Re: snort question
On 3/4/06, Jude DaShiell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It appears oinkmaster may not be useable. Running it to download new rules fails with an error 404 in the wget-log file. That or perhaps it's necessary to give it a specific rules file to download may be necessary. The snort rules require registration now; register on snort.org and follow the instructions to update your oinkmaster paths.
Re: mono for debian
On 2/19/06, Martin Paraskevov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using Debian Sarge (stable) and searched for a mono package to install: apt-cache search mono. I didn't get any packages related to the mono project back. How can I install mono and run .NET applications on my debian box? I searched the internet and found the backports.org website. However I don't quite understand how it functions. There are lots of packages under the mono directory (http://www.backports.org/debian/pool/main/m/mono/), but I don't know which of them to install and, moreover, how to install them. They are not visible with the apt-get tool. Instructions on using backports.org are here: http://backports.org/instructions.html
Re: How to remove exim4 when aptitude doesnt think its installed?
On 11/30/05, T [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 17:12:35 +, Andy wrote: Hello List, How should I go about removing files relating to the exim4 package, when aptitude doesn't think the package is installed? This is the very situation that low level command dpg comes into play. Try: dpkg --purge exim4 This won't work. Aptitude uses the dpkg databases to determine what is installed. Additionally, exim4's just a metapackage depending on the actual exim4 packages. In this case, he'll probably need to reinstall exim4, then remove it. For example: wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/e/exim4/exim4-base_4.50-8_i386.deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/e/exim4/exim4-daemon-light_4.50-8_i386.deb dpkg --force-depends --unpack exim4-base_4.50-8_i386.deb exim4-daemon-light_4.50-8_i386.deb dpkg --purge exim4-base exim4-daemon-light
Problems with kinput2
I'm trying to configure kinput2 for Japanese text input, but as of yet I've had no success. I have the following lines in my ~/.Xdefaults and have merged them using xrdb: *KinputProtocol.XlcConversionStartKey: ShiftKeyspace *ConversionStartKeys: ShiftKeyspace *inputMethod: kinput2 I also have the following in my ~/.xsession: [...] export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 export XMODIFIERS='@im=kinput2' kinput2 -xim -kinput -canna [...] However, kinput2 fails to trigger in either firefox or gvim. Ideally I'd like it to work with a menu key trigger, but KeyMenu didn't work any better than ShiftKeyspace.
Re: Adding new hardware after installation
On 10/28/05, Gary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure what the best way to handle this is. I need to add a network card to a PC with recently installed Debian (Sarge). What's the best way to do it? I don't really want to sit in front of the thing again feeding it CDs, so if I could avoid doing a complete install that would be nice. On the hardware side of things, just add the network card. If it's supported, hotplug should load the drivers automatically at boot time. Then to configure it just edit /etc/network/interfaces in any text editor. For information on the format, run man 7 interfaces
Re: Adding new hardware after installation
On 10/28/05, Bryan Donlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/28/05, Gary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure what the best way to handle this is. I need to add a network card to a PC with recently installed Debian (Sarge). What's the best way to do it? I don't really want to sit in front of the thing again feeding it CDs, so if I could avoid doing a complete install that would be nice. On the hardware side of things, just add the network card. If it's supported, hotplug should load the drivers automatically at boot time. Then to configure it just edit /etc/network/interfaces in any text editor. For information on the format, run man 7 interfaces Er, man 5 interfaces.
Re: QQ about apt.
On 10/27/05, Scott Muir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (noob) I would like to know if and how it is possible to do a non-interactive install of an .deb package. The pages I have read talk only of a 'yes to all questions' option which is obviously useless if the package you are installing has questions other than yes/no and so on. The docs also speak of being able to set *arbitrary* options in the command line. This seemed to be more related to the apt-get program rather than the packages. Two examples I want to do are Apache2 and PostgreSQL which require some additional prompting. The purpose here is to create a set of steps which can quickly install a Debian system from scratch, limit down-time and remove some of the human element. Is there a way of doing this? I'm at about a 3 bananas out of 5 on the howler monkey scale. Try: DEBCONF_FRONTEND=noninteractive your command here This'll assume defaults on all debconf questions. I'm not sure how it'll interact with conffile replacement prompts however.
Re: dependencies
On 9/20/05, Alejandro Bonilla Beeche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, can anyone help me with this dependencies? I can't freaking upgrade. This is Sid, just did apt-get update and need to update my system a bit. Any idea? [snip] debian:~# apt-get -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libdjvulibre15 libpoppler0c2 libpoppler0c2-glib The following packages will be REMOVED: libpoppler0 libpoppler0-glib The following NEW packages will be installed: libdjvulibre15 libpoppler0c2 libpoppler0c2-glib 0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 2 to remove and 230 not upgraded. 4 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/1239kB of archives. After unpacking 2359kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! libdjvulibre15 libpoppler0c2 libpoppler0c2-glib Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y (Reading database ... 118083 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking libdjvulibre15 (from .../libdjvulibre15_3.5.15-1_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libdjvulibre15_3.5.15-1_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/share/djvu/osi/de/libdjvu++.xml', which is also in package libdjvulibre1 dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libdjvulibre15_3.5.15-1_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Report a bug against libdjvulibre15, if there isn't one already, then do: dpkg --force-overwrite --unpack /var/cache/apt/archives/libdjvulibre15_3.5.15-1_i386.deb apt-get -f install
Re: Memory Black Hole
On 9/20/05, S3GFAULT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, The subject of this message could have been 'Memory Leak' but honestly that doesn't sound dramatic enough for my problem. Warning, this turned out to be a longish email, for the impatient, please skip to the section marked SUMMARY at the bottom. [snip] *) I dumped /proc/mem into a file on a workstation and opened it up in a hex editor, to examine all 256 megs of data. So, this is interesting. A very important clue it seems like that I am incapable of deciphering. I am finding that some files from the root filesystem have been inserted into the memory. A tarball from one users directory appears twice in main memory. /etc/passwd appears 11 times in memory! This is normal; freed blocks are not zeroed until they are requested. The root partition is reiserfs. The boot partition, which is always mounted, is ext2. There are no files from /boot in memory that I can find. --- SUMMARY: Files or chunks of files from the root (reiserfs) partition are being inserted into memory at the rate of 4-16k/5 secs (2.4.18) or 60k/5 secs (2.6.8). This memory is never freed. This insertion is not being caused by any user space program. If the only programs running are kernel processes, getty, bash, and top, it will still occur. Memory will be eaten up until about 5k is left, and then it stabilizes. Swap space will not be used. This behaviour occured under Debian Woody and Sarge. Sarge was tested with kernels of version 2.4.18 and 2.6.8. Does anyone have any idea what could possibly be causing this? Even advice to other references would be greatly appreciated. Try getting a copy of /proc/meminfo /proc/slabinfo /proc/buddyinfo and /proc/vmstat as it's going down, this may help diagnose the problem better.
Re: Installing mplayer
On 9/14/05, Ganeshram Iyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/14/05, John Talbut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone give me or point me to precise instructions as to how to do this? I use Aptitude to get packages. Or should I give up with Christian Marillat's package and go with the precise instructions given at www.princessleia.com/MPlayer.html (though I am not on Etch)? I did install using Marillat's package and once having done that downloaded the codecs from mplayerhq.hu site and unzipped them to the appropriate folder as per: http://mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/install.html#id2835200 I think that the mplayer packages were compiled and packaged with support for the win32 codecs and you just have to place the codecs in the right folder to get it to work. If I am mistaken, I apologize. ganesh You can just apt-get install w32codecs
Re: X.Org Hits Testing
On 9/7/05, Oliver Lupton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jason Clinton wrote: Well its finally happened, and I'm so happy that it has. As of now, most of mirrors have X.Org packages in their testing/etch repository. Before I perform the upgrade, I'm starting this thread to catch any and all problems that might arrise. Please let us know if you have any trouble with the upgrade by replying here. *crosses fingers and runs 'aptitude upgrade'* Am I looking in the wrong place? http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?exact=0searchon=namesversion=allcase=insensitiverelease=allkeywords=xorgarch=any apt-get says it's lists are up to date, apt-cache search xorg returns nothing. http://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xorg-x11.html Scroll down a bit and you can see a testing version.
Re: I messed up bootmisc.sh - now can't log in!
On 8/29/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone recommend a good disk recovery company? Thanks in advance, Dave Williams You don't need one for this. Which bootloader are you using, LILO or GRUB? You can pass init=/bin/sh using it. For grub, select the boot menu option, press 'e', select the line beginning with kernel, press 'e', go to the end of the line and add 'init=/bin/sh'. Then press enter, then 'b'. For LILO, hold shift until you get a lilo prompt. Then type linux init=/bin/sh. Either way will get you a command prompt. Then: mount -t proc proc /proc mount -o remount,rw / [edit, fix bootmisc.sh] mount -o remount,ro / umount /proc exec /sbin/init
Re: I messed up bootmisc.sh - now can't log in!
On 8/30/05, David W. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I should have mentioned, I'm the: Re: I messed up bootmisc.sh - now can't log in! guy from debian-user I just tried this with vi, and when I went to save, got this message: E45: 'readonly' option is set (add ! to override) Is it possible to get vi to override the read-only of the file system so that I can remove the two offending lines of code from bootmisc.sh? Thank you very much for any help you can give. Did you mount -o remount,rw / ? PS, please keep the list CC'd, for people who have the same trouble in the future
Re: I messed up bootmisc.sh - now can't log in!
On 8/30/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bryan Donlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/30/05, David W. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I should have mentioned, I'm the: Re: I messed up bootmisc.sh - now can't log in! guy from debian-user I just tried this with vi, and when I went to save, got this message: E45: 'readonly' option is set (add ! to override) Is it possible to get vi to override the read-only of the file system so that I can remove the two offending lines of code from bootmisc.sh? Thank you very much for any help you can give. Did you mount -o remount,rw / ? PS, please keep the list CC'd, for people who have the same trouble in the future Yes I did. That's what did the trick on the not being able to write to the file system! Can anyone suggest a tutorial on writing what I think are called init scripts? Thanks! Take a look at the files in /etc/init.d, just use one of them as a template, and symlink it in as /etc/rcrunlevel.d/S99yourservice
Re: rsync knoppix dvd download
On 8/29/05, L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tried as follows. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# export RSYNC_PROXY=150.1.35.36:3128 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rsync download.linuxtag.org:: bad response from proxy - HTTP/1.0 403 Forbidden rsync: failed to connect to 150.1.35.36: Success (0) rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(94) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# What to do? Your proxy forbids the HTTP CONNECT method, it seems. Without that, rsync cannot function. If rsync is vital to you, you will have to speak with your proxy administrator and have them reconfigure it to allow CONNECT to rsync ports. Otherwise, just use HTTP or FTP.
Re: About chroot
On 8/25/05, Tong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Several questions about chroot. - I need to chroot into an alien system. I.e., I need to chroot into a 2.6 kernel from my 2.4 kernel. Is that ok? chroot cannot change kernels. It is, however, safe to chroot into the root filesystem of a system which normally runs a different kernel version. - I heard all the fuzz about un/mounting the /proc, but I can't find any documents on that. Can somebody explains me why it is so critical, or give me a link to refer to please? /proc is a virtual filesystem which many programs expect and/or need to be mounted. If you don't have it mounted, things like 'ps' will fail. You can mount it by running in the chroot: mount -t proc proc /proc And to unmount just: umount /proc If you don't unmount /proc, you won't be able to unmount the filesystem it's mounted under. - I need to apt-get from the chrooted system. but on my 1st attempt, I was not able to connect to outside, even ping. But all the documents I read (I'm remastering a live CD) didn't mention anything about the connection problem. Have I neglect something, or there is something to do before I can connect? Try copying /etc/resolv.conf from your host system to the chroot's etc/resolv.conf.
Re: How to compile in Debian?
On 8/25/05, Teilhard Knight [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Suppose you want to compile your drivers for your wireless adapter, which is what I actually want to do. If I am not mistaken, I need a build symbolic link in uname -r to the kernel-source, and I need a linux symbolic link from /usr/src where to the kernel source too, which also resides there. Now, uname -r is for me: 2.6.8-2-686-smp, and the kernel source for a 2.6.8 in the distribution only is found with Debian version 16 (2.6.8-16). Are the kernel source and my kernel compatible? Well, I am a newbie in Debian, and I am translating the little I know about Mandrake. First think that called my attention was that after a fresh install of Debian, the directory /usr/src, was empty. I would appreciate any help you can give me to compile my drivers. And yes, I have Googled but without luck. apt-get install module-assistant m-a prepare That'll install the right kernel headers for you.
Re: Switching to Debian (from Fedora)
On 8/23/05, Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hendrik Boom wrote: On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 08:43:23AM -0500, Kent West wrote: I would recommend duplicating the Stable lines, rather than replacing them. Then replace the stable or sarge in the first (top) set with your release of choice. This way, the system can fall back to packages in Stable if it (or you) need(s) to. If you do this, it will pick the stable package is there is no testing package available. Yes, this is what I meant. If package 'foo' in unstable is dependent on 'bar' which is not in unstable but is in stable, you may still be able to install 'foo' using stable's version of 'bar' as the dependency. But taking out the lines containing testing won't give you a downgrade if you decide you want to go back. Downgrading isn't so easy. This is not what I meant, but I'm glad you mentioned it since I failed to make myself clear. Also, don't change the security line; leave it at stable. testing doesn't get the so-called security upgrades, which are carefully chosen upgrades for stable to maintain security while changing as little as possible. Testing gets lots and lots of updates instead. It's my understanding that because of their high-priority nature, security updates go into Stable even before they sometimes make it into Testing (or perhaps, Unstable?). So a Testing system with the stable security line is more likely to get patched more quickly than waiting for the normal influx of packages into Testing. My understanding may very well be amiss, however. No. Say that stable has foobar version 1.0.4-1, and testing has foobar 1.0.5-1. Now there's a security fix. Stable-security gets 1.0.4-1sarge1 or similar, unstable gets 1.0.5-2. However, testing still has 1.0.5-1, which is newer than 1.0.4-1sarge1. It will be at least two days until the unstable fix gets into testing.
Re: hard related
On 8/23/05, Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had a lightening strike take out my other computer. Everything seems fine, and I have moved over to another box, same specs. Everything, except the cd's , work as advertised. When I plug both the cdrom, and dvd-writer into the ide bus, the computer will not get to the check memory check bios phase. Yet when I unplug either the cdrom or the dvd-writer the system boots, and functions as it should. I have both cd devices set to cable select. I've tried another IDE cable, same result. Any other things I may be missing The IDE controller may be fried. Try with a known-good IDE drive (hopefully one you're not too fond of, just in case), and if that fails get a PCI card to replace it.
Re: Switching to Debian (from Fedora)
On 8/23/05, Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bryan Donlan wrote: On 8/23/05, Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's my understanding that because of their high-priority nature, security updates go into Stable even before they sometimes make it into Testing (or perhaps, Unstable?). So a Testing system with the stable security line is more likely to get patched more quickly than waiting for the normal influx of packages into Testing. My understanding may very well be amiss, however. No. No to ...my understanding... or No to My understanding may very well be amiss...? Say that stable has foobar version 1.0.4-1, and testing has foobar 1.0.5-1. Now there's a security fix. Stable-security gets 1.0.4-1sarge1 or similar, unstable gets 1.0.5-2. However, testing still has 1.0.5-1, which is newer than 1.0.4-1sarge1. It will be at least two days until the unstable fix gets into testing. Say that stable has foobar version 1.0.4-1, and testing also still has foobar 1.0.4-1. Now there's a security fix. Stable-security gets 1.0.4-1sarge1 or similar, unstable gets 1.0.5-0. Testing still has 1.0.4-1, which is older than 1.0.4-1sarge1. It will be at least two days until the unstable fix gets into testing. In your case, if the 1.0.5-1 version in Testing does not have the security issue (which is doubtful), all is fine for those two days. I'm unclear if you're saying you've got two days of vulnerability, or if you're saying that Testing's newer version than Stable-security's mitigates those two days of vulnerability. Testing's newer version means the security fix is considered an older version, so it won't auto-upgrade. If the version in testing is vulnerable, you either have to manually downgrade to stable-security, or manually upgrade to unstable. I don't think leaving the Security line at stable hurts anything, and I think it makes sense to leave it there. It doesn't hurt anything, no, but it won't help in many cases, except perhaps at the start of a release cycle.
Re: Newbie: How do I defrag my drive?
On 8/23/05, Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 23 August 2005 08:49 am, Tim Ruehsen wrote: I did the last thing (after using my system for ~2 years for ~10 hours a day, making updates every day) and my system booted about 30% faster. Now, after a year or so, it seems to be time to do it again (booting became slower and slower). That may have more to do with exhausting what you can do performance-wise to a serial init process like sysvinit. I can't wait until someone packages init-ng already... It's already in experimental.
Re: When should I consider installing suggested packages?
On 8/21/05, Elmer E. Dow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings: When should I consider installing suggested packages? During my limited experience using aptitude in Sarge I've always installed depends and recommended packages, never suggested. Do most users just ignore suggested packages, only installing them if something doesn't work? Please cc me since I'm not currently subscribed. 'Suggested' just means they'll enhance the functionality of the package in some way; install them if you intend to use their functionality.
Re: All kde menu entries gone
On 8/20/05, Graham Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Sigh. I know that there are likely to be problems with with unstable, especially at the moment, but could anyone tell me how I could get back my kde menu entries. The whole application menu system in the kicker (I think thats what it's called - the equivalent of the start button on windows) has vanished. At the moment I have the logout, run command, lock and quick browse entries but nothing else. I really don't have a clue where to start on this one. KDE configuration seems to be a bit of a black art :o) Downgrade kdelibs-data to the same version as your installed kdelibs, and hold it.
Re: replacing failing system disk
On 8/19/05, Alvin Oga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: or as you say ( to do stuff and pray ): dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb count=1 bs=448 power off .. than move hdb to where hda used to be and it should work as a replacement for hda Note that this will break if the new hdd is smaller than the old, and might break if it is a different size or has a different geometry.
Re: sda disapering
On 8/15/05, Enrique Morfin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Bryan Donlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/12/05, Enrique Morfin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! i'm using sid, kernel image 2.6.10: # uname -a Linux quetzalcoatl 2.6.10-1-686-smp #1 SMP Tue Jan 18 03:03:11 EST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux #uptime 17:08:44 up 160 days, 23:47, 1 user, load average: 0.27, 1.02, 1.77 My usb memory was working flawlessly (all 160 days), until today. Then i realize it is no the memory, anything i insert in usb (flash memory, mouse, hard drive, etc.). So, lets take the memory for example: When i inser it: #dmesg usb 4-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 46 scsi50 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices usb-storage: device found at 46 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning Vendor: Model: Rev: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 SCSI device sda: 1024000 512-byte hdwr sectors (524 MB) sda: assuming Write Enabled sda: assuming drive cache: write through SCSI device sda: 1024000 512-byte hdwr sectors (524 MB) sda: assuming Write Enabled sda: assuming drive cache: write through /dev/scsi/host50/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi50, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 usb-storage: device scan complete and: #ls -alh /dev/sda* brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 0 Aug 12 17:06 /dev/sda brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 1 Aug 12 17:06 /dev/sda1 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 10 Mar 14 2002 /dev/sda10 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 11 Mar 14 2002 /dev/sda11 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 12 Mar 14 2002 /dev/sda12 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 13 Mar 14 2002 /dev/sda13 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 14 Mar 14 2002 /dev/sda14 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 15 Mar 14 2002 /dev/sda15 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 2 Mar 14 2002 /dev/sda2 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 3 Mar 14 2002 /dev/sda3 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 4 Mar 14 2002 /dev/sda4 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 5 Mar 14 2002 /dev/sda5 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 6 Mar 14 2002 /dev/sda6 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 7 Mar 14 2002 /dev/sda7 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 8 Mar 14 2002 /dev/sda8 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 9 Mar 14 2002 /dev/sda9 but, when i disconect it (umounting first): #ls -alh /dev/sda* brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 10 Mar 14 2002 /dev/sda10 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 11 Mar 14 2002 /dev/sda11 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 12 Mar 14 2002 /dev/sda12 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 13 Mar 14 2002 /dev/sda13 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 14 Mar 14 2002 /dev/sda14 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 15 Mar 14 2002 /dev/sda15 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 2 Mar 14 2002 /dev/sda2 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 3 Mar 14 2002 /dev/sda3 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 4 Mar 14 2002 /dev/sda4 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 5 Mar 14 2002 /dev/sda5 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 6 Mar 14 2002 /dev/sda6 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 7 Mar 14 2002 /dev/sda7 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 8 Mar 14 2002 /dev/sda8 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 9 Mar 14 2002 /dev/sda9 sda and sda1 are gone!! i have to recreate them (whit mknod) each time i disconect someting (flash memory, external hd, etc.) Any ideas why is happening this? kernel bug? module bug? too much time running? hardware failing (intel 865g)? Any ideas how to fix this? reboot? (like windogs?), remove the module and reload it? update kernel? buy a new motherboard? Looks like you're using udev. udev automatically deletes and creates /dev entries when the hardware is removed and attached - try reattaching the hardware, the /dev entries should reappear. It's not reappering! i tried to restarted it, but don't want to start (needs 2.6.12 kernel, and i'm running 2.6.10), so i'm not running it. Any other ideas? You may have upgraded to the wrong version of udev. Newer versions of udev require linux-image = 2.6.12, but there was a version at one point which failed to properly check. If you're running that broken version, you'll have problems until you upgrade your kernel. You can try disabling udev with something like: killall udevd; rm /dev/.udevdb -rf Hopefully that'll stop it from running, so your dev entries will stick around. Otherwise, try downgrading to latest testing udev, or upgrading to 2.6.12 kernel.
Re: installing from somewhat broken 3.1
On 8/12/05, Sam Rosenfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After installing Debian 3.1 I have found that a whole bunch of apps were not installed at all. I would like to reinstall a fresh distro, but want to ensure that I don't have the same problem of missing apps (e.g., almost all the man pages). I think that I must have misinterpreted the installation instructions during the install process. Is there a baby version for those of us who are missing a marble or two from the old set? The base installation of Debian has very few applications. Normally one installs them later with apt-get, aptitude, or one of the other apt frontends. For example, to install all of KDE, type as root: apt-get install kde or: aptitude install kde Aptitude is recommended, as it can remove unused packages later. However, if you decide to use aptitude, start early, as otherwise it can misclassify some packages as unused (just use aptitude install on them to fix it) You can also do apt-cache search keywords to find packages to install, and apt-cache show package for details on it.
Re: dpkg query table ??? dhcp3-client dhcpcd ???
On 12 Aug 2005 01:43:45 -0700, hakim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, ns:~# dpkg -l '*dhcp*' Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-=-=-== un dhcp-client none(no description available) rc dhcp3-client 3.0.1-2 DHCP Client ii dhcp3-common 3.0.1-2 Common files used by all the dhcp3* packages ii dhcpcd1.3.22pl4-21sarge1DHCP client for automatically configuring IPv4 networking. un dhcpcd-sv none(no description available) ns:~# What does rc mean in the line of dhcp3-client? Removed; configuration files remain. Use apt-get --purge remove dhcp3-client to fully remove it. I have installed dhcpcd. Before that was dhcp3-client installed, but know I can't find the binarys and apt-cache remove dhcp3-client says that the package is not instaled. Is there somewhere a explanation for that query table. I haven't found anything in man... It's at the top: Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description Desired=(R)emove, Status =(C)onfig-files
Re: sda disapering
On 8/12/05, Enrique Morfin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! i'm using sid, kernel image 2.6.10: # uname -a Linux quetzalcoatl 2.6.10-1-686-smp #1 SMP Tue Jan 18 03:03:11 EST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux #uptime 17:08:44 up 160 days, 23:47, 1 user, load average: 0.27, 1.02, 1.77 My usb memory was working flawlessly (all 160 days), until today. Then i realize it is no the memory, anything i insert in usb (flash memory, mouse, hard drive, etc.). So, lets take the memory for example: When i inser it: #dmesg usb 4-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 46 scsi50 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices usb-storage: device found at 46 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning Vendor: Model: Rev: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 SCSI device sda: 1024000 512-byte hdwr sectors (524 MB) sda: assuming Write Enabled sda: assuming drive cache: write through SCSI device sda: 1024000 512-byte hdwr sectors (524 MB) sda: assuming Write Enabled sda: assuming drive cache: write through /dev/scsi/host50/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi50, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 usb-storage: device scan complete and: #ls -alh /dev/sda* brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 0 Aug 12 17:06 /dev/sda brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 1 Aug 12 17:06 /dev/sda1 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 10 Mar 14 2002 /dev/sda10 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 11 Mar 14 2002 /dev/sda11 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 12 Mar 14 2002 /dev/sda12 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 13 Mar 14 2002 /dev/sda13 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 14 Mar 14 2002 /dev/sda14 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 15 Mar 14 2002 /dev/sda15 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 2 Mar 14 2002 /dev/sda2 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 3 Mar 14 2002 /dev/sda3 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 4 Mar 14 2002 /dev/sda4 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 5 Mar 14 2002 /dev/sda5 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 6 Mar 14 2002 /dev/sda6 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 7 Mar 14 2002 /dev/sda7 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 8 Mar 14 2002 /dev/sda8 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 9 Mar 14 2002 /dev/sda9 but, when i disconect it (umounting first): #ls -alh /dev/sda* brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 10 Mar 14 2002 /dev/sda10 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 11 Mar 14 2002 /dev/sda11 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 12 Mar 14 2002 /dev/sda12 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 13 Mar 14 2002 /dev/sda13 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 14 Mar 14 2002 /dev/sda14 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 15 Mar 14 2002 /dev/sda15 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 2 Mar 14 2002 /dev/sda2 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 3 Mar 14 2002 /dev/sda3 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 4 Mar 14 2002 /dev/sda4 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 5 Mar 14 2002 /dev/sda5 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 6 Mar 14 2002 /dev/sda6 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 7 Mar 14 2002 /dev/sda7 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 8 Mar 14 2002 /dev/sda8 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 9 Mar 14 2002 /dev/sda9 sda and sda1 are gone!! i have to recreate them (whit mknod) each time i disconect someting (flash memory, external hd, etc.) Any ideas why is happening this? kernel bug? module bug? too much time running? hardware failing (intel 865g)? Any ideas how to fix this? reboot? (like windogs?), remove the module and reload it? update kernel? buy a new motherboard? Looks like you're using udev. udev automatically deletes and creates /dev entries when the hardware is removed and attached - try reattaching the hardware, the /dev entries should reappear.
Re: script copy files based upon content
On 8/5/05, Michael Martinell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am trying to figure out how to come up with a shell script that will cat
or grep a file and if it contains the word SPAM it will then move it to
another folder.
I have been trying combinations of grep SPAM * | mv * ../spam however I
don't know what to put in for * since the filenames are always changing.
I am guessing that I need to create an array by doing something with ls,
however I am having trouble puzzling this one out.
This job would then run out of cron.
Try this:
find -exec grep -l SPAM {} + | xargs -I mv {} ../spam
If the filenames can have spaces in them:
find -exec grep -l SPAM {} + | tr \0 | xargs -0 -I mv {} ../spam
Re: Personal Debian mirror
On 8/4/05, Preston Boyington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have come to the point of needing / wanting my own partial Debian mirror (amd64 and i386). I've been reading about debmirror but when I tried it my mirror didn't look quite like what I thought it should. All the packages were dumped into folders under pool/ and folders it created such as stable, unstable, and woody were essentially empty. (Now I am trying an rsync string to see what the difference will be.) This is normal. Since distributions often share packages, they are stored only once, in pool/, and the distribution directories refer to the pool packages. I was wondering if other people could give me some feedback on how they did their mirrors. What commands did you use and where are there some good howto's on doing it as efficiently as possible? Also, since I don't want to mirror the ISO files I was wondering how difficult it would be to use something like jigdo to create the disks from my own mirror? If your mirror has all the packages it needs it should be easy - just give jigdo-lite the address of your own mirror instead of one of the main debian ones.
Re: sarge, kernel 2.6.12.3, and sound
On 8/4/05, Steven Pasternak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi! I have sarge, with kernel 2.4.27-2-k7. I upgraded to a 2.6.12.3
using sarge's 2.6.8 config, but now I don't have sound. /dev/{dsp,mixer}
are gone. I have the use OSS API set under Device
Drivers-Sound-Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Is that bad? I
installed alsa-base and alsa-utils and ran '/etc/init.d/alsa start', but
still no devices. What's up? Thanks!
-Steven
I've heard something about sysfs format changes requiring a new udev -
perhaps you could try installing the udev in sid, if you've got an
older version installed? Note that this new udev will not work with
kernels older than 2.6.12, so if you downgrade the kernel you'll need
to downgrade udev as well.
Re: Installing a new kernel on Debian.
On 8/4/05, Redefined Horizons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm currently running Debian Sarge with the 2.4.27 kernel. I would like to update to a 2.6 kernel. I don't have an internet connection to my Debian box yet, so I can't use apt-get. Is there a place I can download the debs for a 2.6 kernel on the i386 architecture? What files do I need? I appreciate any assistance, as I'm new to Linux and this will be my first time performing a kernel upgrade. The latest 2.6 kernel in stable can be found here: http://packages.debian.org/stable/base/kernel-image-2.6.8-2-386 This version works for all x86 platforms - depending on your CPU, there may be a faster version available. Do make sure you have all the dependencies listed there, if you're not using apt-get. You can check with dpkg: $ dpkg -l coreutils initrd-tools module-init-tools Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name VersionDescription +++-==-==- ii coreutils 5.2.1-2The GNU core utilities ii initrd-tools 0.1.81.1 tools to create initrd image for prepackaged ii module-init-to 3.2-pre8-1 tools for managing Linux kernel modules Also indirect dependencies (I've listed only the ones you might not already have here): Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name VersionDescription +++-==-==- ii cpio 2.5-1.2GNU cpio -- a program to manage archives of ii cramfsprogs1.1-6 Tools for CramFs (Compressed ROM File System ii dash 0.5.2-6The Debian Almquist Shell The version numbers might not be exactly the same as mine; I'm on unstable. If one of these packages is missing, be sure to download it as well, following the links from the kernel package page. You might also want to install udev, but this is optional. When you have all the packages, to install them manually, do: dpkg -i /path/to/packages/*.deb If dpkg reports a dependency error, you probably missed one of the needed packages. If you installed off a cdrom set, some or all of these packages might be on them - try using apt-cdrom and apt-get to install them.
Re: openssl has 2gb limit ?
On 8/3/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, today I tried to encrypt a 3.2Gb file with openssl: openssl enc -aes256 -e -salt -pass file:filename.pwd -in filename -out filename.openssl It aborted with the error: Die maximale Dateigröße ist überschritten = Maximum file size is exceeded filename.openssl is then exactly 2Gb big... I thought the 2gb limit is a relict ? Should I report a bug ? If you can reproduce this with the version in unstable, it sounds like it merits a wishlist bug, yes.
Re: ISO Images from fully installed hd?
On 8/3/05, Fernando Cacciola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Ewart wrote: I have Sarge successfully installed in a machine, using just the netinst CD. Now I want it on another machine... I can of course use the netinst CD once again and wait for all the packages to download, but I was wondering if I can somehow create a set of ISO images using the machine were debian is already installed. If you kept copies of the downloaded packages (in /var/cache/apt), then you should be able to use jigdo to build an ISO. Ok, I see about 864 items there, so I take that apt kept the downloaded packages. (They sum-up about 593Mb which fits 1 CD, and that's unexpected because the official distribution has lots of CDs) Most of the CDs have rarely used packages, so it's no surprise you don't have most of them installed. Anyway, how do I use jigdo to build an ISO? I've never used jidgo before so I've _scanned_ the jigsaw site, the faqs and the list archives but found nothing. Install jigdo-file, then run: jigdo-lite http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r0a/i386/jigdo-cd/debian-31r0a-i386-binary-1.jigdo When it asks for a directory to scan, give it /var/cache/apt/packages Note that this builds the whole first CD - I don't think jigdo is available for the netinst images.
Re: an update to testing broke my nvidia driver (from nvidia-installer)
On 8/3/05, Brice Méalier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I upgraded today from sarge to testing and all went well! But I found afterwards my graphics a bit slow and then I decided to reinstall the last nvidia driver from the source as I do usually. It refused to build! telling that the kernel-headers package has not been found! So I must admit that I run my own kernel (2.6.12.3 compiled the debian way under sarge). Could the fact that this kernel has been build under sarge responsible for the impossibility of building the nvidia driver? or what can be the matter and how can I solve that issue?? I don't think the kernel build process has changed that much yet. Try this: apt-get (or aptitude) install module-assistant nvidia-glx m-a prepare m-a a-i -k /usr/src/your-kernel-source nvidia-kernel
Re: ISO Images from fully installed hd?
On 8/3/05, Fernando Cacciola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bryan Donlan wrote: On 8/3/05, Fernando Cacciola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Ewart wrote: I have Sarge successfully installed in a machine, using just the netinst CD. Now I want it on another machine... I can of course use the netinst CD once again and wait for all the packages to download, but I was wondering if I can somehow create a set of ISO images using the machine were debian is already installed. If you kept copies of the downloaded packages (in /var/cache/apt), then you should be able to use jigdo to build an ISO. Ok, I see about 864 items there, so I take that apt kept the downloaded packages. (They sum-up about 593Mb which fits 1 CD, and that's unexpected because the official distribution has lots of CDs) Most of the CDs have rarely used packages, so it's no surprise you don't have most of them installed. Anyway, how do I use jigdo to build an ISO? I've never used jidgo before so I've _scanned_ the jigsaw site, the faqs and the list archives but found nothing. Install jigdo-file, then run: jigdo-lite http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r0a/i386/jigdo-cd/debian-31r0a-i386-binary-1.jigdo When it asks for a directory to scan, give it /var/cache/apt/packages Note that this builds the whole first CD - I don't think jigdo is available for the netinst images. OK Great! I suppose I shall repeat that with binary-2 and so on for any CD that matches some of my local packages. If you do that, any packages you don't already have will be downloaded as well.
Re: ISO Images from fully installed hd?
On 8/3/05, Fernando Cacciola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bryan Donlan wrote: On 8/3/05, Fernando Cacciola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bryan Donlan wrote: On 8/3/05, Fernando Cacciola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Ewart wrote: I have Sarge successfully installed in a machine, using just the netinst CD. Now I want it on another machine... I can of course use the netinst CD once again and wait for all the packages to download, but I was wondering if I can somehow create a set of ISO images using the machine were debian is already installed. If you kept copies of the downloaded packages (in /var/cache/apt), then you should be able to use jigdo to build an ISO. Ok, I see about 864 items there, so I take that apt kept the downloaded packages. (They sum-up about 593Mb which fits 1 CD, and that's unexpected because the official distribution has lots of CDs) Most of the CDs have rarely used packages, so it's no surprise you don't have most of them installed. Anyway, how do I use jigdo to build an ISO? I've never used jidgo before so I've _scanned_ the jigsaw site, the faqs and the list archives but found nothing. Install jigdo-file, then run: jigdo-lite http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r0a/i386/jigdo-cd/debian-31r0a-i386-binary-1.jigdo When it asks for a directory to scan, give it /var/cache/apt/packages Note that this builds the whole first CD - I don't think jigdo is available for the netinst images. OK Great! I suppose I shall repeat that with binary-2 and so on for any CD that matches some of my local packages. If you do that, any packages you don't already have will be downloaded as well. Ha Ok... I don't want that... I suppose that there will be packages in the 1st machine that won't make it to the other. But of course those will be installed from the internet IFF not on the CD I guess, which is OK since I do have a good internet connection and I just want to avoid a lenghtly download.. but if most of the packages come form the CD and the rest from the net that's OK with me.+ If you have a LAN you could configure apt-proxy, and load into it any packages you've already downloaded.
Re: Aptitude erroneously thinks many packages are unused and wants to remove them.
On 8/1/05, Clive Menzies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On (01/08/05 12:32), Adam Funk wrote: Inspired by the advice on this group and the -s option, I'm trying out aptitude. But I'm surprised by this: $ aptitude -s upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED: followed by a long list of packages, some of which I'm running right now. How does aptitude determine this list, and what's the best way to correct it? There've been a few posts on this over the last few days; have a look at the d-u list archive. Briefly, run aptitude in interactive mode - ie # aptitude If you press g (only once), the proposed actions will be displayed, you can then 'h' hold packages you don't want removed. A better option is '+' - 'h' will disable updates.
Re: Aptitude erroneously thinks many packages are unused and wants to remove them.
On 8/1/05, Bryan Donlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/1/05, Clive Menzies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On (01/08/05 12:32), Adam Funk wrote: Inspired by the advice on this group and the -s option, I'm trying out aptitude. But I'm surprised by this: $ aptitude -s upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED: followed by a long list of packages, some of which I'm running right now. How does aptitude determine this list, and what's the best way to correct it? There've been a few posts on this over the last few days; have a look at the d-u list archive. Briefly, run aptitude in interactive mode - ie # aptitude If you press g (only once), the proposed actions will be displayed, you can then 'h' hold packages you don't want removed. A better option is '+' - 'h' will disable updates. Correction, '=' will disable updates, 'h' doesn't do anything afaik
Re: Aptitude erroneously thinks many packages are unused and wants to remove them.
On 8/1/05, Christian Pernegger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Briefly, run aptitude in interactive mode - ie # aptitude If you press g (only once), the proposed actions will be displayed, you can then 'h' hold packages you don't want removed. Since this is basically the issue I brought up a day or so earlier... Why should users have to wade through a (potentially long) list of packages and tell aptitude to install [+] or hold [=] the packages they don't want removed? After all it's been told to install the package at some point, and without an order to the contrary shouldn't even consider removing it. Maybe an explicit upgrade order for a single package should have this effect, but not the standard bring me up to date sequence ([u], [U], [g], [g]). Again what's the advantage over the old don't auto-remove a package under any circumstances behaviour? Especially given that this could easily be adapted to don't auto-remove a package unless it is marked auto (A). Aptitude shouldn't remove packages you've told it to install - but it doesn't know whether packages installed through other means (apt-get, dselect, dpkg -i, etc) were manually or automatically installed. Also, if you're on sid, there are a lot of uninstallable packages due to the C++ transition - the only good solution in that case is to temporarily hold them as needed.
Re: Changing to British (or Canadian) English
On 8/1/05, David R. Litwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've looked all over the place: KDE, I've googled it, the help files in KDE. Nothing seems to tell me how I can change my language in KDE to British (since they don't seem to have Canadian, not there there really is a difference). Could some one please point out how to do this? And, if possible, for Debian (and, in fact, every thing) in general.? It would be Much Appreciated. None the less, I thank you Kindly in Advance. Try: (as root) dpkg-reconfigure locales # enable the en_GB options locale-gen (as user) echo 'export LANG=en_GB' ~/.profile chmod u+x ~/.profile (re-login)
Re: Changing to British (or Canadian) English
On 8/1/05, Bryan Donlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/1/05, David R. Litwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've looked all over the place: KDE, I've googled it, the help files in KDE. Nothing seems to tell me how I can change my language in KDE to British (since they don't seem to have Canadian, not there there really is a difference). Could some one please point out how to do this? And, if possible, for Debian (and, in fact, every thing) in general.? It would be Much Appreciated. None the less, I thank you Kindly in Advance. Try: (as root) dpkg-reconfigure locales # enable the en_GB options locale-gen (as user) echo 'export LANG=en_GB' ~/.profile chmod u+x ~/.profile (re-login) Actually, en_CA is for canada - you can use that instead of en_GB.
Re: Image for 2.6.12 kernel in Sid?
On 7/31/05, Rick Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [KS] wrote: Recently there was a thread(link below) about renaming of kernel package for debian as there are other projects having their own kernels e.g. Hurd. http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/07/msg03660.html OK... got that. So, as yet, there is no prebuilt package for the linux kernel, correct? Sure there is: linux-image-2.6.12-1-k7: Installed: 2.6.12-1 Candidate: 2.6.12-1 Version table: *** 2.6.12-1 0 990 http://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages 990 http://ftp-mirror.internap.com unstable/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
Re: KDE 3.4 on Debian
On 7/31/05, Michael Satterwhite [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know some people here are running KDE 3.4. What method did you use to install it. http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/docs/install.html
Re: How to report a broken package ?
On 7/30/05, Thomas Lecomte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm new in the Debian community, and I'm running Debian Sid on my computer. I would like to know what should I do when I get a broken package. Report it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? The broken package is libaspell which disable me to install kdelibs4. Please, answer at my email address because I'm not on the mailing-list :-) Thanks. --Thomas You would report a bug by running `reportbug packagename' - but this brokenness is probably caused by the C++ transition in unstable right now. I suggest waiting a while - things will be hectic until all the C++ packages in unstable are rebuilt. You can see more info on the status of the transition here: http://people.debian.org/~mfurr/gxx/
Re: installation of a package requests removal of a lot of packages
On 7/30/05, Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 11:55:43AM +0200, Gena Batyan wrote: snip When trying to install a package using apt-get, it says among other things 'following packages will be REMOVED: ...' and this list is HUGE! I'll give an example. I'm trying to install gaim, which depends on the package libaspell15c2 What in the name of god is going on here??? How can a package request deinstallation of almost a complete system, most of the packages scheduled for removal have NOTHING to do with the library. below I include what apt-get shows me when trying to install this library. Any suggestions are appreciated... snip 1. Don't Panic! The choice is: a) do not 'apt-get update' for a while b) 'apt-get update' until it does not want to remove lots of stuff. option B can happen in days, weeks or longer (ask here for how long folks think it will take) cheers, Kev Or hold packages (= in aptitude) at their current version and upgrade what you can, checking periodically to see if the newer packages are installable without much breakage.
Re: Need iso images of Woody, Debian 3.0r3
On 7/30/05, Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently discovered that it is not trivial to reinstall Debian on a somewhat old box that I have. In order to be prepared for another disk failure, I would like to have, in my CD library, copies of the first two CDs of Debian 3.0r3, but I can't find the images on the web. I'm sure they are there, but where? 3.0r3 doesn't seem to be available, but r6 can be downloaded from http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian-cd/3.0_r6/jigdo/i386/
Re: aptitude : how to merge the new packages directory
On 7/29/05, Guillaume TESSIER [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I have a question about aptitude. I use to run debian testing sarge and stick to sarge when it got stable. I usually manage packages with aptitude. Of course their was a new packages directory as new packages were introduced on a regular basis to the debian repository. But now, since sarge is frozen, i don't understand why this directory is still there. I was just looking for a gnome package and couldn't find it. I know alphabet, so i just went : where is this package? It was neither in the installed and uninstalled directores but in the new packages directory. The directory isn't usefull to me anymore. i'd to merge it. There is this option forget new packages... New packages will remain in the new packages list until you select forget new packages. So hit `f' and it'll merge them for you.
Re: any sleek way to downgrade sid to sarge?
On 7/29/05, phyrster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi debianers, After upgrading to sid, I reget and thinking how to roll back to good old sarge. I searched related topics and found this guide: http://debianplanet.com/node.php?id=880 (How I Downgraded Testing to Stable) The procedure here is a bit complicated plus it's posted two years ago. There is also guide about pinning but the author says: downgrading is complex and cumbersome. How do you guys downgrade? Are there sleek tools out there that can handle this job better? Suffice it to say, downgrading is hard. Very hard, in some cases. There are no automated tools; if you want to downgrade, it may be possible, but you're mostly on your own. Fortunately, sid and sarge are currently using the same C library, so it's probably not as hard as sarge-woody. If you're not an expert in how APT works, it'll probably be easier to just reinstall.
Re: new packages
On 7/28/05, Nils-Erik Svangård [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heh.. I thought it was just my selection of packages. When I run apt-get update; apt-get upgrade, I usually get atleast 10 upgrades per day, but in recent days none of the packages I use has been updated. A first I thougt the mirror I used stopped updating, so I changed to the main archive, but there havent been any updates there either. /nisse ftp-master.d.o was down until just recently. As it is the master debian mirror, none of the other mirrors were updating during that time. Package updates should resume soon, hopefully.
Re: C++ ABI change in sight?
On 7/28/05, Steven Pasternak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I know that currently debian is undergoing the C++ ABI Change (libstdc++.so.5/gcc3.3-libstdc++.so.6/gcc4), which is why kde isn't being upgraded (is C++ code). I was just wondering if this will be finished anytime soon. KDE 3.4 is head and shoulders above 3.3. Thanks! -Steven If you can't wait for KDE 3.4.1, add this to your sources.list: deb http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/kde-3.4.1/ ./ Please note that while these are made by the same people who do the regular KDE packages, they are unsupported. Wait until they're in unstable or experimental before complaining they broke.
Re: Debian Sarge to Etch
On 7/27/05, Fred OGrady [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul, I have a small question, (as a newbe). Just how Unstable is Unstable? I enjoyed the (accidental) upgrade to Sarge. (I updated and, when I logged into the GUI, I was suprised to find everything changed.) Even in Unstable, I wouldn't expect my system to be crashing every day. Would I? I would expect to see a gradual change in the capabilitys and features of my system. I wouldn't exactly expect it to crash. However, right now there is a major transition affecting all C++ programs. If you try to upgrade to sid, expect lots of errors with missing dependencies, some broken packages, etc. Be prepared to hold packages at a pre-sid version until things shake out. etch (testing) isn't so bad - dependencies are guarenteed to be sorted out before packages reach it. But there can still be other kinds of bugs in testing. I have been playing with Linux for a number of years now, Caldera, Redhat, Lindows (now Linspire), and most recently, strait Debian. I got sick of Technicians telling me they had to re-install the OS everytime some files got corrupt. It seems that anyone running Unstable is actually on the cutting edge of Debian's capabilities (and limitations). I hope these qustions are not to off topic. I didn't want to risk Top Posting. *cough* you did, actually :) Top posting is replying before the quoted text of the previous message.
Re: Packages not authenticated - why?
On 7/27/05, Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On my laptop, whenever I try to install/upgrade packages I get a message saying that the packages cannot be authenticated and asking if I want to continue. I say I do and things then proceed normally. This does not happen on my desktop. Any way to fix this? Are you on unstable, by any chance? Take a look at this: http://www.syntaxpolice.org/apt-secure/ If you just want to silence the errors, make sure gnupg's installed, then do: apt-key add /usr/share/apt/debian-archive.gpg
Re: Unstable (sid) packages
On 7/27/05, Song, Victor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are the Unstable packages being updated? I've received several security updates but the packages doesn't seem to have been updated on http://ftp.debian.org. For example, Webcalendar should be 0.9.45-6 according to the advisory but there is only 0.9.45.5 on the server. Am I doing something wrong? The master mirror site server's down; mirrors might not update until new hosting's been found.
Re: apt-get update problems
On 7/26/05, Jan Schledermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am getting this sort of messages a lot the last month or two, while running apt-get update: Ign ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org sarge/main Packages 99% [Packages bzip2 0] [Query] bzip2: Compressed file ends unexpectedly; perhaps it is corrupted? *Possible* reason follows. bzip2: Inappropriate ioctl for device Input file = (stdin), output file = (stdout) It is possible that the compressed file(s) have become corrupted. You can use the -tvv option to test integrity of such files. You can use the `bzip2recover' program to attempt to recover data from undamaged sections of corrupted files. Err ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org sarge/contrib Packages Sub-process bzip2 returned an error code (2) The next day the update may work well or result in similar error messages. Am I the only one having such problems or what? I've been having some problems with ftp.us.debian.org. I suspect some mirrors weren't fully updated when ftp-master was shut down, resulting in some of the systems that ftp.*.debian.org redirects to having a corrupted or incomplete copy of the archive.
Re: Synaptic claims deb files not at debian
On 7/26/05, Edward C. Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use a PC with Debian unstable. synaptic has been giving me many messages like: W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xorg-x11/libice-dev_6.8.2.dfsg.1-4_i386.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 216.37.55.114 80] My browser showed the file and wget downloaded it. What is the problem? I've been having similar problems with aptitude. It may have something to do with ftp-master being down - some of the mirrors might not have been fully up-to-date when it shut down.
Re: Hyperthreading
On 7/23/05, Andrew J. Fields [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am in the process of building a new computer, and was wondering if Debian 3.1r0a is capable of running on a P4 3.2E Ghz processor with HT Technology. Also, if the OS doesn't support HT, could it still work anyway. Lastly, if this wont work, could you recommend any distributions of Linux that support HT? Any SMP kernel on Debian or virtually any other Linux distribution should work. On Debian, once you finish installing, you may need to manually install a kernel-image or linux-image package with `smp' in the name. I'm not sure whether the installer will do this for you - check with uname -a after installing.
Re: gdb not able to display the contents of source code
On 7/22/05, kamaraju kusumanchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David E. Fox wrote: On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 13:00:18 -0400 kamaraju kusumanchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (gdb) list 1 ../sysdeps/i386/elf/start.S: No such file or directory. in ../sysdeps/i386/elf/start.S (gdb) I get the same output you do on a different small test program but it seems that the error doesn't cause a problem. For instance I can do a 'break main' and then step line by line and am able to view the source, check the status of variables and so on. Thanks. Now I at least know that it is reproducible. Just today morning, I reported it to the BTS. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=319520 list is probably breaking because the program's not running your code yet - it's in the fortran library's initialization code, and hasn't reached your code yet. Since you don't have a copy of the fortran library sources available, it breaks.
Re: debian-31r0a-i386-netinst.iso
On 7/23/05, Matthew Lenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: wasn't the original installer called debian-31r0-i386-netinst.iso? .. was the 'a' added recently? if so what changed? The installer without the `a' doesn't add security.debian.org to /etc/apt/sources.list
