Re: Desktop installation of Gnome
Need more info. What utility are you using to install it with, synaptic, apt-get, dpkg, raw tar.gz files? What error message(s) are you getting? What have you tried? Jim. Matt Allen wrote: Dear Madam or Sir, I am have trouble installing the desktop on Debian version 3.1. I had first installed Debian around August or September this year and it worked. I can't install gnome onto my desktop. It crasses on me somewhere during the installation. I am a newbie with Debian. Would some please check it out and fix it. Thank you. Matt Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A page that causes Firefox (Sarge) to close
Debian sarge 1.0.4-2sarge5 Works fine with that web site for me. Jim. Ron Johnson wrote: On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 23:37 +1100, James Foster wrote: Hello, I'm using the latest mozilla-firefox (1.0.4-2sarge5) on Debian Sarge, and whenever I attempt to visit a particular page, I'm finding that it closes immediately. Can someone please confirm this behaviour? The page is: http://www.movieweb.com/forums/viewtopic.php%3Ft%3D6036e=9797 Debian Sid mozilla-firefox 1.0.7-1 gcjwebplugin 0.3.2-1 libgcj6 4.0.2-3 acroread 7.0.1-0.0 acroread-plugins 7.0.1-0.0 mozilla-acroread 7.0.1-0.0 The page works fine, as do all of the links I tried. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What to do with all the doc files in /usr/share/doc?
For years now, I've been seeing the vast quantities of files in that directory and other than going in and zmoreing them, I haven't figured out how to read them. By now I'm sure someone has developed a browser or other means of indexing them, searching them and displaying them. I just can't figure out what it is. Thanks, Jim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What to do with all the doc files in /usr/share/doc?
I was looking for something more elegant. Most of the files of interest are gzip'ed files and none of the filemanagers/browsers I tried would unzip and display the contents. Besides, a search facility and/or index would be quite nice. Jim. Joachim Fahnenmüller wrote: On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 04:47:11PM -0400, Jim Lynch wrote: For years now, I've been seeing the vast quantities of files in that directory and other than going in and zmoreing them, I haven't figured out how to read them. By now I'm sure someone has developed a browser or other means of indexing them, searching them and displaying them. I just can't figure out what it is. Thanks, Jim. Why don't you use a file manager, e. g. nautilus, konqueror, or good old mc? Regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to install R 2.2.0 Debian 'unstable' package in otherwise 'sarge' system
Sometimes newer versions of programs can be found as backports. I've never had any luck finding them, however. I think these are versions that have been put in unstable or testing and someone kindly generates a .deb for the stable environment. See what you can find about backports. Jim. Dan Davison wrote: I would like to install the latest version of R (the statistical computing software). This is package r-base version 2.2.0 and is in the debian 'unstable' repository. Otherwise my system has 'sarge' packages, including r-base 2.1.0. What is the best way to do this? If I don't want to upgrade to unstable, must I compile R myself, or is there some way to install this as a debian package? I have tried: (i) pointing /etc/apt/sources.list at unstable, apt-get updating and then apt-get install r-base. This results in [... full output at bottom of email ...] E: This installation run will require temporarily removing the essential package e2fsprogs due to a Conflicts/Pre-Depends loop. This is often bad, but if you really want to do it, activate the APT::Force-LoopBreak option. E: Internal Error, Could not early remove e2fsprogs which scares me into desisting with this course of action. (ii) apt-get install -t unstable r-base, but it replies that r-base is already the newest version. Have I not invoked this command correctly, or does the -t switch not do what I was thinking it did? Thanks very much for any help, Dan dd:/home/dan# apt-get install r-base Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: e2fslibs e2fsprogs gcc-3.4-base libblkid1 libc6 libc6-dev libg2c0 libgcc1 libss2 libuuid1 locales r-base-core r-base-dev r-recommended Suggested packages: gpart parted e2fsck-static glibc-doc ess libpaper-utils The following NEW packages will be installed: e2fslibs gcc-3.4-base libblkid1 libss2 libuuid1 The following packages will be upgraded: e2fsprogs libc6 libc6-dev libg2c0 libgcc1 locales r-base r-base-core r-base-dev r-recommended 10 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 536 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/21.4MB of archives. After unpacking 5886kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y E: This installation run will require temporarily removing the essential package e2fsprogs due to a Conflicts/Pre-Depends loop. This is often bad, but if you really want to do it, activate the APT::Force-LoopBreak option. E: Internal Error, Could not early remove e2fsprogs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't install Sarge on an HP NetServer
Look at the output of dmesg. You should find what device the CD rom the kernel assigned. On my system, these two lines are informative. hdc: CW099D ATAPI CD-R/RW, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdd: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R5002, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive Do a dmesg|grep CD and see if you don't find something similar. Jim.On 8/29/05, marco_elen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 13:48:45 +0100,Clive Menzies wrote: Your CD rom is normally /dev/hdc ?When I use the old kernel, the commandmount -t iso9660 /dev/hda /cdromworks, but not with the new kernel. May it be a problem in the kernel, in the sense that the new kernel I installed does not have the support for my CD driver?How can I discover this?Best regards,Marco Ballini Libero Flat, sempre a 4 Mega a 19,95 euro al mese!Abbonati subito su http://www.libero.it
Problem with phpmyadmin
I installed apache2, phpmyadmin, php4 and various other packages that came along with the install but when I attempt to access phpmyadmin with http://localhost/phpmyadmin I get a popup box with the following message You have chosend to open which is a phtml file from http://localhost. What should firefox do with this file? This is stable 3.1 installed quite recently. I'm running tomcat4 also, if that makes a difference. Thanks, Jim.
Originating mail problem
I'm trying to get mail working through my isp and have a basic problem. My isp, bellsouth, requires a username and password to permit mail being relayed through them. Firefox and Mozilla have sections in the SMTP server options to put that. However I cannot find where I need to place them when using the mail command line program. I am running postfix and see usernames and passwords mentioned in the documentation, but it looks like that's for using this system as a server not a place for me to store mine for use by the bs server. Can anyone please enlighten me? Running a very recent install of Sarge. Thanks, Jim.
Mail relay question.
I'm trying to get mail working through my isp and have a basic problem. My isp, bellsouth, requires a username and password to permit mail being relayed through them. Firefox and Mozilla have sections in the SMTP server options to put that. However I cannot find where I need to place them when using the mail command line program. I am running postfix and see usernames and passwords mentioned in the documentation, but it looks like that's for using this system as a server not a place for me to store mine for use by the bs server. Can anyone please enlighten me? Running a very recent install of Sarge. Thanks, Jim.
Re: Help with java in firefox
Andrea Vettorello wrote: On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 14:56:55 -0400, Jim Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Same thing with testing. I installed the plugin three different ways and firefox still doesn't know about them. 1. I clicked on the window that said to install plugin click here or words to that effect. That put the .so file in /usr/local/xxx somewhere I believe. 2. I got the jre14 from Sun as the plugin faq suggested and followed the faq instructions. I put the .so file in the system location per the instructions. 3. I copied the .so file into my ~/.mozilla/plugins directory None of those methods did a thing. You probably need to copy/link the libjavaplugin_oji.so in /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/, to do this in a clean way i suggest you to install the java-package and use it to build a Debian package from the SUN SDK or JRE tarball... Andrea\ I probably didn't make myself clear, since I did it at home and I'm posting from work. That's the file I was pushing around to the different places. I'm pretty sure it's in the right place from the instructions in the FAQ, but I'll confirm that tonight. Thanks, Jim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VIA sound problem
I've been completely unable to get sound to work with Debian and any sound card, ever and I've been running Debian for years. My last attempt was the testing distro and 2.6.8 on a box with the via 82xxx card build into the MB. I fiinally got it to actually install so the /dev/dsp device was recognized and the alsa mixer must think there is something there because it lets me adjust the gain, but no noise from anything. Dumping wave files to /dev/dsp or /dev/audio doesn't even work. I've also installed SUSE 9.1 which is running a 2.6.x kernel and it works fine. Sounds good. I compared the modules and as far as I can tell they are the same. Until I installed SUSE, I had pretty much figured sound and Linux weren't gonna happen. Just as an aside, I installed CUPS and I can't print. It says there isn't anything connected to the port, however during install it went out and found the printer and reported back to me that it was the HP LaserJet 6L so at some point something found a printer connected to the port. Also K3B cant find dvd+rw-format even though it is in the same directory and has the same permissions as growisofs. I know testing isn't perfect, but something strange is going on here. Jim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VIA sound problem
Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya jim On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Jim Lynch wrote: I've been completely unable to get sound to work with Debian and any sound card, ever and I've been running Debian for years. My last attempt was the testing distro and 2.6.8 on a box with the via 82xxx card build into the MB. I fiinally got it to actually install so the /dev/dsp device was recognized and the alsa mixer must think there is something there because it lets me adjust the gain, but no noise from anything. Dumping wave files to /dev/dsp or /dev/audio doesn't even work. you cannot just dump sound files to random devices Well you used to be able to cat .wav files to /dev/dsp or /dev/audio, but I don't remember which format went to which device. That was one of the debugging techniques we used to use. *.midi being the hardest to get working - /dev/sequencer issues which implies other kernel config files and modules for the midi players need to be properly set kmid, kmidi, timidity, playmidi, ... *.wav is easy .. install sox play *.wav *.au being the easiest to make noise cat *.au /dev/audio which sound modules is installed?? - oss or alsa ... ( gets confusing ya know ) - the kernel need to be configured for the proper sound modules - i always use my own kernel to eliminate kernel problems I always generate a new kernel for Debian. Suse kernels work too good to mess with. I've got both alsa and oss modules installed. I don't have the list with me. It's at home. I've also installed SUSE 9.1 which is running a 2.6.x kernel and it works fine. Sounds good. I compared the modules and as far as I can tell they are the same. good to know the hardware works .. Just as an aside, I installed CUPS and I can't print. It says there cups is for the birds... manually edit /etc/printcap ... and start lprng ... you might need to enter 192.168.1.0 into the list of local ip in its permission files you will definitely need a printer filter ( apsfilter or magicfilter or foomatic... ) c ya alvin I used to use magicfilter and a hand crafted etc/printcap. Guess I'll have to go back to it. Even though, CUPS works on SUSE. Everything works on SUSE. I have a very picky dvd writer that only works in one of 5 systems I have and only works with SUSE on that system. I don't have any DVD software on Windows that will drive that writer, so I don't know if Win likes it or not. Any of the systems can create CDs on it, but not DVDs, and only one brand of DVD I've found works. But that's not a Linux issue. Later, Jim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help with java in firefox
Same thing with testing. I installed the plugin three different ways and firefox still doesn't know about them. 1. I clicked on the window that said to install plugin click here or words to that effect. That put the .so file in /usr/local/xxx somewhere I believe. 2. I got the jre14 from Sun as the plugin faq suggested and followed the faq instructions. I put the .so file in the system location per the instructions. 3. I copied the .so file into my ~/.mozilla/plugins directory None of those methods did a thing. Jim. Paul E Condon wrote: I thought I had java in firefox because I checked the enable java box in preferences, but apparently not. I can't get a video loop from NOAA to work, and the error message says I need a plugin for 'application/x-java-vm'. I tried to install plugin according to instructions from the program firefox, but did not work. Is there a .deb package that I can install? Is there an alternative way to display video loops from NOAA web site? I'm running Sarge on i686 box. TIA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2.4.18 doesn't find my root device.
Well it seems that supporting IDE devices isn't the default at 2.4.18. I had to turn them on, as Jerome suggested. Strange system. scsi emulation still doesn't work. It can't find the cdrom driver. Of course it can't you fool. I compiled it into the kernel. What a piece of trash. Thanks, Jim. Jerome Acks Jr wrote: On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 02:30:06PM -0400, Jim Lynch wrote: Simple description: 2.4.18 kernel panics and says it can't find the root device on 03:06. 2.2.19 finds it fine. I had a root=/dev/hda6 on the loadlin line, and it failed, so I took it off. Rdev of the kernel also says root on /dev/hda6. Background: I upgraded to woody and found that my cdrom no longer worked. I figured something had broken the modules but recompiling and depmod and modprobe didn't seem to fix the problem. lsmod showed everything OK, but it still didn't work. I'm running a ide-scsi setup since this is a writer. So I decided to upgrade the kernel to 2.4.18. I got the kernel-source-2.4.18 via apt-get. Unbziped it. Copied my .config from 2.2.19 to 2.4.18 and did a make oldconfig. I pretty much answered all I don't think copying your .config from your 2.2.19 is a good way to start. There have been a lot of changes. The config file for a 2.4.18 is about three times the size of a 2.2 config file. I would suggest starting with the .config file that came with kernel-source-2.4.18. the questions as no, which was default. This is a 600 Mhz celeron system. Plain Jane. Did the make dep, make bzImage, make modules, make modules_install. Copied the bzImage to the DOS C: drive, modified a dos script to use loadlin to boot and rebooted. It looks like maybe there is a dump first thing, but the boot process rushes by so fast I really can't tell. Anyway somewere down the line, it fails telling me it can't find a root device on 03:06. The first time it said something about not finding anything on hda6. The loadlin command is identical to the one I use for 2.2.19. Is there something else going on that I'm not aware of? I saw a warning about using initrd, whatever that is in my browsing the web. Does that have anything to do with it? The stock debian kernel-images are configured to use initrd. If you compile your own, you don't have to use initrd. If you don't use initrd, make sure the .config file has these settings: # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD is not set CONFIG_IDE=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y CONFIG_[your-root-file-system-module]_FS=y CONFIG_JBD=y #if your root file system is ext3 I've got another system that I attempted to compile 2.4.18 on. Similar setup. Upgraded to woody, apt-get the kernel source. Compiled, installed, rebooted with loadlin and it gets through spitting out the . line, blanks the screen and reboots. I'm not having a lot of luck with 2.4.18. Suggestions? Thanks, Jim. -- Jerome Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
2.4.18 doesn't find my root device.
Simple description: 2.4.18 kernel panics and says it can't find the root device on 03:06. 2.2.19 finds it fine. I had a root=/dev/hda6 on the loadlin line, and it failed, so I took it off. Rdev of the kernel also says root on /dev/hda6. Background: I upgraded to woody and found that my cdrom no longer worked. I figured something had broken the modules but recompiling and depmod and modprobe didn't seem to fix the problem. lsmod showed everything OK, but it still didn't work. I'm running a ide-scsi setup since this is a writer. So I decided to upgrade the kernel to 2.4.18. I got the kernel-source-2.4.18 via apt-get. Unbziped it. Copied my .config from 2.2.19 to 2.4.18 and did a make oldconfig. I pretty much answered all the questions as no, which was default. This is a 600 Mhz celeron system. Plain Jane. Did the make dep, make bzImage, make modules, make modules_install. Copied the bzImage to the DOS C: drive, modified a dos script to use loadlin to boot and rebooted. It looks like maybe there is a dump first thing, but the boot process rushes by so fast I really can't tell. Anyway somewere down the line, it fails telling me it can't find a root device on 03:06. The first time it said something about not finding anything on hda6. The loadlin command is identical to the one I use for 2.2.19. Is there something else going on that I'm not aware of? I saw a warning about using initrd, whatever that is in my browsing the web. Does that have anything to do with it? I've got another system that I attempted to compile 2.4.18 on. Similar setup. Upgraded to woody, apt-get the kernel source. Compiled, installed, rebooted with loadlin and it gets through spitting out the . line, blanks the screen and reboots. I'm not having a lot of luck with 2.4.18. Suggestions? Thanks, Jim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ssh not working
I've never been able to get ssh to work on a Linux box. I just upgraded to Woody and have tried again. I'm trying to connect to a Red Hat box with ssh. I generated a key and I have the identity and identity.pub files in .ssh on the Debian system. I logged in to the RedHat system and placed the key in the .ssh/authorized_keys. When I attempt to ssh to that system, it always asks me for a password. Is there a log somewhere that might tell me what is failing? In going the other way, I get Secure connection to server refused. This thing is too secure. It's unusable.. Thanks for any advice. Jim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
keyboard question
I had such good luck with ssh, I'll try again. 8) All of a sudden, starting with the installation of woody, my backspace key is sending a delete, not a backspace. Even when I log in via vnc it thinks my backspace key is a delete. What did I do? Better yet what do I do to fix it.I noticed that even telnet is wanting a delete key. Help? THanks, Jim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: eth0 no such device
You need to have the drivers for your card either in the kernel or in a module and load that module. I suggest you generate a custom kernel by installing the source and following the directions in the README. You will be able to configure it to support your network card specifically that way. Jim. Ken Januski wrote: Hi, Can anyone give me any clues on how to get my ethernet card working. It works on W2K on other partition so I know card is fine. I've added append parameters to lilo.conf which I think are correct. And I believe I have correct driver. But everything I do gives me this error: eth0 no such device. I'm sure I'm missing something obvious but I just don't know what. I did look at /dev/MAKEDEV and it tells me network devices are in /proc/net/dev. But that file is empty. So I'm really not sure where to go next. Thanks for any advice. Ken -- 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]
GIMP and gif files
Is it just Debian or is GIMP not supporting gif files any longer? Thanks, Jim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How can I use ftp to access distribution through a firewall?
I'd like to upgrade using the ftp access method of dpkg/apt, etc. I am on the other side of a firewall but there is a socks proxy to get through it. On other systems on this side of the firewall, I can use the r commands, rcp, rftp, rsh etc. but I haven't seen them for Linux. I did a google search on socks, ftp, proxy, debian, and it turned up loads of references to configuring a Debian box to be a firewall, but I didn't see any references to my situation. Can anyone help? Thanks, Jim.
Re: minicom
Run as root and run minicom -s. From there you can change the settings and save the configuration as default and/or as some other name. There isn't really a configuration file like you'd normally use an editor to configure. You do that via the program with the -s switch. Man minicom works for me. You should be able to get some tips from there. Jim. Frank Rocco wrote: It should bring up the configuration screen. I'm new to minicom also, but believe this is the switch. Frank -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Looking for a driver for a sound card
OK, I see three devices connected to IRQ 9. No I/O addresses overlap. THe USB port, my Ethernet controller and the audio board are all IRQ 9. I though sharing of IRQs is OK these days. Is Linux different in that respect from Win9x? Everything works on Win95, or at least the audio and ethernet controllers do. Jim. mike polniak wrote: Well first do $cat /proc/pci to see all your pci devices. You might have another device using the same IRQ. If you have an IRQ conflict, you might solve the problem by putting the card in another slot or changing the other device. -- ~~~
Looking for a driver for a sound card
I recently purchased a pci sound card for my system and haven't been able to make it work. I tried a generic Yamaha driver, based on things I read when I did a search, and when I try to insmod sb.o, I get a message saying Using /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/sb.o Device or resource busy Hint: this error can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters Since it is a pci device, I don't have the ability to change the IO or IRQ parameters, I don't guess. I'm running Debian 2.2, kernel 2.2.17 configured to my machine. The card is an Xwave 4000, which gives me fits trying to find information about it by searching the web since there is a graphics program for Linux called Xwave too. I got a bunch of bad hits. Can anyone help or point me to a place I might have luck getting an answer? Thanks, Jim.
Re: One more question
Guess I am stuck in the past. 8) I've always had one. Thanks, Jim. Nathan E Norman wrote: On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 03:43:55PM -0800, Nate Amsden wrote: Jim Lynch wrote: What ever happened to /usr/tmp? It wasn't created on this system. is that abnormal? i dont have /usr/tmp either ..doesn't seem to cause a problem. It'd be abnormal if you had it as it violates FSSTND/FHS afaik. -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Inc. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Patton Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature
Re: apache again
OK, it's working again. I found ifup and /etc/interfaces. But why am I still getting all of the unresolved symbols with modules? During the make menuconfig step I selected a bunch of stuff as modules but I'm having a hard time figuring out what the names of some of them are. Is there a way to list the modules that are eligible for installation? How do you go about finding out what the name of the module is that relates to what you selected in the config? Most are obvious, but some aren't. Such as Packet Socket or Unix domain socket. Thanks, Jim. Jim Lynch wrote: Well, I gave up, trashed the disk and installed 2.2 from scratch. Now I've been installing/configuring Linux since 0.12. This release really takes me back to the good old days. I installed about everything under the sun including networking but when I look at the /etc/init.d/networking file, there isn't a sign of a ifconfig statement. Where is the network adaptor supposed to be enabled? I searched all of init.d for it. It isn't coming up. Nothing during the installation asked me for any network values. I ran linuxconfig and it asked me for that info, but I can't seem to find where it put it. I don't want to have to do a manual config for networking 'cause previous debian releases didn't have to be, so what did I miss? Dselect still sucks. 8( Navigation is useless. I recompiled the 2.2.17 kernel and I'm getting a rash of unresolved symbols when I run depmod. Any idea what that is all about? Thanks, Jim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
apache again
Well, I gave up, trashed the disk and installed 2.2 from scratch. Now I've been installing/configuring Linux since 0.12. This release really takes me back to the good old days. I installed about everything under the sun including networking but when I look at the /etc/init.d/networking file, there isn't a sign of a ifconfig statement. Where is the network adaptor supposed to be enabled? I searched all of init.d for it. It isn't coming up. Nothing during the installation asked me for any network values. I ran linuxconfig and it asked me for that info, but I can't seem to find where it put it. I don't want to have to do a manual config for networking 'cause previous debian releases didn't have to be, so what did I miss? Dselect still sucks. 8( Navigation is useless. I recompiled the 2.2.17 kernel and I'm getting a rash of unresolved symbols when I run depmod. Any idea what that is all about? Thanks, Jim.
One more question
What ever happened to /usr/tmp? It wasn't created on this system. THanks, Jim.
Problems with apache.
I looked at the bugs on www.debian.org and didn't see mine described, so I thought I bounce it off of this group. I installed potato. That was my first mistake. I haven't been able to get samba working nor will apache work. Nothing seems wrong with the install, but I can't get pages to display right. There is an index.html file in the /var/www directory but apache isn't looking for it there. It seems to be looking in /usr/htdocs. However I get the message, The requested URL / was not found on this server. When I look at the error log I see: [Tue Dec 5 16:17:27 2000] [error] [client 169.238.221.206] File does not exist : /usr/htdocs/ [Tue Dec 5 16:17:49 2000] [error] [client 169.238.221.206] File does not exist : /usr/htdocs/ There is an index.html file in /usr/htdocs, see: It does display it as if it were a text file if I specifically address it (http://chinaberry.peachtree.sgi.com/index.html).
apache woes.
I looked at the bugs on www.debian.org and didn't see mine described, so I thought I bounce it off of this group. I installed potato. That was my first mistake. I haven't been able to get samba working nor will apache work. Nothing seems wrong with the install, but I can't get pages to display right. There is an index.html file in the /var/www directory but apache isn't looking for it there. Sorry about the wasted bandwidth. Somehow I sent the message before I finished. Can anyone tell me how to get apache working again? Thanks, Jim. It seems to be looking in /usr/htdocs. However I get the message, The requested URL / was not found on this server. When I look at the error log I see: [Tue Dec 5 16:17:27 2000] [error] [client 169.238.221.206] File does not exist : /usr/htdocs/ [Tue Dec 5 16:17:49 2000] [error] [client 169.238.221.206] File does not exist : /usr/htdocs/ There is an index.html file in /usr/htdocs, see: chinaberry:/usr/htdocs# ls -ld drwxr-xr-x2 root root 1024 Dec 5 16:28 . chinaberry:/usr/htdocs# ls -l total 4 -rw-r--r--1 root root 4094 Dec 5 14:44 index.html chinaberry:/usr/htdocs# ls -ld /usr drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 1024 Dec 5 14:42 /usr chinaberry:/usr/htdocs# It does display it as if it were a text file if I specifically address it (http://chinaberry.peachtree.sgi.com/index.html). Here is the text of the removal of the old stuff and the installation of the new: chinaberry:/usr/htdocs# apt-get remove apache-common Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: apache apache-common 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 2402kB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y (Reading database ... 38069 files and directories currently installed.) Removing apache ... Stopping web server: apache. /usr/sbin/apachectl stop: httpd (no pid file) not running dpkg - warning: while removing apache, directory `/var/log/apache' not empty so not removed. dpkg - warning: while removing apache, directory `/etc/apache' not empty so not removed. Removing apache-common ... chinaberry:/usr/htdocs# rm -r /var/log/apache chinaberry:/usr/htdocs# rm -r /etc/apache chinaberry:/usr/htdocs# rm -r /var/www chinaberry:/usr/htdocs# apt-get remove apache.doc Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: apache-doc 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 1690kB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y (Reading database ... 37798 files and directories currently installed.) Removing apache-doc ... chinaberry:/usr/htdocs# apt-get install apache Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: apache-common The following NEW packages will be installed: apache apache-common 0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/1076kB of archives. After unpacking 2402kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Media Change: Please insert the disc labeled 'Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r0 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (2814)' in the drive '/cdrom/' and press enter Selecting previously deselected package apache-common. (Reading database ... 37655 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking apache-common (from .../apache-common_1.3.9-13.1.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package apache. Unpacking apache (from .../web/apache_1.3.9-13.1.deb) ... Setting up apache-common (1.3.9-13.1) ... Setting up apache (1.3.9-13.1) ... Installing new configuration file /etc/apache/httpd.conf ... Installing new configuration file /etc/apache/cron.conf ... An Apache configuration exists, but needs some tweaking. Your config files will not be modified until you select Y at save changes. The ServerAdmin is set to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Apache server will serve documents from a directory called the document root or server root. You must specify such a directory for the server to work: /var/www is recommended. What should the DocumentRoot be? [/var/www] Created directory /var/www. Fixing: owner of /var/www retained as root.root Installing your new homepage in /var/www. Finding DSO mods.found. # LoadModule vhost_alias_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_vhost_alias.so # LoadModule env_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_env.so LoadModule config_log_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_log_config.so # LoadModule mime_magic_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_mime_magic.so # LoadModule mime_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_mime.so # LoadModule negotiation_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_negotiation.so LoadModule status_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_status.so # LoadModule info_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_info.so # LoadModule includes_module
Re: Getting an Internal Error trying to install 2.2
Thanks, but that didn't help. Something is screwed up. I manually installed everything in the list with an apt-get install package and went back and attempted it again and got the same message. Oh well, I think everything is installed, but the auto upgrade is still hosed. Thanks, Jim. -- To see my .signature file, go to http://reality.sgi.com/jwl/signature/
Getting an Internal Error trying to install 2.2
Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration No packages on hold. Nothing suspicious that I could see. I'm currently running a 2.1 debian system, or mostly 2.1. Kernel at 2.0.36. Here are the messages from the command that was executing: bash-2.01# apt-get --fix-broken --show-upgraded dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: netstd xserver-common xserver-svga The following NEW packages will be installed: apache-common bootpc cfingerd finger fping ftp icmpinfo itcl3.0 libcw libdb2 libgpmg1 libncurses5 libnewt0 libpam-modules libpam-runtime libpam0g libpng2 libpopt0 libreadline4 libstdc++2.10 libwrap0 make patch perl-5.004 perl-5.004-base perl-5.004-doc pidentd rdate rdist rsh-client ruptime rusers bash-2.01# o rwhod slang1 tcl8.0 tcpd tetex-lib tftp tk8.0 traceroute whiptail The following packages have been kept back xbase-clients xserver-vga16 The following packages will be upgraded adduser ae afio apache apt base-files base-passwd bash bind binutils bsdutils cooledit cpio cpp cron debianutils diald dialog diff dotfile dotfile-ipfwadm dpkg dpkg-dev dpkg-ftp dpkg-mountable dpkg-perl e2fsprogs ed eject fdflush file fileutils findutils fvwm-common fvwm95 fvwm95-icons gawk gcc gpm grep groff gzip hostname isapnptools ldso libc5 libc6 libc6-dev libdb1 libgdbm1 libgdbmg1 libncurses4 libnet-perl libpcap0 libreadline2 libreadlineg2 libstdc++2.8 lilo locales login lpr lrzsz m4 magicfilter makedev manpages mawk mbr mime-support minicom modconf modutils motifnls mount mtools ncurses-base ncurses-bin ncurses3.4 netbase passwd perl perl-base ppp procps psmisc sed setserial shellutils sysklogd syslinux sysvinit tar tcpdump tcsh tetex-base tetex-bin textutils tkdesk update util-linux vim wmnet xcontrib xfree86-common xlib6 xlib6g xpm4.7 xpm4g xterm zip zlib1g 111 packages upgraded, 43 newly installed, 3 to remove and 2 not upgraded. 3 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/49.8MB of archives. After unpacking 43.3MB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Media Change: Please insert the disc labeled 'Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r0 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (2814)' in the drive '/cdrom/' and press enter E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration Note that up until the error occurred, I was seeing a percent number increment, which didn't show up here 'cause it was overwriting itself. It was at 85% when it quit. Does anyone have any ideas? I searched the archives, but didn't see anything. Thanks, Jim. -- To see my .signature file, go to http://reality.sgi.com/jwl/signature/
Re: Getting an Internal Error trying to install 2.2
Forgot to mention I'm upgrading, in case that wasn't obvious. I upgrade my system at work just fine. It is similar to this one. Mostly 2.1, kernel 2.0.36. Thanks, Jim. -- To see my .signature file, go to http://reality.sgi.com/jwl/signature/
lprng problem, I need help! Thanks.
I didn't see an answer, but since this list is producing over 200 emails a day, I might have missed it, but I searched the archives and didn't see a reply. Can anyone suggest where else I might go to get an answer? I reinstalled my system from hamm a while back and am having trouble with remote printing. I've run magicfilterconfig and set my old laserjet series II printer up to work locally. When I print files from the Linux machine all is well. I'm trying to print from a remote machine and things aren't going well. It doesn't print. Now, I've set up numerous remote printers both on Linux and other Unixes, so this isn't my first attempt. In fact before I installed from hamm this was working fine. I even found a copy of the original printcap and tried it, but no go. So to debug I replaced the input filter with a small shell script that simply catted the file to /tmp. That worked, so I figured that magicfilter wasn't handling postscript output. The file I was printing from the remote computer is coming across as postscript. So I tried to print the file that I had just redirected to /tmp (and fixed the printcap file back to original, of course) and it prints fine. So for some reason magicfilter is not handling the file right when invoked from a remote source but works fine if invoked from a local file. Strange. So two questions. Magic filter has a --debug option that writes debug info out to the stderr. The first line of my laserjet-lo filter looks like: #! /usr/sbin/magicfilter --debug 2/tmp/sss I didn't think that would work, but I tried. It didn't. Can someone tell me how to get the stderr from magicfilter into a log? Second, does anyone have any idea why this is behaving this way? So I thought I'd write a script wrapper around magicfilter and try that. But when I did, magicfilter fails immediately with: /var/log/lp-acct:1: Syntax error (That's in the stderr file that I was able to redirect, /tmp/sss) So I wondered what was going on and echoed $* to another file just to see what was being passed to magicfilter. -- -Cdogwood.peachtree.sgi.com -Ff -Hdogwood.peachtree.sgi.com -Jstandard_input -Ljwl -Plp -a/var/log/lp-acct -d/var/spool/lpd/hplj4l/ -e/var/spool/lpd/hplj4l/d fA152dogwood.peachtree.sgi.com -fstandard_input -hdogwood.peachtree.sgi.com -j15 2 -k/var/spool/lpd/hplj4l/cfA152dogwood.peachtree.sgi.com -l66 -njwl -sstatus -w 80 -x1440 -y0 /var/log/lp-acct (This is in /tmp/ah) Note the last field. Where did that come from? By the way, it also fails when I attempt to print locally in the same manner. Here is the printcap file: # # Copyright (c) 1983 Regents of the University of California. # All rights reserved. # # Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted # provided that this notice is preserved and that due credit is given # to the University of California at Berkeley. The name of the University # may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this # software without specific prior written permission. This software # is provided ``as is'' without express or implied warranty. # # @(#)etc.printcap5.2 (Berkeley) 5/5/88 # # This file was generated by /usr/sbin/magicfilterconfig. # lp|lp|hplj4l|HP Laserjet Seris II:\ :lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hplj4l:\ :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\ :if=/tmp/pargs:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs: Here is /tmp/pargs #!/bin/sh echo -- $* /tmp/ah /usr/sbin/magicfilter $* --debug 2/tmp/sss exit
Printer problem.
I reinstalled my system from hamm a while back and am having trouble with remote printing. I've run magicfilterconfig and set my old laserjet series II printer up to work locally. When I print files from the Linux machine all is well. I'm trying to print from a remote machine and things aren't going well. It doesn't print. Now, I've set up numerous remote printers both on Linux and other Unixes, so this isn't my first attempt. In fact before I installed from hamm this was working fine. I even found a copy of the original printcap and tried it, but no go. So to debug I replaced the input filter with a small shell script that simply catted the file to /tmp. That worked, so I figured that magicfilter wasn't handling postscript output. The file I was printing from the remote computer is coming across as postscript. So I tried to print the file that I had just redirected to /tmp (and fixed the printcap file back to original, of course) and it prints fine. So for some reason magicfilter is not handling the file right when invoked from a remote source but works fine if invoked from a local file. Strange. So two questions. Magic filter has a --debug option that writes debug info out to the stderr. The first line of my laserjet-lo filter looks like: #! /usr/sbin/magicfilter --debug 2/tmp/sss I didn't think that would work, but I tried. It didn't. Can someone tell me how to get the stderr from magicfilter into a log? Second, does anyone have any idea why this is behaving this way? So I thought I'd write a script wrapper around magicfilter and try that. But when I did, magicfilter fails immediately with: /var/log/lp-acct:1: Syntax error (That's in the stderr file that I was able to redirect, /tmp/sss) So I wondered what was going on and echoed $* to another file just to see what was being passed to magicfilter. -- -Cdogwood.peachtree.sgi.com -Ff -Hdogwood.peachtree.sgi.com -Jstandard_input -Ljwl -Plp -a/var/log/lp-acct -d/var/spool/lpd/hplj4l/ -e/var/spool/lpd/hplj4l/d fA152dogwood.peachtree.sgi.com -fstandard_input -hdogwood.peachtree.sgi.com -j15 2 -k/var/spool/lpd/hplj4l/cfA152dogwood.peachtree.sgi.com -l66 -njwl -sstatus -w 80 -x1440 -y0 /var/log/lp-acct (This is in /tmp/ah) Note the last field. Where did that come from? By the way, it also fails when I attempt to print locally in the same manner. Here is the printcap file: # # Copyright (c) 1983 Regents of the University of California. # All rights reserved. # # Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted # provided that this notice is preserved and that due credit is given # to the University of California at Berkeley. The name of the University # may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this # software without specific prior written permission. This software # is provided ``as is'' without express or implied warranty. # # @(#)etc.printcap5.2 (Berkeley) 5/5/88 # # This file was generated by /usr/sbin/magicfilterconfig. # lp|lp|hplj4l|HP Laserjet Seris II:\ :lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hplj4l:\ :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\ :if=/tmp/pargs:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs: Here is /tmp/pargs #!/bin/sh echo -- $* /tmp/ah /usr/sbin/magicfilter $* --debug 2/tmp/sss exit
strange messages at boot.
Any idea what is causing this? I put a new hard drive in and installed hamm from scratch. I am booting a 2.0.34 kernel that used to work fine on the old drive. I had to rdev the kernel to point to the new root device. The system seems to be running fine, except that /var/log/messages doesn't have anything much in it. Just a MARK every once in a while. What happened to my boot messages that I used to see in the syslog (messages) file? Thanks, Jim. chinaberry:/var/log# dmesg to handle kernel paging request at virtual address c28225da current-tss.cr3 = 019bd000, %cr3 = 019bd000 *pde = 0009e067 *pte = Oops: CPU:0 EIP:0010:[0010ab04] EFLAGS: 00010202 eax: 0010 ebx: 019ba810 ecx: 028225da edx: ea60 esi: edi: 01b7d000 ebp: 01b7cfbc esp: 01b7cf60 ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 0010 gs: 002b ss: 0018 Process insmod (pid: 36, process nr: 16, stackpage=01b7c000) Stack: 002b 00022000 01b7cfbc 01b77018 0280 0300 0280 01b70018 001114f6 001b471f 01b7cfbc 00111228 019b2f24 002b 01b55c98 0601 01d41e98 9602 0010a76c 01b7cfbc 0100 Call Trace: [0280] [0300] [0280] [001114f6] [00111228] [0010a76c] [02822548] [028225da] [02822548] Code: 64 8a 04 0e 0f a1 88 c2 81 e2 ff 00 00 00 89 54 24 10 52 68 Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address c28225f1 current-tss.cr3 = 019bd000, %cr3 = 019bd000 *pde = 0009e067 *pte = Oops: CPU:0 EIP:0010:[028225f1] EFLAGS: 00010246 eax: ebx: 0100 ecx: 02822548 edx: esi: 019b2f24 edi: 002b ebp: 01b55c98 esp: 01b7fff8 ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018 Process insmod (pid: 37, process nr: 17, stackpage=01b7f000) Stack: 02822548 019ba810 Call Trace: [02822548] Code: 1Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address c28225f1 current-tss.cr3 = 019bd000, %cr3 = 019bd000 *pde = 0009e067 *pte = Oops: CPU:0 EIP:0010:[0010ab04] EFLAGS: 00010202 eax: 0010 ebx: 019ba810 ecx: 028225f1 edx: ea60 esi: edi: 01b8 ebp: 01b7ffbc esp: 01b7ff60 ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 0010 gs: 002b ss: 0018 Process insmod (pid: 37, process nr: 17, stackpage=01b7f000) Stack: 002b 00022000 01b7ffbc 01b77810 0280 0300 0280 01b70018 001114f6 001b471f 01b7ffbc 00111228 019b2f24 002b 01b55c98 f7aef200 01d41e98 000691bf 0010a76c 01b7ffbc 0100 Call Trace: [0280] [0300] [0280] [001114f6] [00111228] [0010a76c] [02822548] [028225f1] [02822548] Code: 64 8a 04 0e 0f a1 88 c2 81 e2 ff 00 00 00 89 54 24 10 52 68 Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address c2822608 current-tss.cr3 = 019bd000, %cr3 = 019bd000 *pde = 0009e067 *pte = Oops: CPU:0 EIP:0010:[02822608] EFLAGS: 00010246 eax: ebx: 0100 ecx: 02822548 edx: esi: 019b2f24 edi: 002b ebp: 01b55c98 esp: 01b87ff8 ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018 Process insmod (pid: 38, process nr: 18, stackpage=01b87000) Stack: 02822548 019ba810 Call Trace: [02822548] Code: 1Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address c2822608 current-tss.cr3 = 019bd000, %cr3 = 019bd000 *pde = 0009e067 *pte = Oops: CPU:0 EIP:0010:[0010ab04] EFLAGS: 00010202 eax: 0010 ebx: 019ba810 ecx: 02822608 edx: ea60 esi: edi: 01b88000 ebp: 01b87fbc esp: 01b87f60 ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 0010 gs: 002b ss: 0018 Process insmod (pid: 38, process nr: 18, stackpage=01b87000) Stack: 002b 00022000 01b87fbc 01b84018 0280 0300 0280 01b80018 001114f6 001b471f 01b87fbc 00111228 019b2f24 002b 01b55c98 8b102444 01d41e98 4c878b14 0010a76c 01b87fbc 0100 Call Trace: [0280] [0300] [0280] [001114f6] [00111228] [0010a76c] [02822548] [02822608] [02822548] Code: 64 8a 04 0e 0f a1 88 c2 81 e2 ff 00 00 00 89 54 24 10 52 68 Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A lp: unable to get major 6 Here's a list of what's running. chinaberry:/var/log# ps ax PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND 1 ? S0:03 init 2 ? SW 0:00 (kflushd) 3 ? SW 0:00 (kswapd) 4 ? SW 0:00 (nfsiod) 5 ? SW 0:00 (nfsiod) 6 ? SW 0:00 (nfsiod) 7 ? SW 0:00 (nfsiod) 16 ? S0:00 update 107 ? S0:00 /sbin/syslogd 109 ? S0:00 /sbin/klogd 116 ? S0:00 /sbin/kerneld 122 ? S0:00 /usr/sbin/inetd 129 ? S0:00 ypbind (master) 132 ? S0:00 ypbind (slave) 136 ? S0:00 /usr/sbin/gpm -m /dev/ttyS0 -t ms -l a-zA-Z0-9_.:~/\300-\32 143 ? S0:00 /usr/bin/omniNames 156 ? S0:00 /usr/sbin/xntpd 166 ? S0:00 /usr/bin/omniNames 167 ? S
Re: what cd-writer ?
- Received message begins Here - On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 04:57:08PM -0500, Odin wrote: I want to buy a cd-writer. I don't need rewritable support at present time, but it would be a plus. I've seen a new Yamaha model that's affordable. Are they good and well supported with Linux ? Thanks in advance. Can you recommend an inexpensive PCI SCSI card to go with a Yamaha? Right now, I have two ATAPI hard drives and an ATAPI DVD drive connected to a motherboard IDE controller. I was planning on purchasing a HP ATAPI drive, but after hearing about several bad experiences with ATAPI drives, I'm interested in a SCSI-based external one. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org I'm using a Jbond 5010 PCS SCSI adapter. It's in the $50 range from Dee One Systems (www.deeonesystems.com). It uses an NCR chip. Never had a lick of trouble with it. Works as well as the old 1542C I had. Jim. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null To see my .signature file, go to http://reality.sgi.com/jwl/signature/
Re: [Fwd: Installing debian with Win98]
- Received message begins Here - Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: (snip) with something more Linux, like a penguin ... (snip) Replacing it with a penguin is an entirely different matter, though. :-) -- Ed C. Really it isn't that big a deal. replace logo.sys with a 320x400 gif file of a penquin. Logo.sys is just a .gif file. Copy logo.sys to xxx.gif and it in your favorite image editor. Jim. To see my .signature file, go to http://reality.sgi.com/jwl/signature/
Re: Modem stopped working when I upgraded to hamm
- Received message begins Here - - Received message begins Here - Tonight I'm going to install bo from Cd and make sure the modem still works. If it does then I'll install things one at a time and see what happens. OK, here's the story. I removed the sound card, disabled all of the com ports, made IRQ 4 a Legacy IRQ so PNP wouldn't do anything with it. Reinstalled bo to a spare partition from CDROM. Tried minicom. That didn't work, tried pppd with my original ppp configuration. Didn't work. Booted Win95. Modem works fine. Went into hyperterminal program and reset the modem to factory defaults ATF0 (I think it was). It still works from Win95. Booted to DOS and ran telix. Didn't work. Can't talk to the modem. Rebooted win95, Yep, still works. Booted Linux (bo) again. Doesn't work from ppp or minicom my program. Resolution: I give up and am going to buy an external 56K modem today. Something is broken in the computer or the modem which prevents use of the modem by anything other than win95. I sure wish I knew what it was. No, it isn't a winmodem, but it sure is acting like one. THanks for the help, Jim. To see my .signature file, go to http://reality.sgi.com/jwl/signature/
Re: Modem stopped working when I upgraded to hamm
- Received message begins Here - After listening to a number of suggestions, I installed a clean copy of hamm from the CD to a spare SCSI disk. The modem still doesn't work. I removed the sound card and disabled all serial ports except for the modem. Tonight I'm going to install bo from Cd and make sure the modem still works. If it does then I'll install things one at a time and see what happens. Quick question. Before I do that, what is the AT command to restore the modem to factory settings? Just in case diald screwed with them somehow and that is what caused the problem. This is a US Robotics 33.6 sportster internal modem. I wish they'd include a manual with modems still. Thanks, Jim. To see my .signature file, go to http://reality.sgi.com/jwl/signature/
Modem stopped working when I upgraded to hamm
I'm tearing my hair out. Here's the story. I upgraded to hamm vi the autosh script and grabbed the 2.0.34 kernel and recompiled it. As far as I can tell, the modem worked OK after those steps. I then reviewed my installed packages and upgraded a bunch of them. I also installed diald and tried to configure it. I couldn't get it to talk to the modem, so I tried to run pppd manually. It didn't work. I then tried to talk to the modem via minicom. No response. Minicom stays off-line. It never talks. I wrote a specialized comm program some time ago for another purpose and set it up to try to talk to the modem. Nogo. I've got a pretty full machine and have some problems with IRQs. I've got a SB16 PNP card which isn't working on Linux yet, so it may be that it is interfering somehow, but that doesn't explain why it stopped working. The IRQ line up is: IRQ used by 3 PCI ethernet card 4 ttyS0 (on-board serial port) 4 ttyS3 (us robotics ISA modem) 5 SB16 7 lpt 9/2 Dunno, when I boot it says unknown pci device 10 SCSI card etc. Now I know that sometimes having the same IRQ for two devices can cause problems, but it used to work. Besides, I went into the bios and disabled the ttyS0 (COM1) port to eliminate the possibility. Nope. I have a Cisco IDSN serial control port hooked to ttyS0 and I can talk to it OK with minicom, so I know serial ports in general are working. I also know that there isn't a serious hardware conflict with the IRQ 4 being shared since I can run Win95 and use both serial ports at the same time with no problems. If there is a conflict, it's a Linux problem not a hardware problem. Besides, when I disabled COM1, COM3 (ttyS2) should have started working. \ I've run out of ideas. I thought it might be setserial so I disabled it entirely. Setserial sees the port and correctly identifies it, but I thought maybe it was putting it in a unusable state, so I did a chmod 000 /bin/setserial (or whatever the path was). I removed the diald package so it wouldn't try to diddle the port. I did a grep for ttyS? in /etc/ and /etc/init.d to see if something was messing with the port, but not that I could see. The machine is at home and I'm at work, so I can't get a list of installed packages right now, but there aren't any installed that I can identify that would affect serial operation. Does anyone have any ideas? What can I try next? What packages might affect the serial port? As far as I can tell, I upgraded most of the base packages (at least the ones that I had installed) a few admin packages and some in the libs since some of the packages I installed were dependent on them. Thanks for any ideas. Jim. -- To see my .signature file, go to http://reality.sgi.com/jwl/signature/
Problems with hamm and X11 stuff.
See the following? chinaberry 139 ldd `which xlogo` libXaw.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw.so.6 (0x4000e000) libXmu.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6 (0x40046000) libXt.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x40058000) libSM.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x400a2000) libICE.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x400ab000) libXext.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x400c) libX11.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x400cc000) libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4016f000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 = /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x4000) chinaberry 140 which netscape /usr/local/bin/netscape chinaberry 141 ldd `which netscape` libXt.so.6 = not found libSM.so.6 = not found libICE.so.6 = not found libXmu.so.6 = not found libXpm.so.4 = not found libXext.so.6 = not found libX11.so.6 = not found libdl.so.1 = /lib/libdl.so.1 (0x4000a000) libc.so.5 = /lib/libc.so.5 (0x4000d000) libg++.so.27 = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libg++.so.27 (0x400cb000) libstdc++.so.27 = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libstdc++.so.27 (0x40103000) libm.so.5 = /lib/libm.so.5 (0x40134000) Why can xlogo find the libraries and netscape not? Netscape was working until I upgraded to the latest x11 packages. I downloaded netscape from their site, version 4.5 I think. It came from the file, communicator-v45-us.x86-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz. Second question. What is this telling me? dpkg --install x11/fvwm95_2.0.43b-5.deb Selecting previously deselected package fvwm95. (Reading database ... 21675 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking fvwm95 (from x11/fvwm95_2.0.43b-5.deb) ... mv: /etc/X11/fvwm95/system.fvwm95rc: No such file or directory mv: /etc/X11/fvwm95/system.fvwm2rc95: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing x11/fvwm95_2.0.43b-5.deb (--install): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/postrm: [-f: command not found Errors were encountered while processing: x11/fvwm95_2.0.43b-5.deb Thanks, Jim. -- To see my .signature file, go to http://reality.sgi.com/jwl/signature/
Re: Problems with hamm and X11 stuff.
- Received message begins Here - I figured out the netscape problem, but this one is still bugging me. Second question. What is this telling me? dpkg --install x11/fvwm95_2.0.43b-5.deb Selecting previously deselected package fvwm95. (Reading database ... 21675 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking fvwm95 (from x11/fvwm95_2.0.43b-5.deb) ... mv: /etc/X11/fvwm95/system.fvwm95rc: No such file or directory mv: /etc/X11/fvwm95/system.fvwm2rc95: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing x11/fvwm95_2.0.43b-5.deb (--install): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/postrm: [-f: command not found Errors were encountered while processing: x11/fvwm95_2.0.43b-5.deb Thanks, Jim. -- To see my .signature file, go to http://reality.sgi.com/jwl/signature/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null To see my .signature file, go to http://reality.sgi.com/jwl/signature/
Re: Netscape Communicator v.5 won't run ?
- Received message begins Here - I just solved this one. You need the libc5 libraries from the oldlibs directory. I assume you are running hamm. dpkg --install oldlibs/xpm4.7_3.4j-0.6.deb dpkg --install oldlibs/libg++27_2.7.2.1-14.4.deb will probably fix it. Regards, Jim. All : After installing Navigator 4.5, and attempting to run, I get the following error messgae ./netscape: can't load library 'libXpm.so.4 Running a ldd netscape tells me that libXpm.so.4 = not found libg++.so.27 = not found libstdc++.so.27 = not found What am i missing ? BRGDS Mike -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null To see my .signature file, go to http://reality.sgi.com/jwl/signature/
Re: How to boot single user with loadlin?
- Received message begins Here - Perhaps you used the wrong way to go to single user mode. The only correct way to switch to single user from multi user is: shutdown now I used init s. I thought that was the same. Thanks for the tip, I'll try that. Jim. To see my .signature file, go to http://reality.sgi.com/jwl/signature/
How to boot single user with loadlin?
I'm not using LILO and boot into Linux from a config.sys menu option under Win95. I use loadlin to boot Linux. I needed to do some maintenance the other day and found that booting single from a running system doesn't work very well. It keeps /usr mounted because it doesn't kill off the process using /usr, I guess. Anyway then I set out to try to boot single user from loadlin.exe. I didn't know what to put. I tried loadlin vmlinux root=/dev/hdb1 ro single, but that didn't seem to work. Can someone enlighten me? I looked in the docs, but I guess I didn't find the right one. Thanks, Jim. -- To see my .signature file, go to http://reality.sgi.com/jwl
Bash question/problem.
I'v been fighting a bash problem since I first installed bo. I figured it was a bug in bash, but I've now upgraded (partially) to hamm and I've still got it. I'm running ii bash2.01.1-4 The GNU Bourne Again SHell I'm trying to get my command recall to work in vi mode for root. When I hit the up arrow on the keyboard, it does recall the line, but I can't edit it. The right and left keys don't move, but beep at me. The hjkl keys just insert hjkl into the file. Thinking it was in an edit mode, I tried the ESC key followed by h, j, k or l. Nope, just beeped at me. I've tried setting my FCEDIT=vi, set -o vi, EDITOR=vi. Nothing seems to work. I'm at my wits end on this. If I invoke bash as a normal user (I use tcsh normally) the arrow keys don't work, but ESC-k recalls previous lines (and ESC-j does as expected) and I can move around on the line with h and l. The i key does inserts, cw changes a word, r and R work fine, etc. So bash knows how, but doesn't work right for root. Actually neither work quite the way I want them to. I'd like for the arrow keys to work and the intraline editing. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks, Jim. -- To see my .signature file, go to http://reality.sgi.com/jwl/signature/
Trying to get a 1542C working.
I'm getting the following error message upon boot: Unable to determine Adaptec IRQ level I had this card installed in a VLB system a while ago and replaced it with a pci scsi adapter when I upgraded. I'm now putting a second machine together and am trying to get this working in a pci mother board. There are no settings on the board for IRQ, just base address. I've got it jumpered for 0x334, no floppy, etc. What have I missed? I searched the net for that error message and all I found was the message in the source code. Can anyone suggest a solution? I don't recall having this problem with it in the vlb box. Thanks, Jim. -- Jim Lynch, SGI/Cray Research, Inc. / ARS: K4GVO Phone: (770) 631-2254, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Suite 270, 200 Westpark Drive, Peachtree City, GA 30269 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Laptop install
I'm trying to help a friend install Linux from a laptop. The problem is that it can have a floppy or a CDROM drive installed, but not both. The solution seems to be to create an root/boot installation on a Win95 hard disk, but I don't know how to do that. Any suggestions? No, unfortunatly he can't boot from the CDROM. Not supported in the bios. Thanks, Jim. -- Jim Lynch, SGI/Cray Research, Inc. / ARS: K4GVO Phone: (770) 631-2254, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Suite 270, 200 Westpark Drive, Peachtree City, GA 30269 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Netscape doesn't save ftp messages
I've had this problem for a long time, but have been ignoring it. When ever I click on a link using Netscape that is of the form ftp://ftp.xyz.com/dir/file the file is displayed in the netscape window. That's sorta OK for text files, but binary files do the same thing. On other versions of netscape it brings up a save file dialog. I'm running Netscape 3.01, and Debian 1.3. How do I fix this? Thanks, Jim. Jim Lynch, SGI/Cray Research, Inc. / ARS: K4GVO Phone: (770) 631-2254, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Suite 270, 200 Westpark Drive, Peachtree City, GA 30269 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Partitioning (fwd)
I'm real confused in reading these messages. Here is my fdisk output: bash# fdisk Using /dev/hda as default device! Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/hda: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 1023 cylinders Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes Device Boot BeginStart End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 *11 260 524128+ 6 DOS 16-bit =32M /dev/hda2 261 261 1023 15382085 Extended /dev/hda3 729 729 74840320 83 Linux native /dev/hda4 749 749 76840320 82 Linux swap /dev/hda5 261 261 387 256000+ 6 DOS 16-bit =32M /dev/hda6 388 388 728 687424+ 6 DOS 16-bit =32M /dev/hda7 769 769 870 205600+ 83 Linux native /dev/hda8 871 871 946 153184+ 83 Linux native /dev/hda9 947 947 1023 155200+ 83 Linux native Note partion 2 is an extended partion and I've got 7 logical partitions in it. Only one primary partition. At home I've got about 3 primary partitions and 6 logical on a single disk. The only thing I can recall being important is use dos fdisk to generate dos partitions and Linux fdisk to generate Linux partitions. I saw that suggestion somewhere and it seems to be accurate. I've never had a problem running Linux on a combination of logical and primary partitions and I've had Linux coexisting with DOS since 0.12. The only problem I've ever had was with DRDOS 6 when it used to scramble the partition table and reorder it. That would cause problems like moving your /dev/hda3 partition to /dev/hda4 or something similar. It was easy to fix by editing the /etc/fstab file, however, but it did give me a bit of a sinking feeling until I figured it out. I stopped using DRDOS fdisk after that. Jim. - Received message begins Here - hello again, I hope I understand you correctly you want to take a 100 megs of your win95 partition and use it with /home to make a grand total of 400 megs? or did you want to take my first suggestion and add an additional partition of 100megs as /home? If you can do that but I would not recommend that you are getting into ligical partitions and they can run into problems. linux only recognizes 4 primary partitions. your stuck if you want more. if you want to take 100megs off your win95 partition you will need something like partition magic to repartition your drive with out losing any of your data. Hope this helps. Paul Jim Lynch, SGI/Cray Research, Inc. / ARS: K4GVO Phone: (770) 631-2254, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Suite 270, 200 Westpark Drive, Peachtree City, GA 30269 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Cheap bytes CDROM
I purchased on of the Cheap bytes CDs a few weeks back (Debian 1.2) and want to report on my success using it. My problem: I wanted to make a full blown recovery system by using a EZ 135 removable SCSI HD. Solution: I did an initial install from the CD to the EZ135. I partitioned the drive into a small swap (32Mb) and left the rest (~100Mb) for root. All one partition. I generated the rescue, driver and base disks from Windows 95 using the rawrite2.exe program. I then booted the rescue disk and installed the system with only one minor glitch, that I caused. I didn't even try to change the dselect packages, instead I went directly to install after selecting access mode, etc. Dselect complained about perl, but all went pretty well. It took all of the 100 Mb of disk. I had less than 1 Mb left on disk after it finished. I then removed all of the TeX related stuff, all of the mail related stuff and a couple of other unnecessary packages. It looks good. Congrats, folks. This is the first time in 3 years that I have actually done an install without giving up on dselect and using dpkg. Of course, I didn't really use dselect. 8^) I was surprised how quickly it installed. In the past the default boot disks have paused for long periods of time and/or died when it got confused about the hardware configuration, but this time it worked flawlessly. Thought I'd express my gratitude for a job well done and tell everyone that the Cheap bytes CD seems to work, in at least one case without error. Jim. -- Jim Lynch, System Engineer, SGI/Cray Research, Inc. / ARS: K4GVO Federal Business Systems, Phone: (770) 631-2254, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Suite 270, 200 Westpark Drive, Peachtree City, GA 30269
Re: PEX Extension to X
Ed Down wrote: What about OpenGL, or Mesa as it has been implemented under Linux? I compiled my sample code from my OpenGL class without too many problems on my Linux box and it worked! Surprised, was I. Jim. Has anyone any experience programming with the PEXlib under Debian? I have managed to get PEX running in the Xserver (Note to the maintainer - maybe the install should modify XF86Config?) but there are no demos/code supplied with the xext package. I have scanned the PEXlib reference manual and the Protocol books supplied with the xbooks package, but they do not give anything near a tutorial such as is given in O'Reillys 'Xlib Programming Guide' for Xlib. I would prefer not to have to buy a book to see if PEX will do what I want - anyone got any example code/demos? What I am trying to do is display a fairly detailed 3D map for a game client which has various bits changing continuously and allow different viewing positions/magnification. I am open to suggestions for other methods of achieving this under any _free_ 3D X library if anyone knows of one. Thanks, Ed -- Jim Lynch, System Engineer, SGI/Cray Research, Inc. / ARS: K4GVO Federal Business Systems, Phone: (770) 631-2254, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Suite 270, 200 Westpark Drive, Peachtree City, GA 30269
Re: Seem to be hitting a snag.
Take a look at /etc/resolv.conf. It needs to have some lines in it. Mine looks like; domain CRAY.COM search cray.com sgi.com nameserver 128.162.xx.xx nameserver 128.162.xx.xx Where the nameserver lines point to the ip address of the DNS host or domain name server. Also take a look at your /etc/gateways file. Mine looks like: net default gateway 128.162.xx.xx metric 1 where the ip address points to the gateway here. BTW, the xx was really a 1 2 or 3 digit number less than 256 that was removed for security. 8^) Don't try to use those exact entries, but substitue the ip address of your DNS host and gateway. Nathanael Nunes wrote: I am atempting to install debian on a 486. It seems to work fine execpt for the networking part. While booting up it sais NE200 Detected and that it is using IRQ 9. Then It starts to inform me that the network is unreachable. It does this for any ping or DNS search. Anything that anyone could recomend that I check? I was provided IP numbers for use on the machine. I am a bit confused as to what the loop back setings are for. Any sujestions welcome. Thanks. -- Jim Lynch, System Engineer, SGI/Cray Research, Inc. / ARS: K4GVO Federal Business Systems, Phone: (770) 631-2254, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Suite 270, 200 Westpark Drive, Peachtree City, GA 30269
