Re: Can't rescue, read-only filesystem
Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk writes: Once you have got that far, switch to /dev/tty2 (Alt + F2) and do this # cd /target(or maybe /mnt -- i can't check that at the moment) # ls should show you the contents of your root partition on the hard disk # sbin/lilo -r /target Oliver, I really appreciate your help! Unfortunately: # sbin/lilo -r /target sbin/lilo: /sbin/lilo.real: not found # sbin/lilo.real -r /target sbin/lilo.real: error in loading shared libraries: sbin/lilo.real: symbol fstatfs, version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference Today at work I will get new rescue/root disks. Is there a woody/testing set, or should I use the stable set? It's been a while, and I can't remember if this kernel/modules came from packages or whether I built them. Thanks again, morgan
Can't rescue, read-only filesystem
I am running testing, my system is up-to-date, except that I haven't let apt-get remove the 102 packages it recently wants to remove. I believe I saw lilo get updated this weekend, during 'apt-get update apt-get upgrade'. This morning I rebooted and got LI. (Lilo normally let's me boot into win2k or debian testing.) I pulled out an old potato-era rescue disk, entered rescue root=/dev/hda3 at the rescue: prompt and everything went okay until it got stuck in an endless loop, repeating the same messages over and over: insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/unix.o: insmod net-pf-1 failed insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/unix.o: cannot create /var/log/ksymoops/200010319 Read-only file system I don't know what's going on. Advice? morgan
Can't rescue, read-only filesystem
I am running testing, my system is up-to-date, except that I haven't let apt-get remove the 102 packages it recently wants to remove. I believe I saw lilo get updated this weekend, during 'apt-get update apt-get upgrade'. This morning I rebooted and got LI. (Lilo normally let's me boot into win2k or debian testing.) I pulled out an old potato-era rescue disk, entered rescue root=/dev/hda3 at the rescue: prompt and everything went okay until it got stuck in an endless loop, repeating the same messages over and over: insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/unix.o: insmod net-pf-1 failed insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/unix.o: cannot create /var/log/ksymoops/200010319 Read-only file system I don't know what's going on. Advice? morgan
Re: Can't rescue, read-only filesystem
kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: Boot a standalone floppy or CDR GNU/Linux system and examine your HD. I'd recommend Tom's Root Boot if you're running a 2.1.x kernel (TRB doesn't handle some instances of 2.2.x ext2 filesystems), or the LinuxCare Bootable Business Card (BBC), which uses a 2.2.x kernel. I suspect HD damage, which may prevent you from accessing your HD and/or a Linux kernel located on it. Wouldn't HD damage affect execution before the reboot? System has been up all through the weekend, and I had rebooted and gone through LILO four days ago. I think it has something to do with the way the rescue disk is starting the system. Not sure, however. The boot sequence goes quite a way, until it gets to loading this module. I'm inclined to think the disk is OK. morgan
Re: Can't rescue, read-only filesystem
Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk writes: The root partition is mounted read-only to start with. You need to load a kernel module to finish booting, but it looks as though the rescue kernel doesn't match the modules on your hard disk. It looks as if you may have overwritten your kernel-image package. The LI message means that lilo couldn't find the kernel where it is configured to look for it. If that is correct, the simplest way to deal with it is: Boot from the floppy: boot: rescue root=/dev/hda3 init=/bin/sh This will put you straight into a shell, with no other utilities running. Unfortunately, the same thing happens. It is as if the init=/bin/sh argument is ignored. The rescue disk is from potato. My wife's laptop doesn't have a floppy drive, so I can't even create a new one! Worse still, I can't even use windows 2000's CD to rescue the MB, so I am stuck with LI and can't boot either OS on the machine. Argh. I used the rescue-root disks from 2.2 to mount my partitions. I tried using ae to uncomment the alias net-pf-1 off line, then touch modules.dep to be newer than modules.conf, but I still can't get past the basic problem of an endlessly-cycling error message on boot, right when init is launched it looks like: modprobe: modprobe: cannot create /var/log/ksymoops/20010320.log Read-only file system Over and over. The disk is fine, as I can mount its partitions from the instllation screen, traverse its structure, manipulate files. I just can't get linux (or LILO) to boot. I don't know what to do next. Any advice? morgan
GID conflict, local vs. NIS
I feed off a solaris NIS server for users/groups, except root. There's a GID=100 conflict, where NIS server says it's 'devel' and (linux):/etc/group says it's 'users'. Can I safely groupdel users? I'm running current potato x86 debian. TIA! morgan -- V M o r g a n F l e t c h e r http://www.hahaha.org Tibi gratias agimus quod nihil fumas. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
IDE CD-R drive via ide-scsi
I'm trying to utilize my IDE CD-R drive (HP CD-Writer 8100) via scsi emulation to burn discs with cdrecord. I've been reading http://www.guug.de/~winni/linux/cdr/html/CD-Writing.html#toc1 for the last couple of days, and have done a few things listed there, but now I'm stuck. Here's my setup: x86 adaptec 2940 scsi cd-rom scsi hard disk ide cd-burner (HP CD-Writer 8100) debian potato linux custom 2.2.10 kernel I've built a custom kernel with this (abridged) configuration: BLOCK Enhanced IDE/MFM/RLL...M BLOCK IDE/ATAPI CDROM ide-cd M BLOCK SCSI hostadaptor emulation ide-scsi M BLOCK Loopback device loop M SCSI SCSI supportscsi_mod Y SCSI SCSI CD-ROM support sr_mod M SCSI Enable vendor-specific Y SCSI SCSI generic supportsg M SCSI (select a low-level driver) aic7xxxY FS ISO 9660 CDROM filesystem iso9660Y FS Microsoft Joliet cdrom... joliet Y I've also added 'append=hda=ide-scsi' to my /etc/lilo.conf, and also 'alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi' to /etc/modutils/aliases and 'options ide-cd ignore=hda' to /etc/modutils/modconf, and run update-modules of course. I've tried variations, for instance with IDE=Y, etc. What device should I use to access the device now that I'm theoretically using scsi emulation? Running 'cdrecord -scanbus' gets me: Cdrecord release 1.8a25 Copyright (C) 1995-1999 Jörg Schilling scsibus0: 0) 'SEAGATE ' 'ST34371N' '0338' Disk 1) 'MATSHITA' 'CD-ROM CR-506 ' '8S05' Removable CD-ROM 2) * 3) * 4) * 5) * 6) * 7) * I have no idea what do next! I have no /dev/sr* devices, and can't seem to make them with /dev/MAKEDEV. What device should I use to access the HP? How can I load up a module so as to make it show up in the output of 'cdrecord -scanbus'? morgan
Re: Request for help, IDE CD-R
Winfried Truemper [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Quick first answer: (1) What happens when you load the ide-scsi module? modprobe ide-scsi (2) If the above works, cdrecord -scanbus would show scsibus1 in addition to your real scsibus. That was embarassingly easy. Thank you! anchor:/etc/modutils# modprobe ide-scsi anchor:/etc/modutils# cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord release 1.8a25 Copyright (C) 1995-1999 Jörg Schilling scsibus0: 0) 'SEAGATE ' 'ST34371N' '0338' Disk 1) 'MATSHITA' 'CD-ROM CR-506 ' '8S05' Removable CD-ROM 2) * 3) * 4) * 5) * 6) * 7) * scsibus1: 100) 'HP ' 'CD-Writer+ 8100 ' '1.0g' Removable CD-ROM 101) * 102) * 103) * 104) * 105) * 106) * 107) * Looks like it's /dev/scd1. I just need to get ide-scsi to autoload at the right time. Thanks again! morgan
Re: IDE CD-R drive via ide-scsi
David Blackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Okay, listen here's the deal: you need to take OUT ide-cd support Done. leave in scsi-emulation, scsi-generic, scsi-cdrom.. now ./MAKDEV sg Done. I now have /dev/sg[0-16]. I'm pretty sure that the /dev/scd* come pre-made the important thing is to see if you get messages like this on bootup: scsi0 : AdvanSys SCSI 3.1E: PCI 20 CDB: IO E400/F, IRQ 9 scsi1 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices scsi : 2 hosts. Vendor: HPModel: C5110ARev: 3638 Type: Processor ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi generic sga at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 Vendor: IOMEGAModel: ZIP 100 Rev: 13.A Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00 Detected scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Vendor: E-IDE Model: CD-ROM 45X/A Rev: 30 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi1, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 Vendor: PHILIPS Model: CDD3610 CD-R/RW Rev: 3.08 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi1, channel 0, id 2, lun 0 scsi : detected 2 SCSI cdroms 1 SCSI disk total. sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 0x/20x xa/form2 cdda tray Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.55 sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 6x/6x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 196608 [96 MB] [0.1 GB] I don't. Rather, I see: (scsi0) Adaptec AHA-294X SCSI host adapter found at PCI 14/0 (scsi0) Narrow Channel, SCSI ID=7, 16/255 SCBs (scsi0) Warning - detected auto-termination (scsi0) Please verify driver detected settings are correct. (scsi0) If not, then please properly set the device termination (scsi0) in the Adaptec SCSI BIOS by hitting CTRL-A when prompted (scsi0) during machine bootup. (scsi0) Cables present (Int-50 YES, Ext-50 NO) (scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 406 instructions downloaded scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.17/3.2.4 Adaptec AHA-294X SCSI host adapter scsi : 1 host. (scsi0:0:0:0) Synchronous at 10.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15. Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST34371N Rev: 0338 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 (scsi0:0:1:0) Synchronous at 10.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15. Vendor: MATSHITA Model: CD-ROM CR-506 Rev: 8S05 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 scsi : detected 1 SCSI disk total. SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 8496960 [4148 MB] [4.1 GB] I guess I need to put something that's currently a module back in the kernel, maybe ide-scsi? Is it built into your kernel? Would you mind sending me your kernel .config? And what kernel rev are you running? Thanks for the reply. this means for cdrecord I do dev=1,2,0 morgan -- V M o r g a n F l e t c h e r http://www.hahaha.org Tibi gratias agimus quod nihil fumas. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IDE CD-R drive via ide-scsi
David Blackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do you have scsi cd support? Yes, as a module. I have a scsi adapter (aha2940), scsi cd, scsi hd and one ide cd-r. So the scsi cd devices were already there and scd0 has been working. Please look at the kernel config snipped I posted. Make those, keep out ide-cdrom support, keep in ide-scsi emultaion, keep in scsi cd, scsi generic. try it and LMK What I'm asking is, do you have ide-scsi compiled as a module or into the kernel? You DON'T have scsi emulation in there. But I do. Thanks for your concern. I know it works, because doing 'modprobe ide-scsi ; mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd1 /cdrom ; ls /cdrom' works. make sure you installed the kernel For sure. morgan
Slow rsh performance linux-solaris
I posted previously about slow rdump times from linux to solaris. I later tried dumping a local partition to another partition on the same linux box, and it was blazing fast with no errors. So then I just tried sending packets from linux to (a pipe to rsh to) solaris and timing it. In this environment, linux is butt-slow when compared to other unices. All machines are on the same 10base-t network. Check it out: linux-solaris time dd if=/dev/zero count=16384 ibs=1k | rsh ale dd of=/dev/null obs=1k 16384+0 records in 32768+0 records out 24459+10016 records in 16384+0 records out real1m27.993s user0m0.290s sys 0m0.790s solaris-solaris (two different boxes): time dd if=/dev/zero count=16384 ibs=1k | rsh ale dd of=/dev/null obs=1k 16384+0 records in 32768+0 records out 32768+0 records in 16384+0 records out real0m17.389s user0m1.814s sys 0m6.696s aix-solaris # time dd if=/dev/zero count=16384 bs=1k | ( rsh ale 'dd of=/dev/null bs=1k' ) 16384+0 records in. 16384+0 records out. 11491+11492 records in 11491+11492 records out real0m15.27s user0m0.12s sys 0m1.27s Any ideas as to why rsh/rdump are so slow? If I rcp files from this linux box to that solaris box it's quite fast, same with ftp. morgan P.S. Would have tried the same thing with hpux, but no /dev/zero. -- V M o r g a n F l e t c h e r http://www.hahaha.org Tibi gratias agimus quod nihil fumas. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Slow rsh performance linux-solaris
George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: so my guess is that whatever the problem is, it is fixed in a newer version of one of the following: linux kernel netstd package One thing I forgot to mention is that the machine is running slink 2.0.36. I was considering an upgrade to potato, and now I'm sure I'll do it. I'll double-check the networking issues on Monday, when I'm back in the office. Thanks! morgan -- V M o r g a n F l e t c h e r http://www.hahaha.org Tibi gratias agimus quod nihil fumas. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Backup via rdump linux-solaris slow
My worksite has a backup system where a central solaris 2.5.1 server rsh-es into various other UNIX boxes (Solaris, HPUX and AIX) and does an rdump similar to this: /sbin/rdump -0 -u -b 32 -s 100 -f ale:/dev/rmt/1hn /scm I recently added a linux box to the network (debian 2.1, kernel 2.0.36), and the sysadmin tried adding two of it's ext2 partitions (taking up most of a 2GB SCSI disk) to the backup routine. Rdump is much slower on the linux box, to the point of being unusable. We found storage speeds in the range of 80k/sec across a 10base-t connection. I can ftp files between the two machines at ~900k/sec, and another solaris box rdumps at ~690k/sec, so it's not the network. We've tried playing with the blocksize figure, but we see only minor changes. We've also seen errors like this in the backup report: short read error from /dev/sda1: [block -2012730776]: count=1024, got=0 bread: lseek2 fails! Any idea for a fix or at least a diagnosis? This is enough of a hiccup that I will have to abandon linux as a platform for the task I have in mind if I can't solve it. I'm not looking for suggestions of alternate backup methods - for linux to work it has to fit within the current backup paradigm. Thanks in advance! morgan -- VVV M o r g a n F l e t c h e rhttp://www.hahaha.org/morgan Tibi gratias agimus quod nihil fumas. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: slink install and libc6
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hey guys, I really need some help solving this.. Should I back out libc6.2.0.7.19981211-2 and reinstall libc6.2.0.7t-1? Or is there a way to use the new version of libc6 but get rid of the errors? I have several packages on hold pending resolution of this. I had the same problem. The /etc/apt/sources.list file as installed in slink points at stable (aka hamm). This gets you the wrong versions of files, like libc6. Change it to point at frozen (aka slink) and apt/dselect will do the right thing. Consider doing an `apt-get update ; apt-get -f dist-upgrade`. morgan (aka jethro) -- VVV M o r g a n F l e t c h e rhttp://www.hahaha.org/morgan Tibi gratias agimus quod nihil fumas. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: slink install and libc6
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks a bunch for the reply - but not sure if I understood you. I downloaded the libc6 package from slink - it gave me version 2.0.7.981211-2. The version in hamm is 2.0.7t. Are you saying I should use the hamm version instead of the slink version? First off, let me apologize if I misunderstood you. I'm in digest mode, and so I can't see mail threads. I didn't see the posts that started this thread. Your message sounded like you were experiencing the same problem I did. The big question is, are you are installing or upgrading to slink? That's the assumption I made. Because I installed slink, and subsequently had the same libc6/libc6-dev conflicts you write about. The root of the problem was that the file /etc/apt/sources.list points at stable, which currently means hamm. Of course when slink leaves frozen it will be stable, and so the circuit will be shorted. If you change /etc/apt/sources.list to point at frozen (or slink) and then do an `apt-get update ; apt-get -f dist-upgrade`, you should be fine. If you've got all hamm packages, then I don't know what's going on. Good luck, and tell me/us what it was when you figure it out! morgan -- VVV M o r g a n F l e t c h e rhttp://www.hahaha.org/morgan Tibi gratias agimus quod nihil fumas. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X based developer
Brant Wells [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there an X-based programming environment like Visual Basic, or Visual C++??? Any help woule be appreciated. Dunno if it's true, but I heard that Metrowerks is planning on porting their IDE to linux/X11. morgan -- VVV M o r g a n F l e t c h e rhttp://www.hahaha.org/morgan Tibi gratias agimus quod nihil fumas. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to find files by text/subdirectories
Lance Hoffmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What is the easiest way to locates files (say HTML) by text in their
documents?
find ~/somedir -iname *\.htm* -exec grep -i some text {} \; -print
morgan
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Re: dual boot?
Joo Hwan Jang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am interest in Linux, but I don't decide yet if I choose it or not. So I'd like to install Linux and Windows NT 4.0 together. That means I want to make my computer dual bootable. Is it possible? If so, how? Please let me know. After considering that, I intend to order one. It works fine. I use the lilo bootloader to launch linux and NT. My /etc/lilo.conf looks like this: boot=/dev/sda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b prompt timeout=50 vga=ask image=/vmlinuz label=debian root=/dev/sdb1 read-only other=/dev/sda1 label=winnt table=/dev/sda For more information on lilo, see http://www.linuxhq.com/HOWTO/mini/LILO.html. morgan -- VVV M o r g a n F l e t c h e rhttp://www.hahaha.org/morgan Tibi gratias agimus quod nihil fumas. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dual boot?
Andrew Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just those disks you have are scsi disks, more generalized form of lilo.conf would be with IDE ones. sd? should just be replaced with hd? Yeh. Also, dropping the vga=ask part and the prompt part would make it even more generic. morgan -- V M o r g a n F l e t c h e r http://www.hahaha.org Tibi gratias agimus quod nihil fumas. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: install script
Brian Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know this is going to sound cheesy to all you hardcore guys out there, but is there a way to bring back the install script that comes with slink at the beginning of the install process? I believe booting from the rescue disk you installed with will get you into that installer again, and (I think) it's safe to modify bits of your system via that script without resetting it to a previous state. I recently did this to configure networking. One caveat - I think you need to mount your partitions via the installer before making changes, but it might just mount them for you. Good luck, morgan -- V M o r g a n F l e t c h e r http://www.hahaha.org Tibi gratias agimus quod nihil fumas. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No ldd?
Remco van de Meent [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd say reinstall the package, maybe went wrong during installation ? This is really strange.. Debian doesn't let you uninstall base packages like libc6 or ldso, and I don't see a way to force a re-installation of an installed package. I wonder if the postinst script can somehow be re-run. morgan -- V M o r g a n F l e t c h e r http://www.hahaha.org Tibi gratias agimus quod nihil fumas. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
No ldd?
I have no ldd executable. I installed slink onto a tabula rasa i386 PC a few days ago, using 3.5 floppies for the base system. Once I'd installed the base, I did an `apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade`. What I didn't realize, or think to look for, is that the slink base install included an /etc/apt/sources.list file that pointed at stable. (!!!) So I updated it to point at slink and did an `apt-get update ; apt-get -f dist-upgrade`. That seemed to work fine, but there were a few packages missing files, for instance telnet was installed, but there was no telnet executable. The command `apt-get check` showed no discrepancies, so instead I did `dpkg --purge telnet ; apt-get install telnet`. That worked. So yesterday I tried to run ldd, and it's not there. As near as I can tell it should be in ldso or libc6 (based on info from dpkg, the #debian irc bot): !search ldd dpkg potstickr: behold, ldd is in this package: base/libc6,base/ldso +(/usr/bin/ldd) But neither of those packages, as installed on my system, contain ldd: $ dpkg -L ldso libc6 | grep -i ldd /usr/lib/lddstub /usr/man/man1/ldd.1.gz All packages on the system are current. Debian won't let you uninstall either libc6 or ldso - for good reason. So what do I do? Can I somehow re-run the postinst script for one of them and fix the problem, or will that dork things? Thanks in advance for your help, morgan -- V M o r g a n F l e t c h e r http://www.hahaha.org Tibi gratias agimus quod nihil fumas. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No ldd?
Remco van de Meent [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That's kinda strange. I assume, you mean with `current' the current slink distribution. Yeah. astroman:/etc# cat /etc/debian_version 2.1 astroman:/etc# (apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade) 21 | grep upgrade 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. $ dpkg -c dists/slink/main/binary-i386/base/ldso_1.9.10-1.deb | grep ldd -rwxr-xr-x root/root100520 1999-01-14 04:23 usr/bin/ldd -rwxr-xr-x root/root 1776 1999-01-14 04:23 usr/lib/lddstub -rw-r--r-- root/root 786 1999-01-14 04:23 usr/man/man1/ldd.1.gz Do you have ldso version 1.9.10-1 installed on your system ? Yep. astroman:/etc# dpkg -l ldso | grep ldso ii ldso1.9.10-1 The Linux dynamic linker, library and Thanks for the quick response. I appreciate your help! morgan -- V M o r g a n F l e t c h e r http://www.hahaha.org Tibi gratias agimus quod nihil fumas. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Reduce scope to one distribution?
Ed Cogburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Not sure what you are asking here. The question: If a debian system records package information about a down-rev (later) distribution in its package database, is it possible to exclude packages existing solely in that down-rev distribution from the package database, should the system revert to a previous distribution revision. What happened: I had a system pointing at unstable, then I realized that unstable is not slink, but rather potato. I didn't want a bleeding-edge distribution, so I pointed the system at slink (frozen). Now when I run dselect, there are potato-era packages listed that aren't really available to me, like kernel-source-2.0.36. Since apt can only see packages in slink, I'd rather my package database reflected that. How can I restrict the package database and/or dselect to just encompass slink packages? You can put both hamm and slink in sources.list at the same time. apt will get the packages files for both of them and then merge the two together. This is what I'm doing (slink+potato). I'm not interested in mixing distributions right yet. I'd like to stick with slink for now. But I am curious, if your source.list points at revision n and revision n+1, doesn't `apt-get upgrade` get update all your installed packages - hence your system - to revision n+1? You're really running potato, if both are in your sources.list, right? morgan -- V M o r g a n F l e t c h e r http://www.hahaha.org Tibi gratias agimus quod nihil fumas. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reduce scope to one distribution?
I installed debian from stable hamm, via CD-ROM. Then I upgraded to unstable. I grabbed apt, and pointed /etc/apt/sources.list at unstable. Then I figured out the diff between slink/potato (frozen/unstable) and pointed /etc/apt/sources.list at slink. So now dselect shows a bunch of packages that aren't available in slink, e.g. linux-source-2.0.36. Is there a way to reduce the scope of apt's and dpkg's database to just the slink (and I guess legacy hamm) packages? morgan -- VVV M o r g a n F l e t c h e rhttp://www.hahaha.org/morgan Tibi gratias agimus quod nihil fumas. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What tools are useful for script debugging?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The subject says it all. Try the -x flag to bash - it's quite useful. Strace is also good, if you don't mind sifting through a lot of information. $ bash -x myscript.sh [...] $ strace myscript.sh | less [...] The above advice is based on the assumption you mean the sh/csh/tcsh/bash shells. My personal choice is to use perl. If perl scripts need debugging, the perl debugger (built into the perl interpreter) works great. Of course, if all your stars are aligned and you're blessed with both perl emacs on your system, the emacs interface to the perl debugger is the best possible solution. Amen. morgan -- VVV M o r g a n F l e t c h e rhttp://www.hahaha.org/morgan Tibi gratias agimus quod nihil fumas. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
unstable == potato?
OK, I think I missed something. I installed 2.0 from CD after it was released. I watched the progress of slink and then decided to upgrade to it, but I think I went past it. I had already gotten some unstable stuff from the debian web site, including apt. (The #debian crowd is cutting edge, and I followed their advice. :) I set my /etc/apt/sources.list to point at unstable and did an `apt-get update ; apt-get dist-upgrade`. Then I sorted out the libstdc++ business. Now everything's good, but... did I miss slink? Is 2.1 called frozen or something? Is this right? hamm == 2.0 slink == 2.1 potato == 2.2 If I did go past it, what should I set sources.list to point at, and is it safe to downgrade (from 2.2 to 2.1). If so, how to do it? Dselect+apt shows a lot of the stuff I downloaded installed as obsolete and local. Thanks, morgan -- V M o r g a n F l e t c h e r http://www.hahaha.org Tibi gratias agimus quod nihil fumas. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
