dhcp3-client automatically removed by aptitude
When I did an aptitude dist-upgrade yesterday, aptitude decided to automatically uninstall dhcp3-client, because it was marked as automatically installed, and unused. This left me without a dhcp client. Does anybody know what's changed in the past week or so that may have caused this (so that I can file a bug report)? --Ken -- Ken (Chanoch) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory. Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology. http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Change fqdn
Steve Witt wrote: On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, [utf-8] José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández wrote: Hello. How do I change the fqdn of a computer ? No matter what I do, hostname -f keeps telling localhost.localdomain, other computers with the same configuration give the right hostname. Thank you. -- The hostname of the computer is contained in '/etc/hosts'. You can change it there. I think you mean /etc/hostname But when you change it, you'll need to be sure to add the new hostname to /etc/hosts with the IP address of 127.0.0.1 -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures.
Re: Hotplugging more USB devices
Ralph Kutschera wrote: Hi List! I have a 4-in-1-CardReader and an external hard disk connected to my PC via USB. Ok, hotplugging would work if I could trust that same card slots or disk would be mapped to the same scsi devices always. However, depending upon when i turn on/off the external hard disk or inserting/ejecting a card to the reader, the devices are sometimes /dev/sda, /dev/sde, whatever. My question now: How can I setup hotplugging so, that disk partition 1 mounts to /mnt/ext1, the other partition to /mnt/ext2. Or my slot for SD-Cards mounts to /mnt/cards/sd. Whatever. You know. You'll need to learn about how to do this with udev rules. Doing it with udev rules will take a little creativity (becasue what have to do will depend on your hardware configuration), but not much more than is normal when working with udev. http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Change fqdn
Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 24 January 2006 18:47, Ken Bloom wrote: Steve Witt wrote: On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, [utf-8] José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández wrote: Hello. How do I change the fqdn of a computer ? No matter what I do, hostname -f keeps telling localhost.localdomain, other computers with the same configuration give the right hostname. Thank you. -- The hostname of the computer is contained in '/etc/hosts'. You can change it there. I think you mean /etc/hostname But when you change it, you'll need to be sure to add the new hostname to /etc/hosts with the IP address of 127.0.0.1 I would not recommend that. Leave localhost at 127.0.0.1, but give the machines FQDN a 192.168.nn.nn address. And copy that hosts file to all machines on your local network. I didn't say to take localhost away. I meant to add the new hostname in addition: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost cat-in-the-hat # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts # (added automatically by netbase upgrade) ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback fe00::0 ip6-localnet ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters ff02::3 ip6-allhosts -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures.
Re: How to install Debian ia64?
Li Weichen wrote: Hello everyone, I can not install debian ia64 on my PC (em64t 2.66g/ Intel D915GAV/ 512MB*2 DDR/ ST 160g IDE/ 17 LCD/). I used the image downloaded from debian.org (http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r0a/ia64/iso-cd/debian-31r0a-ia64-n etinst.iso) and burned it into a CD, but it can not boot the system without any error messages, though I can browse the CD in Windows. What's wrong with it? The image damaged? What's your procedure? Can anyone give me any suggestions? Thank you guys, best regards! Li Weichen 2005-10-23 ia64 is Itanium, and is not em64t, and is not compatible with em64t. EM64T is intel's implementation of the AMD64 architecture. The port of Debian/amd64 is almost official (but not quite, so it can't be found in the usual places yet). CD/DVD images for AMD64 can be downloaded from http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/sarge-amd64/ although most AMD64 machines are quite new, so you might have better success using an installation image with a newer kernel. This image can be found at http://tinyplanet.ca/~lsorense/amd64/ --Ken Bloom -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dynamic DNS
Lars wrote: Elimar Riesebieter wrote: AFAIK bind8 doesn't support DDNS. ii bind9-host 9.2.4-1Version of 'host' bundled with BIND 9.X ii dhcp3-server 3.0.1-2DHCP server for automatic IP address Why do you have different bind versions on your system? This only happens when inatalling by hand. Using an apt frontend or most likely apt itself, will install a homogen versioning. Actually i did a aptitude install bind, why one part 8.x is in I don't know Because he probably had bind9 (or at least bind9-host which is similar in function to the host package, and has no dependancy on bind 9 itself) installed then installed bind in its place. The bind package is bind 8. To get bind 9, you need to install the bind9 package. the bind package conflicts with bind9 but not bind9-host. There is no corresponding bind-host package. -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Y or I, N or O
Joseph Haig wrote: --- Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 10:49 +0100, Joseph Haig wrote: When upgrading with apt-get upgrade I get the option to install a new configuration file or keep the existing one. The options are Y or I : install the package maintainer's version N or O : keep your currently-installed version Now, I know that with either Y or I and N or O, both old and new versions of the file are saved, but it doesn't say which! Which of N or O do I need to use to save a copy of the new file? Either. If you choose Y, the existing configuration file will be saved as filename.dpkg-old and replaced by the package's version. If you choose N, the existing configuration file will be left untouched and the new version will be saved in the same directory under the name filename.dpkg-dist (or filename.dpkg-new). Thanks. But if this is the case, what do I and O do? They decide which one is going to have the original name, right now. i.e. if you hit I, the the new one will be called filename and the old one will be called filename.dpkg-old, and if you start the program without changing anything (which is very likely to happen as most of the programs with global configuration files are daemons which are restarted immediately), then the package maintainer's configuration will be used immediately. --Ken Bloom -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Compaq laptop, external vga problems
I'm having trouble using an external monitor/projector with my Compaq Presario v2310us [1]. The computer doesn't activate the VGA port when I do the Function-F4 (monitor switch) thing. If I reboot while the VGA monitor is attached, then it boots up and runs X mirrored on both the LCD and the external monitor, but if I don't boot up that way, then I haven't gotten it to put out an image on the external port yet. How can I fix this? [1] http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/Main/Compaq_Presario_v2310us --Ken Bloom -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
pymusique: has it worked lately?
Has anybody gotten pymusique to work lately? Whenever I try to register with iTunes using pymusique, I get an error message telling me to try again later. Apple blocked it in March, and then the authors fixed pymusique to work again (I see blog entries dating to March 22 indicating that it was fixed). Has Apple blocked it again since March 22? Or is the signup simply broken, implying that I'll be able to use pymusique if I sign up first with the official client? $ apt-cache policy pymusique pymusique: Installed: 0.5-0.3 Candidate: 0.5-0.3 Version Table: *** 0.5-0.3 0 500 ftp://ftp.nerim.net unstable/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status --Ken Bloom (Please make sure that you send a copy of your reply to my email address. I hope I got the headers right, but I'm not all that confident that I did.) -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cdrecord in 2.6.9 (vanilla vs debian kernel package)
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 15:43:08 -0500, H. S. wrote: I have this odd situation. I am running 2.6.9 in Sarge which I compiled by downloading the 2.6.9 kernel source from kernel.org since Sarge doesn't have this as a package yet. In this kernel, I am not able to use the cdrecord to burn CD's and K3b does not see my cdwriter as a write but as a reader. This is most probably related to infamous cdrecord problem in 2.6.8 (and 9?). And in this Sarge machine, I have: ii cdrecord 2.0+a34-2 command line CD writing tool ii k3b 0.11.12-1 A sophisticated KDE cd burning application However, I have two other machines here which are running 2.6.9 in Debian Sid. Both have their kernels from Debian packages. In those machines, k3b runs okay and sees the writer correctly as a writer and I am able to burn CDs using cdrecord. In these Sid machines, I have: ii cdrecord 2.0+a38-1 command line CD writing tool ii k3b 0.11.17-1 A sophisticated KDE cd burning application Would anybody be able to tell me is it the kernel (vanilla vs Debian package) that is the problem here or the different versions of the two applications? thanks, -HS Kernel 2.6.8 fixed a security hole that cdrecord relied upon to work. Kernel 2.6.9 did not revert that fix. I don't know what debian does with their kernels, but cdrecord needs to be patched (and hasn't, as-of 4:2.0+a38-1). You can find a patch for cdrecord in bug #267273. --Ken Bloom Hint: the cdrecord build will fail if you have a /usr/src/linux directory or /usr/src/linux symlink. Move that out of the way before you build. -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian and linus kernel, the difference??
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 16:51:24 +, Jon Dowland wrote: On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 10:09:45 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In general I would run WITH the patches, since powers greater than I have decided they would be a good idea. Debian certainly is something greater than I ;-) I'm going to look at what these patches are. Back in the Herb Xu era, I disliked the volume of backports and somewhat untested stuff that was put in the debian kernel. Debian Kernel 2.6.8 could burn CD's. Linus' Kernel 2.6.8 couldn't. -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what package to install a *working* X?
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 07:30:11 +0200, Alexander Schmehl wrote: * Silvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [040713 06:49]: [SNIP] And why doesn't installing konqueror or just any graphical application depend on the installation of a working X server anymore? Because you don't need a local running X server. You need just a X server running somewhere. [SNIP] Is there some way to run konqueror without an X server? No. But you don't need a local x server. What Alexander is trying to say is that one of the great features of the X Window System is that it can send all of its graphical commands over the network to *another* machine and draw the windows there, while doing the processing on the machine the program is installed on. (you'll probably only want to attempt this on the same LAN) There are various ways to do this depending on your setup, but probabaly the easiest is to use SSH. -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures. My key was last signed 10/14/2003. If you use GPG *please* see me about signing the key. * My computer can't give you viruses by email. *** -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BugMenot
On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 19:00:20 +0200, stan wrote:
Yesterday on Slashdot there was a pointer to an article on improving
Mozilla, and Friefox with plugins. One of these was called BugMeNot, and
is supposed to provide accounts for sites susch as the New York Times
that require registration.
I followed the links on this, and fond a page that was supposed to install
it, but when I clicked on that button, I just got a single black page with
the work false in it.
Has anyone installed this sucsefully?
I;m runing Galeon 1.25 on an older testing machine.
I just have a bookmark for the following address, which seems to work at
least part of the time.
javascript:void(window.open('http://bugmenot.com/view.php?mode=bookmarkleturl='+escape(location),'BugMeNot','location=no,status=yes,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=385,height=450'))
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Re: Kernel date stamp?
Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 11:10:13AM -0400, Danny O'Brien wrote: We updated the kernel this weekend using apt-get update followed by apt-get kernel ver. However, uname-a delivers the following response: Linux mail 2.4.18-686 #1 Sun Apr 14 11:32:47 EST 2002 i686 unknown Why is this kernel dated April, 2002? Is this the most recent version? That's the build date. Remember that the last stable release was released in July 2002 ... There are more recent builds (with security patches applied) that are in the security archives, or you can use make-kpkg to compile more recent kernel *versions* (see www.kernel.org for the current versions) from sources. -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures. My key was last signed 10/14/2003. If you use GPG *please* see me about signing the key. * My computer can't give you viruses by email. *** -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [vox-tech] Galeon mime types
On 2004.05.09 19:41, Ken Bloom wrote: 'm trying to edit my Gnome MIME settings in such a way that if I click a link to a .tex file in Galeon, I can make the file open in gvim. Whenever I click a .tex file, I get the ordinary What do you want to do with this file? dialog box, but it doesn't list any helper applications, and the Open button is disabled. Nevertheless, I can double click a .tex file in Nautilus to make it open in gvim. Does anyone know how to edit my MIME types to make something like this work in Galeon? Answering my own question: I asked on #galeon on irc.gimp.net, and Galeon ignores file extensions and only pays attention to MIME types. My GNOME settings were configured to accept text/x-tex as a TeX file, and the web server at the other end was sending me application/x-tex. T he lesson here is to look on the internet and figure out what the correct MIME type is when you set up a file association (http://www.utoronto.ca/ian/books/html4ed/appb/mimetype.html and ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/media-types/media-types appear to be good sites for this) and to be ready to configure all of the other possibilities if different web servers send out different MIME types. -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures. My key was last signed 10/14/2003. If you use GPG *please* see me about signing the key. * My computer can't give you viruses by email. *** pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: apt: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
On Sat, 01 May 2004 23:50:05 +0200, Karsten M. Self wrote:
on Sat, May 01, 2004 at 07:31:07PM +0200, micha ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
First, i'm not on the list, so please cc to me.
I saw exactly the same problem on a friends laptop, when he trtied to
upgrade to testing.
Maybe it's caused by a misconfigured apt or sth. completely different, but
i should mention that
I run a local apt-proxy version 1.3.6 from Debian stable - without any
problems, since half a year.
Now i tried to upgrading to testing. After 'updating' to the new sources
list from aptitude ('u') the package lists
seem to have been downloaded into the apt-proxy cache properly. For example:
/home mi: ls -l /var/cache/apt-proxy/debian/dists/testing/main/binary-i386/
-rw-r--r--1 aptproxy nogroup 2,8M 2004-04-30 21:00 Packages.gz
-rw-r--r--1 aptproxy nogroup81 2004-04-30 21:18 Release
But when i start aptitude and it loads the apt cache, there's this error
message:
Apt errors
E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
E: Error occured while processing tqsllib0 (NewVersion1)
E: Problem with MergeList
/var/lib/apt/lists/localhost:_debian_dists_testing_main_binary-i386_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
There's no package list available, afterwards.
When i request a new (offline) upgrade, it says
Ouch! Got SIGSEGV, dying..
Segmentation fault
The same occurs with unstable.
Updating the package list still works for stable (woody).
The package lists for testing and unstable (main) are quite large ( 2,5 MB)
compared to stable.
However i don't understand what's going on.
This box has 256 MB (mostly unused) RAM and a lot of swap. It runs a kernel
2.4.5 which never
showed any memory problem.
Any idea will be greatly appreciated !
# echo 'APT::Cache-Limit 25165824;' /etc/apt/atp.conf
That should say apt.conf, not atp.conf
# echo 'APT::Cache-Limit 25165824;' /etc/apt/apt.conf
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Re: /dev/nvidia* device files missing
On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 20:10:21 +0200, Jan Pfeifer wrote: hi, I had problems trying to use the (non-free) nvidia kernel module generated from nvidia-kernel-source and I found out that the device files /dev/nvidia[ctl|0|1] were not created by any of the nvidia* packages, and are also not created by the MAKEDEV script nor by the udev package. I'm not sure about where should I submit this bug (or maybe I'm missing something). Any ideas ? many thanks! :) jan The patch to create these devices in udev is included in debian's non-free source. Perhaps you were missing the appropriate udev rules to actually create the device files. Put the following in a file (whose name ends in .rules) in /etc/udev/rules.d KERNEL=nvidia[0-9]*, NAME=%k KERNEL=nvidiactl, NAME=%k -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures. My key was last signed 10/14/2003. If you use GPG *please* see me about signing the key. * My computer can't give you viruses by email. *** -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: slrn drawing characters problem in Konsole
On Sun, 04 Apr 2004 07:20:06 +0200, Faheem Mitha wrote: Dear People, I'm running sarge. I recently noticed (I don't reboot my machine very often and only discover breakage when I reboot) that the red threading in slrn was now replaced by red blocks. I'm not sure what the problem is, but it seems likely the problem was with Konsole and/or X 4.3, since X 4.3 had just arrived in testing. Or maybe that was just a coincidence. The problem seems to be visible in most fonts, and is certainly present in my usual font, which is the unicode option. So, can anyone using slrn reproduce this problem, and more importantly, suggest a fix? I'd be inclined to report this as a Konsole bug unless I hear something to the contrary. Thanks in advance. Faheem. I think slrn has problems drawing line-drawing characters in unicode locales. I don't think this is a Konsole bug. -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures. My key was last signed 10/14/2003. If you use GPG *please* see me about signing the key. * My computer can't give you viruses by email. *** -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrading 2.4 to 2.6 kernel problems
On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 23:50:16 +0200, Jaap Haitsma wrote: Hi, I upgraded my unstable system from kernel 2.4.25 to 2.6.4. I still have a couple of minor problems. 1. After the kernel has booted and init is running when modprobe is trying to insert drivers it is complaining all the time about a whole list of drivers which already have been loaded. This is true but I don't see why modprobe should complain all the time and produce a list of around ten drivers which already have been loaded. So I guess there is something wrong with my setup. Should I install more stuff then the only the kernel image? For the 2.4 kernels for example there is the package kernel-pcmcia-modules and I run Debian on a laptop with PCMCIA and a wireless card. The stock kernels have been compiled with very different configurations between 2.4 and 2.6. Because the computer generally knows what modules to load at startup by reading a list of module names from /etc/modules, I'm not surprised that you would be getting several that had already been loaded - because you hadn't modified /etc/modules since the upgrade. Go ahead and ignore the errors, or remove the offending entries from /etc/modules and see whether things still work (they should). -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures. My key was last signed 10/14/2003. If you use GPG *please* see me about signing the key. * My computer can't give you viruses by email. *** -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2.6 kernel being less responsive than 2.4
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 14:40:14 +0200, Andreas Janssen wrote: Hello Caoilte O'Connor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Saturday 27 March 2004 02:36, Olle Eriksson wrote: On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 09:25, Caoilte O'Connor wrote: Whenever I'm doing something CPU intensive my mouse becomes unresponsive, my mp3 player skips constantly and the like. This didn't used to happen for me under 2.4 [Snip solution - enabling DMA] For the archive: I had similar problems. In some situations (opening new programs, switching windows), xmms skipped, and in my case changing the nice value of XFree to 0 (using dpkg-reconfigure xserver-common) solved the problem. See also the post-halloween document: http://www.linux.org.uk/~davej/docs/post-halloween-2.6.txt (section Process scheduler improvements) How does running the X-server with a *higher* priority (-10 nice value as opposed to 0) cause problems like the mouse skipping? I would think that if the X-server had higher priority, it would be able to respond to mouse events faster and move the cursor faster. -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures. My key was last signed 10/14/2003. If you use GPG *please* see me about signing the key. * My computer can't give you viruses by email. *** -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Solved} Re: procps broken? dpkg can't process it.
On 2004-03-21, Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 21 Mar 2004, Anthony Campbell wrote: For some time there have been errors processing procps. Using aptitude I'm getting: -- (Reading database ... 82789 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace procps 1:3.1.14-1 (using .../procps_1%3a3.2.0-1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement procps ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/procps_1%3a3.2.0-1_i386.deb (--unpack): unable to make backup link of `./bin/ps' before installing new version: Operation not permitted dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Setting kernel variables.net.ipv4.tcp_ecn = 0 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/procps_1%3a3.2.0-1_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Ack! Something bad happened while installing packages. Trying to recover: Press return to continue. --- Anyone know what is happening here? This on testing, kernel 2.4.24. Using lsattr I finally discovered that the i attribute had been set on /bin/ps. I've no idea how this happened but removing it with chattr -i made everything work again. AC Please install and run chkrootkit. I can't imagine why /bin/ps would have the i attribute set if you don't remember it - you may have been rooted. -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures. My key was last signed 10/14/2003. If you use GPG *please* see me about signing the key. * My computer can't give you viruses by email. *** -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is Grub going to be official Sarge boot loader?
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 14:30:15 +0100, Roberto Sanchez wrote: Raiz-mpx wrote: After reading Debian Weekly News for March 16th, it mentions that; This release features the new partitioner that supports automatic partitioning and LVM and uses [43]grub as boot-loader on i386. So does this means that my favorite boot loader will be the official Debian boot loader instead of Lilo? I know its not really that big of deal, as anyone can apt-get Lilo, but might save users a little bit of headache due to the boot loader issues. Rthoreau What I want to know is when dpkg/apt will support grub. I roll my own kernels, and (naturally) use dpkg to install them. I like how dpkg automatically updates the symlinks and runs lilo. One of the reasons I have resisted installing grub is the lack of automated support. Does anyone know for sure? -Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]% cat /etc/kernel-img.conf # Do not create symbolic links in / postinst_hook = /sbin/update-grub postrm_hook = /sbin/update-grub do_bootloader = no do_symlinks = no do_initrd = Yes There. Now dpkg/apt supports grub (and not Lilo). -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures. My key was last signed 10/14/2003. If you use GPG *please* see me about signing the key. * My computer can't give you viruses by email. *** -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: c++ reference package
On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 18:41:00 +0100, Micha Feigin wrote: Is there a package with c++ references in one form or another? I found quite a lot of c references but could locate anything proper on c++. Thanx Use one of the libstdc++*-doc packages. -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures. My key was last signed 10/14/2003. If you use GPG *please* see me about signing the key. * My computer can't give you viruses by email. *** -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hotplug and Udev
On 2004-03-14, jjluza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le dimanche 14 Mars 2004 03:04, Robert Tilley a écrit : I wish to use a combination of kernel 2.6.4 with udev. The udev documentation specifies using a kernel with the HOTPLUG configuration option TRUE. Where can I find this option? Half-an-hour with menuconfig is too much time. -- Comments are appreciated, Bob general setup - support for hot-pluggable devices And don't forget to apt-get install hotplug -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures. My key was last signed 10/14/2003. If you use GPG *please* see me about signing the key. * My computer can't give you viruses by email. *** -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: udev, scanner and memory stick
On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 19:51:25 +0100, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 08:36:14AM -0800, Ken Bloom wrote: On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 13:50:13 +0100, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: Yeah, probably there. I just tried as root and the scanner worked. So, it is a question of permissions again. But I don't want to start changing permissions blindly. How can I dump the action to the screen or to a file to determine what in /dev is doing the work? The same probably applies to the memory stick. But that one still hasn't been found, since all the mounting i used to do with a script. The scanner was found by xscanimage. Thanks to all. Unplugging then plugging in the appropriate device will make the device files disappear and reappear. Then you can go and change permissions. (You can use find /dev and diff to determine which device files disppeared and reappeared) -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures. My key was last signed 10/14/2003. If you use GPG *please* see me about signing the key. * My computer can't give you viruses by email. *** -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problems getting glx direct rendering
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 17:40:17 +0100, Paul Boyle wrote: I have a pci ati rage 128 and can't seem to be able to get direct rendering to work. I have kernel 2.4.24 install ed and using X11 4.2.1.1. I have configured XF86Config-4 so that it loads the required modules, glx and dri. The relevant section of the log file are included below. Despite this I am unable to get glx rendering, glxinfo says that I have no direct rendering. I am able to get software rendering but no hardware rendering. Regarding the kernel module r128.o it seems to make no difference if it is installed or not. Does anyone have any idea what the problem could be? Please post your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. I have a similar card, and was able to get it working except for occasional video-card crashes. -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures. My key was last signed 10/14/2003. If you use GPG *please* see me about signing the key. * My computer can't give you viruses by email. *** -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: libxft-dev problem
On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 13:10:10 +0100, quirin wrote: felix: did you have any trouble with that so far? On Saturday 13. March 2004 12:03, Felix C. Stegerman wrote: snip I managed to get it installed properly by doing this: # dpkg --ignore-depends=libxft-dev -r libxft-dev # apt-get install -f i still hope that branden robinson, who opened up a bug ticket (http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2004/debian-x-200403/msg00833.html), will come up with a solution to that problem pretty soon. but so far nothing has really moved on those list concerning this issue. Follow the bug ticket http://bugs.debian.org/237509, not the mailing list thread. Each entry to the bug ticket will become its own mailing list thread, because of the way the two interact. -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures. My key was last signed 10/14/2003. If you use GPG *please* see me about signing the key. * My computer can't give you viruses by email. *** -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: udev, scanner and memory stick
On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 11:40:17 +0100, Michael Graham wrote:
Ken wrote:
I also had to manually modprobe sd_mod before my usb mass storage
devices (my digital camera) would show up. It seems that hotplug
missed that module. After I proved that worked, I put sd_mod in
/etc/modules
This is exactly the bug I tried to report against udev (I say try
because the maintainer didn't believe me), udev seems to break hotplug.
Try it for yourself. Uninstall udev and reinstall hotplug (it needs to
be reinstalled) then sd_mod should be loaded when you mount you're
memory stick.
Also if you had hotplugging installed before you installed udev you will
see that is no longer writing to the log file.
I just upgraded to 2.6.4, and while doing so I compiled in all of the
extra modules that I have been using (including sd_mod) so I don't know
how to test this now on my 2.6.4.
So here's what happens when I plug in my digital camera. If hotplug were
working correctly, should I expect to see a message from hotplug despite
the fact that all of my camera's modules (sd_mod, usb_storage) are all
compiled in now?
Mar 12 08:31:31 kabloom kernel: usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using address 3
Mar 12 08:31:31 kabloom kernel: scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Mar 12 08:31:31 kabloom kernel: Vendor: IDIGAT L Model: ACEMARRev: .100
Mar 12 08:31:31 kabloom kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI
revision: 02
Mar 12 08:31:32 kabloom kernel: SCSI device sda: 32000 512-byte hdwr sectors (16 MB)
Mar 12 08:31:32 kabloom kernel: sda: assuming Write Enabled
Mar 12 08:31:32 kabloom kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through
Mar 12 08:31:32 kabloom kernel: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
Mar 12 08:31:32 kabloom kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0,
id 0, lun 0
Mar 12 08:31:32 kabloom kernel: Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0,
lun 0, type 0
Mar 12 08:31:32 kabloom kernel: WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
Mar 12 08:31:32 kabloom kernel: USB Mass Storage device found at 3
Mar 12 08:31:32 kabloom udev[3212]: configured rule in '/etc/udev/local.rules' at line
1 applied, 'sda' becomes 'cameras/camera0'
Mar 12 08:31:32 kabloom udev[3212]: creating device node '/dev/cameras/camera0'
Mar 12 08:31:32 kabloom udev[3213]: configured rule in '/etc/udev/local.rules' at line
1 applied, 'sda1' becomes 'cameras/camera0'
Mar 12 08:31:32 kabloom udev[3213]: creating device node '/dev/cameras/camera0'
Mar 12 08:31:32 kabloom udev[3215]: configured rule in '/etc/udev/udev.rules' at line
22 applied, added symlink '%k %c{2}'
Mar 12 08:31:32 kabloom udev[3215]: configured rule in '/etc/udev/udev.rules' at line
22 applied, 'sg0' becomes '%c{1}'
Mar 12 08:31:32 kabloom udev[3215]: creating device node
'/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/generic'
Go ahead, report the bug again, and link to this thread.
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Re: udev, scanner and memory stick
On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 13:50:13 +0100, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 02:17:59PM -0800, Ken Bloom wrote: On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 03:20:07 +0100, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: Installed udev and lost my mouse, stick and scanner. I found the mouse when I started looking around and placed misc between /dev and /psaux. But I haven't figured out yet where the stick and the scanner could possibly be. Another question: /etc/fstab doesn't seem to be of much help now. All the indicated /dev/* have disappeared. (?) One of the nice things about udev is that you can look for the differences in /dev when the device is loaded and when it is unloaded (at least for usb devices), and those are the device files that relate to the device. The usb devices are probably somewhere in /dev/scsi - when you find it, you should create a custom rule to give the devices a descriptive name somewhere. I also had to manually modprobe sd_mod before my usb mass storage devices (my digital camera) would show up. It seems that hotplug missed that module. After I proved that worked, I put sd_mod in /etc/modules I have it in the kernel (y, not as module). It has been all workingg before this. I have tried to discover what changes is /dev when I plug in and out the devices but I don see any changes. I am going deep into /dev/scsi/.. nothing Plug it in and lsmod. -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures. My key was last signed 10/14/2003. If you use GPG *please* see me about signing the key. * My computer can't give you viruses by email. *** -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: udev and fb
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 22:30:18 +0100, Jason A Whittle wrote: I've been avoiding using framebuffer for the terminals since fb support was mainstreamed into the i386 kernel, and simply setting the term resolution in lilo.conf. It seems that framebuffers are the way of the future, and may even be The Right Thing, so when I recently installed sarge on new hardware, I didn't pass anything to the kernel to disable the framebuffer. Everything seems to be working fine, but my terms are all at the default resolution. I know that fbset used to be used to set the framebuffer terminal resolution, but it seems that with udev, the /dev/fb[0-9] devices no longer exist. Is there a way to get around this, or does everyone simply use xterms these days? What framebuffer driver are you using? I'm using vesa, and it doesn't create framebuffer device files, even though udev does have a rule. But IIRC, fbset isn't supposed to work with vesa, because the vesa framebuffer doesn't let you change the resolution except at startup. Also, does anyone know how the fbgetty package differs from the default setup? I know I've seen it flash the screen doing something when I switch between virtual consoles, (and I also know it has a different collection of tags in /etc/issue than the standard getty) but the number one reason I use it is because it doesn't have a certain bug that the default getty has (which makes it take a while to re-spawn a new getty after logout). --Ken Bloom -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures. My key was last signed 10/14/2003. If you use GPG *please* see me about signing the key. * My computer can't give you viruses by email. *** -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: udev, scanner and memory stick
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 03:20:07 +0100, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: Installed udev and lost my mouse, stick and scanner. I found the mouse when I started looking around and placed misc between /dev and /psaux. But I haven't figured out yet where the stick and the scanner could possibly be. Another question: /etc/fstab doesn't seem to be of much help now. All the indicated /dev/* have disappeared. (?) One of the nice things about udev is that you can look for the differences in /dev when the device is loaded and when it is unloaded (at least for usb devices), and those are the device files that relate to the device. The usb devices are probably somewhere in /dev/scsi - when you find it, you should create a custom rule to give the devices a descriptive name somewhere. I also had to manually modprobe sd_mod before my usb mass storage devices (my digital camera) would show up. It seems that hotplug missed that module. After I proved that worked, I put sd_mod in /etc/modules -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures. My key was last signed 10/14/2003. If you use GPG *please* see me about signing the key. * My computer can't give you viruses by email. *** -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cron-ing apt-get update
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 12:20:20 +0100, David Baron wrote: Tried to do this, using webmin. Set it up a root at midnight each day. Anacron is run daily. Has not executed. The only cronjobs that are anacron'ed by default are the ones that are run in the /etc/cron.monthly, /etc/cron.daily, and /etc/cron.weekly directories (NOT /etc/cron.hourly, and NOT the user crontabs). It's easy enough for you to read anacron's manpage and set that up to run your task, but it's not the default, so your task is never getting run if you shut down at night. -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures. My key was last signed 10/14/2003. If you use GPG *please* see me about signing the key. * My computer can't give you viruses by email. *** -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: udev and fb
On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 07:10:05 +0100, Jason A Whittle wrote: On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 02:08:52PM -0800, Ken Bloom wrote: On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 22:30:18 +0100, Jason A Whittle wrote: Everything seems to be working fine, but my terms are all at the default resolution. I know that fbset used to be used to set the framebuffer terminal resolution, but it seems that with udev, the /dev/fb[0-9] devices no longer exist. Is there a way to get around this, or does everyone simply use xterms these days? What framebuffer driver are you using? I'm using vesa, and it doesn't create framebuffer device files, even though udev does have a rule. But Interesting. I'd like to RTFM, but the FrameBuffer HOWTO was last updated in 2000, and reading over it, it doesn't strike me as terribly relevant to my situation. Is there a better source of information you could recommend? IIRC, fbset isn't supposed to work with vesa, because the vesa framebuffer doesn't let you change the resolution except at startup. Do you give vesafb its resolution in lilo.conf or elsewhere? I assume vesafb is the default, but how do I know for sure what framebuffer driver I'm using? I use grub, so I use the vga= kernel parameter. The equivalent in lilo would be: append= vga=788 You can find out what framebuffer driver you are using by looking at the output from dmesg. (BTW, I genuinely don't know whether the vesa framebuffer driver is supposed to be able to interact with the /dev/fb[0-9] devices - there might be a kernel bug in this regard.) Also, does anyone know how the fbgetty package differs from the default in /etc/issue than the standard getty) but the number one reason I use it is because it doesn't have a certain bug that the default getty has (which makes it take a while to re-spawn a new getty after logout). Sounds reasonable. Is there anything to installing fbgetty besides 'apt-get install fbgetty'? You'll have to edit /etc/inittab so that it actually uses /sbin/fbgetty instead of /sbin/getty (because /sbin/getty isn't an alternative the way most substitute packages are - it's a real binary because it's so essential to getting the system up and running). You'll also want to edit /etc/issue (after looking at fbgetty's manpage) because its placeholders there are different. And is there someplace I can look for a list of framebuffers available for the 2.6 kernel? -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures. My key was last signed 10/14/2003. If you use GPG *please* see me about signing the key. * My computer can't give you viruses by email. *** -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: memory stick and kernel 2.6.3
On 2004-03-09, Antonio Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 05:11:19AM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: After installing kernel 2.6.3 (which works great) I am unable to load my memory stick. I have browsed all mount -t vfat /dev/sd* /mnt without success. It used to be /dev/sdd1. It probably has to do with libusb way of dealing, I haven seen much documentation for it. I am running sid. Last comment probably senseless, since it is dealt with as scsi, not usb. Too early. You may have forgotten to load the appropriate module - I've noticed that 2.6.3 hasn't been as good at autoloading modules as 2.4 was. Try sd_mod and usb_storage. By the way, using udev is recommended when dealing with USB devices - this way the appropriate device files appear and disappear as you plug and unplug USB devices. This makes it easier to find the device you just plugged in. And you can also name them conveniently if you take a little time to learn how to write udev rules and steal device information using udevinfo. -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures. My key was last signed 10/14/2003. If you use GPG *please* see me about signing the key. * My computer can't give you viruses by email. *** -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
XFree86 4.3, DRI, and ATI Rage 128 Pro freeze
I recently (last week) figured out how to configure my computer's ATI Rage 128 card to work with DRI and use 3D acceleration. I have a problem now that if I let xscreensaver launch and start doing screen savers, eventually one of the OpenGL screensavers will completely lock up my screen (I can't Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, I can't switch to a virtual console, and killing the application or x server over ssh doesn't solve the problem - although ssh still works). Does anyone have information about solving this situation? -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures. My key was last signed 10/14/2003. If you use GPG *please* see me about signing the key. * My computer can't give you viruses by email. *** signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Virtual Consoles take a long time for gettys to restart
I've observed on my machine over the last several months that it takes an inordinately long time after I log off of one of my machine's virtual consoles before the getty restarts, prints /etc/issue and is ready to accept logins again. Occasionally, I get a situation where init reports the getty as respawning too fast and disables it for 5 minutes. Any idea what's wrong? -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures. My key was last signed 10/14/2003. If you use GPG *please* see me about signing the key. * My computer can't give you viruses by email. *** signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Virtual Consoles take a long time for gettys to restart
On Fri, 05 Mar 2004 16:11:06 +0100, Kent West wrote: Ken Bloom wrote: I've observed on my machine over the last several months that it takes an inordinately long time after I log off of one of my machine's virtual consoles before the getty restarts, prints /etc/issue and is ready to accept logins again. Occasionally, I get a situation where init reports the getty as respawning too fast and disables it for 5 minutes. Any idea what's wrong? Don't have any idea what's wrong, but thought I'd tell you that I've seen references to this in the list every so often (so you might want to check the archives), and I've experienced the same on most (all?) of my boxes, but it doesn't bother me enough to track it down and fix it; since I usually have a free tty I just switch over to it and by the time I need the first one again it's ready. I only post this so that you'll know it's not just your machine. A bit of googling revealed http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/debian-user-200104/msg00257.html You will want to add the -L switch to each one. That option disables carrier-detection, which is responsible for the problems. You don't need carrier detection anyway unless you are connecting to your box via a dumb terminal from a remote location (you almost certainly aren't). I, on the other hand, just decided to change to a different getty - fbgetty, designed for framebuffer consoles like I'm using. (I also tried mingetty which didn't want to work) We'll see how that pans out. -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures. My key was last signed 10/14/2003. If you use GPG *please* see me about signing the key. * My computer can't give you viruses by email. *** -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Virtual Consoles take a long time for gettys to restart
On Fri, 05 Mar 2004 16:11:06 +0100, Kent West wrote: Ken Bloom wrote: I've observed on my machine over the last several months that it takes an inordinately long time after I log off of one of my machine's virtual consoles before the getty restarts, prints /etc/issue and is ready to accept logins again. Occasionally, I get a situation where init reports the getty as respawning too fast and disables it for 5 minutes. Any idea what's wrong? Don't have any idea what's wrong, but thought I'd tell you that I've seen references to this in the list every so often (so you might want to check the archives), and I've experienced the same on most (all?) of my boxes, but it doesn't bother me enough to track it down and fix it; since I usually have a free tty I just switch over to it and by the time I need the first one again it's ready. I only post this so that you'll know it's not just your machine. This is 4 merged bugs. There's even patch available (in 229788): 224028 224067 226443 229788 -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures. My key was last signed 10/14/2003. If you use GPG *please* see me about signing the key. * My computer can't give you viruses by email. *** -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Evolution: Strange things happen
On Mon, 09 Feb 2004 05:30:11 +0100, Phillipus Gunawan wrote: Its not the computer that shut down but the gnome configuration manager that was sent the kill signal probably because X died for some reason and gdm shut it down on logout. Are you running a firewall? (very recommended if your computer is always connected, although it doesn't look like you are from the logs). I am guessing that X died for some reason and when evolution crashed it messed up its files somehow. What X version and window manager + version are you running (my X occasionally crashes down under me on vt switch but its very rare). Thank you for replying my email, I am using (installed) xserver-common and xserver-xfree vsion 4.2.1-15 and GDM 2.4.1.7-1 I am connected by ADSL with a Billion Router, and I supposed it has the firewall ability. in /var/log/messages, I've seen the line: Feb 9 06:14:00 funburst -- MARK -- what is the 'MARK' sign for? It's a nice (and benign) way to split your logfile into 20 minute intervals. every 20 minutes, syslog prints a -- MARK -- to your logfile. And perhaps you could tell me what is this lines means? gconfd (root-xxx): GConf server is not in use, shutting down. gconfd (root-xxx): Exiting Why it say GConf is not in use? Is this the cause why my GNOME log-out? It's probably an effect of your logout. What do you mean by 'vt switch'? Is that a KVM? because I am using KVM, just the normal one. Thanks. -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures. My key was last signed 10/14/2003. If you use GPG *please* see me about signing the key. * My computer can't give you viruses by email. *** -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2.4.23 (exploit-removed) kernel soon?
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 03:40:12 +0100, Carl Fink wrote: When can we expect to see the updated kernel in stable? How about testing? (If anyone says When it's ready, I will be mildly irritated.) -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com Patched versions of 2.4.18 are available in debian-security for stable (both images and sources). Patched sources (but no images) for 2.4.22 are available for unstable (and may already have propagated into testing by the time you read this) Haven't seen 2.4.23 yet for Debian, but you could always use make-kpkg on the vanilla sources from kernel.org. -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures. My key was last signed 10/14/2003. If you use GPG *please* see me about signing the key. * My computer can't give you viruses by email. *** -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Something broke MatLab
Something in the past few days broke MatLab on my sid box. (Perhaps it was something I dist-upgraded - anybody have any ideas?) Previously, whatever way I wanted to launch matlab it behaved the same. Now, if I try to launch MatLab from the Enlightement Menu or from XRun run from the Enlightenment Menu, or from AcidLaunch (which is started directly by my .xsession), Matlab displays the splash screen, then starts up as though it were given the -nodesktop option (as though it can interact with a user through my ~/.xsession-errors file) If I launch matlab from an xterm (no matter how that Xterm was launched) matlab will start up with the full graphical desktop. Any ideas? (I already tried reinstalling Matlab) I'm using Matlab 6.0.0.88 (Matlab R12 student) because its copy protection is less atrocious than Matlab R13. -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures. My key was last signed 10/14/2003. If you use GPG *please* see me about signing the key. * My computer can't give you viruses by email. *** -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: finding what is using a mount point
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 17:00:19 +0100, Micha Feigin wrote: I mounted an image through a loop interface and now when I try to unload it I get a message: umount: /home/micha/tmp: device is busy I made sure no file is open from there but nothing helps. How do I see what is using that mount point? Run lsof to be sure, and also make sure you've cd'ed out of the directory in whatever terminals may have been using it. -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures. My key was last signed 10/14/2003. If you use GPG *please* see me about signing the key. * My computer can't give you viruses by email. *** -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: allowing a normal user to work efficiently
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 18:20:22 +0200, Bijan Soleymani wrote: On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 11:34:52AM -0400, Roberto Sanchez wrote: For example imagine you make cat suid... Then someone can do: cat /bin/rm /bin/cat Interesting attack in theory, but it doesn't work. the correct command is cat /bin/rm /bin/cat and when you run that command, the pipe is handled by the unprivileged shell. cat -rf / -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures. My key was last signed 10/14/2003. If you use GPG *please* see me about signing the key. * My computer can't give you viruses by email. *** -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Decent browsers for Linux? Anything to replace IE?
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 21:10:06 +0200, Alex Malinovich wrote: On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 12:40, Vineet Kumar wrote: * Joseph Jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031014 03:35]: While I'm a huge Firebird fan, IE was better at some tasks (yes, they are non-standard HTML tasks, but what can you do when that's what the industry uses? *sigh*). IMO, Mozilla is not just decent but way better than IE. Among the first things I do when shackled into a windows box is download mozilla and get that damned 'e' off of the desktop. (Then jump through a dozen other hoops to make the shell barely tolerable...) The first thing I do when I have to use a Windows machine is either pop in my Knoppix CD (if I'm allowed to), or otherwise pop in my Cygwin CD and start up X. :) Do you have a version of Cygwin that just runs of CD? I'd love to find one. -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures. My key was last signed 10/14/2003. If you use GPG, *please* see me about signing the key. * My computer can't give you viruses by email. *** -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Redhat user wishing to try Debian - confused.
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tarun Ramakrishna Elankath wrote: Hi all, I suppose this has been asked before on the list, so please pardon me. I wish to install Debian and take advantage of its package management system. However I read that one mustn't try the stable release of Debian as its very old, and must go for the unstable release instead. I am now rather confused on whether to download Sid, Woody or Sarge. Any help/tips/advice to an intermediate linux user/developer wishing to install Debian would be much appreciated. You should probably download stable, unless you feel like trying out a new, bleeding edge debian installer (might be worth it, I haven't tried it yet). You can upgrade from there. (This is the preffered way to install testing or unstable) Woody (stable) practically never gets new features, in about 6 months Sarge should become stable with a newer set of features, and you can then just upgrade if you feel like it. Sarge (testing) gets updated approximately continuously, its software is about two weeks to a month old generally, although GNOME and KDE aren't quite complete in sarge (we're waiting for GNOME 2.2 and KDE 3.1 packages to finish propagating into Sarge). When Sarge becomes stable in about 6 months, all of this is expected to have completed. When sarge becomes stable, it stops updating and becomes dated in much the same way that woody is right now. Unstable will carry even newer software, but sometimes it breaks (I haven't seen a bad breakage recently, in fact running the mixed testing/unstable box that I run tends to break a bit more and require more human intervention in upgrades). -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures. My key was last signed 6/10/2003. If you use GPG, *please* see me about signing the key. * My computer can't give you viruses by email. *** -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mozilla and Blackdown Java Plugin
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 18:10:09 +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
Short summary:
MozillaJRE Works?
== 1.2.1-2.bunk
j2re1.3 YES 1.2.1-2.bunk j2re1.4 unknown
1.3-5 j2re1.3 NO 1.3-5 j2re1.4
NO 1.4-2 j2re1.3 NO 1.4-2
j2re1.4 NO
Why? And how to fix?
I am trying hard to get Java to work with Mozilla:
ii mozilla-browse 1.4-2 Mozilla Web Browser - core and browser
ii j2re1.41.4.0.99beta-1 Blackdown Java(TM) 2 Runtime
Environment, St ii j2sdk1.4 1.4.0.99beta-1 Blackdown Java(TM) 2
SDK, Standard Edition
Java works, Mozilla works, but the plugin does not. j2re1.4 installs
/usr/lib/j2se/1.3/jre/plugin/i386/mozilla/javaplugin_oji.so via symlinks
into /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. If I start Mozilla, then about:plugins
does *not* list the plugin.
If I manually link
/usr/lib/j2se/1.3/jre/plugin/i386/mozilla/javaplugin.so into the plugins
tree, then about:plugins lists a number of MIME types for which
Blackdown is responsible, but it's missing one of the important ones:
application/x-java-vm.
I tried using j2{re,sdk}1.3 in place of the unstable 1.4 version, but no
different behaviour. Mozilla 1.3-5 exhibits the same problem.
I have another machine running older software, and it works flawlessly
there:
ii mozilla-browse 1.2.1-2.bunk Mozilla Web Browser - core and browser
ii j2re1.31.3.1.02b-2Blackdown Java(TM) 2 Runtime
Environment, St ii j2sdk1.3 1.3.1.02b-2Blackdown Java(TM) 2
SDK, Standard Edition
What's the deal here? Has anyone gotten the Blackdown Java Plugin to
work with Mozilla 1.4?
I was at one point able to get Mozilla 1.3 to work with Java 1.4 (I since
downgraded mozilla because I wanted to stick with Galeon 1.2 series for
now)
The problem is that Mozilla 1.3 in Debian was recompiled using g++-3.2
which has a different ABI from GCC 2.95 and 3.0. As a result the Mozilla
is now binary-incompatible with the new plugin.
Here's the solution: Blackdown's Java .debs are still compiled with GCC
2.95.x, *but* blackdown does have a binary installer available of Java 1.4
compiled with g++-3.2 which you can use with Mozilla 1.3. You can also use
it to make your own .debs of Java, as I have (but I unfortunately cannot
share them because of bandwidth constraints)
I haven't tried Mozilla 1.4, so I don't know if the g++ ABI is the only
hurdle that you'll have to deal with.
I guess the question is: when will Blackdown make .debs with g++-3.2?
This problem affected Mandrake 6 to 9 months before it affected debian
because Mandrake included g++-3.1 (the first to use the new ABI) whereas
Debian did not.
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Re: X11 with different keyboards
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 06:40:11 +0200, Christian Lynbech wrote: I am currently spending quite some time at work travelling back and forth between Denmark and Sweden. I have a laptop that I bring with me and a screen and keyboard at the office in Sweden that I can hook up to. Now the fun part is that the laptop has an american keyboard layout while the external keyboard is swedish, and I would like a more convenient way of controlling the situation than reconfiguring the X server whenever I switch :-) First of all, is there anybody who knows of a way to sample programmtically whether there is an external ketboard hooked up to the laptop? Secondly, is there any other way to switch keyboard layout on the fly under X11 (just like I can with `loadkeys' on the console) other than generating a set of command files for xmodmap? Generating a set of command files for xmodmap is a good idea. There may already be files generated however in /usr/share/xmodmap/ that may save you some or all of the work involved. You may also be able to use xkbcomp to use xkb files to change your layout. There are lots of files serving lots of different purposes, but the ones you would want to select from would be found in /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/ (This is what I do for hebrew, but I took time to create my own phonetic keyboard for that, so ymmv with the ones in this directory.) -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures. My key was last signed 6/10/2003. If you use GPG, *please* see me about signing the key. * My computer can't give you viruses by email. *** -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best way to upgrade a single app
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 03:50:11 +0200, David Corbin wrote: I have a production system, that I do NOT want to migrate to testing/unstable. But, I would like to upgrade one particular package (spamassassin, in this case) to a more recent version. What is the recommended way of doing this? Should I just download and build the upstream package? Can pinning help me? I suggest downloading the current sources from testing or unstable and rebuilding on your box using dpkg-buildpackage. This should work for 80% or more of all packages in testing and unstable. (The other 20% may be confused by different dependancies) This way you get .debs for the new version that you can manage with dpkg. P.S. I realize that upgrading any package might require upgrades to several other packages. Downloading the binary that's alreay in sid/sarge will require updating GLIBC, so I suggest not doing this. -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures. My key was last signed 6/10/2003. If you use GPG, *please* see me about signing the key. * My computer can't give you viruses by email. *** -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Things changing overnight
Sometime in the past few days, my modem /dev/ttyS4 changed its permissions from 660 to 640 without my intervention. My first question: is there any kind of security package on debian that might have done this as a cronjob? I don't use devfs. When asking on #debian, a user suggested that I check my logs to see if I had been hacked. I found in /var/logs/auth.log that the command `su` had been run to switch from user `root` to user `nobody` at 3:35 this morning, a time when I was not connected to the internet (I use ppp to connect through my modem). My second question: any idea what might have done this? (obviously, I'd like to avoid a reinstall) (I can't seem to find any cronjob that would be doing this, but it would help if you had any suggestions) please cc: me as I am not subscribed to this high-volume mailing list -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. If you don't know what it is, either ignore it or visit www.gnupg.org My PGP key was last signed 6/10/2003 please download my key again if it is more recent than your copy. If you use GPG, *please* talk to me to sign it. The key is keyID E2B2CAD1 on pgp.mit.edu pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
compiling lufs
How do I compile the LUFS kernel module from its official debian package to run on a debian stock kernel (in this case 2.4.20-3-686) -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. If you don't know what it is, either ignore it or visit www.gnupg.org My PGP key was last signed 6/10/2003 please download my key again if it is more recent than your copy. If you use GPG, *please* talk to me to sign it. The key is keyID E2B2CAD1 on pgp.mit.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: compiling lufs
On Thu, 03 Jul 2003 15:10:11 +0200, Gregory Seidman wrote: On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 08:49:04PM -0700, Ken Bloom wrote: } How do I compile the LUFS kernel module from its official debian package } to run on a debian stock kernel (in this case 2.4.20-3-686) apt-get install kernel-headers-2.4.20-3-686 apt-get install kernel-package apt-get install lufs-source cd /usr/src tar xzf lufs.tar.gz cd kernel-headers-2.4.20-3-686 make-kpkg --added-modules lufs modules_image cd .. dpkg -i lufs*.deb --Greg make-kpkg complains when I try to run it form a kernel-headers directory We do not seem to be in a top level linux kernel source directory tree. Since we are trying to make a kernel package, that does not make sense. Please change directory to a top level linux kernel source directory, and try again. (If I am wrong, and this is indeed a top level linux kernel source directory, then I have gotten sadly out of date with current kernels, and you should upgrade kernel-package) I've also tried from the kernel source directory (Adding --append-to-version) but the module has unresolved symbols when I run depmod. -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. If you don't know what it is, either ignore it or visit www.gnupg.org My PGP key was last signed 6/10/2003 please download my key again if it is more recent than your copy. If you use GPG, *please* talk to me to sign it. The key is keyID E2B2CAD1 on pgp.mit.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: removing a package from apt-get?
On Tue, 01 Jul 2003 02:40:15 +0200, j2 wrote: Ok, i tried to install a .deb with dpkg -i filename.deb and ran into a problem that i was lacking flex. So i did apt-get install flex and then i get cookiemonster:/root/Download/SMS/gnokii-0.5.2# apt-get install flex Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: gnokii-smsd: Depends: libc6 (= 2.3.1-1) but 2.2.5-11.5 is to be installed Depends: gnokii (= 0.5.0-1) but 0.3.5-1 is to be installed gnokii-smsd-mysql: Depends: libc6 (= 2.3.1-1) but 2.2.5-11.5 is to be installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution). cookiemonster:/root/Download/SMS/gnokii-0.5.2# Now, how can i tell apt-get that i no longer wish to install those packages ( i will build them from source instead), but how to remove the gnokii-components from the list of files to be installed? I'm assuming that the packages that you tried to install with dpkg are the gnokii packages. It appears that they were compiled for unstable or testing, and you are using stable (I can tell because of the libc6 dependancy). The package, however, was actually installed by dpkg and now apt is detecting the dependancy error. You can remove the offending packages with `apt-get remove` or `dpkg -r`. If you were running unstable (and apt knew about packages that could satisfy the dependancies) then the proper solution would be to let apt-get figure out what needed to be done with the command `apt-get -f install' that apt has suggested. You don't need to put a package name at the end of that command line. -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. If you don't know what it is, either ignore it or visit www.gnupg.org My PGP key was last signed 6/10/2003 please download my key again if it is more recent than your copy. If you use GPG, *please* talk to me to sign it. The key is keyID E2B2CAD1 on pgp.mit.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: libvorbis0a? in unstable
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Re: When packaging systems go awry (Was: Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?)
H. S. Teoh wrote: On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 04:59:04PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Glenn McGrath wrote: I didnt realise that, what are its bad points... i guess it could make dependencies a bit tricker. The way redhat does it means you have to distinguish between installing packages and upgrading them. If you install a newer version of something without expliticly telling it to upgrade it, you end up with two versions installed. [snip] Ick. If I had to choose, I'd stay away from rpm for this one reason alone. Experience shows that installing the same package more than once, esp. with different versions, gets you into an absolute, total mess. Theoretically, it should be OK, but in practice, there are just too many assumptions made by software, hardcoded paths, etc., that just do NOT allow it to live with another version of itself nicely. (Except if they reside in different chroot jails.) Not to mention bad interaction with other packages (package X requires package Y -- but which *version* of package Y if more than one are installed?) Have you even used RPM? RPM does not install multiple versions of the same package any more so than Debian will with packages named (for example) libpng2 and libpng3. The only difference is that if you try to `rpm -i` an upgraded package, rpm will stop in its tracks and complain, whereas Debian will go ahead with it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Making a java 1.4.1 deb
mdevin sez: } Is there some way that I can use the Sun Linux install binary and } convert it to a deb so that when Blackdown releases theirs, my system } will automatically upgrade to their version? Actually, Blackdown has a } binary install version for 1.4.1 beta but no deb package. Is it } possible to use this and somehow make it into a .deb? [...] What I have done on my Debian install, with great success, is to use alien with the RPM that Sun makes available for Linux. It is vastly irritating that most software is released in RPM, but it is a delight that they can be converted to .deb and, often, installed and used successfully. That doesn't mean that everything will work with alien... but enough does, and that which does not can be rolled back easily. Note that it will not automatically upgrade with the Blackdown release. Indeed, it should conflict with it. I personally used alien to convert the JDK RPM to a deb, however there is also a program in sarge called checkinstall which can monitor what an install process (either a dynamically-linked install binary, or a ./configure make make install) does and package up the results into a tgz, an rpm, or a deb. apt-get install checkinstall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux in Universities
You should consider discussing universites whose departments use linux in their labs. For example, I attend UC Davis and have taken computer classes in three departments: Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Mathematics. Each of these departments' labs run Unix variants exclusively: Computer Science uses SGI, HP, and Linux/x86 ; Computer Engineering uses HP and Linux/x86 ; Mathematics uses Linux/x86 exclusively. In some cases, I have been restricted by the assignment to using Linux exclusively, even when the department's lab includes other systems. UC Davis' general computer labs (open to all students) still run Windows and MacOS9, but it seems like the University may be heading toward Linux. And this is of much greater importance than the 2% linux user statistic cited on your page (upon which we cannot even perform statistical inference because only 5 people indicated using linux on their computers) because your indication of problems in software piracy points to a bigger trend. I won't comment on the accuracy of your statement that ...part of the problem was that the university required the use of certain software, but did not provide copies for students to use on their home machines., but if it is true then it would logically imply that as Universities begin to deploy more open solutions in their computer labs, students will begin adopting the same open solutions on their own computers. Dan Kegel said: Hi all, not quite who to contact to get input from the Debian project on this -- apologies if debian-user isn't the right place. I've put together a resource page re Linux in Universities at http://www.kegel.com/linux/edu/ My goal is to encourage universities to support Linux and free software in general, and to provide information on the current state of Linux support at universities. I would appreciate your feedback on the content. If there's anything missing there from your point of view, please let me know, and I'll see if I can fix it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
