Re: arts Server Problem - only running as root
On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 01:23:00PM +0200, Thorsten Viel wrote: Hi List, i got a problem ;-). After installation of the necessary packages for a soundsystem, logging in as nonroot user i always get the following error message: Sound server informational message: Error while initializing the sound driver: device: default can't be opened for playback (No such file or directory) The sound server will continue, using the null output device. Am I logging in to KDE as root everything works perfectly: Add any users who will be using the sound server to group audio. # adduser user audio -- Jerome pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Change font?
On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 03:02:05AM -0400, The Nyc0n wrote: Here is the only thing I have found in my XF86Config-4 file that references fonts, is this what I am suppose to have by default? I don't A couple months or so ago, an update to XFree86 changed the default order of fonts. If you are using debconf to manage part of XF86Config-4 or the font server config file, your upgrade to testing would have resulted in a change to the order of fonts from what you had with woody. There are a lot of messages in the list archives dicussing various font size problems. know why it would change on an upgrade, its very hard to read it I don't think it was a wise choice if it was suppose to be like that Here it is: Section Files FontPathunix/:7100 This line is telling X to get a font from the font server before following your other font paths. If you are using a font server, which seems to get installed by default, check its config file, reorder the fonts, then restart the font server and see if that solves your problem. I use the following order: /usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/, /usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/, /usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/ FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 You may need to move Type1 fonts to end of the list. FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi FontPath/usr/share/fonts/truetype FontPath/usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice -- Jerome pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: How to dpkg -i on broken system
On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 10:30:49AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: My system got in a broken state in which it could not mount some disks. I had patched the evms libraries to correct a problem, and then overwrote them with an updated Debian package (which unfortunately lacked the patch). I wanted to dpkg -i my_old.deb (that will work, even for a downgrade, won't it?), but dpkg said dpkg: unable to access dpkg status area: No such file or directory To install a package with a broken dpkg, try the instructions here: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-package.en.html#s6.3.7 If you still have /var/backups, you'll find several backups of dpkg's status file there. Also look at: http://qref.sourceforge.net/Debian/reference/ch-package.en.html#s-rescue-var http://qref.sourceforge.net/Debian/reference/ch-package.en.html#s-recover-status The status area was on one of the evms disks. I used dpkg-deb to unpack the .deb file and copied the single file I needed over the newer one. Is there a better way to do this? Is there any way to run dpkg -i when the directory it needs is gone? Thanks. -- Jerome pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Recent dist-upgrade in Sarge
On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 02:47:03PM +0700, arief_mulya wrote: Dear all, I've recently done apt-get --fix-missing --fix-broken dist-upgrade on debian-testing (Sarge). Lots of package got thrown out but I see some of them got thrown back in. After the process done. I can see I'm in GNOME2 now. Being experienced with GNOME2 in previous lifetime, I remove sawfish, install metacity*, gtk2-engines*, and do some other things to make my lovely GNOME2 became prettier. But I still found some troubles. For example: 1. When first logged in, I got Settings-Daemon failed to start. And then something that said Gnome-Mixer also failed to load. 2. If I'm not mistaken, There's also a version of nautilus, galeon, and some other packages for GNOME-2, right? But I still can't find it. I figure, is it because the transition still ongoing? So I just need tobe patient a little while. Or is it I'm missing something? Some gnome2 packages haven't made it into sarge yet: gnome-control-center gnome-applets gnome-media gnome-terminal nautilus You could just wait or install versions from unstable. -- Jerome pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: A4 paper size not available for printer
On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 01:25:18AM +0100, Mark C wrote: Hi, I done a upgrade to sarge, and so far its been great, I have now just come to setup my printer and discovered that there is no 'A4' size listed to use. During the install I can remember something regarding the printer paper size, which I set to A4, but this must of got messed up during the upgrade. I'm currently printing use the 'letter' size, but this cuts alot of text out and messes the page up. Can anyone advise me how I would get this option back, or be able to add it. What print software and printer are you using? I'm using cupsys with gimpprint drive with epson stylus color 860. The cupsys printer configuration has option for A4 paper. Before cupsys, I used lpr and magicfilter. I think there were setting in printcap to control page size. -- Jerome pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: GDM Problem
On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 05:19:03PM +0100, Piers Kittel wrote: Hello all Changed my apt sources to get the testing packages, did an apt-get update then apt-get upgrade, and now GDM won't work properly - when the PC boots up and loads GDM, I just see the default grey/white screens on both of my monitors and the pointer is the black cross. Exiting GDM and disabling it, then typing startx works just fine though. Any ideas on how to fix GDM? Are there any reports of problems in XFree86 or gdm log files? If nothing is reported in logs, you could possible enable debug in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf and check what is reported in syslog. -- Jerome pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Cannot acces my machine (woody)
On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 10:50:57AM -0400, Jean-marc Belley wrote: I have a problem to access my computer. I cannot access to root or any user. When i tried to login as root or user i have the following error: Cannot Execute /bin/bash: Exec format error So i cannot access my computer. I tried with the rescue disk and same error. If you have /bin/sash installed, try that rather than /bin/bash. If you cannot boot with a rescue disk, you could try to booting from a floppy with tomsrtbt. You can get tomsrtbt from http://www.toms.net/rb/. Once you have booted from tomsrtbt, you can mount your partitions and try to fix the problem. To fix the problem you may need to run programs using chroot; the tomsrtbt FAQ has some sections on this. You should probably also take a look at: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/quick-reference/ch-package.en.html#s-survival What sequence of events led up to your problem? -- Jerome pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: floppy device deleted
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 06:50:15PM -0400, Alfredo Valles wrote: Hi debianeers. All my device files for high density floppies are gone, I mean no /dev/fd0h1440 or any other /dev/fd0hxxx. But /dev/fd0 exist and it's not a link to any other dev. (Shouldn't /dev/fd0 be a link to /dev/fd0h1440?) I installed vmware4.0, played with it and uninstaled it, then I discovered that my floppy drive isn't reading my floppies anymore, and saw that vmware left me no device for my high dencity floppy drive. Now how do I get back these devices files? Use /dev/MAKEDEV script to recreate devices, or if you want to try something different, mount devfs on /dev. Thanks in advance Alfredo -- Jerome pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
.xsession-errors: event-keyval: xxxxx, event-state:0
I see thousands of entries in my .xsession-errors that read: subset is whole list! event-keyval: 110, event-state:0 Not mathced subset is whole list! event-keyval: 116, event-state:0 Not mathced subset is whole list! event-keyval: 47, event-state:0 Not mathced subset is whole list! event-keyval: 100, event-state:0 Not mathced subset is whole list! event-keyval: 111, event-state:0 Not mathced subset is whole list! event-keyval: 115, event-state:0 Not mathced subset is whole list! event-keyval: 99, event-state:0 Not mathced subset is whole list! event-keyval: 47, event-state:0 Not mathced subset is whole list! event-keyval: 65293, event-state:0 Not mathced subset is whole list! event-keyval: 65364, event-state:0 Not mathced subset is whole list! event-keyval: 65364, event-state:0 Not mathced Googling around I haven't seen anything that quite matches these errors, although they seem similar to some on gtk and bonobo. Has anyone else seen these and knows what it means? I'm running Debian/GNU testing and just did an update yesterday; but, I am not sure these are related to the upgrade. -- Jerome pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: xlibs-dev package unresolvable conflict
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 08:10:17AM -0500, Blitzen wrote: Hi, I have the xlibs version 4.2.1-6 package installed, and am trying to Since you have xlibs 4.2.1-6 installed, you ought to have libc6=2.3.1-1 installed also. So you are probably running some sort of woody/unstable hybrid. You might as well install xlibs-dev 4.2.1-6. You can either download xlibs-dev 4.2.1-6 and install with dpkg, or you can change your sources.list to include unstable. Add these to your sources.list: #unstable/sid deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free Then run: apt-get update apt-get -u -t unstable install xlibs-dev Unless you want to continue to pull packages in from unstable, after you install xlibs-dev 4.2.1-6, comment out unstable lines in sources.list and do another apt-get update, or set up a /etc/apt/preferences file to use pinning. See man apt_preferences. install xlibs-dev to resolve other dependencies. However, upon hitting enter at the selection screen, it complains with a Dependency Conflict/Resolution screen and says xlibs-dev depends on xlibs (= 4.1.0-16). The xlibs-dev version I'm trying to install is 4.1.0-16, and I just did an update. Here is the uncommented portion of my /etc/apt/sources.list (the 3 that come by default, with the word stable replaced with the word woody, and a 4th mirrors.kernel.org added: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US woody/non-US main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org woody/updates main contrib non-free deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian woody main contrib Is there a way to fool it into thinking it's an earlier version, or how to either downgrade the available xlibs, or upgrade the available xlibs-dev? Thx. -- Jerome pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: 'apt-get upgrade' error this morning
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 09:41:11AM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: I've upgraded lots of packages to testing this morning (the libc6/php4 problem evidently got fixed) and finally got the following error. How do I fix whatever went wrong? (Reading database ... 170160 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace ncurses-bin 5.2.20020112a-8 (using .../ncurses-bin_5.3.20021109-2_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement ncurses-bin ... Setting up ncurses-bin (5.3.20021109-2) ... dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 49824: missing package name E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) tc:/# tc:/# apt-get -f install Reading Package Lists... Error! E: Encountered a section with no Package: header E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. If you can figure out what the missing package name is, you could edit /var/lib/dpkg/status with a text editor and fix the file. Or, you could copy the file to another name and replace the status file with one of the backups. The one closest to your current setup would be /var/lib/dpkg/status-old. Older backups are in /var/backups. -- Jerome pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [OT] Anything simpler than emacspeak?
On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 12:15:15PM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: Hello, all: I'm trying to set up a Debian laptop (so this is not _completely_ offtopic :) for my Dad, whose sight has almost failed. I have bought Fonix's DECtalk software, and it works quite nicely on the command line (i.e. it speaks what I type), but the only application I can find which uses it is emacspeak, which has way too steep a learning curve and in any event is much more than Dad needs, which is basically web-browsing (lynx would be good) and email (for which I'd set him up with mutt or pine). I tried screader, but couldn't get it to work with DECtalk's 'say' program; and its documentation is so sketchy, I couldn't begin to diagnose the problem. Any help will be much appreciated, and I'll report back (and probably create a website) so that anyone else wanting to set up a minimal but functional talking system will be able to do it more easily! Thanks Patrick This is about best website I've seen on Linux accessibilty. http://trace.wisc.edu/linux/index.htm -- Jerome pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Nvidia Issues
On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 08:16:29AM -0500, Bill wrote: Hi, How do I move to woody? I am not sure what that means. It means do a distribution upgrade to change your Debian/GNU 2.2 to 3.0. The below link discussed upgrading from Debian 2.2 to 3.0: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-woody.en.html The manual is slightly out of date. In the manual stable refers to Debian 2.2 and testing refers to woody, i.e. Debian 3.0. -- Jerome pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Problems installing quickcam on kernel bf2.4
On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 06:49:33PM +0100, Hans van Leeuwen wrote: Hello, I have problems installing qce-source. I have a Logitech Quickcam (you know, the golfball) and I want to use it with my Debian server. The problem is that the module is not loaded correct. This is because I have kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4 installed, but the kernel source is 2.4.18. When I try to load the module insmod says kernel-module version mismatch mod_quickcam.o was compiled for kernel version 2.4.18 while this kernel is version 2.4.18-bf2.4. Use config file for 2.4.18-bf2.4 from /boot. If you want to retain -bf.24 in name of the kernel you compile, use --append-to-version option to make-kpkg. I have searched but I can't find the source for this kernel. Source should be kernel-source-2.4.18. I have tried the quickcam on SuSE 8.1 and Mandrake 9.0, and it is automatically detected and works fine. Does anyone have any suggestions? I think you will need to compile your own kernel. I use pwc and pwcx modules from http://www.smcc.demon.nl/webcam/ for my Logitech Quickcam. To get that to work, I have to compile kernel and module with # CONFIG_MODVERSIONS is not set in the config file. make menuconfig make-kpkg clean make-kpkg --append-to-version=[whatever_I_want] kernel_image make-kpkg --appent-to-version=[whatever_I_want] modules_image #if needed http://www.smcc.demon.nl/webcam/install.html has instructions for how to do it without using make-kpkg. Hans van Leeuwen output: teletram1:/usr/src/modules/qce-source-0.40b+cvs.2002.04.13-1# ./quickcam.sh Using /lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/kernel/drivers/media/video/videodev.o insmod: a module named videodev already exists Using /lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/kernel/drivers/usb/usbcore.o insmod: a module named usbcore already exists Using /lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/kernel/drivers/usb/usb-uhci.o insmod: a module named usb-uhci already exists Using /lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/kernel/drivers/usb/usb-ohci.o /lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/kernel/drivers/usb/usb-ohci.o: init_module: No such device Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters insmod: uhci: no module by that name found ./quickcam.sh: /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq: No such file or directory mod_quickcam.o: kernel-module version mismatch mod_quickcam.o was compiled for kernel version 2.4.18 while this kernel is version 2.4.18-bf2.4. Module Size Used byTainted: GF cs4232 3584 0 (autoclean) ad1848 20672 0 (autoclean) [cs4232] uart401 6016 0 (autoclean) [cs4232] sound 52876 0 (autoclean) [cs4232 ad1848 uart401] soundcore 3236 4 (autoclean) [sound] nls_cp437 4384 0 (autoclean) nls_iso8859-1 2880 0 (autoclean) ipt_MASQUERADE 1216 1 (autoclean) iptable_mangle 2112 0 (autoclean) (unused) ipt_REJECT 2816 7 (autoclean) ipt_limit960 17 (autoclean) ipt_state608 4 (autoclean) ipt_LOG 3136 15 (autoclean) ibmcam 38912 0 usbvideo 24024 0 [ibmcam] ov511 74336 0 videodev4448 0 [usbvideo ov511] ne 6368 1 isa-pnp27432 0 [cs4232 ad1848 ne] iptable_filter 1728 1 de4x5 39136 1 eepro100 17264 1 nfsd 42848 8 smbfs 31296 0 (unused) ip_nat_irc 2368 0 (unused) ip_nat_ftp 2944 0 (unused) iptable_nat12660 3 [ipt_MASQUERADE ip_nat_irc ip_nat_ftp] ip_tables 10432 10 [ipt_MASQUERADE iptable_mangle ipt_REJECT ipt_limit ipt_state ipt_LOG iptable_filter iptable_nat] ip_conntrack_irc2496 0 (unused) ip_conntrack_ftp3200 0 (unused) ip_conntrack 12684 4 [ipt_MASQUERADE ipt_state ip_nat_irc ip_nat_ftp iptable_nat ip_conntrack_irc ip_conntrack_ftp] keybdev 1664 0 (unused) usbkbd 2848 0 (unused) input 3072 0 [keybdev usbkbd] usb-uhci 20708 0 (unused) usbcore48032 0 [ibmcam usbvideo ov511 usbkbd usb-uhci] -- Jerome pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: CUPS Update failed
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 09:47:59AM -0800, debian_newbie wrote: I am running Woody. I was trying to update CUPS by using Synaptic when I got this message: (Reading database ... 93315 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace cupsys 1.1.14-3 (using .../cupsys_1.1.14-4.4_i386.deb) ... Stopping CUPSys: cupsd. Unpacking replacement cupsys ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/cupsys_1.1.14-4.4_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/sbin/lpinfo', which is also in package cupsys-client dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Starting CUPSys: cupsd. Update failed - Scroll in this buffer to see what went wrong That was all it said, nothing else. What do I need to do? # dpkg --force-overwrite -i /var/cache/apt/archives/cupsys_1.1.14-4.4_i386.deb See man dpkg. -- Jerome pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: cups installation: Unable to read configuration file '/etc/cups/cupsd.conf' - exiting
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 07:04:46PM +0100, iks_kzm wrote: On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: Is the version of HP_Laserjet_1200.ppd the same as other ppd's that come with the cupsys package? I did NOT have any ppd files in the cupsys for HP Laserjet 1200 series and I was advised to use the one from the CD. I tried to use some ppd file for HP Laserjet 4 or something like that but the result was similar. Do you get same results with running: lp /usr/share/cups/data/testprint.ps While not same printer and setup you have, here is solution of someone who had similar problems to yours. He was having problems where printing ps files with graphics worked from kde but not from terminal/console. http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200302/msg02112.html I'm running the testing version of CUPS. I'm not sure what all the changes are between woody and testing. On my computer ownership and permission of files in /etc/cups are: # ls -l /etc/cups total 160 lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 21 Oct 16 21:46 certs - /var/spool/cups/certs -rw-r--r--1 root root 2183 Feb 9 2002 client.conf -rw-r--r--1 root root 1215 Jun 6 2002 command.types -rw---1 lp sys 19728 Aug 20 2002 cupsd.conf drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 Mar 9 2002 interfaces -rw-r--r--1 root root 2798 Aug 20 2002 mime.convs -rw-r--r--1 root root 5659 Aug 20 2002 mime.types drwxr-xr-x2 lp sys 4096 Aug 3 2002 ppd -rw-r--r--1 root root94464 Oct 16 21:46 ppds.dat -rw---1 lp sys 279 Oct 5 19:51 printers.conf -rw---1 lp sys 279 Aug 8 2002 printers.conf.O -rw-r--r--1 root root 947 Aug 7 2002 pstoraster.convs my 'ls # ls -l /etc/cups drwx--x--x2 lp sys 4096 mar 16 18:47 certs -rw---1 lp sys 18394 mar 10 2002 cupsd.conf drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 mar 13 20:27 interfaces -rw-r--r--1 root root 2749 mar 10 2002 mime.convs -rw-r--r--1 root root 5634 mar 10 2002 mime.types drwxr-xr-x2 lp sys 4096 mar 13 20:30 ppd -rw-r--r--1 root root 693392 mar 15 16:38 ppds.dat -rw---1 lp sys 285 mar 13 20:45 printers.conf -rw-r--r--1 lp sys 285 mar 13 20:43 printers.conf.O I do not have client.conf file. (I use the cupsys for woody). Jan Try running debsums against the cupsys packages to check the integrity of the installation. Edit /etc/cups/cupsd.conf, change LogLevel info to LogLevel debug and then restart cups. This should generate more message in the error log and may give you better idea of what the problem is. Do you have libcupsys2 and gs-esp installed? I installed libcupsys2 but I cannot figure out whether I have gs-esp. What gs-esp is? Using search in dselect I cannot find it. Wrong guess on my part. gs-esp is version of ghostscript from Easy Software Products (ESP). It is available in debian testing and unstable; you should not need it with woody. -- Jerome pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Xserver fails after upgrading to testing/unstable
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 06:18:15PM +0100, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote: Hello, Last week I upgraded my debian system to testing/unstable. Then I turned off my computer and didn't use it for two days. Today I wanted to use it again, but now I only see a grey screen w/o the cross in the middle. The screen isn't equal grey, but with white spots on it. I'm using a geforce 2 with the nv driver, this mix worked well before. I know I actually must use the nvidia-kernel driver, I tried several times befor. I can build the package and install it, but when I reconfigure the x-server xfree86 I don't see the driver in the list. I am using nvidia 4191 kernel with my gforce2. The name of the nvidia driver changes depending on which nvidia kernel you are using. If you are using debconf to manage /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, you will need to edit XF86Config-4 and put something like the following at the top of the file: # The area before the DEBCONF SECTION is needed for using # the NVdriver kernel module from nVidia. # # If I want to revert to using the nv driver, remember to add # LoadGLcore # Loaddri # to Section Module # and remember to uninstall nvidis-glx package. Section Device Identifier NVdriver Device Driver nvidia Option NvAgp 1 #I need this; you may not EndSection Section Screen Identifier NVdriver Screen [snip: mode definitions for my monitor] EndSection Section ServerLayout Identifier My Server Layout Screen NVdriver Screen InputDevice Generic Keyboard InputDevice Configured Mouse EndSection ### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION [snip] -- Jerome pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: CUPS Update failed
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 03:09:56PM -0800, debian_newbie wrote: On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 16:27:43 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] sat at his keyboard and wrote: On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 09:47:59 -0800 debian_newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: trying to overwrite `/usr/sbin/lpinfo', which is also in package cupsys-client dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Starting CUPSys: cupsd. Read man dpkg, especially the section about --force. Focus on overwrite. This sounds like a bug in the packaging. IF there is a bug in the packaging, is it still safe to force the install? Yes, the bug in this case is /usr/sbin/lpinfo is included in two packages. -- Jerome pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: cups installation: Unable to read configuration file '/etc/cups/cupsd.conf' - exiting
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 05:07:12PM +0100, iks_kzm wrote: On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: You have not mentioned anything about installing drivers for your printer. You probably need to install one of these packages: I have HP Laserjet 1200 series. 1) cupsys-driver-gimpprint, 2) foomatic-bin and foomatic-db, or 3) cupsomatic-ppd. I have installed 1, 2 and 3. But I just copied from the CD (which I obtained with the printer) the original HP_Laserjet_1200.ppd to /usr/share/cups/model/HP/, restarted cups and then connected to http://localhost:631 and add new printer choosing the HP_Laserjet_1200 series model. Is the version of HP_Laserjet_1200.ppd the same as other ppd's that come with the cupsys package? I noticed the following: the files /etc/cups/cupsd.conf and printers.conf can be read and executed ONLY by root. I changed the mode (using chmod) so any user can read the files but nothing changed: the described above printing problem remained the same. When I did '/etc/init.d/./cupsys restart' the two files again can be read and executed ONLY by root. I use debian 3.0 (woody) I'm running the testing version of CUPS. I'm not sure what all the changes are between woody and testing. On my computer ownership and permission of files in /etc/cups are: # ls -l /etc/cups total 160 lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 21 Oct 16 21:46 certs - /var/spool/cups/certs -rw-r--r--1 root root 2183 Feb 9 2002 client.conf -rw-r--r--1 root root 1215 Jun 6 2002 command.types -rw---1 lp sys 19728 Aug 20 2002 cupsd.conf drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 Mar 9 2002 interfaces -rw-r--r--1 root root 2798 Aug 20 2002 mime.convs -rw-r--r--1 root root 5659 Aug 20 2002 mime.types drwxr-xr-x2 lp sys 4096 Aug 3 2002 ppd -rw-r--r--1 root root94464 Oct 16 21:46 ppds.dat -rw---1 lp sys 279 Oct 5 19:51 printers.conf -rw---1 lp sys 279 Aug 8 2002 printers.conf.O -rw-r--r--1 root root 947 Aug 7 2002 pstoraster.convs Try running debsums against the cupsys packages to check the integrity of the installation. Edit /etc/cups/cupsd.conf, change LogLevel info to LogLevel debug and then restart cups. This should generate more message in the error log and may give you better idea of what the problem is. Do you have libcupsys2 and gs-esp installed? I installed libcupsys2 but I cannot figure out whether I have gs-esp. What gs-esp is? Using search in dselect I cannot find it. Wrong guess on my part. gs-esp is version of ghostscript from Easy Software Products (ESP). It is available in debian testing and unstable; you should not need it with woody. -- Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cups installation: Unable to read configuration file '/etc/cups/cupsd.conf' - exiting
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 08:02:52PM +0100, iks_kzm wrote: Thanks for answer. On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 03:08:07PM +0100, iks_kzm wrote: I had problem with cups: Please don't break the text in you message into blocks by placing -- between the blocks. Some mail user agents (e.g. mutt) interpret this as the start of a signature. It makes it difficult to incorporate the text of your message in the reply. I am really sorry. During the installation I got the following message: cupsd: Unable to read configuration file '/etc/cups/cupsd.conf' - exiting and there is no file cupsd.conf in /etc/cups/. Then when I connect (using mozilla) to http://localhost:631/ and then try to choose Do Administration Tasks or Printers I got : Alert! The connection was refused when attempting to contact localhost:631. Connecting to http://localhost:631 will only work if cupsd daemon is running. You will not be able to use web interface to administer your printers until you get the daemon to run. Until then, you can administer printers with the lpadmin program. Make yourself a member of the lpadmin group to be able to administer printers without becoming root. I think it is a bug in dselect or in cupsys debian package. I used 'dpkg -i cupsys...' and the package and cupsys-client and cups-bsd were installed. How one can make a user a member of the 'lpadmin' group? # adduser your_userID lpadmin Still have problem: When I use the printer from NON-root account it seems that the configuration of the printer is NOT OK. E.g. when I print some picture (region filled with gray colour) it is printed as black but from the root account it is printed OK. That sounds like a permission problem, i.e. permission or ownership of some directory is not set properly, or user needs to be added to some group to get write access priviledges to a device. You have not mentioned anything about installing drivers for your printer. You probably need to install one of these packages: 1) cupsys-driver-gimpprint, 2) foomatic-bin and foomatic-db, or 3) cupsomatic-ppd. Do you have libcupsys2 and gs-esp installed? Which version of debian/GNU are you using? I use gv to print postscript files and acrobat to print pdf files. The command for printing is lp or lpr: both work in strange way described above. BUT I noticed that when I use KGhostview instead of gv to print .ps files from non-root account the picture with gray filling is printed OK. In KGhostview I can choose in print dialog window cups or lprng and so on. Of course I choose cups system. It seems that gv and acrobat are not aware of cups system in non-root account. Any clue? Jan /etc/cups/cupsd.conf is in the cupsys package. It doesn't sound like your installation is complete. Check this by running dpkg -s cupsys. -- Jerome pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: cups installation: Unable to read configuration file '/etc/cups/cupsd.conf' - exiting
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 03:08:07PM +0100, iks_kzm wrote: I had problem with cups: Please don't break the text in you message into blocks by placing -- between the blocks. Some mail user agents (e.g. mutt) interpret this as the start of a signature. It makes it difficult to incorporate the text of your message in the reply. During the installation I got the following message: cupsd: Unable to read configuration file '/etc/cups/cupsd.conf' - exiting and there is no file cupsd.conf in /etc/cups/. Then when I connect (using mozilla) to http://localhost:631/ and then try to choose Do Administration Tasks or Printers I got : Alert! The connection was refused when attempting to contact localhost:631. Connecting to http://localhost:631 will only work if cupsd daemon is running. You will not be able to use web interface to administer your printers until you get the daemon to run. Until then, you can administer printers with the lpadmin program. Make yourself a member of the lpadmin group to be able to administer printers without becoming root. /etc/cups/cupsd.conf is in the cupsys package. It doesn't sound like your installation is complete. Check this by running dpkg -s cupsys. -- Jerome pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: X and mouse problem
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 05:45:43PM +0530, Bhushan Kulkarni wrote: +++ Bhushan Kulkarni [10/03/03 10:21 +0530]: | Hi , | I am using Debian Woody3.0 r1 . | My problem is when gpm service is on i face problems using mouse . Mouse gets | hang for few seconds and retains again after, mouse doesnot run smoothly but when gpm is not on i dont Try setting the mouse device to /dev/gpmdata in X and restart gpm with repeat_type=raw in /etc/gpm.conf. | face this problem . I have Logitech mouse , for gpm i am using ms+ . | The mouse section of XFree86Config-4 is below | | Section InputDevice | Identifier Configured Mouse | Driver mouse | Option CorePointer | Option Device/dev/ttyS0 | Option Protocol Microsoft | Option Emulate3Buttons true | Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 | EndSection | | Section InputDevice | Identifier Generic Mouse | Driver mouse | Option SendCoreEventstrue | Option Device/dev/input/mice | Option Protocol ImPS/2 | Option Emulate3Buttons true | Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 | EndSection | | Why there are 2 mouse configured ? where is the problem . Not sure. Maybe in case you want to connect two mice to your computer at same time, which I did for a while. If you want X to ignore the Generic Mouse and still have debconf manage XF86Config-4, put a new 'Section Server Layout' that does not include 'Input Device Generic Mouse' before the line that reads ### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION. | I have i810 Chipset . Sometimes when i startx X freezes when i again go to | console say by pressing ctrl+alt+F2 , x gets hang i have to powerdown | machine. i this X's bug or Debian :( ?? | I hope this list will help me ... | | -- Jerome pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: xmms, realplayer, and plugger
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 09:54:12PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: I'm using plugger with galeon. Few questions: - When I click on an audio file the entire file is downloaded before xmms begins to play. Is there a way to get xmms to start playing before the download is complete (stream)? xmms streaming depends on the audio I/O plugin. Configure the plugin in xmms, and you can enable streaming and set buffer size. I think streaming can only be set in Vorbis and Mpeg layer 1/2/3 player for mp2 and mp3 streams. If you are using plugger to call xmms from galeon, you will need to setup streaming in /etc/pluggerrc or whereever you have configuration file. See man plugger and look for stream and preload flags. (I noticed on a friends machine running Windows that their player is smart about downloading just enough to start playing and not overrun the slow download speed.) - When I select an audio file with galeon, xmms is started, and galeon window is blank. If I click Back then playing stops. It would be nice if xmms was started and then the browser was not blocked. - RealPlayer. I downloaded Realplay (rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2.bin), ran it and it installed in ~/RealPlayer8/. Even if I set in /etc/Plugger-4.0: audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin:rpm:Realaudio-plugin resource locator exits nokill: /home/moseley/RealPlayer8/realplay $file I don't run realplay as a plugin via plugger. Within galeon, audio/x-pn-realaudio is set to Run with helper App; helper is Gnome Default; and Always Use is set to True. Setting Gnome Default is done in Gnome Control Center. I still get messages like: Plugger: No approperiate application for type audio/x-pn-realaudio found! about:plugins does show: audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin Realaudio-plugin resource locator rpm Yes So I'm not clear what the problem is. Thanks, -- Jerome pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: muttprint only printing one page
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 06:29:31PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: hi there, how do i go about fixing a problem i have with muttprint? it will only print one physical page, so if i try to print a document consisting of three pages, with two pages printed onto one, only pages 1-2 will come out, the third just doesn't get printed. I'm not sure if this applies to your problem: printing two pages onto one only works with A4 paper. If you are using a different paper size weird things happen. i verified with muttprint whether LaTeX is working fine, and I get Output written on mail.dvi (3 pages, 8880 bytes). in the log, so it seems to work that far. but when i print it or cat it to a file, only the first page gets created... ... which is weird because the mail.ps file in the /tmp/muttprint-* temporary directory is correct with three pages. i am clueless. help, anyone? -- Jerome msg31368/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Epson Stylus C82 Printer not connected, nothing prints
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 11:19:11AM -0800, Ruchira Datta wrote: I have a Debian Gnu/Linux 3.0 box, dual boot with Windows 2000, on which I'm running Cups v. 1.1.15 with gimp-print v. 4.2.5. When I add my Epson Stylus C82, it claims to have added it successfully. The connection was through Parallel Port #1 (Epson Stylus C82), since when I booted the parport module had detected my printer: dmesg said parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE] parport0: irq 7 detected parport0: Printer, EPSON Stylus C82 lp0: using parport0 (polling). lp0: console ready If I say ls -l /dev/lp0 I get crw-rw-rw-1 root lp 6, 0 Mar 14 2002 /dev/lp0 The CUPS admin claims the Printer State is Printer State: processing, accepting jobs. and the printer is connected through Device URI: parallel:/dev/unknown-parallel0 I have a different Epson, but it is connect via parallel port. /etc/cups/printers.conf uses DeviceURI parallel:/dev/lp0. But whenever I try to print a test page, first it says Printing page 0, 7% then eventually it says Printer not connected; will retry in 30 seconds... This never changes and nothing ever gets printed. Furthermore, nothing happens if I say echo stuff /dev/lp0 although I don't know if I should expect it to. I know it is not the case that the printer actually is not connected, since whenever I reboot to Windows I can print everything just fine. ADVthanksANCE, Ruchira Datta datta at math dot berkeley dot edu -- Jerome msg31371/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: package and driver problem
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 05:44:33PM +0100, Mikkel Liisberg wrote: Hi i need to install a display driver for my Hercules Prophet ( ATI 9000) in order to start kde. but my problem is that i can't (don't know how) open/install the rpm package. i have debian woody! How do i do this? Thanks Mikkel install alien then use alien to install or convert rpm to deb -- Jerome msg29491/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Printer Problems
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 09:58:31AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: This latter is the one I use with my Epson 860 without having errors you report. *PPD-Adobe: 4.3 *%PPD file for CUPS/GIMP-print. *%Copyright 1993-2001 by Easy Software Products, All Rights Reserved. *%This PPD file may be freely used and distributed under the terms of *%the GNU GPL. *FormatVersion: 4.3 *FileVersion: 4.2.2-pre2 *LanguageVersion: English *LanguageEncoding: ISOLatin1 *PCFileName: escp2-860.ppd *Manufacturer:EPSON *Product: (GIMP-print v4.2.2-pre2) *ModelName: escp2-860 *ShortNickName: EPSON Stylus Color 860 *NickName: EPSON Stylus Color 860, CUPS+GIMP-print v4.2.2-pre2 *PSVersion: (3010.000) 550 *LanguageLevel: 2 *ColorDevice: True *DefaultColorSpace: RGB *FileSystem:False *LandscapeOrientation: Plus90 *TTRasterizer: Type42 *cupsVersion: 1.1 *cupsModelNumber: 16 *cupsManualCopies: True *cupsFilter:application/vnd.cups-raster 100 rastertoprinter *cupsFilter:application/vnd.cups-command 33 commandtoepson *OpenUI *PageSize: PickOne *OrderDependency: 10 AnySetup *PageSize *DefaultPageSize: Letter etc. The error you reported in prior email thread is a typical ghostscript error that results if you try to display a nonpostscript file. It seems that the cups filter is not converting your text file to postscript before passing it to gs-esp. That sound like a mime definition problem, but we already checked the cups mime definitions. Just on a lark, do you get the same error with lpr printtest and lpr -p printtest? -- Jerome msg29042/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: CUPS password?
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 07:18:13PM -0500, stan wrote: I've got CUPS installed on my Debian machine from .debs. When I try to go to the damin section of the web interface, I'm prompted for a username password pair. Where do I look for this config? If you don't want to login as root, add yourself to group lpadmin, and login using your username and password. -- Jerome msg29043/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Printer Problems
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 10:38:32AM -0500, Thomas H. George,,, wrote: I have three standalone systems all with cupsys, cupsomatic, cupsys-bsd, cupsys-driver-gimpprint, gimp1.2, gimp1.2-print and kdelibs3-cups: Debian Woody, 2.4.18 kernel with HP Deskjet 940c, Foomatic+hpijs (my daughter) Debian Woody, 2.4.18 kernel with Brother HL-730, Foomatic+hl7x0 (my grandsons) Debian Testing, 2.4.20 kernel with Epson Stylus Color 860, CUPS+GIMP-print v4.2.2-pre2 (mine) The problem: Printing a simple ASCII file (printtest) from a terminal. The results of lp printtest are as follows: Brother HL-730:OK. Prints the file with no problems. HP Deskjet 940c: Ejects a blank page. Epson Stylus Color 860:Nothing. There is an error in /var/log/cups/error_log (See previous posting, Gimp Print Problem (for details.) If you cp printtest printtest.txt and then lp printtest.txt, do you get the same results? Also, please post output of head --lines=20 /etc/cups/ppd/*. -- Jerome msg28882/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Gimp Print Problem
On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 10:20:18AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: [snip] Also, Check /etc/cups/mime.types; in the section Text files..., you should have an entry: text/plain txt printable(0,1024) There was no such section. I tried adding one, stopping and restarting cupsys then trying lp printtest - again, nothing printed and the error_log looks the same. Perhaps my addition was incomplete or incorrect. I'm inserting the mime.convs file. Tom George # # $Id: mime.convs,v 1.16 2002/04/23 17:54:04 mike Exp $ # # MIME converts file for the Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS). [snip] Your listing of /etc/cups/mime.convs look correct except for the next 8 lines. These lines belong in /etc/cups/mime.types and not in /etc/cups/mime.convs: # # Text Files # # Added by THG # text/plaintxt printable(0,1024) I have attached a copy of my /etc/cups/mime.types to this message. -- Jerome # # $Id: mime.types,v 1.22 2002/03/19 15:47:47 mike Exp $ # # MIME types file for the Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS). # # Copyright 1997-2002 by Easy Software Products. # # These coded instructions, statements, and computer programs are the # property of Easy Software Products and are protected by Federal # copyright law. Distribution and use rights are outlined in the file # LICENSE.txt which should have been included with this file. If this # file is missing or damaged please contact Easy Software Products # at: # # Attn: CUPS Licensing Information # Easy Software Products # 44141 Airport View Drive, Suite 204 # Hollywood, Maryland 20636-3111 USA # # Voice: (301) 373-9603 # EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] # WWW: http://www.cups.org # # # Format of Lines: # # super/type rules # # rules can be any combination of: # # ( expr )Parenthesis for expression grouping # + Logical AND # , or whitespace Logical OR # ! Logical NOT # match(pattern)Pattern match on filename # extension Pattern match on *.extension # ascii(offset,length)True if bytes are valid printable ASCII # (CR, NL, TAB, BS, 32-126) # printable(offset,length)True if bytes are printable 8-bit chars # (CR, NL, TAB, BS, 32-126, 128-254) # string(offset,string) True if bytes are identical to string # char(offset,value) True if byte is identical # short(offset,value) True if 16-bit integer is identical # int(offset,value) True if 32-bit integer is identical # locale(string)True if current locale matches string # contains(offset,range,string) True if the range contains the string # # General Notes: # # MIME type names are case-insensitive. Internally they are converted # to lowercase. Multiple occurrences of a type will cause the provided # rules to be appended to the existing definition. Type names are sorted # in ascending order, so if two types use the same rules to resolve a type # (e.g. doc extension for two types), the returned type will be the first # type in the sorted list. # # The printable rule differs from the ascii rule in that it also # accepts 8-bit characters in the range 128-255. # # String constants must be surrounded by if they contain whitespace. # To insert binary data into a string, use the hex notation. # # # Application-generated files... # application/msword doc string(0,D0CF11E0A1B11AE1) application/pdf pdf string(0,%PDF) application/postscript ai eps ps string(0,%!) string(0,04%!) application/vnd.hp-HPGL hpgl string(0,1B)\ string(0,1BE1B%0B) \ string(0,1B%-1B) string(0,201B)\ string(0,BP;) string(0,IN;) string(0,DF;) \ string(0,BPINPS;) \ (contains(0,128,1B%-12345X) + \ (contains(9,512,LANGUAGE=HPGL) \ contains(9,512,LANGUAGE = HPGL))) # # Image files... # image/gif gif string(0,GIF87a) string(0,GIF89a) image/png png string(0,89PNG) image/jpeg jpeg jpg jpe string(0,FFD8FF) \ (char(3,0xe0) char(3,0xe1) char(3,0xe2) char(3,0xe3)\
Re: Gimp Print Problem
On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 03:42:10PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: My error, didn't read carefully. The entry text/plain txt printable(0,1024) is in /etc/cups/mime.types. I have restored the original version of mime.convs which I saved before editing. Frustrating. It seems like everything is in order. Yes. A few other thoughts: You could check /etc/printcap.cups and other config file in /etc/cups to see if any thing looks wrong. Run debsums against various cupsys, gs-esp, and gimpprint packages to check if there is corruption in any installed file. Also, look at your printtest file with bvi or a different binary file editor and see if there is anything strange about it. Another possibility is the Epson 860 has both a parallel and usb port. If you have a parallel printer cable you could try connecting it via the parallel port, reinstall or reconfigure the printer with cups, and see if problems persist. -- Jerome msg28196/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Gimp Print Problem
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 10:15:15AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: Embarassed. Part of the problem was a defective ink cartridge. lp /usr/share/cups/data/testprint.ps is now ok. But termial problem persists. lp printtest prints nothing and generates the error_log previously reported. printtest is a one line of plain text in a file produced by vi. I also tried copying dmesg to a file and trying to print that file with lp, again with no output. If you ran gs printtest, I think you will get a similar error message. Cupsys seems to be passing the file to gs-esp without first converting it to postscript. Your cups mimetypes may not be configured correctly. What does file printtest report? Check /etc/cups/mime.convs; it should have section that reads: # PostScript filters # application/pdf application/postscript 33 pdftops application/postscript application/vnd.cups-postscript 66 pstops application/vnd.hp-HPGL application/postscript 66 hpgltops image/* application/vnd.cups-postscript 66 imagetops application/x-cshellapplication/postscript 33 texttops application/x-perl application/postscript 33 texttops application/x-shell application/postscript 33 texttops text/plain application/postscript 33 texttops text/html application/postscript 33 texttops The texttops filter should be located: /usr/lib/cups/filter/texttops Also, Check /etc/cups/mime.types; in the section Text files..., you should have an entry: text/plain txt printable(0,1024) -- Jerome msg28028/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Gimp Print Problem
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 10:45:28AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: It is not clear from your message whether you have gotten your USB set up properly. What output do you get to cat /proc/bus/usb/devices and cat /proc/bus/usb/drivers? T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 2 Spd=12 MxCh= 0 D: Ver= 1.00 Cls=00(ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS=64 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=04b8 ProdID=0005 Rev= 1.00 S: Manufacturer=EPSON S: Product=USB Printer S: SerialNumber=w21080004150213140 C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=c0 MxPwr= 2mA I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=07(print) Sub=01 Prot=02 Driver=usblp E: Ad=01(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms E: Ad=82(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms I would expect cat /proc/bus/usb/devices to list your root hub. Check /proc/pci for hint as to whether your hub is UHCI or OHCI. If your hub is UHCI and you are using usb-uhci module, try using uhci module or vice versa. usbdevfs hub prism2_usb 0- 15: usblp According the http://www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide/book1.html, the usb printer device should be /dev/usb/lp0. Below you indicate you are using /dev/usblp0 as as printer device. Typo? What is the output of ls -l /dev/usblp0? crw-rw-rw-1 root root 180, 0 Jan 24 2002 /dev/usblp0 Usual Debian setup would have ownership root.lp with premissions crw-rw. I don't think this matters since you have world read-write premission set. What does lp /usr/share/cups/data/testprint.ps print? Any error messages? The printer prints the color octogon and L's previously described. There are no error messages - that is grep error error_log and grep false error_log return nothing. error_log exists and contains 1704 lines - I erased all the previous entries before running this test. -- Jerome msg27749/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Gimp Print Problem
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 10:12:20AM -0500, Thomas H. George,,, wrote: The attachment is a segment of the /var/log/cups/error_log beginnig two lines before the first false result and continuing to the Ghostscript exit. This was generated by trying to print a single line of text. If anyone can help resolve this problem I would appreciate the help. Background: The Epson Stylus Color 860 printer was working perfectly with a purchased version of CUPS installed on a Debian Woody system with a 2.4.18 kernel. It is attached to a USB port. At that time I was using Gnome. Two changes took place. First, I switched to Testing and a 2.4.20 kernel trying to get an Actiontec Wireless USB Adapter to work - I have never succeded. Second, I switched to KDE 2.2.25 to be consistant with the other users in the family. To get the printer to work with KDE installed the Debian cupsys, cupsomatic, gimp, gimp1.2-print and escputil packages. It is not clear from your message whether you have gotten your USB set up properly. What output do you get to cat /proc/bus/usb/devices and cat /proc/bus/usb/drivers? According the http://www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide/book1.html, the usb printer device should be /dev/usb/lp0. Below you indicate you are using /dev/usblp0 as as printer device. Typo? What is the output of ls -l /dev/usblp0? What does lp /usr/share/cups/data/testprint.ps print? Any error messages? Current Status: lp testtext prints nothing, generates the attached error_log segment. escputil -s -u -r /dev/usblp0 returns the printer status information. A print test from either localhost:631 ir kde prints a color octogon in the upper left corner and two large L-shaped bars (backward L's). Gimp prints a nice picture. Note: I usually try to respond from mutt to attach the message to the relavant string. With vi I have worked out how to open two files and cut and paste between them but I haven't figured out how to paste or attach a file to a response being generated by mutt. If there is a way to do this, I would appreciate hearing about it. D [30/Jan/2003:09:25:48 -0500] margins[] = [ 0.125000 0.125000 0.125000 0.00 ] D [30/Jan/2003:09:25:48 -0500] END INIT 300 1963328 618657 1622424 335134 true 1071 4 0 D [30/Jan/2003:09:25:48 -0500] END GLOBAL 300 1963328 622141 1622424 335540 false 1070 4 0 D [30/Jan/2003:09:25:48 -0500] END GC 330 1963328 600231 1622424 326318 false 1059 3 0 D [30/Jan/2003:09:25:48 -0500] Error: /syntaxerror in --%ztokenexec_continue-- D [30/Jan/2003:09:25:48 -0500] Operand stack: D [30/Jan/2003:09:25:48 -0500] --nostringval-- D [30/Jan/2003:09:25:48 -0500] Execution stack: D [30/Jan/2003:09:25:48 -0500] %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1 3 %oparray_pop 1 3 %oparray_pop .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- D [30/Jan/2003:09:25:48 -0500] Dictionary stack: D [30/Jan/2003:09:25:48 -0500] --dict:1059/1123(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:68/200(L)-- D [30/Jan/2003:09:25:48 -0500] Current allocation mode is local D [30/Jan/2003:09:25:48 -0500] Last OS error: 2 D [30/Jan/2003:09:25:48 -0500] ESP Ghostscript 7.05.4: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 This looks like an error from gs-esp. If you reinstall the gs-esp package, does the problem persist? -- Jerome msg27535/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Gimp Print Problem
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 01:37:23PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: I ran the error_log as suggested. The first 'false' result occurred on line 285. I saved this and the following 10 lines but can't figure out how to use vi to insert them here. vi wont let me switch to the file I saved without exiting this message. Posting pertinent lines from error log to the list might help people on the list figure out what problem may be. You could always display the error_log in a different console or xterm window than one where vi is running, select the text you want to copy, switch back to window/console where vi is running, and press middle button of mouse to paste the text into vi if you have gpm or X running. Or attach an excerpt from the error_log to you email. At any rate, the line immediately following the 'false' result reads Error: /syntaxerrorin --%ztokenexec_continue-- and then, several lines later, Last OS error: 2 ESP Ghostscript 7.05.4: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 If anyone can interprete this, I would appreciate advice as what to try to do to correct the problem. On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 10:44:36PM -0500, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 11:36:55AM -0500, Thomas H. George,,, wrote: Epson Stylus Color 860 on /dev/usblp0 installed with CUPS+GIMP-print_v4.2.2-pre2. Print Test Page prints a page with color hexagon but no test. From a command line escputil -s -u -r /dev/usblp0 returns printer status information. From a command line lp printtest results in request id is lp-81 but nothing is printed. From a command line lpr printtest prints nothing and the next command prompt is displayed. How do I get back to Band Camp? Maybe you can get more information on what the problem is by setting the LogLevel parameter in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf to debug and restart the cupsd process by running /etc/init.d/cupsys restart The /var/log/cups/error_log file will contain a detailed log of everything that is reported by the scheduler and print filters. -- Jerome msg27319/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
exim - retry time not reached for any host
For mail I use a fetchmail+procmail+mutt+exim combination. Not every message I send but a few don't get sent to my ISP's SMTP server. When I run eximon and check the message log of messages awaiting delivery, I will see entries like: 2003-01-27 20:09:01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] T=remote_smtp defer (-44): retry time not reached for any host 2003-01-27 20:23:01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] T=remote_smtp defer (-44): retry time not reached for any host 2003-01-27 20:38:02 [EMAIL PROTECTED] T=remote_smtp defer (-44): retry time not reached for any host 2003-01-27 20:53:01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] T=remote_smtp defer (-44): retry time not reached for any host 2003-01-27 21:08:02 [EMAIL PROTECTED] T=remote_smtp defer (-44): retry time not reached for any host The message will stay in the queue until I tell exim to send it. When I check the retry rule for the SMTP server, I get: $ /usr/sbin/exim -brt outgoing.verizon.net Retry rule: * F,2h,15m; G,16h,1h,1.5; F,4d,8h; From the retry rule, I expect exim to try to resend the message every 15 minutes for the first two hours. From the above log entries, the retry rule does not appear to work as I expect. Any suggestions on how I can fix this? -- Jerome msg26754/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: devfs newbie questions about mounting
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 04:05:52PM +0100, Nicos Gollan wrote: On Sunday 26 January 2003 15:32, Dave W wrote: What I _did_ try was mount /dev/scd0 /cdrom and that still fails. I still have scsi emulation and the like setup so I guess perhaps at least THAT little bit has changed. Perhaps it's using sr or sg or one of the other scsi alphabet soup assignments. Have a look at /dev/cdroms and I think you'll have a pleasant surprise... Or /dev/sr0 If any devices you expect to see don't exist, make sure you have loaded the associated module or compiled it into the kernel. -- Jerome msg26447/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Intel extreme graphics
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 04:12:14PM +0100, Janke Dávid wrote: Hi all! Has anybody experience with intel extreme graphics (I845G/I845GE), and XFree86? I'm going to by a motherboard and an ASUS P4GE-V would be a godd choice for me. David http://www.xfree86.org/~dawes/845driver.html http://support.intel.com/support/graphics/intel845g/linux.htm -- Jerome msg26448/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: apt-get problem
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 03:36:53PM -0500, Trey Sizemore wrote:
While trying fix some broken packages, I ran apt-get -f install from my
terminal...after all packages were downloaded, I got the following
error(s):
etched 49.1MB in 19m6s (42.8kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 159964 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking kdelibs-dcop (from
.../kdelibs-dcop_4%3a3.1.0+rc6+kl-3_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs-dcop_4%3a3.1.0+rc6+kl-3_i386.deb
(--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/dcop', which is also in package
kdelibs-bin
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Unpacking libkdefx4 (from .../libkdefx4_4%3a3.1.0+rc6+kl-3_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/libkdefx4_4%3a3.1.0+rc6+kl-3_i386.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libkdefx.so.4.1.0', which is also in
package kdelibs4
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs-dcop_4%3a3.1.0+rc6+kl-3_i386.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libkdefx4_4%3a3.1.0+rc6+kl-3_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
What is this error telling me ('broken pipe') and, I guess more
importantly, how can I fix this? I know there are several sources for
kde3 packages. SHould I try a different source? Here is my
sources.list:
The broken pipe results from /usr/bin/dcop being found in two
different debs, and dpkg is complaining about it.
If you want to continue, one way to force the install would be:
cd /var/cache/apt/archives
dpkg --force-overwrite -i kdelibs-dcop_4%3a3.1.0+rc6+kl-3_i386.deb
dpkg --force-overwrite -i libkdefx4_4%3a3.1.0+rc6+kl-3_i386.deb
and then continue with the apt-get install.
#Libranet
deb http://libranetlinux.com updates/2.7/
deb http://libranetlinux.com security/2.7/
#Debian
deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian sid main contrib non-free
#deb-src ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian sid main contrib non-free
#Debian Non-US
deb http://non-us.debian.org/ sid/non-US main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/ sid/non-US main contrib non-free
#Debian security updates
deb ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates main contrib
non-free
#deb-src ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates main
contrib non-free
#Evolution
deb http://red-carpet.ximian.com/debian woody main
deb http://ftp.freenet.de/pub/ftp.vpn-junkies.de/openoffice/ woody main
contrib
#deb http://ktown.kde.org/~nolden/kde/woody/i386/ ./
deb http://marillat.free.fr/ testing main
deb http://wh9.tu-dresden.de/kde3/karolina/ ./
Thanks for help.
--
Jerome
msg26508/pgp0.pgp
Description: PGP signature
Re: xwindows
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 07:43:52PM -0500, Bob Wheate wrote: i got it working late last nite,im new to debian and the install was different from other flavors,how ever once i got it working i enjoy woody a lot,i'm led to believe that the kernel is 2.2.x,is that correct ?,any way thanks for the reply,my internet access is limited. Running uname -a will identify which kernel is being used. Alternative, check contents of /var/log/dmesg or /var/log/messages for boot messages. 2.4.x kernel images are also available. To get a list: # apt-get update # apt-cache showpkg kernel-image bob w. -Original Message- From: Bas Zoetekouw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 9:32 AM To: Bob Wheate Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: xwindows Hi Bob! You wrote: i successfully installed debian,how do you start xwindows ? Normally, X is started with the command startx. Alternatively, you can install a so-called display manager (like wdm or kdm), which will start X and present you with a nice login window. BTW: this list (debian-project) is meant for (non-technical) discussions about the Debian project. You should direct your user questions to the debian-user mailing list (http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/) -- Kind regards, ++ | Bas Zoetekouw | GPG key: 0644fab7 | || Fingerprint: c1f5 f24c d514 3fec 8bf6 | | [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] | a2b1 2bae e41f 0644 fab7 | ++ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jerome msg26285/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: devfs newbie questions about mounting
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 10:44:14PM -0500, Dave W wrote: I've been messing around with devfs in sid, trying to learn my way around, since this may be the way of the future ... and although /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target2/lun0/cd makes good SENSE and is pretty easy to figure out, it's not so quick to type when mounting by hand. I'm used to more or less ignoring the fstab and mounting the old way, like mount /dev/fd0 /floppy enter. Takes about two seconds, and it's done. Outside of starting to use fstab, is there a better/faster way to mount things using the command line, with devfs? devfsd creates symlinks from old device names to devfs device names. /dev/hda1 will be a symlink to ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1. Your /dev/cdrom will be a symlink to /dev/cdroms/cdrom0. So mount /dev/fd0 /floppy will still work, or you could mount the device with mount /dev/floppy/0 /floppy. -- Jerome msg26302/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: USB primer?
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 08:34:37PM -0800, Paul Mackinney wrote: Hi, this is mostly a request for a pointer to the right docs. I haven't ever had any USB devices until the past few months, when I picked up a webcam, scanner, and mouse. The webcam the scanner aren't on the compatability lists, but I'm curious to get the mouse going. There doesn't seem to be a USB howto, and I've no idea what modules to load or what device listings to try. dmesg doesn't list anything about a USB hub. I'm glad to receive general pointers to USB docs, or specific advice for my hardware (all really cheap stuff I picked up for $10 after rebate)): Webcam is Veo Connect [it sucks] Scanner is Artec e+48u [not too great] Mouse is Logitech Wheelmouse (optical)[very nice, can move wheel without accidentally clicking button 2] http://www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide/book1.html for general information on usb. http://www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide/x194.html discusses mouse. -- Jerome msg26305/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Apt-get problem with libc
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 01:57:12PM -0700, Curtis Call wrote: Disclaimer, I'm a novice so bear with me. I've run into some problems with apt-get. Currently, when trying to use 'apt-get -f install' to clean things up I continue to get this error: ogd2jpr6908:/home/curtis# apt-get -f install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libc6 The following NEW packages will be installed: libc6 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/3191kB of archives. After unpacking 12.4MB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] E: Cannot get debconf version. Is debconf installed? (Reading database ... 11 files and directories currently installed.) Since your system reports that only 11 files and directories are install, /var/lib/dpkg/status is probably badly damaged. I suspect a damaged filesystem or hardware that is failing. You should boot into single mode or boot from rescue disk and run fsck on the partition in which /var is located. After repairing any file system damage, replace the /var/lib/dpkg/status with a backup. Look in /var/backups for a recent backup of the status file. The backups will have names dpkg.status.0 or dpkg.status.[123456].gz. Good luck. Unpacking libc6 (from .../libc6_2.3.1-10_i386.deb) ... dpkg not recorded as installed, cannot check for epoch support ! dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.1-10_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.1-10_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) I noticed that dpkg is complaining that perhaps it isn't installed? Any ideas of how to go about fixing this? Thanks -- Jerome msg26084/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: DEVFS, howto test creation of devices in /dev?
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 09:02:40PM -0500, Jameson C. Burt wrote: For Device File System, Debian devfsd package, how might I test that devfsd properly creates files in /dev? As a particular example, I work with the Debian camserv package, so I added to devfsd's configuration file, /etc/devfs/devfsd.conf the line, REGISTER ^v4l/video0$ CFUNCTION GLOBAL symlink v4l/video0 video0 When starting camserv, I get the not so specific error message, (V4L) video_open: No such file or directory Unfortunately, this message does not specify the problematic file, but I get neither the device /dev/v4l/video0 nor /dev/video0. So, with several possible sources for this error (camserv, devfsd, devfsd.conf), I would like to test that devfsd properly creates devices in /dev. For example, I would like some testing-tool that my command line *** some-testing-tool /dev/video0 would induce devfsd to consider devfsd.conf, then create the following device and link, /dev/v4l/video0 /dev/video0 -- v4l/video0 On my computer devfs is mounted on /dev. To test creation of devices for my webcam, all I did was modprobe pwc and pwcx and then plug webcam into usb port. I did not modify any configuration file in /etc/devfsd. A simple ls -l /dev/v[4i]* verifies that /dev/video0 symlink and /dev/v4l/video0 were created when camera was plugged in. There should also be entries in /var/log/messages when the devices register and unregister. Such a testing-tool would hopefully induce devfsd to create any specified device, whether concerning video, audio, or mass-storage. *** Does anyone know of such a devfsd testing-tool? PS: I would address this question to a devfs email-list, but the author's email-list site, http://oss.sgi.com/projects/devfs/archive no longer exists, and I find no replacement. -- Jerome msg26086/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Detecting the fysical mouse URGENT
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 01:04:20PM -0800, Joris Huizer wrote: Hi everybody, As some of you allready knows I've got many problems to get an USB mouse working (I only have that USB mouse) I allready posted this before but I got not even one reply on it so I think most of you must have missed it or something. I'm kind of sure The mouse is not at all found be Debian - so something is very wrong - missing a driver or whatever, unfortunately I just don't have an idea what it is - or what I should do to get it fixed :-( Are you trying to use the mouse in X or in console with gpm or both? If X, what are the mouse related lines in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4? What is reported about the mouse in /var/log/XFree86.0.log? Have you loaded all the usb kernel modules you need or compiled them into your kernel? If gpm, what is output of cat /etc/gpm.conf? When you run /sbin/lsmod, what is the output? When you unplug the mouse from the usb port and plug it back in, what is reported in /var/log/messages? -- Jerome msg25001/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Cupsys printer
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 04:08:16AM -0500, thanhvunguyen wrote: Hello, I used cupsysd for my USB printer on Sid before, now I switched to Woody. I reconfigure everything via the web interface on port 631 exactly as I did before. But for some reasons it seems that nothing is sent to the printer. I am suspecting that linux doesn't configure /dev/usb/lp0 as where my printer is connected to. What can I do to check to see where my printer is connected to ? Is there some file that shows where the printer is at ? The kernel is configured with usb printer support. The module 'printer' is loaded. Via the web-interface of cups, I can configure the printer and other details fine. Only thing is nothing gets sent to the printer. Check /var/log/messages to see how it is registered. You may have to unplug it from the usb port and plug it back in. Alternative: mount devfs on /dev. devfs will only create device that exist on your computer. I expect the printer would appear as /dev/printers/0 and /dev/lp0 will be a symlink to printers/0. -- Jerome msg25017/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: galeon personal security manager needed?
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 05:55:39PM -0600, will trillich wrote: when i click on a link, in galeon (using potato/gnome), that tries an https:// connection a dialog greets me saying This document cannot be displayed unless you install the Personal Security Manager (PSM). Download and install PSM and try again, or contact your system administrator. eh? personal security manager? I think you need to install mozilla-psm. try apt-cache search psm to search for it. the system administrator didn't have a clue (that's me, of course) so i snooped around-- $ apt-cache search galeon wprint - Print any charset from web browsers and HtmlDoc galeon - Mozilla based web browser with GNOME look and feel galeon-common - Mozilla based web browser with GNOME look and feel - shared files galeon-nautilus - Mozilla based web browser with GNOME look and feel with Nautilus support maybe nautilus is what i need? hmm -- maybe i've got it already: $ dpkg -l galeon\* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version +++-- ii galeon 1.2.5-0.woody.1 un galeon-beta none ii galeon-common1.2.5-0.woody.1 pn galeon-nautilus none nope, it's not installed. so what is it? $ apt-cache show galeon-nautilus snip Description: Mozilla based web browser with GNOME look and feel with Nautilus support Galeon is a fast Web Browser for the GNOME Desktop Environment. . Galeon's use of Mozilla's Gecko rendering engine makes it more feature complete and standards compliant than most other browsers available. . By using the GNOME and GTK libraries for the user interface, Galeon is usually faster than mozilla and the interface integrates well with the GNOME Desktop Environment. . This version does include the nautilus galeon view, for viewing web pages within nautilus with galeon. what that tells me is-- well, nothing. after a few more searches i find $ apt-cache show nautilus snip Description: file manager and graphical shell Nautilus is an open-source file manager and graphical shell being developed by Eazel, Inc. and others. It is part of the GNOME project, and its relevance to my problem: zero. so -- what's this personal security manager galeon is looking for? how can i apt-get it? -- I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0; Linux server 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i586 unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #27 from Will Trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Would you like RXVT to start with more than 80 COLUMNS OR 24 ROWS? For an rxvt session, running under X, specify how many rows and columns you want: rxvt -g 132x30 Try man rxvt for more info. Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jerome msg24548/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: apt-get requests glibc-2.2.5-x; won't install it
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 06:05:02AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I try to install locales using apt-get I get: # apt-get install locales [snip] Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: locales: Depends: glibc-2.2.5-14.3 ^--^ E: Sorry, broken packages It looks like you are trying to install the testing version of locales. Since you have a woody installation, check your /etc/apt/sources.list to make sure it includes woody or stable sources, and /etc/apt/preferences to make sure woody is your target release. You could try apt-get -t stable install locales to make sure you are trying to install the woody version. ...but if I try to install glibc-2.2.5, I get: glibc-2.2.5-xxx are virtual packages that install libc6-2.2.5-xxx. # apt-get install glibc-2.2.5 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Note, selecting libc6 instead of glibc-2.2.5-6 Note, selecting libc6 instead of glibc-2.2.5-9 Note, selecting libc6 instead of glibc-2.2.5-11.2 Note, selecting libc6 instead of glibc-2.2.5-14.3 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 333 not upgraded. Therefore, apt-get is inconsistent when it comes to using libc6 as a substitute for glibc-2.2.5-x. (I am using the 2.4.18-686 kernel. The distribution is Woody.) How can I get around this? Many thanks! kj PS: Please Cc: me in your reply -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jerome msg24149/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: openoffice: dictionary.lst
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 06:04:12PM +0100, Hans Gubitz wrote: After installing several dictionaries mode of /etc/openoffice/dictionary.lst was changed to 0600. I think mode should be 0644. $ ls -l /etc/openoffice/dictionary.lst /usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict/ooo/dictionary.lst -rw-r--r--1 root root 609 Aug 2 01:00 /etc/openoffice/dictionary.lst lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 30 Aug 23 15:00 /usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict/ooo/dictionary.lst - /etc/openoffice/dictionary.lst -- Jerome msg22956/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Desperate for Mplayer apt sources[SOLVED] ... Onto another problem with gnome :(
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 09:38:05PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hashed some outside apt sources and it somehow fixed up the dependencies of libxvidencore0, mplayer seems to download now. Thanks :) another prob: After rebooting I logged on the usual gnome wm but it just flashes a bit and throws me back to gdm. Kde works though. I figure the bogus outside sources could be the reason for all this I just updated gnome last night with plenty of errors (my fault for updating via damaged apt sources). My XF86 logs doesn't explain much or I could be looking at the wrong logs. Can anyone help? First step would be to check error files for clues as to what is happening. Look in ~/.gnome-errors. Also, check log files in /var/log/gdm directory. For a problem occuring with X itself, look at /var/log/XFree86.0.log. You could also run aptitude (or dselect) and check gnome packages for installation status. -- Jerome msg22551/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: GLCore doesn't exist -- where find?
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 03:43:51PM -0600, Hank Marquardt wrote: I'm trying to install a new vid card (ATI Radeon 8500DV AIW) ... the old card was an nvidia chipset ... xfree is choking, saying the GLCore doesn't exist I moved the old XF86Config4 file out of the way and did a clean dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 ... all the libs are installed x, GL1.2 GL2, mesa ... and it's a completely new kernel build 2.4.20 with no nvidia stuff around at all ... where does GLCore come from and how do I replace it? The old nvidia card still works (albiet non accellerated), but I can't get X to start with the ATI in the box. Thoughts and pointers appreciated. Hank I'm not sure if this is the problem, but... If you have installed nvidia's glx, symlinks in /usr/lib get reset to point to nvidia's GL libaries instead of ones in xlibmesa3... Also symlink to libGLcore. Look at /usr/share/nvidia-glx/diversions/ and /usr/share/nvidia-glx/diversions-X11R6. I think you need to reset symlinks or uninstall nvidia's glx. -- Jerome msg22582/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Just installed Woody but need help with boot...
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 04:42:41PM -0700, Scott (sidewalking) wrote: Hi all, I just took the time over last night and all day today to install Debian 3.0 from all 7 discs. I went through and did the partitioning and base stuff right, and shut it down and rebooted, so I had LILO right at first. I logged back in as root and went through the dselect options and added tons of stuff, but after stopping there and exiting through the proper menus, when I shut it down and rebooted, I must have done something to screw up the MBR, as this is what I got: __ request_module[block-major-3]: Root fs is not mounted VFS: Cannot open root device 303 or 03:03 My guess is you installed a 2.4.x kernel which requires initrd and lilo.conf is not configured correctly to load the required initrd.img or you forgot to rerun lilo before rebooting. Check lilo.conf and look for lines like: image=/vmlinuz label=linux read-only initrd=/boot/initrd.img /vmlinuz and /boot/initrd.img will be symlinks to the kernel image and its matching initrd.img. You may be able to boot the prior linux kernel. Try booting linuxOLD. If not try booting from CD and fix problem...or maybe try tomsrtbt (http://www.toms.net/rb/). tomsrtbt FAQ includes an explanation on how to run lilo using chroot. Please append a correct root= boot option Kernel panic: VFS Unable to mount root fs on 03:03 the only thing I could get it to do was this message below the others when I hit Return once or twice: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7 so I am not sure if that is part of the error or I interrupted it by pressing Enter. I kind of winged this install, after reading lots of documentation, but the install options are usually pretty good about telling you what you should probably answer, so I kind of left things as the default whenever I didn't understand the question. There were a couple of prompts near the end that talked about the MBR or LILO or something and I was a bad boy and didn't make a boot floppy. So, does anyone have any input as to how I can: a) Get into the system to fix it, if possible, and b) Fix it? I feel that my step will likely be to boot with the first install disc, but I don't want to mess up al that I have installed on there already, if possible. Maybe that is the only way I will learn, though... :) So, any thoughts are certainly welcome and appreciated (please)! :) Thanks, Scott (sidewalking) -- Jerome msg22592/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: USB Mouse not working ( contd )
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 11:45:55AM -0800, suresh kumar sharma wrote: Hi, thanks for help ,but I am still not able to get the usbmouse to work . Here is what all I have done . I loaded input,mousedev,usbcore,usb-uhci,and hid modules . I can see the red light in the mouse but it does not work . I already had /dev/input/mice and my XF86Config-4 file points to /dev/input/mice. I have attached my XF86Config-4 file along with this mail ,if that helps .. if I do cat /dev/input/mice.it says . cat: /dev/input/mice: No such device If the device doesn't exit, you need to create it. One way is: mkdir /dev/input /bin/mknod /dev/input/mice c 13 63 The device should be owned by root.root with mode 0660. An alternative way, since you are booting a 2.4.20 kernel, is to mount devfs on /dev. For more info, see http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/rgooch/linux/docs/devfs.html If your mouse has a wheel that also functions as a third button, you do not need Emulate3Buttons option. If your mouse does not have a wheel, you probably need to use the PS/2 protocol and not need ZAxisMapping option. Content-Description: XF86Config-4 # Before the line ### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION you could add: Section ServerLayout Identifier My Layout Screen Default Screen InputDevice Generic Keyboard InputDevice My Mouse EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier My Mouse Driver mouse Option CorePointer Option Device/dev/input/mice Option Protocol ImPS/2 Option Emulate3Buttons true Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection ### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION # XF86Config-4 (XFree86 server configuration file) generated by dexconf, the # Debian X Configuration tool, using values from the debconf database. # # Edit this file with caution, and see the XF86Config-4 manual page. # (Type man XF86Config-4 at the shell prompt.) # # If you want your changes to this file preserved by dexconf, only make changes # before the ### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION line above, and/or after the # ### END DEBCONF SECTION line below. # # To change things within the debconf section, run the command: # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 # as root. Also see How do I add custom sections to a dexconf-generated # XF86Config or XF86Config-4 file? in /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz. Section Files FontPathunix/:7100# local font server # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi EndSection Section Module LoadGLcore Loadbitmap Loaddbe Loadddc Loaddri Loadextmod Loadfreetype Loadglx Loadint10 Loadrecord Loadspeedo Loadtype1 Loadvbe EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Generic Keyboard Driver keyboard Option CoreKeyboard Option XkbRules xfree86 Option XkbModel pc104 Option XkbLayout us EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Configured Mouse Driver mouse Option CorePointer Option Device/dev/psaux Option Protocol PS/2 Option Emulate3Buttons true Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Generic Mouse Driver mouse Option SendCoreEventstrue Option Device/dev/input/mice Option Protocol ImPS/2 Option Emulate3Buttons true Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection Section Device Identifier Generic Video Card Driver ati EndSection Section Monitor Identifier Generic Monitor HorizSync 30-60 VertRefresh 50-75 Option DPMS EndSection Section Screen Identifier Default Screen Device Generic Video Card Monitor Generic Monitor DefaultDepth24 SubSection Display Depth 1 Modes 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 4 Modes 1024x768
Re: System won't boot
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 06:32:13PM -0500, Trey Sizemore wrote: When attempting to boot my newly installed system, it gets as far as the following and then stops with a kernel panic. Is this repairable, and if so how. I am a relative newbie, so be as simple as possible. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks. These are the last 4 lines when booting: kmod : failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-33 errno=2 VFS : cannot open root device 2105 or 21:05 Check your kernel config to see is low level support for your disk is compiled in and also root filesystem support. If they are modules, you need to use initrd to boot. Please append a correct root= boot option Kernel panic : VFS : Unable to mount root fs on 21:05 -Trey -- Jerome msg22436/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Files saved to one directory Drive space consumed somewhere else
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 07:39:18PM -0800, Denzil Kelly wrote: I downloaded an .iso and specified that it be saved to /home/myhome/myiso, however, when doing this wmmount shows that the / partition is the one actually decreasing in size as the file downloads. Does anyone know why this might be happening? I have a 2 drives in this box and they are patitioned as indicated below. Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda2 768744425720303972 59% / /dev/hda1 8657 4710 3500 58% /boot /dev/hdb6 5763616 1177980 4292856 22% /usr /dev/hdb7 11535344 2025656 8923720 19% /home /dev/hda5 2700988 1843620720156 72% /oldhome The file could be initially downloading into /tmp. Since you don't have a separate partition for /tmp, it is located in your / partition. -- Jerome msg22443/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Desperate for Mplayer apt sources
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 06:19:08PM +0800, Elijah wrote: Actually, if you want to use mplayer, you _really_ should download the source from the main site http://www.mplayerhq.hu and compile it. Sean I've already done that and I'm having problems running it, gives me an error in my configs or something (?). that's why I've decided to use the debs instead. Elijah The source from www.mplayerhq.hu should include a debian directory. You should be able to create a deb by running fakeroot debian/rules binary in the top directory. -- Jerome msg22449/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Kernel 2.4.18 image unbootable, source uncompilable
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 10:18:08PM +, Tim wrote: Hi, I have a new computer on which I am trying to use kernel 2.4.18, so far without success. I can use 2.2.20-idepci without problems. I am using Debian Woody rev 0, on an AMD Athlon XP 2200+, with ASUS A7N266-VM motherboard, which has nVidia nForce chipset-that requires 2.4.18 kernel. I have tried to use the kernel image as well as compiled from source, so far without success. 1. Kernel image, obtained with dselect from my installation CDs. I have verified that /vmlinuz points to /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-k7 and /initrd.img points to /boot/initrd.img-2.4.18-k7. My GrUB boot line reads: kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 initrd=/initrd.img I think you need to execute the initrd line after the kernel load command. For example: grub root (hd0,0) grub kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 grub initrd /initrd.img grub boot I'm assuming /boot is not a separate partition. If it is, the grub root should be the /boot partition. I always specify absolute filenames in my grub menu.lst so there is not question about what kernel is being loaded. The kernel panic message indicates the initrd.img is not loading the modules needed by your root file system. The kernel panic message is: request_module[block-major-3]: Root fs not mounted VFS: Cannot open root device hda1 or 03:01 Please append a correct root= boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:01 I have looked in /boot/config-2.4.18-k7 and found that IDE support is compiled as a module. I presume my initrd doesn't use this module at the moment. I am not familiar with mkinitrd so am unsure about how to ensure this module is installed into the initrd. Hopefully it is a simple solution. Do I have to use make config while in a specific directory? 2. Kernel compilation-I have tried multiple times with various kernel configurations. Make bzImage fails to complete. The error message is: Here is a howto on compiling kernel the Debian way: http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html.en -- Jerome msg22040/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: WindowMaker without icons. How?
On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 01:08:43AM +0200, Egor Tur wrote: Hi folk. How can I get rid of icons in WindowMaker. No icons, no backgraund - only menu and root window from X. Many thanks. Start /usr/bin/WPrefs to configure many of the options. Or use editor to edit various configuration files in ~/GNUstep/Defaults. -- Jerome msg22067/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: apt-get (status file) broken?
On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 10:25:00PM -0700, Adahma wrote: I get the following error when trying to use apt-get or dselect: Hit http://non-us.debian.org unstable/non-US/non-free Release Reading Package Lists... Error! E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room E: Error occured while processing liblircclient0 (NewVersion1) E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. Try adding APT::Cache-Limit 25165824; to /etc/apt/apt.conf. -- Jerome msg21879/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: apt -- which method is preferred?
On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 08:42:47AM -0200, andrej hocevar wrote: It's turned out that a certain package was somehow not downloadable, even though apt-cache policy showed an ftp entry. It's probably not in the archives anymore or something. The package itself was not important, I just wanted to know. It's all right , thanks. If the package is no longer in the official Debian/GNU archives, you could try looking for it in: http://snapshot.debian.net/ -- Jerome msg21192/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: wiki.debian.net?
On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 03:30:30PM +, Colin Watson wrote: On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 05:37:21PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: http://wiki.debian.net/ doesn't appear to be a debian wiki. Anyone know what's up? It seems to be correct now ... try http://wiki.debian.net/DebianWiki/FrontPage -- Jerome msg20865/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: wiki.debian.net?
On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 10:32:43PM +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: What does `wiki' mean ? Wiki Wiki is Hawaiian for 'quick'. For an intro http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki? -- Jerome msg20912/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: mutt won't send mail now
On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 05:31:28PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unless you have changed it, mutt's default is set to use /usr/sbin/sendmail -oem -oi, so you should not need an entry in muttrc. well, those entries were not in either mutt config file, i don't know why these 'disappeared' i re-entered them in both and it still doesn't appear to be sending, the exim log file states the the email's are 'frozen' (?) I don't have those entries in my mutt config files either and everything works; it is documented in the mutt help file. Since exim has frozen the messages, there should be earlier entries in the logs on what the problem with the messages are. You could try running eximon and thaw the message (or send a new message from mutt) and watch new entries in exim log as to what problem is occurring. You'll need to run eximon as root or sudo eximon to do this. If you haven't used eximon before, run man eximon first. -- Jerome msg19299/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Booting 2 Linuxes with LILO
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 05:48:56PM -0800, alberto wrote: Please, send reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have 2 debians installed on my system but I'm having troubles with having LILO allowing me to boot any of those. I have potato on /dev/hda3. I just erased win on /dev/hda1 :-)) and installed Woody there. Now, Woody's LILO offers me a prompt to boot the old potato, but won't make it: If I try, it will stop at LIL- What is the correct way to have woody's LILO load my potato on /dev/hda3? I'd also love to keep the subchoiches there for different kernels. You may want to check the mail list archives; there has been several discussions of this in the past. Here is couple of discussions on the subject that are not Debian/GNU specific. The second one gives a nice example of how to set up your lilo.conf: http://groups.google.com/groups?q=boot+multiple+linux+distributionshl=enlr=ie=UTF-8selm=6LW35.208561%24MB.3800243%40news6.giganews.comrnum=1 http://groups.google.com/groups?q=boot+multiple+linux+distributionshl=enlr=ie=UTF-8selm=Pine.LNX.3.91.980622195520.9602A-10%40xgw10.pal.xgw.firnum=3 -- Jerome msg16870/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Quick way to set up printing?
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 12:06:27AM -0600, ZephyrQ wrote: On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 22:52, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 10:05:59PM -0600, ZephyrQ wrote: Somehow, printing didn't get set up when I installed lpd. I need a quick and dirty way to get my OOffice stuff printing so I can get some work done--I'll convert to CUPS later (I've never used it, so I'm not familiar with it...) so was i when i started out. but cups is quick and easy. cupsys, cupsomatic ppd is all that you will need. then links localhost:631. took me less than a day to get it running. But I can't seem to link to localhost:631! I tried with both Galeon and Mozilla and Lynx! I keep getting an error! Help! I'm trying to print a test for my students in the morning through OOffice! If you cannot connect to localhost:631, the cupsys daemon, cupsd, may not be running. If it is not running, start it by running /etc/init.d/cupsys start as root. -- Jerome msg16871/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Reset old package state after running dselect's install
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 06:40:38PM +0100, Holger_ wrote: I've got two questions: 1) how can I get dselect to ignore the settings I (somehow) selected during the last dselect session (reset the packages info to the currently installed state. Right now, dselect tells me for instance, that the package samba2.999+3.0alpha... *is* already installed. But, as I said above, I stopped installation before downloading of all packages was complete. So I still have the old samba2.0.5a). try moving /var/lib/dpkg/status to another filename. Then cp var/lib/dpkg/status.old /var/lib/dpkg/status. If that doesn't reset dselect selections, try one of the older backups in /var/backup. 2) What went wrong such that dselect updated quite freely to the alpha versions (how do I get dselect only using certain packages from the unstable branch, but not any others?) Once you set sources.list to point to unstable and did an update, running dselect is sort of like running apt-get dist-upgrade. If you only want to install one package from unstable, run apt-get -u -t unstable install package_name. -u will force apt-get to list what extra packages will be installed, and you can abort if you don't like what is happening. An alternative is to download the package and install with dpkg -i. -- Jerome msg16874/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: HELP, PLEASE!! Apt-Get update Errors
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 05:23:09PM -0800, Xavian-Anderson Macpherson wrote: I think I read somewhere that there is a problem with one of the libraries causing APT-GET UPDATE to fial. I keep getting the same error; UNABLE TO PARSE PACKAGE FILE /VAR/LIB/DPKG/STATUS (1). I would really appreciate someone telling me how to resolve this. I am running the testing (with some packages from the unstable) branch of Debian 3.0. Everything else works just fine. mv /var/lib/dpkg/status to_another_name cp /var/lib/dpkg/status-old /var/lib/dpkg/status If that does not correct the problem, you can find previous backups of /var/lib/dpkg/status in /var/backups. -- Jerome msg16490/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: sawfish makes itself x-window-manager
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 03:09:33AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: not sure when it happened, I guess it was during dist-upgrade, but suddenly sawfish was the x-window-mananger (I definitely did not run update-alternatives). is this a bug or intented behaviour? If it's a feature, can it be disabled? Yes, if set to automatic, update-alternatives will set alternative with the highest priority. If you run update-alternative --config x-window-manager and select your preferred window manager, update-alternatives will go into manual mode and will not change x-window-manager again until you manually change it or reset update-alternatives to auto mode. -- Jerome msg16158/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: still monitor problems
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 03:04:01PM -0600, Liudmila Yafremava wrote: These modes are supported, there should be no problem implementing them. However, now when I open Mozilla the screen just turns white. Right-click with the mouse - and standard menu for Mozilla appears. But I do kind of need to see the page What would that be, do you think? [snip] (--) NV(0): Virtual size is 1920x1440 (pitch 1920) (**) NV(0): Default mode 1920x1440: 234.0 MHz, 90.0 kHz, 60.0 Hz Just one thought: if you opened mozilla while the screen resolution was 1920x1440, the mozilla window may be too large for the edges to show if the resolution is now 1024x768 or less. What happens if you move ~/.mozilla to ~/.mozilla.old and then start mozilla? -- Jerome msg15775/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: still monitor problems
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 03:04:01PM -0600, Liudmila Yafremava wrote: These modes are supported, there should be no problem implementing them. However, now when I open Mozilla the screen just turns white. Right-click with the mouse - and standard menu for Mozilla appears. But I do kind of need to see the page What would that be, do you think? That reminds me of the problem I had before, when the colors whould change every time I opened a new window. At what color depth is the X server running? The log file you posted in an earlier message was bpp 8 (i.e. 256 colors). Last time I had wild color changes when Netscape/Mozilla window opened, changing to bpp 16 or bpp 24 fixed the problem. -- Jerome msg15321/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Xfree86
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 04:11:33PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: please, help. I installed Debian on a laptop (old one) using the floppy disks. I want to install and run X. Files do I need and how do I go about installing X. This is the first time I have ever used Debian, but not my first time w/ Linux. I love Linux. Thanks, Shawn Jones. apt-get -u install x-window-system Instead of apt-get, you may want to do this by running tasksel. This would also let you install a desktop environment. -- Jerome msg15038/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: installing package
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 10:44:11PM +0100, Raymond Gree wrote: Hello, I try to install a new package and get the following error message: debian-server:/# apt-get install lprng lprngtool magicfilter Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Package lprng has no available version, but exists in the database. This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents of sources.list E: Package lprng has no installation candidate my sources.conf content is: deb ftp://172.20.1.20/pub/debian stable main deb ^---^ rerun apt-get update or dselect update If above URL times out before downloading Package and Release files, change your sources.list to point to another mirror. http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main any idea of what can cause this Many thanks Ray -- Jerome msg15044/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Problem with mount floppy
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 06:30:35PM +0200, Egor Tur wrote: Hi folk! Now I see this message: /dev/fd0: Input/output error mount: block device /dev/fd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only when I do `mount /floppy' and I can only read data on floppy but cannot write. What 's happened? How can I solve this problem? Have you checked the write-protect tab on the floppy? Of course, I see this message when I try mount not write-protected floppy :( Have you looked at /etc/fstab? Is /dev/fd0 rw or ro? Yes. I heve rw option. I think that message happen wnen user take his floppy but not umount it. I don't know how solve this - now help only reboot computer, but this is not good idea :( sudo umount /floppy -- Jerome msg14908/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: /dev/ttyUB0 on debian
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 05:58:41PM +, Rus Foster wrote: Hi All, Not sure if this is quite on topic but I have installed bluez from the debian packages and am running 2.4.19. However I'm having trouble with hciattach as /dev/ttyUB0 doesn't exist. Also /dev/MAKEDEV ttyUB0 comes back as /dev/MAKEDEV: don't know how to make device ttyUB0 Has anyone hit this? I've compiled bluetooth into the kernel statically I think you need to use /bin/mknod. Major and minor numbers are listed in devices.txt in the kernel source documentation. -- Jerome msg13372/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 04:21:59AM +, Pigeon wrote: Well I've got round my ldconfig problems. Eventually I found base2_1.tgz on my Debian CD, unzipped it on my Windoze box, wrote it to a CD, and copied stuff in using the rescue disk. With the addition of some of the rescue disk itself (fsck) I got an ldconfig, and got it to boot again, after several false starts. I then used dpkg -i to reinstall most of the stuff in main/binary-i386/base which got most stuff working, including dselect. I'm now using dselect to reinstall pretty much everything and get the system back into a consistent state. I have got a few errors on some packages due to /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/foo being corrupt. (eg. foo = awk) Is it permissible simply to delete these files? Will I risk breaking the whole thing again? If so, how do I restore them? See man update-alternatives to see how you would normally modify files in /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives. I am not sure if anything would break if you just delete the files. The files in /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives are ascii text, so you could edit them with vi, emacs, bvi, or any text editor. I would suggest bvi or ghex so you can see what nonprintable are in the files. Here is a couple of examples (vi emacs) of what files in /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives look like. These would be different on you computer depending on what packages you have installed. $ cat /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/vi manual /usr/bin/vi vi.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/vi.1.gz /usr/bin/nvi 30 /usr/share/man/man1/nvi.1.gz /usr/bin/vim 120 /usr/share/man/man1/vim.1.gz /usr/bin/elvisnox 120 /usr/share/man/man1/elvis.1.gz /bin/elvis-tiny 10 /usr/share/man/man1/elvis-tiny.1.gz /usr/bin/e3vi 10 /usr/share/man/man1/e3vi.1.gz $ cat /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/emacs auto /usr/bin/emacs emacs.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/emacs.1.gz /usr/bin/emacs21 24 /usr/share/man/man1/emacs.1emacs21.gz /usr/bin/e3em 10 /usr/share/man/man1/e3em.1.gz /usr/bin/emacs20 23 /usr/share/man/man1/emacs.1emacs20.gz The first line of the /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/foo is mode. Second line is the alternative command symlink. Third line refers to filename in /etc/alternatives/ Fourth line is man symlink. Fifth line is single LF (hex 0A, '\n') The remaining lines are various alternative commands, priorities, and associated man pages. The file ends with two LFs. I hope this helps. -- Jerome msg12838/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: X file explorer
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 10:22:10AM +1100, Russell wrote: Hi all, What file system viewers are there for X? I've been using midnight commander which is ok, except that when i view a file, i want to be able to copy text to the X clipboard. I'm using fvwm2. fsviewer tkdesk In midnight commander hold down the shift key while trying to select text to copy it into X clipboard; also, use shift key to paste inside midnight commander window. -- Jerome msg12629/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Manual ldconfig required HELP!!!
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 04:03:14AM +, Pigeon wrote: Nonono you didn't read my post! I'm trying to do exactly what this page suggests. ar still works, so I can get to the control data .tar.gz stage. But tar/gzip don't work. So I have to copy the .tar.gzs onto my DOS partition, reboot into Windoze and unpack them with WinZip. tomsrtbt has tar. sash also has tar as builtin. -- Jerome msg12638/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Manual ldconfig required HELP!!!
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 03:29:35PM +, Pigeon wrote: On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 07:24:56 +, Pigeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nah - no luck. Rescue disk has no dpkg. It's the same as the boot image you get in the Debian 2.1 single CD. Instead of using rescue disk you could try tomsrtbt at http://www.toms.net/rb/. I tried copying /lib/* and /etc/ld.so.cache from the rescue disk to the hard drive. Now the kernel can find init, but it still gets an error loading shared libraries - undefined symbol: stderr - and panics (unsurprisingly). Same with rescue 2.2.12 kernel and my 2.4.18. Am I right in thinking that all ldconfig does is update the symlinks and /etc/ld.so.c[ache|onf]? If so, isn't all I need to know, what is the binary data at the beginning of /etc/ld.so.cache, and how to calculate it? From man page: ldconfig creates the necessary links and cache (for use by the run-time linker, ld.so) to the most recent shared libraries found in the direc- tories specified on the command line, in the file /etc/ld.so.conf, and in the trusted directories (/usr/lib and /lib). ldconfig checks the header and file names of the libraries it encounters when determining which versions should have their links updated. ldconfig ignores sym- bolic links when scanning for libraries. I'm also limited in my ability to experiment because the Linux box is too broken to run tar/gzip so I can't unpack debs from my CD to restore stuff from. ar still works, and WinZip can handle .tar.gz format, so it's sort of possible with a lot of rebooting to swap OS. Is there a Win98 archiver that can unpack debs? You can unpack debs with ar. See http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-package.en.html#s6.2.9 Alternative: you can download package tar files from subdirectories of http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/ and use tar to unpack. You can search for specific packages at http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages. There will be a link to tar file on the packsage html page also. -- Jerome msg12367/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Weird problem with self-compiled kernel
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 04:03:09PM -0500, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 09:39:54PM +0100, Patrick Brunier wrote: Everything works fine. But the problem is that I can't connect to certain sites. Eg. When I type lynx www.openoffice.org he tries to make a http connection but nothing happens. Also when I type lynx www.davitel.nl it goes wrong. All other site I have tried do work perfectly. When I switch back to 2.4.18-bf24 I can connect to the sites that don't work in 2.4.19. There are broken (old) routers between you and the sites you're trying to contact. They don't support Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN; see RFC 3168). You should disable this in your new kernel. You can do so at runtime via something in /proc/sys/net/ somewhere echo 0 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn -- Jerome msg11043/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: netscape
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 11:36:23PM -0200, Galileu Paulo wrote: Hi guys: I am new to Linux and I have had some sort of problems I could not find the way out. I am using Debian 2.2r5 in an old brave Pentium 166. Here are the problems: 1- I could not run Netscape. I installed the system completely and later I installed nestscape-base-4 with all the packages recommended by dselect. However, the icons on the desktop that should point to the browser do not work. I tried the command netscape-remote at the xterm window and I just received the answer not running on display :0.0. I get same results with netscape-remote. I'm not sure why. I tried as root and as regular user. I tried to find any other executable that could start netscape, but no succeed. I uninstalled netscape, installed again several times, and nothing. netscape should start by simply entering netscape in xterm command promtp. Or at least give error message. $ whereis netscape netscape: /usr/lib/netscape /usr/X11R6/bin/netscape /usr/bin/X11/netscape /usr/local/bin/netscape /usr/local/lib/netscape $ file /usr/X11R6/bin/netscape /usr/X11R6/bin/netscape: symbolic link to /etc/alternatives/netscape $ file /etc/alternatives/netscape /etc/alternatives/netscape: symbolic link to /usr/lib/netscape/477/communicator/communicator-smotif This last is what actually runs on my computer since I have communicator installed. 2- Every time I install the xwindow system (I did it many times), Linux always run the graphical environment at startup. Sometimes I like to be able to start Linux with the prompt shell only. How can I do that. (I did it once, when I had a RedHat installed, just changing the runlevel at startup, but it did not work with Debian). Could anybody help me? Disable or remove gdm, kdm, or xdm. Assuming you have xdm installed: To stop the graphic login, [Ctrl][Alt][F1] to switch to console, login as root and run /etc/init.d/xdm stop. The other are similar. To disable graphic login at boot, put exit 0 on second line of the script in /etc/init.d To remove: apt-get remove xdm -- Jerome msg11065/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Installing new software
On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 01:05:08PM +0100, David Jones wrote: Hi, I am running Debian Potato with XFree86 3. I have a full woody set of CD's but am unable to get XFree86 4 to work at all. Unfortunately, I can't use any of the other software on the woody cds because the system always wants to upgrade everything including X, which then won't work. How can I use the updated versions of say gimp, mozilla apache etc without the need to update X. I will come back to the problem with X later but at the moment I would just like to use the other updated packages. Is this possible and if so how? To use Woody packages you'll probably need to upgrade because of the library dependecies. Alternative is to install source packages and compile them for potato environment. There are some unofficial XFree86 4.x packages at http://people.debian.org/~cpbotha/ that were develop to run on potato. -- Jerome msg10696/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: best way to have gcc-3.2 on woody?
On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 12:02:45PM +0100, Andrea Borgia wrote: Hello. In order to correctly build the cvs version of MPlayer, I've been told I need to use gcc-3.2, which is currently in unstable. My question, then, is: what is the best (as in most debian compliant) way to install it on a woody system? As far as I can see, I have these options: a) grab binary debs from unstable b) grab sources and rebuild c) grab prebuilt debs for woody (where from?) I have no problems with rebuilding from sources and I have a reasonably fast machine, but I would like to avoid unnecessary extra steps, if at all possible. check /usr/share/doc/gcc-2.95/README.Debian.gz -- Jerome msg10314/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: More probs installing packages
On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 09:35:39PM +0100, Paul Lewis wrote: The second source package has failed during ./configure when trying to find gnomeconf.sh. I am using the Gnome desktop so I cannot really tell why - apart from the fact that gnomeconf.sh does not exist. There is a /usr/lib/gnomeConf.sh in libgnome-dev, but I don't see a gnomeconf.sh in any package. Secondly prompted by a thread on this list I downloaded alien and tried to make some .debs, it all seemed to go very well and sure enough I ended up with .deb packages. The thing is I can't seem to work out how to install them. I have tried apt-get install packagename.deb which does not work. # dpkg -i package_name.deb So anyone care to reveal what I am doing wrong? -- Jerome msg08113/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: NVIDIA_kernel-1.0.3123 install fails
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 07:52:23PM -0400, lameth wrote: Okay I installed kernel-package and did make-kpgk. The response I recieved a message about not being in a top level directory ( I was at a /) or make-kpgk was totally out of date. So I downloaded kernel-headers-2.4.18-bf2.4. After that was installed I tried to make install the nvidia driver and still got the error about modversions.h, no file found or directory not existing. Install nvidia-kernel-src_1.0.3123 from sid. Compiling and installing instructions will install in /usr/share/doc/nvidia-kernel-src/README.Debian.gz -- Jerome msg06457/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: escputil epson
On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 04:56:34PM +0100, waterboy waterbody wrote: Hello, i began to install GNU/debian linux and now i,m configuring my computer. I have some problems with escputil package for install my printer epson stylus color 880. The synopsis i write isn´t admitted by my computer. i don´t understand it. If you could say me the way of i have to use the escputil package with an example or with my printer, i would be so much grateful to you. You have posted the same message three times and have not said anything to indicate you have tried any of the previous suggestions. Can you restate your problem in other words and provide more information about the problem? What have your tried already? What printing software (for example, lpr, lprng, cupsys) have you installed? Does your printer connect via USB or parallel port? What kernel are you using? -- Jerome msg05636/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Unidentified subject!
On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 02:03:03PM +0100, waterboy waterbody wrote: Hello, i began to install GNU/debian linux and now i,m configuring my computer. I have some problems with escputil package for install my printer epson stylus color 880. The synopsis i write isn´t admitted by my computer. i don´t understand it. If you could say me the way of i have to use the escputil package with an example or with my printer, i would be so much grateful to you. Oliver Hi Oliver, The escputil package is not used to install a printer. escputil is a command line utility to perform various maintenance tasks on Epson Stylus inkjet printers. These tasks include head alignment, head cleaning, nozzle check, printer identification, and retrieval of ink level from the printer. Some maintenance can be done as a normal user; for example, printing nozzle test pattern. To do this, just enter, escputil -n at your xterm or console command-line prompt. However, you need to be root or a member of the lp group to use escputil when the command requires access to a raw device like querying ink levels or aligning the print heads. Here is an example of checking ink levels of my Epson Stylus Color 860, which is attached to /dev/lp0: # escputil -r /dev/lp0 -i Escputil version 4.2.2-pre2, Copyright (C) 2000-2001 Robert Krawitz Escputil comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type 'escputil -l' This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; type 'escputil -l' for details. Ink colorPercent remaining Black 91 Cyan 33 Magenta 32 Yellow 41 See man escputil or escputil --help for more details. If you are still trying to configure your printer, you need to use the cupsys package and not escputil. Look at my response to your message on 28 Sep, for details on how that is done. -- Jerome msg05468/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: j2se-common (was Re: java debs, where?)
On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 04:58:49PM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 05 October 2002 03:42 pm, Edward Guldemond wrote: On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 02:06:24PM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: Hello: I have been getting errors from this server for the last week or so. Each time I attempt an update, the server reports that it is full. Is there alternate site for these debs? http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/mirrors.html Happy to help, Thanks Edward. This now brings me to this problem: j2re1.3 installed ; install (was: install). Optional j2re1.3 depends on j2se-common ( 1) j2se-common does not appear to be available Googling isn't helping much either! Is this package supported? I came up with this apt line: deb ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian woody non-free add main deb ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian woody main non-free (without the linebreak of course). Do I need to add additional apt lines for other parts of this java? tia - -- Jaye Inabnit\ARS ke6sls\/A GNU-Debian linux user\/ http://www.qsl.net/ke6sls If it's stupid, but works, it ain't stupid. I SHOUT JUST FOR FUN. Free software, in a free world, for a free spirit. Please Support freedom! Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9n3y5ZHBxKsta6kMRAv3QAJ4lOJzij0IHLZJncznAHM/cTSZMfACgphgl Yt/I6QvbAcSym3Ol091Fx10= =5+Wu -- Jerome msg05507/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: man pages: dangling symlinks
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 12:15:02AM -0700, ben wrote: On Thursday 03 October 2002 10:19 pm, Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 09:25:00PM -0700, ben wrote: is there any kind of process by which dangling symlinks can be resolved? Er, that depends. Which ones? Either remove them or get them to point somewhere that exists. Cheers, hi colin, thanks for the response. i guess the question should probably be, how do dangling symlinks come to occur in the first place? I recently looked at a number of dangling symlinks (some of which were for man pages) I had in /etc/alternatives. For all but one of these I eventually traced the problem back to debs installed while potato was still testing. Some version installed the symlink; a later update either didn't require the symlink or changed the name of the file to which the symlink should link. For example, an early potato deb for elvis installed /usr/man/man1/ctags-elvis.1.gz and in later packages this file changed to /usr/share/man/man1/elvtags.1.gz. During the update process the first packages gets removed, but the prerm script does not remove the alternative. If there is no other alterntive, you end up with a broken symlink, and update-alternatives gets set to manual mode for that alternative. When the new package is installed, the symlink doesn't get updated because update-alternatives is now in maunal mode. The fix is to run update-alternatives --config [name] to reset the symlink or update-alternative --remove [name] [dangling_symlink_path] to remove the symlink entirely. for example: me@mybox:$ man gconftool man: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/gconftool.1.gz is a dangling symlink No manual entry for gconftool should I construe from this that there never was a man page for gconftool, or is it the case that it simply failed to install? in the event that there is a man page for each of the many various apps that return this message on man requests, what's the best way to fix this? am i making sense here? ben -- Jerome msg05393/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: escputil package
On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 05:36:32PM +0100, waterboy waterbody wrote: Hello, I began to install GNU/debian linux and now i´m configuring my computer. I have some problems with escputil package for install my printer Epson Stylus color 880. The synopsis i write isn´t admitted by my computer. i don´t understand it. If you could say me the way of i have to write the synopsis for my computer didn´t give me an error i would be so much grateful Oliver You don't install or setup your printer with escputil. Install cupsys, cupsys-driver-gimpprint, cupsys-client, cupsys-bsd, and cupsys-pstoraster packages. Add yourself to the group lpadmin. Start the cupsys daemon: as root run /etc/init.d/cupsys start. In a web browser open http://127.0.0.1:631/admin; and click on Add Printer button. -- Jerome msg04330/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Recently installed packages
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 02:01:59AM -0500, Stuart Johnston wrote: I recently installed several packages along with their dependencies. I have since decided that I didn't really want those packages after all but I can't remember the names of all the installed dependencies. Is there any way to get a list of packages installed within a certain time frame (perhaps an apt log)? The list had a discussion on this back around 7 Aug 2002. After the discussion I started running a script after each upgrade to track package installations: #!/bin/bash # # Base on script written by Larry Holish, [EMAIL PROTECTED] # and posted to debian-users list 7 Aug 2002 # # # Script that writes current list of packages installed # from /var/lib/dpkg/available to pkgs.current. # Keeps a history of changes between package versions # in history.txt. LISTDIR=/home/dad/debian cd $LISTDIR if [ -f 'install_history.txt.gz' ]; then gunzip install_history.txt.gz fi if [ -f 'pkgs.current' ]; then mv pkgs.current pkgs.last fi COLUMNS=155 dpkg -l | grep ^i | cut -b 5- pkgs.current diff -C 0 pkgs.last pkgs.current install_history.txt gzip install_history.txt rm -f pkgs.last # EOF -- Jerome msg04103/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Last night's dist-upgrade broke Gnome-AA session :-(
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 04:15:04PM -0400, stan wrote: Last night I did apt-get dist-upgrade. I rememebr some font packages being upgraded, and being asked if I wanted defoma to manage them. I chose yes. My defaul X session has been Gome-AA for a while. After this upgrade, all I get if I try to login this way is a brief black screen, and the gdm login prompt comes back. Gnome (non AA) session works normally. Sugestiosn as to how to fix this would be apreciated. First step, try to get more information on problem. [Ctrl][Alt][F1] and login. Check files like ~/.gnome-errors, ~/.xsession-errors, /var/log/gdm/0.log, or /var/log/XFree86.0.log, or /var/log/messages for messages to help diagnose the problem. -- Jerome msg03896/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: ide-scsi
On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 08:03:48PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: On Friday 20 September 2002 10:03 pm, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.09.20.2253 +0200]: Yes I know I can do that - I was looking for where ide-scsi gets loaded during the boot sequence Why not remove it from the /lib/modules tree and watch the startup sequence carefully for an error message? This isn't the nice way, but it might be your only way. I doubt it'll render your system unusable, really! One thing that occured to me, is the new initrd image that is used. Might that cause the module to be loaded? Trouble is, I don't know how to find out. try: mount -o loop /boot/initrd.img-2.4.19-k7 /floppy cat /floppy/loadmodules -- Jerome msg02903/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: 3d hardware / nvidia driver problems
On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 11:38:05AM +1000, Sam Haldane wrote: Hi all, I've just been using Debian for a week or so now and I am trying to get my Asus GeForce 2 MX to handle 3d graphics. Everything seems to work fine in 2d but as soon as I try to run something that requires some acceleration things slow down to about 0.5 fps (P2 400, 256 Mg RAM). Even the _title screen_ of 'tuxracer' is this slow. If you are using XFree86 nv driver, you won't be able to run tuxracer. You have to use the nvidia drivers. I tried installing / uninstalling the XFree86 Mesa library and the non XF one also, this fixed up a problem with Java3d (not crashing X). I have installed the GLUT, and also installed the nvidia driver packages (all through the package manager). When I change the video card driver in XFConfig-4 from nv to nvidia, I get an error saying that the nvidia module cannot be found. Did you compile and install the modules using the instructions is in /usr/share/doc/nvidia-kernel-src/README.Debian.gz and /usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx-src/README.Debian? Read about using driver in http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86_40/1.0-3123/README After installing, change your XF86Config-4 to use nvidia driver, modprobe NVdriver, restart X. Rather than modprobe, you could reboot. I've seen a number of messages recommending turning off APM in BIOS. Also, if restarting X results in a black screen and locked-up computer, try adding 'Option NvAgp 1' to section Device of XF86Config-4. Do I have to recompile the kernel in some way to fix this? If so, I cannot find my kernel source (should be bf2.4) anywhere. Help! Cheers, Sam -- Jerome msg02619/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: dselect fails to install mozilla-browser after upgrade to woody
On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 12:17:31PM -0400, Levi Waldron wrote: IOn September 17, 2002 08:41 pm, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 04:39:03PM -0400, Levi Waldron wrote: [snip] Interestingly, I didn't see libnsp4 in the list of available packages. I did see libnspr4, which is installed but is not is not listed as required by mozilla-browser or mozilla-psm: Package: libnspr4 Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: libs Installed-Size: 264 Maintainer: Takuo KITAME [EMAIL PROTECTED] Source: mozilla Version: 2:1.0.0-0.woody.1 Here are the mozilla depends, then my checking of each of the required packages: mozilla-browser depends on: libc6 (= 2.2.4-4), libglib1.2 (= 1.2.0), libgtk1.2 (= 1.2.10-4), libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 (= 1:2.95.4-0.010810), xlibs ( 4.1..0-0.woody.1), debconf (= 1), psmisc This list of depends should read: Depends: libc6 (= 2.2.4-4), libglib1.2 (= 1.2.0), libgtk1.2 (=1.2.10-4), libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 (= 1:2.95.4-0.010810), xlibs ( 4.1.0), zlib1g (= 1:1.1.4), libnspr4 (= 2:1.0.0-0.woody.1), debconf (= 1), psmisc If your list of depends came from /var/lib/dpkg/status, it looks like /var/lib/dpkg/status may be damaged. If the list is output of dpkg -I /var/cache/apt/archives/mozilla-browser_2%3a1.0.0-0.woody.1_i386.deb , I would guess the deb is damaged and needs to be downloaded again. What happens if you: # cd /var/cache/apt/archives # ls mozilla-browser* mozilla-browser_2%3a1.0.0-0.woody.1_i386.deb # dpkg -i mozilla-browser_2%3a1.0.0-0.woody.1_i386.deb -- Jerome msg02442/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: dselect fails to install mozilla-browser after upgrade to woody
On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 04:39:03PM -0400, Levi Waldron wrote: I've successfully upgraded to Woody and am now just trying to install Mozilla and its components. dselect gives the following output and fails to install. Any ideas? cedar:/home/lwaldron# dselect Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: mozilla mozilla-browser mozilla-mailnews mozilla-psm mozilla-xmlterm 0 packages upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. ^---^ Have you installed other mozilla dependencies like libnsp4 and libnss3 previously? -- Jerome msg02297/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: 2.4.18 doesn't find my root device.
On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 02:30:06PM -0400, Jim Lynch wrote: Simple description: 2.4.18 kernel panics and says it can't find the root device on 03:06. 2.2.19 finds it fine. I had a root=/dev/hda6 on the loadlin line, and it failed, so I took it off. Rdev of the kernel also says root on /dev/hda6. Background: I upgraded to woody and found that my cdrom no longer worked. I figured something had broken the modules but recompiling and depmod and modprobe didn't seem to fix the problem. lsmod showed everything OK, but it still didn't work. I'm running a ide-scsi setup since this is a writer. So I decided to upgrade the kernel to 2.4.18. I got the kernel-source-2.4.18 via apt-get. Unbziped it. Copied my .config from 2.2.19 to 2.4.18 and did a make oldconfig. I pretty much answered all I don't think copying your .config from your 2.2.19 is a good way to start. There have been a lot of changes. The config file for a 2.4.18 is about three times the size of a 2.2 config file. I would suggest starting with the .config file that came with kernel-source-2.4.18. the questions as no, which was default. This is a 600 Mhz celeron system. Plain Jane. Did the make dep, make bzImage, make modules, make modules_install. Copied the bzImage to the DOS C: drive, modified a dos script to use loadlin to boot and rebooted. It looks like maybe there is a dump first thing, but the boot process rushes by so fast I really can't tell. Anyway somewere down the line, it fails telling me it can't find a root device on 03:06. The first time it said something about not finding anything on hda6. The loadlin command is identical to the one I use for 2.2.19. Is there something else going on that I'm not aware of? I saw a warning about using initrd, whatever that is in my browsing the web. Does that have anything to do with it? The stock debian kernel-images are configured to use initrd. If you compile your own, you don't have to use initrd. If you don't use initrd, make sure the .config file has these settings: # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD is not set CONFIG_IDE=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y CONFIG_[your-root-file-system-module]_FS=y CONFIG_JBD=y #if your root file system is ext3 I've got another system that I attempted to compile 2.4.18 on. Similar setup. Upgraded to woody, apt-get the kernel source. Compiled, installed, rebooted with loadlin and it gets through spitting out the . line, blanks the screen and reboots. I'm not having a lot of luck with 2.4.18. Suggestions? Thanks, Jim. -- Jerome msg01883/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Errors in upgrading old Woody. Help?
On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 03:51:55PM -0400, David Teague wrote: [snip] dpkg --audit dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 16531 package `cpp-3.0': `Depends' field, reference to `gcc-3.0-base': version contains ` ' It look like there is a problem with /var/lib/dpkg/status. the prior version of the file is /var/lib/dpkg/status-old. Older versions of the file should be found in /var/backups. You could try cp /var/lib/dpkg/status-old /var/lib/dpkg/status and see if that allows you to finish installing dpkg and debconf. If that doesn't work, an older version in /var/backups may work, but the older the version, the more out of sync it will be with what is actually installed. Also, consider using dselect for your dist-upgrade. See http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-woody.en.html#s5.2 The reference manual is a little dated; testing in the manual is woody, which is now stable. [snip] # apt-get install dpkg apt debconf Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Sorry, apt is already the newest version. 2 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 451 not upgraded. Need to get 1167kB of archives. After unpacking 147kB will be freed. Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org stable/main dpkg 1.9.21 [1073kB] Get:2 http://http.us.debian.org stable/main debconf 1.0.32 [94.0kB] Fetched 1167kB in 13s (87.1kB/s) Preconfiguring packages ... dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 16532 package `cpp-3.0': `Depends' field, reference to `gcc-3.0-base': error in version: epoch in version is not number E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) -- Jerome msg01702/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: can I create a .deb file from an already installed package?
On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 06:53:50PM -0400, valerian wrote: I wanted to install libbusiness-onlinepayment-authorizenet-perl, but when I run apt-get, it says: Package libbusiness-onlinepayment-authorizenet-perl has no available version, but exists in the database. This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents of sources.list A little while ago, I had already installed that package on another machine (also running Debian 3.0), but alas the .deb is no longer in /var/cache/apt/archives, so I can't just copy it to the new machine. :( Is there a way to reconstruct a .deb file from an already installed package? I haven't tried it myself but look at dpkg-repack. On another note, is there an easy way to create .deb files of Perl modules? I don't like using CPAN very much because it tends to install files all over the place instead of just /usr/local/lib/site_perl... -- Jerome msg00452/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
upgrade to woody failed; debconf can't configure [was: Re: Help?]
On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 03:10:06PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Setting up debconf (1.0.32) ... perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = C, LC_ALL = (unset), LANG = en_US are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale (C). After fixing debconf problem, you can fix the above by: apt-get install localeconf dpkg-reconfigure locales Can't locate Debconf/Db.pm in @INC (@INC contains: ^---^ This directory/file should be in /usr/share/perl5. Check contents of /usr/share/perl5 to verify that the files are indeed missing. If they are missing, try forcing a reinstall of debconf. /usr/local/lib/perl/5.6.1 /usr/local/share/perl/5.6.1 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.6.1 /usr/share/perl/5.6.1 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/share/debconf/transition_db.pl line 5. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/debconf/transition_db.pl line 5. -- Jerome pgpLzhiyu4tnA.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: help
On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 08:59:12AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi: I am in the middle of upgrading to 3.0 and while apt/dpkg was installing th enew version of debconf I got these errors and not sure how to fix Setting up debconf (1.0.32) ... perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset), LC_ALL = (unset), LANG = en_US are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale (C). Ambiguous call resolved as CORE::chdir(), qualify as such or use at /usr/lib/perl5/Cwd.pm line 306.Ambiguous call resolved as CORE::chdir(), qualify as such or use at /usr/lib/perl5/Cwd.pm line 308.base does not define $base::VERSION--version check failed at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver.pm line 6.BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver.pm Do you have perl-5.6 installed? -- Jerome pgpjKD7C33NIi.pgp Description: PGP signature
