Galeon/XChat fonts are zero-width
For some reason, Galeon on my PowerPC often has zero-width fonts. (I think the first time I run it in a new login session it's OK, but not neccessarily) And XChat does the same thing. As it happens, a friend of mine's i386 laptop is also doing the same thing. Both running Debian Unstable, although the PowerPC hasn't had an update in a while (It's on pay-per-Mb internet at the moment) and I've got no idea how recently the laptop's been updated... Is this a common problem I just can't buid the correct keywords for or what? (These are both GTK1.2+ programs, and I have GTK2+ installed on the PPC machine, if it helps) I haven't tested much else since I mainly use the machine for XTerm and Galeon, although I'm suffering through with Mozilla and Konquerer in the meantime. :-) -- --- Paul TBBle Hampson, MCSE 5th year CompSci/Asian Studies student, ANU The Boss, Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51 095 284 361) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Of course Pacman didn't influence us as kids. If it did, we'd be running around in darkened rooms, popping pills and listening to repetitive music. This email is licensed to the recipient for non-commercial use, duplication and distribution. --- pgpvMDGiKvi93.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: bind9 stupidity
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 02:09:02PM -0800, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: Stopping domain name service: namedrndc: connection to remote host closed This may indicate that the remote server is using an older version of the command protocol, this host is not authorized to connect, or the key is invalid. . Yeah, nice. This isn't even mentioned in the docs... So how to fix it? I think you'll find you've got /etc/bind/rndc.conf lying around from 9.1.0 revisions of bind. If you remove it, bind9 and rndc'll use rndc.key, which means they'll actually work. If you don't have rndc.key, try rndc-confgen -a There was a brief note about that change in the package's scripts. Or so I remember, anyway. :-) -- --- Paul TBBle Hampson, MCSE 4th year CompSci/Asian Studies student, ANU The Boss, Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51 095 284 361) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Of course Pacman didn't influence us as kids. If it did, we'd be running around in darkened rooms, popping pills and listening to repetitive music. This email is licensed to the recipient for non-commercial use, duplication and distribution. --- pgpn5naAJZ1Pd.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: mozilla and vnc
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 10:13:09PM -0600, Matt Garman wrote: However, mozilla is a bit strange: it will load, and the window will be created, but the content of the window is entirely black! xrefresh doesn't do anything. The mouse will appear over the blackness. It appears as though mozilla is actually working---I did a bunch of random clicking with the mouse, and got mozilla's half pointer/half stopwatch to appear. Furthermore, this problem exists with both the linux xvncviewer client and the windows nt vncviewer program. I'm guessing this has something to do with mozilla... but I don't know what that would be. I just setup mozilla and vnc and they're working together fine for me... So it's not neccessarily an endemic problem... What bit-depth are you running your vnc server at? -- --- Paul TBBle Hampson, MCSE 4th year CompSci/Asian Studies student, ANU The Boss, Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51 095 284 361) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Of course Pacman didn't influence us as kids. If it did, we'd be running around in darkened rooms, popping pills and listening to repetitive music. This email is licensed to the recipient for non-commercial use, duplication and distribution. --- pgp4X03C1D4sg.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: is openssh version (in potato) 1.2.3-9.4 vulnerable?
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 02:20:00PM -, Liam Ward wrote: On 22 Feb 2002 at 9:11, Walter Tautz wrote: http://www.cert.org/incident_notes/IN-2001-12.html http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-35.html which apparently refers to ssh1 crc-32 compensation attack detector and some other problems? Judging from the page there openssh is fixed only in version 2.3.0 and later? Or has the one in potato been patched so that none of these vulnerabilities. The new version of Nessus (in testing) is complaining about this too. I think, from looking at the bug reports etc., that in potato the offending versions of ssh and openssh have been patched so that, although your version number indicates that you have a problem, the truth is that you're safe. All of this is, of course, dependent on you being up to date with security.debian.org updates. Can someone confirm this please... Yup, ssh in potato has been patched against the known vulnerabilities in that version of OpenSSH. The version of ssh in sid (and presumably woody) reports its Debian package version as well, so that tools such as Nessus can tell it from the vanilla OpenSSH. If you're curious, this extension was thoroughly debated in debian-devel a fortnight ago or so. :-) -- --- Paul TBBle Hampson, MCSE 4th year CompSci/Asian Studies student, ANU The Boss, Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51 095 284 361) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Of course Pacman didn't influence us as kids. If it did, we'd be running around in darkened rooms, popping pills and listening to repetitive music. This email is licensed to the recipient for non-commercial use, duplication and distribution. --- pgp97CAUwsKdY.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: is openssh version (in potato) 1.2.3-9.4 vulnerable?
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 11:39:02AM -0500, Walter Tautz wrote: On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Paul Hampson wrote: On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 02:20:00PM -, Liam Ward wrote: On 22 Feb 2002 at 9:11, Walter Tautz wrote: http://www.cert.org/incident_notes/IN-2001-12.html http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-35.html which apparently refers to ssh1 crc-32 compensation attack detector and some other problems? Judging from the page there openssh is fixed only in version 2.3.0 and later? Or has the one in potato been patched so that none of these vulnerabilities. The new version of Nessus (in testing) is complaining about this too. I think, from looking at the bug reports etc., that in potato the offending versions of ssh and openssh have been patched so that, although your version number indicates that you have a problem, the truth is that you're safe. All of this is, of course, dependent on you being up to date with security.debian.org updates. Can someone confirm this please... Yup, ssh in potato has been patched against the known vulnerabilities in that version of OpenSSH. The version of ssh in sid (and presumably woody) reports its Debian package version as well, so that tools such as Nessus can tell it from the vanilla OpenSSH. If you're curious, this extension was thoroughly debated in debian-devel a fortnight ago or so. :-) When you refer to `extension' what do you mean? The version of ssh in sid (and presumably woody) reports its Debian package version as well, so that tools such as Nessus can tell it from the vanilla OpenSSH. Also where would I look for bug reports for this kind of info? bugs.debian.org? Which kind of info? I suspect the answer to either is /usr/share/doc/ssh/changelog.Debian.gz And bugs.debian.org if it's a live or recently live issue. But in this case it's not. ps. thanks for confirming the security but I wouldn't mind confirming it for myself. http://security.debian.org would also let you see the various fixes made to the ssh package... Alternatively, ask on debian-security@lists.debian.org In fact, I whacked '945216 Debian' into goolge, and the first link was the Debian Vendor Statement at CERT about VU#945216, which pointed me to DSA-027-1 Of course, the changelog doesn't call it the CRC-32 compensator attack, nor reference the CERT VU#. -- --- Paul TBBle Hampson, MCSE 4th year CompSci/Asian Studies student, ANU The Boss, Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51 095 284 361) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Of course Pacman didn't influence us as kids. If it did, we'd be running around in darkened rooms, popping pills and listening to repetitive music. This email is licensed to the recipient for non-commercial use, duplication and distribution. --- pgp4MXdhEAn83.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Static route config
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 08:01:40AM -0600, Jor-el wrote: Hi, How do I configure a static route into the startup scripts / files so that the route is set at boot time? I dont think /etc/network/interfaces will work for this because none of the interfaces on the machine belong to the destination net. Here is the config I am working with : eth0 - 192.168.0.0/24 -- Uplink to the router eth1 - 192.168.1.0/24 tr0 - 192.168.2.0/24 I need to route packets destined for 192.168.10.0/8 onto eth1. I can define the route on the command line - just havent figured out where to define it so that the system comes up on a reboot with this route also defined. /etc/network/if-up.d/yourscript Your script will prolly have to check if eth0 is up when it runs... There's an environment variable being set for you, but it's not in the docs AFAIK. It's in the source though. (There's a wishlist bug there for sure. :-) -- --- Paul TBBle Hampson, MCSE 4th year CompSci/Asian Studies student, ANU The Boss, Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51 095 284 361) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Of course Pacman didn't influence us as kids. If it did, we'd be running around in darkened rooms, popping pills and listening to repetitive music. This email is licensed to the recipient for non-commercial use, duplication and distribution. --- pgpyjHP8wLiYL.pgp Description: PGP signature
What is /etc/environment for?
What exactly is /etc/environment for, and how is it used. The only thing I'm aware of it being used in is for the locales package, and all that does is make perl give me warnings when it's run as a user on my i386, but not as root. And no warnings with either user or root on my PowerPC. I'm confuzzled. (BTW, this is what's in my /etc/environment. For my account, this means 'LANG' is set to en_AU.UTF-8) LANG=en_AU And another quick question: is there an ssh setting that would override my preferences for X11 forwarding? ssh -X from i386a-i386b forwards OK. ssh -X from ppc-i386a forwards OK. ssh -X from i386a-ppc doesn't set DISPLAY and doesn't create a listening port forwarder. I'm slightly confuzzled by this. Otherwise there might be a ppc bug in ssh... Erk. -- === Paul TBBle Hampson, MCSE 4th year CompSci/Asian Studies student, ANU The Boss, Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51 095 284 361) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Of course Pacman didn't influence us as kids. If it did, we'd be running around in darkened rooms, popping pills and listening to repetitive music. This email is licensed to the recipient for non-commercial use, duplication and distribution. === pgpS1s8PrtAg1.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: pppoe, pppd and dsl problem on Woody
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 10:47:03AM -0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used pppoeconf to set up. It found eth0 and my Access Concentrator. When I started with 'pon dsl-provider', I got the following error in plog: Feb 18 10:07:57 myname pppd[495]: pppd 2.4.1 started by root, uid 0 Feb 18 10:07:57 myname pppd[495]: Couldn't set tty to PPP discipline: Invalid argument I hit this because I hadn't included async PPP support in my kernel. (It's the same as for normal modem PPP) There's a kernel-mode pppoe driver, but I don't think Debian's packages are set up to use it. The method we're using involves the pppoe program looking like a serial line to pppd, hence the need for the Async PPP driver in the kernel (or as a module) -- === Paul TBBle Hampson, MCSE 4th year CompSci/Asian Studies student, ANU The Boss, Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51 095 284 361) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Of course Pacman didn't influence us as kids. If it did, we'd be running around in darkened rooms, popping pills and listening to repetitive music. This email is licensed to the recipient for non-commercial use, duplication and distribution. ===
Re: Latest *stable* 2.4.x kernel ?
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 12:46:48AM -0500, Adam Bogacki wrote: Hi, I apt-downloaded the 2.4.14 kernel and all seemed to go well for two sessions before it crashed and I cannot login beyond a low runlevel. Ker 2.2.x would not recognise the Promise controller on which my removable HD was mounted so a 2.4.x ker was needed. [snip] I'd like to install a safe and stable 2.4.x kernel onto /dev/hdb so that I could have access to it. Any ideas ? 2.4.17 is the stable, released kernel version. The best thing to do is work out exactly what went wrong with the old kernel, and either find a newer kernel that fixes that problem, or an older kernel before that problem was introduced. -- === Paul TBBle Hampson, MCSE 4th year CompSci/Asian Studies student, ANU The Boss, Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51 095 284 361) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Of course Pacman didn't influence us as kids. If it did, we'd be running around in darkened rooms, popping pills and listening to repetitive music. This email is licensed to the recipient for non-commercial use, duplication and distribution. === pgp7wARakvhMT.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Moving to kernel 2.4.17 questions.
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 02:19:03PM -0500, Marc Shapiro wrote: I am currently running kernel 2.2.17 on a Woody box. I want to move to kernel 2.4.17 (so that I can install a USB port) and I have a few questions. My second problem is with IP spoofing and firewalls. I have a very simple 2 box network with the newer box connected to the Internet by ppp and a crossover ethernet cable between the two boxes. Nothing fancy, just ipchains. Unfortunately, ipchains is for kernel 2.2.xx and not for 2.4.xx. This leaves me with the following messages at boot. How do I set up spoofing and firewall for the 2.4.17 kernel? Is there a way to have it work for both until I am sure that I don't have other problems with the new kernel. It's certainly possible, if you roll your own kernel (see package kernel-package) and include ipchains in it. -- === Paul TBBle Hampson, MCSE 4th year CompSci/Asian Studies student, ANU The Boss, Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51 095 284 361) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Of course Pacman didn't influence us as kids. If it did, we'd be running around in darkened rooms, popping pills and listening to repetitive music. This email is licensed to the recipient for non-commercial use, duplication and distribution. === pgpLwJOyudfMM.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: dhcp client
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 06:00:25PM +0100, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: What must i do to get a host configurated automatically? Isn't it enough to place iface eth0 inet dhcp into the intefaces file and havind dhcp-client installed? You must also have auto eth0 if you want it to configure on boot. Otherwise, try ifup -n eth0 and make sure it's running dh-client -- === Paul TBBle Hampson, MCSE 4th year CompSci/Asian Studies student, ANU The Boss, Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51 095 284 361) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Of course Pacman didn't influence us as kids. If it did, we'd be running around in darkened rooms, popping pills and listening to repetitive music. This email is licensed to the recipient for non-commercial use, duplication and distribution. === pgpDRFq1y1yKV.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: custom kernel
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 05:47:45PM +0100, Christian Schoenebeck wrote: I've compiled 2.4.17 kernel as kernel-image package on my woody machine and installed it on a potato machine. I made a reboot with the new kernel and after that it refused to load modules (Can't locate module...). lsmod and even modconf doesn't list any module, so I tried 'depmod -ae 2.4.17' but that didn't help. It created /lib/modules/2.4.17/modules.dep but the file is empty. What can I do to fix it? Depends.. Are the modules actually there? Or did you compile all your stuff into the kernel? If you compiled all your stuff into the kernel, but didn't remove entries from /etc/modules, it'll try and load the modules anyway. Also, have you got A. Bunk's potato-2.4 packages installed? This _might_ be a problem if they're absent, I've no idea. -- === Paul TBBle Hampson, MCSE 4th year CompSci/Asian Studies student, ANU The Boss, Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51 095 284 361) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Of course Pacman didn't influence us as kids. If it did, we'd be running around in darkened rooms, popping pills and listening to repetitive music. This email is licensed to the recipient for non-commercial use, duplication and distribution. === pgpV62Csw5caK.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: eth0
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 12:14:56PM -0800, Vaughan, Curtis wrote: How do you configure, in this case eth0 to be DHCP dependent: i.e., how do I make it seek an IP during a boot? Likewise, how do I configure it for a permanent static IP? You want /etc/network/interfaces The instructions are in 'man interfaces' -- --- Paul TBBle Hampson, MCSE 4th year CompSci/Asian Studies student, ANU The Boss, Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51 095 284 361) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Of course Pacman didn't influence us as kids. If it did, we'd be running around in darkened rooms, popping pills and listening to repetitive music. This email is licensed to the recipient for non-commercial use, duplication and distribution. --- pgpamjas6JQLZ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: PHP4 problem after dist-upgrade
On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 12:46:30PM -0500, Jason M. Harvey wrote: On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 04:23:02AM +1100, Paul Hampson wrote: | On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 07:31:50AM -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: | in looking at the dependencies for PHP4, apache-common is | listed twice, once with apache-common (= 1.3.22) and | the other apache-common ( 1.3.22.1) | my current version (sid) is apache-common 1.3.23-1 | If you want, you should be able to apt-get source and | rebuild it with dependancies on the current apache. i thought that was fixed at some point! here's what i did: find the deb Fixed how? The maintainer hasn't rebuilt php4 since apache 1.3.23 entered Debian... And those _are_ the correct forward looking dependancies. for php4... somewhere in var/ where apt stores it's cache then, use /var/cache/apt/archives/php4*.deb dpkg to install php4 like so: dpkg -i --ignore-depends=apache-common php4.deb [snip] my whole point of rambling is that the --ignore-depends=apache-common has never caused a problem for me. Unless apache decides to change it's interface in some subtle way that breaks the php4 package. :-) And of course, by recompiling, you don't have to worry about apt-get noticing the broken dependancies. ;-) -- === Paul TBBle Hampson, MCSE 4th year CompSci/Asian Studies student, ANU The Boss, Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51 095 284 361) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Of course Pacman didn't influence us as kids. If it did, we'd be running around in darkened rooms, popping pills and listening to repetitive music. This email is licensed to the recipient for non-commercial use, duplication and distribution. === pgpsWOsCHmcXR.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Problem with ALSA
On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 08:56:32AM +, Albert Einstein wrote: I've just compiled ALSA modules with a 2.4.17 kernel for a Intel 8x0 soundcar. I've used alsaconf for configuring these modules, I've used alsamixer for opening the sound channel and I've stored the configuration with alsactl. The ALSA modules are loaded as lsmod shows (snd-card-intel8x0, snd-pcm, snd-timer, snd-ac97-codec, snd, soundcore). However, when I run alsaplayer, I get the following error: ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:602:(snd_pcm_hw_open) SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_PVERSION failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device snd_pcm_open: Inappropriate ioctl for device ERROR: failed to load output add-on. Exiting... What version of the alsa-source package did you use? Alsaplayer may be trying to use a different version of the alsa interface. I found the best way to avoid alsa version problems was to use alsa drivers with the OSS/Lite emulation interface, and use /dev/sound/dsp for everything. -- === Paul TBBle Hampson, MCSE 4th year CompSci/Asian Studies student, ANU The Boss, Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51 095 284 361) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Of course Pacman didn't influence us as kids. If it did, we'd be running around in darkened rooms, popping pills and listening to repetitive music. This email is licensed to the recipient for non-commercial use, duplication and distribution. === pgpIdnCuXabRb.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: PHP4 problem after dist-upgrade
On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 07:31:50AM -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: the problem seems to be related to the apache-common version. in looking at the dependencies for PHP4, apache-common is listed twice, once with apache-common (= 1.3.22) and the other apache-common ( 1.3.22.1) my current version (sid) is apache-common 1.3.23-1 is this one of those wait a few days things that crops up in sid now and then or should I downgrade apache / apache-common and avoid upgrading for a while? any help would be appreciated You may be waiting longer than usual. The PHP4 package has just been orphaned. However, it's a pretty popular package, I'm sure someone'll pick it up ASAP. If you want, you should be able to apt-get source and rebuild it with dependancies on the current apache. -- === Paul TBBle Hampson, MCSE 4th year CompSci/Asian Studies student, ANU The Boss, Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51 095 284 361) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Of course Pacman didn't influence us as kids. If it did, we'd be running around in darkened rooms, popping pills and listening to repetitive music. This email is licensed to the recipient for non-commercial use, duplication and distribution. === pgpACdkRR6mw1.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: mysterious kernel panic at start up and it's workaround
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 03:44:58AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: On Mon, 04 Feb 2002 16:02:23 -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: Hi, On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 08:50:07PM -0800, Aaron Brashears wrote: Request_module[block-major-3] Root fs not mounted VFS: Cannot open root device 303 or 03:03 ... So you can not mount root. Is root ext2? I presume it is, since the rescue disk can deal with it happily. The funny thing is that if I use the append root=/dev/hda3 in lilo.conf, it doesn't work. However if I load the debian rescue disk and specify root=/dev/hda3, the kernel boots fine. Why won't it just boot? That error message (to my eyes) appears to be complaining that it can't load the kernel module for block devices with major #3, which is your primary IDE bus. The problem is (I think) that the prepackaged kernels need an initrd to boot off, to load modules like IDE support from. To fix that, you'll have to do some reading. I compile my own kernels precisely because I don't want to muck about with modules or initrds. :-) Let's do one thing. Boot system with boot disk with root=/dev/hda3 and gain root. Now my ignorant question is--how do you pass arguments prior to or during boot? As above, how does one go about booting the system off the rescue disk with root=/dev/hda3? --My 7th grade English teacher would have had a cat :-), but doing it right looks so wrong. When you see LILO, hit shift or something. (Or turn on caps lock before that point) You should get a prompt. If you hit TAB at that point, it'll show you the kernel names you can boot. Type the kernel name, followed by the commands you want to pass it. This is the same as putting append=root=/dev/hda3 in lilo.conf, which is different from putting root=/dev/hda3 in lilo.conf. Subtly different, but different nonetheless. This should be mentioned on the rescue disk's opening screens. F3 I think... # vi lilo.conf # lilo # shutdown -r now Further, it looks like you're opening vi with the file lilo.conf which seems unlikely since lilo.conf is in /etc, isn't it? Is this actually opening a configurator? (I don't have any man pages available at the moment.) And, no editing is indicated. Then, run lilo. OK. Shutdown/reboot. 'vi lilo.conf' is supposed to mean 'edit /etc/lilo.conf appropriately' but in a rather esoteric shorthand way. :-) -- === Paul TBBle Hampson, MCSE 4th year CompSci/Asian Studies student, ANU The Boss, Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51 095 284 361) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Of course Pacman didn't influence us as kids. If it did, we'd be running around in darkened rooms, popping pills and listening to repetitive music. This email is licensed to the recipient for non-commercial use, duplication and distribution. === pgpOlFQhvv2Wp.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: ipmasqadm portfw
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 09:53:01AM +0100, Elm Gysel wrote: I'm using kernel 2.2.14 and I have a problem with ipmasqadm portfw. From what I understand from searching mailing lists and so on I don't have this aspect commpiled into my kernel. This is the .config file : [snip] Have you set CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL ? So I suppose I need to recompile this kernel? Almost certainly... if so... Can I just compile a 2.4 version to upgrade from this 2.2 version? Is there any way not to break things apart if I compile this new kernel? Or is the best way to go just to keep the old .config at hand when configuring the new one? Beware, kernel 2.4 uses iptables, not ipchains. So you may have to upgrade some tools as well. I dunno if ipfwadm supports kernel 2.4, to be honest. However, if you're upgrading to 2.4, make sure you're at least on woody, or have the potato-2.4 support packages by A. Bunk (I think that's the guy :-) installed. You can drop the old .config file into the new kernel source directory, and run make oldconfig which will ask you any questions that it doesn't have answers for already. In fact, make-kpkg does that anyway. :-) Keep your old kernel around and configured in lilo, so you can boot back when the new 2.4 kernel doesn't work. :-) -- === Paul TBBle Hampson, MCSE 4th year CompSci/Asian Studies student, ANU The Boss, Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51 095 284 361) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Of course Pacman didn't influence us as kids. If it did, we'd be running around in darkened rooms, popping pills and listening to repetitive music. This email is licensed to the recipient for non-commercial use, duplication and distribution. === pgp9hf9IWQ6T1.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: the following packages have been kept back?
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 07:59:06AM -0500, Bill Benedetto wrote: Rachel Andrew writes: Rachel I tried to do apt-get upgrade of my Woody system today Rachel and got the following message: Rachel Rachel The following packages have been kept back: Rachel base-config console-data kate kchart kdebase Rachel kdebase-libs kdm kfocus kivio kmid koffice-libs Rachel konqueror konsole koshell kscd kspread jugar kword Rachel libkonq3 Rachel Rachel from searching the archives i figure this has to do Rachel with unmet dependences but I'm not sure how to fix it Rachel as I'd like these packages to upgrade. apt-get dist-upgrade should do the trick. That'll work if the problem is a new package that's been created, and is depeneded on by those files. If you apt-get install one of the package, it should either also install the appropriate new package, or complain that the version of a package being depended on is not available. (eg gcc-3.0 in sid right now depends on a version of binutils that isn't available yet: Keitarou:~# apt-get -u dist-upgrade The following packages have been kept back gcc-3.0 Keitarou:~# apt-get install gcc-3.0 Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against that package should be filed. The following information may help to resolve the situation: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: gcc-3.0: Depends: binutils (= 2.11.92.0.12.3-6) but 2.11.92.0.12.3-5 is to be installed E: Sorry, broken packages ) -- === Paul TBBle Hampson, MCSE 4th year CompSci/Asian Studies student, ANU The Boss, Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51 095 284 361) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Of course Pacman didn't influence us as kids. If it did, we'd be running around in darkened rooms, popping pills and listening to repetitive music. This email is licensed to the recipient for non-commercial use, duplication and distribution. === pgpxheTRJJ5Cd.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Perl and CPAN
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 08:33:39AM -0500, Chris Hilts wrote: The installation instructions of a piece of software I'm considering asks me to fetch several (ok, a lot of) modules from CPAN. Since this will be adding software to my Debian system, is this safe? Is there a Debianized way to do this? dh-make-perl It's exactly what you're looking for. :-) -- === Paul TBBle Hampson, MCSE 4th year CompSci/Asian Studies student, ANU The Boss, Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51 095 284 361) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Of course Pacman didn't influence us as kids. If it did, we'd be running around in darkened rooms, popping pills and listening to repetitive music. This email is licensed to the recipient for non-commercial use, duplication and distribution. === pgpS73Vipq7TA.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: A mutt question
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 09:04:32AM -0800, Michael Montagne wrote: On 05/02/02, from the brain of Andy Mott tumbled: Yep - just add this line to your .muttrc: bind compose \n send-message If you do that, how do you edit the message if you want to? Hit e. At least, on the default Debian bindings you do... Funnily enough, enter doesn't edit on mine, just views. -- === Paul TBBle Hampson, MCSE 4th year CompSci/Asian Studies student, ANU The Boss, Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51 095 284 361) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Of course Pacman didn't influence us as kids. If it did, we'd be running around in darkened rooms, popping pills and listening to repetitive music. This email is licensed to the recipient for non-commercial use, duplication and distribution. === pgpB5b4aMZJGs.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: A mutt question (new/different question)
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 09:43:40AM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote: I am relatively new to Debian. I installed mutt in order to avoid the clutter of html mail, but sometimes I need to read email from people who send only html. I think I should be able to do this using the 'v' key, but when I do so first I get a screen with just a single line, and when I press the 'enter' key, I get an error message: /dev/dsp : Permission denied What is happening? What do I do to fix? I had this one recently myself... Try installing html2text (or w3m or lynx or another html viewer) and see if it sets itself up to view html files instead. If you still get this error, then look into /etc/mailcap.order to control what program is used to view html files. I can't remember the exact problem, but I think you're seeing some X11 program or other attempt to load the html attachment. The /dev/dsp error is a red herring, that wouldn't (shouldn't) stop the viewer loading. (I added this to my /etc/mailcap.order file, BTW, to make html attachments be viewed in w3m.) w3m: text/html (On a side note, what's wrong with your sound card?) -- === Paul TBBle Hampson, MCSE 4th year CompSci/Asian Studies student, ANU The Boss, Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51 095 284 361) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Of course Pacman didn't influence us as kids. If it did, we'd be running around in darkened rooms, popping pills and listening to repetitive music. This email is licensed to the recipient for non-commercial use, duplication and distribution. === pgpkrUIJhpWBm.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: passwd - smbpasswd sync?
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 10:22:35AM -0800, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: Is there a way to sync the system passwords to the smb passwords, or better yet, get samba to look straight from the system passwords? Unix password sync should be in the samba.conf file, but set to false. If you set it to true, then any change using smbpasswd will be reflected in the system passwords. (Or a remote password change by a user, AFAIK) Samba can't use the system passwords, CHAP (the password authentication protocol of CIFS) needs plain-text passwords to be stored on the server. -- === Paul TBBle Hampson, MCSE 4th year CompSci/Asian Studies student, ANU The Boss, Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51 095 284 361) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Of course Pacman didn't influence us as kids. If it did, we'd be running around in darkened rooms, popping pills and listening to repetitive music. This email is licensed to the recipient for non-commercial use, duplication and distribution. === pgpwCNWos7Jht.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: How to keep modules configs current
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 07:31:31PM +0100, Balazs Javor wrote: Hi, Sometimes when I compile a new kernel and include a different set of modules it can happen that there are some error messages at boot time issued mostly by modprobe saying something about devices/modules or aliases not found. Or sometimes that it cannot load a module because it might be compiled into the kernel. It seems to me that entries left from previous kernel versions stay in the config files somehow. I've tried modconf, depmod -a and looked at /etc/modules and /etc/modules.conf Tried update-modules (as root, obviously)? Mind you, some debian packages mindlessly try and modprobe things during boot anyway microcode-ctl for example. -- === Paul TBBle Hampson, MCSE 4th year CompSci/Asian Studies student, ANU The Boss, Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51 095 284 361) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Of course Pacman didn't influence us as kids. If it did, we'd be running around in darkened rooms, popping pills and listening to repetitive music. This email is licensed to the recipient for non-commercial use, duplication and distribution. === pgp2iptu81x0B.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: adding a line to sources.list
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 10:34:06AM -0800, Brandon N wrote: I am trying to get apt to install the blackdown java files, the URL of the Packages.gz file is: http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian/dists/woody/non-free/binary-i386/Packages.gz What should the line in the sources.list file be? According the the man page, I should be able to do deb http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian/dists/woody/non-free/binary-i386/ but that doesn't seem to work Try: deb http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian woody non-free -- === Paul TBBle Hampson, MCSE 4th year CompSci/Asian Studies student, ANU The Boss, Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51 095 284 361) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Of course Pacman didn't influence us as kids. If it did, we'd be running around in darkened rooms, popping pills and listening to repetitive music. This email is licensed to the recipient for non-commercial use, duplication and distribution. === pgpsCmWx6uWIv.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: adding a line to sources.list
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 10:57:08AM -0800, Brandon N wrote: --- Paul Hampson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 10:34:06AM -0800, Brandon N wrote: http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian/dists/woody/non-free/binary-i386/Packages.gz deb http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian woody non-free Failed to fetch http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian/dists/woody/non-free/binary-i386/Packages 302 Found [snip] It would appear that it's looking for /Packages, and not /Packages.gz Try: deb ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian woody non-free It appears that the ftp method grabs a gzip'd version, where http doesn't... Either that, or the http method is requesting Packages with a possibility of gzip encoding, and the server's not responding the way it expects. I've had Mozilla give me lip about that too. :-) The ftp method obviously would just ask for what it wants, since ftp doesn't have the same level of intelligence in the protocol. -- === Paul TBBle Hampson, MCSE 4th year CompSci/Asian Studies student, ANU The Boss, Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51 095 284 361) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Of course Pacman didn't influence us as kids. If it did, we'd be running around in darkened rooms, popping pills and listening to repetitive music. This email is licensed to the recipient for non-commercial use, duplication and distribution. ===
Re: devfs and ide-scsi devices
On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 07:57:41PM -0500, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: Problem: devfs devfsd do not create /dev/cdroms and /dev/tapes and related symbolic links. woody box devfsd 1.3.21-3 stock kernel-image 2.4.17-386 Modules loaded that pertain to scsi: sg, aic7xxx, ide-probe-mod, ide-scsi, sd_mod and scsi_mod devfs is mounted at boot by including devfs=mount at lilo boot prompt Extract from /var/log/dmesg for these devices: hdc: HP COLORADO 8GB, ATAPI TAPE drive hdd: CD-ROM 48X/AKU, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive [snip] PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:09.0 scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.4 Adaptec 2940 Ultra SCSI adapter aic7880: Single Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/253 SCBs (scsi0:A:6:0): refuses synchronous negotiation. Using asynchronous transfers Vendor: IOMEGAModel: ZIP 100 Rev: K.05 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 scsi1 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices Vendor: HPModel: COLORADO 8GB Rev: 2.08 Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Vendor: E-IDE Model: CD-ROM 48X/AKURev: U22 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 /dev lists these devices for the cdrom and tape: 1) /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0 2) /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0 3) /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/generic 4) /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target1/lun0/generic 5) /dev/sg1 [symlink to #3] 6) /dev/sg2 [symlink to #4] Without devfs mounted, cdrom is /dev/scd0, and tape is /dev/st0 or /dev/nst0. Any thoughts on how I can get devfs to create /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 and /dev/tapes/tape0 and symbolic links to these devices? I haven't been able to figure out how to do this from devfs FAQ and kernel documentation or come across solutions searching with google. I don't know about tape drives, but to get the /dev/cdroms/cdromx and /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target1/lun0/cd devices, you need the scsi CD driver loaded. Then they'll exist. Presumably it's the same for the scsi tape driver as well. -- === Paul TBBle Hampson, MCSE 4th year CompSci/Asian Studies student, ANU The Boss, Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51 095 284 361) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Of course Pacman didn't influence us as kids. If it did, we'd be running around in darkened rooms, popping pills and listening to repetitive music. This email is licensed to the recipient for non-commercial use, duplication and distribution. === pgpih8Y3hRTb9.pgp Description: PGP signature
