Re: less than useful dselect/dpkg error msg

1997-11-17 Thread csmall
Bill Leach wrote: Receiving error messages such as the following: Linux# dpkg --configure fvwm2 dpkg: error processing fvwm2 (--configure): package fvwm2 is not ready for configuration cannot configure (current status `installed') Errors were encountered

Re: Problem Installing Debian Linux

1997-11-17 Thread Sten Anderson
Rob Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello tried to install Debian the other nite. I have partitioned my drive 750-250Mbs for debian on the 250Mbs I boot the rescue disk and it starts install then it reaches this error message Probing PCI hardware Warning unknown PCI device (1039:5107)

Re: user questions

1997-11-17 Thread Will Lowe
On 16 Nov 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sten Anderson writes: A list only for us newbies would result in a lot of questions and no answers. We need a list that is read both by newbies and experienced users. As I recall, the idea was that experienced users would explicitly assign

Re: Q: Pointer for libc6 upgrade

1997-11-17 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Sat, 15 Nov 1997, Matthew Majka wrote: Can someone give me a pionter to some info on upgrading a system to libc6? I'd like to start using XFree86-3.3.1 for some of it's bug fixes and the new debian packages are libc6 dependent. Read the Libc5 to Libc6 mini-HOWTO that is posted to this

RE: libc5 to libc6: purge or install *-dev?

1997-11-17 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Sun, 16 Nov 1997, George Bonser wrote: Didn't save me. I followd the instructions on an old test system here and STILL managed to blow it up. I was tired and cranky ... got to the part where I manuall did a dpkg on libc6 ... but it conflicts with libc5 ... (dpkg -i

Re: Problem Installing Debian Linux

1997-11-17 Thread Bruce Perens
I guess you don't get to the menu? The message would not be fatal in itself. Is that the last statement the system prints, and does it hang after that? If your BIOS lets you disable plug-and-play and set fixed interrupts for your devices, do that. Thanks Bruce -- Can you get

Re: Problem Installing Debian Linux

1997-11-17 Thread Bruce Perens
It's possible this device is in the development kernel. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO

Re: Sendmail and email addresses with ip address

1997-11-17 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 15-Nov-97 R. Chris Ross wrote: If I send a message out via sendmail that has [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do you have a static IP address ? This scheme won't do you much good if you don't. -- _ _ Steve Kostecke|

Re: X11 Installation

1997-11-17 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Sun, 16 Nov 1997, Alex Yukhimets wrote: I have a few problems installing X11 on my Debian system; it seems that the video will not work. I have a Matrox Millenium-II card (w/ 4MB WRAM) and a 15 NEC MultiSync 4FG monitor. I looked up compatibility problems and I have seen that the

Re: Sendmail and email addresses with ip address

1997-11-17 Thread George Bonser
Hmmm, I thought he ment he was sending mail TO someone with an address of [EMAIL PROTECTED], if you have a dynamic-ip you can always get a dyn.ml.org domain. THey have a web page where you update the ip-address to be associated with the hostname when you connect to the net. Last time I looked,

Re: user questions

1997-11-17 Thread Sten Anderson
Will Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, I like to read and answer questions on both -devel and -user. But since (i think) most newbie questions have been answered 500 times already (why else would we call them newbie questions?) what we need is a way to direct people to these answers

Re: X11 Installation

1997-11-17 Thread Alex Yukhimets
you card is supported (partially at least) by Xfree86-3.1.1 release. Debian doesn't have this release in stable. I would suggest you to install debian packages for xserver-svga and -vga16, download only SVGA server from xfree86 site and copy it over existing server installed by debian

Re: user questions

1997-11-17 Thread Dale Scheetz
On 16 Nov 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From a recent posting on comp.os.linux.setup: Support from the Debian list was practically non-existant. One reply came on the mailing list in response to a question: not very helpful. This guy dumped Debian in favor of Red Hat. Those choices are

Re: Has anyone bought the debian book and cds?

1997-11-17 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Sat, 15 Nov 1997, butch wrote: Hello, well i was in JR music worlds computer store and i saw the set- ,and they have a really good price on it. has anyone bought it and what are your opinions of the value for money? I believe that you are asking about my current book on Debian. I asked

Re: less than useful dselect/dpkg error msg

1997-11-17 Thread Bill Leach
Hey Dale: me: are pretty much useless. This sort of error message reminds me of Red Hat's RPM! Ooooh, that was nasty ;-) Yes, and it is only one that has actually USED RPM that can truely appreciate just HOW nasty that remark was. That is, one that has used RPM and has since used

ppp error question

1997-11-17 Thread Shaleh
I received this last night: Excessive lack of response to LCP echo frames connection terminated What does this mean? I had to reboot because my box quit seeing my modem. setserial would say /dev/modem, unknown UART, 0x2f8 irq 3 with `setserial /dev/modem`. It is an internal Best Data uses dip

Re: less than useful dselect/dpkg error msg

1997-11-17 Thread Bill Leach
Hamish wrote: Something like that. I agree that not ready for configuration is not the best message. Perhaps you could file a bug against dpkg? Checked and there already is one filed. Thanks, best, -bill Get free e-mail and a

Re: Has anyone bought the debian book and cds?

1997-11-17 Thread George Bonser
On 17-Nov-97 Dale Scheetz wrote: As the author, I feel unqualified to speak to the book's quality, or usefulness. For that I must rely on feedback from folks who have actually tried to use its help. There is a freely distributable html version of the book that can be obtained from

Re: Q: Pointer for libc6 upgrade

1997-11-17 Thread Bill Leach
Remco wrote: ... One really important thing: do not force dpkg to install or remove anything. The dependancies and conflicts are there for a reason. There have already been many that screwed up by forcing dpkg to do not-so-smart things. I am one of them, but I upgraded before the HOWTO was

Re: user questions

1997-11-17 Thread Will Lowe
On Sun, 16 Nov 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: folks go away with an answer, but an unsatisfied feeling. I suspect for some the name debian-user implies that only users subscribe to the list, making it a 'chat room'. Hmm. Yes, it seems that some don't understand that debian-user is meant for the

Re: help - CDrom file format

1997-11-17 Thread Carey Evans
JD Thomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can anyone give me pointers to a Debian utility that could give me the file system type that Debian so sucessfully has mounted? Apparently it's not iso9660, or at least FBSD won't mount it as iso9660. FBSD will mount other CDs as iso9660. Type

Pentium error

1997-11-17 Thread Lukas Eppler
There was a message in my newspaper this morning (Tages-Anzeiger,17.Nov.97, Switzerland, www.tages-anzeiger.ch) Which said the following (translated, my english isn't perfect) - New Pentium bug Intel has confirmed the Bug in their Pentium chips which was discovered recently, with which a

patgen

1997-11-17 Thread Johann Spies
Hallo, As far as my knowledge go, there is no hyphenation-file for Afrikaans. I discovered patgen on my filesystem and want to try it out on a file with hyphenated words I have built up. Unfortunately the man-page (Tetex on Linux) does not explain what the so-called translate file means.

Re: Pentium error

1997-11-17 Thread Philippe Troin
On Fri, 08 Mar 1996 15:26:15 +0100 Lukas Eppler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: There was a message in my newspaper this morning (Tages-Anzeiger,17.Nov.97, Switzerland, www.tages-anzeiger.ch) Which said the following (translated, my english isn't perfect) - New Pentium bug Intel has

Re: Pentium error

1997-11-17 Thread Philippe Troin
On Mon, 17 Nov 1997 00:13:35 +0800 I wrote: 2) Intel has been estonishingly linux-friendly (Linux went to their -^ headquarters discussing the linux patch, they mention Linux on the web page they devoted to the bug) You should

Re: Pentium error

1997-11-17 Thread George Bonser
On 16-Nov-97 Philippe Troin wrote: 3) NT is not multi-user, it's sequential multi-user (and even that, badly). I mean, you cannot telnet onto an NT box and crash an other user session (hence sequential). Furthermore, IMHO, it doesn't need a pentium bug to crash it. You are wrong

Re: Pentium error

1997-11-17 Thread Philippe Troin
On Mon, 17 Nov 1997 00:21:04 PST George Bonser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On 16-Nov-97 Philippe Troin wrote: 3) NT is not multi-user, it's sequential multi-user (and even that, badly). I mean, you cannot telnet onto an NT box and crash an other user session (hence sequential).

Re: Pentium error

1997-11-17 Thread George Bonser
There is a telnet daemon for NT. I do not know what it is called, but I have seen it in use. On 16-Nov-97 Philippe Troin wrote: On Mon, 17 Nov 1997 00:21:04 PST George Bonser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On 16-Nov-97 Philippe Troin wrote: 3) NT is not multi-user, it's sequential

Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux

1997-11-17 Thread Philippe Troin
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux Philippe Troin, [EMAIL PROTECTED] $Id: packages.sgml,v 1.59 1997/11/17 08:54:03 phil Exp $ 1. General Questions 1.1. Before reading this document You should have read the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/. 1.2.

Re: HELP! Broke X, vi

1997-11-17 Thread Andrew J Tarr
On Sun, 16 Nov 1997, Andrew J Tarr wrote: Cheerfully trying to edit a new file, I got into the help minibuffer to find out an Xemacs command. I tried loading a file, and got an error message. I moved to the *scratch* buffer, but that turned out to be the help minibuffer also. I then kept

Re: Pentium error

1997-11-17 Thread Carey Evans
Lukas Eppler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: New Pentium bug [snip] This sounds like a don't use linux statement from intel. They don't even mention Windows NT, which is a multi user platform, too. And why the hell has this something to do with multi user systems? Is the mentioned code in use

Re: Repost: Interesting Networking Problem

1997-11-17 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Wed, 29 Oct 1997, Kevin Traas wrote: So, at first, I thought it might be just a routing problem - timout's somewhere - but that doesn't explain why systems behind the router are still accessible normally. Because the routes to the IP addresses of the system 'behind' may be static, have other

Re: ppp error question

1997-11-17 Thread Dima
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: I received this last night: Excessive lack of response to LCP echo frames connection terminated In /etc/ppp/options there's a number of lcp-echo* options. Comment them out. What does this mean? ppp sends out echo-requests to see if the link is up. If

cannot install gimp in unstable

1997-11-17 Thread Joop Stakenborg
Hi, I tried to install gimp from the hamm/unstable distribution. Gimp 0.99.14-1 asks for gimp-data-min, which I cannot seem to find. There is a gimp-data but not gimp-data-min. Does anyone know how to solve this? Joop -- To reply remove the underscore from my e-mail address -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: cannot install gimp in unstable

1997-11-17 Thread Brian M. Rectanus
see: http://www.aca.imsa.edu/~che/debian/gimp/ -Brian Hi, I tried to install gimp from the hamm/unstable distribution. Gimp 0.99.14-1 asks for gimp-data-min, which I cannot seem to find. There is a gimp-data but not gimp-data-min. Does anyone know how to solve this? Joop -- To

where is libXxf86dga?

1997-11-17 Thread Lawrence
Anyone knows whether is the libXxf86dga library? Is it part of the XFree86 packages? Lawrence -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: cannot install gimp in unstable

1997-11-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
Joop Stakenborg wrote: Hi, I tried to install gimp from the hamm/unstable distribution. Gimp 0.99.14-1 asks for gimp-data-min, which I cannot seem to find. There is a gimp-data but not gimp-data-min. Does anyone know how to solve this? I got it from Incoming at master.debian.org;

Tear-Drop (ip_fragment bug) anyone apply the patch?

1997-11-17 Thread Christopher Wong
There has been a severe bug discovered in all implementations of Linux kernels up to 2.0.31 and 2.1.62 (development) which can be used to remotely crash or reboot your Linux system. http://www.linux.efnet.ca/ip_fragment.shtml. also info at: www.linux.org I'm about to apply the patch. Has

Removing obsolete packages

1997-11-17 Thread Lukas Eppler
Hi, When I remove a package, which contains files also contained in other packages, is it removed? Or, if I remove a file from perl-base, is /usr/bin/perl still there afterwards, because it's contained in the perl package? Do I risk perl and dpkg to be unable to run by removing perl-base? The

Re: pgp versions

1997-11-17 Thread ioannis
Since you live in Florida, I say, pgp-us is the way to go; not only you will have peace of mind for not breaking the law if you not licensed, but you will might also save some hard disk space in the long run -- some packages might install the mit libraries anyway. Both pgp

Re: lesstifg-dev problems

1997-11-17 Thread jdassen
On Sat, Nov 15, 1997 at 01:30:15AM -0500, Colin R. Telmer wrote: I have just recently upgraded to lesstifg and lesstifg-dev to recompile a package I maintain using libc6 stuff. After installing the newest versions, the make seems to fail when looking for Xm.h: make[2]: Entering directory

Re: Pentium Bug Fix for Linux?

1997-11-17 Thread Alair Pereira do Lago
Olivier THARAN [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Nov 14, 1997 at 09:25:45AM +0100, Kevin Traas wrote: I just heard on BugTraq that there's now a bugfix available for Linux Anyone heard of it or where it might be obtained? It's in the latest 2.1.63 kernel, and hopefully will be

Re: re-thinking partitions

1997-11-17 Thread Otavio Exel
- are symlinks really fast? Quite, except on NFS. could you be more specific? could you describe a situation where symlinks would slow-down things and a possible solution eliminating thesymlink? Normally, no NFS data is cached on the client, which means that for a small file,

Re: Tear-Drop (ip_fragment bug) anyone apply the patch?

1997-11-17 Thread A. M. Varon
On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Christopher Wong wrote: There has been a severe bug discovered in all implementations of Linux kernels up to 2.0.31 and 2.1.62 (development) which can be used to remotely crash or reboot your Linux system. http://www.linux.efnet.ca/ip_fragment.shtml. also info at:

Re: Has anyone bought the debian book and cds?

1997-11-17 Thread Tim Ferrell
On 16 Nov, George Bonser let loose with: As for hardcopy, I dunno, seems to me that the thing is changing too fast. By the time the book gets broken in it is obsolete since Debian tends to evolve so quickly. What I would like to see is a book in a binder where update pages can be made

Removing obsolete packages

1997-11-17 Thread Dirk Bonne
Lukas == Lukas Eppler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lukas Hi, When I remove a package, which contains files also Lukas contained in other packages, is it removed? Lukas Or, if I remove a file from perl-base, is /usr/bin/perl Lukas still there afterwards, because it's contained in

ncurses3.4

1997-11-17 Thread Daniel Doro Ferrante
Hi All ! I have just tried to install ncurses3.4 (from unstable - hamm/base) and when it gets to the post-installation script it gives me a segmentation fault. Any ideas? Thanks, Daniel.

Re: Tear-Drop (ip_fragment bug) anyone apply the patch?

1997-11-17 Thread Ferenc Kiraly
Hi! There has been a severe bug discovered in all implementations of Linux kernels up to 2.0.31 and 2.1.62 (development) which can be used to remotely crash or reboot your Linux system. http://www.linux.efnet.ca/ip_fragment.shtml. also info at: www.linux.org I'm about to apply

libc6

1997-11-17 Thread Daniel Doro Ferrante
Hi All ! I posted (a few minutes ago ;) ) an email asking why the installation of curses3.4 gave me a seg-fault. What I forgot to mention is that I have jsut upgraded from libc5 - libc6 (commom, dev, dbg), and perhaps this would have something to do with the above fault. By the

Re: re-thinking partitions

1997-11-17 Thread Philippe Troin
On Mon, 17 Nov 1997 11:17:51 GMT Otavio Exel ([EMAIL PROTECTED] ) wrote: - are symlinks really fast? Quite, except on NFS. could you be more specific? could you describe a situation where symlinks would slow-down things and a possible solution eliminating thesymlink?

Re: rvplayer installer

1997-11-17 Thread Steve Kostecke
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Nielsen) writes: [snip] Is there any way to get it to work as a plugin for Netscape, short of upgrading to hamm? I understand the problem is really with bash-2.0 in bo. Would downgrading to the rex version of bash work without

Re: Has anyone bought the debian book and cds?

1997-11-17 Thread Bill Leach
Dale wrote: ... The list price of book is $37.95. Some stores discount it. As to its value --- yes, you can find Debian cheaper. However, both a useful book and 30 days of technical support are included with the product. We aren't aware of any other companies offering support with their

Ports using X

1997-11-17 Thread Sudhir Patel
Hello, Can someone tell me how to find out which ports X uses. Example : If I run XVision from win95 and connect to a remote client how can I find out which port is being used at the remote machine. This may not make a bunch of sense but if you can decipher it please let me know the answer.

virus trashing LILO?

1997-11-17 Thread Gustaf Erikson
This is something I saw on Usenet: that a virus can infest the boot sector of a Win95/Linux machine and trash Linux via LOADLIN. Am I being terribly naive in thinking that the same might apply when you boot via LILO? As far as I can remember, my LILO resides on the bootable part of my Linux

Re: ppp error question

1997-11-17 Thread Daniel Martin
On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Dima wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: I received this last night: Excessive lack of response to LCP echo frames connection terminated In /etc/ppp/options there's a number of lcp-echo* options. Comment them out. What does this mean? ppp sends

The continuing laptop video saga...

1997-11-17 Thread Andrew Akins
Once again, thanks to everyone who has offered me help setting up my CL-GD7543 for X. Current Status: It works! The magic combination that worked was to treat the board as a GD5428 with the noaccel option. Ta da...800x600 in 8 and 16 bpp modes! Current Problem: The mouse cursor is garbled. It

Re: ppp error question

1997-11-17 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Shaleh wrote: I received this last night: Excessive lack of response to LCP echo frames connection terminated What does this mean? I had to reboot because my box quit seeing my modem. setserial would say /dev/modem, unknown UART, 0x2f8 irq 3 with `setserial

joe in unstable

1997-11-17 Thread kestrel
just upgraded to the joe in unstable (2.8-7.1 ) and now it only displays on half my screen (using vgamode 1 (50 lines instead of 25 lines) I tried setting the LINES environment variable and using stty line 50 but it didn't change anything, any ideas on whats wrong or is this a bug?

qpopper and qmail

1997-11-17 Thread ken
Hello, I'm having a little trouble getting qpopper_2.2-4 to work with qmail_1.01-1 on a bo system. I rebuilt the qpopper package with the changes suggested in the qmail package for $HOME mailboxes. The problems I am having have to do with inability to create and use the temporary maildrop file

Re: Pentium error

1997-11-17 Thread john
Carey Evans writes: There was a Perl script posted to BugTraq that would search for the f00f opcodes in a program, and a C program that wouldn't get noticed but would crash anyway. You would have to scan all memory that is both writable and executable as well as the text pages to defend

Re: ppp error question

1997-11-17 Thread john
Shaleh writes: I had to reboot because my box quit seeing my modem. setserial would say /dev/modem, unknown UART, 0x2f8 irq 3 with `setserial /dev/modem`. It is an internal Best Data uses dip switches and has served me faithfully for many moons. Is there some way to reset a modem without a

Incorrect no room message on nfs-mounted /var/lib/dpkg

1997-11-17 Thread David Gaudine
I installed the Debian 1.3.1 base system from diskettes, on a system that has only 32 megs disk space (not counting the swap partition). I copied /usr and /var/lib/dpkg to a larger system (this one) and did NFS mounts; Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on

user questions .. Thanks

1997-11-17 Thread John Scroggins
the discussion on help for novice users of Debian is of great importance to me, as I am a that person . i have monitored this user list and have to say there IS a lot of assistance out there i have well over 900 pieces of mail in my mail folder. This is not a list which is used time to

Re: user questions.

1997-11-17 Thread tmalloy
One of the posters to this thread noted that even if a question has been posted 500 times the 501 questioner is entitled to an answer. I agree with this. However a lost opportunity occurs when the same people reanswer the question. Answering questions is itself edifying. Ask anyone who has

Re: Has anyone bought the debian book and cds?

1997-11-17 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Bill Leach wrote: The usefulness of this RedHat technical support for me however, proved to worthless. Tech support registration and receipt of 'trouble tracking numbers' turned out to be the only part of their system that functioned. NO email response beyond the

PAP PPP, take 3

1997-11-17 Thread Rick Hawkins
I've bumped the debug level, as suggested. It gives me all kinds of messages, which make absolutely no sense to me :( I've clipped them, in pieces (still haven't figured out how to increase plog's length). This all is after the notice that the ppp connection has been made, but before it works.

My Laptop Video

1997-11-17 Thread Andrew Akins
Many thanks to everyone who gave me help. The final working configuration for my Cirrus Logic GD7543: Section Device Identifier GD7543 VendorName Cirrus Logic BoardName Cirrus Logic GD7543 Chipsetgd5428 Option noaccel Videoram 1024 MemBase

Annoying Newbie Questions...

1997-11-17 Thread Andrew Akins
Can anyone direct me to a newbie FAQ or manual/guide to using (not installing) X? I imagine my questions are pretty rote, and I'm sure someone has written them down somewhere...but all of the HOWTOs and such that I have found are on installing X (which is done! Yeah!). An example: When I start

Re: Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux

1997-11-17 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Philippe Troin wrote: Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux Philippe Troin, [EMAIL PROTECTED] $Id: packages.sgml,v 1.59 1997/11/17 08:54:03 phil Exp $ [...] o Branden Robinson mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] is working on xtrs. The above address is

Re: Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux

1997-11-17 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Branden Robinson wrote: On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Philippe Troin wrote: o Branden Robinson mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] is working on xtrs. The above address is bogus; the domain does not exist and mail sent there will bounce. Please use [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Oops.

Re: Has anyone bought the debian book and cds?

1997-11-17 Thread Tim Ferrell
On 17 Nov, Bill Leach let loose with: The usefulness of this RedHat technical support for me however, proved to worthless. Tech support registration and receipt of 'trouble tracking numbers' turned out to be the only part of their system that functioned. NO email response beyond the

Re: Ports using X

1997-11-17 Thread Igor Grobman
try netstat -a Hello, Can someone tell me how to find out which ports X uses. Example : If I run XVision from win95 and connect to a remote client how can I find out which port is being used at the remote machine. This may not make a bunch of sense but if you can decipher it please let

Re: cannot install gimp in unstable

1997-11-17 Thread Steve Mayer
Joop, Try going to ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/0.99/DEBIAN (I believe that this is the path. Might want to check this out by going there. The files are located in this directory. Gimp works fine here now. Steve Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Joop Stakenborg wrote: Hi, I tried to install gimp from

Re: PAP PPP, take 3

1997-11-17 Thread Alex Yukhimets
I've bumped the debug level, as suggested. It gives me all kinds of messages, which make absolutely no sense to me :( I've clipped them, in pieces (still haven't figured out how to increase plog's length). This all is after the notice that the ppp connection has been made, but before it

Re: ppp error question

1997-11-17 Thread Shaleh
First, last night was the first time I have seen that error. Been using it for months. No change on the ISP end. Second, /dev/modem is symlinked to /dev/ttyS1. So in my case /dev/modem is right. I also tried /dev/ttyS1 just in case. Dima wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: I

LILO problems with NT OS loader

1997-11-17 Thread Robert Goodwin
Hi there, I'm having a bit of a problem getting my OS loader to boot Linux using LILO. I downloaded some instructions from www.windows-nt.com/multiboot on this but they aren't working correctly although it seems like they should. what I've done is first installed LILO in the superblock of my

StarOffice31 setup problem

1997-11-17 Thread Victor Torrico
Hello All, StarOffice31 installs fine using the staroffice3 -4.deb installer. When I run the setup script all I get is segmentation faults. Using all the latest hamm/hamm stuff. What must I do to run the setup script properly? Has anyone been able to get StarOffice31 running properly using

Re: virus trashing LILO?

1997-11-17 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Gustaf Erikson wrote: This is something I saw on Usenet: that a virus can infest the boot sector of a Win95/Linux machine and trash Linux via LOADLIN. Am I being terribly naive in thinking that the same might apply when you boot via LILO? As far as I can remember, my

Re: xmcd_2.2-4.deb problems

1997-11-17 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Sat, Nov 15, 1997 at 07:27:43PM -0800, Jason Wright wrote: Setting the binary +s allowed it to run, and start sucking all available memory: overmind:/var/adm ] ps -auxww | grep xmcd peewee 28825 0.0 0.5 836 360 p0 S 19:17 0:00 grep xmcd root 28809 43.3 50.7 64088

Re: Q: Pointer for libc6 upgrade

1997-11-17 Thread Mark W. Eichin
I have used --force-depends now quite a few times without being Not to pick on you in particular, but I can't emphasize this enough: if you use --force-depends while doing an upgrade from libc5 to libc6, you *will* hurt yourself. Practically guaranteed. Really, honest! :-) There are *other*

No PPP kernel support....

1997-11-17 Thread Kevin Traas
I've got a friend that I'm trying to support over the phone He's getting the above error when trying to run pon. I've gone through all the obvious things, but have had no success. Does anyone have any ideas? - Running lsmod showed ppp loaded. - Rebuilding kernel with static ppp support

[Q] Matrox Millennium II

1997-11-17 Thread Pedro Quaresma de Almeida
Hi The Matrox Millennium II is already supported or is it still in experimental support stage? I have read the supported hardware info file that says There is experimental support for the Matrox Millennium II, which for the most part works, but DO NOT USE THIS ON PRODUCTION SYSTEMS (...) Is it

mp3 to wav

1997-11-17 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! Anyone know of something that does mp3 to wav conversion? TIA! Salutacions, Pere __o mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2:343/108.91 - _`\;_ http://casal.upc.es/~pere/ PGP key available --- (_)/ (_)Lo importante es el concepto -- TO

Re: PAP PPP, take 3

1997-11-17 Thread Rick Hawkins
From the log you included in your message I see that another peer does not respond to anything except echo-requests. I don't know what stage you are on though, could you please send the complete log. (I don't see, for example, how pap authorization came through) Without the debugging, It

New Deity Members

1997-11-17 Thread Brian White
The Deity team is still looking for a couple more members to help with implementation. If you'd like to help, please send me some mail with your experience and qualifications. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] )

Re: Pentium error

1997-11-17 Thread Adam Shand
There is a telnet daemon for NT. I do not know what it is called, but I have seen it in use. There is a telnetd for NT (I have a copy lying around somewhere) but unless they have improved it dramitically it has some... err, problems. Like you can't have more then one person logged into it at

a bit more on that PPP PAP

1997-11-17 Thread Rick Hawkins
It just occurred to me that I haven't set anything for PPP to tell it an initial route to the world, other than including the nameserver IP's in /etc. Is there something I should be setting in /etc/options_out? rick -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to

Re: ncurses3.4

1997-11-17 Thread Galen Hazelwood
The only thing that the ncurses3.4 postinst script does is run ldconfig. If your system is so messed up that ldconfig always seg faults, then god help you, because I can't. :) What versions of ld.so, libc5, and libc6 do you have installed? --Galen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

transproxy - wrong entry in /etc/services

1997-11-17 Thread Peter Prohaska
hi, I'm a new to debian, so perhaps thats outdated... --- /etc/services --- #-- transproxy begin tproxy tcp/81 # Transparent Proxy #-- transproxy end Think it should be *81/tcp* (usind 1.3.1) ahoy, reaX. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to

/etc/hostname -- FQDN?

1997-11-17 Thread Peter Prohaska
hi, do I have to put the FQDN in here? And where is that information used for if I've got that /etc/hosts file to handle local lookups. If I have two inferfaces with different IP-adds, it is also possible that my host is known with two different names, isn't it? So whats his hostname then?

Re: mounting

1997-11-17 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Sat, 15 Nov 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 97-11-15 01:46:49 EST, you write: Beyond the basics of mounting,fstab, and other items of mass destruction I was wondering in general what is a good way to partition the system. Ive got three HD on the system hda1 - Around 2

My neverending unstable xlib6 / xcontrib saga

1997-11-17 Thread bn711
Hi! I haven't seen any other messages on the list or bug reports about this, so maybe I'm overlooking something really basic... Anyway, the problem is: I have tried each successive version of xlib6 from unstable after 3.3-5, (the latest of which being 3.3.1-2), and even though Motif apps work

RE: 1.3.1 Setup with ULTRA DMA disk

1997-11-17 Thread Alex Monaghan
[snip] When booting from the rescue disk it finds ide0 at irq14 and ide1 at irq = 15 and all works OK, when booting via LILO or via the install process's = boot disk it finds ide0 at irq 7 and the md driver fails to load and the = boot process stops. Any suggestions ? Yes, while the BIOS

Re: The continuing laptop video saga...

1997-11-17 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Andrew Akins wrote: Once again, thanks to everyone who has offered me help setting up my CL-GD7543 for X. Current Status: It works! The magic combination that worked was to treat the board as a GD5428 with the noaccel option. Ta da...800x600 in 8 and 16 bpp modes! Current Problem: The

Re: ppp error question

1997-11-17 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Daniel Martin wrote: On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Dima wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: I received this last night: Excessive lack of response to LCP echo frames connection terminated In /etc/ppp/options there's a number of lcp-echo* options. Comment them out. What

Re: Annoying Newbie Questions...

1997-11-17 Thread Sten Anderson
Andrew Akins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can anyone direct me to a newbie FAQ or manual/guide to using (not installing) X? There are probably hundreds of pages on the web, so altavista might be a good starting point. My bookmarks contain the following recommended sites:

Re: PAP PPP, take 3

1997-11-17 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote: I've bumped the debug level, as suggested. It gives me all kinds of messages, which make absolutely no sense to me :( I've clipped them, in pieces (still haven't figured out how to increase plog's length). Nov 17 11:52:10 nest pppd[995]: rcvd [LCP

Re: Problem Installing Debian Linux

1997-11-17 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Sun, 16 Nov 1997, Rob Green wrote: Probing PCI hardware Warning unknown PCI device (1039:5107) please read include/linux/pci.h These warnings as far as I know are harmless as i have been told. O get lots of them but my system continues to work fine.

Re: Q: Pointer for libc6 upgrade

1997-11-17 Thread Bill Leach
Mark, I agree with you. Indeed, in retrospect, I can see that it was a rather bad idea for me to even mention using --force in a message with that subject! Scott's mini-HOWTO is quite good and there is only ONE statement that is not completely clear to me. If you wish to do libc6 development,