free partition magic type thing
does anyone know of a free software equivalent of partition magic? including the ability to alter the size and features of existing partitions? i'm thinking it's about time there was one and i might get desperate enough to write my own if anyone else thinks it's a good idea (don't quote me on this, the thought only just occured to me...) what i'm figuring is that if we want to push free software, we've got to make it more accessible. a lot of people only want to try out linux at first, and are put off when they find they need to go buy partition magic or whatever to make room for linux. it would be nice to be able to say to these soon to be linux devotees "hey, look! there's a free software equivalent to do it for you! isn't free software grand! *nudge nudge*". email me directly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) for any info on existing software or support for the need of writing some. if there isn't any existing such software and anyone has any ideas of where i should start and what problems i'm likely to encounter i'm all ears. atm my thoughts are just along the lines of "i need something to do this" and don't actually know the depth of the task i'm talking about. something else like norton's ghost would also be nice... but anyway, details of any kind regarding this would be most welcome. thanks from da Bobstopper
kernel 2.2.12
heya, people i've been having some troubles with a linux fileserver i've been maintaining regarding seemingly random crashes and freezes. i'm inclined to put it down to a hardware problem but i noticed i'd used a 2.2.12 kernel and have since heard that 2.2.11-2.2.13 are somewhat problematic. could someone/some people give me a list of known problems in the 2.2.12 kernel in order to perhaps shed some light on what's going wrong and also for future reference? please reply directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] since i'm no longer on this mailing list. thank you from da Bobstopper
balsa locks cause crashes
heya why does balsa try to "lock" mailboxes, and why does it always seem to crash when i do it? here's the error i get when i run it from a terminal: Locking mailbox ** WARNING **: fcntl: No locks available (errno = 37) Unlocking mailbox Locking mailbox Sentbox Unlocking mailbox and then it dies. i was so looking forward to start using balsa instead of elm too =< from da Bobstopper
loopback routing - just curious
hiya, i've noticed that route add -net 127.0.0.0 doesn't seem to work anymore and, even more curiously, doesn't seem to be needed. i can still ping 127.0.0.1 but the 127.0.0.0 route isn't evident in my route -n output. i gather that this is kernel related, not debian related since it only happens after upgrading the default slink kernel to 2.2.10, but i'm still curious. removing the 127.0.0.0 route from the older 2.0.36 kernel machines prevents me from pinging 127.0.0.1. i like it, but what happened? from da Bobstopper
samba 2.0.5a-1 < - > win2k
heya's i'm having a problem here with the bugfixed samba for slink (2.0.5a-1 i believe) when trying to connect from a win2k machine. i get the following error when i attempt to connect to the server: Remote procedure call failed the machine is visible in explorer or whatever, but shares are inaccessible due to this problem. is it a known problem that's fixed in 2.0.6 or something? we'd greatly appreciate some help here, since our clients will soon be upgrading to win2k making our linux fileservers unusable. thanks from da Bobstopper
Re: Kernel compilation straight from the base install...
> Hi, I recently installed the potato base system, and wanted to compile my > own kernel straight from there. I was wodering what all packages I'd need > to download from the debian home page to be able to do this. The reason I > have to get them from the debian home page is becuase all I have right now > is a win modem, therefore I can't apt-get them. I'll be replacing the > modem soon, but for now I'd like to compile the kernel. Please respond > soon, thanks in advance. > get kernel-source-2.2.XX_blah.blah.blah.deb get kernel-package (cuz it makes life a lil easier) uh, i think that's it from memory. good luck! from da Bobstopper
Re: PPP kernel support?
> How do you put PPP support into the 2.2.0 kernel? I get the following > message when I try to run pon: > > /usr/sbin/pppd: This system lacks kernel support for PPP. This could be > because > the PPP kernel module is not loaded, or because the kernel is > not configured for PPP. See the README.linux file in the > ppp-2.3.5 distribution. yeah, u need to compile it into the kernel or as a module. it's in the section for networking devices somewhere amongst all the ethernet cards from da Bobstopper
Re: chsh
(in response to earlier email about chsh which i seem to have deleted) try booting from your rescue disk (you do have a rescue disk don't you?) if you have a Debian CD, boot from it, mount the root partition and whatever partition you might have /etc in and hit alt-f2. hit enter to open a shell, go to /target/etc and edit the passwd file so that the last field for root is /bin/sh or whatever you want your login shell to be good luck from da Bobstopper
remote ip
hiyas i've been using the pppd implementation of dial on demand with steady success. however, i've always (naively it seems now) assumed the remote end to have the same ip address each time i dial in. since pppd seems to require me to give it a remote ip address, i've been giving it one of the ip addresses i've observed it to connect to before. recently, after having several ppp problems, i did some testing and studying of ppp.log and got worried when i noticed the remote ip address changes each time. however, i've used dial on demand in this manner for a long time now and never actually observed a problem. ifconfig even shows the ip address i specified no matter what ip address the isp attempts to tell me i'm connected to. so my question is: is there a problem at all? it seems fine on my end, so would it perhaps cause a problem on the remote end instead? if there's a problem that only affects the remote end is there anything i can do to prevent it or should i just laugh at their misfortune and carry on? looking forward to a response from da Bobstopper
Re: where can I find info on how to install a iomega zip disk in debian?
check out the HOWTO documents ie, install doc-linux-text or, if you have the hard disk space, doc-linux-html and look in /usr/doc/HOWTO. there should be a HOWTO in the mini directory called something like ZIP-drive-HOWTO or ZIP-HOWTO or ZIP-drive html or something like that. good luck from da Bobstopper > hello, > > I was wondering on where can I get documentation on how to install a iomega > zip disk to debian. I can't seem to find any man pages on that subject. > > thank you. > __ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: Debian instructions contradictory?
> *START RANT HERE* > > Everyone has an opinion. As Debian is developed, organised, and debuged by a > large group of volunteers. As you can imagine it is an incredible amount of > work for someone to do in their spare time, no matter how skilled they may > be. > Sometimes documentation becomes out of date, or must be written in a hurry. > Some areas of the website are partially incomplete or slightly out of date. > they remain this way until someone involved with Debian (me, you, a > developer, > or just about anyone else who may care) decides to do something about it. > Debian people are notorious for being individualistic and self reliant. They > do work on Debian for no other reason than they feel that it is the right > thing to do. The help you are recieving on this list is given to you for > free, and voluntarily by people who are under no obligation to give you the > time of day (unless they maintain a time server at work). ALMOST NO ONE IS > GETTING PAID AND NO ONE IS PAID BY DEBIAN FOR ANYTHING. We like to hear > from, > and to help, other users. > > *STOP RANT* > perfectly understandable rant, but was it really necessary? i didn't really think their question was deserving of something so... harsh? good blow against ppl who think debian owes them something and i fully agree but still, perhaps a more appropriate time to bring it up would have been good.
ppp compression problem
i don't know if any of u saw the piles of junk i was getting before in my ppp.log file but after looking at it i noticed a good deal of it was from receiving a protocol 0xfd. i looked it up and found it to be compressed datagrams. i turned off bsd and deflate compression and the problem has gone away so far it seems. i don't really like the idea of turning off software data compression so does anyone know what the problem could be at all and how i could go about fixing it more appropriately? i've run into another problem on another machine i've setup with ppp regarding lcp protocol rejects. the protocols being rejected appear to be quite random and i'm unsure of what's causing them. i thought perhaps it was because data was being corrupted since i was using a 33.6k modem with an old 16450 UART serial port, but i've upgraded the serial ports and the problem hasn't gone away. does anyone have any suggestions about what this could be as well? thanks, i look forward to a response from da Bobstopper
ppp help needed
hello debian people i've been getting annoying logs in /etc/var/ppp.log: Jan 25 22:37:32 butler pppd[10594]: d4 95 13 08 94 61 a9 94 30 64 1a b9 46 4c e1 45 93 f0 33 06 60 66 07 39 62 06 40 31 79 b2 5a 46 d2 b4 31 61 cd 1c f2 d5 30 12 1b 05 93 30 02 09 23 3c 96 5f 7a 72 29 19 98 ff 69 64 2f 8d 62 e2 4e 23 ff 90 61 3b 90 98 c3 90 c4 00 11 f4 44 23 57 57 23 82 87 Jan 25 22:37:32 butler pppd[10594]: 75 b2 8a 75 d6 b1 64 92 43 29 11 7a 07 07 36 40 53 04 96 a6 54 4a 44 f4 4a 67 2b 05 09 99 3e 17 74 4a e3 ed 02 04 b1 97 94 b6 97 c7 aa 90 04 82 40 47 ae 2b 20 3e 12 a9 01 48 b3 e2 6f c3 e6 3e f3 e9 3e b4 12 40 e9 0b 2a 79 bd 41 73 d9 3d b8 c0 4b c3 fb 49 Jan 25 22:37:32 butler pppd[10594]: 59 88 4f 28 ca 31 77 2b 1e 94 ad 8b b2 d4 2e 70 3a 4f a1 98 9a b3 8f Jan 25 22:37:32 butler pppd[10594]: rcvd [proto=0xfd] 02 b1 7d d0 1c 05 87 e0 0b 60 aa 71 a8 d4 9c 56 66 98 21 3d 96 c6 6b 7e 96 6f 67 16 73 67 50 6f 67 76 79 67 b5 4c 06 37 fc 82 61 3a 4d d6 89 42 f4 b8 9c b9 6f 98 a8 35 28 31 f7 78 89 8f 64 59 92 91 d7 60 79 61 7a 9e e2 da 06 51 7c 77 39 Jan 25 22:37:32 butler pppd[10594]: 9c 6d 81 c8 4b 15 03 06 51 49 2c 0a 05 2d d4 c2 77 a5 2b 83 c2 e3 33 e2 71 4b f3 e0 26 74 94 06 d6 6d 27 02 f5 8d 39 ae 40 39 80 4e 14 9f 66 92 5c 7b 09 e6 67 b6 74 3e c9 ea 02 06 78 67 a2 61 67 d8 a9 62 98 98 25 78 ed 68 a9 f6 37 59 a0 18 06 20 2f 12 6e Jan 25 22:37:32 butler pppd[10594]: 27 00 20 06 d1 d6 4a e4 b0 4b 24 b4 2e 22 df 97 65 d5 3e 42 e9 77 b2 7e 90 f1 a8 9f c9 8e 75 af this stuff goes on for about 5 pages within less than a second. it slows down the connection drastically. if anyone has any idea at all what it could be could you please tell me. the debug option has been turned off but no effect. i look forward to a response thanks in advance from da Bobstopper
Re: Make menuconfig dependency not met
i get exactly the same error and have to use xconfig instead (which i don't like as much). i'd say it's a bug somewhere. can anyone tell me different? from da Bobstopper > Can anyone drop me a line to say what I've forgotten to install? > > enterprise:/usr/src/linux# make menuconfig > rm -f include/asm > ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) > make -C scripts/lxdialog all > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/scripts/lxdialog' > find: /usr/local/lib/: No such file or directory > gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -DLOCALE > -DCURSES_LOC="< > curses.h>" -c -o lxdialog.o lxdialog.c > In file included from lxdialog.c:22: > dialog.h:29: curses.h: No such file or directory > make[1]: *** [lxdialog.o] Error 1 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/scripts/lxdialog' > make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2 > > Thanks. > > Patrick > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: weird ppp output
> Robert Marlow wrote: > > I've been getting weird protocol junk on my ppp logs: > > > > > > > this fills my log files in a rediculous manner and lags all internet > > traffic, eventually causing the ppp connection to be killed. has anyone seen > > this before and can tell me what the problem is? the ppp connection is > > between Debian Linux and Microsoft NT. > > > > thanks > > > > da Bobstopper > > (Robert Marlow) > > Look in /etc/ppp/options. If the debug option is enabled, you see all > the packets, according to the blurb. You can safely comment out this > line. It's around line 150. > > It also mentions that there is extra debugging available as a compile > time option, but this shouldn't apply if you're using the stock debian > version. > > -- > Regards, > Paul > This isn't my problem exactly. I've recently checked the snip that I actually sent and it turns out it's not a good example of what's actually happening. That debugging stuff fills several screenfuls in less than a second. generally a session of screen filling debug output will end in something like rcvd protreject and stuff like that. i've seen the protreject elsewhere and it hasn't seemed to be a problem before (all though i would like to know what it is) but i've never gotten this much junk come up on my logs before. it seems to be creating excessive traffic that lags the connection and eventually kills it. i've ceased all user traffic that i'm aware of to check if it still continues and it does. another interesting thing is it seems to kill the connection after about 4 hours. this is a ppp connection which i've proven to be permanent and shouldn't be killed by the isp. it's set to dial on demand (using the demand option for pppd) but without the idle option specified. is that seemingly excessive junk what's causing the connections to die as i suspect or is it something else i may be overlooking? thanks from da Bobstopper
