Eterm Functionality

[Theo Bierman]

Hi again

Running 2.2r3. Having hassles with Eterm. Normally use Aterm. I see each time 
Eterm opens up it has a different background pic to it. How can I disable this, 
is their an extra string I need to put with it?

Another thing I noticed, If I use xterm, aterm or whatever and I ssh to another 
machine and then try vi a file I get this error: vi: No terminal database 
found. So how is debians Eterm different in that it can ssh to another machine 
and use vi etc. Is it built with something extra? I happy to use Eterm, just 
curious as to how it operates?

Thanks again
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Citrix client + Netscape/Libraries

[Theo Bierman]

Hi All

I am trying to get citrix installed but when I do I says i don't have netscape 
installed. So then I download netscape and try and get that installed but then 
get told that libstdc++-libc6.1-1 are not installed. I can only find older 
version of these libraries which don't seem to work. 

1). Is there anyway I can get citrix to install using Mozilla as a browser,

2). Where can I find updated libstdc++-libc6.1-1?

Thanks
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Re: What causes segmentation faults?

[Vineet Kumar]

* Seneca Cunningham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011218 18:59]:
> [what causes segmentation faults?]

The short answer is: "a bug in the program." A correctly-written program
should never die with a segmentation violation. If you're just a user,
and not a programmer, that's probably all you need to know. For more
information (and you probably should have tried this first, but I'll
spare the lecture) try:

http://www.google.com/search?q=segmentation+fault&btnI=1

good times,
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Re: Ghostscript/Fonts problem

[Malcolm Gray]

Thomas Hessling wrote
>Hello everybody, I am using gnuplot to create EPS graphics which I
embed into my LaTeX
>documents. That worked fine so far, but since the 'apt-get upgrade'
last
>weekend I get the following error by GhostScript when trying to display
>those graphics: "Error: /invalidfont in findfont" (plus the stack
>stuff).
>It doesn't matter which font I use (Helvetica, Times Roman, etc.), the
>error always occurs. At first I checked if the files exist at all, but
>they do and they're properly named in 'Fontmap.GS'. Dfontmgr also shows
>them up... Has anybody encountered similar problems and has an idea or
even a
>solution for this problem?

I had the same problem.  It appears that GS isn't finding the font
files.  Setting environment variables GS_LIB and/or GS_FONTPATH as per
the GS documentation fixes it.  I'm not sure whether this is the way the
packager intended things to work or why the upgrade broke it.

If you want more detail let me know - I'm not at my Linux box at the
moment.

Malcolm Gray

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inconsistent dial-up connection

[Patrick Greenwood]

PIII on a Dell4100 with Creative Modem Blaster DE 5625.


I don't understand -- why is it that most of the time when I try to connect I 
get this:

Dec 18 21:47:02 Computer01 pppd[510]: pppd 2.3.11 started by root, uid 0
Dec 18 21:47:03 Computer01 chat[511]: abort on (BUSY)
Dec 18 21:47:03 Computer01 chat[511]: abort on (NO CARRIER)
Dec 18 21:47:03 Computer01 chat[511]: abort on (VOICE)
Dec 18 21:47:03 Computer01 chat[511]: abort on (NO DIALTONE)
Dec 18 21:47:03 Computer01 chat[511]: abort on (NO DIAL TONE)
Dec 18 21:47:03 Computer01 chat[511]: abort on (NO ANSWER)
Dec 18 21:47:03 Computer01 chat[511]: send (ATM0^M)
Dec 18 21:47:03 Computer01 chat[511]: expect (OK)
Dec 18 21:47:03 Computer01 chat[511]: ATM0^M^M
Dec 18 21:47:03 Computer01 chat[511]: OK
Dec 18 21:47:03 Computer01 chat[511]:  -- got it
Dec 18 21:47:03 Computer01 chat[511]: send (ATDT3413631^M)
Dec 18 21:47:03 Computer01 chat[511]: expect (CONNECT)
Dec 18 21:47:03 Computer01 chat[511]: ^M
Dec 18 21:47:33 Computer01 chat[511]: ATDT3413631^M^M
Dec 18 21:47:33 Computer01 chat[511]: CONNECT
Dec 18 21:47:33 Computer01 chat[511]:  -- got it
Dec 18 21:47:33 Computer01 chat[511]: send (\d)
Dec 18 21:47:34 Computer01 pppd[510]: Serial connection established.
Dec 18 21:47:34 Computer01 pppd[510]: Using interface ppp0
Dec 18 21:47:34 Computer01 pppd[510]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS0
Dec 18 21:48:05 Computer01 pppd[510]: Connection terminated.
Dec 18 21:48:05 Computer01 pppd[510]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
Dec 18 21:48:05 Computer01 pppd[510]: Exit.

But once in a while, when I do connect, I get this?

Dec 18 21:19:46 Computer01 pppd[404]: pppd 2.3.11 started by root, uid 0
Dec 18 21:19:47 Computer01 chat[405]: abort on (BUSY)
Dec 18 21:19:47 Computer01 chat[405]: abort on (NO CARRIER)
Dec 18 21:19:47 Computer01 chat[405]: abort on (VOICE)
Dec 18 21:19:47 Computer01 chat[405]: abort on (NO DIALTONE)
Dec 18 21:19:47 Computer01 chat[405]: abort on (NO DIAL TONE)
Dec 18 21:19:47 Computer01 chat[405]: abort on (NO ANSWER)
Dec 18 21:19:47 Computer01 chat[405]: send (ATM0^M)
Dec 18 21:19:47 Computer01 chat[405]: expect (OK)
Dec 18 21:19:47 Computer01 chat[405]: ATM0^M^M
Dec 18 21:19:47 Computer01 chat[405]: OK
Dec 18 21:19:47 Computer01 chat[405]:  -- got it
Dec 18 21:19:47 Computer01 chat[405]: send (ATDT3413631^M)
Dec 18 21:19:47 Computer01 chat[405]: expect (CONNECT)
Dec 18 21:19:47 Computer01 chat[405]: ^M
Dec 18 21:20:17 Computer01 chat[405]: ATDT3413631^M^M
Dec 18 21:20:17 Computer01 chat[405]: CONNECT
Dec 18 21:20:17 Computer01 chat[405]:  -- got it
Dec 18 21:20:17 Computer01 chat[405]: send (\d)
Dec 18 21:20:18 Computer01 pppd[404]: Serial connection established.
Dec 18 21:20:18 Computer01 pppd[404]: Using interface ppp0
Dec 18 21:20:18 Computer01 pppd[404]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS0
Dec 18 21:20:23 Computer01 pppd[404]: local  IP address 209.180.97.240
Dec 18 21:20:23 Computer01 pppd[404]: remote IP address 209.180.97.254

There seems to be no rhyme or reason to it. The machine is on a LAN with one 
other machine, but this inconsistency leads me to think its something the modem 
is or isn't saying to the ISP (Qwest)

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Re: What causes segmentation faults?

[dman]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 09:59:19PM -0500, Seneca Cunningham wrote:
[what causes a segmentation fault]

A segmentation fault (also called a seg fault, or SEGV) occurs when a
program tries to access memory it is not allowed to access.  For
example dereferencing a null pointer, or dereferencing a pointer that
points beyond the memory in the system.  This is a common occurence in
(buggy or in-development) C and C++ programs.  If you look at 'man
kill" you will see the signal SEGV (aka SIGSEGV) defined.  If you want
a process to get a segmentation fault, "kill -SEGV " will do it.

HTH,
-D

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spam on list?

[Pollywog]

Is anyone else getting an autoreply that looks like spam when they post to 
the list?


The one I am getting has a "From:" address of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is it indeed spam?  I have also been getting offlist mail from this domain 
and all of it appears to be spam.



thanks


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Re: Joystick attached to the USB port

[Jerome Acks Jr]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


My joystick/gamepad attached to the USB port doesn't work
on my linux box (i386).
I made my own kernel with USB support (usbcore.o, usb-hdci.o, hid.o,
input.o,  joydev.o, etc.) and I tested it using:

jstest /dev/input/js1
jstest /dev/input/js2
jstest /dev/input/js3

and every time it reported me a message like this "device not found" ,
but devices are present in :

/dev/input/js1
/dev/input/js2
/dev/input/js2



What are you doing when you get the error message? Is it generated 
within X?  If so, check /var/log/XFree86.0.log to make sure X is 
configured correctly.





Note : /dev/input/js0 is used by another analog joystick attached to the
SB128 PCI (Creative Ensoniq) gameport and it works fine as the sound card.

I think I need to add any line as "alias ..." or/and "options..." to
/etc/modules.conf

Any idea ?

Thank you







I don't have a joystick myself, but a few things that come to mind:

Correct permission on devices?


Check /var/log/messages to see what is reported when you attach the 
joystick.


try "mount -t usbdevfs none /proc/bus/usb" and cat the files in the 
directory.


If you plug the joystick and "cat /dev/input/js[0123]", you should see 
some bizarre looking characters as you move the stick or click any of 
the buttons.


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Horde

[Andrew Clark]

Horde keeps dumping from the configure with

pgsql extension for php4 found.
Include of /etc/horde/apache.conf found in apache config files.
index.php settings in /etc/apache/httpd.conf found!
index.php3 settings in /etc/apache/httpd.conf found!
Error when trying to connect to the pgsql database.
This error can occur if you have no database to connect to, or
if the password was incorrect.
use: dpkg-reconfigure -plow packagename to reconfigure.
Error when trying to connect to the pgsql database.
This error can occur if you have no database to connect to, or
if the password was incorrect.
use: dpkg-reconfigure -plow packagename to reconfigure.

I've tried reconfiguring, creating the db, creating the user, to no 
avail.  Does anyone have horde working on an unstable machine?  If so, how 
did you do it?


R,

AJFC

Please CC replies.

Re: wdm problem

[Noah Meyerhans]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 08:23:30PM -0500, Guy Durand wrote:
> After my system boots it hangs at wdm; the mouse works but there is no
> keyboard access.



> I just hangs there.  Now when I kill -HUP 905 it reloads and I have
> keyboard access.  can someone tell me what is going on.

Are you using the kernel's framebuffer support to drive you video
hardware?  I have seen a similar problem on a PPC machine that was using
the kernel's framebuffer.

wdm's output is logged to /var/log/wdm.log.  Send me the contents of
that as they exist before you send the HUP to the wdm process.

It might be interesting to try xdm and see if it has a similar problem.
wdm's behavior may just be a symptom of some other problem.

noah
(Debian wdm maintainer)

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Re: looking for password managing program

[Pollywog]

On 2001.12.19 03:09 Eric G . Miller wrote:

On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 17:30:30 +, Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Are there any password management programs for Linux?
> I usually record passwords for e-mail accounts, ICQ, etc in a book, but
I
> want to keep them on a floppy instead.
> I know such programs exist for Windows but I need one for Linux.

I know of "gpasman", it's a little gtk program.  No idea if it's password
security is any good, but it works...



Thanks, and it's okay if the password security isn't too good, since I can 
encrypt the floppy.



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Re: looking for password managing program

[Eric G . Miller]

On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 17:30:30 +, Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Are there any password management programs for Linux?
> I usually record passwords for e-mail accounts, ICQ, etc in a book, but I 
> want to keep them on a floppy instead.
> I know such programs exist for Windows but I need one for Linux.

I know of "gpasman", it's a little gtk program.  No idea if it's password
security is any good, but it works...

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What causes segmentation faults?

[Seneca Cunningham]

On my machine, two or three different programs have given me segmentation
faults. The two that I remember are Enlightenment and bwBASIC. The
segmentation fault in Enlightenment only happened once, and Enlightenment
was removed soon thereafter.

In bwBASIC, however, I was able to reproduce the fault, and figure out what
I was doing that caused the segmentaion fault to happen, but I don't know
why it happened. I couldn't find anything when I tried to look it up using
man because /usr/man/man1/bwbasic.1.gz is a dangling symlink on my system,
and I don't know how to fix it at this point. What I did that caused the
segmentation fault was change a line that was causing an error, without
deleting it first, then running the program. If anyone is interested, the
attachment contains the contents of my search for how I caused the
segmentation fault.

Thanks for any help.

Seneca
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Re: faxing over the internet

[Carl Fink]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 11:04:38AM -0800, Lev Lvovsky wrote:
 
> a small plug for the company I work for:
> 
> efax.com

A small plug for a company I don't work for:  I've used efax for years, and
they give great service.  
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Re: cdrom and music cds

[Stephen P Williams]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 04:47:35PM -0800, brian r wrote:
> The following was buried in a previous post, however I didn't get any 
> responses to my problem.
> 
> cdrom and audio:
> -
> I want one of my workstations to be an MP3 server.  
> It is a Pentium 150, 
> 48 MB of RAM, and 15 GB HD.  I installed Afterstep, and a bunch of 
> cd/audio/mp3 
> software from the potato cd. My problem is cdrom won't read audio cd's but 
> I can mount data cds.
> If I run:  I get the message:
> Grip 2.91  "Unable to open the cd device. Please make..."
> gtcd 1.0.51"Error accessing the cdrome device
> Reason: Permission denied."
> similarly with other cd audio software.
> I have an internal, ATAPI cdrom.  My fstab for cdrom is
> /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro.user,noauto 0 0
> And /dev/cdrom is soft-linked to /dev/hdc.
> Permissions (when I do ls -l):
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   /cdrom
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 3 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/hdc
> brw-rw  1 root disk 22, 0 /dev/hdc
> 
> How do I fix this?

Brian,

Quoting from "man grip" (down in the "Common Questions" section):

   Q:
   I can play cd's fine, but my ripper can't access the
   drive. Why not?

   A:
   Rippers (cdparanoia, at least) need access to the generic
   SCSI device as well. See the "Running Grip/GCD" section
   for more information on this.

For further information about setting up "SCSI Generic" emulation, see
the CD-Writing HOWTO http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO.html

HTH

Vote for SW Flash filtering in Mozilla (Galeon/Skipstone, etc.) (was Re: How to get junkbuster to junk flash ads?)

[Karsten M. Self]

on Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 12:19:30PM -0800, Arno ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Dec 2001 12:32:23 +0100
> Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Do anybody have a generic way to get rid of the annoying flash
> > commercials so that galeon won't ask me to install the flash plugin all
> > the time.
> 
> Usually the flash files have the file extension .swf, so something like
> /ads.*\.(gif|jpe?g|swf) might be a starting point.

I don't think that's going to do the trick.  If I understand SWF
correctly, the flash file isn't actually pulled until the viewer or
plugin is invoked.  You're seeing the plugin prompt when the page
containing a _reference_ to the SWF file is loaded.

I'd go the webwasher route [1] or vote on appropriate bugs at bugzilla:


# 70805
[REF] implement Macromedia Flash blocker
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70805

Probably what you want.  Selective Flash blocking by site, similar
to existing cookie and image blocking.  Ideally, the Image blocking
would be generalized to block arbitrary content IMO.  Has fifteen
votes, and four duplicate submissions.  Check out the screenshots
(attachments to the bug) which show an implementation of filtering
for Flash.


# 61103 
Stop default plugin from launching on page load on linux (mac?)
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61103

This is a rather popular bug -- it's had nine duplicate submissions
(90191, 87086, 95583, 91261, 98933, 61333, 100901, 69215, 114272).
It currently stands at 11 votes, there are 186 bugs with an equal or
greater number of votes.  It concerns the "download plugin" dialog.
If you've already got Flash and want to block it on specific sites,
it's not quite what you want.


If you're not familiar with voting or bugzilla:  you need to register.
Do, 'coz it's a Good Thing®.  Then, you get ten votes to contribute to
bugs.  You can add or subtract one vote per bug (some bugzilla
implementations allow multiple votes, Mozilla's doesn't).  It's a way of
assessing interest in a particular feature.

Flash bugs the living bejeezus out of me, I'd love to see filtering
options available.  Looks from #70805 that some patches to do parts of
this were submitted.

Peace.


Notes:

1.  Webwasher is a specific tool, but the general idea is that you
filter your HTML as it comes through to delete offending content.

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Re: URGENT: sid update - now can't start X

[Rick Macdonald]

On 18 Dec 2001, Shri Shrikumar wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> you might have to download and install nvidia_glx and nvidia_kernel
> packages if you haven't done so already and change your driver from nv
> to nvidia - I was stuck at that for a day or so.

The reason that I updated my sid to the current sid in the first place was
to prepare for newer nvidia drivers. I usually like to do one thing at a
time though. Not that upgrading 394 packages in one go with apt-get is
"one thing", but it's never failed me before.

Anyway, I couldn't seem to build the latest nvidia debs for my 2.2.17
kernel with 2.7.2 gcc, so I upgraded to 2.2.19, overrode the compiler to
2.95.x, built and installed 2.2.19 and rebooted and built the new nvidia
drivers and rebooted andeverything is OK again.

Well, except I have to find that annoying "nolisten-tcp" business that
stops me from sending X displays back to this machine...

...RickM...

wdm problem

[Guy Durand]

After my system boots it hangs at wdm; the mouse works but there is no
keyboard access.
This is what the ps ax | grep wdm shows
[08:09:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ps ax | grep wdm
  901 ?S  0:00 /usr/bin/X11/wdm
  905 ?S< 0:04 /usr/bin/X11/X -auth
/var/lib/wdm/authdir/authfiles/A:0-wq6FYr
  921 ?S  0:00 wdmLogin -d:0
-wblackbox:default:enlightenment:wmaker
-l/usr/share/pixmaps/wdmDebianSwirl.xpm   -bsolid:Gray85 -a
  929 pts/0S  0:00 grep wdm
[08:09:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
I just hangs there.  Now when I kill -HUP 905 it reloads and I have
keyboard access.  can someone tell me what is going on.


I run Debian 3.0 (woody/progeny) 2.4.16 kernel. windowmaker .70.0-2, wdm
1.20.13.

Thanks in advance.
Badiane

Re: HELP! did something incredably stupid

[Shaul Karl]

> Hello,
> 
> Is there a way to retreive information about the size of an ext2
> partition?
> 
> I filled the first 1024 bytes of my harddisk with zeros, because LILO did
> not want to downgrade. I realised too late that this would wipe out my
> partition table as well. I have been able to recreate a new partition
> table with only one partition and luckily my systems boots. Problem is
> that I had two partitions: first my ext2 and at the end a swap partition.
> I do not know where my (original) first partition ended.
> 
> Can anybody help me out?
> 


The Linux partition mini HOWTO has a section about `Recovering a 
Deleted Partition Table'. The Partition-Rescue mini HOWTO seems 
relevant as well, at least by its name. As far as I remember, at least 
the former address your case.


> Thanks in advance,
> Sebastiaan
> 
> 
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Re: Best way to mirror two drives

[Mark Lanett]

RAID is not a backup solution, it is a hardware failure solution. You will
not be protected against user error. Running a mirror with a delay gives you
a chance to recover accidentally deleted files.

For backups:
dd: Perfect copy. Only works with identical partitions. Slow (copies empty
space). No incremental backup.
cp: Can't delete files.Doesn't handle hard links.
rsync: Keeps all attributes. Handles hard links. Allows incremental backup.
Can delete files.

BTW there are lots of hard links on a Linux box, run
find / -type f \! -links 1

My choice:
rsync --archive --hard-links [ --delete | --backup ] SRC DST

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Re: cdrom and music cds

[dman]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 04:47:35PM -0800, brian r wrote:
| The following was buried in a previous post, however I didn't get any 
responses to my problem.
| 
| cdrom and audio:
| -
| I want one of my workstations to be an MP3 server.  
| It is a Pentium 150, 
| 48 MB of RAM, and 15 GB HD.  I installed Afterstep, and a bunch of 
cd/audio/mp3 
| software from the potato cd. My problem is cdrom won't read audio cd's but 
| I can mount data cds.
| If I run:  I get the message:
| Grip 2.91  "Unable to open the cd device. Please make..."
| gtcd 1.0.51"Error accessing the cdrome device
| Reason: Permission denied."
| similarly with other cd audio software.
| I have an internal, ATAPI cdrom.  My fstab for cdrom is
| /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro.user,noauto 0 0
| And /dev/cdrom is soft-linked to /dev/hdc.
| Permissions (when I do ls -l):
| drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   /cdrom
| lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 3 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/hdc
| brw-rw  1 root disk 22, 0 /dev/hdc
| 
| How do I fix this?

$ su root
# chgrp cdrom /dev/hdc
# addgroup  cdrom
$ logout (then log back in)

-D

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Re: cdrom and music cds

[nate]

> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   /cdrom
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 3 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/hdc
> brw-rw  1 root disk 22, 0 /dev/hdc

be sure your either doing this as user root, or
the user must be in the group 'disk' with these
permissions, or the program must be setuid.

it should work..my favorite audio cd player
is xmcd.

nate

alsa and sb16

[Curtis Farnham]

Thanks to all who have submitted suggestions on getting ALSA to work
with my Sound Blaster 16 PCI PnP card.  However, nothing has worked.

I've tried ALSA again and again.  I tried the kernel's built-in
sound-card modules.  I tried a different sound card.  I tried putting
the sound card in a different slot inside my box.  I re-installed
isapnptools (even though the documentation says I don't need it for a
PCI card).  But still, nothing.  Over and over, 'modprobe sb16' blows up
at me, and I keep getting told that the device is either busy or not
present.

I've wondered if something is broken - either the main board or the
sound card itself.  But I think not; 'lspci -v -b' seems to indicate
everything's fine:

00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5580 AudioPCI (rev 02)
Subsystem: Ensoniq Creative Sound Blaster AudioPCI128
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 32, IRQ 12
I/O ports at ec00
Capabilities: [cd] #00 []

Here are some entries in /var/log/messages from my latest boot-up
sequence.  Some of them may give clues, but I'm too much of a newbie to
know for sure.


Dec 18 18:30:10 debian kernel: PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry
at
0xfb480, last bus=1
Dec 18 18:30:10 debian kernel: PCI: Using configuration type 1
Dec 18 18:30:10 debian kernel: PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Dec 18 18:30:10 debian kernel: PCI: Using IRQ router VIA
[1106/0586]
at 00:07.0
Dec 18 18:30:10 debian kernel: Activating ISA DMA hang  workarounds.
Dec 18 18:30:10 debian kernel: isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
Dec 18 18:30:10 debian kernel: isapnp: No Plug & Play devicefound

Dec 18 18:30:10 debian kernel: ALSA card-sb16.c:612: Sound  Blaster 
16
soundcard not found or device busy
Dec 18 18:30:10 debian kernel: ALSA card-sb16.c:616: In case, if
you
have AWE card, try snd-card-sbawe module


Here's the result of 'modprobe snd-card-sb16':

/lib/modules/2.4.14cf120901/misc/snd-card-sb16.o: init_module:  No such
device
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module   parameters,
including invalid IO or IRQ parameters
/lib/modules/2.4.14cf120901/misc/snd-card-sb16.o: insmod
/lib/modules/2.4.14cf120901/misc/snd-card-sb16.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.14cf120901/misc/snd-card-sb16.o: insmod
snd-card-sb16
failed

Here's the set of code alsaconf sticks into my modules.conf:

### update-modules: start processing /etc/modutils/alsa-path
# ALSA modules configuration

# --- ALSACONF verion 0.4.3b ---
alias char-major-116 snd
alias snd-card-0 snd-card-sb16
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1 snd_device_mode=0660
snd_device_gid=29 snd_device_uid=0
options snd-card-sb16 snd_index=0 snd_id=CARD_0 snd_port=0x220
snd_mpu_port=0x300 snd_irq=12 snd_dma8=1 snd_dma16=5 snd_mic_agc=0

# Debian ALSA modules path
# Do not edit this unless you understand what you're doing.
path=/lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc

### update-modules: end processing /etc/modutils/alsa-path

I currently have the latest alsa-driver beta package.  I'm running Woody
on an i586 K6 machine.  PnP OS has been disabled in my BIOS.  I am
positive that my sound card is SoundBlaster 16 PCI PnP.  (I bought it
less than a week ago, and I still have the box and all the
documentation, which hasn't been any help.)

I don't necessarily want to use ALSA.  I just want sound to come out of
my speakers.  I'd be grateful if anyone can help.

-Curtis

cdrom and music cds

[brian r]

The following was buried in a previous post, however I didn't get any responses 
to my problem.

cdrom and audio:
-
I want one of my workstations to be an MP3 server.  
It is a Pentium 150, 
48 MB of RAM, and 15 GB HD.  I installed Afterstep, and a bunch of cd/audio/mp3 
software from the potato cd. My problem is cdrom won't read audio cd's but 
I can mount data cds.
If I run:  I get the message:
Grip 2.91  "Unable to open the cd device. Please make..."
gtcd 1.0.51"Error accessing the cdrome device
Reason: Permission denied."
similarly with other cd audio software.
I have an internal, ATAPI cdrom.  My fstab for cdrom is
/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro.user,noauto 0 0
And /dev/cdrom is soft-linked to /dev/hdc.
Permissions (when I do ls -l):
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   /cdrom
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 3 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/hdc
brw-rw  1 root disk 22, 0 /dev/hdc

How do I fix this?


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Re: Antivirus for Sendmail

[Alvin Oga]

hi ya nick

if specifically for sendmail... you might wanna look into Milter too

if any anti-virus scanner will work on incoming or possibly goutgoing
emails
listof anit-virus stuff
http://www.Linux-Sec.net/Mail/mail.gwif.html#AntiVirus

have fun
alvin


On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Nick Furman wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
>   Does anyone know of a decent product for Sendmail that will scan
> emails for viruses?  Is a virus scanner even a good idea to try an
> implement?  I haven't read much on them, but my employer has been
> bothering me about it for some time now.  Any products that anyone would
> suggest (that work with Debian, of course :)?  Thanks!
> 
> Please CC me on the reply.
> 

Re: Mozilla and duelling java's

[Akintayo Holder]

Ross Boylan wrote:


Thanks for checking.  You mean you clicked on the window and the login dialog 
came up?  I get a window that pops up, but nothing inside it.

This is really weird.  I wonder what about my setup isn't working.

Perhpas something in between the click on the first window and the
appearance of the login window is java.  The link for the first click
is Javascript, which is enabled...


i don't have your original email but it doesn't work with the mozilla included with sid but it 

does work with the nightlies - even when java is off. so there is 
something wrong with the copy that comes with deian


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it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way 
is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The 
first method is far more difficult.

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Re: VMWare

[dman]

Thanks all for the feedback provided.

(more comments below)

On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 03:36:43PM -0700, Robert L. Harris wrote:
| Thus spake Brian Nelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
| > dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| > 
| > > How are the VMWare folks with support?  (quality, availability, cost) 
| > > 
| > > Would they look favorably on a charity group (wrt licensing/cost)?
| > > For example, if I wanted to set up a network of obsolete hardware as
| > > diskless X terms (with a single modern system serving them) with
| > > windows running in vmware to teach underprivileged youths in a 3rd
| > > world country.
| > 
| > I don't know how the VMWare people would support such a configuration,
| > but I do know that VMWare has pretty hefty hardware requirements.  I
| > can't imagine you'd be able to run more than a couple sessions before
| > the server gets bogged down.
| > 
| > Win4Lin supposedly has lighter requirement, though it requires a
| > kernel patch and only supports Win9x.
|
| Actually, if you want to run a "windows server" in Linux to serve up 
| multiple windows systems check out the GLX and ELX(?) products.  They're
| designed for serving multiple machines from 1 host.  Apparantly the test
| a friend of mine is running looks rather favorable at this point.

$3500 is a lot of money!  That could buy a quite a bit of decent
hardware.

-D

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Re: Any way to automate checking a package's MD5sum?

[Blake Barnett]

It's also useful to note that the "debsums" utility will check every
file on you filesystem against the md5sums listed in packages.  While it
can't be relied on 100% for security (since the md5's can be mod'd if
you get cracked.),  it's a nice additional feature.

On Tue, 2001-12-18 at 16:04, Joey Hess wrote:
> Lance Simmons wrote:
> > The Debian website lists MD5sums for each package. Is there any way to
> > automate the checking of a package's MD5sum after you download it, or
> > does it have to be done by hand?
> > 
> > Debsums is useful for checking the MD5sums of the _files_ of a package,
> > but how do I check the MD5sum of the package itself (short of running
> > md5sum by hand and comparing it to the MD5sum posted on the Debian
> > website)?
> > 
> > Or is this already done somehow?
> 
> Apt automatically checks the ms5sums of each package it downloads.
> 
> -- 
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> 
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Re: scanner recommendations?

[Jens Gecius]

shock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>> Can anyone recommend a decent, low-priced scanner that works with their
>> debian system? In case it matters, I'm tracking sid.
>
> i'm using an epson 1240u flatbed on debian woody with no problems
> whatsoever.  i think epson is (or has) phased out the 1240u, so you can
> find them at pretty good prices.  i got mine somewhere around $120 or
> so, and have been very happy with it.

They are phased out - but don't take the successor 1250 without
looking at the sane-pages for details!

I'm using the 1650photo (with transparency unit) and am quite happy
with it. Not that cheap, though, at $250. $200 without the tpu.

I suggest to look at the sane-pages first http://www.mostang.com/sane/
to find a good supported scanner for linux.

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kmail_2.2.2-4_i386.deb

[list3]

Hello.

I'm in a desparate need of kmail_2.2.2-4_i386.deb
Anyone has it ?
I checked the ftp/http sites and there are previous versions.




Both 2.2.2-5 and 2.2.2-6 have bugs which prevent me from running kmail.

Re: URGENT: sid update - now can't start X

[Shri Shrikumar]

Hi,

you might have to download and install nvidia_glx and nvidia_kernel
packages if you haven't done so already and change your driver from nv
to nvidia - I was stuck at that for a day or so.

good luck,


Shri

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On Tue, 2001-12-18 at 22:33, Rick Macdonald wrote:
> 
> I've been running sid for some time now, but only update occasionally. I
> updated my laptop last week without problems and today did my desktop.
> 
> Now I can't start gnome, or even run "startx". The last few lines that I
> get are:
> 
> Error loading keymap /var/tmp/server-0.xkm
> Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap
> Could not init font path element ...speedo... removing from list!
> Waiting for X server to shut down
> 
> The speedo problem has been there for months so isn't related.
> I didn't think I was using XKB extensions of any kind.
> The upgrade made no changes to my XF86Config-4 file.
> I'm using an older nvidia driver (#799 or so).
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> ...RickM...
> 
> 
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Re: High Point 370 RAID + Debian

[Jesse Goerz]

On Tuesday 18 December 2001 17:05, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 16:38:44 -0500, Phoenix Dreamscape 
wrote:
> > First of all, i should specify that i'm a linux newbie.  I
> > can get around in linux, but don't know how to do any of the
> > complicated stuff (i.e. compiling a custom kernel)
>
> Compiling a custom kernel is not very difficult, provided
> you've read the relevant documentation, e.g.
> http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Kernel-HOWTO.html
> supplemented with the documentation of Debian's
> "kernel-package" package with which you can build your
> kernel+modules as a .deb package.

You could also take a look at:
http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.en.html

HTH,
Jesse

Re: Any way to automate checking a package's MD5sum?

[Joey Hess]

Lance Simmons wrote:
> The Debian website lists MD5sums for each package. Is there any way to
> automate the checking of a package's MD5sum after you download it, or
> does it have to be done by hand?
> 
> Debsums is useful for checking the MD5sums of the _files_ of a package,
> but how do I check the MD5sum of the package itself (short of running
> md5sum by hand and comparing it to the MD5sum posted on the Debian
> website)?
> 
> Or is this already done somehow?

Apt automatically checks the ms5sums of each package it downloads.

-- 
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Re: Mac/Linux/Win 3D Bench suite

[Matt]

On Tue, 2001-12-18 at 17:46, Brian Nelson wrote:
> Andrei Verovski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > Anyone can suggest if cross-platform Mac/Linux/Win 3D Bench suite is 
> > available to test rendering and display performance.
> 
> Quake3

Hmm.. the latest controversies about (nvidia?) cards being tweaked
specifically for quake3 so that they'd score better on benchmarks have
sort of nullified it as a good benchmarker.

Check out tomshardware.com to see what they're using these days -- they
test with linux/win32 and occasionally toss about some macs.

cheers,
Matt

Re: 2.2r4 CD not recognising Ultra100 TX2 controller

[Adam Warner]

Thanks for the First Monday link Adam. It was lucky I was aware of it
and had printed it out (well most of it, some of the larger tables are
still too large in landscape).

On Wed, 2001-12-19 at 03:24, Adam Bogacki wrote:
> Adam, I'm sorry if my last message was a bit unfocused: a wisdom 
> tooth extraction had just ended up with the top spectacularly
> breaking off leaving the roots in the gum. Antibiotics and painkillers
> aside, maxillo-facial surgeons are a bit thin on the ground 
> at this time of year ... 
> 
> > > > hdc might be using a different controller unsupported by the install
> > > > disk? (unlikely)
> ..
> > > The controller is the Ultra 100TX2 by Promise Technology, Inc., 
> > > http://www.promise.com
> > > 
> > > Is there a problem with Deb install support ? (surely unlikely)
> > 
> > Surely unlikely?!? I don't even think ATA-100 controllers even existed
> > at the time the Debian install disks were created.
> 
> Hold on, 2.2r4 is the latest version and ATA-100 support has surely been
> included in the kernel ... (?)

Once you understand how Debian works Adam you will not be a surprise at
all.

2.2r4 is a point release (fourth revision) for the current stable Debian
release. This point release is based upon the 2.2 kernel. The 2.2 kernel
doesn't include ATA-100 support. A backport of the 2.4 kernel drivers
might be possible but it is highly unlikely the Debian team would
include them in a kernel that must be as stable as possible.

Even the next release of Debian will be based on the 2.2 kernel with the
ability to upgrade later. So your ATA-100 controller is unlikely to work
again.

That is why you may want to be on the lookout for custom install disks
that include support for your ATA-100 controller (like I can use the
ReiserFS UDMA66 install disks at DigitalTux.com).

However, it may be possible to get an older kernel to recognise your
controller in a compatibility mode. This is what I used to have to do
with my HPT366 controller (see the section "Enabling HPT366 without
UDMA/66 support"):

http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~b6506063/hpt366/

Then I would later upgrade my kernel. This procedure may be directly
applicable to your controller.

Another way is to install onto another controller. Then move the disk to
the other controller after you upgraded the kernel and changed lilo.conf
and ran lilo.

You might also be happier investigating another distribution like RedHat
who have a tendency to use the latest available kernels in their more
frequent releases.

> P.S. I'm having problems with my ISP: the number of local calls charged
> for seems to have blown out by a factor of 10 and I'm fairly sure I did not
> make them.

Per unit residential calling charges are typically zero in NZ. Fixed
monthly rental.

If you're having trouble with your modem dialing set the volume of the
dial loud so you can hear it happening and just unplug it while you try
and diagnose the problem.

Regards,
Adam

Re: URGENT: sid update - now can't start X

[Matt]

> Error loading keymap /var/tmp/server-0.xkm
> Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap
> Could not init font path element ...speedo... removing from list!
> Waiting for X server to shut down

Those errors shouldn't stop x.  You might want to look elsewhere (xfree
logs, gnome logs, etc) to figure out what's up.

cheers,
Matt

Re: Mac/Linux/Win 3D Bench suite

[Brian Nelson]

Andrei Verovski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Anyone can suggest if cross-platform Mac/Linux/Win 3D Bench suite is 
> available to test rendering and display performance.

Quake3

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aterm -n -e options

[Lev Lvovsky]

hello,

i've switched from wterm in favor of aterm for the fact that aterm can
shade the terminal screen when in transparency mode (wterm's lack of
documentation doesn't seem to allow this).

however, contrary to the man page, the "-n", "-T" option, which gives the
terminal window a title, and supposedly overrides the title from the
program run with the "-e" command, is not in fact overriding the name of
the command that's run.  I need to sort my windows by name, and I run the
same expect script in a lot of them, so this becomes quickly unwieldy.

prolly not the right forum, but any suggetions would be appreciated...

thanks!
-lev

Re: Mac/Linux/Win 3D Bench suite

[nate]

> Hi,
>
>
> Anyone can suggest if cross-platform Mac/Linux/Win 3D Bench suite
> is  available to test rendering and display performance.

only thing i can think of is a game like quake3 ..or
unreal tournament(is there a mac version? maybe not ..)

but even then performance will vary depending on the quality
of code for each of the ports..and drivers..

you can probably find some opengl demos on the net, that
are more optimized for the 3 platforms but probably don't
exploit the graphics hardware as much.

nate

Re: VMWare

[Robert L. Harris]

Actually, if you want to run a "windows server" in Linux to serve up 
multiple windows systems check out the GLX and ELX(?) products.  They're
designed for serving multiple machines from 1 host.  Apparantly the test
a friend of mine is running looks rather favorable at this point.


Thus spake Brian Nelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):

> dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > How are the VMWare folks with support?  (quality, availability, cost) 
> > 
> > Would they look favorably on a charity group (wrt licensing/cost)?
> > For example, if I wanted to set up a network of obsolete hardware as
> > diskless X terms (with a single modern system serving them) with
> > windows running in vmware to teach underprivileged youths in a 3rd
> > world country.
> 
> I don't know how the VMWare people would support such a configuration,
> but I do know that VMWare has pretty hefty hardware requirements.  I
> can't imagine you'd be able to run more than a couple sessions before
> the server gets bogged down.
> 
> Win4Lin supposedly has lighter requirement, though it requires a
> kernel patch and only supports Win9x.
> 
> -- 
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> http://bignachos.com
> 
> 
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Re: VMWare

[Brian Nelson]

dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> How are the VMWare folks with support?  (quality, availability, cost) 
> 
> Would they look favorably on a charity group (wrt licensing/cost)?
> For example, if I wanted to set up a network of obsolete hardware as
> diskless X terms (with a single modern system serving them) with
> windows running in vmware to teach underprivileged youths in a 3rd
> world country.

I don't know how the VMWare people would support such a configuration,
but I do know that VMWare has pretty hefty hardware requirements.  I
can't imagine you'd be able to run more than a couple sessions before
the server gets bogged down.

Win4Lin supposedly has lighter requirement, though it requires a
kernel patch and only supports Win9x.

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URGENT: sid update - now can't start X

[Rick Macdonald]

I've been running sid for some time now, but only update occasionally. I
updated my laptop last week without problems and today did my desktop.

Now I can't start gnome, or even run "startx". The last few lines that I
get are:

Error loading keymap /var/tmp/server-0.xkm
Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap
Could not init font path element ...speedo... removing from list!
Waiting for X server to shut down

The speedo problem has been there for months so isn't related.
I didn't think I was using XKB extensions of any kind.
The upgrade made no changes to my XF86Config-4 file.
I'm using an older nvidia driver (#799 or so).

Any ideas?

...RickM...

Re: [courier-pop] maildir access-problem...

[Marc Britten]

On Tue, 2001-12-18 at 17:09, Martin Puaschitz wrote:

> I think the Maildir is directly in my home-directory
> (/raid/users/username/).

makemaildir /raid/usrs/username/Maildir

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Re: Problems after fresh testing installation

[Matt]

> c) Also I after install with gnome and such and such when I first logged in
>on gdm gnome started up fine, but there was no windowmanager installed.
>Maybe this is a missing dependency. 

You may have a window manager installed that's not gnome compliant.
Check the symlink 'x-window-manager' in /etc/alternatives to see where
it links.  Gnome will use this window manager by default.

cheers,
Matt

Re: looking for password managing program

[Wayne Topa]

Pollywog([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
> Are there any password management programs for Linux?
> I usually record passwords for e-mail accounts, ICQ, etc in a book, but I 
> want to keep them on a floppy instead.
> I know such programs exist for Windows but I need one for Linux.
> 

you of course have asked google, right?

Linux "password management"

Or maybe freshmeat?
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ntpd failing to synchronize

[martin f krafft]

i am fairly good with the ntp protocol (i think), but i can't get one
of my servers to sync. ntpd has been running for about two days, it's
list of servers is made up of 6 stratum 2 and 2 stratum 1 servers, but
it is still reporting as stratum 16:

echo rv | ntpq
status=c011 sync_alarm, sync_unspec, 1 event, event_restart,
version="ntpd 4.1.0 Fri Sep 28 00:50:30 PDT 2001 (2)", processor="i486",
system="Linux2.4.12", leap=11, stratum=16, precision=-16,
rootdelay=0.000, rootdispersion=2127.390, peer=0, refid=0.0.0.0,
reftime=.  Thu, Feb  7 2036  7:28:16.000, poll=4,
clock=bfca3cfb.0f46fdeb  Tue, Dec 18 2001 23:08:59.059, state=0,
offset=0.000, frequency=0.000, jitter=0.015, stability=0.000

any clues as to what i am doing wrong? this is a dialup system, but
always on...

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[courier-pop] maildir access-problem...

[Martin Puaschitz]

Hey!

I run an imapd but know I would love to run a popd too. So I did a

apt-get install courier-pop

ps -ax | grep pop3 now says:

/usr/sbin/couriertcpd -pid=/var/run/courier/pop3d.pid -stderrlogger=/usr/sbi
n/courierlogger -maxprocs=40 -maxperip=4 -nodnslookup -noidentlookup -addres
s=0 110 /usr/lib/courier/courier/courierpop3login
/usr/lib/courier/authlib/authdaemon /usr/lib/courier/courier/courierpop3d
Maildir

/usr/sbin/courierlogger courierpop3login

great. I do telnet localhost 110, USER=martin, PASS, XXX, Connection lost.
/var/log/syslog tells me that pop3d can not access the maildir because it
can not find it.

I do some rechere on the net, so I set a "." instead of the "Maildir" - then
a connection is possible, but now mails are transfered. I did a makemail dir
/raid/users/martin (my home) but he denies and says that it already
exists

The final question:
- How do I know where the maildir is?
- How do I tell pop3d to access it?

I think the Maildir is directly in my home-directory
(/raid/users/username/).

Plz. help.
Martin, Austria/Vienna

Re: High Point 370 RAID + Debian

[J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 16:38:44 -0500, Phoenix Dreamscape wrote:
> First of all, i should specify that i'm a linux newbie.  I can get around
> in linux, but don't know how to do any of the complicated stuff (i.e.
> compiling a custom kernel)

Compiling a custom kernel is not very difficult, provided you've read the
relevant documentation, e.g.
http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Kernel-HOWTO.html
supplemented with the documentation of Debian's "kernel-package" package
with which you can build your kernel+modules as a .deb package.

> I have a High Point 370 RAID PCI card installed on this computer, with two
> hard drives in RAID 0, and i want to install Debian.  High point
> (http://www.highpoint-tech.com) provides some linux drivers for 4 specific
> distros, and debian isn't one of them (Redhat and SuSE are the ones i
> remember).

Support for that card is standard in recent kernels. E.g. 2.4.17-rc1 has
Highpoint 370 software RAID
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ATARAID_HPT
  Say Y or M if you have a Highpoint HPT 370 Raid controller
  and want linux to use the softwareraid feature of this card.
  This driver uses /dev/ataraid/dXpY (X and Y numbers) as device
  names.

  If you choose to compile this as a module, the module will be called
  hptraid.o.

> I've never worked with modules/drivers in linux, so i have no idea what
> i'm doing, but i was told that i can recompile the kernel on the debian
> install disks

I doubt you'll actually need custom install disks. AFAIK, it should be
possible to install Debian on the first disk using the regular boot
floppies, then build a custom kernel to support the card and then set up
mirroring.

(At least, that's what I hope - my workstation has this card in it and has
a currently unused second HD; I haven't gotten around to setting up
mirroring on it)

HTH,
Ray
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Re: J2SE On Debian

[csj]

On Wednesday 19 December 2001 04:40, Ben Hill wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have set up the Java 2 Standard Edition SDK in the /usr directory,
> and set up the environment variables.
>
> If I execute the "java" command though I get the message:
>
> Error: failed /usr/j2sdk1.4.0/jre/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so, because
> libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such
> file or directory

What does the following say?

$dpkg -S libstdc++-libc6

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Problems after fresh testing installation

[Thomas Deselaers]

Hello,

after a long time using unstable I decided to buy a new harddrive and to a
complete new install. Everything worked fine so far, excpet some small
things:

a) sshd is by default configured to not accept passwords. Is this really a
   good idea? it took me quite a long time to find the reason why I was not
   able to log onto my box from remote

b) Using xfree-4.1.0-9 I wanted to use truetype fonts and
   font-anti-aliasing. Thus I installed a lot of fonts including the
   msttcorefonts-package and libgdkxft. Now I do have a anti-aliasing in
   gnome, but all the true-type-fonts look exactly same.

   Here is what I think might be an interesting excerpt from my
   /etc/X11/XF86config after I edited it to work with xfstt, which now
   provides the Truetype-fonts but without anti-aliasing.

Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
#FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
#FontPath   "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID"
#FontPath   "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"  
FontPath"unix/:7101"# local font server
FontPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
FontPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Mozilla/"
FontPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Nucleus/"
FontPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/"
FontPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/freefont/"
FontPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/"
FontPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
FontPath"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/sharefont/"
FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType"
FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load"ddc"
Load"GLcore"
Load"dbe"
Load"dri"
Load"extmod"
Load"glx"
Load"pex5"
Load"record"
Load"xie"
Load"bitmap"
Load"freetype"
Load"speedo"
Load"type1"
Load"vbe"
Load"int10"
EndSection


   Anyone an idea, what this could be.

c) Also I after install with gnome and such and such when I first logged in
   on gdm gnome started up fine, but there was no windowmanager installed.
   Maybe this is a missing dependency. 

Everything else worked fine. I was doing an install from net with a
network-bootcd.

Greets,
thomas
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Re: J2SE On Debian

[J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 20:40:39 +, Ben Hill wrote:
> Error: failed /usr/j2sdk1.4.0/jre/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so, because 
> libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such 
> file or directory

apt-get install libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1

Or better, use the unofficial debs for the blackdown JDK:
deb ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/java/jdk/debian woody non-free

Presumably, these have this library dependency noted.

HTH,
Ray
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High Point 370 RAID + Debian

[Phoenix Dreamscape]

First of all, i should specify that i'm a linux newbie.  I can get around 
in linux, but don't know how to do any of the complicated stuff (i.e. 
compiling a custom kernel)


I have a High Point 370 RAID PCI card installed on this computer, with two 
hard drives in RAID 0, and i want to install Debian.  High point 
(http://www.highpoint-tech.com) provides some linux drivers for 4 specific 
distros, and debian isn't one of them (Redhat and SuSE are the ones i 
remember).  I've never worked with modules/drivers in linux, so i have no 
idea what i'm doing, but i was told that i can recompile the kernel on the 
debian install disks with the module that High Point provides for red hat, 
and then install it.  Can anybody 1) verify that this is possible or give 
me another solution and 2) tell me how i would go about doing it?


Thank you very much,
-Trevor

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Re: scanner recommendations?

[shock]

On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Vineet Kumar wrote:
>
> Can anyone recommend a decent, low-priced scanner that works with their
> debian system? In case it matters, I'm tracking sid.

i'm using an epson 1240u flatbed on debian woody with no problems
whatsoever.  i think epson is (or has) phased out the 1240u, so you can
find them at pretty good prices.  i got mine somewhere around $120 or
so, and have been very happy with it.
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Re: VMWare

[nate]

> memory. One niggling limitation though : the VMWare version that I
> am using (3.0.0 build 1455) has a max of 204MB that can be
> allocated to a VM session. If you need more than that for a VM
> session, you are SOL.

i think that has more to do with you only having 256MB of
memory and probably can only reserve 204MB. reserving any
more i believe would cause a severe performance hit on the
host machine. my desktop here has 512MB and i can reserve
409MB max. im sure with 1GB i could probably reserve at least
800MB..

i tried to boot with 409MB reserved and my system slowed
to a crawl before it even got to 200MB. probably because
im already using 500MB in other apps so i don't have 400MB
to spare(it goes straight to swap..)

 13:13:26 up 214 days, 21:01, 36 users,  load average: 1.27, 0.76, 0.53
186 processes: 183 sleeping, 2 running, 1 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:   7.9% user,  68.0% system,   0.0% nice,  24.1% idle
Mem:516544K total,   513552K used, 2992K free,10484K buffers
Swap:   748864K total,90244K used,   658620K free,   171604K cached

memory hogs:
16360 root -10 -10  240M 202M  1984 S <   1.9 40.0  1960m XFree86
11320 aphro 11   0  339M 113M  112M R57.9 22.5 302:08 vmware
12438 aphro  0   0 34216  32M 10480 S 0.0  6.5   2:46
communicator-sm

i need to restart X to free up that memory i guess. probably
won't do that till xmas break though. too lazy to close out
my 50 windows.

maybe i'll toss in a 512MB stick next time i reboot..ram
is so cheap now!($73 for pc133 kingston)

nate

Re: scanner recommendations?

[Brian P. Flaherty]

Well, I don't know if you have access to such a facility, but at Penn
State, there is a place called Salvage, where old (and sometimes
non-functional) equipment goes.  People may then buy this old
equipment.  I purchased three scanners from them and the last one
worked ($15 each).  It is an HP ScanJet 4c and works quite well with
Debian.  I had it installed when I ran RedHat and switching to Debian
didn't affect a thing.  Also, SANE and Gimp work just fine with it.
The only little catch was getting the permissions right, so non-root
accounts could scan.  Good luck.

Brian

Re: how do I play divx encoded films on testing?

[Tommi Komulainen]

On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 10:51:25PM +0100, Mirek Dobsicek wrote:
> 
> When I use -fs -vo x11, it opens in fullcreen, but the movie is still 
> the same size located in the midlle of the screen, surrounded by black 
> color.

How about trying -vm instead of -fs?  IIRC that's the option that makes
MPlayer to switch to the closest video mode.  

Additionally if you visit http://xtiming.sf.net/ you can calculate
precise modelines for all common video resolutions (384x288 etc.)  That
way that closest video mode will actually be truly full screen.

At least it works wonders for me :)


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Re: aspelling an grammer checking

[dman]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 06:13:51PM +0100, Eric Smith wrote:
| Two questions in one ( I know it ain't good practice).
| 
| I was looking for a grammar checker in the unstable repository
| - is there anything that will check for obvious errors silly ;)

I don't know of one.

| While foraging I came across aspell and thought that might be a
| good replacement for ispell, so installed it but get this:
| 
| Sorry, I can't read the file "/usr/lib/aspell/english".
| 
| Then looked at the contents of the deb and saw this:
...
| There seem to be some files missing - what gives?

$ apt-cache search aspell english 
aspell - A more intelligent replacement for the ispell spell checker
aspell-en - English dictionary for aspell


$ dpkg -S /usr/lib/aspell/english 
libaspell4: /usr/lib/aspell/english


Interesting.  I don't have aspell-en installed, but the libaspell4
package does include an english dictionary.

-D

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Re: scanner recommendations?

[Jeffrey W. Baker]

On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Vineet Kumar wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Can anyone recommend a decent, low-priced scanner that works with their
> debian system? In case it matters, I'm tracking sid.

What are you scanning?

-jwb

J2SE On Debian

[Ben Hill]

Hi,

I have set up the Java 2 Standard Edition SDK in the /usr directory,
and set up the environment variables.

If I execute the "java" command though I get the message:

Error: failed /usr/j2sdk1.4.0/jre/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so, because 
libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such 
file or directory

Is it something to do with the LD_LIBRARY_PATH? I have tried to set 
the directory as a LD_LIBRARY_PATH path with:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/j2sdk1.4.0/jre/lib/i386/client

but to no avail.

Can anyone help?

Cheers,

Ben
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Re: HELP! did something incredably stupid

[dman]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 08:16:21PM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote:
| Hello,
| 
| Is there a way to retreive information about the size of an ext2
| partition?
| 
| I filled the first 1024 bytes of my harddisk with zeros, because LILO did
| not want to downgrade. I realised too late that this would wipe out my
| partition table as well. I have been able to recreate a new partition
| table with only one partition and luckily my systems boots. Problem is
| that I had two partitions: first my ext2 and at the end a swap partition.
| I do not know where my (original) first partition ended.
| 
| Can anybody help me out?

Hopefully you haven't done anything with your system that might write
to the disk.  Get the 'gpart' utility and stick it on a floppy, boot
with the rescue (install) disk and run it.  It worked wonders for me.
Fortunately for you you didn't have any data partitions beyond the
first partition! (I had / then swap then /home).  Then you can use
(c)fdisk from the install disk to recreate your partition table.  Then
(once you've rebooted) print out that table!

web site :
http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/
statically linked binary (no libc dependency!), stick this on the floppy :
http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/gpart.linux

-D

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scanner recommendations?

[Vineet Kumar]

Hello,

Can anyone recommend a decent, low-priced scanner that works with their
debian system? In case it matters, I'm tracking sid.

I've been browsing amazon's scanners and simultaneously the SANE
compatibility lists, so I should be able to find something that works,
but I'd feel better about it if I could get a hearty recommendation from
a satisfied customer.

Among my criteria for hardware purchases is politics: I'd much prefer to
buy from a manufacturer who has cooperated with projects like SANE (or
similar open-source driver projects for printers, NICs, video cards, or
whatnot) by releasing specs and/or encouraging development in whatever
other various ways. If anyone can recommend such manufacturers (even if
you haven't successfully used a scanner from them), I'd appreciate that
as well.

Thanks,
Vineet

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Re: Evolution Cyrus Imap Shared Folders

[Dave Carrigan]

"Lance Hoffmeyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I installed Evolution and want to be able to read mail from the
> listserv's I subscribe to but Evolution does not "see" these
> 
> Listserv folders on Cyrus.  Evolution shows me my Inbox and savedmail
> folders which I created but when I try to
> 
> list other folders to subscribe to them it does not find them.  Any
> ideas?

Edit the imap account, and on the receiving options tab, make sure that
"Override server supplied folder namespace" is set, and that the
namespace field is empty.

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Re: Best way to mirror two drives

[Jeffrey W. Baker]

On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, nate wrote:

> i have never experienced a drive failure with software
> raid1 so i don't know what to expect if it were to
> occur.

You'll get a line in dmesg and /proc/mdstat will note the failure.  It is
necessary to poll /proc/mdstat and send out the alert when a drive fails.

-jwb

Any way to automate checking a package's MD5sum?

[Lance Simmons]

The Debian website lists MD5sums for each package. Is there any way to
automate the checking of a package's MD5sum after you download it, or
does it have to be done by hand?

Debsums is useful for checking the MD5sums of the _files_ of a package,
but how do I check the MD5sum of the package itself (short of running
md5sum by hand and comparing it to the MD5sum posted on the Debian
website)?

Or is this already done somehow?

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Re: VMWare

[nate]

> Of course, when you run linux on your primary screen, two vmwares
> with win2k and solaris8 on your secondary screen, it tends to be a
> little slow on a celeron 533;-)

im not sure if solaris 8 fixed it or not(i don't think it
did). but solaris 7 did not have APM support, and it could
not issue the HLT instruction. the result was the host
OS would always be pegged at 100% cpu usage while solaris 7
was running under vmware. even on a p3-800 it was slow..

nate

Re: Best way to mirror two drives

[nate]

> I just purchased a second 30G drive that I want to use as part of
> my backup strategy.  I now have two 30G drives in my computer.  I
> don't have a RAID card.  I have /dev/hda and /dev/hdb.  What is the
> best way to mirror /dev/hda? I have thought of
>
> dd
> cp
> rsync
>
> but am not sure which method would be most efficient.  Are there
> other methods I am leaving out?

software raid1 ..though with only 1 drive it wont be very
easy to setup the full system to be mirrored, easiest way
to go on software raid1 is to setup a 500MB / partition,
install minimal system, setup the raid array(s) and move
the data over(i usually have /usr  and /var and /home on
raid, or 1 big /raid partition with /usr /var and /home
pointing to /raid/usr /raid/var and /raid/home)

i have never experienced a drive failure with software
raid1 so i don't know what to expect if it were to
occur.

nate

Re: Kernel compilation error.......

[Paul Mackinney]

C muttered:
> make[1]: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux'
> make: *** [stamp-build] Error 2
I saw this too when compiling 2.4.16, running an up-to-date Woody
system. I'll wait for 2.4.17. 

While I'm waiting, I have 2 questions for kernel-hackers:

1. I'm currently running 2.4.12, which I built and installed using the
kernel package system (very cool!). Now how can I compile and install a 
single moduler? The docs cover how to rebuild & resinstall all the
modules, but that seems like overkill...

2. Where can I get a config file that matches the build options for one
of the pre-compiled kernel packages? I'd like to be able to start with
one of those configs as a base for customization.

TIA, Paul
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Re: Antivirus for Sendmail

[nate]

> Hi there,
>
>   Does anyone know of a decent product for Sendmail that will scan
> emails for viruses?  Is a virus scanner even a good idea to try an
> implement?  I haven't read much on them, but my employer has been
> bothering me about it for some time now.  Any products that anyone
> would suggest (that work with Debian, of course :)?  Thanks!
>
> Please CC me on the reply.

i use amavis(amavis.org) in combonation with Mcafee and
Sophos antivirus. been using it for over a year now and
it works quite well. it can be difficult to setup unless
your real famillar with perl and sendmail. it took me
several hours the first time. once its going though its
great. amavis is GPL the scanners of course are not :)
there are a couple free scanners available they are
not well supported as far as i know though. if your
interested ask on the amavis-user mailing list, im
sure people can help you(im on that list too). amavis
supports postfix/exim/qmail/sendmail. and it supports
about 8 different virus scanners currently.

nate

Re: faxing over the internet

[Tim Moss]

Apparently, on Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 01:00:24PM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:
> Anyone know if there is a way to send and receive faxes over the
> internet.  I am in need of fax capabilities but do not have a modem
> on my computer, only DSL.
> 
http://www.tpc.int/tpc_home.html

"Welcome to the TPC home page. The TPC service is a collection of FAX
servers you may use to send a fax to many locations around the world."

You can send a fax from a web form or via email.

Re: sendmail 8.12 mail queue log

[nate]

> Eh? how are you looking for the information ?


> With 8.12+, there are more than one possible name for the daemon -
> with sm-msp and sm-mta being the two most common, followed closely
> by
> sendmail (though after install spamassassin and setting up
> spamc/spamd, spamd rates right up there with sm-mta !)

ok. thats why. thanks. i had my mail going to a syslog
server and it was not filtering for sm-mta, only for
sendmail. now its filtering for sm-mta too and the logs
are showing up.

cool! i thought for a bit this wasn't going to  be possible

thanks again for the quick reply

nate

Re: Solved: upgrading a single program

[Paul Mackinney]

Brian Kerhin muttered:
> Does anyone have a dual boot system with the following type of entry?
> 
> image=/dev/hda1
> label=winnt
> table=/dev/hda
> 
> Never guess the dual booting os :(.
Here's something from /usr/share/doc/lilo/Manual.txt.gz:

boot = /dev/hda2
compact
image = /vmlinuz
image = /vmlinuz.old
other = /dev/hda1
  table = /dev/hda
  label = msdos

Try changing 'image' to 'other' in the quoted sample from your 
lilo.conf.

HTH, Paul
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HELP! did something incredably stupid

[Sebastiaan]

Hello,

Is there a way to retreive information about the size of an ext2
partition?

I filled the first 1024 bytes of my harddisk with zeros, because LILO did
not want to downgrade. I realised too late that this would wipe out my
partition table as well. I have been able to recreate a new partition
table with only one partition and luckily my systems boots. Problem is
that I had two partitions: first my ext2 and at the end a swap partition.
I do not know where my (original) first partition ended.

Can anybody help me out?

Thanks in advance,
Sebastiaan



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  16-bit Subsystem. Anyone can see that 16+16=32, so windoze NT is a 
  *real* 32-bit system.

Re: Ncurses on PCs

[Paolo Alexis Falcone]

cuong tran wrote:

>Hi,
>
>
>I am taking C++ and Data Structures courses at San Francisco State and
>most of my programs use ncurses. I understand that ncurses is a package
>of functions in the UNIX library for use in C and C++ programs. Is there
>any way I can download these funtions and use them from my home computer
>( i want ncurses to be run on PC.) because sometime I can't connect to my
>school.  Can I install Linux on my home computer and then compile and run
>C programs using ncuses? And how can I install Linux and Windows on the
>same machine?

ncurses is actually a library of functions for providing limited graphical
support (not limited actually...) to a POSIX environment and is a free
alternative to the UNIX curses library. The Single UNIX specification is
a good reading for curses, and you can use it with ncurses.

Most Linux distros come with ncurses installed, and the development
headers in a separate package (in debian, that would equate to libncurses5-
dev) to be installed. It is usually installed so one can invoke some
ncurses-dependent programs (such as Debian's dselect and the make menuconfig
routine when you reconfigure a kernel prior to compiling it).

Yes, you can compile your own programs and link ncurses-specific routines to
the appropriate header file, as long as you have libncurses-dev installed.

Yes, you can install Linux and the other OS on the same machine. There's
lots of documentations, FAQ and HOWTO's for this task out there in the 'net
and inside your /usr/doc files, or your Linux distro's installer CD-ROM.


Paolo Falcone

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rtl8139 and apt-get install kernel-image 2.2 -> 2.4

[Jason M. Harvey]

hello,

i have a pc at home running woody. this weekend, i did an apt-get
install kernel-image-2.4.12-k6 ... i'm running a k6-2 cpu. i loved it. 
i have another box on the 'net running potato. it has a d-link nic
that uses rtl8139. now, i had that same nic in the box at home and used
8139too with my custom 2.4.2 kernel that i built from source.
i'm thinking to dist-upgrade the potato box on the 'net to woody, then
use apt to install that same kernel-image. yes, they are the same cpu.
i have "limited" physical access to the box; i'd like the nic to come up
on boot currently, i'm running 2.2.16 kernel. 

what do you think the chances are... if i dist-upgrade then install that
kernel image, edit lilo.conf, ext and edit modules.conf (and
possibly /etc/modutils/) to use 8139too instead of rtl8139? think it'll
come back up?

tia,
jason


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Re: Antivirus for Sendmail

[Frank_Rosendahl/Delos_AG/DE%DELOS]

Hi !I prefere the TrendMicro Viruswall (http://www.antivirus.com) because its really actual. But there is one Problem: It s comercial ! --Frank Rosendahl, DELOS AG, Moerikestrasse 11, D-70178 StuttgartTel: +49-711-620079-0 - Fax: +49-711-620079-79---live long and prosper. Nick Furman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>12/18/2001 11:30 AM EST To: debian-user@lists.debian.org cc:  bcc:  Subject: Antivirus for Sendmail Hi there,Does anyone know of a decent product for Sendmail that will scanemails for viruses?  Is a virus scanner even a good idea to try animplement?  I haven't read much on them, but my employer has beenbothering me about it for some time now.  Any products that anyone wouldsuggest (that work with Debian, of course :)?  Thanks!Please CC me on the reply.Nick--To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: faxing over the internet

[Lev Lvovsky]

a small plug for the company I work for:

efax.com

-lev

On 18 Dec 2001, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:

> Anyone know if there is a way to send and receive faxes over the
> internet.  I am in need of fax capabilities but do not have a modem
> on my computer, only DSL.
>
> Lance
>
>
>
>
>

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co-produced by the dust brothers and aphex twin called 'the britney spears
electric kool-aid lonely hearts club experience' with sitars, darkstep
acid jungle beats, and post-rock idm emo-core. or maybe she'd just make a
straightforward pop album, but actively encourage her fanbase to take
psychadelics." -Ben Yater

faxing over the internet

[Lance Hoffmeyer]

Anyone know if there is a way to send and receive faxes over the
internet.  I am in need of fax capabilities but do not have a modem
on my computer, only DSL.

Lance

Re: cdrecord problems

[yugami]

try running xcdroast and seeing if you can get that setup and working first.


- Original Message -
From: "Patrik Modesto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 1:29 PM
Subject: cdrecord problems


> Hi,
> I'm out of ideas, so I need Your help. I'm trying to write some files to
> CD-RW, but without success. :-( I'm using Debian Woody (daily updated),
> with custom kernel 2.4.16 (enabled scsi emulation, reiserfs, ext3). I
> tried everything I found in CD-Writing howto, but still no good. Only
> few Kb gets on CD. Dummy mode is off. Funny is, that I can do fast-erase
> of CD-RW disk. Full-erase freezes whole Gnome. :-(
> Can someone help?
>
> Thanks
>
> Patrik
>
> Here is some info:
>
> cdrecord -scanbus:
> -
> Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling
> Linux sg driver version: 3.1.20
> Using libscg version 'schily-0.5'
> scsibus0:
> 0,0,0 0) 'IOMEGA  ' 'ZIP 100 ' '14.A' Removable
> Disk
> 0,1,0 1) 'PLEXTOR ' 'CD-R   PX-W1610A' '1.04'
> Removable CD-ROM
> 0,2,0 2) *
> 0,3,0 3) *
> 0,4,0 4) *
> 0,5,0 5) *
> 0,6,0 6) *
> 0,7,0   7) *
>
>
> gcombust - cdrecord output:
> --
> Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling
> TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
> Using libscg version 'schily-0.5'
> Driveropts: 'burnproof'
> atapi: 1
> Device type: Removable CD-ROM
> Version: 0
> Response Format: 1
> Vendor_info: 'PLEXTOR '
> Identifikation : 'CD-R   PX-W1610A'
> Revision   : '1.04'
> Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
> Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
> Driver flags   : SWABAUDIO
> Drive buf size : 1190112 = 1162 KB
> FIFO size  : 4194304 = 4096 KB
> Track 01: data  126 MB padsize:  30 KB
> Lout start: 145 MB (14:25/12) = 64737 sectors
> Current Secsize: 2048
> ATIP info from disk:
> Indicated writing power: 6
> Reference speed: 0
> Is not unrestricted
> Is erasable
> ATIP start of lead in:  -11078 (97:34/22)
> ATIP start of lead out: 359849 (79:59/74)
> speed low: 0 speed high: 4
> power mult factor: 3 5
> recommended erase/write power: 3
> A2 values: 5C C6 26
> Disk type:Phase change
> Manuf. index: 11
> Manufacturer: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
> Blocks total: 359849 Blocks current: 359849 Blocks
> remaining: 295112
> Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in write mode
> for single session.
> scsidev: '0,1,0'
> scsibus: 0 target: 1 lun: 0
> Linux sg driver version: 3.1.20iCdrecord 1.10
> (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg
> Schilling
> TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
> Using libscg version 'schily-0.5'
> Driveropts: 'burnproof'
> atapi: 1
> Device type: Removable CD-ROM
> Version: 0
> Response Format: 1
> Vendor_info: 'PLEXTOR '
> Identifikation : 'CD-R   PX-W1610A'
> Revision   : '1.04'
> Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
> Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
> Driver flags   : SWABAUDIO
> Drive buf size : 1190112 = 1162 KB
> FIFO size  : 4194304 = 4096 KB
> Track 01: data  126 MB padsize:  30 KB
> Lout start: 145 MB (14:25/12) = 64737 sectors
> Current Secsize: 2048
> ATIP info from disk:
> Indicated writing power: 6
> Reference speed: 0
> Is not unrestricted
> Is erasable
> ATIP start of lead in:  -11078 (97:34/22)
> ATIP start of lead out: 359849
> (79:59/74)
> speed low: 0 speed high: 4
> power mult factor: 3 5
> recommended erase/write power: 3
> A2 values: 5C C6 26
> Disk type:Phase change
> Manuf. index: 11
> Manufacturer: Mitsubishi
> Chemical Corporation
> Blocks total: 359849 Blocks
> current: 359849 Blocks
> remaining: 295112
> Starting to write CD/DVD at
> speed 4 in write mode for single
> session.
> scsidev: '0,1,0'
> scsibus: 0 target: 1 lun: 0
> Linux sg driver version: 3.1.20
> Performing OPC...
> /usr/bin/cdrecord: Turning
> BURN-Proof on
>
> /usr/bin/cdrecord: Input/output
> error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd:
> retryable error
> CDB:  2A 00 00 00 00 1F 00 00 1F
> 00
> status: 0x0 (GOOD STATUS)
> cmd finished after 0.933s
> timeout 40s
> Track 01:   0 of 126 MB written.
> write track data: error after
> 63488 bytes
> Trouble flushing the cache
> Writing  time:   11.943s
> Sense Bytes: 70 00 00 00 00 00
> 00 0A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> 00
> /usr/bin/cdrecord: Input/output
> error. flush cache: scsi
> sendcmd: no error
> CDB:  35 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> 00
> status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
> Sense Bytes: 70 00 06 00 00 00
> 00 0A 00 00 00 00 29 00 00 00
> Sense Key: 0x6 Unit Attention,
> Segment 0
> Sense Code: 0x29 Qual 0x00
> (power on, reset, or bus device
> reset occurred) Fru 0x0
> Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
> cmd finished after 0.000s
> timeout 120s
> /usr/bin/cdrecord: fifo had 65
> puts and 2 gets.
> /usr/bin/cdrecord: fifo was 0
> times empty and 1 times full,
> min fill was 98%.
>
> /var/log/messages:
> -
> Dec 18 19:18:16 mody kernel: hdd: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady
> SeekComplete DataReq

Re: URGENT - Bind broken by potato-> woody

[J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 10:12:21 +1000, john wrote:
> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
> LANGUAGE = (unset),
> LC_ALL = (unset),
> LC_CTYPE = "",
> LANG = "english"
 ^

That's not a valid locale, nor an alias for one. Most likely, you're logged
in to an X environment where that value was set by gdm. Select en_AU prior
to logging into gdm.

HTH,
Ray
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Mac/Linux/Win 3D Bench suite

[Andrei Verovski]

Hi,


Anyone can suggest if cross-platform Mac/Linux/Win 3D Bench suite is 
available to test rendering and display performance.

Thanks

Andrei

Re: Kmail chokes

[tabanna]

On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Matt wrote:

> (this letter shouldn't be html'ized and should be ISO8859-1)

 ~ This one is fine ~ Thanks Matt  :)

best wishes

 Richard

cdrecord problems

[Patrik Modesto]

Hi,
I'm out of ideas, so I need Your help. I'm trying to write some files to
CD-RW, but without success. :-( I'm using Debian Woody (daily updated),
with custom kernel 2.4.16 (enabled scsi emulation, reiserfs, ext3). I
tried everything I found in CD-Writing howto, but still no good. Only
few Kb gets on CD. Dummy mode is off. Funny is, that I can do fast-erase
of CD-RW disk. Full-erase freezes whole Gnome. :-(
Can someone help?

Thanks

Patrik

Here is some info:

cdrecord -scanbus:
-
Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.20
Using libscg version 'schily-0.5'
scsibus0:
0,0,0 0) 'IOMEGA  ' 'ZIP 100 ' '14.A' Removable
Disk
0,1,0 1) 'PLEXTOR ' 'CD-R   PX-W1610A' '1.04'
Removable CD-ROM
0,2,0 2) *
0,3,0 3) *
0,4,0 4) *
0,5,0 5) *
0,6,0 6) *
0,7,0 7) *


gcombust - cdrecord output:
--
Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
Using libscg version 'schily-0.5'
Driveropts: 'burnproof'
atapi: 1
Device type: Removable CD-ROM
Version: 0
Response Format: 1
Vendor_info: 'PLEXTOR '
Identifikation : 'CD-R   PX-W1610A'
Revision   : '1.04'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags   : SWABAUDIO
Drive buf size : 1190112 = 1162 KB
FIFO size  : 4194304 = 4096 KB
Track 01: data  126 MB padsize:  30 KB
Lout start: 145 MB (14:25/12) = 64737 sectors
Current Secsize: 2048
ATIP info from disk:
Indicated writing power: 6
Reference speed: 0
Is not unrestricted
Is erasable
ATIP start of lead in:  -11078 (97:34/22)
ATIP start of lead out: 359849 (79:59/74)
speed low: 0 speed high: 4
power mult factor: 3 5
recommended erase/write power: 3
A2 values: 5C C6 26
Disk type:Phase change
Manuf. index: 11
Manufacturer: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
Blocks total: 359849 Blocks current: 359849 Blocks
remaining: 295112
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in write mode
for single session.
scsidev: '0,1,0'
scsibus: 0 target: 1 lun: 0
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.20iCdrecord 1.10
(i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg
Schilling
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
Using libscg version 'schily-0.5'
Driveropts: 'burnproof'
atapi: 1
Device type: Removable CD-ROM
Version: 0
Response Format: 1
Vendor_info: 'PLEXTOR '
Identifikation : 'CD-R   PX-W1610A'
Revision   : '1.04'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags   : SWABAUDIO
Drive buf size : 1190112 = 1162 KB
FIFO size  : 4194304 = 4096 KB
Track 01: data  126 MB padsize:  30 KB
Lout start: 145 MB (14:25/12) = 64737 sectors
Current Secsize: 2048
ATIP info from disk:
Indicated writing power: 6
Reference speed: 0
Is not unrestricted
Is erasable
ATIP start of lead in:  -11078 (97:34/22)
ATIP start of lead out: 359849
(79:59/74)
speed low: 0 speed high: 4
power mult factor: 3 5
recommended erase/write power: 3
A2 values: 5C C6 26
Disk type:Phase change
Manuf. index: 11
Manufacturer: Mitsubishi
Chemical Corporation
Blocks total: 359849 Blocks
current: 359849 Blocks
remaining: 295112
Starting to write CD/DVD at
speed 4 in write mode for single
session.
scsidev: '0,1,0'
scsibus: 0 target: 1 lun: 0
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.20
Performing OPC...
/usr/bin/cdrecord: Turning
BURN-Proof on

/usr/bin/cdrecord: Input/output
error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd:
retryable error
CDB:  2A 00 00 00 00 1F 00 00 1F
00
status: 0x0 (GOOD STATUS)
cmd finished after 0.933s
timeout 40s
Track 01:   0 of 126 MB written.
write track data: error after
63488 bytes
Trouble flushing the cache
Writing  time:   11.943s
Sense Bytes: 70 00 00 00 00 00
00 0A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00
/usr/bin/cdrecord: Input/output
error. flush cache: scsi
sendcmd: no error
CDB:  35 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 06 00 00 00
00 0A 00 00 00 00 29 00 00 00
Sense Key: 0x6 Unit Attention,
Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x29 Qual 0x00
(power on, reset, or bus device
 re

Xglobal_lock'ed out of several apps

[Matt]

Hello, 

After a package update on my sid system the other day I suddenly started
getting errors having something to do with libc6 with many of my
programs.  Anyone else? As I'm not too familiar with this kind of
problem, I was wondering if someone could help me figure it out and
possibly fix it. Or is it specific to some bug in a sid package since I
last upgraded? 

Here's an example of one app, among many, that no longer works:

"gpgp: relocation error: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6: undefined symbol:
_Xglobal_lock" 

And when I ldd the libXext library I get... 

ldd /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6: 
"libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x40019000) 
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x400f4000) 
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x8000)" 

Thanks, 
Matt 

Re: VMWare

[Matt]

I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned this already, but for most
applications I've had *much* greater success with Win4Lin
(http://www.netraverse.com).  Sound, speed, graphics all seem to work
better for (most) Windows applications.

Win4Lin is faster, cheaper and suitable for what most necessary-Windows
types need.

cheers,
Matt

ps - if this has been brought up and refuted, I'm not interested in yet
another VMWare-Win4Lin-Wine fight. :)

Re: VMWare

[Dan S.]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 10:42:33AM -0500, dman wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 09:25:16AM -0500, Mike Phillips wrote:
> | > 
> | > I would like to know if anyone in this list is using VMWare Workstation 
> in 
> | > order to run flavours of Windows with Debian GNU Linux as the host 
> machine.
> Is anyone willing to share the downsides/limitations as well?  I've
> heard a lot of positive comments on this list (including Martin using
> VMWare to fool some users into thinking they have a windows system),
> but I know there must be another side to it.

There are several downsides that are not mentioned much. Sound is hard to
get working if you have an unsuported sound card.

You can't easily do a dualboot and use the same partition/installation of
the guest operating system when you have a SCSI system as their RAW SCSI
support is minimal.

> 
> 
> How much does it cost?

Depends on if you are buying it regularly or through their educational
discount. I paid 120$ as a student. 
More info at:
http://www.vmware.com/products/desktop/ws_upgrade_faqs.html

> 
> What are the restrictions?  (Can I have 1 copy of VMWare on a big
> machine and use it by a bunch of diskless X terms?)
 You will need to check with vmware about that. I suspect that you would
need licenses for all copies.
> 
> 
> I still have to buy a real copy of windows, right?

Yes. And to be proper about it, you will need to buy a copy for every
machine you install it on.
> 
> How are the VMWare folks with support?  (quality, availability, cost) 
> 
Not bad. Not great but not bad.
> Would they look favorably on a charity group (wrt licensing/cost)?
> For example, if I wanted to set up a network of obsolete hardware as
> diskless X terms (with a single modern system serving them) with
> windows running in vmware to teach underprivileged youths in a 3rd
> world country.
You will need to contact them.

-dan

Re: Antivirus for Sendmail

[Warren A. Layton]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 11:30:13AM -0500, Nick Furman wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
>   Does anyone know of a decent product for Sendmail that will scan
> emails for viruses?  Is a virus scanner even a good idea to try an
> implement?  I haven't read much on them, but my employer has been
> bothering me about it for some time now.  Any products that anyone would
> suggest (that work with Debian, of course :)?  Thanks!

MIMEdefang by David Skoll (the author of rp-pppoe) is available. You can
get it from his site at:
http://www.roaringpenguin.com

It filters out certains types of attachments.

Warren

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volunteer something more than an opinion.

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GPG Fingerprint: F54C 019D 18BE 6ED8 678D  39D0 21FD D515 BFB8 80A3 


pgpWKf8RBBX2z.pgp
Description: PGP signature

Best way to mirror two drives

[Lance Hoffmeyer]

I just purchased a second 30G drive that I want to 
use as part of my backup strategy.  I now have two 30G drives 
in
my computer.  I don't have a RAID card.  
I have /dev/hda and /dev/hdb.  What is the best way to mirror 
/dev/hda?
I have thought of 
 
dd
cp
rsync 
 
but am not sure which method would be most 
efficient.  Are there other methods I am leaving out?
 
Lance

Evolution Cyrus Imap Shared Folders

[Lance Hoffmeyer]

I installed Evolution and want to be able to read 
mail from the listserv's I subscribe to but Evolution does not "see" 
these
Listserv folders on Cyrus.  Evolution shows me 
my Inbox and savedmail folders which I created but when I try to
list other folders to subscribe to them it does not 
find them.  Any ideas?
Lance

Re: VMWare

[nate]

> Hi all,
>
> I would like to know if anyone in this list is using VMWare
> Workstation in  order to run flavours of Windows with Debian GNU
> Linux as the host machine.

i use vmware on debian for many things, one of which is
running win2000 with pcanywhere to manage the ~4 NT servers
i have at the company(luckily i have about 60 linux/unix
servers so headaches are avoided). it works well. never
crashed. my system at work has been up for 214 days..
i don't do much other then pcanywhere, i can only stand
to use it for limited amounts of time during the day(not
vmware, but win2000). ive reinstalled win2000 at least
twice since i last rebooted the host, and am reinstalling
it a 3rd time as soon as i get a chance.


i also use it to test stuff in debian and in freebsd.
solaris 7 works more or less on vmware.

if using vmware i reccomend a fast system, mimimal 450mhz,
256MB.  i'd go with 512MB minimum now though with 512MB
pc133 kingston at $73. you can do with less but its not
fun.

the best part is the undoable disks, its nice to test software,
then when your done hit the virtual power button(dont bother
with shutting down properly), and hit the discard button
when prompted to restore the machine to the point when
it last was powered on. thats the ultimate uninstall.

nate

Re: VMWare

[Rick Macdonald]

On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, dman wrote:

> I still have to buy a real copy of windows, right?

Yes.

> How are the VMWare folks with support?  (quality, availability, cost) 

See the other post I just sent. Support is not good, but once you have it
running smoothly you don't need support.  :-)

...RickM...

sendmail 8.12 mail queue log

[nate]

ever since sendmail 8.12.1 came out(or at least since
i installed it) i no longer get remote queue information.

in older sendmails i used to get in the mail logs which
server sendmail relayed to to deliver the message so i
could verify it was accepted by the _remote_ server.

now all i get is it logging it relayed to the localhost
queue agent and it was accepted by that localhost relay
but says nothing about logging that the _remote_ host
accepted the message or not. i can check the mail
queue but i want this info logged to syslog like the
rest of the mail logs.

im not using any special setup, just the generic
debian one from woody.

any ideas on how to enable this functionality?
i plan to move to sendmail 8.12.1 for PerlMX and
libmilter soon...

thanks

nate

Re: VMWare

[Rick Macdonald]

On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I would like to know if anyone in this list is using VMWare Workstation in 
> order to run flavours of Windows with Debian GNU Linux as the host machine.

It works great for me. Woody/sid on a dual P450 with 768MB ram. I run NT
under VMWare. I even run VNC on it and access my office VMWare from home
over 4Mb ADSL.

Beware, however, that the support sucks. Sucks bigtime. You get no support
until you buy the product so if you cannot get the demo up and running
you'll be in a tough spot. This is backwards to most other companies
that I've delt with, who bend over backwards _until_ you buy the
product! ;-) It's as if the company has only 3 employees.

...RickM...

Re: VMWare

[Mike Phillips]

> 
> Greetings,
>   I had been using VMWare v2 with potato, but then I upgraded to Woody.  
> When
> I upgraded to a 2.4.x kernel, v2 died.  I then upgraded to the v3 and it
> works wonderfully.  The v2 works with kernels up to 2.4.6 IIRC, but I've
> never been able to compile anything that or lower under Woody.  I've not
> tried compiling them under potato.  I have used Win95, Win98, and Win2K
> under both v2 and v3 without problems with a Debian host both potato and
> woody.  I haven't tried XP under linux, but I have tried XP with a Win2K
> host running on v2, and it didn't work well.
> 

You have to patch v2 to work with the later 2.4.x kernels, a quick
search on the 'net should find the patch for you.

-- 
Mike Phillips
Linux Token Ring Project
http://www.linuxtr.net
mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: HELP! FTP has stopped working! (SOLUTION for now)

[Marc Shapiro]

Yes, it is looking for libreadline.so.2, not libreadline.so.4.2, but it
isn't supposed to, according to the listed depends.  I already tried the
link idea and it did not work, either.  What did work was to uninstall
ftp and reinstall from the version in stable/Potato.  Untill this gets
corrected I will just put ftp on 'hold' so it will not upgrade.

> 
> > I am running testing and when I just went to run ftp, to upload
> > website changes, I got the following error:
> >
> > $ ftp ftp.inetone.net
> > ftp: error while loading shared libraries: libreadline.so.2: cannot
> > open shared object file: No such file or directory
> > $
> 
> its looking for libreadline.so.2 not librealdine.so.4.2.
> maybe its a bug in the package..maybe not .. in the meantime
> it may work to make a link:
> cd /lib ; ln -s libreadline.so.4.2 libreadline.so.2
> 
> assuming libreadline4 has everything that libreadline2 had
> that the ftp client needs..it may or may not.. worth
> a shot though.
> 
> don't know why it happened ..
> 
> nate

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 Little Hungary Farm Winery

looking for password managing program

[Pollywog]

Are there any password management programs for Linux?
I usually record passwords for e-mail accounts, ICQ, etc in a book, but I 
want to keep them on a floppy instead.

I know such programs exist for Windows but I need one for Linux.



thanks


--
Andrew

kernel image upgrade, help!

[Simon R Tod]

When performing a kernel upgrade via 'apt-get -f dist-upgrade' I get the
warning message

A new kernel image has been installed, and usually that means that some
action has to be taken to make sure that the new kernel image is used
next time the machine boots. Usually, the entails running a "bootloader"
like grub, SILO, loadlin, LILO, QUIK, or booting from a floppy.

A new kernel image has been installed.

LILO sets up your system to boot Linux directly from your hard drive,
without the need for a boot floopy.

WARNING
If you are keeping another operating system or another version of Linux
on a seperate disk partition, you should not have LILO install a boot
block now. Wait until you read the LILO documentation. This is because
installing a boot block now might make the other system un-bootable. If
you only want to run this version of Linux, go ahead and install the
boot block here. If it does not work, you can still boot this system
from a floopy.

Would you like to create a boot floppy now ?

Er what should I do!! I do have Windoze running on an another
partition. Should I create a boot floppy? Presumably it'll shortly
prompt me for installing a boot block, which I guess I don't want.
Should I then be making some changes to some LILO config files to boot
from the new kernel image. Think I'm rather out my depth here. Help!!

Thanks,
Simon.

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Re: Mozilla and duelling java's

[Ross Boylan]

Thanks to several people (Akintayo Holder, Courtney Thomas, and Matt), it 
seems my real problem is not caused by java, since the web page that isn't 
working doesn't involve java.  Courtney was able to view the page using a 
system without java installed, which is pretty definite!


I am still curious about whether I've sufficiently purged the other (Sun) 
java, and if having two version (is it 3 if you count kaffe?) can cause 
trouble.  Java is not strikingly stable; for example I crash if go to 
http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/docs/relnotes/demos.html and select 
Dither test (which seems to work OK from MS Win with NS 6.2.1).  The 
samples I tried worked in a majority of cases, but crashes like this were 
common, as were things just not working.


Also, of course, I'm still wondering what is causing my problem.  I tried 
disabling my firewall to no effect.  I wonder if something is messed up 
with the module that remembers passwords (not sure if that's part of 
mozilla-browser or psm) since I do have remembered passwords that should 
kick in on the screen that's giving me troubles...


At 04:58 PM 12/17/01 -0800, Ross Boylan wrote:

I'm running mozilla 0.9.5 on woody, and am having problems that might
be java related (the real problem is that I can't access a page that
uses java; the reason I say "might be" is that I can access and use
some java test pages).

Awhile ago I got my java from Sun, but more recently have used the
blackdown java as recommended by the mozilla debian read me.  I just
uninstalled blackdown and deleted all remaining java stuff in
/usr/lib/mozilla (mostly plugins/java2) and then reinstalled blackdown.

I'm not sure I've properly purged the other java stuff from my system,
and am hoping for some tips on where else to look.  In particular, I
am suspicious that /etc/alternatives points to some kaffe stuff, since
blackdown's site mentions incompatibilities with the kaffe vm.

My /etc/alternatives looks considerably better since the purge and
reinstall; e.g., java now points to the blackdown version.


Here's some info that might be relevant--sorry about the long lines:
wheat:/usr/lib/mozilla# ls -l /etc/alternatives/*java*
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   25 Dec 17 16:03 
/etc/alternatives/java -> /usr/lib/j2re1.3/bin/java
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   36 Dec 17 16:03 
/etc/alternatives/java.1.gz -> /usr/share/man/man1/java.j2re13.1.gz
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   39 Dec 17 16:03 
/etc/alternatives/java.ja.1.gz -> /usr/share/man/ja/man1/java.j2re13.1.gz
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   26 Mar 31  2001 
/etc/alternatives/javadoc -> /usr/lib/kaffe/bin/javadoc
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   30 Mar 31  2001 
/etc/alternatives/javadoc.1.gz -> /usr/share/man/man1/kaffe.1.gz
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   26 Mar 31  2001 
/etc/alternatives/javakey -> /usr/lib/kaffe/bin/javakey
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   30 Mar 31  2001 
/etc/alternatives/javakey.1.gz -> /usr/share/man/man1/kaffe.1.gz
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   24 Mar 31  2001 
/etc/alternatives/javap -> /usr/lib/kaffe/bin/javap
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   30 Mar 31  2001 
/etc/alternatives/javap.1.gz -> /usr/share/man/man1/kaffe.1.gz
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   52 Dec 17 16:03 
/etc/alternatives/javaplugin.so -> 
/usr/lib/j2re1.3/plugin/i386/netscape4/javaplugin.so
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   54 Dec 17 16:03 
/etc/alternatives/javaplugin_oji-mozilla-0.9.1.so -> 
/usr/lib/j2re1.3/plugin/i386/mozilla/javaplugin_oji.so
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   54 Dec 17 16:03 
/etc/alternatives/javaplugin_oji-mozilla-0.9.2.so -> 
/usr/lib/j2re1.3/plugin/i386/mozilla/javaplugin_oji.so
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   54 Dec 17 16:03 
/etc/alternatives/javaplugin_oji-mozilla-cvs.so -> 
/usr/lib/j2re1.3/plugin/i386/mozilla/javaplugin_oji.so
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   54 Dec 17 16:03 
/etc/alternatives/javaplugin_oji.so -> 
/usr/lib/j2re1.3/plugin/i386/mozilla/javaplugin_oji.so


ii  kaffe1.0.6-1.1 A JVM to run Java bytecode
ii  j2re1.3  1.3.1-1   Blackdown Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment,
Standard Edition
ii  mozilla-browser  0.9.5-5

wheat:/usr/lib/mozilla# ls -l plugins
total 960
-rw-r--r--1 504  504  2363 Feb 15  2001 ShockwaveFlash.class
drwxr-xr-x2 504  504  4096 Nov 26 14:46 flash_linux
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   35 Dec 17 16:03 javaplugin_oji.so 
-> /etc/alternatives/javaplugin_oji.so

-rw-r--r--1 504  504947992 Feb 15  2001 libflashplayer.so
-rw-r--r--1 root root19080 Oct 22 13:29 libnullplugin.so
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   36 Nov 23 08:25 raclass.zip -> 
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/raclass.zip
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   32 Nov 23 08:25 rpnp.so -> 
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/rpnp.so


(Hmm... real audio setup doesn't look so healthy either...).


(The real problem I'm tring to solve is tha

Re: VMWare

[Marcelo Chiapparini]

Hi!

Thanks a lot to all the people who shared their experiences regarding VMWare 
with me 
(in private) and with this list!

Regards,

Marcelo 


On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 11:18:35AM -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I would like to know if anyone in this list is using VMWare Workstation in 
> order to run flavours of Windows with Debian GNU Linux as the host machine.
> 

-- 
Marcelo Chiapparini
DFT-IF/UERJ
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

aspelling an grammer checking

[Eric Smith]

Two questions in one ( I know it ain't good practice).

I was looking for a grammar checker in the unstable repository
- is there anything that will check for obvious errors silly ;)

While foraging I came across aspell and thought that might be a
good replacement for ispell, so installed it but get this:

Sorry, I can't read the file "/usr/lib/aspell/english".

Then looked at the contents of the deb and saw this:

/usr/bin/aspell
/usr/bin/word-list-compress
/usr/bin/run-with-aspell
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/aspell
/usr/share/doc/aspell/copyright
/usr/share/doc/aspell/changelog.gz
/usr/share/doc/aspell/README.gz
/usr/share/doc/aspell/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/man
/usr/share/man/man1
/usr/share/man/man1/word-list-compress.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/aspell.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/run-with-aspell.1.gz

There seem to be some files missing - what gives?
-- 
Eric Smith