Hi there,
I was experimenting some new things here and I decided to try to
build binary packages from the source ones (to get benefit from
compiling them with pgcc instead of the regular gcc) and, although I
suceeded to do that with some packages, others failed claiming they
could not find the
> Guilherme writes that he has encounted files he cannot delete.
>
> (...) The file system debugger also
> will do this job.
OK... this worked fine, the files aren't there anymore!
Now, when I rebooted e2fsck complained about the "file too big" thing again...
what can
it be?
Also... what could
> Guilherme writes that he has encounted files he cannot delete.
> (...)
>
>
> For the unalterable files, lsattr gives ext2fs atrributes. chattr
> will change these attributes, which include immutable. This will
> usually help remove unalterable files. The file system debugger also
> will do this j
Hi there,
I'm facing quite a bad problem here im my Linux Box, and I'd like to try
a bit more before I give up, format the HD and reinstall it all...
Last tuesday I had to shutdown Linux because I had to do some work on
Win98, unfortunately... The shutdown procedure worked fine, I worked all
afte
> A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
Hey... Brazil is not *THAT* far... But well... let's say I see some
coincidences between our president and Darth Vader... Both said something
like "forget all I've said before I was what I now am"... ;-)
> > do anyone know a Linux c
Hi there,
do anyone know a Linux client for MSMail?
Also, do anyone know of a good Linux replacement for Windows'
Microcal Origin? I'd need a program that can create scientific
graphics/plots (no need for 3D plots), do both linear and nonlinear
function fitting (preferrably it should allo
Hi there,
I know it's somehow OT, but you were the only guys I thought could
give me some ideas...
well... at home I've got a VA34324A Samsung HD (IDE, 4.3Gb) that
decided to stop working this weekend. As I'm completely out of money for
at least 2 months and short of backups for a big chu
> Hi lazy folks ;->>>
Hi!!! ;-)
> More lazy stuff: using the mc editor (very practical
> to zap entire lines of the first mail when you reply,
> or to copy similar lines)
Well... this one is very good for us, old MS-DOS users (it's very similar to
MS's EDIT ;-)... I also like A LOT the jstar ed
Hi there,
we've got 4 NE3200 EISA boards here and, unfortunately, I haven't
found a driver for them to work under Linux yet... Has anyone managed to
set up one of these??
TIA,
Guilherme Zahn
Hi there,
I decided to try using mutt as my console-mail-reader because of
pure lazyness (I was used to Pine, but I'd have to grab and compile it,
so... ;-), and I'm quite disappointed with the lack of
'easy-configurability' of it (compared to Pine)... So, I'd like to ask a
few questions...
1
Well... my personal oppinion surely agrees with Havoc's, and I'm just addind my
$2c...
I sure don't want to see ONLY X-friendly configuration programs, specially
because
after you get some insight on the matters this proves to be a slow, sometimes
unreliable and, sometimes, even impossible way to
> > I wanted to customize my kernel over the weekend, but after looking at what
> > I assumed to be the current > kernel configuration (i.e., the options
> > selected when viewing make xconfig), I was left with some
> questions.
(slip)
Well... This may be either a stupi or naive question, but i
> My printer, an HP694C, does the stair-stepping thing. When I set up Mandrake,
> there was an automatic fix for this during set up. What can I do with Slink
> to fix this?
>
> Also, I use lpr. Is this the preferred way for printing with Debian?
Well... The solution I found wasn't really 'The De
Hi there,
unfortunately, as every attempt to make my programs work under glibc
2.1.x (now I'm not even sure if it's a glibc problem or if the problem
is on PGI's most recent F77 compiler, but it doesn't really matter, as
I'm running out of time), I decided to downgrade my system from glibc
2.1
> > > I need to Low Format a hard drive - I have a drive that has at some stage
> > Some BIOSes lets you do this.
>
> But you shouldn't ever low level format a hard drive. It isn't necessary
> any more since the 80's.
More that that, it's REALLY dangerous to do so in new IDE drives (something to
Hi there,
do anyone know when (or *if*) LessTif 0.89 deb's will be released? I
was taking a peek at LessTif's Homepage and, among other wonderful news,
they say that now Netscape-smotif should be running 'out of the box'
with LessTif... In case the deb's are not on the 'soon released' list,
ha
Hi there,
today I was following a suggestion sent here and installed RH's
printtool using alien... The installation goes fine (except it wants
control-panel also installed, but this is also easy to do), but then
when I try to add and configure my printer here I find some problems:
1) It compl
> Sanity check: you installed WindowMaker from the debs?
Yeap! But I guess I found out what was going on...
> (...) Also, make sure you don't have a file
> ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/menu.hook, and that the file
> ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WMRootMenu contains only the one line "menu.hook" (with
> the
Hi there,
After some months w/ fvwm95, I'm experimenting WMaker, and I quite
like it (lighter & seems more stable)... but there's a problem: The
Debian default menus aren't merged w/ WMaker's own menus at
installation, and I don't know how to do so... Can someone help me?
TIA,
Guilherme Zahn
Hi there,
we are trying to migrate our network here from the &*%$@ NT to Linux
(our firts tests were enough to convince the Senior SysOp), but we have
to route NetBIOS over IPX for some subnets, and we couldn't find a way
to do so (nowadays we're only able to route NetBIOS over IP)... We're
us
Hi there,
this time I have a pretty quick and direct question:
is there a way to kill those processes that refuse to die (for
instac,e netscape will behave that way after a crash - and not even a
kill -9 does the trick)???
TIA
Guilherme Zahn
> Duggan Dieterly said:
> > just to let everyone know, cfdisk does not work with window FAT32
> > file partition tables. use fdisk instead.
>
> What happens? I've been able to create partitions extending beyond cylinder
> 1023 with (the current as of one week ago Potato) cfdisk, although the
> ve
Hi there,
SInce I upgraded my system to glibc2.1, there's some vital software
that refuse to run, even if I compile it again from scratch... Now, I'm
willing to try some desperate moves before I give up and try to
downgrade my whole system (that, by now, is 100% potato)...
So, as I'm not
> Just a comment on this one. Netscape (and other browsers) do exactly that.
> However, if the image tags are not accompanied by "width" and "height"
> parameters, Netscape can not render the page until the image headers are
> downloaded and known. It would be really slow for it to re-render the pa
Hi there,
I know this isn't the most appropriate place for that, but... What's
the 'right' way to send bugs and/or wishlists about Netscape, posting it
straight to Netscape or sending them to the Debian netscape package
administrator?
As I've noticed there's a lot of people talking about
> i got a Yamaha sound card but I can't manage to load sound as a module,
> because i don't know exactly which card it is... Is there a way to get
> the irq, dma, and such things it uses ? I also run NT but I neither can
> find these informations there...
Hi!
Well... it seems it is either a o
> > Any ideas??
>
> Correctly masquerading FTP sessions requires a special module,
> ip_masq_ftp in 2.2 version kernels; Do you have this module
> loaded (or built-in to the kernel)?
Hmmm... I have to check it out... Should it be loaded in the masquerading
server or
in every Linux box whose IP is
Hi there,
Lately I've been facing a strange and very annoying problem... When
I try to do FTP from a site, it will almost surely drop my connection
out when I try to build a data connection (either through a 'get',
'retr' or just a harmless 'dir') with a message like:
ftp> dir
200 PORT comman
> I added an "rm /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth0.*" to my dhcpcd start script. I know
> that dhcpcd works well on redhat and does not suffer this problem. I've
> looked through their start scripts and can't seem to find a major
> differences in the way debian and redhat call dhcpcd. Any more ideas?
OK... J
Hi there,
I've faced what I could call a bug (I think) in dhcpcd, and I'd like
to know if there's a known workaround for that...
My linux box should get it's IP address from a DHCP server, and it
really does it perfectly UNTIL they move my PC to a different subnet
(what seems to be happen
Hi there,
do anyone know a good WYSWYG TeK editor for Linux (much like
Scientific Word for Windows)? In case you don't... Is there any program
to convert from any of the 'regular' word processors to TeK (even if I'd
have to do some 'fine tuning' on the TeK file later, it would be *a lot*
easie
Hi there,
I was wondering what would I need to do in order to compile a
software I've got here linked to libc5 and not to libc6... I assume that
just editing the Makefiles and changing 'gcc' for 'altgcc' would be much
of a naive try, wouldn't it? What should I do then? The program also
uses th
> Netscape is stable except for when I browse in multiple windows, then
> closing any window may kill my entire netscape suite (downlaod,s collabra,
> everything), it isn't only closing the original window that does it.
I've seen exactly the same problem here... teh workaround I found was to start
> ) Stuff to consider:
> ) * drivers don't exist for sound cards with Aureal chips
> ) and the new Soundblaser Live.
>
> Drivers do exist for the SB Live. I haven't checked out the latest
> versions which are supposed to add /dev/audio and /dev/dsp, but the old
> version did work w/ CD audio. T
Well... The only somehow 'reproductable' crashes I remember of comes when:
1) I try to delete HTML-ized e-mails from the messager window... It won't
happen 100%
of the times I do it, but, say, 10%...
2) I press 'enter' after entering my username & password for some sites; this
happens
quite fre
> Hmm, that's an interesting thought. I don't run KDE (I run IceWM), but I
> often have Netscape crashes. But I'm running on a 1MB older video card
> and only 32MB RAM and am always getting messages from Netscape about not
> having enough resources (or memory?) to set color pallettes (or somesuch
>
Hey! No wonder everybody just loves this list!
In a few minutes I got a couple of GREAT answers! I've followed the links
and found myself stuck again in a dilemma... My PP Scanner is made by a
Brazilian company (TCE), so I guess it's just an OEM repackage... Anyway, I
know it supports a TWAIN driv
Fala Lindalvo,
o negocio eh o seguinte: O Linux soh consegue acessar volumes FAT32
a partir do kernel 2.2.x, e o seu Slack deve estar com o 2.0.x, neh? OK,
uma sugestao seria atualizar o kernel, mas isso nem sempre eh possivel,
(afinal eh mais um download de 14Mb, neh)?
Quanto a um compac
Hi folks!
Some days ago someone posted here a link to a page where I would
find notes and/or drivers for using a parallel port scanner under
Linux... OK, but the *%$@ here entered the page with Netscape and
deleted the message... but, as always, netscape crashed before I could
save the page in
> Did you go to single user mode before you tried to remount root
> read-only? Have you more than one e2fs partition?
The answer is 'nope' to both, and I think you've just got it... should have
entered
single mode BEFORE trying that! I guess it's just one typical case of the famous
'DOS/Win form
Hi there,
I was wondering if there' s a way to run e2fsck w/out booting the
machine... I know I'd have to remount my / partition as read-only, run
e2fsck & remount the partition as rw, but I can't seem to be able to do
the first step (the system says / is busy)...
The reason I ask that is
> > here I am, still trying to fine-tune my PC and understand it a bit
> > further...
> That attitude seems to be the minority these days, judging from the
> recent flamefests on Slashdot.
Well... I'm really somehow 'old-fashioned'... ;-)
> > OK... I'm puzzled by the 2nd one... what does he m
Hi there,
here I am, still trying to fine-tune my PC and understand it a bit
further...
Now, I've been puzzled by some messages I find in the boot sequence
and by a particular message I find in the syslog:
When I boot the system, as soon as the klogd is started here comes the
following m
> > The HOWTO suggested I should try something like
> >
> > ipfwadm -F -p deny (setting 'deny' as the default rule)
> > ipfwadm -F -a masquerade -P tcp 192.168.0.0/255.255.0.0 -D 0.0.0.0/0
> ^^^
> is there a typo here or you're using the entire
Hi there,
today I was trying to set our computers to do IP-Masquerading (we'll
be changing our external provider, and while the old one did the
masquerading for us, the now one doesn't)... I tried to do everything as
explained in the IP-Masquerade HOWTO, but for some reason things weren't
runn
Hi there,
From some time on (since I've last upgraded apt-get? Can say for
sure! ;-/) I've been facing some strange problems with apt-get...
When I do a 'apt-get update' it seems to go all over the download of
the packages (as expected), but then it come to a segfault when building
the de
Hi there,
I think this is 1/2 OT, but as I could think of nowhere else to
ask... ;-)
I needed some tool to diagnose a VFAT (FAT32) partition from inside
Linux... The reason why I want to do so is that all the tools I've tried
to use from inside DOS/WIN refuse to run properly (it seems the
Hi there,
I was wondering if there's a maillist where the package manteiners
post their update log... If not, I think the Debian people could think
of that... Just, everytime a package update is uploaded (either to the
stable OR unstable distribution) they would send the changelog.DEBIAN
file
Hi there,
I was wondering if there's a way to kill all of a user's processes
at once... This would be VERY useful in cases like today, when I made a
little mistake in my crontab and a process that should be started at
6h00 am was started once for each minute between 6h00 and 7h00... OK, it
was
> Config Error: /etc/XF86Config: 190
> VertRefresh 40-100
> horizontal sync value expected
> _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
>
> Please can anyone Help me ???
Hi Michelle!
Well, at least the problem *seems* quite easy to solve! Your
/etc/X11/XF86Config
file is
Hi there,
once again, the problem is called Netscape... (4.61 ;-)
From time to time, my Netscape just ¨dies¨ (unfortunately, most of
the time I can't get the error message because I run it straight from
the fvwm95 menu)... The few times I could check the message, it was
either a Segmentat
Hi there,
I was following the thread and then it came to my mind to ask about a
minor, but weird, misbehavior of Netscape for Linux (this
has been happening to me since Communicator 4.5 - now I using 4.61):
When I'm editing a mail message, I frequently use ++ to
highlight the next word
Hi
I'm really puzzled this time...
As I said in a previous message, when I try to enter non-'us-ascii'
characters on an xterm all I get are escape sequences like \350 and
such... Well, despite all the help I could get, this hasn't changed
(even with my ~/.inputrc and ~/.bashrc including a
Hi there,
I was trying to compile and install the 2.2.10 kernel, but something
didn't come out so well as I expected...
I did it the ¨general linux way¨, so I did:
make menuconfig (OK)
make dep (OK)
make clean (OK)
make modules (OK)
make bzImage
...and that's where t
> Sounds like my box. I use ICE, cant start Netscape. I have to use the TKdesk
> browser and double click it then it starts.
>
> > I am trying to install Netscape Navigator and can't seem to get it to
> > work. I have downloaded this file: navigator-v461-export.x86-
> > unknown-linuxglibc2.0.tar.g
> > What's up? How can I have, at least, a consistent output (I mean, every
> > console app undestanding the keyboard the right way)?
>
> for bash (and all readline programs) create file ~/.inputrc with:
> (...)
Well... I forgot to say that I already had a .inputrc... anyway, I added
three of thos
Hi there
I've been facing some curious problems when trying to use
non-¨us-ascii¨ characters in my Linux box...
In a regular xterm, in the command prompt, an ¨e¨ with an acute
displays like ¨\351¨, and ¨a tilde¨ like ¨\343¨ and so on... in the same
xterm, if I use the Midnight Commander i
> > VFS: Cannot open root device 03:43
> > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:43
> >
> > I'm not exactly sure how to troubleshoot this. Any advice?
> >
> I usually see this error when IDE support has not been compiled in the
> kernel. So I'd make sure that in the Block Devices section
> > Update doesn't work either. In short words: apt-get works perfectly
> > but nothing works with gnome-apt :(
> To be honest I have no clue at all. I haven't rebuilt from scratch with
> the latest libapt-pkg in a while, so I'll try that today and if I have a
> revelation will let you know.
Wel
> I installed slink on my workstation here @ work, and I'm having problems
> with the resolution of X...it's horribly low. I'd say 300x240.(...) the vid
> card
> unit is a SiS620 (if I'm correct)...with, what I believe is 8MB RAM (anyway
> for me to check this?)
Welll... good and bad news... the
> Thank you. This is OK for me. BTW, which applications you use, which
> depend on libc20? Is it matlab or what? Mathematica people were wise to
> compile their 3.0 version static.
Well... unfortunately (did I REALLY say that? ;-) it's not a commercial suite,
but a
freeware group-developed suite
> I want to ask if it is safe to upgrade slink's libc-2.0 to potato's
> libc-2.1. Are there some slink packages dependent specifically on libc2.0,
> which would not work with libc-2.1?
Well... I'd say for 99% of the people I know the glibc2.1 worked wonderfully,
and
they're very happy with it...
> Here's a scenario. I boot up DOS, along with the PnP drivers, so my
> soundcard and CD-ROM work fine. Then I soft boot using my Linux boot disk.
> During boot up, I observe these messages:
> hdh: Matshita CR-581 ATAPI CD-ROM drive
> ide3 at 0x168-0x16f, 0x36e on irq 10
> These messages do *not*
> dpkg --purge xdm
>
> works for my 2.1 system. Then you must kill -9 pid_for_xdm.
Hmmm... I was thinking of a workaround that *may* work fine... what if you just
remove the
¨xdm¨ script from the /etc/init.d folder (and the links in the /etc/rc.#
folders, also)?
This should do the trick *without
Hi there,
As it was the second time I've experienced SERIOUS problems with
dpkg this week, I think it's worth poting something here...
Monday I was updating my gmc package when dpkg locked (I think it
was on the ¨unpacking replacement...¨ stage) and the system became so
unstable that I ha
> > (snip) as NS seems to enjoy a lot the ¨killing itself for nothing¨
> > business)?
>
> This may not be netscape's fault; there are indications that there may be a
> subtle compiler problem affecting X resulting in these crashes.
Hmmm... and do you have an idea of wheter the XFree team is worki
Hi there,
I have quite a ¨strange¨ doubt to pose you all...
I've noticed there's different packages for Netscape
Communicator & Mozilla... Is the up-to-date Mozilla
release as good as Netscape Communicator 4.61
(or hopefuilly better, as NS seems to enjoy a lot the
¨killing itself for nothing¨
Hi there,
Yesterday I was trying to run apt-get to update my gmc package when
somethig weird happened and it had a major lock (I think it locked when
running dpkg)... Now, dpkg refuses to run because, when reading the
database, it finds a problem in the /var/lib/dpkg/info/at.list file...
The init
Hi there,
I'd like to know if any of you folks managed to make a
Diamond MonsterSound sound board work under Linux...
I own one and I feel really disappointed to be forced to
silence while Linuxing...
[]'s!
Guilherme Zahn
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