Re: apt-get wierdness: when 6 is equal to 9
On September 24, 2001 12:21, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: begin: Hereward Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] quote once upon a time Peter Jay Salzman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: problem: two systems with the same sources.list don't know about the same available packages. have you tried running the update selection from dselect. I think the problem is that dpkg only lists the files from the package list when updated via dselect. Or alternativly you could use apt-cache search filename which would use the apt package list. Hereward hereward, thanks for the reply. so dselect and apt contain different views of what packages are on the system? just tried it -- i think you're right. imho, this goes beyond inelegance, and borders on a bug that needs to be fixed. it's unthinkable that there are two databases of available packages which are out of sync everytime we choose apt over dselect or dselect over apt. seems like debian should strive to make apt and dselect front ends for the same package management system. :( anyway, your suggestion worked. much thanks! pete Afaik, dpkg -l lists only the packages currently installed on the system, or those pending installation. apt-cache search on the other hand searches the apt database for packages that are available for installation. It seems that the packages marked pn are packages that you selected with dselect but never actuallly installed, so it is possible you did not select the same packages for installation on both systems.
Lyx and ispell problems.
I have recently installed the Lyx 1.1.6fix3 package from Debian/Unstable and I am having some problems using the spellchecker feature. Whenever I try to use the spellchecker from the edit menu I get an error message saying the ispell-process has died and that I probably do not have the dictionary installed. However, I do have the english ispell dictionary installed, and the program works fine from the terminal. I have the most recent ispell 3.1.20-15 packages from Debian/Unstable installed. Any help with this problem would be greatly appreciated.
Re: Debian Progeny Debian?
The only significant difference I noticed with Progeny was the installer, though this may have been due to the fact that I simply upgraded my Progeny install to Woody almost right after, and then happily upgraded that to Sid... Speaking of the installer, it's not very good (IMO), especially the disk partitioning tool in the GUI, you are probably better off just walking her through a standard Debian install so she can get a grip on what's going. On September 9, 2001 01:56, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: I'm scouting for a Linux distro for a complete newbie who I think will be interested in Linux. RedHat or Mandrake might be easy to install, but the mere fact that they ship with a broken compiler that breaks almost anything is not too comforting (I started with RedHat, and I can't forget the first time I tried to compile a program - it failed and I almost didn't get my machine problem done had I not checked RedHat's fixes). I would prefer my newbie friend and classmate in computer science to try out Debian, but it might intimidate her initially (she's currently a Windows user). Would anyone recommend Progeny Debian instead? I looked at their web site and it looked good - the matter in question would be - would it be as good for a beginner? Can anyone give a qualitative analysis on Progeny? Thanks! Paolo Falcone __ www.edsamail.com
Re: cannot use microsoft intellimouse 1.2A ps/2 compatible
If your mouse is a PS/2 compatible the device you should be using is /dev/aux (which is usually symlinked to /dev/mouse, but sometimes not..). Hope this is of help. On September 7, 2001 18:50, carlos mena wrote: can anyone help me. i'm in the process of installing the official binary-i386 version 2.2_r3 of debian, but when i get to the part of configuring xf86 and i'm trying to configure the mouse wich is a microsoft intellimouse 1.2A ps/2 compatible. i've tried different cconfigurations such as (1) protocol: imps2 device: /dev/mouse (mouse did not move); (2)protocol: imps2 device: dev/ttySO (mouse moved erratically,but always shifted to the right corner of the screen). someone told me to check and see if i had gpm.conf file in my /etc directory, but i did not find it. any help is appreciated. thanks. --cc _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
Re: package in a bad way - what to do
On August 29, 2001 06:50 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In re: Now it's time for surgery. Go find the deb file and run dpkg -c aime-whatever-.deb Just destroy all the files that are listed as being part of the package and judisciously scrub the c OK, I'll try it. BUT and I do mean BUT ... this is Kafka-esque. I don't often run into a problem that seems to get laughed away, pushed under a rug or ignored ... that, it seems to me, is the style of the realm of proprietary software! :) Can no one tell me why the options involving 'reinstreq' just don't seem to ... work on my machine? Why they are seemingly unrecognized when the manual, in fact, prominently lists them? A search on 'reinstreq' on the debian.org website turns up one document ... in Polish. There are several bug reports for [the testing version of] dpkg, but a cursory look doesn't reveal anything relevant. I'm running a custom 2.4.8 kernel, but the only thing I customized was module versioning ... this couldn't have anything to do with the problem, could it? I'm fishin' here, and I'm a vegetarian - so you know I'm desperate! Thanks, Glenn ++ http://www.burningclown.com Everyone's Portal to Nothing At All ++ The document in Polish doesn't really contain anything useful regarding your problem. Basically it just reiterates that packages marked reinstall-required cannot be handled by dpkg unless you use --force-reinstreq or whatever. Dead end there :D -- Kamil Kisiel www.speechlessarts.com
Re: Totaly OT: how to cut up pictures
On August 29, 2001 01:43 am, Nico De Ranter wrote: Howdy, I'm afraid this is not realy Debian related but I'm not sure where to turn to otherwise and you guys seem to now everything anyway :-) I'm looking for a (free) tool (Linux or Windows, Linux prefered ofcourse) to cut up an image in rows and columns. I'm writing a webinterface to my ethernet switches, I have a drawing of the switch but I would like to be able to color the ports depending on some criteria. I figure the easiest way to do this is to cut up the image, create an HTMl table that fits it back together and fill in the correct images for the status of the ports. I tried a number of image editors to cut up the original image but I found no program that is able the at least cut an image into two new images. In stead I have to select a part, cut it into a new image, select another piece... But I always end up having pieces with 1 line too much or missing :-(. There has to be something outthere... Thanks in advance, Nico - It has been said that there are only two businesses that refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry. - Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SDCE/VPE-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is easy to do if you are using TheGimp. What you need to do is use guides, and then make a selection that follows the guides, you will have perfectly sized selections every time. Basically, click on one of the rulers, and drag in to the image, it will drag move a line there. Move enough of these lines to create a grid like the table that you want to split your image in to. Then make sure you have Snap To Guides enabled in the view menu, and just make a square selection, it should snap to the guides. Then just copy, and paste to a new image. Rinse and repeat as necessary. Hmm.. this has got me thinking, this kind of thing is very useful and could probably be automated, I should write some gimp scripts to automate the process... but I digress. Hope this works for you as good as it worked for me :D -- Kamil Kisiel www.speechlessarts.com
Re: Progeny Debian
I installed Progeny on my system (to simplify the installation procedure) and then upgraded it to Woody soon after without any problem, all it took is modifying my sources.list and doing an apt-get dist-upgrade. So far, after more than a month of use I have not seen any problems arise from this upgrade so I assume it all went flawlessly. On August 27, 2001 11:29 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alright. Now I am down to thinking progeny would be the best to nab. But here is what I don't know yet... Are the downloads upgrades free from their servers? Does anyone have any experience upgrading from progeny to woody/sid? - Dan I think the progeny installer, and software included makes it a better choice than than using potato, but just how good is it with pure debian (package compatibility)? This probably seems an odd question, but for example, ximian debs are very screwed up (maybe they fixed them since june). -- Kamil Kisiel www.speechlessarts.com
Strange system lockups.
I am having some weird system lockup problems. My computer goes in to heavy HD caching every Sunday evening or Monday morning and locks up, I cannot move the mouse in X nor can I switch to any other virtual terminals. I checked all the cron jobs in cron.daily, cron.weekly and cron.monthly and none of them take more than 3 seconds to run. My /etc/crontab only has anacron running. I checked my syslog, it doesn't report anything happening at this time. I am the only user on my system. I have never had this problem before installing Debian (Woody) on my computer, my previouse Windows and RedHat installations ran without a problem. I usually run my computer 24/7, with reboots and shutdowns every now and then, and this problem has been coming up for several weeks and always on Sunday evening or Monday morning. If can help me shed some light on this problem, I would much appreciate the help. -- Kamil Kisiel www.speechlessarts.com
Re: Strange system lockups.
On August 20, 2001 12:54 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 09:00:53PM -0700, Kamil Kisiel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I am having some weird system lockup problems. My computer goes in to heavy HD caching every Sunday evening or Monday morning and locks up, I cannot move the mouse in X nor can I switch to any other virtual terminals. Note that caching and high disk use are two separate things. Are you certain that the issue is caching? Well, I am not certain it's a disk caching problem, but I can't fathom what else could possibly be using my HD for well over an hour. It might help to run a top session in batch mode, with logged output, to watch top processes and system resource utilization, to watch trends. I checked all the cron jobs in cron.daily, cron.weekly and cron.monthly and none of them take more than 3 seconds to run. My /etc/crontab only has anacron running. I checked my syslog, it doesn't report anything happening at this time. I am the only user on my system. There's a process accounting utility (I'm trying to find it, think it's the 'acct' package) which logs the start of every command executed on the system. I've found this more useful as a debug tool than for accounting per se. I will download this package and run it to see if I can catch this problem... thanks for the hint. You also don't specify your memory and swap configuration. They might be...? I have 128MB of RAM and 400MB of swap space, I don't think I am short on either. Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; charset=us-ascii; name=Attachment: 1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: -- Kamil Kisiel www.speechlessarts.com
Re: Strange system lockups.
Ok, this acct program is not going to do it. According to it's man pages, the kernel only logs to acct after a process has terminated. Since whatever is locking up my system obviously doesn't terminate (otherwise my system would not be locked up from processor/HD use), this doesn't do me a whole lot of good. Any other ideas? -- Kamil Kisiel www.speechlessarts.com
Re: sound
I had the same problem and so I set these permissions as per the XMMS FAQ (www.xmms.org) $ ls -l /dev/dsp /dev/mixer crw--w--w-1 root audio 14, 3 Apr 4 16:46 /dev/dsp crw-rw-rw-1 root audio 14, 0 Apr 4 16:46 /dev/mixer That solved my audio problems. Hopefully it will solve yours. On August 16, 2001 04:24 pm, Bob Koss wrote: Michael == Michael Heldebrant [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Michael On 16 Aug 2001 15:19:55 -0400, Bob Koss wrote: Michael == Michael Heldebrant [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Michael Try logging out and logging back in. Didn't work. But while I was at the non-X bash prompt, I tried firing up mpg123 and that gave a better error message. The problem is /dev/dsp. rskoss is in group audio and /dev/dsp has rw set for group audio. Michael H. What does /proc/modules show? Does /dev/sndstat Michael or /proc/sound give any usefull info? What type of Michael soundcard do you have? Is an esd process running at the Michael moment which will have grabbed the soundcard? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /proc/modules 3c59x 25760 1 sb 7392 1 sb_lib 34544 0 [sb] uart401 6416 0 [sb_lib] sound 58576 1 [sb_lib uart401] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Neither /dev/sndstat nor /proc/sound are present on my system. -- Kamil Kisiel www.speechlessarts.com
Re: Kernel image installed. Now what?
Yes, always rerun lilo after changing lilo.conf. Otherwise the changes to the .conf won't be written to your MBR On August 16, 2001 05:50 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom Massey writes: Did you run lilo after you made this change, before you rebooted? No, I rebooted first. I take that I'm supposed to run lilo after I edit lilo.conf but *before* I reboot? -- Kamil Kisiel www.speechlessarts.com
