Re: Apt is misbehaving
On Thu, Apr 29, 1999 at 03:01:40AM +, Stuart Ballard wrote:
[butchered]
> instability, but I do want to be able to show off gnome). Just out of
> curiosity, I typed apt-get update; apt-get -s dist-upgrade to see
> exactly how huge a download would be needed if I were to try to do it
> all at once. Apt told me that only two packages would be
Have you tried "apt-get dist-upgrade potato"?
-=- James Mastros
--
"My friend Data: You see the world with the wonder of a child, and that
makes you more human then any of us."
-=- Lt. Tasha Yar, upon the occasion of her death.
cat /dev/urandom|james --insane=yes > http://www.rtweb.net/theorb/
ICQ: 1293899 AIM: theorbtwo YPager: theorbtwo
Re: Broken libtiff3g-dev
On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 01:46:53PM -0400, Jason Murray wrote: > dpkg: error processing libtiff3g-dev (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 > Errors were encountered while processing: > libtiff3g-dev > E: Sub-process returned an error code (1) > > Any hints? Or is this the price you pay for using unstable. Looking at libtiff3g-dev's postinst, it's trivial -- and it appears that it will die with error if /usr/sbin/dhelp_parse dosn't exist or "$1" != configure. I've filed a bug against libtiff3g-dev; it will probably be fixed shortly. -=- James Mastros -- "My friend Data: You see the world with the wonder of a child, and that makes you more human then any of us." -=- Lt. Tasha Yar, upon the occasion of her death. cat /dev/urandom|james --insane=yes > http://www.rtweb.net/theorb/ ICQ: 1293899 AIM: theorbtwo YPager: theorbtwo
Re: Looking for trouble.
On Sun, Apr 18, 1999 at 02:34:57PM +0800, Hans van den Boogert wrote: > There doesn't seem to be a special group for Debian Newbies, so I hope > y'all don't mind me bringing up some questions here. Don't worry; this is a large part of what this mailinglist is here for. And we're glad that you RTFMed before you got here . > Background: Dutch, teacher, location: Taiwan, 32, shortwave DXer. > System1: Pentium 200MMX, 64 MB RAM, 3.2+6.1 GB HD, S3 Trio64, Soundblaster > AWE64. > System2: Twinhead Slimnote 486-33, 8 MB RAM, 305 MB HD, VGA monochrome > monitor. > Questions: > 1) What is an easy way to go to the previous directory, e.g. I am in > /usr/bin and want to go to /usr? Try "cd ~-". > 2) With the base system installed I can't open man pages, that is, when > typing "man ls" for example, the system returns with "command not found." > In /bin and /sbin I also can't see any man-binary. There are man pages > stored, but in .gz format. Is it normal that the man command is not > installed? How to open/read .gz files. The man reader is in the package "man-db"; run "apt-get install man-db" to install it if you are connected to the 'net. If you just want to read some random textual .gz file, run zless on it -- it's in the package zgip, but you need the package less to run it. (Install them with apt-get too.) > 3) I tried to create some scripts, very simple ones, but they refuse to > run, or the system says "command not found." Example: >From the following (cut), it looks like it, but did you try ./telltime? > 4) Any hints to where to find some in dept Debian specific FAQs? I know > there is a lot around, and believe me I've been reading, but most > tutorials/FAQs assume that the system is running smoothly and hardly deal > with problem solving. Try http://www.debain.org/doc/ -- I did just look, and there isn't much with problem solving there. One of the few bad things about the current state of Linux is that there aren't detailed problem-solving docs around -- perhaps it has somthing to do with the incidance rate of such problems. -=- James Mastros -- "My friend Data: You see the world with the wonder of a child, and that makes you more human then any of us." -=- Lt. Tasha Yar, upon the occasion of her death.
Re: XVT with a .jpg background?
On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 03:02:08PM -0500, Ian Keith Setford wrote: > I am looking for a terminal emulator (xterm,rxvt, etc..) that will display > a .jpg as a background. I read the docs on rxvt, xterm, and aterm but > they will only display pixmaps (.xpm). Problem is that when I convert a > 20K .jpg to a .xpm the size jumps to 1MB! That is too much so I am > looking for a more efficient way to accomplish this. > > TIA. Try eterm, to be had in the package, logicaly enough, "eterm". I'm not certian if it's in slink mainstream, but I know it's in potato mainstream. -=- James Mastros -- "My friend Data: You see the world with the wonder of a child, and that makes you more human then any of us." -=- Lt. Tasha Yar, upon the occasion of her death.
Re: Adding stuff to init
On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 04:14:08PM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote: > I've got to admit that I'm a bit intimidated by the Debian's startup > scripts. I read through update-rc.d's man page, but the format of > skelton scares me - I don't understand it yet. For somthing that dosn't run as a daemon, you simply need to replace the line beginning start-stop-daemon. If it does, then change the capilitized stuff near the top. > 1. "aumix -L" to be started as soon as the sound modules > initialize. Nothing to be done for it at shutdown. If the sound really does run as modules, then this has nothing to do with /etc/init.d. What you want to do is add a line like "postinst cs4232 /usr/bin/aumix -L -f /etc/defaults/aumix" to /etc/conf.modules. (If you're running Slink, edit /etc/conf.modules (or modules.conf, take your pick) directly. If you're running potato, then edit /etc/modutils/whatever, and then run update-modules.) (Note that if you try doing the /etc/init.d thing with a modulified sound setup, then the mixer will (probably, depends on hardware and driver design) go back to defaults when the module is autocleaned and put back.) A similar trick, BTW, is a cure for nonstandard modularified serial port problems. -=- James Mastros -- "My friend Data: You see the world with the wonder of a child, and that makes you more human then any of us." -=- Lt. Tasha Yar, upon the occasion of her death.
Re: Symbolic links behaviour
On Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 04:11:34PM +0200, Ruben Leote Mendes wrote: > Hello James, > > Umm, perhaps I'm missing somthing, but I once had to do a similar thing. I > > simply mounted the new partition in /hdd2, and created symlinks > > /home->/hdd2/home, /usr/local->/hdd2/usr/local. Nested symlinks are > > Yes, that works ok. But now try the following: ['..' dosn't go where you expected it to sometimes.] > The problem seems to be that the ../tmp in the link is interpreted as > pointing to (in your case) /hdd2 and not to / as I was expecting. My solution was to just deal with it at that point. I don't think relying on /usr/.. being / is quite sane. Then again, reading that I don't think that sentance is quite sane. > Please let me know the result of the above commands. I would, but that system has since died, and the drive containing / and /hdd2 is not quite sane. Insanity rules the drives of the dead Jennifer. Long live Jennifer! -=- James Mastros, Who is laughing his shoes off. -- "My friend Data: You see the world with the wonder of a child, and that makes you more human then any of us." -=- Lt. Tasha Yar, upon the occasion of her death.
Re: ATI RAGE IIC PCI
On Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 06:05:01PM +0200, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: > that page knows IIC (not 2C but that's the same...) > however my installed xserver-mach64 doesn't know it :( > > (--) Mach64: PCI: unknown ATI (0x4756) rev 58, Aperture @ 0x8000, Block > I/O @ 0x3000 > > hmmm would be enough to upgrade xserver-mach64 ? Myself, I just grabbed the 3.3.3.1 XF86_Mach64 off of xfree86.org and ran that. But then I discovered that there are debs 3.3.3.1 in http://master.debian.org/~branden/xfree86-3331/ (you should probably read http://master.debian.org/~branden/xsf.html first). Those debs require libc6 (>=2.1) IE potato, so you can't use them if you don't want to upgrade. (It works fine for me, but cavaet emptator.) -=- James Mastros -- "My friend Data: You see the world with the wonder of a child, and that makes you more human then any of us." -=- Lt. Tasha Yar, upon the occasion of her death.
Re: Kmod not functioning correctly with 2.2.3 kernel
On Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 02:03:31PM +1000, Jason Stokes wrote: > Certain modules hang around in the > kernel forever, even when they aren't being used, and are never flushed (eg > ppa, the Zip parallel port driver) Do an lsmod. Do the offending modules have a use count of 0, the "(autoclean)" flag listed, and no modules using them listed? If they're not listed as autoclean, then you manualy inserted them (perhaps using modconf; /etc/modules should probably only contain "noauto"). If all that is true then rmmod -a isn't being run. In /etc/cron.d, put a file named modutils with this line: */20 * * * * root test -f /proc/modules && /sbin/rmmod -a That should do it. Potato has this by default; it's in package modutils. > while others are not autoloaded on demand > (eg soundcore and es1371). You need to add aliases for these. For example, I have in /etc/modutils/sound: alias sound-service-0-3 cs4232 alias sound-service-0-0 cs4232 After modifying the files in /etc/modutils/ (all of which are really equivelent; they just get cated together anyway), run update-modules. > Apr 11 13:59:43 valis modprobe: can't locate module char-major-14 You need to look for lines like this and add aliases as appropriate. Alias somthing to "off" if you don't want it to load anything. -=- James Mastros -- "My friend Data: You see the world with the wonder of a child, and that makes you more human then any of us." -=- Lt. Tasha Yar, upon the occasion of her death.
Re: Help for error: "SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument."
On Sat, Apr 10, 1999 at 07:58:40PM +0200, Norbert Nemec wrote: > I've been trying to compile kernel 2.2.1 for several machines in our small > network. Now, some computers bring the message above during bootup at > the command: > route add -net 127.0.0.0 > (in /etc/init.d/network) The simple fix is to add "[ uname -r|cut -d. -f1-2 == '2.0' ] && " before this line; that will force it to only run on 2.0 kernels. (If you use a kernel before 2.0, you deserve what you get, IMHO.) > After that, the IP-network is not working fully. (Parts, like nfs still work, > but > others, like dns don't) In my (limited) experince, that probably isn't related. I can't help here; I don't have a network to be on (other then ppp, and that dosn't count). If your /etc/init.d/network is the same as the one in /usr/doc/sysvinit/examples/, then don't bother fileing a bugreport. Otherwise, if you can figure out where it came from, you should probably do so. This is a well-known problem on this list; that it has a simple fix that isn't there is silly (IMHO, naturaly). -=- James Mastros -- "My friend Data: You see the world with the wonder of a child, and that makes you more human then any of us." -=- Lt. Tasha Yar, upon the occasion of her death.
Re: Symbolic links behaviour
On Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 05:42:38PM +0200, Ruben Leote Mendes wrote: > On Tue, Apr 06, 1999 at 01:09:57PM -0700, Adam Klein wrote: > > Why don't you just mount the parition under /usr/local? > The main reason is because I want to put several directories in the > same partition. I create several directories in the partition and > then make symbolic links there. For instance /home and /usr/local will > be on the same partition. > > It seems that I will have to go through all the symbolic links and > make them absolute. I must figure out some script to do this. :) Umm, perhaps I'm missing somthing, but I once had to do a similar thing. I simply mounted the new partition in /hdd2, and created symlinks /home->/hdd2/home, /usr/local->/hdd2/usr/local. Nested symlinks are perfectly legal. (Indeed, when the kernel went to dcache, there were quite a few hoops jumped through to still support it cleanly.) -=- James Mastros -- "My friend Data: You see the world with the wonder of a child, and that makes you more human then any of us." -=- Lt. Tasha Yar, upon the occasion of her death.
Re: Q: User access to hardware peripherals - preferred method?
On Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 08:19:47PM -0400, Michael Stutz wrote: > This works for the CD-ROM drive after doing "chgroup audio /dev/cdrom; > chgroup audio /dev/hdc" as root (should I have done that?) but doing "mount > /dev/fd0 /floppy" as a user still gets "mount: only root can do that": > > $ mount /dev/fd0 /floppy/ > mount: only root can do that > $ ls -l /dev/fd0 > brw-rw 1 root floppy 2, 0 May 27 1997 /dev/fd0 > $ groups > m dialout floppy audio dip Is /floppy listed in /etc/fstab with the "user" flag (IE "/dev/fd0 /3.5 auto defaults,noauto,user 0 0")? That's probably it; if it were a permissions problem, you'd get somthing along the lines of "mount: access denied". (I'm not certian: I always run as root. Avoids permission problems.) -=- James Mastros -- "My friend Data: You see the world with the wonder of a child, and that makes you more human then any of us." -=- Lt. Tasha Yar, upon the occasion of her death.
Re: [q] XFree 3.3.3.1 available in .deb?
On Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 04:04:47PM -0400, Jozef Skvarcek wrote: > Can somebody suggest a place I can download XFree 3.3.3.1 in debian > packages from? (If they exist...) There are pre-release packages avaible at http://master.debian.org/~branden/xfree86-3331/. If you're using apt, add the following line to sources.list: deb http://master.debian.org/~branden/ xfree86-3331/ If you aren't using apt, you should be, it's great. Note that: a: These are prerelease. They may contain bugs (and probably do, though I havn't run afoul of any. Also, they are potatoified (libc6 >= 2.1), so if you're using slink either upgrade or do without. -=- James Mastros -- "My friend Data: You see the world with the wonder of a child, and that makes you more human then any of us." -=- Lt. Tasha Yar, upon the occasion of her death.
Re: Installing the Latest Version of Debian from a DOS partition
On Sun, Apr 04, 1999 at 04:11:01AM -0400, Egwu Kalu wrote:
> uncompressing Linux
> ran out of input data
> --- system halted.
It looks like the kernel you downloaded (into a file named "linux", I
belive) didn't quite make it. Try downloading the file again.
-=- James Mastros
Re: SB 128 PCI w/2.1 kernel
On Sat, Apr 03, 1999 at 11:43:41PM -0500, Randy Edwards wrote: > > Somthing tells me that perhaps you don't have soundcore? (What, I couldn't > > say, as I don't have the kernel sources about.) Do you have a /proc/sound? >Hmm, I'm not sure what a soundcore is. But I do not have a /proc/sound. That suguests to me that somthing is deeply wrong with sound. What kernel is this, exactly (if it really is a 2.1, you should probably upgrade)? Are you using compiled-in drivers, or modules? Does your .config file have a line that says CONFIG_SOUND=m (or 'y', as approprate)? -=- James Mastros
Re: GNOME query
On Sat, Apr 03, 1999 at 07:30:53PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Sat, 3 Apr 1999 13:00:30 -0500 (EST), William R Pentney wrote: > > Well, AFAIK fvwm2 isn't compiled for use with Gnome. It would be like > installing KDE and not using KWM. It'll work, just not with all the bells > and whistles. In puticular, notably: 1) Things will maximize over the panel. 2) Things won't appear in the gnome-pager applet (taskbar like). 3) Things will get icons (assuming that fvwm2 uses icons, I wouldn't know) even if you use gnome-pager. -=- James Mastros
Re: lossless partitioning
On Sat, Apr 03, 1999 at 09:17:09PM -0600, Carl Wiebe wrote: > I believe FIPS works very well with lossless partitioning. I'm very much a > newbie (is that close to "dumb end-user"?) but I was able to partition a > hard drive for Linux and swap without losing my DOS partition. I've used it on multiple ocasions, including ones with stupid dos extenders (which wouldn't run linux of the era, however), and fat32 partitions without any problems. However, it claims to be not completly safe. OTOH, I've never heard tail of it dieing. Use your own judgement. -=- James Mastros
Re: SB 128 PCI w/2.1 kernel
On Sat, Apr 03, 1999 at 01:14:10PM -0500, Randy Edwards wrote: > > no, dont need to load oss driver, just the es1370 > >That's what I thought after reading the kernel es1370 docs; good. Right > now I've got the driver compiled straight into the kernel (not as a module). > >Interesting, how do I get anything out of it? I've got the device listed > as: > crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 6 Apr 3 08:18 /dev/sndstat > and if I try to cat it as root I just get a "No such device". Somthing tells me that perhaps you don't have soundcore? (What, I couldn't say, as I don't have the kernel sources about.) Do you have a /proc/sound? -=- James Mastros
Re: access for non-us packages
On Fri, Apr 02, 1999 at 09:05:38PM -0600, Pat Greenwood wrote: > Due to the amount of time it was taking to obtain selected packages in > dselect, I edited against the Access defaults to try specific mirror > sites. I'm back to what I think were the suggested paths. I've tried: > http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free > http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US and > http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US non-US main contrib non-free > which I determined from reading the source for apt. I've attached my /etc/apt/sources.list file to this email; you should be able to simply copy it if you want a fairly bleading-edge system (potato distribution, with yet-to-land gnome and gnome-apt front-end. Of cource, you don't need to get gnome if you don't want it.) > Is it unrealistic to expect success attempting to install from the net > or should I surrender to CD's? It is absolutly reasonable, and I think would be considered a bug if it dosn't work. > Is there a faster way to obtain some bells and whistles via the net? My > current plan is to Install the minimum necessary to get X Window running > with wmaker and a couple of games, then add packages later. I'd suguest enlightenment over wmaker, btw, but that's largely a personal choice. -=- James Mastros # Use for a local mirror - remove the ftp1 http lines for the bits # your mirror contains. # deb file:/your/mirror/here/debian stable main contrib non-free # See sources.list(5) for more information, especial # Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs #deb ftp://debian.midco.net/debian stable main contrib non-free non-US #deb ftp://debian.midco.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free non-US #deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free #deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable non-US deb http://www.debian.org/~jules/gnome-stage-2 unstable main deb http://www.debian.org/~mblevin/gnome-apt unstable main deb http://pages.infinit.net/linux debian/
Re: I really need help!
On Fri, Apr 02, 1999 at 02:42:50PM -0800, Nuno Donato wrote: > I really need sme help here. If you can, please help me. > I want to know if there is a kind of autoexec.bat file in > Linux, so that each times it boots, it automatically > executes some commands. There are several different things that you could call analogous to autoexec.bat. The one you probably want to modify is called .profile. Just say "editor .profile". If you end up in somthing that you can't understand, it's probably vi. To get out of it, hit ^C, then :q!. Then say "apt-get install ee" at a prompt to install a more user-friendly editor. > I need this because I have downloaded Blender(3d Software), > and i must install symbolic links. But because I don't know > how to do this before running Blender I need to execute a > LARGE command. > Do you know how ot install symbolic links? ln -s Note that the source file is the one that gets created, and becomes (effectively) another name for the desrination file. If you should happen to get them reversed (which I do all the time), then you'll get an error message; just reverse the two again. -=- James Mastros
