Re: OOo & java

[Jan-Hendrik Palic]

On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 08:02:01AM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote:
>On 09 Jun 2002 05:38:15 +0200
>"Helgi Örn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Just what I suspected; both StarOffice and OpenOfficeO seem to accept
>> only java 1.3.* and nothing else.
>Works fine with 1.4 here.

Yes .. it did, but they want to use 1.4 exclusive in the further
releases. :(
This will mean, that we will have no OpenOffice.org for PPC for a long
time. But this is not sure in this moment.

I wish Sun/OOo developer want to drop Java support in OOo in the future!

Regards
Jan
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Re: Thanks and > questions Was: Upgrade to Woody

[Paladin]

On Sat, 8 Jun 2002 01:28:52 +0100
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>  First off, deb-make has been obsolete for years. If you want a modern
>  set of package building helpers, use dh-make and debhelper instead.

Modern!? Well... I've just tested it... First I tried to use it like I
used deb-make: ran dh_make, edited some files in the debian dir, compiled
the source code as I wanted, doing a 'touch build' and, in the end, tried
to run './debian/rules binary', but that didn't work! I tried to figure
out the rules file, but didn't understand how it worked. So, as a last
resourt, I used the good old dpkg-buildpackage, but for some reason it
broke at the part of documentation. I changed the debian/doc file and ran
it again, but for my surprise it started ALL over again, even from
../configure!!! As far as I remember, with deb-make that didn't happen!!

Where am I going wrong!? (I'm sure it's MY problem! ;)

Thanks! =)

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Re: fsck bus error: 'attempt to access beyond end of device' during boot

[Soul Computer]

>Hi,
>
>[Please Cc me on replies, I'm not subscribed.]
>
>The short summary:  When booting, my box gives >up, stating:
>
> NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
> attempt to access beyond end of device
> 03:02: rw=0, want=1023464393, limit=48384
> dev 03:02 blocksize=1024 blocknr= 
> ...
> /etc/init.d/rc.S: line 38: 10  segmentation >fault  loadkeys ...
> Activating Swap
> Adding swap
> checking root filesystem
> attempt to access beyond end of device
> 03:02: ...
> dev 03:02: ...
> ...
> /etc/init.d/rc.S: line 145: 19 bus error   fsck >${spinner} ...
> ...
> fsck failed
>
> Give root password for maintenance
>
>Giving a ^d and booting again fixes it: booting >fails and succeeds, with
>the phase of the moon.
>
>Does this mean my hardware is broken?  How can I >find out if this is the
>case?  Is my diskpartitioning corrupt?  What can >I do to investigate
>this problem further?  Would reinstalling the >box solve anything?
>
>The long story:
>
>This box (133 MHz Pentium, 48 MB Ram, hda: >QUANTUM BIGFOOT2100A, 2015MB
>w/87kB Cache, CHS=1023/64/63, Award Modular Bios >v4.51 PG 1996) used to
>run Windows.  I've run fips.exe on the disk, now >the disk looks like:
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 1023 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes
>
>   Device BootStart   EndBlocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1   * 1   356717664+   b  Win95 FAT32
> /dev/hda2   357   380 48384   83  Linux
> /dev/hda3   381   428 96768   82  Linux swap
> /dev/hda4   429  1023   11995205  Extended
> /dev/hda5   429   501147136+  83  Linux
> /dev/hda6   502   864731776+  83  Linux
> /dev/hda7   865  1023320512+  83  Linux
>
>which gets mounted as
>
> FilesystemSize  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda2  46M   26M   18M  59% /
> /dev/hda5 139M   37M   95M  28% /var
> /dev/hda6 703M  275M  392M  42% /usr
> /dev/hda7 303M  405k  287M   1% /home
> /dev/hda1 697M  531M  166M  77% /mnt
>
>fips didn't complain.
>
>I've installed Debian GNU/Linux woody, from 3.0.23-2002-05-21 rescue
>floppy disks.  The rest got fetched via the network.  Installation went
>flawless.  I installed Lilo, the machine boots Windows 98 just fine.
>
>However, when trying to boot Linux, there's this:
>
> Partition check:
>  hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 hda7 >
> ...
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
> ...
> NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
> attempt to access beyond end of device
> 03:02: rw=0, want=1023464393, limit=48384
> dev 03:02 blocksize=1024 blocknr= 
> ...
> /etc/init.d/rc.S: line 38: 10  segmentation fault  loadkeys ...
> Activating Swap
> Adding swap
> checking root filesystem
> attempt to access beyond end of device
> 03:02: ...
> dev 03:02: ...
> ...
> /etc/init.d/rc.S: line 145: 19 bus error   fsck ${spinner} ...
> ...
> fsck failed
>
> Give root password for maintenance
>
>on the console, quite often.  Booting succeeds >about 50% of the times.
>
>BTW, the error occurs just after `NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for
>Linux NET4.0.'.  Normally,
>
> Loading /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz
> Adding Swap: 96764k swap-space (priority -1)
>
>occurs just after that.  Could there be a problem with boottime.kmap.gz?
>
>I checked the RAM, running memtest86 for about 15 hours.  It passed 70
>tests with 0 errors.
>
>I've run dselect successfully: banging on the disk does _not_ cause any
>errors when Linux succeeded to boot.  Running X and galeon causes no
>troubles either.  (I didn't notice any yet, that's for sure.)
>
>However, I'd very much like this box to boot fine always: I'm installing
>it for a friend, don't want to get him struggling with this.
>
>I'd be very glad if anybody could give me insight in what's happening
>here, and I'm very willing to give more information and do more testing
>if needed.
>
>Thanks for your time!

For the light answer (and completely useless), you don't have to censor fuck 
out of your email, here.  For a serious answer ... I'm totally at a loss.  But 
then, I'm still new to Linux, myself, and helplessly watched as Windoze at my 
data ...

->Scwawcaac<-


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Re: apache and suexec breaks my cgi script

[Derrick 'dman' Hudson]

On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 12:20:27AM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
 
| I've been beating my head into a wall trying to figure out why my
| "hello world" cgi script won't run.  It turns out that disabling
| suexec (which is enabled by default in the apache package) makes the
| problems vanish.  Now I want to know what is causing the problem.

The prize for identifying the cause of the problem goes to Simon Tneoh
Chee-Boon.  He mailed me off-list with this snippet (and the
corresponding comment) from suexec.h :

#ifndef USERDIR_SUFFIX
#define USERDIR_SUFFIX "public_html"
#endif

Well, I had changed the user dir to ~/public/html in httpd.conf, but
apparently suexec has the old path hard-wired in.  That causes it to
bomb.  I also can't change the binary at all or else apache doesn't
enable it.  I could _probably_ rebuild the whole apache package and
install that, but that seems like too much work.  At least disabling
suexec makes the problem go away.

For those that are curious, I chose the ~/public/* organization to
allow for other "public" stuff to be put in ~/public.  Eg
~/public/samba, ~/public/ftp,
~/public/whatever-else-I-find-that-isn't-served-by-apache.

-D

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Re: wireless lan

[Bruce]

I am using the pcmcia card SMC2632 as I write this (on my HP Omnibook 500 
subnotebook, running current Debian Sid). It is, I believe, the PCMCIA-only 
version of the 2602. (PLX, for those of you who don't know, is essentially a 
PCI adaptor that has a PCMCIA slot on it. The SMC 2602 is this adaptor with a 
2632 hard-wired in).

I am using the current linux-wlan driver (www.linux-wlan.org), and it works 
perfectly. The SMC cards, like many on the market, use the Intersil Prism2 
chipset. The most current linux drivers for these that I am aware of are from 
linux-wlan.org or the host ap driver at http://hostap.epitest.fi/ (which 
allows you to use the card in a software-based "host ap mode" to act as an 
access point without a firmware update that is currently only available 
through signing an NDA with Intersil).

I have used both for a couple of different Prism2 cards, and both are pretty 
mature at the moment, and both have excellent instructions for getting them 
working. 

In other words, it works, so don't give up. If you have problems, the 
lists.linux-wlan.com mailing lists are an excellent source of help.

Bruce


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Re: fast way to make bootable cd ?

[csj]

On Sun, 9 Jun 2002 07:03:23 -0400
David Roundy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>  > i don't know why but my laptop just puked hard when i tried to
>  > shut it down. it won't boot up anymore, so i was wondering if
>  > anyone had a suggestion on how to best create a bootable rescue
>  > CD.
>  > 
>  > what i need on the cd:
>  > 
>  > my custom kernel (With reiserfs support builtin)  this is a 2.2.19 kernel
>  > reiserfs tools
> 
>  Sounds like a job for bootcdwrite.  With bootcdwrite you create a chroot
>  directory (or partition) with everything you want on the cd, and it does
>  the rest.  If your normal system is small enough (telling bootcdwrite which
>  parts to skip), you could use it instead.

That's in the bootcd package:

apt-get install bootcd


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Re: Japanese in Mozilla (Debian Woody)

[marshal]

> "Artur" == Artur Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Artur> Hi,

Artur> I have some problems displaying japanese webpages in
Artur> Mozilla. Only a few webpages show the japanese characters
Artur> correctly, while the rest only show ASCII garbage instead.
Artur> I am using Debian Woody, and as far as now, I have
Artur> installed all the required japanese fonts through
Artur> dselect. Anyone with a similar problem?

Have you tried playing with the charater encoding under the "View"
menu item?

How about the languages section under preferences?

Good luck.

Marshal


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Japanese in Mozilla (Debian Woody)

[Artur Matos]

Hi,

I have some problems displaying japanese webpages in 
Mozilla. Only a few webpages show the japanese characters
correctly, while the rest only show ASCII garbage instead.
I am using Debian Woody, and as far as now, I have installed
all the required japanese fonts through dselect. Anyone
with a similar problem?

Artur Matos

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Re: HDD vs. RAID (was Re: Lilo Q)

[Alvin Oga]

hi ya 

fun stuff.  it depends ...

if you have a nearly full 80GB disks ... it wont matter
if you have 1x 80GB or 4x 20GB( stripping )

- i rather worry about 1 large disk failure... than to worry about
which of the 4 small disks gonna die ...  also makes 4x the mess
in power and cables...etc..

if you use raid1 ( mirroring )  effective usage is 1/2 of the
total raw disk space
- not useful if you're using 40gb of data on your 80gb disks

- good option if you want to protect up to 40GB of data from
disk crashes and want to stay online even if a single disk crashes

as was suggested earlier... use raid5 instead..
if 4 disks raid5 ... if any one disk dies.. you can still recover
( effective disk space is 60GB out of 80gb )

if you add a 5th 20GB disks... you still have 80gb out of 100GB of
total usable space still only protected against one disk
failure

but any of the 4 or 5 disks could die ... instead of one 80gb disk

== if read transfer speed is important.. use raid0 ( stripping ) over 
   raid1 ( mirror )
- you should be able to read data 2x as fast...
but writing is a little slower...

best best...
===
=== backup data regularly to DIFFERENT systems ..
===

c ya
alvin

-- original bios/disk question ...
- most BIOS can and does support up to 130GB or so w/o any
problems
160GB ata 133 being the tricky disks to play with

- most mb cannot boot from hde/hdf/hdg/hdh
- so tell lilo to write mbr info to hda and
that / is still /dev/hde ... works fine ...


On Sun, 9 Jun 2002, Dave Sherohman wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 09:35:05AM -0400, Ian D. Stewart wrote:

...
 
> > (say, 80 GB hard drive vs. raid tower w/ 4 20 GB hard 
> > drives) ?
> 
> If you're getting 80G from 4*20G drive, that must be a RAID 0, so
> the RAID would give you a nice boost to data transfer rates, but
> you'd better keep a current backup because if any one of those 4
> drives goes bad, you'll lose all your data.  (OTOH, add a fifth 20G
> drive, make it a RAID 5, and you'll have a winner.)
> 
> Side note:  Comments on performance assume that each drive is on a
> separate IDE channel all by itself.  If your 4 20G drives are hda,
> hdb, hdc, and hdd, you're going to take a major performance hit.
> Unlike SCSI, IDE can't run two drives efficiently on the same
> channel.
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PPPs routing

[Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira]

- -
| |
|   192.168.200.1 129.168.100.1   |
|   /-\ /-\   |
|   | |ppp0   //ppp0| |   |
eth0|---|  A  |--//-|  B  |---| eth0
192.|   | | //  | |   | 192.168.3.1
168.4.1 |   \-/ \-/   |
|  |  |
-  |  -
   |
 ppp1 --- pppoe
  200.165.*.*

  Hi all,
  I have to Debian GNU/Linux servers installed (A and B).
  I configured a leased line between (ppp0 each side).
  They have an eth0 interface for local network.
  When I start ppp1 using pppoe (ADSL) I have to delete the default
route to internet that is created automatically, so ppp works and then
add this route (but not as default) so all works.
  How to automate this process?
  with routed? bash scripts?
  TIA,Paulo Henrique



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Re: Packaging mod_accel?

[Christian Jaeger]

At 12:28 Uhr -0400 09.06.2002, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

I'd like to see how you did this.


When run as non-root user my code creates a directory in sticky 
world-writeable locations instead of the default place for root 
(which still is /var/run/apache/mm/). The following places are tried 
in that order: "/var/run/apache/mm.users", "/var/tmp", "/tmp". So by 
default (unless the /var/run/apache/mm.users folder is created by the 
admin or by a postinst script, with a+wt permissions) a non-root 
started apache will create a folder /var/tmp/mm-$EUID (or 
../mm-$EUID-[1-5] or ../mm-$EUID-$randomnumber if it has to) and put 
the libmm files there. The reason one might want to use 
/var/run/apache/mm.users is when one runs a cronjob deleting stuff 
from /var/tmp.


The code should be safe against race conditions. I haven't done much 
testing though, it's also the first code I've written for apache.


I was unsure how to integrate the code into the package. I have 
created a new upstream/eapi-2.8.8.patch containing my changes, and 
have put it together with a patch to the debian/ directory files here 
(but *NOTE* that the code in the below eapi patch still contains 3 
'fprintf(stderr,"DEBUG...' statements that should be removed before 
being used seriously, but read on first):


  http://pflanze.mine.nu/~chris/debian/apache/eapi-2.8.8.cjmodified.patch
  http://pflanze.mine.nu/~chris/debian/apache/debianfolder-p3.patch

so you'd have to replace the eapi patch in the unpacked debian source 
package with my one, and apply debianfolder-p3.patch, then do 
dpkg-buildpackage.


But I suspect that making a new eapi patch is not a (politically or 
whatever) clean solution (though I think the code should go to the 
upstream author(s) so in the future it could be there), but instead 
should have made a file going to debian/patches/. You surely know 
better than me how to do this so I just provide my changes to the 
apache httpd.h and alloc.c files here:


( http://pflanze.mine.nu/~chris/debian/apache/debianfolder.patch )
  http://pflanze.mine.nu/~chris/debian/apache/checkcreatemmdir.patch

The checkcreatemmdir.patch should be applied after the eapi patch 
during the build process. (Unlike in the eapi patch I have removed 
the debugging statements here.)


Cheers
Christian.


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Re: Anyone have a copy of /etc/mailname?

[Colin Watson]

On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 06:04:02PM -0500, JW wrote:
> Everytime I start emacs I get the following annoying warning:
> 
>   No /etc/mailname. Reverting to default...
> 
> What is this file -- could someone mail me a copy?

It just contains a single line with what should appear as the domain
name of posts coming from your machine. Your host name is often fine, or
perhaps something else depending on how your mail setup works. For
instance, at work my /etc/mailname contains the text 'zeus.com' despite
the fact that my workstation's hostname is 'kypris.cam.zeus.com'.

Whatever bit of emacs wants /etc/mailname really ought to set it up
itself, per Debian Policy section 12.6 ("Mail transport, delivery and
user agents"). I don't use emacs myself, so I have no idea where to file
a bug.

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Re: Anyone have a copy of /etc/mailname?

[Bob Proulx]

> Everytime I start emacs I get the following annoying warning:
> 
>   No /etc/mailname. Reverting to default...
> 
> What is this file -- could someone mail me a copy?

I use postfix so YMMV.

  cp /etc/hostname /etc/mailname

On my system it is the same as in hostname.  On my system both are
fully qualified domain names.  Again, YMMV but I think that is all you
need.  Probably 'dpkg-reconfigure postfix' or exim or which mailer you
are using should set up that file.

If you find that emacs needs it but your mailer is not setting it up
then probably a bug should be filed against the appropriate emacs
project since it would be requiring something that would appear
optional.  I don't think emacs should be needing it but if it does
then there should be a dependency such that all of the dependencies at
installation time happen.

IMNHO having an additional file to indicate hostname is not the best
configuration.  I would have it be $(hostname) but the additional file
probably supports a specific configuration such as virual hosting or a
hostname with a different domain or some such and so fine.

Bob


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Re: open URL link to Mozilla from Kmail ?

[Robert_L]

On Sunday 09 June 01:24, James D. Freels wrote:
> By default, the Debian-KDE packages open konqueror when a kmail message
> containing a URL is clicked with the mouse. How can I change this default
> so that Mozilla is opened instead ?  Better yet, how can I just use the
> existing Mozilla window for that ?  Currently I copy the link to clipboard,
> then change to the Mozilla window and manually insert the URL and open. 
> This is not convenient !
>
> Please respond by e-mail if possible.

Right click on an html file and choose "edit file type".  Move mozilla to the 
top of the list.
Or use kcontrol->file browsing->file associations->text->html (KDE3 anyway)

all the best,
Robert_L


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Re: fakeroot and lilo errors (was: Re: Installing packages as a non-root user)

[Colin Watson]

On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 05:31:51PM -0500, JW wrote:
> I'm not the least bit supprised that lilo fails (in fact I'm rather glad it 
> fails :-D ), because lilo can't  -- and shouldn't -- be run from the chroot 
> environment. 
> 
> The question then is why is lilo being tweaked at all -- I haven't touched 
> it, and I don't see that python2.2 or wget have anything to do with lilo. 
> They are installed despite the errors, too.

No doubt lilo hasn't been successfully configured yet, and apt-get will
just try to configure everything that needs it in an effort to keep the
system consistent.

The best thing for you to do is probably to edit the post-installation
script (/var/lib/dpkg/info/lilo.postinst in the chroot) and comment out
any bits that fail, then run 'dpkg --configure lilo' to try it again.

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Anyone have a copy of /etc/mailname?

[JW]

Everytime I start emacs I get the following annoying warning:

No /etc/mailname. Reverting to default...

What is this file -- could someone mail me a copy?

Thanks.

JW


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fakeroot and lilo errors (was: Re: Installing packages as a non-root user)

[JW]

On Sunday 09 June 2002 03:02 pm, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach JW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.06.09.2155 +0200]:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-get install python2.2
>
> try:
>
>   fakeroot apt-get install python2.2


Thanks, that works great with a little PATH modification, which I needed to 
do anyway.

Now the only thing is I get these weird lilo errors:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ fakeroot apt-get install wget
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  wget
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 9  not upgraded.
1 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/353kB of archives. After unpacking 1356kB will be used.
Selecting previously deselected package wget.
(Reading database ... 12137 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking wget (from .../archives/wget_1.8.2-3_i386.deb) ...
Setting up lilo (22.2-3.1) ...
ln: `/boot/boot.b': File exists
dpkg: error processing lilo (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Setting up wget (1.8.2-3) ...

Errors were encountered while processing:
 lilo
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$


I'm not the least bit supprised that lilo fails (in fact I'm rather glad it 
fails :-D ), because lilo can't  -- and shouldn't -- be run from the chroot 
environment. 

The question then is why is lilo being tweaked at all -- I haven't touched 
it, and I don't see that python2.2 or wget have anything to do with lilo. 
They are installed despite the errors, too.

Any idea how to make the lilo thing go away?

Thanks,

JW


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Re: filling my logs after upgrade to woody

[Bill Wohler]

Keith Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 01:42:28PM -0700, Bill Wohler wrote:
>  > Keith Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>  > > Jun  8 21:00:01 harvey PAM_unix[10392]: (cron) session closed for user 
> root
>  > > 
>  > > This is really annoying when I'm checking the logs.  I've had a look for 
> the problem, but came up emtpy.
>  > 
>  >   Not a problem, just PAM reporting setuid calls.
>  > 
> 
>  Cheers for the response.  Any way of redirecting this output to a different 
> log, or is it just something that I'll have to work around when surveying the 
> logs?

  The answer is most likely yes, although I'd have to dig through the
  syslog and PAM man pages to find the spells to throw into the witches'
  pot, namely syslog.conf.

  However, you probably really don't want to do that. That information
  might be useful in the case of a security breach. As you mention,
  ignoring the messages until you do need them is a reasonable approach.
  Indeed, this is what I do in my logcheck filters.

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Re: SCSI will not compile into kernel

[Robert Webb]

Well, I fianlly figured this one out. It was a stupid oversight on my 
part. Somehow I had checked
one of the options for thw AIC7xxx to compile in the firmware. Well, 
guess what. I had no firmware to compile
in. I found out that it was checked and upon unchecking it and 
recompiling everything worked great.



It helps if you actually look at what you are doing sometimes.


Later...

Stephan Hachinger wrote:


Hi!

This is quite strange, as the file
/usr/src/linux/drivers/scs/aic7xxx/aicasm/aicasm_symbol.h does not
even contain the string "aicdb.h" here at my machine
(kernel-source-2.4.18). I've also compiled this driver several times
w/o any problems. So I would suggest that you should look into the
aicasm_symbol.h if it contains the string "aicdb" and if it does, 
replace the kernel sources (just delete the old ones, fetch package

kernel-source-2.4.18, uncompress bz2 or gz file lying around in
/usr/src and (in the same directory) ln -s kernel-source-1.4.18
linux). To accelerate the whole configuration etc., you can of course
save the .config file from your current kernel directory somewhere
and just copy it back into the (new) kernel source dir after having
replaced the source, so that you won't have to set the old
configuration options manually.

Cheers,

Stephan


On Fri, 07 Jun 2002 14:07:28 -0400
Robert Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

 


Hi everyone. I am trying to compile a 2.4.18 kernel and am running
   


into > problems when the SCSI section tries to complete. I downloaded
the > kernel from kernel.org and have tried many time to get it to
work. Can > anyone give me an idea as to what I may be doing wrong??
The error I get > when doing make bzImage is below:
 



make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi'
make -C aic7xxx
make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx'
make all_targets
make[4]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx'
make -C aicasm
make[5]: Entering directory
   


`/usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aicasm'> yacc -d aicasm_gram.y
 


aicasm_gram.y:694: warning: previous rule lacks an ending `;'
aicasm_gram.y:708: warning: previous rule lacks an ending `;'
mv y.tab.c aicasm_gram.c
lex  -t aicasm_scan.l > aicasm_scan.c
*** Install db development libraries
gcc -I/usr/include -I. -ldb aicasm_gram.c aicasm_scan.c aicasm.c 
aicasm_symbol.c -o aicasm
aicasm_gram.y:1485: warning: type mismatch with previous implicit 
declaration
/usr/share/bison/bison.simple:924: warning: previous implicit 
declaration of `yyerror'
aicasm_gram.y:1485: warning: `yyerror' was previously implicitly 
declared to return `int'

aicasm_symbol.c:47: aicdb.h: No such file or directory
make[5]: *** [aicasm] Error 1
make[5]: Leaving directory
   


`/usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aicasm'> make[4]: ***
[aicasm/aicasm] Error 2> make[4]: Leaving directory
`/usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx'> make[3]: *** [first_rule]
Error 2> make[3]: Leaving directory
`/usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx'> make[2]: *** [_subdir_aic7xxx]
Error 2> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi'
 


make[1]: *** [_subdir_scsi] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers'
make: *** [_dir_drivers] Error 2
mail1:/usr/src/linux#



Thanks,
Robert


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Re: Courier-Imap

[Jamin W . Collins]

On Sun, 9 Jun 2002 16:43:20 -0400
"Phillip Hofmeister" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I installed Courier-Imap today so I could get SSL IMAP support.
> 
> It doesn't appear to work.  When I try to connect (with a standard
> mail client) it fails.  Upon sniffing the network one will see the
> following:
> 
> From Client: 1 LOGIN "user" "pass"
> From Server: * BYE  [ALERT] Fatal error: Maildir: No such file or
> directory
(snip)
> From what I can tell, the server cannot find the user's mailbox (which
> does exist in /var/spool/mail (which is a symlink to /var/mail))

The as the error states, there is no "Maildir" directory.  This is
directory structure that should be located in the users homedirectory
(~/Maildir/).  It should be made using "maildirmake.courier" which is part
of the "courier-base" package. 


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Courier-Imap

[Phillip Hofmeister]

All,

I installed Courier-Imap today so I could get SSL IMAP support.

It doesn't appear to work.  When I try to connect (with a standard
mail client) it fails.  Upon sniffing the network one will see the following:

From Client: 1 LOGIN "user" "pass"
From Server: * BYE  [ALERT] Fatal error: Maildir: No such file or directory


The client's request is correct and in compliance with the RFC.
I have looked through all the config files and things seem to be normal...
In case anyone wanted to view it I have attached it...

From what I can tell, the server cannot find the user's mailbox (which does 
exist
in /var/spool/mail (which is a symlink to /var/mail))


BTW, I am not a member of this list so please CC me on any replies...

I would appreciate any insight,


Phil
# $Id: imapd.config.in,v 1.9 2000/02/15 05:16:08 mrsam Exp $
#
#  Copyright 1998 - 1999 Double Precision, Inc.  See COPYING for
#  distribution information.
#
#  This configuration file sets various options for the Courier-IMAP server
#  when used with the couriertcpd server.
#  A lot of the stuff here is documented in the manual page for couriertcpd.
#
#  NOTE - do not use \ to split long variable contents on multiple lines.
#  This will break the default imapd.rc script, which parses this file.


#  Address to listen on, can be set to a single IP address.
#
# ADDRESS=127.0.0.1

ADDRESS=0

#  You better have a good reason for changing the port

PORT=143

#
#  Maximum number of IMAP servers started
#

MAXDAEMONS=20

#
#  Maximum number of connections to accept from the same IP address

MAXPERIP=3

#
#  File where couriertcpd will save its process ID
#

PIDFILE=/var/run/imapd.pid

#
# Miscellaneous couriertcpd options that shouldn't be changed.
#

TCPDOPTS="-forcebind -nodnslookup -noidentlookup"

#
# Authentication modules.  Here's the default list:
#
#authcram authuserdb authpam authldap authmysql
#
# The default is set during the initial configuration.
#

AUTHMODULES="authpam"

#
# If this version of Courier-IMAP includes support for CRAM-MD5
# authentication (the authcram authentication modules gets compiled and
# installed), you may set IMAP_CAPABILITY as follows:
#
# IMAP_CAPABILITY="IMAP4rev1 NAMESPACE AUTH=CRAM-MD5"
#
# Otherwise, leave it set to the default:

IMAP_CAPABILITY="IMAP4rev1 NAMESPACE"

#
# Set IMAP_USELOCKS to 1 if you experience weird problems when using IMAP
# clients that open multiple connections to the server.  I would hope that
# most IMAP clients are sane enough not to issue commands to multiple IMAP
# channels which conflict with each other.
#

IMAP_USELOCKS=0

#
# Purge messages from the Trash folder after this number of days.  This is
# mainly for Netscape Communicator client, which automatically moves
# deleted messages into Trash.  Remove this variable complete to disable
# Trash purging.
#

IMAP_EMPTYTRASH=7

#
# IMAPDSTART is not used directly.  Rather, this is a convenient flag to
# be read by your system startup script in /etc/rc.d, like this:
#
#  . /usr/libexec/imapd.config
#
#  case x$IMAPDSTART in
#  x[yY]*)
#/usr/libexec/imapd.rc start
#;;
#  esac
#
# The default setting is going to be NO, so you'll have to manually flip
# it to yes.

IMAPDSTART=YES


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fsck bus error: 'attempt to access beyond end of device' during boot

[Joost van Baal]

Hi,

[Please Cc me on replies, I'm not subscribed.]

The short summary:  When booting, my box gives up, stating:

 NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
 attempt to access beyond end of device
 03:02: rw=0, want=1023464393, limit=48384
 dev 03:02 blocksize=1024 blocknr= 
 ...
 /etc/init.d/rc.S: line 38: 10  segmentation fault  loadkeys ...
 Activating Swap
 Adding swap
 checking root filesystem
 attempt to access beyond end of device
 03:02: ...
 dev 03:02: ...
 ...
 /etc/init.d/rc.S: line 145: 19 bus error   fsck ${spinner} ...
 ...
 fsck failed

 Give root password for maintenance

Giving a ^d and booting again fixes it: booting fails and succeeds, with
the phase of the moon.

Does this mean my hardware is broken?  How can I find out if this is the
case?  Is my diskpartitioning corrupt?  What can I do to investigate
this problem further?  Would reinstalling the box solve anything?

The long story:

This box (133 MHz Pentium, 48 MB Ram, hda: QUANTUM BIGFOOT2100A, 2015MB
w/87kB Cache, CHS=1023/64/63, Award Modular Bios v4.51 PG 1996) used to
run Windows.  I've run fips.exe on the disk, now the disk looks like:

 Disk /dev/hda: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 1023 cylinders
 Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes

   Device BootStart   EndBlocks   Id  System
 /dev/hda1   * 1   356717664+   b  Win95 FAT32
 /dev/hda2   357   380 48384   83  Linux
 /dev/hda3   381   428 96768   82  Linux swap
 /dev/hda4   429  1023   11995205  Extended
 /dev/hda5   429   501147136+  83  Linux
 /dev/hda6   502   864731776+  83  Linux
 /dev/hda7   865  1023320512+  83  Linux

which gets mounted as

 FilesystemSize  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
 /dev/hda2  46M   26M   18M  59% /
 /dev/hda5 139M   37M   95M  28% /var
 /dev/hda6 703M  275M  392M  42% /usr
 /dev/hda7 303M  405k  287M   1% /home
 /dev/hda1 697M  531M  166M  77% /mnt

fips didn't complain.

I've installed Debian GNU/Linux woody, from 3.0.23-2002-05-21 rescue
floppy disks.  The rest got fetched via the network.  Installation went
flawless.  I installed Lilo, the machine boots Windows 98 just fine.

However, when trying to boot Linux, there's this:

 Partition check:
  hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 hda7 >
 ...
 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
 ...
 NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
 attempt to access beyond end of device
 03:02: rw=0, want=1023464393, limit=48384
 dev 03:02 blocksize=1024 blocknr= 
 ...
 /etc/init.d/rc.S: line 38: 10  segmentation fault  loadkeys ...
 Activating Swap
 Adding swap
 checking root filesystem
 attempt to access beyond end of device
 03:02: ...
 dev 03:02: ...
 ...
 /etc/init.d/rc.S: line 145: 19 bus error   fsck ${spinner} ...
 ...
 fsck failed

 Give root password for maintenance

on the console, quite often.  Booting succeeds about 50% of the times.

BTW, the error occurs just after `NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for
Linux NET4.0.'.  Normally,

 Loading /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz
 Adding Swap: 96764k swap-space (priority -1)

occurs just after that.  Could there be a problem with boottime.kmap.gz?

I checked the RAM, running memtest86 for about 15 hours.  It passed 70
tests with 0 errors.

I've run dselect successfully: banging on the disk does _not_ cause any
errors when Linux succeeded to boot.  Running X and galeon causes no
troubles either.  (I didn't notice any yet, that's for sure.)

However, I'd very much like this box to boot fine always: I'm installing
it for a friend, don't want to get him struggling with this.

I'd be very glad if anybody could give me insight in what's happening
here, and I'm very willing to give more information and do more testing
if needed.

Thanks for your time!

Bye,

Joost




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Re: MP3 encoder

[Sven Hoexter]

On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 08:13:58PM +0200, Gregory Soyez wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm searching for an MP3 encoder for linux. I've browsed the package list of 
> both woody and sid (not too quickly, I hope) , but unsuccessfully.
> Can anyone recommand me one ?
Use ogg :)

Ok mp3 is still widly used so search at freshmeat.net after lame.
In the source tarbal is a debian subdir with everything you need.
Change into the source dir and simply type dpkg-buildpkg -b

Install the .deb file with dpkg -i  and use lame.

Sven

BTW: lame is not included in debian cause of a patent issue

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Re: MP3 encoder

[Colin Watson]

On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 08:51:21PM +0200, Gr?gory Kar?kinian wrote:
> LAME (Lame Ain't an MP3 Encoder) is the best encoder for all OSes. It's
> packaged for sid, I think in the non-US section because of Fraunhofer
> patent.

It's not packaged as far as I know; it's been on the list of software
that can't be packaged for a long time. However, the first hit for LAME
on Google is useful.

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Re: Make eth0 be eth1, something like eth0=eth1?

[Rainer Ellinger]

AE Roy wrote:
> I'm looking for a way in which I can turn my eth0 into eth1. 
> I was imagening something along the lines of eth0=eth1.

If you're using kernel 2.4 and package iproute2, you could do it like 
this: ip link set eth0 name eth1

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Re: Installing packages as a non-root user (yes, I have permissions)

[martin f krafft]

also sprach JW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.06.09.2155 +0200]:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-get install python2.2

try:

  fakeroot apt-get install python2.2

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Re: X nice value

[Eric G. Miller]

On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 02:23:55PM +0100, Hereward Cooper wrote:
> Hi,
> When I configure/reconfigure xserver-common I give debconf my nice value
> for X, but when ever I 'startx' it says it is reverting back to a value
> of 0, no matter what value I give it.
> How can I force X to use my nice value?

Only root can do nice < 0, so I think the nice trick really only works
if you run a display manager (or startx as root).  Basically, as a
luser, nice just allows you to lower the priority of your processes.

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Installing packages as a non-root user (yes, I have permissions)

[JW]

Hello,

I am trying to do a special setup that allows users to install their own 
software.

First, I install Debian into a chroot environment with debootstrap. THis has to 
be done as root for who-knows-what reason, and of course leaves binaries and 
conf files with typical root-owned permissions like you ahve on a normal 
system. This works pretty well.

Second, I use a log in shell that jails them into the chrooted debootstrap area.

Third, I chown -R  the who envoronment. According to the way I see it, 
that should give the user read/write/execute access to evertyhing that root has 
red/write/execute access to.

A bunch of things work fine, for example apt-get update (as the user). However, 
when I try to actually install a package with apt, I get errors like the 
following:


[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-get install python2.2
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  python2.2
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 9  not upgraded.
1 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 1888kB of archives. After unpacking 6361kB will be used.
Get:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org sid/main python2.2 2.2.1-5 [1888kB]
Fetched 1888kB in 11m22s (2767B/s)
dpkg: requested operation requires superuser privilege
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-get install wget
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  wget
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 9  not upgraded.
1 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 353kB of archives. After unpacking 1356kB will be used.
Get:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org sid/main wget 1.8.2-3 [353kB]
Fetched 353kB in 2m23s (2456B/s)
dpkg: requested operation requires superuser privilege
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$


I don't belive that there's any actual permissions problem, I think dkpg is 
being bone-headed. Probably whoever codes dpkg never thought you'd actally 
_want_ to use it as a non-root user :-)

Strace does not indicate (to me) any _real_ problems:


11875 execve("/usr/bin/dpkg", ["/usr/bin/dpkg", "--unpack", 
"/var/cache/apt/archives/wget_1.8.2-3_i386.deb"], [/* 11 vars */]) = 0
11875 uname({sys="Linux", node="cadmium", ...}) = 0
11875 brk(0)= 0x807ad70
11875 open("/etc/ld.so.preload", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory)
11875 open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3
11875 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=7161, ...}) = 0
11875 old_mmap(NULL, 7161, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x40014000
11875 close(3)  = 0
11875 open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY)  = 3
11875 read(3, 
"\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\30\222\1\0004\0\0\0P\223\21\0\0\0\0\0004\0
 
\0\6\0(\0001\\0\6\0\0\0004\0\0\0004\0\0\0004\0\0\0\300\0\0\0\300\0\0\0\5\0\0\0\4\0\0\0\3\0\0\0`"...,
 1024) = 1024
11875 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1153784, ...}) = 0
11875 old_mmap(NULL, 1166560, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 
0x40016000
11875 mprotect(0x40129000, 40160, PROT_NONE) = 0
11875 old_mmap(0x40129000, 24576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 
3, 0x113000) = 0x40129000
11875 old_mmap(0x4012f000, 15584, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, 
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x4012f000
11875 close(3)  = 0
11875 munmap(0x40014000, 7161)  = 0
11875 brk(0)= 0x807ad70
11875 brk(0x807ad98)= 0x807ad98
11875 brk(0x807b000)= 0x807b000
11875 umask(022)= 022
11875 open("/etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg", O_RDONLY) = 3
11875 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=232, ...}) = 0
11875 old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 
0) = 0x40014000
11875 read(3, "# dpkg configuration file\n#\n# This file can contain default 
options for dpkg. All commandline\n# opti"..., 4096) = 232
11875 read(3, "", 4096) = 0
11875 close(3)  = 0
11875 munmap(0x40014000, 4096)  = 0
11875 getuid32()= 503
11875 write(2, "dpkg: requested operation requires superuser privilege\n", 55) 
= 55
11875 _exit(2)  = ?
11864 --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) ---
11864 wait4(11875, [WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 2], 0, NULL) = 11875
11864 rt_sigaction(SIGQUIT, {SIG_DFL}, {SIG_IGN}, 8) = 0
11864 rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {SIG_DFL}, {SIG_IGN}, 8) = 0
11864 brk(0x80b3000)= 0x80b3000
11864 close(12) = 0
11864 close(11) = 0
11864 close(10) = 0
11864 close(9)  = 0
11864 close(8)  = 0
11864 close(7)  = 0
11864 close(6)  = 0
11864 close(5)  = 0
11864 munmap(0x40596000, 294912)   

Re: When to trust compound statements and when to test? was: restart all services?

[Derrick 'dman' Hudson]

On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 01:02:11AM -0500, Gary Turner wrote:
| On Sat, 08 Jun 2002 22:00:07 -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
| >On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 07:41:30PM -0500, Gary Turner wrote:
| >| On Sat, 08 Jun 2002 15:07:10 -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
| 
| >| 
| >| Is there a rule of thumb to determine when sequential commands should be
| >| trusted and when  they should be tested? 
| >
| >The result should be tested when you care about it.
| 
| Oops, obvious answer for a simplistic question :) The problem still
| exists, when should I care?  See your next comment.

:-).

| >| What should I look for that would suggest the need for testing; eg.,
| >| "do $file stop && $file start;"  The possibility exists (citing
| >| extreme shell ignorance) that I'm totally off base even bringing up
| >| the question.
| >
| >You look for the situation where an error in an earlier command means
| >that you shouldn't execute the second command.  It all depends on what
| >the commands are and what the errors mean and what you want to do
| >about them.
| 
| Yeah, you mean RTFM, don't you?

Sort of.

| I'm not comfortable with what's going on in many of the shell
| commands, and their full consequence.  I'm a poor enough programmer
| (C++) that I tend to [over?]test (at least during initial coding)
| for expected results.

The decision requires a human to evaluate the situation and decide
what the proper course of action is, then instruct the computer how to
do that.  Take a simple example -- you want to rename all the files in
a directory (say .htm to .html).  Also suppose you didn't know about
the 'mv' command, or couldn't use it for some reason.

for F in * ; do
cp $F ${F}l ; rm $F
done

In this snippet I don't check for 'cp' exiting with an error.  Here it
is really bad to go ahead and remove the original when it has yet to
be copied.  (suppose you ran out of disk space or something, or didn't
have permission to write to the destination)  In this case, as an
intelligent human, you have to decide that running 'rm'
unconditionally is bad and that it should only be done if the 'cp' was
successful.  A better way to write that (still ignoring 'mv') would be

for F in * ; do
cp $F ${F}l && rm $F || echo "Warning, $F not renamed."
done

This is no different from C++, except that C++ has exceptions (which
makes the code for error handling a little different) and you call
functions rather than whole programs.  If you think of each shell
command as a function, then it's much like C programming (check the
return value).

Sometimes you can't reasonably handle the error condition at that
level and so you want to propagate the error upwards.  In C++ (Java,
Python, Eiffel) that simply means not catching the exception.  In a
procedural language (C, sh) you must explicitly check the error code
returned by the function/command you called and explicitly return an
appropriate error code to your caller.  In a shell script this can be
made convenient with the 
set -o errexit
option, but that isn't always applicable.

| Thanks, dman, for taking the time here.  Just about the time I'm feeling
| comfortable on one level, something jumps up and bites me on the butt.
| And that, my friend, creates paranoia.

C++ is a large and complex language which also embeds two other
sub-languages, one of which is Turing Complete (templates).  It is
easy to get bit in the butt by C++, especially if you aren't
experienced.  I recommend choosing a more forgiving environment for
learning/practicing/developing programming skills before tackling C++
(if, by that time, you still feel inclined to :-)).

-D

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HD dead with /usr

[Ricardo Fitzgerald]

Hi,

One of my Hds went dead, along with my /usr, I still have the apps in
/var/cache/apt/available, is there a way to recover that /usr or I
have to reinstall and configure woody again ?

TIA

Rick


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Re: HDD vs. RAID (was Re: Lilo Q)

[Brian Dessent]

"Ian D. Stewart" wrote:
 
> As the size of IDE hard drives increase, what are the
> advantages/disadvantages of using a single large hard drive as opposed
> to a RAID stack (say, 80 GB hard drive vs. raid tower w/ 4 20 GB hard
> drives) ?

I'd say it all depends on the specs of hard drives.  If you're comparing
apples to apples (i.e. the same or very similar models) then the RAID
solution should always be faster.  When you start comparing older to
newer, I'm sure this clouds the situation.

Also realize that with IDE, only one device on an interface can talk at
once.  So if you are doing RAID with IDE drives, you really have to have
each drive on its own interface in order to see a speedup.  So this does
affect the price equation a bit.  If you're running out of controllers,
you could put a CDROM as the slave to a HD master.  As long as the CDROM
supports DMA mode, it will not slow down the HD at all.  You can mix DMA
modes on an interface, but you cannot mix PIO and DMA.  So if you put an
older CDROM that only supports PIO as a slave to an UltraDMA HD, the HD
will not be able to use DMA mode.  And of course, expect a slowdown if
you try to use the CDROM and HD at the same time.

Brian


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OT network hardware related questions ?

[faisal gillani]

can you guys plz tell me any site where i can ask
network hardware related questions ? questions about
data transmission lenth, diff network devices ?

thanks


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Re: Lilo Q

[Brian Dessent]

"Alice M. Pinard" wrote:
 
> I don't see how I could do that the whole reason I have the hard drive
> on the Promise ultra is that it's a 60g hd and reportedly with even the
> most up to date bios available for my mb it will only see 32g
> 
> wouldn't putting a hd that it can't see all of be a problem? I'd be afraid
> that it could get corrupted if I tried to boot on it under those
> conditions

Was the motherboard purchased/made after June 1999?  This seems to be
the cutoff date for the 32GB problem with Award BIOSes.  The 32GB
problem is caused by the BIOS being unable to cope with more than 65535
cylinders, which is kind of irrelevant because for all HD's greater than
8GB, LBA is used.  The drive geometry thing (cylinders/heads/sectors)
has been a total kludge for many many years, and these days it really
doesn't matter anymore, that is the whole point of LBA.  Even if the
BIOS doesn't see the full capacity, if LBA is being used (which should
most certainly be the case) it won't matter as long as the /boot
partition is in the "BIOS visible" part of the disk.  So, as long as the
board is not totally ancient and supports LBA, I'd say it should work. 
Might want to doublecheck the lilo docs on this.

There is a great page at 
that lists all these "limitations" and the reason for each.  

> btw, if it helps any, in the process of all this I've discovered that my
> motherboard is an asus tpx4 and my bios is a 109l (I can't decide if the
> 'award modular bios v4.51g' is a red herring or somehow relevant... but
> the 109l shows up where the asus site says to look for the bios version)

The way it works is that Award supplies a sort of generic BIOS framework
to the motherboard manufacturers, who customize it to their specifics. 
So "Award Modular Bios v4.51g" really doesn't mean anything, I would
guess that the vast majority of motherboards with an Award BIOS say the
same thing.  So 109l is the version number that matters, and you should
definitely flash it to the current version, if you haven't already.


> I did go to the asus ng to see if they had any ideas on whether the tpx4
> is even capable of booting from an offboard controller but those who

Is there an option called "Boot other device"?  It's usually listed near
the options for "boot order", "floppy seek", "swap floppy drive", etc. 
Try enabling that.

If all else fails, you can always put lilo on a floppy.

Brian


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Re: Changing refresh rate in X

[Alex Malinovich]

On Sun, 2002-06-09 at 13:24, Brian Dessent wrote:
> Nicos Gollan wrote:
> > 
> > > I've got my monitor connected to my laptop so I can work at my desk
> > > easier. The laptop's native resolution is 1400x1050 which my monitor
> > ...
> > Try xvidtune (I don't know what package that's in). It produces
> > modelines from a relatively friendly GUI.
> 
> Or xf86cfg (if you are running XFree 4.x) has similar functionality.

I've tried both and neither is doing what I need. I've managed to get
the resolution switched to 1280x1024 at which I KNOW I can do 85+ Hz,
but it just isn't happening. I'm beginning to think that it's an issue
with the program I'm using to get VGA out to cooperate. (atitvout) It
seems to only want to do 60Hz no matter what.

-Alex


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Re: MP3 encoder

[Grégory Karékinian]

On Sun, 2002-06-09 at 20:13, Gregory Soyez wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm searching for an MP3 encoder for linux. I've browsed the package list of 
> both woody and sid (not too quickly, I hope) , but unsuccessfully.
> Can anyone recommand me one ?
> 
> TIA
> Gregor

Hi,

LAME (Lame Ain't an MP3 Encoder) is the best encoder for all OSes. It's
packaged for sid, I think in the non-US section because of Fraunhofer
patent.

If you're looking for an open source solution, Ogg Vorbis is made for
you (royalty free, better quality for smaller size, etc).

You're welcome.


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Re: partition problem

[Andy Saxena]

On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 08:30:54PM -0500, Henning, Brian wrote:
> Hello-
> I am trying to use grub to boot my debian parition and it will not recognize
> /vmlinuz . This partition is ext2 on partition 8. The funny thing is when i
> did the install I did it on partition 12. I have a few other operating
> systems on this machine and that is why I have so many paritions. I tried
> mounting partiton 8 from redhat and all i get is a lost and found folder but
> when i mount partiton 12 the debian partiton shows up. Another weird this is
> when i try a fdisk -l I only see partitions hda1 through hda9. 
> 
> here is my grub.conf for debian
> 
> title Debian 2.2R6
> root (hd0,7)
> kernel /vmlinuz ro root=/dev/hda8
> 
> can anyone tell me why my partitons are acting weird?
> thanks,
> brian
> 

Which other OSes are you using on this machine? Any chance you have one
of the BSDs installed?

How does your partition table look with cfdisk and parted?

-Andy


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Re: converting html messages to plaintext

[Derrick 'dman' Hudson]

On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 08:22:14PM +0300, Tommi Komulainen wrote:
| On 2002-06-09 12:10 +, Greg Norris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| > I'd like to convert messages from html to text, for a few specific
| > mailing lists.  Is there a procmail recipe for this?
| 
| Since you seem to be using mutt, the following line in .mailcap:
| 
| text/html; w3m -F -dump %s; nametemplate=%s.html; copiousoutput
| 
| and the following line in .muttrc:
| 
| auto_view text/html
| 
| should do the trick.

Also add

# prefer the plain text version
alternative_order text/plain text/html

to your .muttrc so that if a message has both a text/plain and
text/html part mutt will display the plain, not the html, version.

-D

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Re: iomega parallel port zip drive

[ben]

On Sunday 09 June 2002 07:12 am, robert jorgenson wrote:
> If i did this why not just get a kernel image from debian? Unless im really
> trying to keep my kernel footprint small which doesn't really matter much.
> I first wanted to compile just to know i could :) But now i want to get it
> to work :) i will try this though.
>

i've found that the cpu optimization in kernels prior to 2.4.17 created a 
conflict that prevented usb ports being recognized. when i went with i386, 
the conflict disappeared. since the athlon optimization is relatively new, 
it's possible that it's contributing to the problem you're having--that's 
all. if you can't get the most basic cpu configuration to work, then it's 
more likely to be a device configuration problem.

ben


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Re: Changing refresh rate in X

[Brian Dessent]

Nicos Gollan wrote:
> 
> > I've got my monitor connected to my laptop so I can work at my desk
> > easier. The laptop's native resolution is 1400x1050 which my monitor
> ...
> Try xvidtune (I don't know what package that's in). It produces
> modelines from a relatively friendly GUI.

Or xf86cfg (if you are running XFree 4.x) has similar functionality.

Brian


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Re: Can I "downgrade" from unstable to woody?

[Dale Hair]

On Sat, 2002-06-08 at 10:19, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> Hi, all:
> 
> I think I may have made something of a mistake!
> 
> I needed to upgrade from potato, having need of a more recent lib.  So I
> replaced 'stable' with 'unstable' in sources.list and upgraded.  I really
> don't need to be on the bleeding edge (although I've had no difficulty
> with anything so far) and so I'd like to back down to woody.  Can I safely
> replace 'unstable' with 'woody' or am I stuck in this sort of post-woody
> situation?

Create the file /etc/apt/preferences.  This file should contain

Package: *
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: 1001

Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 600 


Your sources.list must include testing.
Thenapt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade


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[no subject]

[JOSEPH EDWARD]

STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL & URGENT.

I am Mr, Joseph Edward a native of Cape Town in
South Africa and I am an Executive Accountant with
the
South Africa MINISTRY OF MINERAL RESOURCES AND ENERGY
First and foremost, I apologized using this medium to
reach you for a transaction/business of this
magnitude, but this is due to
Confidentiality and prompt access reposed on this
medium.

I have decided to seek a confidential
co-operation with you in the execution of the deal
described Hereunder for the benefit of all parties
and
hope you will keep it as a top secret because of the
nature of this transaction.

Within the Department of Mining & Natural Resources
where I work as an Executive Accountant and with the
cooperation of four other top officials, we have in
our possession as overdue payment bills totaling
Twenty! - One Million, Five Hundred Thousand U. S.
Dollars ($21,500,000.) which we want to transfer
abroad with the assistance and cooperation of a
foreign company/individual to receive the said fund
on
our behalf or a reliable foreign non-company account
to receive such funds. More so, we are handicapped in
the circumstances, as the South Africa Civil Service
Code of Conduct does not allow us to operate offshore
account hence your importance in the whole
transaction.
This amount $21.5m represents the balance of the
total
contract value executed on behalf of my Department by
a foreign contracting firm, which we the officials
over-invoiced deliberately. Though the actual
contract
cost have been paid to the original contractor,
leaving the balance in the Tune of the said amount
which we have in principles gotten approval to remit
by Key tested Telegraphic Transfer (K.T.T) to any
foreign bank account you will provide by fi! ling in an
application through the Justice Ministry here in
South Africa for the transfer of rights and privileges of
the former contractor to you.

I have the authority of my partners involved to
propose that should you be willing to assist us in
the
transaction, your share of the sum will be 25% of the
$21.5 million, 70% for us and 5% for taxation and
miscellaneous expenses. The business itself is 100%
safe, on your part provided you treat it with utmost
secrecy and confidentiality. Also your area of
specialization is not a hindrance to the successful
execution of this transaction. I have reposed my
confidence in you and hope that you will not
disappoint me. Endeavor to contact me immediately my
e-mail address whether or not you are
interested in this deal. If you are not, it will enable me scout
for another foreign partner to carry out this deal I want
to assure you that my partners and myself are in a
positio! n to make the payment of this claim possible
provided you can give us a very strong Assurance and
guarantee that our share will be secured and please
remember to treat this matter as very confidential
matter, because we will not comprehend with any form
of exposure as we are still in active Government
Service and remember once again that time is of the
essence in this business.kindly furnish us with your all your
contacts,telephone and fax number for more details.
I wait in anticipation of your fullest co-operation.

Yours faithfully,
JOSEPH EDWARD



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MP3 encoder

[Gregory Soyez]

Hi,

I'm searching for an MP3 encoder for linux. I've browsed the package list of 
both woody and sid (not too quickly, I hope) , but unsuccessfully.
Can anyone recommand me one ?

TIA
Gregor


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Re: fast way to make bootable cd ?

[nate]

> Hello nate,
>
> On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 02:53:13AM -0700, nate wrote:
>> i was wondering if
>> anyone had a suggestion on how to best create a bootable rescue
>> CD.
>
> One way is bblcd: http://www.bablokb.de/bblcd/
>

cool! that worked! i found my main problem though, my kernel
didn't have ramdisk or initrd support which is why it was failing.
but after a while i got a working system up. and was able to
repair the partition(turns out it was ext2 afterall..) and the
laptop is once again running! now for a backup:)

thanks!! that program will be very useful i plan to make a bunch
of bootable cds for servers now that i know how

nate




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Re: Help

[Baurjan Ismagulov]

Hello,

On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 04:29:35PM +0300, yufufi wrote:
> I still need help on Turkish fonts under debian if you could help me that 
> will be great. 
> 
> Here are some example problems:
> ->  I can't use Turkish fonts in xterm

I use the following command to start xterm from another xterm:

xterm -fn -*-fixed-medium-r-*-*-20-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-9

You should choose a font available on your system (e.g., using "xlsfonts
|grep 'fixed.*iso8859-9$'" command).

I believe this can be made the default via X resources, but I don't know
how.


> ->  Netscape can display them but I can't use them in forms , mails etc

I suppose you mean Netscape 4.x. There are many methods to do that. I've
tried aliasing iso8859-9 fonts as iso8859-1, but that didn't work for
me. I need some time to investigate...


> ->  fonty package can solve the font problem in console , but I can't use 
> that package now for some other reason and my fonts are wrong under console 
> too.. 

I haven't use fonty. If your keyboard setup works, your should see
Turkish letters on the console with the following command:

consolechars -f iso09.f16 -m iso09

You should have console-tools and console-data packages installed (I've
tested that on sid).


Hope this helps. Please write whether these solve your problems or not.
Please CC to me since I'm not subscribed.

With kind regards,
Baurjan.


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Re: how do i get the printer icon and clock back on my task bar.

[pallix]

The printer program is called klpq
you can make a new pointer on your desktop that executes klpq.
right click new / Link to Application

Hope that helps
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> have re installed printer but still no clock or printer icon on
> task bar so cannot delete printing  nor any oter way except print
> set up.


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Re: dselect first impressions

[Colin Watson]

On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 07:40:36PM +0200, Aaron Isotton wrote:
> Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > dselect is "standard" by any reasonable definition of standard,
> > regardless of what some people would like to think.
> 
> Strange. Having read
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2002/debian-devel-200204/msg02366.html
> I thought that aptitude was the new standard.

"A replacement" rather than "the replacement".

> Why are you using [EMAIL PROTECTED] as Reply-To?

Because he's a smartarse, I'd guess. :)

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Re: dselect first impressions

[Aaron Isotton]

Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache show aptitude
> Package: aptitude
> Priority: optional
> Section: admin
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache show dpkg
> Package: dpkg
> Essential: yes
> Priority: required
> Section: base
> 
> dselect is "standard" by any reasonable definition of standard,
> regardless of what some people would like to think.

Strange. Having read
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2002/debian-devel-200204/msg02366.html
I thought that aptitude was the new standard.

Why are you using [EMAIL PROTECTED] as Reply-To?

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Re: Gentoo ...

[Colin Watson]

On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 10:11:55AM -0700, robert jorgenson wrote:
> Was wondering if someone would be willing to burn me a gentoo cd and
> bring it to the meeting on thursday, will reimburse for cd's :) Gentoo
> is something i've been reading up on and been wanting to try out for a
> bit now

This isn't PLUG. You might want to try a different address. :)

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[no subject]

[JOSEPH EDWARD]

STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL & URGENT.

I am Mr, Joseph Edward a native of Cape Town in
South Africa and I am an Executive Accountant with
the
South Africa MINISTRY OF MINERAL RESOURCES AND ENERGY
First and foremost, I apologized using this medium to
reach you for a transaction/business of this
magnitude, but this is due to
Confidentiality and prompt access reposed on this
medium.

I have decided to seek a confidential
co-operation with you in the execution of the deal
described Hereunder for the benefit of all parties
and
hope you will keep it as a top secret because of the
nature of this transaction.

Within the Department of Mining & Natural Resources
where I work as an Executive Accountant and with the
cooperation of four other top officials, we have in
our possession as overdue payment bills totaling
Twenty! - One Million, Five Hundred Thousand U. S.
Dollars ($21,500,000.) which we want to transfer
abroad with the assistance and cooperation of a
foreign company/individual to receive the said fund
on
our behalf or a reliable foreign non-company account
to receive such funds. More so, we are handicapped in
the circumstances, as the South Africa Civil Service
Code of Conduct does not allow us to operate offshore
account hence your importance in the whole
transaction.
This amount $21.5m represents the balance of the
total
contract value executed on behalf of my Department by
a foreign contracting firm, which we the officials
over-invoiced deliberately. Though the actual
contract
cost have been paid to the original contractor,
leaving the balance in the Tune of the said amount
which we have in principles gotten approval to remit
by Key tested Telegraphic Transfer (K.T.T) to any
foreign bank account you will provide by fi! ling in an
application through the Justice Ministry here in
South Africa for the transfer of rights and privileges of
the former contractor to you.

I have the authority of my partners involved to
propose that should you be willing to assist us in
the
transaction, your share of the sum will be 25% of the
$21.5 million, 70% for us and 5% for taxation and
miscellaneous expenses. The business itself is 100%
safe, on your part provided you treat it with utmost
secrecy and confidentiality. Also your area of
specialization is not a hindrance to the successful
execution of this transaction. I have reposed my
confidence in you and hope that you will not
disappoint me. Endeavor to contact me immediately my
e-mail address whether or not you are
interested in this deal. If you are not, it will enable me scout
for another foreign partner to carry out this deal I want
to assure you that my partners and myself are in a
positio! n to make the payment of this claim possible
provided you can give us a very strong Assurance and
guarantee that our share will be secured and please
remember to treat this matter as very confidential
matter, because we will not comprehend with any form
of exposure as we are still in active Government
Service and remember once again that time is of the
essence in this business.kindly furnish us with your all your
contacts,telephone and fax number for more details.
I wait in anticipation of your fullest co-operation.

Yours faithfully,
JOSEPH EDWARD



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open URL link to Mozilla from Kmail ?

[James D. Freels]

By default, the Debian-KDE packages open konqueror when a kmail message 
containing a URL is clicked with the mouse. How can I change this default so 
that Mozilla is opened instead ?  Better yet, how can I just use the existing 
Mozilla window for that ?  Currently I copy the link to clipboard, then 
change to the Mozilla window and manually insert the URL and open.  This is 
not convenient !

Please respond by e-mail if possible.

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Re: Trouble with squid configuration -- how can I get rid of all traces of squid?

[megglestone]

Hi,
You may want to try this command,
# dpkg --purge squid

and you could goto here:
/var/spool/
and blow away the squid caches.
(if the purge didn't do it for you)

hth,
Mike

Quoting "Randolph S. Kahle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> I am having trouble with the installation of Squid.
> 
> I updated a Potato box to Woody and in the process something happened to
> the squid configuration.
> 
> Now (to untangle everything), I would like to remove all trace of squid
> from my machine and then do a clean
> 
> apt-get install squid
> 
> I did
> 
> apt-get remove squid
> 
> but this does not seem to remove all traces.
> 
> Is there another command to use to completely rid my machine and allow
> the apt-get install squid to work? 
> 
> Randy
> 
> 
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Re: converting html messages to plaintext

[Tommi Komulainen]

On 2002-06-09 12:10 +, Greg Norris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'd like to convert messages from html to text, for a few specific
> mailing lists.  Is there a procmail recipe for this?

Since you seem to be using mutt, the following line in .mailcap:

text/html; w3m -F -dump %s; nametemplate=%s.html; copiousoutput

and the following line in .muttrc:

auto_view text/html

should do the trick.  It doesn't actually modify the messages, but I
think the end result is what you wanted.  You can also use lynx, links,
html2text or whatever instead of w3m; there are examples in the mailcap
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Gentoo ...

[robert jorgenson]

Was wondering if someone would be willing to burn me a gentoo cd and bring it 
to the meeting on thursday, will reimburse for cd's :) Gentoo is something i've 
been reading up on and been wanting to try out for a bit now


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converting html messages to plaintext

[Greg Norris]

I'd like to convert messages from html to text, for a few specific
mailing lists.  Is there a procmail recipe for this?

Thanx!


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Trouble with squid configuration -- how can I get rid of all traces of squid?

[Randolph S. Kahle]

I am having trouble with the installation of Squid.

I updated a Potato box to Woody and in the process something happened to
the squid configuration.

Now (to untangle everything), I would like to remove all trace of squid
from my machine and then do a clean

apt-get install squid

I did

apt-get remove squid

but this does not seem to remove all traces.

Is there another command to use to completely rid my machine and allow
the apt-get install squid to work? 

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Re: Pontification: Unfreeze Woody?

[Colin Watson]

On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 05:41:33PM +0200, Nicos Gollan wrote:
> On Friday 07 June 2002 22:39, John Hasler wrote:
> > It is impossible to comment intelligently on your suggestion without
> > knowing approximately how much longer it will be until the
> > infrastructure situation is resolved.
> 
> OK, just to play the idiot here:
> IMHO it wasn't the best thing to freeze woody before those problems were 
> resolved in the first place. As I see it, those problems were known 
> some time before the freeze happened, probably in hope that the 
> problems would be resolved soon. So I'd definitely be pro?-unfreeze to 
> stop the apparent hiatus the whole Debian project is on.

The freeze for the last release was a whole lot longer than this one
looks likely to be.

Any hiatus felt by individual developers is entirely up to them;
unstable no longer affects testing, so they're quite free to develop
there, and in fact are probably more likely to do so if testing is kept
frozen and safe.

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I did it.... and... I don't know how...

[Alice M. Pinard]

I had this image earlier today that if I actually figured out how to get
the darn 60g hd to boot up that I would come here to the lists and
newsgropus where I've been trying to get help and lay out what I did for
any future users of tpx4 mbs trying to install promise ultra cards...

little did I know that I somehow had already solved the problem... 


I had decided to try one more piece of advice and in preparation I was
going to once more copy everything from the old hd to the new in case I'd
managed to pick up anything in the time since I'd last copied files
earlier this week. 

I checked /newroot   ... yep, empty, haven't mounted it yet... ok

I mount /dev/hde1 on /newroot and copy over the fstab and lilo.conf files
to temporary locations in / figuring that I'm going to wipe out /dev/hde1
and recopy everything over but I want to save the work I've been doing
on those two files...

I unmount /dev/hde1 from /newroot in preparation to reformat that
partition so I can recopy everything over...

I do mke2fs /dev/hde1 


mke2fs 1.27 (8-Mar-2002)
/dev/hde1 is mounted; will not make a filesystem here!


I'm scratching my head I do a df (checks disk free, also lists mounted
partions)

Filesystem   1k-blocks  Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hde1  1441552   1122572245752  83% /
/dev/hde9 17341684   1851088  14609684  12% /space
/dev/hde6   961352121060791456  14% /var
/dev/hde5  4806048248096   4313816   6% /home


kay... um. somehow this morning when I flipped my computer on,
bleeary-eyed ready to hunt for more solutions to this 'problem' (which
I did for about 4 hours today :) my computer somehow decided to do what
I've been trying to get it to do for a week boot off the 60g hd on the
promise ultra card.

last I knew my bios was still telling it to look at ide drives first

I ... haven't got a floppy boot disk in the boot drive 

my old hd is still in the drawer

I... have no idea how it happened

Oh well :)

-Alice


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Re: [SOLVED]iomega parallel port zip drive

[robert jorgenson]

Okay i dont know EXACTLY what it was, but i went through EVERY SINGLE option 
and red almost every single help on each section and turned off a few things 
... for some reason smp was enabled i turned that off, some random onboard 
ethernet driver was enabled. I cant remember everything cuz ive been up for 
about 36 hours working on this =/ but ill attatch the new .config if soemone 
realy wants to go through and find out what might have changed it have at it :) 
FYI it works just fine with 

/dev/sda4   /zip   auto   defaults,noauto  0
   0

in my /etc/fstab so i dont have to pass -t vfat to it

On Fri, 7 Jun 2002 21:13:53 -0700
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> Ok i had this working fine under my 2.2 distrobution kernel(debian) with 
> modprobe ppa. i Decided to compile a 2.4 kernel and i an trying to get it to 
> work correctly. Right now i have scsi support enabled, scsi disk support 
> enabled, the ppa module compiled in as a module, and parallel printing 
> enabled as a module(as per the zip drive mini-hwoto). When i try to mount 
> /dev/sda4 it says that /dev/sda4 is not a valid block device. I have kernel 
> compiled about 6 times tonight and i would really like next time to be last 
> time, at least for tonight :) andone know what might be wrong?
> 
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On 09 Jun 2002 18:01:45 +0200
"Helgi Örn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Was that with OOo or SO?

OOo.

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Re: iomega parallel port zip drive

[robert jorgenson]

Nope compiling with i386 didn't work either, same error when i try and load the 
module

On Sun, 9 Jun 2002 00:41:57 -0700
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> On Saturday 08 June 2002 06:56 pm, robert jorgenson wrote:
> > I tried it with the imm module but it did the same thing as the ppa module
> > ...
> >
> > chimera:/home/bob# modprobe imm
> > /lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/drivers/scsi/imm.o: init_module: No such device
> > Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including
> > invalid IO or IRQ parameters /lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/drivers/scsi/imm.o:
> > insmod /lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/drivers/scsi/imm.o failed
> > /lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/drivers/scsi/imm.o: insmod imm failed
> > chimera:/home/bob#
> >
> > I know i must be doing something wrong ... iv attatched the .config im
> > using for my kernel in case anyone spots something i have done wrong
> >
> 
> try recompiling the kernel without the athlon optimimization, as a straight 
> i386. 
> 
> ben
> 
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Re: Packaging mod_accel?

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 06:04:07PM +0200, Christian Jaeger wrote:
> At 10:17 Uhr -0400 09.06.2002, Ian D. Stewart wrote:
> >On 2002.06.04 16:52 Christian Jaeger wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>I would like to run Debian's apache and apache-perl packages for 
> >>this configuration.
> >
> >You may want to consider using apache and libapache-mod-perl 
> >instead.  It provides the mod_perl functionality as a DSO (Dynamic 
> >Shared Object), instead of being compliled directly into the server.
> 
> Well for a long time mod_perl has been known to be less stable as 
> .so; it's also quite convenient to have the two packages in parallel 
> since it's config and sysv init files are naturally kept separate 
> this way.

I haven't had reports of a crash in over a year, except for one that
only occured in the static version.  It does leak a little memory,
though.

> In the meantime I've made a new patch for libmm support in the apache 
> package. It also supports apache being started as non-root user, 
> unlike an earlier attempt by David Kilzer (sending him a CC), which 
> was considered harmful because of this 
> (http://lists.debian.org/debian-apache/2002/debian-apache-200202/msg7.html)).
>  
> Please tell me if there's any interest (it would probably even be useful 
> without mod_accel, since mod_ssl can make use of it too).

I'd like to see how you did this.

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Increasing MAX_INODE on 2.4.18 / debian (kernel)

[louie miranda]

Hi,

How can i increase MAX_INODE on 2.4.18 kernels on debian system?

ty,
louie...


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Re: Lilo Q

[John]

Alice,

On my ASUS P5A/B board, the only way I could get the promise card's first drive
(hde) recognized as the drive to boot off of was to manually set the IDE hard
dives in the BIOS to none, even though I did indeed have hard drives installed
in those positions. Linux of course doesn't care  so once LILO booted off of
/dev/hde all drives were available. The only position I left at AUTO in the BIOS
was /dev/hdc since that was my CDROM. The problem appears to be that the BIOS is
setting the first drive it finds as the boot drive and since the promise card's
BIOS doesn't come into play until after the motherboards BIOS it's too late for
the promise drive to be the boot drive if the motherboard has already found one.

Not sure if an installed SCSI drive would react the same way, but it might.

Hope some of this helps

John


"Alice M. Pinard" wrote:

> On Sun, 9 Jun 2002, Alvin Oga wrote:
>
> >
> > hi ya alice
> >
> > yeah...you can ignore the "/dev/hde1 is not the first disk" noise maker..
> >
> > but, you have to confirm that you can boot from /dev/hde, /dev/hdf, ...
> >   - move that linux disk to /dev/hdd temporarily to
> >   see if it will boot off hdd
>
> I don't see how I could do that the whole reason I have the hard drive
> on the Promise ultra is that it's a 60g hd and reportedly with even the
> most up to date bios available for my mb it will only see 32g
>
> wouldn't putting a hd that it can't see all of be a problem? I'd be afraid
> that it could get corrupted if I tried to boot on it under those
> conditions
>
> btw, if it helps any, in the process of all this I've discovered that my
> motherboard is an asus tpx4 and my bios is a 109l (I can't decide if the
> 'award modular bios v4.51g' is a red herring or somehow relevant... but
> the 109l shows up where the asus site says to look for the bios version)
>
> (well, just checking if any bells are ringing for anyone out there)
>
> I did go to the asus ng to see if they had any ideas on whether the tpx4
> is even capable of booting from an offboard controller but those who
> responded so far seemed a bit confused by the concept of a linux boot
> process and told me to check my 'boot files'. I think they're thinking
> about windows but I figured I'd doublecheck on whether it was possible
> lilo might still be the culprit after all
>
> >
> > - check your bios ... that you have hde listed
> >
>
> I'm not sure what you mean here.
>
> The onboard controller knows about the devices connected to it. During
> bootup the Promise card is detected and in the processs shows that it has
> detected the 60g hd is attached to it. If the mb's bios is having a
> problem it would seem to in recognizing that the Promise card has its own
> bios that I want boot control handed over to
>
> > or move it around to be hda..
> >
> > c ya
> > alvin
> >
> >
> > On Sat, 8 Jun 2002, Alice M. Pinard wrote:
> >
> > > As I'm continuing to try and troubleshoot a hd that doesn't seem to want
> > > to boot (promise ultra card, 60g hd) I just wanna doublecheck one thing
> > ...
> >
> >
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[JOSEPH EDWARD]

STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL & URGENT.

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RE: Php3 Problems

[Steve Barr]

Nik,

> > AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .php3 .php4
> > AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps

You have just these two lines in you Apache config for PHP?  In your first 
post, you show conflicting entries.  There should only be one "AddType 
application/x-httpd-php" line, and one "AddType application/x-httpd-php-source" 
line.

After you edit your config file, you are stopping and starting Apache?  (or do 
a restart...)

What happens when you create a simple test file and name it test.php (or 
anything .php)?  Does your web server process it correctly?  If so, rename that 
file to test.php3 and try again.  It shold work the same for all of the 
extensions that are included in the PHP line of the config file.  (In my case 
.php .php3 .php4)

> What i want ot do, is to run horde on my php4 server. But all of horde
> (on the debian package ) is php3

I'm not familiar with Horde, but it shouldn't be a problem. 
 
> Can i check any other settings ? 

The only other thing I can think to check is what do you have for the 
DirectoryIndex in Apache?  Mine has "DirectoryIndex index.html index.php3 
index.php index.php4".  This would only make a difference if the file you are 
trying to access is the index page.  

Are you sure that PHP is installed and working?  I'd try the simple test that I 
describe above and verify that PHP is working.

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Re: "Fake" Package installation?

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Nicos Gollan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.06.09.1807 +0200]:
> Is there any way to make the package management think a certain package 
> was installed?

look at the "equivs" package.

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"Fake" Package installation?

[Nicos Gollan]

Hi all...

Is there any way to make the package management think a certain package 
was installed? I kinda need something like that to keep woody happy 
with my XF86 installation (4.2.0). Until now I'm helping myself by 
keeping a separate copy of woody's /usr/X11R6 directory as 
/usr/X11R6-4.1.0 that I'm swapping with the regular /usr/X11R6 
directory whenever there's something to be installed in there, be it 
from upgrades or dependencies of new packages. To make it short: that's 
getting on my nerves. XFree is split in so many packages that are just 
not needed when it's installed from source that I sometimes get 2 pages 
worth of dependencies that are already met.

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Re: Packaging mod_accel?

[Christian Jaeger]

At 10:17 Uhr -0400 09.06.2002, Ian D. Stewart wrote:

On 2002.06.04 16:52 Christian Jaeger wrote:



I would like to run Debian's apache and apache-perl packages for 
this configuration.


You may want to consider using apache and libapache-mod-perl 
instead.  It provides the mod_perl functionality as a DSO (Dynamic 
Shared Object), instead of being compliled directly into the server.


Well for a long time mod_perl has been known to be less stable as 
.so; it's also quite convenient to have the two packages in parallel 
since it's config and sysv init files are naturally kept separate 
this way.


In the meantime I've made a new patch for libmm support in the apache 
package. It also supports apache being started as non-root user, 
unlike an earlier attempt by David Kilzer (sending him a CC), which 
was considered harmful because of this 
(http://lists.debian.org/debian-apache/2002/debian-apache-200202/msg7.html)). 
Please tell me if there's any interest (it would probably even be 
useful without mod_accel, since mod_ssl can make use of it too).


Then on the matter of mod_accel I've seen it's really not quite that 
easy to build it in a package. It patches stuff "right and left" 
(mod_proxy, mod_rewrite, mod_ssl, mod_charset if there, and a tiny 
patch to apache itself), and so also the libapache-mod-ssl and maybe 
even apache-perl (since it relies on apache-common) packages may have 
to be built with the patched sources. If people do mind making that 
big changes in those packages, maybe separate apache-accel, 
libapache-accel-mod-ssl (and even apache-accel-perl?) packages should 
be made so one can choose between those. If that's no option either, 
then the only way (short of maintaining debian packages privately) 
would seem to be a /usr/local install :(


Christian.


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Re: OOo & java

[Helgi Örn]

On Sun, 2002-06-09 at 15:02, Jamin W. Collins wrote:
> On 09 Jun 2002 05:38:15 +0200
> "Helgi Örn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Just what I suspected; both StarOffice and OpenOfficeO seem to accept
> > only java 1.3.* and nothing else.
> 
> Works fine with 1.4 here.
> 
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> 
Was that with OOo or SO?
In Woody I first tried 1.1 which didn't work. Earlyer I have experienced
OOo not accepting 1.4 in SuSE and in W2k.

Cheers,
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Re: Changing refresh rate in X

[Nicos Gollan]

On Friday 07 June 2002 22:48, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> I've got my monitor connected to my laptop so I can work at my desk
> easier. The laptop's native resolution is 1400x1050 which my monitor
> can display, but only at 65Hz. I've tried adding [EMAIL PROTECTED] as a
> resolution, but since the modeline is explicitly defined (I got the
> XF86Config-4 straight from Dell) the change doesn't seem to work. Is
> there an easy way I can modify refresh rates in X without having to
> write mode lines manually? TIA.
>
> -Alex

Try xvidtune (I don't know what package that's in). It produces 
modelines from a relatively friendly GUI.

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Re: Php3 Problems

[Nik Engel]

Hi Steve!
> # And for PHP 4.x, use:
> #
> AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .php3 .php4
> AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
DoesnŽt help me at all. Unfortunatly i tried all reasonable
combinations. 
But when i try to open a php3 page my browser always tries to download
the file... 
What i want ot do, is to run horde on my php4 server. But all of horde
(on the debian package ) is php3 
Can i check any other settings ? 

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Re: Pontification: Unfreeze Woody?

[Nicos Gollan]

On Friday 07 June 2002 22:39, John Hasler wrote:
> Jamin W. Collins writes:
> > I guess I'm just curious as to what other peoples thoughts are on
> > this.
>
> It is impossible to comment intelligently on your suggestion without
> knowing approximately how much longer it will be until the
> infrastructure situation is resolved.

OK, just to play the idiot here:
IMHO it wasn't the best thing to freeze woody before those problems were 
resolved in the first place. As I see it, those problems were known 
some time before the freeze happened, probably in hope that the 
problems would be resolved soon. So I'd definitely be pro­-unfreeze to 
stop the apparent hiatus the whole Debian project is on.

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Re: Lilo Q

[robert jorgenson]

heh after reading more in that same section the "Other IDE chipset 
configuration" section looks like its also worth a look.

On Sun, 9 Jun 2002 08:25:20 -0700
"robert jorgenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Might wany to look into the "boot off-board chipset first support" feature in 
> the kernel, after reading the help it says it may help with problems of 
> booting ide devices in expansion cards before the bios. I dont know much of 
> anything about this but i was just reading through it after reading this 
> thread and i thought i would let you know about it so please dont flame da 
> newb :) bwt its under "ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL Support --> IDE, ATA and ATAPI Bock 
> devices --> Boot off-board chipsets first support" in xconfig
> 
> On Sat, 8 Jun 2002 22:33:44 -0400 (EDT)
> "Alice M. Pinard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > As I'm continuing to try and troubleshoot a hd that doesn't seem to want
> > to boot (promise ultra card, 60g hd) I just wanna doublecheck one thing
> > 
> > 
> > If I don't even get a LI or L or _something_ from lilo it's definitely
> > not a lilo problem and it's somewhere further up in the pipeline?
> > 
> > Or could there possibly be a lilo-related problem such that I wouldn't
> > even be get a smidgen of a prompt
> > 
> > (and would any situation where attempts to put lilo into an mbr involve
> > squawks of '/dev/hde1 is not on the first disk' be even more likely
> > candidates for situations where it could be a 'lilo problem' without any
> > smidgen of a prompt showing up?)
> > 
> > oh, and it's lilo 22.2-3
> > 
> > -Alice
> > 
> > (just checking)
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Re: Lilo Q

[robert jorgenson]

Might wany to look into the "boot off-board chipset first support" feature in 
the kernel, after reading the help it says it may help with problems of booting 
ide devices in expansion cards before the bios. I dont know much of anything 
about this but i was just reading through it after reading this thread and i 
thought i would let you know about it so please dont flame da newb :) bwt its 
under "ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL Support --> IDE, ATA and ATAPI Bock devices --> Boot 
off-board chipsets first support" in xconfig

On Sat, 8 Jun 2002 22:33:44 -0400 (EDT)
"Alice M. Pinard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> As I'm continuing to try and troubleshoot a hd that doesn't seem to want
> to boot (promise ultra card, 60g hd) I just wanna doublecheck one thing
> 
> 
> If I don't even get a LI or L or _something_ from lilo it's definitely
> not a lilo problem and it's somewhere further up in the pipeline?
> 
> Or could there possibly be a lilo-related problem such that I wouldn't
> even be get a smidgen of a prompt
> 
> (and would any situation where attempts to put lilo into an mbr involve
> squawks of '/dev/hde1 is not on the first disk' be even more likely
> candidates for situations where it could be a 'lilo problem' without any
> smidgen of a prompt showing up?)
> 
> oh, and it's lilo 22.2-3
> 
> -Alice
> 
> (just checking)
> 
> 
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Re: Make eth0 be eth1, something like eth0=eth1?

[Tobias Jahn]

On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 04:51:10PM +0200, Tobias Jahn wrote:
> I have not tested this, but try the following kernel parameter at boot time
> (i.e. in your lilo/grub configuration or by hand):
> 
> ether=0,0,eth1
> 
> (The format is ether=irq,addr,name where 0 indicates autoprobe for irq and
> addr.)
> 
> As stated above, don't know if this works with a single nic.

I've just tested this on a laptop. But unfortunately it does not work for me.
I guess there is a way to pass some options to the kernel module for the
pcmcia-nic (pcnet_cs.o in my case).

If that does not help, it seems not to be possible to have eth1 without eth0.

Perhaps there is a way to create some "dummy" device eth1, which routes all
traffic to eth0 and vice versa. But this is very hypothetical and I don't
tried this :-(

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Re: HDD vs. RAID (was Re: Lilo Q)

[Dave Sherohman]

On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 09:35:05AM -0400, Ian D. Stewart wrote:
> As the size of IDE hard drives increase, what are the 
> advantages/disadvantages of using a single large hard drive as opposed 
> to a RAID stack

Well, that depends on what flavor of RAID you're talking about...

In general:

RAID 0:  Capacity = sum of all disks, improved performance, reduced
reliability (if one drive fails, everything goes with it)

RAID 1:  Capacity = smallest disk, read performance could improve but
is usually not affected, write performance tends to be slower, best
reliability (as long as one disk survives, your data is OK)

RAID 5:  Capacity = smallest disk * (number of disks - 1), improved
perfomance, data can survive failure of one disk, but all is lost if
a second disk fails before the contents of the first are regenerated

RAID 0+1:  Capacity = smallest disk * (number of disks / 2), good
performance, good reliability

> (say, 80 GB hard drive vs. raid tower w/ 4 20 GB hard 
> drives) ?

If you're getting 80G from 4*20G drive, that must be a RAID 0, so
the RAID would give you a nice boost to data transfer rates, but
you'd better keep a current backup because if any one of those 4
drives goes bad, you'll lose all your data.  (OTOH, add a fifth 20G
drive, make it a RAID 5, and you'll have a winner.)

Side note:  Comments on performance assume that each drive is on a
separate IDE channel all by itself.  If your 4 20G drives are hda,
hdb, hdc, and hdd, you're going to take a major performance hit.
Unlike SCSI, IDE can't run two drives efficiently on the same
channel.

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Re: Packaging mod_accel?

[Ian D. Stewart]

On 2002.06.04 16:52 Christian Jaeger wrote:



I would like to run Debian's apache and apache-perl packages for this 
configuration.


You may want to consider using apache and libapache-mod-perl instead.  
It provides the mod_perl functionality as a DSO (Dynamic Shared 
Object), instead of being compliled directly into the server.



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Re: sk domain

[Ian D. Stewart]

On 2002.06.04 15:07 Oleg wrote:

Ouch! this guy is a jerk. I'm filtering everyone from *.sk now.


The entire nation of Slovakia?  Kinda extreme, doncha think?


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Re: Make eth0 be eth1, something like eth0=eth1?

[Tobias Jahn]

Hello Roy,

On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 06:46:48AM -0700, AE Roy wrote:
> I'm looking for a way in which I can turn my eth0 into eth1. I've been
> thru all the files in /etc/network but I didn't find what I'm looking for.

I have not tested this, but try the following kernel parameter at boot time
(i.e. in your lilo/grub configuration or by hand):

ether=0,0,eth1

(The format is ether=irq,addr,name where 0 indicates autoprobe for irq and
addr.)

As stated above, don't know if this works with a single nic.

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Re: developer's .configure

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

On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 10:32:23 -0400, Brian Stults wrote:
> Is there a way to figure out what options a debian developer used to
> compile the source of a package.

Yes. Add "source" entries to your /etc/apt/sources.list; do "apt-get update"
and from then on you can do "apt-get source " to download the
sources (which are typically split in an unmodified upstream tarball and a
.diff.gz that details changes made for Debian packaging).

HTH,
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Re: relocation errors after upgrade

[Tobias Jahn]

Hello Ray,

On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 02:37:51PM +0200, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote:
> > fwbuilder: relocation error: /usr/lib/libgtkmm-1.2.so.0: undefined symbol: 
> > __tiQ24SigC6Object
> > guikachu: relocation error: /usr/lib/libgnomemm-1.2.so.9: undefined symbol: 
> > __vt_Q24SigC5Scope
> > aptitude: relocation error: /usr/local/lib/libsigc-1.0.so.0: undefined 
> > symbol: __gxx_personality_v0
>^

Cool hint - did not notice that lib in /usr/local ...

> Why do you have a libsigc++ in /usr/local/lib when it is packaged as
> libsigc++0 ?

I had to install a newer version some time ago to compile another application,
so it went into /usr/local/lib...

> All three of these binaries are from packages that depend on libsigc++0. It
> looks like the libsigc++ you have in /usr/local/lib isn't ABI-compatible
> with these binaries

I removed the one in /usr/local/lib and everything was working again... ;-)
Thank you very much for your time!

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X nice value

[Hereward Cooper]

Hi,
When I configure/reconfigure xserver-common I give debconf my nice value
for X, but when ever I 'startx' it says it is reverting back to a value
of 0, no matter what value I give it.
How can I force X to use my nice value?

Thanks,

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RE: Php3 Problems

[Steve Barr]

> I have apache 1.3 running with php4 on debian woody. 
> Unfortunatly my webserver cannot parse any php3 files. 
> When i want to open files with this ending i get an unknown mime typ. 
> i have added all mime types, as far as i am concerned: 
> 
> 
>   AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
> AddType application/x-httpd-php3 .php .php4 .php3
> AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
> AddType application/x-httpd-php .php4 .php3 .phtml .php .inc
> AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps


This is what I have in my Apache config on Woody.

# And for PHP 4.x, use:
#
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .php3 .php4
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps


Steve

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developer's .configure

[Brian Stults]

Is there a way to figure out what options a debian developer used to 
compile the source of a package.  In particular, I'd like to know what 
options were used for the most recent mozilla in unstable.  I've been 
trying to compile from source so I could include the spell-checker.  It 
compiles okay, but the fonts are horrible.  I figured I need 
"--enable-xft", but it doesn't compile if I do that.  Now I'm figuring 
maybe I need to "--enable" or "--disable" something else.  Since the 
fonts look great when I use the debian package, I wanted to find out 
what options he enabled.


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Questions on P4 Mainboards

[Holger Rauch]

Hi!

I'm thinking of getting myself a new machine with a 2 GHz P4 (Northwood
variant) and 512 KB cache. One of the main concerns I got is: Which P4
mainboard works well with Debian Woody? (I'm talking about
stability, good IDE controller & USB support with the kernels shipped with
Woody). I'm planning to use this machine for the following:

- Working with various DBMSs (DB2, SAP DB, PostgreSQL)
- Developing larger Java projects with rather large Java apps
  (e.g. Together/J, JBuilder) 

The first thing that came to my mind was getting an Asus P4B266-E,
since it has 2 UDMA IDE controllers (one UDMA 100, the other one UDMA
133), thus offering 4 IDE channels altogether. I would like to connect 2
UDMA 133 hard disks, so connecting each of them to a separate IDE
controller and making them work as the master drive seems to be
appropriate for performance reasons. This leads me to my next question: Is
the Promise PDC 20276 IDE controller supported by current Linux
kernels (2.2.20 or 2.4.18, respectively)? If not, are there patches around
for the 2.2/2.4 series of kernels?

What are your opinions on a P4B266-E for Debian Woody? What are good
alternatives? Which chipsets are known to work reliably with respect to
USB?

Thanks a lot for taking your time and answering my questions!

Greetings,

Holger



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Re: iomega parallel port zip drive

[robert jorgenson]

If i did this why not just get a kernel image from debian? Unless im really 
trying to keep my kernel footprint small which doesn't really matter much. I 
first wanted to compile just to know i could :) But now i want to get it to 
work :) i will try this though.

On Sun, 9 Jun 2002 00:41:57 -0700
"ben" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Saturday 08 June 2002 06:56 pm, robert jorgenson wrote:
> > I tried it with the imm module but it did the same thing as the ppa module
> > ...
> >
> > chimera:/home/bob# modprobe imm
> > /lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/drivers/scsi/imm.o: init_module: No such device
> > Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including
> > invalid IO or IRQ parameters /lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/drivers/scsi/imm.o:
> > insmod /lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/drivers/scsi/imm.o failed
> > /lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/drivers/scsi/imm.o: insmod imm failed
> > chimera:/home/bob#
> >
> > I know i must be doing something wrong ... iv attatched the .config im
> > using for my kernel in case anyone spots something i have done wrong
> >
> 
> try recompiling the kernel without the athlon optimimization, as a straight 
> i386. 
> 
> ben
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Re: XFree 4.2 server DIY (chrooted env)

[joost witteveen]

Ah, forgot to mention:


> 5 On the main system, startup xfs (apt-get install xfs, remove
>   the `no-listen = tcp' line in /etc/X11/fs/config),
>   and install xdm and activate it 
>   (easiest way is to add a "*" line in /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess),
>   and maybe remove those pesky `no tcp' lines from xdm too.

And, add the local fontserver to the XF86Config-4 file in the
chroot dir. For example, the "Files" section could look like this:

Section "Files"
FontPath"tcp/127.0.0.1:7100"
EndSection


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Re: Squid, Windows clients, RFC931, oh my.

[Peter Whysall]

On Sun, 2002-06-09 at 09:52, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Mark Roach  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >What you want is NTLM authentication. Unfortunately the current stable
> >version of squid does not have support for it. 
> >I have built a squid 2.5pre5 .deb(binary) package with NTLM support that
> >has been the proxy for ~150 users in my company for a few months now. 
> 
> You do know that the NTLM module is full of buffer overruns and
> sprintf vulnerabilities, and that exploits for it appear to exist?
> Remote root waiting to happen ..

If this entire system was in any way visible from beyond the corporate
firewall, it'd be a worry for me. As it is, it's entirely an internal
matter. The authentication mechanism is, for me, just to make the log
files look prettier.

Regards

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HDD vs. RAID (was Re: Lilo Q)

[Ian D. Stewart]

On 2002.06.08 22:33 Alice M. Pinard wrote:

As I'm continuing to try and troubleshoot a hd that doesn't seem to
want
to boot (promise ultra card, 60g hd) I just wanna doublecheck one
thing


Semi-OT

As the size of IDE hard drives increase, what are the 
advantages/disadvantages of using a single large hard drive as opposed 
to a RAID stack (say, 80 GB hard drive vs. raid tower w/ 4 20 GB hard 
drives) ?



Thanx,
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Make eth0 be eth1, something like eth0=eth1?

[AE Roy]

I have a laptop with a pcmciacard, and I want to use this as a
thinclientserver. But the thinclientserver packages I have, expect eth0 to
be my outer-network, and my eth1 to be the network for the thinclients. My
problem is that I only have eth0, since I only have 1 pcmciacard. I don't
need the outer-netorwk.

I'm looking for a way in which I can turn my eth0 into eth1. I've been
thru all the files in /etc/network but I didn't find what I'm looking for.

I was imagening something along the lines of eth0=eth1.

Anyone know anything about this?

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Php3 Problems

[Nik Engel]

Hi ! 
I have apache 1.3 running with php4 on debian woody. 
Unfortunatly my webserver cannot parse any php3 files. 
When i want to open files with this ending i get an unknown mime typ. 
i have added all mime types, as far as i am concerned: 


  AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
AddType application/x-httpd-php3 .php .php4 .php3
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php4 .php3 .phtml .php .inc
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps

AddType application/x-tar .tgz
AddType image/bmp .bmp


but as my server is using modules, (also the mime typ module) which is
always saying that it is already loaded when i stop/start the apache, i
guess i have to reload that module ? 
how can i unload apache modules ? 
or am i on the wron track ?

thankx 
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Re: apt-get dist-upgrade -u doesn't tell me what it's getting

[Colin Watson]

On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 08:34:50AM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> I think woody has been released (more-or-less) now.  On Friday, AJ
> posted a noticed (on -devel-announce) outlining the changes to the
> build infrastructure, and it sounded like everything was in place.
> After that when I updated, apt grabbed a packages file (from testing)
> and upgraded several packages.  That leads me to believe that woody is
> now stable, though I didn't see any mention of it on www.debian.org
> and the ftp repository didn't show it as stable.

No, it's not yet stable. There are still updates to be made, and the
infrastructure is still being tested.

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Re: apt-get dist-upgrade -u doesn't tell me what it's getting

[Derrick 'dman' Hudson]

On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 02:04:57AM -0400, Travis Crump wrote:
| ThanhVu Nguyen wrote:

| >Hit http://security.debian.org woody/updates/main Packages  

| >Hit http://security.debian.org woody/updates/non-free Packages  
| >Ign http://security.debian.org woody/updates/non-free Release

| Also, what exactly is: http://security.debian.org
| woody/updates/non-free Packages?  Someone more knowledgeable than me
| can feel free to correct me, but the whole reason that woody hasn't
| been released is that it isn't on security.debian.org yet.

I think woody has been released (more-or-less) now.  On Friday, AJ
posted a noticed (on -devel-announce) outlining the changes to the
build infrastructure, and it sounded like everything was in place.
After that when I updated, apt grabbed a packages file (from testing)
and upgraded several packages.  That leads me to believe that woody is
now stable, though I didn't see any mention of it on www.debian.org
and the ftp repository didn't show it as stable.  I expect to see a
release announcement any time now.

In any case, I would choose to put "stable" instead of "woody" on the
security line in my sources.list so that I don't need to change it for
each new stable release.

-D

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Re: OOo & java

[Jamin W . Collins]

On 09 Jun 2002 05:38:15 +0200
"Helgi Örn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Just what I suspected; both StarOffice and OpenOfficeO seem to accept
> only java 1.3.* and nothing else.

Works fine with 1.4 here.

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Re: relocation errors after upgrade

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

On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 13:07:10 +0200, Tobias Jahn wrote:
> fwbuilder: relocation error: /usr/lib/libgtkmm-1.2.so.0: undefined symbol: 
> __tiQ24SigC6Object
> guikachu: relocation error: /usr/lib/libgnomemm-1.2.so.9: undefined symbol: 
> __vt_Q24SigC5Scope
> aptitude: relocation error: /usr/local/lib/libsigc-1.0.so.0: undefined 
> symbol: __gxx_personality_v0
   ^
Why do you have a libsigc++ in /usr/local/lib when it is packaged as
libsigc++0 ?

> As I did not know where to start searching for the cause, I looked what
> these three libraries have in common, but that was not much :-(

All three of these binaries are from packages that depend on libsigc++0. It
looks like the libsigc++ you have in /usr/local/lib isn't ABI-compatible
with these binaries (e.g. because it was built with a different version of
g++). Check that fwbuilder, guikachu and aptitude work when you set
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib . If so, throw away the one in /usr/local.

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Re: Lilo Q

[Alice M. Pinard]

On Sun, 9 Jun 2002, Alvin Oga wrote:

> 
> hi ya alice
> 
> yeah...you can ignore the "/dev/hde1 is not the first disk" noise maker..
> 
> but, you have to confirm that you can boot from /dev/hde, /dev/hdf, ...
>   - move that linux disk to /dev/hdd temporarily to 
>   see if it will boot off hdd

I don't see how I could do that the whole reason I have the hard drive
on the Promise ultra is that it's a 60g hd and reportedly with even the 
most up to date bios available for my mb it will only see 32g

wouldn't putting a hd that it can't see all of be a problem? I'd be afraid
that it could get corrupted if I tried to boot on it under those
conditions

btw, if it helps any, in the process of all this I've discovered that my
motherboard is an asus tpx4 and my bios is a 109l (I can't decide if the
'award modular bios v4.51g' is a red herring or somehow relevant... but
the 109l shows up where the asus site says to look for the bios version)

(well, just checking if any bells are ringing for anyone out there) 

I did go to the asus ng to see if they had any ideas on whether the tpx4
is even capable of booting from an offboard controller but those who
responded so far seemed a bit confused by the concept of a linux boot
process and told me to check my 'boot files'. I think they're thinking
about windows but I figured I'd doublecheck on whether it was possible 
lilo might still be the culprit after all

> 
> - check your bios ... that you have hde listed
> 

I'm not sure what you mean here.

The onboard controller knows about the devices connected to it. During
bootup the Promise card is detected and in the processs shows that it has
detected the 60g hd is attached to it. If the mb's bios is having a
problem it would seem to in recognizing that the Promise card has its own
bios that I want boot control handed over to

> or move it around to be hda..
> 
> c ya
> alvin
> 
> 
> On Sat, 8 Jun 2002, Alice M. Pinard wrote:
> 
> > As I'm continuing to try and troubleshoot a hd that doesn't seem to want
> > to boot (promise ultra card, 60g hd) I just wanna doublecheck one thing
> ...
> 
> 


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RE: where is xwindows in debian potato rev6

[Kunal Shah]

>
>OOps, this is waiste of bandwidth.  You must be ex-REDHAT
>variant user.

Bingo, how did you know that ... :-)


--kunal




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RE: where is xwindows in debian potato rev6

[Kunal Shah]

>
>For someone new it's nice to know they can format their
>drives and
>start all over when something (anything) goes wrong. Apt
>and
>deselect are really great, but it does take some trial and
>error to
>find that out.

True, I tried four times and then I got intuition that if I change the
lines in source to file:/mnt/debina ... it will do. ( I was not having
cd drive on my pc but I had dumped everthing to dos partition )

--kunal





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Re: dselect first impressions

[Andrew Suffield]

On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 04:24:04PM +0200, Aaron Isotton wrote:
> > Here I list my first impressions of woody's dselect.  If you think
> > these are bugs, please file them in your name.  I'm don't feel like
> > submitting bug reports at this time.  I suppose I should try some of
> > the newer dselect alternatives.  Anyway,
> 
> [snip]
> 
> Try aptitude instead of dselect; it doesn't have many of its
> problems. It's IMHO much better, and it is the new "standard" package
> managing tool.

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache show aptitude
Package: aptitude
Priority: optional
Section: admin

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache show dpkg
Package: dpkg
Essential: yes
Priority: required
Section: base

dselect is "standard" by any reasonable definition of standard,
regardless of what some people would like to think.

Works fine, too. Specific problems with it should be directed to
[EMAIL PROTECTED], non-specific fluff should be ignored.

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