Using glibc debug version with gcc

[Paulo M C Aragão]

Hi All,

How do I tell gcc to use the debug version of glibc ?

I installed libc6-dbg but I just can't find out how to direct gcc to use
the debug version of the libraries. I searched gcc's manual and googled
around but couldn't find out what certainly should be a trivial command
line option.

Paulo


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Re: System exiting due to kernel....

[Marco Calviani]

Thanks.
  i'll try move to a newer kernel to solve this issue.

Regards,
MC

Almut Behrens wrote:


On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 08:55:23PM +0200, Marco Calviani wrote:
 


 ..., but what is an OOM Killer?
   



OOM = out of memory.

The OOM killer is responsible for killing processes when the system is
running out of virtual memory (so the system itself will "stay alive").

(In your case it hit the X server -- which might be considered
suboptimal, with respect to keeping damage to the end user to a
minimum... ;)

Cheers,
Almut


 




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Re: torrents

[[KS]]

Jessica Kong wrote:
> Hello. I found your e-mail on a website, and I hope you could help me. I
> downloaded the torrent file and have it saved. But when I tried to open
> it, it either say it could not open and I should try to install it again
> or that Windows Media player does not support the file or the codec.

I am wondering why you posted your query on debian-user mailing list in
the first place? Windows Media Player doesn't support the file or the
codec and the user posts on debian-user.h, interesting!


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Installing Yahoo Messenger 6.0 under wine

[[KS]]

Hello All,

I have been experimenting with Wine and it has been a pretty smooth road
till I planned to install Yahoo Messenger 6.0 in Wine. It was written on
the winhq.com database that YM6.0 was able to run under wine. My Wine
installation is an independent one, i.e. it does not use the actual
Windows partition I already have. I got the yahoo messenger installer
file ymsgrie.exe for yahoo 6.0 by copying it off my Windows partition
Yahoo Messenger installation. When I try to start the installation, wine
gives the following error(or warnings?), and stops:

~$ wine Desktop/ymsgrie.exe
Invoking /usr/lib/wine/wine.bin Desktop/ymsgrie.exe ...
Please use the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG\Software\Fonts\LogPixels
to set the screen resolution and remove the "Resolution" entry in the
config file
Please use the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG\Software\Fonts\LogPixels
to set the screen resolution and remove the "Resolution" entry in the
config file
fixme:advapi:GetFileSecurityW (L"X:\\GLFe3e.tmp") : returns fake
SECURITY_DESCRIPTOR
fixme:ntdll:RtlImpersonateSelf (0001), stub
wine: Unhandled exception (thread 000b), starting debugger...
Usage: winedbg [--auto] [--gdb] cmdline


~$ dpkg -l wine*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name  Version   Description
+++-=-=-==
ii  wine  0.0.20050524-1Windows Emulator (Binary Emulator)
pn  wine-doc  (no description available)
ii  wine-utils0.0.20050524-1Windows Emulator (Utilities)
un  winesetup (no description available)
ii  winesetuptk   0.7-1.1   Windows Emulator (Configuration
and Setup Tool)


Can anyone help me getting this installed? has anyone seen similar
problems when installing software under wine?

Thanks for any help/pointers,
/KS


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Re: LILO bug?

[Alvin Oga]

hi ya marty

On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Marty wrote:

> Alvin Oga wrote:

... 
> >> Warning: /dev/hda is not on the first disk
> > 
> > if yoou can boot from /dev/hda ... lilo is working
> > - pull out the scsi disk to make sure you are booting off /dev/hda
> 
> This requires the user to to be physically present, power down, open the
> case and modify the system hardware.  It's unnecessary and may not be 
> possible.

no it does not ...

- you can simulate a missing disk ( at least the missing MBR )
  to see if it boots the other disk

dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/hda bs=448 count=1

- if it doesn't boot... you never had raid properly configured anyway

- to do booting tests ( lilo or grub or syslinu or ?? ) reqwuires you or
  somebody have phyical access to the machine in case thngs go bonkers
- if you do not have physical access, one assume you know what you
are doing

> The "warning" does not describe nor warn about the subsequent actions of LILO
> which render the system unbootable.

the warning is exactly correct...
- if you install on /dev/hdb or /dev/hdc .. etc.e.tc..
it will warn you if the system has /dev/hda

- trying to read MORE into the error messages is a bad idea

lilo and grubs error messages can all be cleaned up .. if you wanna fix
error messages .. and internationalize it too so that someone else
doesnt need to fix it again later

> Morever the warning describes what I want to do -- put LILO on a disk
> that's not the first disk.

so there is NO bug to be reported. ... as it is correct that the disk
referenced by lilo.conf is in fact a correct warning

>  I don't think the warning is wrong or silly,
> but accurate and  helpful.

it is precisely accurate  its NOT the first disk
 
> It does not imply that LILO will override the lilo.conf settings and
> render the system unbootable.  That still seems like a bug to me.

lilo NEVER overides lilo.conf settings

an incorrectly defined lilo.conf will screw up your system and render
it non-bootable ... or incrorect kernels or incorrect initrd or any
other gazillion factors.. NOTHING to do with lilo rendering it unbootable
though some problems is a lilo or grub problem, those are far and few
nowdayz

no system error messages will (correctly) tell you if the system can boot
after you ran lilo or grub or any other loader..
- you are just forced to (re)boot and see

c ya
alvin
 


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CUPS remote printing problem

[Marty]

I have an HP PSC 2110 working locally with foomatic and CUPS back end.
When I try to print remotely the CUPS web interface returns with:

"Print file was not accepted (client-error-bad-request)!"

I find these entries in /var/log/cups/error_log:

E [01/Jul/2005:00:13:09 -0400] print_job: No file!?!
D [01/Jul/2005:00:13:09 -0400] send_ipp_error(0x403b7008[5], 400)
D [01/Jul/2005:00:13:09 -0400] Sending error: client-error-bad-request

I can print to another system with CUPS/IPP (non HP) printer on the
same network.  I tried to remotely print to the HP from a second system
and hit the same problem.

A google search indicates it might be an hpijs/gs interaction, so I
tried different versions of gs without success.  The solution in the
archived message was to switch drivers, but that was for a woody install.

Thanks for any help.


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Re: MythTV

[Paul Johnson]

On Thursday June 30 2005 11:18 am, Hal Vaughan wrote:

> Interesting.  We have had the same cable company in Richmond, VA
> since the 1980s (maybe even the late 1970s), but it's been bought,
> merged, etc.  At one point it was Time Warner, MediaOne, and others
> I can't remember.  I've had cable since around 1990 or so.  During
> that time, AT&T bought out MediaOne and provided the absolute worst
> service I've ever seen.  The local call center was shut down and
> calls were routed to Atlanta, which was shut down, and all calls
> were sent to Newfoundland or Toronto.

Oh, God, I remember that.  I was working for [EMAIL PROTECTED] at the time, 
back in 2001.  Virginia had a fire in the building, everybody running 
air conditioners caused a blackout in Atlanta, and the poor guys at 
AT&T's internal call center in Slt. Ste. Marie, Ontario stuck in the 
same high pressure system as Atlanta were having to take everybody's 
calls (when they normally took calls from us at @Home or their own 
local call centers) and their air conditioners had crapped out in the 
record 100+ degree heat there.  I didn't even work for AT&T and I had 
to deal with the tech support collateral damage they caused (to reach 
us, you called your local carrier and hit whatever number for data 
service and ignored the voice prompt or find the right combination of 
buttons to hit to reach us.  You wouldn't believe how many people, 
after deliberately telling the phone system they're having problems 
with their internet service, couldn't understand that we had 
absolutely nothing to do with problems with their TV and we could do 
nothing to fix TV reception, and no, we're not your cable company, 
we're an internet provider.  Take a spin on the B Train and pester 
your local cable operator in person if you don't believe me...)

> It could take 90 mins to 3 hrs to get help.  AT&T was absolutely 
> terrible and I know in some other cities they came damn close to 
> losing their charter to operate.  

Meanwhile in the northwest, they were winning awards and pissing off 
Verizon and Qwest with their superior 
local-and-long-distance-phone-over-cable, cable internet and cable TV 
service.  The northwest never saw a better private utility and will 
probably never see anything close to AT&T Broadband again out of a 
private utility.

> After AT&T, Comcast took over and made a number of changes,
> including re-opening the local call center.

AT&T was going to reopen it anyway as I understand, the transition 
happened while they were rebuilding it.

> I've heard many people complain about them, but after AT&T, any 
> company would have been wonderful.  In our area, though, Comcast has 
> been outstanding (again, I'm aware that for many people that has not 
> been the case). 

Like in the Northwest.  Given that they're the only option for TV or 
internet for a good number of people here, their ads should say, 
"We're the cable company.  Sorry."  or "Hey, at least we're not Qwest 
or Verizon."  Qwest and Verizon suck so hard a good number of people 
I know, myself included, have decided the phone is obsolete and it's 
time to move on.  Now we get in touch by Jabber, CB radio and HAM 
radio instead.  I'd love to be able to pick up the phone and get a 
dialtone without having to resort to Vonage and dearly miss Pacific 
Northwest Bell.

> It seems I got lucky.  While the interface could be nicer looking,
> it is not really slow, and using their DVR has been one of the
> easiest experiences I've ever had in using any recording device.

Yeah, but AT&T had a deal with TiVo.  The digital-cable ready AT&TiVos 
are a now-scarce, charished item in this part of the world.  The 
Series 2 AT&TiVos moreso, since Comcast bought AT&T and stupidly 
ended the deal.  

> > > Also, I don't know if this is a factor or not, but most of the
> > > channels I want to record are digital cable (that includes BBC
> > > America, Sci-Fi and many others).  I don't know if Myth TV or
> > > any other homebrew system handles digital cable signals.
> >
> > When did Sci Fi leave the analog lineup?
>
> In this area Sci-Fi was always a premium channel, but it's been on
> digital for several years now -- at least in our area.
>
> I've also heard, in case it is of interest, from a Comcast employee
> in an answer center that they've made a deal with TiVo and in June
> of 2006, they'll replace their DVR service with TiVo.

Oh, finally, they're remembering why AT&T signed a deal with TiVo.  
Maybe we'll see the ComcasTiVo?

> As for me, it'll be around then or a little later that I'd finally
> have time to build a MythTV box.  As I said, though, I don't know
> if MythTV can read the signals for the digital channels.

Get an IR blaster and use it to change channels on a real converter?

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[Khanh Cao Van]

Which is better ? Why ? I need some information before chose one of
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Re: libstring-approx-perl broke updating Woody to Sarge

[Lance Tagliapietra]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 09:33:16PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Lance Tagliapietra wrote:
> > In any case, I decided to go and attempt the upgrade, and have run into 
> > the following problem now when attempting to use apt-get or dpkg or 
> > aptitude:
> > 
> > dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 41026 
> > package `libstring-approx-perl':
> >  field name `Sectch' must be followed by colon
> > 
> > I'm kinda in a catch-22, since even dpkg -l will abort with that error, 
> > nor can I seem to install or remove packages, as that error will come 
> > up.
> 
> Have you tried just removing the offending line? Or removing the whole section
> related to libstring-approx-perl (it doesn't really look like a critical
> package anyway)?

OK, I didn't originally realize that the error was in the database file.  
I thought it was an issue with the version of the library.  I deleted 
that entry from the file and sure enough, no more errors.

> I guess dpkg will just re-add it during the next `apt-get update' 
run, but
> hopefully the real problem is fixed at that time. Upgrading dpkg and apt-get 
> is
> probably also needed.
> 
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
> 
>   Geert
> 
> --
> Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
> when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like 
> that.
>   -- Linus Torvalds

Thanks,

--Lance


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Re: xmms doesn't play streams, complains couldn't connect to host

[H. S.]

Apparently, _Bill Marcum_, on 30/06/05 18:13,typed:
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 04:35:57PM -0400, H. S. wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>I am trying to make xmms play streams from websites and cannot get mp3
>>streams to work. From this page:
>>http://dir.xiph.org/index.php
>>
>>I have tried Ogg streams on xmms and they work. The MP3 ones do not.
>>While trying to play an MP3 stream (.m3u file?), xmms reports "Couldn't
>>connect to host: :".
>>
>>Any idea how to fix it?
>>
> 
> 
> Could it be a firewall problem?
>  
> 


I considered it. However, another computer in my internal home network,
running Debian Sid, plays streams through xmms perfectly, this shows my
router (running Debian testing) is okay as far as the
router/masquarading firewall rules are concerned. I then thought about
the iptables rules I have on my desktop. I 'stopped' iptables on my
desktop so that all policies were ACCEPT(i.e. nothing being blocked by
my computer's firewall) and still xmms showed the same problem. So it
looks like firewall is not the issue here.

->HS

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Re: LILO bug?

[Marty]

Alvin Oga wrote:


On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Marty wrote:


Whenever I try to install lilo to an IDE drive other than the one
one which I booted, and the later drive is SCSI, I get the following
warning message from LILO:

Warning: /dev/hda is not on the first disk


if yoou can boot from /dev/hda ... lilo is working
- pull out the scsi disk to make sure you are booting off /dev/hda


This requires the user to to be physically present, power down, open the
case and modify the system hardware.  It's unnecessary and may not be possible.



vi /etc/lilo.conf and run lilo after the changes
boot = /dev/hda

if you can boot off /dev/sda ... lilo is working
- pull out /dev/hda to make sure you are booting off /dev/sda

vi /etc/lilo.conf and run lilo after the changes
boot = /dev/sda

- it is NOT a bug ( the warning is just that .. a silly warning, just in
  case you didnt meant to do that )


The "warning" does not describe nor warn about the subsequent actions of LILO
which render the system unbootable.

Morever the warning describes what I want to do -- put LILO on a disk
that's not the first disk.  I don't think the warning is wrong or silly,
but accurate and  helpful.

It does not imply that LILO will override the lilo.conf settings and
render the system unbootable.  That still seems like a bug to me.


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Re: System exiting due to kernel....

[Horms]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 08:56:35AM +0200, Marco Calviani wrote:
> Hi,
>  i'm currently running Debian sid with a custum 2.6.10 kernel. Whenever 
> i run, for example, azureus bittorrent client for more that (nearly) 1 
> hour my system exits from every program i was running under X and 
> restarts the X session.
> 
> This is the /var/log/messages results of the crash moment:
> 
> 
> 12:10:34 localhost kernel: <28kB low:160kB high:192kB active:0kB 
> inactive:0kB present:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
> 12:10:35 localhost kernel: protections[]: 0 0 0
> 12:10:35 localhost kernel: DMA: 0*4kB 1*8kB 1*16kB 0*32kB 1*64kB 
> 0*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 88kB
> 12:10:35 localhost kernel: Normal: 0*4kB 4*8kB 1*16kB 1*32kB 0*64kB 
> 3*128kB 1*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 1*2048kB 0*4096kB = 2768kB
> 12:10:35 localhost kernel: HighMem: empty
> 12:10:35 localhost kernel: Swap cache: add 249982, delete 249982, find 
> 3478/4101, race 0+1
> 12:10:35 localhost kernel: oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x1d2
> 12:10:35 localhost kernel: DMA per-cpu:
> 12:10:35 localhost kernel: cpu 0 hot: low 2, high 6, batch 1
> 12:10:35 localhost kernel: cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 2, batch 1
> 12:10:35 localhost kernel: Normal per-cpu:
> 12:10:35 localhost kernel: cpu 0 hot: low 32, high 96, batch 16
> 12:10:35 localhost kernel: cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 32, batch 16
> 12:10:35 localhost kernel: HighMem per-cpu: empty
> 12:10:35 localhost kernel:
> 12:10:35 localhost kernel: Free pages:2856kB (0kB HighMem)
> 12:10:35 localhost kernel: Active:76040 inactive:42534 dirty:0 
> writeback:0 unstable:0 free:714 slab:2868 mapped:118469 pagetables:763
> 12:10:35 localhost kernel: DMA free:88kB min:88kB low:108kB high:132kB 
> active:6888kB inactive:6132kB present:16384kB pages_scanned:144133 
> all_unreclaimable? yes
> 12:10:35 localhost kernel: protections[]: 0 0 0
> 12:10:35 localhost kernel: Normal free:2768kB min:2800kB low:3500kB 
> high:4200kB active:297272kB inactive:164004kB present:506752kB 
> pages_scanned:6314052 all_unreclaimable? yes
> 12:10:35 localhost kernel: protections[]: 0 0 0
> 12:10:35 localhost kernel: HighMem free:0kB min:128kB low:160kB 
> high:192kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:0kB pages_scanned:0 
> all_unreclaimable? no
> 12:10:35 localhost kernel: protections[]: 0 0 0
> 12:10:35 localhost kernel: DMA: 0*4kB 1*8kB 1*16kB 0*32kB 1*64kB 
> 0*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 88kB
> 12:10:35 localhost kernel: Normal: 0*4kB 4*8kB 1*16kB 1*32kB 0*64kB 
> 3*128kB 1*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 1*2048kB 0*4096kB = 2768kB
> 12:10:35 localhost kernel: HighMem: empty
> 12:10:35 localhost kernel: Swap cache: add 249982, delete 249982, find 
> 3478/4101, race 0+1
> 12:10:35 localhost kernel: oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x1d2
> 12:10:35 localhost kernel: DMA per-cpu:
> 12:10:35 localhost kernel: cpu 0 hot: low 2, high 6, batch 1
> 12:10:35 localhost kernel: cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 2, batch 1
> 12:10:35 localhost kernel: Normal per-cpu:
> 12:10:35 localhost kernel: cpu 0 hot: low 32, high 96, batch 16
> 12:10:35 localhost kernel: cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 32, batch 16
> 12:10:35 localhost kernel: HighMem per-cpu: empty
> 12:10:35 localhost kernel:
> 12:10:35 localhost kernel: Free pages:2856kB (0kB HighMem)
> 12:10:35 localhost kernel: Active:76076 inactive:42498 dirty:0 
> writeback:0 unstable:0 free:714 slab:2875 mapped:118469 pagetables:763
> 12:10:35 localhost kernel: DMA free:88kB min:88kB low:108kB high:132kB 
> active:6888kB inactive:6132kB present:16384kB pages_scanned:155653 
> all_unreclaimable? yes
> 12:10:35 localhost kernel: protections[]: 0 0 0
> 12:10:35 localhost kernel: Normal free:2768kB min:2800kB low:3500kB 
> high:4200kB active:297416kB inactive:163860kB present:506752kB 
> pages_scanned:6532666 all_unreclaimable? yes
> 12:10:35 localhost kernel: protections[]: 0 0 0
> 12:10:35 localhost kernel: HighMem free:0kB min:128kB low:160kB 
> high:192kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:0kB pages_scanned:0 
> all_unreclaimable? no
> 12:10:36 localhost kernel: protections[]: 0 0 0
> 12:10:36 localhost kernel: DMA: 0*4kB 1*8kB 1*16kB 0*32kB 1*64kB 
> 0*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 88kB
> 12:10:36 localhost kernel: Normal: 0*4kB 4*8kB 1*16kB 1*32kB 0*64kB 
> 3*128kB 1*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 1*2048kB 0*4096kB = 2768kB
> 12:10:36 localhost kernel: HighMem: empty
> 12:10:36 localhost kernel: Swap cache: add 249982, delete 249982, find 
> 3478/4101, race 0+1
> 12:10:36 localhost kernel: oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x1d2
> 12:10:36 localhost kernel: DMA per-cpu:
> 12:10:36 localhost kernel: cpu 0 hot: low 2, high 6, batch 1
> 12:10:36 localhost kernel: cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 2, batch 1
> 12:10:36 localhost kernel: Normal per-cpu:
> 12:10:36 localhost kernel: cpu 0 hot: low 32, high 96, batch 16
> 12:10:36 localhost kernel: cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 32, batch 16
> 12:10:36 localhost kernel: HighMem per-cpu: empty
> 12:10:36 localhost kernel:
> 12:10:36 localhost kernel: Free pages:

3d accel and agpgart

[Elmer E. Dow]

Greetings:

I'm tryiing to get 3d acceleration working on my IBM R40 laptop running Sarge 
(3.1). I'm attempting to follow the instructions at 
http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/DriTroubleshooting. 

It says to do "dmesg | grep drm" and if it displays nothing, then "compile 
agpgart into your kernel or load it as a module." I can load agpgart with 
"insmod agpgart" so I know that the module exists.

I tried adding Load: "agpgart" to /etc/X11/XF86config-4, but then when I do a 
dmesg | grep agpgart I get:

[drm] Initialized radeon 1.7.0 20020828 on minor 0
[drm: radeon unlock] *ERROR* Process 1847 using kernel context 0

XFree86.0.log says:

(II) LoadModule: "agpgart"
(WW) Warning, couldn't open module agpgart
(II) UnloadModule: "agpgart"
(EE) Failed to load module "agpgart" (module does not exist, 0)

But if I do a insmod agpgart, it says that it already exists.

A little later in the instructions, it says that I need to load the agpgart 
module before the radeon module. XFree86's log indicates that indeed the 
radeon module loads later.

The instructions don't seem to address the above problems. Any ideas?

Any input is appreciated, My knowledge and experience is limited.

- Elmer E. Dow


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Re: packet libmyodbc broken in SID?

[Kevin Mark]

On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 01:04:08PM +0200, Tim Ruehsen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> a few days before packet odbcinst1 has been replaced by odbcinst1debian1.
> In this process 'apt-get dist-upgrade' removed the packet libmyodbc. Of 
> course, my apps using MySQL via ODBC do not work any more.
> 
> Trying to 'apt-get install libmyodbc' results in:
> ... file bug report ...
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   libmyodbc: Depends: odbcinst1 but it is not installable
> E: Broken packages
> 
> Before I file a bug report, I ask here for more information.
> Does anyone knows a work-around or how to solve the situation?
> Forcing the installation of libmyodbc does not really help. The MySQL server 
> drops the connection (no real error message).
> 
> It is a SID (unstable) system. All packets are at the latest version 
> (unstable). 
Hi Tim,
you realize having the latest vesion means it has little or no testing.
sid is the most changing software stream and the most likely to have
software problems because it is where software is being tested. If you
want something to 'just work' Sarge would be idea. While many people run
sid beacuse it is the 'cutting edge', it has risks that may cause apps
to stop working from time to time. It you (can/want to) handle this, ok. I
run sid on my workstation and I have no critical infrastrucure to
distrub. but if I was running a RDBS with an old unix distro, I'd want
stability, hence would choose to run 'stable'. 
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Re: installing 'unstable' modules in 3.1

[Kevin Mark]

On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 09:25:19AM +0100, Maurice O'Regan wrote:
> What mods need to be made to apt   sources.listto request a module
> from  3.1 'unstable' ?
> 
> maurice
Hi Maurice,
first you need to have 'sid' or 'unstable' lines in your source list.
so copy a 'stable'/'testing' line and replace it with 'unstable'.
Next you need to run 'apt-get update' or 'aptitude update'...
then you can install a package from unstable.
BUT it depends on what you machine runs.
If you run stable, you will need to tell apt to get the
package from unstable and not from stable.
apt-get -t unstable install mutt
this will install mutt from unstable.
One warning: this can lead to many system problems, use it carefully and
wisely!
HTH
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Re: wajig broken in unstable?

[Kevin Mark]

On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 10:37:21AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> I found that wajig disappeared here after an update to unstable a couple
> of days ago and attempts to reintall it are greeted with the message
> that it has unmet dependencies and I should file a bug report. However,
> bug reporting seems to be failing on Debian at present.
> 
> Not sure what is happening here.
> 
Hi Anthony,
there is schuduled downtime for maintaince on some of the servers IIRC.
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Re: LILO bug?

[Alvin Oga]

On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Marty wrote:

> Whenever I try to install lilo to an IDE drive other than the one
> one which I booted, and the later drive is SCSI, I get the following
> warning message from LILO:
> 
> Warning: /dev/hda is not on the first disk

if yoou can boot from /dev/hda ... lilo is working
- pull out the scsi disk to make sure you are booting off /dev/hda

vi /etc/lilo.conf and run lilo after the changes
boot = /dev/hda

if you can boot off /dev/sda ... lilo is working
- pull out /dev/hda to make sure you are booting off /dev/sda

vi /etc/lilo.conf and run lilo after the changes
boot = /dev/sda

- it is NOT a bug ( the warning is just that .. a silly warning, just in
  case you didnt meant to do that )

- for the latest lilo... download it fom the originating site ..
( debian's lilo is pretty out of date )


#
# save your current /etc/lilo.conf FIRST and do QuickInst from the latest
# lilo pkg, whatever version it may be
#
http://home.san.rr.com/johninsd/pub/linux/lilo/lilo-22.6.1.src.tar.gz


- if you dont like lilo, grab grub from the cvs repo from gnu.org

c ya
alvin


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Re: Accessing a program started in another term

[Colin Ingram]

Almut Behrens wrote:


On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 04:29:50PM -0500, Colin Ingram wrote:
 

Lets say, I'm at work and I start a remote session for an interactive 
program, like octave.  Then I go home with and my remote terminal 
session and the octave program are still running at work.  Is there a 
way for me to take control of that terminal and interact with the 
running octave program?  I use octave as an example but I'm looking for 
solution (if it exists) that would be generally applicable.
   



You most likely want 'screen'.  Very useful tool in many respects...

Almut


 


screen is exactly what I want.  Thanks!


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LILO bug?

[Marty]

Whenever I try to install lilo to an IDE drive other than the one
one which I booted, and the later drive is SCSI, I get the following
warning message from LILO:

Warning: /dev/hda is not on the first disk

(e.g., if the target partition is on /dev/hda)

LILO documentation explains this warning as follows:

  The specified partition is probably not on the first disk.
  LILO's boot sector can only be booted from the first disk
  unless some special boot manager is used.

The warning is useful and correct but there is no warning that
under these conditions, LILO gets erroneously installed on the
SCSI drive (i.e. the "first disk"), rendering that drive
unbootable.  Note that there is no warning that the lilo.conf
"boot=" parameter is about to be overridden, and futhermore this
seems like an error condition, not a warning condition, even if
LILO's behavior is for some reason regarded as consistent.

This is not motherboard nor BIOS dependent behavior.  I've seen
it on a wide variety of systems, and it's an old problem that
I've seen with serveral versions of LILO.

I've experimented with workarounds using disk= and bios= stanzas,
without success.  I know about the rescue floppy workaround
and grub, but I'm looking for a better solution and also I am
considering filing a bug report because even if there is a
combination of optional stanzas that "fix" the problem, the fact
that LILO gets installed on the wrong disk without any warning,
seems like a bug.

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apt-get upgrade problem

[Li Tian]

 When i use apt-get to upgrade my debian ,some softwares' configuration can't 
be completed.It outputs as follows.
"ldconfig: /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2.desktop is not an ELF file - it 
has the wrong magic bytes at the start."
What's the problem?




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Re: MySQL setup cloning?

[Wayne Topa]

Carl Fink([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 10:53:16PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote:
> 
> > mysqldump -A > backup-file.sql   (on main server)
> > 
> > mysql  database < backup-file.sql (on backup server)
> > 
> > man mysqldunp
> 
> EXACTLY what I needed.  You're a lifesaver.  Thanks.

Glad you found it useful.

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Re: System exiting due to kernel....

[Almut Behrens]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 08:55:23PM +0200, Marco Calviani wrote:
>   ..., but what is an OOM Killer?

OOM = out of memory.

The OOM killer is responsible for killing processes when the system is
running out of virtual memory (so the system itself will "stay alive").

(In your case it hit the X server -- which might be considered
suboptimal, with respect to keeping damage to the end user to a
minimum... ;)

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RE: X11 includes and xplanet

[James C. Hall, MD]

Hi Bill:

I'm not sure why I could not install xplanet with just apt-get install
xplanet. I assume I need a specific deb listing, but I don't know it. I
didn't try the build-dep command. I'm real new at this - maybe someone will
point me to the apt-get right way to install xplanet.

Thanks, 
Jamie

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Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 5:10 PM
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Subject: Re: X11 includes and xplanet

On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 04:04:11PM -0500, James C. Hall, MD wrote:
> Hello All:
> 
> I couldn't just apt-get xplanet, unfortunately. Is there a way to 'fix' my
X
> windows so that the appropriate includes are where they should be ? (I'm
> guessing /usr/include/X11).
> 
Why can't you apt-get xplanet?
Could you apt-get build-dep xplanet?


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Moving Cyrus email from one folder to another

[Caleb Walker]

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Hello all,
I am wondering if anyone out there has created a script that runs from
cron that will move email from one folder to another.  What I would like
to do is this:  I have publicly accessible folders that all imap users
use called isSpam and notSpam which I use with the sa-learn program to
learn about spam and ham emails.  What I want my script to do now is
once it reads the messages to move them to a folder underneath or
elsewhere called processed or something like that.  I could just move
the dot files into that folder but I think that will mess up the indexes
in Cyrus.

Thank You,
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Re: Setting defaults for ulimit

[Lee Braiden]

On Thursday 30 Jun 2005 23:55, Paulo M C Aragão wrote:
> I'm not sure if I understood you. Forgive my ignorance and please correct
> me:
> 1. There's a pam module that sets limits for a shell environment
> 2. These limits are hardcoded but can be changed via
>/etc/security/limits.conf

Yep :)  At least, that's how I understand it too :)

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Re: X11 includes and xplanet

[Bill Marcum]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 04:04:11PM -0500, James C. Hall, MD wrote:
> Hello All:
> 
> I couldn't just apt-get xplanet, unfortunately. Is there a way to 'fix' my X
> windows so that the appropriate includes are where they should be ? (I'm
> guessing /usr/include/X11).
> 
Why can't you apt-get xplanet?
Could you apt-get build-dep xplanet?


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Re: xmms doesn't play streams, complains couldn't connect to host

[Bill Marcum]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 04:35:57PM -0400, H. S. wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to make xmms play streams from websites and cannot get mp3
> streams to work. From this page:
> http://dir.xiph.org/index.php
> 
> I have tried Ogg streams on xmms and they work. The MP3 ones do not.
> While trying to play an MP3 stream (.m3u file?), xmms reports "Couldn't
> connect to host: :".
> 
> Any idea how to fix it?
> 

Could it be a firewall problem?
 

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Re: Can't upgrade from woody to sarge (sources.list problem?)

[Thomas Weinbrenner]

Adam Fabian wrote:
> I have Debian installed on my xbox.  It's Xebian 1.01, or something like
> that.  As nearly as I can tell, it's exactly the same as woody except
> that the kernel is a 2.4 kernel with xbox patches, and a backported
> version of XFree86 4.3.0, and some customized configuration files.

> Anyway, my point being that I'm pretty sure it's almost pure woody and
> looks a lot more like a customized Debian than a derived distribution.

> So, my sources list looks like this:

> deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sarge main non-free contrib
 
Lines with deb-src point to the source code for the packages, not to the
packages. You need them only if you want to build your own packages.
If you just want to install the packages from the debian mirror you have
to use "deb" instead of "deb-src".

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Re: Setting defaults for ulimit

[Paulo M C Aragão]

Lee Braiden wrote on Jun, 30:

> I think the defaults are just from the same pam module that includes that 
> file 
> as an example of what you can change :)

I'm not sure if I understood you. Forgive my ignorance and please correct me:

1. There's a pam module that sets limits for a shell environment
2. These limits are hardcoded but can be changed via
   /etc/security/limits.conf

Paulo


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Can't upgrade from woody to sarge (sources.list problem?)

[Adam Fabian]

I have Debian installed on my xbox.  It's Xebian 1.01, or something like
that.  As nearly as I can tell, it's exactly the same as woody except
that the kernel is a 2.4 kernel with xbox patches, and a backported
version of XFree86 4.3.0, and some customized configuration files.

xbox:/# cat /etc/debian_version 
3.0

xbox:/# gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/2.95.4/specs
gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)

Anyway, my point being that I'm pretty sure it's almost pure woody and
looks a lot more like a customized Debian than a derived distribution.

So, my sources list looks like this:

deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sarge main non-free contrib
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US sarge/non-US main contrib
non-free
deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US sarge//non-US main
contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ sarge/updates main contrib non-free
deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ sarge main
deb-src http://perso.wanadoo.fr/debian/ unstable main

Then I type:

xbox:/# apt-get update
[snip]
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org sarge/main Release 
[snip]
xbox:/# echo $?
0
(In other words, everything appears successful.)

xbox:/# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back
  lame liblame0 libpostproc0 mplayer-586 
2 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4  not upgraded.
Need to get 1145kB of archives. After unpacking 4096B will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 

I expected that a lot more packages would need upgrading (like, say,
gcc).

How can I upgrade?  I don't want to mess with the kernel package, so I
guess I should pin it or something.  There might be some configuration
file holding everything in place.

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Re: Setting defaults for ulimit

[Lee Braiden]

On Thursday 30 Jun 2005 23:37, Paulo M C Aragão wrote:
> Lee Braiden wrote on Jun, 30:
> Just looked at the file again and noticed that all entries are commented
> out (start with #). So the defaults must be coming from somewhere else.
> Any ideas ?

I think the defaults are just from the same pam module that includes that file 
as an example of what you can change :)

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Standalone info reader aborts with 'segmentation fault'

[Paulo M C Aragão]

I was trying to learn how to use the standalone info reader, following
its sort of tutorial and it aborted with 'segmentation fault'. This
should reproduce the error:

$ info info
h
n
n
n
]
]
[

Should I file a bug report ?

Thanks
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Fakeraid vs softwareraid? (was Promise FastTrak100 on Sarge install?)

[Roman Muñoz]

> This reminds me of the problems I had setting up a server recently
> which had the dreaded Promise FastTrak100 interface on the
> motherboard.

Wow. On woody it works _fine_.

So sarge is finally here to kick off my fakeraid card? (purchased as
"true" hardware raid) No very good news. At least I see that software
raid is on d-i. I did set some pure software raids on woody. I think it
will be a lot easier now. What do you think about fakeraid vs pure
software raid performance?. 


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Re: Setting defaults for ulimit

[Paulo M C Aragão]

Lee Braiden wrote on Jun, 30:

> > Does anybody know where the defaults for ulimit are set ?
> > I couldn't find anything in /etc.
> 
> /etc/security/limits.conf

Just looked at the file again and noticed that all entries are commented
out (start with #). So the defaults must be coming from somewhere else.
Any ideas ?

Thanks
Paulo


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Re: Setting defaults for ulimit

[Paulo M C Aragão]

Lee Braiden wrote on Jun, 30:

> > Does anybody know where the defaults for ulimit are set ?
> > I couldn't find anything in /etc.
> 
> /etc/security/limits.conf

Thanks, Lee. That's why 'grep -r ulimit /etc' couldn't find anything.

Paulo


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RE: X11 includes and xplanet

[James C. Hall, MD]

Thanks Martin for the reply. I thought it might be an uninstalled dev
package. I couldn't find the deb to allow the apt-get to work. I was able to
apt-get gsat and it works great.

Thanks for the hints.

Jamie

-Original Message-
From: Martin Dickopp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 4:16 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: X11 includes and xplanet

"James C. Hall, MD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> At the point I run make, it errors out complaining that several X11
> includes are not found. [...] After going through my system a bit, he
> felt that several files were missing from my X Windows setup.

Install the package(s) which contain(s) the missing files. You'll need
at least the 'libx11-dev' package. The "Search the contents of packages"
form at http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_contents can help
you to identify which packages contain other files that you might need.

> I couldn't just apt-get xplanet, unfortunately.

Why not?

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Re: Accessing a program started in another term

[Lee Braiden]

On Thursday 30 Jun 2005 22:29, Colin Ingram wrote:
> Lets say, I'm at work and I start a remote session for an interactive
> program, like octave.  Then I go home with and my remote terminal
> session and the octave program are still running at work.  Is there a
> way for me to take control of that terminal and interact with the
> running octave program?  I use octave as an example but I'm looking for
> solution (if it exists) that would be generally applicable.

screen can do this sort of thing for textual apps.  For X, you might try 
(tight)VNC (which is in Debian in various packages), or FreeNX (which sounds 
much better, but is not in Debian yet, afaik).

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Re: Accessing a program started in another term

[Almut Behrens]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 04:29:50PM -0500, Colin Ingram wrote:
> Lets say, I'm at work and I start a remote session for an interactive 
> program, like octave.  Then I go home with and my remote terminal 
> session and the octave program are still running at work.  Is there a 
> way for me to take control of that terminal and interact with the 
> running octave program?  I use octave as an example but I'm looking for 
> solution (if it exists) that would be generally applicable.

You most likely want 'screen'.  Very useful tool in many respects...

Almut


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Accessing a program started in another term

[Colin Ingram]

Lets say, I'm at work and I start a remote session for an interactive 
program, like octave.  Then I go home with and my remote terminal 
session and the octave program are still running at work.  Is there a 
way for me to take control of that terminal and interact with the 
running octave program?  I use octave as an example but I'm looking for 
solution (if it exists) that would be generally applicable.


Colin


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Re: sarge and software patents

[Guillaume TESSIER]

Steve Block wrote:


Please
stop or take your comments to slashdot, where they belong.


Steve, you're right : this comment should belong to Slashdot.

I know this mailing list is much more made for technical purpose. 
However, this is the technic that is bethreated by software patents. 
I'am not speaking about Stallman's beard or whatever not connecting with 
technic at all.
I don't fear my opinion. I did what i could as a simlpe citizen and 
wrote about 100 letters in french an english.
In think it's completely a part of opensource software. It's a very good 
think to put all of your efforts and passion to master a technical 
matter. However, it would be an enormous revert to see your effort 
ruined by some lawyers and politicians.
Liberty is not only about using opensource software. It's also about 
doing things to protect it.


This threat went bad. I never thought that what I like could be 
bethreated like this by our own politicans. People that are elected by 
us to work for our wealth and security. I just feel really disapointed 
by the way things turning.

I hope we gonna have good surprise.

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Re: X11 includes and xplanet

[Martin Dickopp]

"James C. Hall, MD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> At the point I run make, it errors out complaining that several X11
> includes are not found. [...] After going through my system a bit, he
> felt that several files were missing from my X Windows setup.

Install the package(s) which contain(s) the missing files. You'll need
at least the 'libx11-dev' package. The "Search the contents of packages"
form at http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_contents can help
you to identify which packages contain other files that you might need.

> I couldn't just apt-get xplanet, unfortunately.

Why not?

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X11 includes and xplanet

[James C. Hall, MD]

Hello All:

I'm new to Debian and Linux in general but I have a functioning Sarge
machine at my office that I enjoy. One of my avocations is ham radio and,
specifically, satellites. I have been able to get Predict and gsat working
nicely. I have however run into problems getting xplanet to work. At the
point I run make, it errors out complaining that several X11 includes are
not found. I talked to the writer of the Predict software - he has a
separate program, earthtrack, that invokes xplanet with the satellites from
Predict. After going through my system a bit, he felt that several files
were missing from my X Windows setup. Please forgive me for a lack of
precision here since I am at home on my windoze laptop. 

I couldn't just apt-get xplanet, unfortunately. Is there a way to 'fix' my X
windows so that the appropriate includes are where they should be ? (I'm
guessing /usr/include/X11).

Jamie


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Re: How to change driver for NIC

[Ugo Bellavance]

Carlos Rodrigues wrote:
> Ugo Bellavance wrote:
> 
>> Carlos Rodrigues wrote:
>>
>>> So, I have Debian running inside VMware, and the NIC is detected as a
>>> AMD PCnet (module pcnet32). I installed vmware-tools and would like to
>>> know how to me Debian use the "vmxnet" driver instead.
>>>
>>> How is the right way to change which module is loaded for a given
>>> hardware?
>>
>>
>> I guess you should find what to edit in /etc/modules.conf
> 
> 
> I tried to add "alias pcnet32 vmxnet" to a new file under /etc/modutils,
> and then run "update-modules.modutils".
> 
> I did a similar thing on an Debian Alpha installation with "alias e100
> eepro100" (to force the use of "eepro100" instead of the default "e100"
> which keeps freezing on an ES40) and it worked, but for pcnet32/vmxnet
> it doesn't, and I can't figure out why.

Is the driver file in the right place?

> 
> Carlos Rodrigues
> 
> 


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Re: installing sarge to lvm

[Ryan Schultz]

On Wednesday 29 June 2005 11:46 pm, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 11:39:03PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote:
> > I'm confused by the sarge installer. I have a single 250g hard drive
> > that I would like to manage entirely with lvm. The installer wants to
> > partition the drive *before* configuring lvm but I thought that
> > partitions existed within the lvm. Have I misunderstood? How should I do
> > the initial partitioning? Do I setup a small boot and then the rest as
> > root?
>
> You need at least one partition to make the physical volume for LVM.
> Additionally, I would do this:
>
> /dev/hda1: XX MB (swap)
> /dev/hda2: 64 MB (/boot)
> /dev/hda3: 512 MB (/)
> /dev/hda4: the rest (LVM PV)
>
> I suggest that because having /boot and / on an LVM logical volume can
> get to be a pain when it comes to booting.
>
> -Roberto

I can second this -- don't put / or /boot under LVM control, just /'s large 
subdirectories, like /usr, /var, /home, etc, but not /bin, /sbin, /lib, or 
other directories that contain important system recovery tools. For example, 
the LVM tools are in /sbin -- if you break your LVM tools or kernel LVM 
support somehow (I've done it), with / (and thus /sbin) on an LVM partition, 
you'll have quite a mess to deal with when you reboot.

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Re: sarge and software patents

[Steve Block]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 10:25:47PM +0200, Guillaume TESSIER wrote:

Kent West wrote:


Guillaume TESSIER wrote:

 


My little sister could  register on a web site.
   



and

 


If tomorrow my job is to migrate Linux plateforms onto windows, then
i'll feel like  and will soon be unemployed.
   




Realizing that different cultures have different concepts of "foul
language", this is just a reminder of Debian's stated policy, from
http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/:

 


   Code of conduct


Do not use foul language; besides, some people receive the lists via
packet radio, where swearing is illegal.
   




 

There are other languages and behaviors that don't use  or  bit 
are much worst.


There is a huge misinformation campaign to make deputies think software 
patents are necessary for innovation.
Many people are mooving. Like writing letters to their deputies and to 
newspapers.


The more people would have been reacting, the more chance we would have 
to avoid the disaster.
It's sad that software has to deal with politics. Also sad you think i'm 
the bas guy.


You're making jerk of yourself in front of hundreds of people. Please
stop or take your comments to slashdot, where they belong.

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Re: sarge and software patents

[Ugo Bellavance]

Guillaume TESSIER wrote:
> Kent West wrote:
> 
>> Guillaume TESSIER wrote:
>>
> 
> There is a huge misinformation campaign to make deputies think software
> patents are necessary for innovation.
> Many people are mooving. Like writing letters to their deputies and to
> newspapers.
> 
> The more people would have been reacting, the more chance we would have
> to avoid the disaster.
> It's sad that software has to deal with politics. Also sad you think i'm
> the bas guy.

We (I think) don't think you're the bad guy (yet).  But you could have
used a better way to get your messages through.

A few tips:

1- Use an appropriate language
2- Show you've made an effort yourself
3- Tell us exactly what is the problem and what you expect from us (or
what we can do for this problem).

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Re: php4-mysql

[Steve Block]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 12:42:09PM -0500, Ian wrote:

Hello, I am running Debian Sarge on my new server. I installed apache2 and the 
required php4 packs along with mysql4. I can get php running, but the php 
doesn't seem to be compatible with mysql4. Can you please help me solve my 
problem?


Check the results of phpinfo (new php file containing only 


and look for the mysql section for more information.

I can think of two possibilities here. The first might be that
php4-mysql is not installed, and the second could be that the mysql api
in php is still a 3.x version. The default password hash in mysql 4.x
changed to a much longer and supposedly more secure key.

If mysql support is not installed, install the php4-mysql package. If it
is a version issue, change your password to use the old hashing type by
logging into the mysql console and setting it using the old_password
command:

mysql> set password = old_password('thepassword');
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Re: LDAP with Kerberos authentification

[Ryan Schultz]

On Thursday 30 June 2005 06:09 am, Eugen Wintersberger wrote:
> Hi there
>  I have a problem with slapd using Kerberos V (GSSAPI) authentification
> on Debian 3.1 Sarge. The Kerberos configuration seems to be ok since
> cyrus imap daemon uses it without any problems.
>
> I also added the appropriate principals to my Kerberos database and to
> the krb5.keytab file:
>
>  ldap/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>  ldap/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> After getting my TGT with
>
>  > kinit admin
>
> I tried a simple
>
>  > ldapwhoami -h hubbard.hlphys.uni-linz.ac.at
>
> and got the following error message
>
> SASL/GSSAPI authentication started
> ldap_sasl_interactive_bind_s: Internal (implementation specific) error (80)
> additional info: SASL(-1): generic failure: GSSAPI Error:
> Miscellaneous failure (No principal in keytab matches desired name)
>
> I got a similar error with cyrus imapd before I changed the "servername"
> variable in imapd.conf to the hostname.
> Has anyone an idea what I'm doing wrong?
>
> thanks
>
>   Eugen
>
>
> --
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Try adding ldap/@ to the keytab -- also make certain 
that slapd can read the keytab that contains everything relevant to it, to do 
this without compromising the main keytab you have to add an override 
in /etc/default/slapd , for example something like:

# Kerberos ticket configuration
export KRB5_KTNAME=/etc/ldap/ldap.keytab

I'm guessing, mostly -- I have an LDAPS/Kerberos implementation working here, 
but it was a nightmare to set up. The most important things to check, I've 
found, are the FQDNs of all the systems involved -- both LDAP and Kerberos 
are very, very picky about them.

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ppp addresses and routing table

[Bernd Prager]

I'm experiencing some trouble with my DSL setup.
Every time after reboot my routing table is using my ppp0 P-t-P address 
instead of its inet address.



$ ifconfig ppp0
ppp0  Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol 
 inet addr:168.100.249.107  P-t-P:168.100.250.1  
Mask:255.255.255.255

 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1492  Metric:1
 RX packets:278715 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
 TX packets:280248 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
 collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
 RX bytes:155755125 (148.5 MiB)  TX bytes:67529994 (64.4 MiB)

$ route -e
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags   MSS Window  irtt 
Iface

168.100.250.1 *   255.255.255.255 UH0 0  0 ppp0
192.168.2.0 *   255.255.255.0   U 0 0  0 
eth0
192.168.1.0 *   255.255.255.0   U 0 0  0 
eth1

default 168.100.250.1 0.0.0.0 UG0 0  0 ppp0

I'm not getting any Internet connection by using the P-t-P address.
Only after I delete PPP0 and default gateway route and change them 
manually to the PPP0 inet address I get the desired connection.


When I change the routing addresses from 168.100.250.1 to 
168.100.249.107 I get:


$ route -e
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags   MSS Window  irtt 
Iface
249-107.custome *   255.255.255.255 UH0 0  0 
ppp0
192.168.2.0 *   255.255.255.0   U 0 0  0 
eth0
192.168.1.0 *   255.255.255.0   U 0 0  0 
eth1
default 249-107.custome 0.0.0.0 UG0 0  0 
ppp0


And everything works fine from here.

Is there something with my configuration messed up and I should get a 
proper connection through the P-t-P address?
Or is there a way to tell my system it should use the external address 
instead?


Thanks for any help,
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xmms doesn't play streams, complains couldn't connect to host

[H. S.]

Hi,

I am trying to make xmms play streams from websites and cannot get mp3
streams to work. From this page:
http://dir.xiph.org/index.php

I have tried Ogg streams on xmms and they work. The MP3 ones do not.
While trying to play an MP3 stream (.m3u file?), xmms reports "Couldn't
connect to host: :".

Any idea how to fix it?

Running Debian Testing on a PIV, 2.6.11-1-686 kernel.

thanks,
->HS

PS:
> COLUMNS=120 dpkg -l *xmms* *mpg* *mpeg* | grep ^i
ii  xmms 1.2.10+cvs20050209-2 Versatile X audio
player that looks like Winamp
ii  xmms-alarm   0.3.6xmms general
plugin for using xmms as an alarm clock.
ii  xmms-arts0.7.1-2  aRts Output plugin
for xmms
ii  xmms-cdread  0.14a-11 Input plugin for
XMMS that reads audio data from CDs
ii  xmms-finespectrum1.0.1a-6 XMMS Fine Spectrum
Analyzer Plugin
ii  xmms-flac1.1.1-5  Free Lossless
Audio Codec - XMMS input plugin
ii  xmms-goom1.99.4-4 visualization
plug-in for XMMS with a variety of effects
ii  xmms-infinity0.5.9-1  full-screen
visualisation effect for XMMS
ii  xmms-infopipe1.3-4General plugin for
XMMS, reports real-time information to a pipe
ii  xmms-iris0.12-1   advanced OpenGL
visualization plugin for XMMS
ii  xmms-jackasyn0.1-2JACK Output plugin
for xmms
ii  xmms-mad 0.8-1mp3 input plugin
for xmms based on libmad
ii  xmms-mp4 2.0.0-sarge0.2   a mp4/aac audio
player for xmms
ii  xmms-skins   0.5-1Skins for XMMS
ii  xmms-wmdiscotux  1.3-3Tux dancing to the
music played by xmms
ii  mpg321   0.2.10.3 A Free
command-line mp3 player, compatible with mpg123
ii  ffmpeg   20050427-0sarge0.1   audio/video
encoder, streaming server & audio/video file convert
ii  gstreamer-mpeg2dec   0.6.4-5.1MPEG1 and MPEG2
video decoder plugin for GStreamer
ii  libarts1-mpeglib 3.3.2-1  mpeglib is a mp3
and mpeg I video/audio library (Arts plugin)
ii  libmpeg1 1.3.1-2.1The MPEG library
calls for movie streams
ii  libmpeg2-4   0.4.0b-2 MPEG1 and MPEG2
video decoder library
ii  libmpeg3hv   1.2.2-3cvs20050528   advanced editing
and manipulation of MPEG streams (cinelerra's i
ii  libsmpeg00.4.5+cvs20030824-1.2SDL MPEG Player
Library - shared libraries
ii  mpeg2dec 0.4.0b-2 Simple libmpeg2
video decoder application
ii  mpegdemux0.1.2-3  MPEG1/2 system
stream demultiplexer
ii  mpeglib  3.3.2-1  mp3 and mpeg I
video/audio library for linux



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Re: How to change driver for NIC

[Carlos Rodrigues]

Ugo Bellavance wrote:

Carlos Rodrigues wrote:


So, I have Debian running inside VMware, and the NIC is detected as a
AMD PCnet (module pcnet32). I installed vmware-tools and would like to
know how to me Debian use the "vmxnet" driver instead.

How is the right way to change which module is loaded for a given hardware?


I guess you should find what to edit in /etc/modules.conf


I tried to add "alias pcnet32 vmxnet" to a new file under /etc/modutils, 
and then run "update-modules.modutils".


I did a similar thing on an Debian Alpha installation with "alias e100 
eepro100" (to force the use of "eepro100" instead of the default "e100" 
which keeps freezing on an ES40) and it worked, but for pcnet32/vmxnet 
it doesn't, and I can't figure out why.


Carlos Rodrigues


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Re: ntp and dynamic IP

[Vincent Smeets]

Hallo,

I have written a more elegant script. I have attached it (sorry) to this 
message and can be saved in the directory /etc/ppp/ip-up.d


It uses a key (and password) together with the command ntpdc to change 
the configuration of the ntp daemon.


If you enter the command "ntpdc -n -p", you get in the first column the 
ip-address of the peer, and in the second column the local address. I 
have found out that after an initial startup, the local address is 
filled with the address of your interface. If the address of the 
interface is changed (after a reconnect), ntp can't send the data from 
the old socket (with the old local address).


I have seen that peers added dynamicly by ntpdc have a local address of 
0.0.0.0 which is any-address. They keep on working after that the local 
address of the interface has changed.


My script skips local clocks (127.127.?.?) and dynamicly added peers 
(0.0.0.0). Alle other peers are removed (unconfig) and added (addserver) 
again. At the end are some public available peers added, so that I 
always have at least 4 peers.



I hope it is usefull,
Vincent Smeets


Ricardo Yanez wrote:

my ISP disconnects me once a day, so that I won't keep a quasi-static IP
I don't pay for. Now, pppd reconnects swiftly, but ntp doesn't seem to
like this anyway. Soon after the dis-/reconnect I get this:




Feb  9 13:15:01 zwerg ntpd[4732]: sendto(192.53.103.104): Invalid argument
Feb  9 13:15:07 zwerg ntpd[4732]: sendto(130.149.17.21): Invalid argument
Feb  9 13:16:08 zwerg ntpd[4732]: sendto(195.145.119.188): Invalid argument
Feb  9 14:41:27 zwerg ntpd[4732]: synchronisation lost




As it will never recover, I resorted to restarting ntp every day. But
surely, there's a more elegant solution. Or is there?



Hi,
An elegant (I think) way of solving this is to 
put scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-[up|down].d/ to stop 
and start ntpd when pppd reconnects.


My /etc/ppp/ip-down.d/ntp-server simply says,

-
#!/bin/sh

[ -x /usr/sbin/ntpd ] || exit 0

echo "Stopping NTP server"
/etc/init.d/ntp-server stop
-

and my /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ntp-server,

-
#!/bin/sh

[ -x /usr/sbin/ntpd ] || exit 0

echo "Starting NTP server"
/etc/init.d/ntp-server start
-

Just make sure these scrips are executable (755).

Ricardo


#!/bin/sh
#
keyid=1
passwd=`awk -v keyid="$keyid" '$1 == keyid { print $3 }' /etc/ntp.keys`

ntpdc -n -p | awk -v keyid="$keyid" -v passwd="$passwd" '
BEGIN {
print "keyid", keyid
print "passwd", passwd
}
NR <= 2 ||
$1 ~ /^.127\.127\./ {
next
}
$2 == "0.0.0.0" {
server_count += 1
peer = substr($1, 2)
next
}
$1 ~ /^[=*]/ {
server_count += 1
peer = substr($1, 2)
print "Updating peer", peer > "/dev/stderr"
print "unconfig", peer
print "addserver", peer
next
}
END {
for (; server_count < 4; server_count++) {
peer = "de.pool.ntp.org"
print "Adding peer", peer > "/dev/stderr"
print "addserver", peer
}
}
' | ntpdc

Fudforum and eGroupware.

[Ralph Crongeyer]

Hi all,
I was playing around with Fudforum and added some entrys and then decided to
"reset" the app to get rid of test enterys by (probebly stupidly)
uninstalling Fudforum and reinstalling it via the eGroupware setup. And now
it's broken. When loged in as admin I click on the Fudforum all I get is a
blank page, no left menu or top menu icons at all? When I try to go to
Administration and click on Fudforum site configuration I get the same
result, a blank page?

Can someone help me with this?

Thanks
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Re: sarge and software patents

[Guillaume TESSIER]

Kent West wrote:


Guillaume TESSIER wrote:

 


My little sister could  register on a web site.
   



and

 


If tomorrow my job is to migrate Linux plateforms onto windows, then
i'll feel like  and will soon be unemployed.
   




Realizing that different cultures have different concepts of "foul
language", this is just a reminder of Debian's stated policy, from
http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/:

 


   Code of conduct


Do not use foul language; besides, some people receive the lists via
packet radio, where swearing is illegal.
   




 

There are other languages and behaviors that don't use  or  bit 
are much worst.


There is a huge misinformation campaign to make deputies think software 
patents are necessary for innovation.
Many people are mooving. Like writing letters to their deputies and to 
newspapers.


The more people would have been reacting, the more chance we would have 
to avoid the disaster.
It's sad that software has to deal with politics. Also sad you think i'm 
the bas guy.


G


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Re: Printing on a shared printer from debian to Novell Server

[Almut Behrens]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 10:05:01PM +0200, Almut Behrens wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 09:37:26PM +0700, Prabu Subroto wrote:
> > 
> > I work at a workstation and my workstation is associated in a LAN. My
> > internet connection is only through http proxy server. So if I want to
> > go to internet, I have to set my internet browser for the ip number and
> > the port number of the proxy server such as http://10.152.16.10:8080.
> > 
> > Now, I have to get and install some softwares from the internet for my
> > debian linux. I want to use apt-get (I am tired of dependancy problem)
> > but connected to the internet only through proxy server. How can I do
> > that?
> > 
> > I now /etc/apt/sources.list. but there, I can only define the server of
> > destination such as ftp://ftp.de.debian.org but I can not define the
> > proxy server of our LAN and also its port number.
> 
> I think you need to set (in /etc/apt/apt.conf)
> 
> Acquire::http::Proxy  http://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:8080

Minor correction... That should in fact be:

Acquire::http::Proxy  "http://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:8080";


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Solved Re: GD and eGroupware.

[Ralph Crongeyer]

Michael Ott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
>Hello Ralph!
>
>> I just installed eGroupware (on Sarge via aptitude) and when I run the
>> Check Installation script it checks for installed components, one of
>> witch is GD, and it fails to see GD?
>> Here's the error I get:
>> 
>> [Warning]  Checking for GD support...: False
>> Your PHP installation does not have appropriate GD support. You need gd
>> library version 1.8 or newer to see Gantt charts in projects.
>> 
>> Yet, dpkg -l php4-gd shows that it is installed?
>Look at the php.ini and look for gd. The extension line does not have
>any comments. Restart apache
>
>CU
> 
>  Michael  
>  
>--   
>   Michael Ott, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.zolnott.de 
> 
>I am registered as user #275453 with the Linux Counter,
>http://counter.li.org.
>

It worked!

Thanks!

Ralph

Re: Setting defaults for ulimit

[Ugo Bellavance]

Paulo M C Aragão wrote:
> Does anybody know where the defaults for ulimit are set ?
> 
> I couldn't find anything in /etc.
> 
> Thanks
> Paulo
> 
> 

Probably /etc/security/limits.conf
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Re: Printing on a shared printer from debian to Novell Server

[Almut Behrens]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 09:37:26PM +0700, Prabu Subroto wrote:
> 
> I work at a workstation and my workstation is associated in a LAN. My
> internet connection is only through http proxy server. So if I want to
> go to internet, I have to set my internet browser for the ip number and
> the port number of the proxy server such as http://10.152.16.10:8080.
> 
> Now, I have to get and install some softwares from the internet for my
> debian linux. I want to use apt-get (I am tired of dependancy problem)
> but connected to the internet only through proxy server. How can I do
> that?
> 
> I now /etc/apt/sources.list. but there, I can only define the server of
> destination such as ftp://ftp.de.debian.org but I can not define the
> proxy server of our LAN and also its port number.

I think you need to set (in /etc/apt/apt.conf)

Acquire::http::Proxy  http://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:8080

(leave out the user:pass@ part, if you don't need to login)

The manpage apt.conf(5) also states it would honour the setting of the
general environment variable "http_proxy" -- which is also used by
other tools, such as wget.

Similar options exist for FTP, in case you should need those, too.

Almut


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Re: two basic "new to Debian" questions: network config & RMS

[Marty]

s. keeling wrote:

RMS seems to have disagreements with just about everyone but himself.


RMS more than any public figure I know of, seems to generate these ad
hominem attacks against himself.  He's also the most intelligent and
relentlessly logical writer and speaker of any public figure I know of.

D'ya think there's a connection?  Naaah, couldn't be!


See the latest BS that's going on between Gnu and OpenBSD for
example.  As for where to go to look into it, Google,
lists.debian.org, and debian.org should get you there.


I didn't find anything on the controversy, but here's what I did find:

http://www.monkey.org/openbsd/archive/misc/0301/msg00038.html:
  * From: Theo de Raadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
  * Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2003 23:34:03 -0700
  The FSF nearly goes out of their way to not credit other's efforts.  I
  say to hell with them.

http://www.fsf.org/news/fsaward2004.html
  Theo de Raadt presented with the 2004 Free Software Award

I post these for readers with an appreciation of irony.  On slashdot
these examples would be moderated +5 funny! :-)

Pattern.  No explanations needed.  If Stallman speaks up, it's just BS.


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Re: Debian Base Install to many un-necessary packages?

[Joey Hess]

David Nicholls wrote:
> I've just downloaded the latest netinst iso of debian.
> 
> I usually do not select any packages to install when prompted, and
> although the installer still insists on installing a large number of
> unneeded files (dictionarys, nano etc) I usually press contol-C to
> cancel that and then manually add vim and ssh... which is really all I
> ever want, at least initally.
> 
> However, on the latest version, the control-C did not actually stop the
> installation!
> 
> Any ideas on how to stop this?

Select "manual package selection" from the menu and use it to
select/de-select exatly what you want to install.

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Re: Setting defaults for ulimit

[Lee Braiden]

On Thursday 30 Jun 2005 20:41, Paulo M C Aragão wrote:
> Does anybody know where the defaults for ulimit are set ?
> I couldn't find anything in /etc.

/etc/security/limits.conf

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Re: /proc hard link count wrong.. bug?

[Lee Braiden]

On Thursday 30 Jun 2005 19:43, Martin Dickopp wrote:
> However, a mismatch does *not* necessarily indicate a "bug in the
> filesystem driver." It can also occur if directories are created or
> deleted between the time the hard link count is obtained and the time
> the number of subdirectories is obtained.

Hmm.  Which is probably very likely to happen, with a dynamic FS like /proc.  
Now I feel bad for submitting that kernel bug :D

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Re: libstring-approx-perl broke updating Woody to Sarge

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Lance Tagliapietra wrote:
> In any case, I decided to go and attempt the upgrade, and have run into 
> the following problem now when attempting to use apt-get or dpkg or 
> aptitude:
> 
> dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 41026 
> package `libstring-approx-perl':
>  field name `Sectch' must be followed by colon
> 
> I'm kinda in a catch-22, since even dpkg -l will abort with that error, 
> nor can I seem to install or remove packages, as that error will come 
> up.

Have you tried just removing the offending line? Or removing the whole section
related to libstring-approx-perl (it doesn't really look like a critical
package anyway)?

I guess dpkg will just re-add it during the next `apt-get update' run, but
hopefully the real problem is fixed at that time. Upgrading dpkg and apt-get is
probably also needed.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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Re: sarge and software patents

[Kent West]

Guillaume TESSIER wrote:

> My little sister could  register on a web site.

and

> If tomorrow my job is to migrate Linux plateforms onto windows, then
> i'll feel like  and will soon be unemployed.


Realizing that different cultures have different concepts of "foul
language", this is just a reminder of Debian's stated policy, from
http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/:

>
> Code of conduct
>
> 
> Do not use foul language; besides, some people receive the lists via
> packet radio, where swearing is illegal.


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Setting defaults for ulimit

[Paulo M C Aragão]

Does anybody know where the defaults for ulimit are set ?

I couldn't find anything in /etc.

Thanks
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Re: GD and eGroupware.

[Michael Ott]

Hello Ralph!

> I just installed eGroupware (on Sarge via aptitude) and when I run the
> Check Installation script it checks for installed components, one of
> witch is GD, and it fails to see GD?
> Here's the error I get:
> 
> [Warning]  Checking for GD support...: False
> Your PHP installation does not have appropriate GD support. You need gd
> library version 1.8 or newer to see Gantt charts in projects.
> 
> Yet, dpkg -l php4-gd shows that it is installed?
Look at the php.ini and look for gd. The extension line does not have
any comments. Restart apache

CU
 
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Re: display resolution

[Csanyi Pal]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 12:03:09PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> The man page lists only a few parameters for the 
> .videogen configuration file.  All others are only
> command line parameters.  That is a little awkward.

My .vodeogen configuration file is:
mode 800x600# process several modes at a time
nvidia=off
max_dotclk=65
max_hfreq=54; max_vfreq=120# more parameters per line possible
desired_vfreq=85

I red the Maximum dot rate (max_dotclk) value forth manual of the 
Philips 104B monitor: 65 MHz.
 
> I am not sure of the oscillator frequency.  There
> is a metal device on the card, engraved with the
> number 14.318.  That is the oscillator at 14.318 MHz?
> 
> No guesses at the vertical and horizontal frequencies.
> Without the scan frequencies, videogen probably can 
> not work.

You should try to find these values on the Internet, say eg. for my 
monitor I wrote the following in the Google: 
Philips 104B monitor technical specs. This provide to me some of the 
wanted informations. :-(

Or try the http://www.monitorworld.com site.
 
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Re: MythTV

[Daniel Johnson]

Also, I don't know if this is a factor or not, but most of the channels I want
to record are digital cable (that includes BBC America, Sci-Fi and manyothers).  I don't know if Myth TV or any other homebrew system handles
digital cable signals.
Many HDTV capable tuners can also handle digital cable.  The
problem is that many if not most digital cable channels are encrypted
so even if you can tune them it doesn't do you any good.  

Re: boot.log not present

[Marco Calviani]

Thanks,
  now i have the file (/var/log/boot) that i was searching for.

Regards,
MC

Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote:

 


Hi,
  i would like to have all the information from the boot process, that
i've checked are not present in *dmesg*. From other distribution i was
used to boot.log that i've seen is not present in my Sid box.
Any ideas on how to abilitate it?
   



Enable it in /etc/default/bootlogd


 




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Re: Adaptec Serial ATA RAID 1210SA

[Jonathan Opperman]

On 30 Jun 2005, at 4:21 PM, Jonathan Opperman wrote:



On 30 Jun 2005, at 1:30 PM, Jonathan Opperman wrote:



On 17 Jun 2005, at 12:24 AM, Wolfgang Schulze-Zachau wrote:


Hi all,
 
Is there any further development planned regarding the adaptec 
1210SA adapter ?
I would be seriously interested in buying this if there is a way to 
make it work under debian

 
Regards
Wolfgang Schulze-Zachau
Manticore Software Ltd




Hi all,

I do not see any responses to Wolfgang, i also want to know if 
someone among
us did ever in their existence get this working. I don't want to buy 
the card if
I can not install Debian ( I want to use 
debian-31r0a-i386-netinst.iso).


I would appreciate any comments or stories about this please?

Thanks,

Regards,

Jono





Is the answer perhaps:

It's not hardware RAID. It is software RAID, provided by the BIOS on 
the card.?


If anyone cares to answer.






Maybe dmraid?

As per http://tienstra4.flatnet.tudelft.nl/~gerte/gen2dmraid/ ?

Are all the "gurus" asleep? :)

Re: sarge and software patents

[Guillaume TESSIER]

Adam Hardy wrote:



I tried to register myself on the German anti-software-patent site, 
but failed - I can't remember why, 


Fine Adam.

Your "tried to register on the anti-software-patent site, but failed".

You're really that kind of person that make software patents would 
happen. My little sister could fucking register on a web site. You don't 
even know the name of those who are helping you to keep your liberty to 
continue to create and use the software you want.


but if you need help or support, you need to make it really really 
simple for people to give it.


No comment.


Consternation.




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Re: two basic "new to Debian" questions: network config & RMS

[Martin Dickopp]

vineyard saker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> 1) during my install I was not connected to the Internet (I had
> ordered the 14 Debian CDs from budgetlinuxcds) and I therefore did not
> configure my network card.  Now I would like to connect my computer to
> the rest of my computers on a home network.  What would you reccommend
> as the best application to do this?

Definitely ifupdown -- that's The Debian Way of networking. Install
the 'ifupdown' package, read 'man 5 interfaces', and set up
/etc/network/interfaces.

> 2) I vaguely remember hearing that there were some disagreements
> between the Debian team and Richard Stallman but I do not remember
> what caused it.  Could anyone point me to the right place to read up
> on this?

There are two disagreements I'm aware of. First of all, Debian thinks
works released under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) are
non-free, while RMS thinks they are free or the freedoms they lack
don't matter (I forgot which one). Secondly, Debian distributes both
free software and proprietary software (the 'non-free' section) in the
same way. Debian doesn't consider this to be a problem, RMS does.

Search the Debian mailing list archive for posts from RMS.

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Re: keep route table

[Roberto C. Sanchez]

On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 12:26:37AM +0700, Khanh Cao Van wrote:
> I've add many rule on route table but when restart my PC , they're
> gone . How to keep them remain ?

Add them in the /etc/network/interfaces file under the appropriate
device, e.g., eth0.  Check the man page for interfaces(5) for the proper
format.

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GD and eGroupware.

[Ralph Crongeyer]

Hi all,

I just installed eGroupware (on Sarge via aptitude) and when I run the
Check Installation script it checks for installed components, one of
witch is GD, and it fails to see GD?
Here's the error I get:

[Warning]  Checking for GD support...: False
Your PHP installation does not have appropriate GD support. You need gd
library version 1.8 or newer to see Gantt charts in projects.

Yet, dpkg -l php4-gd shows that it is installed?

How do I get eGroupware to see GD?

Thanks
Ralph

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Re: MythTV

[Hal Vaughan]

On Thursday 30 June 2005 10:34 am, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Wednesday June 29 2005 11:10 pm, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> > One other consideration is if your service provider provides any
> > type of service.  While I'm planning on eventually building a Myth
> > TV box, I have Comcast, and they provide a DVR unit for free (which
> > can be $300 or $400 or more for a TiVo), and their monthly fee is
> > less than TiVo.  My Comcast DVR has a firewire port, but I
> > understand that only works for HDTV output, which I don't yet have.
> >  Otherwise, I could play back a program on my DVR directly to my
> > VCR/DVD Burner box.  It also has an ethernet port, but I understand
> > that isn't in use yet.
>
> Here, comcast DVRs are a ripoff.  They charge you for the box, charge
> you to rent the box after that, charge you for the guide data for the
> box, then you turn the damn thing on and realize that you'd rather
> have teeth pulled or listen to Kenny G than use their fugly, slow
> interface or put up with the usually inaccurate guide data...

Interesting.  We have had the same cable company in Richmond, VA since the 
1980s (maybe even the late 1970s), but it's been bought, merged, etc.  At one 
point it was Time Warner, MediaOne, and others I can't remember.  I've had 
cable since around 1990 or so.  During that time, AT&T bought out MediaOne 
and provided the absolute worst service I've ever seen.  The local call 
center was shut down and calls were routed to Atlanta, which was shut down, 
and all calls were sent to Newfoundland or Toronto.  It could take 90 mins to 
3 hrs to get help.  AT&T was absolutely terrible and I know in some other 
cities they came damn close to losing their charter to operate.

After AT&T, Comcast took over and made a number of changes, including 
re-opening the local call center.  I've heard many people complain about 
them, but after AT&T, any company would have been wonderful.  In our area, 
though, Comcast has been outstanding (again, I'm aware that for many people 
that has not been the case).  It seems I got lucky.  While the interface 
could be nicer looking, it is not really slow, and using their DVR has been 
one of the easiest experiences I've ever had in using any recording device.

It's a damn shame all customers aren't treated that way.  I think if they all 
got the kind of service I've seen, they'd have a very different reputation.

> > Also, I don't know if this is a factor or not, but most of the
> > channels I want to record are digital cable (that includes BBC
> > America, Sci-Fi and many others).  I don't know if Myth TV or any
> > other homebrew system handles digital cable signals.
>
> When did Sci Fi leave the analog lineup?

In this area Sci-Fi was always a premium channel, but it's been on digital for 
several years now -- at least in our area.

I've also heard, in case it is of interest, from a Comcast employee in an 
answer center that they've made a deal with TiVo and in June of 2006, they'll 
replace their DVR service with TiVo.

As for me, it'll be around then or a little later that I'd finally have time 
to build a MythTV box.  As I said, though, I don't know if MythTV can read 
the signals for the digital channels.

Hal


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Re: easy vimdiff like program

[michael]

On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 17:07 +0200, Paolo Pantaleo wrote:
> I need to compare two files, in a quite accurate way, i tried vimdiff,
> but it is quite hard to learn.
> Does someone know about a program that makes the same of vimdiff, but
> is easier, and possibly for gnome/kde?

xxdiff
(occasionally crashes for me thou)


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Re: sarge and software patents

[Ugo Bellavance]

Guillaume TESSIER wrote:
> Adam Hardy wrote:
> 
>>
>> I tried to register myself on the German anti-software-patent site,
>> but failed - I can't remember why, 
> 
> 
> Fine Adam.
> 
> Your "tried to register on the anti-software-patent site, but failed".
> 
> You're really that kind of person that make software patents would
> happen. My little sister could  register on a web site. You don't
> even know the name of those who are helping you to keep your liberty to
> continue to create and use the software you want.

Keep your bad language for you please.  Could have been a server-side
technical problem.

> 
>> but if you need help or support, you need to make it really really
>> simple for people to give it.
> 
> 
> No comment.
> 
> 
> Consternation.
> 

Ok, then, what do you want us to do exactly?

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Re: GD lib's

[Ralph Crongeyer]

Ralph Crongeyer wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I just installed Gallery the PHP online photo gallery app, (on Sarge via
>aptitude) and when I run the setup script it checks for installed
>components, one of witch is GD, and it fails to see GD? Yet, dpkg -l
>php4-gd shows that it is installed?
>
>How do I get Gallery to see GD?
>
>Thanks
>Ralph
>
>  
>
Please disreguard. This is suposed to be for eGroupware not Gallery! Sorry.
I'll start a new thread.

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Re: Printing on a shared printer from debian to Novell Server

[michael]

On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 21:37 +0700, Prabu Subroto wrote:
> Dear my friends...
> 
> I work at a workstation and my workstation is associated in a LAN. My
> internet connection is only through http proxy server. So if I want to
> go to internet, I have to set my internet browser for the ip number and
> the port number of the proxy server such as http://10.152.16.10:8080.
> 
> Now, I have to get and install some softwares from the internet for my
> debian linux. I want to use apt-get (I am tired of dependancy problem)
> but connected to the internet only through proxy server. How can I do
> that?
> 
> I now /etc/apt/sources.list. but there, I can only define the server of
> destination such as ftp://ftp.de.debian.org but I can not define the
> proxy server of our LAN and also its port number.
> 
> Please tell me.
> 
> Thank you very much. 

eh? where's there anything about printing in the above?


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display resolution

[petereasthope]

Hello Paul,

Wed, 29 Jun 2005 23:16:41 +0200
> Use the videogen ...

Thanks for telling me about videogen.  I spent an 
hour or so with it.

The man page lists only a few parameters for the 
.videogen configuration file.  All others are only
command line parameters.  That is a little awkward.

I am not sure of the oscillator frequency.  There
is a metal device on the card, engraved with the
number 14.318.  That is the oscillator at 14.318 MHz?

No guesses at the vertical and horizontal frequencies.
Without the scan frequencies, videogen probably can 
not work.

This morning I made a boot diskette for Aos
(see http://bluebottle.ethz.ch/ ).  The Aos boot 
manager lists all available VESA modes.
24 bit color is not allowed for any resolution. 
1024x768x16 is available and 800x600x32 is available.

So I edited XF86Config-4 to provide only the 800x600
resolutions and only at 16 and 32 bit color.  Now the 
display is good!

This arrangement appears unsatisfactory in the sense 
that configurations for the X server and for the X 
client should be distinct.  The server should be able 
to offer configurations which do not work for a 
specific client.  Conversely, there should be a 
configuration file or command pararmeters to specify 
the preferred resolution, color depth and scan rate 
for a particular client device.  I have yet to find 
how X client parameters are specified.

Thanks for your help.  videogen helped me to focus.

Regards,  ... Peter E.


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Re: Promise FastTrak100 on Sarge install?

[Clive Menzies]

On (30/06/05 16:39), Roman Muñoz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to do a fresh sarge install on an Asus A7V mboard, but my
> stripping raid (20265) is not working. I see only two separated disks.
> 
> I see modules pdc202xx_old & pdc202xx_new on sarge install, both with
> 2.4 and 2.6 kernels, but I can't get them working :-(
> 
> I tried as many things as I found googleing only to get more and more
> confused. Boot parameters don't worked (tried the ide2=A,B+2 ide3=C,D+2
> thing) 
> 
> I would to get it working with 2.6 kernel if possible. What could I do?
> 
This reminds me of the problems I had setting up a server recently which
had the dreaded Promise FastTrak100 interface on the motherboard.  After
several days of enabling it and RAID, disabling RAID and various other
possibilities, I disabled it and plugged the two raid disks into the on
board IDE controller (yes I know, you shouldn't put more than on device
on each cable) and every thing worked fine.  Incidentally the operating
system is on a separate disk, the raid array is only for /home.

Regards

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Re: System exiting due to kernel....

[Marco Calviani]

Hi Nikita,
Thanks for the hint, but what is an OOM Killer?


Regards,
MC

Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote:

 


Hi,
 i'm currently running Debian sid with a custum 2.6.10 kernel. Whenever
i run, for example, azureus bittorrent client for more that (nearly) 1
hour my system exits from every program i was running under X and
restarts the X session.

This is the /var/log/messages results of the crash moment:

   



 


Any ideas of what can be the cause?
   


There was an OOM Killer - related bug in 2.6.10, I also faced it some time
ago. Now running 2.6.11 with uptime about 40 days and high load, no
problems.

So you should probably upgrade your kernel.


 




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Re: Help with broken Aptitude

[michael]

On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 11:10 +0100, Bryan Jackson wrote:
> Hello everyone.
> 
> I have a Debian Sarge box that was working fine until Sarge went stable.
>  Aptitude has started acting very strange,  in fact apt in general
> seems broken.  The symptoms are as follows.
> 
> 1.  I have had no upgrades when when I run "aptitude update, aptitude
> upgrade" since sarge went stable.
> 
> 2.  When trying to install a package from the command line using
> aptitude install  I get a "No installation cantidate" error.
> example:
> 
> violator:~# aptitude search apt-file
> p   apt-file   - APT package searching
> utility -- command-line interf
> 
> violator:~# aptitude install apt-file
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree
> Reading extended state information
> Initializing package states... Done
> Reading task descriptions... Done
> No candidate version found for apt-file
> No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
> 
> 
> The same happens using apt-get.
> 
> 3.  When using the gui in aptitude, when I search for a package I can
> see the package but in the version colums I see  .  But if I
> double click the package with the mouse I can see a version number in
> the section "Versions/" and if I double click that version number it
> will then appear in the version colums.  This causes problems when a
> package needs to install dependencies because the dependencies do not
> have a version number until until I do the doulble click, select version
> process.
> 
> 
> My sources.list
> 
> deb http://security.debian.org/ sarge/updates main contrib non-free
> deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ sarge main non-free contrib
> 
> 
> Does anybody have any advice on how to fix this ?

have you (tried to) update aptitude itself?

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Re: /proc hard link count wrong.. bug?

[Martin Dickopp]

"Nikita V. Youshchenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>> Just got the following warning:
>> 
>> find: WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for /proc: this may be a bug in
>> your filesystem driver.  Automatically turning on find's -noleaf option. 
>> Earlier results may have failed to include directories that should have
>> been searched.
>> 
>> Is find just spreading panic here, or should I report this somewhere?
>
> Probably you should file a bug against kernel package.

No, you should file a bug against findutils!

It seems that 'find' compares the hard link count of directories with
the number of subdirectories, and prints the above warning if they don't
match.

However, a mismatch does *not* necessarily indicate a "bug in the
filesystem driver." It can also occur if directories are created or
deleted between the time the hard link count is obtained and the time
the number of subdirectories is obtained.

Martin


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Kernel 2.6.8 & Keyboard Mapping on an Ultra 5

[Robert Wolfe]

Hi folks.  Successfully installed the 2.6.8 kernel on my Sun Ultra 5.  
However, when I go to boot with the new kernel the keyboard mapping is ALL 
WRONG on my Sun Type 5 keyboard -- the letter keys either type numbers or do 
not type at all and the number keys when Num Lock is is type letters.  
However, if I boot into the default 2.4.x kernel that ships with Debian, I 
have no problems.  Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can get this 
problem corrected?


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Re: Protecting against spoofing with IPTABLES

[Jon Dowland]

On 6/30/05, Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> iptables -F
> iptables -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT
> iptables -N SPOOF
> iptables -A SPOOF -i eth1 -j SPOOF

I think that's wrong. You're appending a rule to the SPOOF table which
specifies that all packets from eth1 are to be jumped to the SPOOF
chain.. that's an infinite loop.

However in that fragment you don't specify any way of getting into the
SPOOF table so nothing will happen.

Default policy for INPUT,FORWARD and OUTPUT are ACCEPT, so the four
rules above result in nothing.

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Re: ntp and dynamic IP

[Ricardo Yanez]

>
> my ISP disconnects me once a day, so that I won't keep a quasi-static IP
> I don't pay for. Now, pppd reconnects swiftly, but ntp doesn't seem to
> like this anyway. Soon after the dis-/reconnect I get this:

> Feb  9 13:15:01 zwerg ntpd[4732]: sendto(192.53.103.104): Invalid argument
> Feb  9 13:15:07 zwerg ntpd[4732]: sendto(130.149.17.21): Invalid argument
> Feb  9 13:16:08 zwerg ntpd[4732]: sendto(195.145.119.188): Invalid argument
> Feb  9 14:41:27 zwerg ntpd[4732]: synchronisation lost

> As it will never recover, I resorted to restarting ntp every day. But
> surely, there's a more elegant solution. Or is there?

Hi,
An elegant (I think) way of solving this is to 
put scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-[up|down].d/ to stop 
and start ntpd when pppd reconnects.

My /etc/ppp/ip-down.d/ntp-server simply says,

-
#!/bin/sh

[ -x /usr/sbin/ntpd ] || exit 0

echo "Stopping NTP server"
/etc/init.d/ntp-server stop
-

and my /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ntp-server,

-
#!/bin/sh

[ -x /usr/sbin/ntpd ] || exit 0

echo "Starting NTP server"
/etc/init.d/ntp-server start
-

Just make sure these scrips are executable (755).

Ricardo


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Re: No security updates for sarge ?

[Brian Nelson]

On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 04:51:18PM +0200, Hannes Mayer wrote:
> I've been wondering the past few days why there are no updates via
> "apt-get update/upgrade" (I have the correct entries in
> sources.list!). A few days ago I was reading at heise.de
> (http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/61076) that the security team
> seems to have "disappeared". In a previous thread I was reading that
> some updates are in the queue, but have not been released yet.
> I've seen some debian core team members posting on this list, so maybe
> someone can clarify what's happening.

http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/06/msg02365.html

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RE: Help with broken Aptitude

[Bryan Jackson]

Sorry for the multiple post major Windoze problems.  Thats why I run 
Debian on all of my home machines :-)



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Re: mailscanner got problem ....

[Cheng-Han Tsai]

I am here to ask this question because I found some people in the local
forum have the same problem with the mailscanner. So I think maybe
somebody has successful experience of installing mailscanner in Debian box.

Thanks



Ugo Bellavance wrote:

>Cheng-Han Tsai wrote:
>  
>
>>Dear all,
>>
>>Recently I installed MailScanner + Spamassassin for postfix. MailScanner
>>works very well for several hours after it startup. However, when time
>>goes by, MailScanner will just idle, even there are many messages
>>waiting in the postfix hold queue. The execution result of
>>"check_mailscanner" told me that it is fine, but actually it just stop
>>working !!! There is nothing in the log. Does anybody know what happen
>>?? Thanks.
>>
>>
>
>If you restart MailScanner, does it do anything?  Maybe you should ask
>the MailScanner mailing list...
>
>  
>
>>Cheng-Han
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>  
>


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Help with broken Aptitude

[Bryan Jackson]

Hello everyone.

I have a Debian Sarge box that was working fine until Sarge went stable.
Aptitude has started acting very strange,  in fact apt in general
seems broken.  The symptoms are as follows.

1.  I have had no upgrades when when I run "aptitude update, aptitude
upgrade" since sarge went stable.

2.  When trying to install a package from the command line using
aptitude install  I get a "No installation cantidate" error.
example:

violator:~# aptitude search apt-file
p   apt-file   - APT package searching
utility -- command-line interf

violator:~# aptitude install apt-file
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
No candidate version found for apt-file
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.


The same happens using apt-get.

3.  When using the gui in aptitude, when I search for a package I can
see the package but in the version colums I see  .  But if I
double click the package with the mouse I can see a version number in
the section "Versions/" and if I double click that version number it
will then appear in the version colums.  This causes problems when a
package needs to install dependencies because the dependencies do not
have a version number until until I do the doulble click, select version
process.


My sources.list

deb http://security.debian.org/ sarge/updates main contrib non-free
deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ sarge main non-free contrib


Does anybody have any advice on how to fix this ?


Many thanks in advance.


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Re: acrobat shortcuts

[Andras Lorincz]

Do you use acrobat 7 or 5? I had similar problems with acrobat 5 but
with version 7 the problem dissapeared.

On 6/30/05, roberto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, using acrobat reader i encounter the following problem:
> 
> ~:$ acroread
> Warning: locale not supported by C library, locale unchanged
> 
> then acrobat reader starts correctly but i can not use any of the shortcuts 
> like Ctrl+O, Ctrl+W
> and so on, so useful on a laptop, not to use the touchpad.
> 
> Do you know how to fix the problem?
> 
> Thak you
> 
> Roberto
> Debian Sarge
> kernel 2.6.8
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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boot incomplete. Due to /usr on lvm2?

[arthur . butler]

Hi. 

I'd be very grateful of some help here. Done lots of googling etc... 

My old HD is failing (IBM "DeathStar") so I've bought a new one. It's SATA. 
I wanted to use lvm2 to make resizing easier. I read about it, and found 
that having / on lvm2 made it harder to get it to boot. I found this post on 
this list: 

http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/04/msg00245.html 

which recommended using lvm2 for only /usr /tmp /home /opt /var. I thought 
that's be great-they're the ones that vary in size, and it'll boot. However 
it won't-it doesn't launch X, but does give a text log-in. I suspect it's 
because /usr is on lvm and not available as the machine boots. So, do I need 
to use the lvm-mkinitrd script I wanted to avoid?-Even though / itself isn't 
on lvm. What possible pitfalls would there be with that? Would you recommend 
not having /usr on lvm? If so, I may abandon lvm altogether, getting fed-up 
with it. I don't think the problem is with the drive being SATA, the PC gets 
to the console booting from it. I'm using testing, 2.6.11-1-k7 kernel and 
wanted to try out xfs, although I found some posts about file-system 
corruption with it and 2.6 series kernels, so may revert to ext3. I have 
/boot on a seperate partition. /etc/fstab has entries for the lvm lv's. I'm 
not sure how to get more boot diagnostics for this problem, I'm using RIP 
bootable recovery CD to work on the lvm partitions, and knoppix to send 
this... 

I'll post more info if you need it. 


Arthur.


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LDAP with Kerberos authentification

[Eugen Wintersberger]

Hi there
 I have a problem with slapd using Kerberos V (GSSAPI) authentification
on Debian 3.1 Sarge. The Kerberos configuration seems to be ok since
cyrus imap daemon uses it without any problems. 

I also added the appropriate principals to my Kerberos database and to
the krb5.keytab file:

 ldap/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 ldap/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

After getting my TGT with 

 > kinit admin

I tried a simple

 > ldapwhoami -h hubbard.hlphys.uni-linz.ac.at

and got the following error message

SASL/GSSAPI authentication started
ldap_sasl_interactive_bind_s: Internal (implementation specific) error (80)
additional info: SASL(-1): generic failure: GSSAPI Error: Miscellaneous 
failure (No principal in keytab matches desired name)

I got a similar error with cyrus imapd before I changed the "servername" 
variable in imapd.conf to the 
hostname. 
Has anyone an idea what I'm doing wrong?

thanks 

  Eugen


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Re: How to get my computers IP address

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On 2005-06-30, Mitja Podreka wrote:
> I have ADSL connection which I share over a router and Apache server 
> installed on my laptop running Debian Sarge. Before I started to share 
> ADSL connection I sometimes used the server to share bigger files with 
> my friends. I told them the URL of the file based on my current IP and 
> they could download the file directly from my computer/server.
> But now the IP I get from myip.com or from syslog file is the IP of the 
> router. Is it still possible to share files as I used to and how can I 
> do it? Which is my computer's IP now?

ip=$(lynx -dump http://cfaj.freeshell.org/ipaddr.cgi)


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Re: acrobat shortcuts

[Luis Finotti]

Hi,

roberto wrote:

Hi, using acrobat reader i encounter the following problem:

~:$ acroread
Warning: locale not supported by C library, locale unchanged

then acrobat reader starts correctly but i can not use any of the shortcuts 
like Ctrl+O, Ctrl+W
and so on, so useful on a laptop, not to use the touchpad.

Do you know how to fix the problem?

Thak you

Roberto
Debian Sarge
kernel 2.6.8


This is likely not the case, but...  Some older versions of acroread did 
not respond to shortcuts if you had "Num Lock" on.  But since you are 
using on a laptop, I doubt it is the case.  Just in case...


Luis


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