensive load is expected. This is described in the next section.

III. Locally compiling the Atlas libraries

The Debian Atlas packages have been setup to allow for local recompilation of
the Atlas libraries. This way the behaviour will be tuned exactly to the
specific CPU rather than the broader class of CPUs. It has been reported that
this can increase

Re: artsc.h ?

[Stephen Gran]

Thus spake Sean 'Shaleh' Perry:
> 
> On 12-Nov-2001 Stan Brown wrote:
> > I'm trying to build vorbis for my potato + Progeny + 2.4 kernel machine.
> > 
> > All goes OK, except that the build of libao fails because it cannot locate
> > something called artsc.h Anyone know what package has this include file?
> > 
> > Alternativly, does anyone know ehre I can get a .deb of vorbis-tools for a
> > potato machine that coantians all the excutables needed by the lates
> > abcde?
> > 
> 
> have you grabbed the source from Debian?  If so, look at the control file 
> there
> should be a Build-Depend line.
Short answer: libarts-dev
Long answer: go to packages.debian.org, and use the second search engine
for these sort of problems.
Good luck,
Steve

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Re: svg authoring

[Eric G. Miller]

On Mon, 12 Nov 2001 23:23:52 +0100
Eric Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Is there a debian package for a scalable vector graphics authoring
> tool?

sodipodi?  It's a GNOME program.  Never tried it myself, but it
reportedly uses SVG as it's native file format.

-- 
Eric G. Miller 

Re: [debian-user] licq wont send messages

[David P James]

On Friday 09 November 2001 06:41, Rüdiger Kuhlmann wrote:

>
> Q: I'm trying to use a direct TCP connection.
>
> A: The newest Windows ICQ has set, and will set upon upgrade, the option
>"ignore connections from older clients".
>
> S: Educate your windows users to switch it off.

I spend most of my time using linux, so I use licq but I do have icq for 
Windows as well (more of a legacy than anything else).  I have the 
2000b version. Anyway, where is this option? It doesn't seem to be under 
"security" or "connections", other than some mention of allowing direct 
connections to all users or just to those on your list (but nothing about 
older clients). I want to know more so I can tell others how to disable it 
than for my own personal use.

> Q: Which clients do have this problem?
>
> A: All clients using icqv5, including Windows ICQ98.
>
> S: Use Jabber instead, it has a known and public protocal, and there are
>more than just one server. Or wait till icqv7 is implemented.
>
> Yours, Rüdiger (having mICQ CVS write access)

-- 
David P. James
Third Year Economics
Queen's University,
Kingston, Ontario
http://members.home.com/dpjames/

The bureaucratic mentality is the only constant in the universe.
-Dr. Leonard McCoy, Star Trek IV

Re: bastille deb

[Kurt Lieber]

I've used it and it worked fine.  The package installed without any problem 
and I was able to run through the configuration script without a hitch.

I'm using woody with a dash of sid.

--kurt

On Monday 12 November 2001 12:23 pm, Charles Baker wrote:
> Has anyone used the Bastille deb package? If so, what
> were the results? I have used Bastille on Redhat and
> Mandrake systems, but haven't seen anything about
> using it on Debian systems.

installation problem

[zio Luca]

I am a newbie and I am performing my first Debian installation on a Athlon
900. At the end (I have already rebooted the system and installed all the
packages) PC asked me to configure Xwindow and graphical mode.
Now I was in a jam 'cause:

_X11Trans SocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
_X11Trans SocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
_X11Trans SocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
_X11Trans SocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
_X11Trans SocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
_X11Trans SocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
_X11Trans SocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
Unable to communicate with Xserver!


Somebody can help me?
Thanks.

Luca

Re: XFree86 4

[csj]

On Tuesday 13 November 2001 05:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi, does anyone know where I can get XF86 version 4 servers for
> Debian? Thanks.

apt-get install xserver-xfree86

-- 
Sir Isaac Newton:
"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."

svg authoring

[Eric Smith]

Is there a debian package for a scalable vector graphics authoring
tool?

-- 
Eric Smith

Re: Cron & At Permissions

[Andras BALI]

On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 01:04:52PM -0500, David Raeker-Jordan wrote:

> When my system boots and when I try to create an `at` job, I see
> `at` permission errors. I am running the latest potato.

> Here is what I have. Is this wrong?

Yes. The /var/spool/cron directory should be 0755.

$ ls -l /var/spool/cron
total 5
drwxr-xr-x5 root root 1024 Aug  5  1998 .
drwxr-xr-x   14 root root 1024 Oct 28 01:31 ..
drwx--2 daemon   daemon   1024 Nov 12 06:55 atjobs
drwx--2 daemon   daemon   1024 Nov 12 06:55 atspool
drwxr-xr-x2 root root 1024 May 31  2000 crontabs
$

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Re: 404 Not Found when upgrading to unstable

[Andras BALI]

On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 10:43:34PM +0100, Eric Smith wrote:

> Err http://ftp.nl.debian.org unstable/main binutils 2.11.92.0.10-3
>   404 Not Found

The reason is:

$ ncftpls ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ | head -1
Archive-Update-in-Progress-open.hands.com
$

The archive is just being updated, therefore it may happen that the
Packages file is new, but the new files it refers to are not yet
downloaded. Check back later.

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Reiser and Potato

[Dougie Nisbet]

I've searched the mailing list and see that this has come up before, but I 
haven't quite found the answer I'm looking for. I'm new to debian, so 
still getting to grips with apt and dselect.

What I'd like to do is build a stable machine so potato is fine. However, 
the only non-stable thing I need is reiser support. I have a few large 
reiser partitions installed using Mandrake, and want to access them from 
my potato install. I notice that I can rebuild the kernel to get the SMP 
support, but the only way to get reiser seems to be to download a tarball 
from www.kernel.org or wherever. 

At the moment I've built a potato system, and it's got SMP and reiser 
support and running kernel 2.4.14 (the latest 'stable' kernel, allegedly, 
but I've had a few machine lockups which sound suspiciously similar to 
what others have described for 2.4.14 kernels.) So to get a stable machine 
that supports reiser do I;

1. Modify my /etc/apt/sources.list to allow me to get 'testing' packages
2. Download a kernel package directly and compile it in.

I thought 2. would be the better approach, as it would allow me to keep my 
potato distro as potato as possible. I thought if I modified 
/etc/apt/sources.list to allow testing packages then I immediately stop 
having a potato system. 

I can't be the first person to find themselves in this quandry. Any 
suggested approaches?

Dougie

Re: LILO splash screen

[Gordon Fraser]

Hi,

Walter Hofmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Now that the new LILO in woody can display splash screens, does
> anyone know where I could get suitable bitmaps?


I have created a Debian-Splash-Screen for lilo, you can find it at
http://freakzone.net/gordon/ 
together with a short explanation how to install or create your own.

Let me know if you like it or not...

Gordon

-- 
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]  month-long flamewar over the use of
http://www.freakzone.net  mice vs. trackballs...It was very
  silly."  (By Matt Welsh)


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404 Not Found when upgrading to unstable

[Eric Smith]

I am upgrading as follows:

deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main non-free contrib

I tried to install firstly debconf and apt-options and got this:

Err http://ftp.nl.debian.org unstable/main binutils 2.11.92.0.10-3
  404 Not Found
Get:17 http://ftp.nl.debian.org unstable/main cpp 2:2.95.4-8 [3282B]
Get:18 http://ftp.nl.debian.org unstable/main cpp-2.95 1:2.95.4-0.011006 [128kB]
Get:19 http://ftp.nl.debian.org unstable/main g++ 2:2.95.4-8 [1186B]
Get:20 http://ftp.nl.debian.org unstable/main g++-2.95 1:2.95.4-0.011006 
[1028kB]
Get:21 http://ftp.nl.debian.org unstable/main gcc 2:2.95.4-8 [3278B]
Get:22 http://ftp.nl.debian.org unstable/main gcc-2.95 1:2.95.4-0.011006 [951kB]
Get:23 http://ftp.nl.debian.org unstable/main libstdc++2.10-dev 
1:2.95.4-0.011006 [301kB]
Get:24 http://ftp.nl.debian.org unstable/main libc6-dev 2.2.4-5 [2352kB]
Get:25 http://ftp.nl.debian.org unstable/main locales 2.2.4-5 [3337kB]
Get:26 http://ftp.nl.debian.org unstable/main apt-utils 0.5.4 [173kB]
Get:27 http://ftp.nl.debian.org unstable/main libdb2-util 2:2.7.7.0-2 [107kB]
Get:28 http://ftp.nl.debian.org unstable/main libdps1 4.1.0-9 [156kB]
Err http://ftp.nl.debian.org unstable/main libfreetype6 2.0.5-2
  404 Not Found
Get:29 http://ftp.nl.debian.org unstable/main xlib6g 4.1.0-9 [47.1kB]


Then tried to install login and got this:

cherry# apt-get install login
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  binutils cpp cpp-2.95 debconf dialog g++ g++-2.95 gcc gcc-2.95 libc6 
libc6-dev libdb2 libdb2-util libdps1 libfreetype6 libgtk1.2
  libncurses5 libperl5.6 libpopt0 libstdc++2.10-dev libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 
libxaw6 libxaw7 locales perl perl-5.005 perl-5.005-base
  perl-5.005-suid perl-base perl-modules perl-suid whiptail xbase-clients 
xfree86-common xlib6g xlibs
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  xpm4g
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  cpp-2.95 g++-2.95 gcc-2.95 libdps1 libfreetype6 libperl5.6 
libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 libxaw6 libxaw7 perl perl-modules perl-suid
  xlibs
24 packages upgraded, 13 newly installed, 1 to remove and 299 not upgraded.
Need to get 1569kB/21.6MB of archives. After unpacking 13.2MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Get:1 http://ftp.nl.debian.org unstable/main login 2902-8 [110kB]
Err http://ftp.nl.debian.org unstable/main binutils 2.11.92.0.10-3
  404 Not Found
Err http://ftp.nl.debian.org unstable/main libfreetype6 2.0.5-2
  404 Not Found
Fetched 110kB in 2s (46.6kB/s)
Failed to fetch 
http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/pool/main/b/binutils/binutils_2.11.92.0.10-3_i386.deb
  404 Not Found
Failed to fetch 
http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/pool/main/f/freetype/libfreetype6_2.0.5-2_i386.deb
  404 Not Found
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe try with --fix-missing?

What solecism have I committed?

If I wanted to make a CD first to mound with apt-cdrom. what would I make
the root of the CD?

Thanx

--
Eric Smith

Re: Eth0 detected in dmesg, but not by 'route add'

[nate]

tom schuetz said:

> I am confused, and would appreciate some advice.

include a full copy of dmesg output maybe i can help.

nate

Re: network card problem

[Richard Weil]

I installed the 3c5x9utils package as suggested and I
think it's indicating the problem, but I'm not sure
how to interpret the results (or what to do about it).
I run the diagnostic and it finds both cards. The
output is approx.:

Generating the activation sequence on port 0x100 for
card 1
Activating the card at I/O address 300
EEPROM contents: [a list]
An ISA Etherlink III board was activated at I/O 0x300,
IRQ 5
eth0: 3c509 found at 0x300
Window [0: ... 7:]


Generating the activation sequence on port 0x100 for
card 2
Activating the card at I/O address 300
EEPROM contents: [a list, different from above]
An ISA Etherlink III board was activated at I/O 0x300,
IRQ 10
eth0: 3c509 found at 0x300
Window [0: ... 7: (different from above)]

So, it seems to be finding both cards at the different
IRQs and configuring them both as eth0 at 0x300
(whatever that means). The 3c5x9utils package includes
a setup utility, but I'm not sure what to change. Any
suggestions? Thanks.

Richard

--- Greg Madden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Monday 12 November 2001 10:51 am, Richard Weil
> wrote:
> > I just installed a second network card in a
> machine in
> > which the first card runs fine. Both cards are old
> > 3Com 3c509b cards. I added the second card to
> > /etc/network/interfaces with an address and
> netmask,
> > but I can't get the machine to recongize it. On
> > bootup, the messages seem to indicate that it
> can't
> > load a module for the card (though it successfully
> > loads one for eth0 -- and it's the same kind of
> card).
> > [The messages aren't in dmesg when I look later.]
> I'm
> > running testing with a Debian 2.4.12 kernel. Any
> help
> > is appreicated. Thanks.
> >
> > Richard
> 
> The cards may be setup for using the same resources.
> Use 'el3diag' from the 
> 3c5x9utils package.  This only reports the settings,
> to change them you 
> would need the DOS utility for the card. 
> -- 
> Greg Madden
> 
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Problems with NFS client-woody server-potato

[Hanasaki JiJi]

The following error is showing up in syslog.  I

Nov 12 15:11:46 fred rpc.statd[196]: Received erroneous SM_UNMON request 
from fred for 192.168.1.1


SErver lsmod - potato
nfsd  160536   0  (unused)
nfs43820   0  (unused)
lockd  41720   0  [nfsd nfs]

Client lsmod - woody
nfs   160536   1  (autoclean)
lockd  41720   1  (autoclean)[nfs]
sunrpc 41720   1  (autoclean)[nfs lockd]

XFree86 4

[JakeCatfox]

Hi, does anyone know where I can get XF86 version 4 servers for Debian? 
Thanks.

-- Deven Gallo

lilo conflict command line opt./conf.file

[Ulrich Büchsel]

Hello!

In some occasions I want to boot Linux with less memory than is
physically available. But as I have more than 64MB of RAM I have
constantly added the command

append="mem=256M" 

to my lilo.conf.

If now I would additionally add the command line option mem=32M how much
memory would my system use. Which option has priority. 

By the way: which command line tool shows me how much memory is available,
free, used etc.

Thanks in advance
Ulrich

I can only print half a page, USB *or* parallel

[Kirk Strauser]

I am using a 'testing' workstation at home, and I've been trying to get CUPS
(cupsys v1.1.10-4) working.  The problem is that I can print about half of a
test page before the printer hangs indefinitely.

The *really* frustrating part is that I've tried several kernel versions
(2.2.19, 2.4.9, 2.4.12, 2.4.14 later this evening) and two different
printers (Epson Photo Stylus 780, Canon S800), and two different interfaces
(both printers support parallel and USB) with pretty much identical results.

I have recently started using a Belkin F1DS104T KVM switch, which translates
my USB mouse and PS-2 keyboard into a single USB connection.  Of note, when
the printer hangs while connected to the USB port, I subsequently lose
keyboard and mouse, and have to either SSH in and reboot or reset the
machine.

I was able to print correctly at one point in the past, pre-KVM switch, and
with an older version of cupsys.  However, I'd be hard pressed to roll back
all of the changes I've made to my system since then.  I don't print a lot,
and the breakdown could've occurred a few weeks ago without me noticing.

Does anyone have any ideas about what might've happened to my printing
capabilities?  I apologize if I'm not giving enough information - I tried to
include everything that seemed relevant, but I don't claim to be an expert.
If there's any additional information that could clarify the situation,
please tell me and I'll re-post.

If I can't print baby pictures by the end of the week, my wife's gonna kill
me.  Please help save a life! 

A million thanks!
-- 
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Quake 2 Video Failure

[JakeCatfox]

Whenever I try to initialize Quake 2, it says it can't find ref_softx.so. 
It's right there in the directory with the binary. I copied all the libraries 
to /lib and /usr/lib and even usr/local/lib, but it won't work. I copied 
quake2.conf to etc/ and made a symlink to pak0.pak from my DOS partition (to 
save space on my small 8gb drive.)

Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? I got this to work before ..
-- Deven Gallo

XF86 4

[JakeCatfox]

Hi, does anyone know where I can get XF86 version 4 servers for Debian? 
Thanks.

-- Deven Gallo

Eth0 detected in dmesg, but not by 'route add'

[tom schuetz]

I'm trying to hook up via crossover cable to an NT box.

Got a realtek8019, properly configured, etc.

It's reported in dmesg, no problem.

I can ping the local host (*.*.*.1)
and the network (*.*.*.0) successfully.

I cannot ping the NT host (*.*.*.2)

When I do 'ROUTE ADD -NET [...anything]'

I get a message like:

SIOCADDF: Device not found.

I am confused, and would appreciate some advice.

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Re: network card problem

[Greg Madden]

On Monday 12 November 2001 10:51 am, Richard Weil wrote:
> I just installed a second network card in a machine in
> which the first card runs fine. Both cards are old
> 3Com 3c509b cards. I added the second card to
> /etc/network/interfaces with an address and netmask,
> but I can't get the machine to recongize it. On
> bootup, the messages seem to indicate that it can't
> load a module for the card (though it successfully
> loads one for eth0 -- and it's the same kind of card).
> [The messages aren't in dmesg when I look later.] I'm
> running testing with a Debian 2.4.12 kernel. Any help
> is appreicated. Thanks.
>
> Richard

The cards may be setup for using the same resources. Use 'el3diag' from the 
3c5x9utils package.  This only reports the settings, to change them you 
would need the DOS utility for the card. 
-- 
Greg Madden

Re: Converting From Red Hat to Debian

[Steve Kieu]

> how can I install Debian on my second drive, without
> having 
> to go through the install procedure (which is

unless you hace the full working debian system, you
can transfer it onto the second drive and edit using
cp -a or some other method that jas been discussed in
this mailing list last month (i think).
search for GTEP  to find more

/etc/fstab

> incompatible 
> in *text mode* with my video card)?
> 
> Also which version of Debian should I use?  (What I
> am 
> going to do once I have Debian working, is to
> install the 
> latest version of XFree86; it has full support for
> my video 
> card, which is an ATI Rage 128).

so it is debian woody
 
> cable modem, ATI Rage 128 video card

it is well supported under xfree 3.3.6 using xsvga
server. But the old xsvga has a bug that causes the
font not to display. I dont know how about the current
xsvga in debian potato yet. probably it got fixed. If
not try to replace it using the suse rpm version ;
better copy it by hand to replace it the old server;
This works for me long time a go when I installed for
my friend machine. I still have this rpm here, if you
can find out or need, I could send it to you. But
better installing woody..

 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> --Mark VII
> 
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Re: Converting From Red Hat to Debian

[nate]

Mark Seven Smith said:
[..]
>
> how can I install Debian on my second drive, without having
> to go through the install procedure (which is incompatible
> in *text mode* with my video card)?
[..]
> cable modem, ATI Rage 128 video card


i can't imagine an ati rage 128 not working with the debian
installer. sure it most likely will not work with xfree 3.3.6
but the installer is just VGA 16colors. if you can see the
bios and stuff on the screen as the machine boots the installer
should work.

to do what your asking the way ive done it in the past was to install
it on another system, burn the image of the partition to a cd(at the
time i used drive image i think, about 2 years ago), and wrote it to
the new drive. i had to install this way because it was on an old
piece of shit laptop which didn't have pcmcia cdromdrivers for the cd drive at 
the time.

then you'll have to copy the kernel over to the redhat boot
partition and add an entry into whatever program it uses to
boot. grub? lilo? something else? i dunno.

Re: Converting From Red Hat to Debian

[Erik Steffl]

Mark Seven Smith wrote:
...
> What I WANT to do, is to install the latest Debian version
> onto a second hard drive that I have; then I will put that
> hard drive as drive hda, and use the second drive (the one
> that now has Red Hat) as my /home directory.
> 
> That being said--what I want to know is, first of all, is
> how can I install Debian on my second drive, without having
> to go through the install procedure (which is incompatible
> in *text mode* with my video card)?

  there are two possible solutions:

  1) use serial console, not sure if it's supported and you would need
something that acts as terminal

  2) install debian on different machine (it must be sufficiently
similar but not very similar - you just need basic system)

  also: you might want to look into what's the problem with video card
not working even in text mode (does it work in text mode in redhat?
there should be no difference). Try newer install disk for debian...

  for a workstation I would go with unstable - there's a lot of new
stuff in there and it is VERY stable (that's what I am using), any
problems are usually quickly fixed.

erik

Re: fake a netscape 4 browser with galeon?

[Eric C. Cooper]

I found the following line in ~/.galeon/mozilla/galeon/prefs.js:
user_pref("general.useragent.override",
  "Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/0.12.4 (Linux i686) Gecko/20011019");
Looks like you might be able to change this by hand.

-- 
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Confusing problem installing XFree86 4.1.0

[Jason Machacek]

I downloaded the XFree86 4.1.0 installation packages provided at:
http://people.debian.org/~cpbotha/xf410_potato/i386/
and burned them to CD.(My Winmodem doesn't work in Linux; I have a new modem
arriving soon)  I ran apt-cdrom and added that CD to the sources, then ran
apt-get dist-upgrade x-window-system.  The installer added the new files.
When it was finished, I ran apt-get dist-upgrade again to see if I would get
any error messages, and it said that the following packages had been "kept
back," but gave no reason for it:

twm xbase-clients xdm xmh xnest xserver-common xterm

I tried apt-get dist-upgrade --ignore-hold but I got the same result.
(Also, I had killed all X-related processes before running apt-get
dist-upgrade each time)

X runs fine, but I'm not sure the 4.1.0 installation was complete because I
downloaded it so X could support my Radeon card, but neither XF86Setup nor
xf86config have entries for the Radeon card or chipset.

Is my installation incomplete, or does something different have to be done
to get the Radeon card to function under Linux?


Thanks,
Jason Machacek

Converting From Red Hat to Debian

[Mark Seven Smith]

I ordered install CD's for Debian (prob. a year ago), and 
found that my video card wasn't supported...it WAS 
supported in Red Hat, and SuSE, so I used SuSE for awhile 
(I had used RH5.2 and 6.1 before that), and now I am 
running RH7.1.

What I WANT to do, is to install the latest Debian version 
onto a second hard drive that I have; then I will put that 
hard drive as drive hda, and use the second drive (the one 
that now has Red Hat) as my /home directory.

That being said--what I want to know is, first of all, is 
how can I install Debian on my second drive, without having 
to go through the install procedure (which is incompatible 
in *text mode* with my video card)?

Also which version of Debian should I use?  (What I am 
going to do once I have Debian working, is to install the 
latest version of XFree86; it has full support for my video 
card, which is an ATI Rage 128).

This has been asked many times on this list I am sure; if 
you could just give me some links to the right pages 
(FAQ's, HOWTO's, or whatever), it would be greatly 
appreciated.  I have read the help and the installation 
instructions on the Debian site until I have begun to bleed 
from my eyeballs; but everything seems to be geared toward 
getting you to the point of running the installation 
program (which runs automatically when you boot the 
installation CD).  And this seems to go bonkers with my 
card!

I would suspect that my video card is bad--but I am using 
it right now, in Red Hat 7.1, and it is working fine.

I would purchase a new card; but I'm poor! 

My system is an ABIT motherboard with 256 MB, 2 6-gig 
HDD's, D-Link 530-TX 10/100 ethernet card, PII, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
cable modem, ATI Rage 128 video card

Thanks in advance,

--Mark VII

bastille deb

[Charles Baker]

Has anyone used the Bastille deb package? If so, what
were the results? I have used Bastille on Redhat and
Mandrake systems, but haven't seen anything about
using it on Debian systems.

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Re: Stable IM client in debian

[Ross Burton]

Apologies for the quoting style, I'm stuck in Outlook at the moment...

jabber.com run a status page on support.jabber.com.

AIM: AOL have explicity blocked all clients except their own most recent.
This way the get to advertise in your client.

ICQ: There appears to be issues when connecting to the ICQ servers.  The
status page for ICQ (http://support.jabber.com/public-server/icqstatus.html)
is very diplomatic (see the AOL page for the non-diplomatic approach) which
indicates that this is an issue which should be resolved.  I sure hope so.

Ross

- Original Message -
> Sadely no.  It looks like ICQ is also doing the same as AOL to Jabber.
> It used to work so I believe, now its really unreliable.  I hope this is
> a temporary problem but I've yet to find anyone who can say for sure.

So, at the moment, is ICQ supposed to work through Jabber?  I tried
gabber about a month ago, and it worked fine.  However, with the
recent troubles with ICQ message sending, I tried playing with gabber
again.  However, I can no longer register with icq.jabber.org.  It
fails with "Error attempting to register with agent."  Ditto for AIM,
though MSN Messenger works.

Re: How Do I Reinstall A Package?

[Alan Chandler]

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> Hello,
>
> How do I reinstall a package? I've tried something along the lines of:
>
>   apt-get install kdelibs3 (for example)
>


but did you try

apt-get --reinstall install kdelibs3


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Re: galeon crashing consistently on unstable?

[Brian Nelson]

Nevermind, it's already been filed as a bug against libgnomeui32.
Read this:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=116004&repeatmerged=yes

-- 
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Re: LILO splash screen

[Walter Hofmann]

On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Benjamin Drieu wrote:

> > Now that the new LILO in woody can display splash screens, does
> > anyone know where I could get suitable bitmaps?
> 
> Perhaps you will be happy with 
> http://www.73lab.com/index.php?menu_item=4&curr_lang=1&page=

The logos there seem to be for mandrake. Unfortunately, every
distribution has its own, incompatible LILO splash screen patch.

I made my own logo now. I used one of the SuSE pictures from
http://www.heise.de/ct/ftp/projekte/splashscreen/default.shtml and
converted them to 640x480 by adding black bars 40 pixels high above and
below the picture (using gimp). I dithered it to 16 colors and saved it
as a RLE-encoded bitmap. (I cannot redistribute the picture, Heise's
policy doesn't allow this.)

Using the fourth picture the following LILO parameters worked for me:

install=/boot/boot-bmp.b
bitmap=turbo.bmp
bmp-table=500p,270p,1,10,200p
bmp-colors=0,,;7,,
bmp-timer=580p,450p;4,,

Walter

Re: galeon crashing consistently on unstable?

[Brian Nelson]

Timothy Burt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hi, Folks
> 
> I decided to try galeon again about a month ago, and it has done very
> well except for one thing: any time I try to access Preferences 
> (under Settings) it crashes, printing to the shell the lines
> 
> GnomeUI-ERROR **: file gnome-icon-item.c: line 304 (get_default_font): \
> assertion failed: (default_font != NULL)
> aborting...
> 
> I searched debian-user archives for this problem without luck.  Has anyone 
> seen/fixed the problem?

That's not a galeon error, but a gnome error:

#define DEFAULT_FONT_NAME 
"-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-100-*-*-*-*-*-*,"\
  "-*-*-medium-r-normal--10-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,*"

get_default_font (void)
{
if (!default_font) {
/* FIXME: this is never unref-ed */
default_font = gdk_fontset_load (DEFAULT_FONT_NAME);
g_assert (default_font != NULL);
}

return gdk_font_ref (default_font);
}

I don't know how gdk_fontset_load works, but you must not have any
fonts in defined in DEFAULT_FONT_NAME.  Try xfontsel and see what you
can come up with.

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Re: GDM error

[Shaya Potter]

interesting that you mention that.

I updated some gtk-engines files as well this morning, and it broke on the
reboot afterwards

shaya

- Original Message -
From: "Craig Dickson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 1:05 PM
Subject: Re: GDM error


| Shaya Potter wrote:
|
| > are you suffering from "could not open default font 'fixed'" problem as
| > well?
|
| No, that doesn't seem to be the problem.
|
| If my problems are occurring because of yesterday's Sid update, then I
| wonder if the Xenophilia GTK engine could be broken, and if that would
| cause the error I reported? gtk-engines-xenophilia was updated
| yesterday, and I have GDM configured to use a Xenophilia-based theme.
| When I get home, I'll try changing gdm.conf to use a different theme,
| and we'll see if that does the trick...
|
| Craig
|
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network card problem

[Richard Weil]

I just installed a second network card in a machine in
which the first card runs fine. Both cards are old
3Com 3c509b cards. I added the second card to
/etc/network/interfaces with an address and netmask,
but I can't get the machine to recongize it. On
bootup, the messages seem to indicate that it can't
load a module for the card (though it successfully
loads one for eth0 -- and it's the same kind of card).
[The messages aren't in dmesg when I look later.] I'm
running testing with a Debian 2.4.12 kernel. Any help
is appreicated. Thanks.

Richard

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Re: Vim help file problem

[Marc Wilson]

On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 02:00:57PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote:
> Error detected while processing function GZIP_read:
> line3:
> E21: Cannot make changes, 'modifiable' is off
> E434: Can't find tag pattern

I had to remove stuff I had in ~/.vimrc dealing with reading/writing
gzipped files in order to get help working again.

AFAIR, on the first install of vim 6.0, there was a debconf message saying
that parts of ~/.vimrc might be incompatible with the new version, but I
ignored it at the time.

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Freeze on HD access during boot (installer kernel)

[Carl Fink]

My system board died, and I've replaced it with a new Biostar board
and AMD Athlon 1.2 GHz.  Now I'm trying to boot up.

Booting from my old LILO/boot partition on the EIDE hard drive
freezes the system, along with flashing geometric color designs on
the monitor.  Booting from floppy works fine until the kernel tries
to access the hard drive, at which time it either freezes or warns
that it can't carry out a paging request, and then freezes.

The drive was fine in the old box for years.

I've turned off all caching on the motherboard.  

Any suggestions? 

(I'd post stuff like BIOS version, but I don't have it.  I'm posting
from work, the computer is at home.)
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Re: rsync with ssh problem

[Mike Egglestone]

Quoting Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

Hi Brian,
I usually get that message when rsync isn't installed
on my "remote" computer.
Perhaps double check rsync is installed on both machines.
Using ssh with rsync is cool.
I usually setup a seperate key to go along with ssh and rsync.
The key created has no passphrase, and therefore you can
use ssh with rsync in a cronjob.
ex rsync command.

rsync -av -e 'ssh -i /home/user/.ssh/sshkey' hostname:/home/* /home/spot/

There's a web page to check out:
http://www.dhs.org/pipermail/systalk/2001-February/015392.html

HTH,

Mike


> I'm trying to run rsync over ssh with a command such as:
> 
> $ rsync -v -e ssh some_file another_computer:.
> 
> or any other permutation of the command, but I get the not-so-verbose
> error message:
> 
> bash: rsync: command not found
> unexpected EOF in read_timeout
> 
> Presumably, the command in question is ssh, since it doesn't show up
> if I use rsh.  I've also tried 'export RSYNC_RSH="ssh"' and not using
> the -e option without success.
> 
> I can ssh and use cvs with ssh to "another_computer" just fine.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> ii  rsync2.4.6-1  fast remote file copy program
> (like rcp)
> ii  ssh  2.9p2-6  Secure rlogin/rsh/rcp replacement
> (OpenSSH)
> 
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Re: Stable IM client in debian

[Brian Nelson]

Ross Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 17:44, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote:
> > My real question should be, if I use gabber for my icq stuff, will my
> > message be delivered reliably.  If not, any other alternative? thanx.
> > your help was/is appreciated =)
> 
> Sadely no.  It looks like ICQ is also doing the same as AOL to Jabber. 
> It used to work so I believe, now its really unreliable.  I hope this is
> a temporary problem but I've yet to find anyone who can say for sure.

So, at the moment, is ICQ supposed to work through Jabber?  I tried
gabber about a month ago, and it worked fine.  However, with the
recent troubles with ICQ message sending, I tried playing with gabber
again.  However, I can no longer register with icq.jabber.org.  It
fails with "Error attempting to register with agent."  Ditto for AIM,
though MSN Messenger works.

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Re: X broken in current Debian/Sid/Unstable ?

[James D. Freels]

Mariusz:

Thanks, this corrected the problem.  Now it seems that a bug-report 
should be filed.  But which package is at fault?  xfonts-base was not a 
package that got upgraded.  So, an update from one of yesterday's 
changes caused the fonts directories to get wiped.  an 
update-fonts-alias (as suggested by Nick) perhaps needs to be called 
from one of the other package updates...

On Monday 12 November 2001 01:41 pm, Mariusz Przygodzki wrote:
> On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 19:35, fea wrote:
> > I currently use Debian/Sid/Unstable primarily in order to use
> > KDE 2.2.x (yes I know I deserve this, but it is so hard to resist).
> > Most of the time things are stable.  However, an upgrade today
> > broke X for me.  I have seen a couple of other folks with a similar
> > problem, but no solutions posted; hence, this attempt.  The error
> > message near the tail of /var/log/XFree86.0.log:
> >
> > Fatal server error:
> > could not open default font 'fixed'
> >
> > Any help appreciated.
>
> Ty reinstall xfont-base package. It helped in my case (I noticed the
> same error exactly) but I have no idead why.
>
> Mariusz

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Re: LILO splash screen

[Benjamin Drieu]

> Now that the new LILO in woody can display splash screens, does
> anyone know where I could get suitable bitmaps?

Perhaps you will be happy with 
http://www.73lab.com/index.php?menu_item=4&curr_lang=1&page=

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XFree86-4: Could not init font path element unix/:7100

[Marcel Figuerola Estrada]

Hello

This time I write becaus I can't open gnome. It seem that at last I've got the 
right configuration for the mouse and the video, but when I start X I get a 
blue Screen with 4 small buttons in the top left corner: Client List - Session 
Log - Checkpoint - Shutdown.

In /etc/X11/Xsession I've put the required parameters to launch gnome, but it 
doesn't work :(

In the error log I can see the message: Could not init font path element 
unix/:7100, removing from list

Anybody able to help, please

I run XFree86-4 in Woody

Marcel

LILO splash screen

[Walter Hofmann]

Now that the new LILO in woody can display splash screens, does
anyone know where I could get suitable bitmaps?

Walter

Re: XFree86 problem on Woody

[Brian Nelson]

Rachel Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hi
> 
> I still have an unresolved problem with XFree86.
> 
> If I try to startx using XF86Config-4 it gets to the point of adding
> mouse drivers and then crashes with a Signal 11 error. There are no
> other errors apart from something to do with APM and it crashes while
> loading peripherals in KDE2.2

Logs to check:

~/.xsession-errors
/var/log/XFree86.0.log

> I can startx (actually start KDE2.2) using the old XF86Config file but
> the display is strange (funny lines across it) on going back to the
> shell I get this error:
> 
> Symbol xf86InterpretEDID from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvbe.a
> is unresolved

In your "Monitor" section of XF86Config-4, try putting:

Option "IgnoreEDID" "on"

and/or don't load the "vbe" module.  I'm not sure what these are
about, however.

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Re: How do one install gnome?

[Frank Zimmermann]

Frank Zimmermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 12/11/2001 (18:29) :



If this does not work apt-get install a_package_that_requires_gnome


yes, but this won't install all packages necessarily.


This should install gnome.

Frank
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Vim help file problem

[Wayne Topa]

Debian 2.3 (woody)
vim 6.0.011-3
vim-rt none available for vim 6.0
  
  When in vim ':help' gives the following errors:

Error detected while processing function GZIP_read:
line3:
E21: Cannot make changes, 'modifiable' is off
E434: Can't find tag pattern

I have commented out the first 10 lines of .vimrc and the error 
does not change ( whats the 'line3:' error ?). 

Moving my .vimrc to 1-.vimrc and restarting vim fixes the problem
ie. :help or F1 works.  This is the first time I have ever had to 
change the config file on an upgrade AFAIR.

copying /etc/vim/vimrc to .vimrc also fixes the problem.

checked /usr/share/doc/vim/changelog.gz  and did not find anything
that says the .vimrc file from vim 5.x should be changed.

Have I just missed something or are there others that have seen this
as well?

wayne

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Re: customized debian cd

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

On 12-Nov-2001 Patrick Hsieh wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'd like to made a customized debian cd. Can I dpkg --get-selections to
> get my installed package selection and put all of them into 1 or 2 CDs?
> Is it possible? How?
> 

I forget the name of it, but there is even a package that will do it.  Search
around the package list.

Re: vorbis encoder/decoder for potato machine?

[Eric Richardson]

Stan Brown wrote:


I'm trying to get abcde working on a potato + progeny + 2.4.3 kernel
machine.. I actually have it working using lame, but In the spirit of
Debian, I'd like to get rid of the questionable mp3 format.

I grab vorbis from sourceforg, but I had a problem getting one of the
libraries to compile (missing header file). I was wondering if anyone could
point me to a version of vorbis tools that is suitable for using woht the
lates abcde, that works on a potato machine?




I got this to compile on potato. You need to compile libao, libogg, 
libvorbis, and then vorbis-tools. I can't remember what the dependencies 
are but I just compiled the ones that compiled without dependencies 
first and then had to add LD_LIBRARY_PATH to get I believe the tools to 
compile. This should work with standard potato -dev packages.


The problem I had is that XMMS 1.2.5 is needed to use the ogg plugin and 
this won't compile as it needs:

gnomexmms.c:24: applet-widget.h: No such file or directory

Thus the only player I can use is ogg123 or some such command line player.

Hope this helps,
Eric

Re: X broken in current Debian/Sid/Unstable ?

[Timothy Webster]

You have a copy choices. Edit  XF86Config-4 and commnet out the font line
or better still get the required font.

This brings to mind a much bigger question.
Package configuration tool that using debian dependences to construct
config files. It would be nice to have general package configuration
tool that could read rules from the deb package and generate config files.

Any thoughts

-tim.



-- Original Message --
From: fea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date:  Mon, 12 Nov 2001 13:35:33 -0500

>I currently use Debian/Sid/Unstable primarily in order to use
>KDE 2.2.x (yes I know I deserve this, but it is so hard to resist).
>Most of the time things are stable.  However, an upgrade today
>broke X for me.  I have seen a couple of other folks with a similar
>problem, but no solutions posted; hence, this attempt.  The error 
>message near the tail of /var/log/XFree86.0.log:
>
>Fatal server error:
>could not open default font 'fixed'
>
>Any help appreciated.
>
>
>
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Re: X broken in current Debian/Sid/Unstable ?

[Nick Bailey]

On Monday 12 Nov 2001 6:35 pm, fea wrote:

> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'
>
> Any help appreciated.

Try update-fonts-alias as root in the misc fonts directory 
(/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc).  That worked for me (or I 
think that was what fixed it -- I was thrashing around in a 
panic 8-)

Nick/

Re: Stable IM client in debian

[francisco m neto]

» Ross Burton disse isso e eu digo aquilo:

> On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 17:44, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote:
> > My real question should be, if I use gabber for my icq stuff, will my
> > message be delivered reliably.  If not, any other alternative? thanx.
> > your help was/is appreciated =)
> 
> Sadely no.  It looks like ICQ is also doing the same as AOL to Jabber. 
> It used to work so I believe, now its really unreliable.  I hope this is
> a temporary problem but I've yet to find anyone who can say for sure.

I use and am very happy with GnomeICU. Although it seems to have some 
problems with updatind users' info, it's pretty stable and reliable. I like it. 
Also, it has some very cools icon sets, including a "MacOS X-like" and a 
(perfect) clone of the original ICQ icons.

--
[]'s,
francisco m neto

"Through illusion we get to the reality."

Re: X broken in current Debian/Sid/Unstable ?

[Mariusz Przygodzki]

On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 19:35, fea wrote:
> I currently use Debian/Sid/Unstable primarily in order to use
> KDE 2.2.x (yes I know I deserve this, but it is so hard to resist).
> Most of the time things are stable.  However, an upgrade today
> broke X for me.  I have seen a couple of other folks with a similar
> problem, but no solutions posted; hence, this attempt.  The error 
> message near the tail of /var/log/XFree86.0.log:
> 
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'
> 
> Any help appreciated.
> 

Ty reinstall xfont-base package. It helped in my case (I noticed the
same error exactly) but I have no idead why.

Mariusz

RE: Frustration (cablemodem woes)

[Michael Patterson]

> What distro is this?  I remember dhcp-client from potato didn't work so
> well for me, but the one from Woody has been great - same provider, so
> we're all in the same boat with the (maybe) impending bankruptcy.  I
> would look in other places if the static setup is also failing - it
> sounds like you might have bad NIC module or something, if you're
> properly negotiating a connection, but getting a really slow one that
> fails after a little while.  Maybe post details of what NIC and what
> driver?

This is the potato dist.

The NIC is an NE-2000 compatible (SN3200CT), using the NE2K_PCI driver
compiled into the kernel. The kernel is 2.2.17.

---Mike

X broken in current Debian/Sid/Unstable ?

[fea]

I currently use Debian/Sid/Unstable primarily in order to use
KDE 2.2.x (yes I know I deserve this, but it is so hard to resist).
Most of the time things are stable.  However, an upgrade today
broke X for me.  I have seen a couple of other folks with a similar
problem, but no solutions posted; hence, this attempt.  The error 
message near the tail of /var/log/XFree86.0.log:

Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'

Any help appreciated.