protecting MySQL password on multi-user system
I'm on a multi-user Linux system running PHP and MySQL. I have user permissions only. No root perms. Whenever I do an SQL query, I include (via PHP) a file (of which I'm the owner) which exists just under the web root which contains my MySQL username and password. I have to keep this file's permission at 644, or else I get 'permission denied' when my PHP script tries to include it. Apache runs as 'noname' on this server, but I'm not able to chgrp or chown this file to 'noname'. (Operation not permitted) Again, I'm only one of many (thousands of?) users on this system, so I have to implement something with regular user perms only. I definately don't want this file readable by 'other' (644). Any ideas? Thanks for reading! Eric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mozilla mplayer plugin does not play video
Matthias Julius wrote: H.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If I click on a video link, mozilla mplayer plugin shows that it is downloading the file but doesn't really play anything. After the download is complete, it tells as much and then it either doesn't do anything or just prints Stopped message in the mplayer window (which is within the browser). Do you have an example video link? Is this the case with every video? Do you see the mplayer controls in the mplayer window? If so, have you tried to hit the play button? I sometimes have to do that to get the plugin play the video. Matthias What's in your ~/mozilla/plugins directory? I have ... mplayerplug-in.so mplayerplug-in.xpt You'll need to copy them in to this directory. Also, type 'about:plugins' in firefox's address bar. If the plugin is registered correctly, you'll see it listed (mplayerplug-in) Eric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DVD burner optimization (or how to avoid crappy burns)
I've been burning for about a year with my ultra cheapy MicroAdvantage DVD burner. It seems to work, but I've noticed on a majority of the disks I've burned, somewhere midway in the disc it'll kinda crap out and show compression artifacts, get jerky for a few moments (usually under 30 seconds), and just plain be a nuisance. This will usually affect only around a 5% time duration of the video if that. Ie., I can usually still watch the DVD. It's just annoying though. I've been suggested to burn at a slower rate, and I've switched to running growisofs with -speed=1, and that has helped (I think anyway), but I still get the above problem _sometimes_ (with identical content). Again, it's an intermittant problem, so I can't quite put my finger on what the problem is stemming from. This could be a fluke, but it seems I have better luck when I burn a disc from the terminal fresh after booting into Linux and before I log into any window manager. I need to test this some more. Anyway, my question is: are there any other ways I can adjust my system/burn process to prevent artifacts, etc. from creep onto the DVD? Would 'hdparm -d1 /dev/dvd' maybe help? Or maybe using 'nice'? FYI, here's the command I run to burn a disc: growisofs -speed=1 -Z /dev/dvd -dvd-video DVD/ Thanks for reading! Eric P. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reiser FS hosed?
So I'm doing an 'mplayer -dumpfile', and before I know it I've completely filled the last 10GB of my hard drive (total 80GB). It wasn't were the OS resided; just a HD used for a file holding space. Anyway, after reaching 100%, the folder I was working in became non-working. When I would do 'ls' from its parent folder, it said something like 'Couldn't lstat /folder permission denied'; even as root. (sorry if my details are sketchy. Unfortunately, I tried tackling this problem while I had a fever. Bad idea.). It's a reiser4 FS, so I umounted and ran: # fsck.reiser4 /dev/hdb1 ... Warn : Fatal corruptions were found. Semantic pass is skipped. * fsck.reiser4 finished at Thu Jan 5 18:35:18 2006 Closing fs...done 1 fatal corruptions were detected in FileSystem. Run with --build-fs option to fix them. So, as suggested, I ran: # fsck.reiser4 --build-fs /dev/hdb1 (which ran for ~30 min) ... Warn : Reiser4 storage tree does not exist. Filter pass skipped. ... Fatal: No reiser4 metadata were found. Semantic pass is skipped. * fsck.reiser4 finished at Thu Jan 5 19:16:50 2006 Closing fs...done NO REISER4 METADATA WERE FOUND. FS RECOVERY IS NOT POSSIBLE. So this is (ahem) bad, huh? Am I screwed? Or is there any way to recover some of the files? Thanks for reading! Eric P. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problem with media mounting and huge log files
Apparently, something is going haywire when I insert a CD.
I get this repeating message:
...
hdd: ATAPI reset complete
hdd: status error: status=0x00 { }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
...
And these logs eat up my HD space if I don't catch it quick enough.
kern.log
messages
syslog
I'm running Debian testing/IceWM.
Any idea what's going on here? I've used this CD-R for over a year
now and haven't had any problems. Let me know if I can provide any
further info.
Thanks,
Eric P
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Gdesklets and shutdown
I'm running IceWM and Gdesklets. When I log-out of IceWM, Gdesklets alerts me if I want to delete the current running desklets before it'll let me log out. I.e., what this'll do is remove any running desklets so that they won't appear next time I log in - not what I want to happen. Supposedly, I can run 'gdesklets stop' before existing IceWM, but I've tried this and it does absolutely nothing (i.e., gdesklets is still running). Anyone else have this problem? Note: I did not have this problem running Gdesklets under Gnome. Also, I've already posted this to IceWM's mailing list and also to Gdesklet's forum (which is pretty much dead) w/o resolution Thanks for reading, Eric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Flash w/o video on 1.5
Hi all, (Running Etch) I started using Firefox 1.5 from RC1 through to the stable release. But the Flash plugin hasn't worked properly in any of these releases. There is no video yet the audio works. I just see a brief flash where the visual element is supposed to be, and I'll hear audio is there is audio to hear. I've tried the manual download from Macromedia, the version from the repository (7.0.61) and also with the stable release, I could do a hands free (automated) install via the Firefox 'install plug-ins link'. Anyone else have this problem? Thanks, Eric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Flash w/o video on Firefox 1.5
John L Fjellstad wrote: Eric P [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I started using Firefox 1.5 from RC1 through to the stable release. But the Flash plugin hasn't worked properly in any of these releases. There is no video yet the audio works. I just see a brief flash where the visual element is supposed to be, and I'll hear audio is there is audio to hear. If you also use adblock, remove obj-tabs in the adblock options. Seems to interfere with flash components in Firefox 1.5 That worked... thanks! I would have never guessed that. Are there not a bajillion people running AdBlock w/the Flash plugin with this problem? Thanks again, Eric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Starting portmap daemon problem...
Larry Gonzalez wrote: On Sun, 20 Nov 2005, Eric P wrote: I'm running Etch. I noticed recently that the boot process gets stuck on Starting portmap daemon: portmap. After a few minutes, I hit ctrl-C and it continues booting. Any ideas? yes... your loopback interface needs to be active: /sbin/ifconfig lo up possibly your loopback interface is not brought up in the boot process until after the portmap daemon is called you'll also find that others will hang if loopback isnt up (i.e. gnome, kde, etc...) hope this helps k l u r t Hmm... ran the command. I didn't notice anything different. ifconfig shows the same before and after running 'ifconfig lo up' # ifconfig loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:2237 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:2237 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:684259 (668.2 KiB) TX bytes:684259 (668.2 KiB) And boot still pauses as above. Thanks for reponding all the same. Eric P -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Starting portmap daemon problem...
I'm running Etch. I noticed recently that the boot process gets stuck on Starting portmap daemon: portmap. After a few minutes, I hit ctrl-C and it continues booting. Any ideas? Eric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Vim question
If you wanted to instead replace
line 1
line 2
line 3
with
/*
line 1
line 2
line 3
*/
I'm not sure how you'd do it. Perhaps others do.
Actually, I would like to know how to do this in VIM.
Any takers?
Eric
I have scripts cos (comment out shell) and coc (comment out C)
so that, for example, !}cos comments out a paragraph with '#' at the
beginning of each line and !}cos comments out a paragraph with /*...*/.
cat ~/bin/cos:
#!/usr/bin/perl
while () {
s/^/#/;
print
}
-
cat ~/bin/coc:
echo '/*'
cat
echo '*/'
--
That's cool. I wonder though if there's a way to do this in Vim. We
work on Windows boxen at work (at gun point), and I don't have Perl
installed.
Thanks,
Eric P
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Re: Vim question
Paolo Pantaleo wrote: I just started learning python (i think it is great). Now i have the following problem: How can i comment 10 lines of code in a shot? That is, how can i add a # at the begenning of a range of lines? just to be more clear, i want to rasform a=['a','b','c'] for i in a: do_something(i) print i to #a=['a','b','c'] #for i in a: #do_something(i) #print i Thnx PAolo -- There are many ways to accomplish this. Here's one way. Assuming you have the following line numbers (turn on line numbering with :set nu) 10 a=['a','b','c'] 11 for i in a: 12 do_something(i) 13 print i Now type :10,13s/^/#/g That should do it. Basically, you're looking for the beginning of each line (^) from 10 to 13. Then you're inserting a # in each spot. HTH Eric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Vim question
If you wanted to instead replace line 1 line 2 line 3 with /* line 1 line 2 line 3 */ I'm not sure how you'd do it. Perhaps others do. Actually, I would like to know how to do this in VIM. Any takers? Eric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NVidia with Xorg (testing)
Forgive me if I'm a bit naive, but what is the status for installing the Nvidia drivers for Xorg/kernel 2.6.12? I only see the Nvidia driver for the 2.6.8 kernel in Synaptic, and I uninstalled that after the driver stopped working when I switched to testing (and XF86 to Xorg consequently). Thanks for reading, Eric P -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gimp and transparency in GIF images
[KS] wrote: Hi, I'm trying to create a gif image with a drop shadow which is 80% opaque with Gimp 2.2.8. When saving the image as gif it asks to convert it to an indexed image. The resulting image (gif) does not give me the transparency that a png gives. I noticed that earlier there was a need to download the gif plugin because of licensing. However, the Finnish server which hosted the plugin gives me a zip file containing a text file and it indicates that the plugin is not need now. Can somone point me how to make the gif image with transparencies? Thanks, /KS All gif images must be an indexed image of 256 colors or less, that's why Gimp is forcing you to index it. Gif also cannot handle alpha transparency (like png can). A pixel must be either 100% opaque or 100% transparent for gif. HTH Eric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to start php SOLVED
Mankuthimma wrote:
On 10/3/05, Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
With apache2, there should be symlinks in /etc/apache2/mods-enabled to
../mods-available/php5.{load,conf} and /etc/apache2/mods-available
should contain the php5.{load,conf} files. These should be owned by
libapache2-mod-php5 (doing dpkg -S /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/php5.conf
or dpkg -L libapach2-mod-php5 should clarify this).
To enable module
# a2enmod php4
To disable module
#a2dismod php4
shashi
That did the trick. Thank you!
I noticed that if you type either command w/o a module name, it'll give
you a list of all modules that can be enabled. Good stuff.
Thanks everyone who took the time to respond and for being patient with
this Deb newb!
Eric P
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how to start php
Hi all, Php4 was up and running. Then I tried out dotdeb's php5. Decided to switch back to php4, but now php4 doesn't start when I restart Apache or even reboot. I reinstalled php5, but no luck with that either now. Currently, I have the following installed on testing: libapache2-mod=php5 php5-common php5-mysql So how exactly does one start up the php service and have it start up on boot? Thanks for reading... Eric P -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to start php
Clive Menzies wrote: On (02/10/05 01:48), Eric P wrote: To: debian-user@lists.debian.org From: Eric P [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2005 01:48:47 -0500 Subject: how to start php Hi all, Php4 was up and running. Then I tried out dotdeb's php5. Decided to switch back to php4, but now php4 doesn't start when I restart Apache or even reboot. I reinstalled php5, but no luck with that either now. Currently, I have the following installed on testing: libapache2-mod-php5 php5-common php5-mysql You seem to be missing php5 itself; php doesn't run as a daemon AFAIK, it processes scripts on demand. Just installed the php5 package. Restarted Apache... no php. Then rebooted... no php. Here's what the footer shows on a page on my local server. Apache/2.0.54 (Debian GNU/Linux) mod_python/3.1.3 Python/2.3.5 mod_perl/1.999.21 Perl/v5.8.7 Server at localhost Port 80 I'm at a loss. Thanks, Eric P -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to start php
Clive Menzies wrote: On (02/10/05 14:56), Eric P wrote: Clive Menzies wrote: On (02/10/05 01:48), Eric P wrote: Hi all, Php4 was up and running. Then I tried out dotdeb's php5. Decided to switch back to php4, but now php4 doesn't start when I restart Apache or even reboot. I reinstalled php5, but no luck with that either now. Currently, I have the following installed on testing: libapache2-mod-php5 php5-common php5-mysql You seem to be missing php5 itself; php doesn't run as a daemon AFAIK, it processes scripts on demand. Just installed the php5 package. Restarted Apache... no php. Then rebooted... no php. Here's what the footer shows on a page on my local server. Apache/2.0.54 (Debian GNU/Linux) mod_python/3.1.3 Python/2.3.5 mod_perl/1.999.21 Perl/v5.8.7 Server at localhost Port 80 I presume if you try to access the server from a webrowser, you see the Apache intro page? Yep. Apache is up and running. The footer above is from a directory listing on the server. If you do, try installing phpmyadmin and seeing if it will run. It's installed, but doesn't run. I've just been testing with a simple script: ?php phpinfo(); ? You could also try: $ dpkg-reconfigure package where package = php5 php5-mysql apache2 etc. Ahh... yes, I forgot about that. However, this returns a blank link (no config dialogs are presented). # dpkg-reconfigure php5 apache2 # I went ahead and removed php5-mysql for the time being. Jon, what kind of script are you referring to? The first time I installed php5 (from dotdeb), it automatically prompted me to config php5, and everything worked w/o any manual intervention. Switching back to php4 (which I did on a whim because php's mysql_pconnect() didn't work anymore) is where the problems started. Anyway, thanks again, Eric P -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Spumux does not work
Theo wrote: Eric, Thanks for the hint. Yes this seems to have solved my difficulties too. I did not see a bug report for the dvdauthor package that addresses this issue. Is this something that we would submit a bug report for? TedF Yes, that would be appropriate. I've cc'ed [EMAIL PROTECTED] (maintainer of dvdauthor) into this thread. Marc, Below is a thread somewhat detailing some issues Ted and I had with spumux which belongs to the 0.6.11-2 build of dvdauthor. Please let us know if we can provide any further info from our experiences. We both have reverted to the 0.6.11-1 build for the time being. Thanks, Eric P. -Original Message- From: Eric P [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sep 26, 2005 3:43 AM To: Ted Flamouropoulos [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Spumux does not work Eric P wrote: Ted Flamouropoulos wrote: All, I have a recent problem with spumux in trying to multiplex subtiltes into a movie file. Apparently spumux does not recognize the subtitle images in the directory. I can open and look at the subtitles using a viewer, so the images are not the problem. I am not sure whether the current oustanding bugs in the dvdauthor or imagemagick packages address the problem, does anybody have some advice? I am running testing/etch with imagemagick (6.0.6.2-2.4) and dvdauthor (0.6.11-2) Here is what I get when I run the command... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/dvd_collection/$ spumux sub.xml movie_remux.mpg movie_final.mpg DVDAuthor::spumux, version 0.6.11. Build options: gnugetopt magick iconv freetype fribidi Send bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] INFO: Locale=en_US INFO: Converting filenames to ISO-8859-1 ImageMagick: Unable to load file (sub0.png). WARN: Bad image, skipping line -1 ImageMagick: Unable to load file (sub1.png). WARN: Bad image, skipping line -1 ImageMagick: Unable to load file (sub2.png). WARN: Bad image, skipping line -1 ImageMagick: Unable to load file (sub3.png). WARN: Bad image, skipping line -1 ImageMagick: Unable to load file (sub4.png) : : : etc... You're not alone. I'm making DVD menus with spumux and noticed the menu elements don't show up. I got this line in the output while creating a menu.mpg file. spumux menu.xml menu_background.mpg menu_final.mpg ... ImageMagick: Unable to load file (menu_highlighted.png). WARN: Bad image, skipping line -1 ... So is this an issue the w/spumux (dvdauthor) or ImageMagick build in testing? I'm still just a newb w/Debian, but my guess is the issue is with the dvdauthor build in testing as the version of ImageMagick hasn't changed between stable and testing (I'm running testing), but the dvdauthor build is newer in testing (stable: 0.6.11-1; testing:0.6.11-2) http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?version=allsubword=0exact=0arch=anyreleases=allcase=insensitivekeywords=dvdauthsearchon=names I tried to get the stable build installed again, but to no avail. I tried: apt-get -t stable install dvdauthor (and it installed 0.6.11-2, not 0.6.11.1) And this: apt-get install dvdauthor=0.6.11-1 ... E: Version '0.6.11-1' for 'dvdauthor' was not found I'm at a loss. Eric P I just grabbed the stable deb package for dvdauthor and dpkg'ed it: # dpkg -i dvdauthor_0.6.11-1_i386.deb http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/download.pl?arch=i386file=pool%2Fmain%2Fd%2Fdvdauthor%2Fdvdauthor_0.6.11-1_i386.debmd5sum=3aa3977fc4e00ffc333b67359f65be25arch=i386type=main This fixed the problem I was having. Let me know how you fare. Eric P -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gnome's Window Selector via keyboard
Bill Marcum wrote: On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 12:22:08AM -0500, Eric P wrote: Anyone know a way access Gnome's Window Selector via the keyboard? Alt-tab? Nope. Maybe 'Window List' is the correct English for it? It's the applet that, when clicked, displays a drop down listing all running apps on all desktops in Gnome. Eric P. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gnome's Window Selector via keyboard
Eric P wrote: Bill Marcum wrote: On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 12:22:08AM -0500, Eric P wrote: Anyone know a way access Gnome's Window Selector via the keyboard? Alt-tab? Nope. Maybe 'Window List' is the correct English for it? It's the applet that, when clicked, displays a drop down listing all running apps on all desktops in Gnome. Eric P. Ack... nevermind. Doesn't appear to be implemented yet. I just found this bug report. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141418 Thanks, Eric P -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Spumux does not work
Ted Flamouropoulos wrote: All, I have a recent problem with spumux in trying to multiplex subtiltes into a movie file. Apparently spumux does not recognize the subtitle images in the directory. I can open and look at the subtitles using a viewer, so the images are not the problem. I am not sure whether the current oustanding bugs in the dvdauthor or imagemagick packages address the problem, does anybody have some advice? I am running testing/etch with imagemagick (6.0.6.2-2.4) and dvdauthor (0.6.11-2) Here is what I get when I run the command... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/dvd_collection/$ spumux sub.xml movie_remux.mpg movie_final.mpg DVDAuthor::spumux, version 0.6.11. Build options: gnugetopt magick iconv freetype fribidi Send bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] INFO: Locale=en_US INFO: Converting filenames to ISO-8859-1 ImageMagick: Unable to load file (sub0.png). WARN: Bad image, skipping line -1 ImageMagick: Unable to load file (sub1.png). WARN: Bad image, skipping line -1 ImageMagick: Unable to load file (sub2.png). WARN: Bad image, skipping line -1 ImageMagick: Unable to load file (sub3.png). WARN: Bad image, skipping line -1 ImageMagick: Unable to load file (sub4.png) : : : etc... You're not alone. I'm making DVD menus with spumux and noticed the menu elements don't show up. I got this line in the output while creating a menu.mpg file. spumux menu.xml menu_background.mpg menu_final.mpg ... ImageMagick: Unable to load file (menu_highlighted.png). WARN: Bad image, skipping line -1 ... So is this an issue the w/spumux (dvdauthor) or ImageMagick build in testing? I'm still just a newb w/Debian, but my guess is the issue is with the dvdauthor build in testing as the version of ImageMagick hasn't changed between stable and testing (I'm running testing), but the dvdauthor build is newer in testing (stable: 0.6.11-1; testing:0.6.11-2) http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?version=allsubword=0exact=0arch=anyreleases=allcase=insensitivekeywords=dvdauthsearchon=names I tried to get the stable build installed again, but to no avail. I tried: apt-get -t stable install dvdauthor (and it installed 0.6.11-2, not 0.6.11.1) And this: apt-get install dvdauthor=0.6.11-1 ... E: Version '0.6.11-1' for 'dvdauthor' was not found I'm at a loss. Eric P -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gnumeric doesn't work in Testing (for me)...
I'm running testing, recently upgraded all packages to be upgraded (Gnome 2.10 and Xorg were the biggies), and Gnumeric no longer starts anymore. Here's what I get: $ gnumeric gnumeric: symbol lookup error: gnumeric: undefined symbol: cell_formats Anyone else have this problem? Thanks for reading. Eric P. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gnumeric doesn't work in Testing (for me)...
James Vahn wrote: Eric P wrote: I'm running testing, recently upgraded all packages to be upgraded (Gnome 2.10 and Xorg were the biggies), and Gnumeric no longer starts anymore. Here's what I get: $ gnumeric gnumeric: symbol lookup error: gnumeric: undefined symbol: cell_formats Anyone else have this problem? Yup. Thanks for pointing it out, I'd not want to find out the hard way. Try wajig install/unstable gnumeric and see if that works. Version table: 1.5.90-1 0 50 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages *** 1.5.1-1 0 990 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org testing/main Packages Thanks for the tip. However, can you clue me into wajig? It just reinstalled 1.5.1-1 when I the wajig line up there. I tried putting the following in sources.list: deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages But that didn't work, and gave the following errors on apt-get update: ... Err ftp://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main/Packages Packages Unable to fetch file, server said 'Failed to open file. ' [IP: 128.101.80.133 21] ... Ign ftp://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main/Packages Release --- I think I'm missing something here. Thanks, Eric P -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Spumux does not work
Eric P wrote: Ted Flamouropoulos wrote: All, I have a recent problem with spumux in trying to multiplex subtiltes into a movie file. Apparently spumux does not recognize the subtitle images in the directory. I can open and look at the subtitles using a viewer, so the images are not the problem. I am not sure whether the current oustanding bugs in the dvdauthor or imagemagick packages address the problem, does anybody have some advice? I am running testing/etch with imagemagick (6.0.6.2-2.4) and dvdauthor (0.6.11-2) Here is what I get when I run the command... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/dvd_collection/$ spumux sub.xml movie_remux.mpg movie_final.mpg DVDAuthor::spumux, version 0.6.11. Build options: gnugetopt magick iconv freetype fribidi Send bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] INFO: Locale=en_US INFO: Converting filenames to ISO-8859-1 ImageMagick: Unable to load file (sub0.png). WARN: Bad image, skipping line -1 ImageMagick: Unable to load file (sub1.png). WARN: Bad image, skipping line -1 ImageMagick: Unable to load file (sub2.png). WARN: Bad image, skipping line -1 ImageMagick: Unable to load file (sub3.png). WARN: Bad image, skipping line -1 ImageMagick: Unable to load file (sub4.png) : : : etc... You're not alone. I'm making DVD menus with spumux and noticed the menu elements don't show up. I got this line in the output while creating a menu.mpg file. spumux menu.xml menu_background.mpg menu_final.mpg ... ImageMagick: Unable to load file (menu_highlighted.png). WARN: Bad image, skipping line -1 ... So is this an issue the w/spumux (dvdauthor) or ImageMagick build in testing? I'm still just a newb w/Debian, but my guess is the issue is with the dvdauthor build in testing as the version of ImageMagick hasn't changed between stable and testing (I'm running testing), but the dvdauthor build is newer in testing (stable: 0.6.11-1; testing:0.6.11-2) http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?version=allsubword=0exact=0arch=anyreleases=allcase=insensitivekeywords=dvdauthsearchon=names I tried to get the stable build installed again, but to no avail. I tried: apt-get -t stable install dvdauthor (and it installed 0.6.11-2, not 0.6.11.1) And this: apt-get install dvdauthor=0.6.11-1 ... E: Version '0.6.11-1' for 'dvdauthor' was not found I'm at a loss. Eric P I just grabbed the stable deb package for dvdauthor and dpkg'ed it: # dpkg -i dvdauthor_0.6.11-1_i386.deb http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/download.pl?arch=i386file=pool%2Fmain%2Fd%2Fdvdauthor%2Fdvdauthor_0.6.11-1_i386.debmd5sum=3aa3977fc4e00ffc333b67359f65be25arch=i386type=main This fixed the problem I was having. Let me know how you fare. Eric P -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gnumeric doesn't work in Testing (for me)...
Eric P wrote: James Vahn wrote: Eric P wrote: I'm running testing, recently upgraded all packages to be upgraded (Gnome 2.10 and Xorg were the biggies), and Gnumeric no longer starts anymore. Here's what I get: $ gnumeric gnumeric: symbol lookup error: gnumeric: undefined symbol: cell_formats Anyone else have this problem? Yup. Thanks for pointing it out, I'd not want to find out the hard way. Try wajig install/unstable gnumeric and see if that works. Version table: 1.5.90-1 0 50 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages *** 1.5.1-1 0 990 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org testing/main Packages Thanks for the tip. However, can you clue me into wajig? It just reinstalled 1.5.1-1 when I the wajig line up there. I tried putting the following in sources.list: deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages But that didn't work, and gave the following errors on apt-get update: ... Err ftp://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main/Packages Packages Unable to fetch file, server said 'Failed to open file. ' [IP: 128.101.80.133 21] ... Ign ftp://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main/Packages Release --- I think I'm missing something here. Thanks, Eric P Nevermind. I just grabbed the gnumeric and gnumeric-common packages from unstable and installed those. It works again. Thanks, Eric P -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-get errors out religiously while processing 'at' command
Maurits van Rees wrote: On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 07:39:23PM -0500, Eric P wrote: Hmm... maybe I just fixed it. I uninstalled the 'at' package, and apt-get no longer complains. You may want to try reinstalling it now and see if things continue to work normally. On my sarge system 'at' and 'apt-get' work perfectly happy together. 'at' is an important package according to apt-cache: $ apt-cache show at Package: at Priority: important Section: admin Installed-Size: 204 Maintainer: Ryan Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] Architecture: i386 Version: 3.1.8-11 Depends: libc6 (= 2.2.4-4), mail-transport-agent Filename: pool/main/a/at/at_3.1.8-11_i386.deb Size: 37918 MD5sum: b5cc860f93a0f25e71d92dad23988c12 Description: Delayed job execution and batch processing At and batch read shell commands from standard input storing them as a job to be scheduled for execution in the future. . Use atto run the job at a specified time batch to run the job when system load levels permit Of course when at makes your apt system unstable its priority gets considerably lower. ;-) 'at' is depended on by the following packages: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp$ apt-cache rdepends at at Reverse Depends: usermin-at mirror lsb-core gato Most important at first glance seems to be lsb-core. From apt-cache show lsb-core: The Linux Standard Base (http://www.linuxbase.org/) is a standard core system that third-party applications written for Linux can depend upon. Okay, I don't have that one installed apparently; I'll go do that now. ;-) I reinstalled. Previously problems are gone. Thanks for replying. Eric P -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gnome's Window Selector via keyboard
Anyone know a way access Gnome's Window Selector via the keyboard? Thanks, Eric P. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-get errors out religiously while processing 'at' command
Eric P wrote: I'm running etch, and I recently ran an upgrade which installed many packages including Gnome 2.10 and Xorg. During the middle of the upgrade, apt-get kept erroring out with the following (xbill just as an example): Unpacking xbill (from .../archives/xbill_2.1-4_i386.deb) ... Setting up at (3.1.9) ... Starting deferred execution scheduler: atdinvoke-rc.d: initscript atd, action start failed. dpkg: error processing at (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Setting up xbill (2.1-4) ... Errors were encountered while processing: at E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Not sure what 'at' is, but that seems to be the culprit. Regardless of what I install or remove anymore, it ends like above. The package(s) install, but I think it's bailing out before some apps get properly configured (not 100% sure though). Hmm... maybe I just fixed it. I uninstalled the 'at' package, and apt-get no longer complains. Great, that seems to have done the tri... (sniff.. sniff... where's that smoke coming from... sniff... sniff...) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newb Hoses Install - Story at 11
Eric P wrote: An upgrade (under Etch) doesn't want to finish. I clicked 'Mark All Upgrades' in Synaptic, but it keeps failing on udev. It says: udev requires a kernel = 2.6.12, upgrade aborted. However, the newest kernel I show in Synaptic is only 2.6.8. Look for linux-image-* instead of kernel-image-*, those packages have been renamed recently to make way for the use of kernels other than linux (freebsd and hurd come to mind). Ah... I see it. Ok, I've installed linux-image-2.6.12-1-386 by itself. I did try selecting this package w/all the 'Mark for Upgrade' stuff, but I got same error as before. However, now I get: Preparing to replace udev 0.056-3 (using .../archives/udev_0.068-2_i386.deb) ...udev requires a kernel = 2.6.12, upgrade aborted. dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/udev_0.068-2_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/udev_0.068-2_i386.deb Since it's still not finding the new kernel, do I just need to reboot? And should I remove the older kernel package before doing so? Will Grub be automatically configured to point to the new image? Nevermind. Got it. Found that grub's menu.1st had already been updated. Rebooted. Had to fiddle around a bit to get Xorg installed/configured, but I'm back in the saddle again. Thanks for your help, Florian! Eric P. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
apt-get errors out religiously while processing 'at' command
I'm running etch, and I recently ran an upgrade which installed many packages including Gnome 2.10 and Xorg. During the middle of the upgrade, apt-get kept erroring out with the following (xbill just as an example): Unpacking xbill (from .../archives/xbill_2.1-4_i386.deb) ... Setting up at (3.1.9) ... Starting deferred execution scheduler: atdinvoke-rc.d: initscript atd, action start failed. dpkg: error processing at (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Setting up xbill (2.1-4) ... Errors were encountered while processing: at E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Not sure what 'at' is, but that seems to be the culprit. Regardless of what I install or remove anymore, it ends like above. The package(s) install, but I think it's bailing out before some apps get properly configured (not 100% sure though). Anyway, thanks for reading, and hopefully someone has a clue for this issue. Eric P. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Newb Hoses Install - Story at 11
Hi all, An upgrade (under Etch) doesn't want to finish. I clicked 'Mark All Upgrades' in Synaptic, but it keeps failing on udev. It says: udev requires a kernel = 2.6.12, upgrade aborted. However, the newest kernel I show in Synaptic is only 2.6.8. The 'Mark All Upgrades' process did finish installing MOST of Gnome 2.10, and although I can boot into Gnome 2.10, it's not usuable (menu won't display, key shortcuts don't work, mouse speed is way off and won't adjust using gnome-mouse-properties, gconf doesn't run, etc.). So I'm sending this SOS from IceWM. Some history. I did a dist-upgrade a month or so back following these steps. 1. Backup /etc/apt/sources.list and replace all 'stable' to 'testing' (or 'unstable') 2. apt-get update 3. apt-get upgrade (necessary?) 4. apt-get -u dist-upgrade I must've left an 'untesting' in there somewhere (I think it was just some Scribus files), so my virtual terminal now says GNU/Linux testing/unstable'. Anyway, any tips would be much obliged. I don't mind doing a fresh install if that's what is needed. Thanks for reading... Eric P. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newb Hoses Install - Story at 11
An upgrade (under Etch) doesn't want to finish. I clicked 'Mark All Upgrades' in Synaptic, but it keeps failing on udev. It says: udev requires a kernel = 2.6.12, upgrade aborted. However, the newest kernel I show in Synaptic is only 2.6.8. Look for linux-image-* instead of kernel-image-*, those packages have been renamed recently to make way for the use of kernels other than linux (freebsd and hurd come to mind). Ah... I see it. Ok, I've installed linux-image-2.6.12-1-386 by itself. I did try selecting this package w/all the 'Mark for Upgrade' stuff, but I got same error as before. However, now I get: Preparing to replace udev 0.056-3 (using .../archives/udev_0.068-2_i386.deb) ...udev requires a kernel = 2.6.12, upgrade aborted. dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/udev_0.068-2_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/udev_0.068-2_i386.deb Since it's still not finding the new kernel, do I just need to reboot? And should I remove the older kernel package before doing so? Will Grub be automatically configured to point to the new image? Thanks... Eric P. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
automount down
I noticed a few days ago that USB memory sticks and CDs/DVDs no longer automount. I also noticed a bajillion stalled(?) processes like the following: 23851 ?S 0:00 /bin/sh /sbin/hotplug usb 23852 ?S 0:00 /bin/sh /sbin/hotplug usb 23855 ?S 0:00 /bin/sh /sbin/hotplug scsi_host 23857 ?S 0:00 /bin/sh /sbin/hotplug scsi 23870 ?S 0:00 /bin/sh /sbin/hotplug block 23889 ?S 0:00 /etc/hotplug.d/default/20-hal.hotplug scsi 23890 ?S 0:00 /etc/hotplug.d/default/20-hal.hotplug scsi_host 23891 ?S 0:00 /etc/hotplug.d/default/20-hal.hotplug block 23894 ?S 0:00 /bin/sh /sbin/hotplug block 23896 ?S 0:00 /etc/hotplug.d/default/20-hal.hotplug block 23897 ?S 0:00 /bin/sh /sbin/hotplug scsi_device 23899 ?S 0:00 /etc/hotplug.d/default/20-hal.hotplug scsi_device Any clue how to cleanly wipe these and restart the hotplug dameon? Also, does hotplug take care of CDs/DVDs? Thanks for reading. Eric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Qemu ( was vmware )
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Re: Numlock at startup?
I learned how to set this up in the latest (4th) issue of www.tuxmagazine.com (it's free). The section is called QA w/Mango. Check pg. 15. Eric P Josh wrote: On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 10:11:29 -0700 (PDT) Edward Dunagin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my bios has a setting for the numlock key. mine does as well and even if I set it to on, at the text login it ends up being off. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ColdFusion MX (6.1) and MySQL
Hi all, I installed ColdFusion MX (6.1) on Debian stable (note: Debian is not supported by Macromedia). The installer initially moaned about not having compat-libstdc++ RPM installed. I grabbed a RedHat RPM of compat-libstdc++, aliened it, and installed it. Of course, the installer is only looking for an RPM, so it moaned again, but it let me proceed, so I did. ColdFusion installed, and I can run CF scripts on my local server. The only problem I'm having is when I attempt to add a MySQL database as a 'data source'. I get the following error: Connection verification failed for data source: sybex []java.sql.SQLException: Server configuration denies access to data source The root cause was that: java.sql.SQLException: Server configuration denies access to data source I've done this successfully with a few SuSE 9.2 (also not supported) installs with literally the same db settings, and it works just fine. Of course, I'd like to get this running in Debian if possible. Note: before anyone brings up the notion of using another (better?) server scripting environment, I need to install CF for work reasons. Thanks for reading all of this... Eric P -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mp4/Go Open TV show
Sridhar M.A. wrote: On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 01:40:31AM -0500, Eric P wrote: I've downloaded some mp4s of the Go Open Source (www.go-opensource.org) online TV show. Xine (I think the ftp.nerim.net repository build) plays the video, but there's no audio. Try vlc. It is working for me. Regards, Sure enough. Thanks. EP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mp4/Go Open TV show
I've downloaded some mp4s of the Go Open Source (www.go-opensource.org) online TV show. Xine (I think the ftp.nerim.net repository build) plays the video, but there's no audio. Any ideas? Thanks for reading, Eric P -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Coldfusion MX
Anyone have any luck getting Coldfusion MX to install on Debian stable? I just tried the ColdFusion MX (6.1) installer , but it complained: Warning: C++ compatibility pack The installer was unable to determine if the C++ compatibility pack is installed by running the following command: rpm --query compat-libstdc++ If this machine uses a version of glibc that is 2.2.5.x or higher the compatibility pack is necessary for C++ custom tags, Verity, and web server connectors to work properly. For more information see the installation manual at http://www.macromedia.com/go/livedocs_cfmx61docs Can you give me any install tips? I've had success w/this installer on SuSE 8.0/9.2 Pro in the past... I didn't see anything resembling 'compat-libstdc' in the repositories. I checked www1.apt-get.org but to no avail. Thanks for reading! Eric P -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Starting Appletalk services...
Starting Appletalk services (this may take a while) Yes, it sure does. What services are these anyway? It seems to add 10-15 seconds to boot time on my 1.5 GHz box. Thanks... Eric P -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Japanese input
I installed Debian a few weeks back in Japanese. This installed Canna (which correctly starts up as a service on boot). Also, Kinput (kinput2-canna-wnn) and Freewnn-jserver (not sure what this does) were installed. Entering the following 2 commands on the command line (inside X) gets kinput2 up and running, and any programs ran from this terminal will now accept Japanese input (if they're capable of such). $ pidof kinput2 /dev/null || kinput2 $ export [EMAIL PROTECTED] But I'd like to have these commands executed somewhere so Japanese input is available in X when I log in. Any suggestions? Thanks for reading! Eric P -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Starting Appletalk services...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Eric P [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Starting Appletalk services (this may take a while) Yes, it sure does. What services are these anyway? It seems to add 10-15 seconds to boot time on my 1.5 GHz box. This is the netatalk service. Which allows your system to act as a file server for Mac OS clients. It doesn't matter how fast your system is, the nature of afpd will always ...take a while . Just remove it from your rc.d and it won't start on boot up. Thanks. I just removed the whole netatalk package. Eric P. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Misc. Newb Help
Dominik Epple wrote:
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 07:05:11AM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote:
On Tuesday 21 June 2005 06:19, Eric P wrote:
Patrick Rutkowski wrote:
On Monday 20 June 2005 10:14 pm, Eric P wrote:
Greg Folkert wrote:
2. I have a .bash_profile in my user directly, but it's not being
sourced ever. Any idea why? I tried .profile as well w/o any luck.
On my Debian unstable system running kdm as the login manager, its sourced
via /etc/kde3/kdm/Xsession (at least if you look at the script a number of
sources are tried in order for the first one the exists
Not sure how gdm does it, but it will probably be something similar.
GDM on sarge is not configured to do so. I patched its /etc/gdm/Xsession
with some code stolen from SuSE gdm Xsession (yes, we also did use this
unspeakable linux distro) the following way:
Xsession.patch
--- Xsession.orig 2005-06-15 12:03:32.412090512 +0200
+++ Xsession2005-06-15 12:04:12.299026776 +0200
@@ -102,6 +102,14 @@
# good for debugging where things went wrong
echo $0: Beginning session setup...
+#
+# ptwap setup
+# stolen from SuSE xdm Xsession
+# the users ~/.profile
+#
+test -r ${HOME}/.profile { . ${HOME}/.profile /dev/null 21 ; }
+set +u /dev/null 21
+
# Translation stuff
if [ -x /usr/lib/gdm/gdmtranslate ] ; then
gdmtranslate=/usr/lib/gdm/gdmtranslate
EOF
I consider this not-sourcing-profile a bug that should be fixed for the
next release ;)
That did the trick. Thanks! I guess I wasn't smoking crack after all.
Eric P
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Re: ColdFusion MX (was Misc. Newb Help)
Greg Folkert wrote: your exposure. Coldfusion works fine, I have had MX working on Sarge as recent as 2 months ago. Since nothing really significant has changed... it should be okay. I did have some issues that were resolvable. But, I am not you and it is not my machine, so YMMV. I just tried installing ColdFusion MX (6.1), but the installer quickly complained: Warning: C++ compatibility pack The installer was unable to determine if the C++ compatibility pack is installed by running the following command: rpm --query compat-libstdc++ If this machine uses a version of glibc that is 2.2.5.x or higher the compatibility pack is necessary for C++ custom tags, Verity, and web server connectors to work properly. For more information see the installation manual at http://www.macromedia.com/go/livedocs_cfmx61docs Can you give me any install tips? I've had success w/this installer on SuSE 8.0/9.2 Pro in the past... I didn't see anything resembling 'compat-libstdc' for Debian. I even did a search on www1.apt-get.org. Thanks for any pointers, Eric P -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Misc. Newb Help
Greg Folkert wrote: 2. I have a .bash_profile in my user directly, but it's not being sourced ever. Any idea why? I tried .profile as well w/o any luck. Okay, are you talking for your *X* environment or CLI or both? Both. Eric P -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Misc. Newb Help
Patrick Rutkowski wrote: On Monday 20 June 2005 10:14 pm, Eric P wrote: Greg Folkert wrote: 2. I have a .bash_profile in my user directly, but it's not being sourced ever. Any idea why? I tried .profile as well w/o any luck. Okay, are you talking for your *X* environment or CLI or both? Both. Eric P try ~/.bashrc That works for CLI, but not for X. Maybe I'm approaching this all wrong. I'm just looking for a way to add my ~/bin folder to the PATH, so all my scripts in ~/bin are available to X and the CLI. For example. I want these scripts to be available when I engage Gnome's 'run' dialog box (not sure of the exact working - I work in a Japanese environment). Does that make sense? I think I never had this issue in the past (with SuSE) because I booted to a run level before X, logged on on the command line (which sourced ~/.bash_rc and ~/.profile ), and then started x. Thanks for reading, Eric P -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Misc. Newb Help
Greg Folkert wrote:
On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 23:22 -0500, Eric P wrote:
1. Nvidia driver - is there a Debian way to approach this? Or just run
the Nvidia installer?
apt-get install module-assistant ; m-a a-i nvidia
That worked (once I installed the kernel-header file). The nvidia
driver is still not kicking in (I did a cold reboot too), so how do I
activate the nvidia driver? Do I need to muck with the XF86Config{,-4}
files?
2. I have a .bash_profile in my user directly, but it's not being
sourced ever. Any idea why? I tried .profile as well w/o any luck.
Note: my .bashrc is being sourced.
Okay, are you talking for your *X* environment or CLI or both?
I guess it was .profile (not .bash_profile) that I was used to on SuSE.
Anyway, I could be wrong, but my understanding was that you should put
commands in your ~/.profile file to be sourced once (and only once) when
you first log into the system. So I always would add the PATH (i.e.,
PATH=$PATH:/home/${USER}/bin) in my .profile
So to finally answer your question, I'd like .profile sourced for the
user session (whether X is loaded or not) so that everything subsequent
terminal after login would have access to the executable scripts in ~/bin
3. Japanese input. I installed Debian in Japanese, and Canna was
installed and starts automatically on boot as a result. Also,
Kinput2-canna-wnn is installed (can't remember if I installed or what),
but it's not being started anywhere. I think if I could solve issue #2,
I could slap the following lines in .bash_profile to get kinput2 running
$ pidof kinput2 /dev/null || kinput2
$ export [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Pretty much. If we get your explanation a bit better for the #2 problem,
we should be able to help.
Those 2 commands above currently work if typed on the command line
followed by a program that can handle Japanese input. I think SuSE had
a script /etc/X11/xim which loaded on boot which was more or less these
2 commands.
4. (a bit more esoteric) Anyone ever install ColdFusion MX developer? I
had it running under SuSE 9.2 on top of Apache... Just curious before I try.
So, in summary, make sure you are doing the right thing and minimizng
your exposure. Coldfusion works fine, I have had MX working on Sarge as
recent as 2 months ago. Since nothing really significant has changed...
it should be okay. I did have some issues that were resolvable. But, I
am not you and it is not my machine, so YMMV.
Good deal. I'm only intending to use it on my local web server.
Nothing public. Just so I can play around with new ideas for my job.
Thanks for your help so far!
Eric P.
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Re: Misc. Newb Help
Eric P wrote:
Greg Folkert wrote:
On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 23:22 -0500, Eric P wrote:
1. Nvidia driver - is there a Debian way to approach this? Or just run
the Nvidia installer?
apt-get install module-assistant ; m-a a-i nvidia
That worked (once I installed the kernel-header file). The nvidia
driver is still not kicking in (I did a cold reboot too), so how do I
activate the nvidia driver? Do I need to muck with the XF86Config{,-4}
files?
Got this part. I followed the link Mr. Colton provided and jumped to
the XF86Config-4 section and got 'er running.
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Misc. Newb Help
After using SuSE pro since 7.x, I finally threw in the towel and went Debian. Seemed like a good time to do it... what with the new release and all. I do have a small laundry list of things I'm still trying to figure out, so if anyone can steer me in the right direction, I'd be mighty obliged. 1. Nvidia driver - is there a Debian way to approach this? Or just run the Nvidia installer? 2. I have a .bash_profile in my user directly, but it's not being sourced ever. Any idea why? I tried .profile as well w/o any luck. Note: my .bashrc is being sourced. 3. Japanese input. I installed Debian in Japanese, and Canna was installed and starts automatically on boot as a result. Also, Kinput2-canna-wnn is installed (can't remember if I installed or what), but it's not being started anywhere. I think if I could solve issue #2, I could slap the following lines in .bash_profile to get kinput2 running $ pidof kinput2 /dev/null || kinput2 $ export [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4. (a bit more esoteric) Anyone ever install ColdFusion MX developer? I had it running under SuSE 9.2 on top of Apache... Just curious before I try. Thanks for reading and thank you to the Debian community. I'm glad to have finally jumped the fence! Eric P. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sarge Upgrade DEBOCLE ! ! !
Craig Russell wrote: Brian Kimsey-Hickman wrote: Help me please! I have mistakenly trusted the Debian community and upgraded to Sarge and it is a DISASTER. HOW COULD YOU HAVE DONE THIS TO US ! ! ! (Reading database ... 70119 files and directories currently installed.) Removing xserver-rage128 ... sed: can't read /etc/X11/Xserver: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing xserver-rage128 (--remove): subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: xserver-rage128 E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Some errors occurred while unpacking. I'm going to configure the packages that were installed. This may result in duplicate errors or errors caused by missing dependencies. This is OK, only the errors above this message are important. Please fix them and run [I]nstall again Press enter to continue. installation script returned error exit status 100. Press enter to continue. I have ties -, _, = in dselect to no avial. How can I fix this? Slashdot has written how 30% of Sarge upgrades are failing. THIS IS INEXCUSABLE ! ! ! Thanks, Brian Ummm... I'm a relative newbie to the debian world, but I've got to admit that I've found it to be more stable than many commercial software packages, both of the windoze variety as well as commercial unix packages (supported SunOs, Solaris2.x, and HP-ux 11.x). I've also found the Debian Community to be as helpful as paid support that I've had in the past. Of course, this has nothing to do with your quesion/problem but I just thought that I would point out that no one is paying the Debian Community to put out this product and insulting the Debian Community certainly isn't going to get you any closer to a solution. Craig Russell AirDigitalNetwork.com Amen to that. EP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Request for window manager recommendations
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Have just finished installing sarge (am a first-time debian user, very impressed), and now am chosing a window manager. I have fond memories of using a little-known WM called VTWM on SunOS, but that was almost 10 years ago now. I'm guessing the are other, at least equally noteworthy WM's around. Not so keen on KDE/GNOME because as I understand they are somewhat CPU-intensive and take longer to load than the traditional WMs. A personal recommendation of your favourite window manager would be much appreciated. My favorite has always been icewm. Very fast, and simple, but very configurable. I second that. Everything can be done on the keyboard, and it's quick to start up. Every so often, I'll pop into something else (gnome, xfce, kde (ugh) rat poisen as of late), but I always come back to IceWM and the grin returns. EP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
