Re: Q: Pointer for libc6 upgrade

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 developmen

Re: Problem Installing Debian Linux

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: PAP & PPP, take 3

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

Re: Annoying Newbie Questions...

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: http://www.rahul

Re: ppp error question

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. > > Com

Re: The continuing laptop video saga...

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 Probl

RE: 1.3.1 Setup with ULTRA DMA disk

[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

My neverending unstable xlib6 / xcontrib saga

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 fin

Re: mounting

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 - Aro

Re: ncurses3.4

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: e-

/etc/hostname <-- FQDN?

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? con

transproxy -> wrong entry in /etc/services

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

a bit more on that PPP & PAP

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 [EM

Re: Pentium error

> 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

New Deity Members

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: PAP & PPP, take 3

> 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

mp3 to wav

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

[Q] Matrox Millennium II

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 i

No PPP kernel support....

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 d

Re: Q: Pointer for libc6 upgrade

> 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*

Re: xmcd_2.2-4.deb problems

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: virus trashing LILO?

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, m

StarOffice31 setup problem

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 all

Re: ppp error question

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: >

LILO problems with NT OS loader

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 l

Re: PAP & PPP, take 3

> 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

Re: cannot install gimp in unstable

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 fro

Re: Ports using X

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 plea

Re: Has anyone bought the debian book and cds?

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 au

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

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

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

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 is >working on xtrs. The above address

Annoying Newbie Questions...

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 em

My Laptop Video

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" Chipset"gd5428" Option "noaccel" Videoram 1024 MemB

PAP & PPP, take 3

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.

Re: Has anyone bought the debian book and cds?

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 a

Re: user questions.

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 taugh

user questions .. Thanks

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 ti

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

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 /dev/

Re: ppp error question

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

Re: Pentium error

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 agai

qpopper and qmail

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 i

joe in unstable

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? G'

Re: ppp error question

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

The continuing laptop video saga...

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 app

Re: ppp error question

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?

virus trashing LILO?

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 parti

Ports using X

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. than

Re: Has anyone bought the debian book and cds?

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 the

Re: rvplayer installer

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: re-thinking partitions

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 > > >

libc6

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

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 t

ncurses3.4

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. ___

Removing obsolete packages

> "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 con

Re: Has anyone bought the debian book and cds?

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

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

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 a

Re: re-thinking partitions

> > > > - 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 sm

Re: Pentium Bug Fix for Linux?

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 wi

Re: lesstifg-dev problems

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 direc

Re: pgp versions

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 prog

Removing obsolete packages

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 fo

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

"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 anyo

Re: cannot install gimp in unstable

"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.debia

where is libXxf86dga?

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

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 >

cannot install gimp in unstable

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 FR

Re: ppp error question

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

Re: Repost: Interesting Networking Problem

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 oth

Re: Pentium error

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

Re: HELP! Broke X, vi

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

Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux

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 . 1.2. P

Re: Pentium error

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 sequenti

Re: Pentium error

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 sequenti

Re: Pentium error

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 wr

Re: Pentium error

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 shoul

Re: Pentium error

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 > > Inte

patgen

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 means. How do I use pa

Pentium error

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 P

Re: help - CDrom file format

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. Ty

Re: user questions

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 th

Re: Q: Pointer for libc6 upgrade

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: Has anyone bought the debian book and cds?

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 www.l

Re: less than useful dselect/dpkg error msg

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

ppp error question

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

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 dse

Re: Has anyone bought the debian book and cds?

On Sat, 15 Nov 1997, butch wrote: > Hello, > > well i was in J&R 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

Re: user questions

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 cho

Re: X11 Installation

> > 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

Re: user questions

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: Sendmail and email addresses with ip address

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, it

Re: X11 Installation

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 t

Re: Sendmail and email addresses with ip address

> 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: Problem Installing Debian Linux

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 UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Problem Installing Debian Linux

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 you

Re: access to mount filesystems

On 16 Nov 1997, Torsten Hilbrich wrote: > Paul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I want users only in certain groups to be able to mount specific > > filesystems.. eg > > > > floppy = /dev/fd0 (floppy drive) > > cdrom = /dev/hdd (ide cdrom) > > staff /dev/hda1 (dos) > > > > If I use

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

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 > libc6_2.0.4-1.i38

Re: Q: Pointer for libc6 upgrade

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: user questions

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 assig

Re: Problem Installing Debian Linux

"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

Re: less than useful dselect/dpkg error msg

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 encounte

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