[no subject]

[Lukas Foljanty]

On (12/05/04 21:43), Lukas Foljanty wrote:
Hi.

I am a total newbie to Linux, so perhaps this is all stupid, but I 
have
a problem I cannot solve after installing the current build of Debian
on my PowerMac 8600.

Here it goes:
I (successfully) installed the basic installation of Debian (CD
distribution 1) for PowerMacs/PPC. I partitioned the hard drive,
installed some modules and then finished the installation. When it 
told
me that the installation was finished I restarted my Mac.

However, now I don't have a display signal! When booting of a split
second, the display receives a signal, but then goes blank. I can hear
the computer working and seemingly, it responds to keyboard inputs
(from the sounds it makes), but since the screen is black, I don't 
know
what's it's doing.

What's worse, I cannot boot in MacOS, either (neither booting from HD
nor CD). So I am completely stuck here.
Hi Lukas

It is likely that during the install you chose display settings that
aren't available ... unless, of course your monitor has died ;)
Try Ctl+Alt+P+R whilst booting - that will reset your PRAM.  You should
then be able to boot into mac OS. Do you know what boot loader you are
using for Debian - quik, bootX or yaboot?
Regards

Clive

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Hi Clive (and all).

Thanks a lot for your email.
Following your advice (zapping the PRAM), I was able to return to MacOS.
I checked BootX for video settings and found a check box labeled "no 
video driver". I selected it and started re-installing Debian.
Just like before, the installer works flawlessly (correct video 
output). Unfortunately, after re-booting, the display was all blank 
again.

I also tried to restart with Boot parameters for old Apple displays 
(video=atyfb:vmode:6), but that didn't help either. The monitor is a 
12" monochrome Apple display.

What else could I try?

Thanks,

Lukas

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forcedeth breaks X in Debian-testing 2.4.25 on MSI K7N2 Delta-L mobo

[foner+x-forcedeth]

Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 21:08:06 +0200
From: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

You could have googled for "forcedeth". The first hit would have given you
all the information you need. Quoting from there:

| Send any reports to linux-kernel or [EMAIL PROTECTED] and CC:
| Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to get
| the remaining issues fixed.

You know, I looked at that page at least 3 separate times on different
days, and missed that paragraph -every- time.  It also doesn't help
that my next try was to google for
  forcedeth bug
and
  forcedeth bugs
but that page doesn't mention the word "bug" -anywhere- and hence
fails to show up when someone is looking precisely for where to file
bug reports.  You might want to rephase "send any reports" to be
'send any bug reports" or "send bugs and other reports" so that google
can find the page when people are trying to report a bug.

I'm not sure how to make the paragraph itself more prominent once
someone lands on the page---all I know is that -I- couldn't find it
until I knew it was there and searched for "netdev" via my browser.
Dunno why; I'm not blind or illiterate... :)

> obviously short-term address of one of its maintainers and an address
> of another author gleaned a random mailing list.  Doesn't it have its
> own buglist?  Lots of googling has failed to turn one up and its

Forcedeth is integrated into current 2.4 and 2.6, so there is no point in
setting up a dedicated mailing list for it.

Okay.

> I'm now in the state where I can reliably cause X to not start if
> forcedeth is loaded, and vice versa.  Logfiles for both cases are
> appended below.
> 
> Does anyone know of a workaround?  It looks like forcedeth is doing
> something fishy that's breaking X's VESA handling.  Googling for

forcedeth only accesses the nForce nic. If that confuses the VESA BIOS
code, the bug most probably is in the BIOS itself.

So do you (or anyone) have any suggestions for what to do?  This is a
reasonably new motherboard (I don't think it has any new firmware
versions out yet) and this leaves me dead in the water---all I can do
at this point is to just try the nVidia drivers and hope they work
better than forcedeth.  (And I'll have to make sure that forcedeth
does -not- get loaded; I'm not yet sure how to ensure that.)

I also don't -know- that's what's going on---all I know is the various
errors (and eventual abort) I get from X if I try to start it up with
forcedeth loaded.


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Re: Evolution?

[Katipo]

John L Fjellstad wrote:

 Ping Wing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Btw, has anyone seen any gnome/gtk application that doesnt crash
> regulary? Really, i dont wanna start flame but thats so.
 I've used grip and gaim for a long time without problems (usually
 under KDE).
I started off with KDE when I switched from Windows, but I copped too 
much as far as segfaulting goes, so I switched to Gnome. I wouldn't know 
what KDE is like these days.
Now I run minimal gnome desktops. Everything is stable. Rock solid.

Stability has more to do with external factors. Hardware compatibility 
is one, and also I believe that many recommends could be included as 
dependencies, while others would barely make the grade as suggests.
I discovered this when establishing what composed a stable base to carry 
applications like Galeon. A package, not listed as a dependency, that 
would appear to be almost unrelated would convert Galeon from a Walrus 
trying to fly, to a stable application.
Get in and play a little. It's amazing what you find out.
Regards,

David.

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Re: edit pdf's

[Dave Thayer]

On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 02:08:58PM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
> On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 01:01:16PM -0400, Matt Price wrote:
> > On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 11:30:11AM -0400, Ralph Katz wrote:
> > 
> > thanks for the flues folks.  pdftohtml -- which I confess I *did*
> > already know about, sorry, should havesaid so -- won't work so well
> > for me, i odn't think;  these are scanned-in texts from the jstor
> > journal collection, and it's important I keep the pages in order...  
> > 
> > as ,er, someone mentioned earlier (don't have the thread in front of
> > me at the moment), a complex process involving gimp and pdftops seems
> > to be the best bet, but it's insanely labour-intensive for long
> > documents, so I may forego the whole project.  thx all though.  
> > 
> 
> Well, if you have scanned all the pages in about the same position,
> and you can establish reassonably well the coordinates of the crop,
> you can write a script that does all the work in one step (containing
> all the inner steps).
> 
The imagemagick package contains 'convert' which can take pdf as input
perform various transformations including cropping. This might be a little
easier than pdf2ps+gimp

dt

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Re: rpm and Debian

[dircha]

Rick wrote:
Can I use rpm command to access deb DB?
rpm is available in the Debian package of the same name (rpm). However, 
any packages you install with the rpm command will not be managed by the 
Debian package management system. .deb is the native package format of a 
Debian system.

You can attempt to convert .rpm packages to .deb packages using the 
tools available in the alien package. However, conversion will not 
always be successful and may not produce the results you expect.

It is best to install software on your Debian system from .deb packages.

If you can not locate a .deb package for the software you wish to 
install in the official Debian repositories [1], you can also try 
apt-get.org [2] for third-party apt repositories of all types or 
backports.org [3] for third-party apt repositories for the stable 
distribution only.

If you need assistance configuring your system to install software, feel 
free to consult the Debian manual [4], search the list archives [5], or 
ask here on the list.

[1] http://packages.debian.org
[2] http://apt-get.org
[3] http://www.backports.org
[4] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/
[5] http://lists.debian.org
dircha

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Re: 2.6.6 and /dev/modem

[John L Fjellstad]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim) writes:

> points to /dev/ttySCHF0. The mystery is that /dev/ttySCHf0 is missing
> whenever I boot under 2.6.6. Though is "reappears" under the older
> kernel.
>
> Is this possibly a devfs/udev issue? Neither are installed currently.

If you're not using devfs or udev, then about all the nodes you need has
to be created manually at least once. Take a look at MAKEDEV

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Re: Installing Debian Stable with Software RAID

[John L Fjellstad]

Jeremy Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Is there a general procedure to follow for installing Debian on a
> software RAID volume?  Is this something that's even possible right
> now?

Search this group on Google. Someone posted a link to documentation to
get RAID up and running on a Debian a couple of weeks ago.

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Re: Evolution?

[John L Fjellstad]

Ping Wing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Btw, has anyone seen any gnome/gtk application that
> doesnt crash regulary?
> Really, i dont wanna start flame but thats so.

I've used grip and gaim for a long time without problems (usually under KDE).

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fat32 access for user

[tsitras]

apparently umask=000, or 002, or 004, or 007, or 022, it does not give write access 
for the user. 
what is it going on? ia m confused. 
 
 
 

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Re: fat32 write access for user

[Isaac To]

> "Adam" == Adam Aube <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Adam> Jacob Bresciani wrote:
>> or umask=000 for 777 permissions on all files/folders

Adam> World-writable directories are generally discouraged unless you
Adam> really know what you're doing - that's why I suggested 004
Adam> instead.

Then you'd want 007 or 002, not 004.

Regards,
Isaac.


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Re: fat32 write access for user

[Adam Aube]

Jacob Bresciani wrote:

> or umask=000 for 777 permissions on all files/folders

World-writable directories are generally discouraged unless you really know
what you're doing - that's why I suggested 004 instead.

Adam


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Re: IMAP tunnel thru http proxy - possible?

[Adam Aube]

Deboo wrote:

>I just have http access from office (thru a proxy gateway), and
>no outside POP/IMAP/SMTP access. Is it possible to somehow tunnel
>all the IMAP(S)/POP(S) requests thru the proxy? The proxy allows
>http/https and ftp only.

Translation: "Please tell me how to violate my employer's security policy".

Disclaimer: Doing this in your workplace may, depending on local laws and
employer policies, result in disciplinary action up to and including
termination, and may even lead to a lawsuit or criminal prosecution.

If the proxy is badly configured, you may be able to tunnel out to arbitrary
TCP ports using the CONNECT method. Under certain circumstances it is
possible even with a properly configured proxy.

There are software tools designed to do this, though I know of none by name.
Google is your friend - try "proxy tunnel CONNECT". You will find
documentation on how this works and tools that help you do it.

Adam


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Re: disks are hot hot hot

[Alex Malinovich]

On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 18:29, Alvin Oga wrote:
> On Wed, 12 May 2004, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 23:35, David Cunningham wrote:
> > > Sounds good.  What brand and model of heatsink do you use?
> 
> http://directron.com/hdcoolers.html
> 
> if there is not say 1" of air clearance above the fans, the fans are just
> noise makers

There's ABOUT an inch of space between the fans and the drive. Pardon my
ASCII here:
   __
  /   Fans   \
__|__|__
   /Heatsink\
__/__\__
| Hard Drive   |
|__|

No, that's not a wedding cake... :) The heatsink is about the thickness
of a hard drive, and the fans are on top, so there is some room for air
to circulate down there.

I'm sure you can make a better heatsink than that, but for $10 I have no
complaints. :)

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[Rick]

hi,
Can I use rpm command to access deb DB?

Thanks!

Rick





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Re: fat32 write access for user

[Jacob Bresciani]

or umask=000 for 777 permissions on all files/folders

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On 12-May-04, at 7:52 PM, Adam Aube wrote:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

i added a partition which is fat32. apparently the user has only read
access to this partition. only root can write. how can i make user 
have
write access as well? here is the line from the /etc/fstab:
/dev/hdb5 /mnt/hdb5 vfat 
noauto,users,exec,umask=1000,gid=1000,uid=1000
please i need some help quickly.
Try "umask=004" instead of "umask=1000".

Adam

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Re: Label printers with linux drivers?

[Andrew Perrin]

On Thu, 13 May 2004, Matthew Joyce wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for a label printer which I can print from linux to, any
> ideas ?
> Do I need to find one with linux drivers, or just a compatible printer
> which supports a popular language like pcl ?
>
> Idealy I'd like a network printer, or I'd like to utilise an old HP
> JetDirect print server.
>
> Could I just get any cheap label printer and connect it to a windows
> client and use Samba to print from the linux server ?
>
> Advice appreciated.
>
>
> Matt Joyce
> Children's Cancer Institute Australia
> http://www.ccia.org.au
>
>

Theoretically, you can use slap to drive a Seiko printer, or pnm2lwxl to
drive a CoStar. The CoStar is supposed to work better and be a more
elegant solution.

I have had problems, though, getting mine to work -- the problems seem
more hardware than software, but unfortunately i can't report real
success.

Good luck.

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Alsa stops working after a while

[Antonio Rodriguez]

I have discovered that alsa stops working after a while, so
mp3blaster, etc. Something must start malfunctioning after a while,
but i can't determine what it is. If I reboot, all works again. This
is getting ugly, to much like w.
I have alsa compiled in the kernel, not as module. For audigy sound
blaster. kernel 2.6.5
Any ideas where to start looking?


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Re: Newbie question..

[Silvan]

On Wednesday 12 May 2004 09:24 pm, Ishwar Rattan wrote:
> I just installed debian from Knoppix-3.4 CD. Seems to work.
>
> I want to add tetex packages to the system. I read the man pages
> but picture is not clear.
>
> Would any some kind soul list the steps needed (in order) to get the
> tetex and related packages (from stable packages on www.debian.org or
> some other repository) and install them?

Knoppix is based on either Unstable or Testing.  I forget which.

What you want to do is create a file to tell apt where to look to grab new 
packages.  This file is called /etc/apt/sources.list so you need to make one 
if you don't have one already.

Then it's a question of picking your mirror and whatnot, but that's a bit 
involved for a quickie reply.  Here's mine.  It will work, but you can 
probably find a faster mirror from where you are.

# the main Debian packages.  Uncomment the deb-src line if you
# want 'apt-get source' to work with most packages.
deb http://ftp.belnet.be/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.belnet.be/debian/ testing main contrib non-free

# the non-US Debian packages.  Uncomment the deb-src line if you
# want 'apt-get source' to work with non-US packages.
deb http://ftp.lug.udel.edu/debian-non-US/ testing/non-US main contrib 
non-free
deb-src http://ftp.lug.udel.edu/debian-non-US/ testing/non-US main contrib 
non-free

(I chose these particular mirrors with netselect-apt, for future reference.)

Now you want to:

apt-get update

Then you can play with apt-cache to see what's available:

apt-cache search tetex

Once you know what you want, you can install with:

apt-get install foo bar flummy doodah skee skippy glee whatever

That's it in a nutshell, but you need to RTFM for all the details I've left 
out:

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/index.en.html

You should also probably start off using aptitude instead of apt-get to 
install everything.

http://www.debianplanet.org/node.php?id=983&cid=12291

That ought to get you started.  Have fun!

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Re: fat32 write access for user

[Adam Aube]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> i added a partition which is fat32. apparently the user has only read
> access to this partition. only root can write. how can i make user have
> write access as well? here is the line from the /etc/fstab:
> /dev/hdb5 /mnt/hdb5 vfat noauto,users,exec,umask=1000,gid=1000,uid=1000
> please i need some help quickly.

Try "umask=004" instead of "umask=1000".

Adam


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Re: apt-file usage

[Matt Price]

On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 09:55:38AM -0700, Carlos Hanson wrote:
> Did you do an update first?
> 
>   # apt-file update
err no.  sorry for bothering the list.  thanks for the tip!

m


> 
> 
> On Wed, 12 May 2004 12:25:58 -0400
> Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm trying to understand how to use apt-file.  I've just installed it
> > on unstable (2.0.3-6) and am using what I believe is the default
> > /etc/apt/apt-file.conf (follows below).
> > 
> > when I try:
> > 
> > apt-file list mozilla-firefox
> > or
> > apt-file search firefox
> > 
> > I get nothing.  Am I doing something wrong?  Or is the config perhaps
> > not set up right?
> > 
> > I ifnd the man page soemwhat telegraphic, so perhaps I'm missing
> > something!  
> > 
> > thanks,
> > matt
> > 
> 


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Re: Debian dedicated hosts?

[Adam Aube]

Steve Lamb wrote:

>  Also I recall there being a site which listed all the various dedicated
> hosting options.  However, for the life of me, I'm coming up blank on my
> Google searches.

Perhaps this is what you're looking for:

http://www.vix.com/personalcolo/

Adam


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dfsg compliant X

[Greg Madden]

I noticed that X-window-system is now dfsg.1-1. I guess this means all 
the firmware with no source has been removed. I am not sure what effect 
removing the firmware actually will have. I have a fairly new laptop 
using the Radeon chip & some dual Matrox 450 cards using the MGA 
driver. Does this change affect end users ?
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Best Regards.

[frank mago]

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You may be surprise to receive this letter from me since you don\'t 
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and
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fat32 write access for user

[tsitras]

i added a partition which is fat32. apparently the user has only read access to
this partition. only root can write. how can i make user have write access as
well? here is the line from the /etc/fstab:
/dev/hdb5 /mnt/hdb5 vfat noauto,users,exec,umask=002,gid=1000,uid=1000
please i need some help quickly.

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fat32 write access for user

[tsitras]

i added a partition which is fat32. apparently the user has only read access to
this partition. only root can write. how can i make user have write access as
well? here is the line from the /etc/fstab:
/dev/hdb5 /mnt/hdb5 vfat noauto,users,exec,umask=1000,gid=1000,uid=1000
please i need some help quickly.

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Re: suddenly only root can login -- ANSWER

[Tim Connors]

Richard Weil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Wed, 12 May 2004 12:51:32 -0700 (PDT):
> I found the solution in a posting to lkml from 1998.
> Somehow the permissions on the / directory had changed
>  to: rwxr-x---
>
> They need to be: rwxr-xr-x
>
> Any ideas on what would cause the permissions on the /
> directory to spontaneously change?

I don't know, but I had /tmp spontaneously change the other day, which
is really impressive, because it is on a tmpfs filesystem.

I have a feeling I did an install of a package recently. Perhaps dpkg
stuffed up?

I won't report a bug because I simply don't have any details. I'll
wait and see if it becomes reproducable.

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[Ishwar Rattan]

I just installed debian from Knoppix-3.4 CD. Seems to work.

I want to add tetex packages to the system. I read the man pages
but picture is not clear.

Would any some kind soul list the steps needed (in order) to get the
tetex and related packages (from stable packages on www.debian.org or
some other repository) and install them?

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Re: How to set up wi-fi device?

[Ron]

> Can anybody point me in the right direction?  Are there any packages I
> need to install?  Do I need to add anything to any config files or
> something?  Can anyone share how they set up their card?
Hey Jon,
Here is my interface file.  Most of the lines are commented just as notes to
myself.
# /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8)

# The loopback interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The first network card - this entry was created during the Debian
installation
# "auto" removed - use $./iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed rate 1Mb/s | dhclient
wlan0
for starting iface, the drivers for belkin usb wireless access invoke bad
options

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
end of paste

So, you should read ifup ifdown man pages as the file suggests.  My router
is setup for dhcp, and for that reason I added some stuff to dhclient.conf. 
I know the driver manual wants you to demand a specific IP from the router,
but I find it easier to use dhcp.  How is your eth0 setup?
Typing iwconfig with no arguments will give you your extension status.  I
used dmesg a lot setting up the usb wireless device.  It should point you
in the right direction.  There are quite a few things to iron out.  How is
the router setup (mac filtering, name server, wep encryption, etc..).  I
don't understand the part about losing your eth0 connection.  You are using
a different IP for the wlan0, right?  And, finally, the last time we
talked, you wanted the hotplug only thing.  That is good, because bringing
up two interfaces at boot is another challenge.  You'll notice the
interface file above is only commented instructions to me.  Only eth0 is
brought up at boot.  There is also the host file and all that jazz.  I
really prefer the dhcp thing.
Hope this helps to get you started,
Ron 
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Label printers with linux drivers?

[Matthew Joyce]

Title: Label printers with linux drivers?







Hi,


I'm looking for a label printer which I can print from linux to, any ideas ?

Do I need to find one with linux drivers, or just a compatible printer which supports a popular language like pcl ?


Idealy I'd like a network printer, or I'd like to utilise an old HP JetDirect print server.


Could I just get any cheap label printer and connect it to a windows client and use Samba to print from the linux server ?

Advice appreciated.



Matt Joyce

Children's Cancer Institute Australia

http://www.ccia.org.au

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Re: mutt in xterm fun

[Clive Menzies]

On (13/05/04 01:24), Antony Gelberg wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I think there is a bug in mutt 1.5.6 (and shortly before, but I upgraded
> to try and correct it).
> 
> Simply, when I resize my rxvt, mutt goes to a 20-ish line display - the
> rest of the window is blank.  Also happens with xterm, so it's not an
> rxvt bug.
> 
> Before I report the bug, Is anyone else seeing this and is it a mutt
> bug?
> 
> A
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Re: mutt in xterm fun

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On (13/05/04 01:24), Antony Gelberg wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I think there is a bug in mutt 1.5.6 (and shortly before, but I upgraded
> to try and correct it).
> 
> Simply, when I resize my rxvt, mutt goes to a 20-ish line display - the
> rest of the window is blank.  Also happens with xterm, so it's not an
> rxvt bug.
> 
> Before I report the bug, Is anyone else seeing this and is it a mutt
> bug?
Hi Antony

I saw this a week or so ago, either a recent upgrade cured it or it just
went away ;) - I'm running 1.5.6-1 on sid.

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Re: How to set up wi-fi device?

[Alvin Oga]

hi ya jonathan

On Wed, 12 May 2004, Jonathan Melhuish wrote:

> I seem to have successfully installed my BT Voyager 1010 USB Wifi 
> adapter.  The driver loads upon plugging it in, the "activity" light 
> switches on, and all is rosy.  But I'm slightly at a loss as to how to 
> proceed.  The README that comes with the driver slightly tersely 
> suggests typing something along the lines of:
> 
> iwconfig wlan0 channel 3 mode ad-hoc essid fred
> ifconfig wlan0 192.168.0.1
> 
> Which I've tried, but don't seem to have acheived anything (I assume 
> wlan0 is an abitary name?).  All it seems to have done is break the 
> hostname lookups on my wired connection, eth0.  Which is damned 
> annoying, as without the web I find it very difficult to fix anything :-(
> 
> Can anybody point me in the right direction?  Are there any packages I 
> need to install?  Do I need to add anything to any config files or 
> something?  Can anyone share how they set up their card?

you need to download the amtel drivers ??
- or more like google for: "voyager 1010" drivers

http://linuxdrivers.foundries.sourceforge.net/comments.pl?sid=7303

than do some combinations of the following

   ( you need to know how to add new routes and stuff )
ifconfig wlan
route ...

   ( you need to kow what the wireless options means )
iwconfig [ wireless options you want ]
iwlist scan

ping  other-wireless-ap

other wireless drivers
http://www.linux-sec.net/Wireless/Drivers/

c ya
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Re: DVD-rip

[Kirk Strauser]

At 2004-05-12T20:53:09Z, Jonathan Melhuish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I keep bloody doing that!  >:-( Why can't the debian-user "Reply To:"
> address be set to the list address, like every other list I'm subscribed
> to?

Google for "Reply-to considered harmful" for the most commonly given answer
to that question.
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Re: kernel 2.6.6 - why shutting down my hard drives while rebooting?

[Roberto Sanchez]

Thomas Adam wrote:
 --- LeVA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 

Hello!


well. I think this is something with a misconfigured kernel, because 
this isn't happening with my 2.4.26, and 2.6.5 kernels. I think I just 
compiled-in something "wrong" into my kernel.


Sounds like you're using APIC. If you want to inhibit this:

linux noapic

from the lilo prompt.

Actually, this is a result of some changes to the IDE flush code
that have made it unable to differentiae between a reboot and a
shutdown.  It is being worked by the kernel devs.
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mutt in xterm fun

[Antony Gelberg]

Hi all,

I think there is a bug in mutt 1.5.6 (and shortly before, but I upgraded
to try and correct it).

Simply, when I resize my rxvt, mutt goes to a 20-ish line display - the
rest of the window is blank.  Also happens with xterm, so it's not an
rxvt bug.

Before I report the bug, Is anyone else seeing this and is it a mutt
bug?

A
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Re: suggested/recommended packages

[dircha]

Rick Pasotto wrote:
Packages often suggest or recommend other packages. Is there a program
that will check what I currently have installed for any suggested or
recommended packages that I do *not* have installed?
When a program is initially installed I may have no need for one or more
of the suggestions but then not be aware of it when it becomes useful.
List any package which suggests packages not installed:
$ aptitude search ~i~Bsuggests
List any packcage which recommends packages not installed:
$ aptitude search ~i~Brecommends
Then, to see whether you are missing anything good:
$ aptitude show [package]
On woody you may need to use apt-cache for the "show" operation. I don't 
think the woody version of aptitude supports it.

Is this what you had in mind?

dircha

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How to set up wi-fi device?

[Jonathan Melhuish]

I seem to have successfully installed my BT Voyager 1010 USB Wifi 
adapter.  The driver loads upon plugging it in, the "activity" light 
switches on, and all is rosy.  But I'm slightly at a loss as to how to 
proceed.  The README that comes with the driver slightly tersely 
suggests typing something along the lines of:

iwconfig wlan0 channel 3 mode ad-hoc essid fred
ifconfig wlan0 192.168.0.1
Which I've tried, but don't seem to have acheived anything (I assume 
wlan0 is an abitary name?).  All it seems to have done is break the 
hostname lookups on my wired connection, eth0.  Which is damned 
annoying, as without the web I find it very difficult to fix anything :-(

Can anybody point me in the right direction?  Are there any packages I 
need to install?  Do I need to add anything to any config files or 
something?  Can anyone share how they set up their card?

TIA,

Jon

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Re: disks are hot hot hot

[Alvin Oga]

On Wed, 12 May 2004, Alex Malinovich wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 23:35, David Cunningham wrote:
> > Sounds good.  What brand and model of heatsink do you use?

http://directron.com/hdcoolers.html

if there is not say 1" of air clearance above the fans, the fans are just
noise makers

have fun
alvin
 
> Umm, to be honest, I'm not sure. :) They're copper, the size of a HD,
> and have 2 fans on them. I can go by the shop where I got them tomorrow
> and see if they still have the same ones. If they do I'll let you know
> what the actual name is.
> 


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suggested/recommended packages

[Rick Pasotto]

Packages often suggest or recommend other packages. Is there a program
that will check what I currently have installed for any suggested or
recommended packages that I do *not* have installed?

When a program is initially installed I may have no need for one or more
of the suggestions but then not be aware of it when it becomes useful.

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Re: DVD-rip

[Jonathan Melhuish]

Nicholas Lativy wrote:

Oh and sorry for mailing you directly, I hit "r" instead of "L" by mistake
first time.
 

I keep bloody doing that!  >:-(  Why can't the debian-user "Reply To:" 
address be set to the list address, like every other list I'm subscribed to?

Cheers,

Jon

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Re: disks are hot hot hot

[Alex Malinovich]

On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 23:35, David Cunningham wrote:
> Sounds good.  What brand and model of heatsink do you use?

Umm, to be honest, I'm not sure. :) They're copper, the size of a HD,
and have 2 fans on them. I can go by the shop where I got them tomorrow
and see if they still have the same ones. If they do I'll let you know
what the actual name is.

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Re: change LILO form command line to menu

[Alvin Oga]

hi ya bill

On Wed, 12 May 2004, Bill Kalebaugh wrote:

> I have used LILO for about 10 years on a number of different vendors 
> linux systems and
> I have never ran in to this before.

if it did it before ... it should still work with the new kernel

- make sure you still have the lilo.conf file
- mannually run lilo ... what does it say 

> When Woody boots up it is like a command line and you get no menu to 
> pick different kernels from.
> This was fine until I compiled a new kernel, lilo it, but I have no way 
> to pick it out to boot from.
> 
> How do you convince lilo to use a menu while booting???
>

add the message line ( see below ) if you want more messages displayed

c ya
alvin
 
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boot=/dev/hda
#set to / partition
root=/dev/hda5
# Default menu for Debian. (Using the images from debian-bootscreen)
# from Philipp Wolfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
bitmap=/usr/share/lilo/contrib/sid.bmp
bmp-colors=1,,0,2,,0
bmp-table=120p,173p,1,15,17
bmp-timer=254p,432p,1,0,0
install=/boot/boot-bmp.b
map=/boot/map


#
# if you want to add messages
# --
# message = /boot/boot_message.txt
#

#can not remember what this was for...
delay=20
#ask first
prompt
#150 msec or 15 seconds
timeout=150
# Specifies the VGA text mode at boot time. (normal, extended, ask, 
)
#set vga 1024x768 for stupid intel graphics extreme card
  vga = 791
#vga=normal
default=Linux-2.6.x
#for scsi emulation on cd-burner
append="hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi"

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.5
 label=Linux-2.6.x
 read-only

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.25
 label=Linux-2.4.x
 read-only

other=/dev/hda1
   optional
   label="Windows"

---

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Re: Does nice-ness exist for bandwidth? [sic]

[David Cunningham]

> Can I nice various network jobs [eg, web-browsing, apt-get update,
> mail-get]
> like I would a CPU process.
>
> Here's the deal.
>
> Using nice on my linux box is great.
> eg.
> nice make-kpkg --revision=x kernel_image
>
> While compiling my kernel I still get priority to other
> things that I'm doing [mozilla, ooffice, etc] but if I'm
> not doing anything all my cpu cycles go to the compile.
> [I'm sure most people know what nice is but I want to make
> sure my point is clear.]
>
> I'd like to do the same thing with respect to bandwidth.
> eg.
> netnice wget http://foo.com/dirty_big_download
> netnice apt-get dist-upgrade
>
> Now if I'm web-browsing and reading a page already loaded
> all the bandwidth goes to wget/apt-get.
> But when I am loading a web-site or checking my mail then
> the priority for the bandwidth goes to the browser like
> in the cpu-nice example.
>
> ===
> Does an application that achieves the above exist currently?
> If not; is it possible or even a good idea?
>
> Thankyou,
>
> Lex.
>
> PS - I'd appreciate a CC because I'm not on user list but
> I will check the web archives regardless.
>

I believe I read recently that tc (traffic control) and iptables can be
combined to provide a solution for what you're describing.  Someone
correct me if I'm wrong but it seems you can use iptables to set rules
such that all web traffic (port 80 and 443 for example) can be directed
into one traffic management queue (queue discipline?) and all apt-get
traffic can be routed into another queue (depending on which tcp port it
uses) and so on.  I plan to implement (try to implement) this myself soon.



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Re: change LILO form command line to menu

[Ben Edwards]

Bill Kalebaugh wrote:

I have used LILO for about 10 years on a number of different vendors 
linux systems and
I have never ran in to this before.

When Woody boots up it is like a command line and you get no menu to 
pick different kernels from.
This was fine until I compiled a new kernel, lilo it, but I have no 
way to pick it out to boot from.

How do you convince lilo to use a menu while booting???

Bill K
Try pressing shift (there is probably a pause while nothing is hapening 
whitch is giving you the option to press shift and see lilo menu).  Cant 
remember the options but it is possible to not show the menu untill 
shift is pressed.  I had this problem and worked out what was wrong 
looking at the lilo.conf.  If you are really stuck you can use knoppix 
as a rescue disk.  I even managed to chroot, edit lilo and run the lilo 
prog from it.

Ben

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Re: change LILO form command line to menu

[Jacob Bresciani]

this is mine

lba32
boot=/dev/hda
#set to / partition
root=/dev/hda5
# Default menu for Debian. (Using the images from debian-bootscreen)
# from Philipp Wolfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
bitmap=/usr/share/lilo/contrib/sid.bmp
bmp-colors=1,,0,2,,0
bmp-table=120p,173p,1,15,17
bmp-timer=254p,432p,1,0,0
install=/boot/boot-bmp.b
map=/boot/map
#can not remember what this was for...
delay=20
#ask first
prompt
#150 msec or 15 seconds
timeout=150
# Specifies the VGA text mode at boot time. (normal, extended, ask, 
)
#set vga 1024x768 for stupid intel graphics extreme card
 vga = 791
#vga=normal
default=Linux-2.6.x
#for scsi emulation on cd-burner
append="hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi"

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.5
label=Linux-2.6.x
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.25
label=Linux-2.4.x
read-only
other=/dev/hda1
  optional
  label="Windows"

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On 12-May-04, at 3:55 PM, Bill Kalebaugh wrote:

I have used LILO for about 10 years on a number of different vendors 
linux systems and
I have never ran in to this before.

When Woody boots up it is like a command line and you get no menu to 
pick different kernels from.
This was fine until I compiled a new kernel, lilo it, but I have no 
way to pick it out to boot from.

How do you convince lilo to use a menu while booting???

Bill K





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Problem with 2.6 initrd kernel

[Brian Weaver]

I compiled kernel-2.6.5 from the source on backports.org using
kernel-package and with the --initrd flag

It compiles fine, but when I go to install the .deb package, I get
the following error. Anyone know what I'm missing?

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src$ sudo dpkg -i
./kernel-image-2.6.5-686-smp-mpt-64g-1_1.0.svtc_i386.deb
Password:
Selecting previously deselected package
kernel-image-2.6.5-686-smp-mpt-64g-1.
(Reading database ... 74240 files and directories currently
installed.)
Unpacking kernel-image-2.6.5-686-smp-mpt-64g-1 (from
.../kernel-image-2.6.5-686-smp-mpt-64g-1_1.0.svtc_i386.deb) ...
Setting up kernel-image-2.6.5-686-smp-mpt-64g-1 (1.0.svtc) ...
/usr/sbin/mkinitrd: add_modules_dep_2_5: modprobe failed
FATAL: Module mptscsih not found.
FATAL: Module sd_mod not found.
Failed to create initrd image.
dpkg: error processing kernel-image-2.6.5-686-smp-mpt-64g-1
(--install):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 29
Errors were encountered while processing:
 kernel-image-2.6.5-686-smp-mpt-64g-1


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change LILO form command line to menu

[Bill Kalebaugh]

I have used LILO for about 10 years on a number of different vendors 
linux systems and
I have never ran in to this before.

When Woody boots up it is like a command line and you get no menu to 
pick different kernels from.
This was fine until I compiled a new kernel, lilo it, but I have no way 
to pick it out to boot from.

How do you convince lilo to use a menu while booting???

Bill K





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Re: choise of HDD

[Alvin Oga]

hi ya pim

On Wed, 12 May 2004, Pim Bliek wrote:

> Hiya all,
> 
> I am in the market for a new HDD for my Debian (Sarge) Desktop. I have
> an NForce2 ASUS A7N8X Deluxe 2.0 motherboard with 2 PATA connectors and
> 2 SATA ones. I guess I prefer SATA because.. well, it's the future :).

around this part of town, at the local "fries" pc general store,

hitachi/ibm/maxtor/wd (pata) disks are selling for about 
$0.50 per GB 250GB for roughly $130 after $120 rebates 
same "1/2 price" deal for 160/120/80 GB versions
( rebates expire at different times .. )

> Any suggestions? I am looking for something fast, in the range of 80-160
> GB, dependant on price. Price should be in range of 80 - 120 euros, in
> the Netherlands.

c ya
alvin 


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choise of HDD

[Pim Bliek]

Hiya all,

I am in the market for a new HDD for my Debian (Sarge) Desktop. I have
an NForce2 ASUS A7N8X Deluxe 2.0 motherboard with 2 PATA connectors and
2 SATA ones. I guess I prefer SATA because.. well, it's the future :).

Any suggestions? I am looking for something fast, in the range of 80-160
GB, dependant on price. Price should be in range of 80 - 120 euros, in
the Netherlands.

What can you people recommend for Debian? Are there any issues with SATA
on this board? How about the controller? (Silicon Image 3112(A) SATA
chipset)  How about the Debian Installer on SATA? Does the kernel
recognize this controller being a RAID controller? (I think it is?).
Maybe worth buying two HDD's?

Any suggestions more than helpfull! Thanx!

Pim


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Re: kernel 2.6.6 - why shutting down my hard drives while rebooting?

[Thomas Adam]

 --- LeVA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
> Hello!

> well. I think this is something with a misconfigured kernel, because 
> this isn't happening with my 2.4.26, and 2.6.5 kernels. I think I just 
> compiled-in something "wrong" into my kernel.

Sounds like you're using APIC. If you want to inhibit this:

linux noapic

from the lilo prompt.

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kernel 2.6.6 - why shutting down my hard drives while rebooting?

[LeVA]

Hello!

I've just compiled my brand new 2.6.6 kernel, and I noticed that when I 
type `shutdown -r now` or just press ctrl+alt+del, so when I reboot the 
system, at the end of the shutting down, something turns my hard drives 
off (like with AT power supplies + halt). And during the reboot, when 
the BIOS detects my hard drives, they spin-up, and everything goes 
well. I think this is something with a misconfigured kernel, because 
this isn't happening with my 2.4.26, and 2.6.5 kernels. I think I just 
compiled-in something "wrong" into my kernel.

Anybody could help me please?

Thanks!

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Revert gnome user prefs to default?

[Paul Mackinney]

When I start gnome as a certain user, I get a ton of dialogs complaining
that my settings are missing/corrupt, e.g., "an error occured while
loading or saving configuration information for
gnome-settings-daemon..." ultimately the desktop is covered with
windows, when I dismiss them all what's left is broken and unusable: no
tool bar or menus, 3 generic icons on a black background.

I created a new user, gnome runs fine.

I deleted all files in the problem user's home directory, copied in the
files from /etc/skel, and launched gnome but this made no difference
except that now some of the dialogs are so wide that they extend off the
desktop to either side.

I don't usually use gnome, but I'd like to get the default environment
back.

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Re: No display signal after installing Debian on PowerMac 8600

[Clive Menzies]

On (12/05/04 21:43), Lukas Foljanty wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I am a total newbie to Linux, so perhaps this is all stupid, but I have 
> a problem I cannot solve after installing the current build of Debian 
> on my PowerMac 8600.
> 
> Here it goes:
> I (successfully) installed the basic installation of Debian (CD 
> distribution 1) for PowerMacs/PPC. I partitioned the hard drive, 
> installed some modules and then finished the installation. When it told 
> me that the installation was finished I restarted my Mac.
> 
> However, now I don't have a display signal! When booting of a split 
> second, the display receives a signal, but then goes blank. I can hear 
> the computer working and seemingly, it responds to keyboard inputs 
> (from the sounds it makes), but since the screen is black, I don't know 
> what's it's doing.
> 
> What's worse, I cannot boot in MacOS, either (neither booting from HD 
> nor CD). So I am completely stuck here.
Hi Lukas

It is likely that during the install you chose display settings that
aren't available ... unless, of course your monitor has died ;)

Try Ctl+Alt+P+R whilst booting - that will reset your PRAM.  You should
then be able to boot into mac OS. Do you know what boot loader you are
using for Debian - quik, bootX or yaboot?

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Re: suddenly only root can login -- ANSWER

[Richard Weil]

I found the solution in a posting to lkml from 1998.
Somehow the permissions on the / directory had changed
 to: rwxr-x---

They need to be: rwxr-xr-x

Any ideas on what would cause the permissions on the /
directory to spontaneously change?

The system is behind a firewall w/few services exposed
to the internet and there are only two people w/ shell
access. If it were done manually, the system would
have had to have been cracked, which seems unlikely.

Thanks,

Richard




--- Richard Weil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I checked the files in /etc/pam.d and nothing looks
> out of the ordinary. Is there anything in particular
> to look for?
> 
> I thought it was a pam problem too, and I saw there
> was bug filed against the pam in testing, so I
> installed as part of this problem solving process
> the
> following three files from unstable:
> 
> libpam-runtime
> libpam0g
> libpam-modules
> 
> For all of the packages I alse did dpkg-reconfigure,
> but there were no questions asked.
> 
> Richard
> 
> 
> --- Thomas Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >  --- Richard Weil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
> > 
> > > I'm running sarge on a fairly reliable machine.
> > Today,
> > > for some reason, no one but root can log on to
> the
> > > machine. All of the users are still on the
> system.
> > > Once logged into the system as root, it is
> > impossible
> > > to su to one of the users. Also, none of the
> users
> > who
> > > access the system via samba can logon either.
> > 
> > Sounds like a PAM issue to me. Check /etc/pam.d/*
> > 
> > -- Thomas Adam
> > 
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> > punish 
> > you for all of them at once when you get better.
> The
> > 
> > experience will probably kill you. :)"
> > 
> >  -- Benjamin A. Okopnik (Linux Gazette Technical
> > Editor)
> > 
> > 
> > 
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No display signal after installing Debian on PowerMac 8600

[Lukas Foljanty]

Hi.

I am a total newbie to Linux, so perhaps this is all stupid, but I have 
a problem I cannot solve after installing the current build of Debian 
on my PowerMac 8600.

Here it goes:
I (successfully) installed the basic installation of Debian (CD 
distribution 1) for PowerMacs/PPC. I partitioned the hard drive, 
installed some modules and then finished the installation. When it told 
me that the installation was finished I restarted my Mac.

However, now I don't have a display signal! When booting of a split 
second, the display receives a signal, but then goes blank. I can hear 
the computer working and seemingly, it responds to keyboard inputs 
(from the sounds it makes), but since the screen is black, I don't know 
what's it's doing.

What's worse, I cannot boot in MacOS, either (neither booting from HD 
nor CD). So I am completely stuck here.

Help!

Suggestions are truly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

Lukas

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Re: suddenly only root can login

[Richard Weil]

I checked the files in /etc/pam.d and nothing looks
out of the ordinary. Is there anything in particular
to look for?

I thought it was a pam problem too, and I saw there
was bug filed against the pam in testing, so I
installed as part of this problem solving process the
following three files from unstable:

libpam-runtime
libpam0g
libpam-modules

For all of the packages I alse did dpkg-reconfigure,
but there were no questions asked.

Richard


--- Thomas Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  --- Richard Weil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
> 
> > I'm running sarge on a fairly reliable machine.
> Today,
> > for some reason, no one but root can log on to the
> > machine. All of the users are still on the system.
> > Once logged into the system as root, it is
> impossible
> > to su to one of the users. Also, none of the users
> who
> > access the system via samba can logon either.
> 
> Sounds like a PAM issue to me. Check /etc/pam.d/*
> 
> -- Thomas Adam
> 
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> punish 
> you for all of them at once when you get better. The
> 
> experience will probably kill you. :)"
> 
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> Editor)
> 
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Re: suddenly only root can login

[Richard Weil]

This is everything from /etc/shells:

# /etc/shells: valid login shells
/bin/ash
/bin/bash
/bin/csh
/bin/sh
/usr/bin/es
/usr/bin/ksh
/bin/ksh
/usr/bin/rc
/usr/bin/tcsh
/bin/tcsh
/usr/bin/zsh
/bin/sash
/bin/zsh
/usr/bin/esh
/bin/dash
/usr/bin/screen





--- Jacob Bresciani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> what's listed in /etc/shells
> 
> ---
> 
> Jacob Bresciani
> Systems Analyst
> Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering
> University of Alberta
> Bus: (780) 492-7368
> Fax: (780) 492-1811
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> 
> On 12-May-04, at 12:59 PM, Richard Weil wrote:
> 
> > I'm running sarge on a fairly reliable machine.
> Today,
> > for some reason, no one but root can log on to the
> > machine. All of the users are still on the system.
> > Once logged into the system as root, it is
> impossible
> > to su to one of the users. Also, none of the users
> who
> > access the system via samba can logon either.
> >
> >> From root, if I try to su I get "No shell", which
> is
> > not the case. This shows up in the auth.log
> >
> > May 12 14:51:36 augusta sshd[4235]: (pam_unix)
> session
> > opened for user rcw by (uid=0)
> >
> > May 12 14:51:36 augusta sshd[4235]: fatal:
> > login_get_lastlog: Cannot find account for uid
> 1000
> >
> > I checked and /etc/passwd looks fine.
> >
> > I'm totally stumped.
> >
> > The machine was running 2.6.3, but I upgraded to
> 2.6.5
> > in case it was some odd sort of kernel problem --
> no
> > dice.
> >
> > I did update to the latest testing yesterday
> > afternoon; I don't remember what was updated, but
> it
> > looked harmless. The problem manifested itself
> this
> > morning.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Richard
> >
> >
> > 
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Re: suddenly only root can login

[Thomas Adam]

 --- Richard Weil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 

> I'm running sarge on a fairly reliable machine. Today,
> for some reason, no one but root can log on to the
> machine. All of the users are still on the system.
> Once logged into the system as root, it is impossible
> to su to one of the users. Also, none of the users who
> access the system via samba can logon either.

Sounds like a PAM issue to me. Check /etc/pam.d/*

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Re: suddenly only root can login

[Jacob Bresciani]

what's listed in /etc/shells

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Jacob Bresciani
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On 12-May-04, at 12:59 PM, Richard Weil wrote:

I'm running sarge on a fairly reliable machine. Today,
for some reason, no one but root can log on to the
machine. All of the users are still on the system.
Once logged into the system as root, it is impossible
to su to one of the users. Also, none of the users who
access the system via samba can logon either.
From root, if I try to su I get "No shell", which is
not the case. This shows up in the auth.log

May 12 14:51:36 augusta sshd[4235]: (pam_unix) session
opened for user rcw by (uid=0)
May 12 14:51:36 augusta sshd[4235]: fatal:
login_get_lastlog: Cannot find account for uid 1000
I checked and /etc/passwd looks fine.

I'm totally stumped.

The machine was running 2.6.3, but I upgraded to 2.6.5
in case it was some odd sort of kernel problem -- no
dice.
I did update to the latest testing yesterday
afternoon; I don't remember what was updated, but it
looked harmless. The problem manifested itself this
morning.
Thanks,

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suddenly only root can login

[Richard Weil]

I'm running sarge on a fairly reliable machine. Today,
for some reason, no one but root can log on to the
machine. All of the users are still on the system.
Once logged into the system as root, it is impossible
to su to one of the users. Also, none of the users who
access the system via samba can logon either.

>From root, if I try to su I get "No shell", which is
not the case. This shows up in the auth.log

May 12 14:51:36 augusta sshd[4235]: (pam_unix) session
opened for user rcw by (uid=0)

May 12 14:51:36 augusta sshd[4235]: fatal:
login_get_lastlog: Cannot find account for uid 1000

I checked and /etc/passwd looks fine.

I'm totally stumped.

The machine was running 2.6.3, but I upgraded to 2.6.5
in case it was some odd sort of kernel problem -- no
dice.

I did update to the latest testing yesterday
afternoon; I don't remember what was updated, but it
looked harmless. The problem manifested itself this
morning.

Thanks,

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googletip

[Johannes Schlumberger]

You may want to google with some keywords like traffic shaping or
hierarchical token bucket. You should be able to find a Howto, how to set
up a router, helping to solve your problem by restricting stream-usage for
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IMAP tunnel thru http proxy - possible?

[Deboo]

   I just have http access from office (thru a proxy gateway), and
   no outside POP/IMAP/SMTP access. Is it possible to somehow tunnel
   all the IMAP(S)/POP(S) requests thru the proxy? The proxy allows
   http/https and ftp only.

  Do point me where I can get more info about this or how to do this or
  some kind of howto or links to any such place.

Much appreciated.
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Re: mozilla-firefox & extensions

[Alexander Nordström]

On Wednesday, 12 May 2004 00:40, Matt Price wrote:
> On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 11:17:31AM +0800, Alexander Nordström wrote:
> > On Friday, 7 May 2004 03:16, Matt Price wrote:
> > > anyonee lse having trouble installing extensions with mozilla-firefox
> > > 0.8-8 on Sid?  I keep trying to install mozex and it doesn't seem to
> > > actually install.  I have two other extensions working (Bookmarks
> > > Synchronizer and Session Saver) but they also seemed to install rather
> > > reluctantly (lots of extra "x has been installed" popup windows).
> > > Does this behaviour sound familiar to anyone?
> >
> > b) apt-get upgrading Firefox will botch root-installed extensions. See
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=206097 for details.
>
> thanks for the tip.  However, I don't think this is the problem in my
> case -- I've tried it with several different extensions that have
> installed fine with earlier versions of firebird, and in each case
> I've had the same problem. 

That's what 206097 is about, at least in part, sort of. If you install an 
extension and subsequently upgrade firefox, not only will your root-installed 
extensions get clobbered (user-installed extensions are safer, but I can't 
say to what extent), you will also be unable to re-install those extensions. 
So if you had it installed before, the only way to re-enable yourself to 
install them may be to uninstall and remove the configuration files too (you 
should be able to keep most, if not all, of the stuff in your home directory 
profile), and reinstall.

Also, the fact that you get notified several times for extensions if you've 
installed other extensions first is a known issue, and the recommendation is 
to restart the browser every time an extension is installed. It seems to come 
up a bit even without that provocation, but less severely so.

> I've also chown'd and chmod'd all the 
> files in /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox and /var/lib/mozilla-firefox so that
> my user has write access to them -- again, no luck. 

You do not want to have users with write access in common areas like /usr/* 
or /var/*. Not because it's causing the problem, but because it's bad policy. 

Read permissions should be sufficient. Generally the ones of interest are the 
ones in /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/chrome.

> Now firefox 
> crashes whenever I  try to install an extension -- and as far as I can
> tell, does so without giving any messages or anything.  anyone know if
> firefox has a log anywhere?  I myself cant find it...

That isn't pretty. It seems it has a tendency to stuff up especially when it's 
unable to read some file that it needs. I think the reason you're not getting 
any output to standard error is that /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox contains a 
whole bunch of  2>/dev/null > /dev/null for reasons beyond my understanding. 
Try removing that from the end of all lines where they appear, and see if 
that helps.

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date locale problem

[cantona]

Hi all

I am using locale zh_HK, the date is displaying in Chinese. (四 5月 13
02:26:03 HKT 2004)
I want to display the 'date' in C (Thu May 13 02:28:59 HKT 2004) but
dont change the locale zh_HK to locale C or other,
so any file is handle the date/time locale eg. "xxx.mo"
so I can replace the file from locale C.
Any idea?

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kernel-2.6.5 don't detect my cdrom

[Mauricio Rios-Momberg]

 Hello, I've installed sarge:linux26 (kernel-2.6.3)
and everything was OK. But then, since my machine got
two processors, I run:
apt-get install kernel-image-2.6.5-1-686-smp
and now my cdrom is not detected.

Here is a block of messages of 2.6.3 booting:
---
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
hdc: _NEC CD-RW NR-7800A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hdc: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
NTFS driver 2.1.6 [Flags: R/O MODULE].
---

and here the corresponding block in 2.6.5 booting:
---
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
NTFS driver 2.1.6 [Flags: R/O MODULE].
---

Please help me fix this. Thanks 

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konqueror startup errors

[Kamaraju Kusumanchi]

Whenever I start konqueror I am getting the following errors. Similar 
errors are coming when any kde application is started from command line. 
I am running Debian testing (sarge). Any work arounds? I googled around 
a bit. I saw that couple of others also had the same problem but I could 
not find a solution. Any suggestions would be highly appreciated.

kdecore (KIconLoader): WARNING: Icon directory /usr/share/icons/hicolor/ 
group 16x16/stock/chart not valid.
kdecore (KIconLoader): WARNING: Icon directory /usr/share/icons/hicolor/ 
group 16x16/stock/code not valid.
kdecore (KIconLoader): WARNING: Icon directory /usr/share/icons/hicolor/ 
group 16x16/stock/data not valid.
kdecore (KIconLoader): WARNING: Icon directory /usr/share/icons/hicolor/ 
group 16x16/stock/form not valid.
kdecore (KIconLoader): WARNING: Icon directory /usr/share/icons/hicolor/ 
group 16x16/stock/image not valid.
kdecore (KIconLoader): WARNING: Icon directory /usr/share/icons/hicolor/ 
group 16x16/stock/io not valid.
kdecore (KIconLoader): WARNING: Icon directory /usr/share/icons/hicolor/ 
group 16x16/stock/media not valid.
kdecore (KIconLoader): WARNING: Icon directory /usr/share/icons/hicolor/ 
group 16x16/stock/navigation not valid.
kdecore (KIconLoader): WARNING: Icon directory /usr/share/icons/hicolor/ 
group 16x16/stock/net not valid.
kdecore (KIconLoader): WARNING: Icon directory /usr/share/icons/hicolor/ 
group 16x16/stock/object not valid.
kdecore (KIconLoader): WARNING: Icon directory /usr/share/icons/hicolor/ 
group 16x16/stock/table not valid.
kdecore (KIconLoader): WARNING: Icon directory /usr/share/icons/hicolor/ 
group 16x16/stock/text not valid.
kdecore (KIconLoader): WARNING: Icon directory /usr/share/icons/hicolor/ 
group 32x32/stock/chart not valid.
kdecore (KIconLoader): WARNING: Icon directory /usr/share/icons/hicolor/ 
group 32x32/stock/code not valid.

. lot more warnings ..

kdecore (KIconLoader): WARNING: Icon directory /usr/share/icons/hicolor/ 
group 48x48/stock/navigation not valid.
kdecore (KIconLoader): WARNING: Icon directory /usr/share/icons/hicolor/ 
group 48x48/stock/net not valid.
kdecore (KIconLoader): WARNING: Icon directory /usr/share/icons/hicolor/ 
group 48x48/stock/object not valid.
kdecore (KIconLoader): WARNING: Icon directory /usr/share/icons/hicolor/ 
group 48x48/stock/table not valid.
kdecore (KIconLoader): WARNING: Icon directory /usr/share/icons/hicolor/ 
group 48x48/stock/text not valid.
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::initPrivate(): trying to assign a 
shortcut (Alt+Plus) to an unnamed action.
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::initPrivate(): trying to assign a 
shortcut (Alt+Minus) to an unnamed action.
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::initPrivate(): trying to assign a 
shortcut (Alt+Plus) to an unnamed action.
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::initPrivate(): trying to assign a 
shortcut (Alt+Minus) to an unnamed action.

thanks in advance
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Re: identd

[s. keeling]

Incoming from Mark Copper:
> 
> I am confused about what the ident daemon does.  
> 
> "Rute User's tutorial" identifies it as a possible security hole.  Is it?

Yes.  If you don't know what it is and you still want it, look for
"fauxident"; .  It'll
supply the minimal functionality, but shouldn't produce dark side
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Re: 2.6.5 -- I broke the internet

[Emma Jane Hogbin]

On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 11:43:31PM +0200, Benedict Verheyen wrote:
> Since eth0 is active after adding a fixed ip, but not when an ip is
> requested via dhcp, dhcp might be the issue?
> Is the dhcpd daemon running? Is /etc/default/dhcp configured
> correctly?

I had to upgrade to  dhcp3-client from  dhcp-client

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bold and normal fonts appear reversed in openoffice

[H. S.]

I was trying OpenOffice on my Sid box running 2.4.26-1-686 kernel, and 
noticed that some fonts (Times and Palladino for example) appear 
reversed. This happens when apply a style to a body of text. Suppose I 
make it Text Body, and then modify the style so that Text Body is normal 
Times font. If I choose the font to be normal, it appears as bold 
onscreen and vice versa. However, it prints properly (I tried printing 
to a PDF file).

I then tried this to check this on my box running Sarge (2.4.26-1-686) 
and that too showed similar behavior.

Moreover, the bold button on the tool bar doesn't seem to have any 
effect on the appearance of the font on screen.

Anybody else experiencing this problem?

Here is what I have on Sid box:
~$ dpkg -l openoff* | grep '^ii.*'
ii  openoffice.org 1.1.1-2high-quality office productivity suite
ii  openoffice.org 1.1.1-2OpenOffice.org office suite binary files
ii  openoffice.org 1.1.1-2+3  Debian specific parts of OpenOffice.org
ii  openoffice.org 1.1+20030814-3 OpenOffice.org office suite help (English)
ii  openoffice.org 1.1.1-2English (US) language package for 
openoffice
ii  openoffice.org 1.1.1-2French language package for openoffice.org
ii  openoffice.org 1.1.1-2OpenOffice.org MIME bindings for KDE

and on Sarge, I have this:
$> dpkg -l openoff* | grep '^ii.*'
ii  openoffice.org 1.1.1-2high-quality office productivity suite
ii  openoffice.org 1.1.1-2OpenOffice.org office suite binary files
ii  openoffice.org 1.1.1-2+2  Debian specific parts of OpenOffice.org
ii  openoffice.org 1.1+20030814-3 OpenOffice.org office suite help (English)
ii  openoffice.org 1.1.1-2English (US) language package for 
openoffice

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identd

[Mark Copper]

Dear Users,

I am confused about what the ident daemon does.  

"Rute User's tutorial" identifies it as a possible security hole.  Is it?

A few days ago messages like "identd: started" started showing in my
syslog, and seeing there had been some kind of expoit, I updated the
package.  Following the readme, I replaced the "ident" line in inet.conf
with an "auth" line.  This seemed necessary in order to bring IP
masquerading up to speed.  I wonder why.

In the ident2 package readme, it says IP masquerading is not supported
but that essentially (?) the same results can be obtained by sending
random replies, so I entered the random option in the inet.conf command
line.  Well, today my auth log records random replies being
sent to some IP I don't know.  This is what's supposed to happen, right?

Thanks.

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bug in sarge installer

[Mayr0r]

Hi,
I seem to have found a bug in the sarge-intaller, but I don't know which package it 
belongs to and so I can't check if it has already been reported. Can someone help me?
The error happens directly after the start of the installation. The message is two 
lines long and reads:

"01:00:,rw=0,want=8216,limit=8192
attempt to acess beyond end of device"

These two lines repeat very fast. What's wrong?
Sorry if I missed something in the documentation or something, but please help me.
Thanks
Tobias Mayer

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Re: Restoring /etc/inittab

[Adam Funk]

On Wednesday 12 May 2004 17:40, Pierg75 wrote:

> Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
>> Um, no, you haven't.  If rm is aliased to 'rm -i' in root's
>> environment,
>> it should have prompted.  Unless he neglected to mention that he
>> actually did 'rm -rf' ...
> 
> Somewhere i read that an alias should never be an alias of itself,
> something like alias rm='rm -i'

I'm fairly certain that's not the case, because I do it all the time! 
Examples from by ~/.bashrc:

alias ls='ls --color=auto'
alias rm='rm -vi'
alias cp='cp -vi'
alias mv='mv -vi'
alias cal='cal -3m'  # week starts on Monday

and I'm sure I got this idea from some reputable Unix books.  This way
rm always asks *except* when you use -f.


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Re: Which package to pipe to gz automatically?

[Silvan]

On Tuesday 11 May 2004 06:50 pm, Alan Shutko wrote:

> Yep, that's it.  Just put
>
> eval `lesspipe`
>
> in your .bashrc.

Ah.  Thanks to you and the other.  That's the missing piece.  I started with 
an all new /etc/bash* this go round, and lost a lot of legacy stuff I had 
forgotten I ever configured.

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Re: Make local KDM connect to remote KDM automatically?

[Silvan]

On Tuesday 11 May 2004 07:27 am, Dennis Stosberg wrote:

> You don't need to have kdm or xdm installed on your terminal at all.
> Just start your local X-server from /etc/inittab like this (untested):
>
> 8:345:respawn:/usr/X11R6/bin/X :1 vt8 -query [server]
>
> Also have a look at "man 5 inittab".

inittab!  Duh.

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Re: Restoring /etc/inittab

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 06:32:54PM +0200, Pierg75 wrote:
> Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
> >Um, no, you haven't.  If rm is aliased to 'rm -i' in root's environment,
> >it should have prompted.  Unless he neglected to mention that he
> >actually did 'rm -rf' ...
> 
> Somewhere i read that an alias should never be an alias of itself,
> something like alias rm='rm -i'

Whatever you read was wrong; a word is not expanded as an alias if it is
identical to an alias currently being expanded.

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Re: Debian dedicated hosts?

[Clive Menzies]

On (12/05/04 10:02), Steve Lamb wrote:
> Ok, I'm looking to switch my dedicated host away from tophosting.com.
> I've been less than impressed with their service, even for $30/month.  I mean
> this is typical for them.  I send in 2 sticks of RAM to be put into my
> machine.  I did this because their prices for additional RAM were insane.
> They get the RAM and without notification to me at all shut down my machine to
> install the RAM.  No scheduling of downtime.  No asking when I want it to be
> done.  Not even a "Hey, your machine's going buh-bye in 5 minutes".  Just,
> poof, gone at 7pm.  After an hour it comes back with no additional RAM; they
> couldn't get it working.  :/
> 
> So, here I am looking over dedicated hosting options.  Anyone know of any
> cheap (<$50) places that offer a decent Debian box?  At the moment I'm looking
> at a $30/month box at serverpronto.com.  Anyone have any experience with them?
>  Also I recall there being a site which listed all the various dedicated
> hosting options.  However, for the life of me, I'm coming up blank on my
> Google searches.
Hi Steve

At the Linux User Show in London recently, I came across
http://www.positive-internet.com a UK based hosting firm using debian.
It might be worth contacting them?

Regards

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Debian dedicated hosts?

[Steve Lamb]

Ok, I'm looking to switch my dedicated host away from tophosting.com.
I've been less than impressed with their service, even for $30/month.  I mean
this is typical for them.  I send in 2 sticks of RAM to be put into my
machine.  I did this because their prices for additional RAM were insane.
They get the RAM and without notification to me at all shut down my machine to
install the RAM.  No scheduling of downtime.  No asking when I want it to be
done.  Not even a "Hey, your machine's going buh-bye in 5 minutes".  Just,
poof, gone at 7pm.  After an hour it comes back with no additional RAM; they
couldn't get it working.  :/

So, here I am looking over dedicated hosting options.  Anyone know of any
cheap (<$50) places that offer a decent Debian box?  At the moment I'm looking
at a $30/month box at serverpronto.com.  Anyone have any experience with them?
 Also I recall there being a site which listed all the various dedicated
hosting options.  However, for the life of me, I'm coming up blank on my
Google searches.

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Re: apt-file usage

[Carlos Hanson]

Did you do an update first?

  # apt-file update


On Wed, 12 May 2004 12:25:58 -0400
Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to understand how to use apt-file.  I've just installed it
> on unstable (2.0.3-6) and am using what I believe is the default
> /etc/apt/apt-file.conf (follows below).
> 
> when I try:
> 
> apt-file list mozilla-firefox
> or
> apt-file search firefox
> 
> I get nothing.  Am I doing something wrong?  Or is the config perhaps
> not set up right?
> 
> I ifnd the man page soemwhat telegraphic, so perhaps I'm missing
> something!  
> 
> thanks,
> matt
> 

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Connection Refused When Trying to Setup Wierless Router

[Emily Dryden]

A Ligthning strike killed my Linksys wireless router.  I have replaced 
it and wavemon shows good signal strength at my computer but no link. 
Presumably the problem is just in the setup but I cannot access the 
setup.  This computer (my daughter's) is connected to the router by an 
ethernet card and can reach the web.  When I try to access the router 
setup at 192.168.2.1 I  get a message that the connection was refused.  
This worked yesterday so  I believe the  problem is with a file 
permission.  Searching the log files I find the message:

  Tiger gconfd (emily-1192): Resolvcd address 
"xml:readonly::/etc/gconf/gconf_xml_defaulsts" to a read-only config 
source at position 2

I have changed the permissions of the files in /etc/gconf to 664 but 
this does not solve the problem.   I have tried running strace -f 
-o/tmp/tfile mozilla followed by less /etc/tfile | grep -n 192.168.2.1.  
This finds a line containing this number at about line number 22350 but 
I can't find the problem in the following lines.

The kernel is 2.4.22 and the browser is Mozilla 1.5-3 running in xdm and 
icewm.

If anyone can help please send suggestions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as I 
cannot access the list until this problem is solved.

Tom George

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apt-file usage

[Matt Price]

Hi,

I'm trying to understand how to use apt-file.  I've just installed it
on unstable (2.0.3-6) and am using what I believe is the default
/etc/apt/apt-file.conf (follows below).

when I try:

apt-file list mozilla-firefox
or
apt-file search firefox

I get nothing.  Am I doing something wrong?  Or is the config perhaps
not set up right?

I ifnd the man page soemwhat telegraphic, so perhaps I'm missing
something!  

thanks,
matt

# Apt-file configuration file

# Substitutions are made as follow:
#   host => remote hostname
#   port => port
#   uri => complete URI from sources.list
#   path => path from /
#   dist => the distrib name
#   comp => the component name
#   cache => path to the cache dir
#   dest => the destination file name
#   cdrom => cdrom mount point

# Where are located Packages (relative to  directory)
destination = __dists__Contents-.gz

# Fetch methods
http = wget -N -P "" -O "/" 
"/dists//Contents-.gz" || rm -f "/";
ftp = wget -N -P "" -O "/" "/dists//Contents-.gz" 
|| rm -f "/"
ssh = scp -l  -P  "://dists//Contents-.gz" 
"/"
rsh = rcp -l  "://dists//Contents-.gz" "/"
file = cp "//dists//Contents-.gz" "/"
copy = cp "//dists//Contents-.gz" "/"
cdrom = echo "Put CDROM labeled  in the cdrom device" > /dev/stderr ; read ; 
mount ""; cp "/dists//Contents-.gz" "/"; umount 
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Re: aptitude farted?

[Silvan]

On Tuesday 11 May 2004 09:41 pm, dircha wrote:

> Execute the following to list packages considered to to automatically
> installed:
> $ aptitude search ~M

Ah.  Good.

> This can happen in cases where you've installed several applications as
> part of a "meta" package - a package which exists just to make
> dependencies on a group of apps - and then uninstalled the top level
> meta package. This is the expected behavior.
>
> I don't use KDE, but I know there are a number of Debian KDE packages of
> this sort.

I did install the "kde" metapackage, which pulled in everything, including 
three kitchen sinks.  I haven't uninstalled it though.

ii  kde3.1.2  The K Desktop Environment

3.1.2???

That's interesting:
ii  kde3.1.2  The K Desktop Environment
...
ii  kdeaddons  3.2.2-1add-on plugins and applets provided with KDE

Maybe the metapackage was just broken anyway.  I didn't notice the version 
difference previously.

I'll have to investigate.

> Correct this manually by executing:
> # aptitude unmarkauto [package]

Perfect.  Thanks.

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Re: Restoring /etc/inittab

[Pierg75]

Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
Um, no, you haven't.  If rm is aliased to 'rm -i' in root's environment,
it should have prompted.  Unless he neglected to mention that he
actually did 'rm -rf' ...
Somewhere i read that an alias should never be an alias of itself,
something like alias rm='rm -i'
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Re: aptitude farted?

[Silvan]

On Tuesday 11 May 2004 06:57 pm, Simon Huggins wrote:

> The above packages are probably marked as automatically installed for
> some reason.  Did you bulk tag a pile of packages as automatically
> installed when you started using aptitude?

No.  I've never used the interface for anything (nor do I particularly intend 
to.)  I just suddenly started using aptitude instead of apt-get.  I had 
installed a lot of different stuff along the way without that happening, so 
something went wrong somewhere for no obvious reason.  I can't explain the 
timing.

> aptitude install checkinstall kapptemplate kbabel kbugbuster kcachegrind
>  kdesdk-kfile-plugins kdesdk-misc kdesdk-scripts kompare kuiviewer poxml
>  umbrello valgrind valgrind-calltree

I did.  It cured it.  I was just bemused about the whole thing though.  So 
much for it reading my mind.

> You probably also need to check that other packages that you want aren't
> set as having been automatically installed too.

I guess I'll deal with it if/when the time comes.

Thanks though.  At least I know there's a way to manually cure this sort of 
thing if I ever bother to learn its interface.

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kernel 2.6.6 - why shutting down my hard drives while rebooting?

[LeVA]

Hello!

I've just compiled my brand new 2.6.6 kernel, and I noticed that when I 
type `shutdown -r now` or just press ctrl+alt+del, so when I reboot the 
system, at the end of the shutting down, something turns my hard drives 
off (like with AT power supplies + halt). And during the reboot, when 
the BIOS detects my hard drives, they spin-up, and everything goes 
well. I think this is something with a misconfigured kernel, because 
this isn't happening with my 2.4.26, and 2.6.5 kernels. I think I just 
compiled-in something "wrong" into my kernel.

Anybody could help me please?

Thanks!

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I'm going to be in Omaha, NE, USA on May 14 and 15 (Friday and Saturday).
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Re: Re: Can rpm packages from other linux distribution be used on Debian?

[Rick]

>>  Our product is base on redhat,I will porting it to Debian,but in this
>> system,many procedure depend redhat rpms,for example:
>> glibc-2.3.2-11.9.i386.rpm, perl-5.8.0-88.i386.rpm,etc..
>> At the start,I wanted to try install these rpm packages(from redhat)

> Once you have done that, the system is no longer really Debian, so I
> don't see the point. Figure out what Debian packages it depends on
> instead.


Yes,I think so.but our procedure depend rpm format,and I found that it can't find 
files it need in deb DB,I had been tried to install it on debian,
#rpm -ivh myproduct-xxx-xx.rpm
the program will prompt: myproduct need perl >5.6, and the bash must be installed
In fact,the 2 debian packages has been installed,I think rpm command will read info 
from only rpm DB on debian.(If make myproduct-xxx-xx.rpm to deb format,I think more 
codes need be fixed,this proccess is complex,but I hadn't tried this way yet,I should 
try it tomorrow.)



>> On debian,but I found that thers is a lot work to do,some rpm packages
>> even can't be installed on it.(perhaps these rpms packages from redhat
>> can't be used on debian at all).

> In general they shouldn't be.


Thank you!


Rick

Re: ext2 to reiserfs conversion

[Alan Shutko]

Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> from what I know, you can not.
> That is to say, that you can not do it without backing up or
> transferring you data.

Actually, you might be able to.  Look at 

http://tzukanov.narod.ru/convertfs/index.html

I haven't tried it, but it claims to work.

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Re: Does nice-ness exist for bandwidth? [sic]

[Nicos Gollan]

On Wed, 12 May 2004 02:52:33 +1000
Lex Hider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Now if I'm web-browsing and reading a page already loaded
> all the bandwidth goes to wget/apt-get.
> But when I am loading a web-site or checking my mail then
> the priority for the bandwidth goes to the browser like
> in the cpu-nice example.
> 
> ===
> Does an application that achieves the above exist currently?
> If not; is it possible or even a good idea?

The way packet handling works in Linux makes it hard if not impossible
to determine what specific application created a packet. You can however
do some pretty sophisticated scheduling based on service types. This is
not a trivial topic, but if you're willing to learn a bit, this will
really help you to get started:

http://lartc.org/howto/

Mostly, you should read chapters 1-3 and 9. You'll also want to get at
least into the iptables basics. The most important stuff is already
handled in the HOWTO, but there are some interesting possibilities (rate
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Problemas coln GDM

[Pedro M. (Morphix User)]

Al intentar instalarme una versión mejorada de GDM recibo el siguiente 
mensaje cada vez que se inicia Gnome:

Ha ocurrido un un error al iniciar el demonio del Administrador de 
Preferencias de GNOME.

Algunas cosas como las configuraciones de temas, sonidos o fondo de 
pantalla puede que no funcionen correctamente.

El Administrador de Preferencias se ha reiniciado demasiadas veces.

GNOME seguirá intentando reiniciar el demonio del Administrador de 
Preferencias la próxima vez que inicie una sesión."

Asimismo, recibo este otro :

"Nautilus no puede utilizarse ahora debido a un error inesperado de 
Bonobo cuando intentaba registrar el servidor de vistas del 
administrador de archivos."

¿Qué puedo hacer para solucionarlo y, sobre todo, para recuperar mi 
escritorio  - o aunque no fuera el mio, poder comenzar desde cero, para 
poner de nuevo todas las preferencias y reconstruirlo, pero ahora no me 
deja ver ninguno, ni siquiera puedo utilizar el terminal.

Un saludo.

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Re: Re: Can rpm packages from other linux distribution be used on Debian?

[Rick]

Thank you for your help,I should check the alien manual in detail first.

Re: Wierd kernel panic message

[LeVA]

Maybe the guys at [EMAIL PROTECTED] could help you.

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Wierd kernel panic message

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hi ppl,
I got this strange message on console today when i came to work,
the machine is running sarge fresh upgrade from woody, the kernel is
2.4.21, but i'm about to upgrade it

The message in the console was this:

 <1>Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer derefernce at virtual address 0008
 printing eip:
c013fd27
*pde = 
Oops: 
CPU:0
EIP 0010:[c013fd27] Not tainted
EFLAGS: 00010286
eax:ebx:c6389000ecx:c6389000edx: 0400
esi:c13acde0edi:ebp:0001esp: cb285f04
ds: 0018es: 0018ss: 0018
Process lsoft (pid: 17727, stackpackage=cb285000)
Stack:  0400 c13acde0 c13acde4 c0140015 c6389000 c13acde0 0001 c0248f3f
0400 0400 c6389000 0400 cb285f40 cb285f44 0400 c6389000
 c014fdb2 c6389000 cb285f98  0400  c014c0a
Call Trace: [] [] [] [] []

Code: 8b 78 08 8b 44 24 1c 50 8b 44 24 1c 50 68 2c 8e 24 c0 53 e8

I'm afraid this might implay an attemp to brake in, or something
misconfigure. So any help would be wellcame.

Cheers,
rak


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kernel 2.6.6 - why shutting down my hard drives while rebooting?

[LeVA]

Hello!

I've just compiled my brand new 2.6.6 kernel, and I noticed that when I 
type `shutdown -r now` or just press ctrl+alt+del, so when I reboot the 
system, at the end of the shutting down, something turns my hard drives 
off (like with AT power supplies + halt). And during the reboot, when 
the BIOS detects my hard drives, they spin-up, and everything goes 
well. I think this is something with a misconfigured kernel, because 
this isn't happening with my 2.4.26, and 2.6.5 kernels. I think I just 
compiled-in something "wrong" into my kernel.

Anybody could help me please?

Thanks!

Daniel

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Re: Installation problem: can't mount CD drive

[Kent West]

Catatonic Porpoise wrote:

I'm trying to install Debian GNU/Linux 3.0rev2 i386 by CD, using a copy of
binary CD 1 I burned myself, on a new machine. The CD boots and the
installer runs fine, it gets to the part where it installs the kernel and
driver modules, and then it asks me what to install from - CD, floppies,
NFS, etc - even though the install guide indicates that it should know to
install from CD-ROM. When I select the CD-ROM option, it says the CD was
not mounted successfully (that's all, no reason given or anything).
I tried mounting it manually from ash, the little shell built into the
installer, with (from the / directory) "mkdir cdrom" "mount -t iso9660
/dev/cdrom /cdrom". It gives me a line saying that /dev/cdrom is read-only
and it's mounting it that way, then it says "Mount failed: invalid
argument". /cdrom is a symlink to /hdc, which I understand is supposed to
be the master of the second IDE device; according to the BIOS, this is
correct. I have tried:
-checking the options I used in Nero against the ones given in the install
guide, and burning another CD
-setting "Plug 'n Play OS" to No in the BIOS setup
-removing write privileges for everyone from /cdrom
None has helped. Any ideas? (I'm new to Linux, but I've had a bit of
experience with FreeBSD. [I ended up not using it much after it was
installed, because it didn't have a driver for my network card.] In case
it matters, this computer hasn't and doesn't have any other operating
systems installed.)
-graue

 

I've never had much experience with doing a CD-based install. Somewhere 
near the point where you're at, I've always done a net install. (Of 
course you may have no networking, so this might not be an option for you.)

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Re: problems with cdroms and sarge

[Milan Kral (Aztm)]

Try to check dmesg for cdrom devices...
maybe you have idescsi emulation?


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Re: Getting back with dselect

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 01:19:52PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote:
> On (12/05/04 14:23), Vittorio wrote:
> > I've erroneously asked dselect to install many packages which entail
> > the download of an incredible amount of other dependent packages
> > (something like 600 MB of stuff), as I can see asking to install. 
> > 
> > Now I don't want all this to happen but don't know how to get back,
> > I mean how, using dselect (or in case apt-get), to deselect all
> > those packages automagically selected.
> 
> Press ? in the selections menu and select k for keystrokes; it will show
> you R to revert to the previous state before your current selections.

That only works if you haven't left the Select screen since making the
selections you want to revert. See #151540 for a patch adding the
feature Vittorio wants, and discussion of how you can sort of do it in a
confusing way without the patch.

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Re: Getting back with dselect

[Clive Menzies]

On (12/05/04 14:23), Vittorio wrote:
> I've erroneously asked dselect to install many packages which entail the 
> download of an incredible amount of other dependent packages (something like 
> 600 MB of stuff), as I can see asking to install. 
> 
> Now I don't want all this to happen but don't know how to get back, I mean 
> how, using dselect (or in case apt-get), to deselect all those packages 
> automagically selected.
Hi Vittorio

Press ? in the selections menu and select k for keystrokes; it will show
you R to revert to the previous state before your current selections.

Regards

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