Cannot load kde panel
Hello, This morning, I updated my kernel to 2.4.7. I rebooted and attempted to log into a kde session. The panel (kicker) attempted to start up and aborted. I cannot get a panel running. My .xsession-errors is as follows: _KDE_IceTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.ICE-unix should be set to root DCOPServer up and running. Property 'Export' is defined multiple times (KOfficeFilter) Property 'Import' is defined multiple times (KOfficeFilter) kdecore (KLibLoader): WARNING: KLibrary: /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.3: undefined symbol: init_spellchecking kdecore (KLibLoader): WARNING: KLibrary: /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.3: undefined symbol: init_audiocd _IceTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.ICE-unix should be set to root file format extension /usr/share/sounds/ unsupported file format extension /usr/share/sounds/ unsupported file format extension /usr/share/sounds/ unsupported file format extension /usr/share/sounds/ unsupported file format extension /usr/share/sounds/ unsupported file format extension /usr/share/sounds/ unsupported file format extension /usr/share/sounds/ unsupported file format extension /usr/share/sounds/ unsupported kicker: crashHandler called DCOP aborting call from 'anonymous-576' to 'kicker' ERROR: KUniqueApplication: DCOP communication error! file format extension /usr/share/sounds/ unsupported file format extension /usr/share/sounds/ unsupported file format extension /usr/share/sounds/ unsupported AlarmApp::newInstance() AlarmDaemon::AlarmDaemon() AlarmDaemon::reloadCal(): '' AlarmApp::newInstance() file format extension /usr/share/sounds/ unsupported DCOP aborting call from 'anonymous-590' to 'kicker' ERROR: KUniqueApplication: DCOP communication error! file format extension /usr/share/sounds/ unsupported file format extension /usr/share/sounds/ unsupported file format extension /usr/share/sounds/ unsupported file format extension /usr/share/sounds/ unsupported Can anyone help with this problem? Thanks, Anthony
How do you get rid of gnome?
Since I use KDE2x exclusively now, I would like to get rid of the gnome desktop from my system. I run unstable. I still use some apps that depend on gnome libs like xmms. How do I get rid of just the packages that comprise the gnome desktop? Or, is there a task package that would take care of this? Thanks, Anthony
dselect trying to remove lots of stuff
Hi, Seems I wasn't careful enough when using dselect. I have been trying to remove the gnome libs and binaries that I don't use on my system. Somehow, I must have selected the wrong package for purging. Dselect now wants to remove from my system, among other packages, XFree86 and KDE. I don't want these packages to be removed. Is there some way that I can make dselect forgot about previous selections? That is, is there some way for dselect to just start over? Thanks, Anthony
KDE2 kicker not showing up
Hello, I have a problem where I log into KDE, and the kicker panel does not show up. Actually, I see it for a second and then it disappears. It appears to be crashing. I have to log in three or four times before the kicker panel will stick around. Has anyone seen this problem? I am running Debian/Unstable. Thanks, Anthony
Re: AMD T-Bird + Potato = ?
Case, Benjamin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How well does the 2.2.19pre17 kernel in Potato? Should I prepare for any know issues ? I just got a new system with an AMD tbird 1ghz, and 512mb DDR. I used potato with a 2.2.17 kernel with a 900Mhz Athlon. Worked fine for me. As does 2.4.6. -Anthony.
Re: ssh strangeness
Andrew Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ssh -l andrew.dixon stiq ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host Perhaps the versions of ssh are incompatible. Post the output of ssh -v -l andrew.dixon stiq I CAN log into the PPC Deb box from the redhat server and I also CAN log into my Debian box from the server. How can you log in if you can't ssh into it? Telnet? -Anthony.
Re: ssh strangeness
Andrew Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: here it is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ssh -v -l andrew.dixon stiq OpenSSH_2.5.2p2, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090601f debug1: Seeding random number generator debug1: Rhosts Authentication disabled, originating port will not be trusted. debug1: ssh_connect: getuid 1000 geteuid 1000 anon 1 debug1: Connecting to stiq [172.16.1.151] port 22. debug1: Connection established. debug1: identity file /home/dixon/.ssh/identity type 0 debug1: unknown identity file /home/dixon/.ssh/id_rsa debug1: identity file /home/dixon/.ssh/id_rsa type -1 debug1: unknown identity file /home/dixon/.ssh/id_dsa debug1: identity file /home/dixon/.ssh/id_dsa type -1 ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host debug1: Calling cleanup 0x8060a1c(0x0) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ How can you log in if you can't ssh into it? Telnet? No, I CAN log in via ssh to the server (northbridge). The other box (stiq) is a development box. I can also ssh into northbridge then ssh into stiq. like I said, it's strange. So you can go rowling-northbridge and northbridge-stiq, but you cannot go rowling-stiq directly? Correct? Could you post the output of ssh -v andrew.dixon stiq from northbridge-stiq? It sounds like there is a configuration issue between rowling and stiq. If you can compare the difference between the ssh configuration of northbridge-stiq and rowling-stiq, you will probably find the source of your problem. -Anthony.
apt-get dist-upgrade problem
Hello, This morning I tried to do my routine apt-get upgrade apt-get dist-upgrade. The dist-upgrade blew up on some kde packages. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # apt-get -f dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done 2 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 89 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/7005kB of archives. After unpacking 12.3kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] (Reading database ... 59602 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace kdelibs3-crypto 4:2.2-cvs20010622-3 (using .../kdelibs3-crypto_4%3a2.2.0-0beta1-2_i386.deb) ... Leaving `diversion of /usr/lib/kde2/kio_https.la to /usr/lib/kde2/kio_https-nossl.la by kdelibs3-crypto' Adding `diversion of /usr/lib/kde2/kio_https.so to /usr/lib/kde2/kio_https-nossl.so by kdelibs3-crypto' dpkg-divert: rename involves overwriting `/usr/lib/kde2/kio_https-nossl.so' with different file `/usr/lib/kde2/kio_https.so', not allowed dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs3-crypto_4%3a2.2.0-0beta1-2_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 2 prerm called with unknown argument `abort-upgrade' dpkg: regarding .../kdelibs3_4%3a2.2.0-0beta1-3_i386.deb containing kdelibs3: kdelibs3 conflicts with kdelibs3-crypto ( 4:2.2.0-0beta1-1) kdelibs3-crypto (version 4:2.2-cvs20010622-3) is installed. dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs3_4%3a2.2.0-0beta1-3_i386.deb (--unpack): conflicting packages - not installing kdelibs3 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs3-crypto_4%3a2.2.0-0beta1-2_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs3_4%3a2.2.0-0beta1-3_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) It appears that dpkg is trying to create a 'diversion' from /usr/lib/kde2/kio_https.la to /usr/lib/kde2/kio_https-nossl.la by kdelibs3-crypto. However, /usr/lib/kde2/kio_https.la is a symlink to /etc/alternatives/kio_https.la which actually points back to /usr/lib/kde2/kio_https-nossl.la. I have tried moving /usr/lib/kde2/kio_https* out of the way, but that did not work. I have moved them back to where they are supposed to be. Does anyone know how to fix this problem? Thanks, Anthony
Re: apt-get dist-upgrade problem
Anthony Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, This morning I tried to do my routine apt-get upgrade apt-get dist-upgrade. The dist-upgrade blew up on some kde packages. I found the solution on bugs.debian.org: dpkg --purge kdelibs3-crypto then apt-get -f install. -Anthony.
Re: how to get list of emacs key descriptions
Walt Mankowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 02:54:42PM -0800, Britton wrote: I know for example that meta x is described as \M-x. How is tab described, or how can I find out for a general key. I'm not seeing it in the docs. Emacs ships with a postscript reference card which lists most of the default key assignments. On potato this file is at /usr/share/emacs/20.7/etc/refcard.ps If you want to know what a particular key sequence is assigned to, you can use describe-key (C-h k) then the key(s) you're interested in. For example, to find out what function TAB is assigned to, enter C-h k TAB Or to get a list of all key maps in the current buffer, type M-x describe-bindings RET which is usually mapped to f1 b. Anthony
Re: grub dual boot with 2 hd
Guy Geens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anthony == Anthony Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Guy == Guy Geens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Guy following in /boot/grub/menu.lst: Guy title Debian GNU/Linux Guy root (hd1,1) Guy kernel /vmlinuz Guy Guy title Windows 2000 Guy rootnoverify (hd0,0) Guy chainloader +1 Well, I got impatient and did the install without creating a boot disk or backing up the mbr. Everything did not go well, but GRUB's shell helped solve all the problems. Nice. What I was getting at when I asked about default booting was something like: timeout 30 default 0 fallback 1 This way, the 0 entry will boot after 30 secs. Thanks for all of your help. Anthony
Re: nvidia-glx won't install
Jonathan David Wheelhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: An apt-get update dist-upgrade got the newer nvidia-kernel-src and nvidia-glx-src packages(1.0.1251-1). I ran the build scripts (ie. make-kpkg modules-image dpkg-buildpackage -us uc respectively) but dpkg -i on the nvidia-glx deb gave a missing xlibmesa-dev problem. Can somebody help (I want WindowMaker back!)? I am not sure about your specific problem, but I have always used Nvidia's makefiles rather than debian's package management to install glx and kernel modules. Have you tried getting the nvidia-glx tarball and doing a `make install`? -Anthony.
grub dual boot with 2 hd
Hello, I have a machine that is a dual boot Win2k/Debian Unstable box. There are two hardrives. Windows is on the first drive, Debian is on the second. The hd layout is as follows: / /dev/hda - | Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-14649.960 megabytes | Disk label type: msdos | MinorStart End Type Filesystem Flags | 1 0.031 14637.348 primary ntfsboot \__ / /dev/hdb -- | Disk geometry for /dev/hdb: 0.000-14649.960 megabytes | Disk label type: msdos | MinorStart End Type Filesystem Flags | 2 0.031972.685 primary ext2boot | 3972.686 14519.685 extended | 5972.716 8605.129 logical ext2 | 6 8605.160 10511.279 logical ext2 | 7 10511.310 14519.685 logical ext2 | 1 14519.685 14645.192 primary linux-swap \__ / Mount points for /dev/hdb | Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on | /dev/hdb2 980308407708522804 44% / | /dev/hdb5 7692876861236 6440864 12% /usr | /dev/hdb6 1921156505656 1317908 28% /var | /dev/hdb7 404 1819752 2015020 48% /home \__ I want to go from booting with Lilo to Grub. I am not sure, but doesn't lilo have to be installed in the mbr of /dev/hda in order to boot both Win2k and Linux (in the above configuration)? Can anyone outline the steps I need to take in order to install grub correctly?
Re: grub dual boot with 2 hd
Guy Geens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Next, put the following in /boot/grub/menu.lst: title Debian GNU/Linux root (hd1,1) kernel /vmlinuz Title Windows 2000 rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 Does this make /dev/hdb (Linux) the default partition to boot from? I want Linux to boot by default. Pretty straight-forward. However, I would advise you to have boot floppies necessary just in case something goes wrong. And a copy of the MBR won't hurt either. How do I make a boot floppy for my particular configuration? How do I copy the MBR? Thanks for your help, Anthony
KDE font problem
Hello, I have a strange problem with KDE. I have been trying to set my fonts in the KDE Control Center. I can set all the fonts correctly except for the Fixed Width font. When I click Choose... for the Fixed Width font, KDE crashes and restarts X. Has anyone noticed this problem? Has anyone fixed this problem? Thanks, Anthony
Re: Help setting DISPLAY to an ipmasq'd machine.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I want to set the DISPLAY variable on work_linux_box to display on Xserver_machine to assist me doing off hours support. It will be difficult to get the comany to modify the firewall. So, is this possible to do? If so, what exactly do I need to do on the linux side. I do have it setup that I can ssh from work_linux_box to ipmasq_machine and from there to anywhere on the 192.168 lan. So I have that much connectivity setup. Use the -X option to ssh. This sets up an encrypted tunnel for X11 packets between the host you are on and the host you are ssh'ing to. This will work only if the FORWARD_X11 option has not been specifically turned off in the sshd configuration of either machine. -Anthony.
Re: two questions on emacs under Mutt
Vittorio [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've installed Mutt and am using as my pet e-mail composer emacs. Why don't you use one of the emacs mail tools? :) 2) Is that possible to configure emacs to wrap lines at, say, 72 char? Add to your .emacs: ;; for mail modes and text modes, turn on auto-fill (toggle-text-mode-auto-fill) -Anthony.
agpgart module
Hello, I recently compiled a 2.4.5 kernel where agpgart was compiled as a module. I have verified that the object file exists under /lib/modules/2.4.5. I then recompiled my nvidia driver for my new kernel. Everything works fine, and X starts up just fine. However, I noticed that agpgart is not listed as a loaded module. NVdriver is listed. Also, NVdriver no longer depends on agpgart. Does anyone know what happened? The version of the nvidia driver is 1.0-1251. Thanks, Anthony
Re: agpgart module
Daniel Wagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i think agp need's only to be enabled if x is running. X is running, and agp is disabled. -anthony.
Re: agpgart module
Daniel Wagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: nvidia (recently) changed there module so that it comes with it's own agp-driver (see /proc/nv/card*). if you load the kernel agpgart module NVdriver will use this one instead it's own. hmm, /proc/nv/card0 looks like: - Driver Info - NVRM Version: 1.0-1251 -- Card Info -- Model:GeForce2 GTS IRQ: 10 -- AGP Info --- AGP status: Disabled AGP Driver: Bridge: Via Apollo Pro KT133 SBA: Supported [disabled] FW: Unsupported [disabled] Rates:2x 1x [-] Registers:0x1f000203:0x It appears as if the AGP is disabled. Does this make any sense? What is going on here? Thanks, Anthony
Re: agpgart module
Bob Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I didn't try the AGPGART kernel module since I am using 2.2.17 which I don't think had that option. I tried the nvidia agp driver, but it didn't work. I changed it to the agpgart module with a 2.4.5 kernel, and it worked. Not sure why. -Anthony.
Re: unplugged in meatworld (after a reinstall)
Blue Rat [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: as far as it goes: no other hosts are recognized. Now, I created a resolve.conf with the domain name and the dns server of my provider should be resolv.conf in /etc, not resolve.conf. -Anthony.
Re: agpgart module
Mario Vukelic [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I still us driver 0.9.7, I don't know if there were changes for 1.0 This is my /proc/nv/card0: - Driver Info - NVRM Version: 1.0-769 -- Card Info -- Model:Riva TNT1 IRQ: 10 -- AGP Info --- AGP status: Enabled AGP Driver: AGPGART Bridge: Ali M1541 SBA: Supported [disabled] FW: Unsupported [disabled] Rates:2x 1x [2x] Registers:0x1b000203:0x0f000102 And this comes from my XF86Config-4: # From Nvidia FAQ # Use this to configure AGP support. Argument is an integer: # 0 : disable agp # 1 : [default] use NVIDIA's internal AGP support, if possible # 2 : use AGPGART, if possible # 3 : use any agp support (try AGPGART, then NVIDIA's AGP) Option NvAGP 3 Yes, this did the trick. Now I am using agp again. Thanks for your help. Anthony
dselect problem
Hello, When I run dselect and select update, apt runs through my sources.list updating its Contents, and then I get the following error: dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/cache/apt/available' near line 7311 package `blt': `Replaces' field, reference to `blt-dev': error in version: version string has embedded spaces In the past, I have seen a similar error when doing apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade. I solved it by editing /var/cache/apt/available and deleting the embedded spaces. These embedded spaces aren't really embedded spaces; they are spaces between the end of the version string and the closing paren. However, when using dselect, this file seems to be regenerated with the offending spaces. Is this, perhaps, a bug in dpkg? Has anyone seen this problem? dpkg version = 1.9.8 perl version = 5.6.1 Debian version = unstable Thanks, Anthony
Re: dselect problem
As a followup to my last email, I believe the problem is in the way the version number of the package blt-dev is written in the depends of many other packages. In /var/cache/apt/available, the Depends: lines that contain blt-dev always list the version number as 2.4[ij]-1 . dpkg is barfing on the trailing space. I traced the problem to a while loop in parsehelp.c in the parseversion() method of the dpkg source. the loop quits on the first space, and then checks the pointer to see if it is valid. if it is, it assumes that it is a character in which case the space it quit on is an embedded space. however, in this case, it is not an embedded space, rather a trailing space. i don't know whether this is a bug in dpkg or whether version numbers are supposed to not have trailing spaces. regardless, bugs.debian.org is down. Any suggestions? Thanks, Anthony
Re: emacs
Andrew D Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: HI All, Does anyone know how to change the keybindings in emacs? Specifically I'd like to make my Backspace key delete the character before the cursor (seems like a natural thing to me) instead of what it's doing now (which is being wierd). Put in your ~/.emacs: (global-set-key \C-h 'delete-backward-char) -Anthony
Re: Gnus as email client (was: GUI Email program)
Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 06:26:27PM +0200, Dominique Deleris wrote: I've just discovered Emacs+Gnus, and it's TERRIFIC ! I've dropped evolution balsa. Emacs is so cool and powerful... I would like to know what is it that you like so much about Emacs+Gnus? I am not trying to be sarcastic or something like that. I have tried to configure gnus a few times for using with email and found it a frustration to get working. In which ways would gnus be better than mutt and pine for example? Maybe I never saw it working properly. Scoring in gnus is brilliant. I read debian-user just like a newsgroup so I set up scoring based on what I find interesting. I also like gnus splitting capabilities. I don't use procmail anymore. I love being able to arrange my newsgroups and mailgroups based on topics. I also like being able to cut and paste quickly from other buffers to mail or newsgroup messages that I am working on. Gnus handles almost every different kind of mail and nntp backend. I could go on. Anyone else use gnus? -Anthony.
problem compiling openssh
A few days ago, an apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade broke ssh for me. Apparently the version of ssh that was installed was compiled against a later version of the openssl library than I have. So I attempted to compile the ssh package from source against my version of the openssl library. This failed saying it could not find libwrap. However, when I checked for libwrap, it was there. Does anyone know what is going on here or what to do? Thanks, Anthony
Re: problem compiling openssh
Carl Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anthony - You don't state which version of Debian (stable, testing, etc), OpenSSH or OpenSSL you are using. OpenSSH's `INSTALL' file describes which version of OpenSSL you will need. I have OpenSSH 2.5.2p2 which requires OpenSSL 0.9.5a or greater. I have installed OpenSSL 0.9.6a (in /usr/local) and used the following to configure OpenSSH: I am using Debian Unstable. Unfortunately, I am at work and cannot get to my home computer to check the exact versions, but it is the latest version in unstable. I use dpkg-buildpackage or apt-get --compile source to build the source packages. The configuration fails when it discovers that the libwrap library is not there. However, it is there. I believe that a previous post stated that I need the headers from libwrap-dev. I will try that and see if it works. Thanks, Anthony
Re: bash segfaulting and not being able to log in
kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: on Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 09:44:51PM -0500, Anthony Fox ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hello, I have two questions: 1. Bash segfaults when I hit tab to autocomplete a filename. I have checked the bash FAQ which does not address my specific problem. Has anyone seen this? What version of bash? In my case: $ bash --version GNU bash, version 2.04.0(1)-release (i386-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GNU bash, version 2.04.0(1)-release (i386-pc-linux-gnu) You've posted this problem before and we've tried a couple of things (keysyms, strace), without results. The problem is odd, I'd try at this point: strace didn't work because auto completion using the tab key doesn't function correctly. i used gdb to debug a bash process and found the stacktrace to be failing in libreadline::autocomplete. the weird thing is that sometimes it works fine and sometimes it fails. i can't duplicate the stacktrace because bash is working fine right now. - Check bash bug reports. - Keyboard test. This appears to be related to the problem. - Identify parameters of problem. - Memory test. Possible but unlikely if bash is the only problem. - Reinstall bash. I recompiled bash from a source .deb. Last night, while /bin/bash was segfaulting, I ran the newly compiled bash and it worked just fine. The differences in sizes of the binaries is large. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -l bash-2.04/bash -rwxr-xr-x 1 ant ant 1527145 Mar 18 21:54 bash-2.04/bash* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -l /bin/bash -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 404340 Nov 20 17:38 /bin/bash* The newly compiled binary is almost quadruple the size of the installed binary. It is compiled for i686-pc-linux-gnu, but I wouldn't think that would make such a difference. Should I install this version? If so, how do I install a binary that I have compiled from source? 2. I log in at the console, /etc/motd is printed, and then I am logged out. I have seen this problem on a box where home directories where NFS mounted and the NFS mount did not exist. My particular box does not have home directories mounted, but my partition table looks like: Does this happen when logging in as a regular user, as root, either? Both. Like the bash problem, it happens half the time and half the time my box works just fine. That is why I think the problems are related. Does /etc/nologin exist? Check your .bash_profile and .bashrc files, as well as any /etc/bashrc and /etc/profile files. You might try renaming these temporarily. I have checked the startup scripts, there is no problem with them. /etc/nologin does not exist. Plus, I can log in just fine half the time. Thanks for your help. Anthony
Re: In a downward spiral
Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Help I have a problem with emacs when being accessed through ssh in that the backspace key is generating a C-h so I keep getting help when I am trying to edit. Add the following line to your ~/.emacs: (global-set-key \C-h 'delete-backward-char) HTH, Anthony
bash segfaulting and not being able to log in
Hello, I have two questions: 1. Bash segfaults when I hit tab to autocomplete a filename. I have checked the bash FAQ which does not address my specific problem. Has anyone seen this? 2. I log in at the console, /etc/motd is printed, and then I am logged out. I have seen this problem on a box where home directories where NFS mounted and the NFS mount did not exist. My particular box does not have home directories mounted, but my partition table looks like: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ df Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hdb2 980308203348727164 22% / /dev/hdb5 7692876512016 6790084 8% /usr /dev/hdb6 1921156343832 1479732 19% /var /dev/hdb7 404331552 3503220 9% /home Thanks, Anthony
Re: Auto Completion broken
kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: on Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 09:59:08PM -0500, Anthony Fox ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Nothing that I know of. I think bash is segfaulting when I hit tab. Do you know how to fix this? I'd try: - Finding out what keysym tab is sending. I can't recall the program for this at the moment. I believe xkeycaps does this but I thought there was a console program that did same. - Run strace on bash and see what it exits with: $ strace bash 21 | tee bash.log $ tab I used xev to get the TAB keys info: KeyRelease event, serial 24, synthetic NO, window 0xc1, root 0x34, subw 0x0, time 779723411, (100,141), root:(1203,954), state 0x0, keycode 23 (keysym 0xff09, Tab), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 1 characters: I tried using strace, but the TAB key did not work the way it does normally. When using strace, TAB inserts 8 spaces rather than attempting to autocomplete. Any thoughts? Anthony
Auto Completion broken
Hello, I am noticing a strange problem. At the console or at a shell in an xterm, pressing the tab key logs me out of that session. This was not happening before. Has anyone seen this problem, and, if so, how did you fix it? Thanks, Anthony
Re: Auto Completion broken
kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: on Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 12:23:47PM -0500, Anthony Fox ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hello, I am noticing a strange problem. At the console or at a shell in an xterm, pressing the tab key logs me out of that session. This was not happening before. Has anyone seen this problem, and, if so, how did you fix it? What's changed? Anything related to your keyboard configuration perhaps? Nothing that I know of. I think bash is segfaulting when I hit tab. Do you know how to fix this? Anthony
Re: can't install new kernel
Arkaitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I used kernel-package to build a new 2.4.2 kernel package for my woody machine, and installed it ok. The problem is that if I do uname -r, it still says that the kernel version is 2.2.17. I think everything is configured ok, in lilo.conf the default /vmlinuz image is a link to the 2.4.2 image in /boot as well. What am I doing wrong? Just asking the obvious: did you do a dpkg -i name of kernel package.deb? Did you run lilo after doing the dpkg -i? (or does the dpkg install run lilo for you? I have never been sure about that. Do you select the 2.4.2 kernel after rebooting? Anthony
Re: Email client and conversion from Netscape Mail on win32
Mike Fedyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I am not on the debian-user list, so please cc me as well as the list... I have been using netscape mail for several years on winblows, and have over 50 folders and even more filters. I have been getting about 10,000 messages a month, and now that I'm a LKML reader, it's gone even higher. So, threading support is very important to me. So is mail filtering, weather it's with a separate package or not doesn't matter. Now, here's the problem. I want to convert my email activities over to linux. So, I may as well drop netscape at the same time, if I can. I would like to be able to read html mail also. I've looked at a couple in the last half hour, and here's what I've come across in potato-r2. Hello. Have a look at the emacs mail clients. VM, Gnus, RMail. They all provide threading and html viewing through W3, the integrated browser. I use gnus to read all of my newsgroups, mailing lists, and personal mail. It is highly configurable. The only caveat is that the learning curve is slightly steep at first. Anthony
Re: Opening .gz files with links
Andre Berger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd like to read manuals in .gz format without having to gunzip them, which is possible with lynx. Can links do this too? Well, I am not sure what you mean by links, but you can use zless to read *.gz files without unzipping them first. In fact, there was a thread last month about this very topic. Have a look at the debian-user archives for last month at www.debian.org or search through deja. -Anthony
Re: Simple c program won't compile
Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi,
The following program:
#include stdio.h
#include math.h
int main(int argv, char **argc){
double x;
x=sqrt(5.0);
}
does not compile. Instead I get the errors:
$ gcc thick.c
/tmp/ccU9fgSr.o: In function `main':
/tmp/ccU9fgSr.o(.text+0x16): undefined reference to `sqrt'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
What is wrong?
You need to link against the math library.
$ gcc thick.c -lm
-Anthony
KDE packages being held back
Hello, This morning I attempted to apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade. I am told that the new KDE packages are being held back. Does anyone know why they should be held back? So I attempted to upgrade the KDE packages through dselect. The dependencies show that kscd depends on libasound which recommends alsa-base. My sound is working fine so I don't want to install any of the alsa packages. I cannot seem to purge or put on hold the alsa packages. What do I do to get the KDE upgrades? Thanks, Anthony
Re: #! syntax
Michael O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hola~ Is there any way to have a #! syntax that will conditionally run a interpreter based on a set of fallback locations? For example, we have a perl install in /dir/bin/perl. However, if you are at a non-work machine (ie, at home), you may not have a /dir/bin/perl. So, I'd like to have a script that will first try /dir/bin/perl, then if that doesn't exist, tries /usr/bin/perl. Hmm, I don't know of any way to do this using the #! syntax, but you could use install scripts or a shell wrapper to get this same functionality. For instance, you could ship the perl script without the #!/path/to/perl line and have your install makefile find perl and insert the correct line into the script. Or, you could do something like the following: #!/bin/sh PERL=`which perl` `$PERL /path/to/perl/script` HTH, Anthony
Re: Netscape setup
Jason N. Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How exactly do I get netscape working? I did an apt-get of netscape, but don't really know what to do after that. I tried running netscape from an xterm, but it complained that the Display was incorrect. I tried exporting the Display variable, but that didn't seem to do it. The Netscape menu choice doesn't do anything at all. What am I missing? if you are setting the display for a login other than the one you used to start X, you must do a `xhost +` as the user that started X to allow other users to connect to the X display. -Anthony.
Re: *.gz
Marcelo Chiapparini [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: this is a very elemental question: how can I read a text file which is gzipped? Al documentation files are stored in this way... eg README.gz zless filename Anthony
Re: ssh-client, which terminal emulation?
Florian Kessler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, i want to connect to a remote linux server via ssh using nifty-telnet (mac) or putty (win32). Which terminal emulation is the right? Vt102 doesn´t work for me, because all funktion keys, insert, delete and some others aren´t mapped correctly. Try xterm-color. Should give you the right key mapping and nice colors. It also depends on the terminal definitions on the remote server, but this terminal definition is pretty standard. -Anthony.
Re: Ip masquerading help
Guilherme Barile [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello debian users. I am having the following ip masquerading issue: 1) I have four networks in my office 200.189.194.144 (netmask 255.255.255.248) - internet servers 10.0.0.x (netmask 255.255.255.0) - internal network 10.0.1.x (netmask 255.255.255.0) - other internal network 200.217.207.129 (netmask 255.255.255.255) - ADSL router Could you post the output of the route command for your router and for an internal box? I have a feeling it has something to do with that, although if 200.189.194.144 is an internet server that the internal boxes are trying to access through dns, it should route through the router and back correctly. Can external boxes see the internet server? -Anthony.
cannot forward X11
Hello, I have recently upgraded to XF4.0.2. I cannot forward some remote computers' DISPLAY to my local XServer. For example, I have a FreeBSD firewall for which I cannot forward the DISPLAY variable to the Debian box. I can forward local accounts, such as root, and run X11 apps. I can forward a remote linux ssh connection and run X11 apps. It is only the FreeBSD box that refuses to forward it's DISPLAY. I have been able to forward X11 displays from the BSD box to a RH6.2 linux box at work. From the local box: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ xhost + access control disabled, clients can connect from any host From the BSD box: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ export DISPLAY=thedebianbox:0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ xload Error: Can't open display: thedebianbox:0 Does anyone know what the problem is and what I can do? Thanks, Anthony
Re: cannot forward X11
Nate Amsden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: try thedebianbox:0.0 I did. It didn't work. Any other ideas? -anthony.
Re: cannot forward X11
Erdmut Pfeifer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: not sure, but it may have to do with your firewall settings... Direct (non-tunneled) X connections use the port range 6000+N (where N is the display number, i.e. :0 = 6000, :1 = 6001, ...), so packets destined for these ports need to be routed correctly. Can you establish an X connection through an ssh tunnel? (you probably know that you don't need to / should not set the DISPLAY variable yourself when using ssh to forward X, as it's doing it for you) Erdmut Yes, I do not export the DISPLAY explicitly when using ssh. Rather, I use the -X option. However, that was not working, so I attempted to explicitly set the DISPLAY environment variable. It is strange, though, because I can export the DISPLAY from the firewall BSD box to a RH6.2 linux box at my work. Perhaps the fact that the Debian box is on an internal network has something to do with it? I doubt it, but I figured I would mention that fact. Any other ideas? -anthony.
Re: cannot forward X11
Just to add: When I try to use the -X option with ssh, I get the following error: ant@debianbox ~ $ ssh -X firewall ant@firewall's password: Warning: Remote host denied X11 forwarding. ant@firewall ~ $ Anthony
Re: cannot forward X11
Erdmut Pfeifer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 11:00:09PM -0500, Anthony Fox wrote: Just to add: When I try to use the -X option with ssh, I get the following error: ant@debianbox ~ $ ssh -X firewall ant@firewall's password: Warning: Remote host denied X11 forwarding. ant@firewall ~ $ maybe you have X forwarding disabled in your sshd configuration? Exactly. Thank you for your help. It is working now. Thanks, Anthony
Re: 2 simple questions
Brad Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: other question may be a little more complicated. I am using gdm to login and I normaly run Enlightenment but I wanted to try out Gnome but when I selecect it from the gdm menu it starts gnome and kde together. I have replaced the /etc/gdm/Sessions/Gnome script with one that just has exec /usr/bin/gnome-session but that didn't help, if I start kde it works fine and it is a script that just has exec /usr/bin/startkde, any ideas on this one? Enlightenment is a window manager that runs on top of gnome. Gnome does not have its own window manager. KDE on the other hand is both the desktop environment and the window manager. So you can't really run gnome without a window manager. You need enlightenment or sawfish or some wm. I am not sure what you mean when you say kde and gnome start together. I don't see how this is possible. I think gnome and kde have support modes for each other, but you wouldn't, say, get both the gnome panel and the kde panel. HTH, Anthony
Re: colorfonts in x/emacs
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 09:26:47PM -0800, John L . Fjellstad wrote: How can I add colors to new types in c/c++ mode in x/emacs? For instance, I want types like const, namespace, class to be colored. Try something like this in your .emacs: (font-lock-add-keywords 'c++-mode '(((TODO\\): 1 font-lock-warning-face prepend))) This highlights the word TODO: where it exists as a single word, even within comments. -Anthony.
unstable broken upgrade
Hi, I have an unstable debian box at home. When doing the last apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade, I get the following errors: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done The following packages will be upgraded ae ark console-data debconf kab karm kcalc kcharselect kdepasswd kedit kfind kfloppy khexedit kjots knotes kpm ktimemon libgconf11 libgnome-vfs0 libmedusa0 20 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/3209kB of archives. After unpacking 433kB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Preconfiguring packages .. No default for console-data/keymap/qwerty/ukrainian/standard/keymap - picking one No default for console-data/keymap/qwerty/lithuanian/standard/keymap - picking one No default for console-data/keymap/qwerty/russian/standard/keymap - picking one No default for console-data/keymap/qwerty/macedonian/standard/keymap - picking one No default for console-data/keymap/qwerty/canadian/variant - picking one No default for console-data/keymap/qwerty/turkish/standard/keymap - picking one No default for console-data/keymap/qwerty/latvian/standard/keymap - picking one No default for console-data/keymap/fggiod/layout - picking one No default for console-data/keymap/fggiod/turkish/standard/keymap - picking one No default for console-data/keymap/dvorak/layout - picking one No default for console-data/keymap/qwertz/swiss/variant - picking one If you have information about what choice should be the default for the above questions which gave warnings, please mail me this at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks for your help. (Reading database ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/ae_962-28_i386.deb (--unpack): files list file for package `bonobo' is missing final newline Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/ae_962-28_i386.deb Processing was halted because there were too many errors. E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ How do I get around these errors so that I can continue to upgrade my box regularily? Thanks, Anthony
update broke lilo
Hello, I recently apt-get updated my unstable box which broke lilo. In my system, I have two hard disks. The first disk is /dev/hda and has Win2k. The second disk is /dev/hdb and has Debian unstable installed. I am assuming that lilo should install to the MBR on /dev/hda, but I think it is installing on /dev/hdb. The configuration of lilo from apt-get doesn't give any choice of where to install the MBR. I noticed this because I recently recompiled my kernel, ran lilo, and rebooted. My new boot options were not showing up at the lilo boot prompt. My lilo.conf is as follows: boot=/dev/hdb1 root=/dev/hdb1 install=/boot/boot-menu.b delay=20 map=/boot/map vga=0 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.1 label=2.4.1 image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.0-prerelease label=2.4.0-prerelease image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.0 label=2.4.0 image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17 label=2.2.17 other=/dev/hda1 label=hda1 table=/dev/hda What do I need to change to get it to install to /dev/hda MBR? Is it boot=/dev/hda1? Thanks, Anthony
Re: problem playing audio CD's
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 06:49:43PM +, Philipp Bliedung wrote: Hi, I'm new to the multimedia things under Linux :) I have the problem that I can't play audio CD's on my computer. I've installed everyhting that's related to sound properly - so I'm able to play mp3s, *.wav,etc. with freeamp for example, but when I put in a CD (even CD's I bought, no CD-R or CD-RW) and I want to mount it I get: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom or too many mounted file systems Even as root I can't do it! This is how /etc/fstab looks like: /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,user,noauto,ro 00 When I start 'gcd 2.91' under Gnome I get this: Unable to open cd device. Please make sure that you are using teh correct device and that you have permission to access the device.. The cd-drive works perfectely fine with every CD (cd-rom). So it's not the cd-drive that's not working! What am I missing, or what am I doing wrong? Any ideas for a good cd-player? Make sure that you are in the cdrom group. I also had a problem where I was in the cdrom group but not in the disk group. Since /dev/cdrom was a link to /dev/hdc which was in the disk group, I couldn't access the cdrom. So if you are still having problems, add yourself to the disk group. Anthony
emu10k1 module
I have auto module loading compiled into my kernel. How do I specify that when an application attempts to access the sound hardware that the kernel should install the emu10k1 module into the running kernel? Right now, the kernel installs the soundcore module only. Thanks, Anthony
kernel 2.4.0 and audio cd
After compiling and running a 2.4.0 kernel, I can no longer play
audio cds. I can mount data cds just fine, but not audio cds. If I
try to mount an audio cd I get the following error:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom,
or too many mounted file systems
and the following messages in /var/log/messages:
hdc: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: command error: error=0x54
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 64
isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=16:00, iso_blknum=16, block=32
I have compiled the iso9660 fs option as a module and have installed
the module in the kernel, if this makes a difference.
Has anyone seen this problem or does anyone know what the problem is
here and how to fix it?
Thanks,
Anthony
konqueror and https
What is the debian way of recompiling konqueror with https support? The default konqueror in the kdebase package is not compiled with openssl support. Thanks, Anthony
soundcard log messages
I have a Soundblaster Live XGamer soundcard for which I have the alsa drivers installed and working fine. When I booted my computer this morning, dmesg gives me the following two errors: Nov 14 09:06:09 driver kernel: snd: card 1 is out of range (0-0) Nov 14 09:06:09 driver kernel: snd: Ensoniq AudioPCI soundcard #1 not found or device busy This is strange because 1) I have never seend the messages before and 2) I don't have an Ensoniq AudioPCI soundcard. The only thing I have done is unplug the speakers from the soundcard and plug in a set of headphones, but I have don't think this should have affected anything. Does anyone know why I am seeing these messages and how I can get rid of them? Thanks in advance, Anthony
Re: Setting Reply-To From fields dynamically
This is on a Linux machine and mail is sent using mailx's mail program. The MTA is sendmail (which I know little about). If there's anything as simple as setting an appropriate environment variable, that'd be just cool. The mail sending is done inside a (bourne) shell script. You could call sendmail itself from the shell script. i.e. #!/bin/bash [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/sbin/sendmail -t EOF To: $TO From: $FROM Subject: Whatever The message EOF This way, you could dynamically set TO and FROM variables to whatevery you want. Anthony
hdparm and hd performance
Hello, I have two IBM 75GXP 15.3G harddrives. The IBM website states that this particular drive can sustain data transfer rates of 37MB/sec. I am attempting to use hdparm to check my harddrive performance. I get the following values: Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 21.64 seconds = 2.96 MB/sec Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.09 seconds =117.43 MB/sec I am fairly certain that I am using ATA/66 as that is what my BIOS tells me. So, my question is: am I missing something completely obvious or are these performance values way below the stated specs? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. -Anthony.
Re: XFree86 - Fatal Server Error: could not open default font 'fixed'
since I upgraded to the X3.3.6-11 version X started complaining about this and won't run!! Any idea about what could be causing this ? Just download the fonts file and unpack it in the fonts directory. I think the font that you need should be in the misc directory. I had this problem two days ago when I installed kde2. The install seemed to remove all fonts in the misc directory, and I had to reinstall them. Anthony
Re: KDE2 dependence problem
On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Peter Fedichev wrote: Hello, I have seen a couple of I have installed KDE2 reports here. How have you managed, since .debs on ftp.kde.org seem to require libgl1? Thanks in advance I apt-got kde2 debs from http://kde.tdyc.com. It installed without a hitch on my potato box. The appropriate line in your sources.list file is deb http://kde.tdyc.potato kde2 kde2 is another story though. kde2 apps seem to be crashing on me left and right. Within 5 min of starting up, the little kde2 clipboard app crashes and pops up an annoying segfault warning window. Then, every time I exit an app from within the kde2 window manager (i.e. kde2 and non-kde2 apps), I get the annoying segfault warning window explaining to me that the app crashed. Is anyone else experiencing these same problems?
modules and permissions
Hi, I have three questions related to installing the alsa sound modules in my potato box. At the moment, the alsa sound modules are loaded into the kernel at boot time. They are not specified in /etc/modules. They are specified in /etc/modules.conf, but this should not cause them to be loaded at boot time, correct? How do I get the alsa sound modules to be loaded on demand, i.e. when an app tries to access /dev/dsp, instead of at boot time. Second, root has access to the sound devices and to the cdrom device, but users do not. I have tried adding my user to the audio and cdrom groups by appending the name to the audio and cdrom lines in /etc/group. This didn't do the trick, though. What permissions do I need to set to allow users access to audio and the cdrom device? Finally, for some reason, I am having problems mounting cds in the cdrom device. I on occasion get an error that the kernel does not recognize the cdrom device as a block device. This may have something to do with the fact that I installed scsi support and modules and ide-scsi emulation in order to use the cd-rw functionality of the device. however, none of these modules are loaded into the kernel at all, so they should not be causing any conflicts, correct? Of course, thanks in advance. -Anthony.
