RE: Running PHP4 and PHP5 Simultaneousl on Apache in Debian!

[Michael Bellears]

> 
> Could you please tell me how to give 2 IPs to the same NIC on Debian.

#ifconfig eth0:1 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0

Remember to place in /etc/network/interfaces to ensure IP remains post
reboot.

Regards,
MB

Re: Unusual function problem with Synaptic, apt-get, j2re1.3

[Andrea Vettorello]

On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 18:10:00 -0500, Cybe R. Wizard
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 09:51:21 +0200
> Andrea Vettorello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > It's, not clear what package are you trying to install. Is the
> > "sun-j2re1.3debian"?
> 
> Synaptic refers to it only as j2re1.3
> It is from the blackdown repository.
> Here is what Synaptic has to say about it:
> 

[...]

Ok, i can't find in the Debian packages list, so probably you have
added a source to your apt. To me seems a bug in the package. Long
time ago i've used the "java-package" (or what was called before the
name change) to build a .deb from the binary SUN SDK.


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Re: Running PHP4 and PHP5 Simultaneousl on Apache in Debian!

[Siju George]

Thanks a lot Andrea and Glyn,

Could you please tell me how to give 2 IPs to the same NIC on Debian.
So that I can make one apache instance run PHP4 and listen on one IP
at port 80 and the other instance run PHP5 and listen on other IP on
port 80.

Thankou so much for the help and links. I appreciate them ver deeply

God bless you

regards

Siju


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Re: Missing ttys with udev

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

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On Saturday 16 October 2004 12:06 am, John L Fjellstad wrote:
> Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > you'll have to create symlinks yourself. Look in the /etc/udev
> > directory. It's well documented.
>
> No you don't.  And if you did, it would disappear at next reboot anyways.
>
Disappear what ?
For my video device /dev/v4l/radio0 I have a symlink defined in the udev 
configuration file to create a /dev/radio symlink pointing 
to /dev/v4l/radio0. It doesn't disappear at any boots.

rrs
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Re: Checking length of time?

[Alan Chandler]

On Monday 18 October 2004 01:33, disciple wrote:
> I have set up a bare debian system that allows internet sharing through
> a dial up connection.  My ISP only allows 8 hours of a constant
> connection b4 they log you off.  I have 2 questions.
>
> 1. How do I check the status of the connection... ie the length of time
> that my debian box has been connected?

in the if-up scripts write the current date into a file  use the %s format on 
the date command (seconds since 1970)

>
> 2. How can I set my box up to automatically disconnect after say about
> 7.5 hours, and then reconnect?

run a cron job every 15 minutes which compares current time (as seconds since 
1970) with the time put into the date file above and take the connection down 
and up if the time is longer that 7.5 hours.


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Re: Intel 855 driver install worries

[Uwe Dippel]

Rituraj C. Buddhisagar wrote:
PLease apply a patch from 

http://www.joepenguin.com/
Compiling intel driver did not succeed. I just applied that pacth and
now it works!!!
I did, but it doesn't solve my problem.
It seems I make a stupid mistake somewhere else: it doesn't find my 
kernel-stuff.
Just look at the details: the patch makes changes much later in the 
process !

What could it be ??
Thanks anyway,
Uwe
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Re: converting old style ufs to ext2

[Aaron Hall]

On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Derrick Hudson wrote:
Note that in moving files from the Mac fs (UFS is old Macintosh, isn't
it?) that you may need to set UNIX properties on the ext2 system such
as owner and permission bits because, AFAIK, the Mac fs doesn't store
that sort of information.
Not quite. UFS seems to be some synonym for BSD's FFS, or maybe a further
development of FFS. Mac OS X can use it because of its BSD connections.
The predominant Mac filesystem is HFS+, which does Unix-style owners and
modes, but isn't inode-based (it emulates them for the sake of OS X in
circumstances where it matters). The older Mac filesystem is HFS, which
had 32-char filenames and no concept of ownership.
FWIW. :)
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Re: converting old style ufs to ext2

[Aaron Hall]

On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Marc Jackson wrote:
I've connected a "j-bod" with to an Alpha running the latest stable
release of Debian linux.  I can mount the filesystems as "ufs" in
/etc/fstab, but I can't write to them.
In poking around, it seems as if there is no support for writing to
UFS filesystems.
Q1: is it possible to write to UFS filesystems?
Yes, but this option (CONFIG_UFS_FS_WRITE) is marked "EXPERIMENTAL" in
the kernel config, I believe, and the notes suggest it can be dangerous.
Q2. Can I convert from UFS to ext2/3 without losing data?
You could simply copy all the files and directories from a UFS
filesystem to an ext2/3 filesystem. Check out 'cp -a' for an easy
way.
(I should also mention the fun and educational double-tar method -- the
first thing that came to my mind, and what I'd probably do -- but I know
from personal experience that 'cp -a' is somewhat more, ahem, foolproof.
If only because there's only one invocation to get right.  :)
- Aaron "yes, I *have* blown up a filesystem with tar, why do you ask?"
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Re: Intel 855 driver install worries

[Rituraj C. Buddhisagar]

I also had same problem with Intel 865 driver. INtel drivers did not
compile.

PLease apply a patch from 

http://www.joepenguin.com/

Compiling intel driver did not succeed. I just applied that pacth and
now it works!!!

FYI;

i had set the right resolutions and memory / driver etc in XF86Config-4
but i still had the problem before patching it.

The reason is :
read on:

http://www.chzsoft.com.ar/855patch.html

CHeers!!

On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 10:02, Uwe Dippel wrote:
> Got intelgraphics_060704.tar.gz and read the manual.
> After unpacking, I get 
> 
> Compiling new agppart module ..
> ERROR: AGPPART module did not compile
> Compiling DRM module ...
> ERROR: Kernel modules did not compile
> 
> with dri.log saying:
> 
> make -C /lib/modules/2.6.8-1-686/build
> SUBDIRS=/home/mydir/Sources/dripkg/agpgart-2.0 modules make: ***
> /lib/modules/2.6.8-1-686/build: No such file or directory.  Stop. make:
> *** [default] Error 2
> Makefile.linux:139: *** Cannot find a kernel config file.  Stop.
> 
> There is none such, but I have kernel-source and -headers installed:
> 
> $ dpkg -l | grep kernel | grep 2.6.8
> ii  kernel-headers 2.6.8-4Header files related to Linux kernel version
> ii  kernel-image-2 2.6.8-4Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on PPro
> ii  kernel-kbuild- 2.6.8-1Linux kernel 2.6 kbuild tools
> ii  kernel-source- 2.6.8-7Linux kernel source for version 2.6.8 with D
> 
> What am I doing wrong ?
> 


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Intel 855 driver install worries

[Uwe Dippel]

Got intelgraphics_060704.tar.gz and read the manual.
After unpacking, I get 

Compiling new agppart module ..
ERROR: AGPPART module did not compile
Compiling DRM module ...
ERROR: Kernel modules did not compile

with dri.log saying:

make -C /lib/modules/2.6.8-1-686/build
SUBDIRS=/home/mydir/Sources/dripkg/agpgart-2.0 modules make: ***
/lib/modules/2.6.8-1-686/build: No such file or directory.  Stop. make:
*** [default] Error 2
Makefile.linux:139: *** Cannot find a kernel config file.  Stop.

There is none such, but I have kernel-source and -headers installed:

$ dpkg -l | grep kernel | grep 2.6.8
ii  kernel-headers 2.6.8-4Header files related to Linux kernel version
ii  kernel-image-2 2.6.8-4Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on PPro
ii  kernel-kbuild- 2.6.8-1Linux kernel 2.6 kbuild tools
ii  kernel-source- 2.6.8-7Linux kernel source for version 2.6.8 with D

What am I doing wrong ?


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Re: space-limiting /var/cache/apt/archives

[David Clymer]

On Sun, 2004-10-17 at 04:44, Robert Waldner wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 23:40:29 PDT, Paul Johnson writes:
> 
> >> (Pls CC me on replies, I'm not on the list with this address)
> 
> >I know it's a rude shock, but this public forum doesn't exist for your
> >sole, private benefit. If you want a private tutor, hire one. Don't
> >tell us that you need this because you "don't get this newsgroup",
> >either: That's what the archives are for.
> 
> I know. It may come as a shock to you, but, as I said, I'm not on the
>  list with _this_ address, it's too high-volume for me at home. But
>  I'm subscribed at work, and I do try to also give useful advice for
>  questions I know something about. It's just that I don't have access 
>  to my work-email all the time.
> 

Perhaps you could try the digest version. It would still be a bit of a
download if you are on dialup, but would be much less spammy.

-davidc


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Re: mozilla-firefox error

[Jules Dubois]

On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 21:21:02 -0300, Carlos Alberto Pereira Gomes wrote:

> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mozilla-firefox
> Error: No running window found
> auto selected locale: en-US
> INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: No manager for initializing factory?

I get a segmentation fault.  Try running 'firefox' without the mozilla
part.


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Re: space-limiting /var/cache/apt/archives

[David]

On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 10:44:36AM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote:
 
> On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 23:40:29 PDT, Paul Johnson writes:
 
> >apt-get autoclean (and it isn't in apt.conf(5), it's in apt-get(8),
 
> Thanks, but this isn't what I'm looking for:
>autoclean
>  Like  clean,  autoclean  clears  out the local repository of re-
>  trieved package files. The difference is that  it  only  removes
>  package  files that can no longer be downloaded, and are largely
>  useless. This allows a cache to be maintained over a long period
>  without  it  growing  out  of  control. The configuration option
>  APT::Clean-Installed will prevent installed packages from  being
>  erased if it is set to off.
> 
> Having the previously installed, presumably working, version of a package
>  around is often very useful, especially since I'm using unstable.
>  Although this will be quite handy for stable machines.

Actually, I think apt-get leaves the latest edition in the archive,
i.e. at least if it's listed as the latest version.  At least, that's
the way aptitude does it.  If you did autoclean before doing update, but
after making sure the currently-installed version is not buggy. This
would leave your currently-installed version in the archive.



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Re: Using "conflicts" to deal with insecure packages in unstable

[David Clymer]

On Sun, 2004-10-17 at 22:50, Marco Paganini wrote:
> I've been looking for a solution for this dilemma on the net. The
> closest thing I found is Debian's "harden*" packages, that use the
> "Conflict:" feature to conflict with known insecure software. The
> question is: Is there a similar package that conflicts with known
> insecure package versions as posted in the debian-security
> mailing-list? Such package would need to be upgraded every time a new
> security announcement is made, but at least it would provide a quick
> way to know whether a server contains packages (from unstable) with
> known vulnerabilities or not.

That probably wont happen. Unstable packages change so much that keeping
tabs on security issues is nigh impossible. This would require knowing
what version the current package is, what changes have been made from
the previous version, and whether those changes fix the security issue -
and doing it for > 1 packages. Its tough enough to do for stable, I
imagine. Unstable is called "unstable" for a reason.

You could perhaps use apt pinning in conjunction with the
APT::Default-Release apt config option. Though I've never done it, I
understand apt has the ability to pin individual packages to separate
branches. This could possibly be used to allow you to do an apt-get
upgrade without worrying that you are going to upgrade all packages to
their unstable versions.

-davidc


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Re: Kernel 2.6 compile problem

[David Clymer]

On Sun, 2004-10-17 at 19:16, Russ Cook wrote:
> I'm running unstable on a Pentium 2 machine, kernel 2.4.18.
> I downloaded the kernel-source-2.6.8 deb package today, updated my 
> config file, and
> tried to compile the kernel.  I got the following errors:
> make[2] [modins_post] Error 1
> make[1] [real_stamp_image] Error 2
> 

Where did you get them? Was this the only output? How did you go about
compiling the kernel? What modifications did you make to the config
file?

> Needless to say, I did not get an installable .deb file as a result.
> Can anyone offer suggestions of what I should look for to try to resolve 
> this?
> I have no idea what to do with these error messages.
> 

Me either. Can you provide a bit more info?

-davidc


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Re: [Newbie] ppp: Connection established, but can't ping. How can I get out into Internet?

[David Clymer]

On Sun, 2004-10-17 at 21:50, Scotty Fitzgerald wrote:
> I had a similar problem,  When I set up the machine I 
> had a Ethernet card that was autodetected, and the
> the autodetection set up the ethernet card as the default 
> gateway to the internet.  While your ethernet is the default 
> gateway the dialup won't establish itself as a gateway.  Try to
> remove the gateway status of your ethernet card, and things should work.
> 
> It took me a few googles on Linux networking and I found this, but if
> you can't find a good webpage post a reply, and I will actually start up my 
> old windows partition and see if I can find the webpage that clued me in.
> 

Please don't top post: http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/toppost.htm

A google "i'm feeling lucky" search got me the following page. perhaps
it was the one you were refering to?

http://www.ale.org/archive/ale/ale-1996-02/msg00026.html

You could use ip-up & ip-down scripts to setup/tear down routes for your
ppp connection. That would certainly beat doing it manually every time.

-davidc


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Re: Help: mixed up passwords/files

[David Clymer]

On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 10:00, Tim Wood wrote:
> I've wondered for some time about the strange ownership I see of some 
> files/directories. I think I've worked out the cause, but am not sure 
> what to do to fix it.
> To step back a few years. I started a LAN when my son and I came into 
> conflict over who would get to use  the phone line for the Net. The 
> obvious solution was a LAN.  I'd forgotten that, naturally, in that 
> system (call it Deb2.4) I put myself down as the first user and then my 
> son. After adding my wife and daughter I had:
> 
> tim.x.1000:1000
> justin.x.1001:1001
> jan.x.1002:1002
> riss.x.1003:1003
> 

> Eventually I was confident in the 2.6 kernel and started using 2.6.7 on 
> Deb2.4. I then, recently, came across SimplyMEPIS (a Debian based 
> distribution) and decided to give it a try on the Deb2.6 partition. I, 
> again, used the same /home partition as on Deb2.4. I only added myself, 
> wife and daughter, as my son is on the other side of the continent, 
> ending up with:
> 
> tim:x:1000:100
> jan:x:1001:0
> riss:x:1002:0
> 
> On my Deb2.4 system the only user who seems to own all his/her owns 
> files in the Home directory, is myself. My wife's shows a mix of 
> ownership between herself and justin, which I attribute to having made 
> justin 1001 on Deb2.4 but jan 1001 on Deb2.6.
> I'm not sure why they should be wrong on Deb2.4 but suspect it happened 
> when I moved /home to it's own partition.
> 

Exactly. Files created under "deb26" were created with uid/gid which
matched different users on "deb24"

To fix this, you should be able to just switch the uids/gids in the
password file such that your deb24 password file matches your deb26 pwd
file. It appears from your /etc/passwd snippets that mepis adds users to
different groups than debian. You may need to add each user to their
default groups in /etc/group, then create groups for each individual
user (as is done in debian proper), and change the gids in the password
files as well. Once this is complete, you can (as root):

for $usr in jan tim riss; do chown -R $usr.$usr /home/$usr ; done


-davidc


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Re: xterm ignores XTerm*backarrowKey resource

[Mason Loring Bliss]

On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 02:52:02PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:

> I don't know if this would solve your problem, but you may try
> something like
> 
> *VT100.backarrowKey:true
> 
> (I have that in my .app-defaults/XTerm file).

I found the problem, finally.

It turns out that this file:

/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm

...has a customization that ends up causing my XTerm*backarrowKey: true
directive to be ignored. Specifically, "*backarrowKeyIsErase: true" is what
was shooting me in the foot.

I'll file a bug report. This will bite people. It's non-standard behaviour
for no intelligible reason.

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Using "conflicts" to deal with insecure packages in unstable

[Marco Paganini]

Hi All,

Debian is a sysadmin's dream when dealing with security when using
stable. I do, however, have a number of servers running in a mix of
stable and unstable, and keeping them up-to-date with the security
announcements is not so easy.

When using unstable, using apt-get upgrade won't normally do the job
(or rather, it will overdo), as it may bring newer versions of many
other unstable packages from the repository that are working perfectly
well.

I've been looking for a solution for this dilemma on the net. The
closest thing I found is Debian's "harden*" packages, that use the
"Conflict:" feature to conflict with known insecure software. The
question is: Is there a similar package that conflicts with known
insecure package versions as posted in the debian-security
mailing-list? Such package would need to be upgraded every time a new
security announcement is made, but at least it would provide a quick
way to know whether a server contains packages (from unstable) with
known vulnerabilities or not.

Thanks in advance for any information
Paga


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Help: mixed up passwords/files

[Tim Wood]

I've wondered for some time about the strange ownership I see of some 
files/directories. I think I've worked out the cause, but am not sure 
what to do to fix it.
To step back a few years. I started a LAN when my son and I came into 
conflict over who would get to use  the phone line for the Net. The 
obvious solution was a LAN.  I'd forgotten that, naturally, in that 
system (call it Deb2.4) I put myself down as the first user and then my 
son. After adding my wife and daughter I had:

tim.x.1000:1000
justin.x.1001:1001
jan.x.1002:1002
riss.x.1003:1003
I wanted to see if I could get a 2.6 kernel working, but wanted to 
ensure a stable system. Both my son and daughter have "flown the coop", 
and I'm away a lot of the time. I decided to set-up a knew partition 
using a 2.6 kernel, let's call it Deb2.6. I quickly realised that I 
would end up with mail etc. spread over multiple partitions, so I 
decided to make /home a separate partition.

Eventually I was confident in the 2.6 kernel and started using 2.6.7 on 
Deb2.4. I then, recently, came across SimplyMEPIS (a Debian based 
distribution) and decided to give it a try on the Deb2.6 partition. I, 
again, used the same /home partition as on Deb2.4. I only added myself, 
wife and daughter, as my son is on the other side of the continent, 
ending up with:

tim:x:1000:100
jan:x:1001:0
riss:x:1002:0
On my Deb2.4 system the only user who seems to own all his/her owns 
files in the Home directory, is myself. My wife's shows a mix of 
ownership between herself and justin, which I attribute to having made 
justin 1001 on Deb2.4 but jan 1001 on Deb2.6.
I'm not sure why they should be wrong on Deb2.4 but suspect it happened 
when I moved /home to it's own partition.

If it is the simplest solution I'd be willing to re-install Mepis on 
Deb2.6.
Mepis is the first distribution to correctly detect the VIA vt8235 
Southbridge and Realtek ALS650 codec, on my desktop.

I've tried changing ownership of jan's files a multitude of times. I'd 
guess they have been changed back every time I changed to Deb2.6.

I'm running Sid on both a AthlonXP based system and on a laptop. As the 
sole user of the laptop, the problem has not occurred.

I'd welcome suggestions on the best way to fix this. I am using shadow 
passwords.

TIA,
   Tim
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Re: [Newbie] ppp: Connection established, but can't ping. How can I get out into Internet?

[Scotty Fitzgerald]

I had a similar problem,  When I set up the machine I 
had a Ethernet card that was autodetected, and the
the autodetection set up the ethernet card as the default 
gateway to the internet.  While your ethernet is the default 
gateway the dialup won't establish itself as a gateway.  Try to
remove the gateway status of your ethernet card, and things should work.

It took me a few googles on Linux networking and I found this, but if
you can't find a good webpage post a reply, and I will actually start up my 
old windows partition and see if I can find the webpage that clued me in.

Good luck,
---
Scotty

F. GEIGER wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> I'm on Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Woody) and stuck in the middle:
> 
> I exec "pon VOL" and get a connection, but no pings do return (100% loss).
> 
> As a connection has been estblished, I guess the several config files are
> okay. Therefore I've pasted the output of "netstat -nr", "route", and
> "ifconf ppp0", shown while the connection is established.
> 
> As I come from an OS, where one can configure an Internet connection with
> a few clicks and get into the Internet with two more clicks (did I already
> say, I'm a newbie? :-)), it's beyond me to fully recognize all the content
> of those lines. My Linux box' address is 192.168.200.101. This leads me to
> find the lines
> 
> 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 U 0 0  0
> sl0
> 
> and
> 
> default *   0.0.0.0 U 1  00
> sl0
> 
> kind of strange. But, please, see for yourselves:
> 
> netstat -nr
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags   MSS Window  irtt
> Iface
> 194.183.133.58  0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH0 0  0
> ppp0
> 192.168.0.2 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH0 0  0
> sl0
> 192.168.200.0   0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0   U 0 0  0
> eth0
> 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 U 0 0  0
> sl0
> 
> 
> route
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse
> Iface
> 194.183.133.58  *   255.255.255.255 UH0  00
> ppp0
> 192.168.0.2 *   255.255.255.255 UH1  00
> sl0
> 192.168.200.0   *   255.255.255.0   U 0  00
> eth0
> default *   0.0.0.0 U 1  00
> sl0
> 
> 
> ifconfig ppp0
> ppp0  Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
>   inet addr:194.208.126.37  P-t-P:194.183.133.58
> Mask:255.255.255.255
>   UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>   RX packets:14 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>   TX packets:13 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>   collisions:0 txqueuelen:10
>   RX bytes:425 (425.0 b)  TX bytes:355 (355.0 b)
> 
> So, what am I missing? Do I have to add or change a default route or
> something like that?
> 
> Kind regards
> Franz GEIGER, lookin' for kind helping hands.
> 
> 


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[video-dvdrip], where is mp2enc

[Tong]

Hi, 

I was using 

video-dvdrip - Perl front end for transcode

when I met with the following error:

libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.8 for DVD access
libdvdread: Attempting to use device /lfs/dlCache3/movies/tmp/NEW.ISO mounted on 
/mnt/tmp1 for CSS authentication
[export_mpeg2enc.so] *** init-v *** !
[export_mp2enc.so] *** init-v *** !
[export_mpeg2enc.so] cmd=mpeg2enc -v 0 -I 0 -f 1 -F 3 -n p  -a 2  -o 
"/lfs/dlCache2/movies/rip/tmp1/avi/001/tmp1-001.m1v" -B 251 -I 0 -S 1 
sh: line 1: mpeg2enc: command not found

I searched for on the debian net (packages.debian.org), but still can't
find it:

You have searched for mp2enc in testing, architecture i386.
Found 1 matching files/directories, displaying files/directories 1 to 1.

FILE   PACKAGE

usr/share/doc/libvideo-capture-v4l-perl/examples/mp2enc 
perl/libvideo-capture-v4l-perl

Please help. Thanks

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xcdroast stops working

[Uwe Dippel]

Sitting on Sarge as-it-comes, daily updated.
Suddenly xcdroast stops working today; last week it was okay.

This is what I get:

Calling: /usr/lib/xcdroast/bin/xcdrwrap CDRECORD dev= "ATAPI:0,1,0" gracetime=2 
fs=4096k driveropts=burnfree -v -useinfo speed=24 -dao -eject -pad -data 
"/toast/track-01.iso" ...

scsidev: 'ATAPI:0,1,0'
devname: 'ATAPI'
scsibus: 0 target: 1 lun: 0
Warning: Using ATA Packet interface.
Warning: The related Linux kernel interface code seems to be unmaintained.
Warning: There is absolutely NO DMA, operations thus are slow.
SCSI buffer size: 64512
Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a34 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling
cdrecord: Drive does not support SAO recording.
NOTE: this version of cdrecord is an inofficial (modified) release of cdrecord
cdrecord: Illegal write mode for this drive.
and thus may have bugs that are not present in the original version.

I'm not really into this; so I can't see what's wrong. Didn't make any
config changes, either.

Here are some details:

Linux dell 2.6.8-1-686 #1 Thu Oct 7 03:15:25 EDT 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
xcdroast   0.98+0alpha15


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Re: debian installer / serial ata confusion

[Jacob S]

On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 17:33:05 -0700
Justin Speers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> I'm attempting to install debian for the first time using
> debian-installer, and I've run into some problems with my serial ata
> drive setup.
> 
> I have an abit motherboard with the intel i865pe chipset, onboard
> serial ata chip.  My cd drive is a Lite-on 52x burner.  My only hard
> drive is a 80GB maxtor serial ata drive.  I'm trying to install the
> 2.6 kernel, other than that I just choose default options.
> 
> During installation, the installer fails when trying to mount the
> cdrom drive.  Neither the cdrom drive nor the hard drive show up
> underneath/dev.  If I disable the serial ata in the bios, the cd drive
> is then detected just fine, but of course the hard drive is no longer
> found since it is disabled.
> 
> It looks like Ubuntu does the same thing for me, it appears they use
> the same installer.  Right now I'm running fedora core 2, and that
> installation didn't have any problems. 
> 
> I've looked around google and browsed the recent archives for the
> mailing list, but haven't come up with anything helpful thus far.  Any
> tips / suggestions for me?  

Which version of the installer are you using? I successfully installed
to a 160GB SATA using the Debian-Installer about a month ago. I used one
of the daily builds, instead of RC1. Sorry, I don't remember exactly
which build that was. My motherboard is a DFI, and the SATA controller
is a Silicon Image SiI3114, but I would think an Intel chipset would be
supported even better. 

Also, not sure if it makes a difference, but my cdrom is hooked up to
the secondary IDE controller; the primary IDE controller is empty and my
hard drive is hooked up to the first SATA port.

HTH,
Jacob


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Checking length of time?

[disciple]

I have set up a bare debian system that allows internet sharing through 
a dial up connection.  My ISP only allows 8 hours of a constant 
connection b4 they log you off.  I have 2 questions.

1. How do I check the status of the connection... ie the length of time 
that my debian box has been connected?

2. How can I set my box up to automatically disconnect after say about 
7.5 hours, and then reconnect?

Thanks everybody...  This forum has been a huge help in my transitioning 
to Linux.

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debian installer / serial ata confusion

[Justin Speers]

I'm attempting to install debian for the first time using
debian-installer, and I've run into some problems with my serial ata
drive setup.

I have an abit motherboard with the intel i865pe chipset, onboard serial
ata chip.  My cd drive is a Lite-on 52x burner.  My only hard drive is a
80GB maxtor serial ata drive.  I'm trying to install the 2.6 kernel,
other than that I just choose default options.

During installation, the installer fails when trying to mount the cdrom
drive.  Neither the cdrom drive nor the hard drive show up underneath
/dev.  If I disable the serial ata in the bios, the cd drive is then
detected just fine, but of course the hard drive is no longer found
since it is disabled.

It looks like Ubuntu does the same thing for me, it appears they use the
same installer.  Right now I'm running fedora core 2, and that
installation didn't have any problems. 

I've looked around google and browsed the recent archives for the
mailing list, but haven't come up with anything helpful thus far.  Any
tips / suggestions for me?  

Thanks,
~ Justin




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mozilla-firefox error

[Carlos Alberto Pereira Gomes]

Hi,

I've just made a dist-upgrade from woody to sid and after that
mozilla-browser and mozilla-firefox don't work anymore.

Mozilla-browser dies without any error message, but mozilla-firefox
sends the following message to the console:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mozilla-firefox
Error: No running window found
auto selected locale: en-US
INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: No manager for initializing factory?

System error?:: Sucesso


Am I missing some configuration?

thanks,


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Re: rar issue

[Phil Ramey]

I noticed the same thing, then I apt-cache searched; There's "unrar" and 
"unrar-nonfree".  Unrar-nonfree seems to work better, I had an archive 
that didn't work with the free one and did with nonfree.

might be worth a shot.
Phil Ramey

Subject:
rar issue
From:
Jule Slootbeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date:
Sun, 17 Oct 2004 09:12:20 -0400
To:
debian-user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
debian-user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hey all,
Lately i've been noticing something strange with unrar, once in a 
while i'll get some rarred archives, and when i try to unrar then 
using unrar. every file fails to extract. When i unrar the same 
archive on a windows machine it works fine. Are there any unrar 
substitutes?

thx
-JSS

 


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Kernel 2.6 compile problem

[Russ Cook]

I'm running unstable on a Pentium 2 machine, kernel 2.4.18.
I downloaded the kernel-source-2.6.8 deb package today, updated my 
config file, and
tried to compile the kernel.  I got the following errors:
make[2] [modins_post] Error 1
make[1] [real_stamp_image] Error 2

Needless to say, I did not get an installable .deb file as a result.
Can anyone offer suggestions of what I should look for to try to resolve 
this?
I have no idea what to do with these error messages.

Thanks much,
  Russ
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Re: poll: managing high volumes of list mail effectively

[Manoj Srivastava]

On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 17:01:59 +0200, martin f krafft
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:  

> I am subscribed to 237 mailing lists and even though my tools are
> adequate, I still consider them suboptimal since I just hit 'delete'
> on most threads. I have a server receive all my mail and procmail it
> into topic folders. From there, five clients use offlineimap to keep
> a synchronised copy of the entire collection for use with mutt, and
> I also use webmail occasionally.

Gnus can handle all that, Additionally, it has an adaptive
 scoring mechanism, that learns about topics you are interested in,
 and topics and posters that one rarely reads can progressively get
 even lower score. Additionally, emails in a mailing list can be
 threaded, and threads listed in score order, so the most interesting
 threads are up front.

I read all my mailing lists, as well as my USENET news, using
 Gnus. (and VM for important messages, but that is mostly historical
 preference).

manoj
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Re: Unusual function problem with Synaptic, apt-get, j2re1.3

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
Attempting to install j2re1.3, the JAVA runtime environment, into Sid, I
am faced with a Sun Microsystems, Inc. Binary Code License Agreement to
which I must agree, but there is no way to agree.  Faced with no buttons
(when it says they will be there)  I have attempted, "yes," "accept,"
"OK," removing it (must re-install before removal), re-installing, (same
no-button agreement to which I cannot agree), doing all of the above
after apt-get clean and apt-get autoclean, and, finally, just tearing my
danged hair out.
Is there a chance that some kind soul has an inkling of what I should do
next (save the Final Solution)?
If so, please, pass it on so I may continue my upgrading.
Cybe R. Wizard
I find it easier to download the binaries from either Blackdown or Sun, 
I prefer the former. Installation is trivial from a vc, which of course 
includes the LA, but then you just enter "yes".

BTW, I just tried that yesterday after I saw your post. You just have to 
watch out that you get the right version gcc wise for what the browser 
was compiled with.

Hugo
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Re: hdb device

[Andrea]

http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/fstab.html
http://www.humbug.org.au/talks/fstab/fstab.html

cmon mate... 


> My hdb device isn't mounted. Do you have some form of manual or hints on
> how to mount this device (evntually change the   /etc/fstab   file).
> 
> >From Vegard
> 


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Re: hdb device

[Sebastiaan]

High,

On Sun, 17 Oct 2004, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote:

> My hdb device isn't mounted. Do you have some form of manual or hints on
> how to mount this device (evntually change the   /etc/fstab   file).
>
What kind of device is /dev/hdb? A harddisk, cdrom?

If it is a harddisk, you must know which partition to mount: if there is
only one, it is most likely /dev/hdb1. You can do this by adding a line to
/etc/fstab like:
/dev/hdb1   /mnt/hdb1  ext3defaults,user,exec,auto   0 0

where /mnt/hdb1 is the mountpoint, ext3 is the filesystem (change to ext2
if neccesary, or to vfat if the disk is a windows disk). Change 'auto' to
'noauto' if you don't want it to be mounted at boottime.

Greetz,
Sebas


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hdb device

[Vegard Lundby Rekaa]

My hdb device isn't mounted. Do you have some form of manual or hints on
how to mount this device (evntually change the   /etc/fstab   file).

>From Vegard




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Re: Exim chained authentication.

[David Clymer]

On Sun, 2004-10-17 at 08:48, Luke Reeves wrote:
> So I have a laptop that I mainly use to check my e-mail.  The mail sits 
> on a server, and I access it using IMAP over SSL, and I send mail by 
> connecting to the server via SMTP where Exim (version 3) sits.  Mozilla 
> Thunderbird authenticates the connection, and the e-mail is sent.
> 
> What I'd like to do is have Exim also installed on my local machine, so 
> that I deliver mail from MUAs directly to 127.0.0.1, at which point Exim 
> will then transport/route the mail to the server.  I see in the Exim 
> configuration how to route, but I don't see how to route using 
> authentication.  Can anyone help me with this?  Thanks!

I think this is covered in the documentation. Its been a while since
I've done much exim config stuff, but I think something like this should
work.

plain:
   driver = plaintext
   client_name = billg
   client_secret = microsoft

The relevant exim docs:

http://www.exim.org/exim-html-3.30/doc/html/spec_35.html#SEC763


-davidc


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Re: rar issue

[Rthoreau]

> Jule Slootbeek wrote:
> Hey all,
> Lately i've been noticing something strange with unrar, once in a  
while 
> i'll get some rarred archives, and when i try to unrar then using 
unrar. 
> every file fails to extract. When i unrar the same archive on a 
windows 
> machine it works fine. Are there any unrar substitutes?

> thx

> -JSS
>-- 

What version of unrar are you using? Have you tried to use the t 
option to test the rar files for problems? Like this; 
unrar t /some/file/name.  You could always use rar, make sure its a 
new version. Are these files on floppy, or downloaded to hard drive? 

Also are any par2, or par files with the archive? That way you can 
rebuild the archive with the par files, and any corruption that did 
happen will be able to be solved. In general if your using rar files 
of all sorts you really should be using par files as a general 
backup, against corruption. Unless you make a backup copy of the rar 
files, or keep good back ups. Most people that I find do not do this, 
they assume that their archive will be intact, and forget to backup.

Rthoreau


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Re: Linux on a Thinkbad T42

[Greg Norris]

On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 10:21:53AM -0400, Jule Slootbeek wrote:
> Hey all,
>   My trusty iBook's hinge snapped after 3.5 years of trusty service 
>   (RIP coltrane) and so now i'm in the market for a new laptop. My brother 
> recently bought an IBM Thinkpad T42 and he is very happe with it 
> (running Windows, and just using it for everyday college student work). 
> The price he got it for is still available through a source, and it's a 
> good deal. Now i was wondering if there were any problems installing 
> debian in the Thinkpads, and if so anybody had a suggestion, or 
> recommendation as to what kind of laptop to purchase. I know there are 
> lots of threads on this subject, but since new models and technologies 
> come out everyday, an update is of order once in a while.

I got a T42p about a week ago, and so far it's running beautifully under 
Debian (sarge).  It's my first notebook, tho, so I'm still working 
through some of the configuration... CPU frequency scaling (software 
installed but not tested), suspend/hibernate (still figuring out what I 
need to install), etc.

Take a look at "http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/ibm.html";.  There are a 
couple of very informative entries from people running the T42 and T42p 
notebooks under Debian.


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Re: rar issue

[Rick Pasotto]

On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 09:12:20AM -0400, Jule Slootbeek wrote:
> Hey all, Lately i've been noticing something strange with unrar, once
> in a while i'll get some rarred archives, and when i try to unrar then
> using unrar. every file fails to extract. When i unrar the same
> archive on a windows machine it works fine. Are there any unrar
> substitutes?

Since I've had trouble using unrar in the past I started to use 'rar e'
instead. Never had it to fail.

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Re: rar issue

[Jule Slootbeek]

must be the multi-volume problem, thanks!
-JSS
Maurits van Rees wrote:
On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 09:12:20AM -0400, Jule Slootbeek wrote:
Hey all,
Lately i've been noticing something strange with unrar, once in a while 
i'll get some rarred archives, and when i try to unrar then using unrar. 
every file fails to extract. When i unrar the same archive on a windows 
machine it works fine. Are there any unrar substitutes?

In the nonfree section there is the aptly named `unrar-nonfree'. That
may help. At least unrar-nonfree can unpack multi-volume rar files,
which the usual unrar can't, so it might solve your problems too. The
downside is of course that it is nonfree. It is one the the few
packages I have that cause my virtual Richard M. Stallman (package
vrms) to complain. :-(
See http://packages.debian.org/unrar-nonfree
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RE: Linux on a Thinkbad T42

[Roozemond, D.A.]

> From: Jule Slootbeek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Subjct: Re: Linux on a Thinkbad T42
^^ 
And you were saying you ordered one? ;)

Ciao
Dan

Re: rar issue

[Maurits van Rees]

On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 09:12:20AM -0400, Jule Slootbeek wrote:
> Hey all,
> Lately i've been noticing something strange with unrar, once in a while 
> i'll get some rarred archives, and when i try to unrar then using unrar. 
> every file fails to extract. When i unrar the same archive on a windows 
> machine it works fine. Are there any unrar substitutes?

In the nonfree section there is the aptly named `unrar-nonfree'. That
may help. At least unrar-nonfree can unpack multi-volume rar files,
which the usual unrar can't, so it might solve your problems too. The
downside is of course that it is nonfree. It is one the the few
packages I have that cause my virtual Richard M. Stallman (package
vrms) to complain. :-(

See http://packages.debian.org/unrar-nonfree

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Re: ssh tput error 'tput: No value for $TERM and no -T specified'

[Thomas Dickey]

Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I've checked and $TERM is in fact set to 'xterm' on the client
> temrinal before I execute the ocmmand, and in remote sessions started

perhaps.  I just ran
ssh server env
and saw no sign of $TERM, other than the message
TERM: Undefined variable.

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Re: Linux on a Thinkbad T42

[Jule Slootbeek]

Thank you all for your input, they have befinitly mae me order a 
thinkPad ((:). I'll let you all know what happens with it.

-JSS
Gregory Seidman wrote:
On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 10:21:53AM -0400, Jule Slootbeek wrote:
} 	My trusty iBook's hinge snapped after 3.5 years of trusty service 
} (RIP coltrane) and so now i'm in the market for a new laptop. My brother 
} recently bought an IBM Thinkpad T42 and he is very happe with it 
} (running Windows, and just using it for everyday college student work). 
} The price he got it for is still available through a source, and it's a 
} good deal. Now i was wondering if there were any problems installing 
} debian in the Thinkpads, and if so anybody had a suggestion, or 
} recommendation as to what kind of laptop to purchase. I know there are 
} lots of threads on this subject, but since new models and technologies 
} come out everyday, an update is of order once in a while.

Work just bought me a ThinkPad T42. I received it yesterday and had Debian
installed within two hours of getting it home. I used the latest ISO of the
sarge installer CD (the business card version, though I doubt it matters)
and booted with expert26 (you may or may not want the expert mode). The
install was uneventful, though the screen backgrounds were red instead of
blue (this is known errata). After the install, I installed numerous
packages and such.
I installed the appropriate kernel headers and the ipw2100-source package,
unpacked the tarball (which may or may not have been necessary), and ran
module-assistant build ipw2100. This created a .deb for the drivers for the
Centrino wireless, which I installed. I also had to get a firmware
something, which was explained when I installed the .deb. Once done,
wireless networking worked flawlessly (I did have to add an entry in
/etc/network/interfaces, but that's it). I proceeded to install a variety
of other Debian packages, and everything works great. Even the X11 setup
worked the first time. The only thing I can't manage to get working so far
is tap-to-click on the touchpad.
In short, the T42 is a great machine for Linux in general and Debian in
particular. The only disappointment is that the maximum resolution of the
screen is only 1024x768 and I'm used to two 1600x1200 screen side by side,
so I'm spoiled.
} -JSS
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rar issue

[Jule Slootbeek]

Hey all,
Lately i've been noticing something strange with unrar, once in a while 
i'll get some rarred archives, and when i try to unrar then using unrar. 
every file fails to extract. When i unrar the same archive on a windows 
machine it works fine. Are there any unrar substitutes?

thx
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Re: aptitude: packages have been kept back?

[Nate Bargmann]

* Katipo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 Oct 16 21:56 -0500]:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> >Can anyone suggest how else to learn more about aptitude's problem 
> >with these "kept back" packages?
> >
> >Thanks!
> >
> Which packages are you referring to exactly?
> Regards,

This seems to be a new feature of some releases back.  Try hitting
Shift-u and see if they are now marked as upgradable.

It seems as though the default behavior of aptitude is to not fetch
upgrades to already installed packages after an update (u command). 
This can be nice when a private archive has been added to sources.list
and a new package is desired, but you don't want to download 13 MiB of
updates first down a dial-up line.

- Nate >>

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Exim chained authentication.

[Luke Reeves]

So I have a laptop that I mainly use to check my e-mail.  The mail sits 
on a server, and I access it using IMAP over SSL, and I send mail by 
connecting to the server via SMTP where Exim (version 3) sits.  Mozilla 
Thunderbird authenticates the connection, and the e-mail is sent.

What I'd like to do is have Exim also installed on my local machine, so 
that I deliver mail from MUAs directly to 127.0.0.1, at which point Exim 
will then transport/route the mail to the server.  I see in the Exim 
configuration how to route, but I don't see how to route using 
authentication.  Can anyone help me with this?  Thanks!

Luke Reeves
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System recovery with Knoppix

[Katipo]

Thought that this link might be of some use.
It deals with system recovery employing a knoppix disc.
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-knopx.html?ca=dgr-lnxw01-obg-SysRecover
Regards,
David.
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Re: Problems with debian install

[Vikas Rawal]

This makes a lot of sense. Thanks Paul.
I'll try it out and get back if I have any trouble.
Thanks again.
Vikas
Subject:
Re: Problems with debian install
From:
Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date:
Thu, 14 Oct 2004 21:56:38 -0600
To:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 09:00:21AM +0530, Vikas Rawal wrote:
 

But Sarge seems to be available only for netinstall. I am going to have 
to install debian (if it succeeds) on a number of machines in a computer 
lab. Netinstall is no good for that. I want to do it with the full set 
of CDs.
   

You probably will never need much of the stuff on the seven CDs. Debian
contains many pre-compiled packages of user software which fill most of
the space. For Sarge, the number of CDs will be even larger once it is
released. 

If you are intending to set up a computer lab, do you have plans to network
the computers and give them any access to the internet? If you plan to 
network them, you should consider the following approach:

1. Do a netinstall of Sarge on the computer that will be the administrator/
instructor workstation.
2. Install apt-proxy on this computer. Set it up to get packages from a 
nearby Debian repository (i.e. not half way around the World).

3. Adjust /etc/apt/sources.list to get Debian packages through this proxy.
3a. Install some more packages to ensure that your proxy is working properly.
4. For the next machine, make netinstall address its requests for downloads
to the local apt-proxy. The proxy will retain copies of everything that
is needed for all subsequent machines.
5. Continue to do netinstall on all subsequent machines. These installs will
procede at local area network (LAN) speed, which is almost as fast as reading
from a CD, and does not involve any delays as you switch from one CD to the
next.
If this doesn't make sense, ask questions and I will attempt to clarify.
HTH

 

I downloaded the CD ISO images from the website of debian 
(http://www.debian.org/distrib/cd). The website does not say that they 
are distributing "woody". I know about the stable, testing, unstable 
versions of debian. But this particular page does not even mention which 
is the one that I got. In fact, I was under the impression that in 7 
huge isos that I had to download, I would have pretty much gotten 
everything. That is obviously not true.

Vikas
Clive Menzies wrote:
   

On (13/10/04 16:16), Vikas Rawal wrote:
 

I am new to debian but have some experience with Redhat 9.
I would like to install debian on a Compaq PIII machine. I have the 7 
CDs (downloaded ISOs and burnt CDs without trouble). But when I try to 
install, pretty soon it gives a message to the effect that debootstrap 
returned an error (1) and brings me back to a menu from where there is 
nowhere to go.

This obviously does not look like enough information to be able to say 
very much on the issue. But may be somebody will be able to give me a 
lead to follow and tell me where to look for the solution.

Vikas
 

   

Hi Vikas
It sounds as though you are installing "woody" which is the current
stable version.  You might have better luck with "sarge" which is the
current testing release soon to go stable.
Have a look at:
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
Regards
Clive

 

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Subject:
Re: where do I download Unstable from?
From:
Olle Eriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date:
Fri, 15 Oct 2004 06:12:33 +0200
To:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thursday 14 October 2004 06.27, H. S. wrote:
 

Apparently, _Jeff Golden_, on 10/14/04 00:23,typed:
   

When I installed unstable I couldn't find a way to do it directly
either.   I ended up suing the sarge install business card iso and
doing a dist-upgrade after a minimal sarge install.   This may not
work if you are not o

Re: space-limiting /var/cache/apt/archives

[Robert Waldner]

On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 23:40:29 PDT, Paul Johnson writes:
>> Is it possible to somehow tell apt to use no more than X MB of space
>> for the archive, or not to keep more than Y versions of any package?
>> I can't find anything about it in apt.conf(5).

>apt-get autoclean (and it isn't in apt.conf(5), it's in apt-get(8),

Thanks, but this isn't what I'm looking for:
   autoclean
 Like  clean,  autoclean  clears  out the local repository of re-
 trieved package files. The difference is that  it  only  removes
 package  files that can no longer be downloaded, and are largely
 useless. This allows a cache to be maintained over a long period
 without  it  growing  out  of  control. The configuration option
 APT::Clean-Installed will prevent installed packages from  being
 erased if it is set to off.

Having the previously installed, presumably working, version of a package
 around is often very useful, especially since I'm using unstable.
 Although this will be quite handy for stable machines.

>> (Pls CC me on replies, I'm not on the list with this address)

>I know it's a rude shock, but this public forum doesn't exist for your
>sole, private benefit. If you want a private tutor, hire one. Don't
>tell us that you need this because you "don't get this newsgroup",
>either: That's what the archives are for.

I know. It may come as a shock to you, but, as I said, I'm not on the
 list with _this_ address, it's too high-volume for me at home. But
 I'm subscribed at work, and I do try to also give useful advice for
 questions I know something about. It's just that I don't have access 
 to my work-email all the time.

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Re: Missing ttys with udev

[Nick Hastings]

Hi dman,

* Derrick Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041017 11:11]:
> On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 06:41:12PM +0900, Nick Hastings wrote:
> | 
> | Hi all,
> | 
> | I recently switched from devfs to udev. Everything is fine except that I
> | now have no virtual consoles, only X.
> | 
> | The device /dev/tty exists as do /dev/vc/tty/*, but there are no
> | symbolic links like /dev/tty0 -> vc/0.
> | 
> | Does anyone know what's going on here?
> 
> # cd /etc/udev/rules.d
> # rm udev.rules
> # ln -s ../devfs.rules ../compat-full.rules
> # /etc/init.d/udev restart

Brilliant. I had compat.rules and devfs.rules. I replaced
compat.rules with compat-full.rules and bingo ttys are back.

> The udev package provides a default set of rules.  If you want your
> /dev to look like it did when you were using devfs with devfsd, then
> switch the rule set.

Thanks again,

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Re: Unusual function problem with Synaptic, apt-get, j2re1.3

[Andrea Vettorello]

On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 15:42:18 -0500, Cybe R. Wizard
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Attempting to install j2re1.3, the JAVA runtime environment, into Sid, I
> am faced with a Sun Microsystems, Inc. Binary Code License Agreement to
> which I must agree, but there is no way to agree.  Faced with no buttons
> (when it says they will be there)  I have attempted, "yes," "accept,"
> "OK," removing it (must re-install before removal), re-installing, (same
> no-button agreement to which I cannot agree), doing all of the above
> after apt-get clean and apt-get autoclean, and, finally, just tearing my
> danged hair out.
> Is there a chance that some kind soul has an inkling of what I should do
> next (save the Final Solution)?
> If so, please, pass it on so I may continue my upgrading.
> 

It's, not clear what package are you trying to install. Is the
"sun-j2re1.3debian"?


Andrea


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Re: where do I download Unstable from?

[Paul Johnson]

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>> Don't use base-config.
>
> :) Okay.
>
> But wonder if you could explain more. Is it too buggy to be used?

No, it's just not necissarily designed for Unstable.


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