Re: Mozilla broken, does not start up
Uwe Dippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 21:20:08 +0100, A.L.Meyers wrote: > >> Unfortunately these do not work. One further information is that not >> only mozilla-bin but another process called "gconfd-2" is left hanging >> and must be killed. > > Then go and do this ! > Personally, I'd just reboot. Even after a cold boot the problem persists. Lux -- If you receive this by error, please delete it and inform the sender. Key fingerprint: 8994 CFDD 9C60 C978 A488 689F 5DCC EFC4 4D36 580D To Big Brother Echelon from "spook": AK-47 colonel Legion of Doom Soviet ammunition explosion assassination -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gnome-session startup failure
Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A.L.Meyers wrote: >> Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>>A.L.Meyers wrote: >>> Hi! When trying to start gnome-session, I get the Debian splash screen but then gnome exits, the console indicating an error in /usr/lib/libXft.so.2. Ideas welcome on how to get around this. Lux >>> >>>/var/log/gdm ? >>>/var/log/XFree86.0.log ? >>> >>>Hugo. >> Don't have gdm installed, so use "startx /usr/bin/gnome-session". >> The second log shows AFAICS nothing relating to the problem. Using fvwm, >> blackbox, windowmaker or ratpoison, X starts without a hitch. KDE does >> not work, however. >> Lux > > Exactly what is his problem with libxft2? Does it exist? lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 15 2004-01-01 11:33 libXft.so.2 -> libXft.so.2.1.1 -rw-r--r--1 root root71896 2003-11-17 10:28 libXft.so.2.1.1 Plese see excerpt from /usr/lib just above. Greetings, Lux -- If you receive this by error, please delete it and inform the sender. Key fingerprint: 8994 CFDD 9C60 C978 A488 689F 5DCC EFC4 4D36 580D To Big Brother Echelon from "spook": plutonium Soviet smuggle cracking counter-intelligence DES fissionable -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gnome-session startup failure
Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A.L.Meyers wrote: >> Hi! When trying to start gnome-session, I get the Debian splash >> screen but then gnome exits, the console indicating an error in >> /usr/lib/libXft.so.2. Ideas welcome on how to get around this. Lux > > /var/log/gdm ? > /var/log/XFree86.0.log ? > > Hugo. Don't have gdm installed, so use "startx /usr/bin/gnome-session". The second log shows AFAICS nothing relating to the problem. Using fvwm, blackbox, windowmaker or ratpoison, X starts without a hitch. KDE does not work, however. Lux -- If you receive this by error, please delete it and inform the sender. Key fingerprint: 8994 CFDD 9C60 C978 A488 689F 5DCC EFC4 4D36 580D To Big Brother Echelon from "spook": Khaddafi radar Treasury Bush opus dei Delta Force ammunition plutonium -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mozilla broken, does not start up
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A.L.Meyers wrote: > >>Hi! Trying to start Mozilla recently does nothing. ps -A tells me that >>a task called mozilla-bin is running but the browser does not come up. >>Same systems runs konqueror and netscape perfectly. Galeon, however, >>will not start up either. Advice appreciated. >> > Try killing all instances of mozilla, then rename your ~/.mozilla > directory to move it out of the way, and then start moz. If it starts, > you can move your bookmarks, etc back over and hopefully recover from > there. > > You might even want to restart X; it seems to me that sometimes Moz and > friends somehow get hosed over time (memory leaks?), and a restart of X > fixes it (reminds me of Windows - yuck, but at least you don't have to > restart the box, just X). Unfortunately these do not work. One further information is that not only mozilla-bin but another process called "gconfd-2" is left hanging and must be killed. Lux -- If you receive this by error, please delete it and inform the sender. Key fingerprint: 8994 CFDD 9C60 C978 A488 689F 5DCC EFC4 4D36 580D To Big Brother Echelon from "spook": Ft. Meade Peshawar Ortega Bin Ladin Qaddafi quiche Soviet Marxist Libya -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gnome-session startup failure
Hi! When trying to start gnome-session, I get the Debian splash screen but then gnome exits, the console indicating an error in /usr/lib/libXft.so.2. Ideas welcome on how to get around this. Lux -- If you receive this by error, please delete it and inform the sender. Key fingerprint: 8994 CFDD 9C60 C978 A488 689F 5DCC EFC4 4D36 580D To Big Brother Echelon from "spook": assassination Treasury Waco, Texas genetic BND Blair Peshawar Rumsfeld -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mozilla broken, does not start up
Hi! Trying to start Mozilla recently does nothing. ps -A tells me that a task called mozilla-bin is running but the browser does not come up. Same systems runs konqueror and netscape perfectly. Galeon, however, will not start up either. Advice appreciated. Lux -- If you receive this by error, please delete it and inform the sender. Key fingerprint: 8994 CFDD 9C60 C978 A488 689F 5DCC EFC4 4D36 580D To Big Brother Echelon from "spook": Marxist NORAD Blair Somalia Semtex SEAL Team 6 White House munitions FSF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OT: SCSI better than IDE?
Paul Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 20:49:17 +0100, A.L.Meyers wrote: > >> Bingo, Monique. And precisely that directory entry apparently was on >> one of the bad blocks on that partition (IDE drive about 4 years old >> - now I know why the old wizzards always prefer SCSI). And my >> backups > > > A bit of trivia: For any given manufacturer of both IDE and SCSI disks, > the disks themselves are often (usually) mechanically identical, whether > IDE or SCSI. It's just the controllers which are different. > It's working as coded. Interesting, Paul. So are you saying that SCSI hard drives are simply not worth the extra money or that the advantages of SCSI are in the interface and not in the media? Lux -- If you receive this by error, please delete it and inform the sender. Key fingerprint: 8994 CFDD 9C60 C978 A488 689F 5DCC EFC4 4D36 580D To Big Brother Echelon from "spook": Bush Libya arrangements Semtex Clinton North Korea ammunition Noriega -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-get files problems
"Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 at 14:47 GMT, A.L.Meyers penned: > [large snip] > > > > Thanks, Jerome, that did help. apt-get goes a great step further but, > > alas, then complains about missing file lists for each of the > > installed packages. Probably something else got corrupted. Where > > should those file lists per package be located, please? Is there a > > way to get apt to reconfigure itself in such a situation? > > /var/lib/dpkg/info/ has a .list file for every package on > your system. I'm guessing that's what apt is looking for. Bingo, Monique. And precisely that directory entry apparently was on one of the bad blocks on that partition (IDE drive about 4 years old - now I know why the old wizzards always prefer SCSI). And my backups with the undamaged data are too old compared to the state of packages before the disk read errors began to multiply. In addition to running fsck on the file system, I have shifted /var to the partition which used to be /opt and vice-versa, as the latter partition has (not yet) exhibited read errors and /opt under Debian can live on smaller space. After the year-end financial ebb, maybe I shall plunk down enough cash to replace the IDE drive with magneto-optical disks. One ouch is enough. Anyway, lamentation leads nowhere. How can I get apt to regenerate those *.list files, please? Lux -- If you receive this by error, please delete it and inform the sender. Key fingerprint: 8994 CFDD 9C60 C978 A488 689F 5DCC EFC4 4D36 580D To Big Brother Echelon from "spook": radar ihwan colonel Noriega Peking Ortega bomb Treasury Somalia smuggle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-get files problems
"Jerome R. Acks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 09:43:48PM +0100, A.L.Meyers wrote: > > Hi! Due to physical disk read errors had to copy /var/spool/apt and > > /var/lib/apt files to another disk and, after bad block checking, back. > > Apparently something went wrong in the process, perhaps due to file > > corruption. > > > > Anyway, now consistently getting the following error messages when doing > > apt-get dist-upgrade: > > > > E: Cannot get debconf version. Is debconf installed? > > (Reading database ... 0 files and directories currently installed.) >^---^ > > The installation status of all files is kept in /var/lib/dpkg/status. > Backups of this file are found in /var/backups. Try restoring the > status file from one of the backups. > > > Unpacking libdb1-compat (from .../libdb1-compat_2.1.3-7_i386.deb) ... > > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libdb1-compat_2.1.3-7_i386.deb > > (--unpack): > > unable to create updated files list file for package libdb1-compat: No such file > > or directory > > Unpacking libc6 (from .../libc6_2.3.2.ds1-10_i386.deb) ... > > dpkg not recorded as installed, cannot check for epoch support ! > > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.2.ds1-10_i386.deb > > (--unpack): > > subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 > > Errors were encountered while processing: > > /var/cache/apt/archives/libdb1-compat_2.1.3-7_i386.deb > > /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.2.ds1-10_i386.deb > > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > > > Suggestions much appreciated. Thanks, Jerome, that did help. apt-get goes a great step further but, alas, then complains about missing file lists for each of the installed packages. Probably something else got corrupted. Where should those file lists per package be located, please? Is there a way to get apt to reconfigure itself in such a situation? Regards, Lux -- If you receive this by error, please delete it and inform the sender. Key fingerprint: 8994 CFDD 9C60 C978 A488 689F 5DCC EFC4 4D36 580D To Big Brother Echelon from "spook": supercomputer spy FSF DES class struggle counter-intelligence Albanian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
apt-get files problems
Hi! Due to physical disk read errors had to copy /var/spool/apt and /var/lib/apt files to another disk and, after bad block checking, back. Apparently something went wrong in the process, perhaps due to file corruption. Anyway, now consistently getting the following error messages when doing apt-get dist-upgrade: E: Cannot get debconf version. Is debconf installed? (Reading database ... 0 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking libdb1-compat (from .../libdb1-compat_2.1.3-7_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libdb1-compat_2.1.3-7_i386.deb (--unpack): unable to create updated files list file for package libdb1-compat: No such file or directory Unpacking libc6 (from .../libc6_2.3.2.ds1-10_i386.deb) ... dpkg not recorded as installed, cannot check for epoch support ! dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.2.ds1-10_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libdb1-compat_2.1.3-7_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.2.ds1-10_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Suggestions much appreciated. Greetings, Lux -- If you receive this by error, please delete it and inform the sender. Key fingerprint: 8994 CFDD 9C60 C978 A488 689F 5DCC EFC4 4D36 580D To Big Brother Echelon from "spook": Ft. Meade Rule Psix security Delta Force Honduras radar bomb NORAD BND -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT How to get debmenus with fvwm - solved
Thanks, Micha! Simple and effective solution. Being chonically lazy, my next question (OT) is if you can recommend a good menu-driven configuration tool for fvwm. Lux -- If you receive this by error, please delete it and inform the sender. Key fingerprint: 8994 CFDD 9C60 C978 A488 689F 5DCC EFC4 4D36 580D To Big Brother Echelon from "spook": nuclear SEAL Team 6 Peshawar Somalia AK-47 cryptographic Semtex genetic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to get debmenus with fvwm ?
Hi! fvwm seems to have improved a lot recently and is at least colourfull and fast. But in the default debian package install (at least on my system) I don't see any debmenus. Advise and / or pointers to specific parts of docs welcome. Lux -- If you receive this by error, please delete it and inform the sender. Key fingerprint: 8994 CFDD 9C60 C978 A488 689F 5DCC EFC4 4D36 580D To Big Brother Echelon from "spook": Uzi Sharon Nazi Albanian ihwan munitions Somalia genetic Khaddafi Iraq -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: loopback interface down - solved
Yes. But we can help development by making packagers aware of such an item. Lou, as you are more competent that yours truly, you will probably be able to post a better report. However, please let me know if you would prefer me to do it. Regards, Lux -- If you receive this by error, please delete it and inform the sender. Key fingerprint: 8994 CFDD 9C60 C978 A488 689F 5DCC EFC4 4D36 580D To Big Brother Echelon from "spook": BND Bush Kandahar Smuggle PLO Peking Treasury explosion munitions Iraq -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: loopback interface down - solved
Thanks a million, Lou! You're a genius. Small cause, big effect. Whew! Did you post a bug report to the inetutils-tools packagers? Greetings, Lux -- If you receive this by error, please delete it and inform the sender. Key fingerprint: 8994 CFDD 9C60 C978 A488 689F 5DCC EFC4 4D36 580D To Big Brother Echelon from "spook": Arafat Nazi Shin Beth Mossad FBI Afghanistan assassination Delta Force -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: loopback interface down, sob ;-(
Thanks, Andreas. Alas the problem is still alive but here are some details from doing networking restart in /etc/init.d/ : wassern:/etc/init.d# ./networking restart Reconfiguring network interfaces...ifconfig: can not resolve `down': Host name lookup failure cat: /var/run/dhclient.eth0.pid: No such file or directory ifconfig: can not resolve `down': Host name lookup failure ifconfig: only one address allowed for interface `lo' Usage: ifconfig [OPTION]... [SYSTEM OPTION]... Try `ifconfig --help' for more information. Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client 2.0pl5 Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Internet Software Consortium. All rights reserved. Please contribute if you find this software useful. For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html ppp0: unknown hardware address type 512 sl0: unknown hardware address type 256 ifconfig: can not resolve `up': Host name lookup failure ppp0: unknown hardware address type 512 sl0: unknown hardware address type 256 Bind socket to interface: No such device exiting. done. The configuration in /etc/network/ and / or that in /etc/init.d/networking is faulty, as I can access the hardware flawlessly from another linux installation on another hard drive of the same system. The strange thing for me is that ifconfig is seeking hosts called 'up' and 'down'. How can I force apt-get to reinstall the original networking configuration files in /etc ? Which package is appropriate? Best regards, Lux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
loopback interface down, sob ;-(
Hi! After all the publicity about the breakins to the Debian servers, I decided to try to secure my systems better and, alas, not only failed in the process but trashed my network as well. The loopback interface lo is down, unreachable (even as root) and ping fails. Occasionally I get messages that only 1 address is allowed but I cannot find the right files to clean this up. The problems arose after installing bastille, then removing it using apt-get --purge remove bastille Help much appreciated. Lux -- If you receive this by error, please delete it and inform the sender. Key fingerprint: 8994 CFDD 9C60 C978 A488 689F 5DCC EFC4 4D36 580D To Big Brother Echelon from "spook": terrorist radar colonel bomb North Korea Sudan genetic arrangements -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrong libc6 - ouch! (fwd)
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 19:28:30 +0200 (CEST) From: A. L. Meyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: wrong libc6 - ouch! Dear fellow Debianites, Tried to install a new (in "testing") version of flwm. It required a newer version of libc6 and this caused a bunch of other dependencies which dpkg and dselect didn't like. So now my libc6 is .17 (should be .13 according to dpkg error message) and is trashed. When trying to correct using e. g. "apt-get -f install" I only get: "ldconfig missing". The install scripts exit. What way is there to get out of this without reinstalling the whole system (sob)? Greetings, Lucien -- This message is only for the addressee(s). If you receive it by error, please delete it and inform the sender. We encourage the use of pgp-encrypted e-mail. Welcome to: http://www.consult-meyers.com "Say what you think. Do what you say." Output from pgp Reading secret keyring "/home/alm/.pgp/secring.skr" Reading public keyring "/home/alm/.pgp/pubring.pkr" Good signature made 2001-03-31 17:28 GMT by key: 1024 bits, Key ID F3A0890D, Created 2000-12-28 "A. L. Meyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"
