any time soon so I guess I'll do an upload. :-)
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`.imrc' is broken. If only I had the time. :(
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(Sorry Adam. I haven't finished putting the instructions in a form
suitable for inclusion in the Debian documentation. I'm working on it.)
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I am not subscribed to the debian-user mailing list so please CC me a
copy of any reponse.
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are in a consistent state and are ready for release.
Please bear with us. The new packages should be ready in a few days, and
I believe that the wait will be worth it. I'm anxious to get them, too.
:)
Thanks,
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running Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 (potato). Now if I could just get the
rest of my colleagues to switch to Debian. :p
The system is _smooth_ and stable! Thanks again for the help and for a
great OS!
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Hi again,
2.0.x maxes out at 2^30-2^26 = 1006632960 bytes, or 960MB, of RAM.
Thus, you'll wanna use mem=960M.
You can also adjust some headers (I forget which) to expand the kernel
memory / virtual memory split (it is adjustable, and it defaults to 1GB/3GB).
Can the 2.1/2.2 kernels
Hi Robert,
I just wanted to thank you for your suggestion. It seems to be working!
I am having problems getting the boot procedure find the root filesystem
but at least I got this far! Any suggestions about the kernel being
unable to find the root filesystem?
Thanks,
-Ossama
# dd
Hi Robert,
Make sure your rescue disk contains ext2, msdos, ramdisk, initrd, and ELF
support.
Oh, I forgot, you need minix fs support too. See if that helps.
Indeed it did. :)
I had to use the rescue disk on master in Incoming but with my custom
kernel instead. It boots but it behaves
with
RedHat, too.
Any ideas?
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am using the unstable distribution.
Thanks,
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Hi,
An interesting question. The first step is (obviously) to convince enough
people. Especially the developers' we've been talking about. Surely they
have opinions?
I'd be interested in such an entity. Count me in.
-Ossama
Hi Frederick,
It does not work, I still get the message no target. I also cannot
locate any files with patterns xconfig or menuconfig.
I did install the kernel-package.
I don't understand, what I'm doing wrong.
kernel-package and kernel-source are two different things. You will
need a
Hi,
There are no such packages. They are Makefile targets. Go into your
Linux source directory and do make xconfig or make menuconfig.
Have fun!
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Hi
automatically runs e2fsck on the root partition. However, I mount
several other partitions automatically via fstab, and on those I will
after foo number of mounts get a warning that the drive should be
checked. However, it's a pain to switch to runlevel 1 and manually
check all those
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checksums. Does Debian have any such verification mechanism for
individual files (i.e. not the entire deb)? It seems like it would be a
useful feature to have available.
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of the header files are, nor can I find the m68k headers. What
am I doing wrong.
TIA,
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_had_ working C++ prior to
the __register_frame_info problem upgrades. I checked /usr/lib. All of
the usual C++ libraries are there, including libstdc++-2.8 and 2.9.
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is libstdc++.so.2.9 so small?
Any suggestions on how to correct this link problem?
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will respond to any e-mails regarding my packages as soon
as I get back.
Thanks for any feedback.
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. I'll release them tomorrow
for testing.
Thanks,
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it seems that I may
have misunderstood what you were saying. My apologies.
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utilities, just like most Linux distributions. In fact, Debian is
developing its own Hurd distribution.
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to get errors from ls of a
non-existent directory if the directory was removed when I was in that
directory, at least from what I recall.
Am I missing something here?
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Hi,
Is makeinfo available in the unstable tree yet? If so, what package is it
in? I couldn't find one.
Thanks,
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Somebody want to get rid of these failed mail messages?
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Hi,
pages, the functions may not be thread safe. However I think that if libc6
in hamm supports POSIX threads, then the library functions in there must be
thread safe. Any ideas on this from you guys?
I don't think it is safe to make this assumption on any system. All I can
suggest is to
Hi,
I have a friend interested in changing his machine's OS over to Debian,
the only problem that I can see is that he has a Intergraph Voodoo extreme
as his video card, and I can't find a X-server for it. I was simply
wondering if there is such an X-server for Debian.
All Voodoo Rush
Hi,
Does anyone know if there is an X server that will support the Savage3D or
if an X server/driver is in the works?
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official Debian packages yet since I haven't received
my developer approval yet.
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and ending quotes to beginning and ending brackets.
TIA,
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# include /**/ duh.h - # include /**/ duh.h
... etc.
Is there a way to accomplish without making several passes? I'm not a
Perl guru either so this is all very new to me. Sorry.
Thanks again,
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Try ical. It is fairly useful.
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**__result to get struct
hostent *__result, which would then be analogous to the return value of
the Solaris version struct hostent *?
TIA,
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What does 'file myprog' say? the g++ may be adding a messed up header.
Well, I am floored. :)
It seems that the compiled program is a Bourne Shell script, according
to the file program. I confirmed this by viewing the contents of my
executable. It turns out that the binary/script was
file is a great tool. And I hate libtool. Slow, clunky, and odd. Not
to mention fun things like your problem (-:
True, but it is nice not to have to figure out how to generate a shared
library on different platforms. :)
-Ossama
Hi,
Please can someone explain to me the difference between EGCS compilers
and non-EGCS ones? The little info given in dselect is not very
informative.
EGCS is the Experimental GNU Compiler System. It is on a slightly faster
development track then GCC 2.8.1, for example. The EGCS project
Hi all,
Any idea when EGCS 1.1 will be packaged? I'd really like to have it.
Otherwise, I'll just stick it in /usr/local myself. :)
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using the PCMCIA drivers), but if I start X (version included in Debian
2.0), the screen remains black. SuperProbe does not work neither. Screen
black, machine locked ?
When I reboot with 2.0.30, no problems, not at all. Please note that this
2.0.30 kernel was made with gcc 2.7.2..
Hi,
I believe that the latest development 2.1.x kernels can be compiled using
the new compilers. I am not suggesting that you use the development
kernels, however.
Why not? :)
I got 2.1.119 last night...man it is sweet :)
My first development kernel :)
I didn't want to be responsible
I need to find a driver for my net card in win nt is name is driver for
3com fast etherlink XL.
You want the driver for 3Com 3c90x cards which is supported in the 3c59x
driver/module.
-Ossama
from what I remember Beowulf uses PVM, and that is already packaged.
They basically seemed when I read their pages to be makeing add ons which
make PVM more powerfull
From what I recall, PVM is being superseded by MPI. There is already a
Debian packaged implementation of MPI called mpich.
Hi,
Does anyone have any experience with using the TrackMan+ or TrackManFX
with hamm? I'm thinking about buying one but part of my decision will
be based on it's compatability.
I have a TrackMan Marble and it works just fine. Assuming that there
isn't anything different with the connectors
Hi,
Will CVS 1.10 be available in hamm?
No. Hamm is released. It will be available in slink, it's successor.
Doh! I didn't realize that released distributions (e.g. hamm) don't get
periodic updates to packages. Does this mean that only big fixes go into
releases?
-Ossama
Hence the One-Time Password suggestion. Either way, better to have/use
SSH than use telnet/ftp/r{login,sh,exec}.
I have both SSL-Telnet and SSH installed. I don't type root passwords over
clear connections unless it is an emergency.
Hmm - why is it that emergencies always happen
Hi,
Interesting ... after reading the above messages, I decided to check out
my /var/log files and found a whole suite of in.telnetd[XXX]: connect
statements.
Bummer! It appears that it is time for you disable all of those incoming
services we mentioned. Have you considered using Secure
can't use Secure Shell, you might want to try One-Time Password packages,
such as OPIE. I believe that even WU-FTP is starting to support one time
passwords, too.
Uhm, secure shell is not the answer to all problems. It WILL revert to an
unsecure protocol if the other end can not
Hi,
Will CVS 1.10 be available in hamm?
-Ossama
Hi,
Is there such a thing as software that will check environmental conditions
on a motherboard, CPU fan, etc? My motherboard has a hardware monitor on
it but I don't always want to go to the BIOS to check the conditions.
Thanks,
-Ossama
i have a debian system with 128 megs of memory.
i have the following line in lilo.conf:
append=mem=128
It should be:
append=mem=128M
It works fine for me.
-Ossama
You might want to consider disabling all incoming connections if you are
never going to login to your machine via remote.
As George suggested, you can edit your host.{allow,deny} files or edit
/etc/inetd.conf and comment out things like:
telnet
ftp
login
exec
Hi,
telnet
ftp
login
exec
finger
shell
...you get the idea...
And dont forget the r services ... rlogin, rsh, rexec, etc.
Yep, the r services are covered by login, exec and shell. Here is what
inetd.conf has to say:
shell stream tcp
Hi,
Where can I find the threads package for libc6 - I have looked all through
the dselect list? All I find is the one for libc5 in the old libs section.
A specially adapted version of Xavier LeRoy's implementation of
kernel-level POSIX threads (pthreads) is already part of libc6. Some
Hi,
Well that explains why I couldn't find anything. What about the man pages?
Which package has those? When the guys do a man on pthread_create nothing is
found
It seems that I didn't have the libc6 man pages either. :)
Anyway, I found the docs package. Not surprisingly, it is:
Hi,
Does anyone know if Debian's XF86 package is thread safe (i.e. patches in
/usr/doc/libc6-doc/README.linuxthreads.gz have been applied)?
Thanks,
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Hi,
What versions of MOTIF will work with Debian 2.0?
Can't help you with Motif. Have you considered the LessTif package? I
believe that it aims for Motif 1.2 compliance. It may still be a little
buggy, however.
-Ossama
Hi,
The authors concern was that on a big endian system network order and
byte order are the same so hton* and ntoh* do nothingso how do you
do the swapps...
You could just cast the address of the variable to a char * and swap
things around using pointer arithmetic or arrays. Here is a
Hi again,
// number is the size of the array being byte swapped
swap4(void *dest, void *src, int number) {
I forgot to mention that the code excerpt I posted was meant for swapping
variables that are 4 bytes in size, e.g. floats and such.
-Ossama
How does one create a PDF (Acrobat) file? In searching through the
packages I found a number of ways to view a PDF file, but didn't seem to
find any way to create one.
The only ways I am aware of besides using Adobe Acrobat is to use
ps2pdf, found in the ghostscript package or by using using
Hi,
Read /usr/doc/X11/README.Debian on your systems. That file has
explanations and solutions for your problems with xterm-debian.
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.
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The default Debian setup allows you to select which partition to boot
from, before selecting a default. On my system (with only /dev/hda2
marked bootable), I see a 2FA: prompt. If I press any keys here, I
can press 2 (boot from hda2), F (boot from floppy), or A, which
changes the prompt to
Hi,
Could anyone tell me how to get X automatically started. Now I have to
write 'startx' every time.
Try configuring xdm to start at boot. You can probably use
xbase-configure to configure it. If that doesn't work check /etc/init.d
for a script called xdm. If you don't have xdm but have
You might also want to check /etc/nsswitch.conf. You should have
something like the following for the hosts entry:
hosts: files dns
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Hi,
I remember that this question was asked before but I can't seem to find it
in the list archives. My question is how can I tell what processes are
running on a given processor using ps or top, or some other utility.
SMP support has been enabled in my kernel (2.0.35). Will I need SMP
Why don't you just restrict booting by using LILO's password= and
restricted in /etc/lilo.conf? Here is what the man page for lilo.conf
says:
password=password
Protect the image by a password.
restricted
A password is only required to boot the image
No problem. Have fun! :)
By the way, perhaps lilo.conf should be readable by root only since a
password will be listed inside it, in your case. This shouldn't be a bad
thing, from what I can tell. I am glad that you asked this question since
I wanted to do the same thing but never actually
As David Maze points out, it'd also be best to NOT use mbr as the master
boot record since that will allow one to boot off a floppy and/or
another partition.
I prefer to let LILO be the master boot record on my servers since they
only run Linux ... one less piece of software to worry about.
I found an answer to my question from one of my colleagues. This
seems like a good thing to know so I'll post it in case anyone is
interested. Here is he how checks to see how well his SMPing is working:
(incidentally, these are benchmarks for a Debian 2.0 system running kernel
2.0.35 on a dual
Hi,
page. One thing they don't tell you though that you have to do under
Debian is delete the 'X' bin that should be in /usr/X11R6/bin and then
just link the Elsa_GLoria bin (XSuSE_Elsa_GLoria I believe) to 'X'.
I really don't think that is a good idea. Debian created that X as an
suid
there are kernel compile issues with gcc
2.8.x and egcs 1.x.
By the way, this is not local to Debian. Any distribution that uses g++
will have these problems.
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now.. here's the dumb newbie question.. apart from staying away from plug
and pray, is there any complication to installing a cd-rom drive and new
modem? do i have to invoke prayers to any particular UNIX gods? or do i
get to shove the new stuff into their proper bays and boot up?
You
Hi,
I just added the xterm-debian terminfo file in the appropriate Solaris 2.6
location on our Solaris machine, in accordance with what
/usr/doc/xbase/README.Debian says. When I start up an xterm on our
Solaris machine remotely using SSH on our hamm system (Solaris xterm
displayed on hamm
Hi,
Does I really need scsi support since my burner is IDE ?
Why this support is not detected by xcdroast (I have got no scsi card) ?
I'm not sure if this will help, but have you tried enabling SCSI emulation
in the kernel? Note that the SCSI drivers need to be enabled for the
emulation to
Hi,
I am having trouble finding browsers that use 128 bit encryption. I've
have found IE versions 3.0 and higher and Netscape versions 3.0 and
higher. Are these the only ones out there? What about AOL? If you
could shed light on this subject it would greatly be appreciated.
Is this a
Hi,
Try the netatalk package instead of CAP. I've been using it for over a
month now and haven't had any problems. You will need to enable support
Appletalk DDP in the kernel or as a module.
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I wish I could answer your fvwm95 question but I deleted it before I read
it. :)
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Have you tried pac, the printer accounting utility? Do a man pac do get
some additional information. As far as I know, pac is part of the default
Debian installation. Here is an excerpt from the pac man page:
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NAME
pac -
Hi,
$ ls -l /usr/bin/egcc /usr/bin/gcc
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root60320 Jun 17 03:04 /usr/bin/egcc*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root49460 Jun 15 00:48 /usr/bin/gcc*
Ok, I haven't posted a BIG DUMMY question in quite some time; I'm overdue!
SO: what's the
Hi,
I can vouch for the Trackman Marble since I have the exact same thing. :)
It works fine for me. All three buttons work in X Windows. If you are
using the PS/2 mouse port, make sure you have PS/2 mouse support enabled
in your kernel or installed as a module. The module for this psaux.
Hi,
I`m useing a Diamond Viper V330 (Nvidia Riva 128) card but this card
isn`t listed...
Try the SVGA driver. I believe support for the Riva 128 is in it.
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It's easy enough to do a set term=xterm but I really don't want to keep
doing that. Why did Debian create their own terminfo/cap entry and why
was such a change necessary?
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Hi,
So my question is: what is and where or how do I get libfl.a?
libfl.a is a fast lexical analyzer library meaning that it should be part
of the flex (Fast Lexical Analyzer) package. The function yywrap is in
libfl.a
I can't help you witht the other two problems you mentioned, sorry.
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