Re: debian-user-digest Digest V100 #424

2000-03-10 Thread Jim McCloskey
|> [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ~/Mest/Percep$ latex UserGuide.tex |> This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.2) |> I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'! I assume you installed from a CD? There is an obscure date-related bug in the TeTeX distribution, which means that initex cannot run to produce the

Re: XF86-4.0 and potato?

2000-03-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 09:20:18PM +, Paul J. Keenan wrote: > On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 08:13:53AM -0700, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > > > > > Any odds we'll get XF-4.0 in Potato now that it's officially released? > > is there a good way to get it installed, other than go compile source? > > I l

dselect fails w/ dselect: failed to getch in main menu: Success

2000-03-10 Thread Clint Guillot
I haven't looked into this as vigilantly as I should have, but today, I allowed dselect to update things from the current frozen dist in conjunction with installing a new package. After the install finished, running dselect works to the menu, but fails on selecting any option with the message: ds

RE: JDK 1.1.7 doesn't swing

2000-03-10 Thread Craig Coles
Hi Seth, Thanks for the info, unfortunately nothing helps! ldconfig didn't help, jar placement hasn't helped, and the xlib6g-dev package was already installed. Also tried getting the original 117 package from Steve Byrne's site and it does the same thing... Anyone with success using Swing on De

Virtual desktop

2000-03-10 Thread Hans
I configured my /etc/XF86Config with three modelines (640x480, 800x600 and 1024x768) and the rest like this... Section "Screen" Driver "SVGA" Device "Primary Card" Monitor "Primary Monitor" DefaultColorDepth 16 BlankTime 0 SuspendTime 0 OffT

Re: kernel 2.2.14 and PS/2 mice

2000-03-10 Thread Marshal Wong
Actually, in potato, you can get gpm to port the mice data to /dev/gpmdata and then just get X to read that, thus removing the need to kill gpm. It was broken for a while, but it works fine now. > "Aaron" == Aaron Solochek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have always just killed gpm from

Re: kernel 2.2.14 and PS/2 mice

2000-03-10 Thread Aaron Solochek
I have always just killed gpm from the init scripts, because gpm and X have never gotten along on my system. Also a ps/2. Its stupid, and dselect loves to reinstall the scripts, so that my mouse will either die as soon as dselect starts configuring stuff, or will go all crazy. -Aaron Solochek O

Re: dselect busted

2000-03-10 Thread brian moore
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 10:07:41PM -0800, Roy Pluschke wrote: > Since doing a apt-get update / apt-get upgrade today I have noticed > that dselect has stopped working with the following error message: > > dselect: failed to getch in main menu: Success > > After selecting any menu option dselect s

kernel 2.2.14 and PS/2 mice

2000-03-10 Thread Debian Linux User Gary L. Dolan
On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 08:22:38AM -1000, Jason Christensen wrote: > I have no problems with a PS/2 mouse & 2.2.14. > > On 10 Mar 2000, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > > > The boot messages tell me that a PS/2 mouse port is found, but the > > cursor doesn't follow the mouse at all. > > Under what cir

Re: fresh potato install dpkg problem

2000-03-10 Thread Aaron Solochek
I found it... the link is below. ftp://ftp.iteso.mx/.1/debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/base/dpkg_1.6.9.deb -Aaron Solochek On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Aaron S. Hawley wrote: > On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Aaron Solochek wrote: > > > Oh... I manually dpkg'ed the perl debs and that fixed it. but worth >

Problems with Tex

2000-03-10 Thread Nivaldo A. P. de Vasconcelos
Hello, I installed the Debian 2.1. After, tryed install the lyx package, last version. But this version need packages newer: libc (>=2.1) stdc++ (>=2.1) ... and installed this last pacakges . But the latex apears unconfigurable ... --- [EMAIL PRO

Re: fresh potato install dpkg problem

2000-03-10 Thread Aaron S. Hawley
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Aaron Solochek wrote: > Oh... I manually dpkg'ed the perl debs and that fixed it. but worth > noting as a bug. has this bug been reported? it really sucks. i've looked, and looked and can't find a related bug report -- Aaron S. Hawley -> Aaron.Hawley @ uvm.edu -> http

RE: USB support in Linux

2000-03-10 Thread Pollywog
On 10-Mar-2000 Matheson wrote: > Hey, > > I need to get my new USB port going in Linux, but I don't know how to > get it working. I'm using Debian slink with the 2.2.1 kernel (I ran > make config, but I didn't see anything about USB). How would I get > around to doing this? see: http://www.dy

RE: Telnet 25 connection refused

2000-03-10 Thread Glen S Mehn
Try commenting out the smtp line in /etc/inetd.conf and then running exim as a daemon (#/etc/init.d/exim start) and see if you get error messages? glen -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 10, 2000 6:53 AM To: Ralf G. R. Bergs Cc: debia

USB support in Linux

2000-03-10 Thread Matheson
Hey, I need to get my new USB port going in Linux, but I don't know how to get it working. I'm using Debian slink with the 2.2.1 kernel (I ran make config, but I didn't see anything about USB). How would I get around to doing this? Thanks, Cameron Matheson

JDK 1.1.7 doesn't swing

2000-03-10 Thread Craig Coles
I have the current jdk1.1.7 jre and jdk packages installed, with the swing-1.1.1 jar file in the CLASSPATH and get the following error when running a Swing GUI application. Is something wrong with the awt library file as indicated below, or is it something else?? Using Potato, updated last 3/10/0

quake-3dfx almost working

2000-03-10 Thread Kelly Corbin
Well, I finally am close to getting quake-3dfx to work with my machine. When I try to run it, the splash screen comes up for 3dfx, and then screen goes blank and nothing else happens. This locks everything up, and I have to manually reboot (not good). Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks.

quake-3dfx almost working

2000-03-10 Thread Kelly Corbin
Well, I finally am close to getting quake-3dfx to work with my machine. When I try to run it, the splash screen comes up for 3dfx, and then screen goes blank and nothing else happens. This locks everything up, and I have to manually reboot (not good). Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks.

Re: Apt message "Segmentation faulty Tree... 50%"

2000-03-10 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, paul wrote: > Today, when doing "apt-get upgrade" on my "Potato" machine, apt-get exited > with the following messages: Usually 'rm /var/cache/apt/*.bin' makes it go away, I dont understand how it is possible to get into a state where that is required Jason

Re: XF86-4.0 and potato?

2000-03-10 Thread David Z. Maze
Robert L Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: RLH> Any odds we'll get XF-4.0 in Potato now that it's officially released? IANADD, but I'd say "no". Debian officially went into a "no new versions of things" freeze a month or two back, and XF86-3.3.6 to 4.0 is a major enough change that I'd be hesita

dselect

2000-03-10 Thread Account for Debian group mail
We are having a problem here with the deslect program on a frozen dist. We changed from APT to FTP so we could select which packages to install from the install line. We got a bunch of errors about how it could not find the "archive" file. So I decided to manually update the dpkg_1.6.10.deb pac

Re: xfree 4 in unstable's timeframe?

2000-03-10 Thread David Z. Maze
Harlan Crystal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: HC> How long do you think it'll be until one can find debs for xfree 4 in the HC> unstable branch? I never knew how much testing or whatever important HC> components must go through before they're added. I'd guess that the Debian XFree86 maintainer alrea

Re: voodoo 3

2000-03-10 Thread Sean Johnson
No, but 2.2 (potato) does. Sean kasim kasmani wrote: > > I currenlt use mandrake 7, but have heard raving > things about debian, so I was wondering does debian > 2.1 support voodoo 3 video card?

voodoo 3

2000-03-10 Thread kasim kasmani
I currenlt use mandrake 7, but have heard raving things about debian, so I was wondering does debian 2.1 support voodoo 3 video card? _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

Debian Gnu/Linux for Dummies -- Sign of the Apocalypse?

2000-03-10 Thread Matthew W. Roberts
Sorry to go off topic, but Aaaack! http://www.buy.com/books/product.asp?sku=30576349 -- Matthew W. Roberts Structural Engineering[EMAIL PROTECTED] Texas A&M University -

Re: XF86-4.0 and potato?

2000-03-10 Thread Paul J. Keenan
On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 08:13:53AM -0700, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > > Any odds we'll get XF-4.0 in Potato now that it's officially released? > is there a good way to get it installed, other than go compile source? > I like not hosing up my dependancies, etc. > > Robert My guess would be zero

Re: Fancy features of Storm Linux

2000-03-10 Thread dan
On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 07:38:11AM +, Phillip Deackes generated a stream of 1s and 0s: > I cannot disagree more strongly! > > During install of Storm Linux you have the option to do a text isntall > or a graphical install. Even if you choose the graphic install you have > another option t

Re: Apt message "Segmentation faulty Tree... 50%"

2000-03-10 Thread paul
On 10 March, 2000, I said: > Today, when doing "apt-get upgrade" on my "Potato" machine, apt-get exited > with the following messages: > > Reading Package Lists... Done > Segmentation faulty Tree... 50% > > The first I have seen before, but the second I have not. All aplications > that > I u

OT Trouble w RAID controller

2000-03-10 Thread d1temp
Hi, just got a new machine to play with at work for a while... Intel L440GX+ w/ 4 550MHz Xeon processors, 4G RAM, 6 18G SCSI-disks on an Amaquest CTL-95U2 RAID controller. This controller is currently config'ed to show these disks as 2 normal SCSI disks (~8G and ~78G) using RAID 5. Win2000 cam

Re: Apt message "Segmentation faulty Tree... 50%"

2000-03-10 Thread dan
On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 02:34:44PM -0500, paul generated a stream of 1s and 0s: > Today, when doing "apt-get upgrade" on my "Potato" machine, apt-get exited > with the following messages: > > Reading Package Lists... Done > Segmentation faulty Tree... 50% > This could mean several things. Segmen

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Re: communicator-glibc, when?

2000-03-10 Thread Brad
On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 03:41:55PM +0100, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > > Is there a chance that the standard netscape package will use the > glibc-version? i have to use it since i need the java1.2 plugin, and i would > like to use the packaged version instead of a locally installed one The latest n

Apt message "Segmentation faulty Tree... 50%"

2000-03-10 Thread paul
Today, when doing "apt-get upgrade" on my "Potato" machine, apt-get exited with the following messages: Reading Package Lists... Done Segmentation faulty Tree... 50% The first I have seen before, but the second I have not. All aplications that I use regularly seem to be working properly, and I

Kernel change

2000-03-10 Thread Timothy Bedding
I have just built a new 2.0.36 kernel but, when I boot it, xdm does not work. I switch back to my standard kernel and everything is okay. Am I forgetting to select something related to X or something? Is there a web page detailing standard kernel things? I am looking at /usr/doc/HOWTO/Kernel-HO

Re: print-server for win systems

2000-03-10 Thread Alec Smith
You'll want to take a look at the Samba packages, and maybe Swat for a web-based Samba configuration tool. I've been using Samba for several years now and it works quite well. With Samba you'll be able to share your Linux files and printers with Windows machines as if the Linux box was running Wind

print-server for win systems

2000-03-10 Thread FreeMan
Hi, I would like to install Linux on an old computer, just for being a print-server for windows systems (SMB). What packages do I have to install for min.?ll for min.?

Re: dselect: failed to getch in main menu: Success

2000-03-10 Thread Aaron Solochek
I'd like a copy of that too. -Aaron Solochek On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Roy Pluschke wrote: > John Stevenson wrote: > > > > There is a problem with dpkg_1.6.10 which gives this error. Please > > downgrade the dpkg file to dpkg_1.6.9. > > > > Could anyone send me the dpkg_1.6.9 package to downgrade

Re: dselect: failed to getch in main menu: Success

2000-03-10 Thread Roy Pluschke
John Stevenson wrote: > > There is a problem with dpkg_1.6.10 which gives this error. Please > downgrade the dpkg file to dpkg_1.6.9. > Could anyone send me the dpkg_1.6.9 package to downgrade with or are they archived on the debian site somewhere ? Roy Pluschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: kernel 2.2.14 and PS/2 mice

2000-03-10 Thread Jason Christensen
I have no problems with a PS/2 mouse & 2.2.14. On 10 Mar 2000, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > The boot messages tell me that a PS/2 mouse port is found, but the > cursor doesn't follow the mouse at all. Under what circumstances are you talking about, X or console? If you're talking about the console

Re: Configuring Pine for multiple ISPs

2000-03-10 Thread Jason Christensen
Do you know for a fact that the SMTP servers at both your ISPs are configured to NOT relay mail. Perhaps one of the servers will work for both connections. It's not necessarily a good thing as it indicates that one or both of your ISPs are not spam conscious, however it would save you a lot of tim

Diald Problem

2000-03-10 Thread Curtis A. Snyder
Hi, Looking for help with diald. Trying to set an old 486 up as a dial on demand router for my home network. Using official slink with 2.0.36 kernel. Problem. diald will not automatically connect. dctrl up-request or "up" in diald.options works fine. But telnet/ftp/ping to an IP address o

Re: fresh potato install dpkg problem

2000-03-10 Thread Aaron Solochek
Oh... I manually dpkg'ed the perl debs and that fixed it. but worth noting as a bug. But, where can I get the older dpkg packaes so that I don't hit that wall? On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Aaron Solochek wrote: > I just got to the point of first dselect on a fresh potato installation. > I get the fo

fresh potato install dpkg problem

2000-03-10 Thread Aaron Solochek
I just got to the point of first dselect on a fresh potato installation. I get the following errors: debconf: Perl may be unconfigured (It then lists files it can't find and such) E: Write error - write (32 Broken Pipe) E: Failure running script dpkg-preconfigure --apt Then it runs the standard

Re: Is there a way to automatically list the packages, and their versions, upon which a particular package depends?

2000-03-10 Thread Bob Hilliard
Eric Hanchrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Often when people report bugs, they include something like this: > > Versions of packages dpkg depends on: > ii libc6 2.1.3-7GNU C Library: Shared > libraries an > ii libncurses5 5.0-6

Re: kernel 2.2.14 and PS/2 mice

2000-03-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
Double check /usr/src/linux/.config for CONFIG_MOUSE=y . . . CONFIG_PSMOUSE=y No problems with PS/2 mouse and 2.2.14 here. On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 02:58:21PM +0100, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > Hi, > > when compiling a kernel version 2.2.14 my PS/2 mice won't work any > more, having the same kern

Re: Telnet 25 connection refused

2000-03-10 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000 16:53:06 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Is it possible that something in the exim.conf is incorrectly configured >or that whatever program is responsible for strating exim is not being >loaded. On Fri, 10 Mar 2000 06:54:21 -1000 (HST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] >Do y

Re: Telnet 25 connection refused

2000-03-10 Thread jchristensen
On 10 Mar, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks for the reply. > > I have infact installed exim and have configured /etc/exim.conf, though > whether it's configured properly is another matter. > > Is it possible that something in the exim.conf is incorrectly configured > or that whatever program i

Re: Configuring Pine for multiple ISPs

2000-03-10 Thread John Hasler
Jason Christensen wrote: > The script could look at another file (/etc/resolv.conf maybe) for domain > info that was set by your connection software. I know that dhcpcd sets > the domain in my resolv.conf. I'm not sure what pppd does as it has been > a couple of years since I have used it. Pppconf

Re: Configuring Pine for multiple ISPs

2000-03-10 Thread David Wright
Quoting Dale Scheetz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > This is "last resort" as I don't want to have to restart pine every time > the link changes. > Switching back and forth between the two ISPs, while not difficult is a > bit obnoxious. It would be much nicer to have pine track the right server. > > I

Netware NDS

2000-03-10 Thread Brian Schramm
OK I like Debian. So I have been enjoying Strom Linux because of it's use of Debian. I know that I could go to Caldera and get what I want but I want to use a distribution that I am familur with. Does anyone know of a way to be a client on a NDS tree with Storm Linux or Debian? I remember Novel

Re: Telnet 25 connection refused

2000-03-10 Thread ulla . russell
Thanks for the reply. I have infact installed exim and have configured /etc/exim.conf, though whether it's configured properly is another matter. Is it possible that something in the exim.conf is incorrectly configured or that whatever program is responsible for strating exim is not being load

XF86-4.0 and potato?

2000-03-10 Thread Robert L. Harris
Any odds we'll get XF-4.0 in Potato now that it's officially released? is there a good way to get it installed, other than go compile source? I like not hosing up my dependancies, etc. Robert :wq! --- Robert L. Harris

Mozilla 14 + SSL (PSM)

2000-03-10 Thread Toens Bueker
Hi *, is there anybody who could get the personal security manager to work with M14? Is the debian version capable of using it? See http://www.mozillazine.org/ for more information ... By Töns -- Linux. The dot in /.

Re: Configuring Pine for multiple ISPs

2000-03-10 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Jason Christensen wrote: > How handy are you with text processing scripting languages (i.e. Perl, > awk, etc.)? > > My thought is that you could create a script that edits your .pinerc file > prior to starting pine. The script could look at another file This is "last resort"

Re: Potato Broke My X

2000-03-10 Thread David Wright
Quoting Brad ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > This is no longer true; Xsession no longer checks > /etc/X11/window-managers at all. You've either not updated > xfree86-common to the latest version, or didn't overwrite > /etc/X11/Xsession when you did. I believe this change occurred in > 3.3.6-4, but i coul

mutt locale under Slink?

2000-03-10 Thread Dominique L. Bouix
I've been trying to get my mutt to display iso-8859-1 characters for 5 days now, and I'm not sure where to look anymore. It seems that the programs don't like LC_CTYPE set to something else than C. The system is running mutt 1.0.1i on Debian Slink/i386 I read from some Mutt webpage that perl is p

communicator-glibc, when?

2000-03-10 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello, Is there a chance that the standard netscape package will use the glibc-version? i have to use it since i need the java1.2 plugin, and i would like to use the packaged version instead of a locally installed one -- ciao bboett ==

RE: Errormessage: invalid character in exportstr (?)

2000-03-10 Thread Moore, Paul
From: Joachim Trinkwitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > since some time (on several machines with newest woody) I get an error > message when logged in as root (not as a normal user): > >invalid character 32 in exportstr for export PATH > > This happens with all commands where bash is involved. I

Re: Errormessage: invalid character in exportstr (?)

2000-03-10 Thread David Natkins
On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 02:53:52PM +0100, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > Hi all, > > since some time (on several machines with newest woody) I get an error > message when logged in as root (not as a normal user): > >invalid character 32 in exportstr for export PATH > > This happens with all comm

kernel 2.2.14 and PS/2 mice

2000-03-10 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Hi, when compiling a kernel version 2.2.14 my PS/2 mice won't work any more, having the same kernel options as with 2.2.12. The boot messages tell me that a PS/2 mouse port is found, but the cursor doesn't follow the mouse at all. Is there a trick, some other kernel options as in older kernels .

Errormessage: invalid character in exportstr (?)

2000-03-10 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Hi all, since some time (on several machines with newest woody) I get an error message when logged in as root (not as a normal user): invalid character 32 in exportstr for export PATH This happens with all commands where bash is involved. In my PATH are the common directories, echo $PATH give

Re: dselect: failed to getch in main menu: Success

2000-03-10 Thread John Stevenson
There is a problem with dpkg_1.6.10 which gives this error. Please downgrade the dpkg file to dpkg_1.6.9. I assume that you have just done an upgrade to the new package and this broke dselect. dpkg itself still works, so you just need the file and use: dpkg -i packagename.deb Then when dselect

dselect: failed to getch in main menu: Success

2000-03-10 Thread Jaume Teixi
Any dselect menu crashes with that msg !! please hlp :) begin:vcard n:Teixi;Jaume tel;fax:972 46 31 14 tel;work:972 46 30 50 x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:http://www.6tems.com org:6TEMS;Ducform, SA adr:;;Pla de l'Estany, s/n;CASSÀ DE LA SELVA;Girona;17244;Spain version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTE

portmap/networking: shutdown script links screwed-up?

2000-03-10 Thread Jose Marin
Hi all, I am running several boxes with unstable(woody), and the sutdown process on some of them hangs near the end. They are all NFS clients to other Linux and Solaris machines. The ones that hang do it when trying to access NFS (I think trying to umount the nfs mounts I have in /etc/fstab) *

Re: Solved - New Mozilla (M14-1) causes seg fault

2000-03-10 Thread Martin Fluch
Hi, since I read the mailinglist this morning with the high-speed option 'd' and the mailing list archive isn't updated yet, I don't know if it has allready been reported. Anyway, the preoblem described below got solved on my woody box by a simple rm -r ~/.mozilla Martin On Thu, 9 Mar 2000,

Re: keymappings screwed

2000-03-10 Thread kmself
On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 12:59:50AM -0800, Kendall Shaw wrote: > > From: kmself@ix.netcom.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 10:45 PM > > > > On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 09:01:10PM -0800, Kendall Shaw wrote: > > > How do I fix my console keymappings? I chose standard US key

Re: dselect busted & oops, rm -r /etc

2000-03-10 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aaron Solochek) wrote: >I got that same message, but I had thought it was due to me having >completly screwed my life by typing rm -r /etc/ instead of rm -r etc/. > >I had a month old backup of /etc, and some things are broken now, >obviously. specifically, I see complaines abou

Re: Fancy features of Storm Linux

2000-03-10 Thread Ron Rademaker
I've installed Sotrm for someone as a workstation and my first impression was that it is a good distribution, specially for beginners... Installation is easy and creating dual boot (something of what I think most beginners in Linux start with, linux and windows) was really a piece of cake. No need

Re: Telnet 25 connection refused

2000-03-10 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000 05:24:26 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >When I try to 'telnet localhost 25' I get the following error message: > >"Telnet unable to connect to the local host. > connection refused." > >I was wondering if anyone could help me get telnet working as I >suspect that this problem

Re: Is there a way to automatically list the packages, and their versions, upon which a particular package depends?

2000-03-10 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 12:50:12AM -0800, Eric Hanchrow wrote: > Often when people report bugs, they include something like this: > > Versions of packages dpkg depends on: > ii libc6 2.1.3-7GNU C Library: Shared > libraries an > ii libncurses5

RE: keymappings screwed

2000-03-10 Thread Kendall Shaw
> From: kmself@ix.netcom.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 10:45 PM > > On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 09:01:10PM -0800, Kendall Shaw wrote: > > How do I fix my console keymappings? I chose standard US keyboard during > > install of potatoe but various keys are in different pl

Is there a way to automatically list the packages, and their versions, upon which a particular package depends?

2000-03-10 Thread Eric Hanchrow
Often when people report bugs, they include something like this: Versions of packages dpkg depends on: ii libc6 2.1.3-7GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libncurses5 5.0-6 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libstdc++2.10

keybord

2000-03-10 Thread Robin Gressmann
Hello, I have problems with my keybord under X-Windows. My keybord is a normal german one without the spezial MS-Windows keys. When I havent got started X the keybord works corretly. Only the german spezial keys like "a, "o , ... dont work. But under X the keys ~, § , `, ´, ^ and the german spezi

Re: Fancy features of Storm Linux

2000-03-10 Thread Phillip Deackes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Was total nightmare to install for me, since it simply didn't let me > do > what I wanted it to. I wanted to have my swap second or first > partition, > nope, can't do that... etc. I think it's easy to install for someone > who > doesn't need much flexibility/doesn't h

Re: keymappings screwed

2000-03-10 Thread kmself
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 09:01:10PM -0800, Kendall Shaw wrote: > How do I fix my console keymappings? I chose standard US keyboard during > install of potatoe but various keys are in different places. One of the more common alternate mappings is the "awertz" keymapping -- it's used somewhere in Eur

Re: dselect busted & oops, rm -r /etc

2000-03-10 Thread Aaron Solochek
I got that same message, but I had thought it was due to me having completly screwed my life by typing rm -r /etc/ instead of rm -r etc/. I had a month old backup of /etc, and some things are broken now, obviously. specifically, I see complaines about modules.conf, samba, and lpd.conf. What shou

dselect busted

2000-03-10 Thread Roy Pluschke
Since doing a apt-get update / apt-get upgrade today I have noticed that dselect has stopped working with the following error message: dselect: failed to getch in main menu: Success After selecting any menu option dselect shuts down with this message. Anyone else notice this? have a temp work-aro

Re: no /user/.xsession found

2000-03-10 Thread paul
On 9 Mar 2000, Marc wrote: > Jaume Teixi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Xssesion: unable to start X session: no /user/.xsession found, no window > > manager, and no terminal emulators found > > > why ? > Hum, have you one of these installed ? > Check /etc/alternatives for a x-window-manager file

Re: keymappings screwed

2000-03-10 Thread Pollywog
On 10-Mar-2000 Marshal Wong wrote: > run kbdconfig if you can manage to type it... Is it possible I have the same problem? I discovered today that my numeric keypad does not work correctly. -- Andrew

Slink->potato migration

2000-03-10 Thread Nathan Strong
I'm trying to finish migrating from Slink to Potato. It's been mostly successful, but after a 50mb download I am now getting odd errors from apt. Here's what's been done so far: 1) Installed Slink from bootable CD-ROM up to the first reboot. 2) After the reboot, said "no" to choosing a group of p

Re: keymappings screwed

2000-03-10 Thread Marshal Wong
run kbdconfig if you can manage to type it... > "Kendall" == Kendall Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How do I fix my console keymappings? I chose standard US > keyboard during install of potatoe but various keys are in > different places. > -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubs

keymappings screwed

2000-03-10 Thread Kendall Shaw
How do I fix my console keymappings? I chose standard US keyboard during install of potatoe but various keys are in different places.

Re: device3dfx-module?

2000-03-10 Thread Marshal Wong
> "Kelly" == Kelly Corbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > dselect gives me the error message "device3dfx-module does not > appear to be available" when getting the voodoo3 stuff. I > haven't seen anyone address this problem in deselect > specifically in the archives for 2.2 (pot

Re: xfree 4 in unstable's timeframe?

2000-03-10 Thread dan
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 11:01:54PM -0500, Harlan Crystal generated a stream of 1s and 0s: > How long do you think it'll be until one can find debs for xfree 4 in the > unstable branch? I never knew how much testing or whatever important > components must go through before they're added. > > -har

xfree 4 in unstable's timeframe?

2000-03-10 Thread Harlan Crystal
How long do you think it'll be until one can find debs for xfree 4 in the unstable branch? I never knew how much testing or whatever important components must go through before they're added. -harlan

"Downgrade" versions?

2000-03-10 Thread Jon Hughes
Well, we made a booboo:) My brother was attempting an innocent apt-get upgrade, however, he accidently missed an "unstable" line in his sources.list file. The result is now that he has some WOODY files sitting ont he computer and it's causing problems. Is there anyway, other then removing the OS

Telnet 25 connection refused

2000-03-10 Thread ulla . russell
When I try to 'telnet localhost 25' I get the following error message: "Telnet unable to connect to the local host. connection refused." I was wondering if anyone could help me get telnet working as I suspect that this problem is preventing from downloading mail using fetchmail. TIA Irvine

device3dfx-module?

2000-03-10 Thread Kelly Corbin
dselect gives me the error message "device3dfx-module does not appear to be available" when getting the voodoo3 stuff. I haven't seen anyone address this problem in deselect specifically in the archives for 2.2 (potato). Does anyone know the workaround for this. I have created and installed the

Python broken in Potato?

2000-03-10 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Hello, Trying to install python in Potato fails due to libdb1.85 "not installable" (whatever that means). Any solutions? Thank you, -- Pedro # apt-get install python-base Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that yo

Re: Potato Broke My X

2000-03-10 Thread Brad
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 04:16:45PM +, David Wright wrote: > > /etc/X11/window-managers takes precedence because it comes first in > /etc/X11/Xsession which contains: > (refers to ~/.xsession which I hid) > / > > if [ -e $startup ] && grep -q

Re: fp_extensions

2000-03-10 Thread Sven Gaerner
Beavis wrote: i am trying to run a script call fp_install.shbut my slink box says run is not a command, what do i try install? Is it right that you are trying to install Frontpage Extensions?? The script replaces your apache binary. My note to this: compile Apache from the Debian source packag

Re: exim and spam relay

2000-03-10 Thread John Kuhn
Sorry for the duplicate message. This one has a useful Subject. Jonathan, Thanks for your response. I checked my exim.conf again and did not find anything wrong in it. I have included a few of the values below. Assume: my true IP address: 192.1.1.1 my true machine name: badhost.corp.c

strange things

2000-03-10 Thread Marcin Kurc
After yesterdays upgrade, strange things happen. First of all, apache cannot start because it cannot resolve my virtual hosts. However, my nsmeserver is working fine. Also, I canno login to mailman or listar using their web interfaces, I dont get any errors. Anybody has any ideas what would be

Printer not working after upgrade to 2.2 kernel

2000-03-10 Thread Mike Thompson
After I upgraded to kernel 2.2.14 from 2.0.38 my printer wouldn't work. I had to: cd /dev rm lp* MAKEDEV lp to correct the problem. Unfortunately I don't remember what the old major and minor device numbers were, however there were four of them lp0, lp1, lp2, lp3. After reinstalling them I only

debian-user@lists.debian.org

2000-03-10 Thread John Kuhn
Jonathan, Thanks for your response. I checked my exim.conf again and did not find anything wrong in it. I have included a few of the values below. Assume: my true IP address: 192.1.1.1 my true machine name: badhost.corp.com /etc/exim.conf === qualify_domain = badhost.corp.com local_dom

Re: Automagic boots

2000-03-10 Thread dan
> pattern to it, other than perhaps SMB activity within ten to fifteen > minutes before shutdown. > See if "Wake on Lan" is enabled, and settings such as those.

blackbox window manager

2000-03-10 Thread Brett Fowlkes
I pretty much got things working how I want them except for when I start x-windows with blackbox, or any window manager for that matter, I get a white box on the bottom right hand corner of the screen. If I close it in blackbox it kicks me back out to the log in screen where it is also present. An

Re: Automagic boots

2000-03-10 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Wim Kerkhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This may sound silly... but what when the computer is shutdown at > night, what time is being stored in the BIOS? It could be timezone > thing... I don't know, just an idea The BIOS uses UTC and, yes, I took that into account when setting the daily

Re: [bug?] df and du -s output inconsistent?

2000-03-10 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Hi all, Thanks to everyone who vented opinions. I fsck'ed the partition and df and du -s now agree to within a couple of kilobytes (7 in case it matters, with df reporting the larger value). -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development

startx as user seems to hang untill c is hit ?

2000-03-10 Thread John Leget
For a lng time now ive had a problem running "startx" as normal user It runs fine as root though. I log in as normal user, run startx and it will just sit there. ??? Interestingly hitting c ( usually twice ) seems to kick start it, so i assume its hanging on some sub process spawned by "star

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