Lost root passwd
Hi, I lost the root passwd on a machine. Can someone give me a hand to re-establish a new one? I lost the procedures somewhere. Thank you very much. Regards, Clement
SMC EtherPower II 10/100
>From the h/w compatible list, I found support for SMC EtherPower 10/100. Does anyone know if the newer EtherPower II 10/100 is supported? If yes, what is the driver and do you hear of any trouble with that card? Thank you very much. Regards, Clement web URL: http://www.ans.com.au/email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Address: 14 Fisher Road, Dee Why NSW 2099Tel: 9972 2377 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: SMC EtherPower II 10/100
Thank you very much for your information. Your last comment, however, makes me a little bit confused. I have been using the SMC 10Mbps Tulips base card and they work very well. In the 100Base-TX market, what do you suggest is the more reliable card? Among manufactures like 3Com, SMC and Intel, which one do you think is better to work with Linux? I have several Taiwan made 10/100Base PCI Ethernet cards using in our Win 95 boxes. They perform well and the price is half of the SMCs. It is a real petty that there is no driver to use with Linux! Ben Pfaff wrote: > >>From the h/w compatible list, I found support for SMC EtherPower >10/100. Does anyone know if the newer EtherPower II 10/100 is >supported? If yes, what is the driver and do you hear of any trouble >with that card? > > Yes, it is supported. You need to get the driver from > http://cesdis1.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/drivers/ and compile it for > your kernel. > > I have one of these cards, but I had trouble with it. I swapped it > out for an NE2000 and I'm in the process of returning it to SMC for a > replacement, as it seemed to be defective; my machine would crash once > day or so before I removed it. The local computer company tells me > they've had a lot of defective ones, actually. But I still like SMC, > personally. -- Regards, Clement web URL: http://www.ans.com.au/email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Address: 14 Fisher Road, Dee Why NSW 2099Tel: 9972 2377 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Swap disk size
When I set a swap partition of 256MB, in fact anything > 128MB, and install Linux, Linux reset it to 128MB. Is 128MB the limit of swap disk for Linux? Software like dnews says 256MB swap disk is recommended. Regards, Clement web URL: http://www.ans.com.au/email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Address: 14 Fisher Road, Dee Why NSW 2099Tel: 9972 2377 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Pentium-II
> Many users of Cyrix CPUs have had to disable the cache in their systems > during installation, because the floppy disk has errors if they do not. If > you have to do this, be sure to re-enable your cache when you are finished > with installation, as the system runs much slower with the cache disabled. Interestingly, I have the same problem with a genuine Intel Pentium-II 233 CPU. Switching the cache during installation works. Regards, Clement web URL: http://www.ans.com.au/email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Address: 14 Fisher Road, Dee Why NSW 2099Tel: 9972 2377 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: GIMP
> > I tried to install the GIMP and xtar, and when trying to run both, I get > the same error message: > > xtar: can't load library 'libXm.so.2' ...and: gimp: can't load library > 'libXm.so.2' > Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think you'll find libXm.so.2 in the current release of Lesstif. libXm.so.2 is one of the run-time libraries from Motif v2.0 (and above). Lesstif is only compliant with Motif v1.2. A better bet is, with a statically-linked version of the applicaion (if it is available). Jason -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: kernel upgrade: mkinitrd: module raid1 not found
In case you are still interested in this topic, I have just spent some hours on it and found the followings: When installing either the stock 2.6.6 kernel-image or tailor compiled 2.6.6 kernel-image, these error messages appeared but seems to be harmless (pls correct me if not): cpio: /etc/modprobe.conf: No such file or directory cpio: /lib/modules/modprobe.conf: No such file or directory With the RAID support compiled in, the error, FATAL: Module raid1 not found, sounds a bug to me. It was suppressed by changing, ROOT=probe, to ROOT=, in /etc/mkinitrd/mkinitrd.conf. My reason to tailor compile the 2.6.6 kernel is because the stock kernel-image does not recognize my pair of mirrored ATA disks. The stock kernel reported ide_??? (sorry I did not jot it down) and ide_detect module not found. I fixed this by compiling the kernel with built-in IDE support. I wish the stock kernel can get this fixed some time. Regards, Clement > Hi Justin, > > Thanks for your help, I got it working now, but it is weird. This is what I > read at http://www.wlug.org.nz/SoftwareRaid: > > "The most recent versions (eg LinuxKernel2.6) of the Debian kernel-image > packages build a new initrd image upon installation. They should > automatically notice if the root device is /dev/md* and arrange for the > appropriate modules to be present in the initrd image and loaded > appropriately. So if the software raid array is actually your root > filesystem when you do the kernel install, everything should just work." > > and probably that's the problem: since I compiled raid support into my > kernel, it didn't have the raid modules and mkinitrd is being too smart, > trying to add the raid modules anyway. > Sounds like a bug to me. > > But this is good news too, since root-on-raid now works with raid modules > and I can now use a stock kernel again. Problem solved! > > Thanks > Bob > > > "Justin Guerin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hi Bob, > > You are correct: a raid1 module is not required since you compiled it into > > the kernel. Actually, because you compiled it into the kernel, no module > > was built, which is why it can't be found. To fix this error the most > > simple way, re-configure your kernel to build raid1 as a module, then > > compile again. > > On the other hand, since you're building your own kernel, why not just > > build in all the components you know you'll need at boot time, and build > > the rest (ones that you only think you might need) as modules. That way, > > you won't even have to use an initial ram disk. > > But back to fixing your error without rebuilding your kernel: where is > > mkinitrd's confdir? It's supposed to be /etc/mkinitrd, and if it's trying > > to put the raid1 module into the initial ram disk, then it should be in > the > > config files somewhere, but your grep doesn't seem to have found it. It's > > possible it's in /usr or somewhere else. If you find it, check to see > that > > that's not the culprit. > > Let the list know what route you decide to take and how it works. > > Justin Guerin > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Using 1280x1024 resolution with Matrox 2164W
I can only bring up 800x600 screen on this card. Using W2k on the same machine, I can display 1280x1024 @85Hz. Do you know why XFree86 does not allow this to happen? Below is the setting in XF86Config-4. The machine itself is P4-2.4GHz w 1GB RAM. Debain Sarge installed with the stock Kernel 2.6.6, apt-update/upgraded. ... Section "Device" Identifier "MGA 2164W Millennium II" Driver "mga" BusID "PCI:1:02:0" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "DiamondTron NF" HorizSync 30-130 VertRefresh 50-85 Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Default Screen" Device "MGA 2164W Millennium II" Monitor "DiamondTron NF" DefaultDepth24 SubSection "Display" Depth 1 Modes "1280x1024" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 4 Modes "1280x1024" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "1280x1024" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 15 Modes "1280x1024" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1280x1024" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1280x1024" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection EndSection ... -- Regards, Clement -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Winfax FXM viewer for KDE
To my surprise, after a 2 hours search, I cannot find a KDE viewer that can view FXM fax files by Symentec Winfax. Do you know one? -- Regards, Clement -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Winfax FXM viewer for KDE
Clive Menzies wrote: On (12/07/04 18:25), Clement wrote: To my surprise, after a 2 hours search, I cannot find a KDE viewer that can view FXM fax files by Symentec Winfax. Do you know one? I guess that means that Kfax doesn't? I receive all my faxes by email and Kfax works well but that may be totally irrelevant ;) Hi Kevin and Clive, KFax and many other fax or image viewers for KDE will only work on TIFF or raw G3 fax format. I have not found any that support the winfax FXM format. Winfax is the major fax player, if not the largest, for the Windows platform. I wonder how anyone who use it can migrate to Linux! - Regards, Clement -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Winfax FXM viewer for KDE
S.D.A. wrote: On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 06:25:43PM +1000 or thereabouts, Clement wrote: To my surprise, after a 2 hours search, I cannot find a KDE viewer that can view FXM fax files by Symentec Winfax. Do you know one? Why does it have to be KDE specific? No, it doesn't. I mentioned KDE just because I am using it. There is GQView, which is nothing more than a _Fax viewer_. It should display WinFax image files. I haven't tried it myself on WinFax images tho. According to the GQView web site, it "Supports most file types if the libraries are available on the system". This means JPG, PNG, TIFF, etc. Unfortunately, the list does not include FXM. Or do you know of any library that reads Winfax FXM files? -- Regards, Clement -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Using 1280x1024 resolution with Matrox 2164W
boo wrote: Clement ans.com.au> writes: I can only bring up 800x600 screen on this card. Using W2k on the same machine, I can display 1280x1024 85Hz. Do you know why XFree86 does not allow this to happen? Below is the setting in XF86Config-4. The machine itself is P4-2.4GHz w 1GB RAM. Debain Sarge installed with the stock Kernel 2.6.6, apt-update/upgraded. man mga: The driver will auto-detect the amount of video memory present for all chips except the Millennium II. In the Millennium II case it defaults to 4096 kBytes. When using a Millennium II, the actual amount of video memory should be specified with a VideoRam entry in the config file "Device" section. Yes, the default video memory size of 4MB is correct. The interesting thing is, in MS Windows 2000, this 4MB allows me to display 1280x1024 with 24 bit colours. In Debian, I can only get 1280x1024 at 16 bit colours. -- Regards, Clement (*At the end, 16-bit or 24-bit do not mean too much to me. Getting 1280x1024 made me very happy already. 8-() ) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Winfax FXM viewer for KDE
John Summerfield wrote: Clement wrote: S.D.A. wrote: On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 06:25:43PM +1000 or thereabouts, Clement wrote: To my surprise, after a 2 hours search, I cannot find a KDE viewer that can view FXM fax files by Symentec Winfax. Do you know one? Why does it have to be KDE specific? No, it doesn't. I mentioned KDE just because I am using it. There is GQView, which is nothing more than a _Fax viewer_. It should display WinFax image files. I haven't tried it myself on WinFax images tho. According to the GQView web site, it "Supports most file types if the libraries are available on the system". This means JPG, PNG, TIFF, etc. Unfortunately, the list does not include FXM. Or do you know of any library that reads Winfax FXM files? Did u try google? http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8&c2coff=1&q=+linux++reads+Winfax+FXM+files&btnG=Search http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8&c2coff=1&q=+linux++read+Winfax+FXM+files&btnG=Search Yes, John, I spent 2 hours on google before posting the first email. Your suggested 2 searches do not generate any result as well! -- Regards, Clement -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Default Handler for A Certain Type of Files
Using Mozilla in KDE, do you know how I can tell the system (Mozilla or KDE or Debian) what program to use to open a particular type of email attachements? Right now, to open an attachment, I have to type the program name on "open with". That is not convenient enough. Regards, Clement -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2.6.7 questions
Bradley Alexander wrote: ... It appears that part of the problem is that for some reason (which hopefully someone can straighten out for me, modules don't seem to be autoloading. Did I forget to install something? Things work well under 2.4, I just tried to bring up an encrypted loopback filesystem and had to manually modprobe loop and cryptoloop. Yes, I found the same, too. That 2.6 does not auto-load modules before mounting the root partition. However, it does auto-load modules after that. On 2 machines that I am testing, I have to compile the kernel and put in the IDE and m/b chip-set support to get them work. By the way, I am using 2.6.6. Also, on both machines, 2.4 works with std 2.4 kernel. Regards, Clement -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Software RAID 1 reiserfs fails to boot because of fsck
Ary you using stock kernel 2.6.6? If so, compile a customised one with built-in reiserfs and raid support. Jimmy Liang wrote: Hi All, I must be missing something here, but I just set up a software RAID 1 on Sarge, using raidtools2. I was able to use /etc/init.d/raid2 script to start and stop the raid, and am able to mount the /dev/md0 drive. The problem comes when i put the mount into fstab. If I use "/dev/md0/backup reiserfsdefaults 0 2" The boot would fail, and it complains that the partition needs to be fscked manually. I'm thinking that the raid hasn't started, so thats why there's nothing to fsck, because if I use "/dev/md0/backup reiserfsdefaults 0 0" in fstab, it boots up fine. Can anyone give me some hints as to how to get fsck working on this software raid 1? Thanks. -Jimmy Regards, Clement -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RT-8169 on Intel 865G motherboad
Do you have this combination to work? I cannot make them work together. I have tried the followings: - Compiled 2.4.22 kernel w ac1 patch and RT-8169 support. Linux did not see the RT card at all, not even 'lspci' - Compiled 2.4.22 kernel w ac1 patch, but with RT-8169 as a module. This time lspci showed the card but it did not exist in dmesg and could not be configured. - Compiled 2.6.6 kernel with RT-8169 as a module. Same as above, lspci showed the card but it did not exist in dmesg and could not be configured. The motherboard has a Intel e-100 ethernet on board. The RT-8169 is proved to work on another machine after the tests above. Can you give some suggestions? Thank you in advance. Regards, Clement -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Samba as a PDC
Tried to setup Samba 3.0.4-5 on Sarge as a PDC. Tried very hard to read the docs and sample configure to no success. When connecting a W2k client, I get this error: "... Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password." From the samba log file, I found this: [2004/07/27 03:42:44, 0] lib/util_sock.c:get_peer_addr(978) getpeername failed. Error was Transport endpoint is not connected [2004/07/27 03:42:44, 0] lib/util_sock.c:write_socket_data(413) write_socket_data: write failure. Error = Connection reset by peer [2004/07/27 03:42:44, 0] lib/util_sock.c:write_socket(438) write_socket: Error writing 4 bytes to socket 22: ERRNO = Connection reset by peer [2004/07/27 03:42:44, 0] lib/util_sock.c:send_smb(630) Error writing 4 bytes to client. -1. (Connection reset by peer) I googled the error message and did not find anything helpful. Please help Here is the smb.conf: [global] workgroup = WORKGROUP server string = %h server (Samba %v) obey pam restrictions = Yes smb passwd file = /var/lib/samba/passdb.tdb passdb backend = tdbsam, guest passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u passwd chat = *Enter\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n . syslog = 0 log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 1000 dns proxy = No ldap ssl = no panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d invalid users = root browseable = yes netbios name = SMB_SVR os level = 33 preferred master = yes domain master = yes local master = yes security = yes domain logons = yes logon path = \\%L\profiles\%u logon drive = H: logon home = \\homeserver\%u\winprofile logon script = logon.cmd unix password sync = yes encrypt passwords = yes [netlogon] comment = Network Logon Service path = /var/lib/samba/netlogon guest ok = Yes browseable = No read only = yes [profiles] path = /var/lib/samba/profiles read only = no create mask = 0600 directory mask = 0700 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: intel PIIXn SATA on 2.6.7 kernel
I have it working here. Just compile the kernel again with PIIX and all necessary stuffs for the root partition build in. 2.6 kernerl does not handle the modules well during booting. Regards Clement Justinas wrote: hello list! Does anybody have intel PIIXn SATA running properly on debian with 2.6.7 kernel? I have IBM xSeries eServer 206 with such device. I installed sarge, witch has a 2.4 kernel. I have updated module-init-tools. With 2.4 it works, but SATA device is as a primary slave device (/dev/hdc). I took Suse Live CD 9.1(one that boots all OS from cd) witch runs on 2.6.5 kernel, and looked at dmesg. There I found that my SATA device is scsi on /dev/sda. I took a kernel config file from /boot and did: make oldconfig, make bzImage, make modules, make modules_install. Configured lilo.conf(also ran lilo). But my new kernel cant find boot system. I have taken into account fact that my boot device have changed to /dev/sda. But when i boot my new 2.6.7 kernel i got a sweet kernel panic error, which announces me about cute VFS error. Any ideas? Thanks in advance! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Samba as a PDC
Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Clement wrote: Tried to setup Samba 3.0.4-5 on Sarge as a PDC. Tried very hard to read the docs and sample configure to no success. When connecting a W2k client, I get this error: "... Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password." From the samba log file, I found this: [2004/07/27 03:42:44, 0] lib/util_sock.c:get_peer_addr(978) getpeername failed. Error was Transport endpoint is not connected [2004/07/27 03:42:44, 0] lib/util_sock.c:write_socket_data(413) write_socket_data: write failure. Error = Connection reset by peer [2004/07/27 03:42:44, 0] lib/util_sock.c:write_socket(438) write_socket: Error writing 4 bytes to socket 22: ERRNO = Connection reset by peer [2004/07/27 03:42:44, 0] lib/util_sock.c:send_smb(630) Error writing 4 bytes to client. -1. (Connection reset by peer) I googled the error message and did not find anything helpful. Please help Here is the smb.conf: [global] workgroup = WORKGROUP server string = %h server (Samba %v) obey pam restrictions = Yes smb passwd file = /var/lib/samba/passdb.tdb passdb backend = tdbsam, guest passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u passwd chat = *Enter\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n . syslog = 0 log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 1000 dns proxy = No ldap ssl = no panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d invalid users = root browseable = yes try commenting the "invalid users = root" line and try. might be that help. Thank you very much for your suggestion. Unfortunately it does not help. By the way, what is the "DOMAIN" name for the Windows clients? There is not "DOMAIN" name parameter in the samba configure file. Only the WORKGROUP! Regards, Clement -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Samba as a PDC
Debian Users wrote: On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Clement wrote: C> Tried to setup Samba 3.0.4-5 on Sarge as a PDC. Tried very hard to read C> the docs and sample configure to no success. When connecting a W2k C> client, I get this error: C> C> "... Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password." Maybe a stupid question of mine, but have you created the corresponding Samba users? I think the command is "smbpasswd -a " or something like that. I remember having similar problems which disppeared when entering the correct users. Also, the user name must be specified accordingly in the Windoze client, e.g. in the "connect network drive" dialog. Cheers and good luck, Stefan Both the user, clement, and machine name, clement$ were created with smbpasswd -a and smbpasswd -a -m respectively. Yes, both user and machine name are the same. Is there any other suggestions? Regards, Clement -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RAID does not start automatically
I have setup several RAID based systems already, include a few with exactly the same software combination. But this one just does not start the RAID automatically. The partition type is fd for Linux raid autodetect. When booted, these are reported: md: raid1 personality registered as nr 3 md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 ... md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. md: autorun ... md: ... autorun DONE. The RAID arrays are created with mdadm command. They can be started alright by running mdrun. However, this is not good enough to allow the RAIDed root partition be mounted. The hardware is: - Intel P4-2.8GHz on ICH5r m/b - SATA 200MB as /dev/sda to form an incomplete mirror. (*the other drive for the mirror purpose will be added later) The software is: - Debian Sarge - Kernel 2.6.7, custom compiled with raid built-in Your help is much appreciated. Regards, Clement -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SMP with Intel P4 HT processor & kernel 2.6.7
I can boot up with kernel-image-2.6.7-1-686 but not kernel-image-2.6.7-1-686-smp. The booting just half soon after starting. Can you give me some suggestions? The hardware is, Intel m/b w 875r chip set and P4-2.8GHz processor. Regards, Clement -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SMP with Intel P4 HT processor & kernel 2.6.7
botio wrote: Clement wrote: I can boot up with kernel-image-2.6.7-1-686 but not kernel-image-2.6.7-1-686-smp. The booting just half soon after starting. Can you give me some suggestions? The hardware is, Intel m/b w 875r chip set and P4-2.8GHz processor. I have this problem too on a intel d865perl, it'related to ACPI. have a look here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=125841 there is a patch at comment #49. Thank you very much. That thread of discussion (or bug report) explain very well what I have experienced. Now the patch is included in the Redhat kernel. Does anyone know when this patch will be incorporated into the Debian kernel release? -- Regards, Clement -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to dist-upgrade?
Brian Nelson wrote: On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 10:30:32AM +0600, askar wrote: Hello! I want to upgrade from Woody to Sarge. As I understand the necessary commands are: 1) apt-get update 2) apt-get upgrade 3) apt-get dist-upgrade I strongly recommend using aptitude or dselect or some other apt frontend instead. But do I have to change my sources.list? Is changing "stable" into "testing" enough? <> Yes, but I strongly recommend changing it to "sarge" rather than "testing". So what should be the sequence: 1. apt-get update 2. apt-get upgrade 3. change 'woody' to 'sarge' 4. apt-get update 5. atp-get dist-upgrade or just 1. change 'woody' to 'sarge' 2. apt-get update 3. apt-get upgrade 4. atp-get dist-upgrade Regards, Clement -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
iptables not so stateful
I have this in the iptables setup: $ADD INPUT -p tcp -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT $ADD INPUT -p udp -m state --state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT $ADD OUTPUT -p tcp -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT $ADD OUTPUT -p udp -m state --state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT $ADD OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 21 -j ACCEPT And I cannot do ftp. All the data mode traffic of FTP are blocked. Apparently the ESTABLISHED,RELATED specification is not followed. The module ipt_state is there and executing the above does not show any error message. I have tried "modprobe ipt_state" before the above to no success. Any idea? H/W is Intel PIII-600, OS is Sarge with kernel 2.6.7. Thanks. Clement -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: iptables not so stateful
Martin Theiß wrote: Clement <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Friday, 13. August 2004 (18:20): I have this in the iptables setup: $ADD INPUT -p tcp -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT $ADD INPUT -p udp -m state --state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT $ADD OUTPUT -p tcp -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT $ADD OUTPUT -p udp -m state --state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT $ADD OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 21 -j ACCEPT And I cannot do ftp. All the data mode traffic of FTP are blocked. Apparently the ESTABLISHED,RELATED specification is not followed. The module ipt_state is there and executing the above does not show any error message. I have tried "modprobe ipt_state" before the above to no success. Any idea? Have you already tried to load the module ip_conntrack_ftp Bingo, this is it. You single sentence saves me so much time. I knew this. But when it is needed, it does not come out of my mind :( And thank you very much for other suggestions. For the record, I use ncftp. It uses passive ftp by default. Regards, Clement -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HylaFax receives rubbish
Just tried Hylafax. After spending hours to play around, I finally got Hyafax to receive fax. However, the pages received are just rubbish. When I setup Hylafax to email received fax as a PDF to me, that PDF is a totally white page. Do you know where can I start to find and fix the problem? Debian installed is Sarge, with kernel 2.6.7. Hylafax-server, hylafax-doc and hylafax-client are all 4.1.8-13 The only suspicious thing in the installation is the complaint about ghostscript fonts. I did this to quiet the complaint: ln -s /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts /usr/share/gs-gpl/fonts This works to get hylafax to send. Regards, Clement -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HylaFax receives rubbish
Just tried Hylafax. After spending hours to play around, I finally got Hyafax to receive fax. However, the pages received are just rubbish. When I setup Hylafax to email received fax as a PDF to me, that PDF is a totally white page. Do you know where can I start to find and fix the problem? Debian installed is Sarge, with kernel 2.6.7. Hylafax-server, hylafax-doc and hylafax-client are all 4.1.8-13 The only suspicious thing in the installation is the complaint about ghostscript fonts. I did this to quiet the complaint: ln -s /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts /usr/share/gs-gpl/fonts This works to get hylafax to send. Regards, Clement -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HylaFax receives rubbish
Wayne Topa wrote: Clement([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: Just tried Hylafax. After spending hours to play around, I finally got Hyafax to receive fax. However, the pages received are just rubbish. When I setup Hylafax to email received fax as a PDF to me, that PDF is a totally white page. Do you know where can I start to find and fix the problem? Debian installed is Sarge, with kernel 2.6.7. Hylafax-server, hylafax-doc and hylafax-client are all 4.1.8-13 The only suspicious thing in the installation is the complaint about ghostscript fonts. I did this to quiet the complaint: ln -s /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts /usr/share/gs-gpl/fonts This works to get hylafax to send. You have sent to request for help twice now and have received no answer. I must apologise for this. After sending the first one, for some reasons I did not see it in the list. Thinking that it could be a problem of my PC, I send it again. On both occasions you hi-jacked another thread rather then starting a new one (bad practice). I DID NOT hi-jack anything. If the subject I used is the same as a previous email, it is pure coincidence. I will search the archives. Please do not assume too much. Those that _might_ been able to help might not have noticed your post if the thread you hi-jacked did not interest them. If you try again, start a new thread! That might get you the help you need. wt Regards Clement -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HylaFax receives rubbish
Tim Kelley wrote: On Tuesday 24 August 2004 10:56, Clement wrote: Just tried Hylafax. After spending hours to play around, I finally got Hyafax to receive fax. However, the pages received are just rubbish. When I setup Hylafax to email received fax as a PDF to me, that PDF is a totally white page. Do you know where can I start to find and fix the problem? Debian installed is Sarge, with kernel 2.6.7. Hylafax-server, hylafax-doc and hylafax-client are all 4.1.8-13 The only suspicious thing in the installation is the complaint about ghostscript fonts. I did this to quiet the complaint: ln -s /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts /usr/share/gs-gpl/fonts This works to get hylafax to send. well first just simplify ... don't bother with email or translating formats ... just try to read the tiff files that hylafax creates when it receives a fax Did that. And get only random black lines. :( if the problem is with tiff files then you can usually force the modem to negotiate a more compatible format; there are all manner of tiff varieties and it can be a real PITA tiff libraries in sarge were recently upgraded to libtiff4 and this could be the issue is translation to postscript is the issue you should look at ghostscript ... check the BTS for hylafax and ghostscript Thank you very much. Do try that. And will report it when I get any progress. Regards, Clement -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Configuring Courier
Upayavira wrote: I want to set up a Debian based mail server, with SMTP sending, IMAP and webmail. I am trying to do this with the Courier package. Actually, what I want, at the moment, is a self contained mail system, it doesn't have to deliver to the Internet. I'm using Sarge. I am having trouble getting mailboxes configured. When I send myself a mail (mail -s "hiya" upayavira), it creates a file called Maildir in my home directory. It looks rather like a 'mbox' file. If I delete that file, and create a proper Maildir with maildirmake ~/Maildir, then try sending again, I get "./Maildir: No such file or directory: No such file or directory" showing in my /var/log/syslog file. Similarly, when I have a ~/Maildir directory and log into the courier webmail system, I get "Internal error (module sqconfig.c, line 77) - contact system administrator". When I do it with an mbox file called ~/Maildir, I get "Unable to open the maildir for this account -- the maildir doesn't exist or has incorrect ownership or permissions". I suspect I'm very close, but I can't figure it out. So, can anyone either (a) help me fix the above or (b) tell me where I can get help fixing the above or (c) recommend a SMTP/IMAP/Webmail setup that is relatively easy to configure, and that can be installed with apt-get from Sarge? Thanks in advance for any help. Regards, Upayavira Since you did not provide any details about your setup and software combination, it is hard for anyone to provide reasonable help. I did not encounter the mentioned problem. But if you use a maildir capable local delivery agent, you should be fine. In my case, I use postfix, maildrop and courier. All are apt-get from Sarge. Regards, Clement -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: need iptables port forwarding help!
Tom Vier wrote: i've tried several times, using multiple different rules i've found from different sites, and i still can't get port forwarding working. does anyone have working rules they could send me? i'm trying to forward packets from my isp to port to an internal ip (i use nat) and port 22. /sbin/iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 22 -j DNAT --to-destination $INT_IP /sbin/iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport -j DNAT --to-destination $INT_IP /sbin/iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -p tcp --dport 22 -d $INT_IP -j SNAT --to-source $EXT_IP /sbin/iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -p tcp --dport -d $INT_IP -j SNAT --to-source $EXT_IP define $INT_IP - internal ip to forward to, and define $EXT_IP - external ip on your outbound interface. Regards, Clement -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Libtiff and hylafax
Hi All, In Sarge, Hylafax does not work well with Libtiff 3.6.1-1. But if I downgrade Libtiff to 3.5.7, the next apt-get upgrade will probably move it back to 3.6.1. What do you Hylafax users do? Regards, Clement -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Libtiff and hylafax
Tobias Kirchhofer wrote: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: Hi All, In Sarge, Hylafax does not work well with Libtiff 3.6.1-1. But if I downgrade Libtiff to 3.5.7, the next apt-get upgrade will probably move it back to 3.6.1. What do you Hylafax users do? I solved it with an entry in /etc/apt/preferences: Package: libtiff3g Pin: version 3.5.7* Pin-Priority: 999 Package: libtiff-tools Pin: version 3.5.7* Pin-Priority: 999 This is great. But now, I don't know where to find the libtiff3g_3.5.7*.deb and ligtiff-tools_3.5.7*.deb. Both my closest mirror, mirror.aarnet.edu.au and ntp.debian.org do not have the files in their pool/main/t/tiff3g directory. Google is not too helpful either. Can someone shed some light here? Regards, Clement -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Libtiff and hylafax
Thank you very much for your help again. Tobias Kirchhofer wrote: <>...Find it with google: libtiff3g_3.5.7-2_i386.deb libtiff-tools_3.5.7-2_i386.deb Or try version 3.5.5 from <http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages>. Tried all. The package available for Sarge is 3.6.1 only. The package for Woody is 3.5.5-6. Version 3.5.7 is simply disappeared from all mirrors!!! Uninstall current 3.6.1 libtiff with apt-get remove. Then dpkg -i with the two archives and you're done, if memory serves me right. Greetings Regards, Clement -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help! (corier-imap + webmail)
Carlos Sousa wrote: ... 2) Courier-imap is configured to use userdb authentication, meaning all user info (username, password, mail folder, ...) is stored in a file. This allows for email users with no correspondence to system users. There are other authentication options, though. Once again, you'll have to go through the docs for the details. From what I read, the Debian's Courier-imap package does not support userdb. Am I making a mistake here or is there a Debian package that supports userdb? On the other hand, ISMail looks like an interesting webmail. However, after installing, I can only get a blank page. The FAQ says this is because my PHP does not support IMAP. My PHP is the stock Debian libapache2-mod-php4 v 4.3.4-4. I believe IMAP support is there. At least Squirrelmail works fine with it. Does anyone have ISMail working on a Debian Sarge? Regards, Clement -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help! (corier-imap + webmail)
Carlos Sousa wrote: On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 00:39:43 +1000 Clement wrote: Carlos Sousa wrote: ... 2) Courier-imap is configured to use userdb authentication, meaning all user info (username, password, mail folder, ...) is stored in a file. This allows for email users with no correspondence to system users. There are other authentication options, though. Once again, you'll have to go through the docs for the details. From what I read, the Debian's Courier-imap package does not support userdb. Am I making a mistake here or is there a Debian package that supports userdb? Well, I'm using the Debian package, and it's using userdb, I configured the beast myself (about 2 years ago). Where did you read that? It must be my bad memory. I tried to find it back and failed. But certainly this is good. I was planning to re-compile it with userdb. It is so good that this is not needed. -- Regards, Clement -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help! (corier-imap + webmail)
Carlos Sousa wrote: On Mon, 6 Sep 2004 10:44:35 -0400 Johann Koenig wrote: On Tuesday September 7 at 12:39am Clement <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The FAQ says this is because my PHP does not support IMAP. My PHP is the stock Debian libapache2-mod-php4 v 4.3.4-4. I believe IMAP support is there. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache search php imap aeromail - Web-based e-mail client egroupware-email - eGroupWare E-mail client application imp3 - Web Based Mail Program php-auth - PHP PEAR modules for creating an authentication system php3-cgi-imap - IMAP module for PHP3 (use with php3-cgi) php3-imap - IMAP module for PHP3 (use with php3) php4-imap - IMAP module for php4 phpgroupware-felamimail - phpGroupWare felamimail (Squirrelmail) module squirrelmail - Webmail for nuts imp - Web Based IMAP Mail Program. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Note the one about halfway down, php4-imap. Squirrelmail may implement the IMAP protocol itself, or operate directly on Maildirs (I don't personally know, thats just my guess) Actually, from: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache show squirrelmail It includes built-in pure PHP support for the IMAP and SMTP protocols So thats why. 1) Squirrelmail *does* use the IMAP protocol (no direct file access to email); 2) I don't have php?-imap installed, so it must have inbuilt IMAP capabilities, 'cause it's working flawlessly. A close look at libapache2-mod-php4: " Compiled in extensions include: bcmath, bz2, calendar, ctype, dba, dbx, exif, filepro, ftp, gettext, iconv, mbstring, mime_magic, openssl, overload, pcre, posix, session, shmop, sockets, standard, sysvmsg, sysvsem, sysvshm, tokenizer, wddx, xml, xmlrpc, yp, and zlib." imap is not included!!! So where does squirrelmail get the imap capability? And how can we give ISMail the imap capability required? -- Regards, Clement -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help! (corier-imap + webmail)
Clement wrote: Carlos Sousa wrote: On Mon, 6 Sep 2004 10:44:35 -0400 Johann Koenig wrote: On Tuesday September 7 at 12:39am Clement <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The FAQ says this is because my PHP does not support IMAP. My PHP is the stock Debian libapache2-mod-php4 v 4.3.4-4. I believe IMAP support is there. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache search php imap aeromail - Web-based e-mail client egroupware-email - eGroupWare E-mail client application imp3 - Web Based Mail Program php-auth - PHP PEAR modules for creating an authentication system php3-cgi-imap - IMAP module for PHP3 (use with php3-cgi) php3-imap - IMAP module for PHP3 (use with php3) php4-imap - IMAP module for php4 phpgroupware-felamimail - phpGroupWare felamimail (Squirrelmail) module squirrelmail - Webmail for nuts imp - Web Based IMAP Mail Program. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Note the one about halfway down, php4-imap. Squirrelmail may implement the IMAP protocol itself, or operate directly on Maildirs (I don't personally know, thats just my guess) Actually, from: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache show squirrelmail It includes built-in pure PHP support for the IMAP and SMTP protocols So thats why. 1) Squirrelmail *does* use the IMAP protocol (no direct file access to email); 2) I don't have php?-imap installed, so it must have inbuilt IMAP capabilities, 'cause it's working flawlessly. A close look at libapache2-mod-php4: " Compiled in extensions include: bcmath, bz2, calendar, ctype, dba, dbx, exif, filepro, ftp, gettext, iconv, mbstring, mime_magic, openssl, overload, pcre, posix, session, shmop, sockets, standard, sysvmsg, sysvsem, sysvshm, tokenizer, wddx, xml, xmlrpc, yp, and zlib." imap is not included!!! So where does squirrelmail get the imap capability? Sorry the answer is already in the previous reply - squirrelmail. And how can we give ISMail the imap capability required? As a remarks, I believe php4-imap is for apache_1.3.x. The only php4 for apache2 is libapache2-mod-php4. -- Regards, Clement -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help! (corier-imap + webmail)
Carlos Sousa wrote: On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 12:25:46 +1000 Clement wrote: [...] And how can we give ISMail the imap capability required? As to ISMail, I never heard of it, but a few seconds googling turned up a bunch of links, like http://instantservers.com/plugin_ism/ismweb_faq.html I'm not interested in it right now, so I can't help you further. The producer of the software has been very helpful. The problem is solved by installing php4-imap. Regards, Clement -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: firewall/router configuration
James LeClair wrote: My router is a dual-homed P1 box that runs Woody. I would like to do a clean install in the near future. After it is all set up, and before I take it online for the first time, what steps are involved to slimming it down and securing it? Maybe a few tips or linkage to good docs on the topic would be very appreciated. James, Proud Debian user Not sure if this is helpful to you. What I do is installing only the software that I need. And put in iptables rules to make sure only the traffic I want is allowed. -- Regards, Clement -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Slow DNS Lookups on Debian Etch AMD 64
Hi All, I'm getting terrible DNS lookup performance on my Debian Etch system. I've installed the "Etch" - Official Beta amd64 version. After installing, I noticed that the Internet browsers were taking a really long time to pull up a web page. I also observed that the browser delays seemed to be DNS related as they were spending a lot of time "Looking up whatever.com...". I turned off IPv6 and it made no observable difference. It seems that a DNS lookup is taking 10s on average. Here is the dig output for one such lookup: debian:/# time dig 192.168.0.1 www.yahoo.com ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 52841 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;192.168.0.1. IN A ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: . 7650IN SOA A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. NSTLD.VERISIGN-GRS.COM. 2007050901 1800 900 604800 86400 ;; Query time: 10 msec ;; SERVER: 192.168.0.1#53(192.168.0.1) ;; WHEN: Thu May 10 09:39:21 2007 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 104 ; <<>> DiG 9.3.4 <<>> 192.168.0.1 www.yahoo.com ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 60232 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 8, ADDITIONAL: 8 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;www.yahoo.com. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: www.yahoo.com. 41 IN CNAME www.yahoo-ht3.akadns.net. www.yahoo-ht3.akadns.net. 44IN A 209.131.36.158 ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: akadns.net. 146740 IN NS zc.akadns.org. akadns.net. 146740 IN NS zd.akadns.org. akadns.net. 146740 IN NS eur1.akadns.net. akadns.net. 146740 IN NS eur7.akadns.net. akadns.net. 146740 IN NS usw1.akadns.net. akadns.net. 146740 IN NS asia9.akadns.net. akadns.net. 146740 IN NS za.akadns.org. akadns.net. 146740 IN NS zb.akadns.org. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: za.akadns.org. 63940 IN A 204.2.178.133 zb.akadns.org. 63940 IN A 206.132.100.105 zc.akadns.org. 63940 IN A 63.209.3.132 zd.akadns.org. 63940 IN A 204.2.178.133 eur1.akadns.net.4599IN A 213.254.204.197 eur7.akadns.net.4599IN A 193.108.94.88 usw1.akadns.net.4599IN A 63.209.3.132 asia9.akadns.net. 4599IN A 220.73.220.4 ;; Query time: 10 msec ;; SERVER: 192.168.0.1#53(192.168.0.1) ;; WHEN: Thu May 10 09:39:26 2007 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 368 real0m10.031s user0m0.000s sys 0m0.000s debian:/# This very same machine also has Windows Vista Ultimate 64 installed on it and DNS lookups are lightning fast. There is definitely something going on with Debian Etch or perhaps the network configuration. I am using the ndiswrapper around a Windows driver for my Broadcom wireless network adapter. Does anyone have any ideas for me? Thanks, Dallas Clement -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hda: lost interrupt
Hello All, I just installed the Debian Etch 4.0 on my system. It will not complete bootup however. It keeps hanging on "hda: lost interrupt" and eventually fails to boot entirely. I previously had Debian Etch "Testing" installed. It has been working fine for the past month up to the moment I tried installing 4.0. I tried re-installing 4.0 three times all with the same result. My system is an Intel Core2 Duo. I'm trying to install Debian Etch 4.0 AMD64. Does anyone know how to recover from this error? Thanks, Dallas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hda: lost interrupt
'noapic' solved the problem. Thanks! On 5/11/07, Bob McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dallas Clement wrote: > Hello All, > > I just installed the Debian Etch 4.0 on my system. It will not > complete bootup however. It keeps hanging on "hda: lost interrupt" > and eventually fails to boot entirely. > > I previously had Debian Etch "Testing" installed. It has been working > fine for the past month up to the moment I tried installing 4.0. > > I tried re-installing 4.0 three times all with the same result. > > My system is an Intel Core2 Duo. I'm trying to install Debian Etch 4.0 > AMD64. > > Does anyone know how to recover from this error? > > Thanks, > Dallas > > My laptop Turion 64 requires using 'noapic' to boot and run. You can add this to the kernel 'command line' (at the boot prompt) for a one time test to see if it helps. If it does, edit your boot loader 'menu' to append this string to the entries for your kernel. You will need to read up on how to do these things for your particular boot loader. Other options you might try (some that I've heard about but not tried) are 'pci=no', 'acpi=no', 'acpi=no-idle' and 'nolapic'. I have no information on the possible down side of using any of these, but hey, if it lets you boot and things run, you're ahead of the game ;) I hope this helps. Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CD/DVD Drive Problems (Etch 4.0)
I just installed Debian Etch 4.0 on to a machine that has a NEC CDROM / DVD RW drive, and unfortunately it is having problems finding the cdrom drive. I noticed this when I tried to install a package such as: debian:~# apt-get install kernel-package It prompted to insert the DVD ISO that I used to install with: MEDIA CHANGE: please insert the disc labeled 'Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_- Official amd64 DVD Binary-1 20070407-12:15' in the drive '/cdrom/' and press enter When I insert the DVD into the drive and press enter, the same message is repeated as if nothing is recognized. I can see that my cdrom is the device named 'hde' as seen: debian:/dev# ls hde brw-rw 1 root cdrom 33, 0 2007-05-11 13:59 hde I have also verified that when the DVD disc is in the drive that it also corresponds to device hde. I don't understand why it is not working. This problem would occasionally happen for me with the Debian Etch "Testing" release. If I would reboot the computer, it would go away most of the time. With the 4.0 release, it doesn't matter how many times I restart, the cdrom just ain't working. Can anyone please help? Thanks, Dallas Clement -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Slow DNS Lookups on Debian Etch AMD 64
On 5/10/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:41:59AM -0500, Dallas Clement wrote: > > I'm getting terrible DNS lookup performance on my Debian Etch system. > I've installed the "Etch" - Official Beta amd64 version. > What is an official beta of Etch which is the current Stable? Send us your /etc/apt/souces.list after you have done an update and upgrade, if the problem continues. Doug. -- Sadly, after upgrading to 4.0 r0 I am still experiencing the slow DNS lookups. This is what's in my sources.list file: debian:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official amd64 DVD Binary-1 20070407-12:15]/ etch contrib main -- Thanks for the help. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CD/DVD Drive Problems (Etch 4.0)
On 5/11/07, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 02:25:33PM -0500, Dallas Clement wrote: > I just installed Debian Etch 4.0 on to a machine that has a NEC CDROM > / DVD RW drive, and unfortunately it is having problems finding the > cdrom drive. > > I noticed this when I tried to install a package such as: > > debian:~# apt-get install kernel-package > > It prompted to insert the DVD ISO that I used to install with: > > MEDIA CHANGE: please insert the disc labeled > 'Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_- Official amd64 DVD Binary-1 > 20070407-12:15' in the drive '/cdrom/' and press enter > > When I insert the DVD into the drive and press enter, the same message > is repeated as if nothing is recognized. > I think this is a know issue with cdrom/dvd drives and apt-get. Maybe trying to use apt-cd will help by re-adding the dvd? I fooled around with apt-cdrom and tried to re-add the dvd, but didn't seem to work. I tried manually re-mounting the hde device to /media/cdrom and that did seem to work -- but it was mounted only for the duration of the apt-get install and then strangely it unmounted itself. VERY ANNOYING!! Thanks for the help. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Slow DNS Lookups on Debian Etch AMD 64
On 5/11/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 04:37:07PM -0500, Dallas Clement wrote: > On 5/10/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:41:59AM -0500, Dallas Clement wrote: > >> > >> I'm getting terrible DNS lookup performance on my Debian Etch system. > >> I've installed the "Etch" - Official Beta amd64 version. > > > >What is an official beta of Etch which is the current Stable? > > Sadly, after upgrading to 4.0 r0 I am still experiencing the slow DNS > lookups. > > This is what's in my sources.list file: > > debian:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list > > deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official amd64 DVD > Binary-1 20070407-12:15]/ etch contrib main You should add on lines after that lines that point to your mirror of choice. Mine (in Canada) is: deb http://ftp3.nrc.ca/debian/ etch main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free This ensures that you get the most up-to-date packages within Etch (stable). And if you want: deb http://debian-multimedia.org etch main deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile etch/volatile main \ contrib non-free I've added these lines and downloaded the latest updates. Still I have incredibly slow DNS lookups. Like I mentioned earlier, this is definitely not happening in Windows Vista which runs on the same machine from a different drive/partition. Once the DNS lookup completes, things seem pretty fast. I'm not sure where else to look at this point. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
XFree86-4.02, a laptop and an external monitor
Hi all, I've a problem while connecting an external monitor to my laptop. I had a configuration working for XFree86 3.3.6 that allowed me to use my laptop at a 1024x768 resolution. If I connected an external monitor to it, and with the LDC-display disabled, X worked with a 1280x1024 resolution on the external monitor. I see in the XFree86.x.log that both my LCD and external display are detected (the external display gets detected first), but I can't get X using my external display at 1280x1024. I'm running XFree86 4.02 (ATI 64 driver) from unstable. Any ideas? -- Jordi
Re: Slow DNS Lookups on Debian Etch AMD 64
On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 14:27 +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:41:59AM -0500, Dallas Clement wrote: > > I'm getting terrible DNS lookup performance on my Debian Etch system. > > I've installed the "Etch" - Official Beta amd64 version. > > > > After installing, I noticed that the Internet browsers were taking a > > really long time to pull up a web page. I also observed that the > > browser delays seemed to be DNS related as they were spending a lot of > > time "Looking up whatever.com...". > > > > I turned off IPv6 and it made no observable difference. > > How? > > > It seems that a DNS lookup is taking 10s on average. Here is the dig > > output for one such lookup: > > > > debian:/# time dig 192.168.0.1 www.yahoo.com > > ;; Got answer: > [snip] > > ;; Query time: 10 msec > > ;; SERVER: 192.168.0.1#53(192.168.0.1) > > ;; WHEN: Thu May 10 09:39:21 2007 > > ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 104 > > > > > > ; <<>> DiG 9.3.4 <<>> 192.168.0.1 www.yahoo.com > > ;; global options: printcmd > > ;; Got answer: > [snip] > > ;; Query time: 10 msec > > ;; SERVER: 192.168.0.1#53(192.168.0.1) > > ;; WHEN: Thu May 10 09:39:26 2007 > > ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 368 > > > > > > real0m10.031s > > user0m0.000s > > sys 0m0.000s > > Weird - the elapsed time for the DNS queries are reported as 10 msec > each, yet they are 5 seconds apart? > > > This very same machine also has Windows Vista Ultimate 64 installed on > > it and DNS lookups are lightning fast. There is definitely something > > going on with Debian Etch or perhaps the network configuration. > > Does the other OS use the same DNS server(s)? > > The contents of /etc/resolv.conf might provide clues - especially if > compared to the Windows equivalent (of which I know nothing...) > > > I am using the ndiswrapper around a Windows driver for my Broadcom > > wireless network adapter. > > Shouldn't matter, assuming that you don't have any other network > problems... > > This is what's in my /etc/resolv.conf: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/resolv.conf search clements nameserver 192.168.0.1 'clements is the name of the local domain. And that is the correct name server on the local domain which happens to be a D-link router. It uses DNS relay to forward DNS requests to my ISP. Interestingly, if I repeat the dig test directly on my ISP DNS server address, the time between queries is dramatically reduced: -- debian:/home/dallas# time dig 151.164.20.201 debian.org ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 59962 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;151.164.20.201.IN A ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: . 10667 IN SOA A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. NSTLD.VERISIGN-GRS.COM. 2007051101 1800 900 604800 86400 ;; Query time: 9 msec ;; SERVER: 151.164.20.201#53(151.164.20.201) ;; WHEN: Sat May 12 08:55:23 2007 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 107 ; <<>> DiG 9.3.4 <<>> 151.164.20.201 debian.org ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 42634 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;debian.org.IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: debian.org. 3600IN A 192.25.206.10 ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: debian.org. 2615IN NS rietz.debian.org. debian.org. 2615IN NS klecker.debian.org. debian.org. 2615IN NS raff.debian.org. ;; Query time: 138 msec ;; SERVER: 151.164.20.201#53(151.164.20.201) ;; WHEN: Sat May 12 08:55:24 2007 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 105 real0m0.157s user0m0.004s sys 0m0.000s -- WOW! And if I directly edit the /etc/resolv.conf and put in the DNS server address of my ISP instead of my relaying D-Link router, lo and behold, my web-browsing is incredibly fast!!! I think we can safely conclude that the problem lies with my router and slow DNS relay. Though I must say that I am a bit mystified as to why Windows is so fast if it presumably relies on the D-link router for DNS relay also. I wish there was a way to keep my ISP DNS addresses in the /etc/resolv.conf file permanently. I think they get overwritten after getting a DHCP response. Thanks for the help. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Slow DNS Lookups on Debian Etch AMD 64
On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 13:56 +0530, Kushal Kumaran wrote: > On 5/12/07, Dallas Clement <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 5/11/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 04:37:07PM -0500, Dallas Clement wrote: > > > > On 5/10/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:41:59AM -0500, Dallas Clement wrote: > > > > >> > > > > >> I'm getting terrible DNS lookup performance on my Debian Etch system. > > > > >> I've installed the "Etch" - Official Beta amd64 version. > > > > > > > > > >What is an official beta of Etch which is the current Stable? > > > > > > > > Sadly, after upgrading to 4.0 r0 I am still experiencing the slow DNS > > > > lookups. > > > > > > > > This is what's in my sources.list file: > > > > > > > > debian:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list > > > > > > > > deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official amd64 DVD > > > > Binary-1 20070407-12:15]/ etch contrib main > > > > > > You should add on lines after that lines that point to your mirror of > > > choice. Mine (in Canada) is: > > > > > > deb http://ftp3.nrc.ca/debian/ etch main contrib non-free > > > > > > deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free > > > > > > This ensures that you get the most up-to-date packages within Etch > > > (stable). > > > > > > And if you want: > > > > > > deb http://debian-multimedia.org etch main > > > > > > deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile etch/volatile main \ > > > contrib non-free > > > > I've added these lines and downloaded the latest updates. Still I > > have incredibly slow DNS lookups. Like I mentioned earlier, this is > > definitely not happening in Windows Vista which runs on the same > > machine from a different drive/partition. > > > > Once the DNS lookup completes, things seem pretty fast. I'm not sure > > where else to look at this point. > > > > This is not really a solution, just a workaround, but have you tried > installing a local DNS cache? pdnsd requires no configuration to set > up. > -- > Kushal > > No I sure haven't, but that's probably a good thing to do anyway. I think we are narrowing in on the problem as something to do with DNS relay through my local router. Doing a time dig on the actual ISP DNS address was extremely fast. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Slow DNS Lookups on Debian Etch AMD 64
On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 16:15 +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 09:03:41AM -0500, Dallas Clement wrote: > > On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 14:27 +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > > On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:41:59AM -0500, Dallas Clement wrote: > > > > I'm getting terrible DNS lookup performance on my Debian Etch system. > > > > I've installed the "Etch" - Official Beta amd64 version. > > > > > > > > After installing, I noticed that the Internet browsers were taking a > > > > really long time to pull up a web page. I also observed that the > > > > browser delays seemed to be DNS related as they were spending a lot of > > > > time "Looking up whatever.com...". > > [snip] > > > This is what's in my /etc/resolv.conf: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/resolv.conf > > search clements > > nameserver 192.168.0.1 > > > > 'clements is the name of the local domain. And that is the correct name > > server on the local domain which happens to be a D-link router. It uses > > DNS relay to forward DNS requests to my ISP. > > > > Interestingly, if I repeat the dig test directly on my ISP DNS server > > address, the time between queries is dramatically reduced: > [snip] > > > real0m0.157s > > user0m0.004s > > sys 0m0.000s > > > > WOW! And if I directly edit the /etc/resolv.conf and put in the DNS > > server address of my ISP instead of my relaying D-Link router, lo and > > behold, my web-browsing is incredibly fast!!! I think we can safely > > conclude that the problem lies with my router and slow DNS relay. > > Though I must say that I am a bit mystified as to why Windows is so fast > > if it presumably relies on the D-link router for DNS relay also. > > "presumably" - I suspect not. At least that would make for a natural > explanation... > > Another possible explanation: Do you have a firewall on the linux box? > If so, try disabling it. My rationale? If the firewall gets in the way > of udp:53 but not tcp:53, I'd expect the same 5-second delay, as the > resolver first tries udp and then falls back on tcp... (perhaps windows > "remembers" that udp failed and then plods on with tcp?) > > It might be worth double-checking the firewall settings on the router. > Sounds like they're OK, but a quick browse is in order... > > > I wish there was a way to keep my ISP DNS addresses in > > the /etc/resolv.conf file permanently. I think they get overwritten > > after getting a DHCP response. > > Can't the router be reconfigured? > Sadly, my router is pretty inflexible in terms of the DNS configuration. It mandates the use of DNS relay. I don't think I have any firewall enabled on the linux box. At least I don't see any and I didn't deliberately turn one one after the new install. I do have a firewall turned on in my D-link router though. It is only allowing HTTP, FTP, POP3, and SMTP traffic through to a different host on my LAN. Do I need to open up port 53 to my linux box then? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Slow DNS Lookups on Debian Etch AMD 64
On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 10:40 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 09:03:41AM -0500, Dallas Clement wrote: > > On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 14:27 +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > > On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:41:59AM -0500, Dallas Clement wrote: > > > > I'm getting terrible DNS lookup performance on my Debian Etch system. > > > > > > > Interestingly, if I repeat the dig test directly on my ISP DNS server > > address, the time between queries is dramatically reduced: > > > > debian:/home/dallas# time dig 151.164.20.201 debian.org > > > ;; QUESTION SECTION: > > ;151.164.20.201.IN A > > > -- > > > > WOW! And if I directly edit the /etc/resolv.conf and put in the DNS > > server address of my ISP instead of my relaying D-Link router, lo and > > behold, my web-browsing is incredibly fast!!! I think we can safely > > conclude that the problem lies with my router and slow DNS relay. > > Though I must say that I am a bit mystified as to why Windows is so fast > > if it presumably relies on the D-link router for DNS relay also. > > > > I wish there was a way to keep my ISP DNS addresses in > > the /etc/resolv.conf file permanently. I think they get overwritten > > after getting a DHCP response. > > > > Never having used a router that I didn't make, can you write a script > that queries the router for the server address of the ISP and changes > /etc/resolv.conf? For example, what is the hostname that matches the > ISP's dns server? While the ip number may change, the hostname may not. > Perhaps you can use the router to get you the IP of the DNS server and > then use that from then on, until the DHCP is renegotiated. > > Doug. > > I may have to resort to this if I can't get resolve it in a more natural way. I have all the information that is needed. Thanks for the idea. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Slow DNS Lookups on Debian Etch AMD 64
On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 16:15 +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 09:03:41AM -0500, Dallas Clement wrote: > > On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 14:27 +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > > On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:41:59AM -0500, Dallas Clement wrote: > > > > I'm getting terrible DNS lookup performance on my Debian Etch system. > > > > I've installed the "Etch" - Official Beta amd64 version. > > > > > > > > After installing, I noticed that the Internet browsers were taking a > > > > really long time to pull up a web page. I also observed that the > > > > browser delays seemed to be DNS related as they were spending a lot of > > > > time "Looking up whatever.com...". > > [snip] > > > This is what's in my /etc/resolv.conf: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/resolv.conf > > search clements > > nameserver 192.168.0.1 > > > > 'clements is the name of the local domain. And that is the correct name > > server on the local domain which happens to be a D-link router. It uses > > DNS relay to forward DNS requests to my ISP. > > > > Interestingly, if I repeat the dig test directly on my ISP DNS server > > address, the time between queries is dramatically reduced: > [snip] > > > real0m0.157s > > user0m0.004s > > sys 0m0.000s > > > > WOW! And if I directly edit the /etc/resolv.conf and put in the DNS > > server address of my ISP instead of my relaying D-Link router, lo and > > behold, my web-browsing is incredibly fast!!! I think we can safely > > conclude that the problem lies with my router and slow DNS relay. > > Though I must say that I am a bit mystified as to why Windows is so fast > > if it presumably relies on the D-link router for DNS relay also. > > "presumably" - I suspect not. At least that would make for a natural > explanation... > > Another possible explanation: Do you have a firewall on the linux box? > If so, try disabling it. My rationale? If the firewall gets in the way > of udp:53 but not tcp:53, I'd expect the same 5-second delay, as the > resolver first tries udp and then falls back on tcp... (perhaps windows > "remembers" that udp failed and then plods on with tcp?) > > It might be worth double-checking the firewall settings on the router. > Sounds like they're OK, but a quick browse is in order... > > > I wish there was a way to keep my ISP DNS addresses in > > the /etc/resolv.conf file permanently. I think they get overwritten > > after getting a DHCP response. > > Can't the router be reconfigured? I opened up port 53 for both UDP and TCP and it did seem to help some. Still not as fast as when I edit the /etc/resolv.conf with my ISP DNS addresses. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Troubles with initramfs configuration
Dear All, I'm having problems with configuring my initramfs so that the /init file will be executed correctly. If I have a configuration file for my initramfs as follows with the simple "hello world" program as my init - it is executed fine. dir /dev 755 0 0 nod /dev/console 644 0 0 c 5 1 nod /dev/loop0 644 0 0 b 7 0 dir /bin 755 1000 1000 file /bin/busybox ../../initramfs/busybox 755 0 0 slink /bin/ash busybox 777 0 0 dir /proc 755 0 0 dir /sys 755 0 0 dir /mnt 755 0 0 file init ../../initramfs/hello 777 0 0 however, if I replace the "hello world" program with say busybox or a init.sh shell script, I get an error "Can't find /init to execute...kernel panic... etc.". file init ../../initramfs/busybox 777 0 0 Can anyone please give me some pointers? I'm doing this with the 2.6.21.1 kernel. Thanks, Dallas Clement -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Troubles with initramfs configuration
On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 13:40 -0500, Dallas Clement wrote: > Dear All, > > I'm having problems with configuring my initramfs so that the /init file > will be executed correctly. > > If I have a configuration file for my initramfs as follows with the > simple "hello world" program as my init - it is executed fine. > > dir /dev 755 0 0 > nod /dev/console 644 0 0 c 5 1 > nod /dev/loop0 644 0 0 b 7 0 > dir /bin 755 1000 1000 > file /bin/busybox ../../initramfs/busybox 755 0 0 > slink /bin/ash busybox 777 0 0 > dir /proc 755 0 0 > dir /sys 755 0 0 > dir /mnt 755 0 0 > file init ../../initramfs/hello 777 0 0 > > however, if I replace the "hello world" program with say busybox or a > init.sh shell script, I get an error "Can't find /init to > execute...kernel panic... etc.". > > file init ../../initramfs/busybox 777 0 0 > > Can anyone please give me some pointers? I'm doing this with the > 2.6.21.1 kernel. I found the source of my troubles. It was a dumb mistake on my part. I had not statically linked the 'busybox' utility. Hence, it was seg faulting looking for some libraries that didn't exist. It would be nice to see some error information however while initramfs is trying to execute the 'init' program. I would have found this much sooner. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can't access tty problems (initramfs)
I'm getting the infamous "Can't access tty; job control turned off" message when I try to invoke the ash shell during my initial bootup. My kernel is 2.6.21.1 and I'm using busybox 1.5.0. I understand that ash requires a controlling tty rather than the console. Though, I don't understand all the reasons. If I don't define a console however, I get a kernel panic from initramfs. Could someone please give me some pointers on how tty and console should be configured? I'm connected via my VGA port (not a serial port). Here is the contents of my initramfs makefile: dir /dev 755 0 0 nod /dev/tty0 666 0 5 c 4 0 nod /dev/tty1 666 0 5 c 4 1 nod /dev/tty2 666 0 5 c 4 2 nod /dev/tty3 666 0 5 c 4 3 nod /dev/tty4 666 0 5 c 4 4 nod /dev/tty5 666 0 5 c 4 5 nod /dev/tty6 666 0 5 c 4 6 nod /dev/tty7 666 0 5 c 4 7 nod /dev/tty8 666 0 5 c 4 8 nod /dev/ttyS0 666 0 5 c 5 0 nod /dev/console 644 0 0 c 5 1 nod /dev/null 666 0 0 c 1 3 nod /dev/hda 660 0 6 b 3 0 nod /dev/hda1 660 0 0 b 3 1 nod /dev/hdb 660 0 6 b 3 0 nod /dev/hdb1 660 0 0 b 3 1 nod /dev/hdf 660 0 6 b 3 0 nod /dev/hdf1 660 0 0 b 3 1 dir /bin 755 1000 1000 file /bin/busybox /home/dallas/initramfs/busybox 755 0 0 slink /bin/ash busybox 777 0 0 slink /bin/mkdir busybox 777 0 0 slink /bin/mount busybox 777 0 0 slink /bin/cat busybox 777 0 0 slink /bin/switch_root busybox 777 0 0 dir /root 700 0 0 dir /proc 755 0 0 dir /sys 755 0 0 dir /var 755 0 0 dir /var/lock 755 0 0 dir /tmp 755 0 0 dir /mnt 755 0 0 dir /mnt/realroot 755 0 0 dir /etc 755 0 0 file /etc/fstab /home/dallas/initramfs/fstab 755 0 0 file /init /home/dallas/initramfs/init.ash 755 0 0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems loading modules from init
I'm trying to load modules from an init script that is executing in a cross-compiled 2.6.21 kernel. When I try to load a module with the 'modprobe' command - I'm getting a very simple error which is not of much use: modprobe -v scsi_mod The error message is "modprobe: Failed to load module scsi_mod" and that's it. I'd like to see some more detailed information concerning the error. I've copied my modules in the /lib/modules dir and everything appears to be intact that would be needed. When I use the 'dmesg' command, I do not see anything pertaining to this failure. I have also passed in the 'debug' option on the kernel command line. This wasn't helpful either. I also tried looking in the /var/log/messages file and there is nothing there. Could anyone please give me some pointers on how to debug things further? Thanks, Dallas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Unknown symbol devres_alloc
I'm trying to load a module libata.ko and I'm getting an error message: libata: Unknown symbol devres_alloc I can see that this symbol is found in the file /lib/devres.o within my linux 2.6.21.1 distribution. However, I'm not sure how this symbol should be loaded. Can anyone please help? Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Detecting disk drives from an installation script
Can anyone please recommend the best way to programatically obtain disk drive information, partition, and format from an install script? I presume I could parse the output of "fdisk -l" to get the drive info. Seems like there has got to be a better or less error prone method for doing this sort of stuff. Also, fdisk is interactive. I'd like to emulate something like the Debian installer that lists the various drives and partitions, allows the user to setup partitions and format, as well as select the partition to install Linux to. Any recommendations will be greatly appreciated! Regards, Dallas Clement -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Which device did I boot from?
Hello all, I'm trying to determine which device I booted Linux from at run-time. I'd like to obtain the boot device's major/minor numbers or at least it's name while executing an init script from initramfs. Does anyone know how this can be done? Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which device did I boot from?
On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 19:37 +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > Dallas Clement wrote: > > > I'm trying to determine which device I booted Linux from at run-time. > > > I'd like to obtain the boot device's major/minor numbers or at least > > > it's name while executing an init script from initramfs. > > why? > I'm trying to run a custom Linux install script from initramfs. I want to avoid the possibility of mistakenly installing Linux over the top of my boot device. :) Hence, needing to know with certainty which device I booted Linux from. I'm trying to boot Linux from a USB drive on a system that may have other USB, IDE, SCSI drives present, each of which could possibly have GRUB/Linux already installed. Ideally I would like to determine the root device without ever having mounted any other devices. If I know which is the boot device, I can present a menu of choices excluding the boot device on which Linux can be installed which would involve partitioning, formatting, and copying files. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Difficulty with dpkg dependencies
Hello All, I'm having some trouble installing a busybox debian package which I built on my Debian system. I previously built and installed a glibc binary debian package successfully. The busybox package installation is failing complaining that the libc6-i386 package which it depends on is not installed. It gives the following error: dpkg: package busybox depends on libc6-i386, which is not installed or flagged to be installed However, I know that libc6-i386 is installed. If I examine the contents of the dpkg 'status' file as follows I get the following: cat /var/lib/dpkg/status Package: libc6 Version: 2.3.6 Section: libs Priority: required Architecture: i386 Maintainer: Dallas Clement <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Description: The GNU C library The GNU C library is the standard C/C++ library \ needed to support most Linux applications. Status: install ok installed -- The following is the info for the glibc package which I built: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/packages/glibc$ dpkg --info libc6-i386.deb new debian package, version 2.0. size 7129020 bytes: control archive= 328 bytes. 280 bytes,11 lines control Package: libc6 Version: 2.3.6 Section: libs Priority: required Architecture: i386 Depends: Maintainer: Dallas Clement <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Description: The GNU C library The GNU C library is the standard C/C++ library \ needed to support most Linux applications. The following is the info for the busybox package which I built: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/packages$ dpkg --info busybox_1.6.0-1_i386.deb new debian package, version 2.0. size 233752 bytes: control archive= 619 bytes. 444 bytes,12 lines control 258 bytes, 4 lines md5sums Package: busybox Version: 1.6.0-1 Section: unknown Priority: extra Architecture: i386 Depends: libc6-i386 (>= 2.3.5-1) Installed-Size: 436 Maintainer: Dallas Clement <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Description: Busybox UNIX command utilities. BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into \ a single small executable. It provides replacements for most of the \ utilities you usually find in GNU fileutils, shellutils, etc. -- I could very likely be doing something wrong, but just not sure what it is. I don't see a reason for the dependency to fail. I'd sure appreciate any help. Regards, Dallas Clement -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Difficulty with dpkg dependencies
On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 11:55 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Dallas Clement wrote: > > Package: libc6 > > libc6 is not the same as libc6-386 > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/packages/glibc$ dpkg --info libc6-i386.deb > > Package: libc6 > > Same here. libc6 is not the same as libc6-386 > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/packages$ dpkg --info busybox_1.6.0-1_i386.deb > > Depends: libc6-i386 (>= 2.3.5-1) > > The dependency is upon libc6-386 and you only have libc6 installed. > > Bob > > I had tried it as libc6-i386 earlier and got the same results. With that attempt, my /var/lib/dpkg/status contains: Package: libc6-i386 Version: 2.3.6 Section: libs Priority: required Architecture: i386 Provides: glibc-2.3.6 Maintainer: Dallas Clement <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Description: The GNU C library The GNU C library is the standard C/C++ library \ needed to support most Linux applications. Status: install ok installed The dpkg error when I try to install a package that depends on it is as follows: dpkg: package e2fsprogs depends on libc6-i386, which is not installed or flagged to be installed I'm using the dpkg version 1.13.25 to build the packages on my Debian Etch 4.0 system and I'm using the busybox 1.6.1 'dpkg' on my target system to install the packages. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Difficulty with dpkg dependencies
On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 15:30 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > What is the output of > > dpkg -l e2fsprogs The output of dpkg -l on my target system is: Name Version +++-=-== ii libc6-i3862.3.6 Hence, I can see that the package 'libc6-i386' is indeed installed. The subsequent attempt to install busybox, e2fsprogs or any other package that depends on libc6-i386 fails however. dpkg: package e2fsprogs depends on libc6-i386, which is not installed or flagged to be installed Btw, the target system on which I am installing these packages is a custom built Linux kernel 2.6.21.1. I'm using the busybox 'dpkg' command to install the packages on this system. I'm not having any problems building the packages for busybox, e2fsprogs, or whatever. Just having problems installing them due to these dependency issues with libc6-i386 which should already be installed as seen above. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SATA support
On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 16:32 -0500, Dustin wrote: > I'm building my first PC, it will run Debian of course. > > I'm buying the parts off of newegg.com and noticed that many of the > newer DVD burners have a SATA interface. I'm looking at getting both > the HDDs and the DVD burner with a SATA interface, but wasn't sure if it > could make the process more complicated from a Debian standpoint, and > wanted to see how safe of a bet it would be to use one. > > I understand that the interface is faster and cleaner from a physical > standpoint, but more complicated and less tried and true from a software > standpoint. > > I would prefer to have the option to playback DVD movies on this > machine, in the past I've had trouble getting smooth playback on a PC > versus a dedicated stand alone DVD player. This may only be an issue > with older machines, but I might be wrong in that assumption. > > Any advice on this issue, or any issue in building a newer Debian PC > would be excellent. > > Thanks in advance for the help. > > Dustin If you stick with the latest Debian Etch stable release, you'll be fine. All the SATA drivers imaginable are included in the 2.6 kernel. That is not the case with 2.4. I learned from first hand experience. SATA is definitely the way to go. Very good performance/price ratio. Good luck, Dallas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Difficulty with dpkg dependencies
On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 16:08 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Dallas Clement wrote: > > The output of dpkg -l on my target system is: > > ii libc6-i3862.3.6 > > Hence, I can see that the package 'libc6-i386' is indeed installed. > > It does look like it. > > > The subsequent attempt to install busybox, e2fsprogs or any other > > package that depends on libc6-i386 fails however. > > > > dpkg: package e2fsprogs depends on libc6-i386, which is not installed or > flagged to be installed > > That is very strange and I don't see an obvious problem or solution. > > It is strange that the official Debian package for busybox depends on > libc6 while your custom version depends upon libc6-386. That is a > difference that should be tracked down. Your custom version should > build exactly the same way that the Debian version builds. Especially > since raju reported that it worked fine for him and I am sure it would > for me as well. > > You may have something strange going on with your particular system. > You might want to try building in a clean chroot so as to isolate > problems. The 'pbuilder' package can help you here. > > apt-cache show pbuilder > > > Btw, the target system on which I am installing these packages is a > > custom built Linux kernel 2.6.21.1. > > Thanks for mentioning it but the choice of kernel will not affect the > problem that you are currently seeing. > > > I'm using the busybox 'dpkg' command to install the packages on this > > system. > > I did not realize that busybox provided a dpkg replacement. Hopefully > it uses dpkg-dev and so the behavior will be the same regardless of > the front-end differences. > > > I'm not having any problems building the packages for busybox, > > e2fsprogs, or whatever. Just having problems installing them due to > > these dependency issues with libc6-i386 which should already be > > installed as seen above. > > Could you say a few words about why the pre-packaged version of > busybox is not sufficient? It would be motivating in the process of > trying to help why your custom version does not install. > > Bob > Hello Bob, Thank you for the reply. I'm using a cross-compiler to build busybox, e2fsprogs, and some other applications for an embedded network appliance that does not have much disk space. Hence, wanting to configure and build myself so as to be able to take out things that are not needed. I think it is probably the cross-compiler that is adding the -i386 onto libc6. Regardless, I was under the impression that dpkg would do its package dependency check by looking for the package name that is depended on in the file /var/lib/dpkg/status. As you can see from the output I provided, the busybox package depends line clearly matches with what is in this file. Perhaps it is more complicated than this? Busybox definitely provides a 'dpkg' command. I would be surprised if what I am experiencing is a bug in the implementation. What I am doing seems so basic! I'm now looking at the code for the busybox dpkg implementation and putting in some debug msgs to see why it is behaving this way. Cheers, Dallas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: start-stop-daemon: how to pass environment variables to the daemon
On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 11:13 +0800, Yuwen Dai wrote: > Dear all, > > A daemon invoked by start-stop-daemon needs some extra enviroment > variables. How to pass them to the daemon? Thanks in advance. > > Best regards, > Yuwen I'm not sure if you meant environment variables or command line arguments for the daemon. Here is an example of how to provide a command line arg to the udhcpc daemon. You just put a '--' in front. # Start a DHCP client daemon on each of the physical interfaces /bin/start-stop-daemon -b -S --exec /bin/udhcpc \ -- --interface=eth0 \ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Why do I bother?
I am wondering if I should be sending this to Debian or to a psychiatric facility. I have just spent a little over two weeks unable to connect to the web. My windows connection went down and I could not re-install it. I figured that shouldn't be a problem, I had Debian 3.0 on the other half of the drive. After more than a dozen tries, understandable since I haven't installed it for over five years, I finally got it installed the way I wanted it. Then I hit the wall. I still can't use it to connect to the web. I got to the point where it told me something about a sequence that was not 6-bit pure and the 7-bit was always zero. X would not work. I was told that there were no screens available. The usb connectiion did not work and neither did the printer, an HP Officejet 4110. I have ordered an installation set for 3.1 to see if it works any better. If it doesn't, I'll have to relegate Debian to the status of toy, somthing to play with. For work I will have to use WinXP. With that I stick the disks in and it installs and works. There are modifications I make, but it works. When will Debian? __ Stops spam 100% for your email accounts or you get paid. http://www.cashette.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Why?
I am new to Debian - within the last two weeks - and two things puzzle me. Why do you seem to prefer gnome over kde? I have examined both and kde seems to me to be easier to use. There must be something I am missing. Is it worth hunting for a way to change the default? Where did you get that logo? When it came up on the gnome desktop it immediatlely reminded me of something being flushed down the drain. I hope it doesn't mean that! Adelard __ Stops spam 100% for your email accounts or you get paid. http://www.cashette.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X config
No matter what I do with the XF86Config-4 in /etc/X11, I get the same fatal error message at the end: xf86OpenConsole: Cannot find a free VT I could not find anything like xf86OpenConsole. When I had Debian before, X attached itself to tty7 automatically. Any ideas? I cannot find xvidtune. Incidentally, I have Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 installed on a Toshiba Satellite A-30. The 40 Gig drive is halved with WinXP and Debian. The Debian is on multiple partitions, one each for /swap, /, /home, /usr and /var. Boot is controlled by lilo. I have some trouble connecting to the web using Debian but that is secondary to the X problem. Whatever you can do, thanks. Shane __ Stops spam 100% for your email accounts or you get paid. http://www.cashette.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Getting xfree86 running
I have been trying different things to get XFree86 running. The last message I got was: xfOpenConsole: command not found When I try vidtune, I get: Error: Can't open display Again: I have Debian 3.0 running on half of a 40 Gig drive on a Toshiba Satellite A30. Boot control is lilo and it works fine. I haven't run Debian for years and I'll be damned if it'll beat me this time. It would be extremely difficult to get you a copy of the XF86Config-4 file because I cannot a connect to the internet except with WinXp. I can't print from Bebian, either. Sorta makes you wonder why I bother, don't it? Any help would be appreciated. __ Stops spam 100% for your email accounts or you get paid. http://www.cashette.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Connecting to net with Debian 3.0
I have a Toshiba Satelliite A30 laptop with a 40 Gig drive, half of which is given to Debian. I have used pppconfig to set up for connecting to the net as via "provider". After entering pon he plog listing says that the connect script failed but does not say where. Is there a way I can find where the script failed? Thanks for any help. Shane To reply, please remove NOSPAM from the Reply-To address (becomes the To address when sending. __ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Slow signal delivery to server process with heavy I/O
Hi All, I've noticed that asynchronous signals such as SIGINT, SIGTERM etc are delivered to my process long after the signal is sent if the receiving process is handling lots of I/O. My process is a multi-threaded web server. It's got one thread waiting on 'select' to accept incoming connections and a thread pool which reads the data with 'recv'. When I batter the web server with incoming traffic and I try to shutdown the server by sending a SIGINT or SIGTERM, I have observed that the web server finishes handling the incoming traffic before the kernel dispatches the signal to the process. It appears that the 'select' and 'recv' calls are getting highest priority with regard to scheduling. I realize this test may appear unnatural and is perhaps unrealistic, but I would like to be able to shutdown my server gracefully within a reasonable amount of time, no matter what kind of load it is handling. Don't want to have to wait several minutes for my signals to get handled under heavy load. Could someone please explain why signal delivery is slow under these conditions? Thanks in advance, Dallas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktikxnktekiri-bbdky6lvl8upw3ejkcw7kmzh...@mail.gmail.com
Debian and Win XP
I have a Toshiba Satellite A30 with Win XP installed. How do I resize the ntfs file system since fips will not work on it and the only ntfsresize I can find is set to run under Linux. Given that I need to know how to make a bootable Linux cdrom with ntfsresize on it. Some bright apple decised that my computer did not require a floppy drive so I have a 40 gig HD and a ups connector. I am about ready to say to hell with the dual boot and give it all to Debian but I don't know how it would handle the large disk size. Ain't life grand? = To reply, please remove NOSPAM from the Reply-To address (becomes the To address when sending. __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
php and suexec on debian
Hi, I'm trying tu use php in cgi mode with suexec. I had no problem with this setup previously, as I used to compile apache myself, so I could specify whichever path I want for docroot and userdir. I used to specify --suexec-userdir=cgi-bin, and to put a php binary in a $HOME/cgi-bin directory for each user, and each virtualhost had the following configuration: user foo group foo DocumentRoot /www Servername blabla errorlog blabla customlog blabla combined AddType application/my-x-httpd-php .php Action application/my-x-httpd-php /cgi-php/php ScriptAlias /cgi-php /cgi-bin I took a quick look on the debian/rule file of the apache source package, and saw that userdir was "public-html". docroot was /var/www, but as I intended to use the userdir, I did not bother. So, I replaced cgi-bin by public_html, but the suexec log keeps telling me that php is outside the docroot. But when I use the userdir, I don't rely upon the docroot, Or do I ? I Also tried to specify a directory inside the docroot (say, /var/www/foo_cgi-bin), but the I have no error with suexec, but php return a parse error on the binary (!). I'd really appreciate if someone with a little experience with suexec on debian could tell me what I messed up. Best regards, PS: Sorry for debian-user-french readers who might have seen this mail in french before... ;) -- Clément Hermann |--| Administrateur systèmes et réseaux | +33 (0)4-76-44-50-50 | Business & Decision.Eolas | http://www.eolas.fr | |--| -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: php and suexec on debian
Yves Goergen wrote: maybe this doesn't help you with suexec, but i don't use php+suexec anymore. i switched to suphp (www.suphp.org), which runs as apache module (apache 1 only) and runs the php binary with a configurable uid/gid and php config file. that works fine, is easy to set up and does its job :) well, why not, but if I have to compile apache, I'd rather stick with suexec, which works fine for me when I configure it my way... but thanx anyway, maybe I'll give it a try, (when I'll see a greater version number on the homepage ;) ) -- Clément Hermann |--| Administrateur systèmes et réseaux | +33 (0)4-76-44-50-50 | Business & Decision.Eolas | http://www.eolas.fr | |--| -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I log onto anonymous ftp ?
David selby wrote: Hello I have logged onto ftps before, but never an anonymous one. I need to log into ftp://archive.progeny.com/ I can view the files with mozilla, no passwords needed. I will be using wget, but initially I want to loggon with ncftp, which I have used before. I have tried [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ncftp -u anonymous ftp://www.progeny.com NcFTP 3.1.3 (Mar 27, 2002) by Mike Gleason ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Could not connect to 216.37.46.132 -- try again later: Connection timed out. Could not connect to 216.37.46.132 -- try again later: Connection timed out. Could not connect to 216.37.46.132 -- try again later: Connection timed out. Could not connect to 216.37.46.132 -- try again later: Connection timed out. Redialing (try 4)... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ncftp without any option will get you into any anonymous ftp server... (as stated in the manpage, IIRC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] nodens]$ ncftp archive.progeny.com NcFTP 3.1.1 (Dec 23, 2001) by Mike Gleason ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Connecting to 216.37.55.114... archive.progeny.com FTP server ready. Logging in... *** Welcome to Progeny's free software archive. http://www.progeny.com/ This archive is available via FTP, HTTP, and RSYNC at: ftp://archive.progeny.com/ http://archive.progeny.com/ (supports WebDAV) rsync://archive.progeny.com/ Report problems to [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** 100 Mb/s hosting provided by One Call Internet. *** http://www.onecall.net/ Guest login ok, access restrictions apply. Logged in to archive.progeny.com. ncftp / > -- Clément Hermann |--| Administrateur systèmes et réseaux | +33 (0)4-76-44-50-50 | Business & Decision.Eolas | http://www.eolas.fr | |--| -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems with package dependencies.
Good Morning All, I've got Debian 3.0 / unstable installed on my laptop and I'm having some difficulties with installing a package I need. I use Python 2.2 for a lot of small app development and a GUI toolkit for Python called wxPython (which requires Python 2.2). Python 2.1 was installed by default. I then installed Python 2.2 as well and it's at the latest version. --- mica root # apt-get install python2.2 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Sorry, python2.2 is already the newest version. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded. --- So now I want to install wxPython which is in the package libwxgtk2.3-python. So I try apt-get install libwx and it fails saying that I only have python 2.1.. instead of python 2.2. Which is true. Kind of. There is a meta package called "python" that installs the symlinks to the Python interpreter (2.1) is /usr/bin and that package is what wxPython is looking at for the version number. See below.. --- mica root # apt-get install libwxgtk2.3-python Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against that package should be filed. The following information may help to resolve the situation: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: libwxgtk2.3-python: Depends: python (>= 2.2) but 2.1.3-4 is to be installed E: Sorry, broken packages --- I've tried removing / upgrading the "python" package it's a dependency for half my system (KDE, and a lot of other stuff) so I can't really remove it. How can I convince the libwxgtk to install properly? Thanks, Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
