missing debs
is there any known problems with the main sites? both the mirrors that I run have been missing several debs from the sid archive (didn't check testing or potato) for a few days. I mirror from ftp.debian.org (which is a sourceforge machine) and each time rsync says it's synced... . Thanks Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | ik5pvx | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.dyndns.org Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.4.5 #2 Sun Jun 3 09:50:34 CEST 2001 i686 unknown
Re: iptables and 2.4.4 kernel in testing
:-> "Steve" == Steve Kowalik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 11:44:17PM -0400, Simon Read uttered: >> Folks, >> >> I have a two difficulties interpreting this message: iptables is not a >> dynamically loadable module in 2.4.4 but is compiled in; no modules >> were built at all for my 2.4.4 kernel. >> > *slap* > Do _not_ build iptables directly into the kernel. Modules Are Good[tm]. > Build the iptables/netfilter stuff as modules, and it will probably all > start working. I have everything inside the kernel and it works perfectly. Pf -- ------- Pierfrancesco Caci | ik5pvx | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.dyndns.org Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.4.3 #1 Sat Mar 31 14:03:42 CEST 2001 i686 unknown
if your StarOffice dies... (fonts)
Hi there I received this note about sudden death of StarOffice, about which we had a thread about a month ago. It is a problem of fonts and the followin message shows a way to narrow down and possibly resolve the problem. Have fun Pf From: Dietz Proepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Staroffice crashing Hi, sorry for mailing this to you but I am no member to debian-users and did not see a quick way to drop a note there. Therefore the direct mail. regardin' the staroffice crash you posted to debian-users a month ago, I ran into the same trouble. Some digging revealed quickly that it had to do s.t. with the font management (go to Options/Editor/Fonts -> *kaboom*). Also spadmin shows that behaviour, trying to print a test page with a garbled system yields a crash. But in contrast to soffice spadmin can be easily straced. And now for the interesting bit ,). That traces reveal that spadmin tries to open several Type1 fonts that still exist in fonts.dir and fonts.scale. Removing them gave me back a working Star Office. Due to the fact taht I am far from being a font or X wizzard I assume that there's a better way than hand-editing but it works so who cares ;). If you feel that others might be interested in this too, feel free to forward that mail to debian-users. kindest regards Dietz Proepper -- ------- Pierfrancesco Caci | ik5pvx | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.dyndns.org Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.4.3 #1 Sat Mar 31 14:03:42 CEST 2001 i686 unknown
Re: rsync images
:-> "John" == John Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I had 2.2r2 cd iso images on one of my servers > I thought i would try using rsync to convert them to 2.2r3 images (i had heard this could be done) > when i try to sync to the 2.2r3 images up on the mirrors i use the following command: > rsync --verbose --progress --stats --block-size=8192 debian.uchicago.edu::debian-cd/stable/official/2.2_rev3/i386/binary-i386-3.iso you seem to not have specified a destination file Pf -- ------- Pierfrancesco Caci | ik5pvx | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.dyndns.org Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.4.3 #1 Sat Mar 31 14:03:42 CEST 2001 i686 unknown
Re: Blank screensaver
:-> "Russell" == Russell May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How do I disable the automatic blank screensaver that kicks in? In the console: setterm -powersave off (man setterm for details) In X Window: xset s off or xset -dpms depending on what you activated before again, man xset gives you other interesting details > > -Russell May Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | ik5pvx | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.dyndns.org Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.4.3 #1 Sat Mar 31 14:03:42 CEST 2001 i686 unknown
Re: Star Office + Unstable
:-> "Rainer" == Rainer Merz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 10:32:44AM +0200, Matthias Wieser wrote: >> Does anybody else has this problem? > yep, we are running three Sid Boxes here having exactly the > same problems since a couple of days. Currently trying to determine what > causes this behaviour :-( > Regards, Rainer I can state that this problem exists at least since Friday 30 March; maybe there was a libc upgrade past week ? -- ------- Pierfrancesco Caci | ik5pvx | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.dyndns.org Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.4.2 #1 Sat Mar 10 21:01:03 CET 2001 i686 unknown
StarOffice crashes when opening files...
Something in the latest 2 weeks has changed in Debian unstable and makes Staroffice crash at the moment of opening a file. Anyone else having this problem? Have you been able to identify what's going wrong ? Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | ik5pvx | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.dyndns.org Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.4.2 #1 Sat Mar 10 21:01:03 CET 2001 i686 unknown
Re: .bashrc
:-> "stephen" == stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1) When I log in, my .bashrc isn't executed. Here's my ls -al: > -rwx-- 1 stephen stephen694 Mar 24 09:59 .bashrc > What do I need to do to get this to execute. I've set up a .login which > executes the file and even set up a symbolic link of .profile. Still no > dice. Upon login, (or when invoked with the --login command line argument), bash executes whatever is in /etc/profile, and then it look for (in order) ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login and ~/.profile. The first one found is the first one executed, and the other are ignored. On logout, it calls ~/.bash_logout. Non interactive shells instead look only for ~/bashrc. So if you want to do the same things both at login and at secondary shells (e.g. xterms), you may want to put all your environment definitions, aliases and functions in ~/.bashrc and have a line like source ~/.bashrc in your ~/.bash_profile, which may contain other additional stuff such as playing your favourite chime when you log in. > 2) Where do I need to put programs which I want to execute on boot up? I > guess I'm looking for the equivalent of RedHat's /etc/rc.d/rc.local. /etc/rc.boot exists in debian but is deprecated. Look in /etc/init.d and try to modify one of the existing scripts for the stuff that you want started/stopped at boot/shutdown. Then have a look at update-rc.d which is a nice debian script to update the boot links in the /etc/rcX.d directories. > Any assistance is appreciated. Thanks! > -- > steve > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | ik5pvx | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.dyndns.org Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.4.2 #1 Sat Mar 10 21:01:03 CET 2001 i686 unknown
Re: Cannot upgrade libc6 2.2.2-1 to 2.2.2-2: "error while loading shared libraries: /lib/i686/libc.so.6"
:-> "Romanenko" == Romanenko M A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have several Debian boxes (kernel 2.4.2 custom (kernels differ a little > on variouse boxes), ldso 1.9.11-15 on all the boxes). I was able to > successfully upgrade libc6 from 2.2.2-1 to 2.2.2-2 on two of the boxes, > but failed to on the third box. Here is the message I got: > [...] > (Reading database ... 58107 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to replace libc6-dev 2.2.2-1 (using > .../libc6-dev_2.2.2-2_i386.deb) ... > Unpacking replacement libc6-dev ... > Preparing to replace libc6 2.2.2-1 (using > .../g/glibc/libc6_2.2.2-2_i386.deb) ... > Unpacking replacement libc6 ... > /bin/sh: error while loading shared libraries: /lib/i686/libc.so.6: symbol > _dl_debug_files, version GLIBC_2.2 not defined in file ld-linux.so.2 with > link time reference > dpkg: warning - old post-removal script returned error exit status 127 > dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... > /bin/sh: error while loading shared libraries: /lib/i686/libc.so.6: symbol > _dl_debug_files, version GLIBC_2.2 not defined in file ld-linux.so.2 with you probably have libc-i686 installed. Remove it, upgrade the normal libc and then you can reinstall libc-i686. I read this solution by checking for libc6 on www.debian.org/Bugs Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | ik5pvx | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.dyndns.org Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.4.2 #1 Sat Mar 10 21:01:03 CET 2001 i686 unknown
devfs and /dev/pts permissions
I have a problem with permissions when using devfsd: it doesn't let me open more than 6 copies of xterm as normal user, and I can't find where do I change this behaviour. Any hint ? Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | ik5pvx | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.dyndns.org Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.4.2 #1 Sat Mar 10 21:01:03 CET 2001 i686 unknown
Re: pseudo-OT: curious -- why GPM????
> The ps2 port on PC's (or actually the treatment under Linux) doesn't > allow two programs to read from that port at the same time. So if > you have gpm running to use the mouse on the console *and* you want > X to use that same mouse on such a ps/2 port: troubles, troubles. > Not always, there are those who are lucky and experience none of the > alludged malfunctionings that are reported, but those are few. > Fortunately there is a way out of this mess: let gpm have the ps/2 > port all for him self, but let him forward all data he read from that > port to a socket (/dev/gpmdata) and next have X read from that socket > instead of reading from the ps/2 port. I have several computers at home and at work with ps/2 mouse and never, never have had any problem at all with both gpm and X reading directly from the /dev/psaux port. The only time when it didn't work, was when someone put protocol translation and mouse repeating by default in the gpm.conf file, and that puzzled me quite a bit before I realized which was the cause of the problem. But maybe I was just locky with the hardware combinations I use. Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | ik5pvx | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.dyndns.org Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.4.2 #4 Sat Feb 24 11:11:48 CET 2001 i686 unknown
Re: ext2resize
:-> "studenten" == studenten wg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > now a df shows me my /dev/hda5 ( that's where my root lies ) is 500M big... > but in fdisk it says /dev/hda5 is still 1G... you resized only the filesystem, to resize the partition also there is another tool, the name of which escapes my memory Pf -- ------- Pierfrancesco Caci | ik5pvx | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.dyndns.org Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.4.1 #1 Sat Feb 3 20:43:54 CET 2001 i686 unknown
Re: Nameservers
:-> "SamBozo" == SamBozo Debian User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a new install of debian 2.2 potato on another box. > It has the same nameserver entrys in /etc/resolve.config ... as this box > has. > But it won't resolve ip's. > I had to use "ftp://207.XXX.XXX.XXX/debian potato main" > as my entry in /etc/apt/sources.list > just to get "apt-get update" would work. > Any idea where I should look for my error? /etc/resolv.conf should contain ip addresses; if it contains names, these names should be present in /etc/hosts and /etc/nsswitch.conf should point to files _before_ dns If you need further hints, you should provide further info Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | ik5pvx | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.dyndns.org Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.4.1 #1 Sat Feb 3 20:43:54 CET 2001 i686 unknown
netscape's dns-helper too quick
Hi there, when I put an url in netscape, I often get an unknown host error message, maybe once, twice and then it finally can resolve the name. I think that dns-helper gives too little time to the resolver to find the address, and it only works at the second or third request because in the meantime the name server had the time to cache the previous request. This problem happens on two different configurations, one with bind running on the same machine and one with bind running on a different host. Is anyone else having this problem with the way netscape resolves a hostname? any cure ? Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | ik5pvx | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.dyndns.org Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.4.1 #1 Sat Feb 3 20:43:54 CET 2001 i686 unknown
Re: cpqarray issue
:-> "Eric" == Eric N Valor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anyone got any bright ideas? Something interesting is that if I do a > "depmod -a", I get a rash of "unresolved symbols" but if I depmod the > modules individually it seems to work fine. I had to manually create the /dev/ida directory, and then run MAKEDEV from inside /dev This will probably make the machine complain of "no space left on device", at which point you will do a rm /dev/ida/c0d[1234]* You will be left with a bunch of devices all ending in - (for example c0d0p1-) which are not recognized by the install process. You'll have to rename them without the dash. At this point you can continue as usual. Hope this helps Remember, all the above stuff is not in / but rather in /target :-) Pf -- ------- Pierfrancesco Caci | ik5pvx | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.dyndns.org Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.4.0 #1 Sat Jan 6 14:27:38 CET 2001 i686 unknown
Re: Network config easy question
:-> "Pierfrancesco" == Pierfrancesco Caci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > the dns host is set up using /proc directly or by using > /etc/sysctl.conf duh... I meant dns domain name the dns serving you is set in /etc/resolv.conf Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | ik5pvx | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.dyndns.org Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.4.0-test10 #1 Wed Nov 8 22:58:01 CET 2000 i686 unknown
Re: Network config easy question
:-> "Robin" == Robin Rowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dumb question, how do I set the IP address, netmask, gateway, and dns host > on Debian? The docs say that I should edit a file named 'network' but I > don't find any such file. the docs are outdated. check for a file named /etc/network/interfaces it's format is described in man interfaces the dns host is set up using /proc directly or by using /etc/sysctl.conf Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | ik5pvx | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.dyndns.org Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.4.0-test10 #1 Wed Nov 8 22:58:01 CET 2000 i686 unknown
Re: linux espresso
:-> "cirda" == cirda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > salve ragazzi volevo avvicinarmi al mondo di linux e ho preso > iner.net dove ho > trovato linux espresso ho provato ad installarlo ma mi chiede > una certa debian > login e la pwd che cosa devo scriverci? The following is in Italian to help a truely clueless beginner: Ciao, per prima cosa, questa mailing-list e` in lingua inglese. Se hai difficolta' con la lingua, c'e` anche una mailing list in italiano, i dettagli sono sul sito http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/subscribe Per quanto riguarda "debian login", se ha appena concluso la tua installazione, prova a scrivere "root" (senza le virgolette) quando ti chiede "debian login" e a dare un semplice invio quando ti chiede "password". Se non funziona, leggi bene le istruzioni di installazione nella tua rivista, ci sara' sicuramente scritto cosa devi metterci. Se neanche questo funziona, forse ti ha chiesto di scegliere una password durante l'installazione e tu hai dimenticato di segnartela ? L'installazione si effettua come "root" che e` l'utente che ha il controllo totale della macchina (detto anche superuser, system administrator, sysadmin). Una volta completata l'installazione, creati un utente normale con il tuo nome, per evitare di fare danni (il classico esempio di danno che puoi fare come root e' cancellare tutto l'hard disk con un comando solo che non ti scrivo cosi' non ti viene la tentazione) Ciao Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | ik5pvx | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.dyndns.org Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.4.0-test10 #1 Wed Nov 8 22:58:01 CET 2000 i686 unknown
dpkg can't handle a few pkgs due to nscd problem
I get the following error with a few packages, namely netsaint and some other that need a user added in /etc/passwd Unpacking netsaint (from .../netsaint_0.0.6stable-3_i386.deb) ... adduser: `/usr/sbin/nscd -i passwd' returned error code 1. Aborting. What is that? nscd exists, I tried to stop it before reinstalling netsaint, but without luck Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | ik5pvx | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.dyndns.org Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.4.0-test10 #1 Wed Nov 8 22:58:01 CET 2000 i686 unknown
ghostview fonts problem
After upgrading Xfree to version 4 as per current woody archives, I have tried to clean up the fonts on my system, but I must have trashed something related to ghostscript. I now get this error when trying to print the output of cdlabelgen (quite a simple stuff): GNU Ghostscript: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 Error: /invalidfont in findfont Operand stack: Helvetica Helvetica Helvetica Font Helvetica 14810 Helvetica --nostringval-- Helvetica Courier Execution stack: %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1 3 %oparray_pop .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 3 3 %oparray_pop 4 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push --nostringval-- 7 4 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- --nostringval-- %loop_continue --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 5 5 %oparray_pop Dictionary stack: --dict:777/809-- --dict:0/20-- --dict:55/200-- --dict:16/23-- --dict:777/809-- Current allocation mode is local Last OS error: 2 Current file position is 3457 I have a vague memory of doing something to get ghostscript to recognize the X fonts, or maybe it was vice-versa Can someone give me a hint, please ? -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | ik5pvx | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.dyndns.org Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.4.0-test10 #1 Wed Nov 8 22:58:01 CET 2000 i686 unknown
Re: apt-get strangeness
:-> "Michael" == Michael P Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok, I'm confused. I'm trying to install the C++ compiler. [...] > So what's going on? How do I get this thing installed? Try using dselect: in the Access menu, select apt as your preferred method, verify that the source list is correct and then go on updating your packages lists and then selecting the compiler. This will bring up some conflict dialogues that will try to explain you what's wrong. I know, dselect is not easy to use at the beginning, and it may look cumbersome, but apt-get used directly is even worse, when something is broken. Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | ik5pvx | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.dyndns.org Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.4.0-test10 #1 Wed Nov 8 22:58:01 CET 2000 i686 unknown
Re: /proc/interrupts
:-> "Michael" == Michael P Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] msoulier]$ cat /proc/interrupts >CPU0 > 0:3791558 XT-PIC timer > 1: 18949 XT-PIC keyboard > 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade > 8: 2 XT-PIC rtc [...] > Does the modem have to be in use before it appears here? I > don't see an > entry here... Yes, unless you (or some daemon) uses the corresponding interrupt, you won't see the counts here. Nut you can see the memory regions allocated in the ioports file. Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | ik5pvx | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.dyndns.org Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.4.0-test9 #1 Wed Oct 4 11:51:25 CEST 2000 i686 unknown
Re: isdn Problem (newbie)
:-> "Clemens" == Clemens Hermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > I got a debian 2.2 set up but I do not get ISDN to run. > I want to use an AVM PCI Card which run under SuSE so it should be no > hardware proplem or similar. > I have read the ISDN-Howto and the chapter in the debian linux guide. > The problem occurs when I try to load the hisax module via modconf. > The messages in syslog look like this: > Sep 25 16:45:33 ramses kernel: HiSax: AVM driver Rev. 2.11 > Sep 25 16:45:33 ramses kernel: HiSax: AVM A1 hscx A fifo port 0 already > in use > Sep 25 16:45:33 ramses kernel: HiSax: Card AVM A1 not installed ! looks like the machine doesn't see your card. check that it's properly installed (pci slots are a bit hard to press a card into, sometimes), and also check with lspci that the kernel actually recognizes the card and that it is indeed an AVM card as you believe Pf -- ------- Pierfrancesco Caci | ik5pvx | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.dyndns.org Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.4.0-test8 #1 Sun Sep 24 13:30:48 CEST 2000 i686 unknown
Re: Fdisk
:-> "Jay" == Jay Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a question on adding another drive to my potato box. I > want to format > it to hold window zip files to run with apache. So how would I format it > and have apache access it for files? I'm not sure I understand your question, but if you want to be able to read the same disk from within windows also, format it as vfat or ntfs (if you run windows nt or w2k). Other than that, a zip file is a normal file for any other program to read on a unix machine, apache couldn't care less. If that was not your expected answer, please try to reword your question better Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | ik5pvx | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.4.0-test2 #1 Sat Jun 24 11:38:05 CEST 2000 i686 unknown
Re: UNIX VIRUS - HONOR SYSTEM
:-> "Bruce" == Bruce Kingsbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - YOUR HAVE NOW RECEIVED THE UNIX VIRUS - > This virus works on the honor system: > If you're running a variant of unix or linux, please forward > this message to everyone you know and delete a bunch of your > files at random. Nice try, but April Fool was 43 days ago :-) Pf -- ------- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx - Firenze | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.3.99-pre8 #1 Sat May 13 16:09:37 CEST 2000 i686 unknown
Re: From IP to domain name
:-> "Ivan" == Ivan J Varzinczak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, everybody! > I'd like to know if someone can give me any sugestions about > how I can discover the domain name given an IP address. For example, > if I have the IP address 205.188.146.23, I would like to discover what > the domain name is, in that case, aol.com. > I've tried to use nslookup, but I've had some problems in > setting the servers, because perhaps I'll need the "root" servers on > internet and it doesn't work very well. > Thanks in advance! dig -x 205.188.146.23 -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx - Firenze | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.3.99-pre6 #1 Tue May 9 20:09:22 CEST 2000 i686 unknown
Re: What are the most common causes of linux system hangs?
:-> "Joe" == Joe Emenaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > for a week or two. Now, it barely makes it more than 4 hours or so. > Now, I'm pretty certain that it's some hardware problem. But, I'd like to before trashing everything, check that the fan on the cpu is still working at the appropriate speed (check it visually and try touching the cpu heatsink). I had a bad experience with a jammed fan. Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx - Firenze | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.3.99-pre5 #1 Thu Apr 13 15:38:54 CEST 2000 i686 unknown
Decision Time: film scanner support
I'm going to buy a film scanner. Given that the Nikon is too expensive, I've to choose among the HP S20 and the Canon FS2710 The Canon is SCSI, the HP is USB, both are somewhat supported by SANE. Anyone has direct experience using either with Debian? Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx - Firenze | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.3.99-pre3 #1 Tue Apr 4 19:05:03 CEST 2000 i686 unknown
sslwrap: how do I use it?
I have installed sslwrap, but I don't understand how do I actually _use_ it. I want to encrypt a [ftp,pop,etc...] connection between my computer and a remote machine. The remote machine has sslwrap installed too. What client do I use to connect, say, to the remote pop3 server, but with encription? Thanks Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx - Firenze | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.3.99-pre3 #1 Tue Apr 4 19:05:03 CEST 2000 i686 unknown
Re: CD/RW under potato
> On 07-Apr-2000 Dr. Simon Read wrote: >> Folks, >> >> >> I know I have to use the ide-scsi drivers, but I have no idea how to >> configure them. I can't make them recognise the devices I have. I >> have a regular CD drive and the CD/RW (an HP 8200i) connected to ide0, >> so they are hdc and hdd. >> if they're on ide0, they're hda and hdb. then, if you have to use ide-scsi, remember that the "reader" is scdx and the writer is sgy where x and y may be different. For example, my cd-rw is scd0 when I want to read a cd (because it's the first cd-reader on the scsi cable) but it's sg2 when I want to write a cd because there are 2 HD with a lower ID, so they come first. Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx - Firenze | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.3.99-pre3 #1 Tue Apr 4 19:05:03 CEST 2000 i686 unknown
Re: mp3 player
:-> "clyde" == <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > saved when I changed from windows to Linux. I was wondering if anyone > could tell me where I could find a good mp3 player. . Thanks for any mpg123 (command line) xmms (cute grafic interface) both use the same mp3 library so audio quality is the same (very good) Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx - Firenze | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.3.49 #1 Fri Mar 3 11:24:33 CET 2000 i686 unknown
how to burn 80 min CD ?
Ok, I tried to burn a couple of audio CD using cdrdao on a Yamaha 4416 scsi writer and I am not able to read the cd's on any reader. What's the trick to burn 80 minutes CD with Linux/Debian?? Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx - Firenze | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.3.40 #1 Tue Jan 25 23:14:39 CET 2000 i686 unknown
Re: inn2 configuration files- help please
:-> "George" == George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Leave it out of inn.conf completely and set the last line of > /etc/news/moderators to: > *:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > That has always worked for me in the past. thanks for the tip, but I have another problem now. The installation of inn2 hosed my setup (read: deleted the active file) so I tried to deinstall everything and reinstall inn2 from scratch. Well, inn2 doesn't have inn.conf in it so it can't be installed at all. Probably I should file a bug report about it... Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx - Firenze | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.3.39 #1 Sun Jan 16 19:11:35 CET 2000 i686 unknown
inn2 configuration files- help please
can someone tell me what is the correct value to be put in /etc/news/inn.conf for the variable moderatormailer ? I always get this error and inn doesn't start # /usr/lib/news/bin/inncheck /etc/news/inn.conf:16: modmailer has bad address Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx - Firenze | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.3.39 #1 Sun Jan 16 19:11:35 CET 2000 i686 unknown
X broken after fonts/fontserver update
Anyone else is experiencing this problem? Here are the messages that X gives me at startup _FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2 failed to set default font path '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/lib/ghostscript/fonts/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc-il2/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi-il2/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi-il2/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/freefont/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/sharefont/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Xg/,/usr/lib/ghostscript/fonts/,/usr/share/fonts/texmf/,/usr/local/staroffice51/fonts/75dpi,/usr/local/staroffice51/fonts/type1,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/chinese/:unscaled,unix/:7101' Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send the full server output, not just the last messages XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0" after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining. I've tried to activate the xfs-xtt fontserver on unix/:7100, I can see that the unix pipe has been created in /tmp but I can't get the X server to connect to it. Also a few days ago (X running without any problems) some applications loaded some strange fonts from the freefonts collection instead of the fixed one. Now X refuses to start. Ah, yes, I know that in the above error messages there is 7101 and not 7100, that is xfstt. xfs is now disabled in XF86Config Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx - Firenze | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.3.35 #1 Wed Dec 29 16:09:39 CET 1999 i686 unknown
rspfd behaves very badly
Hi all, I tried the latest rspfd in potato and crashed triggering a kernel panic too. I had also big troubles removing the package because for some reason it tried to start the daemon before removing it (very stupid thing, I think). Kernel version here is 2.3.35 (yes I know it's a developer's release) Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx - Firenze | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.3.35 #1 Wed Dec 29 16:09:39 CET 1999 i686 unknown
Re: offtopic: placing items in /var/log/messages...
:-> "Jonathan" == Jonathan Lupa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Not really debian related, but is there either a shell function or a > perl function to put a line into /var/log/messages? (there must be- I > just can't find it)... > Or is it open( LOG, ">/var/log/messages" ); for me? :) (just a joke). "logger" is your friend here :-) Pf -- ------- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx - Firenze | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.3.35 #1 Wed Dec 29 16:09:39 CET 1999 i686 unknown
default tk font
How can I change the default font used by tk applications? The one right now is probably a non-scalable one and it really sucks. Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.13 #1 Thu Oct 21 20:27:03 CEST 1999 i686 unknown
Audio CD database
Is there any ready-to-use Audio CD database program? I mean a program to keep track of the discs I have, allowing searches by Author, Orchestra and so on If there is no such thing, where can I find something to learn to build a database and it's query forms with postgresql? (possibly something easy, the postgresql manual is not such a thing) Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.13 #1 Thu Oct 21 20:27:03 CEST 1999 i686 unknown
ISDN in Italy
Anyone using Linux ISDN in Italy? Which TA do you have? Any known problems ? Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.13 #1 Thu Oct 21 20:27:03 CEST 1999 i686 unknown
Re: LILO hangs on hard drive boot
:-> "Onno" == Onno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 01:39 PM 10/21/99 -0500, Steve Doerr wrote: >> I've got Linux on a secondary IDE hard drive(secondary master). >> When I set BIOS boot sequence to D:A:SCSI all I get is "LI" and >> the system hangs. Any ideas? Can I spiff up that boot record >> without messing anything up, or is LILO corrupted? The system >> runs fine when I use a boot floppy. >> Any help would be greatly appreciated. > My advice for you is, try: > disk=/dev/hdb > bios=0x80 > disk=/dev/hda > bios=0x81 > at the top of your lilo.conf and run lilo. If the drive that Steve wants to use is the master on the secondary controller then he should write disk=/dev/hdc bios=0x80 (etc) Pf -- ------- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.13 #1 Wed Oct 20 12:26:42 CEST 1999 i686 unknown
Re: booting from SCSI
:-> "brian" == brian moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You will have to convince LILO of it. :-) >> From my lilo.conf (which does much the same thing... the IDE drive is > for mp3s and my archived debs): > | disk = /dev/sda > | bios = 0x80 this was quite complicated to sort out, but it was an important part of the solution. > Basically, the BIOS numbers drives starting at 0x80 (and perhaps only > supporting that one -- depends on the bios), and traditionally the 0x80 > is the first IDE drive... but with scsi it gets more complex since the > SCSI BIOS remaps stuff around, so LILO gets it wrong unless you tell > it specifically to use drive 0x80. All is working now, the bios sets the SCSI disk as boot disk (it's an award bios, if that can matter), then I put lilo on sda instead of sda2 as it was before. Plus I have the bios = 0x80 stuff to tell lilo that the scsi disk is the first one, and I put sdb and hdb as inaccessible as they are removable and the could well be absent. A bit intricated but works Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.12 #2 Sun Oct 17 18:57:29 CEST 1999 i686 unknown
Re: booting from SCSI
:-> "Oki" == Oki DZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Pierfrancesco Caci wrote:
>>
>> Is there a way to boot off a SCSI disk (/dev/sda2 is my root
>> partition) if there is also an IDE disk (/dev/hda[1-5] are present) ?
> All you need is just to install lilo.
this machine has been booting off lilo since 1996
> I have an IDE and a SCSI disk having NT and Linux; I put Linux on the
> SCSI disk and write lilo on the IDE disk. (When I did that I knew that
> it was pretty risky, but it worked fine.)
that's how it used to work until last week
> If your lilo doesn't work properly, just use a floppy to boot. What you
> need to do is to copy your current kernel (of course, this assuming that
> your Linux already runs) and use rdev to let the kernel know where the
> root partition resides:
> dd if=/vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0
> rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/sda2
> rdev -R /dev/fd0 1
> then reboot the machine.
booting from the floppy is not what I want. The machine should work
unattended and reliably without having to depend from a floppy
>> The ide disk does not have bootable partitions but it has lilo on it
>> because I can't get the system to boot off the scsi disk directly.
>>
>> Also, inserting/removing an IDE removable hd confuses LILO.
> I believe that you have to reinstal lilo if you removing/adding disks.
still, this is not the intended behaviour. Before I changed
motherboard I could easily boot with lilo off the ide disk with or
without the removable ide.
> Oki
Anyway, I've solved the problem. I have lilo on the MBR of the SCSI
disk now, instead of the boot sector of the active partition. Now it
works.
Pf
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Re: turning your computer off
:-> "jh" == jh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a best way to shut down linux and turn off your computer? I read > in an online guide that you should press . When I do > this and I later turn my computer on it says "last boot failed"...Then it > installs. Is this the recommended way to turn off your computer? the correct command is "shutdown -h now" which is also available as "halt" If you have an ATX case and motherboard, "shutdown -h -p now" or the shorter "poweroff" also turns power down. You should have compiled your kernel with APM poweroff option for this to work. Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.12 #1 Fri Oct 1 02:10:16 CEST 1999 i686 unknown
Re: Potato broke my mouse in X?
:-> "Aaron" == Aaron Solochek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That did it. Thanks, although that seems like something I should have tried... > -Aaron Solochek > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Is gpm running? if so kill it and startx and see if your mouse works. >> Anyway, gpm should repeat the mouse events for the X server, that's how it works on my system. I can have the mouse both in X and the VT's at the same time (well, not the same time really, but I can switch between X and text-mode back and forth with no problem) Pf -- ------- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.12 #1 Fri Oct 1 02:10:16 CEST 1999 i686 unknown
booting from SCSI
Is there a way to boot off a SCSI disk (/dev/sda2 is my root partition) if there is also an IDE disk (/dev/hda[1-5] are present) ? The ide disk does not have bootable partitions but it has lilo on it because I can't get the system to boot off the scsi disk directly. Also, inserting/removing an IDE removable hd confuses LILO. What can I do ? Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.12 #1 Fri Oct 1 02:10:16 CEST 1999 i686 unknown
Re: Netscape 4.61 - ??? SOLVED
> Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: >> >> Ok, is there anyone actually using netscape 4.61 as provided in potato? >> I only get a segfault. >> If you are able to use it, what combination of >> kernel/libc/what-the-hell do you have ? I've removed all manually-installed plugins. Problem solved. 4.61 looks quite slow to start-up, though. Slower than 4.5 at least Pf -- ------- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.10 #1 Tue Jun 15 21:03:12 CEST 1999 i586 unknown
Re: Netscape 4.61 - ???
:-> "Bob" == Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been using the navigator-smotif-4.61 package for a while now, with > very few problems. Occasionally it has died, but it has been as stable > as other versions. On my setup it just crashes before creating the main window. It leaves a lock file in ~/.netscape. I know that passes the step of checking for plugins because it complained of a non-readable plugin file. (Yes, I've removed that problem) > I'm currently running kernel 2.2.11, but have use > others (I don't remember exactly when I installed 4.61). I'm also > running the current libc6 (and other libs) in potato. apart that I've not been able to compile 2.2.11 yet, this looks the same as my setup Pf -- ------- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.10 #1 Tue Jun 15 21:03:12 CEST 1999 i586 unknown
Re: gcc troubles again
:-> "Ben" == Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That's the one that was diverted by another cc package. Move it > back so you don't mess up > your system on upgrades, etc. and do this: > dpkg-divert --list /usr/bin/gcc and see what package diverted it. it was caused by gnat now I've arranged so as gcc and gcc.orig-gcc are the same file (by means of cp, not ln). I hope to have definitively solved this problem Thanks Pf -- ------- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.10 #1 Tue Jun 15 21:03:12 CEST 1999 i586 unknown
Re: Netscape 4.61 - ???
:-> "Sean" == Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The best thing to use right now is the libc5 version of netscape as supplied by > Netscape. The packaged version of netscape if chock full of problems that, if I > understand it correctly, are largely glibc2.1 related. You'll need a few packages > from the oldlibs directory ... libc5, libg++2.7, xpm4.7 uhmm, I was happy that I eliminated all the libc5 packages I'll try and wait for a newer package. Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.10 #1 Tue Jun 15 21:03:12 CEST 1999 i586 unknown
Re: gcc troubles again
:-> "Ben" == Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That's not egcs, that's the gcc272 package. > Yeah, either get rid of gcc272 completely, or check the gcc actually points to egcc, and > not gcc272. I'm pretty sure that I completely deinstalled gcc272. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/bin # ls -las egcc* gcc* 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root3 Aug 14 00:18 egcc -> gcc 48 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root48460 Aug 19 1997 gcc 72 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root68112 Aug 6 19:51 gcc.orig-gcc that seems strange, let's see what happens... hmm now it works. I don't understand where did that gcc.orig-gcc came from, but putting that as gcc instead of the old one worked. Thank you Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.10 #1 Tue Jun 15 21:03:12 CEST 1999 i586 unknown
Re: gcc troubles again
:-> "Ben" == Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Looks to me like you some sort of conflicting packages installed for gcc/egcs. What does > it say when you do `gcc --version'? > Ben [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ gcc -v Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-unknown-linux-gnulibc1/2.7.2.3/specs gcc version 2.7.2.3 You have mail in /var/spool/mail/ik5pvx [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ gcc --version 2.7.2.3 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # dpkg -l *egc* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ NameVersionDescription +++-===-==- pn egcc (no description available) pn egcs-docs(no description available) un egcs-docs-ss (no description available) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # dpkg -l *gcc* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ NameVersionDescription +++-===-==- hn altgcc (no description available) pn egcc (no description available) hi gcc 2.95-3 The GNU C compiler. ii gcc-doc 2.95-3 Documentation for the GNU compilers (gcc, go hn gcc-docs (no description available) hn gcc-i386-gnu (no description available) hn gcc-m68k-linux (no description available) un gcc-m68k-palmos (no description available) pn gcc272 (no description available) pn gcc272-docs (no description available) hn gccchecker (no description available) I've completely deinstalled gcc/egcc when I first had these kind of problems about one month ago, when I installed egcc-2.91 (or whatever the previous version was) Any hints ? Pf -- ------- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.10 #1 Tue Jun 15 21:03:12 CEST 1999 i586 unknown
Netscape 4.61 - ???
Ok, is there anyone actually using netscape 4.61 as provided in potato? I only get a segfault. If you are able to use it, what combination of kernel/libc/what-the-hell do you have ? Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.10 #1 Tue Jun 15 21:03:12 CEST 1999 i586 unknown
gcc troubles again
I've just upgraded to the latest gcc in potato. It install itself as i386-linux, and when I try to compile, it can't find cc1. I've solved this problem by linking the /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux to i586-unknown-linux-glibc[12], but now I have this other problem that I'm not able to solve: $ gcc -o numeri numeri.c cpp: Invalid option `-undef' What does it mean? what can I do? Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.10 #1 Tue Jun 15 21:03:12 CEST 1999 i586 unknown
GIMP & perl
How come that the debianized gimp 1.1.7 doesn't have the perl scripts? Or does it have them but I miss something in my installation and they don't come out? Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.10 #1 Tue Jun 15 21:03:12 CEST 1999 i586 unknown
New MIRROR site
A new mirror of ftp.debian.org is available for you at http://gusp.infogroup.it/debian or ftp://gusp.infogroup.it/pub/debian i386 part is already complete, while filling of alpha, m68k and arm is in progress. Mirrored distributions are stable and unstable. non-US is also available. Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.10 #1 Tue Jun 15 21:03:12 CEST 1999 i586 unknown
Re: docs in /usr/doc not supported?
:-> "Pollywog" == Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Since yesterday, when I run 'apt-get upgrade', I get these errors: > dhelp_parse: Warning - documents in /usr/doc are no longer supported! > Where will documents go now? I cannot RTM if I cannot find it ;) /usr/share/doc -- ------- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.10 #1 Tue Jun 15 21:03:12 CEST 1999 i586 unknown
Re: Printing Problem
:-> "Kelvin" == Kelvin Chow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dear Debian Users, > I am having trouble with printing. At first, I just couldn't get lpd > running, but now it has started mysteriously. I managed to "lpr ". check that you don't have stale lock files in /var/spool/lpd if the daemon finds a lock file in there it won't start. > I still have the following problem though. > $ lpq > Printer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'HP LaserJet 6L' > Queue: no printable jobs in queue > Status: server finished at 12:45:01 > Seems like the system constantly thinks that my printer is a network > printer. It is only connected to a parallel port. I am currently using > LPRng, potato distribution and 2.2.10 kernel. this is normal. your parallel printer is available as a network printer for other machines on your lan, if you ever had one. > Any ideas is greatly appreciated. did tou correctly configure your print filter? I use magicfilter and it works nicely. Check if a special package is required for laserjets to work. Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.10 #1 Tue Jun 15 21:03:12 CEST 1999 i586 unknown
Re: Aid requested
:-> "Dan" == Dan Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hey, can I get someone to sort of show me the ropes of > my new system, since the various docs are hard to work > with? I'm pretty good with comps and programming, but > Linux/GNU and C are new to me, and I'm having a little > trouble figuring some stuff out. Please reply > directly to me, I'm not subscribed to the list. > Thanx. > Fish.EXE Ok, maybe you should ask more direct questions, anyway I'll try to give you some clues. Your Linux system sees your entire machine, including peripherals, as part of a filesystem tree. /= this is the "root" of your system, which contains only a few subdirectories and a couple of files, which on a Debian system are only symbolic links. /boot= this contains the kernel of your system, that is the actual OS /etc = this contains all the configuration files for your machine. Please read the docs before messing with them. /bin and /sbin = these contain fundamental executable files, needed to get the machine up and running. /lib = this contains the fundamental libraries /home= this is the space devoted to users /usr = this contains the rest of the operating system files organized as such: /usr/bin and /usr/sbin = executable files /usr/lib = libraries /usr/doc = docs /usr/man = man pages /usr/X11R6 = everything related to the graphical environment The difference between sbin and bin is that files in sbin are meant to be used by the superuser only. This is enough by now :-) Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.10 #1 Tue Jun 15 21:03:12 CEST 1999 i586 unknown
libtool troubles
I think that I have found the basilar problem with my egcc installation that doesn't work: While I upgrade libtool I get this error: Configuring libtool... ltconfig: cannot guess host type; you must specify one Why does the script fail at recognizing my host type automatically? What is the exact name of a pentium+glibc 2.1.1 ?? Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.10 #1 Tue Jun 15 21:03:12 CEST 1999 i586 unknown
Does Netscape 4.61 work for you?
$ netscape ERROR: /usr/local/lib/netscape/plugins/med.so: undefined symbol: __setjmp Cant load plugin /usr/local/lib/netscape/plugins/med.so. Ignored. /usr/bin/X11/netscape: line 93: 12598 Segmentation fault (core dumped) $netscape "$@" This is all I get since I upgraded to the version present in potato. Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.10 #1 Tue Jun 15 21:03:12 CEST 1999 i586 unknown
hardware block size on scsi cdrom
I have a scsi cdrom (Plextor) and a scsi cdwriter (Yamaha). They both have a jumper to set the block size to 1024 bytes or to 512 bytes. The manuals say that for Unix 512 is the good value. Do you have any suggestions? What does this value mean, after all? Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.10 #1 Tue Jun 15 21:03:12 CEST 1999 i586 unknown
what does it mean...?
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 2 in write mode for single session. Last chance to quit, starting real write in 1 seconds. Blanking entire disk cdrecord: Input/output error. blank unit: scsi sendcmd: retryable error CDB: A1 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 04 D3 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 09 00 00 00 Sense Key: 0x4 Hardware Error, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x09 Qual 0x00 (track following error) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk -754974720 (not valid) cmd finished after 2400.021s timeout 9600s cdrecord: Cannot blank disk, aborting. Done. Press Enter I get this error while blanking a cd/rw. I've successfully blanked another disc, so I think it't the disc that's damaged. Where can I fond some documentation about those error codes? Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.10 #1 Tue Jun 15 21:03:12 CEST 1999 i586 unknown
Re: color in emacs terminal
:-> "Marco" == Marco Melgazzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Marco> > Hello >>> Can emacs do color when in "terminal mode" like mutt, ls, >>> dselect, etc. can? I've become addicted to font-lock-mode and >>> I'd like to do something similar even when I have to use it >>> windowless (or in an xterm, anyway). Marco> -> I know xemacs can I don't know about gnu emacs. Marco> > GNU emacs can as well, I wrote the ansi colorization/directory tracking > part for term.el many months ago. I don't think it would work in an > xterm though. Marco> ok, how do I get this options always on? I have it active when in X but not in the console. Xemacs has it active both in X and in console. For some reasons I don't want to use xemacs. Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.10 #1 Tue Jun 15 21:03:12 CEST 1999 i586 unknown
audio cd problems
I was trying to make a copy of an audio cd, tried with both cdrdao and xcdroast and all I got is only the left channel. Data CDs are ok on the same cd writer (Yamaha 4416S), also I made an audio cd a couple month ago and it was ok. Is there a way to tell if the writer has failed or if it's a software problem? Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.10 #1 Tue Jun 15 21:03:12 CEST 1999 i586 unknown
Re: emacs' delete behaviour changed?
:-> "Matthew" == Matthew Gregan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Jun 26, 1999 at 09:00:12PM +0200, Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: >> Did someone else notice that emacs in potato doesn't differentiate >> delete and backspace keys any more, as it did in slink? > Yep. Take a look in the changelog in /usr/doc/emacs20 and you'll > see why. I can't remember the exact reason, but it was because > the old behavior was breaking parts of Emacs. thanks, I looked at the changelog, decided it's not my case and applied the appropriate correction at my .emacs file. What about adding a configuration option at install time? Say "Hey user, if you use only PC-style keyboards I can configure the del-key for you" Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.10 #1 Tue Jun 15 21:03:12 CEST 1999 i586 unknown
emacs' delete behaviour changed?
Did someone else notice that emacs in potato doesn't differentiate delete and backspace keys any more, as it did in slink? Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.10 #1 Tue Jun 15 21:03:12 CEST 1999 i586 unknown
Re: problems with egcc
:-> "Sean" == Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sounds like you have a bad symlink. What I do is make a symlink > in /usr/bin from > egcc to gcc, after moving gcc to gcc-old just in case I want to > use the old compiler, When I first spotted this problem I tried totally removing all compilers and reisntall only egcc. Now egcc appears as gcc 2.7.2.3, whic is obviously wrong. I've partially solved the problem by addin a few symlinks in /usr/lib/gcc-lib but this looks definitely an installation bug of potato. Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.10 #1 Tue Jun 15 21:03:12 CEST 1999 i586 unknown
Re: Emacs psgml mode?
:-> "Timothy" == Timothy Hospedales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How do I get Xemacs to colorize/facerize HTML tags in psgml mode? > I did M-x sgml-mode, M-x set-variable, and set sgml-set-face to '1' as specified > in the psgml doc files, but html files are still quite normal looking:(. > Any idea? add this to your ~/.emacs file ;-- fontifying (cond ((fboundp 'global-font-lock-mode) ;; Turn on font-lock in all modes that support it (global-font-lock-mode t) ;; Maximum colors (setq font-lock-maximum-decoration t))) > Thanks! you're welcome > Tim Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.10 #1 Tue Jun 15 21:03:12 CEST 1999 i586 unknown
problems with egcc
I've installed egcc as in potato, I get this error message, while trying to compile linux: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/linux # make xconfig rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts kconfig.tk make[1]: Entering directory `/scratch/usr/src/linux-23/scripts' gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -c -o tkparse.o tkparse.c gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1': No such file or directory make[1]: *** [tkparse.o] Error 1 Also I wonder why egcc reports itself as 2.7.2.3: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ egcc --version 2.7.2.3 Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.10 #1 Tue Jun 15 21:03:12 CEST 1999 i586 unknown
Re: StarOffice 5 breaks with potato?
:-> "Brad" == Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Are you using StarOffice 5.01 or 5.1? There is quite a difference, namely > that 5.1 works and 5.01 doesn't. 5.01... darn! > There was quite the discussion on the list a few months ago about > StarOffice 5, you may want to check the archives at > http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/ I downloaded 5.01 about 1 month ago. Pf -- ------- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.10 #1 Tue Jun 15 21:03:12 CEST 1999 i586 unknown
Re: [potato] Font servers broken?
:-> "Branden" == Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > See the file /usr/doc/xfs/README.Debian: seen, but it's not my case > Also, be aware that, as of xfs 3.3.3.1-3, the default xfs configuration has > TCP port listening disabled for security reasons. If you have xfs serving > fonts to remote hosts via TCP, you will need to re-enable this option. I use unix:/7100 in XF86Config I'll see if the new package will work, as soon as my mirror has the actual file. Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.10 #1 Tue Jun 15 21:03:12 CEST 1999 i586 unknown
StarOffice 5 breaks with potato?
Are you able to use StarOffice with potato ?
I get a SIGSEGV, this is the last part of strace's output
open("/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/locale.dir", O_RDONLY) = 7
fstat(7, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=4233, ...}) = 0
mmap(0, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x412110
00
read(7, "#\t$TOG: locale.dir /main/13 1998"..., 4096) = 4096
close(7)= 0
munmap(0x41211000, 4096)= 0
access("/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/C/XLC_LOCALE", R_OK) = 0
open("/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/C/XLC_LOCALE", O_RDONLY) = 7
fstat(7, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=598, ...}) = 0
mmap(0, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x412110
00
read(7, "# $XConsortium: C /main/8 1996/"..., 4096) = 598
brk(0x809b000) = 0x809b000
read(7, "", 4096) = 0
close(7)= 0
munmap(0x41211000, 4096)= 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, NULL, [RT_0], 8) = 0
write(5, "\200\240\"A\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0|6 A \237\t\10\0\0\0\200\0\0"..., 148) = 14
8
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, NULL, [RT_0], 8) = 0
rt_sigsuspend([]
--- SIGRT_0 (Real-time signal 0) ---
<... rt_sigsuspend resumed> ) = -1 EINTR (Interrupted system call)
sigreturn() = ? (mask now [])
gettimeofday({929887948, 896554}, NULL) = 0
kill(9077, SIGRT_0) = 0
open("/usr/local/staroffice5/lib/libsex506li.so", O_RDONLY) = 7
fstat(7, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=107204, ...}) = 0
read(7, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0d\211\0"..., 4096) = 409
6
brk(0x809c000) = 0x809c000
brk(0x809d000) = 0x809d000
mmap(0, 110212, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 7, 0) = 0x41d46000
mprotect(0x41d5b000, 24196, PROT_NONE) = 0
mmap(0x41d5b000, 24576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 7, 0x14000)
= 0x41d5b000
close(7)= 0
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) ---
rt_sigaction(SIGABRT, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, [ABRT], NULL, 8) = 0
kill(9066, SIGABRT) = 0
--- SIGABRT (Aborted) ---
+++ killed by SIGABRT +++
Pf
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Re: fetchmail doesn't runq
:-> "Christian" == Christian Dysthe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I haven't had problems with my exim/fetchamil setup, even after moving from > slink to potato. I do remember that I had to edit my fetchmailrc file at some > point though becuase the syntax had changed. If you have an old .fetchmailrc > that is being loaded from some directory for instance because you start > fetchmail with fetchmail -f /some/dir/.fetchmailrc, you may get into trouble > like described. I think the configuration change was from hamm to slink. I've generated the present .fetchmailrc with fetchmailconf Pf -- ------- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.10 #1 Tue Jun 15 21:03:12 CEST 1999 i586 unknown
Re: fetchmail doesn't runq
:-> "Brian" == Brian Servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> *- On 19 Jun, Pierfrancesco Caci wrote about "fetchmail doesn't runq"
>>
>> I've noticed that I have to manually execute runq after fetchmail
>> finished getting mail. Prior version of fetchmail (the one in slink)
>> did the delivery automatically at the end of the run.
>>
> What is your mta? Exim by default will stop delivering mail and hold
> it until the next queue run when it gets a flood of messages at once.
I'm using smail. It used to wait for fetchmail to finish and then it
delivered all the messages (be it 1 or 1000) to the mailboxes
> Add the following to the end you your fetchmailrc file(if you are
> running it as root that is):
> postconnect "runq"
done. nothing changed
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[potato] Font servers broken?
I have some problems with font servers in potato: X sometimes refuses to start because it can't find the "fixed" font. Commenting the lines that set xfs and xfstt as font servers in XF86Config cures the problem, but I really would like to know what happens to the servers. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ ps -ax|grep xfs Bad syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? 3551 ?S 0:00 /usr/X11R6/bin/xfstt --port 7101 --daemon --user nobo 3610 ?S 0:00 /usr/bin/X11/xfs 15111 ?S 0:00 /usr/X11R6/bin/xfstt --port 7101 --daemon --user nobo 16900 pts/1S 0:00 grep xfs They seem to be up and running but don't respond. On a related issue, yesterday the X server suddenly lost all authorizations and refused to open any other program beyond the three xterm I had on the screen. I really would like to be able to give you more informations but I'm clueless. Pf -- ------- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.10 #1 Tue Jun 15 21:03:12 CEST 1999 i586 unknown
fetchmail doesn't runq
I've noticed that I have to manually execute runq after fetchmail finished getting mail. Prior version of fetchmail (the one in slink) did the delivery automatically at the end of the run. Any ideas? Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.10 #1 Tue Jun 15 21:03:12 CEST 1999 i586 unknown
Re: Re[2]: Debian installation - list of things that make it hard
:-> "Phillip" == Phillip Deackes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Peter Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> My box has even survived an incredible big mistake I just made. >> I was running as root, in /usr >> Instead of typing rm -r gimp* I typed rm -r * >> Thank goodness star office is big enough to get in the way of anything >> important being deleted before I realised my mistake. put a file called "-i" in the relevant directories i.e. touch "/-i" so when you try "rm -r *" from / it expands the -i too and asks you for permission. Note that this doesn't protect you from "rm -r /" Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.9 #1 Sat May 15 10:10:38 CEST 1999 i586 unknown
Re: Basic SCSI question
:-> "Randy" == Randy Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >I don't have any experience with Linux and SCSI drives and > was wondering if > someone could give me some basic-level/newbie pointers on SCSI setup. >The computer has an AdvanSys card in it and I've recompiled > the kernel with > advansys, generic SCSI, and SCSI CD-ROM support. This seems > okay as dmesg > reports: Did you add also SCSI DISK support, didn't you? > Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0 detected, ok, but what about support ? > Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 00 > Vendor: IBM Model: DDRS-39130D Rev: DC1B > Type: Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02 is this the correct hardware you ahve in your machine ? > brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 0 May 18 22:59 sda > brw-rw 1 root disk 11, 0 May 18 22:59 scd0 you shoud have some /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2 etc for the partitions, too >If I try to do an "fdisk /dev/sda" I get a message of "Unable to read > /dev/sda" along with: > May 19 06:13:21 spartacus kernel: SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id 6 lun > 0 return code = 2504 > May 19 06:13:21 spartacus kernel: scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 > Similarly, a command of "mount /dev/scd0 /mnt" gives this info in > /var/log/messages: > May 19 06:13:21 spartacus kernel: SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id 6 lun > 0 return code = 2504 > May 19 06:13:21 spartacus kernel: scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 > May 19 06:15:35 spartacus kernel: sr00:00: old sense key None > May 19 06:15:49 spartacus kernel: Non-extended sense class 0 code 0x0 <3>sr0: > CDROM (ioctl) error, command: Start/Stop Unit 00 00 00 03 00 > May 19 06:15:49 spartacus kernel: sr00:00: old sense key None > May 19 06:15:49 spartacus kernel: Non-extended sense class 0 code 0x0 > <6>cdrom: open failed. > May 19 06:15:59 spartacus kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid > 55, scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0 Prevent/Allow Medium Removal 00 00 00 00 00 > May 19 06:15:59 spartacus kernel: SCSI error: host 0 id 2 lun 0 return code = > 2504 > May 19 06:15:59 spartacus kernel: ^ISense class 0, sense error 0, extended > sense 0 > May 19 06:16:09 spartacus kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid > 56, scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0 Test Unit Ready 00 00 00 00 00 > May 19 06:16:09 spartacus kernel: SCSI error: host 0 id 2 lun 0 return code = > 2504 > May 19 06:16:09 spartacus kernel: ^ISense class 0, sense error 0, extended > sense 0 I see that you have the cdrom as id 2 and the disk as id 6. If you intend to boot from that hard disk you should set it's id to 0 (unless your scsi adapter has a configurable boot device, which on cheaper cards it couldn't be the case...). Also check that: 1) the hard disk is on the first connector next to the adapter card. (this really is not required but eliminates some error possibilities because that's the way it works for me :-) 2) the cdrom is on the last connector on the strip. This is important. If your strip has more than 2 connectors, the LAST ONE must be occupied, possibly leaving some empty ones in the middle. The empty ones in the middle don't hurt. 3) The hard disk MUST NOT be terminated (there's a little series of jumpers on the hd, check for the one that has a mark as "TE" or "TERM" - better yet, check on the instruction manual that I hope your dealer gave you) 4) THe cdrom MUST BE terminated (again, a small jumper on the back of the device, better if you check the manual because usually there are 6 or 7 jumpers all together and it may be confusing figuring out the right one) 5) Check that both devices support parity check (there are jumpers for this too), and that parity is set up to be used in the adapter's set-up 6) Set adapter's speed to auto-sense so that you don't have to mess with 20 MB/s or fast buses or the like :-) >Any advice, RTFM pointers, or tips would be appreciated. I'm guessing I > don't have the devices set up properly, but perusing docs and howtos didn't > turn up anything. Thanks in advance. Hope this is enough :-) Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.9 #1 Sat May 15 10:10:38 CEST 1999 i586 unknown
Re: -lX11
:-> "shaleh" == shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I'm trying to compile a program that has -lX11 in the compiler >> options, but the compiler doesn't filnd the relevant library. What >> shall I put in place of the plain X11? >> > Before the -lX11 place -L/usr/X11R6/lib. Make sure you also have xlibg-dev > installed. Thanks, that did it! Pf -- ------- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.6 #1 Sat Apr 17 22:56:44 CEST 1999 i586 unknown
-lX11
I'm trying to compile a program that has -lX11 in the compiler options, but the compiler doesn't filnd the relevant library. What shall I put in place of the plain X11? Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.6 #1 Sat Apr 17 22:56:44 CEST 1999 i586 unknown
convincing smail to accept messages from windows
I'm exposing you a problem on behalf of a friend The configuration: One Linux machine acting as a router/gateway and a couple windows machines acting as clients. The Linux box has the modem and can set up a connection to the ISP using PPP. The problem: If the Linux box is online with the ISP, mail messages originating at the windows machines are delivered to the Linux box that sends them outside. That's fine. If the Linux box is off-line, whenever a windows client attempts to queue a message on the Linux box, smail tries to DNS-lookup the recipient address and, being off-line, fails and rejects the message. Windows keeps then the message in queue for later delivery. This is no good: such a situation implies that both the Linux gateway and the windows machine are on while, at night time, the gateway moves the mail through the modem. The requirement is that only the Linux box be active 24h/day, not also the windows boxes. Trashing windows is not a possible solutions because 1) one of the boxes is "daddy's box", and trashing windows would imply trashing dad too :-) 2) some cool software requires windows, I've tried to convince the friend that he really doesn't need that kind of software, but trying to convince a dog to say "meow" would be easier :-) Any help? Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.6 #1 Sat Apr 17 22:56:44 CEST 1999 i586 unknown
Re: where is ldd ?
:-> "Bob" == Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have the same version of ldso on a slink machine and it IS there. I > don't think there is any reason to file a bug report. I don't know what > happened on your system, but you might try reinstalling from the cd. > You could try unpacking the package with ar and look to see what it > contains. Ok, I tried opening the .deb file in emacs and it reports the archive as corrupt, so that's the problem. The strange thing is that I seem to have a corrupt file on the mirror too (no the cd was not created on my mirror). Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.5 #1 Tue Mar 30 09:02:24 CEST 1999 i586 unknown
Re: where is ldd ?
:-> "Bob" == Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What version of ldso do you have installed. It should contain ldd (the > potato version does not, however, since it is now included in libc6 2.1. Bob, I installed the version 1.9.10-1 that comes with the Official CD number 1 of version 2.1 (slink) Thinking of an error of the packager I tried the one that comes with potato (1.9.10-1.2) but as yiu said it doesn't contain ldd either. Fortunately I had a pc which was not upgraded yet so I simply ftp'ed the file from there. I think that this is a bug, should we file a report? Pf -- ------- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.5 #1 Tue Mar 30 09:02:24 CEST 1999 i586 unknown
where is ldd ?
I've lost ldd, looks like it's not included in the slink distribution. Is this a bug or am I supposed to use something else instead? It has disappeared since I made a total upgrade to slink yesterday. Thanks Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.5 #1 Tue Mar 30 09:02:24 CEST 1999 i586 unknown
Re: kernel.org mirror[oops]
:-> "Chris" == Chris Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello everyone, > Sorry about that last message, I had a little glitch with my > computer. Anyway, my question has to do with mirroring. We are > using slink's fmirror package to mirror "ftp.us.kernel.org". We > realize that ftp.us.kernel.org often fowards ftp requests to other > servers. Our problem is that these other servers have different > file times, and sometimes even completely different > directory trees. Every time we run the fmirror script it says it > needs to redownload about 600 megs of stuff we already have. It > sometimes even deletes directories that we want, even though we have > the "nodel: 1" option set in the config file. Should we chose one of > the ftp sites that ftp.us.kernel.org fowards to and stick with that? > If so, which one is best? Is there a bug in fmirror that causes it > to delete directories even though the nodel option is set? the us mirrors are told to have some problems now, which are being addressed. If you intend to frequently mirror the entire kernel.org site, you'd better use rsync and maybe become yourself part of the official mirror sites. More about this on the mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pf -- ------- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.5 #1 Tue Mar 30 09:02:24 CEST 1999 i586 unknown
what's this: *** SECURITY information for gusp.infogroup.it ***
I've found this in my mailbox today: gusp.infogroup.it : Apr 1 10:10:10 : root : preposterous stampfile date; TTY=tty12 ; PWD=/home/jnos ; USER=jnos ; COMMAND=/home/jnos/jnos -f /home/jnos/etc/nos.cfg -C -g2 What does it mean? What package does generate it? User jnos is a fictitious user for the amateur radio program "jnos", which is run by root from inittab. Thanks Pf --- End of forwarded message ---
Re: Debian CDROMS
:-> "Steve" == Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Pierfrancesco Caci writes:
>>
>> Seriously speaking, maybe it would be useful to provide a single-cd
>> downsized distribution to be included in those multi-cd sets like
>> infomagic or walnut-creek. Then, once you have the first cd, you will
>> surely hunt the others.
> This was part of the design of slink_cd - the first official CD for all
> architectures should work standalone too...
I saw this feature yesterday when I made my non-free+non-US disk. What
I meant was that debian.org sites should provide a ready-to-burn
single cd image in the archives.
Pf
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Linux penny 2.2.4 #1 Sun Mar 28 11:09:03 CEST 1999 i586 unknown
Re: use the Windowkeys
:-> "Ulrik" == Ulrik Haugen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've used those keys for something different, but you may like that, > or else someone else may... > These are the lines of interest in my ~/.Xmodmaprc > keycode 0x73 =Meta_L > keycode 0x71 =Mode_switch Multi_key #I use a swedish keybooard. > #Your mileage may vary. > keycode 0x74 =Meta_R > keycode 0x75 =Menu > clear Mod1 > clear Mod3 > clear Mod4 > addMod1= Alt_L Meta_R > addMod3= Mode_switch > addMod4= Meta_L Menu I don't have a very clear picture of what the different Meta, Mode_switch and Multi mean. Does someone know what they are or where can I read some descriptions? I always found the man pages of xkeycaps, loadkeys etc. somewhat cryptical > Which I call in my ~/.xsession with > xmodmap .Xmodmaprc > This lets me use Mod_4 for all windowmanager stuff like selecting, > minimizing, maximizing etc. This way I don't have to use Alt-Ffoo > but instead i can use Win-X to maximize, without worrying that I > loose the possibility to use a keyboard shortcut in any application. This is a good idea. So you can free the Alt-F1 that most window managers use for the drop down menus > Also swedish keyboards don't have a real Alt-key to the right of > the spacebar which is annoying in netscape for instance - if I'm > on the phone or whatever and only have one hand for typing I can't > go back and forth without using the mouse. This way I have both the > Alt- and Win-keys on both sides of the spacebar. If the swedish keyb. is similar to the italian one, you have a "Alt-Gr" key on the right side, don't you? >> Also I would like to be able to get a compose key to work with a us >> keyboard, so that I can generate accented vowels needed in italian language. > I think this is the same as my Alt-Gr which generates Mod_3, so perhaps > you could just bind some key to Mod_3. I've tried but didn't succeed. How did you do this? Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.4 #1 Sun Mar 28 11:09:03 CEST 1999 i586 unknown
Re: use the Windowkeys
:-> "Per-Olof" == Per-Olof Widstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a way to have some use for the windowskey on the keyboard? > I would like to put / in one of the windowkeys, and ~ on the other one. > Is there a howto or something? If you intend to use it under X, try xkeycaps and then xmodmap. These are the definitions that I use on my setup: keycode 0x73 = guillemotleft guillemotright keycode 0x74 = currencycent keycode 0x75 = copyright registered I get the following charachters (I hope you can see them) Left Windows: « » Right Wind. : ¤ ¢ Menu: © ® If you find a way to do the same at the console, please tell me :-) Also I would like to be able to get a compose key to work with a us keyboard, so that I can generate accented vowels needed in italian language. Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.4 #1 Sun Mar 28 11:09:03 CEST 1999 i586 unknown
Re: Debian CDROMS
:-> "George" == George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have noticed that a lot of FTP sites are dropping Debian and the archive > CD sets are no longer including it. Is it because Debian is getting too > large? 4 CDROMS for just the 386 binaries and source would make it seem > so. Anyone thinking that a distribution is too large should be condemned at having all his computers erased and Windows 98 installed, but without any connection with the internet or any contact with local pirates groups. :-) Seriously speaking, maybe it would be useful to provide a single-cd downsized distribution to be included in those multi-cd sets like infomagic or walnut-creek. Then, once you have the first cd, you will surely hunt the others. Pf -- ------- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.4 #1 Sun Mar 28 11:09:03 CEST 1999 i586 unknown
Official CD question
I see there are 2 binary disks and 2 source disks in the mirror sites hosting the official debian disks. Do those disks include also contrib and non-free packages or do I have to use te debian-cd script on the local mirror to create the image? Thanks Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.1 #1 Sun Feb 14 21:32:41 CET 1999 i586 unknown
Re: Is Linux addictive?
:-> "Matthew" == Matthew Cocker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Linux should have to be distributed with a surgeon generals warning > about the possible addictive nature of Linux. > cheers matt No it's not addictive. Is infective: once you install it on a computer, you will quickly find it on the whole network :-) Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.1 #1 Sun Feb 14 21:32:41 CET 1999 i586 unknown
"make config: Web Links
I've updated page that collects almost all the links that appear when you ask for help in the make config process. At least those for an intel architecture The pager is at http://gusp.infogroup.it/linux/kernel.shtml While you are at it have a look at the rest of the pages. Comments are welcome. Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.1 #1 Sun Feb 14 21:32:41 CET 1999 i586 unknown
rsync usage with ftp.debian.org ?
Does someone have a sample command line to use with ftp.debian.org? I've never used rsync before and starting with something that is known to work would be better than starting from scratch Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.1 #1 Sun Feb 14 21:32:41 CET 1999 i586 unknown
CD-RW - how to erase ?
Now I've got this brand new Yamaha 4416 writer how do I erase a rewritable disk ? Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.1 #1 Sun Feb 14 21:32:41 CET 1999 i586 unknown
DAT TAPE ?
I have the opportunity to get a used DAT tape, a Digital DEC TLZ 06 it uses the standard Sony 4 mm audio tapes, 90 m lenght. Is it usable with Linux ? What software do I need apart the SCSI-tape support in the kernel ? Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.1 #1 Sun Feb 14 21:32:41 CET 1999 i586 unknown
Re: Cron examples?
"James R. Lunsford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What are some of the things that you are using cron to do? I used > to use a similar DOS based program, same name, eons ago when I ran > a BBS. In the middle of the night I had it start up and run > maintenence for the online games, delete old local e-mail > messages, get/sort/unpack FidoNet mail for the BBS, and assorted > other things. > > I'm just wondering, as a Linux/Debian newbie some of the things > that cron can do on my system. I'm drawing a blank right now so > maybe if I hear from some others how, and what they use cron it'll > spark something. > -- why don't you have a look at what your Debian system does for you in the night? It's all in /etc/cron.daily, cron.weekly and cron.monthly. It may give you an idea of what is needed to maintain your Linux system Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.1 #1 Sun Feb 14 21:32:41 CET 1999 i586 unknown
Re: getting list of newsgroup
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am actually trying to configure my linux box in order te get news. > I am using suck+inn+knews. > > In documentation, I see I have to put in the config files the names of the > lists I want to subscribe. > The problem is : I don't know the name of the newsgroup. > > So What I want my system to do is : > > - Connect to my provider > - Get the list of all existing newsgroup > - Disconnect > > Then, I choose for which groups I subscribe (using knews). So my computer can > connect > to download news and send my e.mails. > > How to do this > Thanks > Franck > Use `testhost -a your.provider.address` to get the list of active groups. Then you have to add the groups to your inn server. You will use the ctlinnd command to do this, check the manual because I don't remember the syntax now. Pf -- ------- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.0-final #2 Thu Jan 21 23:41:42 CET 1999 i586 unknown
Re: what cd-writer ?
Lawrence Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I hate to disagree but... the symbios cards are great and they are > generaly cheaper, faster and less trouble. > > > On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Daniel J. Brosemer wrote: > > > Well, I can't in good conscience reccommend anything but an adaptec. I've I disagree with both. I've got a Mylex BT 950 (BusLogic) for my main machine and a cheap Tekram DC 390 for a second one. The Mylex is SCSI-3 while the Tekram just SCSI 2. I've read far too many complaints on linux-kernel mail list about Adaptec's to recommend one. The Mylex is at around 200 $ (at leas here in Italy), while the Terkam is under 80 Pf -- ------- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.0-final #2 Thu Jan 21 23:41:42 CET 1999 i586 unknown
