Reading Package Lists... Error!
I was running an update on my sid system, and everything seemed to be going fine until it died with the following: Reading Package Lists... Error! E: Read error - read (5 Input/output error) E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. Everything I try to do results in this error. When this happened, I noticed that /var was at 99% usage, so I deleted the .deb's in /var/cache/apt/archive to free up some room (there were lots of old .deb's there in addition to the fresh ones it just got). I figured that if the .deb's it wanted wern't there, it would just reget them. Anyway, I don't think that's the problem, but I don't know what file it's trying to read when it complains about the Package Lists. My untrained eye doesn't seem anything missing (as compared to a working system) in the /var/lib/apt or /var/lib/dpkg dirs. Does anyone have any ideas as to what went wrong, and/or how to fix it? Thanks. -Aaron
Re: Reading Package Lists... Error!
Actually, any apt operation results in that error. It can't read the current list for an update. sausage:/home/aarons#apt-get update Hit http://www.openafs.org debian-2.2/ Packages Ign http://www.openafs.org debian-2.2/ Release Hit http://www.openafs.org debian-2.2/ Sources Ign http://www.openafs.org debian-2.2/ Release Hit http://http.us.debian.org testing/main Packages Hit http://http.us.debian.org testing/main Release Hit http://http.us.debian.org testing/contrib Packages Hit http://http.us.debian.org testing/contrib Release Hit http://http.us.debian.org testing/non-free Packages Hit http://http.us.debian.org testing/non-free Release Hit http://http.us.debian.org testing/main Sources Hit http://http.us.debian.org testing/main Release Hit http://http.us.debian.org testing/contrib Sources Hit http://http.us.debian.org testing/contrib Release Hit http://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/main Packages Hit http://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/main Release Hit http://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/contrib Packages Hit http://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/contrib Release Hit http://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/non-free Packages Hit http://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/non-free Release Hit http://http.us.debian.org testing/non-free Sources Hit http://http.us.debian.org testing/non-free Release Reading Package Lists... Error! E: Read error - read (5 Input/output error) E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. What file is the package list so I can examine it and its directory to see if it is indeed writeable. The file system might be corrupted or something, but I'm hesitant to reboot the machine since its 600 miles away, and it might not come back up. -Aaron dman wrote: On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 03:28:35AM -0500, Aaron Solochek wrote: | I was running an update on my sid system, and everything seemed to be | going fine until it died with the following: | | Reading Package Lists... Error! | E: Read error - read (5 Input/output error) | E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. apt-get update That will update the package lists, assuming of course that you have enough disk space for them. | Everything I try to do results in this error. When this happened, I | noticed that /var was at 99% usage, so I deleted the .deb's in | /var/cache/apt/archive to free up some room (there were lots of old | .deb's there in addition to the fresh ones it just got). I figured that | if the .deb's it wanted wern't there, it would just reget them. You can remove the .debs if you don't need them anymore. Sometimes it is really good to have them -- suppose you upgrade and that new package is broken, you can downgrade to the previous version if you still have the package. At any rate, 'apt-get autoclean' will remove some of the old ones for you. HTH, -D
Re: Reading Package Lists... Error!
Yep, that fixed it. Odd, I thought that openafs.org was always missing the release (I'm pretty sure I've seen the Ign lines before), but I've never had this problem. Anyway, thanks! -Aaron dman wrote: On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 01:23:05PM -0500, Aaron Solochek wrote: | Actually, any apt operation results in that error. It can't read the | current list for an update. | | sausage:/home/aarons#apt-get update | Hit http://www.openafs.org debian-2.2/ Packages | Ign http://www.openafs.org debian-2.2/ Release ^^^ | Hit http://www.openafs.org debian-2.2/ Sources | Ign http://www.openafs.org debian-2.2/ Release ^^^ ... | Hit http://http.us.debian.org testing/non-free Release | Reading Package Lists... Error! | E: Read error - read (5 Input/output error) | E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. | | What file is the package list so I can examine it and its directory to | see if it is indeed writeable. The file system might be corrupted or | something, but I'm hesitant to reboot the machine since its 600 miles | away, and it might not come back up. No need to reboot, just fix those bad sources lines. There must be something wrong with that server -- either it is missing the 'Release' files it is supposed to have or you can't make a connection to the server or something. Just comment out the lines in your sources.list that reference that server and do another update. (The Ign stands for Ignoring or something like that) -D
ip forwarding setup
Here is the situation: I have a laptop with wireless, and a desktop with wireless and regular ethernet. Lets call the desktop machine A. A has eth0 (ethernet to the rest of the world), and eth1 (10.0.10.1, in an adhoc wireless with the laptop) Let the laptop be machine B, with only eth1, 10.0.10.2. Let there be a machine C, which is the gateway to the world that is sitting on the network which machine A's eth0 is part of. What I want to do is get machine B's packets through to machine C. Ideally, machine B would have a realworld ip -- a setup where machine A listened for 2 real ips, and forwarded all packets for one out over its eth1 on the 10.0.10.* network. However, I will settle for the easiest solution which allows machine B to be on the network. I've read a million howto's, and I had a setup working a few months ago, but it was doing so masqurading. Curretly, nothing works. The current, relavent info (I think) is thus: leko:/home/aarons#route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 10.0.1.00.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth0 10.0.10.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth1 10.0.10.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth1 10.0.0.00.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 00 eth1 0.0.0.0 10.0.1.10.0.0.0 UG0 00 eth0 0.0.0.0 10.0.1.10.0.0.0 UG1 00 eth0 leko:/home/aarons#ipchains -L Chain input (policy ACCEPT): Chain forward (policy ACCEPT): target prot opt sourcedestination ports MASQ all -- 10.0.0.0/8 anywhere n/a MASQ all -- anywhere 10.0.0.0/8 n/a Chain output (policy ACCEPT): This doesn't work. One thought I had was creating a eth0.1 on machine A with the global ip of machine B, then have it forward all packets from that interface over to eth1, and vice versa. This seems to me like it wouldn't be that hard, but I don't know what I'm talking about. Any help appreciated. Please CC all replies to me. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ugh... erectile dysfunction (new errors)
So, today apt updated debconf, and the errors changed: Setting up debconf (0.5.34) ... Use of reserved word our is deprecated at /usr/lib/perl5/Debconf/Gettext.pm line 19. Bareword our not allowed while strict subs in use at /usr/lib/perl5/Debconf/Gettext.pm line 19. Unquoted string our may clash with future reserved word at /usr/lib/perl5/Debconf/Gettext.pm line 19. Array found where operator expected at /usr/lib/perl5/Debconf/Gettext.pm line 19, at end of line (Do you need to predeclare our?) Global symbol @EXPORT requires explicit package name at /usr/lib/perl5/Debconf/Gettext.pm line 19. syntax error at /usr/lib/perl5/Debconf/Gettext.pm line 19, near our @EXPORT BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/Debconf/Template.pm line 7. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/debconf/frontend line 22. dpkg: error processing debconf (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 255 ` However, could this be a problem? leko:/home/aarons#update-alternatives --config perl There is only 1 program which provides perl (/usr/bin/perl-5.005). Nothing to configure. leko:/home/aarons#apt-get install perl-5.6 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Sorry, perl-5.6 is already the newest version Anyone know how to fix this? -Aaron Joey Hess wrote: Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: the problem is debconf, which has an undeclared dependency on perl5.6, Package: debconf Depends: perl-5.6, perl-5.6-base, fileutils (= 4.0-5), libapt-pkg2.7, libc6 (= 2.1.97), libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 ^^^ -- see shy jo
Re: ugh... erectile dysfunction
Both of those (perl-5.6 and perl-5.6-base are installed. By removing a large portion of my X system I reduced the errors to just those relavent to debconf: Setting up debconf (0.5.32) ... Data::Dumper object version 2.101 does not match $Data::Dumper::VERSION 2.09 at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux/DynaLoader.pm line 219. Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/Debconf/ConfigDb.pm line 82. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/Debconf/ConfigDb.pm line 82. Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/debconf/frontend line 23. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/debconf/frontend line 23. dpkg: error processing debconf (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of bsdmainutils: bsdmainutils depends on debconf; however: Package debconf is not configured yet. Package debconf-tiny which provides debconf is not installed. dpkg: error processing bsdmainutils (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured There has got to be some perl hax0r on this list who knows a way around this. -Aaron Joey Hess wrote: Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: the problem is debconf, which has an undeclared dependency on perl5.6, Package: debconf Depends: perl-5.6, perl-5.6-base, fileutils (= 4.0-5), libapt-pkg2.7, libc6 (= 2.1.97), libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 ^^^ -- see shy jo
ugh... erectile dysfunction
Yes... problems with woody. An upgrade a little while ago caused dselect to be upset. The current errors are reproduced below. Anyone run into this? have you figured out how to fix it, or is this one of those times where I should just wait and eventually dselect will sort itsself out? Please CC me with replies. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. 12 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Setting up debconf (0.5.26) ... Data::Dumper object version 2.101 does not match $Data::Dumper::VERSION 2.09 at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux/DynaLoader.pm line 219. Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/Debconf/ConfigDb.pm line 82. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/Debconf/ConfigDb.pm line 82. Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/debconf/frontend line 24. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/debconf/frontend line 24. dpkg: error processing debconf (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of bsdmainutils: bsdmainutils depends on debconf; however: Package debconf is not configured yet. Package debconf-tiny which provides debconf is not installed. dpkg: error processing bsdmainutils (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of adduser: adduser depends on debconf; however: Package debconf is not configured yet. Package debconf-tiny which provides debconf is not installed. dpkg: error processing adduser (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Setting up setserial (2.17-18) ... Data::Dumper object version 2.101 does not match $Data::Dumper::VERSION 2.09 at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux/DynaLoader.pm line 219. Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/Debconf/ConfigDb.pm line 82. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/Debconf/ConfigDb.pm line 82. Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/debconf/frontend line 24. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/debconf/frontend line 24. dpkg: error processing setserial (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Setting up ifupdown (0.6.4-1) ... Data::Dumper object version 2.101 does not match $Data::Dumper::VERSION 2.09 at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux/DynaLoader.pm line 219. Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/Debconf/ConfigDb.pm line 82. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/Debconf/ConfigDb.pm line 82. Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/debconf/frontend line 24. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/debconf/frontend line 24. dpkg: error processing ifupdown (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of pidentd: pidentd depends on adduser; however: Package adduser is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing pidentd (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gmc: gmc depends on debconf; however: Package debconf is not configured yet. Package debconf-tiny which provides debconf is not installed. dpkg: error processing gmc (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Setting up xbase-clients (4.0.1-8) ... Data::Dumper object version 2.101 does not match $Data::Dumper::VERSION 2.09 at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux/DynaLoader.pm line 219. Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/Debconf/ConfigDb.pm line 82. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/Debconf/ConfigDb.pm line 82. Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/debconf/frontend line 24. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/debconf/frontend line 24. dpkg: error processing xbase-clients (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Setting up xserver-common (4.0.1-8) ... Data::Dumper object version 2.101 does not match $Data::Dumper::VERSION 2.09 at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux/DynaLoader.pm line 219. Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/Debconf/ConfigDb.pm line 82. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/Debconf/ConfigDb.pm line 82. Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/debconf/frontend line 24. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/debconf/frontend line 24. dpkg: error processing xserver-common (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xserver-common-v3: xserver-common-v3 depends on xserver-common ( 4.0); however: Package xserver-common is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing xserver-common-v3 (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent
Re: ugh... erectile dysfunction
That seemed to install, but it didn't correct the problems with the other packages in dselect. Many packages install just fine, but those 12: debconf bsdmainutils adduser setserial ifupdown pidentd gmc xbase-clients xserver-common xserver-common-v3 xserver-svga xserver-xfree86 still have plenty of problems. Is perl5.6 all that is needed? -Aaron Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: hi, spent a few days with that one: apt-get install perl5.6 -Jon
gnome/wm strangness
I have two systems. One woody, xfree 4.0.1, woody windowmaker and gnome. The other is potato, acceleratedX, potato windowmaker and gnome. Both have identical windowmaker setups, for the most part. Now, until recently I had been simply envoking windowmaker with exec windowmaker in .xinitrc. A week or so ago I decided to try out gnome-session on both machines. Everything seemed really cool (esp. potato) but I am having problems with my windowmaker buttons. I have the typical set of application buttons, including netscape. This perticular button (I haven't seen this happen to anything else) likes to screw up. 100% of the time I've clicked on netscape, the string for the application to run is filled in with garbage. Sometimes its nonsense, sometimes it is a program name, or partial one. I can't for the life of me figure out what is causing this, other than gnome-session. Both machines worked fine before that, and are screwing up now. If anyone has dealt with this, or has comments/suggestions, I would be glad to hear them, this is a major annoyance. Thanks. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.S. please cc to me, since I am not on the list.
gnome/wm strangeness
I have two systems. One woody, xfree 4.0.1, woody windowmaker and gnome. The other is potato, acceleratedX, potato windowmaker and gnome. Both have identical windowmaker setups, for the most part. Now, until recently I had been simply envoking windowmaker with exec windowmaker in .xinitrc. A week or so ago I decided to try out gnome-session on both machines. Everything seemed really cool (esp. potato) but I am having problems with my windowmaker buttons. I have the typical set of application buttons, including netscape. This perticular button (I haven't seen this happen to anything else) likes to screw up. 100% of the time I've clicked on netscape, the string for the application to run is filled in with garbage. Sometimes its nonsense, sometimes it is a program name, or partial one. I can't for the life of me figure out what is causing this, other than gnome-session. Both machines worked fine before that, and are screwing up now. If anyone has dealt with this, or has comments/suggestions, I would be glad to hear them, this is a major annoyance. Thanks. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.S. please cc to me, since I am not on the list.
gnome/wm issues
I have two systems. One woody, xfree 4.0.1, woody windowmaker and gnome. The other is potato, acceleratedX, potato windowmaker and gnome. Both have identical windowmaker setups, for the most part. Now, until recently I had been simply envoking windowmaker with exec windowmaker in .xinitrc. A week or so ago I decided to try out gnome-session on both machines. Everything seemed really cool (esp. potato) but I am having problems with my windowmaker buttons. I have the typical set of application buttons, including netscape. This perticular button (I haven't seen this happen to anything else) likes to screw up. 100% of the time I've clicked on netscape, the string for the application to run is filled in with garbage. Sometimes its nonsense, sometimes it is a program name, or partial one. I can't for the life of me figure out what is causing this, other than gnome-session. Both machines worked fine before that, and are screwing up now. If anyone has dealt with this, or has comments/suggestions, I would be glad to hear them, this is a major annoyance. Thanks. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.S. please cc to me, since I am not on the list.
gnome/wm issues
I have two systems. One woody, xfree 4.0.1, woody windowmaker and gnome. The other is potato, acceleratedX, potato windowmaker and gnome. Both have identical windowmaker setups, for the most part. Now, until recently I had been simply envoking windowmaker with exec windowmaker in .xinitrc. A week or so ago I decided to try out gnome-session on both machines. Everything seemed really cool (esp. potato) but I am having problems with my windowmaker buttons. I have the typical set of application buttons, including netscape. This perticular button (I haven't seen this happen to anything else) likes to screw up. 100% of the time I've clicked on netscape, the string for the application to run is filled in with garbage. Sometimes its nonsense, sometimes it is a program name, or partial one. I can't for the life of me figure out what is causing this, other than gnome-session. Both machines worked fine before that, and are screwing up now. If anyone has dealt with this, or has comments/suggestions, I would be glad to hear them, this is a major annoyance. Thanks. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.S. please cc to me, since I am not on the list.
laptop backlight control
I have a dell inspirion 5000, and was looking for a way to shutoff the backlight on the screen when I blank it. If anyone knows of a utility, or whether or not this is even possible, please let me know. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is Debian the last OS ?
When my friends at school freshmen year all bagered me for using windows, I agreed to let them install linux on my machine. The first go was slackware, but because my computer was all brand new hardware, there wasn't any support in linux for it. So that didn't go very far. We then tried andrew-linux the CMU hacked up redhat, but ran into similar problems on that front. After waiting a little bit, a different friend decided to help me with debian. Basically, everyone was pushing on me the distro that they themselves used, and in the end, the friend who had the ambition to go build a working kernel for my system in the clusters won out. I found the interface to dselect very difficult to deal with, I would get caught in these dependancy loops and not know how to get out of them, but this subject has been beaten to death on this list. Eventually I learned all I needed to know, and am VERY glad that I ended up with debain. I have since installed a few red hat systems and caldera once, but (and it may be because of my knowledge of debian) I found those to be a pain. So, I don't know if that counts as debian-last, because although it was, it had nothing to do with trying others and not liking them. I would like to say tough, caldera's installer was so nice compared to debians. I've done over 50 debian installs, and I still found the caldera one better. PLUS it lets you play tetris while it copies files over. Too bad the out of the box networking was screwed up. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: advanced power management and linux?
I just bought a dell inspiron 5000, with the svga (1400x1050) 15 screen. I love it, and I have never really liked laptops before. I still prefer my desktop CRT for video quality, but this is a NICE screen. Debian installed on it fine, I only ran into some problems getting the network interface (a 3com 3c575) to work during the installiation. I had to do a lot of putzing with modules by hand. Other than that, no problems. I installed xfree4.0.1 from the binaries, I even watched a few DVD's in linux on it. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Krzys Majewski wrote: It's very hard to guess. If you want silence, you live in a small apartment and you have some extra cash, buy a laptop and you'll get in love with it (but check the hardware, do not get a winmodem with it!). This is very interesting! I hadn't considered laptops but now I will. Does anyone else have experience with running linux on a laptop? Can I hook up my parallel-port ZIP drive to a laptop? Can I hook up my monitor? My keyboard? My mouse? If I keep the laptop plugged in the whole time is the battery simply ignored, or does it slowly drain or leak acid over the years? Note I have no intention of using this putative laptop anywhere other than my desk, but it would be really exciting to have one! Last I checked the displays were getting pretty good too, so maybe I could junk my monitor while I'm at it. What are some good display technologies, anyone have experience sitting up all night staring at an lcd screen? Can you still see? -chris -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
hibernation
I just bought a laptop (dell inspiron 5000) and put potato on it. I've been struggling with getting hibernation to work. I created the hibernation partition with the little dos utility that came with the machine, but still no dice. The bios are set to suspend-to-disk so I had sort of hoped that just doing Fn-Suspend would save the ram to disk and shut off. This is not the case, the machine just does a lowpower suspend. Windows has a hibernate option, which does what you would suspect, saves the ram and shuts off. I just wanted to know if anyone has had any luck with this sort of thing, or has any suggestions. Thanks. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hibernation
You probably can't do it on a desktop because it requires special bios. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Krzys Majewski wrote: No, but I think what you call 'hibernation' is what I meant by 'sleeping' in my post about power management. Has anyone got this to work? Will it work on a regular machine, ie not a laptop? -chris On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Aaron Solochek wrote: I just bought a laptop (dell inspiron 5000) and put potato on it. I've been struggling with getting hibernation to work. I created the hibernation partition with the little dos utility that came with the machine, but still no dice. The bios are set to suspend-to-disk so I had sort of hoped that just doing Fn-Suspend would save the ram to disk and shut off. This is not the case, the machine just does a lowpower suspend. Windows has a hibernate option, which does what you would suspect, saves the ram and shuts off. I just wanted to know if anyone has had any luck with this sort of thing, or has any suggestions. Thanks. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
[lcdproc] problem with contrast
Note this email is going to both the lcdproc mailing list and the debian
mailing list.
I did what you said, and here is the problem:
leko:/etc/init.d#./lcdproc start
Starting LCDproc: lcdproc.
Invalid parameter: --contrast
Invalid parameter: 200
It seems to be treating the --contrast 200 differently when its on the
command line and when its run from within the script. I don't
understand the need for quotation marks in the first place on the
command line, that strikes me as a little strange, but given that they
are necessary, how can I get around this problem?
-Aaron
P.S. For those of you on the debian list, the proper command line syntax
I'm going for is: #LCDd -d MtxOrb --contrast 200
my script now looks like this:
#! /bin/sh
#
# skeleton example file to build /etc/init.d/ scripts.
# This file should be used to construct scripts for
/etc/init.d.
#
# Written by Miquel van Smoorenburg [EMAIL PROTECTED].
# Modified for Debian GNU/Linux
# by Ian Murdock [EMAIL PROTECTED].
#
# Version: @(#)skeleton 1.8 03-Mar-1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
#
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
DAEMON=/usr/local/bin/LCDd
CLIENT=/usr/local/bin/lcdproc
NAME=lcdproc
DESC=LCDproc
test -f $DAEMON || exit 0
cfg=/etc/lcdproc.conf
contrast=200
cmdlnc=
cmdlnd=
if [ -f $cfg ]; then
. $cfg
if [ $runatboot == no ]; then exit 0; fi
if [ -n $server ]; then cmdlnc=$cmdlnc -s $server; fi
if [ -n $port ]; then cmdlnc=$cmdlnc -p $port; fi
if [ -n $driver ]; then cmdlnd=$cmdlnd -d $driver; fi
if [ -n $device ]; then cmdlnd=$cmdlnd -d $device; fi
if [ -n $contrast ]; then cmdlnd=$cmdlnd \--contrast 200\ ; fi
if [ -n $modes ]; then cmdlnc=$cmdlnc $modes; fi
fi
set -e
case $1 in
start)
echo -n Starting $DESC:
$DAEMON $cmdlnd
$CLIENT $cmdlnc
echo $NAME.
;;
stop)
echo -n Stopping $DESC:
kill `pidof -o %PPID lcdproc`
echo $NAME.
;;
restart|force-reload)
echo -n Restarting $DESC:
kill `pidof -o %PPID lcdproc`
sleep 1
$DAEMON $cmdline
echo $NAME.
;;
*)
N=/etc/init.d/$NAME
echo Usage: $N {start|stop|restart|force-reload} 2
exit 1
;;
esac
exit 0
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Aaron Solochek wrote:
...
screen is at. the problem is I envoke LCDd with the following LCDd -d
MtxOrb --contrast 200 Getting a script to include that quoted
--contrast statement has prooven quite difficult. I was wondering what
I can change to fix that? Is there another way to change the contrast?
...
if [ -n $contrast ]; then cmdlnd=$cmdlnd \--contrast\ 200\ ; fi
Well, first of all, are you sure that $contrast is getting set? If
$contrast doesn't get set, then cmdlnd=$cmdlnd \--contrast\
200\ won't get run, so the contrast won't get set. The -n will test
false if $contrast is a zero-length string.
Try adding a $contrast=foo just before that part.
Also, I don't think it's related to the problem, but I don't think you
need the '\' before a space in a quoted string. When I tried it, the
backslash got included in the string.
--
Dale Osowski
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Re: emacs20 install problem
Well, I didn't have elib installed, I tried, and this is what happened. -Aaron Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. 2 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Setting up emacs20 (20.6-2) ... emacs-install emacs20 install/elib: Handling install of emacsen flavor emacs20 install/elib: install Info links for emacs20 install/elib: byte-compiling for emacs20 emacs20 -batch -l elib-compile-all.el -f compile-elib Loading 00debian-vars... Loading 35elib-startup (source)... Loading 50dpkg-dev (source)... Byte-compiling stack-f.el... Wrote /usr/share/emacs20/site-lisp/elib/stack-f.elc Byte-compiling stack-m.el... Wrote /usr/share/emacs20/site-lisp/elib/stack-m.elc Byte-compiling queue-f.el... Wrote /usr/share/emacs20/site-lisp/elib/queue-f.elc Byte-compiling queue-m.el... Wrote /usr/share/emacs20/site-lisp/elib/queue-m.elc Byte-compiling elib-node.el... Wrote /usr/share/emacs20/site-lisp/elib/elib-node.elc Byte-compiling dll.el... Wrote /usr/share/emacs20/site-lisp/elib/dll.elc Byte-compiling dll-debug.el... Wrote /usr/share/emacs20/site-lisp/elib/dll-debug.elc Byte-compiling bintree.el... While compiling the end of the data in file /usr/share/emacs20/site-lisp/elib/bintree.el: ** The following functions are not known to be defined: elib-stack-create, elib-stack-push, elib-stack-pop Wrote /usr/share/emacs20/site-lisp/elib/bintree.elc Byte-compiling avltree.el... While compiling the end of the data in file /usr/share/emacs20/site-lisp/elib/avltree.el: ** The following functions are not known to be defined: elib-stack-create, elib-stack-push, elib-stack-pop Wrote /usr/share/emacs20/site-lisp/elib/avltree.elc Byte-compiling cookie.el... While compiling elib-refresh-tin in file /usr/share/emacs20/site-lisp/elib/cookie.el: ** reference to free variable dll Wrote /usr/share/emacs20/site-lisp/elib/cookie.elc Byte-compiling string.el... While compiling elib-string-expand-newtext in file /usr/share/emacs20/site-lisp/elib/string.el: ** reference to free variable newtext ** reference to free variable string Wrote /usr/share/emacs20/site-lisp/elib/string.elc Byte-compiling read.el... Wrote /usr/share/emacs20/site-lisp/elib/read.elc sed s,ELIB_PATH,\/usr/share/emacs20/site-lisp/elib/\, startup-template.el elib-startup.el emacsen-common: Handling install of emacsen flavor emacs20 emacsen-common: byte-compiling for emacs20 Loading 00debian-vars (source)... Loading 35elib-startup (source)... Loading 50dpkg-dev (source)... Wrote /etc/emacs20/site-start.d/00debian-vars.elc Wrote /usr/share/emacs20/site-lisp/debian-startup.elc Done install/gettext: Byte-compiling for emacs20 /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/gettext: cd: /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/gettext: No such file or directory emacs-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/gettext emacs20 failed at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-install line 28. dpkg: error processing emacs20 (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 29 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of elib: elib depends on emacsen; however: Package emacsen is not installed. Package emacs20 which provides emacsen is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing elib (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: emacs20 elib On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Peter S Galbraith wrote: Aaron Solochek wrote: I get the following error on a potato system: emacs-install emacs20 install/elib: Handling install of emacsen flavor emacs20 /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/elib: cd: /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/elib: No such file or directory install/elib: install Info links for emacs20 install/elib: byte-compiling for emacs20 cp: /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/elib//*: No such file or directory emacs-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/elib emacs20 failed at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-install line 28. dpkg: error processing emacs20 (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 29 Errors were encountered while processing: emacs20 E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) The error is not in the emacs20 packages at all, but in the elib package. Purge that one and try again. -- Peter Galbraith, research scientist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maurice Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada P.O. Box 1000, Mont-Joli Qc, G5H 3Z4 Canada. 418-775-0852 FAX: 775-0546 6623'rd GNU/Linux user at the Counter - http://counter.li.org/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
emacs20 install problem
I get the following error on a potato system: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. 1 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Setting up emacs20 (20.6-2) ... emacs-install emacs20 install/elib: Handling install of emacsen flavor emacs20 /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/elib: cd: /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/elib: No such file or directory install/elib: install Info links for emacs20 install/elib: byte-compiling for emacs20 cp: /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/elib//*: No such file or directory emacs-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/elib emacs20 failed at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-install line 28. dpkg: error processing emacs20 (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 29 Errors were encountered while processing: emacs20 E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Some errors occurred while unpacking. I'm going to configure the packages that were installed. This may result in duplicate errors or errors caused by missing dependencies. This is OK, only the errors above this message are important. Please fix them and run [I]nstall again Press enter to continue. I have tried purging all emacs stuff and reinstalling, but nothing is working. I would really appreciate any help anyone can offer. Thanks. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: rm -R /usr/
Yep... I was working with a filesystem I had mounted in /slink, and I issued rm -r /etc, trying to remove the mounted etc... oops... Now I have it aliased to interactive mode, which is annoying at times, but I haven't made a mistake like that again. -Aaron On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Jacob I. Stowell wrote: hello i am a new debian user and i just learned a hard lesson. I guess it is a bad idea to issue the following command: rm -R /usr/ i try to look at the bright side, you know make lemonade and all that, so at least i get a new system as a result of my bonehead mistake. Hopefully i will make different, and yet equally idiotic mistakes in the future. thanks for listening, i just needed to vent. -jake -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: mod_ssl on Debian 2.2
I'm sorry, please disregard that previous email, I figured out based on the other replay to your post that I was missing something (the mod_ssl libraries, duh...) so I fixed the problem. Thanks anyway. -Aaron
can't delete /foo
I created a directory, /foo, which was its own partition. I first wanted to change the group of /foo to bar, but it wouldn't let me do that, even as root. I got the error message operation not premitted: /foo Then I thought this is screwed up, so I tried to delete /foo, but rm -r /foo just says operation not premitted, and it doesn't go away. rm -rf /foo doesn't echo any errors, but it also doesn't delete /foo. Any clue what could be causing this? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
emacs20 install problem
I am getting the following error from potato. I was getting this, purged all the emacs stuff, then apt-get install emacs20, and this is what I get. The following NEW packages will be installed: emacs20 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/8988kB of archives. After unpacking 27.2MB will be used. Selecting previously deselected package emacs20. (Reading database ... 37965 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking emacs20 (from .../emacs20_20.6-2_i386.deb) ... Setting up emacs20 (20.6-2) ... emacs-install emacs20 install/elib: Handling install of emacsen flavor emacs20 /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/elib: cd: /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/el ib: No such file or directory install/elib: install Info links for emacs20 install/elib: byte-compiling for emacs20 cp: /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/elib//*: No such file or directory emacs-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/elib emacs20 failed at / usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-install line 28. dpkg: error processing emacs20 (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 29 Errors were encountered while processing: emacs20 E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) How can I fix this? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: power saving - A good idea
The downside is accessing the drive for the first time after that 5minutes. I was told, and this could be completely false, that scsi drives are designed to basically run constantly, while ide drives not. I heard this accounts for a lot of the price difference. Does anyone know if this has any truth, or if this is completly B.S.? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 19 May 2000, Chris Mason wrote: I lost a hard drive on my firewall machine recently so I looked for ways to conserve the drive. I enabled power saving(?) in the BIOS so that the IDE spins down after 5 mins of inactivity. As it is the only machine on a lot of the time, the HD is rarely used anyway. Any downside to this, will it cause problesm? Three days in and the machine seems fine. Chris Mason Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla, British West Indies Tel: 264 497 5670 Fax: 264 497 8463 USA Fax (561) 382-7771 Take a virtual tour of the island http://net.ai/ The Anguilla Guide Find out more about NetConcepts www.netconcepts.ai bwz*mq -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: pine
have you installed the debs? if not, do so with dpkg -i whatever.deb. That will create a directory in /usr/local/src called `pine` I believe. In that directory there is a readme or something which takes you step by step though installing it. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 17 May 2000, Chris Mason wrote: i'd like to use pine as I know it a little, but I downloaded the pine source deb and the .diff file, but I have no idea what to do with them. Any help? Chris Mason Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla, British West Indies Tel: 264 497 5670 Fax: 264 497 8463 USA Fax (561) 382-7771 Take a virtual tour of the island http://net.ai/ The Anguilla Guide Find out more about NetConcepts www.netconcepts.ai bwz*mq -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Whole net of scriptkiddiez and wannabes
If you are connecting to a non secure email server, they will very easily be able to get your password for that server. The best thing IMHO to do would be to run a mail server locally, and then, although they can still read your emails, they don't have access to your non local account. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] andreas palsson wrote: Hello. I'm about to connect my Debian-box to a LAN with alot of those 'wannabe-crackers'. I know this is not very wise, and the safest way to avoid being messed with is not to connect at all. But still, it's low cost Internet access :) I think I can secure my box quite good with SSH, ipchains and disabling most of the inetd-services. But what about 'sniffers'? I have no experience in sniffers and even if my SSH is protected, my mail and IRC-client connections are not encrypted. When Exim is connecting to another host to deliver mail, can they see the contents of the connection? What can I do to protect myself from this? Regards... Andreas -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: ftp'ing to NT
Because NT doesn't have a ftp daemon installed by default. Download warftpd or something similar, and install a server on your NT box. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hiya i am trying to ftp from my slink box to my NT fileserver but i get Connection Refused. Why is that? thanx Zane -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
problem with gmc in most recent potato?
leko:~gmc Multiple segmentation faults occurred; can't display error dialog leko:~ upgrading yesterday is the only change that my system has gone though. I also noticed that emacs20 was not happy, its installation scrips has errors and exits. Anyone else have either of these problems? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gpm and x conflicting
Yes, I have this same problem with acceleratedX using a ps/2 logitech. I removed gpm from /etc/rc2.d/ so it doesn't automatically cause me problems. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Christian Pernegger wrote: I haven't got a solution for you but the same problem (on a regular machine)... MS IntelliMouse Explorer on PS/2 Protocol IMPS/2 For the time being I purged gpm. :) Christian -Original Message- From: Daniel Brosemer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dan Brosemer Sent: Friday, May 05, 2000 9:14 PM To: Debian User List Subject: gpm and x conflicting I have gpm and X fighting for a ps2 mouse on my laptop. I've tried repeating on with X looking at /dev/gpmdata using both PS/2 and MouseSystems protocols and repeating types msc, ms3, raw. I've also tried having them both just look at /dev/psaux with the PS/2 protocol. If X uses the MouseSystems protocol, I get no motion at all when I move the mouse. All other settings give me erratic mouse movements. X works great if I kill gpm first, but this seems like a suboptimal solution to me and I'm wondering if anyone has a better idea? -Dan -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: installing Debian for an Unix-ignorant user (point-and-click installation)
I did a similar thing for a friend of mine. She basically new nothing about computers, and since I was giving her the computer, and I was maintaining it, I wanted to be able to do stuff remotly. It didn't take her long at all to understand things mounting drives (which with gmc isn't really an issue) and logging in, shutting down. She was modifying the wmaker setup I had given her within the first few hours. She uses staroffice for her wordprocessing, netscape for mail and web browsing. She also likes gtop for killing things like netscape when it dies. Aside from that she uses Xmms, gtcd, tik, gnomeicu, and a lot of games. My thought was that since she hadn't had any other comptuer experience that she would be more tolerant of linux than the windows convert. I've noticed that people tend to get frustrated when there is something they do in windows, and its a pain in linux. Just explain the basics, and the commands he should know, in my case it was just the stuff listed above, plus using ncftp and ssh. The best part of all is the reaction that all her friends at her liberal arts school have to her strange computer setup, which never crashes. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 21 Apr 2000, Arcady Genkin wrote: Hi all: A friend of mine in a fit of anger directed to his Window~1 installation called me and asked if I would install Linux for him. We have discussed with him before, that everything he needs from a computer (web browsing, document/spreadsheet editing, email) can be done from within Linux using familiar to him graphical interfaces. His Win98 has been blue-screening on him way too often. Next week I'm going to install Debian on his computer. Basically, I am thinking of setting up Gnome, and stuffing everything he could need in a root menu and clickable icons. He is no dummy, but has very little knowledge of computers besides most common applications. Has anyone done this kind of setup? Are there any things that I should be forewarned about, perhaps? How easy is it to configure a ppp connection as a desktop icon? (I'm on a cable modem, and have never configured ppp under Linux). I'll be very greatful for any suggestions and ideas! -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
ntpdate: socket in use
Well, I've been trying to update my clock to the local kerberos servers, but it doesn't work. leko:/home/aarons#rdate kerberos.andrew.cmu.edu rdate: Could not connect socket: Connection refused leko:/home/aarons#ntpdate kerberos.andrew.cmu.edu 8 Apr 00:22:26 ntpdate[583]: the NTP socket is in use, exiting leko:/home/aarons# What could be causing this? leko:/home/aarons#ps aux USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 1 0.3 0.0 1020 464 ?SApr07 0:05 init root 2 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Apr07 0:00 [kflushd] root 3 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Apr07 0:00 [kupdate] root 4 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Apr07 0:00 [kpiod] root 5 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Apr07 0:00 [kswapd] daemon 70 0.0 0.0 1128 420 ?SApr07 0:00 /sbin/portmap root 129 0.0 0.1 1352 632 ?SApr07 0:00 /sbin/syslogd root 131 0.0 0.1 1364 800 ?SApr07 0:00 /sbin/klogd root 135 0.0 0.1 1056 540 ?SApr07 0:00 /sbin/rpc.statd root 137 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Apr07 0:00 [lockd] root 138 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Apr07 0:00 [rpciod] root 153 0.0 0.1 1300 552 ?SApr07 0:00 /usr/sbin/inetd root 163 0.0 0.1 1352 560 ?SApr07 0:00 /usr/sbin/lpd root 181 0.0 0.2 2040 1180 ?SApr07 0:00 sendmail: accepting connections on port 25 root 189 0.0 0.1 2228 924 ?SApr07 0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd root 194 0.0 0.2 1548 1540 ?SL Apr07 0:00 /usr/sbin/ntpd root 199 0.0 0.1 2112 976 ?SApr07 0:00 proftpd (accepting connections) root 202 0.0 0.2 2012 1240 tty1 SApr07 0:00 -bash aarons 203 0.0 0.2 1996 1216 tty2 SApr07 0:00 -bash root 204 0.0 0.0 1004 444 tty3 SApr07 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty3 root 205 0.0 0.0 1004 444 tty4 SApr07 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty4 root 206 0.0 0.0 1004 444 tty5 SApr07 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty5 root 207 0.0 0.0 1004 444 tty6 SApr07 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty6 root 208 0.0 0.1 1668 860 ?SApr07 0:00 nmbd -a root 341 0.0 0.0 1160 432 tty1 S00:01 0:00 LCDd -d MtxOrb --contrast 200 root 376 0.6 0.1 1184 536 tty1 S00:02 0:07 lcdproc -s 128.2.148.19 C M T aarons 444 0.0 0.1 1744 820 tty2 S00:03 0:00 sh /usr/bin/X11/startx aarons 452 0.0 0.1 2192 764 tty2 S00:03 0:00 xinit /home/aarons/.xinitrc -- -auth /home/aarons/.Xauthority root 453 1.7 7.8 74688 40424 tty2S00:03 0:20 X :0 -auth /home/aarons/.Xauthority aarons 454 0.0 0.4 3588 2272 tty2 S00:03 0:01 /usr/bin/X11/WindowMaker aarons 455 0.0 0.1 3260 888 tty2 S00:03 0:00 xplanetbg --label --labelpos -1315+0 --markers --random aarons 459 0.0 0.1 2664 988 tty2 SN 00:03 0:00 wmsetbg -helper -d aarons 468 0.0 0.7 6708 3712 tty2 S00:03 0:00 panel aarons 469 0.0 0.9 7908 5160 tty2 S00:03 0:00 gmc aarons 479 0.0 0.2 2528 1216 ?S00:03 0:00 gnome-name-service aarons 487 0.0 0.5 6136 3100 ?S00:03 0:00 gen_util_applet --activate-goad-server gen_util_applet aarons 492 0.0 0.8 7072 4320 ?S00:03 0:00 gnomeicu --activate-goad-server gnomeicu aarons 498 0.0 0.6 4648 3324 tty2 S00:03 0:00 gaim aarons 525 1.2 3.5 24856 18376 tty2S00:04 0:13 /usr/local/netscape/netscape aarons 529 0.0 0.7 16556 3628 tty2 S00:04 0:00 (dns helper) aarons 541 0.0 0.3 3600 2004 tty2 S00:05 0:00 Eterm -T Eterm on leko -b black -f yellow -F -misc-fixed-medium aarons 544 0.0 0.2 1992 1212 pts/0S00:05 0:00 -bash aarons 547 0.0 0.2 2440 1212 pts/0S00:05 0:00 ssh unix15 aarons 550 0.0 0.3 3600 2004 tty2 S00:06 0:00 Eterm -T Eterm on meatball -b black -f yellow -F -misc-fixed-me aarons 553 0.0 0.2 2424 1184 pts/1S00:06 0:00 ssh meatball.res.cmu.edu aarons 558 0.0 0.4 3688 2100 tty2 S00:12 0:00 Eterm -T Eterm on leko -b black -f yellow -F -misc-fixed-medium aarons 561 0.0 0.2 1988 1212 pts/2S00:12 0:00 -bash root 565 0.0 0.2 1996 1224 pts/2S00:13 0:00 bash aarons 574 7.6 0.7 6260 3864 tty2 R00:17 0:25 /usr/bin/gtop root 584 0.0 0.2 2780 1136 pts/2R00:22 0:00 ps aux Also, my system has been a little strange lately, and I don't know what a lot of this running stuff is. If anyone notices anything odd about what my system is running, please tell me! Thanks. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
acessing extended acsii characters
In dos, you can enter alt-code where code is the 3 digit number representing the character you want to see. You could get the little ghost faces, various lines and such, and things like cent signs. How can you get these characters in linux? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to do a clean Potato install?
I don't know about the cd, but I had to make a couple of boot disks, a rescue, boot image, and three driver disks, and the potato install process used dhcp to configure my network, and did everything else over the net, it was great. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Christian Pernegger wrote: Hello everyone! I haven't been subscribed to this list for a long time (and I didn't post a lot even then because I was new to Linux at the same time...) Anyway, here I am. I've had surprisingly much success with setting up my Slink box, but the included X-Free doesn't support my new Matrox, SMP doesn't run all that smoothly... Question is, how do I best go about doing a clean install of Potato if I want to boot from the (2.1r4) CD and need the dhcpcd package to connect to the net? (Download quantities are no problem at all.) Best whishes Christian -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
input/output error
I had to reinstall my system recently, and since then, I have been unable to get my lcd working, I think the serial port might be messed up. I had a backup of my old system, and I had many many versions of lcdproc, including one from dselect, but they all say the same thing. leko:/usr/local/bin#./LCDd -t 20x4 -d MtxOrb -b on MtxOrb_init: failed (Input/output error) Error loading driver MtxOrb. Continuing anyway... Well, they don't all continue anyways, but all get the i/o error. I have used /dev/ttys0 and /dev/ttys1, its got to be one of them. Actually, it needs to be /dev/ttys1 since 0 is my UPS, which does seem to work. Any ideas? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I Screwed up WindowMaker
What if any errors are displayed on that screen it goes back to? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Matheson wrote: Hey, I just upgraded WindowMaker on my slink from http://www.debian.org/~vincent/, but now it doesn't work. When I start X Windows, it starts to display the appicon and stuff, but then it goes back to the login screen. Does any one know what's wrong? Thanks, Cameron Matheson -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: How do you remove files with bad/wierd names
On a similar note, avoid naming files -v or -r those are real pains. A friend of mine had to write system code to delete them... If he still has it sitting around, I'll pass it on. Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong wrote: I was wondering how to remove a file by the name of --help.tgz? (Don't ask...Okay if you really must know, I typed in tgz --help and I get that file. There's no man page for tgz, and I think tgz shouldn't accept things starting with -- as file names...) rm always takes it as an option, even if quotes, double-quoted, backslashed, regular-expressioned. Any suggestions? Marshal -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
OT: sendmail and mailing lists
I recently set up sendmail and a few mailing lists. I was wondering if there was a way, or a howto on the topic, of doing things like having the default reply to address be list, and the original sender cc'd or something similar. Right now its sort of a pain to have to reply all, then remove the original sender off the list because then he'll get two copies. Any one have info on this? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Xfree vs. AccelX
Ok, I run accelerated X. Sometimes dselect installs Xfree stuff. My defauly method of dealing with xfree breaking accelX is to reinstall the accel binaries, but I'm sure its easier than that. I asusme there are links someplace which link startx to accel x and those links get overwritten when xfree stuff gets updated. How can I fix these links? -Aaorn Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
gaim segfaults all of the sudden
can anyone else using gaim and potato verify this? It just happened since I upgraded this morning. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
how to create dummy packages?
I'd like to create a dummy package for the the xfree stuff so that I don't have to worry about the stupid dependencies all sorts of things have on xfree. For instance, task-gnome anything depends on xfree, which is complete bull. So I want to make a xfree pacakge with a version number such that dselect always thinks I have the most uptodate xfree and doesn't make me shift-Q after selecting not to install all the xfree stuff which loves to trample my accelx stuff. I have no idea how to do this, any how-to? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
heavy volume ftp problem
I have a sparc 5 running potato, and proftpd. It have a 170Mhz processor, and 128mb of ram. The issue is that under heavy ftp loads, for instance transferring 1.3gb at around 600k/sec caused this, the system develops defunt processes. These processes are usually sshd, imapd, and other network related processes, but also sometimes bash(although that is probably related to the dead ssh connections). Is this a hardware problem or software? Could a bad nic cause this? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dselect busted oops, rm -r /etc
I got that same message, but I had thought it was due to me having completly screwed my life by typing rm -r /etc/ instead of rm -r etc/. I had a month old backup of /etc, and some things are broken now, obviously. specifically, I see complaines about modules.conf, samba, and lpd.conf. What should I do from here? Is there hope of rebuilding this stuff? can I force a bunch of packages to reinstall and install default config scripts. Or should I just wipe this partition and do a fresh installation? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fresh potato install dpkg problem
Oh... I manually dpkg'ed the perl debs and that fixed it. but worth noting as a bug. But, where can I get the older dpkg packaes so that I don't hit that wall? On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Aaron Solochek wrote: I just got to the point of first dselect on a fresh potato installation. I get the following errors: debconf: Perl may be unconfigured (It then lists files it can't find and such) E: Write error - write (32 Broken Pipe) E: Failure running script dpkg-preconfigure --apt Then it runs the standard I'll try to configure the other packages and dies with code 100. How can I fix this? -Aaron Solochek -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: dselect: failed to getch in main menu: Success
I'd like a copy of that too. -Aaron Solochek On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Roy Pluschke wrote: John Stevenson wrote: There is a problem with dpkg_1.6.10 which gives this error. Please downgrade the dpkg file to dpkg_1.6.9. Could anyone send me the dpkg_1.6.9 package to downgrade with or are they archived on the debian site somewhere ? Roy Pluschke [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: fresh potato install dpkg problem
I found it... the link is below. ftp://ftp.iteso.mx/.1/debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/base/dpkg_1.6.9.deb -Aaron Solochek On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Aaron S. Hawley wrote: On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Aaron Solochek wrote: Oh... I manually dpkg'ed the perl debs and that fixed it. but worth noting as a bug. has this bug been reported? it really sucks. i've looked, and looked and can't find a related bug report -- Aaron S. Hawley - Aaron.Hawley @ uvm.edu - http://www.uvm.edu/~ashawley -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: kernel 2.2.14 and PS/2 mice
I have always just killed gpm from the init scripts, because gpm and X have never gotten along on my system. Also a ps/2. Its stupid, and dselect loves to reinstall the scripts, so that my mouse will either die as soon as dselect starts configuring stuff, or will go all crazy. -Aaron Solochek On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Debian Linux User Gary L. Dolan wrote: On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 08:22:38AM -1000, Jason Christensen wrote: I have no problems with a PS/2 mouse 2.2.14. On 10 Mar 2000, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: The boot messages tell me that a PS/2 mouse port is found, but the cursor doesn't follow the mouse at all. Under what circumstances are you talking about, X or console? If you're talking about the console, make sure you're running gpm. Is there a trick, some other kernel options as in older kernels ...? No trick for me. You may want to review your kernel configuration. It's possible that your old config file has some slight differences to configs for 2.2.14 regarding PS/2 mice. I have the same problem, in the x console. I thought perhaps it might be XF86 3.3.6 that is the problem. I re-compiled kernel 2.2.14, and the problem persists. Basically, the ps2 mouse is frozen in the x window; i.e., it reacts much like the old bus mouse problem. So now I kill gpm when invoking x, then use startx gpm -R -m /dev/psaux -t ps2 and the mouse works fine in x. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
g400 framebuffer-update
Apparently, my g400max, with kernel 2.2.14, doesn't like videomodes over 8bit color. The computer boots with whatever video mode I want, but will not sync if the color depth is greater than 8 bits. I can drive the monitor at 1600x1200 no problem, also at 1024 I have it set to use 100mhz mode, also no problem. One quick question though, my cursor is currently a big (3x3 characters) black box. How can I fix that? Is is a hardware/software cursor issue? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Framebuffer console with a G400
In light of all this talk, I decided to give my g400 frame buffer another shot. I Recompiled my kernel, with support for the g100/g200 framebuffer devices. I added the lines below to my lilo.conf append=video=matrox:vesa:280 That worked. I got a very nice frame buffer console. However, once I started X, and ctrl-alt'ed to another termianl, the video is all garbled, like its refresh isn't syncing or something. How do you fix that? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eric G . Miller wrote: I'm using a G200, but the .config should be only modestly different: # # Console drivers # CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y # CONFIG_MDA_CONSOLE is not set CONFIG_FB=y # Gotta have that CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y# and that. # CONFIG_FB_PM2 is not set # CONFIG_FB_VESA is not set # oops, better take that vesa # ref. out of lilo :) # CONFIG_FB_VGA16 is not set CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y CONFIG_FB_MATROX=y # CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MILLENIUM is not set # CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MYSTIQUE is not set CONFIG_FB_MATROX_G100=y # CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MULTIHEAD is not set # You might want this for G400 # I don't know if it does # anything... # CONFIG_FB_ATY is not set # CONFIG_FB_VIRTUAL is not set CONFIG_FBCON_ADVANCED=y # CONFIG_FBCON_MFB is not set # CONFIG_FBCON_CFB2 is not set # CONFIG_FBCON_CFB4 is not set CONFIG_FBCON_CFB8=y # You definitely want these. CONFIG_FBCON_CFB16=y CONFIG_FBCON_CFB24=y CONFIG_FBCON_CFB32=y # CONFIG_FBCON_AFB is not set # CONFIG_FBCON_ILBM is not set # CONFIG_FBCON_IPLAN2P2 is not set # CONFIG_FBCON_IPLAN2P4 is not set # CONFIG_FBCON_IPLAN2P8 is not set # CONFIG_FBCON_MAC is not set # CONFIG_FBCON_VGA_PLANES is not set # CONFIG_FBCON_VGA is not set # CONFIG_FBCON_FONTWIDTH8_ONLY is not set # CONFIG_FBCON_FONTS is not set CONFIG_FONT_8x8=y # Don't know if these matter. CONFIG_FONT_8x16=y -- ++ | Eric G. Milleregm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | ++ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Framebuffer console with a G400
Ok, I have a matrox g400, and all I want is the nice looking 1024x768 console. I can get this using the append=video=matrox:vesa:280 in lilo.conf. However, this stops working as soon as I enter X, and then try to either exit, or switch to another virtual console. I don't understant where ther 280 value comes from, for beginners. This is my first attempt at learning about frame buffers, so if there is a good source somewhere, please point me to it. I should also mention that I have a viewsonic PT775 monitor, which can do 1600x1200, and will auto track horix from 30-96khz, and vert from 50-160khz, so I can't imagine I'm out of range. Trying to use fbset doesn't work either, I'm missing something fundemental here. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mysql and imp
I'm trying to get imp running on my machine. I installed apache-ssl, php3, mysql and attempted to let dbconf do all the work. I answered all the questions, but imp won't install, it dies without much of an error message. Getting data from debconf Setting up db file Verifying Non-IMP config files No need to fix /etc/apache-ssl/srm.conf php3 extension for ldap found! php3 extension for imap found! Finished checking Non-IMP config files Configuring MySQL database dpkg: error processing imp (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: imp E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Has anyone had any luck getting imp to work? Or, does anyone have a preferred webmail server that will run under apache, and access imap servers? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
VMware, and acceleratedX
Has anyone used this combination before? I would like to be able to use full screen, or atleast be able to make the window larger than it currently seems to allow. Also, I'm using vmware to access a windows98 partition on a dual boot system. Right now windows finds all this new hardware, is there a way to make windows see the same hardware it usually does so this doesn't happen? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
pc104 question
I have pc104 board with an integrated ne2000 compatiable nic. I can't remember the exact chip, although it is supported in the standard kernel as a pci device. Unfortunatly this is a pc104 bus nic. I have been unable to get this thing working. I've compiled kernels (2.2.13 and 14) with every network device selected, but its a no go. Any suggestions? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IOmega
Unfortunately, I must agree with this. I have had a 2gb jaz for 1.5 years or so. I've replaced all of my disks twice, and the drive 4 times. Granted, iomega is good about replacing the stuff, paying shipping both ways and such, and when the disks and/or drive fails, you only lose a few files, it is a big pain in the butt. I still have my jaz drive, I use it seldomly. When it does work, which, for fairness, is most of the time, it is great, but don't bank on being able to recover the media. I use it as temporary space. Iomega did tell me though that the problem could be related to a compatibility with my adaptec 2940u2w, which at the time was an embedded controller. They had patches avalible, or, maybe adaptec had patches avalible, but it didn't matter anyways, since they were only for the retail 2940. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 09:35:18AM -0600, Timothy C. Phan wrote: Hi, Does IOMEGA JAZ 2GB EXT SCSI DRIVE work well in Debian or Linux in general? Anything should I be aware of before go out and buy the JAZ drive? No. It does not. It will work. For a while. Jaz is essentially just another SCSI device. However neither the media nor the drives are reliable under long (or short) term use, in my experience. My experience is a Jaz drive and six disks purchased since 1997. I've replaced the drive three times, as well as four disks. Under Linux (RH 4.2, 5.0, 5.2, and Debian Potato), any media ultimately starts returning sense read (or is it read sense?) errors after time. When these get sufficiently bad, the system locks up. I recently asked an open session at BALUG what I could do to improve operability of the drive under Linux. The consensus response was tell us how far you can throw it. For a price-storage ratio, a large EIDE drive is going to be a much better investment -- 10-40 GB for roughly the cost of 2-3 GB of Jaz storage. For archival and backup, I'd recommend tape backup (I use an HP Surestore DAT 2GB), or CD-W. For removable, reusable storage, the Zip is a de facto standard (though I'll refuse to spend another dime on Iomega), the Imation Superdisk allows transfer of up to 120 MB at a pop and is compatible with existing 3.5 ff diskettes. If you have a budget, you might want to evaluate MO (magneto-optical) devices. In a roughly 3.5 ff they offer 1GB of storage, though the double-sided devices only offer access to one side at a time. Read/write performance is significantly slower than pure magnetic media, though faster (IIRC) than CD-ROM. In particular, the write cycle requires three passes (thermal, write, verify). Massive components make random access seek times very high, though sequential read performance is much better. MO reliability is quite high. Drive and media are relatively expensive. Media are reusable, though most are rated for only a few hundred write/rewrite cycles. Particularly telling: reading through Wired's masthead credits a couple of years back, I noted that though ad space was dominated by Iomega, their internal storage solution was MO. -- Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) What part of Gestalt don't you understand? SAS for Linux: http://www.netcom.com/~kmself/SAS/SAS4Linux.html Mailing list: subscribe sas-linux to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
UGH!! Some people use accelerated X!
Why is it that packages are made to be dependant on Xfree? Whether or not they actually are, there ar some packages that seem to assume you need xfree installed to work right.However, install xfree when you use accelerated x is not such a great idea. How about anything X suggests xfree, and doesn't automatically dselect it, and all of the things its dependant on for you? This is really annoying. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: second try, defunct processes
Well, I tried 2.7.2, and although it seemed to last a little longer, this morning I wake up, and it didn't help. Any other ideas? Would wiping the system clean and trying again help? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Grendel wrote: * Ben Collins said: [snip] by using waitpid or wait4) the child process will go zombie (defunct). If the application is coded properly and it still happens, it might mean that the kernel fails to deliver the SIGCHLD signal to the parent for some reason. It might be caused by the kernel compiled with 2.95.x gcc. Generally, it's safer to use gcc 2.7.2.3 to compile your kernels. That would be true except this is sparc, and 2.7.2.3 can create some buggy code for sparcs. I don't know much about sparcs Linux, I just remember having a similar problem on x86 with a kernel compiled using 2.95.1 (AFAIR) that optimized the kernel code so much, it failed to deliver some signals. Situation was pretty much the same. marek Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature
second try, defunct processes
After my system boots up, its happy for a few hours (last time about 10) but then processes start becoming defunct. Mostly network deamons, some running from inetd, some not. I thin I've seen a defunct bash as well, but that may have been linked to the defunct sshd. What on earth can cause this? I've rebuilt the kernel, but things still die. Anyone have any experience with this? Its debian potato, sparc. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: second try, defunct processes
kernel 2.2.13, sparcstation 5 (170mhz, 128mb), gcc 2.95.2. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ben Collins wrote: On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 08:58:11AM -0500, Aaron Solochek wrote: After my system boots up, its happy for a few hours (last time about 10) but then processes start becoming defunct. Mostly network deamons, some running from inetd, some not. I thin I've seen a defunct bash as well, but that may have been linked to the defunct sshd. What on earth can cause this? I've rebuilt the kernel, but things still die. Anyone have any experience with this? Its debian potato, sparc. The kernel version would be helpful, as well as the compiler version you are using, and the specific sparc type. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
uh oh, where'd my memory go?
I just upgraded from a PII to an athlon (YEA!) however, my LCD is only reporting 64 of my 512meg. I had 512 before this upgrade, no problem. I also upgraded to 2.2.14. Whats going on here? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
defunct processes?
I have a sparc 5, which I've set up as an imap server through a ssl tunnel (using stunnel) and it is very unstable. Its running potato. It boots up, runs stunnel and ssh a daemons, the rest of the standard stuff though inetd, and everything works fine. Eventually, in a matter of hours, things break. The imap server stops responding, my open ssh connections are dead, and when I go to its console, and ps aux, I see that sshd stunnel, imapd and a few bash's, are defunct. What does this mean? What causes this? This is really quite annoying. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
libc problem in potato
ok, I was trying to install some stuff, and I got this. /etc/init.d/devpts.sh: line 63: syntax error: unexpected end of file dpkg: error processing libc6 (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: libc6 Does anyone have a good copy of this file they can send me? hopefully then dselect will be happy. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Xwindows in Sparc Station 5?
Can you start it as root? Are you running slink or potato? What xserver are you using? Luis Campos de Carvalho wrote: Hy, list people. I'm trying to configure the X windows system in a SparcStation machine (Debian), but i can't figure out what is going on. I simply can't start the Xwindows, and i don't know nothing about debbugging the configuration. Can you help me? Any kind of help would be welcome. Thank you all in advance. Bye, list people! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Luis Campos de Carvalho System Administrator at ECB -- Escola Paulista de Medicina Linux: In a world without fences, who needs Gates? -- Brian D. McGrew =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Xwindows in Sparc Station 5?
I had these same problems... Actually, I don't think I ever got X working under slink, it worked right away under potato, however. /etc/X11/Xserver will tell you what server it is trying to use. There is no configuration, I've been told. The way I understand it is that Sun framebuffers simply have a set resolution and colordepth, so there is nothing to configure. Just use the correct xserver, I use Xsun24, Xsun8 is also as option, and more common I believe. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Luis Campos de Carvalho wrote: On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Aaron Solochek wrote: Can you start it as root? Are you running slink or potato? What xserver are you using? Hy. I can't start it, even as root. I don't know where is the equivalent to 'XFConfig' (Debian/PC), or even if its exists. (How can i configure the X this way?) I'm running the latest stable distribuition, with online update. (I think it's slink) I don't know what is my Xserver. If you tell me how, i can lookup it for you. I'm running the WindowMaker Window Manager. (maybe its usefull for you) If you want more information, please let me know. Thank you, my friend. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Luis Campos de Carvalho System Administrator at ECB -- Escola Paulista de Medicina So they maintenance guy comes in, and I can tell he's NEW because the photo on his ID actually LOOKS like him, not like the head engineer, whose photo's a black and white tin-type (he's that old). -- Bastard Operator From Hell, #1 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Desperate Question...
Its broken... its irritating. I would like to see it fixed too. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] B.C. Computer wrote: Debian, I have been asking this question for a while now, on your newsgroups and the debian chatroom. And so far no one has even offered an answer. My question is this: Why is it that the gnome-apt package from the Potato, or Frozen, distribution is dependant on a package that doesn't exist and has never existed? I recently built several linux systems for some customers, and on the first two, gnome-apt installed fine, with no dependance errors. The last few came up with gnome-apt, a package that my customers need quite badly, having a dependance failure. It required libapt-pkg2.6. Yet, upon investigation, the libapt-pkg2.6 package does not exist, according to your web based package lookup tool. Is there any chance I can get this package, in whatever unstable state it exists? Or could I have the source code for this package, so that I can compile and install the library myself? I would really, really appreciate it. :) Thanx! Jon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
problem with gmc
I just noticed, my gmc is gone. Well, actually not gone, but usually it starts up with windowmaker, and it no longer does. When I try to run it I get the following: leko:~gmc Multiple segmentation faults occurred; can't display error dialog leko:~ I purged it, reinstalled it, but that did not help. I havn't been messing with it, other than running standard updates every few days. Does anyone know anything about this? Its sort of a pain. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
problem updating to potato
When trying to update to potato I get the following error: (Reading database ... 20980 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking util-linux (from .../util-linux_2.10d-5_sparc.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/util-linux_2.10d-5_sparc.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/etc/init.d/hwclock.sh', which is also in package clock dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/util-linux_2.10d-5_sparc.deb E: Sub-process returned an error code (1) Some errors occurred while unpacking. I'm going to configure the packages that were installed. This may result in duplicate errors or errors caused by missing dependencies. This is OK, only the errors above this message are important. Please fix them and run [I]nstall again Press enter to continue. This is part of util-linux... so I am very wary of rebooting, I have no idea how this will affect the system. Any ideas on how to fix it? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I can't get Linux to INSTALL! Help!
Is it a scsi harddrive? Its possible that the boot disk you have does not have support for whatever scsi card you are using If you don't know, boot into windows, and go to the device manager (right click on my computer, go to properties, click on devices tab) and see if there is a scsi entry, if there is, tell us what it says. If you don't have scsi, then I'm stumpted, I can't imagine why the harddrive woudln't show up. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alexander wrote: I'd like to apologize for sending out the same question again, but nothing thus far has worked. Here is my problem, in detail: I have attempted to install RedHat, TurboLinux, and now I'm on Debian. None of these have I been able to install. On every single one of them, as I am doing ANYTHING requiring finding the hard drive, it tells me that there is no hard drive. This is the error message that I get from Debian: No Hard Disk!No hard disk drives could be found. Make sure they are cabled correctly beforethe system's started. You may have to change driver settings at the boot,... orload a driver. I've gotten similar error messages from the other Linux's... I have a 13.5 GB hard drive and it is already partitioned for Linux. What can I do? All I want to do is get the thing installed, and I can't even do that... someone please help me!
Re: I can't get Linux to INSTALL! Help!
Yes, that helps... change the primary and master and slave to auto or, better yet, if your bios has it, use the autoconfigure harddisks option. That will try to figure out what you have, and then set things accordingly, that saves a few bootup seconds later on :). Oh, it will ask you what mode the harddrive is, I believe you want LBA mode. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alexander wrote: Also, I just went to my BIOS and took a look at the IDE info: IDE Controller [Both] HD Delay 6 seconds Primary IDE Master [None] Primary IDE Slave [None] Secondary IDE Master [My DVD...] Secondary IDE Slave [My Burner...] I dunno if that helps.
Re: I can't get Linux to INSTALL! Help!
I'm pretty sure that having no harddrive's configured in bios is a problem, but to get the disks, go to: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/disks-1.44/ This assumes you are using 3.5 drive. I actually did an install of potato with the disks, it sucks... Thats a lot of disks to write, then read. But, it will work, if you're patient. There is a lot of documentation on making these disks, but basically, grab all the .bin's, and get rawrite2.exe from ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/ Then, on a dos machine, type rawrite2.exe -d a: -f path of .bin file for each disk. label them, boot with the rescue disk in the drive, it will ask for the root image disk, then follow the on screen instructions. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alexander wrote: Where might I go about getting the install disks mentioned here? --- AFAIK Ultra66 isn't supported until 2.2.13 kernels. You'll have to grab the install disks from potato (frozen) which use 2.2.13 kernel. --- PS - I'm a retard, so please, explain ;-) -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
sparc kernel, got it to build... now what...
I built a 2.2.13 kernel, finally.. make boot worked. I edited silo.conf and ran silo, all seemed ok.When I rebooted it complained that the image was too big to fit in the destination. What can I do about this? Should I stick to 2.0.38? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Someone must know sparc debain
This is a pain. I compiled 2.2.13, and the first time silo complained that there wasn't enough room when I tried to boot that image. So I built a new one with less bloat (although its still like 2.3meg I think) and now it says it can't find an execuatble portion of the ELF image, or somthing along those lines. What is necessary to do this correctly. Here is what I'm doing now. make menuconfig, make dep, make clean, make boot, copy /usr/src/linux/arch/sparc/boot/vmlinux.o /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.13, ln vmlinuz-2.2.13 /vmlinuz, silo, reboot Also, where are the config files for X? XF86config is a broken link, there is no XFsparcconfig or something like that. I want to adjust my resolution, color depth, font search order... Are these display options even changable on a sparc 5? I think I have 8mb of memory on the framebuffer card, so it seems decent. Anyways, I'm lost, is there a good source for this sort of info? The debian page seems less than complete. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
total directory sizes?
If I want to see how much space /usr or /home is taking up, how do I do it? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Possible convert
Linux will run fine on that hardware. What are you running now? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have thinking for sometime switching over to linux. Before I do a total conversion I want to test the waters a little bit. I have an old Gateway, 486 66 machine with about 16 megs of RAM, 1 gig of hard disk and 8X cd player. Could iLinux be installed on such a machine? I don't want to upgrade the hardware but I can if it will make a real difference. Thank you for any advice. Kevin Jennings -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
compiling kernel on sparc/debian
I am trying to compile a new kernel on a sparc, running debian. I make menuconfig, make dep, make clean, but after that I don't know what to do. zImage, bzImage, zlilo, bzlilo do not work. What do I do? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: compiling kernel on sparc/debian
meatball:/usr/src/linux#make vmunix make: *** No rule to make target `vmunix'. Stop. Also meatball:/usr/src/linux#make vmlinux make: *** No rule to make target `/usr/local/src/linux/include/asm/param.h', needed by `/usr/local/src/linux/include/linux/sched.h'. Stop. Whats wrong here? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Phil Brutsche wrote: A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... I am trying to compile a new kernel on a sparc, running debian. I make menuconfig, make dep, make clean, but after that I don't know what to do. zImage, bzImage, zlilo, bzlilo do not work. What do I do? YOu need to do 'make vmunix'. SPARCs don't like compressed kernel images. -- -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the universe. And I'm not sure about the universe. - Albert Einstein -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
sparc debian partitions
I have a sparc 5 with a 2.1gb drive internal, and a 4 gig external. I'm fed up with solaris, so I want to try to install debian on it. However, I have no idea how to partition the drive. This is going to be an imap server (only for a dozen people) and possibly an AFS server, depending on how much extra space I come across. Anyways, what is the best way to partition the 2.1gb drive, assuming I want most of the system to exist on that drive? I know I need a bunch of /home, and I think a bunch for /var, but I really don't know whats sufficient for things like that. Thanks. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ssh is not working, x forwarding broken, libc fscked
I am running a potato system, and I cannot connect via ssh to it. Everything is installed, but sshd isn't running. What exactly do I have to do to fix this? Also, I am having a problem forwarding X connections to this same machine, I am setting all the right variables and xhost +ing correctly, but I get an error saying it can't connect. This is frustrating. Now I saw the post about libc, and I assume this is why I cannot compile a kernel, but my question is this: Will this be fixed and I can simply do a update, or is this going to require some intervention on a lower level? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: system requirements for SCSI
the adaptec 2940u2w (aic-7890) is well supported in every kernel I've seen recently. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gary Hennigan wrote: Brian J. Stults [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I want to by a SCSI drive and controller for one of my older computers so it can act as an ftp server. My understanding is that a slower computer can act as a decent server if you use SCSI since it doesn't require much from the processor. Is that right? Also, are there any minimum requirements? The computer is a Gateway P166 with 32MB of EDO ram. It will boot from an IDE drive, but the files that will be available from the server will all be on the SCSI drive. Sorry this isn't entirely Debian-related, but I use Debian and I want to install Debian on this computer, too. I'm thinking of buying a 9.1GB IBM Ultrastar 18ES and an Adaptec 2940U2W U2W/S host adapter. Thanks in advance for any input. I can't comment on the resources required, but I can say that I'd seriously consider some of the other SCSI controllers out there. Don't get me wrong, I have a 2940UW and haven't had any problems with it, but Adaptec charges a premium for their products and have, in the past, been slow to embrace Linux. Do a search for the topic of SCSI controllers via http://www.deja.com and look at what folks have to say. I've seen a lot of good things said about the other SCSI controllers that are a lot less expensive than Adaptec. Good Luck, Gary -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
xhost changed...
It used to be that I could open an eterm, su, and open whatever app I wanted. Now it complains about not being able to connect to the display. All of the sudden I need to xhost +localhost as non-root in order to open and windowed apps. This is annoying, how can I make root have permanent premisisons to connect to the local xserver? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
console data
I just upgraded a potato machine last night, and after it got all 66mb of its stuff, it went through the standard stuff, and then when it got to the console data setup thing when it askes for a country and keyboard layout, the standard US stuff wasn't there. That really makes things a pain, how can I get that setup back? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: libungif3g-dev broken?
I get errors with that too. -Aaron Pollywog wrote: Did anyone else have trouble installing the libungif3g-dev (3.0-2.3) package? It seems to be broken. -- Andrew -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Unidentified subject! (The scsi stuff)
As far as I know the only drawback to scsi is price. The newest scsi is always faster than the newest IDE. And currently scsi supports 15 devices per bus, while IDE supports only 2. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] prakash shah wrote: Respected Sir, I am computer science student. studying in fdu, nj. i would like to following thing about scsi. as i have read so many things about scsi and i would like to about performance, drawback, features. would you please explain me . Thanking you, Prakash shah __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
wireless suggestions
A friend and I want to connect our lan's via wireless ethernet and then split a DSL. Our houses are less than 300 ft apart, probably around 280ft, with line of sight. We are looking to do this as cheaply as possible. Anyone with any suggestions for methods and/or products I would greatly appreciate any help you could offer. I know this isn't really a debian question, but I figure we'll use debian routers on each end, to make this post more relavent :) -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Viewing powerpoint files
There is a small windows app which lets you view but not create powerpoint presentations. Its free on microsofts website. Has anyone tried to run this on top of wine or the similar? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] David Wright wrote: Quoting E.L. Meijer (Eric) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Is there a utility to view MS powerpoint files? Do I have to install that monster of StarOffice for this perpose? ;^) It depends on what you call `view'. Our secretary sometimes insists on sending lecture programs in powerpoint files per email (yuck, bleah), and all that matters is the text. In that case a simple strings file.ppt | less will show you the text most of the time, after you scroll through a few pages of junk. The text is usually somewhere at the bottom. Funny thing is that you can often see older versions of the text that are invisible in powerpoint. This sounds like Word. Unless the author uses SaveAs after completing the document, you end up reading the version which was last SaveAs'ed (or the first version saved if it's never been SaveAs'ed). I recently received a Word attachment that had two identical versions of a document embedded in quite a large amount of binary stuff. When I eventually used Word to look at the document properly, what I had seen before was but a fraction of the whole thing, and this fraction was dispersed through the whole document. (Don't ask me why it was repeated. Perhaps the author had duplicated it and then modified one version. It was that sort of document, with repeated, slightly differing, sections.) Caveat lector. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: ground zero
Well... If I were you, and this is in no way the best situation, just probably what I would do, is to make two partitions on the 1.2, a 1gig fat32, and 200meg linux swap. The 1 gig can be used for whatever in windows, maybe mp3s, and keeping the swap on the other drive with AFAIK be a better idea because overall preformance in linux will be improoved because its swapping to a different physical device than its loading it apps from. Now for the 13 gig drive, I typically allocate 4 gigs to linux. My current potato installation takes up about 2 gigs, so 4 just for breathing room. that leaves windows with quite a bit, which is ok, since linux can access either partition just as well. I usually keeps mp3's and videos and such on a fat32 so that I can see them from either operating system. So thats 1.2= 1)1.0gig fat32 2)200meg linux swap (both primary, it makes device names easier) 13= 1)windows of whatever size 4gig 9gig 2)4 gig linux 3)whatever's left over fat32 I would install windows first, then linux. I use the floppies, but there are other, better ways. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] William P. Bergstrom wrote: Greetings:I would like to tap into the vast resourse of experienced opinions out there! :-D When I finished typing I realized that this post was getting big, so thought I'd better put the main question up at the top. I need to know the best way to partition my two drives to have a debian-win98 machine. I have a pent 200mmx machine 64 mb RAM running win 98 on a quantum bigfoot 1.2 gig disk (partiontioned to 4 equal logical). = I pationtioned this drive for data-app segregation, and easier defragging. Now Im thinking that splitting the drive in half and using FAT32 might be better.=I've been interested in Linux and got CD's for Debian and OpenLinux. I just bought a 13 gig quantum fireball, and want to set up my machine/drives to run both (Debian-Win98) OS's.I've been bone-ing up on the online installation manual for Debian and Hardware HOWTO's.Seems like partitioning disks is critical to the whole process. In the debian users archive list, I've read about installing win 98 firstthen debian- lilo.So the ground zero newbie question is: I'm ready to WIPE my 1.2 gig drive and install it as the master on my motherboards secondary controller and set my CD-Rom as slave. Then install the 13 gig as master by itself on the primary controller.Then install debian and win98. (btw 1.2 is dma33 and 13 is udma66, Motherboard has dma33 controllers. )What about partions? I know that the linux bootstrap loader has to load within the 1st 1024 cylinders, won't win98 fight over this?Yes my motherboard will alow me to boot from CD-ROM. What about my thoughts for drive configuration? Help!Any and all advice would be greatly apreciated!Bill
Re: ^c broken in latest potato
Yep, ctrl-c wasn't killing dselect for me this afternoon, I upgraded last night. I was su'ed in, btw. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] George Bonser wrote: Cant seem to kill a running process with ^C anymore. Noticed the problem last night but do not know when the problem crept in. I can suspend the process with ^Z and then kill it manually with kill but ^C does not seem to work anymore. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Computer won't start
It sounds like a strange ATX problem to me. I had similar things happen before. For whatever reason the switch on my computer doesn't work to power it up. The switch DOES work, I have check that via multimeter, but I need to manually short the jumpers to get the computer to start. So, try this. Open up your machine, locate the two powerswitch pin's (they have the power switch currently plugged into them) remove the plug, and touch a screwdriver to those two pins, CAREFULLY. Now, realistically, on my motherboard, the two pins next to the power switch pins are not hooked up to anything, but its not the sort of chance you want to take. Touching a screwdriver to those pins will tell you whether or not the switch is bad. Btw, you said that it didn't boot a floppy, was the machine on at that point? Did the floppy drive seek? Did the power LED stay on for more than a few seconds? If the answer to any of these is yes, than it is probably a bigger problem. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bart Szyszka wrote: Hi, I've been having problems in both Debian and Windows, so I'm not sure which one could be causing this (probably Windows?), but when I turn on my computer right now, it doesn't start. I get absolutely nothing on my screen except the default thing that shows up on the monitor if the computer is turned off and on the older monitor I tried it with it's just a blank blank space. I hear a little ticking like it's doing something, but that doesn't last long because when I put a boot disk in it doesn't go far enough to be trying to boot of the harddrive/floppy/cdrom. I've tried replacing the graphics card with a different one so it doesn't look like that's the problem. My guess is that this is a BIOS problem. Any ideas? Could a (Windows?) virus have caused this? Is the bios (I have an AMIBIOS in that computer) replacable? Easily? Inexpenssively? I'd appreciate some help with this. I'm using a very old computer right now with a 486 that can barely handle this telnet prompt in Win95 (I install Debian off the harddrive and don't have anything downloaded for it in this computer for me to be able to set it up easily), BTW. I'd appreciate some advice (in private since this might not be specific to Debian?). - Bart -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Staroffice and gtop
I was checking gtop today to see how much memory was going to various things, and staroffice was reported as using 500+ megs. Now, I did just upgrade to 512mb of ram, but I have like 200megs of other things in memory, so this didn't make much sense. Also, LCDProc (A program to display system info to a LCD) reports 300 and some megs free. So, whats going on here? I find it hard to believe that staroffice uses that much memory. Anyone else see this behaviour? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What's the deal with .gnome-desktop?
I installed potato from scratch on a friends machine, and they had nifty cdrom and floppy shortcuts that I did not have. So I, since I had their harddrive in my machine, tried to copy -r their .gnome-desktop. After it started filling up about a gig, I stopped it, and had to become root and do a rm -r -f .gnome-desktop. Why does this directory have an infinitly deep structure? It seems recursive to me. Ho can I copy his .gnome-desktop to my home directory? OR, better yet, how does it work, so I can just build one from scratch, with a home directory, a floppy and two cd-rom icons on my desktop? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What's the deal with .gnome-desktop?
Thanks to the few replies, I got it copied, however the links are not quite working the same. On my system, the floppy and cd-rom links pop open a gmc windows open to the correct paths, however, it does not mount the relavent device. And the little menus you get when you right click on them are different. On the source system you have options like unmount and eject While I just have the typical open properties etc etc.. So my obvious question, how do I get these icons to be the same? Where is the set up for this stuff? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: APC UPS (Back-UPS Pro 650)
I just went though all this with a smartups 620. If the cable came with the ups, it should have a part number on it. The documentation of apcupsd mentioned the different type and their numbers. I tried apcd without success, but apcupsd workes great. And it also seems to be more powerful than apcd... is this the case? Has anyone tried powerchute for linux yet? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: On Tue, 21 Dec 1999 09:21:42 -0800 (PST), aphro wrote: you try powerchute plus for linux yet ? its been out for a few months Nope, but it seems as if I *should* give it a try now..kinda nice..make sure you got trhe black cable and not a grey cable though. I don't know which cable we got -- since I've set up the machine remotely. I've never seen it... :-) -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: custom colors for 'ls'
I set up colors using the following lines. in my .bashrc or .bash_profile alias ls=ls --color=auto eval `dircolors ~/.dircolors` and I've attached my .dircolors -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] ktb wrote: I've set the folowing alias up, l=ls --color=always -alF I like the coloration except my executables are in a light green color and I can barely see them. I looked a the 'ls' man page specifically the, DISPLAY COLORIZATION section. It says you can use LS_COLORS to change a default color. Anyway the instructions are vague or I'm just not getting it. I thought something like this from the command line might work, ls -alF --color LS_COLORS ex=36 but that didn't work. It seems like maybe LS_COLORS ex=36 should go in a file or something that 'ls' would read. I just don't know. Anyone know how to do this? Thanks, kent -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null # Configuration file for dircolors, a utility to help you set the # LS_COLORS environment variable used by GNU ls with the --color option. # The keywords COLOR, OPTIONS, and EIGHTBIT (honored by the # slackware version of dircolors) are recognized but ignored. # Below, there should be one TERM entry for each termtype that is colorizable TERM linux TERM linux-c TERM console TERM con132x25 TERM con132x30 TERM con132x43 TERM con132x60 TERM con80x25 TERM con80x28 TERM con80x30 TERM con80x43 TERM con80x50 TERM con80x60 TERM xterm TERM xterm-debian TERM rxvt TERM screen TERM vt100 TERM ansi # Below are the color init strings for the basic file types. A color init # string consists of one or more of the following numeric codes: # Attribute codes: # 00=none 01=bold 04=underscore 05=blink 07=reverse 08=concealed # Text color codes: # 30=black 31=red 32=green 33=yellow 34=blue 35=magenta 36=cyan 37=white # Background color codes: # 40=black 41=red 42=green 43=yellow 44=blue 45=magenta 46=cyan 47=white NORMAL 00 # global default, although everything should be something. FILE 00 # normal file DIR 01;33 # directory LINK 01;04;36 # symbolic link FIFO 40;33 # pipe SOCK 01;35 # socket BLK 30;43;01# block device driver CHR 30;43;01# character device driver ORPHAN 47;31;05 # symlink to nonexistent file # This is for files with execute permission: EXEC 01;32 # List any file extensions like '.gz' or '.tar' that you would like ls # to colorize below. Put the extension, a space, and the color init string. # (and any comments you want to add after a '#') # If you use DOS-style suffixes, you may want to uncomment the following: .cmd00;32# executables (dim green) .exe00;32 .com00;32 .btm00;32 .bat00;32 .tar00;31# archives or compressed (red) .tgz00;31 .arj00;31 .taz00;31 .lzh00;31 .zip00;31 .z 00;31 .Z 00;31 .gz 00;31 .GZ 00;31 .deb01;31# rpms or debs (bright red) .rpm01;31 .bin00;41;30 .iso00;41;30 .jpg01;35# image formats (magenta) .gif01;35 .GIF01;05;35 #capitalized extensions blink so I fix them .bmp01;35 .ppm01;35 .tga01;35 .xbm01;35 .xpm01;35 .tif01;35 .pdf01;35 .mpg01;35#movies .avi01;35 .mov01;35 .gl 01;37 .dl 01;37 .mp301;34#sounds .MP301;05;34 .wav01;34 .html 00;44;33 #webpages and html, (blue on yellow) .cgi00;44;33 .asp00;44;33 .conf 01;36#config files are cyan .cfg01;36 .config 01;36 .*rc01;36 *rc 01;36 .so 00;46;30 #libraries are black on cyan *.so.* 00;46;30 *.so.*.* 00;46;30 *.so.*.*.* 00;46;30
Re: What good is a 486?
A friend of mine on dorm floor had a prolinea 466... We installed linux on it. It was our floor print spooler, a handy email station. We even had X running on it, although we think the memory we aded was bad, cause it started crashing a lot after we added it. But it can do somethings. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anthony 'Evil Twin' wrote: I have a Compaq Prolinea 466. I haven't figured out the processor speed yet. But there's 16MB of memory, a 400-odd MB hard drive. And a 3-1/2 floppy. My 5-year old nephew has some educational games that can run on Windows 3.1. Would it be worth it for me to install Linux on the machine to run his games? I'd have to get a CDRom, sound card and speakers. What would I need installed on the machine? Could I make it easy enough for a 5-year old to start it up and shut it down? Thanks, Tony - -- Evil Twin - one_spike the Man, the Myth, the Legend in His Own Mind - //~/ ~\\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\~\ ~// one_kill! disclaimer - 'Evil Twin' is a nickname, the big ugly graphic on the right is a volleyball. The 'spike' and 'kill' are volleyball-related. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
file systems...
I had my harddrive crash, so I had to do a fresh installiation of potato. Before when I issued the command mount /dev/scd0 /ultraplex my cd would be mounted on ultraplex, and I had long file names. However, now the same command gives me those annoying truncated filenames. What could have changed? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mirroring?
Does anyone know either of the following. 1)If there are potato cd-images around, and if so, where? 2)Where the documentation for setting up a debain mirror is? I want to be able to bring the entire distro home with me over christmas, where I will have a slow connection. I need to install on a few machines there. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sound blaster live
If you are talking about emu10k1, which I assume you are, yes I have. key things to do. 1) make sure your kernel is configured with sound support as a module, and no other sound options are selected. Compile the kerel when you get out. make dep; make clean; make bzlilo; make modules; make modules_install usually works for me. That will toss soundcore.o in /lib/modules/(kernel version)/misc. Then you want to download the source for the emu10k1, unless you happen to be running a kernel there are binaries for (you shouldn't be running any 2.2.x other than 2.2.13 I've been told, btw). So you get that, untar it, make it and then make install it. That installs the modules. If you get that far, write back for info on running the modules. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jason Winters wrote: has anyone successfully installed the Bata drivers for the sound blaster live sound card. If so how? I tried and I could not get it to work.
apt via local mirror?
I want to install potato on a friends machine over break. So I am having her bring me her harddrive (currrently slink) home with her. What I would like to do is put her drive in my machine and do an install from one of my other drives. How much space do I need to mirror unstable? And how do I set all this up? For instance what does my sources.list look like? Should I just burn an iso or something? Any thoughts would be helpful. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: G400 high-res problem
Well, for what its worth, I am using a g400max with no problem, but not with xfree, with acceleratedX. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greg Schulein wrote: On the contrary, every reply helps. If others are using the G400 successfully, I'll conclude my card is defective and get a replacement. Thanks, Greg Mark Zimmerman wrote: I'm using a G400 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] with XFree86 3.3.5 and have no problems with it. My monitor is a Sony 400PS. I also recall that I used 3.3.4 for a time without incident. The 3.3.4 experience was with slink; now using potato. Sorry to have been no help. - Mark On Sun, Nov 28, 1999 at 07:13:51PM -0800, Greg Schulein wrote: Hi, I'm running a Matrox G400 with a Sony G500 display, on a slink system that's been upgraded (via apt) to XFree86 3.3.4. The problem I'm getting is dark bands that flicker on the screen whenever the on-screen image is changing. The scanlines under the dark bands also seem to be displaced a few pixels to the left compared to the rest of the scanlines. The picture is fine whenever the image is not changing. A changing image can be an animation, scrolling a window, or even typing (like now). This problem is most pronounced at [EMAIL PROTECTED], but is present at lower resolutions and color depths as well. Is there anyone else out there running a G400 under XFree 3.3.4 that is or is not having similar problems? Thanks, Greg -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: AcceleratedX 5 on slink
I have gotten acceleratedX 5 to work on slink with no issues. Any only a few issues on potato. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] aphro wrote: ANyone have any success stories about running AcceleratedX 5 on top of slink? I talked to one guy and he said he had to update a ton of packages to make it run. any info would be appreciated! (no im not looking to move to potato :) ) nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By:http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMPhttp://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 3:26pm up 101 days, 3:05, 1 user, load average: 1.38, 1.58, 1.62 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: HELP: my system is still screwed....
Have you tried to --force anything? You can probably force it to install the new apt, but who knows what it will do then. I bet it fixes the file list though. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bruno Boettcher wrote: hello, trying to upgrade doesn't work anymore on my system, its state is not very good, i lost X and the package list is a mess i admit that with all the tries to restaurate the system it went deeper and deeper in a worse fashion... e.g. trying to install the latest apt: dpkg -i apt_0.3.14_i386.deb Selecting previously deselected package apt. (Reading database ... dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `apt-find' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed. 77650 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace apt 0.3.14 (using apt_0.3.14_i386.deb) ... dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute old pre-removal script: No such file or directory dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 2 dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute new pre-removal script: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing apt_0.3.14_i386.deb (--install): subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 2 dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute post-installation script: No such file or directory dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: apt_0.3.14_i386.deb now why can't this tool give back which files it tryed to find (with their path) alone noth found is far from helpful at least since the pre and postremoval scripts are where i think they are supposed to be: ll /var/lib/dpkg/info/apt.postinst -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.7k Nov 8 05:36 /var/lib/dpkg/info/apt.postinst the disks are ok, i checked them dpkg --configure -a, apt-get upgrade, apt-get install etc isn't useful since it screws itself up with all the dependency problems... most packages are in the state: Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting configuration. making it impossible to reinstall or remove them. so there should be a solution somewhere -- ciao bboett == [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://inforezo.u-strasbg.fr/~bboett http://erm1.u-strasbg.fr/~bboett === the total amount of intelligence on earth is constant. human population is growing -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
