Re: weird constant hissing sound coming from one speaker

[H. S.]

Apparently, _H. S._, on 09/24/04 19:18,typed:
The only thing remaining to be seen is the user who uses KDE is also 
free from these problems.
Okay, so alsamixer worked ... when I mute IEC958 the hissing from the 
left speaker goes away. The hissing comes back, or in other words the 
IEC958 becomes unmuted, when that user logs in using KDE. I have to 
again mute IEC958 to get rid of the hissing. However, when that user 
logs in using Gnome, the IEC958 is not unmuted and the hissing does not 
happen.

So looks like only that user's some config file that gets read when the 
user logs in to KDE is the culprit. Ideas?

->HS
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Re: Firefox extensions/themes don't install

[Jacob S]

On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 01:14:09 -0400
Patrick Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 23:49:52 -0500, Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 21:32:20 -0400
> > 
> > 
> > Patrick Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> > > It's probably a permissions thing - isn't it always? - but when I
> > > try to  install Firefox extensions and themes (on debian testing
> > > with firefox 0.9.3), most just fail silently.  I have a feeling
> > > this is a FAQ, but Googling hasn't helped, and there's nothing
> > > obvious (to me) at the extensions and themes sites.  Could someone
> > > just point me in the right direction?
> > 
> > You don't mention what you have tried doing to fix this, so I'll
> > start with the basics.
> > 
> > Have you checked in Tools - Options (Or Edit - Preferences, it's
> > changed recently) - Web Features to make sure the box is checked for
> > "Allow websites to install software"? 
> 
> There you go!  I'd unchecked that, thinking it was a bad idea to allow
> websites to install software.  Was I wrong?

Not at all! It's good security to leave it disabled, but you'll need to
enable it while you're installing extensions/themes. As long as you
don't add a wildcard to the allow list that allows any site, you
shouldn't be too bad off.

Once you've installed the extensions and themes you want, it's safe, and
recommended, to turn it back off.

HTH & HAND,
Jacob


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Re: Firefox extensions/themes don't install

[Patrick Wiseman]

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 23:49:52 -0500, Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 21:32:20 -0400
> 
> 
> Patrick Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > It's probably a permissions thing - isn't it always? - but when I try
> > to  install Firefox extensions and themes (on debian testing with
> > firefox 0.9.3), most just fail silently.  I have a feeling this is a
> > FAQ, but Googling hasn't helped, and there's nothing obvious (to me)
> > at the extensions and themes sites.  Could someone just point me in
> > the right direction?
> 
> You don't mention what you have tried doing to fix this, so I'll start
> with the basics.
> 
> Have you checked in Tools - Options (Or Edit - Preferences, it's changed
> recently) - Web Features to make sure the box is checked for "Allow
> websites to install software"? 

There you go!  I'd unchecked that, thinking it was a bad idea to allow
websites to install software.  Was I wrong?

Patrick


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--configure error fam and gnome?

[xucaen]

is anyone else running testing getting this error when installing anything?

dpkg: error processing fam (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of
gnome-desktop-environment:
 gnome-desktop-environment depends on fam; however:
  Package fam is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing gnome-desktop-environment (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 fam
 gnome-desktop-environment
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


thanks,

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Re: Firefox extensions/themes don't install

[Jacob S]

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 21:32:20 -0400
Patrick Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> It's probably a permissions thing - isn't it always? - but when I try
> to  install Firefox extensions and themes (on debian testing with
> firefox 0.9.3), most just fail silently.  I have a feeling this is a
> FAQ, but Googling hasn't helped, and there's nothing obvious (to me)
> at the extensions and themes sites.  Could someone just point me in
> the right direction?

You don't mention what you have tried doing to fix this, so I'll start
with the basics.

Have you checked in Tools - Options (Or Edit - Preferences, it's changed
recently) - Web Features to make sure the box is checked for "Allow
websites to install software"? You may also need to add one/some
websites to the allow list, for which websites can install software.
A good one for starters is update.mozilla.org. 

Also, if it gives you the option, make sure you're selecting to install
the extension/theme in your profile, not the application directory. And
finally, wait about 10 seconds between attempts of clicking on the
Install link - sometimes it takes a few seconds for it to process the
information for the extension/theme and ask if you really want to
install it.

HTH,
Jacob


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Re: HUB with multiple LANs?

[Adam Aube]

Curtis Vaughan wrote:

> If my internal LAN is 10.0.1.x and I attach another LAN - say,
> 192.168.1.x - to the same HUB will they conflict with one another, or
> do I have to put the other LAN on another HUB?

No, they will not conflict - hubs work at a lower layer than IP addresses.

Adam


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RE: routing table question

[John Smith]

I would add some 'up' statements to my /etc/network/interfaces, like:

iface eth0 inet static
address 10.x.y.z
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 10.x.y.0
broadcast 10.x.y.255
up route add -net 1.2.3.4 
down route del -net ...

Sincerely,

Jan

On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 23:51, Tony Uceda Velez wrote:
> right but is there a route.conf like there is in suse.  there has to be a
> place where you can store routes besides in memory.  doing a route add
> simply stores in memory and a reboot clears the routing table.
> 
> Tony UcedaVélez
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> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Sergio Basurto [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 5:48 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: routing table question
> 
> 
> On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 17:16:15 -0400, Tony Uceda Velez
> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > sorry to have recycled the subjectreal question
> > below.
> > 
> > Tony UcedaVélez
> > Security Analyst
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > 
> > 
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Tony Uceda Velez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 5:15 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: RE: SSH/Putty password problem
> > 
> > 
> > where are the routing tables stored persistently in
> > debian?
> 
> 
> You can see it with the following command:
> #route -n  
> shows the actual routing table
> 
> #ip route show 
> also do the thing.
> 
> 
> 
> > 
> > Tony UcedaVélez
> > Security Analyst
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> 
> 
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> 

Re: weird constant hissing sound coming from one speaker

[H. S.]

Apparently, _Rob Sims_, on 09/24/04 13:45,typed:
Use kmix, alsamixer, etc. to check your levels on various (especially 
unconnected) inputs - mic, line in, etc.  Set them to zero/muted.
It seems to have worked. By muting IEC958 the hissing sound has gone 
away, and to my utter delight my ayttm sounds have come back :) :)

The only thing remaining to be seen is the user who uses KDE is also 
free from these problems.

Thanks a ton,
->HS
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Re: Small problems with Sarge net-install

[Art Edwards]

Loïc Minier wrote:
Art Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Fri, Sep 24, 2004:
 

My original problem was with md5. Can anyone tell me how to turn on md5 AFTER
installation?
   

bee% grep -i md5 /var/cache/debconf/config.dat
Name: console-data/bootmap-md5sum
Template: console-data/bootmap-md5sum
Name: passwd/md5
Template: passwd/md5
But "dpkg-reconfigure passwd" only prompts for shadow passwords, not
for MD5 versus Crypt.  It seems MD5 is the default now, and the
changelog confirms this:
shadow (1:4.0.3-19) unstable; urgency=low
  * "No really, assume md5 passwords". Closes: #223664
(Have a look at #223664 if you want more details.)
  Regards,
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Thanks very much for the response. You are right. md5 (and shadow) are 
defaults. My problem had been that I could not get autofs to work 
properly. With a barebones install, things like portmap, nfs-common and 
some other crucial item(s) are not installed. This was important because 
I was building beowulf nodes and they needed the rsa-keys in .ssh so 
that ssh could be automatic for mpich. I don't know exactly what I did, 
but after a couple of base-config's the system suddenly downloaded about 
30-50 packages and autofs simply started to work properly.

Another suggestion that I might be willing to work on with some help 
would be to develop a task beowulf-node, that would download some 
agreed-upon set of packages (ssh, all of the things that make autofs 
work transparently, mpich, the important compilers blas-dev and 
lapack-dev, etc.)

I was really surprised to find that mpich depends on things like 
xfree86-common, defoma, a bunch of font packages, etc. Can anyone 
demystify me about this?

Art Edwards
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Re: Does Unstable become Testing?

[William Ballard]

On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 08:00:35PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote:
> is changed to point to sarge and oldstable points to woody.  Immediately
> after the release, testing will continue to work as it does now.

Except the thing testing is symlinked to is no longer sarge but etch, 
which is a cloned copy of sarge which points to the exact same packages.

I think I get it.  The real entities are woody, sarge, etch, sid; 
unstable/testing/stable/oldstable are just convenient shortcuts.


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Re: Does Unstable become Testing?

[Brian Nelson]

On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 06:14:32PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > When Sarge is released does Unstable suddenly become Testing or is
> > Testing simply empty until new programs gradually migrate from
> > Unstable to Testing?
> 
> Testing becomes frozen, which then goes away when it knocks the
> existing stable into obsolete and development focus changes back to
> unstable for a while, until the next testing forks off.

Testing freezes, but its name doesn't change to 'frozen' any more.  The
only thing that will change with the release is that the stable symlink
is changed to point to sarge and oldstable points to woody.  Immediately
after the release, testing will continue to work as it does now.

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Re: Does Unstable become Testing?

[Travis Crump]

Paul Johnson wrote:
William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 07:28:22AM -0700, Zachary Rizer wrote:
No.  Unstable (sid) will always be unstable.  Testing
becomes the new stable, and then a new testing is born
(etch?).
Could you be more precise?
What is renamed, what is forked, what is cloned?

Start of the cycle:
Unstable forks a new testing.
Testing freezes, frozen replaces testing.
Frozen then replaces existing stable, which moves to the obsolete archive.

The 'new' testing will be a fork of stable[which in turn is derived from 
the 'old' testing], not unstable...


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Dual Boot

[Matthew Jackson]

I am trying to dual boot, so I am copying the boot 
sector from linux using the dd command. I copy the 512 byte file to my XP 
machine and setup boot.ini. When I reboot and I select Debain instead of XP, the 
screen just says "GRUB " in the top left and then a flashing cursor. I cannot 
enter anything and nothing else occurs.
 
Thanks,
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Re: X not loading fonts [solved]

[JoeHill]

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 21:16:26 -0400
JoeHill disseminated the following:

> > RTMing, adding this to ~/.vncrc should do it:
> > 
> > $fontPath .= "$ENV{HOME}/.fonts";
> 
> ...as soon as I do that (create a ~/.vncrc), I get a 'connection refused'.

...turns out I needed to add the full path to the fonts in .xsession, all is
well.

Thanks for the help!

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Re: Does Unstable become Testing?

[Paul Johnson]

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> On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 07:28:22AM -0700, Zachary Rizer wrote:
>> No.  Unstable (sid) will always be unstable.  Testing
>> becomes the new stable, and then a new testing is born
>> (etch?).
>
> Could you be more precise?
> What is renamed, what is forked, what is cloned?

Start of the cycle:

Unstable forks a new testing.
Testing freezes, frozen replaces testing.
Frozen then replaces existing stable, which moves to the obsolete archive.

> I presume that "stable" simply becomes symlinked to "sarge" instead of 
> "woody." 

Or, sarge re-symlinked to stable, IIRC...
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Re: ftp vs samba

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> Just wanted to know what your experience was with samba and ftp with regards
> to speed.

FTP beats samba hands down for speed.  Be warned, though:  Internet
Explorer has a bug that causes ftp URLs to be horribly incorrect.
Internet Explorer falsely assumes that it'll be browsing from /
instead of ~/ .

> Also speedwise how does Debian compare with FreeBSD? (Don't want to start
> any wars, just want to read experiences)

Hire a consultant and ask them...
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Re: Does Unstable become Testing?

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> When Sarge is released does Unstable suddenly become Testing or is
> Testing simply empty until new programs gradually migrate from
> Unstable to Testing?

Testing becomes frozen, which then goes away when it knocks the
existing stable into obsolete and development focus changes back to
unstable for a while, until the next testing forks off.
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Firefox extensions/themes don't install

[Patrick Wiseman]

It's probably a permissions thing - isn't it always? - but when I try
to  install Firefox extensions and themes (on debian testing with
firefox 0.9.3), most just fail silently.  I have a feeling this is a
FAQ, but Googling hasn't helped, and there's nothing obvious (to me)
at the extensions and themes sites.  Could someone just point me in
the right direction?

Thanks.

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Re: X not loading fonts

[JoeHill]

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 17:50:13 -0700
Stefan O'Rear disseminated the following:

> > I tried adding the 'xset +fp ~/.fonts' to my ~/.xsession, but still no go.
> > It
> > was creating the ~/.xsession file that originally allowed my to override the
> > global setting to load Gnome, so I can only assume that is the file that is
> > the
> > 'authority' in loading X.
> 
> RTMing, adding this to ~/.vncrc should do it:
> 
> $fontPath .= "$ENV{HOME}/.fonts";

...as soon as I do that (create a ~/.vncrc), I get a 'connection refused'.

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Re: df returning negative file sizes and apt-get not very happy

[Carl Fink]

On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 05:14:20PM -0700, Stefan O'Rear wrote:

> Reinstall woody :)

As an alternative, install Sarge.
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Re: X not loading fonts

[Stefan O'Rear]

On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 08:26:42PM -0400, JoeHill wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 16:58:03 -0700
> Stefan O'Rear disseminated the following:
> 
> > > X should load the same set of fonts no matter the desktop or WM, no?
> > 
> > The script I sent is very minimal. You probably need to add
> > /home/$USER/.fonts to the fontpath yourself.
> > 
> > You might want to make a bit of a change:
> > 
> > vncstart:
> > #! /bin/sh
> > exec xinit ~/.vnc-xinitrc -- /usr/bin/X11/Xvnc :1 -rfbport 5900
> > 
> > .vnc-xinitrc:
> > xset +fp ~/.fonts  ##MARK##
> > exec pekwm
> > 
> > This may still apply in the vncstartup case; you'd need to add the
> > marked line to ~/.vnc/xstartup or wherever rather than the
> > made-up-for-the occasion ~/.vnc-xinitrc, though.
> 
> Actually, I managed to get vncserver to work for me, ie. loading Pekwm instead
> of Gnome (yay!).
> 
> I tried adding the 'xset +fp ~/.fonts' to my ~/.xsession, but still no go. It
> was creating the ~/.xsession file that originally allowed my to override the
> global setting to load Gnome, so I can only assume that is the file that is the
> 'authority' in loading X.

RTMing, adding this to ~/.vncrc should do it:

$fontPath .= "$ENV{HOME}/.fonts";

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Re: X not loading fonts

[JoeHill]

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 16:58:03 -0700
Stefan O'Rear disseminated the following:

> > X should load the same set of fonts no matter the desktop or WM, no?
> 
> The script I sent is very minimal. You probably need to add
> /home/$USER/.fonts to the fontpath yourself.
> 
> You might want to make a bit of a change:
> 
> vncstart:
> #! /bin/sh
> exec xinit ~/.vnc-xinitrc -- /usr/bin/X11/Xvnc :1 -rfbport 5900
> 
> .vnc-xinitrc:
> xset +fp ~/.fonts  ##MARK##
> exec pekwm
> 
> This may still apply in the vncstartup case; you'd need to add the
> marked line to ~/.vnc/xstartup or wherever rather than the
> made-up-for-the occasion ~/.vnc-xinitrc, though.

Actually, I managed to get vncserver to work for me, ie. loading Pekwm instead
of Gnome (yay!).

I tried adding the 'xset +fp ~/.fonts' to my ~/.xsession, but still no go. It
was creating the ~/.xsession file that originally allowed my to override the
global setting to load Gnome, so I can only assume that is the file that is the
'authority' in loading X.

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Re: df returning negative file sizes and apt-get not very happy

[Stefan O'Rear]

On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 05:07:20PM -0700, Pritpal Dhaliwal wrote:
> so today I was trying to install testing mysql-server and I think I 
> messed couple of things up..
> 
> here is what df returns:
> 
> bigmonster:~# df -h
> FilesystemSize  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda2-3159243779106k  1.0k  0.0k   7% /
> bigmonster:~#
> 
> 
> Here is what apt-cache policy libc6 return:
> bigmonster:~# apt-cache policy libc6
> libc6:
>   Installed: 2.3.2.ds1-16
>   Candidate: 2.3.2.ds1-16
>   Version Table:
>  *** 2.3.2.ds1-16 0
> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>  2.2.5-11.5 0
> 500 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org stable/main Packages
> 500 ftp://ftp.debian.org stable/main Packages
> 500 ftp://ftp.lug.udel.edu stable/main Packages
> 500 ftp://linux.csua.berkeley.edu stable/main Packages
> 500 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages
> bigmonster:~#
> 
> 
> 
> and here is what I get when I try to install locales:
> Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   locales: Depends: glibc-2.2.5-11.5
> E: Sorry, broken packages
> 
> I need locales for mysql-server I believe.
> 
> but I think what I have successfully done is.. confused apt-get big time 
> and now apt-get is not so happy with me.
> 
> can anyone help me to get my df back to normal?  and apt-get too. .
> 
> thanks a lot in advance..

Reinstall woody :)

You can fix apt-get by removing locales and everything that depends on
it.

You can try --reinstall --force-downgrade libc6 down to Woody, but I
wouldn't recommend it, as libc6 is such an essential package.

As for df, ditch it, apt-get install stat, and use 'stat -f /' instead
of 'df /'.

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df returning negative file sizes and apt-get not very happy

[Pritpal Dhaliwal]

so today I was trying to install testing mysql-server and I think I 
messed couple of things up..

here is what df returns:
bigmonster:~# df -h
FilesystemSize  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2-3159243779106k  1.0k  0.0k   7% /
bigmonster:~#
Here is what apt-cache policy libc6 return:
bigmonster:~# apt-cache policy libc6
libc6:
  Installed: 2.3.2.ds1-16
  Candidate: 2.3.2.ds1-16
  Version Table:
 *** 2.3.2.ds1-16 0
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
 2.2.5-11.5 0
500 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org stable/main Packages
500 ftp://ftp.debian.org stable/main Packages
500 ftp://ftp.lug.udel.edu stable/main Packages
500 ftp://linux.csua.berkeley.edu stable/main Packages
500 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages
bigmonster:~#

and here is what I get when I try to install locales:
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
  locales: Depends: glibc-2.2.5-11.5
E: Sorry, broken packages
I need locales for mysql-server I believe.
but I think what I have successfully done is.. confused apt-get big time 
and now apt-get is not so happy with me.

can anyone help me to get my df back to normal?  and apt-get too. .
thanks a lot in advance..
Paul
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sarge + sympa

[Axel]

hi.

i noticed that theres no sympa packages in sarge.
is this temporary??

cheers,
http://www.axeltabs.com/
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Re: X not loading fonts

[Stefan O'Rear]

On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 07:48:11PM -0400, JoeHill wrote:
> 
> If I fire up a vncserver with Gnome (very slwly), the Artwiz fonts I
> installed in ~/.fonts are 'available'.
> 
> However, when I run a vncserver that loads Pekwm instead, those fonts are not
> available, I just get the default 'fixed' font in the menus and titlebars.
> 
> X should load the same set of fonts no matter the desktop or WM, no?

The script I sent is very minimal. You probably need to add
/home/$USER/.fonts to the fontpath yourself.

You might want to make a bit of a change:

vncstart:
#! /bin/sh
exec xinit ~/.vnc-xinitrc -- /usr/bin/X11/Xvnc :1 -rfbport 5900

.vnc-xinitrc:
xset +fp ~/.fonts  ##MARK##
exec pekwm

This may still apply in the vncstartup case; you'd need to add the
marked line to ~/.vnc/xstartup or wherever rather than the
made-up-for-the occasion ~/.vnc-xinitrc, though.

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Re: SLRN random-sig files, found this but stilll

[JoeHill]

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 19:40:18 -0400
Michael Marsh disseminated the following:

> I found that running it in my .cshrc changed my signature often enough for my
> tastes, but you could go nuts and set up a cron job that runs every minute if
> you really want to (not that I could stop you anyway).

I don't know what mail client is involved here (missed the rest of the thread),
but don't most mail clients allow you to run a command to generate the sig per
message? ie. Sylpheed, Evo, K-Mail, etc.

Also, you can use the built in functionality of 'fortune' and create your own
fortune files, this is the howto I used:

http://clevername.homeip.net/howto/

Sylpheed runs this for me:

#!/bin/bash
echo `uptime`
echo "+++"
echo `fortune /home/joehill/sigs/quotes` 
exit

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X not loading fonts

[JoeHill]

If I fire up a vncserver with Gnome (very slwly), the Artwiz fonts I
installed in ~/.fonts are 'available'.

However, when I run a vncserver that loads Pekwm instead, those fonts are not
available, I just get the default 'fixed' font in the menus and titlebars.

X should load the same set of fonts no matter the desktop or WM, no?

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What is packet mode

[James Kirk]

Hi,

Does anyone know what activating packet mode is in
linuxspeak ?  I'm trying to debug a dialup connection
problem.  I have a chatscript setup that has been
working for years.  Last week the connection quit
working.  The chat exchange breaks down after my
password is sent.  Instead of the expected prompt
asking me to choose between an interactive session or
a ppp connection I'm getting a short line of asterisks
then "IP=0.0.0.0 MTU=1500 ".  Then the connection
script fails.

The org in question has suggested that a FreeBSD user
got around a similar problem by activating packet
mode.  I suspect they don't understand the problem I
am having.  

I've googled in FreeBSD and packet mode.  I haven't
drilled any further than the first 60 returned sites,
but so far nothing has told me more than that the ppp
daemon switches automatically to packet mode when it
detects that the peer has started talking PPP or "when
a ppp peer is detected on the other side of the modem,
ppp automatically enables Packet Mode and goes back
into command mode."

So far, I am assuming that in the
linux/chatscript/pon-poff sphere, talking PPP begins
when, at the no-longer-received-prompt I would
formerly choose to become an internet node rather than
opt for an interactive session on the remote host. 
Thus, packet mode is what happens after my chatscript
sends PPP to the remote host.  

Any ppp/serial connection gurus able to confirm this
or correct it ?

Thanks.

jimmy



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Re: SLRN random-sig files, found this but stilll

[Michael Marsh]

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 01:55:23 +0200, Josef Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> looking to set up random sig with SLRN I found this link:
> http://lists.infodrom.org/debian-user-de/2001/03/att-0026/01-slrn-random-sig

Here's what I wrote for my own use.  It uses a single file of quotes. 
Consider this in the public domain.  I found that running it in my
.cshrc changed my signature often enough for my tastes, but you could
go nuts and set up a cron job that runs every minute if you really
want to (not that I could stop you anyway).  It should be pretty
obvious how to tailor it to however you'd like your .sig to look.

#!/usr/bin/env perl
#
# This script takes an input file of quotes separated by blank
# lines and chooses a random one to output.  If you don't give
# it an output file, it uses standard out (STDOUT).  If you don't
# give it an input file, it uses standard in (STDIN).  If it
# can't open either file, it uses STDIN or STDOUT.
#
# The full usage is:
#
# ranquotes [infile [outfile]]
#
# Original version 5/13/96 by Michael A. Marsh
#
open(INFILE,"-");
open(OUTFILE,">-");
if (@ARGV) {
  if (!open(INFILE,shift(@ARGV))) {
print STDERR "Can\'t find file to open.\nUsing STDIN.\n";
open(INFILE,"-");
  }
}
if (@ARGV) {
  if (!open(OUTFILE,">" . shift(@ARGV))) {
print STDERR "Can\'t open output file.\nUsing STDOUT.\n";
open(OUTFILE,">-");
  }
}
$/ = "";
while () {
  push(@quotes,$_);
}
srand;
print OUTFILE "John Q. Public  ";
print OUTFILE "[EMAIL PROTECTED]  ";
print OUTFILE "http://your.favorite.url\n";;
print OUTFILE splice(@quotes, int(rand(@quotes)), 1);

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Re: SLRN random-sig files, found this but stilll

[Brad Sims]

On Friday 24 September 2004 12:25 pm, Josef Oswald wrote:
> I have no fortune installed here that's why I searched the net for
> random signatures :-) 
> 

I have a tar-ball of sigs and my sigmonster online here:
http://home.insightbb.com/~bmsims1/Sigfiles/current_sigs.tar.gz
http://home.insightbb.com/~bmsims1/Scripts/picksig

Share and Enjoy 
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Re: 802.11g

[Alvin Oga]

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Chris Evans wrote:

> Back on Debian-user for a bit with some questions.  Quick vote of 
> thanks for Debian which fuels my server and firewall in a home office 
> set up.
> 
> Background: I want to use 802.11g networking at home, sadly it'll 
> mainly be to connect in three Windoze machines, two XP, one W2k.  I 
> want to run as safe an access point as possible off one of my linux 
> machines,

that'd imply you use ssh to send all your traffic 

even if they crack your wep key .. all they'd see is your ssh data traffic

>  probably off the firewall for now but perhaps by adding a 
> machine behind that it in the DMZ.  Three specific questions:
> a) are there any 802.11g PCI cards that anyone can recommend?  

i'd use the netgear wg311 ( version 1 ) is madwifi driver
and wg311v2 is ti chipset ( driver doesnt work )

i got lots of test pci card ... most are garbage that requires
the use of ndiswrapper

- ndiswrapper will probably NOT support the wireless ap 
functions and features it'd need
( master mode in particular )

> Priority for me is the most idiot proof installation.

the 2nd time will always be idiot proof :-)

> etc. that I am always looking for something as near to: shut down; 
> install hardware; reboot; run dselect to load a package or do simple 
> installation of new driver(s), preferably without having to compile 
> myself,

find a pci card that has its drivers loaded in as part of the kernel
- that'd imply a cisco aironet cards

> b) Can anyone point me to any Debian compatible howtos for wireless 
> that aren't too out of date, googling isn't turning up much for me at 
> the moment?

you'd need to tweek/create /etc/network/interfaces to add the wireless
options

http://linux-wireless.org

look for example config files 

-- for testing ... its is lot easier to start things working in 802.11b
   and when all that works ... try to move it to 802.11g and see which
   walls and others in the neighborhood confuses (too noisy for) your ap

c ya
alvin


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Re: Wine on Debian

[Joris Huizer]

Andrew Schulman wrote:
I'm thinking about trying Wine out on Debian. I've tried it out under 
a
number of other distributions, and it's been a disaster for the most
part. However, I've heard a few good things about Debian's Wine being
very stable.
Any thoughts or recommendations before I dive into it? Most of our
Debian systems are running Sarge, but we just put Sid on a new box.

I struggled with Wine for a while, spending a lot of work to get a 
little success.  Finally gave up and bought Crossover Office, which 
works easily and reliably.  It was well worth the cost.


I've been using wine with some succes for some time alright -- I used to 
run some ("simple") games on it but now it's just for checking sites 
with IE (I'm not exactly a web developer or something but.. I sometimes 
try to write html+css+javascript and IE is known to fail often on 
(valid) html+css+javascript;
I'm tracking cvs from wine, as (finaly) some bugs regarding IE were 
fixed there;

Most programs need some tweaking to get them installed; 
http://www.frankscorner.org/ has many guidelines of how to set up 
programs in a fake windows

I suggest compiling wine from source! It's not like I love compiling so 
much, but wine is alpha software, and compiling it on your own machine 
gets it tuned best for your setup (though I guess the debian packages 
are in general better than those frequently-failing rpms out there)

HTH,
Joris
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Parallel port at install

[g00se]

I think the module complications really came about from using "bf.24"
instead of the default ("linux"). I simply chose 'lp' and the parallel port
modules kind of fell into place


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Steven Jones,John Summerfield,Alvin Oga

[g00se]

>>
I'm running Sarge on a DELL Optiplex GX150 without ahitch..If you need
help, give me a mail...
>>

That sounds good. Mine is a GX110 actually. I found that some of my problems
were down to attempting to install bf2.4 instead of the default 'linux'.
There are still problems though. dbootstrap exited with an error code and
then when i came to make the system bootable, it started to complain about
LILO (why not GRUB being used?) and large disks. My root partition is 50Mb
and the disk 12Gb. Let's not worry about that though if you reckon Sarge can
be got running. I'd prefer a one-CD approach though


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Re: A Little Confused

[s. keeling]

Incoming from John Lowell:
> A little confused by the Debian login process when using a window 
> manager like fluxbox. In the past, I've always started the X window 
> system after a console login and startx after having first written an 
> ~/.xinitrc. I was a little surprized after the Debian installation and 
> the addition of X window system and fluxbox to find myself automatically 
> at a graphical login screen. I assume that xdm is somehow run as a last 

Do you really want xdm at all?  I use fluxbox without it, just as you
used to run it.

However, you can rummage around in /etc/X11.  I note there's a
/etc/X11/gdm that's a link to /etc/gdm/ which contains gdm.conf, and
that mentions a few graphical things.

Otherwise, dump *dm and hack your style file:

  ~/.fluxbox/styles/TDF:

rootCommand: /usr/bin/feh --bg-center /home/keeling/grf/omega_nebula.jpg


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Re: Firefox 'stretched' printing

[Jacob S]

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 16:32:50 -0400
Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> / Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say:
> | This sounds like a xprt problem. If your printer is setup with cups,
> | try printing using the Postscript/default option and see if that
> looks| better.
> 
> Success! Once. After the first time, each attempt to print with
> Postscript/default produces the dialog "You cannot print while in
> print preview", which I'm not.

Ah, good! We're making some progress then.

Google turned up a couple of hits on this, but nothing that looked
helpful for a cure. For the short term, restarting Firefox should fix
it temporarily. Hopefully someone else on the list will have some clues
on this one.

> | If it does, you can either stop using xprt (my choice) or edit
> xprt's| configuration files in /etc.
> 
> How can I "stop using xprt"?

When I was doing the same, I used 'apt-get remove xprt'.

HTH,
Jacob


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Re: sarge install no network

[Joe]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andreas Janssen 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
Hello
Frank Kaldewey (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
in sarge install dialog are no network configure options.
only option to configure PPP for ISP
Somewhere during the installation you can choose from the main menu to
load installer components. Try to load the one for configuring
networks. After that rerun the hardware autodetection. If you cannot
select these options, try to run the installation in expert mode.
In normal installation mode, if it doesn't find a DHCP server it will 
not install networking. Brilliant idea. I could understand Windows doing 
that, but Debian?
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Re: A Little Confused

[Sergio Basurto]

On the inittab you must change your init runlevel, try
with a value of 3 if you are on SuSE or 2 if you are
under Debian

# The default runlevel is defined here
id:5:initdefault:


You can find more info at:
www.tldp.org
 

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 13:36:07 -0400, John Lowell wrote:

> 
> A little confused by the Debian login process when
> using a window 
> manager like fluxbox. In the past, I've always started
> the X window 
> system after a console login and startx after having
> first written an 
> ~/.xinitrc. I was a little surprized after the Debian
> installation and 
> the addition of X window system and fluxbox to find
> myself automatically 
> at a graphical login screen. I assume that xdm is
> somehow run as a last 
> step of the init process. I've searched and searched
> the man pages on 
> the various related scripts, Xsession, the xdm scripts
> and the like and 
> can't find the file that generates the login screen.
> I'd very much like 
> to improve upon that awful looking gray hash-marked
> background - 
> something I've done previously via alias lines in
> ~/.bashrc - but, 
> assuming that xdm generates the login somehow, can't
> find the file that 
> initiates xdm to fix that either. I'm lost. Might
> someone step in at 
> this point to help?
> 
> jlowell
> 
> 
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ftp vs samba

[Sherman, Michael (GE Energy)]

Hi all.
Just wanted to know what your experience was with samba and ftp with regards
to speed.
I have a Sarge on the local Windows network and I have both (samba and ftp)
and I am wondering which one is staying.
Also speedwise how does Debian compare with FreeBSD? (Don't want to start
any wars, just want to read experiences)

Thanks,
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RE: routing table question

[Sergio Basurto]

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 17:51:01 -0400, Tony Uceda Velez
wrote:

> 
> right but is there a route.conf like there is in
suse. 
> there has to be a
> place where you can store routes besides in memory. 
> doing a route add
> simply stores in memory and a reboot clears the
routing
> table.
> 
> Tony UcedaVélez
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> 
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Sergio Basurto [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 5:48 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED];
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: routing table question
> 
> 
> On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 17:16:15 -0400, Tony Uceda Velez
> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > sorry to have recycled the subjectreal question
> > below.
> > 
> > Tony UcedaVélez
> > Security Analyst
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > 877.884.1110
> > --
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> > 
> > 
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Tony Uceda Velez
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 5:15 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: RE: SSH/Putty password problem
> > 
> > 
> > where are the routing tables stored persistently in
> > debian?
> 
> 
> You can see it with the following command:
> #route -n  
> shows the actual routing table
> 
> #ip route show 
> also do the thing.
> 
> 
What exactly are you triying to do, if you want that
your default gw apears the next time you boot your
machine you must configure this at:
/etc/network/interfaces

or be more explicit...
> 
> > 
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> > Security Analyst
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Re: Question about installing with Intel Ethernet Pro 100 (82557) PCI card

[Sergio Basurto]

On 24 Sep 2004 12:36:51 -0700, Gary wrote:

> 
> I am getting ready to install 'woody' from CD and just
> want to make
> sure I understanding this correctly. My reading of the
> Ethernet HOW-TO
> is that a driver for the Intel 82557 Ethernet Pro 100
> has been
> included since early 1.3.x kernels. So I won't have to
> build it into
> the "vanilla" kernel, right? I've never installed
> Debian before and
> want to be prepared, if I need to get any drivers from
> the
> manufacturer in advance and install the modules either
> during or after
> the installation to get the card to work.
> 
> 
---
You must not get the driver from the manufacturer, but
you must install the kernel module in order to get it
work.

The installation process will guide you step by step.

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RE: routing table question

[Tony Uceda Velez]

right but is there a route.conf like there is in suse.  there has to be a
place where you can store routes besides in memory.  doing a route add
simply stores in memory and a reboot clears the routing table.

Tony UcedaVélez
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-Original Message-
From: Sergio Basurto [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 5:48 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: routing table question


On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 17:16:15 -0400, Tony Uceda Velez
wrote:

> 
> sorry to have recycled the subjectreal question
> below.
> 
> Tony UcedaVélez
> Security Analyst
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> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Tony Uceda Velez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 5:15 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: SSH/Putty password problem
> 
> 
> where are the routing tables stored persistently in
> debian?


You can see it with the following command:
#route -n  
shows the actual routing table

#ip route show 
also do the thing.



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No text in buttons

[Prashant Kumar]

Hi all
I  upgraded my testing version of Sarge,  now buttons of
linpopup and yahoo messenger dont show any text,  if somebody is
facing similar problem or knows a solution please help me .

TIA
Prashant kumar
home page http://home.iitk.ac.in/student/prashkr
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Re: Japanese characters in firefox

[Sylvain Vedrenne]

BTW, Maybe checking the results in Mozilla as well will help you find the way 
out. I remember doing this before I got FireFox working with japanese fonts. 
Experiment a little, you'll find out.

Cheers,
Sylvain.


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Re: routing table question

[Sergio Basurto]

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 17:16:15 -0400, Tony Uceda Velez
wrote:

> 
> sorry to have recycled the subjectreal question
> below.
> 
> Tony UcedaVélez
> Security Analyst
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> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Tony Uceda Velez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 5:15 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: SSH/Putty password problem
> 
> 
> where are the routing tables stored persistently in
> debian?


You can see it with the following command:
#route -n  
shows the actual routing table

#ip route show 
also do the thing.



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Re: Japanese characters in firefox

[Sylvain Vedrenne]

On Friday 24 September 2004 21:02, ScruLoose wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to get Firefox set up so it'll display Japanese pages
> properly, but I don't seem to be having any luck.
>
> I'm using Firefox 0.9.3 in Sarge.
>
> Whenever I view a page with Japanese characters in it, they get
> represented as a box with a four-character alphanumeric (hex?) code in
> it.  Here's a screencap:
> http://shorty.ca/logs/yahoojp.png
I had the same before.
>
> Now, I've installed a bunch of Japanese fonts as instructed here:
> http://www.mayin.org/aragorn/Japan/linux.html
>
> And they seem to work ... when I open a kterm window and cat a japanese
> text file, it displays fine.
>
> Also, firefox seems to _think_ it's working:  The menu under
> View -> Character Encoding shows that it's autodetecting Japanese
> (sometimes Unicode, sometimes Shift_JIS), but still I get the same junk
> displayed.  Also, manually selecting Unicode or Shift_JIS makes
> essentially no difference (The alignment moves around a bit, but I still
> get no Japanese characters).
>
> So how do I get this working?
>
>
>   Cheers!

Hi ScruLoose,

  totoro% apt-cache search ja | grep font
This command will mostly show you some packages available for japanese fonts.
You could pick up one package after the other until you get some results. Only 
a few of these package are really necessary, actually, but which ones?

If it can help, here are the japanese font packages I have on my Debian.  
Personaly, I'm still using an old FireFox 0.8 and the japanese fonts display 
nicely (www.asahi.com for instance) ... after digging into it for a few 
hours!

totoro% dpkg -l | grep font   (and I removed some irrelevant lines by hand)
ii  asiya24-vfont  1-10   Japanese Maru Gothic font in Zeit's Syotai C
ii  defoma 0.11.7 Debian Font Manager -- automatic font config
ii  dvi2ps-fontdat 1.0.1-2Font data for dvi2ps-j and dvi2dvi
rc  dvi2ps-fontdat 1.0.1-2Font data of Adobe Japanese fonts (futomin, 
ii  figfonts-cjk   2.2.1-1Chinese-Japanese-Korean fonts for figlet
ii  fontconfig 2.2.2-2generic font configuration library
ii  gsfonts8.14-2 Fonts for the Ghostscript interpreter(s)
ii  gsfonts-wadala 0.20010409-6   Japanese symbol fonts for the ghostscript in
ii  gsfonts-wadala 0.20010409-6   Japanese gothic fonts for the ghostscript in
ii  gsfonts-wadala 0.20010409-6   Japanese mincho fonts for the ghostscript in
ii  gucharmap  1.2.0-4Unicode character picker and font browser
ii  hbf-kanji481.0-2  Japanese Kanji 48x48 bitmap font (JIS X-0208
ii  konfont0.1-7  Public domain japanese fonts for KON2
ii  libconsole 0.2.3dbs-50Shared libraries for Linux console and font 
ii  libfontconfig1 2.2.2-2generic font configuration library (shared l
ii  libfontconfig1 2.2.2-2generic font configuration library (developm
ii  libfreetype6   2.1.7-2FreeType 2 font engine, shared library files
ii  libfreetype6-d 2.1.7-2FreeType 2 font engine, development files
ii  libxft-dev 2.1.2-6FreeType-based font drawing library for X (d
ii  libxft14.3.0-7FreeType-based font drawing library for X (v
ii  libxft22.1.2-6FreeType-based font drawing library for X
ii  t1lib1 1.3.1-9Type 1 font rasterizer library - runtime
ii  t1utils1.32-1 A collection of simple Type 1 font manipulat
ii  ttf-freefont   20030519-1 Freefont Serif, Sans and Mono Truetype fonts
ii  ttf-kochi-goth 1.0.20030809-1 Kochi Subst Gothic Japanese TrueType font wi
ii  ttf-kochi-minc 1.0.20030809-1 Kochi Subst Mincho Japanese TrueType font wi
ii  ttf-mikachan   8.9-1  handwritten Japanese Truetype font
ii  xfonts-100dpi  4.3.0-7100 dpi fonts for X
ii  xfonts-100dpi- 4.3.0-7100 dpi fonts for X (transcoded from ISO 106
ii  xfonts-75dpi   4.3.0-775 dpi fonts for X
ii  xfonts-75dpi-t 4.3.0-775 dpi fonts for X (transcoded from ISO 1064
ii  xfonts-a12k12  1-712-dot Kanji & ASCII fonts for X
ii  xfonts-ayu 1.7+0a-1   Gothic 18/20 dot Japanese and ISO-8859-1 X11
ii  xfonts-base4.3.0-7standard fonts for X
ii  xfonts-base-tr 4.3.0-7standard fonts for X (transcoded from ISO 10
ii  xfonts-intl-ja 1.2.1-2International fonts for X -- Japanese
ii  xfonts-intl-ja 1.2.1-2International fonts for X -- Japanese big
ii  xfonts-kaname  1.1-8  Kaname Cho 12 dot Japanese Kanji, Latin 1 fo
ii  xfonts-kappa20 0.396-1X11 Kappa 20dot Fonts (10x20 8859-1..4/9/10/
ii  xfonts-mplus   2.1.4-1M+ bitmap 10/12 dot Latin/Japanese fonts for
ii  xfonts-scalabl 4.3.0-7scalable fonts for X
ii  xfonts-shinono 4-1Various 12,14,16 dot Japanese Kanji, iso8859

Good luck!

Sylvain.

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Re: KDE Startup - FURTHER INFO ON QUESTION

[Justin Guerin]

On Friday 24 September 2004 09:16, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
> On Friday 24 September 2004 09:38, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
> > I'm making some minor changes to KDE 3.3. They've been made and tested,
> > so now I need to tell KDM to start the NEW version of KDE.
> >
> > Where are the configuration parameters / startup scripts located to
> > instruct KDM on what to start? Someone else here has to have done this;
> > how do you bring your new version of KDE into production.
> >
> > I can run it in test mode, but I really don't want to have to run 2
> > copies of X to use my new KDE
>
> I've been communicating with a developer from the KDE project using
> Mandrake. He gave me instructions on how to define a new X session, but
> to do that I need to know where the X-session definitions are located in
> Debian. I don't see any of the session definition directives under
> /etc/X11. If someone can point me at the location of these, I should be
> able to take it from there.

If I understand your question, try /etc/kde3/kdm/Xsession, at least in Sid.  
If that doesn't answer your question, let me know and I'll try again.

Justin Guerin


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RE: SSH/Putty password problem

[Michael Sims]

Andrew Schulman wrote:
>> with a working SSH client I see this message before each prompt:
>>
>> Postponed keyboard-interactive for ...
>>
>> whereas I see the following message before the second prompt when
>> using PuTTY:
>>
>> Failed keyboard-interactive/pam for ...
>
> That's good detective work.  It seems that PAM doesn't want you to
> try a password more than once?  Have a look in /etc/pam.d/ssh and see
> if you can find the reason.

Someone else suggested this to me as well, but I actually had already looked there.
If the answer lies in that file, it is eluding me.  I haven't modified it since I
installed Sarge.  It includes stuff from /etc/security/limits.conf and
/etc/security/pam_env.conf, both of which are all comments.  It prints some stuff
after a successful login.  Apart from that, it includes the three
/etc/pam.d/common-* files like most every other pam file.

I had also (perhaps mistakenly) discounted /etc/pam.d/ssh as a factor since the
problem doesn't happen with EVERY ssh session...just those coming from PuTTY.  Also,
I should mention that this behavior does not manifest when connecting to an up to
date Woody box.

Thanks for the input...


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Re: Wine on Debian

[Andrew Schulman]

> I'm thinking about trying Wine out on Debian. I've tried it out under 
a
> number of other distributions, and it's been a disaster for the most
> part. However, I've heard a few good things about Debian's Wine being
> very stable.
> 
> Any thoughts or recommendations before I dive into it? Most of our
> Debian systems are running Sarge, but we just put Sid on a new box.

I struggled with Wine for a while, spending a lot of work to get a 
little success.  Finally gave up and bought Crossover Office, which 
works easily and reliably.  It was well worth the cost.


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routing table question

[Tony Uceda Velez]

sorry to have recycled the subjectreal question below.

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-Original Message-
From: Tony Uceda Velez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 5:15 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: SSH/Putty password problem


where are the routing tables stored persistently in debian?

Tony UcedaVélez
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Re: SSH/Putty password problem

[Marcos Carneiro da Rocha]

Hi Michael,

try to check out /etc/pam.d/ssh if there is any restriction or
misconfiguration

On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 16:31, Michael Sims wrote:
> Sorry if this is a silly or obvious question, but I've Googled and search the
> mailing list archives and cannot find anything relevant.
> 
> I'm using PuTTY 0.53b from a Windows 2000 machine to SSH to a Debian Sarge server
> running OpenSSH 3.8.1p1-8.  The problem I am having is that I am only given one
> chance to enter my password correctly.  If I mistype it on the first attempt, I am
> prompted a second time, but the second attempt will fail regardless of whether I
> supply the right password or not.
> 
> This problem does not occur if I use the ssh client on the Debian machine ('ssh
> localhost'), or the ssh client I have on another Red Hat box I have handy, which
> leads me to believe it's a PuTTY issue.  However, PuTTY doesn't behave this way when
> I ssh to the Red Hat box.
> 
> In an effort to troubleshoot this I ran the SSH server in debug mode
> (/usr/sbin/sshd -ddd).  I can't really tell much from the output, but I find that
> with a working SSH client I see this message before each prompt:
> 
> Postponed keyboard-interactive for ...
> 
> whereas I see the following message before the second prompt when using PuTTY:
> 
> Failed keyboard-interactive/pam for ...
> 
> Has anyone seen this before?  I'd appreciate any insight or pointers... TIA
> 


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RE: SSH/Putty password problem

[Tony Uceda Velez]

where are the routing tables stored persistently in debian?

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RE: SSH/Putty password problem

[Michael Sims]

vizi0n (debian-user) wrote:
> Michael Sims wrote:
>> I'm using PuTTY 0.53b from a Windows 2000 machine to SSH to a Debian
>> Sarge server running OpenSSH 3.8.1p1-8.  The problem I am having is
>> that I am only given one chance to enter my password correctly.  If
>> I mistype it on the first attempt, I am prompted a second time, but
>> the second attempt will fail regardless of whether I supply the
>> right password or not.
>
> first of all, i would try using the 0.55 version of putty, that might
> solve your problem

Thanks, I suppose I should have upgraded before posting.  I just tried 0.55 and it's
actually even worse...it closes the connection immediately after just one failed
attempt. :(


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Re: SSH/Putty password problem

[Andrew Schulman]

> with a working SSH client I see this message before each prompt:
> 
> Postponed keyboard-interactive for ...
> 
> whereas I see the following message before the second prompt when using PuTTY:
> 
> Failed keyboard-interactive/pam for ...

That's good detective work.  It seems that PAM doesn't want you to try a 
password more than once?  Have a look in /etc/pam.d/ssh and see if you 
can find the reason.


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Re: parallel port using lots of CPU

[Ross Boylan]

I decided to give USB a try, but am not having any luck.  I also
encountered some more oddities with the parallel port.  Details below.

If any USB gurus can give me any hints, I'd be very grateful; I've
spent a couple hours fiddling and browsing the net, to no avail.

On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 10:17:15PM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> On Monday 20 September 2004 10:09 pm, Ross Boylan wrote:
> 
> > Mine says
> > parport0: Printer, Lexmark International Lexmark Optra E310
> > lp0: using parport0 (polling).
> > parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP]
> >
> > I don't really know what that means, but it apparently has no
> > interrupts and there's no reference to DMA, just PCSPP.  Perhaps I can
> > tweak my BIOS.  Unfortunately, my system is interrupt starved.
> 
> Yep, that's what it means.  What do you have contending for interrupts?
ISA sound card and modem.  2 ethernet cards.  USB scanner (I'm not
sure if that's grabbing anything).  serial cable to UPS. parallel port
printer.  And there used to be a bit more (also one of the ethernet
cards isn't doing anything right now--though both are PCI).
> 
> > The (polling) certainly suggests that I am, umh, polling.  Which would
> > explain the CPU useage.  Would this also slow down how fast it takes
> > to ship stuff out?  Printing graphics is painfully slow, e.g., 20
> > minutes per page (with 300dpi!).

An aside:
I was printing my black and white images in color mode (gimp).
Changing them to Black and White cut the spool file size, and print
time, to 1/3 the  original level: 7 minutes.  Still bad, but not as
bad.

A bit surprisingly, the greyscale output was exactly the same size as
black and white.  The scans I'm printing are B+W, no grey.

> 
> Absolutely!  I have an HP LaserJet 1200 hanging off a FreeBSD server.  When I 
> was using CUPS to print large PostScript images, it could easily spend 20 
> minutes pushing the data across.  DMA mode wasn't significantly faster - 
> maybe 20% or so - but the CPU was mostly idle the whole time instead of 
> pegged at 100%.  Switching to USB cut those times in half, but that would be 
> even more pronounced if my printer didn't have a dog-slow engine.
> 
> > I was under the impression that USB was a bit experimental on Linux,
> > but I did form that impression awhile ago.
> 
> I hope not!  That'd make my keyboard, mouse, Palm, and keychain drive stop 
> working.  ;-)
> 
> > Partly as a result of that, and on a more mundane level, I don't have a USB
> > cable, and I remember them costing more than a completely trivial amount. 
> 
> I'm sure you can get one for $5 or less.
$5.95 for 3 meter cable (2 meters was under 5).

First, I tried enabling ECP on the parallel port in BIOS (it was
disabled).  This has the odd effect of expanding the number of modes
listed by the parallel driver to include, among others, EPP, but not
ECP!  (EPP is another option in BIOS).

Sep 22 12:28:47 wheat kernel: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
Sep 22 12:28:47 wheat kernel: parport0: irq 5 detected
Sep 22 12:28:47 wheat kernel: parport0: Printer, Lexmark International Lexmark Optra 
E310
Sep 22 12:28:47 wheat kernel: lp0: using parport0 (polling).
Also, disappointingly, it still says (polling).  Or is that
unavoidable?

At any rate, this produced no noticeable improvement in print speed or
CPU useage.


Second, I got a USB 2.0 cable.  Note that I already have a working USB
subsystem, since my scanner is USB (though only USB 1.0, I think).  I
disabled the parallel port in BIOS, and disconnected its cable.  As
advised in the USB guide, I did mknod /dev/usb/lp0 c 180 0 and
(eventually) made it world writable.  I also reset CUPS to use USB
printer 1.

Unfortunately, all I get is the message that "USB device is not
responding".  Here's the full log.


Sep 24 12:51:11 wheat kernel: hub.c: port 1, portstatus 101, change 1, 12 Mb/s
Sep 24 12:51:11 wheat kernel: hub.c: port 1 connection change
Sep 24 12:51:11 wheat kernel: hub.c: port 1, portstatus 101, change 1, 12 Mb/s
Sep 24 12:51:11 wheat kernel: hub.c: port 1, portstatus 101, change 0, 12 Mb/s
Sep 24 12:51:11 wheat last message repeated 3 times
Sep 24 12:51:11 wheat kernel: hub.c: port 1, portstatus 103, change 10, 12 Mb/s
Sep 24 12:51:11 wheat kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:07.4-1, assigned address 2
Sep 24 12:51:11 wheat kernel: usb.c: kmalloc IF d6d5eb40, numif 1
Sep 24 12:51:11 wheat kernel: usb.c: new device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, 
SerialNumber=0
Sep 24 12:51:11 wheat kernel: usb.c: USB device number 2 default language ID 0x409
Sep 24 12:51:11 wheat kernel: Manufacturer: EPSON
Sep 24 12:51:11 wheat kernel: Product: EPSON Scanner
Sep 24 12:51:11 wheat kernel: scanner.c: USB scanner device (0x04b8/0x011e) now 
attached to scanner0
Sep 24 12:51:11 wheat kernel: usb.c: usbscanner driver claimed interface d6d5eb40
Sep 24 12:51:11 wheat kernel: usb.c: kusbd: /sbin/hotplug add 2
Sep 24 12:51:11 wheat kernel: hub.c: port 2, portstatus 101, change 1, 12 Mb/s
Sep 24 12:51:11 wheat ke

Re: weird constant hissing sound coming from one speaker

[vizi0n (debian-user)]

check if your cables are touching something else, i have that problem too 
when my hard drive accesses the data, my speaker does a weird sound. if the 
speakers are turned off, it wont do it, i have to see if i can put my wires 
somewhere else

viz
- Original Message - 
From: "H. S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 10:10 AM
Subject: weird constant hissing sound coming from one speaker


Hi,
Yesterday, one of the users logged into a KDE session after a long time. 
As soon as the peripherals started, an error popped up on screen 
indicating an error and the window also had a backtrace tab.

Since that time there is a constant hissing noise coming from the left 
speaker. Logging the user out and then back in does not work. I also 
rebooted the machine and the sound started again (near the point where lp0 
message comes up during the boot process). I logged in gnome, sound still 
there, I logged in KDE sound still. While logging into KDE I do get the 
initial login music. I also tried killing "kill -TERM" artsd, but that 
also had  no effect on the hissing sound (it is similar what you get on an 
FM radio when you are not tuned to any channed; the white noise).

I am running 2.6.7 kernel and the sound card(as lspci shows) is:
:02:0c.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02)
I guess this is a difficult one and I haven't been able to give more info 
(I am not sure where to start). My apologies. But if somebody could get me 
started in the right directoin, I can investigate further what could be 
wrong.

thanks,
->HS
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Re: SSH/Putty password problem

[vizi0n (debian-user)]

first of all, i would try using the 0.55 version of putty, that might solve 
your problem

a list of mirrors is available at this address:
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
viz
- Original Message - 
From: "Michael Sims" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 3:31 PM
Subject: SSH/Putty password problem


Sorry if this is a silly or obvious question, but I've Googled and search 
the
mailing list archives and cannot find anything relevant.

I'm using PuTTY 0.53b from a Windows 2000 machine to SSH to a Debian Sarge 
server
running OpenSSH 3.8.1p1-8.  The problem I am having is that I am only 
given one
chance to enter my password correctly.  If I mistype it on the first 
attempt, I am
prompted a second time, but the second attempt will fail regardless of 
whether I
supply the right password or not.

This problem does not occur if I use the ssh client on the Debian machine 
('ssh
localhost'), or the ssh client I have on another Red Hat box I have handy, 
which
leads me to believe it's a PuTTY issue.  However, PuTTY doesn't behave 
this way when
I ssh to the Red Hat box.

In an effort to troubleshoot this I ran the SSH server in debug mode
(/usr/sbin/sshd -ddd).  I can't really tell much from the output, but I 
find that
with a working SSH client I see this message before each prompt:

Postponed keyboard-interactive for ...
whereas I see the following message before the second prompt when using 
PuTTY:

Failed keyboard-interactive/pam for ...
Has anyone seen this before?  I'd appreciate any insight or pointers... 
TIA

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Re: Firefox 'stretched' printing

[Norman Walsh]

/ Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say:
| This sounds like a xprt problem. If your printer is setup with cups,
| try printing using the Postscript/default option and see if that looks
| better.

Success! Once. After the first time, each attempt to print with
Postscript/default produces the dialog "You cannot print while in
print preview", which I'm not.

| If it does, you can either stop using xprt (my choice) or edit xprt's
| configuration files in /etc.

How can I "stop using xprt"?

Be seeing you,
  norm

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Re: weird constant hissing sound coming from one speaker

[H. S.]

Rob Sims wrote:
Use kmix, alsamixer, etc. to check your levels on various (especially 
unconnected) inputs - mic, line in, etc.  Set them to zero/muted.
I already tried alsamixer this morning. I will do it again when I go 
home this evening and specially pay attention to the ones that are 
unconnected.

Thanks,
->HS

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Re: Does Unstable become Testing?

[Carl Fink]

On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 02:31:12PM -0400, William Ballard wrote:

> What is renamed, what is forked, what is cloned?
> 
> What properties will hold true after the fork?
> 
> I presume that "stable" simply becomes symlinked to "sarge" instead of 
> "woody."

Correct.

> Is a copy of the "sarge" archive created to become the new 
> testing, which happens initially to point to the exact same places in 
> /pool that stable does?  And then they slowly diverge?

Exactly.  Etch will start out identical to Sarge, then diverge as
packages from Unstable (Sid) are migrated into it.
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Question about installing with Intel Ethernet Pro 100 (82557) PCI card

[Gary]

I am getting ready to install 'woody' from CD and just want to make
sure I understanding this correctly. My reading of the Ethernet HOW-TO
is that a driver for the Intel 82557 Ethernet Pro 100 has been
included since early 1.3.x kernels. So I won't have to build it into
the "vanilla" kernel, right? I've never installed Debian before and
want to be prepared, if I need to get any drivers from the
manufacturer in advance and install the modules either during or after
the installation to get the card to work.


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Question about installing with Intel Ethernet Pro 100 (82557) PCI card

[Gary]

I am getting ready to install 'woody' from CD and just want to make
sure I understanding this correctly. My reading of the Ethernet HOW-TO
is that a driver for the Intel 82557 Ethernet Pro 100 has been
included since early 1.3.x kernels. So I won't have to build it into
the "vanilla" kernel, right? I've never installed Debian before and
want to be prepared, if I need to get any drivers from the
manufacturer in advance and install the modules either during or after
the installation to get the card to work.


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SSH/Putty password problem

[Michael Sims]

Sorry if this is a silly or obvious question, but I've Googled and search the
mailing list archives and cannot find anything relevant.

I'm using PuTTY 0.53b from a Windows 2000 machine to SSH to a Debian Sarge server
running OpenSSH 3.8.1p1-8.  The problem I am having is that I am only given one
chance to enter my password correctly.  If I mistype it on the first attempt, I am
prompted a second time, but the second attempt will fail regardless of whether I
supply the right password or not.

This problem does not occur if I use the ssh client on the Debian machine ('ssh
localhost'), or the ssh client I have on another Red Hat box I have handy, which
leads me to believe it's a PuTTY issue.  However, PuTTY doesn't behave this way when
I ssh to the Red Hat box.

In an effort to troubleshoot this I ran the SSH server in debug mode
(/usr/sbin/sshd -ddd).  I can't really tell much from the output, but I find that
with a working SSH client I see this message before each prompt:

Postponed keyboard-interactive for ...

whereas I see the following message before the second prompt when using PuTTY:

Failed keyboard-interactive/pam for ...

Has anyone seen this before?  I'd appreciate any insight or pointers... TIA


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Wine on Debian

[Phil Bardanes]

I'm thinking about trying Wine out on Debian. I've tried it out under a
number of other distributions, and it's been a disaster for the most
part. However, I've heard a few good things about Debian's Wine being
very stable.

Any thoughts or recommendations before I dive into it? Most of our
Debian systems are running Sarge, but we just put Sid on a new box.

Regards,

P.B.


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HUB with multiple LANs?

[Curtis Vaughan]

If my internal LAN is 10.0.1.x and I attach another LAN - say, 
192.168.1.x - to the same HUB will they conflict with one another, or 
do I have to put the other LAN on another HUB?

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Japanese characters in firefox

[ScruLoose]

Hi all,

I'm trying to get Firefox set up so it'll display Japanese pages 
properly, but I don't seem to be having any luck.

I'm using Firefox 0.9.3 in Sarge.

Whenever I view a page with Japanese characters in it, they get 
represented as a box with a four-character alphanumeric (hex?) code in 
it.  Here's a screencap:
http://shorty.ca/logs/yahoojp.png

Now, I've installed a bunch of Japanese fonts as instructed here:
http://www.mayin.org/aragorn/Japan/linux.html

And they seem to work ... when I open a kterm window and cat a japanese 
text file, it displays fine.

Also, firefox seems to _think_ it's working:  The menu under
View -> Character Encoding shows that it's autodetecting Japanese 
(sometimes Unicode, sometimes Shift_JIS), but still I get the same junk 
displayed.  Also, manually selecting Unicode or Shift_JIS makes 
essentially no difference (The alignment moves around a bit, but I still 
get no Japanese characters).

So how do I get this working?


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auctex, C-c C-c calls only latex

[Antonio Rodriguez]

Where should the change be made to make auctex-emacs (up-to-date sid)
call tex instead of latex?

>From the auctex manual: When invoking one of the commands
TeX-command-master (C-c C-c) or TeX-command-region (C-c C-r) LaTeX is
run on either the entire current document or a given region of it.
I haven't seen any reference to Plain. Anybody knows?
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Re: System user accounts lost after system halt

[Bill Marcum]

On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 09:16:02AM +0800, lianliming wrote:
> Hi all,
> After a system halt, i find all the users in my system seems been 
> lost. I can't login in as any id.
> I tried to use linux single mode to boot. but after system setup, 
> the system give me a prompt said "you have no name". I find my 
> "/etc/passwd" file has become a binary file full of something unreadable.
> So what should i do now?
> i don't want to reinstall the system since i don't have much time.
> 
>Thank you for suggestions.
> 
Try "linux init=/bin/bash", and copy /var/backups/passwd.bak to 
/etc/passwd, and /var/backups/shadow.bak to /etc/shadow
If that doesn't work, boot with a Debian install CD in rescue mode.

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Re: Parallel port at install

[Bill Marcum]

On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 10:42:10AM +0100, g00se wrote:
> >>
> If you are installing a stock debian kernel, modprobe lp
> should load the appropriate modules.
> >>
> 
> That sounds promising, but are you suggesting that i issue that command? And
> if so, are you saying i don't then need to explicitly select parallel port
> support in the install and that it'll be selected automatically?
> 
> 
You can add "lp" to /etc/modules to have the module loaded automatically 
at boot.

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A Little Confused

[John Lowell]

A little confused by the Debian login process when using a window 
manager like fluxbox. In the past, I've always started the X window 
system after a console login and startx after having first written an 
~/.xinitrc. I was a little surprized after the Debian installation and 
the addition of X window system and fluxbox to find myself automatically 
at a graphical login screen. I assume that xdm is somehow run as a last 
step of the init process. I've searched and searched the man pages on 
the various related scripts, Xsession, the xdm scripts and the like and 
can't find the file that generates the login screen. I'd very much like 
to improve upon that awful looking gray hash-marked background - 
something I've done previously via alias lines in ~/.bashrc - but, 
assuming that xdm generates the login somehow, can't find the file that 
initiates xdm to fix that either. I'm lost. Might someone step in at 
this point to help?

jlowell
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Postfix does not start

[Robert Golovniov]

Hello,
I am trying to set up Postfix on a Sarge system. When I start the 
server, everything seems to go well, but I cannot telnet to port 25. 
When I checked mail log, I saw this:

localhost postfix[...]: fatal: /etc/postfix/postfix-script: Permission 
denied

Could somebody please tell me what is the problem there? Thank you all 
in advance.

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Re: Does Unstable become Testing?

[William Ballard]

On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 07:28:22AM -0700, Zachary Rizer wrote:
> No.  Unstable (sid) will always be unstable.  Testing
> becomes the new stable, and then a new testing is born
> (etch?).

Could you be more precise?
What is renamed, what is forked, what is cloned?

What properties will hold true after the fork?

I presume that "stable" simply becomes symlinked to "sarge" instead of 
"woody."  Is a copy of the "sarge" archive created to become the new 
testing, which happens initially to point to the exact same places in 
/pool that stable does?  And then they slowly diverge?


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Re: Help: Embedded Debian

[Jaldhar H. Vyas]

On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Stefan Drees wrote:

> Hi,
> i´m using debian for now two years and i created lots of servers for our
> customers.
> I also tried to create an very small debian install with postfix, bind,
> dhcp, webmin,
> squid etc. I was able to cut it down to 100 MB but i want it make smaller.
> Are there any infos about creating an embedded system with debian or
> tips to make
> it smaller, also to hold it small :-) (log files etc.).
> I need also the possibilty (for the local admin) to administrate the
> server via web.
> I installed webmin, but with only the needed modules = 20 MB, any
> suggestions to get it
> also smaller?
>
> Thanks in advance for all links and tips.
>

Each webmin module has lang and help sub-directories with translations.
Also the main directory of each module has config.info.* files for each
language.  Deleting the languages you don't need will slim things down a
lot.  Also the msc3 theme (/usr/share/webmin/msc3theme) is unnecessary and
can be deleted.  (Be sure to change the webmin config to reflect this.)
Using the .deb packages is not going to be easy so you might be better off
just creating your own custom webmin setup in /usr/local.


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Re: auth.log webmin[xxx]: Timeout of admin

[Jaldhar H. Vyas]

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Robert S wrote:

> I've installed webmin 1.16 (from the webmin site) on woody.  I have the
> webmin daemon running but haven't used webmin for several days, but I keep
> getting these messages in my /var/log/auth.log - which are reported to me by
> logcheck.
>
> Unusual System Events
> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> Sep 24 18:28:31 debian webmin[326]: Timeout of admin
>
> What is the meaning of this?
>

It means admin quit webmin without logging out.

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Re: VIA sound problem

[jochen]

I had all oss-stuff removed from the kernele and checked the loaded 
modules via lsmod, all the right modules were loaded.
Now that I'm using oss everything is fine. I don't know what the problem 
was but at least it works.

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Re: Firefox 'stretched' printing

[Andrea Vettorello]

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 10:48:06 -0400, Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

[...]

>   For a few weeks now I've been getting "stretched" printing from
>   Firefox. By that I mean that all the text is vertically elongated so
>   that the page runs off the bottom of the physical paper.
> 
>   Printing works from other applications. I've been hoping this would
>   just go away with some upgrade of Firefox, but it's persisted long
>   enough to become irritating.

Oh my, a couple of days ago i was going to throw from the window my
crappy stylus color by anger after i've tried to print a page from
firefox...


Andrea


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Re: weird constant hissing sound coming from one speaker

[Rob Sims]

On Friday 24 September 2004 09:49 am, H. S. wrote:
> I am not sure this will work since if I boot in Windows the speakers
> work perfectly well. It is only if I boot into Debian that the hiss
> comes back during the boot process someplace (which as I mentioned is
> around when lp0 starts).

> Note that the hiss just not some background white noise. It is very
> pronounced. It gets attenuated when some sound plays (e.g. when I do
> a sound test in KDE). Otherwise it is like an FM radio, but coming
> only from my left speaker. Right speaker is perfectly okay as it was
> before.

Use kmix, alsamixer, etc. to check your levels on various (especially 
unconnected) inputs - mic, line in, etc.  Set them to zero/muted.
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Re: 2.6.8-3 kernel freezes on Inspiron 8100 at isapnp

[Andrea Vettorello]

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 21:51:09 +0800, Uwe Dippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> (today I'm kind of unlucky with the daily update, it seems: Thunderbird
> broke, XMMS broke and now:)
> After the update from 2.6.8-2 (??), but 2.6.8 in any case 2.6.8; the
> kernel freezes at isapnp. I tried three times (Power-Off); and then booted
> to 2.6.3; the install-kernel; without any problem.
> 
> I wonder if I'm the only one and should file a bug-report ?
> 

I've experienced a freeze plugging/unplugging my usb printer with 2.6.8-2...


Andrea


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Re: SLRN random-sig files, found this but stilll

[Josef Oswald]

s. keeling wrote on Fri, 24 Sep 2004 03:10:06 +0200:

> Incoming from Josef Oswald:
>> 
>> looking to set up random sig with SLRN I found this link:
>> 
>> http://lists.infodrom.org/debian-user-de/2001/03/att-0026/01-slrn-random-sig
>>  
>> At the end it says one need to create for each quote a single file, my
>> question is:
>> what name can I use and or does this scrip just take any files it finds
>> and uses them as signatures? 
> [snip]
>> $sigdir = $ENV{'HOME'} . '/.Sig';
> [snip]
>> if(opendir(DIR, $sigdir)) {
>> @randfiles = grep( !/^\./, readdir(DIR));
>>  
>> if(open(RAND, $sigdir . '/' . $randfiles[rand($#randfiles)])) {
>
> That says to me it's going to take anything it finds in your ~/.Sig
> directory, except the two system dotfiles ".." and ".", or anything
> with a dot at the beginning of the filename.  "foo" and "bar" should
> be fine filenames for this, as would "foo.bar".
>
> Too bad you couldn't do something simpler (or maybe you can; I've
> never wanted to).  This is all it takes for mutt:

>
>   --
>   Note:  not tested!
>
>   ~/sh/mail_sig:
>
>   #!/bin/bash
>   cat ~/.signature
>   /usr/bin/fortune -s
>
>   .muttrc:
>
>   folder-hook . set signature="~/sh/mail_sig|"
>   --

Thanks  :-) 

I have no fortune installed here that's why I searched the net for
random signatures :-) 

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Re: Lesstif over VNC a problem?

[Thomas Adam]

 --- David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
> box. Unfortunately, I can't read boxes, certainly not when they all look
> the same.

This is a locale issue.

> I further tried to tunnel from my server to my laptop (at home) running
> sid, but xmgrace still shows me boxes and it depends on lesstif2.

Nothing to do with Lesstif. Does it work if you type:

LANG=C xmgrace &

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Re: sharing a printer with windows

[J. Hannemann]

--- Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Tuesday 21 September 2004 01:17 am, Christian
> Benito wrote:
> > I have small network, two windows 2000 boxes and a
> debian box.  The
> > two windows machines share a laser printer that is
> attached to one of
> > them. I'd like to be able to print from the debian
> machine too. Can
> > anybody give me a pointer on how to get that
> working?
> 
> Remove any eyeglasses, hats, caps, earrings, etc. 
> Now place your forehead 
> flat against any nearby wall.  Pivot your body back
> at the waist a bit, then 
> slam your head forcefully into the wall.  Repeat
> this until you either lose 
> consciousness, or you decide you don't want to try
> to get Linux to print to a 
> Windows printer.
> 
> :)
> 
> (It can be done in theory.  If you can find a set of
> instructions that will 
> actually get you there, you should turn around and
> go buy a lottery ticket 
> while you're at it.  You'll probably win big.)
> 
> (As a disclaimer, I should add that my own
> experiences were probably tainted 
> by the particularly obscure nature of the printer I
> was trying to get working 
> in this fashion.  Obviously the instructions I found
> were an afterthought, 
> extrapolated from other, related instructions, with
> a lot of "probably" and 
> "this might work" and "try doing it like this"
> thrown in.)
> 
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I ended up doing what Silvan suggested.  Although I
could get file shares to show and work with Samba, I
was NEVER able to get the print shares going.  It
would "see" the printer, but would never print.  

I did see somewhere that the *unwritten* law was that
you had to have gs for windows installed on the
windows box.  Personally, I've never tried this, but
this guy claims it will work.  

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Re: gnome-python-vfs

[s. keeling]

Incoming from Blake Swadling:
> I've been having a peek at gdesklets and quite a few are non functional
> due to missing python bindings for gnome-vfs.
> 
> anyone know where i might find this mythical beast in unstable?

No, but this might point out the way:

(0) keeling /home/keeling_ apt-cache search gnome-vfs
gnome-vfs-extfs - The GNOME virtual file-system extra fs scripts for GMC.
gnome-vfs-extras - GPL gnome-vfs modules, includes SMB support
libgnome-vfs-common - The GNOME virtual file-system libraries common files
libgnome-vfs-dev - Libraries and include files for developing GNOME VFS applications
libgnome-vfs0 - The GNOME virtual file-system libraries

That's for stable, btw.


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Re: Firefox 'stretched' printing

[Jacob S]

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 10:48:06 -0400
Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I mentioned[1] this problem a few weeks ago, in the hopes that someone
> would be able to tell me how to fix it. A few people replied that they
> were experiencing the problem, but no suggestions were forthcoming for
> how to fix it.
> 
> Is there anyone out there who has had this problem and successfully
> fixed it?
> 
> For the record, I'm running Debian unstable (updated today) with a
> build of X11/R6.8.1 from X.org instead of the stock XFree server. (But
> the problem was exactly the same with the stock XFree server.)

This sounds like a xprt problem. If your printer is setup with cups,
try printing using the Postscript/default option and see if that looks
better.

If it does, you can either stop using xprt (my choice) or edit xprt's
configuration files in /etc.

HTH,
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Re: How to remove escape sequences from a existing file

[diego]

Perfect, this did the trick!!!

I had seen this somewhere, but where?...

Thankyou very much, now I can head the following step...

El jue, 23-09-2004 a las 07:08, Kevin Mark escribió:
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 12:53:26AM +0200, diego wrote:
> > I have a log file with escape sequences like "ESC]00m" and the like. I
> > know they are the codes to change the color and so in the original
> > printing, but in automatic post processing its a real headache...
> > 
> > How can I automatically remove ANY escape sequence to convert it into a
> > real plain text?
> > 
> > Thanx very much in advance!!
> > 
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> I recall MAN pages with such things. This:
> cat TEXTFILE | col -b
> may help. 'man col' to see all the details.
> -Kev


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Re: Setting font in Eterm

[Zachary Rizer]

--- Prashant Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> Hi
> First of sorry for my previous query as a reply for
> a unrelated thread, this time I am  initiating a new
> thread.
> 
> I need to chnage font and font size in Eterm,  Shift
> Right click brings  a menu for font(1-4),  but that
> does not serve the
> purpose,  what I wanted is how to set these font 1 -
> 4 and their size. Some help with conf file probably.
> 
> Thanks in advancei for your reply.
> 
> Prashant kumar
> home page http://home.iitk.ac.in/student/prashkr
>
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...it's the same question.  Just read the man page,
you would have been done by now.

$ man eterm


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Re: Run Application?

[Eric Gaumer]

On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 08:29, Father Parthenios wrote:
> Running Unstable, and am stuck with something:
> 
> 
> In gnome2-user-guide, section 4.6.4, the Run Button is described.
> 
> What is the command I could run from the command line to run the Run
> Application Dialog?  I am having trouble finding the name of this program.

Just hit Alt-F2

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Re: weird constant hissing sound coming from one speaker

[H. S.]

Apparently, _Raghavendra Bhat_, on 09/24/04 11:29,typed:
H. S.
The first  thing you have  to do  is to get  the chassis of  the machine
earthed properly,  either via your power plug  or 'crocodile-clipping' a
good  earth-wire  to  the chassis.   Later  you  can  screw on  a  pucca
earth-wire.
It is grounded via the power plug. I have no reason to believe there is 
anything wrong with that.


Isolate  the speaker-out  wire from  the  sound-card alone,  see if  the
/hiss/ exists. If not go on connecting your peripheral cables and listen
till it appears again.
If I disconnect the speaker from the sound card, the hiss goes away. 
Reconnecting it back makes the hiss come back.


There are  big ferrite beads available.   Get a couple  of beads through
which  you can  pass the  speaker cable.   You need  not cut  the formed
speaker wire/cable, just  loop-string it at the sound-card  pin end.  If
the hiss has stopped, good.

I am not sure this will work since if I boot in Windows the speakers 
work perfectly well. It is only if I boot into Debian that the hiss 
comes back during the boot process someplace (which as I mentioned is 
around when lp0 starts).

Note that the hiss just not some background white noise. It is very 
pronounced. It gets attenuated when some sound plays (e.g. when I do a 
sound test in KDE). Otherwise it is like an FM radio, but coming only 
from my left speaker. Right speaker is perfectly okay as it was before.


guess this  is a difficult one and  I haven't been able  to give more
info
Isolating the problem is a PITA but fixing it once isolated, is easy. ;)
Hth.
Well, it is at least asking me to give you more information which may 
exclude some possibilities and thus help narrow down the cause pf the 
problem.

thanks,
->HS

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Run Application?

[Father Parthenios]

Running Unstable, and am stuck with something:


In gnome2-user-guide, section 4.6.4, the Run Button is described.

What is the command I could run from the command line to run the Run
Application Dialog?  I am having trouble finding the name of this program.

TIA


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Re: Setting font in Eterm

[Peter J Ross]

On Saturday 25 Sep 2004 01:43, Prashant Kumar wrote:

> Hi
> First of sorry for my previous query as a reply for a unrelated
> thread, this time I am  initiating a new thread.
>
> I need to chnage font and font size in Eterm,  Shift Right click
> brings  a menu for font(1-4),  but that does not serve the purpose,
>  what I wanted is how to set these font 1 - 4 and their size. Some
> help with conf file probably.
>
> Thanks in advancei for your reply.

Read the man page.

$ man eterm

or http://www.eterm.org/docs/view.php?doc=man


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Re: Setting font in Eterm

[JoeHill]

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 20:43:16 -0400 (EDT)
Prashant Kumar disseminated the following:

> I need to chnage font and font size in Eterm,  Shift Right click brings  a
> menu for font(1-4),  but that does not serve the purpose,  what I wanted is
> how to set these font 1 - 4 and their size. Some help with conf file probably.
> 
> Thanks in advancei for your reply.

Not sure if this is what you want, but you can set the font and sizes from the
command line. What I do is instead of launching Eterm directly, I created a
script to launch it with the settings (fonts) I want:

#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/bin/Eterm -F drift --bold-font \
drift -c Blue -g 110x40 -L 400 -n Node1 --shade 50 "$@"

  exit $? 


>From 'man Eterm':

   --bold-font font
  Sets the bold text font to font.

   -F font, --font font
  Sets the normal text font to font.

   --default-font-index num
  Specifies the index of the default (normal) text font.

   --font1 font

   ...

   --font4 font
  Sets the font at the specified index (1-4) to font.

Also, you can change fonts/sizes on-the-fly by pressing shift and either the
plus or minus keys.

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Re: weird constant hissing sound coming from one speaker

[Raghavendra Bhat]

H. S.

>> there is a constant hissing noise coming from the left speaker

The first  thing you have  to do  is to get  the chassis of  the machine
earthed properly,  either via your power plug  or 'crocodile-clipping' a
good  earth-wire  to  the chassis.   Later  you  can  screw on  a  pucca
earth-wire.

Isolate  the speaker-out  wire from  the  sound-card alone,  see if  the
/hiss/ exists. If not go on connecting your peripheral cables and listen
till it appears again.

There are  big ferrite beads available.   Get a couple  of beads through
which  you can  pass the  speaker cable.   You need  not cut  the formed
speaker wire/cable, just  loop-string it at the sound-card  pin end.  If
the hiss has stopped, good.


>> guess this  is a difficult one and  I haven't been able  to give more
>> info

Isolating the problem is a PITA but fixing it once isolated, is easy. ;)

Hth.

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Re: KDE Startup - FURTHER INFO ON QUESTION

[Michael Satterwhite]

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On Friday 24 September 2004 09:38, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
> I'm making some minor changes to KDE 3.3. They've been made and tested, so
> now I need to tell KDM to start the NEW version of KDE.
>
> Where are the configuration parameters / startup scripts located to
> instruct KDM on what to start? Someone else here has to have done this; how
> do you bring your new version of KDE into production.
>
> I can run it in test mode, but I really don't want to have to run 2 copies
> of X to use my new KDE

I've been communicating with a developer from the KDE project using Mandrake. 
He gave me instructions on how to define a new X session, but to do that I 
need to know where the X-session definitions are located in Debian. I don't 
see any of the session definition directives under /etc/X11. If someone can 
point me at the location of these, I should be able to take it from there.

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Setting font in Eterm

[Prashant Kumar]

Hi
First of sorry for my previous query as a reply for a unrelated thread, this time I am 
 initiating a new thread.

I need to chnage font and font size in Eterm,  Shift Right click brings  a menu for 
font(1-4),  but that does not serve the
purpose,  what I wanted is how to set these font 1 - 4 and their size. Some help with 
conf file probably.

Thanks in advancei for your reply.

Prashant kumar
home page http://home.iitk.ac.in/student/prashkr
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Re: apt problem - ldconfig segmentation fault

[Graham Smith]

A re-install seems to have fixed it. Although I have no idea how it 
broke in the first place.

Thanks
Joris Huizer wrote:
Graham Smith wrote:
I tried installing nmap a couple of days ago and ran into a bit of a 
problem. ldconfig seems to have died with a segmentation fault. In the 
past when I have had problems with apt they have resolved themselves 
in a couple of days when a working version of a package appears but 
this problem isn't fixing it self. I have had a good google for it but 
I can't find anything particularly relevant. Any help would be greatly 
appreciated.

I am running testing with the 2.6.7 kernel on i386 (slightly off topic 
question but I am sure I saw 2.6.8 appear and then disappear from 
testing  and I can't find kernel-image-2.6-386 in testing any more has 
it been removed for some reason?)

graham

What happens if you do,
  apt-get --reinstall install libc6
(ldconfig is provided by libc6)
If that doesn't work, I'd try the libc6 source (apt-get build-dep libc6 
&& apt-get -b source libc6)

HTH,
Joris


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Re: Small problems with Sarge net-install

[Loïc Minier]

Art Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Fri, Sep 24, 2004:

> My original problem was with md5. Can anyone tell me how to turn on md5 AFTER
> installation?

 bee% grep -i md5 /var/cache/debconf/config.dat
 Name: console-data/bootmap-md5sum
 Template: console-data/bootmap-md5sum
 Name: passwd/md5
 Template: passwd/md5

 But "dpkg-reconfigure passwd" only prompts for shadow passwords, not
 for MD5 versus Crypt.  It seems MD5 is the default now, and the
 changelog confirms this:
 shadow (1:4.0.3-19) unstable; urgency=low
   * "No really, assume md5 passwords". Closes: #223664

 (Have a look at #223664 if you want more details.)

   Regards,

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Keyboard don't run when boot with Debian-Installer release candidate 1 sarge

[dayer]

Hi, I have a Packard Bell iGo and I don't know boot correctly. I try
start with the command "expert26" for install a kernel 2.6 series, but
when I see the screen of select language, the keyboard not go, and I
can't write nothing. When I try with "expert" for install a kernel 2.4
series the keyboard go them if I push it while linux is loading.

Sorry for my English :(, but someone know the solution?

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Firefox 'stretched' printing

[Norman Walsh]

I mentioned[1] this problem a few weeks ago, in the hopes that someone
would be able to tell me how to fix it. A few people replied that they
were experiencing the problem, but no suggestions were forthcoming for
how to fix it.

Is there anyone out there who has had this problem and successfully
fixed it?

For the record, I'm running Debian unstable (updated today) with a
build of X11/R6.8.1 from X.org instead of the stock XFree server. (But
the problem was exactly the same with the stock XFree server.)

Be seeing you,
  norm

[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/08/msg09264.html
  %%
  For a few weeks now I've been getting "stretched" printing from
  Firefox. By that I mean that all the text is vertically elongated so
  that the page runs off the bottom of the physical paper.

  Printing works from other applications. I've been hoping this would
  just go away with some upgrade of Firefox, but it's persisted long
  enough to become irritating.
  %%

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Re: apt problem - ldconfig segmentation fault

[Joris Huizer]

Graham Smith wrote:
I tried installing nmap a couple of days ago and ran into a bit of a 
problem. ldconfig seems to have died with a segmentation fault. In the 
past when I have had problems with apt they have resolved themselves in 
a couple of days when a working version of a package appears but this 
problem isn't fixing it self. I have had a good google for it but I 
can't find anything particularly relevant. Any help would be greatly 
appreciated.

I am running testing with the 2.6.7 kernel on i386 (slightly off topic 
question but I am sure I saw 2.6.8 appear and then disappear from 
testing  and I can't find kernel-image-2.6-386 in testing any more has 
it been removed for some reason?)

graham

What happens if you do,
  apt-get --reinstall install libc6
(ldconfig is provided by libc6)
If that doesn't work, I'd try the libc6 source (apt-get build-dep libc6 
&& apt-get -b source libc6)

HTH,
Joris
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