Re: Installation problem

[Stephen Liu]

Hi Thierry,
  
> I dont really follow your problem: if you managed to make a
> netinstall, 
> then you lan was detected at install time, and you dont need to do 
> anything more to connect to your net. Pls explain more what is
> happening.

I ran "debian-31r0a-amd64-netinst" CD installer to install Debian.  It
went through without much problem except failing detecting the onboard
LAN.  I tried some drivers on the list without result. 

On reboot it booted to login screen, a black screen.  I think it is on
Runlevel 3.  After login as "root" I issued "startx".  X window failed
to start.  Then I continue to run;

# pppoeconf

trying to connect broadband to run apt-get downloading the rest
components.  It popup a window requesting to execute "modconf" to
detect LAN card driver.  On clicking [OK] it did not response. 
Therefore I closed the window and ran;

# modconf
on the black screen.  It also did not response on hitting [Return].  

That was my problem.

Tks.

B.R.
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Re: Installation problem

[Stephen Liu]

Hi Thierry, 

Tks for your URL.

> I see your problem now. Maybe you should try to re-install using 
> something newer than what you have. You can safely install a testing 
> machine using the following link:
>
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso
> 

download it and have the ISO image burned on CD.  Sorry still no
chance, LAN card could not be detected leaving me no opportunity to
hookup the mirror site downloading other packages.  I'm now running a
minimal installation.  I have only 2 choices;

1) get a PCI network card
Or
2) download the full version on 2 DVD

# pppoeconf
did not work on this version.  What command shall I run to configure
ADSL connection?  Tks.

Besides I run "installgui" and can't control partitioning the HD with
LVM.  I set up;

HD - 40G

P-partition / 8G
logical partition /home 10G
Logical partition swap 1G

the remaining capacity as free space.  All partition on ext3

Any advice?  TIA

B.R.
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Re: Installation problem

[Stephen Liu]

Hi Thierry Chatelet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Can you post the output of lspci?

# lspci
-bash : command not found

Sorry.

I have another SATA HD on this PC running FC5_64

# lspci
00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a2)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 1 (rev a2)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 5 (rev a2)
00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 4 (rev a2)
00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.6 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 3 (rev a2)
00:00.7 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 2 (rev a2)
00:02.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:09.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:0a.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 LPC Bridge (rev a2)
00:0a.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP51 SMBus (rev a2)
00:0b.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev
a2)
00:0b.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev
a2)
00:0d.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 IDE (rev a1)
00:0e.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller
(rev a1)
00:10.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio
(rev a2)
00:14.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller (rev a1)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
HyperTra nsport Technology
Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
Address  Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
DRAM Con troller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
Miscella neous Control
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV43 [GeForce
6600] (rev a 2)
* * * end * * *

Onboard LAN driver;
nVidia Corporation MCP51Ethernet Controller


B.R.
SL



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Re: Installation problem

[Stephen Liu]

Hi Patrick,

Tks for your advice.



> When I installed on a Asus A8N mobo I had to install the onboard 
> ethernet drivers from the cd that came with the board.

I found it on the CD coming with Asus A8N modo.

Under Drivers/Chipset/Drivers/64bit/VM/Ethernet/NDIS/MCP51/nvpxes.nic

I think it is the driver which I need.  On that PC I have another SATA
HD running FC5_64.  The driver for onboard LAN is "nVidia Corporation
MCP51 Ethernet Controller".

But I have no idea how to install it.  What command shall I run to
start pppoe configuration?

# pppoeconf
did not work on this "test" version.

TIA

B.R.
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Re: Installation problems

[Stephen Cormier]

On Thursday 27 July 2006 01:00, Rob Hurle wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
>
>   Thanks for your wonderful suggestion:
>
> On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, Stephen Cormier wrote:
> > On Sunday 16 July 2006 01:50, Rob Hurle wrote:
> > > Dear All,
> > >
> > >   I am trying to set up Debian 3.1r1 (Sarge) on a box with an
> > > Intel D945GNT motherboard and twin 3.2GHz processors and 1Gb of
> > > memory.  It has two SATA disc drives.  Unfortunately, none of the
> > > peripherals is recognised - not the network cards, nor the two disc
> > > drives.  I've tried booting with the 2.6 kernel (2.4 is the default, I
> > > think - tried that first) and, based on some advice from mailing
> > > lists, declared less memory (500M in this case).  None of these things
> > > has worked.  There is also no floppy on this system, only a CD drive.
> > > The system boots, ready for installation, from the CD, but then,
> > > nothing can be seen ("No media to partition" is the final message).
> > > Any ideas would be welcome.  Thank you.
> >
> > You could try one of the backported sarge install discs from the
> > following site that have newer kernels.
> >
> > http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/
>
> I downloaded this, and am away (sorry for the delay in reply - my ISP
> has been having "issues" with e-mail).  I still have a few questions
> about this:
>
> 1.  I have 2 processors, so would like an SMP kernel.  Where could I
> get such a thing from?
>
> 2.  I am very new to Debian (coming from FreeBSD) and I wonder if
> anyone on the list can give me a pointer as to how to incorporate a
> new kernel (RTFM - sure, but which FM?)?  I tried using aptitude(8)
> but it only finds earlier kernels than the one I picked up from the
> above URL (which was 2.6.16-2-686) and these bomb (not surprisingly).
>
> >From where can I get these kernels, and can I get aptitude to install
>
> them?

You can use "apt-cache search linux-image smp" without the quotes and it 
should show you the available smp kernels to install I'm sure there is a way 
to search this using aptitude but I never have used it. Once you find a 
suitable one then "aptitude install linux-image--smp" would install it 
from the command line using aptitude then of course reboot and choose the 
newly installed kernel from the list presented by Grub/LILO depending on 
which you are using. BTW which image did you use to install a 32 bit or 64 
bit one or does your chip(s) support 64bits.


>   Thanks again for your help.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rob Hurle

Your Welcome,

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command question

[Stephen Liu]

Hi folks,

What commands on Debian equivalent to "yum list installed package_name"
OR "rpm -qa | grep package-name" to find out whether the package has
been installed.

TIA

B.R.
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Re: command question

[Stephen Liu]

Hi Zane and folks,

Your advice noted with tks.

B.R.
SL

> Hello,
> 
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 09:39:40PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote:
> | Hi folks,
> | 
> | What commands on Debian equivalent to "yum list installed
> package_name"
> | OR "rpm -qa | grep package-name" to find out whether the package
> has
> | been installed.
> 
> 
> `dpkg -l' or `dpkg --list' will list all installed packages.  You
> can also pass package-name-pattern arguments.  From `dpkg --help':
> 
> ...
> dpkg -l|--list [ ...]   list packages concisely
> ...
> 
> Also see the manual page, dpkg(8).
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> -- 
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> 
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How to setup ADSL broadband connection

[Stephen Liu]

Hi folks,

Debian-Testing-amd64-netinst.iso

How to make ADSL broadband connnection.


Now I have a PCI ethernet installed, not to use the onboard LAN
# dmesg | grep eth
eth0: RealTel RTL8139 at 0xc2002c00, 00:50:fc:6c:70:f7, IRQ5
eth0:  Identified 8139 chip type  'RTL-8139C'
* * * end * * *


To my surprise I failed to mount floppy.  Its entry is already on
/etc/fstab;
..
/dev/fd0   /media/floppy0   auto   rw,user,noauto  0  0
* end *
Therefore I have to copy the output by hand.


# lspci
-bash: lspci: command not found.


# uame -a
Linux debian 2.6.16-2-amd64-generic #1 Sun Jul 16 01:12:23 CEST 2006
x86_64 GNU/Linux
* * * end  * * *


I tried to run;
# pppoeconf
# adsl-setup
etc.
Non of them can work debian, this version.  The PC is connected to a
ADSL modem, only dynamic IP supplied.

Please advise which command shall I run to make connection.  Afterwards
what command shall I run to download and install the remaining
packages?  Can I select packages to download?

TIA

B.R.
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[Stephen G]

Hi there,
 
I am running Debian3.1 with kernel 2.6.8-2-386 on a Dell Laptop. I am using it 
as a remotely accessed always-on server. It seems to run quite well, but 
sometimes after a few months, I get a "dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x20" 
error the file system (reiserFS) resets itself into readonly mode. I get all 
sorts of Input/Output errors and I can't even reboot the box.
 
Is this showing that the disk is bad? It seems not to be as it is working fine 
for months before getting the DMA errors. Is there anything I can configure to 
avoid these problems? Is there a kernel modification, or fstab/hdparm command, 
or other filesystem that I should use that will prevent the drive going into 
read-only mode?
 
Thank you for any help!
 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc# cat debian_version
cat: debian_version: Input/output error
 
from syslog:
 
Jul 1 13:55:54 localhost kernel: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x20
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost syslogd: /var/log/kern.log: Input/output error
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost kernel: hda: DMA timeout retry
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost kernel: hda: timeout waiting for DMA
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost kernel: hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost kernel:
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost kernel: hda: drive not ready for command
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost kernel: ide0: reset timed-out, status=0xd0
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost kernel: hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost kernel:
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost kernel: hda: drive not ready for command
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost kernel: ide0: reset timed-out, status=0xd0
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 
13187688
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 270432
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device hda2, logical block 
1674
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost kernel: lost page write due to I/O error on hda2
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 270440
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device hda2, logical block 
1675
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost kernel: lost page write due to I/O error on hda2
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 270448
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device hda2, logical block 
1676
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost kernel: lost page write due to I/O error on hda2
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost kernel: REISERFS: abort (device hda2): Journal write 
error in flush_commit_list
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost kernel: REISERFS: Aborting journal for filesystem on 
hda2
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost kernel: ReiserFS: hda2: warning: clm-6006: writing 
inode 688 on readonly FS
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost last message repeated 11 times
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost kernel: ReiserFS: hda2: warning: clm-6006: writing 
inode 1726 on readonly FS
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost last message repeated 5 times
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost kernel: ReiserFS: hda2: warning: clm-6006: writing 
inode 688 on readonly FS
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost last message repeated 5 times
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost kernel: ReiserFS: hda2: warning: clm-6006: writing 
inode 1726 on readonly FS
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost last message repeated 5 times
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost kernel: ReiserFS: hda2: warning: clm-6006: writing 
inode 688 on readonly FS
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost last message repeated 11 times
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost kernel: ReiserFS: hda2: warning: clm-6006: writing 
inode 1726 on readonly FS
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/log#



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Re: How to setup ADSL broadband connection

[Stephen Liu]

Hi George,

Tks for your advice.

My problem is the PC is completely cut out of connection to Internet.

# aptitude install pciutils
had no effect.

I found;

/media/cdrom0/pool/main/p/pciutils/pciutils-udeb_2.2.1-2_amd64.udeb

the file there.  Would this is the right package?  If YES, how to get
it installed.  TIA

B.R.
SL



> Stephen Liu wrote:
> > 
> > # lspci
> > -bash: lspci: command not found.
> 
> This is in the pciutils package (so "aptitude install pciutils")
> 
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> -- 
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> 
> DXSolutions Ltd
> 
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kernel: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x20

[Stephen G]

Hi there,
 
I am running Debian3.1 with kernel 2.6.8-2-386 on a Dell Laptop. I am using it 
as a remotely accessed always-on server. It seems to run quite well, but 
sometimes after a few months, I get a "dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x20" 
error the file system (reiserFS) resets itself into readonly mode. I get all 
sorts of Input/Output errors and I can't even reboot the box.
 
Is this showing that the disk is bad? It seems not to be as it is working fine 
for months before getting the DMA errors. Is there anything I can configure to 
avoid these problems? Is there a kernel modification, or fstab/hdparm command, 
or other filesystem that I should use that will prevent the drive going into 
read-only mode?
 
Thank you for any help!
 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc# cat debian_version
cat: debian_version: Input/output error
 
from syslog:
 
Jul 1 13:55:54 localhost kernel: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x20
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost syslogd: /var/log/kern.log: Input/output error
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost kernel: hda: DMA timeout retry
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost kernel: hda: timeout waiting for DMA
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost kernel: hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost kernel:
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost kernel: hda: drive not ready for command
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost kernel: ide0: reset timed-out, status=0xd0
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost kernel: hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost kernel:
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost kernel: hda: drive not ready for command
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost kernel: ide0: reset timed-out, status=0xd0
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 
13187688
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 270432
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device hda2, logical block 
1674
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost kernel: lost page write due to I/O error on hda2
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 270440
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device hda2, logical block 
1675
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost kernel: lost page write due to I/O error on hda2
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 270448
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device hda2, logical block 
1676
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost kernel: lost page write due to I/O error on hda2
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost kernel: REISERFS: abort (device hda2): Journal write 
error in flush_commit_list
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost kernel: REISERFS: Aborting journal for filesystem on 
hda2
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost kernel: ReiserFS: hda2: warning: clm-6006: writing 
inode 688 on readonly FS
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost last message repeated 11 times
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost kernel: ReiserFS: hda2: warning: clm-6006: writing 
inode 1726 on readonly FS
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost last message repeated 5 times
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost kernel: ReiserFS: hda2: warning: clm-6006: writing 
inode 688 on readonly FS
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost last message repeated 5 times
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost kernel: ReiserFS: hda2: warning: clm-6006: writing 
inode 1726 on readonly FS
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost last message repeated 5 times
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost kernel: ReiserFS: hda2: warning: clm-6006: writing 
inode 688 on readonly FS
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost last message repeated 11 times
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost kernel: ReiserFS: hda2: warning: clm-6006: writing 
inode 1726 on readonly FS
Jul 1 13:56:59 localhost [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/log#






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Re: kernel: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x20

[Stephen G]

George,
 
Thanks for the reply.  I looked up the bug report, and it looks very similar to 
what I'm experiencing.  What Kernel are you running with now where you see the 
problem less now?
 
I don't think that I have Seagate drive, and until recently I was using the 
hard drive in a happy, working Windows machine.  I can't really do a detailed 
hardware analysis until I can get someone to do a hard reboot of the box.  
 
I know that this has happened once before as I build the server in January and 
it failed sometime before April.  I did a hard reset of the server in April and 
it recovered without any problem.  I was uploading and downloading several 
gigabytes of data since then, and on July 1st, the kernel reported a "kernel: 
hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x20" error and the disk went into 
read-only mode.
 
I am wondering if the best bet is to try to run the server from a bootable CD 
rom and run the OS in memory and then access the hard drive only for storage 
purposes...
 
If anyone has any more suggestions, I would appreciate it.


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Re: apt-get source question

[Stephen Cormier]

On Monday 31 July 2006 14:10, Pollywog wrote:
> I looked in the APT tutorial and also in a book but I could not find an
> answer to this problem.
>
> I want to get a source package from the "testing" release, not from
> "stable", so I did this:
>
> apt-get -t testing source 
>
> It does not seem to work.  Is there a way to do this without temporarily
> modifying the sources.list in order to get the desired sources?

Try apt-get source packagename=1.2.3-4  use whatever the version number is for 
testing.

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Wordperfect 8 seg fault

[Stephen . Murphy]

Any ideas why Wordperfect 8 seg faults immediately
on start-up?

Wordperfect 8 seg fault

[Stephen . Murphy]

Thanks for your reply - I've been thinking
along those lines - I actually installed libc5 quite
early on. 
Am I right in thinking if "ldd xwp" shows all the 
libaries can be found then that is not the problem?

I understood that as long as the library path is listed in
/etc/ld.so.conf then the library  should be locatable
at run time and presumably by the ldd command. However
ldd could not find the libraries, nor could they be
found at run time unless I put the path in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH
environment variable.

I am quite new to this as you may have gathered.

PPP to ISP

[Stephen . Murphy]

Please bear with me guys - I am having a bit of trouble
all in all, getting my Debian system to work nicely ( I
love it though).

I have set up a PPP connection to my ISP (Freeserve in UK).

Connection gets established OK - ifconfig shows it's up and
routing tables have sensible entries.
However I am only able to successfully ping the IP address
at the other end of the PPP connection. 
If I ping anything else - despite the fact that my modem
lights seem to indicate a packet is returned - ping insists
that no packets have been received. 
Could this be another inadvertant firewall problem?
I spent all weekend scratching my  head - looking at every book
under the sun.

Re: PPP to ISP

[Stephen . Murphy]

Further to PPP to ISP saga - 

once the PPP connection is up netstat -nr gives (this is copied by hand so 
excuse formatting) ...



DestinationGateway  Genmask Flags  MSS   Win irtt Iface   

195.92.66.87  0.0.0.0   255.255.255.255   UH   15000   0   ppp0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0   255.0.0.0 U35840   0   lo
0.0.0.0   195.92.66.87  0.0.0.0   UG   15000   0   ppp0



195.92.66.87 is the dynamically assigned IP address for the far end
of the PPP link.

To reiterate the problem I only get ping responses from the IP address
at the far end of the connection (in this case 195.92.66.87) .

My box is happy to send ping packets to anything else but claims 100%
packet loss for returned packets ( despite fact that my modem led
seems to indicate incoming packets).

PPP to ISP

[Stephen . Murphy]

Apologies if you already got this and especially to anyone
that replied - but e-mail was broken here yesterday and
I think I was automatically unsubscribed. So I am
still off-line with my Debian box...

Further to PPP to ISP saga - 

once the PPP connection is up netstat -nr gives (this is copied by hand so 
excuse formatting) ...



DestinationGateway  Genmask Flags  MSS   Win irtt Iface   

195.92.66.87  0.0.0.0   255.255.255.255   UH   15000   0   ppp0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0   255.0.0.0 U35840   0   lo
0.0.0.0   195.92.66.87  0.0.0.0   UG   15000   0   ppp0



195.92.66.87 is the dynamically assigned IP address for the far end
of the PPP link.

To reiterate the problem I only get ping responses from the IP address
at the far end of the connection (in this case 195.92.66.87) .

My box is happy to send ping packets to anything else but claims 100%
packet loss for returned packets ( despite fact that my modem led
seems to indicate incoming packets).

Re: PPP to ISP

[Stephen . Murphy]

>Are you pinging IP addresses or domain names?  If the latter, try IP
>addresses.  If that works, it's DNS that's not right.

Thanks for your reply

I get the same problem whether pinging IP addresses or domain names.

Can't find shared libraries

[Stephen . Murphy]

I installed slink using the CD that came with the New Riders
book and seem to have a problem finding shared libraries.

When I try and run wordperfect  I get -

xwp: can't load library 'libXt.so.6'

locate libXt.so.6 produces

/usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6.0

I check permissions with ls -l /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6* and get

lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   12 Nov  6 02:33 
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 -> libXt.so.6.0
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   290440 Feb 23  1999 
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6.0

I know the paths must be in ld.so.conf so I check with less /etc/ld.so.conf
and get

/usr/lib/tkstep
/usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw3d
/usr/X11R6/lib
/usr/lib/libc5-compat
/lib/libc5-compat
/etc/ld.so.conf (END)

The paths are there - I have run ldconfig loads of times.
The only way I can get the system to find the libraries is to
add put paths in the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH or
to put a link in /lib or /usr/lib.
I shouldn't need to if the path is in ld.so.conf should I?

Shared libraries and getting Wordperfect to work

[Stephen . Murphy]

I finally got Wordperfect to work on my newly installed
Slink system - thanks primarily to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

I needed to install xlib6 out of the oldlibs directory
(as well as libc5 - which I knew about), and libXpm (I think
it was) also from oldlibs.
Thanks also to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] for their
input.

I was very confused by fact that it said it couldn't find
libXt.so.6 - when I could see this was installed. But it
was smarter than I thought as it knew this was an incompatible
(newer) version. When I tried to force it to use this - by
putting it's path in LD_LIBRARY_PATH I got a segmentation 
fault. I am very pleased to have finally put that problem to
bed. Thanks.



Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 11:00:43 -0500
From: Marcin Kurc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

You need to install xlib6.

then you have:
/usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXt.so.6
/usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXt.so.6.0

On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 03:45:24PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 
> I installed slink using the CD that came with the New Riders
> book and seem to have a problem finding shared libraries.
> 
> When I try and run wordperfect  I get -
> 
> xwp: can't load library 'libXt.so.6'
> 
> locate libXt.so.6 produces
> 
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6.0
> 
> I check permissions with ls -l /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6* and get
> 
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   12 Nov  6 02:33 
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 -> libXt.so.6.0
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root   290440 Feb 23  1999 
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6.0
> 
> I know the paths must be in ld.so.conf so I check with less /etc/ld.so.conf
> and get
> 
> /usr/lib/tkstep
> /usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw3d
> /usr/X11R6/lib
> /usr/lib/libc5-compat
> /lib/libc5-compat
> /etc/ld.so.conf (END)
> 
> The paths are there - I have run ldconfig loads of times.
> The only way I can get the system to find the libraries is to
> add put paths in the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH or
> to put a link in /lib or /usr/lib.
> I shouldn't need to if the path is in ld.so.conf should I?
> 
> 

PPP to ISP -Freeserve UK == cack

[Stephen . Murphy]

My Debian box is now connected - and surprise, surprise , there was
nothing wrong with it. 

The problem was with Freeserve (UK) - who don't seem to accomodate
Linux at all. Couldn't ping, nslookup didn't work, mozilla didn't
work. Only question is how Micro$oft crap works on it.

Anyway I have connected to demon.co.uk no problem - thanks to Paul at
Motorola for that tip - 10 pound/ month small price to pay. Everything
works as expected. 

Maybe nice to keep a page to "name and shame" companies who discriminate
against Linux users , whether intentionally or not.  

Thanks to everyone for your help.

Weird Routing/IP-Masquerading issue

[Stephen Pitts]

orwell has two ethernet cards and serves as the router for my home
network. eth0 connects to a cable modem with IP 24.x.x.x.x (assigned via
DHCP). eth1 connects to the home network with ip 192.168.1.1. The routing 
works fine, and I never have any problems getting to the outside world from
any of the other systems on the network...except for orwell. 

When I'm actually physically logged into orwell, I'm sometimes unable to
establish TCP connections with the outside world. I just ran
fetchmail on magellan (192.168.1.2) and it connected to my ISP's POP
server fine. But, even as I speak, fetchmail on orwell is blocking on the
connect() call because it cannot establish a TCP connection with the
outside world. I'm totally bewildered. Twenty minutes from now, it could
work fine.

Instead of using the ipmasq package, I setup the network and some
special IP-Masquerading hacks (for Napster, DirectX, and ICQ) through
/etc/init.d/network, which I've attached. I also use portfw to forward
orwell:81 to magellan:8080 to let others access my Zope server, but I
don't think that that is an issue either. I'm running Debian potato and
kernel 2.2.12 on orwell. 

Does anyone have any ideas? Please CC me as I'm not currently subscribed
to debian-user (I can only handle one high-traffic list, and zope takes
the cake!)
-- 
Stephen Pitts
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
#! /bin/sh
ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1

# internal network is hard-coded; external is setup by DHCP
ifconfig eth0 > /dev/null
ifconfig eth1 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0

ipchains -P forward DENY
ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.1.0/16 -j MASQ
echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

# for DirectPlay games :-)
ipmasqadm autofw -A -r udp 2300 2400 -h 192.168.1.2
ipmasqadm autofw -A -r tcp 2300 2400 -h 192.168.1.2
ipmasqadm autofw -A -r udp 47624 47624 -h 192.168.1.2
ipmasqadm autofw -A -r tcp 47624 47624 -h 192.168.1.2  

# for napster
ipmasqadm autofw -A -r tcp 6699  6699 -h 192.168.1.2

# for ICQ
ipmasqadm autofw -A -r tcp 31000 32000 -h 192.168.1.2

Mailing list headers [Was Re: ssh vs telnet - which is faster?]

[Kenneth Stephen]

On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Steve Lamb wrote:

> Friday, December 10, 1999, 4:04:47 AM, RAVIKANT wrote: 
> > * DO NOT BOTHER CC-ING THE MAIL REPLY , BECAUSE I AM ALREADY SUBSCRIBED TO
> > ALL THE LISTS - ILUGC , LINUX-INDIA , LINUX-NEWBIE , DEBIAN-USER *
> 
> Might I suggest having them set reply-tos like all proper lists so people
> don't have to munge headers to get to the right list or get bounces from lists
> they are not subscribed to?
> 
Steve,

I think that this is a bad suggestion since there are some people
(such as me) who use the Reply-To headers to ensure that the recipients
have a valid reply address to reply to us. If the mailing list rewrites
the Reply-To by putting itself in that header, then the valid reply
address is lost.

Furthermore, I think that the original problem of getting two
copies of the same mail can be solved easily by using procmail. 

Regards,
Kenneth

Re: Mailing list headers [Was Re: ssh vs telnet - which is faster?]

[Kenneth Stephen]

On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Steve Lamb wrote:

> Friday, December 10, 1999, 2:53:54 AM, Kenneth wrote:
> > I think that this is a bad suggestion since there are some people (such as
> > me) who use the Reply-To headers to ensure that the recipients have a valid
> > reply address to reply to us. If the mailing list rewrites the Reply-To by
> > putting itself in that header, then the valid reply address is lost.
> 
> What prevents you from putting the valid address in the From: field
> instead?

It is a perfectly valid address as per the mail server running on
my unconnected domain. RFC822 states that it should be authenticated, but
does not state who by. Read the section dealing with the Sender header. It
clearly allows for the case where the person that actually sends the
message is different from the author of the message. This is what is
important and ISP's authenticate on this header and not on the From header
(or if they are, it is unwarranted). The RFC indicates that the Sender
field was also intended to be used in the case of mailing lists which
redistributes email.

> 
> Furthermore, it is an intented use of Reply-To as defined by RFC-822.

Correct. But reread RFC822. This is only one of the intended uses
of the Reply-To header. The use of the Reply-To header to indicate that a
reply should goto another address because the From header address cannot
receive a reply is another one. In fact, given such an option, setting up
a mailing list to rewrite the Reply-To header is broken behaviour - unless
the intent of the list admin is to put such subscribers at a disadvantage.

You may personally not like such use of headers. But if you want
to get the world to follow in your footsteps, write up a new RFC and get
it approved as a standard.

> 
> > Furthermore, I think that the original problem of getting two
> > copies of the same mail can be solved easily by using procmail. 
> 
> Assumption is that one is using or wants to use procmail.  The mail,
> however, is still sent.
> 
 
That is true. However, since the RFC allows the behaviour I have
described above, you will have people following it. 'procmail' is a way of
handling the situation. If you dont want 'procmail', find another solution
or grin and bear it.

Regards,
Kenneth

Re: [Fwd: Re: Internet Crashes]

[Stephen Ryan]

On Tue, 2002-04-23 at 08:08, DSC Extra wrote:


> Of those, I don't know what atd, kflushd, or kswapd are, at all.

Harmless, and irrelevant to this discussion.

> Diald rang a bell, because I had tried to install linux to use either
> modem or
> NIC card -- but it's never
> recognized the modem.  But diald is part of that.  inetd causes me
> suspicion,
> because I *think it might
> be a routing daemon such as you describe*. 

Nope; inetd is responsible for answering network requests and spawning a
copy of the appropriate daemon to handle them.  diald, on the other
hand, I suspect is the source of all your problems.  Get rid of it, now.

What diald is doing is taking over your network connection (the output
of 'route -n' should show that your default gateway is on sl0, which is
run by diald); since (according to one of your previous mails) your
modem isn't working properly, diald can't make the connection, so it
drops all your traffic on the floor.  You should then make sure that
your network is properly set up to send all outside traffic through eth0
(try looking in /etc/network/interfaces and make sure that the
information for eth0 matches your network).

HTH,
--  
Stephen RyanDebian GNU/Linux
Technology Coordinator
Center for Educational Outcomes
at Dartmouth College


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Re: Unknown HZ value!

[Stephen Ryan]

On Tue, 2002-04-23 at 04:16, Dave Whiteley wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a server that has been running sweetly for almost a
> year. Yesterday I did my regular upgrade via dselect while installing
> inn, and it has now started printing messages:-
> 
> Unknown HZ value! (22) Assume 100.
> 
> It does this reliably before the output of a 'ps'. I think I have also seen 
> it at other times (but these may have been part of other commands using ps.)
> 
> Any ideas what might have caused this to start happening?

It's an overflow in the uptime calculation, and isn't much to worry
about; I have a couple of systems that have been reporting that for
months now.  It appears to trigger after 2^32 scheduling clock ticks
have passed, triggering a calculation overflow, and may be fixed in
newer versions of procps and/or the kernel.


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Re: Unknown HZ value! (16) Assume 100 error

[Stephen Ryan]

On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 17:32, Paul Gonsior wrote:
> Can I get an idea of what this message means please when I perform a ps x?

Let me guess; this is on a machine that's been on for a while, isn't
it?  It's a known kernel bug, in that there's an arithmetic overflow in
calculating the uptime after 2^32 clock ticks; it's also harmless, so
you can ignore it.


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XFree 4.0.2 and gpm probs

[Stephen Boulet]

I have a logitech firstmouse+ (imps/2 protocol for both gpm and xfree).

The mouse is erratic in X unless I first kill gpm.

Is this a known problem?

-- Stephen

cups drivers via kups not there

[Stephen Boulet]

I don't see any drivers for the kups add printer wizard for my remote printer 
(it's an hp2100 with an ethernet connection). All the selections besides 
local printer and file are grayed out.

Is there some other package I need to install?

-- Stephen

Re: GPM and XF86

[Stephen Boulet]

Thanks. This solved my problem with my logitech firstmouse+ too.

-- Stephen

On Sunday 25 March 2001 11:13 am, Jimmy Richards wrote:
> Hello Raffeale,
>
>
> Run 'gpmconfig' while in console or X, it doesn't matter. Then at the
> end it'll ask you what you want for the 'Repeat' value. Answer 'none'.
>
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Jimmy Richards
>
> On 25 Mar 2001 18:12:40 +0200, Raffaele Sandrini wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > I have an IntelliMouse. I use the imps2 protocol with gpm - all works
> > well. I send raw data to /dev/gpmdata... Now, if i choose imps2 at
> > xf86setup and /dev/gpmdata the cursor filps around and nothing works. The
> > same happens if i use ps2 at xfsetup. I tried to use msc to repeat to
> > /dev/gpmdata but this also didn't work. Now i have to shut down gpm then
> > XF works with the imps2 prot on /dev/psaux.
> > Any idea to get that in order?
> >
> > cheers,
> > Raffaele
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> > Check out the best Linux distribution at www.debian.org (www.linux.org)
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Sid vs unstable

[Stephen Boulet]

Can someone tell me (who's new to Debian) what the difference between sid and 
unstable is?

Thanks.

-- Stephen

Package in bad state

[Stephen Boulet]

I'm trying to uninstall a package with dpkg, but it won't let me:

mozart:~# dpkg --remove veepee
dpkg: error processing veepee (--remove):
 Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
 reinstall it before attempting a removal.
Errors were encountered while processing:
 veepee

I have this package on my hard drive. How can I remove it?

-- Stephen

Re: experiences w/ linuxconf

[Stephen Boulet]

On Tuesday 03 April 2001 07:50 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 09:15:12PM +0200, Sven Burgener ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
wrote:
> > Hi fellow debs
> >
> > If anyone has made any experiences with linuxconf on Debian, would they
> > mind sharing it with me?
>
> Few, but poor, and a while back.
>
> I've found it confusing, nonintuitive, and prone to shoot me in all six
> feet.
>
> IMO, you're far better getting familiar with console, or better yet,
> configuration file, interfaces to configuring various tools.
>
> This is a highly opinionated and rather outdated opinion, but I'm
> sticking to it.

I don't know why, but linuxconf on debian is an inferior experience to 
linuxconf on Mandrake. It was ugly, ugly, ugly (was it compiled with 
lesstif/motif?) and the fonts were clunky looking. Mandrake's linuxconf was 
really quite good. I couldn't get my second ethernet interface configured 
with debian's version, for some reason.

But then I installed webmin (now back in debian, thankfully). And it works 
great! Be sure to get the ssl version (webmin-ssl).

-- Stephen

Pretty boot up graphics?

[Stephen Boulet]

I seem to have heard of some package available for debian that lets you have 
a graphically nice boot up sequence. Can anyone tell me what package that is?

Also, which runlevel do I switch to if I want to launch into a login screen 
in X? And what file do I need to edit to change the default runlevel?

Thanks.

-- Stephen

Re: suggestions for a console clock app . . .

[Stephen Rueger]

Hello!

> I just did this today.  I used something called mcountd.  It uses big
> numbers so it's probably what you're looking for.  It's really a
> countdown program, so I had to modify it a little to just display the
> time.  I can send it to you with the changes if you want.
> 

Could you send it to me too? 

Thanks!

Stephen Rueger

Re: cd-burning problems

[Stephen Boulet]

The only thing I can think of is to make the cdrecord command itself part of 
your cdburn group.

I usually use "su -" in a shell and from there use cdrecord to burn my cds.

-- Stephen

On Saturday 07 April 2001 11:56 am, Andreas Goesele wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried to set up everything for burning cds under Linux. The basic
> setup is working for root, but there remain a number of problems.
>
> 1.) Is it actually possible to burn cds as normal user (neither root
> and nor suid-root)?  I did create a group cdburn, changed group
> ownership and the permissions of /dev/scd* and /dev/sg* to brw-rw
> and crw-rw respectively and included myself into the group
> cdburn. "cdrecord -scanbus" then shows that cdrecord run as user can
> access the devices.
>
> But when I actually want to burn the cd I get:
>
> cdrecord: Operation not permitted. WARNING: Cannot do mlockall(2).
> cdrecord: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer underruns.
> cdrecord: Operation not permitted. WARNING: Cannot set RR-scheduler
> cdrecord: Permission denied. WARNING: Cannot set priority using
> setpriority(). cdrecord: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer
> underruns.
> cdrecord: Operation not permitted. shmctl failed to lock shared memory
> segment
>
> Looking around, the only suggestion to solve this I found was to let
> cdrecord run suid root. Is this the only way to make things work, or
> are there other, more secure solutions?
>
> 2.) Things get worse if I try to use gcombust or gtoaster.
>
> - In neither of these programs I'm able to add files to the file
> list. In gcombust files added appear all with size 0, calculating used
> sectors gives 0 too. In gtoaster dragging and dropping a file from the
> source to the destination part simply does nothing, similarly creating
> a directory does nothing. (Strangely enough: Neither in gcombust nor in
> gtoaster there seems to be a problem in adding audio files.)
>
> - Trying a dummy (test) run in gcombust gives the error messages from
> cdrecord (as one would expect), but additionally I get:
>
> /usr/bin/mkisofs: unrecognized option `-graft-points'
>
> OK, this is gcombust 0.1.42, gtoaster 0.3, cdrecord and mkisofs
> 3:1.8-3, under up to date debian stable.
>
> Any help?
>
> Thanks a lot in advance
>
> Andreas

Which package contains dmsg?

[Stephen Boulet]

Which package contains dmsg? I don't seem to have it on my computer.

-- Stephen

Using an alternate XF86Config-4 file

[Stephen Boulet]

How do I tell X to use a config file other than /etc/X11/XFree86-4?

-- Stephen

"The following packages have been held back..."

[Stephen Boulet]

I see the message in the subject header when doing apt-get upgrade, followed 
by a somewhat long list of packages. Can someone tell me what causes this? 

After running the upgrade command, I did an "apt-get install" on one of the 
packages that was in the list. It upgraded without a problem.

-- Stephen

Kernel in what package?

[Stephen Boulet]

Can someone tell me the name of the package containing a precompiled kernel?

Until now I've been downloading sources and compiling them myself, but have 
been experiencing spontaneous resets with my version of kernel 2.4.2, so I'd 
like to try one that a package maintainer has compiled.

-- Stephen

Re: geforce2 'rapid' screen save

[Stephen Boulet]

Just to add another data point, I have the same card but I don't see the same 
problems as you. I set my resolution to 1280x1024 and my bit depth to 16, if 
that makes any difference.

-- Stephen

On Monday 09 April 2001 02:54 am, romain lerallut wrote:
>  Begin Original Message 
>
> i have a geforce2 mx card, an updated sid system w/ xfree4.0.3. i've
> installed the binary drivers from nvidia as specified by the faq.
> works great.
>
> but after some use in X, it will blank the screen (as if the keyboard
> was inactive for a while). when i try to escape (by pressing 'shift')
> the screen will return. but immediately blank again. it does so in a
> continuous manner.
>
> i have seen this problem w/ the drivers in the stock xfree86. and
> console doesn't have this problem. in /var/log/XFree.0.log (or
> something like that) i see these two lines after one of these blank
> sessions when i switch to console to check the logs:
>
>    (WW) Cannot open APM
>    (II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "1152x864"
>
> i think the nvidia drivers is turning off the video card b/c its
> getting too hot. hence the apm warning. i've tried this with another
> monitor with the same problem.
>
> any clue?
>
> thanks.
>
>
> herbert

Why isn't kernel-source-2.4.3 in unstable yet?

[Stephen Boulet]

Why isn't kernel-source-2.4.3 in unstable yet? Just curious. I'm hoping it 
will solve some problems with resets under high load that I've seen with 
2.4.2.

Is downloading the source from kernel.org going to break anything in my 
package database? Should I first uninstall kernel-source-2.4.2? Thanks.

-- Stephen

Re: Why isn't kernel-source-2.4.3 in unstable yet?

[Stephen Boulet]

On Tuesday 10 April 2001 07:01 am, Colin Watson wrote:
> Stephen Boulet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Why isn't kernel-source-2.4.3 in unstable yet?
>
>   kernel-source-2.4.3 |2.4.3-1 |  unstable | all, source
>
> It seems to be in the archive (it was installed yesterday). Maybe your
> mirror is out of date?

Isn't this the main mirror

   deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free

?

-- Stephen, who's been running debian all of a month

Gnome with sawfish & gdm

[Stephen Boulet]

I downloaded gdm, and it lets met boot into gnome, but gnome defaults to 
window maker. How do I tell gdm to launch gnome with sawfish?

Nice debian-themed background, by the way, that comes up in gnome/window 
maker by default.

-- Stephen

XFree 4.0.2 can't load Speedo fonts

[Stephen Boulet]

When I start X on my Debian sid install, I get this message at the console:

>>
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo, removing 
from list!
>>

This font is present though at the above path. Any idea why X has trouble 
loading it?

-- Stephen

Re: X configuration problems

[Stephen Boulet]

On Wednesday 18 April 2001 11:50 pm, Adam Bender wrote:
> I just installed and configured X Windows on my system.  I seem to have
> done it incorrectly, since when it loads, it's a mostly white screen with
> black dots on it.  What makes it worse is that it now loads on startup,
> even before I login.  How can I prevent it from running so that I can
> reconfigure it so that it will work?

Check to see if you have either xdm, kdm, or gdm installed. If you don't like 
any of them, remove them, and you won't start up in X.

> Also, do I need to install a module for my network card?  When I ran
> xf86config, my card (NVIDIA GeForce 2) was not listed.  Is that a problem?

You mean video card, not network card.  ;)

It is listed under xf86config. I believe it's number 320. Of course, if you 
want accelerated 3D you're going to have to download Nvidia's drivers 
(NVidiaNVIDIA_GLX-0.9-769 and NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-769). Then you'll need to 
edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file by uncommenting the "Load glx" and 
changing the driver from "nv" to "nvidia".

-- Stephen


> Thanks in advance,
>
> Adam
>
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Re: how to set correct time?

[Stephen Boulet]

On Thursday 19 April 2001 05:58 pm, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
> I foolishly don't know how to set the correct time for my system clock.
> The timezone is correctly set to London/England, but the time is about 6
> hours out (date reports the time in 'BST' - I presume this is "British
> Standard Time").
>
> I tried using the date command but nothing happened.
>
> Thanks for any help
> Rory

webmin offers a nice module, if you want to go that route.

-- Stephen

No sound from CD, but timidity works

[Stephen Boulet]

When I use a cdplayer and start it, the disc spins up, and it even identifies 
it correctly from the freedb database, but no sound comes out.

But when I use timidity to pay a midi file, the sound comes out fine. 

What's happening? I'm using built in scsi-emulation on /dev/sr0.

-- Stephen

Re: Problems Configuring X w/ GForce 2

[Stephen Boulet]

This is how I did it.

Download the latest drivers (NVidiaNVIDIA_GLX-0.9-769 and 
NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-769) and as root do "make" in the kernel and then GLX 
directory.

Run and configure X with xf86config. I believe graphic card you want is under 
number 320. 

Then you'll need to  edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file by uncommenting the 
"Load glx" and changing the driver from "nv" to "nvidia".
 
-- Stephen
 


On Monday 23 April 2001 08:50 am, John and Kristy Woodill wrote:
> I have just bought a GForce 2 graphics card and now i can't seem to get x
> to configure and load correctly.  I just get a black and white screen all
> scrambled up.  I have a Riva TNT 2 before and had zero problems with that. 
> This is one of the best graphics cards out and i would think that there
> would be some way configuring it correctly.  Thanks to those who respond.
>
> Andrew J Woodill
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]


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Re: No sound from CD, but timidity works

[Stephen Boulet]

On Sunday 22 April 2001 05:29 pm, csj wrote:
> On Monday 23 April 2001 06:10, Stephen Boulet wrote:
> > When I use a cdplayer and start it, the disc spins up, and it even
> > identifies it correctly from the freedb database, but no sound
> > comes out.
> >
> > But when I use timidity to pay a midi file, the sound comes out
> > fine.
> >
> > What's happening? I'm using built in scsi-emulation on /dev/sr0.
>
> JUST wondering did you connect the audio cable on the CD writer to
> the soundcard? You can try connecting your headphones to the
> headphone jack on the writer's front panel (if it has one). Otherwise
> bring out your screw driver. Or you can try extracting the audio data
> using cdparanaoia, and then play the resulting wav file(s). It may
> also possible to pipe cdparanoia's output to a stream-capable wav
> player (though I haven't tried this myself).

Thanks! You called it right. I had the cable going to my cdrom on /dev/sr1 
and not the cdrw on /dev/sr0.

-- Stephen

Re: Keyboard language settings in woody

[Stephen Rueger]

Hello!

On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 09:41:59PM +0200, Willi Dyck wrote:
> after upgrading to woody, my keyboard language setting is US, but only
> on the console. No prob. in X. My question now, how/where can I change
> this back to germany?

Try to uncomment the line "set-convert-meta off" in /etc/inputrc.

greets

Stephen Rueger

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Getting the "mail" command to work

[Stephen Boulet]

Does anyone know what needs to be done in order to get the mail command to 
work?

Right now I'm trying to do:

   mail -s "test from command line" [EMAIL PROTECTED]

I I have postfix installed.

Help Please With HP Travan Scsi Tape Drive

[Stephen Broadbridge]

Hi All

I cannot get my HP Travan T4000S Scsi tape drive to work.  I have gathered all 
the information I can find about the problem into the rest of this email.  Am I 
missing something obvious?  Thanks in anticipation of any assistance given.

Stephen

Here is the version information for my system.
$ uname -a
Linux Cemy1 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i586 unknown

and for mt:-
$ mt -V
GNU mt version 2.4.2

This is what happens when I try to access my tape drive. I get the same sort of
result when I try to access /dev/st0.
  #  mt -f /dev/nst0 status
  mt: /dev/nst0: Input/output error

This is here for comparison with the above only.
  #  mt -f /dev/nst1 status
  mt: /dev/nst1: Device not configured

This is evidence of the st.o module on my machine.  The file is located at
/lib/modules/2.2.17/scsi
  # file st.o
  st.o: ELF 32-bit LSB relocatable, Intel 80386, version 1, not stripped

Here is a fragment of my /etc/modules file showing that st should load at boot 
time.
  # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.
  #
  lines removed from here
  ne2k-pci
  st

Here are the two lines from /var/log/messages which suggest to me that the 
tape drive has been detected:-
  May  3 15:12:56 cemy1 kernel: st: bufsize 32768, wrt 30720, max buffers 5, 
s/g segs 16.
  May  3 15:12:56 cemy1 kernel: Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 
6, lun 0

Here is the output from the command lsmod:-
  # lsmod | egrep st
  st 24264   0 

Here is information from /var/log/messages about the booting of my SCSI bus:-
  May  3 15:12:56 cemy1 kernel:   Vendor: HPModel: T4000s
Rev: 1.06
  May  3 15:12:56 cemy1 kernel:   Type:   Sequential-Access  
ANSI SCSI revision: 02

Here is the information provided about scsi modules by modprobe
  # modprobe -c | grep scsi
  path[scsi]=/lib/modules/2.2.17/scsi
  path[scsi]=/lib/modules/2.2/scsi
  path[scsi]=/lib/modules/default/scsi
  path[scsi]=/lib/modules/scsi
  alias scsi_hostadapter off

Re: Help Please With HP Travan Scsi Tape Drive

[Stephen Broadbridge]

Hi All

Thanks to Keith and Alexis for their emails and to all others who spent time 
considering my problem.

I reseated the scsi cable connections and the problem resolved itself.  This is 
what the output from the mt command should loo k like.

# mt -f /dev/nst0 status
drive type = Generic SCSI-2 tape
drive status = 1157628416
sense key error = 0
residue count = 0
file number = 0
block number = 0
Tape block size 512 bytes. Density code 0x45 (unknown).
Soft error count since last status=0
General status bits on (4101):
 BOT ONLINE IM_REP_EN
#

Stephen

On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 05:08:27PM +0100, Stephen Broadbridge wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> I cannot get my HP Travan T4000S Scsi tape drive to work.  I have gathered 
> all the information I can find about the problem into the rest of this email. 
>  Am I missing something obvious?  Thanks in anticipation of any assistance 
> given.
> 
> Stephen
> 
> Here is the version information for my system.
> $ uname -a
> Linux Cemy1 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i586 unknown
> 
> and for mt:-
> $ mt -V
> GNU mt version 2.4.2
> 
> This is what happens when I try to access my tape drive. I get the same sort 
> of
> result when I try to access /dev/st0.
>   #  mt -f /dev/nst0 status
>   mt: /dev/nst0: Input/output error
> 
> This is here for comparison with the above only.
>   #  mt -f /dev/nst1 status
>   mt: /dev/nst1: Device not configured
> 
> This is evidence of the st.o module on my machine.  The file is located at
> /lib/modules/2.2.17/scsi
>   # file st.o
>   st.o: ELF 32-bit LSB relocatable, Intel 80386, version 1, not stripped
> 
> Here is a fragment of my /etc/modules file showing that st should load at 
> boot time.
>   # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.
>   #
>   lines removed from here
>   ne2k-pci
>   st
> 
> Here are the two lines from /var/log/messages which suggest to me that the 
> tape drive has been detected:-
>   May  3 15:12:56 cemy1 kernel: st: bufsize 32768, wrt 30720, max buffers 5, 
> s/g segs 16.
>   May  3 15:12:56 cemy1 kernel: Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, 
> id 6, lun 0
> 
> Here is the output from the command lsmod:-
>   # lsmod | egrep st
>   st 24264   0 
> 
> Here is information from /var/log/messages about the booting of my SCSI bus:-
>   May  3 15:12:56 cemy1 kernel:   Vendor: HPModel: T4000s
> Rev: 1.06
>   May  3 15:12:56 cemy1 kernel:   Type:   Sequential-Access  
> ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> 
> Here is the information provided about scsi modules by modprobe
>   # modprobe -c | grep scsi
>   path[scsi]=/lib/modules/2.2.17/scsi
>   path[scsi]=/lib/modules/2.2/scsi
>   path[scsi]=/lib/modules/default/scsi
>   path[scsi]=/lib/modules/scsi
>   alias scsi_hostadapter off
> 
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Re: how to get k3b back in testing (yes, this sounds familiar)

[Stephen Patterson]

On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 19:40:04 +0100, H.S. wrote:
> So, while Testing is going through this whole lot of transition to newer
> packages (KDE 3.4 and Gcc 4.0), I am holding off dist-upgrading it. But
> yesterday, to experiment to see what happens to held back packages if
> k3b is not present, I removed k3b. Saw nothing much has changed so did
> not upgrade at all. So, to get k3b back, what do I do? I know it is not
> there anymore in Testing. Where can I find it's last deb package for
> Testing?

You could always download the current debian sources (apt-get source) and build
your own binary package.

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Re: Alsa card activation order

[Stephen Cormier]

On November 20, 2005 04:54 pm, Heimdall Midgard wrote:
> I can think of two ways to fix the problem. But I want to know the
> Debian Way(tm).
>
> My problem is simple. I have two sound "cards" in my computer. But I
> want my onboard sound to be the first sound card recognized by Alsa
> in both its /dev/dsp* (OSS emulation) and /dev/snd/pcm* (Alsa proper)
> incarnations.
>
> What files in /etc/ do I need to edit to set the card activation
> order of my two sound cards ?
>
> --
> Albert Einstein: Phantasie ist wichtiger als Wissen, denn Wissen ist
> begrenzt.

If using a 2.6 kernel then in the /etc/modprobe.d/ directory check to 
see where the alias is set on my install it is the sound file. Edit the 
file to look similar to this.

alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx
options snd-via82xx index=0

alias snd-card-1 snd-emu10k1
options snd-emu10k1 index=1

Changing the drivers to match your install putting the onboard sound 
module in the lines with 0 in them and your pci card module in the 
lines with 1. Now when booting modutils will process the file and the 
drivers should be loaded in the correct order. If using a 2.4 kernel 
then check in the /etc/modutils/aliases file and see if that is where 
your sound card is being set. If so then add the couple of lines for 
the second card and make sure your onboard is set to the 0 then run 
update-modules to have the new information entered in 
the /etc/modules.conf for use on next boot if not then check the other 
files to see where it is located and make the changes there. 

Stephen

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Re: Alsa card activation order

[Stephen Cormier]

On November 20, 2005 11:02 pm, Heimdall Midgard wrote:
> 2005/11/21, Stephen Cormier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > On November 20, 2005 04:54 pm, Heimdall Midgard wrote:
> > > I can think of two ways to fix the problem. But I want to know
> > > the Debian Way(tm).
> > >
> > > My problem is simple. I have two sound "cards" in my computer.
> > > But I want my onboard sound to be the first sound card recognized
> > > by Alsa in both its /dev/dsp* (OSS emulation) and /dev/snd/pcm*
> > > (Alsa proper) incarnations.
> > >
> > > What files in /etc/ do I need to edit to set the card activation
> > > order of my two sound cards ?
> >
> > If using a 2.6 kernel then in the /etc/modprobe.d/ directory check
> > to see where the alias is set on my install it is the sound file.
> > Edit the file to look similar to this.
> >
> > alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx
> > options snd-via82xx index=0
> >
> > alias snd-card-1 snd-emu10k1
> > options snd-emu10k1 index=1
> >
> > Changing the drivers to match your install putting the onboard
> > sound module in the lines with 0 in them and your pci card module
> > in the lines with 1. Now when booting modutils will process the
> > file and the drivers should be loaded in the correct order. If
> > using a 2.4 kernel then check in the /etc/modutils/aliases file and
> > see if that is where your sound card is being set. If so then add
> > the couple of lines for the second card and make sure your onboard
> > is set to the 0 then run update-modules to have the new information
> > entered in
> > the /etc/modules.conf for use on next boot if not then check the
> > other files to see where it is located and make the changes there.
>
> Thanks. Your approach seems more elegant than the solution I had in
> mind. But wouldn't any changes I make to, in my case,
> /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base get in the way of a fresh alsa upgrade?

Yes they would because that file is provided by the alsa-base package 
and you should not be making your changes there.

> I know there's an option to have dpkg not overwrite any changed files
> in /etc. But that would mean I would miss installing any
> policy-mandated changes. 

Yes that is how it would end up working out.

>So I experimented with creating my own
> configuration file and  naming it /etc/modprobe.d/01_My_Module_Hacks:
>
> options snd-via82xx index=0
> options snd-ymfpci index=1

> I'm still not sure now where a Debian users is supposed to place
> special module parameters needed to make some kernel modules work
> properly. I'd surely like a pointer to any policy document. As it is
> my configuration looks more and more like a mish-mash of hacks that I
> have to check every time I upgrade.
>

Your experiment is the Debian way of doing it, any local options needing 
to be passed at boot should be put in a file in the /etc/modprobe.d 
directory (when running a 2.6 kernel). You will not have to check every 
time you upgrade as no package should be trying to write to a file it 
knows nothing about. I would guess that you have not run the alsaconf 
yet because the sound file I mentioned should have been created and 
already on your system so you could have put your changes in there and 
they would have been left alone until the next time you ran alsaconf. 

Stephen

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Re: .bash_history

[Stephen Rueger]

Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>This used to work until recently when I found that the .bash_history had 
>been transformed into a data file, instead of the ASCII text that I was 
>used to.

How exactly did you find that out? If it's merely because grep says
something like "binary file .bash_history matches", chances are that
its rather stupid binary file detection screwed up again.

So, what does looking at it with a pager show? And what does file(1) report?


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Re: List files of installed package (apt?)

[Stephen Cormier]

On November 24, 2005 11:01 am, Lupu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a way I can list all files of an installed package in Debian
> - something similar to rpm -ql [package name] in Red Hat.
>
> Mike

Since others have mentioned dpkg -L if you ever need to do the same for 
a package that is not installed then you can install the apt-file 
package. Then after an apt-file update as root you can use apt-file 
list package_name to list the files in an uninstalled package or if 
compiling a package and you get an error about not finding a file 
apt-file search file_name will show you the package(s) the file is in.

Stephen
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Re: HP Deskjet 6840 Printer Problem

[Stephen Allen]

Michael Kerwin wrote:
> I am trying to get an HP Deskjet 6840 inkjet Printer to work with my
> Debian 3.1 Sarge stable system.
> 
> I am trying to get it to work with lpr

Use CUPS instead, and check out this article;



It supposedly works fine with CUPS.

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Re: Xine Skips Horribly

[Stephen Cormier]

On November 27, 2005 03:03 pm, Jacob Jennings wrote:
> How does one go about verifying that DMA is enabled on
> their harddrive?

HappyTux:/home/stephen# hdparm /dev/hda

/dev/hda:
 multcount= 16 (on)
 IO_support   =  1 (32-bit)
 unmaskirq=  1 (on)
 using_dma=  1 (on)   <- 
 keepsettings =  0 (off)
 readonly =  0 (off)
 readahead= 256 (on)
 geometry = 16383/255/63, sectors = 234441648, start = 0

If playing the video from a DVD you will also want to check that drive 
as well.

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Re: gcc internal error

[Stephen Cormier]

On Saturday 10 December 2005 16:40, Marty Landman wrote:
> UNCLELEO:~# memtest86
> bash: memtest86: command not found
> UNCLELEO:~# find / -name memtest86
> UNCLELEO:~#
>
> Did above as root. Or could this indicate a hosed install?

You download from the web and burn the memtest86 iso image to CD then 
boot with it and let it run its tests.

Stephen
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Re: dev address of serial ata

[Stephen Cormier]

On Wednesday 21 December 2005 16:08, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The disk I ordered turned out to be SATA. I thought I ordered ATA. I
> was wrong.
>
> If the master in IDE0 is /dev/hda and the master in IDE1 is /dev/hdc,
> the master in SATA1 is /dev/hde?
>
> Thanks!
>
> H

Mine shows up as /dev/sda although I believe there are some SATA that 
can be set to work as the older IDE. In either event look in your boot 
messages with dmesg and it will tell you what it gets detected as.

Stephen
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Re: Can't mount a newly created ext3 partition from the new Hard Disk I installed...

[Stephen Cormier]

On Thursday 22 December 2005 16:39, Dom wrote:
> I bought a Western Digital 80GB Hard Disk as a second disk for my
> GNU/Linux Debian system (kernel 2.6.8-2-386).
>
> I attached it as a Slave and set its jumper accordingly. The next
> step was to create partition, and I created one by running (under
> root of course) 'fdisk /dev/hdb' and using the command new (n) to
> create a primary partition with partition number 1 for which I only
> used 12GB (of 80GB available). Also with command 't' I made sure the
> filesystem is ext3 (code 83).
>
> I created a directory /music on which I plan to mount this
> filesystem.

> and this is what I get when I enter "dmesg | tail":
>
>
> SCSI subsystem initialized
> VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev hdb1.
> VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev hdb1.
>
>
> Please help, I'm new with all of this and I really can't figure out
> what I did wrong nor can I find an adequate solution Googleing the
> web.
>
> Can you see what I'm doing wrong?
>
> Thanks in advance!

I see no mention of you having formatted the partition so.

mkfs.ext3 /dev/hdb1

Stephen


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CDROM recognition problem on New SuperMicro X6DHT-G motherboard

[Stephen Woodbridge]

Hi all,

I have a new Supermicro X6DHT-G motherboard based system and I'm have a 
problem with it recognizing the CD ROM drive. The CD ROM is PATA device 
that appears to be handled via an Intel Corp. 6300ESB chip probably 
using the IDE SATA controller and some PATA to SATA interface.


The Debian installer fails to detect the CD ROM

If I going into expert mode in the installer and select ONLY

generic, ide-generic, ide-cd, and isofs modules

then it recognizes the CD ROM and I can get on with the install, but 
after the reboot the CD ROM vanishes again.


I have been able to replicate this with:

sarge i386
sarge amd64   installed this after using trick above
etch  amd64
etch  amd64 2005-12-31 daily

Debian Installers. My BIOS reports

IDE Channel 0 Master 250GB SATA1
IDE Channel 1 Slave  CD-ROM

I spend 16 hours just getting Debian installed, but I'm at a lose as to 
how to fix this problem or how to report a bug against it.


Other info that might help diagnose this issue:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lsmod
Module  Size  Used by
i2c_dev13824  0
ipv6  280552  20
w83627hf   30980  0
w83781d36608  0
i2c_sensor  4352  2 w83627hf,w83781d
i2c_isa 3840  0
i2c_i8019748  0
i2c_core   27008  6 
i2c_dev,w83627hf,w83781d,i2c_sensor,i2c_isa,i2c_i801

ext3  121616  5
jbd64176  1 ext3
mbcache11400  1 ext3
tsdev   9472  0
mousedev   12628  0
evdev  11648  0
psmouse20108  0
genrtc 11516  0
dm_mod 58464  0
sd_mod 22400  7
ide_disk   21504  0
pdc202xx_new   12748  0
aec62xx12492  0
alim15x3   13592  0
amd74xx15536  0
atiixp 10656  0
cmd64x 13772  0
cs5520  8208  0
cs5530  8720  0
cy82c6936536  0
hpt34x  7424  0
ns87415 6316  0
opti621 6404  0
pdc202xx_old   18252  0
piix   15692  0
rz1000  4480  0
sc1200 10640  0
serverworks14116  0
siimage14464  0
sis551316272  0
slc90e66   10512  0
triflex 7176  0
trm290  6276  0
via82cxxx  14512  0
floppy 65104  0
usb_storage69184  0
e1000  83588  0
ide_cd 42784  0
cdrom  39848  1 ide_cd
ide_generic 2816  0
generic 6528  0
ide_core  154688  28 
ide_disk,pdc202xx_new,aec62xx,alim15x3,amd74xx,atiixp,cmd64x,cs5520,cs5530,cy82c693,hpt34x,ns87415,opti621,pdc202xx_old,piix,rz1000,sc1200,serverworks,siimage,sis5513,slc90e66,triflex,trm290,via82cxxx,usb_storage,ide_cd,ide_generic,generic

fbcon  32164  70
vga16fb14464  1
vgastate   10240  1 vga16fb
usbserial  33008  0
usbkbd  8960  0
ehci_hcd   32132  0
uhci_hcd   33056  0
thermal15116  0
processor  15224  1 thermal
fan 5512  0
ata_piix9988  6
libata 42888  1 ata_piix
scsi_mod  131072  3 sd_mod,usb_storage,libata
unix   32032  16
font   10112  1 fbcon
vesafb  7984  0
cfbcopyarea 5120  2 vga16fb,vesafb
cfbimgblt   4352  2 vga16fb,vesafb
cfbfillrect 5248  2 vga16fb,vesafb


[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lspci
:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. Server Memory Controller Hub (rev 0c)
:00:00.1 ff00: Intel Corp. Memory Controller Hub Error Reporting 
Register (rev 0c)
:00:01.0 System peripheral: Intel Corp. Memory Controller Hub DMA 
Controller (rev 0c)
:00:02.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. Memory Controller Hub PCI Express 
Port A0 (rev 0c)
:00:04.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. Memory Controller Hub PCI Express 
Port B0 (rev 0c)
:00:06.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. Memory Controller Hub PCI Express 
Port C0 (rev 0c)

:00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 6300ESB 64-bit PCI-X Bridge (rev 02)
:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 6300ESB USB Universal Host 
Controller (rev 02)
:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 6300ESB USB Universal Host 
Controller (rev 02)

:00:1d.4 System peripheral: Intel Corp. 6300ESB Watchdog Timer (rev 02)
:00:1d.5 PIC: Intel Corp. 6300ESB I/O Advanced Programmable 
Interrupt Controller (rev 02)
:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 6300ESB USB2 Enhanced Host 
Controller (rev 02)

:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 0a)
:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 6300ESB LPC Interface Controller 
(rev 02)
:00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 6300ESB SATA Storage Controller 
(rev 02)

Re: apt-get error

[Stephen Cormier]

On Wednesday 11 January 2006 18:38, Nikhil Prabhakar wrote:
> Hi,
>  I'm getting following errors after "apt-get upgrade".I'm using Sarge
> 3.1 and tried to upgrade after adding testing & unstable repositories
> to my source.lst file.All packages were successfully downloaded.
> -
>
> Preparing to replace kdemultimedia-kio-plugins 4:3.3.2-1 (using
> .../kdemultimedia-kio-plugins_4%3a3.5.0-3_i386.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement kdemultimedia-kio-plugins ...
> dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/kdemultimedia-kio-plugins_4%3a3.5.0-3_i386.de
>b (--unpack):
>  trying to overwrite
> `/usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/kioslave/audiocd.docbook', which is also
> in package kdebase-kio-plugins
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> 
> /var/cache/apt/archives/kdemultimedia-kio-plugins_4%3a3.5.0-3_i386.de
>b E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> -
>
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards
> Nikhil Prabhakar

dpkg -i 
--force-overwrite 
/var/cache/apt/archives/kdemultimedia-kio-plugins_4%3a3.5.0-3_i386.deb

then dpkg --configure -a to get any unconfigured packages and you may 
want to try the upgrade command again as well.

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Live CD for Headless Box

[Stephen Le]

Does anybody know of any livecds specially targetted towards headless
computers? I need a livecd that I can drop into a computer and
immediately get SSH access to the system. If nobody knows of such a
livecd, does anybody know how I would make one that worked in such a
manner?

Thanks.

Re: Building deb package frome installed files

[Stephen Cormier]

On Tuesday 17 January 2006 14:05, Виталий Ищенко wrote:
> I have installed package i.e. apt-get install openoffice.org-core -t
> unstable then i've deleted file openoffice.org-core_2.0.1-1_i386.deb
> And now i want to build back this package with files, which have been
> installed with apt-get

Install dpkg-repack then use it to rebuild the package.

Stephen

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Read-only CF-card based Debian?

[Stephen G]

Hi there,

I am looking to build an always-on, low-powered Debian server for a small 
home-office that will support Asterisk for VoIP, files, scanner, fax, print 
server.  I hope to base it on a VIA EPIA mini-ITX fanless motherboard with the 
Debian OS installed on a CF card, then the operating system loaded into memory. 
 I also hope to minimize the write to CF or flash, but also not to lose the 
logs or configuration changes.  I have to option of attaching an external USB 
flash drive or use a 3.5" disk (for file storage) to store partitions that will 
need read-write access.  I am hoping to use debian as it is easy to add 
addtional packages and compile those programs that are not in the .deb archives.

I was thinking of using something like this 
http://gate-bunker.p6.msu.ru/~berk/router.html which allows you to install 
debian to a CF card, then the running system will reside in memory.  A script 
can also be run to write configuration changes, apt-get installs, logs back to 
the CF card.

Can someone tell me which partitions will need to be configured as read-write 
to support logging, and changes during operation?

Regards,

Stephen






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Re: X -configure failed

[Stephen Cormier]

On Friday 18 August 2006 17:59, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> When I did X -configure as root the X command appeared to terminate
> normally but still left me with an empty /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.  wc just
> returns 0's on that file when asked about it.  So what package am I maybe
> missing that would allow this to happen?  Correction, I probably had some
> kind of error generated because /var/log/xorg.0.log was mentioned.  Is
> that logging facility advanced enough to tell me which package I'm
> missing?

Any time I have every used it it never gave you a file that was to be put in 
place of the X configuration one. It has always said that you can test using 
a file that is placed in the /root directory and even then the file never 
worked for me because it always leaves out things like the font paths and 
such now it has been awhile since I tried it so maybe things have changed ...  
Is there some reason your not using "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-org" without 
the quotes to try and get a working file?

Stephen

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Sendmail kept back in deb stable (3.1)?

[Stephen Loeckle]

Hi Everyone,I am having trouble since the last release of sendmail in deb stable. Is there a broken package somewhere? I'm not sure what to do at this point. Here is the output of apt-get upgrade and apt-get dist-upgrade (with not going further). Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!Stephen[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/apt# apt-get updateHit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main PackagesHit 
http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main ReleaseHit ftp://ftp.debian.org stable/main PackagesHit ftp://ftp.debian.org stable/main Release
Hit ftp://ftp.debian.org stable/non-free PackagesHit ftp://ftp.debian.org stable/non-free ReleaseReading Package Lists... Done[EMAIL PROTECTED]
:/etc/apt# apt-get upgradeReading Package Lists... DoneBuilding Dependency Tree... DoneThe following packages have been kept back:  rmail sendmail sendmail-base sendmail-bin sendmail-cf sensible-mda0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/apt# apt-get dist-upgradeReading Package Lists... DoneBuilding Dependency Tree... DoneCalculating Upgrade... DoneThe following packages will be REMOVED:  sendmailThe following packages have been kept back:
  sendmail-binThe following packages will be upgraded:  rmail sendmail-base sendmail-cf sensible-mda4 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1 not upgraded.Need to get 1043kB of archives.After unpacking 360kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] nAbort.

Re: Sendmail kept back in deb stable (3.1)?

[Stephen Loeckle]

Thank youOn 8/27/06, Matus UHLAR - fantomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 27.08.06 16:46, Stephen Loeckle wrote:> I am having trouble since the last release of sendmail in deb stable. Is> there a broken package somewhere? I'm not sure what to do at this point.> Here is the output of apt-get upgrade and apt-get dist-upgrade (with not
> going further). Any help would be greatly appreciated.Yes, see the last security advisory about sendmail.--Matus UHLAR - fantomas, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; 
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Re: bttv tuner card and tuner problems

[Stephen Cormier]

On Sunday 03 September 2006 02:48, glenn mehesy wrote:
> I have now been working on this for quite some time and cannot figure
> this out. I am trying to get my leadtek tuner with a bttv chip working.
> It is an NTSC tuner but debian etch insists on setting the tuner to type
> 5 which is a PAL type. Needless to say it does not work. I have tried
> putting various options lines in modules.conf using both bttv and tuner
> as the module but I keep getting a tuner type 5. I had this card working
> in this very system under Fedora Core 4 but an switching all my linux
> system to Debian. I tried this same system under sarge but the kernel
> was to old and did not support this card so I installed FC4 and it
> worked fine when I was able to pass the tuner as an option to the
> module. What do I need to do in Etch to pass the tuner=2 option to the
> bttv module? I have been googling for the past 10 hours trying
> everything I could find but nothing worked. The Etch install is up to
> date and I'm running a 2.6.16 686 kernel. Thank you in advance for you
> help.

Try modprobe -r bttv and modprobe -r tuner then for my TV2000XP Deluxe I would 
use modprobe bttv card=34 tuner=2 you would need to find the correct card= 
number for your card. I use the following in a file I 
created /etc/modprobe.d/tvcard.

## Added by me for proper detection of tuner for TV card
options bttv card=34 tuner=2

The loads the bttv module with the correct tuner and card on boot.

Stephen

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Re: where is glxgears now ?

[Stephen Cormier]

On Sunday 03 September 2006 11:55, Gerard Robin wrote:
> Hello,
> I installed the package xbase-clients 7.1.ds-3 and I don't find
> glxgears.
> where is glxgears now ?
> Thanks to Ccing me a reply. I am not subscriber to the list.

Just to prevent the inevitable why no frames per second post since others have 
told where to get it use "glxgears -printfps" without the quotes.

Stephen

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Re: where is glxgears now ?

[Stephen Cormier]

On Monday 04 September 2006 03:27, Joshua J. Kugler wrote:
> On Sunday 03 September 2006 06:36, Stephen Cormier wrote:
> > Just to prevent the inevitable why no frames per second post since others
> > have told where to get it use "glxgears -printfps" without the quotes.
>
> If you feel like being verbose, you can also run:
>
> glxgears -iacknowledgethatthistoolisnotabenchmark
>
> to get the framerate.  -printfps is for sissies. :)
>
> j

Yeah I ran into that one in my many pages I had to read in my google 
quest^^Wsearch to find the printfps option that in their infinite wisdom 
decided not to put in the non-existant man page but just could not remember 
thatanoylinglonguselessoptionname when posting

Stephen

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Re: install kernel from testing on sarge

[Stephen Cormier]

On Tuesday 05 September 2006 01:50, Vladi Lemurov wrote:
> Hi there!
> I use debian sarge and would like to install the latest kernel from
> "testing" (I need it to set dvb interfaces down without getting the
> server hung), but keep all other packets from
> "stable" distribution, so I could update them, install new and so on. Is
> that possible, I mean "debian-way" (Of course, I can simply take sources
> and compile the kernel myself, I am quite experienced at that, but I
> switched to debian to minimize compiling packages and would like to
> learn how to deal with such situation "debian-way"). Could you point the
> paper where it is described?
>   Thanks, Vladi.

Try www.backports.org they have newer kenels pre-built to install on 
Sarge/stable.

Stephen

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Re: Re: USB stick

[Stephen McGregor]

I run 2.4.27 .  All I did was add

/dev/sda1   /usbvfatuser,rw,group,auto   
0   0


to /etc/fstab , and away I went.  That was with a normal USB thumb "drive"  
(stick).
I later got a 1.0 GB one - i forget the brand.  No way can i get that to  
even

appear in the /proc hierachy properly

Re: Dual CPU query

[Stephen Cormier]

On Wednesday 06 September 2006 00:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> After reading the e-mail regarding issues upgrading cpu, I decided to
> check my Dual CPU server to see what /proc/cpuinfo said.
>
> This is what is says:
>
> processor   : 0
> vendor_id   : GenuineIntel
> cpu family  : 6
> model   : 8
> model name  : Pentium III (Coppermine)
> stepping: 3
> cpu MHz : 696.981
> cache size  : 256 KB
> fdiv_bug: no
> hlt_bug : no
> f00f_bug: no
> coma_bug: no
> fpu : yes
> fpu_exception   : yes
> cpuid level : 2
> wp  : yes
> flags   : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca
> cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse
> bogomips: 1389.36
>
> I can not see referecne to my second CPU. The system is a fresh net
> install of Debian Sarge. So I need to do anything special to get the
> second CPU reconzied? What have i done wrong suring the Debian install?
>
> Many thanks in advance.
>
> Julian DE Marchi
>
> Http://www.jdcomputers.com.au

Use "apt-cache search image smp" without the " then choose a kernel image to 
install most likely one with a 686 in the name as well reboot and try again 
with the command you will see two processors or even if the frame buffer is 
in use when booting you will see two penguins on the screen/see both 
processor being initialized ...

Stephen

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Debian LIVE CD

[Stephen Yorke]

Hello all...
 
I am new to this group (just signed up today) but I am have two problems:
1. Creating a LIVE CD with Debian Testing
2. PXE/TFTP Boot server within a M$ DHCP Environment
 
I come from a M$ background (hey, had to get my start somewhere and it is 
paying the bills) but frequent the *NIX environments but I am by no means as 
comfortable with Debian as I am M$.  Unlike a lot of M$ and/or *NIX folks I do 
swing both ways and know there is a time and place for each NOS.  Although each 
can act on their own without any problems as well.
 
So...with that said here is my dilemma.  I was tasked with creating a Live CD 
for a company.  The requirements are here:
 
1. LIVECD (totally new for me but I love to learn)
2. No interaction with the Hard Disk (memory driven like Knoppix/Morphix)  
Possibly diskless systems.
3. Auto-Login
4. Only TSClient or Rdesktop (which will auto launch on boot)
5. Custom Desktop images and layout
6. Ability to boot from a PXE enabled TFTP server
 
So what do I do...I HATE RED HAT LINUX and will not EVER use it again.  Not 
since the licensing/pay-per came into play.  If I was to do only console work I 
would do FreeBSD but I need GUI and lightweight with access to a good 
repository.  Also, down the road there may be more architectures involved...in 
walks, no, CRASHES, DEBIAN...I chose Debian for several reasons but the main 
reasons are: many supported architectures, 10,000+ packages, ease of package 
management and IT IS NOT 'PAY HAT'.
 
Ok...let's start with the Debian build first.
 
:: Debian LIVECD ::
I have everything configured and it looks great...I have a base Debian install, 
X, Fluxbox (custom menus, background, styles, etc), gdm, tsclient, ETC...
 
First, I tried iBuild but when I try to build the system I keep getting errors 
that files already exist...it is the 'proc' dir where the files already exist 
and I can not delete this folder (How do I remove this folder?).  Ok...give up 
on iBuild.
 
Second, I have been playing with the Morphix Tools...it builds an image but 
when I look at the ISO that I build it is empty.  The size is about 130MB but 
when you try to boot from it nothing happens and when I try to extract it OR 
try to look in it using WinRAR nothing is there.
 
Does anyone know of a 'PROPER' guide that they can point me to for building 
LIVECD's?  I do not even mind building it fully manually.  I love learing new 
things and I think this would be a VERY valuble lesson to learn.  I would even 
write up a step by step doc on how to do it if I had the info on how to do it 
properly.  Like I said, I am new to the LIVE scene but am liking it ALOT and 
have been to quite a few sites including the Debian LIVE site.
 
Now the PXE/TFTP Boot stuff...
 
:: PXE/TFTP Boot ::
I currently have a M$ DHCP server.  Options 66 & 67 are set.
I have a Debian basic build with SYSLINUX and TFTP-HPA installed
Configured the TFTPBOOT stuff.
I can NetBOOT and get to the Boot: prompt but I can not type anything at the 
prompt nor does it seem to pick up the initrd.gz nor the linux files which are 
in the main TFTPBOOT folder, the only thing I can get to happen is create a 
'default' file in the pxelinux.cfg folder and one level up a default.txt file 
which is the menu to show up.  It also seems like the TIMEOUT option in the 
default file is not working.  It just waits about 5 minutes all the time and 
then reboots the box.  I have the default option as LOCALBOOT but sometimes it 
doesn't even do that...it just fails.  I have downloaded the netboot.tar.gz (I 
think) from the Debian website and everything that is there is pretty much 
everything I have on my system.  Also, I can not get the F* keys to work within 
my default file.
 
Two questions I guess...Is there a problem with syslinux running on Debian?  
Should I be using PXELinux instead of syslinux?
 
Any help on these topics would be great.  Suggestions are fine...I can Google 
just a well as the next person.
 
I would like to have this completed by this weekend but I think that time is 
coming too fast to get it done.  The big thing is the LIVECD...if I can at 
least get this working I can install a PXE server on my M$ DHCP Server and get 
this working easy enough, I just wanted to be able to document both a Debian 
only install as well as an integrated solution.  Once I get all of this done I 
will have no problem posting a link to my work so others can comment and/or try 
it out.
 
Sorry for the long winded message and Thanks in advance to all,
Stephen Yorke
 
 

ISO Creation

[Stephen Yorke]

Hey all...
 
I am still trying to get my LIVECD created properly and pretty much have a Beta 
of it.
 
The problem I am having though is with the ISO itself.  I create it with 
MKISOFS and  I can mount and boot it with QEMU but not VMWare or Microsoft 
Virtual Server.
 
Am I doing something wrong?
Is there a different switch which needs to be in place to get it to work with 
the other products?
 
Any suggestions would be great.
-Stephen

Re: alsa troubles

[Stephen Cormier]

On Wednesday 13 September 2006 15:05, Albert Dengg wrote:
> Hi
>
> on one of my machines i have some troubles with alsa.
>
> the system has 2 soundcard, one onboard via card (which is disabled in
> the bios but for some reason shows up in lspci nevertheless), and a
> creative sb live 1024 running with the emu10k1 driver.
>
> now, for some reason sometimes upon system startup, the onboard card is
> initilized as the first card instead of the emu10k1.
>
> the system is:
> MB asus a7v600-x
> kernel 2.6.17.13
> and packages aside from a few execptions ( module-init-tools, udev, ...
> from backports) debian sarge (including alsa userland components).
>
> does anybody have and idea how to fix that issue since it is anoying
> when my mother calls me every few days and i have to re-run alsaconf...
>
> tia
>
> yours
> albert

Modify the /etc/modprobe.d/sound file to list the emu10k1 driver as the first 
sound card like this from my file for example.

alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
options snd-emu10k1 index=0
alias snd-card-1 snd-via82xx
options snd-via82xx index=1
alias snd-card-2 snd-bt87x
options snd-bt87x index=2

If you want you can put the on-board as the second like I have or leave it out 
entirely. Once modified use "/etc/init.d/alsa reload" without the quotes and 
the module(s) will be unloaded then reloaded with the new options.

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Re: activate dhcp at boot time

[Stephen Cormier]

On Tuesday 19 September 2006 12:53, Robert Epprecht wrote:
> The machine in question was configured *not* to do dhcp at boot time.
> (root has to do 'pump' each time users want to connect to the internet.)
> Now I want to change this.
>
> What's the Debian way to activate automatic connection to the network
> at boot time?
>
> Robert Epprecht

Debian uses the /etc/network/interfaces file for this an example.

>$ cat /etc/network/interfaces
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
auto eth0

iface eth0 inet dhcp

The "auto eth0" line brings up the interface on boot and the "iface .." line 
tells it to use dhcp.

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RE: Search for real debian Live -cd

[Stephen Yorke]

I tried the MAKE-LIVE scripts and found them hard to configure and the 
documentation isn't that great.
 
I have been trying to create live CD's for the past 3 weeks now and the past 
week when I DEBOOTSTRAP SID I get locale issues...go figure.
 
Just get a Morphix or Knoppix Base and look at their guide(s) on remastering.  
Both are worthy although I went with Morphix.



From: Russell Ost [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Fri 9/22/2006 10:51 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Search for real debian Live -cd



live.debian.net is what you are looking for.  It has pre-build iso's,
and the application to build your own.

Russell

Jabka Atu wrote:
> I'm searching for real debian live,
> I'm familer with distrowatch but i couldnot find one that will be
> debian and not some spinoff .
> the reason is that i need it to be easy to do apt-get upgrade
> dist-upgrade to spesific version after instalation .


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RE: xserver-xorg install/configuration fails with "null value not permitted"

[Stephen Yorke]

I just started running into the EXACT same error.

-Original Message-
From: RParr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2006 5:50 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: xserver-xorg install/configuration fails with "null value not
permitted"

I am trying to add minimal X to a new installation and am getting a 
failure during xserver-xorg configuration.

The console / curses display pop-up says "Null value not permitted" OK?

At which point any input including CTRL-C, etc. either does nothing or 
pops the box back up.

I installed using etch b3 installer and then upgraded to sid (which all 
succeeded) the above happens when I attempt

apt-get install x-window-server-core

Is this a known problem?  I could find nothing in the bug tracking or 
via Google. The closest I found related to some problems with various 
translations of this package to different languages. (I am installing 
default/english)

Is there a way around this or am I missing something required?

Thanks
R.Parr, RHCE, Temporal Arts


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RE: Problem installing xserver-xorg

[Stephen Yorke]

Guess it is not just me having this issue...I was going to dual boot my Laptop 
but after testing with Microsoft Virtual Server & VMWare and seeing this 
error...think I will wait.
 
If you want to reproduce it...debootstrap sid, change root to the sid directory 
and 'apt-get install xserver-xorg-core xorg'
 
It will blowup on you terribly...and yes...it is hard to break out of it but 
you will finally hit CTRL-C at the proper time to kill it.  The only think I 
have traced it to thus far is my Locale issues...but I can't see that causing 
this issue.
 
-Stephen



From: David Goodenough [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Mon 9/25/2006 9:36 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Problem installing xserver-xorg



I am trying to install xorg on an HP 9010 laptop.  It was installed but the
hard drive died and so I took an old 2.5" drive I had which had linux on it
with XFree86 (and a SIS screen configured) and I am trying to upgrade it to
work on this new machine.  I got rid of the old XFree86 code (I think I got
rid of all of it) and then I asked it to install xorg.  When configuring
xserver-xorg it asks if the PCI address for the video card is right (it is),
asks if I want to use a FrameBuffer device (I have tried both yes and no)
and then is comes up with a panel which says:-

>>>>
Configuring xserver-org

Empty value

A null entry is not permitted for this value.
>>>>

This is repeated in what appears to be quite a tight look ad-infinitum
and it is quite difficult to break out of (but I did eventually).

There is nothing to say which value is null and I am at a loss to see
how to progress from here.

Anyone got any ideas?

David


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Re: ALSA configuration strangeness, no card0 but card1 present?

[Stephen Cormier]

On Wednesday 27 September 2006 02:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm trying to get Debian configured on my laptop, and I'm unable to get
> sound properly configured. I've read all of the ALSA troubleshooting
> guides, and they say, in short, that if you don't have a 0 card listed
> in /proc/asound/cards, you're in trouble.
>
> That's where I am:
>
> If I unload my snd_intel8x0 driver, I have no cards detected (no
> surprise). In that mode, there are no card subdirectories in
> /proc/asound, as there should be. When I `modprobe snd_intel8x0`, the
> driver inserts properly and then the following is seen:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/proc/asound# ls
> card1  cards  devices  I82801DBICH4  modules  oss  pcm  seq  timers
> version
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/proc/asound# cat cards
>  1 [I82801DBICH4   ]: ICH4 - Intel 82801DB-ICH4
>                      Intel 82801DB-ICH4 with AD1981B at 0xe0100c00,
> irq 177

Try looking into you /etc/modprobe.d/sound to make sure it is listed properly 
you should see something like this for it being the first card.

alias snd-card-0 snd_intel8x0
options snd_intel8x0 index=0

Stephen

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Exim4 mailq

[Stephen Allen]

Greetings:

Yesterday for a 20 hr period, my Bell Canada telephone service was down,
hence my DSL connection followed.

Since I have come back online, I've noticed that the e-mail I was
assuming had gone out to my SMARTHOST, (before I noticed the DSL was
down) is now in my Exim4 mailq.

I've been grokking the man page, but so far I haven't found a way, to
force/tell Exim to send these messages along their merry way.

I assumed that these messages would eventually go out, but when I sent a
test message just awhile ago, it stayed in the mailq and didn't go to
my SMARTHOST either.

Any ideas, on how to get these delivered ?

Thanks.
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Re: Exim4 mailq

[Stephen Allen]

Clive Menzies wrote:

>Stephen Allen wrote:
> Greetings:

Hello Clive:
[...]

>> Any ideas, on how to get these delivered ?
> 
> Thanks.> Have you tried restarting exim4?

Yup. First thing I tried.

Here is what the 'q' looks like (with e-mail addresses removed);

26h  1.0K 1GSYPt-0002lq-0Z <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (steve123)


26h  2.5K 1GSYWO-0002m9-EP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (steve123)


24h  3.1K 1GSafL-00031F-Lf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (steve123)

 2h  1.2K 1GSvFt-0004jR-96 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (steve123)


75m   1GSvZB-0004n2-82 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (steve123)


I assume the figure on the left in minutes represents the time in the q.


> $ sudo /etc/init.d/exim4 restart
> 
> I've got the exim book and had a quick look through but couldn't find
> anything useful.  If no-one else comes up with a solution and restarting
> doesn't do it, I should try the exim-users list.

Hm

> http://www.exim.org/

Right. May have to.

Thanks Clive.
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Re: Exim4 mailq

[Stephen Allen]

On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 10:34:14AM -0400 or thereabouts, celejar wrote:
> On 9/28/06, Stephen Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> >Right. May have to.
> >
> >Thanks Clive.
>
> Have you tried 'exim -qff' ?

Hello Celejar:

Yes, actually tried '-qf' prior as well -- No change in the 'q'.

It seems strange that Exim4 would break, if the network to the SMARTHOST
is down. One would assume that it would carry on as usual once the
connection was restored.
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Re: Exim4 mailq

[Stephen Allen]

James wrote:
> Stephen Allen wrote:
>> Greetings:
>>
>> Yesterday for a 20 hr period, my Bell Canada telephone service was down,
>> hence my DSL connection followed.
>>
>> Since I have come back online, I've noticed that the e-mail I was
>> assuming had gone out to my SMARTHOST, (before I noticed the DSL was
>> down) is now in my Exim4 mailq.
>>
>> I've been grokking the man page, but so far I haven't found a way, to
>> force/tell Exim to send these messages along their merry way.
> 
> try exim4 -qff.
> That will force exim to run its queue and ignore retry times and thaw
> frozen messages.
> 
> What happens is when exim notices a host is down, it will not try to
> send to that host again until its retry time has passed.
> 
BTW I apologize if some of you rec'd some of my e-mail in this thread
directly. Wasn't my intention.

Fellas, in case this helps, the most recent output from
'/var/spool/exim4/msglog' returns this;

2006-09-28 11:18:44 Received from <> R=1GSYWO-0002m9-EP 
U=Debian-exim P=local S=1215
2006-09-28 11:18:45 [EMAIL PROTECTED]   
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> R=smarthost T=remote_smtp_
smarthost defer (-53): retry time not reached for any host
2006-09-28 11:24:45 Remote host gmail-smtp.l.google.com 
[72.14.205.109] closed connection in response to MAIL FROM:<>   
SIZE=2265
2006-09-28 11:24:45 [EMAIL PROTECTED]   
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> R=smarthost T=remote_smtp_
smarthost defer (-18): Remote host gmail-smtp.l.google.com  
[72.14.205.109] closed connection in response to MAIL FROM:<>   
SIZE=2265


How does one force the retry time to now ?


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Re: Exim4 mailq

[Stephen Allen]

On 28/09/2006 celejar wrote:
> I believe that '-qf' won't resend frozen messages; did you try '-qff' 
> ? 

Yes. It appears that this will not over-ride the retry time, as per below.

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> smarthost defer (-53): retry time not reached for any host
> 2006-09-28 11:24:45 Remote host gmail-smtp.l.google.com [72.14.205.109] 
> closed connection in respons
> e to MAIL FROM:<> SIZE=2265
> 2006-09-28 11:24:45 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> R=smarthost 
> T=remote_smtp_
> smarthost defer (-18): Remote host gmail-smtp.l.google.com [72.14.205.109] 
> closed connection in resp
> onse to MAIL FROM:<> SIZE=2265
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Re: Exim4 mailq

[Stephen Allen]

Clive Menzies wrote:
> On (28/09/06 10:59), Stephen Allen wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 10:34:14AM -0400 or thereabouts, celejar wrote:
>>> On 9/28/06, Stephen Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>> Right. May have to.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks Clive.
>>> Have you tried 'exim -qff' ?
>> Hello Celejar:
>>
>> Yes, actually tried '-qf' prior as well -- No change in the 'q'.
>>
>> It seems strange that Exim4 would break, if the network to the SMARTHOST
>> is down. One would assume that it would carry on as usual once the
>> connection was restored.
> 
> another thought:
> 
> dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config

Clive:

Yeah I don't really want to resort to that -- If one has to do such a
draconian measure then I would think this is a bug in Exim4, no ?

Surely one shouldn't have to do this to fix a mailq issue.



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Re: ktorrent

[Stephen Cormier]

On Thursday 28 September 2006 11:10, S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu) wrote:
> where ktorrent save the tmp file . i downloaded 1 CD of 5 CD set of a
> torrent. where this cd is sotred ??

If you did not change the default then the file would be in one of the 
~/.kde/share/apps/ktorrent/tor* directories that get created.

Stephen
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Re: added RAM, RAM not recognized by debian

[Stephen Cormier]

On Thursday 28 September 2006 12:53, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 17:54:03 +0200, Andreas Rönnquist wrote:
> > Ron Johnson wrote:
> > >Your kernel probably is not configured to recognize more than 1GB.
> > >
> > >- --
> >
> > (Somewhat on topic anyway) - I've just ordered an upgrade for my box - 1
> > Gb of RAM included and an amd64 processor - will I need to recompile the
> > kernel to get support for all RAM? The debian version I intend to run is
> > the Etch (the file debian-testing-amd64-binary-1.iso downloaded today).
> > I will make a clean install.
>
> I am not sure about the amd64 kernels in Etch; you can run
>
> grep HIGHMEM /boot/config-$(uname -r)
>
> to see if your kernel has been compiled with HIGHMEM support.

The HIGHMEM is not necessary for a 64bit kernel/install it is still needed for 
32bit though.

Stephen
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RE: Problem installing xserver-xorg

[Stephen Yorke]

It says...
"I have found the problem.  On line 966 of the postinst it says:"...

What file do I have to edit to make this work?  Doing a search for
postinst returns a sample only...

Sorry if I sound dumb but hey...I am...

-Stephen

-Original Message-
From: Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 11:38 AM
To: Stephen Yorke
Cc: David Goodenough; debian-user@lists.debian.org;
debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Problem installing xserver-xorg

On 9/25/06, Stephen Yorke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [...]
> -Stephen
> 
>
> From: David Goodenough [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Mon 9/25/2006 9:36 AM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Problem installing xserver-xorg
>
> [...]  When configuring
> xserver-xorg it asks if the PCI address for the video card is right
(it is),
> asks if I want to use a FrameBuffer device (I have tried both yes and
no)
> and then is comes up with a panel which says:-
>
> >>>>
> Configuring xserver-org
>
> Empty value
>
> A null entry is not permitted for this value.
> >>>>
>
> This is repeated in what appears to be quite a tight look ad-infinitum
> and it is quite difficult to break out of (but I did eventually).
>
> [...]
> David

This looks like addressed and worked around already (might be).  In
the archives you'll find this feedback:


Morten O. Hansen
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to debian-user
 More options Sep 24 (19 hours ago)
On Sat, 2006-09-23 at 14:49 -0700, RParr wrote:
> I am trying to add minimal X to a new installation and am getting a
> failure during xserver-xorg configuration.
>
> The console / curses display pop-up says "Null value not permitted"
OK?
>

http://bugs.debian.org/xserver-xorg
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=388568

Hope this helps.

With regards, Morten O. Hansen


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xserver-xorg install/configuration fails with "null value not
permitted".


-- 
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RE: Problem installing xserver-xorg

[Stephen Yorke]

Does anyone know when the patch for this will be uploaded ?

-Original Message-
From: Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 11:38 AM
To: Stephen Yorke
Cc: David Goodenough; debian-user@lists.debian.org;
debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Problem installing xserver-xorg

On 9/25/06, Stephen Yorke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [...]
> -Stephen
> 
>
> From: David Goodenough [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Mon 9/25/2006 9:36 AM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Problem installing xserver-xorg
>
> [...]  When configuring
> xserver-xorg it asks if the PCI address for the video card is right
(it is),
> asks if I want to use a FrameBuffer device (I have tried both yes and
no)
> and then is comes up with a panel which says:-
>
> >>>>
> Configuring xserver-org
>
> Empty value
>
> A null entry is not permitted for this value.
> >>>>
>
> This is repeated in what appears to be quite a tight look ad-infinitum
> and it is quite difficult to break out of (but I did eventually).
>
> [...]
> David

This looks like addressed and worked around already (might be).  In
the archives you'll find this feedback:


Morten O. Hansen
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to debian-user
 More options Sep 24 (19 hours ago)
On Sat, 2006-09-23 at 14:49 -0700, RParr wrote:
> I am trying to add minimal X to a new installation and am getting a
> failure during xserver-xorg configuration.
>
> The console / curses display pop-up says "Null value not permitted"
OK?
>

http://bugs.debian.org/xserver-xorg
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=388568

Hope this helps.

With regards, Morten O. Hansen


The original thread has the subject:

xserver-xorg install/configuration fails with "null value not
permitted".


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Re: Debian AMD64 boots only at random: how to use labels/fstab/grub

[Stephen Gran]

This one time, at band camp, Joost Kraaijeveld said:
> Hi Bob,
> 
> Thanks: it works as described. 
> 
> Just 1 other question: can I label my swap partition? 
> 
> If I try e2label /dev/sda5 /my_name it returns:
> 
> e2label: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sdb5
> Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock.

e2label, perhaps unsurprisingly, given it's name, only handles ext2 and
ext3 filesystems.  See
http://www.sgvlug.org/pipermail/sgvlug/2005-September/000874.html for a
discussion of swap labels.
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RE: request for VMware image of Etch beta 3 release minimal netinstall

[Stephen Yorke]

I will create one now for you if you want it...but it will be a GSX
image and not Workstation...OR...I guess I could do a Workstation
Version for ya...let me re-install Workstation.
It shouldn't take too long on the server I have here.

Just let me know if you really want it.
-Stephen

-Original Message-
From: David Christensen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2006 10:00 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: request for VMware image of Etch beta 3 release minimal
netinstall 

Debian users:

Is there anybody out there who has VMware Workstation who could please
create a virtual machine for Etch beta 3 release with a minimal install?
It would also be nice to have the appropriate VMware add-ons (VMware
Tools?).

There is an Etch virtual machine available at the VMware site:

http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/550

but it has Gnome, etc., and is intended for desktop use.  I prefer
starting from a bare install and adding whatever I need.


Here is a good example of a virtual machine minimal install using Sarge:

http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/13

A nice feature is that the image was taken after the first portion of
installation was complete and it was time to reboot the machine and do
the final configuration steps (with base-config?).  This allows you to
better tune the virtual machine to your network environment.


TIA,

David


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RE: request for VMware image of Etch beta 3 release minimal netinstall

[Stephen Yorke]

Do you want an ETCH B3 minimal or not?
I can have it created in about 30 minutes for you.

-Stephen

-Original Message-
From: David Christensen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2006 10:07 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: FW: request for VMware image of Etch beta 3 release minimal
netinstall 

I wrote:
> Here is a good example of a virtual machine minimal install using
Sarge:
>http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/13

There are two Sarge images.  I haven't tried the above.  This is the one
I have been using and was referring to:

http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/59


HTH,

David


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