Re: Re: Jessie in VirtualBox: Terminal dies
> What kind of terminal? gnome-terminal, xterm, something else ? Do all > terminal applications have a problem? I suppose it's gnome, since gdm3 and gnome-session is running. I have a screenshot here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/j9ofistsyw7pygp/terminal.png?dl=0 I searched for "*term*", and "terminal" seems to be the only installed terminal application. > Does any other application open successfully? Examples? I tried other applications like file manager, iceweasel, libreoffice writer - they work fine. Regards, Dietmar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/trinity-20e1d647-ae9c-4b8c-83a4-8b3d7e4c8943-1430363609691@3capp-webde-bs46
Re: Re: Jessie in VirtualBox: Terminal dies
> Wrong package, you need > $ apt install linux-headers-$(uname -r) > > Btw, dkms recommends that package. > You really should install Recommends, most of the time, they have been > added for a good reason. Hm, I usually do install Recommends... In this case, linux-headers-3.16.0-4-686-pae was already installed, whereas linux-headers-3.16.0-4-586 (due to uname -r, as you mentioned) was missing. Ok, this worked now, thanks a lot! Unfortunately, the main problem (terminal dies) still exists :( I could live with that for now, but sadly, as being new to Jessie and especially systemd, there also seems to be something changed that causes my sshd closing remote connections after half a minute or so. I just see a "connection closed" in auth.log, so it does not seem to be a network or firewall problem for me. I tried with options like TCPKeepAlive, ClientAlive*..., but did not succeed. That's annoying... :/ perhaps I would better use Wheezy for some time again? ;) Dietmar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/trinity-a5b821e7-5738-45d3-b448-e04d1e2340c6-1430279992749@3capp-webde-bs01
Re: Re: Jessie in VirtualBox: Terminal dies
> $ dpkg-reconfigure virtualbox-dkms (for the host) > or > $ dpkg-reconfigure virtualbox-guest-dkms (for the guest) > should fix the problme. Module build fails, because "kernel source seems not to be installed". I have installed linux-source and linux-source-3.16, what am I missing? TIA, Dietmar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/trinity-fb9a60b7-1be8-4425-86df-5de9a1c6fe9f-1430277868520@3capp-webde-bs01
Re: Re: Jessie in VirtualBox: Terminal dies
Digging a bit deeper, I found the following errors during startup: [FAILED] Failed to start LSB: VirtualBox Linux Kernel Module. root@debian:/home/xxx# /etc/init.d/virtualbox start Starting virtualbox (via systemctl): virtualbox.serviceJob for virtualbox.service failed. See 'systemctl status virtualbox.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details. failed! root@debian:/home/xxx# systemctl status virtualbox.service * virtualbox.service - LSB: VirtualBox Linux kernel module Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/virtualbox) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2015-04-29 02:24:55 CEST; 6s ago Process: 1284 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/virtualbox start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Apr 29 02:24:55 debian virtualbox[1284]: Starting VirtualBox kernel modulesNo suitable module for running kernel found ... failed! Apr 29 02:24:55 debian virtualbox[1284]: failed! Apr 29 02:24:55 debian systemd[1]: virtualbox.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1 Apr 29 02:24:55 debian systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: VirtualBox Linux kernel module. Apr 29 02:24:55 debian systemd[1]: Unit virtualbox.service entered failed state. root@debian:/home/xxx# journalctl -xn -- Logs begin at Wed 2015-04-29 02:18:33 CEST, end at Wed 2015-04-29 02:24:55 CEST. -- Apr 29 02:24:47 debian systemd[1261]: Reached target Default. -- Subject: Unit UNIT has finished start-up -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel -- -- Unit UNIT has finished starting up. -- -- The start-up result is done. Apr 29 02:24:47 debian systemd[1261]: Startup finished in 123ms. -- Subject: System start-up is now complete -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel -- -- All system services necessary queued for starting at boot have been -- successfully started. Note that this does not mean that the machine is -- now idle as services might still be busy with completing start-up. -- -- Kernel start-up required KERNEL_USEC microseconds. -- -- Initial RAM disk start-up required INITRD_USEC microseconds. -- -- Userspace start-up required 123746 microseconds. Apr 29 02:24:51 debian su[1274]: Successful su for root by xxx Apr 29 02:24:51 debian su[1274]: + /dev/pts/0 xxx:root Apr 29 02:24:51 debian su[1274]: pam_unix(su:session): session opened for user root by xxx(uid=1000) Apr 29 02:24:55 debian virtualbox[1284]: Starting VirtualBox kernel modulesNo suitable module for running kernel found ... failed! Apr 29 02:24:55 debian virtualbox[1284]: failed! Apr 29 02:24:55 debian systemd[1]: virtualbox.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1 Apr 29 02:24:55 debian systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: VirtualBox Linux kernel module. -- Subject: Unit virtualbox.service has failed -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel -- -- Unit virtualbox.service has failed. -- -- The result is failed. Apr 29 02:24:55 debian systemd[1]: Unit virtualbox.service entered failed state. (btw, the "INITRD_USEC microseconds" or "KERNEL_USEC microseconds" seem to be buggy output...) Does anyone have an idea about this? Dietmar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/trinity-5c59d31c-242e-4f33-a5ef-6cb64ec6243c-1430267636813@3capp-webde-bs01
Re: Re: Jessie in VirtualBox: Terminal dies
> have you tried installing guest-additions for that vbox version? Yes, but that did not help. Dietmar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/trinity-3739c215-26ce-4648-af72-98d58aed3b11-1430195782536@3capp-webde-bs29
Jessie in VirtualBox: Terminal dies
Hi, I just installed Jessie in a Virtualbox environment (running on Win7 64Bit) without any problems. The installed system starts up fine. But when I try to open a terminal in the window manager, the icon and a "waiting cursor" appears for some seconds, then they close. Seems that the terminal died... I tried with several configurations (GNOME, KDE), but no success... Any ideas? Thx, Dietmar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/trinity-f521d4ce-cbd4-4c50-91d2-3410ebe39e13-1430193490233@3capp-webde-bs29
Re: UUCP+sendmail
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 07:18:49PM +0400, Alexey wrote: > > rcbmail is an existing program/script? uuxqt won't execute this, if > > you don't allow it to do so. > > I tried to find file *rcbmail*, but it does not exist at all. :( Could those be compressed smtp batches? bsmtpd ist the package for sendmail to handle those batches. You might take a look at this. BTW, is there a reason to use sendmail? If you would use exim, I might help you a bit more ;) If in doubt, ask your provider what rcbmail exactly is... I'm just wild guessing. -- Bye, Dietmar
Re: UUCP+sendmail
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 12:26:28AM +0400, Alexey wrote: > Hello all, > > I need to connect to UUCP mail service provider. Taylor UUCP Log file: > > ... > uucico dnttm - (2001-07-15 01:47:21.47 520) Login successful > uucico dnttm - (2001-07-15 01:47:22.26 520) Handshake successful (protocol > 'g' sending packet/window 256/4 receiving 64/7) > uucico dnttm mail (2001-07-15 01:47:22.70 520) Receiving rcbmail (38527 bytes) > uucico dnttm uunikaa (2001-07-15 01:47:37.77 520) Receiving rcbmail (13112 > bytes) > uucico dnttm - (2001-07-15 01:47:43.03 520) Protocol 'g' packets: sent 7, > resent 0, received 209 > uucico dnttm - (2001-07-15 01:47:43.03 520) Errors: header 1, checksum 3, > order 3, remote rejects 0 > uucico dnttm - (2001-07-15 01:47:43.22 520) Call complete (23 seconds 51639 > bytes 2245 bps) > uuxqt dnttm mail (2001-07-15 01:47:51.34 525) ERROR: Not permitted to execute > rcbmail > uuxqt dnttm mail (2001-07-15 01:48:51.40 525) ERROR: /usr/sbin/sendmail -oi > -t: Exit status 70 > uuxqt dnttm uunikaa (2001-07-15 01:49:51.45 525) ERROR: Not permitted to > execute rcbmail > uuxqt dnttm uunikaa (2001-07-15 01:50:51.52 525) ERROR: /usr/sbin/sendmail > -oi -t: Exit status 70 > ... I don't use Sendmail, sorry. But for this ERROR: message... rcbmail is an existing program/script? uuxqt won't execute this, if you don't allow it to do so. You might add in /etc/uucp/sys for system dnttm: commands rmail rnews rcbmail command-path /usr/sbin /usr/bin /usr/local/sbin Or something else to find rcbmail in the path. -- Bye, Dietmar
Re: Ripping MP3s
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 06:34:23AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Can anyone recommend any package for creating mp3s from CDs (yes, I do own > them :) under Debian? I tried searching the package list but there was > nothing obvious, only players it seemed. Take a look at package abcde (ABetterCDEncoder), which is a script that uses cdparanoia, cddb and lame or other programs you configure. Insert CD, run abcde and finaly you got ready named mp3s. You can configure this script to fit your needs. -- Bye, Dietmar
Re: debian and ISDN
On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 01:12:48AM +0200, Gabriel Verhooghe wrote: > I looked at the /var/log/isdn/isdnlog file. I found > some strange calling attempts in the Netherlands > Jun 14 22:54:06 tei 120 calling +31 /191011, Netherlands with +31 > 54663/69936, Geesteren Ov Time:Thu Jun 14 20:50:00 2001 You want to change /etc/isdn/isdn.conf: [...] # Change this to reflect your city COUNTRYCODE=49 # Germany AREACODE=5341 # Salzgitter [...] -- Bye, Dietmar
Re: Some mouse clicks don't work, some do
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 11:25:04PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > I am running woody, with gnome, X 4.0, and sawfish. sawfish (and > gnome-sawfish) are leftovers from Ximian, but it is mostly a straight > Debian system. Wait till sawfish is pouring into woody and get rid of anything from Ximian, that's what helped me to get gnome working mostly right in sid. This Ximian plus newer debian packages don't seem to work right. -- Bye, Dietmar
Re: mirroring just binary-i386 files
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 12:24:22AM -0400, Daniel Barclay wrote: > I'm currently using mirror, but run into a series of problems: I don't, so here are my mirror config: package=Debian # comment=Mirroring parts of ftp.debian.org:/debian # site=ftp.de.debian.org remote_dir=/debian local_dir=/home/ftp/debian # remote_user=ftp [EMAIL PROTECTED] # exclude_patt=(Packages-Master|Contents|binary|disks|upgrade)-(alpha|m68k|sparc|arm|hurd-i386|powerpc|mips|mipsel|sparc64|hppa|sh|s390|ia64)($|/|\.gz$) exclude_patt+|_(alpha|m68k|sparc|arm|hurd-i386|powerpc|mips|mipsel|sparc64|hppa|sh|s390|ia64)\. exclude_patt+|source(/|$) exclude_patt+|^ls-lR|Packages-all-nomsdosnames\.gz$|\.orig\.tar\.gz$|\.diff\.gz$|\.dsc$||pool.*\.tar\.gz$ exclude_patt+|Packages$|^indices/md5sums$|^indices/Maintainers$ exclude_patt+|indices/msdos-name|dsync\.list$|^Archive exclude_patt+|indices/md5sums\.gz$ # max_delete_files=50% max_delete_dirs=50% save_deletes=true save_dir=/home/ftp/pub/Old # ls_lR_file=ls-lR.gz # update_log=ftp.debian.org.log local_dir_check=true use_files=false You might want to change some settings but basicly it works fine. > Does rsync give better control over link expansion than mirror? The absurd_debmirror script works fine, too. Just try... > Does some form of apt support permanently mirroring a distribution? > (Permanently as opposed to whichever cache it is that apt asks if > you want to purge?) Take a look at apt-move and apt-proxy -- Bye, Dietmar
Re: Debian Double Dutch Gnome?
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 11:18:07PM +0200, Mart van de Wege wrote: > As my flatmate prefers Gnome over KDE (as do I) this is really bothersome. What am I doing wrong, or is there some bug in localization, and if the latter, how can I help? Work-around that did it for me: edit ~/.gnome/gdm, change the line with lang=??? to lang=nl_NL\n Hope, it works. de_DE does... Same thing in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf, DefaultLocale=de_DE -- Bye, Dietmar
Re: [OT]Can someone help me understand these mail headers?
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 11:28:08PM -0500, Jonathan Lupa wrote: > JJL-> Notice this here... This is actually what was wigging me out. > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sender: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Is this just some random happenstance that they set the From: header > for the dns server for my ISP? Or is it an indication of a problem > with configuration on my ISPs end? The From:-part didn't have a domain part, I guess. Your ISP adds its domain name to make it a FQDN. Those spam was From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> here. -- Bye, Dietmar
Re: kernel 2.4.1 and shm in potato
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 06:18:42PM +0100, Alexis Roda wrote: > some day ago I upgraded mi potato box to kernel 2.4.1. All works fine, > but when I run free it shows 0Kb under shared memory: It's a very-FAQ. Due changes in VM the value will be to expensive to calculate. The value will be zero so usermode progs that relay on this don't break. > Kernel has support for System V IPC compiled in and I have mounted > /dev/shm from fstab. What I'm doing wrong? I'm running plain potato r2 > with modutils upgraded. Nothing wrong. Memory will still be shared but won't shown as. -- Bye, Dietmar
Re: Auto load of modules?
On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 05:29:54AM -0700, Yobb wrote: > The actual module that I want load when /dev/scd0 is mounted is > advansys.o. Is this possible? Do I have to modify /etc/modules.conf to > make this work? /etc/modules.conf is generated from files in /etc/modutils, so make any changes related to modules.conf there and run update-modules. I had made a file named /etc/modutils/scsi which contains: pre-install sg /sbin/modprobe -k sym53c8xx pre-install sr_mod /sbin/modprobe -k sym53c8xx pre-install st /sbin/modprobe -k sym53c8xx ...which are for scanner, cd-rw and streamer. Replace sym53c8xx with advansys and it should work fine. Might be you would need the first line - the scsi-generic-module - if you grab cd-audio. You defently don't need the last line if you haven't a scsi streamer connectet to your advansys host adapter. -- Bye, Dietmar
Re: Any experience with new NVIDIA drivers?
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 01:50:50AM -0600, Dr. Aldo Medina wrote: [...] > (--) NVIDIA(0): Chipset: "RIVA TNT" > (**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32 > (==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888 > (==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor [...] > (--) NVIDIA(0): Virtual size is 1600x1200 (pitch 1600) > (**) NVIDIA(0): Default mode "1600x1200": 202.5 MHz, 93.8 kHz, 75.0 Hz > (**) NVIDIA(0): Default mode "1280x1024": 157.5 MHz, 91.1 kHz, 85.0 Hz > (**) NVIDIA(0): Default mode "1024x768": 94.5 MHz, 68.7 kHz, 85.0 Hz > (**) NVIDIA(0): Default mode "800x600": 56.3 MHz, 53.7 kHz, 85.1 Hz > (**) NVIDIA(0): Default mode "640x400": 31.5 MHz, 37.9 kHz, 85.1 Hz > (II) NVIDIA(0): Applying EDID constraints on remaining valid modes. > (II) NVIDIA(0): Virtual Screen size determined to be 1600 x 1200 > (++) NVIDIA(0): DPI set to (100, 100) [...] I remember, my brother has a Diamond card based on Riva-TNT chip. He also uses a resloution of 1600x1200 at 32bpp, he don't use 3D things, not even GL-screensavers. But I had tried that and it was painfully slow. Switching back to 1024x786 and 16bpp and speed was fine. I thought 3D on this high resolution and colour depth was to much to handle for this card. Btw, the screensavers running in a small window were fine, tuxracer in a window of 640x480 was playable, too. About 16-20 fps, iirc. The larger the tuxracer window was, the poorer the speed was. Me, having a Geforce2, don't see such problems. Unless I turn full screen antialiasing on... -- Bye, Dietmar
Re: Any experience with new NVIDIA drivers?
On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 08:01:20PM -0600, Dr. Aldo Medina wrote: > I'm using a Gigabyte 6XOM7E-1 Mobo with a Creative Labs Graphics Blaster > Riva TNT. Debian 2.2r2 testing. I just installed the nvidia 0.9-6 from XFree86 >=4.01 is required. Has it made it in testing? Otherwise you have to update. [...] > libGLU.so, so I deleted the libMesaGLU symlink. No success. Any ideas? There is a good mini-HowTo about installing the nvidia driver, look at www.linuxdoc.org Some things you didn't write about: Does the kernel module NVdriver load porperly? (insmod NVdriver) Have you changed Driver from "nv" to "nvidia" in section Device in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4? In Section Module is Load "glx" enabled? -- Bye, Dietmar
Re: About Diammond Homefree wireless
On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 07:04:26PM -0600, Dr. Aldo Medina wrote: > I'm planning to buy one of this equipments for my two computers at home. > I know there is some driver that let's you use them as tty. However, I > was wondering if anybody has any experience with this equipment, and if > it would be possible to use some kind of program that would let me > translate this "tty" for something like PPP or IPX, so I could make a > little network. TIA. It's a evil hack and crappy hardware. A friend had tried this cards and was very unhapy with them. Shurely they are cheap and they may work somehow, but the headache isn't worth the money you'd save. -- Bye, Dietmar
Re: mailservers
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 10:39:58PM +0100, ebirn wrote: > Because of being quite new to server administration, I'd like to get some > advise/personal opinions of mailservers (pop, imap and smtp). I don't want > to use sendmail because its so unsecure and difficult to configure! I've got things done with sendmail. Using exim, I get everything done *and* I know, what I do. Sendmail still is a big strange thing to me. Smail is a quick-and-easy thing for UUCP-only sites. Quite a lot people are happy using qmail, but I prefer exim, because it's easy to configure and to understand. Exim is a MTA, it handles only smtp. You need other deamons to do the pop and imap stuff (Package imap, ipod, or others...). To get mail via pop3 or smtp to your server, you could use fetchmail. -- Bye, Dietmar
Re: my maxed out memory - still ok?
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 06:33:49PM -0600, Casey Webster wrote: > any time you are lookin at memory usage, you need to subtract out the > totals for buff and cache. Right now your system is only using roughly [...] If you use free instead ot top, it shows you (or me): oskar:~$ free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:128372 99580 28792 72096 2720 36008 -/+ buffers/cache: 60852 67520 <--+ Swap: 192772 1540 191232 | / the values you want to see. Would be more impressive if I had more memory. -- Bye, Dietmar
Re: SCSI challenge
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 05:50:35PM -0800, David S. Bach wrote: > What I cannot do yet is get Debian 2.2r2 to speak with my Advansys > SCSI card. Tied to it are a couple of gigabytes of storage I would be Which boot-floppy flavour did you use? Vanilla-boot-floppies have advansys support included, there sould be some messages while kernel boots. Compact seems to support it, too. Idepci doesn't, Udma66 has it built as a module, so "modprobe advansys" should do something sensible. Might be, changeing to the right kernel helps, if you use the idepci one. If it is udma66, add the line "advansys" to /etc/modules. If this doesn't help much, say which card it is exactly you have and/or look at the following addresses. > What are my options to access the SCSI storage through the Advansys > card? Advansys claims to actively support Linux, but offers modules > only for Red Hat and Suse, which I can download - but, hey!, what do > I do with them? Get the source and build your own kernel - if the card is not supported by the actual kernel, but is with the latest driver. > I almost always solve my Linux problems (I have two other vanilla PCs > running Linux as a gateway and a Web server) with man pages and > HOWTOs. But this has me stumped. Can anyone out there direct me to > the right resource? Snipped from kernel 2.2.18 source: /* * advansys.h - Linux Host Driver for AdvanSys SCSI Adapters * * Copyright (c) 1995-2000 Advanced System Products, Inc. * Copyright (c) 2000 ConnectCom Solutions, Inc. * All Rights Reserved. * * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without * modification, are permitted provided that redistributions of source * code retain the above copyright notice and this comment without * modification. * * As of March 8, 2000 Advanced System Products, Inc. (AdvanSys) * changed its name to name to ConnectCom Solutions, Inc. * * There is an AdvanSys Linux WWW page at: * http://www.connectcom.net/downloads/software/os/linux.html * http://www.advansys.com/linux.html * * The latest released version of the AdvanSys driver is available at: * ftp://ftp.advansys.com/pub/linux/linux.tgz * ftp://ftp.connectcom.net/pub/linux/linux.tgz * * Please send questions, comments, bug reports to: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] */ -- Bye, Dietmar
Re: kernel: scsi conflict
On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 11:46:05AM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > But when starting LILO and adding: > linux aha152x=0x340,11 > everything works fine. > > The problem is, I can not use LILO, because the image is supposed to work > on a diskless workstation. When you load this image via tftp as NetBootImage use option -a STRING with mknbi-linux. If using etherboot (http://etherboot.sourceforge.net) you could give options to the kernel by setting an option-entry in your dhcpd.conf. Using a boot-floppy with a kernel and lilo on it would work, too. But then this worstation is no longer diskless... -- Bye, Dietmar
Re: Need help with software RAID
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 07:32:45PM -0600, Patrick wrote: > Hi, > > I would really like to use stable potato, 2.2.17, but I can't > get software raid working under debian for the life of me... > > I originally created the raid devices a year or so ago, on redhat 6.?, > which > used their custom kernel 2.2.5-15, and can use them fine if i boot into > redhat or > debian using that kernel. > > > I compiled a couple of new kernels, 2.2.17, 2.2.18, and make sure raid > is enabled > but I get the same errors... > The standard 2.2 kernel don't include the new software RAID. You have to use a patch from ftp://ftp.de.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mingo/raid-patches/ Ciao Dietmar -- Alles Gute / best wishes Dietmar GoldbeckE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reporter (to Mahatma Gandhi): Mr Gandhi, what do you think of Western Civilization? Gandhi: I think it would be a good idea.
Re: Another Question Re: diskless debian
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 07:26:38AM -0500, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > I'm trying to boot from a LILO based floppy with root=/dev/nfsroot > (the pseodo device 0,255 named in the docs, tried it as both a block > and char device), and the kernel fails on trying to mount the rootfs > with a device failure. I'm happy with Etherboot (http://etherboot.sourceforge.net/), which you can use to create a ROM-Image loaded via BootROM, bootdisk or LiLo. The image receives the kernel as NetBootImage using tftp or nfs. Configure the netbootimage to use the values from boot-rom. > I enabled kernel level auto config, and all the NFS stuff I could find > in the kernel build (serveral iterations using xconfig, menuconfig, > config and finally hand hacking the .config file) couldn't find the > NFS_ROOT option anywhere, and I'm loath to just add it to the .config, > not knowing if it's supported in 2.2.17 If you enable 'IP: kernel-level configuration support' and its options *and* NFS filesystem support (not as a module!) 'Root file system on NFS (NEW)' will appear under NFS support. Shurely, your network interface must not be a module. -- Bye, Dietmar
Re: "Choppy" sound - Woody, 2.4.0-test11 kernel, xmms & esd
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 12:20:31PM +, Matthew Exley wrote: > 1) Under kernel 2.2.18pre21, XMMS can play using the eSound plugin (i.e. > via esd) quite happily. > 2) Under kernel 2.4.0-test11, XMMS->eSound still works, but the sound is > "choppy" - broken up into audible chunks. No amount of tweaking the > My question is therefore: Can anyone else reproduce this, and can > anyone *fix* this? (tweaks to esound / XMMS settings perhaps?) I'm using a SB 128 PCI. The broken sound from esd was introduced by 2.4.0-test10 and fixed in test12. So upgrade or downgrade :) -- Bye, Dietmar
Re: please help test debian frozen
Joey Hess wrote: > [ This is not an official announcement of the Debian project, just a > Debian developer speaking up with his personal opinion. ] > > Debian is now well into its second test cycle for the "potato" (2.2) > release of Debian. Now is an excellent time to help us test the > distribution. Frozen is quite stable now; we are only making small > changes to it every 2 weeks or so, mainly security fixes. As such, it is > now almost as stable as stable. > > And of course, it is much more up-to-date, with many enhancements, > additions, and bugfixes. At this point, in my opinion, there is no reason > to use Debian stable except for absolutely mission critical applications. > For exerything else, frozen is a great choice. (Put stable on your mars > lander; use frozen in mission control ;-). > > So I'm writing to encourage people to upgrade to frozen, and if you can, > do new installs with frozen. Every report we receive of another clean > upgrade/install makes us that much more likely to release soon. So if > you upgrade or install frozen, post a report to the mailing list > . Describe how you upgraded or installed. > If everything went perfectly, say so; If there were some problems, do your > best to describe them, and any relevant information about your system. > > Release notes for potato are here: > http://www.debian.org/releases/potato/ > > For fresh installs, an install guide is here: > http://www.debian.org/releases/potato/i386/install > > For upgrades: > http://www.debian.org/releases/potato/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html > > CD images are here: > http://cdimage.debian.org/potato_pre.html > > Thanks! > > -- > see shy jo > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null Yes, but where should we report our experiences. 2 weeks ago I installed potato on my box from scratch: I the boot images and the base system through ftp and continued with apt-get. As far as I remember there were only one severe problem. The loopback-device was not configured from start. So it took me some time to figure out why half of my net-related software would not work and where net-devices are generally configured in potato. For the rest potato is great. mfg, Dietmar
Re: udma33 with an udma66HD
Tom Pfeifer wrote: > Yes you can. This page on Maxtor's web site explains things: > > http://www.maxtor.com/technology/q&a/30026.html > > Tom > > Dietmar wrote: > > > > Does anybody know whether it's possible to run a udma66 HD (Maxtor 20GB) > > in any dma-mode with a MB that only supports udma33? > > > > Thanks for advice, > > > > Dietmar > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null Thanks, it finally worked after I applied a patch to the kernel which I got via LHD (Linux Hardware Database - lhd.datapower.com) Cheers, Dietmar
udma33 with an udma66HD
Does anybody know whether it's possible to run a udma66 HD (Maxtor 20GB) in any dma-mode with a MB that only supports udma33? Thanks for advice, Dietmar
mp3-encoder
Is there no mp3-encoder in Debian ? dietmar
Re: how do I find which deb pakage contains man command?
> Geengun Guim wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > How can I find which deb pakage contains man command? > > > > okebary:~/okebary-sys-conf# man securetty > > bash: man: command not found > > > > I'd like to know about login as root. So I ran man securetty. But > > command not found. So I'd like to install man. But I cannot find which > > deb pakage has the man command. Also I can, do the below. > > just go to www.debian.org, select "Debian Packages" and search for "man". Dietmar
Re: esound (woody) broken?
Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > :: On Sat, 10 Jun 2000 18:04:17 +0200, Dietmar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > As already postet twice, I have problems with sound after installing > > potato. I'm > > using just the same sound card. (Creative PCI 128-Ensoniq 1371) Whenever I > > use gnome > > or sawfish with sound-support everything on my X-server freezes while I > > play mp3s. > > I still didn't found any solution > > Oh, well... I can play mp3s here. What are you using to play them? In > xmms, try chosing the OSS driver instead of esound. > > The only thing that's not working here is esound. > > BTW, I'm running woody. > > J. I'm using xmms and it doesn't change anything whether I choose the OSS-driver or esound. In fact I figured out that gnome is not responsible for it in a special way, because similar things happen when I use fvwm95 without gnome. Whenever I'm running a sound-device consuming program and I try to start a second one, the second one will freeze as long as the sound device (/dev/dsp) is given free by the first one. (e.g. I run an mp3-player and try to start xblast: the introductory tcl/tk-script of xblast is running fine, but after pressing "Start XBlast" nothing happens until the mp3-player finishes playing) Under gnome this has the effect that everything freezes. As I don't think that such a behaviour is intended I'd be glad to get any advice how to repair this. Cheers, Dietmar
Re: esound (woody) broken?
Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > Hi. > > Did anyone have problems with esound in woody? > > I just installed a Creative Ensoniq PCI sound card, and it works well, > except that when I try to use esound. It plays one second, and then > repeats that over and over (until I kill esd)... I saw no bug filed > against esound, and nothing in the docs, so I thought I could be doing > something wrong. > > I also tried to install alsa, but dselect refuses to do that without > removing a lot of other packages (even when I included libes-alsa). I > also tried to force it (with Q), but it still wanted to remove the > packages when I'd install... Strange. > > So... Did anyone else have this problem? As already postet twice, I have problems with sound after installing potato. I'm using just the same sound card. (Creative PCI 128-Ensoniq 1371) Whenever I use gnome or sawfish with sound-support everything on my X-server freezes while I play mp3s. I still didn't found any solution Cheers, Dietmar
Re: Debian Potato and Helix Gnome
Nobody ever had trouble with conflicting sound support of sawfish and gnome-audio in case one runs xmms? Dietmar
sound problems
After installing helix-gnome onto potato I realized that everything freezes whenever I play mp3s. After deactivating soundeffects for sawfish(probably using libesd) that did not happen any more. Until now, I didn't try gnome-audio.deb. Anybody had that problem before? What could it be?
Re: Mouse troubles
Steve wrote: > Need a little advice. I just loaded potato on my machine. I'm using a ps2 > style mouse with the psaux device. I also have gpm loaded and the mouse > works fine with it. The trouble come when I load the GUI (gnome at this > point). All the settings in XF86Config are the same as I've had before > /dev/psaux and ps2(with RedHat and SuSE). Potato was a clean install, so > there are no remnants left behind from an upgrade. Any ideas where I can > look for a fix? > > Thanks. > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null When I recently installed potato (first gpm, then X) I saw that my mouse-device is set to /dev/gpmdata with Microsoft protocol. This works fine although I have a PS2 mouse, whereas /dev/psaux and PS2-protocol don't work. Dietmar
Re: neighbour table overflow
Alec Smith wrote: > It should be in /etc/network/interfaces See the attached file for an > example. > > On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Dietmar wrote: > > > I recently install potato on my new box and finally realized that the > > kernel issued "neighbour table overflow". I figered out that this was > > because my internet loopback device was not activated though part of the > > kernel. ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 fixes everything. > > I finally want to know where this (or whatever activates loopback) needs > > to be placed in the course of the debian boot files. > > > > Any advice would be fine, Dietmar > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > > > # /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8) > > # The loopback interface > iface lo inet loopback > > # The first network card - this entry was created during the Debian > installation > # (network, broadcast and gateway are optional) > iface eth0 inet static > address 130.108.229.38 > netmask 255.255.255.0 > network 130.108.229.0 > broadcast 130.108.229.255 > gateway 130.108.229.1 Just before I insert this into my /etc/network (this file doesn't exist on my box) - Could you ckeck which package installed /etc/network/interfaces on yours?
neighbour table overflow
I recently install potato on my new box and finally realized that the kernel issued "neighbour table overflow". I figered out that this was because my internet loopback device was not activated though part of the kernel. ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 fixes everything. I finally want to know where this (or whatever activates loopback) needs to be placed in the course of the debian boot files. Any advice would be fine, Dietmar
Re: Need help with cdrecord
On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 09:30:48AM -0800, Hausheer, Geoffrey wrote: > I am having trouble with cdrecord on my laptop. I installed 2.3.99-pre3 > (needed to get my USB CDRW to work), and got the drive working okay (an read > from it). When I try to record to it, however, I get: > > shmget: shm filesystem not mounted > cdrecord: Invalid argument. shmget failed Yes. So let's mount the shm filesystem. Help might be found by selecting help on CONFIG_SYSVIPC in the kernel config. CONFIG_SYSVPCI must be es. root:~# mkdir /var/shm and add a line to /etc/fstab: root:~# echo >>/etc/fstab "none /var/shm shm defaults 0 0" -- Bye, Dietmar
Re: OpenSSH causes my system to dial out
On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 09:24:03PM +0100, Andreas Voegele wrote: > If I'm trying to connect to another local machine with ssh, my system > goes online since ssh fails to locally resolve the address of the > other machine for some reason. > > Does someone else have this problem? Yes, me. If isdnctrl dialmode ippp0 manual, it takes quite a while to connect to the other box when I call ssh . ssh works without delay. If dialmode is auto, ssh causes a dialout. I hadn't time to watch closer to this, unfortunaly. > The address of the other machine is in /etc/hosts and it can also be > resolved by the local DNS without problems. /etc/nsswitch.conf > contains the line "hosts: files dns". Reverse DNS lookups do work. > > I can use other services like ping and telnet without the described > problem. Same here. -- Bye, Dietmar
second X
Hi, I would like to run a second X and indeed I succeded by using xinit -- :1 but only as root. As soon as I use the same command as normal user the system tells me that I am not authorized to run the Xserver. As the same command run well on other linux distributions I wonder how I can change this. Thanks Dietmar PS: 'sudo' is not a real solution, because I will use licenced software and this is looking for the user id but not for root.
Re: XF86-3.3.6 hoses fonts?
On Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 08:53:40PM -0700, Robert L. Harris wrote: > Since I upgraded to XF86-3.3.6 when I did a dist-upgrade to "frozen" > my fonts in X have been trashed. I get what looks like pipes and > screwed up pixels. Help? If you have installed 100 dpi fonts and you dont like them, remove them. 3.3.6 has a changed fontpath, now similar to xfs which prefers the 100 dpi fonts if installed. -- Bye, Dietmar
Re: ISDN SyncPPP Problem Part 2
On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 04:59:26PM +0100, Ron Rademaker wrote: > Sorry- isdnPPP driver version 0.0.0 is out of date. > Maybe ippp0 has no 'syncppp' encapsulation. > ippp0: SyncPPP support not configured > ippp0: Invalid argument The kernel hasn't enabled ISDN PPP support. Build another one which includes it: [cut] # # ISDN subsystem # CONFIG_ISDN=m CONFIG_ISDN_PPP=y CONFIG_ISDN_PPP_VJ=y [uncut] -- Bye, Dietmar
Re: apt sources line
On Sun, 25 Apr 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote: > > Then you need a sources.list line of > > deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists proposed-updates/ > when apt-get tried to download them I got some error messages telling me > that the files weren't plain files (or something to that effect). > > What does that mean? You should better try this: deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian dists/proposed-updates/ Works fine for me... -- Tschüß, Dietmar
Re: defrag
On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Micha Feigin wrote: > How do i go about running defrag on the system. pre1st: Read this and decide if you realy want to do so, 1st: Make a backup, 2nd: Make shure the filesystem isn't mounted, 3rd: Start e2defrag /dev/??? # ??? = hda2, sdb4 etc... > I get either an answear that it can't run on a mounted filsystem or You either have to go into single-user-mode or start it from a rescue-disk. Might be necessary if something still uses some files in /usr or /var or you try to defrag the root-filesystem. You have to build a recent boot-disk if you defrag the root-filesystem, cause lilo won't find the kernel image after this. Then, if Linux is up, execute lilo. > that it can't work on the disk. This partition is to large or your memory is to low. Or both. Or it's nearly full. But don't bother, normaly you don't want to defrag a ext2-filesystem. It takes care by itself to avoid fragmentation. 1-2% fragmentation is an usual value and indeed wanted. The partition should have 1/4 left free, if it gets too crowdy fragmentation goes up. Instead of using e2defrag, you should get a bigger harddisk then. Tschau, Dietmar
Re: Help with cdwriting
On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Dietmar Schultz wrote: > when I want cdrecord to do some writing on my Yamaha CDR 102 it complains: > Cdrecord release 1.6 Copyright (C) 1995-1998 Jörg Schilling > cdrecord: Function not implemented. shmget failed Urghh, IPC wasn't compiled in the actual kernel I'm using. Thanks to strace for figuring this out. Sorry for that! Tschau, Dietmar
Re: Help with cdwriting
Hi, when I want cdrecord to do some writing on my Yamaha CDR 102 it complains: Cdrecord release 1.6 Copyright (C) 1995-1998 Jörg Schilling cdrecord: Function not implemented. shmget failed Once it worked and I use the same options - since they where still in the bash history. In the meantime I've changed from 2.2.2 to 2.2.3, removed/added/updated some packages (using slink). I haven't broke any dependencies, Kernel still has support for SCSI-CD-Rom and -generic. Btw. cdwrite works, but cdrecord works better, especially when I do some work on my 486/40 while it writes... Any hints? Uh, -checkdrive says: <00:36:02> bibo:~# cdrecord dev=2,0 -checkdrive Cdrecord release 1.6 Copyright (C) 1995-1998 Jörg Schilling scsidev: '2,0' scsibus: 0 target: 2 lun: 0 cdrecord: Cannot do inquiry for CD-Recorder. cdrecord: Success. test unit ready: scsi sendcmd: fatal error CDB: 00 00 00 00 00 00 cmd finished after 0.000s timeout 40s Tschau, Dietmar
Re: cdda2wav problem
On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Worik wrote: > Sorry, this driver and/or drive does not support cdda reading. > cooked: Read cdda : Input/output error > > I have tried two different ide cdroms. One a creative and the other an IBM. > Both manufactured in about 1995. Is it lightly that the cdroms cannot read > cdda? How can I tell if a cdrom drive supports cdda reading? Most of the older ATAPI cdroms can't. Toshiba 4x and above should read cdda, mainly in singlespeed. Most of the older SCSI cdroms do fine. On the other side - most of the newer ATAPI cdroms are able to read cdda, but a very few are not. Tschau, Dietmar
