Re: APT Serious Bug
On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 01:20, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 11:47:24AM -0300, Guilherme Viebig wrote: > > I get this error message > > > > E: Internal error. could not immediate configuration (2) on libpam-modules > > > > Now my apt is bugged. > > Nope, it's not. Looks like possibly a bad package, though, someone > else posted about a different libpam package giving the same error. I didn't notice this thread earlier, but just in case no one has posted the fix for it yet, just install the packages manually using dpkg. i.e. apt-get install --download-only libpam-modules dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archive/libpam-modules*.deb You'll probably also need to install libpam0g along with it. There's a bug report already filed against libpam0g that gives this temp fix. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
2.4 kernel and USB problems.
hi, I'm having problems with a USB mouse (MS Optical Wheel mouse). I've compiled a 2.4 series kernel (2.4.21) and it works fine, except for an annoying problem where it doesn't seem to want to set up my USB mouse. I'm running this on a Dual Pentium Pro pc (Intel PR440FX motherboard). Everything else I need since self compiling the kernel seems to work fine. I initially installed using woody, but have since upgrade to testing/unstable, without much/many problems. I don't know what I've done wrong, am I using the wrong hotplug agent? have i made an error with the kernel compile? Jul 4 06:50:53 debian kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:07.2-2, assigned address=2 (error=-110) Jul 4 06:50:58 debian kernel: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout Jul 4 06:50:58 debian kernel: usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=2 (error=-110) Jul 4 06:50:58 debian kernel: hub.c: port 2, portstatus 303, change 0, 1.5 Mb/s Jul 4 06:50:58 debian kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:07.2-2, assigned address=2 (error=-110) Jul 4 06:51:03 debian kernel: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout Jul 4 06:51:03 debian kernel: usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=3 (error=-110) Jul 4 06:51:03 debian kernel: hub.c: port 1, portstatus 100, change 0, 12 Mb/s This is the error I get continuously if I have the usb mouse plugged in. I'm unsure why it does this. I know the mouse works fine (i've tested it on other systems), and that it works fine with this system as the original installed kernel (2.2.20) when I first put woody on set it up fine, so I'm lead to thinking I've made an error somewhere in my kernel config? The mouse works currently via a USB/ps2 converter fine, but this problem with the USB is niggling at me a bit. any help greatly appreciated. Thanks, Kelly -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cisco router simulator?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 03:04:46AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > I'll take a look at zebra later. Since people have also suggested > buying hardware, anybody know how much Cisco 2600 units are going for? Hmm, couldn't get zebra working. Oh well. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/BnBCJ5vLSqVpK2kRApNuAJoCHm/2qAP584PE1soo5xaU7xj7XwCg44yf dKjtdSW7DxfwFDEfMSgPXOI= =COTN -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cd recording
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 07:07:05PM -0300, James LeClair wrote: > Can anyone suggest a package for converting video to mpeg-1? avidemux and mplex. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/Bm/4J5vLSqVpK2kRAla5AJ40wqxBLcuaCbGp2qv8Y6mhgOBeVACZAbLe svJNKWRm75rK6dwBoGQMYUk= =YVDG -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB works partially
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 06:54:18PM +0200, Joan Tur wrote: > Hallo! > > USB support is working because I'm using both a ps2 and a usb mouse (HP > Omnibook XT1000 laptop), but: > > -running (as root) usbview it says it cannot access /proc/bus/usb/devices > -running "gphoto2 --auto-detect" doesn't find the camera. "gphoto2 > --list-ports" shows the usb port either. Looks like you need /proc support for USB in your kernel. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/Bm+CJ5vLSqVpK2kRAihGAJwMyGy4tUnUpvia7tVoxMRX7UbciACgpi0A SOqGUBQ7jFnzvzghWu/K8O0= =Fq1g -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: APT Serious Bug
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 11:47:24AM -0300, Guilherme Viebig wrote: > I get this error message > > E: Internal error. could not immediate configuration (2) on libpam-modules > > Now my apt is bugged. Nope, it's not. Looks like possibly a bad package, though, someone else posted about a different libpam package giving the same error. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/Bm4WJ5vLSqVpK2kRAtQRAJsHl2Wz9I6Hx4N5THKoS/H8y1nhLwCePlj9 zpqqhO25wG4e7wRsGSiIDa8= =BOjM -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sources.list question
On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 14:29:10 +0100 Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ::On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 06:04:45AM -0700, Wm. G. McGrath wrote: ::> I'm setting up my sources.list file again looking for faster, ::closer> mirrors. I've used netselect to find the best urls for my ::location> and setup, and have put together a comparitively small ::list of> mirrors on which to base the file. Ok so I've done that. ::> ::> Now I'd like to test each line in the file and know that it ::works.> Is there a simple way to do that? Is there a 'debug' mode, ::or> equivilent, for apt or sources.list? I want to confirm that ::I've got> the path for each url right, that the distributions and ::components> are correct too. :: ::Can't you just do 'apt-get update' (or, better, 'dselect update')? ::If the appropriate index files can't be fetched then apt-get will ::complain. No. I'm talking about deb lines in sources.list. Not package lists. I'd like to be sure that each url/line is checked. I've got backup urls that apt will normally ignore that I'd like to check. thanks, bill -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: How to make the debian system shut down with power off?
On July 2, 2003 06:07 pm, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > Yeah, I've been struggling with this too, and it has now gone from a minor > annoyance, to a big pain... I don't understand why I can't get it > working... Knoppix does it, so... So I'm glad you asked, so I can follow > up... > Knoppix has in /etc/modules the line apm power_off=1 which I believe is the missing piece to your puzzle. -- May source be with you! Stephen Cormier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: firebird + character display
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 09:47:00PM -0700, Steven Yap wrote: > ttf-kochi-gothic I needed this package to be able to see a shift-JIS page in mozilla, thanks!! emma -- Emma Jane Hogbin [[ 416 417 2868 ][ www.xtrinsic.com ]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The nature of testing and where can others help (Was Re: HowTofor Gnome2??)
On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 16:06, Jacob Anawalt wrote: > Chris, > > I am interested in learning Debian and contributing to the community. I > feel I am somewhat GNU/Linux savy, though I am a neophyte when it comes > to Debian. Perhaps my newness can bring out some confusion that people > who are more established in the system such as yourself may not notice. > I'm sure my newbie questions and attempts to help will be misdirected > from time to time. My experiances of the last three months, and more > especially the last two weeks, seem to coorispond with your explination > of stable, testing, and unstable. > > Unfortunatly for a Debian neophyte like myself your descriptions seem to > be contrary on some points to the statements describing the packages > found here: http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages. I may be > misunderstanding the last paragraph of your post, but the phrase > "choosing one of these options also brings you the bonus that you'll get > security updates more quickly as testing is the last place for security > updates to appear" seems quite opposite of the statement from the > packages web page "'unstable' is also not supported by the security > team". The packages page does say that testing does not get timely > security updates, it does not say it is the last place for security > updates after unstable and unofficial packages. You may be speaking from > experiance, implying that the unofficial packages found through > apt-get.org or the unstable packages are more likely to have security > patches applied than testing because developers would be activly > updating these packages whereas packages in testing have to pass the > automated processes criteria, but the conclusion is not directly stated > or guarenteed anywhere. Perhaps the packages page on the debian web site > should be re-worded to reflect your observations on the nature of testing. This is just the impression I get as a bystander, but I'm sure 101 list regulars will tear it apart if I'm too inaccurate .. The release process goes something like upstream | into unstable as soon as the maintainers can unstable | into testing after 10 days with no outstanding bugs, conflicts, etc testing | becomes stable after a considerable freeze + bug hunt stable The task of the security team is to backport critical fixes from upstream (and possibly some of their devising - I'm not sure, but I don't want to underestimate the job they do), into Stable's packages. So the way I see it, Unstable, and to an extent, Testing, don't have the same dire need of the security team, as fixes from upstream arrive there as part of the normal release process. They don't arrive into Stable without the security team's intervention. > The thread seems to be quickly drifing off topic of the origional > question of: > > Is there any documentation on how, using testing, to get the most > complete (applets, to, please!) Gnome2 installation possible? > > The answer seems to be no, there is not one that anyone who has > commented so far is aware of, and additionally it would probably be a > wasted effort to write one because the state of testing is not fixed. > The efforts would probably be best witten as a just a quick guide on > someone's website and is possibly already done by someone who's > backported Gnome2 to stable. > > Since we have already drifted OT a bit towards what testing is or should > be, it seems to me that the state of gnome2 can be a learning experiance > if we let it. It can help us determine what packages should be grouped > together as gnome2 so that when it hits stable if a security update > changes some core gnome2 components to the level that they no longer > play well without upgrading other gnome2 tools, the depenancies can be > fixed now (while in testing and unstable) so they are already in place > (in the future stable) to not allow an update to one portion without > updating all interrelated systems. > > I am trying to understand the auto-build process that moves packages > from unstable to testing. It seems that if the packages were defined so > that gnome2 desktop depended on nautilus2, gnome-control-center2 and > gnome-terminal (this list is not complete), then people couldn't > dist-upgrade to testing to try gnome2 out untill it was ready to go into > testing. If the rules for testing is that it's ok to stick the engine in > without a carburetor or exhaust system because they will go in sometime > down the line before it is sold to people, then I guess these > dependancies don't matter in testing, and maybe testing should have a > disclaimer "It's probably broken, but we don't want to hear about it > because it wasn't for sale yet anyway." Another "as a bystander" observation, this is the "into testing after 10 days with no outstanding bugs, conflicts, etc" mentioned above. A package won't (/shouldn't?) get into Testing until all it's dependencies are available
Re: Bootable Rescue CD-ROM
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 01:36:48PM +0200, Sebastian Kapfer wrote: > Any comments? What do you use? I use Knoppix and the debian rescue CD depending on what I need. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD0DBQE/BlDCJ5vLSqVpK2kRAoL6AJ9VNup1cVS0Z7wSFF+Utj2mQ2vFUgCMCu0i GCaKSSRfSX5nmojzLYH/ =TXIn -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB works partially (user won't access usb)
On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 14:55, Alexander Schmehl wrote: > * Joan Tur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030704 20:12]: > > > > Sounds like you didn't mount the "usb proc filesystem". Add "none > > > /proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults 0 0" to your /etc/fstab, enter "mount > > > /proc/bus/usb" and try again. > > Thanks, that has worked fine ;) > > Your are welcome. > > > > But now I'm able of downloading files as root, but not as user 8-? > > > > And user belongs to usb group... any idea? 8-? > > Sorry, I have no idea. I have only a small usb-stick, which runs out of > the box, and I have no experience with gphoto and that. > > > Yours sincerely > Alexander I believe the usb permissions daemon is designed to handle this .. package usb-perms I have that and the usb proc filesystem, and gphoto2 'Just Works'. HTH, Shaun -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cd recording
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 07:07:05PM -0300, James LeClair wrote: > Can anyone suggest a package for converting video to mpeg-1? TMPGenc. It's a Windows package, but it runs fine under WINE. Slowly, but fine. Free gratis, but not OSS. > And while were at it, what do woody users prefer for burning: > music compositions, vcd, iso etc...? I just use cdrecord and cdrdao. None of the GUI front-ends added much from my viewpoint. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: local mirror based on APT source.list format?
* Daniel B. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030705 00:08]: > What I'd like to have it this: > - I specify what to mirror using a list of lines like in sources.list, > allowing combinations such as: > - woody > - testing (sharing pool subdirectories/files with woody) > - the Gnome2 backport to woody > - A cron job updates my local mirror. > - When I decide to install a package, APT installs from the local > mirror. Maybe you are looking for apt-proxy? Yours sincerely Alexander pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: MIDI Converter
On July 4, 2003 05:17 pm, Bill Webster wrote: > I have a need to convert several songs that are currently in the midi > format and I need to ultimately put them onto a music CD. > > Can someone give me a clue as to how I can go about this? timidity can covert from midi to wav which can then be burnt to CD R. Pluschke -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MIDI Converter
I have a need to convert several songs that are currently in the midi format and I need to ultimately put them onto a music CD. Can someone give me a clue as to how I can go about this? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: grep-dctrl
On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 01:30:14AM +0200, Rudy Gevaert wrote: > dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 112550 > package `grep-dctrl': > error in Version string `': version string has embedded spaces > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) I fixed it: That line had a strang input: ]88 \ blaba some kind of control character. I replaced it with the correct version number. Rudy -- Rudy Gevaert[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web pagehttp://www.webworm.org GNU/Linux user and Savannah hacker http://savannah.gnu.org He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know. - Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: local mirror based on APT source.list format?
Allister McRae wrote: > > read into the dpkg and apt-get (maybe even apt-* files). There must be a > way with those...you can do almost anything like you describe once you > figure em out :) Last I knew, apt-get didn't have any mirroring capability like I described. Do you know of some changes, or are you just assuming that it can do anything? -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
pptpd help
Greetings, Sorry about the crosspost--the machine in question is running testing, but there isn't much traffic on the testing list... I'm trying to setup pptp from a Windows XP machine to a Debian server. Both machines are on private networks, with the Internet in between. I got things working to a point (ignoring the MPPE encryption mess for now)--I can connect from the XP machine to the Debian server, but my problem is that I can only talk to the Debian server--not any other machines on the Debian server's network. Kernel is kernel-image-2.4.20-3-k6_2.4.20-9_i386.deb with the kernel-mppe patch. I have the router on the Debian side configured to pass traffic on port 1723 to the Debian server. XP Machine --- LinkSys Router -- Internet -- LinkSys Router -- Debian server (192.168.1.0/24) 172.16.1.4 172.16.1.254 ... 192.168.1.254 192.168.1.252 I have proxyarp in the pptpd.options file, and a proxy arp entry seems to be added to the arp table: Address HWtype HWaddress Flags Mask Iface 192.168.1.1 ether 00:E0:06:ED:DF:4E C eth0 192.168.1.254ether 00:06:25:89:A2:85 C eth0 192.168.1.101* MP eth0 And here is the routing table. Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 192.168.1.101 * 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 ppp0 192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth0 default 192.168.1.254 0.0.0.0 UG0 00 eth0 When I ping other hosts on the Debian server's network the traffic is going across the PPTP link, but nothing comes back. What am I missing? --cro -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
grep-dctrl
Hi, I installed mysql-server on my server, and now I want to install lynx and/or ntpclient. This gives an error: kain:/var/log/apache# apt-get install lynx Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: lynx 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 1445kB of archives. After unpacking 3584kB will be used. Get:1 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main lynx 2.8.4.1b-3.2 [1445kB] Fetched 1445kB in 2s (709kB/s) dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 112550 package `grep-dctrl': error in Version string `': version string has embedded spaces E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) kain:/var/log/apache# apt-get install ntpdate Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: ntpdate 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/104kB of archives. After unpacking 233kB will be used. Preconfiguring packages ... dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 112550 package `grep-dctrl': error in Version string `': version string has embedded spaces E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) kain:/var/log/apache# How can I fix this? Thanks in advance, -- Rudy Gevaert[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web pagehttp://www.webworm.org GNU/Linux user and Savannah hacker http://savannah.gnu.org There is a country in Europe where multiple-choice tests are illegal. - Sigfried Hulzer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Repartitioned, now can't mount root
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 04:03:11PM -0400, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: > On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 20:18, Ryan Heise wrote: > > > > When you "failed to mount" what command line or arguments did > > > you use? What's "-t XXX", etc.? > > > > I didn't use -t, just: > > > > mount /dev/hda1 root Strangely, I just tried the exact same command this morning and it worked: # mount /dev/hda1 root !!! I wonder what this could mean? Anyway, now I can mount this partition! I opened up lilo.conf and found one mistake (changed install= from something like boot-menu.b to "menu"), fixed it, reran lilo and rebooted. Success! It sounds unlikely that the install= line would cause this. Would the cause of my problem more likely be something simple, like I forgot to run lilo after my last kernel upgrade? It was so long ago, I don't remember what I did. I "thought" I just upgraded and reran lilo itself... Thanks again, Ryan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: local mirror based on APT source.list format?
read into the dpkg and apt-get (maybe even apt-* files). There must be a way with those...you can do almost anything like you describe once you figure em out :) Cheers, Allister At 06:08 PM 7/4/2003 -0400, Daniel B. wrote: For maintaining a local partial Debian mirror, is there any tool that takes an APT-style sources.list file as the specification of things to mirror? And does it download packages _before_ you decide to install them (as opposed to archiving packages after downloading them on demand)? What I'd like to have it this: - I specify what to mirror using a list of lines like in sources.list, allowing combinations such as: - woody - testing (sharing pool subdirectories/files with woody) - the Gnome2 backport to woody - A cron job updates my local mirror. - When I decide to install a package, APT installs from the local mirror. Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The nature of testing and where can others help (Was Re: HowTo for Gnome2??)
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 10:40:34PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 03:13:10PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > > IIRC, there was an indication a while back that Gnome2 was being > > manually forced through into Testing. > > No, it's not. I sit corrected then. > The components that have so far been upgraded were upgraded entirely > automatically. The dependencies within the GNOME 2 packages are simply > not strict enough to prevent (say) gnome-panel being installed into > testing with an older gnome-control-center Would this not constitute a bug? > (and it's possible that they can't be, which is why releases aren't > automatic either ...). I find it hard to believe that the dependancies for the Gnome packages couldn't have been set to stop this from happening. -- Jamin W. Collins To be nobody but yourself when the whole world is trying it's best night and day to make you everybody else is to fight the hardest battle any human being will fight. -- E.E. Cummings -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cd recording
Can anyone suggest a package for converting video to mpeg-1? And while were at it, what do woody users prefer for burning: music compositions, vcd, iso etc...? Thanks, James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cannot mount cdrom if I use GRUB
On Friday 04 July 2003 5:13 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Marino Fernandez wrote: > > This must be a very simple and dumb problem, but I cannot figure it out. > > > > If I boot with LILO, I can mount my CD/DVD w/o any problem. > > If I boot with GRUB I get an error message that says that my /dev/dvd is > > not a valid block device (same with /dev/cdrom, /dev/sr0, /dev/scd0, even > > as root). > > > > I have this in fstabs: > > /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0 > > I have this in lilo.conf: > > append="hda=scsi hdb=scsi hdc=scsi hdd=scsi apm=power-off nomce > > wheelmouse" I have this in /boot/grub/menu.lst: > > # kopt=root=/dev/hda13 ro vga=791 hdc=scsi > > did you try hdc=ide-scsi? Thank you, that was it!. Now I have this in /boot/grub/menu.lst: title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.4.21-686 root(hd0,12) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-686 root=/dev/hda13 ro vga=791 hdc=ide-scsi savedefault boot -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Update cd image for Woody?
Kevin McKinley: > CD #1 of Woody 3.0r1 is available here (among other places): > ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian-iso/ I don't want to update to 3.0r1 cd images, I want an update cd (3.0->current) to be used in *addition* to the current set. Basically something with everything from security.debian.org for Woody (bit arranged as a cd). Does such a thing not exist? (Please Cc replies, I do not read this list directly) -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ I do not read or respond to mail with HTML attachments. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The nature of testing and where can others help (Was Re: HowTo for Gnome2??)
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 03:13:10PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 02:06:37PM -0600, Jacob Anawalt wrote: > > If the rules for testing is that it's ok to stick the engine in > > without a carburetor or exhaust system because they will go in > > sometime down the line before it is sold to people, then I guess these > > dependancies don't matter in testing, and maybe testing should have a > > disclaimer "It's probably broken, but we don't want to hear about it > > because it wasn't for sale yet anyway." > > IIRC, there was an indication a while back that Gnome2 was being > manually forced through into Testing. No, it's not. The components that have so far been upgraded were upgraded entirely automatically. The dependencies within the GNOME 2 packages are simply not strict enough to prevent (say) gnome-panel being installed into testing with an older gnome-control-center (and it's possible that they can't be, which is why releases aren't automatic either ...). -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie to spamassassin- How to make it learn?
On Friday 04 July 2003 9:34 am, SRIKANTH NS wrote: > Hi > Disgusted with the amount of spam received, I installed > Spamassassin2.54 and configured it, It works properly for the past one > month. I use fetchmail to receive mail and invoke sylpheed to read > them from /var/spool/ mail/ srikanth folder and the spam goes to > "caughtspam " file in my home directory . > > Nowadays I see one or two mails slipping past spamassassin. I saw that > spamassassin can be trained. man pages did not reveal much. Since the > mails are read in sylpheed how to point it out to SA? > sa-learn command also does not work, it says command is not found. > Can any body give some pointers or some links where tutroials can be > read.? > Thanks in advance > > N S Srikanth I do this: sa-learn --spam --dir /home/Marino/Mail/Spam/cur sa-learn --ham --dir /home/Marino/Mail/inbox/cur Note that /home/Marino/Mail/Spam/cur is the directory where I keep spam (I use KMail). /home/Marino/Mail/inbox/cur is where my good mail is (ham). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bootable Rescue CD-ROM
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 01:36:48PM +0200, after much thought, Sebastian Kapfer spake thus: > > I'm looking for a bootable rescue CD-ROM with some Linux-based OS on it > (preferrably Debian). It should include utilities like fdisk and mkfs, > parted, grub, bash (please, no ash!), vim, ssh and a reasonable ftp (what > about ncftp) client. lynx, X are nice, but not a requirement. It should be > capable of mounting common filesystems like ext2, xfs, vfat. > > Any comments? What do you use? Damn Small Linux - http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/Be5tZyXhknb+33gRApQ4AJ0SiiS3agsbJ53pl/vP04rl05M/3wCeP+kR UG55uxu26Dji/N38rXzRlLI= =GyRc -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Where to set moz GUI font?
> So, there seems to be some mix-up in moz 1.3 between the "GUI" and
> the "content". Is this a bug? Am I the only one to experience his?
Does your userChrome.css also include the following lines at the top?
/*
* Do not remove the @namespace line -- it's required for correct functioning
*/
@namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul";); /*
set default namespace to XUL */
I dunno if this would matter.
Andrew.
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Re: The nature of testing and where can others help (Was Re: HowTo for Gnome2??)
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 02:06:37PM -0600, Jacob Anawalt wrote: > Unfortunatly for a Debian neophyte like myself your descriptions seem > to be contrary on some points to the statements describing the > packages found here: http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages. I may be > misunderstanding the last paragraph of your post, but the phrase > "choosing one of these options also brings you the bonus that you'll > get security updates more quickly as testing is the last place for > security updates to appear" seems quite opposite of the statement from > the packages web page "'unstable' is also not supported by the > security team". Unstable is not supported, but it is where new packages must filter through before reaching Testing. So, you have Stable which receives direct security updates. And Unstable which will no doubt rapidly have a new package uploaded by the maintainer when a security problem is found. And Testing that must wait for packages in Unstable to filter down to it. > You may be speaking from experiance, implying that the unofficial > packages found through apt-get.org or the unstable packages are more > likely to have security patches applied than testing because > developers would be activly updating these packages whereas packages > in testing have to pass the automated processes criteria, Exactly. > If the rules for testing is that it's ok to stick the engine in > without a carburetor or exhaust system because they will go in > sometime down the line before it is sold to people, then I guess these > dependancies don't matter in testing, and maybe testing should have a > disclaimer "It's probably broken, but we don't want to hear about it > because it wasn't for sale yet anyway." IIRC, there was an indication a while back that Gnome2 was being manually forced through into Testing. My understanding of the automated process is that a package can not automatically make it into testing unless it's dependancies can be met by other packages already in Testing or those migrating with it. -- Jamin W. Collins This is the typical unix way of doing things: you string together lots of very specific tools to accomplish larger tasks. -- Vineet Kumar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Evolution shell error
Hi, I thought I would give Evolution a try just to see what it was like. I installed it and ran it. It came up with the first screen of setup information, but I was called away and selected "Cancel" and it closed down cleanly. I came back 10 mins later and ran evolution again, but this time I got the error message; "Cannot initialise the Ximian Evolution shell: Configuration Database not found" I haven't had time to set it up, let alone screw it up! I have done a search through the messages in the archives, but nothing leaps out at me. Are there any suggestions as to where I should start to look for a solution? Keith -- ___ _ Keith O'Connell. -o) Maidstone, Kent. (UK) /\\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] _\_v -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
local mirror based on APT source.list format?
For maintaining a local partial Debian mirror, is there any tool that takes an APT-style sources.list file as the specification of things to mirror? And does it download packages _before_ you decide to install them (as opposed to archiving packages after downloading them on demand)? What I'd like to have it this: - I specify what to mirror using a list of lines like in sources.list, allowing combinations such as: - woody - testing (sharing pool subdirectories/files with woody) - the Gnome2 backport to woody - A cron job updates my local mirror. - When I decide to install a package, APT installs from the local mirror. Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Where to set moz GUI font?
> Thanks to Benedict Verheyen and Andrew Schulman for their answers. > I wonder what I am doing wrong, because both methods work only > partially in my case (Sarge system + mozilla from Sid!). The > results were as follows: > > a) the .gtkrc approach: this changes the fonts in, e.g., >gtk-gnutella, but has no effect on mozilla 1.3. > b) the userChrome.css approach: this changes the font-size in >mozilla alright, but not the font-family. The font-family (in >moz 1.3) is determined by the setting in Edit/Preferences/ >Appearance/Fonts, and then whatever is selected as >"Proportional". So if I select "proportional=sans-serif", >and "sans-serif=trebuchet", then the GUI font becomes >trebuchet. > > So, there seems to be some mix-up in moz 1.3 between the "GUI" and > the "content". Is this a bug? Am I the only one to experience his? No, I've never seen this happen. In content, the "!important" flag is supposed to make its setting override page-specific settings. In chrome, I'm not sure what other settings there are to override, but there may be some somewhere. Or, maybe you have a syntax error (hidden character?) in that line which is causing Moz to ignore it. Anyway I don't know why content settings would affect chrome. A CSS debug mode could show you which settings are applied from which files in what order. But if there is such a mode, I'm not aware of it. For a few other ideas about chrome settings, see http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html. Sorry. Good luck. Andrew. -- To reply by e-mail, change "deadspam.com" to "alumni.utexas.net" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: suggestions for a good MTA?
Thanks to everyone who pointed out that exim (exim4, in this case) is actually able to handle everything I wanted. In the end, the headers_rewrite option at the transport level was able to handle the bulk of the changes. I still had to use the rewrite section to globally munge the envelope FROM entry (because my ISP requires it, and it can't be modified at transport-time), but that one's an acceptable compromise. --- Tom Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need some suggestions on a good MTA for a workstation. Here's what > I'd like for it to be able to handle. > > 1. Immediate delivery of local mail (messages from daemons, etc)... > in > other words I'd like to avoid shipping it off to my ISP, since I'm > just > going to turn around and re-fetch it. No address rewriting should > occur in this case, because that makes it harder to see "at a glance" > that it was local. > > 2. Forward outgoing mail to a smarthost, after rewriting the > addresses > as appropriate. > > The hard part seems to be selective rewriting. Everything I've > looked > at seems to either want to forward everything (nullmailer), or > rewrite > no matter what (exim, etc.). Is there anything which can handle > this? > > __ > Do you Yahoo!? > SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! > http://sbc.yahoo.com > __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The nature of testing and where can others help (Was Re: HowTofor Gnome2??)
On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 14:06:37 -0600 Jacob Anawalt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dependancies don't matter in testing, and maybe testing should have a > disclaimer "It's probably broken, but we don't want to hear about it > because it wasn't for sale yet anyway." I thought that was what unstable was. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The nature of testing and where can others help (Was Re: HowTo forGnome2??)
Chris, I am interested in learning Debian and contributing to the community. I feel I am somewhat GNU/Linux savy, though I am a neophyte when it comes to Debian. Perhaps my newness can bring out some confusion that people who are more established in the system such as yourself may not notice. I'm sure my newbie questions and attempts to help will be misdirected from time to time. My experiances of the last three months, and more especially the last two weeks, seem to coorispond with your explination of stable, testing, and unstable. Unfortunatly for a Debian neophyte like myself your descriptions seem to be contrary on some points to the statements describing the packages found here: http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages. I may be misunderstanding the last paragraph of your post, but the phrase "choosing one of these options also brings you the bonus that you'll get security updates more quickly as testing is the last place for security updates to appear" seems quite opposite of the statement from the packages web page "'unstable' is also not supported by the security team". The packages page does say that testing does not get timely security updates, it does not say it is the last place for security updates after unstable and unofficial packages. You may be speaking from experiance, implying that the unofficial packages found through apt-get.org or the unstable packages are more likely to have security patches applied than testing because developers would be activly updating these packages whereas packages in testing have to pass the automated processes criteria, but the conclusion is not directly stated or guarenteed anywhere. Perhaps the packages page on the debian web site should be re-worded to reflect your observations on the nature of testing. The thread seems to be quickly drifing off topic of the origional question of: Is there any documentation on how, using testing, to get the most complete (applets, to, please!) Gnome2 installation possible? The answer seems to be no, there is not one that anyone who has commented so far is aware of, and additionally it would probably be a wasted effort to write one because the state of testing is not fixed. The efforts would probably be best witten as a just a quick guide on someone's website and is possibly already done by someone who's backported Gnome2 to stable. Since we have already drifted OT a bit towards what testing is or should be, it seems to me that the state of gnome2 can be a learning experiance if we let it. It can help us determine what packages should be grouped together as gnome2 so that when it hits stable if a security update changes some core gnome2 components to the level that they no longer play well without upgrading other gnome2 tools, the depenancies can be fixed now (while in testing and unstable) so they are already in place (in the future stable) to not allow an update to one portion without updating all interrelated systems. I am trying to understand the auto-build process that moves packages from unstable to testing. It seems that if the packages were defined so that gnome2 desktop depended on nautilus2, gnome-control-center2 and gnome-terminal (this list is not complete), then people couldn't dist-upgrade to testing to try gnome2 out untill it was ready to go into testing. If the rules for testing is that it's ok to stick the engine in without a carburetor or exhaust system because they will go in sometime down the line before it is sold to people, then I guess these dependancies don't matter in testing, and maybe testing should have a disclaimer "It's probably broken, but we don't want to hear about it because it wasn't for sale yet anyway." When I try to learn about gnome2, it is presented by gnome.org as "Gnome Desktop 2.0" http://www.gnome.org/learn/users-guide/2.0/. It talks about window managers, nautilus file manager, and the panel as one system, not as several seperate systems you might want to use individually. I wouldn't expect to find apache2 executable and apache1.3 modules in testing with apache2 giving me errors because it can't link to the 1.3 modules, unless I also had apache1.3 executable and the two packages co-existed and functioned independantly of eachother. While gnome and gnome2 seem to co-exist to some degree, I do get errors when using the system because all the components are not gnome2. Back to my interest in helping out. I don't have any intention to be a whiner or burden on people such as yourself who are graciously investing time and effort into bringing software such as gnome2 into the Debian system. I understand that we don't anticipate everything and mistakes happen. I loved the statement from Michael H. "'Oops.' GNOME in testing seems to be in very poor shape right now." It was a simple statement free of any scalding words or finger pointing, yet acknowleding that yes, that isn't how he would expect it to work. I would like
Re: Compiling kernel with patches
On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 20:32:38 +0200 Christophe Courtois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to add debianlogo (from sarge ; as a first patch before trying > something else) to my 2.4.21 kernel. The command line is : > > nice -n 19 fakeroot make-kpkg --append-to-version=.ccs.25+debianlogo > --revision 1 --added-patches=debianlogo kernel_image > > ...but it does not seem to work (still the pinguin at boot). You seem to have a good command line. Do you have a directory /usr/src/kernel-patches/all/debianlogo? How is it owned? Does it contain the files "debian-logo-2.2.x.gz" and "debian-logo-2.4.x.gz"? Have you successfully applied the debianlogo patch to any other kernels? Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Update cd image for Woody?
On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 05:15, Kevin McKinley wrote: > On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 19:39:08 +0200 > > Alexander Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Kevin McKinley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030704 19:25]: > > > I haven't tried this, but I wonder if it would be possible to rsync > > > that against a local copy of Woody 3.0, and avoid downloading the whole > > > CD. > > > > Use jigdo, which downloads only files, which have not allready > > downloaded (or which can't be found on your old disc set), and creates > > a new disc image. > > That's not quite what I had in mind. > > Suppose I already have an ISO image of Debian 3.0. I'd like to have 3.0r1 > instead. > > Is it possible to rsync so that the 3.0 ISO becomes the 3.0r1 ISO, without > downloading the whole thing? > You can use jigdo to get the update image. It's 138 meg plus the jigdo overhead at the outset. Having got hte thing you can then use jigdo again to convert your 3.0r0 iso images to 3.0r1 isos. hth Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Where to set moz GUI font?
Thanks to Benedict Verheyen and Andrew Schulman for their answers. I wonder what I am doing wrong, because both methods work only partially in my case (Sarge system + mozilla from Sid!). The results were as follows: a) the .gtkrc approach: this changes the fonts in, e.g., gtk-gnutella, but has no effect on mozilla 1.3. b) the userChrome.css approach: this changes the font-size in mozilla alright, but not the font-family. The font-family (in moz 1.3) is determined by the setting in Edit/Preferences/ Appearance/Fonts, and then whatever is selected as "Proportional". So if I select "proportional=sans-serif", and "sans-serif=trebuchet", then the GUI font becomes trebuchet. So, there seems to be some mix-up in moz 1.3 between the "GUI" and the "content". Is this a bug? Am I the only one to experience his? Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Update cd image for Woody?
On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 19:39:08 +0200 Alexander Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Kevin McKinley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030704 19:25]: > > > I haven't tried this, but I wonder if it would be possible to rsync that > > against a local copy of Woody 3.0, and avoid downloading the whole CD. > > Use jigdo, which downloads only files, which have not allready > downloaded (or which can't be found on your old disc set), and creates > a new disc image. That's not quite what I had in mind. Suppose I already have an ISO image of Debian 3.0. I'd like to have 3.0r1 instead. Is it possible to rsync so that the 3.0 ISO becomes the 3.0r1 ISO, without downloading the whole thing? Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB works partially (user won't access usb)
* Joan Tur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030704 20:12]: > > Sounds like you didn't mount the "usb proc filesystem". Add "none > > /proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults 0 0" to your /etc/fstab, enter "mount > > /proc/bus/usb" and try again. > Thanks, that has worked fine ;) Your are welcome. > But now I'm able of downloading files as root, but not as user 8-? > > And user belongs to usb group... any idea? 8-? Sorry, I have no idea. I have only a small usb-stick, which runs out of the box, and I have no experience with gphoto and that. Yours sincerely Alexander pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Bootable Rescue CD-ROM
On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 16:00:24 +0200, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > You can check out the Superrescue from the Kernel distri mirrors > (ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/dist/superrescue/v2) > > Its RedHat based... but pretty useful. Thank you, I'll try it out! -- Best Regards, | Hi! I'm a .signature virus. Copy me into Sebastian | your ~/.signature to help me spread! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HowTo for Gnome2??
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 07:44:02PM +0200, Sebastian Kapfer wrote: > On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 05:00:13 +0200, Michael Heironimus wrote: > > > Is anybody keeping score on how many different and unrelated font > > configuration systems we have now? > > Ermm... XF86Config... and fontconfig. What else? I guess I'm not so much thinking of independent systems as of different places people have to look when something's not right. XF86Config, Xft, a font server if you run one, fontconfig for GTK2, and let's not forget gtkrc, KDE, and X resources. If you want to be anal there are also all those apps that use their own font configuration, like the Mozilla-based browsers. > My remaining GNOME 1 apps continue to work fine under GNOME 2. The bigger > problem is that the GNOME 2 development seemingly involved dropping as > many options/preferences as possible... :-( I hear you there. I'm waiting for GNOME3 to further improve usability by removing the ability to launch applications. As soon as you log in, it should just automatically start all of the applications that the GNOME developers think you should be running. After all, they're such experts on how everybody should be using their desktops. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Compiling kernel with patches
I'd like to add debianlogo (from sarge ; as a first patch before trying something else) to my 2.4.21 kernel. The command line is : nice -n 19 fakeroot make-kpkg --append-to-version=.ccs.25+debianlogo --revision 1 --added-patches=debianlogo kernel_image ...but it does not seem to work (still the pinguin at boot). I tried to set up this (although I thought make-kpkg would set it up alone): PATCHES=debianlogo PATCH_KERNEL=AUTO KPATCH_debianlogo=2.4.20 # as debianlogo does not seem to be available for 2.4.21 But that's not better. -- Christophe Courtois - Ostwald, Alsace, France http://www.courtois.cc/ - Clé PGP : 0F33E837 -- For future reference - don't anybody else try to send patches as vi scripts, please. Yes, it's manly, but let's face it, so is bungee-jumping with the cord tied to your testicles. -- Linus Torvalds, linux-kernel, Sun Jul 14 2002 - 19:10:40 EST -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Very big files with tar
On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 20:57, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 12:50:52PM +0200, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > > I'd like to do a backup to another partition using tar. Here are about > > 9GB data to be saved. After a while tar complaints about a to big output > > file (i think max size is around 2GB). Is there a way to split the output > > in more files? > > Have you looked into the -z or -j options? My experience with -j (bzip2) option is that it gives slightly better compression than -z (gzip) at the cost of 5 to 10 times longer to do the job. Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HowTo for Gnome2??
On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 05:00:13 +0200, Michael Heironimus wrote: > Is anybody keeping score on how many different and unrelated font > configuration systems we have now? Ermm... XF86Config... and fontconfig. What else? >> 2) The Gnome Settings Daemon was not installed, and it repeatedly >>complains about that lack. I can't find any package that indicates >>that it might contain this semi-mythical daemon. > > I think that's because you need the GNOME Control Center, and that > hasn't made it in to testing yet. Core pieces of GNOME2 haven't been > moved from unstable to testing, while other pieces have. You're thinking correctly. This "semi-mythical daemon" lives in gnome-control-center. IMO this package should be a dependency of gnome-session. Otherwise fools like myself forget installing it... > I'm not sure that GNOME 1 and 2 could easily coexist even if the > packages did allow it. They have different pieces of infrastructure, and > GNOME applications tend to start up any infrastructure they need that > isn't already running. And then they leave it running when they exit. My remaining GNOME 1 apps continue to work fine under GNOME 2. The bigger problem is that the GNOME 2 development seemingly involved dropping as many options/preferences as possible... :-( -- Best Regards, | Hi! I'm a .signature virus. Copy me into Sebastian | your ~/.signature to help me spread! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what is bf2.4, actually?
#include * Colin Watson [Thu, Jul 03 2003, 02:44:18PM]: > When you see "bf2.4" in a kernel package's version number, it indicates > the fairly stripped-down kernel that's installed by default when you Sorry, "stripped-down" is just wrong wording here. It has more drivers that the actuall "2.2.x-vanilla" kernel for Potato. The only things not available in bf2.4 are some exotic devices and gamer hardware, and many people used it as before the ptrace exploit came to daylight. MfG, Eduard. -- und warum ist der nicht so schön bunt wie bei Suse? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HowTo for Gnome2??
On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 08:10:37 -0600 "John W. M. Stevens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> If you're absolutely opposed to any unstable packages, then I >> guess you're screwed. That's what you get for running testing. > > What, are you saying that I'm less likely to get screwed by running > experimental, than testing? > > I didn't know that. Why? I wouldn't say you're less likely to get screwed by running experimental. I'd say that you're *much* less likely to get screwed by running a GNOME2 backport to woody, and generally less likely to get screwed by running sid. In general, up until the pre-release package freeze on testing, it's a bad idea to think of testing as an intact version of Debian. I tend to think of testing as kind of like a big cardboard box in which the different elements of the upcoming release are being placed, continually being replaced by new versions as they become available (according to the rules for stuff moving from unstable to testing). At any given point, up until the time of release, it's possible for stuff that will need to be in that box at release-time to not be there yet; and it's possible for some of the stuff in that box to not get along well with other stuff in that box. In general, people try to avoid stuff going into testing that will cause problems for people who track it closely; but it still happens sometimes. A number of GNOME2 packages apparently haven't made it down into testing yet. Thus, any GNOME2 installation drawn from testing is bound to be incomplete, and have problems. That's the nature of testing; stuff like that happens. And when people tracking testing experience problems with GNOME2 at this point, that's not a problem with GNOME2 or testing; the problem is with the expectation that GNOME2 in sarge should necessarily work. Put another way, it's no more a problem with testing than the fact that a car halfway down an assembly line doesn't work is a problem with the car; instead, the problem is with the expectation that a car at that stage of assembly *should* work. So what to do? If all you really want is GNOME2, then your best option is running woody + a backport of GNOME2 to woody (see www.apt-get.org). If you need official packages, then your best bet is to bite the bullet and run sid. Choosing one of these options also brings you the bonus that you'll get security updates more quickly, as testing is the last place for security updates to appear (since testing won't see security updates to packages until the updated versions are put into sid and work through the process of packages moving from sid to testing). -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized." - Chief Luther Standing Bear -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: Update cd image for Woody?
* Kevin McKinley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030704 19:25]: > I haven't tried this, but I wonder if it would be possible to rsync that > against a local copy of Woody 3.0, and avoid downloading the whole CD. Use jigdo, which downloads only files, which have not allready downloaded (or which can't be found on your old disc set), and creates a new disc image. Yours sincerely Alexander pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: USB works partially
* Joan Tur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030704 18:54]: > - -running (as root) usbview it says it cannot access /proc/bus/usb/devices > - -running "gphoto2 --auto-detect" doesn't find the camera. "gphoto2 > - --list-ports" shows the usb port either. Sounds like you didn't mount the "usb proc filesystem". Add "none /proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults 0 0" to your /etc/fstab, enter "mount /proc/bus/usb" and try again. Yours sincerely Alexander pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: hda died, moved hdb... SOLVED
On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 13:19:06 -0400 Kevin McKinley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 12:45:30 -0400 > Antonio Rodr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thanks to all of you. Finally got it. Small how to for future > > reference. Steps: > > 1. Boot with the installation CD (any should work, I used #1). > > 2. Press F3 for information about possibilities (may be skipped?) > > 3. type rescue root=/dev/hda1 > > 4. type in password for root, remount to write as indicated. > > 5. Change /etc/fstab to reflect hda instead of hdb. > > 6. Run update-grub. > > 7. Edit /boot/grub/menu.1st as needed. > > 8. Reboot. > > 9. Enjoy. > > 10. Contribute to the community. > > Insert step 5a. Run grub-install /dev/hda. > > I'm not sure why you didn't need to do this. When I changed hard > drives the system wouldn't boot until I did. You are right. I did it too. Had forgotten. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wireless tcp/ip multi-line telephone solutions w/ answering machinesand VRU
Anyone know of hardware / software (prefer free) for: wireless telephone tcp/ip with a gateway to the POTS multi-line w/ digital answering machines - stores to disk web interface for management and voice mail listening programable VRU (java prefered or at least script not C) for use with a small office -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Update cd image for Woody?
On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 16:48:03 +0100 (CET) Peter Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello! > > Is there any cd image available with all the updates made since the > initial release (security stuff mainly)? I have made Woody cds, and I > want to update a non-broadband machine with the security updates > without hogging a modem for several hours (expensive!) CD #1 of Woody 3.0r1 is available here (among other places): ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian-iso/ I haven't tried this, but I wonder if it would be possible to rsync that against a local copy of Woody 3.0, and avoid downloading the whole CD. Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hda died, moved hdb... SOLVED
On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 12:45:30 -0400 Antonio Rodr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks to all of you. Finally got it. Small how to for future reference. > Steps: > 1. Boot with the installation CD (any should work, I used #1). > 2. Press F3 for information about possibilities (may be skipped?) > 3. type rescue root=/dev/hda1 > 4. type in password for root, remount to write as indicated. > 5. Change /etc/fstab to reflect hda instead of hdb. > 6. Run update-grub. > 7. Edit /boot/grub/menu.1st as needed. > 8. Reboot. > 9. Enjoy. > 10. Contribute to the community. Insert step 5a. Run grub-install /dev/hda. I'm not sure why you didn't need to do this. When I changed hard drives the system wouldn't boot until I did. Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bootable Rescue CD-ROM
On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 10:29, Sebastian Kapfer wrote: > On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 15:40:18 +0200, Kent West wrote: > > > I use Knoppix (http://www.knoppix.org). > > As I wrote in my original email, Knoppix seems to fight with a chrooted > lilo. Don't know why though... > > -- > Best Regards, | Hi! I'm a .signature virus. Copy me into > Sebastian | your ~/.signature to help me spread! While Kent doesn't fall into this group, there are some on the list that seem to reply "Boot Knoppix" as the response to anything. While Knoppix has a role as a demonstrator, tester, and tool to use on systems with serious operational impairment (aka Windows,) it isn't *exactly* the universal solution some automatically judge it to be. -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Automount
Thanks for the link. Since I am a newbie, could you please explain how do I apply a patch to the kernel? I'm very familiary with kernel compiling. Thanks again. Zee - Original Message - From: "Mario Vukelic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 7:33 PM Subject: Re: Automount > On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 00:52, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > > > I think you want supermount: > > > > http://supermount-ng.sourceforge.net/ > > > > It's not integrated into Debian, AFAIK. > > Con Kolivas' patch set for 2.4.21 includes it > http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/ . I recommend the patch > set generally for its numerous performance patches. No other action than > enabling it in the kernel conf and changing fstab was needed > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bootable Rescue CD-ROM
On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 14:50:08 +0200, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > LNX-BBC, http://www.lnx-bbc.org/ Thank you! Just being downloaded... > PS: If you send the FSF $120 to join up as an associate member they send > you a very useful little business card. That's a little bit beyond my current budget, but I'll keep it in mind :-) -- Best Regards, | Hi! I'm a .signature virus. Copy me into Sebastian | your ~/.signature to help me spread! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bootable Rescue CD-ROM
On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 15:40:18 +0200, Kent West wrote: > I use Knoppix (http://www.knoppix.org). As I wrote in my original email, Knoppix seems to fight with a chrooted lilo. Don't know why though... -- Best Regards, | Hi! I'm a .signature virus. Copy me into Sebastian | your ~/.signature to help me spread! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
USB works partially
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hallo! USB support is working because I'm using both a ps2 and a usb mouse (HP Omnibook XT1000 laptop), but: - -running (as root) usbview it says it cannot access /proc/bus/usb/devices - -running "gphoto2 --auto-detect" doesn't find the camera. "gphoto2 - --list-ports" shows the usb port either. Any idea?? 8-? Here's lsmod's output: - -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/quini/Baixat/flphoto-1.0# lsmod Module Size Used byNot tainted appletalk 22372 1 (autoclean) ipx18340 1 (autoclean) ide-cd 32352 0 (autoclean) cdrom 28736 0 (autoclean) [ide-cd] omnibook 27016 0 (unused) nls_iso8859-15 3356 1 (autoclean) vfat 10860 1 (autoclean) fat32024 0 (autoclean) [vfat] autofs4 9876 0 (unused) af_packet 13672 0 (unused) nls_iso8859-1 2844 0 (unused) nls_cp437 4348 1 via82cxxx_audio21980 2 uart401 6820 0 [via82cxxx_audio] ac97_codec 11860 0 [via82cxxx_audio] sound 59400 0 [via82cxxx_audio uart401] soundcore 3844 4 [via82cxxx_audio sound] 8139too15048 1 mii 2496 0 [8139too] hid19428 0 (unused) mousedev4340 1 input 3488 0 [hid mousedev] usb-uhci 23696 0 (unused) usbcore63308 0 [hid usb-uhci] ds 7028 1 yenta_socket 10624 1 pcmcia_core41312 0 [ds yenta_socket] rtc 6792 0 - -- Thanks!! ;) - -- Joan Tur. Eivissa-Spain AOL quini2k, ICQ 11407395 www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat 190.783 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/BbE6ok8j9RhtetwRAntaAJ9iG/Vl3hmkX5ZyUdkj4gtckSIshwCgjGoX 6ybnP0+qRVT25GekrLCAc/A= =FxQT -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: new debian box reboots itself?
i'll teach you to turn away. wrote: > but lastlog doesn't show anything about 'reboot', 'down' or > 'crash'. it only shows ports & such. Sorry, I tend to forget that there's an actual lastlog program. I was referring to the last program which should show that information. -- see shy jo pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: hda died, moved hdb to hda-->> kernel went crazy. Help
Hi, Antonio RodrP wrote: > Well, I used grub from a boot floppy, and there I never put menu.1st. I used to > enter it by hand. Back then I would put > root (hd1,0) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18 > boot Try kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18 root=/dev/hda1 boot Also, change every hdb to hda in /etc/fstab as others have mentioned. Ciao, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: hda died, moved hdb... SOLVED
On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 10:55:02 -0500 Dale Hair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 10:49, Antonio Rodr wrote: > > On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 11:39:28 -0400 > > Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 10:54, Antonio Rodr008 wrote: > > > > Hi all, I had in my other computer a dual booting, win98 in hda, > > > > testing in hdb. Then hda died, so I removed it, and put hdb as > > > > hda. So now the kernel goes into panick, somewhere it has > > > > written hdb, but hdb doesn't exist anymore. I have got in using > > > > the rescue CD woody cd 1, booting with rescue root=/dev/hda1 but > > > > I don't know what changes must be made. Can some point to the > > > > needed changes? I would like to avoid a whole new installation. > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > You need to edit /etc/lilo.conf to indicate the change. > > > Then you need to run lilo to update your system. > > > > I never used lilo, I use grub. I cheked and I don't have > > /etc/lilo.conf > > > > Then run update-grub > Thanks to all of you. Finally got it. Small how to for future reference. Steps: 1. Boot with the installation CD (any should work, I used #1). 2. Press F3 for information about possibilities (may be skipped?) 3. type rescue root=/dev/hda1 4. type in password for root, remount to write as indicated. 5. Change /etc/fstab to reflect hda instead of hdb. 6. Run update-grub. 7. Edit /boot/grub/menu.1st as needed. 8. Reboot. 9. Enjoy. 10. Contribute to the community. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Very big files with tar
On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 12:50:52 +0200 Raffaele Sandrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to do a backup to another partition using tar. Here are about > 9GB data to be saved. After a while tar complaints about a to big > output file (i think max size is around 2GB). Is there a way to split > the output in more files? Odd. I know I've created larger files with tar - I backed up about 5GB compressed last week. That was on OpenBSD, but usually the GNU tools are more powerful than the BSD ones. Are you sure you've got disk space for the operation? Also, does the filesystem you're putting the tarball on support large files? FAT32, for example, only supports a max file size of 2GB. --Todd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HowTo for Gnome2??
On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 08:10:37 -0600 "John W. M. Stevens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 10:13:24PM -0500, Todd Pytel wrote: > > I backed up my sources.list, > > OK . . . > > > changed it to unstable, > > "It"? Did you mean the APT::Default-Release value? I guess so - I don't know the proper Debian terminology. I switched "testing" for "unstable" > > did an apt-get update, apt-get install gnome-core, > > OK. > > > and then restored the old sources.list. > > There isn't a command line option for specifying this? I thought that > was what -t, --target-release and --default-release were for? Perhaps. I didn't say that this was the only way to do it. > > Works fine. Nautilus 2 is worlds faster than the > > original, fonts are nice, everything is anti-aliased, blah, blah, > > blah... > > OK. > > > If you're absolutely opposed to any unstable packages, then I > > guess you're screwed. That's what you get for running testing. > > What, are you saying that I'm less likely to get screwed by running > experimental, than testing? > > I didn't know that. Why? No, what I'm saying is that if you run testing, you can't always expect that packages will play well together. It's an automated distribution, so you get strange results when one package is held up by a dependency or unstable has switched to a new major version. In this case, that means either 1) putting a hold on the GNOME packages until all of them are in testing, or 2) getting the other core GNOME 2 packages from unstable. If you just moved to testing in the last 2 weeks, then it's probably too late for #1, since some 1.4 packages are already out of your package lists. That leaves #2. That's life in Testing. GNOME 2 may be the first time you've hit odd release problems like this, but it will probably not be your last. --Todd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: new debian box reboots itself?
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: JH> i'll teach you to turn away. wrote: > ok, color me confused. my new machine (which is not primary yet) > rebooted by itself tuesday morning around 3:50am. it was a software JH> Was it a clean or an unclean reboot? If you have "reboot" in the lastlog, JH> it was a clean reboot. That might be caused by something like watchdog, JH> or something else that got it into its head to reboot the machine. well, i'm figuring it was clean because the machine came back up on its own. my experience says that a box that went down for hardware or EVIL software issues is not going to come back up to login by itself. but lastlog doesn't show anything about 'reboot', 'down' or 'crash'. it only shows ports & such. unless you're not talking about a literal lastlog, in which case dmesg doesn't tell me ANYTHING except that it came back up & went through its normal rigmarole. JH> If it was an unclean reboot, you're left with the possibilties that JH> either the kernel decided to reboot the system, or it just spontaneously JH> reset itself due to a hardware issue. These will show up in the lastlog JH> as "down", "crash" and the like. thanks for the response. any further suggestions? i'm happy to dump any sort of log or information into this fine, fine newsgroup. lish [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xterm configuration
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 18:43:44 -0700 Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For xterm, use one of the fixed fonts. They all have the > line-drawing characters. If you're running xterm AA'd, you're > SOL unless you're up to building it yourself. You have to have > at least patchlevel 175 of xterm to support line-drawing with > AA'd fonts. Not that xterm is hard to build outside of XFree > itself > > For Eterm, using the same fixed font would suffice. I have no > idea at all if Eterm supports AA's fonts or what it does to > simulate line-drawing with them if it does. Errr... how do I check the Anti-Aliased fonts part? I never got the hang of fonts in X. :/ thx --- Paladin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hda died, moved hdb to hda-->> kernel went crazy. Help
* Antonio Rodr008 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030704 16:54]: > Can some point to the needed changes? I would like to avoid a whole > new installation. Boot with the rescue disk, and edit /etc/lilo.conf and /etc/ftab replacing every hdb with hda. Run /sbin/lilo after that, and everything should be okay again (unless you are using grub and not lilo as boot loader, don't know where grub keeps his configuration). Yours sincerely Alexander pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Update cd image for Woody?
Hello! Is there any cd image available with all the updates made since the initial release (security stuff mainly)? I have made Woody cds, and I want to update a non-broadband machine with the security updates without hogging a modem for several hours (expensive!) TIA, -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ I do not read or respond to mail with HTML attachments. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hda died, moved hdb to hda-->> kernel went crazy. Help
On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 11:53:16 -0400 Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 11:49, Antonio Rodr wrote: > > On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 11:39:28 -0400 > > Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 10:54, Antonio Rodr008 wrote: > > > > Hi all, I had in my other computer a dual booting, win98 in hda, > > > > testing in hdb. Then hda died, so I removed it, and put hdb as > > > > hda. So now the kernel goes into panick, somewhere it has > > > > written hdb, but hdb doesn't exist anymore. I have got in using > > > > the rescue CD woody cd 1, booting with rescue root=/dev/hda1 but > > > > I don't know what changes must be made. Can some point to the > > > > needed changes? I would like to avoid a whole new installation. > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > You need to edit /etc/lilo.conf to indicate the change. > > > Then you need to run lilo to update your system. > > > > I never used lilo, I use grub. I cheked and I don't have > > /etc/lilo.conf > > Cool then it's pretty easy. You edit the file menu.lst so that the > entry matches with what you want. > > I think the file is somewhere in /boot/grub/ > > Not that grub has a whole different way of dealing with disk names so > hda1 becomes something like (hd0,1). Well, I used grub from a boot floppy, and there I never put menu.1st. I used to enter it by hand. Back then I would put root (hd1,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18 boot Now, after the switch, I entered root(hd0,0) followed by the same sequence. The kernel of course was found, the problem arised at some point after that. It seems to me that somewhere it was expecting to see hdb, and went into panick. So, the change to be made must be somehere in some system file where the devices functions or so are recorded. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hda died, moved hdb to hda-->> kernel went crazy. Help
On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 10:49, Antonio Rodr wrote: > On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 11:39:28 -0400 > Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 10:54, Antonio Rodr008 wrote: > > > Hi all, I had in my other computer a dual booting, win98 in hda, > > > testing in hdb. Then hda died, so I removed it, and put hdb as hda. > > > So now the kernel goes into panick, somewhere it has written hdb, > > > but hdb doesn't exist anymore. I have got in using the rescue CD > > > woody cd 1, booting with rescue root=/dev/hda1 but I don't know what > > > changes must be made. Can some point to the needed changes? I would > > > like to avoid a whole new installation. Thanks. > > > > You need to edit /etc/lilo.conf to indicate the change. > > Then you need to run lilo to update your system. > > I never used lilo, I use grub. I cheked and I don't have /etc/lilo.conf > Then run update-grub signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: hda died, moved hdb to hda-->> kernel went crazy. Help
On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 11:49, Antonio Rodr wrote: > On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 11:39:28 -0400 > Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 10:54, Antonio Rodr008 wrote: > > > Hi all, I had in my other computer a dual booting, win98 in hda, > > > testing in hdb. Then hda died, so I removed it, and put hdb as hda. > > > So now the kernel goes into panick, somewhere it has written hdb, > > > but hdb doesn't exist anymore. I have got in using the rescue CD > > > woody cd 1, booting with rescue root=/dev/hda1 but I don't know what > > > changes must be made. Can some point to the needed changes? I would > > > like to avoid a whole new installation. Thanks. > > > > You need to edit /etc/lilo.conf to indicate the change. > > Then you need to run lilo to update your system. > > I never used lilo, I use grub. I cheked and I don't have /etc/lilo.conf Cool then it's pretty easy. You edit the file menu.lst so that the entry matches with what you want. I think the file is somewhere in /boot/grub/ Not that grub has a whole different way of dealing with disk names so hda1 becomes something like (hd0,1). Bijan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: finding an iso for net-install w/ reiserfs disk support
On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 22:48, Justin Bauer wrote: > I'm setting up a new computer, and thought it would be nice to use a minimal > cd rather than the normal disks. I'll be running sid, but I don't care > whether the cd is for stable or testing, just as long as it will > format/install onto reiserfs. > > > Thanks, > > Justin http://people.debian.org/~dwhedon/boot-floppies/bootbf2.4.iso signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: hda died, moved hdb to hda-->> kernel went crazy. Help
On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 10:39, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 10:54, Antonio Rodr008 wrote: > > Hi all, I had in my other computer a dual booting, win98 in hda, testing in hdb. > > Then hda died, > > so I removed it, and put hdb as hda. So now the kernel goes into panick, somewhere > > it has > > written hdb, but hdb doesn't exist anymore. I have got in using the rescue CD > > woody cd 1, > > booting with rescue root=/dev/hda1 but I don't know what changes must be made. Can > > some > > point to the needed changes? I would like to avoid a whole new installation. > > Thanks. > > You need to edit /etc/lilo.conf to indicate the change. > Then you need to run lilo to update your system. > > Bijan > You will also need to edit /etc/fstab signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: APT Serious Bug
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 05:10:50PM +0200, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > On Friday 04 July 2003 16:47, Guilherme Viebig wrote: > > I´m using Debian 3.0 kernel 2.4.19bf24 > > > > When I try to update my system with apt > > > > I get this error message > > > > E: Internal error. could not immediate configuration (2) on libpam-modules > > > > Now my apt is bugged. > > > > Any hints ? > > > LOL. I postet a similar error 5mins erlier: > APT error $ cd /var/cache/apt/archives/ $ dpkg -i libpam0g_0.76-12* libpam-modules_0.76-12* All done. This has come up dozens of times on the list, though, why didn't you guys search the archives? -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day:eternity server North Korea AVN Iraq passwd data haven spy pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: hda died, moved hdb to hda-->> kernel went crazy. Help
On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 11:39:28 -0400 Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 10:54, Antonio Rodr008 wrote: > > Hi all, I had in my other computer a dual booting, win98 in hda, > > testing in hdb. Then hda died, so I removed it, and put hdb as hda. > > So now the kernel goes into panick, somewhere it has written hdb, > > but hdb doesn't exist anymore. I have got in using the rescue CD > > woody cd 1, booting with rescue root=/dev/hda1 but I don't know what > > changes must be made. Can some point to the needed changes? I would > > like to avoid a whole new installation. Thanks. > > You need to edit /etc/lilo.conf to indicate the change. > Then you need to run lilo to update your system. I never used lilo, I use grub. I cheked and I don't have /etc/lilo.conf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hda died, moved hdb to hda-->> kernel went crazy. Help
On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 10:54, Antonio Rodr008 wrote: > Hi all, I had in my other computer a dual booting, win98 in hda, testing in hdb. > Then hda died, > so I removed it, and put hdb as hda. So now the kernel goes into panick, somewhere > it has > written hdb, but hdb doesn't exist anymore. I have got in using the rescue CD woody > cd 1, > booting with rescue root=/dev/hda1 but I don't know what changes must be made. Can > some > point to the needed changes? I would like to avoid a whole new installation. > Thanks. You need to edit /etc/lilo.conf to indicate the change. Then you need to run lilo to update your system. Bijan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian and S3 ProsavageDDR KM 266
On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 15:06, Jacob Anawalt wrote: > A month ago I had debian stable (woody) installed on my XPC which has > the ProSavageDDR (savage8) onboard with the via chipset. I used apt > pinning to get the unstable XFree86 4.2 (seems like that's in testing > now) package xserver-xfree86. I combined that with the savage driver > debian package by Tim Roberts (http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html) > and I was a pretty happy 2d X windows user. > > > Since then I've reinstalled from scratch to testing (Sarge) and am > borrowing an ATI Radeon... Best of luck. > > Jacob Anawalt > The default XFree 4.1 in Woody seems to have a broken vesa driver. You already discovered that the vesa driver is OK in version 4.2 You can also apt-get install xserver-s3 from the Woody sources, I have had some luck with that on old s3 trio cards. Or install xserver-s3v if need be for s3 virge chipsets. HTH Bob Parker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Newbie to spamassassin- How to make it learn?
Hi Disgusted with the amount of spam received, I installed Spamassassin2.54 and configured it, It works properly for the past one month. I use fetchmail to receive mail and invoke sylpheed to read them from /var/spool/ mail/ srikanth folder and the spam goes to "caughtspam " file in my home directory . Nowadays I see one or two mails slipping past spamassassin. I saw that spamassassin can be trained. man pages did not reveal much. Since the mails are read in sylpheed how to point it out to SA? sa-learn command also does not work, it says command is not found. Can any body give some pointers or some links where tutroials can be read.? Thanks in advance N S Srikanth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Radeon 9000 Pro and Framebuffer
Bonjour. Trying to set up the framebuffer with my Radeon 9000 Pro on a 2.5.69 Kernel (Debian sid). But it seems the framebuffer can not be initialized, as the resolution does not change. Kernel-config: # # Graphics support # CONFIG_FB=y CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y CONFIG_FB_RADEON=y # # Console display driver support # CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_PCI_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_FONTS=y CONFIG_FONT_8x8=y CONFIG_FONT_8x16=y In my lilo.conf I got: append="video=radeonfb:[EMAIL PROTECTED]" Also tried "radeon" instead of "radeonfb" and different resolutions. The (hopefully) most important parts from dmesg: Linux version 2.5.69 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.1 20030626 (Debian prerelease)) #1 Fri Jul 4 18:14:59 CEST 2003 Video mode to be used for restore is f00 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: - 000a (usable) BIOS-e820: 000f - 0010 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0010 - 3fff (usable) BIOS-e820: 3fff - 3fff3000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 3fff3000 - 4000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: - 0001 (reserved) 127MB HIGHMEM available. 896MB LOWMEM available. On node 0 totalpages: 262128 DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1 Normal zone: 225280 pages, LIFO batch:16 HighMem zone: 32752 pages, LIFO batch:7 Building zonelist for node : 0 Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=Debian ro root=302 video=radeonfb:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] Applying VIA southbridge workaround. radeonfb_pci_register BEGIN radeonfb: ref_clk=2700, ref_div=12, xclk=2 from BIOS radeonfb: probed DDR SGRAM 131072k videoram radeon_get_moninfo: bios 4 scratch = 202 radeonfb: cannot map FB pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones agpgart: Detected VIA Apollo Pro KT133/KM133/TwisterK chipset agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 941M agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe000 [drm] Initialized radeon 1.8.0 20020828 on minor 0 $lspci -vs 1:0.0 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 If [Radeon 9000] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: PC Partner Limited R250 If [Radeon 9000 "Atlantis"] Flags: bus master, stepping, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10 Memory at d000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] I/O ports at c000 [size=256] Memory at e500 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] Expansion ROM at [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [58] AGP version 2.0 Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 Any hints? Merci. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: APT Serious Bug
On Friday 04 July 2003 16:47, Guilherme Viebig wrote: > I´m using Debian 3.0 kernel 2.4.19bf24 > > When I try to update my system with apt > > I get this error message > > E: Internal error. could not immediate configuration (2) on libpam-modules > > Now my apt is bugged. > > Any hints ? > LOL. I postet a similar error 5mins erlier: APT error cheers, Raffaele -- Raffaele Sandrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Annoyed about M$ Windows? Don't worry. Try Linux! (www.linux.org) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bootable Rescue CD-ROM
On Fri, 4 Jul 2003, Sebastian Kapfer wrote: >Any comments? What do you use? I've been looking at Timo's Rescue CD, http://rescuecd.sourceforge.net/ The author himself say that it has involved to a "debian on cd"-system, so it may be what you're looking for. BTW, I've been thinking about putting this rescue system on an old spare harddrive I have in my box (but that is not currently connected by IDE cable). Anybody have any hints on how to do that? Cheers, Kjetil -- Kjetil Kjernsmo Recent astrophysics graduate Problems worthy of attack University of Oslo, NorwayProve their worth by hitting back E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]- Piet Hein Homepage http://folk.uio.no/kjetikj/> [EMAIL PROTECTED]OpenPGP KeyID: 6A6A0BBC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hda died, moved hdb to hda-->> kernel went crazy. Help
Hi all, I had in my other computer a dual booting, win98 in hda, testing in hdb. Then hda died, so I removed it, and put hdb as hda. So now the kernel goes into panick, somewhere it has written hdb, but hdb doesn't exist anymore. I have got in using the rescue CD woody cd 1, booting with rescue root=/dev/hda1 but I don't know what changes must be made. Can some point to the needed changes? I would like to avoid a whole new installation. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
APT Serious Bug
I´m using Debian 3.0 kernel 2.4.19bf24 When I try to update my system with apt I get this error message E: Internal error. could not immediate configuration (2) on libpam-modules Now my apt is bugged. Any hints ? Thanks Guilherme B. Viebig -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Logrotate postscript not able to find just-compressed log
> If this is the case, will I have to compress the just-rotated
> logfile in the postrotate script if I want to copy a compressed file?
The answer is probably "yes". The following rule works on an
uncompressed file:
/var/log/phantom/phantom.log {
daily
missingok
rotate 52
copytruncate
compress
nodelaycompress
create 644 tomcat4 nogroup
postrotate
if [ -e /var/log/phantom/phantom.log.1 ] ; then
scp -Bq -i /home/phantom/.ssh/id_rsa
/var/log/phantom/phantom.log.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:log/phantom-`date
+"%Y-%m-%d"`.log
fi
endscript
}
The uncompressed file does not appear after logrotate executes, leading
me to believe that logrotate takes the following steps:
1. prerotate
2. rotate
3. postrotate
4. compress
ian.
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RE: Very big files with tar
** This email is subject to a disclaimer at the bottom of the message - please make yourself aware of its contents before reading the email ** The responses given so far sound like they would work perfectly fine however have you considered the possibility that it is not tar that is the limiting factor but the base OS. 2Gb is roughly the file size limit of 'standard' linux. You need to add Large File Support (LFS) for files bigger than that. We've been using G4U, a disc imaging application for doing bare metal recovery of boxes and some (always Windoze bloatware) have bzipped images greater than 2Gb. To overcome this limitation we had to add LFS. Steve -Original Message- From: Raffaele Sandrini [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 04 July 2003 13:11 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Very big files with tar On Friday 04 July 2003 13:14, Joerg Johannes wrote: > On Friday 04 July 2003 12:50, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > > Hi > > > > I'd like to do a backup to another partition using tar. Here are > > about 9GB data to be saved. After a while tar complaints about a to > > big output file (i think max size is around 2GB). Is there a way to > > split the output in more files? > > tar cf - /path/to/data | split -b 1024m - outfile > > This will create 1GB big files called outfileaa, outfileab, outfileac, > etc. > > To restore, you will have to do the following: > cat outfile* | tar xf - > > Anyway, this is most likely not the way you want to make backups. Search > around a bit in the archives, backup strategies are discussed fairly > often. Maybe Karsten M. Self drops in and provides you a link to his > backup strategy page... > I know :) Its only just a small thing wich i will delete soon. Ill try something with my system today and whant a copy fast and ready. Thanks for ur help. cheers, Raffaele -- Raffaele Sandrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Annoyed about M$ Windows? Don't worry. Try Linux! (www.linux.org) ** This email and any attached files are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Any misuse, transmission to unauthorised third parties or misrepresentation of any of the data contained in this email may lead to MSV Ltd seeking legal redress. This note also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.marshallsv.com ** -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: Limit on maximum # of threads in Linux?
holger rauch wrote: > Hi! > > I tried the following test program with various 2.4.x und 2.2.x kernels and > noticed that it doesn't *seem* to be possible to create more than 1021 > threads. I changed "ulimit -u" from within bash before running the thread > test program, I modified a setting in the /proc filesystem: > > /proc/sys/kernel/threads-max > > (but that limit is 12287 with a 2.4.21 kernel, so it should be high enough > anyway), > > but all I got was: > > [...] > Thread #1019: Thread started...thread done > Thread #1020: Thread started...thread done > Thread #1021: Thread started...thread done > Thread #1022: *** Unable to create thread #1021 *** > My answer is out of topic too: The current LinuxThreads doesn't handle more than (about) 1023 attached threads running. (There always a control thread) Use pthread_detach(), but you won't be able to pthread_join() them after. -- Yann Droneaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MBDA France Missile Systems -- http://www.mbda.net/ Etudes Logiciels Sol, Bourges Bureau +33 (0) 2 48 55 71 58 | Portable +33 (0) 6 88 40 82 43 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HowTo for Gnome2??
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 08:52:50PM -0600, Jacob Anawalt wrote: > John, > > I installed straight to testing (but using a stable netinstall CD) a > couple months ago. When gnome2 into was released into it from unstable a > couple weeks ago I ran into similar issues. I am looking forward to > watching this thread to see what the expert insight to this is. My > opinion is that Gnome2 'works' but it doesn't 'work right'. Isn't that > what testing is for though? That is what I thought, too, but Mr. Pytel indicates that testing is less stable than unstable . . . why, he didn't say, only that "that is what you get for running testing". > To test for bugs that aren't critical and > prepare for the next stable version that does 'work right'. There are > gnome2 version packages that are still in held up in unstable that I > think maybe should have held up the whole gnome2 upgrade, but I don't > know that much about the details to make this statment as anything more > than a personal opinion. It does seem as if a mistake has been made here, by putting a partial set into testing. It doesn't seem likely that testing can be done properly with only a partial set. > Here is a link about ideas for moving debian to gnome2, but I didn't get > a good feeling of resolution: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=no&bug=154950 Thank you. I'll read through this. > I also get the error message from the gnome settings daemon. I think > it's due to nautilus being gnome and not the gnome2 version. The gnome2 > version of nautilus seems to be held back in unstable with some > automated build errors. Ah! That answers that question. Thank you. > I also have some interestingly scaled and rendered fonts in some > applications. On this page > (http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/archive/debian/testing/2003/05/msg00058.html) > there is mention of the local affecting fonts. I should check my local. > I dont remember which I chose, other than knowing it wasn't 'C'. This has been a very useful reply. Thank you! My locale is indeed C. I'll read through the information at this link, as well. Thanks, John S. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dual head text console / X HOWTO sought
pigeon wrote: > I have two graphics cards, a SiS 6326 PCI card and a Radeon 7500 AGP > card. Having just acquired a second monitor, I am keen to set up a > dual head system capable of the following configurations: > > 1) Dual head text console. A keystroke combination switches the focus > of the keyboard from one monitor to the other; the usual Alt-F then > switches between VTs on that monitor. > This is not possible, kernel doesn't handle that, but i could be wrong. Enable framebuffer for the two card, and you will get 2 framebuffers devices, but only the first one will be used (fb0). Then, you have to map one VT to a framebuffer with the tool con2fb (i don't remember well), or you can use my fancy getty: fbgetty. You have to replace call to getty in /etc/inittab by fbgetty . So you will get a mix of the behaviors you describe. ALT-Fn will switch the focus and VT on all monitors. This can lead to really complex configuration. Cool configuration is using fb0 with tty1 to 12, and fb1 with tty13 to 24, so you select focus on your first screen with ALT-Fn and your second screen with ALT Gr-Fn. > 2) Dual head, text console and X. The PCI card is used for the text > console and the AGP card for X. The usual [Ctrl-]Alt-F switches > focus between text VTs and X. > > Google has not been very useful; it has a tendency to find: > > - Framebuffer dual head HOWTOs. I'm talking about real text modes, not > framebuffer. One purpose of this setup is to experiment with > programming the AGP card in text mode, using the PCI card at 100x36 > to provide the VTs from which to write/run the experimental code. > - Stuff about single video cards with dual head outputs, mostly Matrox > G400/450s. This is not the setup I've got! > - Xinerama HOWTOs and other X-only dual head things. This is a lesser > priority. > > If anyone can point me to a good HOWTO on this sort of thing, I would > be most grateful. > > Thanks, > -- Yann Droneaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MBDA France Missile Systems -- http://www.mbda.net/ Etudes Logiciels Sol, Bourges Bureau +33 (0) 2 48 55 71 58 | Portable +33 (0) 6 88 40 82 43 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HowTo for Gnome2??
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 10:13:24PM -0500, Todd Pytel wrote: > I backed up my sources.list, OK . . . > changed it to unstable, "It"? Did you mean the APT::Default-Release value? > did an apt-get update, apt-get install gnome-core, OK. > and then restored the old sources.list. There isn't a command line option for specifying this? I thought that was what -t, --target-release and --default-release were for? > Works fine. Nautilus 2 is worlds faster than the > original, fonts are nice, everything is anti-aliased, blah, blah, > blah... OK. > If you're absolutely opposed to any unstable packages, then I > guess you're screwed. That's what you get for running testing. What, are you saying that I'm less likely to get screwed by running experimental, than testing? I didn't know that. Why? John S. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bootable Rescue CD-ROM
On Friday 04 July 2003 13:36, Sebastian Kapfer wrote: > I'm looking for a bootable rescue CD-ROM with some Linux-based OS on it > (preferrably Debian). It should include utilities like fdisk and mkfs, > parted, grub, bash (please, no ash!), vim, ssh and a reasonable ftp (what > about ncftp) client. lynx, X are nice, but not a requirement. It should be > capable of mounting common filesystems like ext2, xfs, vfat. > > I've looked into Knoppix, which is a little overweighted (KDE3) and > somehow failed to get along with a chrooted lilo the last time I used it > (rendering the disc essentially useless for my purpose). Maybe a > customized Knoppix CD-ROM would do the trick. > > Any comments? What do you use? > > -- > Best Regards, | Hi! I'm a .signature virus. Copy me into > Sebastian | your ~/.signature to help me spread! You can check out the Superrescue from the Kernel distri mirrors (ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/dist/superrescue/v2) Its RedHat based... but pretty useful. cheers, Raffaele -- Raffaele Sandrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Annoyed about M$ Windows? Don't worry. Try Linux! (www.linux.org) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sources.list question
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 06:04:45AM -0700, Wm. G. McGrath wrote: > I'm setting up my sources.list file again looking for faster, closer > mirrors. I've used netselect to find the best urls for my location > and setup, and have put together a comparitively small list of > mirrors on which to base the file. Ok so I've done that. > > Now I'd like to test each line in the file and know that it works. > Is there a simple way to do that? Is there a 'debug' mode, or > equivilent, for apt or sources.list? I want to confirm that I've got > the path for each url right, that the distributions and components > are correct too. Can't you just do 'apt-get update' (or, better, 'dselect update')? If the appropriate index files can't be fetched then apt-get will complain. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
APT error
Hi i tried to upgrade my system with # apt-get dist-upgrade after it downloaded all files i got this error: E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration (2) on libpam0g What does that mean? cheers, Raffaele -- Raffaele Sandrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Annoyed about M$ Windows? Don't worry. Try Linux! (www.linux.org) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bootable Rescue CD-ROM
"Sebastian" == Sebastian Kapfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sebastian> I'm looking for a bootable rescue CD-ROM with some Sebastian> Linux-based OS on it (preferrably Debian). It should Sebastian> include utilities like fdisk and mkfs, parted, grub, Sebastian> bash (please, no ash!), vim, ssh and a reasonable ftp Sebastian> (what about ncftp) client. lynx, X are nice, but not a Sebastian> requirement. It should be capable of mounting common Sebastian> filesystems like ext2, xfs, vfat. I use Knoppix (http://www.knoppix.org). -- Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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sources.list question
Howdy all, I'm setting up my sources.list file again looking for faster, closer mirrors. I've used netselect to find the best urls for my location and setup, and have put together a comparitively small list of mirrors on which to base the file. Ok so I've done that. Now I'd like to test each line in the file and know that it works. Is there a simple way to do that? Is there a 'debug' mode, or equivilent, for apt or sources.list? I want to confirm that I've got the path for each url right, that the distributions and components are correct too. BTW if you're looking for a way to figure out what the best mirrors are from YOUR location, netselect is a really great tool. tia, bill -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Need a quick one-liner
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Seneca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 01:51:34PM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote:
>> I have some data files in the following format:
>>
>> 12 3 4
>> 56 7 8
>> 910 11 12
>> 13 14 15 16
>> ...
>>
>> I need to sum up the second column, so the result is 32 (in this case).
>> Any ideas?
>
>awk '{ sum += $2 ; print sum }' foo | tail -1
Isn't that
awk '{ sum += $2; } END { print sum }' foo
? Awk rocks ;)
Mike.
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Re: Need a quick one-liner
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 01:51:34PM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote:
> Hi everybody
>
> I have some data files in the following format:
>
> 1 2 3 4
> 5 6 7 8
> 9 10 11 12
> 1314 15 16
> ...
>
> I need to sum up the second column, so the result is 32 (in this case).
> Any ideas?
awk '{ x += $2 } END { print x }' < file
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