Re: apt-file problem - no output
On Wednesday 05 July 2006 11:41 am, Lubos Vrbka wrote: would you be willing to submit the bug? I'd rather not, because I can't reproduce it. It would be better if you can do file it, since you're experiencing the issue. However, it is very easy. The instructions are here: http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting apt-file on unstable seems to work fine... Really? Interesting. Is the Contents-i386.gz file downloaded via unstable empty? my mistake - it is amd64 machine, but the files in /var/cache/apt/apt-file/ have the right contents, even after purge and subsequent update. Ah. regards, -- Lubos [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Peace, Aaron Maxwell - http://redsymbol.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: new Package of the Day features
Hey, here's a neat app I just discovered five minutes ago via POTD: http://potd.redsymbol.net/?p=dog Cool! It's working for me already :) On Wednesday 05 July 2006 02:46 pm, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: the bottom of the p.d.o pages provide a variety of links, some of which actually go upstream, and that's probably where the real use is. [snip] MAybe there's a way to grep the p.d.o pages for useful links if they occur? just thought. That's a really good idea. I could make it so that a script would scrape the p.d.o page for the new package each hour. Andrew, can you point out a p.d.o page or pages that contain links like that? The few I looked at did not really contain any ([2], for example) I think one way to generalize the issue is, how can I (as the POTD visitor/user) learn or experience more about this package that intrigues me? It's a little tricky because the answer to that question depends on (a) the package and (b) the user. Take the package dog, above, as an example. (It's like cat, but can fetch a file via http and do other tricks.) I read the description, and immediately understood what it could do for me. I really didn't need any more background information. Compare this with the ethereal package, whose description I'll paste here: Ethereal is a network traffic analyzer, or sniffer, for Unix and Unix-like operating systems. A sniffer is a tool used to capture packets off the wire. Ethereal decodes numerous protocols Imagine I'm a user who sees this, has never used packet sniffers, but is technically inclined in a way that I'm curious about them. I might want to know about what sorts of things you can do by looking at network traffic, what protocols are used in what situations, how hard or easy it is to get up to speed on using this tool, what similar network analysis tools might exist. Or maybe I just have a general sense that this tool is part of a subject I would like to know more about. Interestingly, the Wikipedia web page for ethereal [1] is just about perfect for all that. In particular, most of the jargon words have links to whole pages elaborating on them. Many popular apps will have such WP pages; I have no idea what fraction of less-than-famous packages will. The ideal, I think, would be if I could put a Learn more... link below the package description, which would magically take the user somewhere that s/he could learn about the wider context and connections of the package. Perhaps I could make POTD discover any Wikipedia page for the app, and use that as the link. Thoughts, anyone? [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethereal_%28software%29 [2] http://packages.debian.org/stable/web/drupal -- Peace, Aaron Maxwell - http://redsymbol.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: new Package of the Day features
On Tuesday 04 July 2006 11:00 pm, Kevin Mark wrote: Hi Aaron, one of the issues I have with the short and long descriptions and the suggest,depends is this: they are meant to be useful to the audience that already knows all the jargon and lingo used in that particular field and doesnt allow someone else the change to discover these programs. I may want to take the time to learn about a field I've never read about in order to learn how to use a partiular program but the description is not written to explain what it does to non-experts. Debian policy is that the package's extended description should be written so that a user who has never encountered the software before can cluefully decide whether it will be of use to them [1]. In practice the descriptions may or may not meet that standard for individual packages, of course. If a package is very specialized - as a random good example, consider the package biococoa.app [2] - I'm not sure its desc necessarily should be written so that nonspecialists can understand the software's purpose. Almost by definition, that person would not be able to make use of it (at that time). Now, one thing that would be nice is if, when you come across a package like that, there is a way you can learn about the software's social environment - what it's used for, why it is needed and by who, the field, etc. This can be because you might find it useful, or just out of curiosity. That's a separate issue from informing the specialist whether they can make use of the package, though. I've thought about making an alternate index to explain all the lingo used in the package discriptions. Do you mean that there is a jargon base that is more or less common across all packages (17,000 in main)? Or do you mean, as examples, the set of jargon that will be present amongst the lisp development packages, which would be nearly disjoint with the set of jargon across (say) 3D game packages? Also, the 'suggests' only show a package name. This to me is not that useful. I'd like to know the specific reason why I should install this extra package. I'd like to know in what way it will add functionality or features to the main program. The package name used in the suggests field does not enlighten me enough. As far as potd.redsymbol.net is concerned, at some point I plan to add the suggests/recommends/depends lists to the display; each package named there will link to its full description (e.g., http://potd.redsymbol.net/?p=binutils). Maybe I can also incorporate the short description for each, like as a mouseover hint. It would be more informative than just the package name. Your points are thoughtful and insightful IMO. Cheers, Kev [1] http://www.us.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-binary.html#s-descriptions [2] for your convenience: http://potd.redsymbol.net/?p=biococoa.app -- Peace, Aaron Maxwell - http://redsymbol.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-file problem - no output
On Wednesday 05 July 2006 09:43 am, Lubos Vrbka wrote: is the bug already filed? it doesn't seem to be for me... but maybe i missed something on the bugs.debian.org. No. apt-file on unstable seems to work fine... Really? Interesting. Is the Contents-i386.gz file downloaded via unstable empty? regards, -- Lubos [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Peace, Aaron Maxwell - http://redsymbol.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: new Package of the Day features
On Monday 03 July 2006 01:46 pm, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 09:35:58AM -0700, Aaron Maxwell wrote: ... aaand now there's an RSS feed. cool, now how about making the package title a link to packages.debian.org? then we can peruse more details easily... I've thought about it... linking it like that doesn't quite feel right, because for most users the information on p.d.o doesn't ADD much in terms of discovering new and interesting software (which is the whole point - it should answer, How can this package benefit me / enhance my life?). (Though one might argue that it would be interesting to know the suggests, depends, packages with similar tags, etc.) An ideal would be if the package title linked to an informative homepage. If I can come up with some way to automate that... Obviously my vision is to make it simple (think google.com, not yahoo.com). It might be good to put the p.d.o link somewhere else, like along the bottom. A -- Peace, Aaron Maxwell - http://redsymbol.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: new Package of the Day features
On Monday 03 July 2006 11:23 am, Angelina Carlton wrote: Hi Aaron, Have you removed -doc packages? personally I like to know about -doc packages, and especially packaged books, like autobook and rutetbook This stuff is nice to have IMHO. Yes, I've filtered those out. They don't add enough to justify keeping them in the rotation. Compare, for example, apt and apt-doc. Most descriptions for 'apt-foo' will be like 'Contains documentation for foo in various formats', and the interesting exceptions are rare. Similarly, -dev, -dbg, -i18n-, and some others are filtered out. Note that the filtering is currently just done by a regex on the package name, so .*book will be be left in. (autobook and rutebook are left out because they're in non-free, not because they're filtered.) -Angelina Carlton- orchid on irc.freenode.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] web:bzgirl.bakadigital.com OT PS: aptitude -vv moo -- Peace, Aaron Maxwell - http://redsymbol.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: new Package of the Day features
On Tuesday 04 July 2006 01:46 pm, Aaron Maxwell wrote: On Monday 03 July 2006 11:23 am, Angelina Carlton wrote: Hi Aaron, Have you removed -doc packages? personally I like to know about -doc packages, and especially packaged books, like autobook and rutetbook This stuff is nice to have IMHO. Yes, I've filtered those out. They don't add enough to justify keeping them in the rotation. Compare, for example, apt and apt-doc. Most descriptions for 'apt-foo' will be like 'Contains documentation ^^ This should read Most descriptions for 'foo-doc' , sorry for foo in various formats', and the interesting exceptions are rare. Similarly, -dev, -dbg, -i18n-, and some others are filtered out. Note that the filtering is currently just done by a regex on the package name, so .*book will be be left in. (autobook and rutebook are left out because they're in non-free, not because they're filtered.) -Angelina Carlton- orchid on irc.freenode.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] web:bzgirl.bakadigital.com OT PS: aptitude -vv moo -- Peace, Aaron Maxwell - http://redsymbol.net -- Peace, Aaron Maxwell - http://redsymbol.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-file problem - no output
On Sunday 02 July 2006 02:53 am, Lubos Vrbka wrote: i installed apt-file on my i386 etch box. i did apt-file update, however using apt-file search doesn't provide any output (i replaced the address of our institutional debian mirror with xx.xx.xx in the following outputs): It's likely nothing you did. See this message from eariler Sunday: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/07/msg00074.html I just verified today (Tuesday) that the Contents-i386 files that apt-file uses are still being generated empty. That's a bug. I believe that apt-file cannot work until it can access a proper Contents-* file, which means you'll have to wait until that's fixed. -- Peace, Aaron Maxwell - http://redsymbol.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: new Package of the Day features
... aaand now there's an RSS feed. -- Peace, Aaron Maxwell - http://redsymbol.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian package of the day
On Wednesday 28 June 2006 09:30 am, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: you could probably, IMHO, ignore just about any i18n package. Likewise you could probably ignore any lib* package as well. Or even Yeah, I'm going to set it to ignore all i18n packages, as well as all -dbg, -dev, -doc, etc. I'm kind of on the line about libraries; I think I will filter them out though. better, you could set-up a couple versions of the potd. One for desktop users that focuses only on apps, one for dev's that includes libs, maybe one for cli junkies that greps for no X11 dependencies and so forth. just a thought. I thought of that, and it's a good idea, but I doubt I will. I want it to be simple. Maybe eventually I'll allow customization/prefs that will add or remove categories of packages. -- Peace, Aaron Maxwell - http://redsymbol.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
new Package of the Day features
For those interested, the Package of the Day has a couple of new features, mainly filtering of less interesting packages and a ranking of popularity (from popularity-contest data): http://potd.redsymbol.net Next in line is an RSS feed... -- Peace, Aaron Maxwell - http://redsymbol.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: config file for bittornado command-line options?
On Thursday 29 June 2006 05:42 am, Anonyma wrote: I've been using the bittornado command-line clients on linux and I want to know how to set --max_upload_rate --max_download_rate --minport and --maxport somewhere like a home-directory dotfile so I don't have to remember to set them every time I run the command. I have a ~/.BitTornado directory but no config file in it. Where/how can I set these options? My .BitTornado has a config file in it, which it seems was generated by the client. Don't know why that happend with mine and not yours, but you can paste mine in. The file name is '~/.BitTornado/config.gui.ini'. HTH, Aaron --- begin config.gui.ini --- # Generated by BitTornado/T-0.3.13 # 04/30/2006 02:48:19 PM alloc_rate = 2.0 alloc_type = normal auto_flush = 0 auto_kick = 1 bind = breakup_seed_bitfield = 1 buffer_reads = 1 check_hashes = 1 display_interval = 0.5 double_check = 1 download_slice_size = 16384 expire_cache_data = 10 gui_checkingcolor = 8e 8e 8e gui_default_savedir = /home/amax/rec gui_displaymiscstats = 1 gui_displaystats = 1 gui_downloadcolor = d6 d6 d6 gui_font = 10 gui_forcegreenonfirewall = 0 gui_ratesettingsdefault = automatic gui_ratesettingsmode = full gui_saveas_ask = -1 gui_seedingcolor = 00 ff 00 gui_stretchwindow = 0 http_timeout = 60 ip = ipv6_binds_v4 = 0 ipv6_enabled = 0 keepalive_interval = 120.0 last_saved = /home/amax/rec/foo lock_files = 1 lock_while_reading = 0 max_connections = 0 max_download_rate = 0 max_files_open = 50 max_initiate = 40 max_message_length = 8388608 max_rate_period = 20.0 max_slice_length = 131072 max_upload_rate = 0 max_uploads = 7 maxport = 50229 min_peers = 20 min_uploads = 4 minport = 50201 random_port = 1 rarest_first_cutoff = 2 rarest_first_priority_cutoff = 5 request_backlog = 10 rerequest_interval = 300 round_robin_period = 30 saveas = security = 1 selector_enabled = 1 snub_time = 30.0 spew = 0 super_seeder = 0 tcp_ack_fudge = 0.03 timeout = 300.0 timeout_check_interval = 60.0 triple_check = 0 upload_rate_fudge = 5.0 upload_unit_size = 1460 upnp_nat_access = 1 win32_taskbar_icon = 1 write_buffer_size = 4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian package of the day
On Tuesday 27 June 2006 04:17 pm, Lance Simmons wrote: * Joshua J. Kugler [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060623 16:49]: Looks cool...how about an RSS feed? :) I could stand to learn I second the request for an RSS feed. That's pretty much the only way I ever read websites any more. A feed is definitely on the todo list. I want to put in a couple of features first, such as some basic filtering (do we *really* need to know about package kde-i18n-cy?). Good to see interest here. -- Peace, Aaron Maxwell - http://redsymbol.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian package of the day
On Monday 26 June 2006 02:25 am, Jon Dowland wrote: Nice: There have been a few attempts at this in the past which have died off, http://debaday.livejournal.com/ is one of them. http://debaday.debian.net/ seems to still be going. I didn't know about those, thanks. Actually, is http://debaday.debian.net/ the correct URL? I get a server not found error. What I like about the livejournal one is the commentary it provided. While I'm going to keep POTD completely automated, I'd like to add some extras. (e.g., tying in popularity contest data) Right now, it's essentially equivalent to 'apt-cache show pkg'. -- Peace, Aaron Maxwell - http://redsymbol.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian package of the day
Something I did for fun, that you might find neat: http://potd.redsymbol.net It's pretty skeletal right now; I'll add features to it over time. (If anyone has a feature request, post on this list or email me.) -- Peace, Aaron Maxwell - http://redsymbol.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian package of the day
On Friday 23 June 2006 04:44 pm, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 07:37:33PM -0400, Roberto Sanchez wrote: One question, though. Wouldn't updated hourly! imply that this is really the Debian package of the hour? No, it's still the package of the day... and an hour from now, a *different* package will be the package of the day:) I agree, and while I think its a cool idea, the hourly thing is too much pressure man! sheesh I have enough to do already without seeing what the next poth is ;-p A Don't complain, or I'll make it update every ten minutes! If anyone's curious, the reason I did this is that there's so much software for debian - about 17,000 packages in i386/main - that there are probably some you would find interesting or useful, except that they get lost in the haystack and you never encounter them. I read a post once in which someone bemoaned the passing of dselect, because it highlighted newly-minted packages. With apt*, he rarely knew of that new software, unless he just stumbled across it. I thought that was a pretty good point. -- Peace, Aaron Maxwell - http://redsymbol.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
fixed - Re: video acceleration works for root, not normal users
Turns out it was something completely different: in the ~/.mplayer/config file for the normal user, I had the line vo=gl2 (which directs MPlayer to use the GL2 video output method; this was needed by the previous video card driver.) Root's MPlayer config file did not have this directive. Apparently forcing it to use the GL2 method is incompatible with the acceleration. Thanks to Richard Blumel, who emailed me some advice off-list that led to the solution. Best, Aaron On Tuesday 13 June 2006 09:54 am, Aaron Maxwell wrote: Hi. I'm running X.org 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4, on AMD64 testing. The video card is a ATI Radeon 9550, and accelleration works fine when I startx as root. However, if I go into X as a normal user, there is no acceleration. The obvious guess is that this is due to permissions, but I have not found any. For example, shenri% ls -l /dev/fb0 crw-rw 1 root video 29, 0 2006-06-13 09:27 /dev/fb0 The normal user does indeed belong to the 'video' group, so that should not be the problem. To enable acceleration (as root), I load the 'radeonfb' kernel driver, and configure xorg.conf to use the 'radeon' driver in the appropriate Device section. One last clue: the messages from mplayer are different in each case. When running as root (and, thus, with working acceleration), the output includes VDec: vo config request - 304 x 240 (preferred csp: Planar YV12) VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0) Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied. VO: [xv] 304x240 = 304x240 Planar YV12 A: 0.2 V: 0.0 A-V: 0.142 ct: 0.000 1/ 1 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0 Whereas with the normal user, I get VDec: vo config request - 304 x 240 (preferred csp: Planar YV12) Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale... Opening video filter: [scale] VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0) Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied. SwScaler: using unscaled Planar YV12 - BGR 24-bit special converter VO: [gl2] 304x240 = 304x240 BGR 24-bit [fs] [zoom] A: 0.5 V: 0.0 A-V: 0.439 ct: 0.000 1/ 1 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0 I've searched quite a bit on this, and made headway but have gotten stuck. Any ideas? Thanks in advance. -- Peace, Aaron Maxwell - http://redsymbol.net -- Peace, Aaron Maxwell - http://redsymbol.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HOWTO: Shuttling MP3s, jpgs, etc. on and off the Verizon LG cellphone
A good way to move files between your cell phone and Linux machine is to use the excellent BitPim (http://bitpim.org). Some phones will not work with BitPim, however, in part because of their closed-source nature. [1] This post describes an alternate solution. This should work for nearly all Verizon LG phones, including the LG-VX9800, LG-VX8100, LG-VX600, so long as it's a phone that has a miniSD card slot. [2] Again, the problem is: how can you move images, mp3s, and other files between the LG phone and a Linux machine? The solution is to get a miniSD card, as well as a reader for it (for the linux machine). You can configure the phone to automatically save new camera images to the card. [3] Then you can take pictures, remove the card from the phone, put it in the flash reader, mount the card in linux, then move and copy files off and on it just like any other media. Similarly, you can copy MP3s onto the card from linux, and listen to them on the phone when you plug the card in. USB Flash readers are pretty cheap. Search for external flash reader on eBay and you will probably see many listings for under $20. I bought a nice one from CompUSA for $30+tax. Usually these readers are marketed as 8-in-1, 12-in-1, etc., which is the number of flash formats they read. Make sure that the one you get reads the miniSD format. Alternatively, you can get one that just reads the SD format, and get an SD-to-miniSD adapter. That's what I did, and it works well. The adapter came for free with my miniSD card. I don't know what they would cost, but it's just a bit of plastic with some metal, so I'd bet it's cheap. Just try to get a miniSD card that includes the adapter. The card must have some particular directories on it. They will have names like my_mp3, my_pix, etc. To put these in, insert the card in the phone. The phone should automatically make them for you. You may have to take a picture and save it to the card first. Once you get the reader, plug it into a spare port on your linux machine, then insert the card. The only step left is to mount it. After that, you can read and write to it just like any other mounted device. Unfortunately the mounting is not always trivial, but it IS always solvable with reasonable effort. The exact steps vary, depending on the specifics of your hardware. As baroque as the process can be, it is really well documented on the net. Just search and you will find instructions. It might also just work for you without any trouble. Hint: try mounting it as a vfat filesystem. Incidentally, at least some Verizon phones have their MP3 functionality disabled by default. If it is, you may have MP3s on the flash memory, but your phone will not play them. This is very easy to fix. You need to go into the super-sekrit Service Menu. To do this, punch Ok to open the main menu. Then, press 0 (zero). You will see a popup titled Service Code, and a prompt for a 6-digit password. The password is 00. Tricky, aren't they! You should now be in the Services menu. (There are a lot of options here, and they are not supposed to be user-configureable. Be careful if you play with them. It is possible to break your phone's software by misconfiguring something.) Scroll down to the item titled Music Setting and type OK. Select MP3 Enable and press OK. Press End to return to the main screen. Now, under Menu - Get It Now - Get Tunes Tones, there will be a new menu option, called My MP3s. This will list the sound files on the miniSD card, and you can play them. Note: This is how it works for my setup. I believe it will be identical or very similar for all recent and near-future models. The rest is straightforward. Incidentally, while we're talking about cellphones, I found a way to get internet access on the phone for $12 a year instead of the normal $60. Go to http://hopke.net/proxy/proxyhome.php They offer inet service for cellphones. Just like Verizon's service, but much cheaper. Finally, if someone from Verizon is reading this: I am VERY UNHAPPY that you DELIBERATELY designed the firmware to prevent the phone from being accessed from my PC. I *know* you did this. I *know* that when you do firmware upgrades for your phones, you include enhancements that prevent people from using the phone that they BOUGHT (not leased or borrowed) in ways that are convenient and reasonable for them. I *know* that you do this to induce people to spend money on extra services that they would not need if you did not put in these barriers. I like that you have those addons, in case I decide to get them. Then, of course, it's win-win. But if the only way for me to get my pictures off my cell phone is to pay $0.25 EACH to email them to myself, well, that is highly annoying. I have a cable, which you sold me, that connects my phone to the USB port. There is no technical reason I can't just plug it in and copy
video acceleration works for root, not normal users
Hi. I'm running X.org 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4, on AMD64 testing. The video card is a ATI Radeon 9550, and accelleration works fine when I startx as root. However, if I go into X as a normal user, there is no acceleration. The obvious guess is that this is due to permissions, but I have not found any. For example, shenri% ls -l /dev/fb0 crw-rw 1 root video 29, 0 2006-06-13 09:27 /dev/fb0 The normal user does indeed belong to the 'video' group, so that should not be the problem. To enable acceleration (as root), I load the 'radeonfb' kernel driver, and configure xorg.conf to use the 'radeon' driver in the appropriate Device section. One last clue: the messages from mplayer are different in each case. When running as root (and, thus, with working acceleration), the output includes VDec: vo config request - 304 x 240 (preferred csp: Planar YV12) VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0) Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied. VO: [xv] 304x240 = 304x240 Planar YV12 A: 0.2 V: 0.0 A-V: 0.142 ct: 0.000 1/ 1 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0 Whereas with the normal user, I get VDec: vo config request - 304 x 240 (preferred csp: Planar YV12) Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale... Opening video filter: [scale] VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0) Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied. SwScaler: using unscaled Planar YV12 - BGR 24-bit special converter VO: [gl2] 304x240 = 304x240 BGR 24-bit [fs] [zoom] A: 0.5 V: 0.0 A-V: 0.439 ct: 0.000 1/ 1 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0 I've searched quite a bit on this, and made headway but have gotten stuck. Any ideas? Thanks in advance. -- Peace, Aaron Maxwell - http://redsymbol.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cell w/ Bitpim: This port is active but not available for use.
Hi, I have a Verizon LG VX8100 cell phone that connects to my workstation via a USB port. It seems to be detected okay, but somehow is disabled. When I use Bitpim, and look under the Choose a comm port dialog [1], the port for the phone is listed under Ports Not Available. When I click on that item to get details, it shows a list of Property - Value pairs; the property available is set to false. Anyone know what can cause this? More importantly, how to make it change to true? I'm pretty sure if that property setting becomes true, I will be able to browse the phone's filesystem. Interestingly, the following lines appear in the log - I'm not sure how to interpret them: -- begin -- 22:43:14.638 Checking for model: LG-VX8100 (Verizon Wireless) 22:43:14.638 Likely ports:[] -- end -- The Likely ports should not be an empty list. Thanks in advance for advice or comments. Incidentally, I do not believe it is a permission problem, since I have tried just running bitpim as root, with the same outcome. The phone's firmware is version 7. [1] under Edit | Settings, then click Browse by Comm Port -- Peace, Aaron Maxwell - http://redsymbol.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cannot choose kwin when using kdm
Hi, I'm running etch on i386, and use kdm as my graphical login manager. I normally use IceWM for the window manager, but want to now use kwin. I have the kdm package installed, but during the login, kdm does not present kwin as a choice. The only options are Default, Custom, IceWM and Failsafe. (All those choices will put me in IceWM.) How can I configure KDM to allow me to choose other window managers? Thanks in advance. -- Peace, Aaron Maxwell - http://redsymbol.net Skills for higher math - http://InnerAlgebra.com COMING SOON: Retail Worker's Survival Guide - http://rwsg.us -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cannot choose kwin when using kdm - Solved
Don't you love it when you post a question to a mailing list, and then figure out the solution less than 120 seconds later? It turns out I just did not have ksmserver package installed, which is apparently contains a key component (/usr/bin/startkde). After installing that and restarting kdm, it works fine now. Thanks for listening. -- Peace, Aaron Maxwell - http://redsymbol.net Skills for higher math - http://InnerAlgebra.com COMING SOON: Retail Worker's Survival Guide - http://rwsg.us On Saturday 29 October 2005 08:25 pm, Aaron Maxwell wrote: Hi, I'm running etch on i386, and use kdm as my graphical login manager. I normally use IceWM for the window manager, but want to now use kwin. I have the kdm package installed, but during the login, kdm does not present kwin as a choice. The only options are Default, Custom, IceWM and Failsafe. (All those choices will put me in IceWM.) How can I configure KDM to allow me to choose other window managers? Thanks in advance. -- Peace, Aaron Maxwell - http://redsymbol.net Skills for higher math - http://InnerAlgebra.com COMING SOON: Retail Worker's Survival Guide - http://rwsg.us -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problem when trying to install new packages
On Sunday 09 October 2005 01:57 pm, Sara Massons wrote: Hello, I am using Debian testing. I am not a developper and not really skilled for installation processes (I usually follow the instructions to the letter and it works). I tried to install several things using apt-get install command (see list below) and I always get an error message saying it needs to Hi, It would help to know exactly what apt-get's output is. Can you reply with the text of the whole session? Just cut-n-paste, or use the script command (man script). -- Peace, Aaron Maxwell - http://redsymbol.net Skills for higher math - http://InnerAlgebra.com COMING SOON: Retail Worker's Survival Guide - http://rwsg.us -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: urgent help needed no commands are running and web,database servers also not starting
On Tuesday 11 October 2005 02:10 am, Radhika wrote: Hi, Yesterday i have installed kernal image 2.4.27-2-686-smp #1 and i have restarted it was working fine that time.Now i am not able to run any commands and my apache,myasql servers also not starting. Have you tried using full pathnames for the commands? E.g., '/bin/ls' instead of just 'ls', or '/usr/bin/vi' instead of just 'vi'. If I understood you right, everything seemed to work fine when you rebooted, right after the kernel upgrade. How long ago was that reboot? Has the system been rebooted since then? -- Peace, Aaron Maxwell - http://redsymbol.net Skills for higher math - http://InnerAlgebra.com COMING SOON: Retail Worker's Survival Guide - http://rwsg.us -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: urgent help needed no commands are running and web,database servers also not starting
On Tuesday 11 October 2005 02:57 am, Radhika wrote: i have tried with /usr/bin/vi paths also still it is giving the same problem.It is normal reboot and it didn't gave any error and everything was working Hi, I'm not getting any insights right now, but here's a couple of suggestions: One, if you haven't already, you might want to try getting help from the IRC channel (http://www.us.debian.org/support#irc). It's more real-time than this mailing list. Also, have you tried rebooting with the old kernel? It would also be interesting to know if, after rebooting into the newer kernel (2.4.27-2-686-smp), the problem reappears instantly after the reboot, or if there is a time period where everything works okay first (just like the first time). Good luck -- Peace, Aaron Maxwell - http://redsymbol.net Skills for higher math - http://InnerAlgebra.com COMING SOON: Retail Worker's Survival Guide - http://rwsg.us -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Use Debian system as a RIP
Hi Peter, On Thursday 29 September 2005 07:34 am, Peter King wrote: Is there a way of using a Debian system as a RIP. I have a client that has just been quoted by Xerox £11500 for a Fiery EX12 Raster Image Processor the system is only a PIII-500 with 256MB RAM and a 9GB HDD so I am thinking of putting together a nice hefty system and use Debian instead. Apparently the rip just takes a PDF file then converts it to a Post Script file and sends it to the printer. Surely there is something on Linux to do this. If it really is that simple (I have no experience with RIPs), then a Debian system might work. The conversion would be done with the pdf2ps tool (man pdf2ps), from the gs-common package, or possibly pdftops, from xpdf-utils. One thing to thoroughly check out is that ps2pdf, etc. would actually convert the images your client works with. That is, get a good cross-section of the PDF images they would work with, and verify that they are converted to correct, printable Post Script. Having used them for several years, my experience with these conversion tools is that they almost always work, but I've had a few situations where they choke (mostly with what I'd consider quirky documents, which your client may have.) I have also heard of some people having more trouble than I've had with those tools. Of course, another thing to consider is the the EX12 RIP's reputation. Have other users found it reliable, etc.? Good luck. -- Peace, Aaron Maxwell - http://redsymbol.net Skills for higher math - http://InnerAlgebra.com COMING SOON: Retail Worker's Survival Guide - http://rwsg.us
Re: Question about samba setup in Sarge
On Monday 26 September 2005 03:10 pm, Paul E Condon wrote: I am attempting to create a samba server on a Sarge box using pure Debian. I am looking at the /etc/samba/smb.conf I cannot find a file, ENCRYPTION.txt, on my computer or as part of any of the packages that I installed. Where can I obtain a copy of this file? Hi, I found this: http://www.samba-tng.org/docs/tng/textdocs/ENCRYPTION.txt It's dated August 2000. I found some older versions, but nothing newer. This may be the most recent revision. BTW, I found this through Google's advanced search, looking for URLs that contained samba and ENCRYPTION.txt. Also, if you speak Japanese, 'samba-doc-ja' contains a Japanese translation :) -- Peace, Aaron Maxwell - http://redsymbol.net Skills for higher math - http://InnerAlgebra.com COMING SOON: Retail Worker's Survival Guide - http://rwsg.us -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Use Debian system as a RIP
Oops, in the second paragraph of my reply, ps2pdf should be pdf2ps. -Aaron On Thursday 29 September 2005 12:46 pm, Aaron Maxwell wrote: If it really is that simple (I have no experience with RIPs), then a Debian system might work. The conversion would be done with the pdf2ps tool (man pdf2ps), from the gs-common package, or possibly pdftops, from xpdf-utils. One thing to thoroughly check out is that ps2pdf, etc. would actually One thing to thoroughly check out is that pdf2ps, etc. would actually convert the images your client works with. That is, get a good cross-section of the PDF images they would work with, and verify that they are converted to correct, printable Post Script. Having used them for several years, my experience with these conversion tools is that they almost always work, but I've had a few situations where they choke (mostly with what I'd consider quirky documents, which your client may have.) I have also heard of some people having more trouble than I've had with those tools. Of course, another thing to consider is the the EX12 RIP's reputation. Have other users found it reliable, etc.? Good luck. -- Peace, Aaron Maxwell - http://redsymbol.net Skills for higher math - http://InnerAlgebra.com COMING SOON: Retail Worker's Survival Guide - http://rwsg.us -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gnuplot and PDF
On Sunday 25 September 2005 10:20 pm, Marc Wilson wrote: On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 10:29:35PM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: does anyone know why the testing gnuplot package does not support PDF output ? When has gnuplot ever supported output to PDF? Actually, version 4 of gnuplot does support output to PDF... at least, the upstream source does. I'm running testing, and the command set terminal pdf gives an unknown or ambigious terminal type -- which means that it doesn't know how to print PDFs. So the gnuplot in testing does not support PDFs. On the gnuplot home page, I did see a mention [1] that the PDF output ability requires libpdf. I'm not sure what libpdf is; there does not seem to be a Debian package with that name. My guess is that the gnuplot package maintainer did not compile the binary with that library for some reason, so that's why our gnuplot does not support that (yet). Jerome, you might want to file a bug report or feature request on the gnuplot package. [1] http://www.gnuplot.info/docs/gnuplot.html#What_is_New_in_Version_4.0 -- Peace, Aaron Maxwell - http://redsymbol.net Skills for higher math - http://InnerAlgebra.com COMING SOON: Retail Worker's Survival Guide - http://rwsg.us -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gnuplot and PDF
On Sunday 25 September 2005 10:58 pm, Aaron Maxwell wrote: On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 10:29:35PM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: does anyone know why the testing gnuplot package does not support PDF output ? Jerome, you might want to file a bug report or feature request on the gnuplot package. Cancel that - someone already did. It appears that libpdf (which gnuplot needs to produce PDF output) is non-free, and that is why Debian's gnuplot does not use it. The suggested workaround is to produce Postscript output (set terminal postscript) and use ps2pdf to convert them: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=248426 Scroll down to read the package maintainer's (Thimo's) discussion of the issue. -- Peace, Aaron Maxwell - http://redsymbol.net Skills for higher math - http://InnerAlgebra.com COMING SOON: Retail Worker's Survival Guide - http://rwsg.us -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: embedding fonts
Thanks for the info. I did fix the problem, sort of. I found that passing the -Pdownload35 option to dvips causes the fonts to be embedded. (LyX uses dvips as part of the process of generating the PDFs; the preferences dialog has a way to specify adding options like that.) I'm kind of unclear what that option does, though - the package docs don't mention it, and I found lots of references to it online, but no definition. I am using the Qt/fontconfig version. I'd still like to know why fonts suddenly stopped embedding. I may not realistically have time to track it down - since it works now (insert image of software being held together by duct tape :), and there are a lot of other things needing my attention. If I figure it out soon I'll post a followup. Thanks again for the help :) -- Peace, Aaron Maxwell - http://redsymbol.net Skills for higher math - http://InnerAlgebra.com COMING SOON: Retail Worker's Survival Guide - http://rwsg.us On Tuesday 20 September 2005 03:14 pm, Almut Behrens wrote: On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 01:39:48AM -0700, Aaron Maxwell wrote: Hi, I'm running testing. I am having trouble with creating PDFs with embedded fonts. (I'm generating them from LyX and LaTeX sources.) The process worked before an apt-upgrade I did a week ago. I'm still investigating; I think it's an issue with ghostscript, or perhaps dvips or ps2pdf. In the meantime, has anyone else had this problem? If so please post about it - the extra data points will help. Thanks. PS: When I start the LyX editor, I get the following error messages. Clues! Based on them, can anyone suggest what may be good for me to look at? | jashenki% lyx ia-lulu-print.lyx | xset: bad font path element (#70), possible causes are: | Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions | Directory missing fonts.dir | Incorrect font server address or syntax | Unable to add font path. This error message might in fact be related to the problem of fonts not being embedded... Upon startup, lyx is trying to issue an xset fp+ FONTPATH command to make sure the X server can access the TeX fonts (Type1 versions). As xset is complaining, apparently something is wrong with that FONTPATH, e.g. invalid path specification, doesn't exist, doesn't contain 'fonts.dir', whatever... (IIRC, TeX's Type1 fonts should be in /usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1/public/*/*.pfb -- not sure though). I suspect that those are the same fonts which are supposed to be embedded in the PS/PDF output (via ghostscript), so it's probably a good idea to check whether they're installed properly. BTW, are you getting any errors from ghostscript? You could run lyx -dbg font ... to get more verbose debugging info on font handling. Among other things this should print something like Adding FONTPATH to the font path. Then commence your bug chase by trying to figure out what's wrong with FONTPATH ;) In case you're using the Qt frontend with Xft2 and fontconfig (to check, look for libfontconfig.so in the output of running 'ldd' on the lyx binary), things are somewhat different. I believe you need to have some other package installed (latex-xft-fonts ?), though I'm not sure in what way that could be related to your font embedding problem. I'm afraid any ramblings of mine won't be of much help in that case, as I haven't fully grokked fontconfig myself, yet :) Also, I currently don't have lyx installed, so this is all a bit vague... but good luck anyway, Almut -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
embedding fonts
Hi, I'm running testing. I am having trouble with creating PDFs with embedded fonts. (I'm generating them from LyX and LaTeX sources.) The process worked before an apt-upgrade I did a week ago. I'm still investigating; I think it's an issue with ghostscript, or perhaps dvips or ps2pdf. In the meantime, has anyone else had this problem? If so please post about it - the extra data points will help. Thanks. PS: When I start the LyX editor, I get the following error messages. Clues! Based on them, can anyone suggest what may be good for me to look at? | jashenki% lyx ia-lulu-print.lyx | xset: bad font path element (#70), possible causes are: | Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions | Directory missing fonts.dir | Incorrect font server address or syntax | Unable to add font path. -- Peace, Aaron Maxwell - http://redsymbol.net Skills for higher math - http://InnerAlgebra.com COMING SOON: Retail Worker's Survival Guide - http://rwsg.us -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cannot mount cdrom! - a clue
On Saturday 21 May 2005 11:36 am, Keith Edmunds wrote: Audio CDs don't usually have an ISO9660 filesystem on them. Ah. I get it now. I was confused about the actual problem here. The issue is that I cannot access audio cds on my cdrom drive. I'd like to rip the music stored on this Groove Armada disc, and/or play it directly from the drive. I usually use xmms to play music and grip for ripping. I have not succeeded at making either of them access the music cd. xmms does not give much feedback. Grip provides a popup message: Error: Unable to initialize [/dev/cdrom]. (/dev/cdrom is indeed a symlink to /dev/hdc on my system.) In the past I have been able to easily access this drive with both of those applications, on an older system. I built a new system and just pulled this drive out of the old one. I'll look into it more tomorrow. In the meantime any suggestions or comments are of course appreciated. Thanks to everyone for the help. -- Peace, Aaron Maxwell - http://redsymbol.net Do Algebra Mentally - http://inneralgebra.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cannot mount cdrom! - fixed now
On Sunday 22 May 2005 01:11 am, Roy Pluschke wrote: Since it works as root you probably haven't added yourself to the group cdrom Yep, that was it. I thought it was starting to smell like something simple like that :) Everything works now. Thanks! Hope this helps, Roy It did :) -- Peace, Aaron Maxwell - http://redsymbol.net Do Algebra Mentally - http://inneralgebra.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cannot mount cdrom!
Hi, I recently upgraded most of the hardware on my system, but pulled
out the cdrom and installed it in the new box. Now I am not able to
mount it successfully. This is a normal ATAPI IDE cdrom drive, and I'm
running testing. The kernel is 2.6.10 and of course has the atapi
driver compiled in.
/dev/hdc is the cdrom device. This is what happens when I try to mount
it:
---
jashenki:~# mount -t iso9660 -r /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
---
The output of dmesg seems to indicate that everything is fine, up until
I try to mount it. Here is the related output:
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VP_IDE: VIA vt8237 (rev 00) IDE UDMA133 controller on pci:00:0f.1
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfc00-0xfc07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfc08-0xfc0f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
...
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: E-IDE CD-ROM CR-850E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
...
hdc: ATAPI 50X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
---
And then when I attempt the mount this message shows up in dmesg's tail:
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hdc: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: command error: error=0x54
ide: failed opcode was 100
end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 64
isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev=hdc, iso_blknum=16, block=16
---
The drive's jumper is set to cable select. I originally had it set to
master, and changed it to see if it would fix the problem.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
--
Peace,
Aaron Maxwell - http://redsymbol.net
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Re: cannot mount cdrom!
On Saturday 21 May 2005 10:53 am, steef wrote: peace to you too. Thanks. what happens if you leave -r out? Seems to be the same response: --- jashenki:~# mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc, missing codepage or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so --- And the messages put into syslog are the same, char for char, with or without the -r option. -- Peace, Aaron Maxwell - http://redsymbol.net Do Algebra Mentally - http://inneralgebra.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cannot mount cdrom! - a clue
Offlist, Keith Edmunds suggested that I try different media. I tried another disc, and it worked fine. Trying different media, it looks like only audio CDs (Groove Armada and Dirty Vegas albums, to be exact) cause the error messages. I was able to mount a Knoppix CD no problem. I must go to work now, so I'll be back on the list in about 10 hours. Thanks all. -Aaron On Saturday 21 May 2005 11:04 am, Aaron Maxwell wrote: On Saturday 21 May 2005 10:53 am, steef wrote: peace to you too. Thanks. what happens if you leave -r out? Seems to be the same response: --- jashenki:~# mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc, missing codepage or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so --- And the messages put into syslog are the same, char for char, with or without the -r option. -- Peace, Aaron Maxwell - http://redsymbol.net Do Algebra Mentally - http://inneralgebra.com -- Peace, Aaron Maxwell - http://redsymbol.net Do Algebra Mentally - http://inneralgebra.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sound error - where to begin?
Hi. I'm running Debian testing. This morning I aptitude dist-upgrade'ed and now I do not have working sound. Unfortunately I do not really have any idea of how to debug this. Can someone suggest some things I can check out? I noticed that /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer are missing. Should they necessarily be there? Also, I'm using OSS, not ALSA (I know, I'm a caveman... it's just because I had trouble getting ALSA to work long ago and never had the free time or compelling need to switch). Also, my kernel is a custom 2.6.10, running in 32-bit compat mode on an AMD64 proc, w/ integrated audio (though none of that should matter, because sound worked just fine yesterday). My only other clues so far are that if I start aumix, I get the error message: aumix: error opening mixer and if I start up xmms, I get a popup window saying Couldn't open audio. Please check that: your soundcard is configured properly, you have the correct output plugin selected, no other program is blocking the sound card. (I'm pretty sure the SC is configured, as it was working fine yesterday. The output plugin is correct - again it hasn't changed since it was working yesterday - though it seems to depend on /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer. As for the blocking, I'm not certain how to check that - there are no lockfiles in /var/lock/.) Thanks in advance. -- Peace, Aaron Maxwell - http://redsymbol.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sound error - where to begin? FIXED :)
I did what you suggested below, and it works fine now. Thanks, Gatopolar :) (now I get sound for this: http://homestarrunner.com/sbemail129.html) -- Peace, Aaron Maxwell - http://redsymbol.net On Monday 02 May 2005 07:49 pm, Gatopolar wrote: Hi I had a similar problem and a lot of people too. So check the post in this list. I think on 24/4/2005 there is a mail posted by caveman which could help you I suggest to install alsa apt-get install alsa-base alsa-utils alsa-oss then alsaconf alsamixer (set the volumens if necessary) alsactl store good luck Gatopolar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How hard would this be?(Learning LaTex)
On Saturday 26 June 2004 09:21 pm, cecil wrote: Someone told me today at lunch that what with my wierd obsession, as he called it, to perhaps go without a gui(X), I should try that latex thingie. My buddy is a real wordmaster. LOL. I did some A lot of good information in the posts so far. I know your friend said you are obsessed with gui-less-ness, but if you later decide to use one, there is an editor called LyX you may like. It is LaTeX-based. It essentially automates much of writing in LaTeX. It also supports adding LaTeX or even TeX code directly, though I have never had to use that feature. Debian packages are lyx and lyx-qt. FMI, http://lyx.org best, Aaron - http://redsymbol.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian sarge xfree86 problem
On Friday 25 June 2004 10:21 am, Faithful John wrote: i have just discovered a problem with my system. I wasn't sure how to report it or where (i'm relatively new to linux). I did do some search, but i'm at a loss. Anyway, a couple of days ago i upgrade to the latest version of debian sarge distribution. As you probably know, everything got upgraded.Anyway, i'm running xfree86 and icewm. When i played a mpeg file, suddenly the whole thing restarted, and i had to log in again. At first i thought it was the (Cc'ing you offlist, since you posted a few days ago, but please reply on-list) How are you playing the mpeg - i.e., which application are you using to view it? Please try this: - Open a console window, so you have a command line. - Type 'script' enter. - Start the application you use by typing its name on the command line and pressing enter. Play an mpeg with it. - When the xserver restarts, there will be a file called 'typescript' in the directory you ran the script command. Please post it; it contains any messages the application emitted before the restart. best Aaron Maxwell - http://redsymbol.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: which dhcp client should be used?
On Sunday 27 June 2004 11:25 am, Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra wrote: If you don't know already, I suggest you just leave that for later when you get a better understanding of networking. This is not helpful advice. It is better to partially answer the question(s), or suggest how to get the needed knowledge or experience. Or do apt-search show package. I think you mean apt-cache show package. Normally this is a good idea. In this case, the descriptions of the three he asked about do not address his questions. Raju: I do not know the differences, I'm sure someone knowledgeable will later post some information. For now, I think dhcp3-client is a more modern replacement of dhcp-client. I was not able to quickly get dhcp3-client to work on my system. dhcp-client works fine for me, so I chose to use that. -- Best, Aaron Maxwell - http://redsymbol.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: broken updates in aptitude connection failed
On Tuesday 22 June 2004 04:31 am, Benedict Verheyen wrote: Is there a way to make sure aptitude first tries to download all packages and only updates if ALL packages are succesfully download? Yep. apt-get -dy install FOO aptitude install FOO where FOO is one or more package names, or 'upgrade' or 'dist-upgrade' If you don't speak shell, the '' operator means 'execute the command on my right if and only if the command on my left has a return status of true'. You need to use apt-get as the first command. This is because apt-get returns false if the download fails, while aptitude returns true on success or failure. Once apt-get downloads the packages, aptitude finds them locally, and installs using the normal aptitude features. Best, Aaron Maxwell - http://redsymbol.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XML::Diff in Debian?
On Tuesday 22 June 2004 12:41 am, William Ballard wrote: Am I correct in thinking XML::Diff from Perl: http://search.cpan.org/~sdether/XML-Diff-0.04/Diff.pm has not been packaged for Debian? I don't think it has been packaged. apt-file and apt-cache turn up nothing, which means it is not in the official sources. Sometimes people make unofficial .deb packages of software, but a google search does not show any for XML::Diff. -- Best, Aaron Maxwell - http://redsymbol.com Internet Joint Ventures - http://amusene.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: resolv.conf gets reset
On Sunday 20 June 2004 09:11 am, Brenden wrote: Hi all, new debian user here with some basic questions. My resolv.conf file keeps getting reset to nothing (well, just the two comment lines warning me not to change things manually) everytime I reboot. I just plain don't have any idea what could be causing this. Ideas? Help? Hi. I don't know the answer, yet. I have a clue, IF you are using dhcp. If you are, /etc/resolv.conf is overwritten by the script /etc/dhclient-script. (If you are the type who is comfortable reading shell script, searching dhclient-script for resolvconf brings you to the relevant part.) You may be able to get it to write the correct resolv.conf by configuring /etc/dhclient.conf. This file has a man page. I haven't ever used an /etc/rc.boot/ script, but if it works like Tom says, then I think it is the easiest way. It is also a little crufty... personally I prefer to have files generated correctly to begin with, when realistic. PS If you post again, please let us know which version of Debian you are using, and paste in your resolv.conf (even if it is just comments) best wishes Aaron To set resolv.conf, I su then type echo 'nameserver 10.0.0.1' | /sbin/resolvconf -a eth0 which takes care of the problem for one | session. How do I make this permanent? -- Best, Aaron Maxwell - http://redsymbol.com Internet Joint Ventures - http://amusene.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HELP! Where is 'smbprint'? Running 'woody'?
On Monday 21 June 2004 06:32 am, the softrat wrote: Thanks for your help! You're welcome. There are several versions: package - file lprngtool - /usr/share/lprngtool/smbprint samba-doc - /usr/share/doc/samba-doc/examples/printing/smbprint printfilters-ppd - /usr/lib/printfilters/smbprint I found these with 'apt-file search smbprint' -- Best, Aaron Maxwell - http://redsymbol.com the softrat Honi soit qui mal y pense. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- If your attack is going too well, you're probably walking into an ambush. - Infantry Journal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What am I doing wrong(Motor unresponsive)
On Sunday 20 June 2004 12:27 am, cecil wrote: I tried to start using motor today. But I could never actually get off that silly menu bar to code... I just kept going from 1 option to the next, left to right, right to left. How do I get down so I can actually do something? I tried escape, I tried rab... I even rtfm. No dice. Try this: 1) In the Project menu, select Files... 2) Highlight Source files (using up and down arrow keys). In the lower-right hand selection, choose Add (using the left and right arrows) and press enter. 3) The minibuffer at the bottom of the screen says add file: Type in the name of the new file, e.g. foo.c 4) foo.c now shows up under Source files. Highlight foo.c, and in the lower-right hand selection, choose Edit. 5) You should now be editing foo.c; press F1 for online help. Aaron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Anyone else suddenly got debian-user-digest messages?
On Saturday 19 June 2004 09:49 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Starting yesterday I suddenly started to receive debian-user-digest messages from murphy. I most surely didn't subscribe myself to the digests, so something else must have happened. Anyone else experienced the same? Grx HdV I haven't. Based on the lack of response, probably not many others have either. Smile, you're special. -- Best, Aaron Maxwell - http://redsymbol.com Internet Joint Ventures - http://amusene.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ebay slow
On Friday 18 June 2004 08:51 pm, Craig Rasnick wrote: I found you using Google. I'm having the same extremely slow problem with ebay ebay only. I have tried all the usual answers, defrag, delete cookies, cache, temp internet files, no luck. Did you ever find the solution? Hi, This has been my experience in the past month - eBay (and Commission Junction, which handles its affiliate program) have been sluggish, while most other sites I visit are responsive. I think the server setup that hosts eBay itself is the bottleneck. If that is the case then there is nothing we can really do, except to wait for them to improve on their end. -- Best, Aaron Maxwell - http://redsymbol.com Internet Joint Ventures - http://amusene.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mozilla doesn't load
On Friday 18 June 2004 06:40 am, Nicolau Leal Werneck wrote: Hello. I'm installing mozilla on a diskless network. The machines can boot normally, I can load lots of programs, like GIMP, mplayer, glade, mutt... Everything looks fine, but some programs, most notably mozilla-frefox, mozilla and KDE (I use vtwm normally), don't work. Hi. 1) When you run mozilla and mozilla-firefox from a command line, does the process eventually exit on its own? in other words, do you get the command line back without pressing ^C? 2) If it does not exit on its own, is the process continually 'doing something' - taking up CPU time? Or does it get to a point where it is quiescent? (using top should answer this) 2) Can you post the command line output/error messages from running one of them. Also, which distribution is this. best wishes Aaron When I call mozilla, he gives a complaint about locals (I don't think that's the problem). I was having the same problem with mozilla-firefox, but now it complains about the locale, and then simple waits... The window never gets opened. I'm totally clueless. I installed everytihng from packages into the chroot image, like I've seen in lots of HOWTOs, and done before. The only bizarre thing about this installation is that the kernel on the server is different from the kernel on the hosts, so I'm having some problems with modules... Any ideas, anyone??... :( thanks! -- Nicolau Werneck [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9F99 25AB E47E 8724 2F71 http://cefala.org/~nwerneck EA40 DC23 42CE 6B76 B07F The great tragedy of science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. -- Thomas Huxley -- Best, Aaron Maxwell - http://redsymbol.com Internet Joint Ventures - http://amusene.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sources url wanted
On Friday 18 June 2004 09:43 am, Preston Boyington wrote: recently there was a post in which someone posted a url to their apt sources.list. the one i saw began as such: Hi, Perhaps it is one of these two: http://www.gregfolkert.com/files/sources.list http://llistes.bulma.net/pipermail/bulmailing/Week-of-Mon-20031027/031324.html Aaron # # My source.list that covers all versions of Debian # usually uptodate, some backups are present if some fail # which do on occasion. Usually a 3rd party site. # would someone mind posting this address again so i can update my bookmarks? thanks, preston -- Best, Aaron Maxwell - http://redsymbol.com Internet Joint Ventures - http://amusene.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: getting started with LISP
Hi. CLISP is a good, complete implementation, and probably the best choice for debian if you are just getting started. aptitude install clisp clisp-doc The clisp-doc package puts its docs in /usr/share/doc/clisp/doc. It includes a general LISP tutorial, LISP-tutorial.txt.gz, in that directory. On Wednesday 16 June 2004 10:19 am, Randall Smith wrote: I'd like to learn LISP. Can someone tell me how to get it installed / get started on Debian? What packages do I install, etc? Randall -- Best, Aaron Maxwell - http://redsymbol.com Internet Joint Ventures - http://amusene.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question about X Window Crashing
Two thoughts: 1) When you got stuck during X configuration, and had to reboot, did you press the 'ctrl-alt-backspace'? If so, did it respond? This key chord is is supposed to kill the X server. 2) In the file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, there should be a Screen section. (Search for a line that says 'Section Screen' or 'Section Screen'.) I've included that section from my system below. Is yours much different? If it's not present in your XF86Config-4, copy mine in, see if that helps. (BTW, I assume you are using X version 4. You can discover your version by doing 'dpkg -l xserver-common' on the command line; the version column should say '4.something'. If it is 3.something, work with /etc/X11/XF86Config, not /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.) Section Screen Identifier Screen 1 # Haoyu - you should change the Device argument to match your video card # Read the SCREEN SECTION part of XF86Config-4 man page Device Verto TNT2-M64 Monitor MyMonitor DefaultDepth 16 Subsection Display Depth 8 Modes 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth 16 #Modes 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 Modes 1024x768 ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth 24 #Modes 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 #Modes 1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 640x480 Modes 1024x768 ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth 32 Modes 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection EndSection On Monday 14 June 2004 12:00 pm, Haoyu Zhang wrote: Dear Friends, I am a new user of Debian and just installed it in an old Dell machine, Dell Optiplex with PIII 500. The installation went through well, but I met problems of X Window setting. The X Window can start correctly. However, after letting it idle for a while, like one day, the system crashes and reports error saying: I cannot find the X Server (your graphical interface). It is likely that it is not set up correctly. Would you like to view the X server output to diagnose the problem? I chose Yes and it gives me some information. It seems that everything is set to be default or generic. And the fatal error is No screens found. Then it asked me whether I want to run X configuration. I did and found that I can do nothing except for moving the small arrow with keyboard. I even can't find way to exit it. And I had to reset the computer to restart. I do feel strange. The X Server starts well, but why does it crash after long time idling? I was wondering whether it is the data switch that caused this. I connected two computers with a switch. The other one is M$ Win2000. But this can't explain why it won't crash after a short term idling. Thanks a lot in advance for your help. Best Wishes, Haoyu -- Best, Aaron Maxwell - http://redsymbol.com Internet Joint Ventures - http://amusene.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
response time for subscribing
Hi, when I subscribe to debian-user, it normally takes more than several hours, up to a full day, before I get the please confirm that you want to subscribe email. When I confirm, there is a significant delay before I start receiving list messages. Is this normal? Is there a way to speed up the subscription process? -- Thanks, Aaron Maxwell - http://redsymbol.com Internet Joint Ventures - http://amusene.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Gimp-user] kde gimp problems when zooming in
On Wednesday 16 June 2004 06:37 am, Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, Vittorio [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Context: P4, linux debian testing with boxed kde 3.2 and gimp 1.2.3. Any particular reason you are using such a terribly outdated version of The GIMP? He's probably using it because gimp 1.2.3 is what's in testing, as of right now. (pkg 'gimp' is version 2.0, but does not have the binary in it; you have to install pkg 'gimp1.2') Vittorio, regarding the 1 key issue - I didn't seem to have the same problem - '1' went to normal zoom, with both 1.2.3 and 2.0, on my system. Your control key isn't stuck down, is it ? :) You might try to install the gimp from unstable - it's version 2.0. I'm running testing, and just installed unstable's gimp on top of it. I have not used it a lot, but it seems to be working fine. best Aaron 1) I often update my linux box by means of 'apt-get update' and 'apt-get upgrade' . (I suppose that) After one of this updating operation I'm no longer able in the gimp to zoom in an image to 1:1 by pressing only the key 1 which instead open the dialogue windows to open a file (in a nutshell 1 has become a shortcut of file-open !). Ctrl-1 is the shortcut for opening the recently used image. This is a shortcut in the toolbox. The shortcut '1' works with the image window focused and is the default shortcut to set the Zoom ratio to 1:1. 2) only the shortcut '1' is clearly suggested in the zoom menu of the gimp to zoom to 1:1. Is it possible to give other shorcuts for the other sizes (2:1 or 1:2, for instance) and how? You can easily assign other shortcuts. This is explained in the startup tips. Sven -- Best, Aaron Maxwell - http://redsymbol.com Internet Joint Ventures - http://amusene.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
auto-connect DHCP on boot up
This HAS to be documented somewhere, and I just can't find it... My workstation runs testing, kernel 2.6.5, and has the dhcp-client package installed. The net connection is to our cable modem via a network card. I can bring up the connection by running '/sbin/dhclient' as root, which at the moment I must do again after each reboot. What is the 'best' (correct, Debian) way to set things up so that the connection is brought up automatically at boot time? -- Thanks in advance, Aaron Maxwell - http://redsymbol.com .oO Mod Candles - http://www.shopaffordableluxuries.us/amuse/ Oo. COMING SOON - The Gratitude Project gratitudeproject.org - YOU can create a positive change in Congress -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: auto-connect DHCP on boot up
Thanks, it works now. Adding the 'auto eth0' line enables it. - Aaron On Sunday 11 April 2004 06:45 pm, Paul Johnson wrote: Aaron Maxwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is the 'best' (correct, Debian) way to set things up so that the connection is brought up automatically at boot time? # /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8) # The loopback interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The first network card - this entry was created during the Debian installation # (network, broadcast and gateway are optional) auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp -- Best, Aaron http://redsymbol.com http://www.shopaffordableluxuries.us/amuse/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FIXED - Re: dpkg database corrupted, with a twist (correctly formatted)
Things seem to be behaving well now. Here's what I did: 1) I found the correct /var/lib/dpkg/status in /lost+found. I simply hadn't thought to check until an hour ago. Replaced. 2) I removed the files /var/cache/debconf/*. I got the suggestion from this from this post: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/debian-user-200111/ msg00393.html Did those things, now it seems okay. -Aaron On Monday 01 December 2003 10:07 am, Aaron Maxwell wrote: Sorry for the junk characters in the previous message. This repost is easier to read. Hi. I'm running last week's sarge. I unfortunately had to reboot my box in the middle of an aptitude dist-upgrade. Now I am having getting errors installing and removing packages. From the error messages, it looks to me like the dpkg database has been corrupted (though, I'm not totally clear on what the dpkg database is). If this is indeed the case, the suggested fix (from the mailing list archives) is to first replace /var/lib/dpkg/status with the most recent good version of /var/backups/dpkg.status.?.gz . This would result (in my case) in the dpkg database thinking that some packages are installed when in fact they are not, or are at a newer version. The way to fix this is to remove and then install each of these packages. One of the packages that was upgraded on my system is libc6, which I cannot safely remove. Also, many packages were upgraded in this dist-upgrade, and re-installing them all by hand would be tedious. I've included a typescript that succinctly demonstrates what's happening. In the script, I have aptitude purge'd and then aptitude install'ed the cvs package. Notice that there are errors and warnings from /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/[*/]*.pm, particularly /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/Cache.pm . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dpkg database corrupted, with a twist
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 09:48:20 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Status: RO X-Status: Q X-KMail-EncryptionState: X-KMail-SignatureState: Hi. I'm running last week's sarge. I unfortunately had to reboot my box in the middle of an aptitude dist-upgrade. Now I am getting=20 errors installing and removing packages. =20 =46rom the error messages, it looks to me like the dpkg database has been corrupted (though, I'm not totally clear on what the dpkg database is). If this is indeed the case, the suggested fix (from the mailing list archives) is to first replace /var/lib/dpkg/status with the most recent good version of /var/backups/dpkg.status.?.gz . This would result (in my case) in the dpkg database thinking that some packages are installed when in fact they are not, or are at a newer version. The way to fix this is to remove and then install each of these packages. One of the packages that was upgraded on my system is libc6, which I cannot safely remove. Also, many packages were upgraded in this dist-upgrade, and re-installing them all by hand would be tedious. I've included a typescript that succinctly demonstrates what's happening. In the script, I have aptitude purge'd and then aptitude install'ed the cvs package. Notice that there are errors and warnings from /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/[*/]*.pm, particularly /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/Cache.pm . I'd appreciate any thoughts on how to proceed, or comments on whether my understanding so far is correct. Is there some way that I can regenerate /var/lib/dpkg/status, or repair it? Would that solve the problem? Thanks in advance. Aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED] =2D- begin typescript -- Script started on Thu Nov 27 13:20:04 2003 shiznit:~# s dpkg -l vs cvs Desired=3DUnknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=3DNot/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=3D(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=3Dboth-problems (Status,Err: upperc= ase=3Dbad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D-=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D-=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D iF cvs 1.12.2-2 Concurrent Versions= System shiznit:~# aptitude purge cvs Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... Reading extended state information... The following packages have been kept back: kdebase ksysguard ksysguardd=20 The following packages will be REMOVED: cvs=20 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 3 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 2826kB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]=20 Writing extended state information... (Reading database ... 80926 files and directories currently installed.) Removing cvs ... Purging configuration files for cvs ... Use of uninitialized value in exists at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/C= ache.pm line 29. Use of uninitialized value in exists at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/C= ache.pm line 29. Use of uninitialized value in exists at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/C= ache.pm line 29. (amax: This error message is repeated 331 more times here) Reading Package Lists...=20 Building Dependency Tree... Reading extended state information... shiznit:~# dpkg -l cvs Desired=3DUnknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=3DNot/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=3D(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=3Dboth-problems (Status,Err: upperc= ase=3Dbad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D-=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D-=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D pn cvs none(no description ava= ilable) shiznit:~# aptitude install cvs Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... Reading extended state information... The following packages have been kept back: kdebase ksysguard ksysguardd=20 The following NEW packages will be installed: cvs=20 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/1243kB of archives. After unpacking 2826kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y Writing extended state information... Use of uninitialized value in exists at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/C= ache.pm line 29, line 1. Preconfiguring
dpkg database corrupted, with a twist (correctly formatted)
Sorry for the junk characters in the previous message. This repost is easier to read. Hi. I'm running last week's sarge. I unfortunately had to reboot my box in the middle of an aptitude dist-upgrade. Now I am having getting errors installing and removing packages. From the error messages, it looks to me like the dpkg database has been corrupted (though, I'm not totally clear on what the dpkg database is). If this is indeed the case, the suggested fix (from the mailing list archives) is to first replace /var/lib/dpkg/status with the most recent good version of /var/backups/dpkg.status.?.gz . This would result (in my case) in the dpkg database thinking that some packages are installed when in fact they are not, or are at a newer version. The way to fix this is to remove and then install each of these packages. One of the packages that was upgraded on my system is libc6, which I cannot safely remove. Also, many packages were upgraded in this dist-upgrade, and re-installing them all by hand would be tedious. I've included a typescript that succinctly demonstrates what's happening. In the script, I have aptitude purge'd and then aptitude install'ed the cvs package. Notice that there are errors and warnings from /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/[*/]*.pm, particularly /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/Cache.pm . I'd appreciate any thoughts on how to proceed, or comments on whether my understanding so far is correct. Is there some way that I can regenerate /var/lib/dpkg/status, or repair it? Would that solve the problem? Thanks in advance. Aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- begin typescript -- Script started on Thu Nov 27 13:20:04 2003 shiznit:~# s dpkg -l vs cvs Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/ Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description ++ +-=-=- iF cvs 1.12.2-2 Concurrent Versions Syst shiznit:~# aptitude purge cvs Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... Reading extended state information... The following packages have been kept back: kdebase ksysguard ksysguardd The following packages will be REMOVED: cvs 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 3 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 2826kB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] Writing extended state information... (Reading database ... 80926 files and directories currently installed.) Removing cvs ... Purging configuration files for cvs ... Use of uninitialized value in exists at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/ DbDriver/Cache. Use of uninitialized value in exists at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/ DbDriver/Cache. Use of uninitialized value in exists at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/ DbDriver/Cache. (amax: This error message is repeated 331 more times here) Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... Reading extended state information... shiznit:~# dpkg -l cvs Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/ Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description ++ +-=-=- pn cvs none(no description availabl shiznit:~# aptitude install cvs Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... Reading extended state information... The following packages have been kept back: kdebase ksysguard ksysguardd The following NEW packages will be installed: cvs 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/1243kB of archives. After unpacking 2826kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y Writing extended state information... Use of uninitialized value in exists at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/ DbDriver/Cache. Preconfiguring packages ... debconf: warning: possible database corruption. Will attempt to repair by adding Use of uninitialized value in exists at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/ Template.pm lin Use of uninitialized value in exists at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/ DbDriver/Cache. Use of uninitialized value in exists at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/ Template.pm lin Use of uninitialized value in exists at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/ DbDriver/Cache. Can't call method extended_description on an undefined value at /usr/ share/per Selecting previously deselected package cvs. (Reading database ... 80817 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking cvs (from .../cvs_1%3a1.12.2-2_i386.deb) ... Setting up cvs (1.12.2-2) ... Use of uninitialized value in exists at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/ DbDriver/Cache. debconf: warning: possible database corruption. Will attempt to repair by adding Use of
Opening account in gnucash
I'm running Gnucash version 1.8.4. My system is sarge, except Gnucash and its dependencies are from sid. I have three accounts: 'Checking', 'Imbalance-USD', and 'Opening Balances'. I am able to open the last two just fine, but can't open the checking account. I click the 'Open' button when the account is selected, and Gnucash does not respond in any apparent way. (i.e., no error message - just silently fails). (This happens with sarge's version of gnucash too.) 'Checking' is of account type 'Bank'. If I add another bank-type account, I am able to open it just fine (including if I record transactions in it). Incidentally, this issue is present in one of the distributed examples: /usr/share/doc/gnucash/examples/taxreport.xac.gz If you invoke gnucash with this XAC file, the account 'Assets-Bank-Checking One' can't be opened on my system, but 'Checking Two' is openable. Anyone else experienced this, or have ideas for what I can do? I've included the versions of each of gnucash's dependencies on my system below. Thanks, Aaron http://redsymbol.com/ gdk-imlib1 1.9.14-13 guile-1.6-libs 1.6.4-2.1 libart2 1.4.2-14 libaudiofile0 0.2.3-4 libbonobo2 1.0.22-2.1 libc6 2.3.1-16 libdb3 3.2.9-19 libesd0 0.2.29-1 libesd-alsa0 0.2.23-2 libfreetype6 2.1.4-4 libgal23 0.24-1.3 libgdk-pixbuf-gnome2 0.22.0-2.0.1 libgdk-pixbuf2 0.22.0-2.0.1 libghttp1 1.0.9-10 libglade-gnome0 0.17-2.7 libglade0 0.17-2.7 libglib1.2 1.2.10-9 libgnome32 1.4.2-14 libgnomeprint15 0.37-3 libgnomesupport0 1.4.2-14 libgnomeui32 1.4.2-14 libgtk1.2 1.2.10-16 libgtkhtml20 1.0.4-5.1 libguile-ltdl-1 1.6.4-2.1 libguppi16 0.40.3-6 libgwrapguile1 1.3.4-8 libltdl3 1.4.3-10 liboaf0 0.6.10-3 libofx0c102 0.6.4-2 liborbit0 0.5.17-9 libpopt0 1.7-2 libqthreads-12 1.6.4-2.1 libstdc++5 3.3.1-0pre0 libxml1 1.8.17-2 libzvt2 1.4.2-14 oaf 0.6.10-3 xlibs 4.2.1-6 zlib1g 1.1.4-14 slib 2d4-2 guile-1.6-slib 1.6.4-2.1 libfinance-quote-perl 1.07-2 libdate-manip-perl 5.42a-2 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Opening account in gnucash
I'm running Gnucash version 1.8.4. My system is sarge, except Gnucash and its dependencies are from sid. I have three accounts: 'Checking', 'Imbalance-USD', and 'Opening Balances'. I am able to open the last two just fine, but can't open the checking account. I click the 'Open' button when the account is selected, and Gnucash does not respond in any apparent way. (i.e., no error message - just silently fails). (This happens with sarge's version of gnucash too.) 'Checking' is of account type 'Bank'. If I add another bank-type account, I am able to open it just fine (including if I record transactions in it). Incidentally, this issue is present in one of the distributed examples: /usr/share/doc/gnucash/examples/taxreport.xac.gz If you invoke gnucash with this XAC file, the account 'Assets-Bank-Checking One' can't be opened on my system, but 'Checking Two' is openable. Anyone else experienced this, or have ideas for what I can do? I've included the versions of each of gnucash's dependencies on my system below. Thanks, Aaron http://redsymbol.com/ gdk-imlib1 1.9.14-13 guile-1.6-libs 1.6.4-2.1 libart2 1.4.2-14 libaudiofile0 0.2.3-4 libbonobo2 1.0.22-2.1 libc6 2.3.1-16 libdb3 3.2.9-19 libesd0 0.2.29-1 libesd-alsa0 0.2.23-2 libfreetype6 2.1.4-4 libgal23 0.24-1.3 libgdk-pixbuf-gnome2 0.22.0-2.0.1 libgdk-pixbuf2 0.22.0-2.0.1 libghttp1 1.0.9-10 libglade-gnome0 0.17-2.7 libglade0 0.17-2.7 libglib1.2 1.2.10-9 libgnome32 1.4.2-14 libgnomeprint15 0.37-3 libgnomesupport0 1.4.2-14 libgnomeui32 1.4.2-14 libgtk1.2 1.2.10-16 libgtkhtml20 1.0.4-5.1 libguile-ltdl-1 1.6.4-2.1 libguppi16 0.40.3-6 libgwrapguile1 1.3.4-8 libltdl3 1.4.3-10 liboaf0 0.6.10-3 libofx0c102 0.6.4-2 liborbit0 0.5.17-9 libpopt0 1.7-2 libqthreads-12 1.6.4-2.1 libstdc++5 3.3.1-0pre0 libxml1 1.8.17-2 libzvt2 1.4.2-14 oaf 0.6.10-3 xlibs 4.2.1-6 zlib1g 1.1.4-14 slib 2d4-2 guile-1.6-slib 1.6.4-2.1 libfinance-quote-perl 1.07-2 libdate-manip-perl 5.42a-2 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FIXED - Re: OS hallucinates hard drive geometry
On Wednesday 19 June 2002 03:25, Michel Loos wrote: Did you format (mkfs) those 2 partitions before trying to mount them? Seems the kernel sees your old formatation on hda2 and no formatation on hda3 D'oh, THAT'S what I was missing :) mkfs'ing the partitions solved the problem. Thanks to everyone who replied. Aaron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OS hallucinates hard drive geometry
On Tuesday 18 June 2002 21:03, Matthew Dalton wrote: What does your BIOS think the size and geometry of your drive are? Bios believes CHS is 2495/255/63, and size is about 2e10 bytes (I didn't write down the exact number). I'm thinking the problem is that Linux is getting confused by the BIOS. I don't think so, though I did before. First, this problem didn't exist a few months ago, and I've had the same bios. Second, 2495/255/63 should be correct: 2495*255*63*(512 bytes/sector) * (1GB/2^30 bytes) = 19.1GB (the actual capacity of my HD). (it IS 512 bytes per sector, right?) Thanks anyway though - I didn't think to check this out until you suggested it, and that's valuable. Any other ideas? P.S.: I think there's also a way to pass the real disk geometry to the Linux kernel using a LILO (or GRUB, etc) parameter, ie. to override the BIOS values. You'd have to investigate this solution yourself though, as I've never tried it. You are correct on this, incidentally. The correct param is hd=C/H/S (from [kernel-source]/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OS hallucinates hard drive geometry
I just realized something interesting. Before I tried repartitioning as described in my original message (below), I had hda2 as a smaller partition containing the HURD. When I mount the new /dev/hda2, its size is 926 MB, and it contains all the old hurd files. I did not write it down and can't remember, but I think this size - just under a gig - is what I made the HURD partition long ago. So the partition table is correct; however, when the OS actually is up and running, the kernel somehow is confused, and acts as if it still has the OLD partition table. (It's not the geometry at all like I originally thought.) What could cause this behavior? Thanks, Aaron On Tuesday 18 June 2002 20:37, Aaron Maxwell wrote: Hi, I'm running woody with kernel 2.4.18. (This is a custom kernel - I downloaded the source, and built it with make-kpkg.) My hard drive is 20 GB with three primary partions: Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 1459 11719386 83 Linux /dev/hda2 1460 1945 3903795 83 Linux /dev/hda3 1946 2495 4417875 83 Linux This means that hda1 is 11.7GB, hda2 is 3.9GB, and hda3 is 4.4 GB. (hda1 has existed for a while: hda2 and hda3 are new partitions.) However, when I mount them, problems ensue: (hda1 is already mounted on /) shiznit:~# mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2 shiznit:~# mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3 mount: you must specify the filesystem type shiznit:~# mount -t ext2 /dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3 mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda3, or too many mounted file systems shiznit:~# df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 11G 4.5G 6.0G 43% / /dev/hda2 926M 65M 814M 8% /mnt/hda2 Note that: 1) /dev/hda2 is smaller than it should be. 2) /dev/hda3 could not be mounted at all. I tried the partitioning with fdisk, cfdisk, and parted (I decided not to try sfdisk yet). Same results, except parted produced this warning: Information: The operating system thinks the geometry on /dev/hda is 2495/255/63. Therefore, cylinder 1024 ends at 8032.499M. I'm not clear on what to try next. Anyone? Thanks in advance. Aaron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OS hallucinates hard drive geometry
I just realized something interesting. Before I tried repartitioning as described in my original message (below), I had hda2 as a smaller partition containing the HURD. When I mount the new /dev/hda2, its size is 926 MB, and it contains all the old hurd files. I did not write it down and can't remember, but I think this size - just under a gig - is what I made the HURD partition long ago. So the partition table is correct; however, when the OS actually is up and running, the kernel somehow is confused, and acts as if it still has the OLD partition table. (It's not the geometry at all like I originally thought.) What could cause this behavior? Thanks, Aaron On Tuesday 18 June 2002 20:37, Aaron Maxwell wrote: Hi, I'm running woody with kernel 2.4.18. (This is a custom kernel - I downloaded the source, and built it with make-kpkg.) My hard drive is 20 GB with three primary partions: Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 1459 11719386 83 Linux /dev/hda2 1460 1945 3903795 83 Linux /dev/hda3 1946 2495 4417875 83 Linux This means that hda1 is 11.7GB, hda2 is 3.9GB, and hda3 is 4.4 GB. (hda1 has existed for a while: hda2 and hda3 are new partitions.) However, when I mount them, problems ensue: (hda1 is already mounted on /) shiznit:~# mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2 shiznit:~# mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3 mount: you must specify the filesystem type shiznit:~# mount -t ext2 /dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3 mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda3, or too many mounted file systems shiznit:~# df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 11G 4.5G 6.0G 43% / /dev/hda2 926M 65M 814M 8% /mnt/hda2 Note that: 1) /dev/hda2 is smaller than it should be. 2) /dev/hda3 could not be mounted at all. I tried the partitioning with fdisk, cfdisk, and parted (I decided not to try sfdisk yet). Same results, except parted produced this warning: Information: The operating system thinks the geometry on /dev/hda is 2495/255/63. Therefore, cylinder 1024 ends at 8032.499M. I'm not clear on what to try next. Anyone? Thanks in advance. Aaron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OS hallucinates hard drive geometry
Hi, I'm running woody with kernel 2.4.18. (This is a custom kernel - I downloaded the source, and built it with make-kpkg.) My hard drive is 20 GB with three primary partions: Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 1459 11719386 83 Linux /dev/hda2 1460 1945 3903795 83 Linux /dev/hda3 1946 2495 4417875 83 Linux This means that hda1 is 11.7GB, hda2 is 3.9GB, and hda3 is 4.4 GB. (hda1 has existed for a while: hda2 and hda3 are new partitions.) However, when I mount them, problems ensue: (hda1 is already mounted on /) shiznit:~# mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2 shiznit:~# mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3 mount: you must specify the filesystem type shiznit:~# mount -t ext2 /dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3 mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda3, or too many mounted file systems shiznit:~# df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 11G 4.5G 6.0G 43% / /dev/hda2 926M 65M 814M 8% /mnt/hda2 Note that: 1) /dev/hda2 is smaller than it should be. 2) /dev/hda3 could not be mounted at all. I tried the partitioning with fdisk, cfdisk, and parted (I decided not to try sfdisk yet). Same results, except parted produced this warning: Information: The operating system thinks the geometry on /dev/hda is 2495/255/63. Therefore, cylinder 1024 ends at 8032.499M. I'm not clear on what to try next. Anyone? Thanks in advance. Aaron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Green blinking 'D' in console
On Monday 22 October 2001 10:13 am, Erik Steffl wrote: Aaron Maxwell wrote: Hi. I'm running yesterday's sid. In the console, occasionally a green blinking 'D' will appear at a certain position on the screen. When and where it appears seems to be random. It will scroll and can be 'overwritten', just like normal text. I have voodoo III, X 4.x, don't remember seeing it with X 3.x what video cards do you (=who had seen the mysterious green D) have? I have a Voodoo3, running X 4.1.0-8. I don't remember seeing it in my X 3.x days either. Mainly I was concerned that my (video) memory was going bad or something. Now I think it might be a bug in X. I've emailed some people who replied to me on- and off-list to get their X and video card info - if I do think it's a bug, I'll file a bug report. Best Aaron (PS to Erik: sorry, I meant to send this to the list but accidentally mailed it to just you at first.)
Re: Green blinking 'D' in console
On Monday 22 October 2001 04:12 am, wayne wrote: Hi Aaron, I run RedHat and I get the same thing. I don't have a solution for you. Wayne Aaron Maxwell wrote: Hi. I'm running yesterday's sid. In the console, occasionally a green blinking 'D' will appear at a certain position on the screen. When and where it appears seems to be random. It will scroll and can be Wayne, what version of X are you running? And which video card?
Green blinking 'D' in console
Hi. I'm running yesterday's sid. In the console, occasionally a green blinking 'D' will appear at a certain position on the screen. When and where it appears seems to be random. It will scroll and can be 'overwritten', just like normal text. I've seen this about 8 times in the past six days (I apt-get update every day or three).. It's always a green blinking 'D', never another letter|color|state. Anyone experienced this? Anyone know what might be causing it? TIA, Aaron
Re: FIXED! Re: make X messages more verbose
On Sunday 07 October 2001 12:44 am, Karsten M. Self wrote: Hmmm...I'd file a bug and add some public chastisement. Someone beat me to it - bug #113878. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=113878repeatmerged=yes78 Aaron
Re: FIXED (sort of) - Re: netscape plugins in konqueror
On Sunday 07 October 2001 03:28 pm, David wrote: Have you any idea what changed? The question is: in the apt-upgrade event that fixed the problem, what packages were upgraded? Based on memory and the timestamps in /var/cache/apt/archives, I'm certain konqueror and libkonq3 were upgraded, and I'm pretty sure kdelibs3 and kdebase-libs also. I'm positive that libqt2 was NOT upgraded. (libqt3 was, but the konqueror pkg -- which contains nspluginscan - seems to depend only on libqt2 and not libqt3.) Glad you are getting there though. :-) Thanks, and good luck. -Aaron
make X messages more verbose
You know how when the X server starts with startx, it prints text to the screen and more text to /var/log/XFree86.0.log? Is there a way I can make either or both more verbose (e.g. a debugging option)? Last night when I apt-updated my sid box, it replaced some of the X libraries. Today my X server won't start, but the messages emitted aren't cluing me in. FWIW, here's the tail of XFree86.0.log (the console output of startx is the exact same, minus a few lines): from XFree86.0.log: (**) Option Protocol IntelliMouse (**) Mouse1: Protocol: IntelliMouse (**) Option CorePointer (**) Mouse1: Core Pointer (**) Option Device /dev/gpmdata (==) Mouse1: Buttons: 3 (**) Option BaudRate 1200 (**) Mouse1: BaudRate: 1200 (II) Keyboard Keyboard1 handled by legacy driver (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device Mouse1 (type: MOUSE) After this, the X server crashes with no further explanation. Note that kdm (and I'd expect xdm and gdm) seems to work perfectly fine. Any ideas? Thanks in advance. Aaron
FIXED! Re: make X messages more verbose
On Saturday 06 October 2001 05:03 pm, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 01:26:45PM -0700, Aaron Maxwell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Last night when I apt-updated my sid box, it replaced some of the X libraries. Today my X server won't start, but the messages emitted aren't cluing me in. man XFree86 suggests '-logverbose' and '-verbose'. oh yeah, thanks Karsten. I am embarrassed that I failed to rtfm. The error is in /etc/X11/Xsession.d/99-whatever-it-is. Remove the quote marks. that fixed it, thanks jeffrey. Aaron
FIXED (sort of) - Re: netscape plugins in konqueror
On Saturday 29 September 2001 03:24 pm, Aaron Maxwell wrote: I'm having trouble setting up the Macromedia Flash plugin in Konqueror. I have Konqueror 2.1.1 and KDE 2.1.2, on today's woody. It's working better now. When I upgraded to today's version of sid (Debian's unstable distribution), the problem went away. Well, almost. http://flashplanet.com works fine; http://redsymbol.com/go causes nspluginscan to crash. So it seems that nspluginscan has at least one bug left. So in summary: if you're running Debian and having problems with Flash pages in Konqueror, try upgrading to today's version of sid. Best, Aaron
Re: netscape plugins in konqueror
On Monday 01 October 2001 15:17, David wrote: On Saturday 29 September 2001 11:24 pm, Aaron Maxwell wrote: I'm having trouble setting up the Macromedia Flash plugin in Konqueror. I have Konqueror 2.1.1 and KDE 2.1.2, on today's woody. I'm having the same problem and am as confused. My KDE and Konqueror is 2.2 and my plugins are in ~/.netscape/plugins/. I've heard version 5 of Flash is a bit dodgy - can anyone confirm this? I believe the plugin's a little buggy, but that's a separate issue. To clarify my original vague gripe (it doesn't work!): Konqueror acts just like the plugin hasn't been installed at all -- the page's flash functionality is wholly unexpressed, and a new window pops up to Macromedia's download page (so I can download the plugin). But Netscape at least remembers that it has the plugin, even if that plugin has a bug or twelve. Then again, if I'm using Konq 2.1 and you're 2.2, and we're both having the same problem, maybe it *is* the plugin... Also, are you running Konqueror in a full KDE desktop? I run Yep. kwin + full kde session. I'm also discussing this on the kde user list -- when I get a solution I'll post it to both. Hm, I wonder which list will win the race ;) hehe best, Aaron
Re: Voodoo3. DRI, X4.1.0 and Bus mastering
On Tuesday 02 October 2001 18:42, john wrote: Hi, I've been trying to get my Voodoo3 card to do DRI with X4.1.0. The catch is that the card (a Voodoo3 2000 PCI) needs to be set as bus master. When I try to use setpci I find that the bit for bus master is never set. Did you try everything on this page? http://xfree86.org/4.1.0/DRI9.html#20 It sounds like you did, but if not it might be helpful... good luck. Aaron
my Voodoo3 wants to accel
Hi, I'd like help getting hardware acceleration enabled for my Voodoo3 card. I'm running today's woody, so all my X packages are version 4.1. My X server is supplied by xserver-xfree86. From reading the documentation, what's needed is for the 'tdfx' module to be loaded; it is, but that doesn't do it - I need to do something else. After reading FAQs and other docs I'm at a loss. Can anyone help me? Thanks in advance. Aaron
Re: my Voodoo3 wants to accel - FIXED
On Saturday 29 September 2001 13:38, Jason Healy wrote: Maxwell wrote: Hi, I'd like help getting hardware acceleration enabled for Voodoo3 card. My X server is supplied by xserver-xfree86. From reading the documentation, what's needed is for the 'tdfx' module to be loaded; it is, but that doesn't do it - I need to do something else. Make sure you have xlibmesa3 installed -- that was what I was forgetting with my Voodoo3. That's what I needed. Thanks Jason. FYI, for anyone who found this message by searching the archives: after installing the package I discovered I needed to tweak some config files - the DRI User's guide (http://xfree86.org/4.1.0/DRI.html) helped me through that very quickly. Aaron
netscape plugins in konqueror
I'm having trouble setting up the Macromedia Flash plugin in Konqueror. I have Konqueror 2.1.1 and KDE 2.1.2, on today's woody. Following the directions, I installed the plugin files in /usr/lib/netscape/plugins/; now netscape 4.7 undestands Sockwave Flash just fine. I wanted to have the same thing in Konqueror. Under Settings - Configure Konqueror - Netscape Plugins, I had it scan for plugins. It duly found them, and now the configuration screen contains lists entries for teh mime types application/x-shockwave-flash and application/futuresplash. According to the konqueror manual, this is all that is needed. However it doesn't work (go to http://resymbol.com/go for an example of a SWF page that works in netscape 4.7 but not my konqueror). So if simply scanning for plugins doesn't work, is there another step that does? Thanks for any help. Best, Aaron
Re: How to handle unofficial package upgrade
You probably won't have to do anything special. What is the 'fairly common source' you speak of? A month ago, I upgraded from potato (stable) to woody (testing, and soon to be stable). In potato, my KDE 2.1 packages came from kde.tdyc.com. The KDE packages are part of woody, so I only had one soure for all my woody packages. (By 'source', I basically mean a line in /etc/apt/sources.list) The upgrade had no problems whatsoever. Though the sources changed, it didn't matter because the KDE source (kde.tdyc.com) was designed to work with the official debian distros. So the upgrade worked as smoothly as if KDE was in potato. My experience above is slightly different from what you're asking about, since I went from KDE 2.1 in potato to KDE 2.1 in woody. But it will be the same: apt will automagically replace older packages with newer ones, regardless of their sources. Best, Aaron On Thursday 06 September 2001 10:03, Greg Wiley wrote: Good day all- On a Debian Potato, I am using KDE 2.1 packages that are, obviously, not part of Potato but are from a fairly common source. Since KDE 2.2 is slated for inclusion in the upcoming Debian release, what is the best way to prepare for the upgrade? I cannot assume that the new packages will be aware of the old and will upgrade them automatically ( will they?). So, am I best off finding every trace of the non-Debian KDE and eradicating or will things just sort of work out if I leave it all alone? Any suggestions? Thanks, -=greg
Re: newbie questions
Hi James. I can answer some of your questions...
It sounds like Netscape isn't installed yet. To find out, get to a
command line by starting up an Eterm (or something similar, like xterm
or rxvt - these can probably be found in the menus when you click on
the desktop.) Type 'netscape' enter in the window; if you get a
message like netscape: command not found, then you need to install
the communicator package. Do this by typing the command 'apt-get
install communicator' as the root user. If you're not sure how to do
this, ask for more detail. If you get some other error message, post
it here.
For games, each game has their own package. 'apt-get install
gnome-games' will install a few simple games (including a tetris
clone). You can browse available game (and other) packages using the
deity program ('apt-get install deity').
Incidentally, I'm telling you how to install packages (software) with a
command line. If you want a graphical program, try gnome-apt ('apt-get
install gnome-apt' if it isn't on your system yet :) All package
installation must be done as the root user, btw.
Two good word processors are kword and abiword. ('apt-get install
kword' or 'apt-get install abiword'). They are fairly equivalent to
each other, and both very good, with much of the functionality of MS
Word.
I don't know enough about database apps to comment, except that there
may not be an Access clone available. (There are several good database
systems for developers, but that's not what you need I think.) For
data needs that could be managed by Excel, you can try gnumeric or
kspread ('apt-get install gnumeric' or 'apt-get install kspread').
Let us know how this goes, or ask if anything's unclear. And welcome
to Debian.
Aaron
On Sunday 19 August 2001 21:30, James A. Hilsenteger wrote:
I made the plunge and completely turned my Dell Inspiron 3000 into a
Debian box. I installed using the CD's (that is installed multiple
times).
After a few false starts I have a working Debian computer using the
Enlightened desktop. I'm unfortunately less than complete in my
installation. Under the main desktop menu, I cannot get some of the
programs to respond. Specifically I cannot get Netscape to run as
well as I cannot get any games to show up.
Also I need some suggestions on a word processor and user-friendly
database program. I have one week before I start classes and I'd
really prefer to get this box running under Debian. I'm going into
the belly of the beast called Law School in the hopes of pursuing my
idealistic interests in intellectual property. I'm mostly
technically savvy,but not completely (read: I'm a mechanical
engineering by schooling and previous job).
Thanks ahead of time for any help.
James A. Hilsenteger
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Re: how do i extract a bullet from my foot (tar woes)
Try this: rm -- --remove-files The '--' means 'none of the following arguments are command line switches, even if they really look like one.' best, Aaron On Monday 20 August 2001 14:26, allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx wrote: hello: i have managed to insert a bullet in my poda courtesy of tar and my ineptness! that is, i did: tar -cvIf --remove-files /tmp/foo.tz /opt/tmp silly me filled up my current directory with a file called --remove-files. my question is: how the heck to i get rid of this beast
Re: jdk 1.3
On Tuesday 14 August 2001 09:48, Paul Mackinney wrote: Question: dselect wants to install something to give me Java VM to go with jikes (e.g., kaffe, jdk1.1). Should I just override this and install jikes by itself? Is there a graceful way to tell dselect that Java VM is already installed? The easiest way may be to install one of the dummy packages: shiznit[2]% apt-cache search java|grep dummy java-compiler-dummy - Dummy Java compiler java-virtual-machine-dummy - Dummy Java virtual machine These packages don't install any new software, they just satisfy dependencies. They were made for exactly the situation you are facing. Try 'apt-get install java-virtual-machine-dummy'. I expect this will sate jike's longing for a JVM on your system. Let us know how it works - Aaron
test, ignore
I said ignore.
Re: jdk 1.3
[Sorry if this is a duplicate - I'm resending it, my original reply seems to have been eaten by net ghosts.] On Tuesday 14 August 2001 09:48, Paul Mackinney wrote: Question: dselect wants to install something to give me Java VM to go with jikes (e.g., kaffe, jdk1.1). Should I just override this and install jikes by itself? Is there a graceful way to tell dselect that Java VM is already installed? The easiest way may be to install one of the dummy packages: shiznit[2]% apt-cache search java|grep dummy java-compiler-dummy - Dummy Java compiler java-virtual-machine-dummy - Dummy Java virtual machine These packages don't install any new software, they just satisfy dependencies. They were made for exactly the situation you are facing. Try 'apt-get install java-virtual-machine-dummy'. I expect this will sate jike's longing for a JVM on your system. Let us know how it works - Aaron
capt, deity, and all that
Deity is the package to look out for. Capt has been obsoleted Not on woody, as the original poster pointed out. Apt-cache search deity on woody shows no package available as of the update 2 minutes ago. I just figured out that deity and console-apt are both in unstable. Hopefully they'll trickle into testing before its package freeze. I installed deity by temporarily editing sources.list to point to unstable; apt-get install deity; then pointing sources.list back to testing again. [1] Problem solved. Thanks for the help. Aaron [1] That way was quick n dirty, and worked fine. I understand that a better way to do this starts with reading the apt_preferences manpage.
Re: LT WinModem and kernel headers
On Sunday 05 August 2001 17:00, Paul Scott wrote: Brett Parker wrote: On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 03:34:44PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: have you got the kernel-headers-2.2.19pre17 package installed? if not, that's what you are missing. How do I determine whether that package is installed? With dpkg or apt-get? Where should the headers be? Use 'dpkg -l package_name'. If you have the package installed, it will print out version info like this (my system, shiznit, has a 2.2.18 kernel): shiznit[3]% dpkg -l kernel-headers-2.2.18pre21 Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name VersionDescription +++-==-==-== ii kernel-headers 2.2.18pre21-1 Header files related to Linux kernel The last line shows that I have the 2.2.18pre21 package installed. If you query a package that is not installed it will say it's not found: shiznit[4]% dpkg -l kernel-headers-2.2.19pre17 No packages found matching kernel-headers-2.2.19pre17. (That means No INSTALLED packages found matching kernel-headers-2.2.19pre17.) afaik there's no /usr/bin/is_this_pkg_installed command - the above is closest. Clear? Aaron
resolv.conf - what generates it?
What tool generates /etc/resolv.conf, and how do I change what it generates? I'm running today's potato. I need to change the contents of /etc/resolv.conf (to change the nameserver line, and add a domain line and a second nameserver line). I can do this with vi no problem, but it's temporary: during reboot, and every few hours while the system is up, something clobbers the new resolv.conf with the old one. Thanks in advance. Aaron The resolv.conf(5) manpage doesn't seem to help - when I get a correct answer I'll file that as a bug report.
partly fixed: Re: resolv.conf - what generates it?
I answer both Johns here: On Sun, 17 Jun 2001, John Galt (and a third John offlist) wrote: What tool generates /etc/resolv.conf, and how do I change what it I'd bet it was DHCP... I dont have any dhcp packages installed, so it can't be DHCP,right? On 17 Jun 2001, John Hasler wrote: Are you using a dialup ppp connection with dynamic dns? ppp dialup with static DNS. (I think my language is correct here - I mean that I have two IP addresses for the primary and secondary nameservers, which never change. My ip address upon connect is assigned dynamicly.) Your question made me think to play with pppconfig, and I thereby changed the nameservers successfully. This seems to happen by pppconfig altering the file /etc/ppp/resolv/provider to contain the two nameserver lines I want. (btw, I only have one ppp connection, labeled 'provider') When I rebooted, the contents of this file are mysteriously put into /etc/resolv.conf. So I'm happy with the nameserver issue. How can I add a 'domain' line? Thanks. Aaron
Re: size of a directory
Hi Gregor. You can use the 'du' command: $ du -sk /usr 1867575 /usr This will tell you the sum total size of all files in all subdirectories of /usr, in kilobytes (on my system, 1867575 kB, or about 1.87 gigs). If you want the number in megabytes instead, use 'du -sm /usr'. The -s option tells du to report just the total in /usr; if you want it to give you a list of the numbers for all its subdirectories (i.e. /usr/bin, /usr/local, /usr/local/bin ...), omit the '-s'; use 'du -k' or 'du -m'. Type 'man du' for more details. Hope this helps :) Aaron On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Gregor Kaleta wrote: How can I view the size of a spezial directory e.g. /usr?
cannot start X
Hi, when I run startx, I get the following error: yomama[5]% startx X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting. here it hangs, so I press ^C xinit: unexpected signal 2 yomama[6]% My .xinitrc is real simple: exec rxvt exec rxvt exec enlightenment I'm running a fresh woody, with xserver-common version 4.0.2-1. Can anyone suggest a fix? Thanks in advance. Aaron
kde/kwin is real slow
I'm using KDE 2.1 and the KDE window manager (kwin, which is started by the script /usr/bin/kde2). I love it, except that all the window ops are very slow. Switching focus between two rxvt's, for example, takes well over 500ms; so I'll do an alt-tab to switch from window A to window B, and I have to wait nearly a second after I release the alt key before focus switches. Remember how a whole bunch of new kde-flavored packes went up on kde.tydc.com a week or two ago? The above behaviour came about after I apt-got them all. Before this, focus switch above was nearly instantaneous; so I know my hardware's power is not the issue. (Athlon 700MHz, 256MB, Voodoo3 16MB). baitI've even switched back to enlightenment, it's so bad./bait I'm running woody (except for the KDE packages, which are all potato). Any ideas? Anyone experienced this and fixed it? Thanks in advance. Aaron
Re: kde/kwin is real slow
Thanks, but that didn't seem to help. After turning off logging like you suggested, and restarting the WM for good measure, it's still as slow as before. (I verified that the logging changes were preserved after restarting the WM). More ideas? On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Bruce Sass wrote: Try turning off logging, kdebugdialog --fullmode setting Generic Information and Warning logging to None should help. - Bruce -- On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Aaron Maxwell wrote: I'm using KDE 2.1 and the KDE window manager (kwin, which is started by the script /usr/bin/kde2). I love it, except that all the window ops are very slow. Switching focus between two rxvt's, for example, takes well over 500ms; so I'll do an alt-tab to switch from window A to window B, and I have to wait nearly a second after I release the alt key before focus switches. Remember how a whole bunch of new kde-flavored packes went up on kde.tydc.com a week or two ago? The above behaviour came about after I apt-got them all. Before this, focus switch above was nearly instantaneous; so I know my hardware's power is not the issue. (Athlon 700MHz, 256MB, Voodoo3 16MB). baitI've even switched back to enlightenment, it's so bad./bait I'm running woody (except for the KDE packages, which are all potato). Any ideas? Anyone experienced this and fixed it? Thanks in advance. Aaron
kwm don't work
Hi, I'm using Debian GNU/Linux woody -- except all my KDE packages (from kde.tdyc.com) are potato. On my system kwm isn't working. (or rather, /usr/bin/kwin isn't working; kwm is a script that calls kwin.) The X server works fine, as do other window managers such as sawfish and enlightenment. When I start kwm (from kdm or startx), I get a blank greyish screen and a mouse pointer that I can move with the mouse; but nothing else -- i.e. clicking any mouse buttons has no effect, and the window manager has clearly not started. I know this is marvelously lacking in details. I found no errors/warnings in /var/log, or the console output of startx. Dunno where else to look, do you? My graphics card is a Voodoo 3dfx, fwiw. Thanks in advance. Aaron
Re: Cannot Open /dev/dsp device
If some other program is using /dev/dsp, you'll also get that error. Check to see if 'esd' is running, it'll snatch up /dev/dsp. I know there are ways to make it release it every so often, but I can't remember how. esd is not running, I'm certain. I don't have any apps running that might grab dsp that I'm aware off. btw, I'm running sawfish with kde, mixed woody and potato. A
Re: Cannot Open /dev/dsp device
Actually, I hadn't checked for arts. It is not/was not running. Thanks. A Well, I know you've probably already checked, but in the interests of thoroughness ;): is arts running? It's the KDE sound server. I apologize if you've already checked - I can't help it :) Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
still Cannot Open /dev/dsp device
I just realized my response below kinda makes it seem like the problem has gone away: but it hasn't. When running 'xanim foo.wav', I still get the error 'Cannot Open /dev/dsp device', and I still need help fixing that :) sorry 'bout the confusion... Aaron On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Aaron Maxwell wrote: Actually, I hadn't checked for arts. It is not/was not running. Thanks. A Well, I know you've probably already checked, but in the interests of thoroughness ;): is arts running? It's the KDE sound server. I apologize if you've already checked - I can't help it :) Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FIXED :) Cannot Open /dev/dsp device
I have a Creative Ensoniq ES1371 sound card; loading the module fixed the problem :) dur, I shoulda thought to check this at the beginning :) Thanks everyone, for all your responses. I figured this out by reading the documentation several people suggested. Aaron yomama[57]% play ~/delay/delay-ss1.au playing /home/amaxwell/delay/delay-ss1.au sox: Can't open output file '/dev/dsp': No such device yomama[58]% su -c 'modprobe es1371' Password: yomama[59]% play ~/delay/delay-ss1.au playing /home/amaxwell/delay/delay-ss1.au speaker vibrates appropriately yomama[60]%
Cannot Open /dev/dsp device
Hi. xanim complains that it cannot open the /dev/dsp device. Funny thing is, I'm in the audio group and the device's permissions seem legit: yomama[8]% groups amaxwell audio yomama[9]% ls -l /dev/dsp crw-rw1 root audio 14, 3 Jun 28 2000 /dev/dsp yomama[10]% ls -l `which xanim` -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 604060 Aug 13 20:13 /usr/X11R6/bin/xanim* yomama[11]% xanim delay-ss1.au XAnim Rev 2.80.0 by Mark Podlipec Copyright (C) 1991-1999. All Rights Reserved Can't Open /dev/dsp device ^C yomama[12]% TIA. Aaron
