Re: Netscape (Bus error again) with xswallow
Hi, I had similar problems. On my machine the new libc5 version of netscape would also immediately crash with a bus error. I solved this on seeing your mail by moving my ~/.netscape to some other directory. However, I do not use xswallow, so it is problably some more general problem with netscape. This also partially answers my own mail about problems with the libc5 version of netscape. I also tested the libc5 version of netscape on slink (sharing /home and therefore also ~/.netscape). This also gives a bus error. However, the ldd output is different on slink and potato. On potato is says it does not find libg++.so.27 and libstdc++.so.27, it uses both libc5 and libc6 and it uses the X-libraries from /usr/X11R6/lib. On slink it does find libg++.so.27 and libstdc++.so.27, it only uses libc5 and it uses the X-libraries from /usr/lib/libc5-compat. The behaviour on slink looks better to me, but I do not know if the behaviour of potato is really wrong. It does seem to work after getting rid of ~/.netscape. Hope this helps somebody to further clarify this. I am still puzzled. Christian van Enckevort
problems with libc5 netscape in potato
Hi, I am running/testing potato. Most things work fine, but a few days ago netscape was replaced by a new version using libc5. However, this version crashes on my machine with a buserror. Doing ldd on the binary indicates that libg++.so.27 and libstdc++.so.27 are not found. At first the were not on my system, but after installing the .deb package containing these libraries manually (this should have been done automatically), they are still not found. Has anybody experienced similar problems? Greetings, Christian
Re: Bootdisking
Hi, I do not know too much about this myself, but I have been able to create a customized root/boot disk pair using Yard (http://www.croftj.net/~fawcett/yard/). This consists of a set of perl scripts that automate most of the process. I also needed the yard-1.17-patch1 (available from the same web page) to be able to use kernel modules. Good luck, Christian van Enckevort
Re: Disk usage utility?
Hi Chris, Maybe lsof can help you. It gives a list of open files. There is a debian package for lsof. Unfortunately it is kernel dependent. The slink version only works for 2.0.35. Greetings, Christian van Enckevort
Re: menu generation
Hi Steve, The menus are automatically generated by the debian packages menu. On installation packages that support this put a file describing there menu entries in /usr/lib/menu. Then they run update-menus to add these entrie to the menus of the various window managers and programs like pdmenu. For more info see the documentation of the menu package. Greetings, Christian van Enckevort PS Could you please provide a subject when you post on this list. It makes it a bit easier to scan this list.
Re: Backups
Hi Andrew, When I make backups, I do not backup /dev (I do not use any devices that have not been created automatically). I also backup /usr/local (including all subdirs), because I keep some manually installed programmes there and /boot, where I have a customized kernel (the modules are under /lib/modules and should maybe also be included). Also there may be some more dirs to backup under /var (e.g. mysql databases are under /var/lib/mysql, dosemu's hdimage is under /var/lib/dosemu and /var/www contains the system html-pages). I use tob (which is available as a debian package) for making backups. It is nice script that uses afio for making backups. It may be more convenient than writing your own script. Greetings, Christian van Enckevort
Re: Acrobat as a helper/plugin
You may try to edit the `acroread' executable by adding export -n LD_PRELOAD to the top. This should make the Acrobat work as helper. Thank you, that did the trick. Acrobat now seems to work both as a helper and as a plugin (I have not done any stress testing). Is the maintainer of the acrobat package aware of this problem and solution? Greetings, Christian van Enckevort
Acrobat as a helper/plugin
Hi, I am trying to get acroread and netscape to work together. It should be possible to use acroread as a plugin (it is listed as a plugin for PDF in netscape). However, if I select that plugin (nppdf.so, which apparently should run acroread), netscape crashes when I try to view a PDF-file. In fact, things are even worse: acroread does not even work as a helper application. If I use 'acroread %s' as helper application for PDF and I try to view a PDF-file, netscape indicates it is downloading the file. But after that nothing happens. If I use 'xpdf %s' instead, it all works. However, xpdf is not really an option for me as the quality is too poor. If could not find this problem listed as a bug for either netscape or acroread, so I am wondering if anybody got them to work together. Thanks in advance, Christian van Enckevort
Re: Acrobat as a helper/plugin
Hi Patrik, I tried your suggestion of adding /usr/lib/libc5-compat to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, but it did not help. Note also that I do not experience any problems with acroread when I start it independently (not from within netscape). I do use a libc6 version of netscape (version 4.07 from slink), so I could imagine that does not mesh very well with acroread (which uses libc5). But certainly it should work as a helper application (if not as a plugin). Still puzzled, Christian van Enckevort
Re: magic cookie error
Hi, One way to solve this problem would be using 'xhost +localhost' to enable connections to the X server from your own machine. However, this may compromise security (probably not much of a concern for a single user machine). Trying this out I noticed that on my machine I can also use start an Xwindows program as root using sudo progname parameters (including an xterm window from which I can then start arbitrary X programs). Another less convenient, but presumably more secure method is the following: $ xauth list $DISPLAY # mark the output $ su - # xauth add paste the above line # export DISPLAY=display mentioned in the pasted line.) I found this in Linux Gazette #26. There some other methods are mentioned as well. If anybody knows more about potential security risks for any of these methods, I would be interested. Greetings, Christian van Enckevort
Re: Lilo help for NT
Hi, I use a slightly different setup. I have an entry in the NT boot menu that allows me to start lilo, from which I can boot into linux. This is discussed in the January issue of the linuxgazette. If linux can write to the partition from which NT boots, you can make lilo write its bootsector directly to the file used by NT by adding the line boot=filename to lilo.conf. Greetings, Christian van Enckevort
