Re: ATI RADEON 7500 and X problem
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 03:16:52PM -0800, Tim Moss wrote: You need XFree 4.2.0 for Radeon 7500 support but I don't think 4.2.0 is available as Debian packages yet. All very true. Before you bug the maintainer (like I did...) Check his webpage for updates: http://people.debian.org/~branden/
Re: ati radeon XF86Config
Thanks for the info - you're spot on. The maintainer says he's working on 4.2 right now. On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 01:01:17AM -0600, Adam Majer wrote: You need 4.2 for 7500.. 7500 is basically identical to regular Radeon just different ID that's why it's not detected. I would file a bug against X that a new version should be installed in _experimental_ as it was said that woody will go with 4.1.0 X series.
ati radeon XF86Config
I just went out and got an ATI Radeon to replace my dusty old video card. However, X doesn't seem to like my configuration for it, and won't start as a result. Can anyone supply a copy of their working XF86Config-4 they use with the ATI Radeon? Here's a few choice lines from my configuration - can you spot the error? Section Device Identifier ATI Radeon Driver ati #VideoRam65536 # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate EndSection Section Screen Identifier Screen 1 Device ATI Radeon Monitor NEC DefaultDepth 24 ... EndSection This generates the following errors during the start up of X: (II) ATI: ATI driver (version 6.3.6) for chipsets: ati, ativga (II) R128: Driver for ATI Rage 128 chipsets: ATI Rage 128 RE (PCI), ATI Rage 128 RF (AGP), ATI Rage 128 RG (AGP), ATI Rage 128 RK (PCI), ATI Rage 128 RL (AGP), ATI Rage 128 Pro PD (PCI), ATI Rage 128 Pro PF (AGP), ATI Rage 128 Pro PP (PCI), ATI Rage 128 Pro PR (PCI), ATI Rage 128 Mobility LE (PCI), ATI Rage 128 Mobility LF (AGP), ATI Rage 128 Mobility MF (AGP), ATI Rage 128 Mobility ML (AGP) (II) RADEON: Driver for ATI Radeon chipsets: ATI Radeon QD (AGP), ATI Radeon QE (AGP), ATI Radeon QF (AGP), ATI Radeon QG (AGP), ATI Radeon VE (AGP) (II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0 (II) ATI: Candidate Device section ATI Radeon. (WW) ATI: PCI/AGP Mach64 in slot 1:0:0 could not be detected! (EE) No devices detected. Fatal server error: no screens found
Re: ati radeon XF86Config
On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 10:15:47AM -0500, Timothy Burt wrote: 1) Have you compiled support for agpgart in the kernel? And are you using the kernel-supplied radeon driver? Following your suggestion, I installed the radeon driver in the kernel. This caused a temporary disruption in display, and then some garbage on the screen, but then worked fine for console. I attempted to restart, but got the same error messages from X. I'm not too sure what flavor of radeon I have other than the tag on the static bag - 'ATI Radeon 7500 64MB AGP OEM w.DVI'. I guess at this point, I should either wait for X 4.2, or file a bug.
mysterious kernel panic at start up and it's workaround
I upgraded my kernel using the prepackaged 2.4.17 pentium pro kernel. On bootup, I get the following message: Request_module[block-major-3] Root fs not mounted VFS: Cannot open root device 303 or 03:03 Please append a correct root= boot option Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 03:03 The funny thing is that if I use the append root=/dev/hda3 in lilo.conf, it doesn't work. However if I load the debian rescue disk and specify root=/dev/hda3, the kernel boots fine. Why won't it just boot? I've partitioned my drive to use /dev/hda1 as /boot and /dev/hda3.
S/Key Password prompt using ssh
I recently upgraded my workstation to the latest unstable. Then, I attempted to ssh into a freebsd server I do some work on, but got the following unusual message: otp-md5 128 fl6641 ext S/Key Password: I'm not exactly sure what it's asking for, and using my password doesn't work. Using the version of ssh on my workstation, I am able to ssh into a debian stable box, and from there, ssh into the freebsd box. However, this is really sub-optimal, since I want to work from my workstation, and not the local server. What's going on?
Re: Can't startx due t fixed fonts
I didn't see the original post, but I just ran into this 2 days ago on a system upgrade. I suspect something is broken in the package dependencies, but I'm not sure where. I did many searches on google and the debian lists and found some solutions. None of them worked for me, but most of them all followed the same pattern of: 1. remove all of your x packages 2. reinstall all of your x packages I tried several different permutations of this, and all of them failed. Finally, I used the tasksel program, and selected something like x-window-system. It churned away for a while, and when it was done, x sort of worked. The 'sort of' part is that the config file it generated from the questions I answered in the dpkg configure script made it so that X couldn't figure out what kind of screen I had specified. Luckily, I had my config file from an earlier installation lying around and plugged that one in place. On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 05:28:05PM +1300, Cameron Kerr wrote: Everytime I go to startx I get the error message that it can't find Fixed Fonts and x dies. Apparently this is a known problem and there is a fix for it. But after 2 hours of searching all I have is a headache. I've poked around in XF86Config but there was nothing there about fixed fonts either. Anyone know what the fix is and if so could you tell me.
evolution and conduits
First, thank you so much for making the pre-release of evolution available! It looks pretty darn good. However, one piece that I've been looking for is the pilot-evolution conduit. The gnome control center I have (1.4.0.1-13) allows me to set gnome-pilot-conduits (0.7-1) which include EAddres, ECalendar, and EToDo which ximian claims are the conduits used by gnome-pilot (1.63-1) to do synchrnization. I can enable and specify the settings for ECalendar, and EToDo. However, when I attempt to enable or specify the EAddress settings, I get the error message: Unable to instantiate EAddress conduit on synch, gpilotd emits 3 these warnings: Loading conduit e_address_conduit failed! Loading conduit e_calendar_conduit failed! Laoding conduit e_todo_conduit failed! Are these conduits only partially available (in name, but not code), or is it simply a bug?
Re: Debugger DDD with gdb
As has been pointed out, your problem description isn't very clear. There could be a lot of reasons for 'failure.' To answer your other question - I like both insight and ddd. I don't know if insight will work with the debian stable distribution. On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 01:37:05PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all. I have installed DDD, and it looks neet, however when I am stepping thru a simple program it fails on an ifstreem. This same executable does not fail when run from xterm. Is there an option that I missed to tell DDD not to fail when opening input files? Or is there a better graphical front end? Maybe this is a limitation with GDB? I am running Stable version of Debian, using g++ Thanks! xucaen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: customizing Emacs
Though the question has been answered, I think you'll find this resource valuable when dealing with emacs customization: http://www.dotfiles.com/ On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 04:23:06PM +0300, Tuomas Pellonpera wrote: Hi! I am trying to customize my Emacs and its cc-mode. I prefer bsd style, AKA Allman style, to the gnu style. With the help of http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/emacs/cc-mode_22.html, I was able to change the style to bsd. However, I noticed that in bsd style the indentation level seems to be 4. I would like it to be 3. How could I accomplish this SIMPLE customization? I tried to find the answer in http://www.gnu.org/manual/emacs-20.3/html_mono/emacs.html, but no avail. (I'm sure the answer IS there, I just couldn't get it.) I pasted my erroneus .emacs file at the end of this message. Could someone show me how to set the indentation level to 3? Much oblige! ** BEGIN of my .emacs ** (defun my-c-mode-common-hook () ;; use Allman (BSD) style for all C like languages (c-set-style bsd) ;; other customizations can go here ;; This is where something goes WRONG. :-( (c-style-alist (bsd c-basic-offet . 3)) ) (add-hook 'c-mode-common-hook 'my-c-mode-common-hook) ** END of my .emacs **
Re: logging Firewall traffic
I use ippl to track network traffic. I've never configured it to track things like NAT usage, or anything complex. However, by combining some carefully chosen ipchains with the -l option with ippl, you should be able to log most anything. http://pltplp.net/ippl/ http://packages.debian.org/stable/net/ippl.html On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 09:18:35AM -0700, Mike Egglestone wrote: Hi, I have 2 nics in my server with ipmasq installed. I would like to have some kind of information of how much data is passing through the firewall. I use squid for Internet access, and so I can use squid's logs to view web browsing, but it doesn't really tell me how much data went through, at what times, etc. Is there such a package out there that can monitor data travelling through your server? Thanks for your help!! Cheers, Mike
Re: free proxy server
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=free+proxy+servern=25 http://www.google.com/search?q=free+proxy+server Try search engines. They still work. On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 06:38:51AM +0800, a wrote: Do you know any free proxy server on the Internet?
exim and aliases
I have a computer with multiple domains which point to it. One of the domains is dedicated to a group of friends that will use it for email, web stuff, etc. I offered to give everyone on the box aliases through /etc/aliases but I get an error in testing. In aliases - localemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] When I send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] exim freezes the message with the following error: Message 15kDqZ-0002Hs-00 has been frozen. The sender is [EMAIL PROTECTED]. The following address(es) have yet to be delivered: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: lowest numbered MX record points to local host I think that bind is configured correctly, but I'm not sure that the 'loverangers.org' domain has filtered out to the net at large. Could that be affecting it. I help administer a freebsd box with sendmail, and this exact kind of aliasing works great. I just want to have handy aliases for my friends and not really tweak the box. What can I change to get this to work?
using convert to batch convert
I have many, many images that I want to scale down using imagemagick's convert utility. The convert utility doesn't seem to work correctly unless you give it an output name per input filename, but the man page doesn't make it clear how to do this, and I'm stumped as to how to generate a new name for each input file name. The command I would expect to work: convert -sample 50% * only converts the last file in the directory, and converts it twice (!) to a filename with '.0' and '.0.0' appended. Any way I can use convert in some kind of batch mode?
Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 12:52:48PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: they should rename KIllustrator to: Adobe Illustrator Replacement that should be covered by fair use (it only refers to adobe illustrator which is allowed) How about one better: Free Adobe Illustrator Replacement aka: FAIR
uudecode files with multiple encoded files
I have a few files that contain multiple uuencoded files inside of them. As it stands uudecode will only decode the first one in the file, so I load up the file in an editor and delete the first encoded file, and uudecode the larger file again to extract the next uuencoded file. This is a pain. I searched for a good method to do this, but was unable to find anything useful. It occurs to me that it might work to use something like sed that can have multiple output files, but I don't know of any utilities that do this. Any advice to save time on the edit, uudecode, edit, uudecode cycle?
making an 'Eterm' terminfo entry
I recently put together a new debian box based on unstable. When I connect to my local server running debian stable using ssh in Eterm, the server complains when I run ncurses based applications such as emacs that there is no 'Eterm' TERM type. I hacked a solution quickly enough by creating a symlink /etc/terminfo/E/Eterm which pointed to /etc/terminfo/x/xterm. This problem is new, and probably pops up with the latest version of Eterm (I have another box based on unstable that I haven't upgraded for at least a month that works fine) which exports a TERM that stable doesn't recognize. This seems like a resonable solution. Is there a better one? It doesn't smell like a bug, but should I report it against Eterm?
Re: libpcap0 question
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 03:03:08AM -0600, Curtis Hogg wrote: My question then, is this? How/where did the .so file come from? When I compiled libpcap 0.6.2 from source from www.tcpdump.org, all i got was a libpcap.a file. I'm also working on a project using libpcap and libpcap dev, and I noticed this little issue. However, I don't have to redistribute, so I wasn't worried. Try looking at the source, the diffs, and contact the maintainer if you're still wondering.
Re: logcheck
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 04:34:05PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have logcheck installed on a few systems. i cleared out most of the things generating the reports but..it still emails me every hour and the only contents of the email are the log entries of it sending the previous email(messages about root sending email to me using postfix). any way to get rid of those so only emails that contain something useful are generated? being emailed by a program about activities it performs isnt ideal for me :) After installing logcheck, the first thing I did was reduce the frequency of it spitting out emails. You can read up about this by reading the cron manpages and editing /etc/cron.d/logcheck. I modified it so that it sent out the email every day 5 minutes past midnight: 5 0 * * * roottest -x /usr/sbin/logcheck.sh nice -n10 /usr/sbin/logcheck.sh Another thing you want to keep in mind is that it only checks logs from other services that are running. So if you aren't running anything that logs stuff (apache, ftp, mail, ippl, etc) then you'll never see any logs.
Re: ip masquerade : which one?
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 02:13:34AM +1000, Kevin Easton wrote: ipmasq is the go. ipmasq is cool. ipmasq rocks your world. Just setup your internet access on the gateway machine, then when it's all working, apt-get install ipmasq - and you'll have ipmasquerading for all your local networks. No configuration required. Well, it blew me away anyway. - Kevin. (And if you want to add any custom firewall rules, just add your own script to /etc/ipmasq/rules/). On that note, I would like to see some example scripts that address that issue. As part of the upcoming task-harden, it would be nice if someone would take on the task of adding .rul files which close most of the ports - perhaps a simple script which checks what services you have (www, ssh, etc) and leaves only those ports between 1-1024 open to the outside world.
What is rnews - why is it logging in my system?
I'm getting a strange log entry in my system, that happens every 14 minutes past the hour. I checked my chrontab and chron.d to make sure there's no unknown service running - but all I have is exim, postgresql, and logcheck and the standard daily, weekly, monthly scripts. Here's what a sample line looks like: Apr 11 07:14:01 garrison rnews: rejected connection What server? 'garrison' is the hostname of the machine. It's connected 24/7 to the net so it looks like someone is trying to make a news connection, but whoever is logging this activity (ippl?) isn't telling me where it's coming from so I can't block them. What's going on?
Re: Woody nukes Gnome
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 06:48:45PM -0700, David Steinberg wrote: Is there a simple way to remove the Ximian packages and replace them with the Woody ones? I was forced to pretty much purge everything that showed up with 'dpkg -l | grep ximian', and then reinstall x/gnome/enlightenment from the console. It was a pain, but proceeded quickly once I started.
Re: TNT2 and Potato XF86 3.3
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 11:36:00AM -0700, Brandon High wrote: In my workstation, I've currently got a Matrox G200 card. I recently came across a TNT2 card that I'd like to use instead, since it's a better card overall. Looking a /usr/share/doc/xserver-svga/README.NVIDIA is metions that only 16-bit color is supported. Not good. Has this been corrected in XF86-4? Or should I just stick with the G200? I have XF4 running at (I think) 32 as 8,8,8,8 on my TNT2 card. However, to get full use of it, I had to install the special nv driver.
Setting ippl mail frequency
I've searched through ippl.conf(5), google, cron.d, and the included documentation, but I just can't figure out how to set the frequency of reports from ippl. It's a really handy tool, and I like the fact that it logs all kinds of activity, and that I can selectively tell it not to log certain kinds of activity (such as an ssh connection from my workstation) - but it just emails me too much. Does anyone know how to set the ippl mail frequency?
Re: Setting ippl mail frequency
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 12:00:22PM +0200, Alson van der Meulen wrote: Does anyone know how to set the ippl mail frequency? ippl doesn't mail afaik, maybe you're running some logcheck like tool, that periodically sumarizes the logs, and mails odd things to you That's possible. I do have logcheck also installed, which may be compiling th ippl db files for me. I've changed logcheck's frequency in the cron.d from: 2 * * * * to 5 0 * * * I don't know what the first one is (every 2 minutes???) but the second one specifies to run just a little after midnight every day.
Re: newbie-esque: how to cut paste?
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 10:55:43AM -0600, will trillich wrote: what's the incantation? The only consistent cross-application method of copy and paste I'm aware of is to select text with the mouse, activate the window you want to paste into, and press the middle mouse button, or both simultaneously in 3 button emulation for a 2 button mouse. Once you get used to it, it is actually very speedy. I have also noticed that many (certainly not all!) programs share a clipboard, for example, if you copy text in mozilla (ctrl-c), then emacs will recognize it in its kill ring and allow you to yank it (ctrl-y).
Re: K guys here's a new one for me....
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 11:59:25AM -0500, C Mead wrote: The box did not have X on it and Lynx was becoming a bit of a pain, so I unplugged the ethernet and put it into one of those new powerbooks (very nice), so i could track down a solution for the error on the web. Found the solution plugged the ethernet back in and nothing couldn't ping anything virtually no connection except to ping itself. I had something very similer happen recently at my house after the last blackout in my neighborhood. I tried everything, but no net connection - I assumed I had fried the net card. In desperation, I power cycled the network switch (!) and everything came back. Have you tried power cycling every piece of hardware involved in your connection?
Yahoo messenger works
Simply FYI: I just downloaded yahoo's messenger rpm 0.93.0, converted it with alien to a deb, inspected it's contents, and installed the deb file. The distribution only contains a copyright and a /usr/local/bin/ymessenger binary file. After installation, the program works, and provides a nice alternative to the yahoo java messenger (which I can't get to work with mozilla.) I found a recent posting that indicated difficulty getting everybuddy and yahoo to play nicely. Admittedly, I haven't tried everybuddy, so I don't know how it compares. Interestingly enough, the file was compiled on a host called linuxbad.corp.yahoo.com - I wonder what they mean by 'linuxbad'? Aaron
Re: start-stop-daemon, postgresql, and options
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 10:26:54AM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: Greetings. Running a locally-compiled postgresql 7.0.3, I'm still trying to get it to start up automatically at boot time. The trick is, of course, to get it to start as user postgres instead of root. I've got it mostly working, using start-stop-daemon; the command is: start-stop-daemon --start path --exec path --chuid postgres My /etc/init.d/posgresql uses start-stop-daemon to launch /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/postgresql-startup which handles a lot of the details of running postgresql. Does your locally-compiled version come with that script?
Re: NVdriver problems
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 08:27:27PM -0600, Zac Epkes wrote: NO!!! the NVdriver does not work with 2.4.x kernels Use XFree 4.0.x [preferable 2] I'm another user running 2.4.1, with NVidia driver, GLX, and quake3 running just fine. :) (oh, and tux racer works good to - and is a great game)
Re: NVdriver problems
On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 10:39:21AM -0500, Kyle Girard wrote: Alright I've been trying to get this kernal module to work for a couple of days off and on without any success I have tried many different ways with many different kernels and I get natta, zip, zilch. Any help would be apprieciated... Here's my problem: ps This might be all my own dum fault since I've never been able to install a kernel module that I have built This is probably your problem. I had no issue with installing the nvidia drivers on my box other than the fact that is was a long winded process, and getting the glx module to work correctly was a pain. I got kernel-source 2.4.1-3, configured it to my needs, and built the kernel and then the modules with: # make-kpkg kernel_image # make-kpkg modules_image This created two files kernel-image-2.4.1_aaron.1_i386.deb and nvidia-kernel-2.4.1_0.9.6-2_i386.deb which I installed in succession using dpkg. After rebooting, everything was ready (and looked significantly better since I was using the entire 1280x1024 area of the screen.)
Re: enlightenment question
On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 09:52:05PM -0700, Mike Millner wrote: The colors show up but not the whole thing. I'm only getting colors and the menus change but not the background the way the sample pictures show. Not all themes actually come with the background shown in the snapshot at e.themes.org, and even when they do, it seems you have to manually select the background. Just set it manually through the settings menu.
Re: can't install new kernel
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 07:51:28PM +0100, Arkaitz wrote: I used kernel-package to build a new 2.4.2 kernel package for my woody machine, and installed it ok. The problem is that if I do uname -r, it still says that the kernel version is 2.2.17. I think everything is configured ok, in lilo.conf the default /vmlinuz image is a link to the 2.4.2 image in /boot as well. What am I doing wrong? You don't mention if you rebooted after the install. For kernel installations to complete, you have to reboot. Did you?
Re: X 4.0 Upgrade /etc/X11/X ?
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 12:25:36PM -0800, Terry Hancock wrote: $ X /tmp/x.out 21 X: Cannot stat /etc/X11/X (No such file or directory), aborting Indeed, there is no /etc/X11/X, but I don't know what should be there. Is it a symlink? If so, to what? This file should be a symlink to your xserver. Under xfree86 4, it should look like this: X - /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 If you're running xfree86 3, it will point to XF86_driver such as XF86_SVGA for a generic video card.
Re: apt-get..
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 11:00:45AM -0500, Dale Kosan wrote: Would this be the correct line to add for upgrading to testing: http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/ main contrib non-free ? Then I would just do an apt-get update followed by a apt-get dist upgrade? Thanks for your help in advance In my /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib YMMV
Re: What's up with Mozilla
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 11:05:42AM -0800, Greg Gilbert wrote: What's going on with Mozilla packages. Sid still has Mozilla M18, and the maintainer seems to be ignoring all requests for an upgrade to something more recent(Like 0.8). Has the package been orphaned or something? As was said in another reply - packaging mozilla is hard. However, installing the tarball is pretty easy. For now, I'm running 0.8 from the tarball available at mozilla.org and it works great.
Re: openacs configuration
Just to bring a little closure on this... It ends up that I didn't have the aolserver postgress driver installed. That was a big pain because of conflicting package dependencies which made it impossible to simply apt-get what I needed. Eventually, I compiled the driver from source (and submitted a small patch to the upstream people at openacs.org) and then proceeded to find a lot of little problems with the openacsconfig script which I was able to circumvent by manually doing most of the work.
Re: postgresql startup script
Does the source distribution come with the file bin/postresql-startup in the PGHOME directory? In the debian distribution, this script is called by /etc/init.d/postgresql and handles startup based on the configuration file. On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 08:52:02PM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: Could some kind soul help out with this? I built postgres from source instead of using the .deb, and all works fine except for having it start on bootup. I'm stuck on trying to get the startup script to run as user 'postgres' instead of as root. I tried to have it issue the command: su postgres '/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -w -D/var/lib/postgres/data -o -i start'
aolserver/openacs package dependency problem
Hi there. I'm having a problem installing openacs on my sid system. The problem arises because of bug #84041 with aolserver 3.2-4 which fails during install. To circumvent this problem, I installed aolserver 3.0rc2-4 available in potato. I then attempted to install openacs, which correctly installs, but fails to configure in the openacsconfigure script because of the call to /usr/sbin/aoladddb available in aolserver-postgress which is not listed as a dependency in openacs. Attempting to install aolserver-postgress results in the following error: # dpkg -i aolserver-postgres_3.0rc2-4.deb Selecting previously deselected package aolserver-postgres. (Reading database ... 29104 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking aolserver-postgres (from aolserver-postgres_3.0rc2-4.deb) ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of aolserver-postgres: aolserver-postgres depends on libpgsql2 (= 6.4-0); however: Package libpgsql2 is not installed. dpkg: error processing aolserver-postgres (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: aolserver-postgres However, I can't install libpgsql2, because my system is installed with libpgsql2.1 available from sid. How can I resolve this problem? I'm willing to attempt to track down and correct the bug with aolserver 3.2, but I'm not sure how to debug problems with debian installation scripts. Any help appreciated.
Re: Sawfish
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 01:11:24PM -0600, Benjamin Pharr wrote: I added Ximian Gnome to my testing box yesterday, but when I try to use Sawfish as my window manager it justs sits there. It shows the standard X background, but nothing else. There are no errors on the screen and sawfish is listed in a ps aux, but it's sleeping. Anyone else had this problem? Thanks! What is in the ~/.xsession-errors or ~/.gnome-errors files?
openacs configuration
I'm comparing openacs, phpgroupware, and zope for use as a groupware system for a group I'm volunteering with. I attempted to set up openacs first, but quickly ran into a problem with configuration. Everything is set up (with an earlier version of aolserver, since the testing/unstable deb is badly broken) but the openacsconfig command fails to create the required databases. Postgresql is running, and configured to be a tcp listener. Here's a short synopsis of what happens: # openacsconfig --domain kenny.gila.org Which database should I use? [acs_kenny.gila.org] Save these changes to the configuration files? [Y/n] If the database acs_kenny.gila.org doesn't exist yet, I can add it now. Should I create the database? [Y/n] Create database failed. This may happen if it already existed. I have acs_kenny.gila.org point to 127.0.0.1 in the hosts file, and ping acs_kenny.gila.org works correctly. I know the database hasn't been created yet, since psql only shows the template1 database in the output form the \l command. I can only guess that the url for the database should be more specific. Anyone have some insight?
2.4.1 install successful - what's up with modconf?
Thank you to all who let me know some more information about kernel 2.4.1. It installed flawlessly, runs smoothly so far, and if anything seems lightning quick. I'm looking forward to reformatting some of the partitions as reiser and play around with it for a while. However, I'm really confused by one last issue. When I run modconf, it doesn't think I have any modules available. However, the rest of the module utilities seem to work ok. For example: # lsmod Module Size Used by tulip 34064 1 # modprobe -l /lib/modules/2.4.1/kernel/drivers/block/rd.o /lib/modules/2.4.1/kernel/drivers/ide/ide-floppy.o /lib/modules/2.4.1/kernel/drivers/net/de4x5.o /lib/modules/2.4.1/kernel/drivers/net/dummy.o /lib/modules/2.4.1/kernel/drivers/net/tulip/tulip.o /lib/modules/2.4.1/kernel/drivers/sound/emu10k1/emu10k1.o /lib/modules/2.4.1/kernel/drivers/sound/sound.o /lib/modules/2.4.1/kernel/drivers/sound/soundcore.o /lib/modules/2.4.1/kernel/fs/isofs/isofs.o /lib/modules/2.4.1/kernel/fs/nls/nls_cp437.o /lib/modules/2.4.1/kernel/fs/nls/nls_iso8859-1.o /lib/modules/2.4.1/kernel/fs/reiserfs/reiserfs.o I'd really like to install my emu10k1 module (though I haven't compiled enough of the support files, I'm still missing midi support and mixer support in some other files - I'll find the source files soon enough) and the reiserfs module. I have the latest modconf availabe in sid though I'm using woody. What's up with modconf? ii modconf0.2.30 Device Driver Configuration ii modutils 2.4.1-2Linux module utilities. Thank you again.
Correction: [2.4.1 install successful - what's up with modconf?]
Just one tiny correction. After figuring out what modconf actually does, I've easily managed to manually install all kernel modules I need with insmod. I guess that the gui hasn't been updated to understand 2.4.1 directories, but the other utilities work fine. No big deal really...
Re: Any gotchas with kernel 2.4.x and Debian?
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 07:02:59PM +0100, Mario Vukelic wrote: Hi, I'm running 2.4.1, too, but I didn't get alsa to build. I used the male-dpkg modules_image method. alsa-source from woody didn't compile, the package from sid had a problem that looked like I needed some newer package management parts. I've asked already on the list (complete with error messages, I could dig that up in the archives if you want), but received no answer. Did you do anything special? Alsa version? I read through the changelist over on alsa-project.org and noticed that one of the changes was to 'support the latest kernels.' I suspect you should use the alsa-source from sid since it's in the .5 range, whereas woody is still a .4 release. Luckily, I found a soundcard in another computer that's directly supported by the kernel source, so I didn't have to worry about alsa with this computer.
Re: jre problem
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 10:54:10PM +0800, wujf wrote: Today I tried to install oracle8i on my Potato box with glibc upgraded and jdk1.1 from unstable. The installer program failed to invoke the 'dbassist', when i run it from command line, jre said: Unable to initialize threads: cannot find class java/lang/Thread Could not create Java VM Since you're using Oracle, presumably you're not opposed to using non-free software. That being the case, I would suggest using the jdk or jre available as debs through www.blackdown.org.
Any gotchas with kernel 2.4.x and Debian?
I'd like to try out kernel 2.4.1 from unstable, but I wanted to know if there's anything I should be wary of. A quick search through the archives of debain-user revealed there's *something* with modconf, but I'm not sure what the problem is. Is there anything I should be aware of before attempting a building 2.4.1 from the deb source? Also, does alsa work with the new kernel? I'm running a p3 with a netgear 310tx(tulip) and nvidia tnt2 with xfree86 4 installed, but I'm pretty sure it's actually using the XF86_SVGA server found in xfree86 3. I'm currently running the kernel image 2.2.17 found in potato but I synch with testing. Thanks.
apt-get and dpkg woes
I recently decided to upgrade my system at home since it's been a while. I ran into a lot of problems, and the upgrade was VERY rough. However, after all of my playing around with the system, it seems to be left in a partially broken state. When I try to do an apt-get uprage, here's what happens: # apt-get upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: The package emacs19 needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it. I don't really want emacs19 installed, and have emacs20 on the system already, but emacs19 seems to be the currently installed version. Attempts to remove emacs19 fail, because the package is in an inconsistent state. Luckily, I still have an emacs19 deb in my apt cache, but attempts to install that also fail. # dpkg -i emacs19_19.34-26.5_i386.deb Selecting previously deselected package emacs19. (Reading database ... 60015 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace emacs19 19.34-26.5 (using emacs19_19.34-26.5_i386.deb) ... emacs-remove emacs19 Can't locate File/Glob.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib/perl/5.6.0 /usr/local/share/perl/5.6.0 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.6.0 /usr/share/perl/5.6.0 /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux .) at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/generate-install-list line 27. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/generate-install-list line 27. Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-remove line 20. dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 2 dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... emacs-remove emacs19 Can't locate File/Glob.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib/perl/5.6.0 /usr/local/share/perl/5.6.0 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.6.0 /usr/share/perl/5.6.0 /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux .) at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/generate-install-list line 27. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/generate-install-list line 27. Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-remove line 20. dpkg: error processing emacs19_19.34-26.5_i386.deb (--install): subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 2 emacs-install emacs19 Can't locate File/Glob.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib/perl/5.6.0 /usr/local/share/perl/5.6.0 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.6.0 /usr/share/perl/5.6.0 /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux .) at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/generate-install-list line 27. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/generate-install-list line 27. Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-install line 20. dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: emacs19_19.34-26.5_i386.deb I really need some help here, since I can't figure this one out. Is there any way to force a purge?
Re: apt-get and dpkg woes
Well, skip any response to this you have. I seem to have killed most of the system. I can still use the console, but X has died, as have several other programs. ssh still works though ;). On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 07:43:00PM -0800, Aaron Brashears wrote: I recently decided to upgrade my system at home since it's been a while. I ran into a lot of problems, and the upgrade was VERY rough. However, after all of my playing around with the system, it seems to be left in a partially broken state. When I try to do an apt-get uprage, here's what happens: # apt-get upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: The package emacs19 needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it. I don't really want emacs19 installed, and have emacs20 on the system already, but emacs19 seems to be the currently installed version. Attempts to remove emacs19 fail, because the package is in an inconsistent state. Luckily, I still have an emacs19 deb in my apt cache, but attempts to install that also fail. # dpkg -i emacs19_19.34-26.5_i386.deb Selecting previously deselected package emacs19. (Reading database ... 60015 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace emacs19 19.34-26.5 (using emacs19_19.34-26.5_i386.deb) ... emacs-remove emacs19 Can't locate File/Glob.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib/perl/5.6.0 /usr/local/share/perl/5.6.0 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.6.0 /usr/share/perl/5.6.0 /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux .) at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/generate-install-list line 27. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/generate-install-list line 27. Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-remove line 20. dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 2 dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... emacs-remove emacs19 Can't locate File/Glob.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib/perl/5.6.0 /usr/local/share/perl/5.6.0 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.6.0 /usr/share/perl/5.6.0 /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux .) at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/generate-install-list line 27. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/generate-install-list line 27. Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-remove line 20. dpkg: error processing emacs19_19.34-26.5_i386.deb (--install): subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 2 emacs-install emacs19 Can't locate File/Glob.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib/perl/5.6.0 /usr/local/share/perl/5.6.0 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.6.0 /usr/share/perl/5.6.0 /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux .) at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/generate-install-list line 27. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/generate-install-list line 27. Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-install line 20. dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: emacs19_19.34-26.5_i386.deb I really need some help here, since I can't figure this one out. Is there any way to force a purge? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: EGCS?
egcs is part of gcc 2.95. http://gcc.gnu.org/ http://gcc.gnu.org/releases.html#timeline I'm trying toi compile something and it seems to require egcs. I can't find that package in the unstable dist. I did a search on egcs in the debian packages also. No go. Thoughts? Robert
Re: Xemacs won't run
On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 05:18:01PM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote: For some reason Xemacs won't run. It used to, but for some (unkown) reason it has stopped. When I try to run the mule binary (or any other binary for that matter), it runs my hard-drive for a second, and then nothing happens. Any one know what the problem could be? So what's the output when you try to run it from the command line? How about the output of `strace xemacs`?
Re: postgresql + JDBC
The driver in libpgjava has worked reliably for me for a while. Sadly, it doesn't support stored procedures. Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 06:44:30PM +0100, Pascal THIVENT wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a high performance JDBC driver for PostgreSQL. Does someone have already tested some ? What are your recommandations ? Thank
Re: JDE install problem on Linux
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 09:46:07AM -0700, Glenn Murray wrote: 1. Via the Debian package. I can't find any documentation on what to add to my .emacs, the usual things (load path and require) don't seem to work. JDE was orphaned a while ago, so I'm not sure if everything has been kept up to date with the latest x/emacs. 2. By hand, as worked with Win2K. Everything seems to compile OK. I ended up doing this the last time I was using JDE because I needed a very recent feature. I installed everything as directed in the instructions, and added the following snippet to my .emacs file: (add-to-list 'load-path /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/jde-2.2.4/lisp) (add-to-list 'load-path /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/semantic-1.2.1) (add-to-list 'load-path /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/speedbar-0.12) I then byte recompiled everything by using the command in xemacs: (ctrl u) 0 (meta x) byte-recompile-directory /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/jde-2.2.4/lisp Finally, I set up the last bits of my .emacs file after the load-path stuff: (require 'jde) (defun my-jde-mode-hook () (define-key c-mode-base-map \C-m 'newline-and-indent) (message jde-hook function executed)) (add-hook 'jde-mode-hook 'my-jde-mode-hook) However, I've also noticed that the latest xemacs deb has a fairly recent jde (2.2.5 I think) bundled with it, so if that meets your requirements, I suggest using that.
Which X is running?
I recently did an apt-get upgrade on my system. Sadly, this completely broke X. To fix things, I manually installed task-x-window-system-core since apt-get was holding it back. I configured the system during the set up script and X still wouldn't start claiming that the configuration files were wrong. I ran XF86Setup and reconfigured X, and though it could successfully start the X server, startx would still fail claiming that the configuration script was wrong. I then installed xserver-svga and now X starts fine. However, I'm curious if I'm running X 4 or 3.x. dpkg claims: ii xserver-common 4.0.1-10 files and utilities common to all X servers ii xserver-common 3.3.6-18 files and utilities common to XFree86 3.x X ii xserver-svga 3.3.6-18 X server for SVGA graphics cards ii xserver-vga16 3.3.6-11 X server for VGA graphics cards ii xserver-xfree8 4.0.1-10 the XFree86 X server But I know for a fact that an unpatched XF86_SVGA for 3.3.6 doesn't work correctly with my video card (s3 savage 4) so I don't think it's using 3.3.6, but 4 seemed to fail until I installed xserver-svga 3.3.6-18. How can I tell what's running?
Re: Backspace key
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 11:01:11PM +, Glyn Millington wrote: On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 10:36:37PM +, thus spake Glyn Millington: I've been upgrading things from Woody - a foolhardy venture but everythng went well amd works beautifully apart from my backspace key which now deletes the next character just like the delete key. I really want it to delete backwards - this is almost as bad as those first heady days when I discovered Emacs! Can't find the way on this - can anyone point me in the right direction ? What an idiot, found the answer to my own question 3 seconds after posting - so in case anyone else is wondering xmodmap -e keycode 22 = BackSpace Thanks for finding that. Just after the last update, this problem popped up for me too. Any idea what the change is and why the change was made?
Re: Recipe for installng Tomcat on (Debian) Linux?
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 12:10:02PM -0600, Gregory Guthrie wrote: There is one at: http://master.debian.org/~sgybas/tomcat But it is 3.1, and I have had trouble getting it to run. It had a dependency on IBM Java, but is incompatible with IBM JVM. I may re-try it from a clean install, but after 4 iterations with it I still had problems.. I use the Blackdown JDK and Stefan Gybas' tomcat Deb, and they work fine together. It's actually the 3.2 beta, but numbered 3.1 so that it's easier to upgrade when the real 3.2 comes out. The debian-java list may have more people with more information on the subject.
Re: Java Debian Package
On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 10:52:30AM +0100, FIOL BONNIN Antonio wrote: Well, back to the question: How do I create a simple package that contains the files and does VERY SIMPLE tasks in preinst/postinst/prerm? No postrm required. If someone has written a similar thing, could you send it to me? apt-get install maint-guide $BROWSE /usr/doc/maint-guide/maint-guide.html/index.html
Re: CD to MP3 Util
To give you yet another option, I use grip with cdparanoia and lame. On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 04:20:22PM -0600, Timothy C. Phan wrote: Hi , Is there any utility to convert CD files to MP3 files on Linux? TIA!
Re: usb port question
On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 09:39:20PM -0800, Dale Morris wrote: I'm using a handspring visor, which I have set up using a serial docking cradle. I've also got a usb cradle and I would like to try and configure my system to use it. My serial port cradle is /dev/ttyS0 which is symlinked to /dev/Pilot. What are the standard tty names for USB? I'm using a fairly new biostar mainboard with an athalon chip. I haven't used usb myself, but from what I've read, you want the 2.4 back-port. Here's an url: http://www.suse.cz/development/usb-backport/
New ricochet works fine
I asked this question a while ago, and I've seen it appear twice since. So, to set answer that question, it works fine with my debian woody installation. First, with my particular laptop, I had to enable the serial port in the bios. I intend to eventually apply the usb back port, but I have too much unbacked up work on this computer at the moment to risk killing it. Next, I ran pppconfig and set it up to dial - the given number of 333 didn't work when I tried it once. Next, I ran pon and waited for the connection. At that point, everything seemed to work fine. My only complaint is that the latency is really bad. As I'm typing this report I regularly get 10 to 20 characters ahead of the echo. Also, I have yet to see speeds even coming close to 128kbit. Hope this helps anyone that was considering using a ricochet with linux.
Re: is possible mp3?
On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 10:05:28AM -0800, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: Is it possible to add content to an exsisting mp3? I would like to take a particular track and add an voice identifier to it.. If so, what utility would I use to edit/create mp3's? It sure is possible to add content. mp3 files are made up of a long sequence of frames. Each frame is (usually) a self contained unit of sound with no dependencies on the frames around it. So simply attaching an mp3 with the same bitrate onto the end of another mp3 will make a new vlid mp3 file. quick disclaimer: I don't know how to record sound on linux other than by ripping with cdparanoia. So, let's pretend you want to create a mix of a metallica track you like with a crystal method track you just love. Rip your cds with your favorite ripper - personally, I use grip with cdparanoia and lame. So now you have two mp3s: whiplash.mp3 trip_like_i_do.mp3 And I think you you combine them using cat: cat trip_like_i_do.mp3 whiplash.mp3 mv whiplash.mp3 whiplash_like_i_do.mp3
Re: java 1.2?
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 07:00:33PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: Hey people. While I'm not the biggest Java fan at the moment, I was curious about Java 1.2. I realize I can grab it from blackdown, but I noticed that it's not available as a deb package. It is simply too unstable for inclusion, or is there another reason for this? Blackdown provides debs, and they're pretty stable. However, They are in non-free and not available from the normal debian mirrors. Here are some instructions pulled out of the java mailing list: http://lists.debian.org/debian-java-0010/msg00031.html
Re: jdk 1.2?
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 03:38:41PM -0500, Joey Tsai wrote: Hi, is there a debian package for JDK 1.2? http://www.blackdown.org/
Re: jdk 1.2?
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 05:15:51PM -0500, Joey Tsai wrote: Hi, is there a debian package for JDK 1.2? ^^ http://www.blackdown.org/ The more appropriate part to highlight would have been the 1.2 part, not the debian package part. With a simple search of the blackdown site I found: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian/dists/woody/non-free/binary-i386/j2sdk1.3_1.3.0-2_i386.deb Several other mirrors had debs Sorry if I got the version wrong, but it is definitely a debian package. ^^
Re: Real problem with sshd - hosts.deny
Well, I guess the answer is that home.net was messed up or something. It started working again this morning. On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 01:19:56PM -0800, Aaron Brashears wrote: I go to work. I ssh to my home server to check email. No problem. A few hours later, I try to ssh again, but it fails with the error mesage: ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host I then ssh over to another server and then ssh to my my home server - this works fine (see, I'm sending email now.) After playing around with killing/restarting sshd processes, I filed the erroneous report ealier about refused connections. It ends up that I sent that report while sshd wasn't running (except for the current session.) I reconfigured sshd to have verbose logging, and tried to connect. The log comes back with the folowing error: Oct 30 13:09:30 garrison sshd[17223]: warning: /etc/hosts.deny, line 15: can't verify hostname: gethostbyname(ATHM-216-216-xxx-203.home.net) failed Oct 30 13:09:30 garrison sshd[17223]: refused connect from 216.216.10.203 So, it seems that between this morning and this afternoon, my server can no longer verify my host. I have two qeutions. 1. How could this have happened? Something with home.net? 2. How can I securely fix hosts.deny so that it doesn't deny me? thanks
ssh is refusing connections
I've been running my server for 89 days now, on potato for the whole time. It's been quite stable and happy for a while now. However, without an update to either the server or my portable machine, ssh began refusing connections all of a sudden. 'Garrison' is the machine's local name, as listed in my /etc/hosts. Here's what's happening: $ ssh garrison secure connection to garrison refused $ Earlier in the day, this worked fine. I then ssh'd over to a friend's server, and can ssh from there to my server. Any help or ideas?
Real problem with sshd - hosts.deny
My last message was in error. The problem report I sent was after spending a while trying to figure out what was wrong, and in the process changed the system configuration. While trying to figure out the problem, I seemed to have figured out what's failing. Here's the observed problem: I go to work. I ssh to my home server to check email. No problem. A few hours later, I try to ssh again, but it fails with the error mesage: ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host I then ssh over to another server and then ssh to my my home server - this works fine (see, I'm sending email now.) After playing around with killing/restarting sshd processes, I filed the erroneous report ealier about refused connections. It ends up that I sent that report while sshd wasn't running (except for the current session.) I reconfigured sshd to have verbose logging, and tried to connect. The log comes back with the folowing error: Oct 30 13:09:30 garrison sshd[17223]: warning: /etc/hosts.deny, line 15: can't verify hostname: gethostbyname(ATHM-216-216-xxx-203.home.net) failed Oct 30 13:09:30 garrison sshd[17223]: refused connect from 216.216.10.203 So, it seems that between this morning and this afternoon, my server can no longer verify my host. I have two qeutions. 1. How could this have happened? Something with home.net? 2. How can I securely fix hosts.deny so that it doesn't deny me? thanks
Re: deb package documentation
On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 11:26:04PM -0500, will trillich wrote: On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 11:42:05AM -0700, Stephen nyc wrote: I'm actually looking for the installation and configuration documentation in the package ipmasq.deb. I want to have it read and noted before I even try to install debian and set it up. i've had occasion to wish i could've read the package documents BEFORE downloading and installing, as well. afaict, debian.org doesn't accomodate that. You can always download the deb file, and then issue the following command dpkg-deb -x package-name.deb target-dir For example, to look at the contents of my latest version of bash: dpkg-deb -x bash_2.04-7_i386.deb /tmp which will create a /tmp/bin, /tmp/usr, and /tmp/etc which then in turn contains all of the files and directories in the bash deb. Other options inside depkg-deb will give you access to individual files and packing lists for the deb.
Console new mail notification
I'm running debian stable, and I've set up procmail to filter messages into appropriate mailboxes. However, now that almost all mail is filtered into /home/gila/Mail, none of it winds up in /var/... so console mail notification doesn't work correctly. Is there any way to configure bash to check in different directories for mail?
Re: OT: Cross-platform document format?
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 12:26:47PM -0400, David Teague wrote: What is the native-RTF editor for Linux? Is there a Debian package for it? apt-get install abiword
Re: firewall masquerade script availability - 'potato'
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 12:44:37PM -0700, Stephen nyc wrote: Can someone point me in the right direction to find a good basic script with documentation that works with debian? Unfortunately, I don't have as much time as I would like to dig into the internals on ip-chains at this time. Someday... Try out the ipmasq package. From the description: This package contains scripts to initialize IP Masquerade for use as a firewall. IP Masquerade is a feature of Linux that allows an entire network of computers to be connected to another network (usually the Internet) with only one network address on the other network. IP Masquerade is often referred to as NAT (Network Address Translation) on other platforms. By default, this package configures the system as a basic forwarding firewall, with IP spoofing and stuffed routing protection. The firewall will allow hosts behind the firewall to get to the Internet, but not allow connections from the Internet to reach the hosts behind the firewall. However, ipmasq now features a very flexible framework where you can override any of the predefined rules if you so choose. It also allows you to control if the rules are reinterpreted when pppd brings a link up or down. This package should be installed on the firewall host and not on the hosts behind the firewall. IP Masquerade requires the kernel to be compiled with CONFIG_FIREWALL, CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL, CONFIG_IP_FORWARD, and CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE
sunrpc on port 111 and domain on port 53
I'm making some efforts to tighten up security on my home server. I've been closing some services that I don't need, and after thinking I'd cleared everything out, I did an nmap scan of the box. Everything was as it should be except for sunrpc on port 111 and domain on port 53. I couldn't find any packages with dpkg -l which contained any part of that string. Plus, there is no whatis or man information. What are those services? What packages are they kept in?
Re: sunrpc on port 111 and domain on port 53
Ok, I guess the uninstall of portmap didn't kill the process. After killing it, and doing another portscan, all is better. I am running bind, so I guess I want 'domain' running on 53. Thanks :) Marc Wilson wrote: Port 111 is the portmapper (for NFS and other RPC services) and port 53 is BIND (DNS). If you're not running NSF, you really don't need the portmapper for much (although you can protect it with TCP Wrappers), and you don't need BIND unless you're either providing name service for a domain, or running a caching name server for your own use. - Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.moonkingdom.net/mwilson -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 12:02 AM To: Debian Subject:sunrpc on port 111 and domain on port 53 I'm making some efforts to tighten up security on my home server. I've been closing some services that I don't need, and after thinking I'd cleared everything out, I did an nmap scan of the box. Everything was as it should be except for sunrpc on port 111 and domain on port 53. I couldn't find any packages with dpkg -l which contained any part of that string. Plus, there is no whatis or man information.
Re: Java JSP Tomcat
Well, I've noticed that Tomcat is not listed in the work-needing and prospective packages ( http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ ) - so if you'd like to pick it up, I'd be happy to see that. :) I'm trying to figure out how to build debs right now, because I develop using jde (which needs a maintainer) for tomcat/cocoon. Gregory Guthrie wrote: Why does Debian provide (only) GnuJsp, Tomcat is the standard reference implementation now. Is it easy to change to use Tomcat? Should I just do it, or wait, is anything coming? I want the standard JSP directory structures, and a guaranteed standard implementation.
Re: Java JSP Tomcat
I'm currently in the Debian 'new maintainer' queue. When I come out the other end I intend to package Tomcat and a couple other pieces of Apache software up (unless someone else has already sent out an ITP mail). I just pulled down tomcat 4.0, which requires jdk1.3 (or 1.2.2 with jndi), jsse, and jmx packages from sun which are all non-free. Won't this relegate tomcat to the contrib section? Blackdown provides non-free debs for jdk1.3 but jsse and jmx are only available in zip form with a fairly restrictive license. How do you plan to help distribute those packages? FYI: I've decided to experiment making debs using tomcat, so I'm wrestling with this issue right now. I've decided to make 'installer' debs which install the zip file from /tmp.
Ricochet unix compatability
I have been thinking about getting a ricochet wireless modem for my laptop. A friend of mine told me he had no problem configuring his old (28kbps) modem with a linux box. However, after reading the marketing material which doesn't even claim NT compatability, much less *nix - I'm unsure if I'll be able to get it to work. Has anyone tried using a ricochet 128 modem on linux?
Re: Kde2 crashing and debugging
You could do an apt-get source ... and then do a dpkg-buildpackage to build your own binary debs with debugging info. I've never done it myself, so I can't give you any pointers, but it should be possible. Alwyn Schoeman wrote: Could we please build the kde2 .debs with debugging enabled so that our experiences can be sent back to the kde2 team and maybe help fix problems???
Re: Debian pre-installed system
Kevin Krafthefer wrote: Does anyone know a computer manufacture that sells machines with Debian installed on them? I think that http://emperorlinux.com/ will do that for you.
Fetchmail and NTLM configuration
Hi there. I am running woody, and have the sad requirement that I must use the company's exchange server. I've been using netscape for a while, and it works fine using the format 'domain/ntusername/mailboxname' for access the imap gateway on the server. I've also tested mutt, and it's imap support seems to work fine when accessing the server, but it takes a lot of typing and the documentation for mutt suggests using fetchmail. So, after a quick apt-get install fetchmail fetchmailconf I have fetchmail running, but I can't get the configuration right. When running fetchmailconf I set up the server, and the user as 'domain/ntusername/mailboxname', give it my password, and then set local delivery to be my localhost account name. When I test fetchmail, the log indicates that fetchmail recognizes NTLM, spews a lot of characters, and then complains that I can't login. Is there trick I'm missing? I already tried ESR's reccomendation for '/domain/ntusername/mailboxname' which also failed, and isn't the format used in netscape or mutt. Thanks.
Re: Fetchmail and NTLM configuration
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: Try running fetchmail in verbose mode, log the output, redact your password, and post to list. Here's the edited output fetchmail: 5.5.0 querying exchange.corp.myplay.com (protocol IMAP) at Mon, 09 Oct 2000 13:35:08 -0700 (PDT) fetchmail: IMAP * OK Microsoft Exchange IMAP4rev1 server version 5.5.2650.23 (exchange.corp.myplay.com) ready fetchmail: IMAP A0001 CAPABILITY fetchmail: IMAP * CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 IDLE LITERAL+ LOGIN-REFERRALS MAILBOX-REFERRALS NAMESPACE AUTH=NTLM fetchmail: IMAP A0001 OK CAPABILITY completed. fetchmail: IMAP A0002 AUTHENTICATE NTLM fetchmail: IMAP + snip - some long strings that probably contain a scrambled name/pass fetchmail: IMAP A0002 NO Logon failure fetchmail: Authorization failure on corp/abrashears/[EMAIL PROTECTED] fetchmail: IMAP A0003 LOGOUT fetchmail: IMAP * BYE Microsoft Exchange IMAP4rev1 server version 5.5.2650.23 signing off fetchmail: IMAP A0003 OK LOGOUT completed. fetchmail: authorization error while fetching from exchange.corp.myplay.com fetchmail: Query status=3 (AUTHFAIL) fetchmail: normal termination, status 3 Done.
Re: Fetchmail and NTLM configuration
Andy Bastien wrote: You might not even need to use NTLM to access the server, as Exchange servers accept plaintext authentication by default. If your NT account is the primary account for the mailbox, try just using your username and password or domain/username and password. IMAP is more complicated than POP3, but you can telnet in on port 143 to test your username and password: frodo:~$telnet mail.foobar.com 143 Trying 10.10.10.10... Connected to 10.10.10.10. Escape character is '^]'. * OK Microsoft Exchange IMAP4rev1 server version 5.5.2650.23 (MAILSERVER) ready a001 login username password a001 OK LOGIN completed. a002 logout * BYE Microsoft Exchange IMAP4rev1 server version 5.5.2650.23 signing off a002 OK LOGOUT completed. Connection closed by foreign host. frodo:~$ Telnetting into the port worked, but that doesn't match the log given my fetchmail. Fetchmail has a lot of strange stuff going across the wire according to the -v log. How do I configure fetchmail to use imap plaintext?
Re: bash shell
Bash is the default shell. XEN O wrote: I am currently running a red hat derivative linux and an looking to change to debian (as reports speak highly of it). However, it seems from looking at the list of shells packaged with debian it does not come with the bash shell - it this right ??
Re: strange errors on leaving Enlightenment
Those are libraries used by xmms. You can do apt-get install libmikmod2 to get the first. I'm not certain about this, but I think that libGL.so.1 is supposed to be a sym link to your open gl library - such as mesa. William Jensen wrote: When I exit E, I notice this: libmikmod.so.2 -- no found libGL.so.1 -- not found I have a stock potato install except I added iptables, a 2.4-test7 kernel, and sftp from unstable. Does anyone know what might be calling to those files listed above? Or if/why I need them?
Re: Off Topic : c++ function for rounding
round(x) = floor( x + 0.5f); William Jensen wrote: I know this isn't the right list, but how would I even find the 'right list' for a c++ question? I know about ceil and floor but those aren't what I'm after. I'm looking for a function that will take 1.4 and make it 1, but 1.5 or higher is 2. Know what I mean? Any built-in c++ function to do that?
Re: Sound only for root
I'm using alsa for sound, and I had to chmod ugo+rw /dev/dsp to get sound to work. John Anderson wrote: I thought that there was no sound available, but when I log in as root I have sound. I have tried adding my normal account into the audio group, but still I have no sound. Any suggestions? === John Kerr Anderson Powered by Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 === -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
micro-howto: shutdown and reboot from gdm
This came up recently, and I saw a couple of vague responses. So if this is still relevant to anyone, here's how you can make it possible to call shutdown from gdm. * Grab root via your favorite method (su or sudo) and open /etc/gdm/gdm.conf in your favorite editor. For me, this looks like this: $ sudo xemacs /etc/gdm/gdm.conf * Find the [greeter] section of the conf file, and specifially the SystemMenu line. In my particular gdm.conf file, the second occurance of the string 'SystemMenu' is the line you want. It should look something like this: SystemMenu=0 * Edit SystemMenu to equal 1. Save the file, and log out. Next time gdm comes up, it should have a 'System' pull down menu with 'Reboot' and 'Shutdown' commands available. Just because this works for me does not guarantee success for you.
Re: FA310TX (tulip) and potato
I've been using tulip/fa310tx combos for over a year now with great success. The key is that there are 2 different fa310tx cards out there. Rev 1 doesn't play nice with linux, whereas Rev 2 works great. There is a subtle difference in the serial number scheme which is detailed on the netgear website and in the linux installation instructions on the driver floppy (which comes with an old tulip.c file). Evan DiBiase wrote: Hello, I have been trying (over the course of the last few days) to perform a network install of Debian potato release on my system which contains a Netgear FA310TX network card which uses the tulip driver. I have encountered some serious problems, and am hoping that someone out there can help me. Essentially, the tulip module in the drivers set loads fine (as does every other tulip module I've tried). However, the network card just can't seem to get a response from any computer inside the local network or outside! The lights on the hub flash, but there is no response from any of the local computers during a ping request nor from the DNS server when the install program attempts to download the base install set.
Kernel questions
I have a few basic questions about building the kernel from source for debian. I've read the documentation, but there are a few things that are unclear to me. Why is the kernel-image-* package compiled with APM turned off? Almost any computer bios made in the last couple of years supports apm features, so it would make sense for debian to distribute the default kernel image or at least offer a kernel image with apm enabled. Why does the kernel-source-* package ship with a change from upstream source with apm turned off? I would also think it would be cool to have the kernel source package ship with the 'debian official config' saved off in an external configuration file so that I could rebuild *everything* that ships in the kernel image. Any easy place to get that configuration? Should I file a wish-list bug for the kernel-source to have that config packaged with it?
Re: Problems with the modules
My machine developed the same problem after a kernel recompilation. I was never able to figure it out, and eventually *gasp* re-installed the entire system, which fixed everything. At least these days it's reinstall rather than reformat, reinstall... Camilo Alejandro Arboleda wrote: Hello! I have just updated my system from slink to potato, but I have found some behavior I don't like. When I start the system, the init process loads *all* the modules in /lib/modules (even the other kernel versions' ones), and it is not what it used to do. In slink I could select which modules load at boot time, and which ones no. Someone can say me why it happens? It's an error in my computer? Thanks Camilo Alejandro Arboleda.
cvs over ssh
Hi there. Before I file a formal bug report I want to see if anyone else
is experiencing my problem. I'm trying to connect to a cvs server here
in the office using ssh. However, it seems that cvs isn't willing to
launch ssh even tough it's installed and correctly configured to work.
Here's a sample of what happens:
$ set | grep CVS
CVS_RSH=ssh
$ cvs -t -d :ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot co project
cvs checkout: notice: main loop with CVSROOT=:ext:ritalin:/cvsroot
- Starting server: rsh ritalin cvs server
permission denied
cvs [checkout aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages
if any)
So this is obviously not working as it really should be. To even go to
more extremes I tried to set the environment variable for cvs as
follows:
$ cvs -t -s CVS_RSH=ssh -d :ext:ritalin:/cvsroot co project
cvs checkout: notice: main loop with CVSROOT=:ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot
- Starting server: rsh ritalin -l aaron cvs server
permission denied
cvs [checkout aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages
if any)
However, ssh works fine on it's own, and if I scp the files over to
ritalin, do the synch on the server still using ssh with the :ext:, and
scp them back it works ok. Any help appreciated. For everyone's
amusement, here's the full strace output of what's going on:
$ strace cvs -d :ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot co project
execve(/usr/bin/cvs, [cvs, -d, :ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot,
co, project], [/* 37 vars */]) = 0
brk(0) = 0x80c1a04
open(/etc/ld.so.preload, O_RDONLY)= -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open(/etc/ld.so.cache, O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=10700, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 10700, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x40014000
close(3)= 0
open(/usr/lib/libz.so.1, O_RDONLY)= 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=54556, ...}) = 0
read(3, \177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\\31\0...,
4096) = 4096
old_mmap(NULL, 57564, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) =
0x40017000
mprotect(0x40023000, 8412, PROT_NONE) = 0
old_mmap(0x40023000, 12288, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED,
3, 0xb000) = 0x40023000
close(3)= 0
open(/lib/libcrypt.so.1, O_RDONLY)= 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=20112, ...}) = 0
read(3, \177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\360\r\0...,
4096) = 4096
old_mmap(NULL, 183004, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) =
0x40026000
mprotect(0x4002b000, 162524, PROT_NONE) = 0
old_mmap(0x4002b000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED,
3, 0x4000) = 0x4002b000
old_mmap(0x4002c000, 158428, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x4002c000
close(3)= 0
open(/lib/libc.so.6, O_RDONLY)= 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=888596, ...}) = 0
read(3, \177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\244\213...,
4096) = 4096
old_mmap(NULL, 902972, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) =
0x40053000
mprotect(0x40128000, 30524, PROT_NONE) = 0
old_mmap(0x40128000, 16384, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED,
3, 0xd4000) = 0x40128000
old_mmap(0x4012c000, 14140, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x4012c000
close(3)= 0
munmap(0x40014000, 10700) = 0
personality(PER_LINUX) = 0
getpid()= 1963
brk(0) = 0x80c1a04
brk(0x80c1a2c) = 0x80c1a2c
brk(0x80c2000) = 0x80c2000
open(/etc/localtime, O_RDONLY)= 3
read(3, TZif\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\0\0\3\0..., 44)
= 44
read(3, \236\246H\240\237\273\25\220\240\206*\240\241\232\367\220...,
920) = 920
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1000, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS,
-1, 0) = 0x40014000
read(3, \377\377\235\220\1\0\377\377\217\200\0\4\377\377\235\220...,
4096) = 36
close(3)= 0
munmap(0x40014000, 4096)= 0
getuid()= 1000
access(/home/aaron/.cvsrc, R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
brk(0x80c4000) = 0x80c4000
getcwd(/home/aaron, 4097) = 12
brk(0x80c7000) = 0x80c7000
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [HUP], [], 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGHUP, {0x809651c, [], 0x400}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [HUP], [], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [INT], [], 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {0x809651c, [], 0x400}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [INT], [], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [QUIT], [], 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGQUIT, {0x809651c, [],
Re: cvs over ssh
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: cvs -t -d :[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot co project is the proper command with options. First, your suggestion: $ cvs -t -d :[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot co project cvs checkout: unknown method in CVSroot: :[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot cvs [checkout aborted]: Bad CVSROOT. Next, I take out the leading colon: $ cvs -t -d [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot co project cvs checkout: notice: main loop with [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot - Starting server: rsh ritalin -l aaron cvs server permission denied cvs [checkout aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if any) But neither work to launch ssh. I used the launch commands on a sparc/sol box, and the starting server line correctly specified that it was using ssh. Is there something that cvs is doing to fall back to rsh for some reason?
Re: A few misc. problems
Wow, I had over 100 new mail messages in my inbox this morning. I didn't notice an answer to your questions, so I'll try. 3. How do I start postgres on startup? I'm confused with all the different /etc/rc*.d directories. This is how I think it is supposed to go: 'su -c postgres postmaster -i -D /usr/local/pgsql/data logfile 21 ' Do I put this in a '/etc/rc?.d/S??postgres' file? What should go in place of the question marks? Do I need a Kill file as well? I've found that when you first install postgresql, it should install a /etc/init.d/postgresql script to start/stop postgres. It also installs sim links to that file in S20postgres in rc2,3,4,5.d directories. 4. When I chang the information in linuxconf for eth0 and eth1 the changes never seem to stick. Meaning I open it right after closing it and it didn't save anything. What are the files that I can edit directly? On redhat they are like '/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1' Thanks in advance, cxpx That depends on your system. Slink defaults to using the script in /etc/init.d/network, but potato updates that by preferentially using /etc/network/interfaces for ifup/ifdown configuration. If you're running potato or woody, I suggest reading up on 'info ifup' and configure your system. To tell you the honest truth, I didn't know that linuxconf worked on debian.
Re: debconf: failed to initialize frontend: Slang
What's the output of: $ ls -l /lib/libslang.so.1 And make sure that the file being pointed to is intact. Krzys Majewski wrote: debconf: failed to initialize frontend: Slang debconf: falling back to frontend: Dialog I get this when apt-get installing stuff. 'Sup yall? I've got slang1: Package: slang1 Status: install ok installed Section: base Version: 1.3.9-1 Depends: libc6 (= 2.1) -chris -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
boot tries to load all modules
I recently upgraded my system to woody. It's a laptop, so I also downloaded the kernel source, pcmcia source, and alsa source to build the system with apm, pcmcia, and sound support. At first, I thought I was experiencing a sound configuration problem because /etc/init.d/alsa was always failing to correctly set up and configure the alsa modules. After some experiments and reading through the logs, I've discovered that during boot, the init system is attempting to load EVERY module in /lib/modules/2.2.17/. After some customization of the alsa init script, the system works fine. Sound works, pcmcia works (at least for networking), and all other applications seem to work; however, this problem leads to annoying little quirks in the system. I can't shut down the pcmcia services, and I had to delete all non-essential .o files in the sound modules directory to be able to shut down the sound system. Plus, I suspect that the system is loading all the other modules such as fat support, etc. Has anyone else run into this problem? Why would init try to load every module? How can I fix this? For reference: Debian woody running kernel 2.2.17 with apm support, no scsi, and mostly the same otherwise. It's installed on a recent IBM thinkpad T20 with 256megs and a PIII700. It uses the cs461x sound module and i82365 pcmcia controller. Because the sound module was being loaded prior to /etc/init.d/alsa being called, it would exit before calling alsactl because it thought the driver was already started. So I modified alsa to call amixer with some reasonable settings. Thanks
Re: boot tries to load all modules
Here are the (innocuous looking) contents of /etc/modules: # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time. # # This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are # to be loaded at boot time, one per line. Comments begin with # a `#', and everything on the line after them are ignored. soundcore snd-cs461x I also just checked my kernel configuration. I have enabled loadable modules, disabled version information, and enabled the kernel module loader. Eric G . Miller wrote: Check /etc/modules. I can't think of anywhere else boot time modules would be specified. Also, you're not running kerneld with 2.1.x kernel are you? /etc/modules should *not* have an auto line -- and you probably would have a warning in your syslog about this. Anyway, if everything but the kitchen sink is listed in /etc/modules, this is the culprit. Just comment or delete the one you don't want at boot. -- MegaHAL quote: I think a blowpipe is a marijuana cigarrette. It'll get you deleted! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: newbie alert!!!
It sounds like you haven't configured X yet or it isn't starting correctly. Though debian documentation suggest running xf86config to get X running, I like to use XF86Setup since I've found it's interactive nature makes it easier to find your mouse. Check if an xserver is installed by typing: $ dpkg -l | grep xserver Bill Garneau wrote: I installed Debian all right (I think) I didn't know most of the answers to the config portion of the install so I went with the defaults most of the time. Anyway I'm trying to fire up X Windows and using the command /usr/X11R6/bin/startx and I am getting the error message _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 giving up. xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. Do I not have X Windows installed? not installed correctly? Or I am I totally lost?
Re: Shell connections refused SOLVED
Thanks to a wonderful source of help (I deleted the email, and the poster didn't cc debian-users), this problem has been solved. The 10.20.0.2 machine had a line in /etc/hosts.deny which looke like: ALL: PARANOID which would prevent me from logging in from my Debian box. However, both Red Hat and Windows implementations of telnet, and a Windows secure shell client (securecrt) could log onto the box denying me access. After commenting out the paranoid line (which is documented as preventing all connections) I could connect without problems from any machine. Is this a bug with inetd or portmap? (BTW: Sorry about some confusion in the original post. My search-replace skills obviously need work...) Aaron Brashears wrote: D1 (10.20.0.1), and D2 (10.20.0.2) are both synched to potato on debian.org. Both machines have telnetd, telnet, ssh, and sshd available or running. Here's a sample session from D1: - $ telnet 10.20.0.2 Trying 10.20.0.2... Connected to 10.20.0.2. Escape character is '^]'. Connection closed by foreign host. $ ssh 10.20.0.2 Connection closed by foreign host. - Here's what happens from D2: - $ ping 10.20.0.1 PING 10.20.0.1 (10.20.0.1): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 10.20.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.6 ms 64 bytes from 10.20.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.3 ms 64 bytes from 10.20.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.3 ms 64 bytes from 10.20.0.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.3 ms --- 10.20.0.1 ping statistics --- 4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max = 0.3/0.3/0.6 ms $ telnet 10.20.0.1 Connected to 10.20.0.1. Escape character is '^]'. Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (frozen) kona kona login: $ ssh 10.20.0.1 scribe:/home/aaron# ssh -l aaron 10.20.0.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: -
Shell connections refused
Hi there everyone. I don't know if this is a debian specific issue, or a network issue, but I'm experiencing a strange problem connecting from one machine to another. Here's what happens: D1 (10.20.0.1), and D2 (10.20.0.2) are both synched to potato on debian.org. Both machines have telnetd, telnet, ssh, and sshd available or running. Here's a sample session from D1: - $ ping 10.20.0.2 PING 10.20.0.2 (10.20.0.2): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 10.20.0.2: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.6 ms 64 bytes from 10.20.0.2: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.3 ms 64 bytes from 10.20.0.2: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.3 ms 64 bytes from 10.20.0.2: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.3 ms --- 10.20.0.2 ping statistics --- 4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max = 0.3/0.3/0.6 ms $ telnet 170.1.36.137 Trying 170.1.36.137... Connected to 170.1.36.137. Escape character is '^]'. Connection closed by foreign host. $ ssh 170.1.36.137 Connection closed by foreign host. - Here's what happens from D2: - $ ping 10.20.0.1 PING 10.20.0.1 (10.20.0.1): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 10.20.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.6 ms 64 bytes from 10.20.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.3 ms 64 bytes from 10.20.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.3 ms 64 bytes from 10.20.0.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.3 ms --- 10.20.0.1 ping statistics --- 4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max = 0.3/0.3/0.6 ms $ telnet 10.20.0.1 Connected to 10.20.0.1. Escape character is '^]'. Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (frozen) kona kona login: $ ssh 10.20.0.1 scribe:/home/aaron# ssh -l aaron 10.20.0.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: - How on earth could this happen? Anyone know why one of the machines would blatently refuse connections, but the other wouldn't? For reference, the IP addresses were modified in the logs. I was connected via ssh to D2 from a local windows box in order to get the output for the connections to D1. Both machines are inside the same firewall, there is no actual NAT going on, and I don't have easy console access to D2. Any clues, or methods for troubleshooting would be appreciated. Thanks
