400+ unwanted package removal
I am running debian unstable (dist-upgraded from the Sarge Installer) and everything was working fine, until I decided to give aptitude a try. I normally use apt-get to install single packages or dselect to add lots of packages. After reading good comments I tried using Aptitude to install a few new packages. Everything seemed to work okay, but after using aptitutude a few times, I found it more confusing to use than dselect (I guess I am so used to dselect after nearly 10 years of use). Anyway, I went back to deselect and installed a load more packages. When I went to install, I had a big list of packages that would be installed or upgraded, so I did not see the list of pacakges to be removed. After about 10 packages were removed, I started to get worried. I noticed several packages that should not be removed and Control-c the operation. I went back and chose the install and checked the list of packages to be removed and there must of been atleast 100 packages that dselect wanted to remove. When I go back to reset some of the backages so that they will stay installed, they do not have a status as though they are to be removed. I have even tried apt-get and dpkg -i (on the debs in the archive) and when I run dselect the packages still want to get removed. I tried to change the package status by using dpkg: dpkg --get-selections package.list This gave me a list of packages, 26 of which were set for deinstall. I changed these to install and did: dpkg --set-selections package.list This did not seem to make any difference. There seems to be a difference in the configuration between dpkg and deselect and aptitude... At a rough count, dselect wants to remove aprroximately 400 packages... Now I cannont figure out how to stop these packages from being removed. Does anyone have any suggestions. Johnny -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 400+ unwanted package removal
jano kupec wrote: I tried to change the package status by using dpkg: dpkg --get-selections package.list This gave me a list of packages, 26 of which were set for deinstall. I changed these to install and did: dpkg --set-selections package.list This did not seem to make any difference. There seems to be a difference in the configuration between dpkg and deselect and aptitude... did you run dselect after this? isn't it that dselect re-resolved package dependencies and set those packages that you changed to install back to deinstall? i would try to deselect those new packages (those which selection for install started that problem) using dselect until it doesn't want to remove anything - if that is possible... but maybe you already tried... The trouble is that I dont have a list of the packages I initially installed with Aptitude and was not aware that you could find out what has been installed recently. Trying the dpkg --get/set-selections did not change dselects mind about uninstalling packages. I have check some of the list of packages for those packages that dselect wants to remove, they are now set to install. So it seems that something else is telling dselect to remove packages when I choose Install. I am just running apt-get upgrade and it does not seem to want to remove any packages, but will install a few new version of already installed packages (I am running the unstable distro). I will see what happens with dselect after the apt-get upgrade. Johnny. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 400+ unwanted package removal
jano kupec wrote: did you run dselect after this? isn't it that dselect re-resolved package dependencies and set those packages that you changed to install back to deinstall? If you do: dpkg --set-selections file Then you *will* have to do: apt-get dselect-upgrade before you then apt-get install -- Thomas Adam If I run apt-get dselect-upgrade then the 400+ packages are listed for removal. If I run apt-get upgrade then nothing is listed for removal. This suggests that apt-get and dselect are out of sync in terms of which packages should remain installed. I cannot tell if aptitude wants to remove any packages, as I am still trying to learn how to use apptitude as well as I understand dselect. Johnny. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with video card when installing X
I have a new machine and am installing Debian Woody on it. Everthing seems to be fine till I get to installing X and then I get the error: (EE) No devices detected According to the blurb on the box, the card I am using is a Sparkle Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 128Mb DDR+TV and the part of the log file /var/log/XFree86.0.log which refers to the video card is reproduced below. If you have an NVidia card, you need to install the debian packages for NVidia (only available from Sid/Unstable sources I believe) or get the NVidia installer from www.nvidia.com. The debian NVidia packages you require are: nvidia-glx nvidia-kernel-common and if you have a stock debian kernel, you can also just download an nvidia kernel module for your kernel version. Otherwise you need to compile your own module using kernel headers or kernel source. Johnny. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ext3 Journal problem
I just noticed that one of my hard drives was no longer mounting. When looking through the output of dmesg, I saw the following output kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,68), internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. JBD: Unrecognised features on journal EXT3-fs: error loading journal. I was going to run tune2fs -j /dev/hdd1 to repair the journal, but thought I should run fsck.ext3 /dev/hdd1 first. When I tried fsck, I got the following output # fsck.ext3 /dev/hdd1 e2fsck 1.35-WIP (31-Jan-2004) Ext3 journal superblock has an unknown incompatible feature flag set. Aborty? yes Should I just use tune2fs -j /dev/hdd1 to create a new journal? Will this loose any files other than one or two that may not have been completed by the journal?? Thanks for any help on this. Johnny. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unreal Tournament 2004 Demo
Just recently I downloaded the Unreal Tournament 2004 Demo for Linux. Uncompressing it was relatively smooth, but when I tried to run the program, I got this error message: Xlib: extension XiG-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD missing on display :0.0. Either GL_EXT_bgra or glDrawRangeElements not supported- bailing out. History: Exiting due to error I tried to look for solutions online, but I didn't find anything that helped me fix this error. I am currently running Debian 2.4.24 I'm using a NVIDIA GeForce 4 MX 440 128MB as my video card. I also have 512 RAM. If you are using kernel 2.4.24, you are probably using XFree 4.3.x. The easiest way to get the nvidia drivers to work with XFree 43.x is to use the debian packages of the installer, rather than the nvidia installer (which you should uninstall first). The debian packages are either in non-free or contrib and you will need: nvidia-kernel-common nvidia-glx nvidia-kernel-source These packages contain the same driver version as the nvidia installer. For set up instructions after the packages are installed, read /usr/share/doc/nvidia-kernel-source/README.Debian Hope this helps Johnny. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ut2004demo and OpenAL
Well as I now see after working on getting unreal2004 working ive run into two problems. One of which I fixed (it being in the center of the two monitors) and the other I did not (not having any sound). I am going to assume it has something to do with that ut2004 uses OpenAL. I use artsd in KDE (if they are similar or anything I do not know much about either of them and have not been able to find much). How can I get my sound to work in Ut2004? Is there any reason not to installed the debian package for OpenAL?? # apt-cache search openal libopenal0 - OpenAL is a portable library for 3D spatialized audio. Johnny. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ut2004demo and OpenAL
Thomas G wrote: John Stevenson wrote: Well as I now see after working on getting unreal2004 working ive run into two problems. One of which I fixed (it being in the center of the two monitors) and the other I did not (not having any sound). I am going to assume it has something to do with that ut2004 uses OpenAL. I use artsd in KDE (if they are similar or anything I do not know much about either of them and have not been able to find much). I don't use KDE, but my guess would be that artsd is running as a sound server, similar to esd in Gnome. Many games have problems with sound if these sound servers are running. You should try stopping artsd and then running ut2004. Have a look in the /etc/init.d/ directory for a start/stop script for artsd. You should, as root, try something like this: /etc/init.d/artsd stop If ut2004 now works, you can either start/stop arts every time, or do a google to see if you can pass an argument to ut2004 to run through artsd. Johnny. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ut2004demo
All the information you need you already have, but here is a summary of what to do. The following tasks should be done as the root account 1) Shutdown X (gdm,xdm,kdm). 2) Issue the command: nvidia-installer --uninstall The drivers and install files will all be removed for you. 3) Install the nvidia drivers packages: nvidia-kernel-common nvidia-glx nvidia-kernel-source Assuming that you have debconf installed, the debian packages check whether you should be using TLS libraries and configures the install for you. 4) Once the debian nvidia packages are installed, compiled a module image for the nvidia modules. If you have never compiled a module image before, details are in the /usr/share/doc/nvidia-kernel-source/README.Debian document. If you get to this point and get stuck, let me known. Johnny. Thomas G wrote: John Stevenson wrote: I am assuming that you have an NVidia 3D graphics card and have installed the NVidia drivers for that card. snip Well... yes you are right I am using the nvidia driver package thing can you please give me the info on how to uninstall it and then what package it is for the nvidia driver I did not see any drivers besides for OCing when I did a search for nvidia Thanks Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ut2004demo
I am assuming that you have an NVidia 3D graphics card and have installed the NVidia drivers for that card. If neither of those thing are true, then stop reading this now... as this email wont help you!!! Okay, still here... good. From the info you have provided, it sounds like you are trying to use the NVidia Installer with XFree 4.3.x. If this is so, then the easiest solution is to uninstall the NVidia Installer completely and use the debian package for the NVidia driver. I posted the details of this last week to this list, so if you need assistance check the archives and then ask this list for further help. If your situation is different than described above, provide more details of what you have installed... Johnny. Well I was trying to get ut2004demo and I seemed to have a common error message others were missing. So i read some of the archives of this list and found that removing /usr/lib/tls might fix my problems... well it did not. How can I get this back and how can i get ut2004 to work? the error message I get now is as follows: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ut2004demo open /dev/[sound/]dsp: Device or resource busy Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0. Couldn't set video mode: Couldn't find matching GLX visual History: Exiting due to error [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ thanks thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 3D broken in unstable ?
I have had problems using the NVidia Install ever since XFree upgraded to v4.3.x in unstable. I have tried every combination of tips I have googled to get the NVidia Installer to work with no success. Now I have a working system using the debian packages of the nvidia install. I am using debian unstable distribution with a 2.4.24 kernel (hand rolled), with a last update on 5th March. I have tried both the 4496 and the 5336 version of the NVidia drivers and both have issues with loading the OpenGL (libGL) drivers with XFree v4.3.x. I therefore uninstalled the NVidia stuff completely and went back to the good old debian packages of the installer. The packages I installed were: nvidia-kernel-common nvidia-glx nvidia-kernel-2.4.24-1-k7-smp nvidia-kernel-source The great thing about the debian installer is that it checks whether you should be using TLS libraries and configures the install for you. I believe this is the main cause of the problem when using the NVidia installer. It is stated in the debian installer that the TLS libraries work differently for 2.4.x and 2.6.x kernel versions. Once the debian nvidia packages were installed and I compiled a module image for the nvidia modules, everything worked just fine. If you have never compiled a module image before, details are in the /usr/share/doc/nvidia-kernel-source/README.Debian document. On a performance not, glxgears is now running slightly faster with the 5336 driver (2000+ FPS) over the 4496 driver (1800+ FPS). I have a XFX GeForce FX 5200 AGP8x 256 graphics card. I recently upgraded a couple machines running unstable, which I guess picked up X 4.3.0. Now, neither can do hardware 3D rendering. (Yes, they could before the upgrade.) One has an old 3dfx using DRI, one a new Nvidia using ... whatever Nvidia uses. I noticed a migration from xlibmesa3 to xlibmesa. Did I just pick the wrong packages ? Is there a package I'm missing ? I did have to add xlibmesa-dri myself. Or is there some silly comfiguration change I have to make ? Is anyone else seeing this ? I'm getting libGL.so from xlibmesa-gl. Thanks for any insight, krb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] tuxracer + bunny hill: possible?
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: | Hi! | | Latest thread on games prompted me to install tuxracer. I never play | games, pure programming. Now I cannot get past bunny hill. Is it | possible to get all 23 herrings and yet do it under 35 secs? | Why did I ever start tuxracer? It is possible to complete bunny hill in about 27 seconds if you know the keys.. which are described in the online manual (if you can find it, try google..). For those who are unable to google, here is a summary... E - Press this builds up your jump power, good for getting lift at the top of hills, pretty useless otherwise I believe [Up Arrow] - Provides initial acceleration at the start of race, but slows you down over 50.. it really speeds you up when you are flying... you should be able to get into the red... If you jump at the right point on the last hill and flap as hard as you can you pick up some real speed... but stop flapping before you hit the ground Johnny. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: KVM switch recomendation?
Todd Pytel wrote: On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 00:29:06 +0100 John Stevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I have a Belkin SOHO 4-port (PS/2) that exhibits X issues. If I'm using a wheel mouse (IMPS/2) and switch ports, the mouse goes crazy. One generally knowledgeable person hinted that USB mice might not have such an issue, but did not have any hard evidence to that effect. I have been using a Belkin OmniCube 4-Port KVM for about 2 years without any of these problems. However, I do not use a wheel mouse with the KVM and only use PS/2 keboard and mouse. As far as I've been able to ascertain, the problem is specific to the IMPS/2 (wheel mouse) protocol. Regular PS/2 mice work fine, as do wheel mice if you force PS/2 protocol, and thus lose the wheel ability. I had been told that there was an error with these KVM's when using a wheel mouse. I had also been told that you could download a script to fix this error. Unfortunately I never looked into this and so cannot confirm if this is true. Well, that is interesting! I've barely been able to find anything about the problem at all, certainly not anything like a solution. I would be willing to dig around some more, though - if I could get this KVM working perfectly, I would be very happy. Do you remember even where you might have heard this? Sorry, it was just word-of-mouth talk about the KVM. I guess there maybe was something on their site two years ago, but as they seem to have stopped supporting this particular version it would be hard to track down a fix. Johnny. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: KVM switch recomendation?
Can anyone recommend a good 4-port (or thereabout) KVM switch? I need one which can handle USB keyboard and mouse inputs, and it would be a plus (but definitely not required) if it can accommodate both USB and PS/2 outputs. Well, I have a Belkin SOHO 4-port (PS/2) that exhibits X issues. If I'm using a wheel mouse (IMPS/2) and switch ports, the mouse goes crazy. One generally knowledgeable person hinted that USB mice might not have such an issue, but did not have any hard evidence to that effect. I've heard good Linux reports for the Avocent units also. I have been using a Belkin OmniCube 4-Port KVM for about 2 years without any of these problems. However, I do not use a wheel mouse with the KVM and only use PS/2 keboard and mouse. I had been told that there was an error with these KVM's when using a wheel mouse. I had also been told that you could download a script to fix this error. Unfortunately I never looked into this and so cannot confirm if this is true. It also seems that Belkin dont make this model anymore, I cannot find it on there website. I have been running X successfuly through the Berkin at resoultions of 1700 x 1300 (ish) without any real issues, except that when I use scroll lock and a number key to jump between machines it sends that key code to the application on the machine that is jumped to. I have used it with Woody and Sarge distribution of Linux and a windoze 2000 (sic) machine attached. Johnny. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Next Challenge - nVidia Video Drivers
Scarletdown wrote: I just tried to install the GeForce video drivers downloaded from nVidia's site, in hopes that I would be able to make proper use of my video card (GeForce 5600 FX with 256MB RAM) snip - Building kernel module: executing: 'cd ./usr/src/nv; make nvidia.o SYSINCLUDE=/lib/modules/2.4.22-xf s/build/include'... You appear to be compiling the NVIDIA kernel module with a compiler different from the one that was used to compile the running kernel. This may be perfectly fine, but there are cases where this can lead to unexpected behaviour and system crashes. snip Well, I'm already using 2.4.22-xfs, which was installed from the Knoppix CD. The problem can be seen by using the following two commands: cat /proc/version gcc -v If you have installed from Knoppix, you will see that the versions of gcc are different. Unless you know how to change gcc to use version 2.9.x instead of 3.2, then you should recompile a kernel. I have the same set up as I installed debian using Knoppix. I downloaded the kernel-source-2.4.22 package and used the /boot/config-2.4.22-xfs file as a base configuration for the new kernel (I removed a lot of unneccessary stuff before I compiled). I created a new kernel deb using make-kpkg and installed it using dpkg. I rebooted and tried the NVidia install and it worked just fine. If you have any problems with any of this, just ask. Johnny. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Next Challenge - nVidia Video Drivers
I managed to manually compile the drivers. Now, when I go to set up my video card, I am faced with a large list of nVidia cards to choose from. Trouble is, none of them specifically say GeForce 5600 FX. So the question to anyone here who also uses this card... Which one do I select from the list? Is this considered a GeForce-2, or a GeForce-3 (Rev. 1, 2, or 3), or what? I am not sure I am with you, it sounds like you are doing things the older way. For XFree86 4.x you can use the command (ensure X is not running first): dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 This will provide you with an ncurses menu to help you configure X. You should select XFree86 as your xserver and nvidia as your driver. You should not need to specify your exact card anywhere (unless you want to state it in the card description). Make sure that glx is loaded (has a star against it) and GLCore and DRI is not loaded. Most of the rest of the menu options are pretty straighforward... but ask if you are unsure. If you save the config at the end then you should just be able to 'startx' and get playing UT2003 Johnny. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Highpoint RocketRaid
Hi, does anyone know hot get a Highpoint RocketRaid 1520 card to work ? Cedric I have a Highpoint Rocket 133 (IDE 133 Card) which I got working by using a recent version of Knoppix (www.knoppix.net). You can use boot the live Knoppix CD (wont change your existing debian install) to figure out which modules are needed. Alternatively make sure you are running kernel 2.4.22 and make all the Highpoint entries as modules and hope for the best... If neither of these work you might want to try a 2.6.x kernel... if you are feeling brave Johnny. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: virtual terminal not working compaq armada
i have a compaq armada with debian installed x runs fine, but i when i switch to a virtual terminal ctrl alt f1, ctrl alt f2, etc , i get colored stripes down the screen, its just a mess. is this anything to do with my X settings? surely not? is there any setting that changes how the virtual terminals are displayed? I have a compaq armada (M700) which works fine with virtual terminals. I installed debian from the Knoppix 3.3 cd onto the harddrive and everything seems to work with the default settings. The install uses the framebuffer for the virtual terminals, so perhaps you could check if you setup is using the framebuffer or vga/svga. Johnny. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2003 #3280
I am trying to mount a directory as nfs filesystem from other machine. I am getting RPC error on other machine and it says (Host linux box) is not responding. Though I can ping to the linux box from there and also I can telnet ot it. What is that I am missing. Any suggestion. Thanks These services are needed to be run on the server side: - NFS server - Portmap If you are using the 'testing' distribution and you havent updated for a few weeks, you might want to update your nfs server package. I had the same problems with nfs-kernel-server on 'testing' about 3-4 weeks ago, it just stopped working. I upgraded about a week ago and it started working again. John. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Saving image from email in evolution
I am not able to save an image from an email, in this case my daily dilbert strip, when using evolution 1.2 as my email client. I can right click on the image and get a pop-up menu with a single menu item of save as.. but when I click this nothing happens. I cannont find any reported bugs against this on the evolution site, so I was wondering if I was the only person with this problem?? Cheers, Johnny. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: /home partition
The partition (hda2) doen't appear in /etc/fstab --nothing there shows that there is a separate partition for /home. If there is no entry in /etc/fstab for a partition is will not be mounted (unless you use a manual mount command with all the necessary options). The command df will tell you what partitions you have mounted. Is it necessary to edit /etc/fstab and manually enter a line for hda2 to show that it is the /home directory? If so, what should this entry be? You should have an entry something like: /dev/hda2 /home ext2defaults0 2 You should check the partition format required (ext2, ext3, etc..) and might want to look at man mount or man fstab for some background info. If you are going to add this line, you should first backup your home directory. Alternatively you could select a different mount point such as: /dev/hda2 /opt/home ext2defaults 0 2 First you would need to create the directory /opt/home, then mount the partition and copy all the information from /home to /opt/home. Then move the home folder to a different name and create a symbolic link to replace it: ln -s /opt/home /home Be aware that you must do this all as root user, so be careful if you feel like deleting anything!! You may also want to consider running in single user mode, init 1. What's a possible reason why the /home partition didn't 'take' during the installation process? Is it always necessary to do some post-installation editing (/etc/fstab ??) after a partition is selected for a /directory? There is no reason that the home partition didn't take. Nothing is usually required post install... probably just an act of dog... Johnny. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sid CD fails as apt source
I'm trying to use a sid iso image as a apt source. I've successfully mounted it and added a file entry to sources.list as: deb file:/mnt/iso/debian sid main The correct way to add an Official Debian CD to the apt sources.list file is to use the command: apt-cdrom add You should run this command as root. This will prompt you to put in a cdrom, do not mount the cdrom yourself as the apt-cdrom does all this for you. You should end up with a sources.list entry that starts with: deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux . You may find that some or all of the existing entries are commented out by apt-cdrom. If you are concerned, you should make a backup copy of sources.list. Johnny. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fdisk cannot detect my harddisk
Sir , I use 20 GB seagate harddisk. Before installing the windows'98 , I enter into BIOS setup and gave YES for Boot sector virus enabled.When I install the OS , it says Boot sector virus Found, do you overwrite ? , I answered Yes for this. After then the computer hanged . When I use Fdisk , It says there is no Fixed Disk. But when I setup the Windows XP by using another disk [one is primary master other is primary slave ] , XP detect the disk and show the harddisk size.but it cannot setup on that disk. Try switching the off the Bios boot sector virus check. Generally these bios virus checks cause more problems than they allegedly solve. If they see something they dont understand, they tend to call it a virus (and they usually dont understand very much!!!). If you still have no success, try using your Debian CD as a rescue disk, or grab Knoppix (http://www.knoppix.net/ )if things have gone seriously wrong with your hard drive, you still may be able to rescue your data. Johnny. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie Hardware/Partitioning
I have a new machine on order. The more interesting items are: Mobo: Gigabyte 7VA KT400 + Sound/AGP8X/DDR400 AMD Athlon XP 2000Mhz ATI Radeon 7500 64B/Dual Head UDMA 40Gig 7200RPM My first question is will I have any difficulty with these hardware pieces? You will probably have problems getting X to work if you just use woody, try Sarge (testing) which has a newer version of Xfree and a recent stable kernel 2.4.20 or higher. My second question is about partitioning for a dual boot with Windows 2000. I need the Windows system, at least for now, for work purposes. I also may want to store images in a shareable location and I presently have 5Gigs of digital pictures on this Win 2K machine. Partitioning is always difficult to get right first time, one simple rule is to separate the OS and apps from your data (pictures, music, documents, etc). This can be done using a separate /home, this will allow you to change partitions for your OS without affecting your own data. So in your case a basic partitioning scheme would be: 10G win2k (fat32 is required if you ever want to safely write to this partition from Linux) 10G fat32 768M Swap 10G Linux (mounted as / ) ~10G Linux (mounted as /home ) Unless you start installing all of debian and external programs you shouldn't run out of room on /, you are more likely to fill up /home, at which point you can buy a second hard drive and create a big partition called /opt/archive and move your own data over to that, creating symbolic links where necessary. For the rest, however, I am uncertain. The machine has 256M DDR and I have 512M more coming so I plan to make a 768M swap partition. Beyond that, the web pages I have found discuss mostly minimums for / /usr /tmp and /home. I also read that more than 6Gig can create problems for ext2 partitions. So at this point, I'm between those minimums and 6Gig. :) For you web pages, you could place them in /var/www (default for apache) or place them in a folder called public_html in the root of your user directory (accessed by http://localhost/~username/ ) Hope this helps Johnny. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie Hardware/Partitioning
I've had ext2 running on massive partitions in the region of 60GB upwards. Only thing with ext2 is that if the system doesn't shutdown correctly it will scan the drives for errors on the re-boot which can take AGES with larger partitions. You can easily (and in my own experience safely) convert ext2 filesystem into an ext3 system with journaling. I have done this on a system with 3 hard drives that are all 100GB+ and it saves an emense amount of time in the rare occasion I have had a crash (dodgy USB equipment!!). The procedure I use is as follows (example is for the first partition on the second hard drive of IDE channel 1): 1) Unmount the partition you are going to convert umount /dev/hdb1 2) Use tune2fs to add a journaling tune2fs -j /dev/hdb1 3) Turn of the automatic counting and checking for fsck tune2fs -i 0 -c 0 /dev/hdb1 4) Edit /etc/fstab file to reflect the changes (use ext3 or auto for the fs type) /dev/hdb1/opt/archive ext3defaults02 5) Remount the partition mount /dev/hdb1 This procedure was discussed on debianplanet, but that is not available at present. I am sure there is a howto if you need more information. Johnny. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FYI: IBM DB2 installation on Woody
I succeeded today in installing IBM DB2 7.1 on Debian Woody. Since I have found many unanswered questions in the WWW I think that somebody might be interested. Regards Holger Are you going to provide us with any more details of what you did? Problems that you came accross and solved? It would be appreciated. Thanks Johnny. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: WD internal eide160 gb 40-pin recommended packages
On Tuesday 19 August 2003 04:05 pm, Antonio Rodr wrote: What are the recommended packages for proper recognition and functioning of a WD internal eide160 gb 40-pin hard disk? Planning to install woody in it. Disks are more of a bios or kernel issue, most kernels by default are setup to handle atapi drives. That said I like to have hwtools hdparm installed on IDE systems. The only things that will stop Linux from recognising your hard drive in full are: 1) The Bios 2) The IDE controller 3) Using older software versions You should be able to flash your bios if it does not support large drives, check the website for your motherboard. While you are there, check that your IDE controllers will support large drives. If your computer is over a year old, you may find that you can upgrade your bios, but cannot do anything about your IDE controller. In that case, upgrade your bios and use a seperate controller card that does support large drives. So long as you use a recent kernel (I suggest 2.4.20) then you should not have any problems seeing the full disk once the hardware is sorted out. Johnny. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mozilla vs. mozilla-firebird
OK, I've found what's happens. The mozilla-firebird launch mozilla if this one is running !!! François In my experience this is normal for debian packages of Netscape and Mozilla packages under debian. It can be useful, but it can also be a right pain. I would like to run Mozilla (for email) and Mozilla firebird (web browsing), but I cant and I did not recieve any solutions last time I posted this question. I am unsure if it is a debian thing or a Mozilla thing. Unless someone knows otherwise you have to use one or the other... or you could run two X servers, but that seems to defeat the object for me Johnny. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: ftp to webserver - not as rot
If you have managed to set up all these servers, you could also try set up a CVS server. A CVS server can be used for managing versions of you files and is also a standard way to deploy web pages and code to a live web environment. AFAIK it is very secure assuming that you run the CVS server on a seperate machine other than the web server. Then you would allow the webserver (in the DMZ) to connect to the CVS server (on your local network), pulling any changes to the website that have been made. This is secure in the fact that you only have to run apache and ssh services on the webserver. The added bonus to using this system is that you get a version control system to help manage all the changes you make to you website. More information about CVS can be viewed at http://www.cvshome.org/ If you need more details, please let me know (I may knock up a mini-howto if there is enough interest on this subject...) Johnny. This may be a dumb question on the wrong list, but here goes. I'm learning to set up a server via remote. We've got a mail server going and mailman as well. We have apache going and have put some pages in /var/www. There's a firewall on it and it is set so that we can send and receive mail, access the mail list, bring up pages in a browser, ssh in as users, and ftp in as users. We set it up so that root cannot ftp or ssh in. A user can ftp in and work on pages in their own public_html, but those pages would appear in /~username. I want to be able to work on pages in /var/www, because those pages come up when the domain name is accessed via browser. /var/www is root.root Is there a way other than dropping the pages off as user via ftp, ssh and su to root and move them, to do this? I'm thinking maybe there is a way using groups. Or is there something wrong with my thinking about not allowing root ftp? Thanks. Anita -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Java database application development
My goal is to use Debian linux as development platform for (classical two tier) database (MySQL) applications. I thought that Java would be ideal for that purpose. Am I right? Is there better free tool (language) for development of such application that can run on both Linux and Windows? Are there any issues regarding Java's speed, printing or anything else that I should be aware of? All languages have pro's and con's. You should choose a language based on how comfortable you feel with it and how appropriate it is for the type of projects you are working on. IMHO you wont find anything 'significantly' better than java for cross-platform development where databases and networking (web XML) are involved. (Unless you have a really old computer with less than 64MB RAM). I googled and ran through couple of books and sites to see how to start and now I'm facing problem: how to structure application? If it is a 'WebApplication' there is a good book from JavaSoft specifically covering this. Otherwise there are style guidelines and rules of thumb for specific aspects of Java which can guide you in the right direction. Ultimately though, it is for you the designer to made decisions on the design. I created a class named DataConn that reads connection parameters from XML file and than successfully connects to database. It's constructed as Singleton. I created object from that class on beginning of application. But now I don't know how to call that object (use created connection) from each new window (form) I open. My intention was to open connection to database at beginning of application and close it when application finishes. Is it good idea? I would recommend that you try and get an applicaton working first and not worry too much about creating a good design. Designing a good system is mainly down to experience (yours or other peoples that you reuse). Build something and then refactor it (change things) untill you are happy with the results. Then figure out what you learnt from it all. Next time you will get to a good design quicker... and so on. I appreciate any help or recommendation for site or book that will help me solve this problem! There are many sources of free information about developing database driven java applications. The main places I would recommend for you are: 1) JavaSoft: http://java.sun.com/ , look under the Tutorials section for JDBC tutorials and J2EE Blueprints. 2) Jakarta Apache: http://jakarta.apache.org/ , a whole range of java projects, look at Torque for Object-Relational mapping. 3) Hibernate: http://hibernate.bluemars.net/ , Relational persistence for Java You should probably have a look on amazon (or some other book emporium) for books on Java Design Patterns, there are several good ones out there. Other useful references: O'Reilly - OnJava: http://www.onjava.com/ JavaWorld: http://www.javaworld.com/ Netbeans (IDE): http://www.netbeans.org/ VSj JavaZone: http://www.vsj.co.uk/java/ The Server Side: http://www.theserverside.com/ Johnny. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2003 #2112
Hi all, Installation went alright. Only X was the problem. Error message was that unix fontpath having problem. So I commented out the line unixfontpath :7100 in /etc/XF86Config-4 file. Again errors, this time mouse goes unrecognised. It is a PS2 Logitech Mouse in a PS/2 port. It was detected without any problem in the earlier redhat and present MDK9.1 and Win98 too. Why it is so in debian? Can anybody point any workaround to get X ? For Logitech PS2 mice, you should try uisng the MouseManPlusPS/2 protocol. Here is a snippet from my XF86Config-4 Section InputDevice Identifier Configured Mouse Driver mouse Option Protocol MouseManPlusPS/2 Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 Option Device /dev/psaux Option SendCoreEvents true EndSection Hope this helps, Johnny -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GeForce4 card
Try one of the following: a) Change the Generic Mouse protocol to ImPS/2 b) Change the Configured Mouse to point to /dev/psaux c) If you have a Logitec Mouse, try use the MouseManPlusPS/2 protocol. Johnny. Subject: GeForce4 card From: john gennard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 20:11:22 +0100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I purchased a GeForce4 MX440 AGP8x 128Mb DDR VIVO DVI VGA card. snip 'Startx' opened a screen (even showing the login panel), but then aborted. The error messages refer to the mouse and configuration I did not include (maybe came from 'mdetect'). I did a little googling, and it seems they may be because I have an optical PS/2 wheel mouse. I have another box also with the same type of mouse and the XF86Config-4 file on that is identical in the mouse sections (the graphics card and monitor sections are different though). I can't work out what is causing the problem. Can anyone please help.John. The section of the log file relating to the errors is:- - (**) Option Protocol PS/2 (**) Configured Mouse: Protocol: PS/2 (**) Option CorePointer (**) Configured Mouse: Core Pointer (**) Option Device /dev/psaux (==) Configured Mouse: Buttons: 3 (**) Option Emulate3Buttons true (**) Configured Mouse: Emulate3Buttons, Emulate3Timeout: 50 (**) Option Protocol ImPS/2 (**) Generic Mouse: Protocol: ImPS/2 (**) Option SendCoreEvents true (**) Generic Mouse: always reports core events (**) Option Device /dev/input/mice (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice No such device. (EE) Generic Mouse: cannot open input device (EE) PreInit failed for input device Generic Mouse (II) UnloadModule: mouse (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device Configured Mouse (type: MOUSE) Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installing mouse
If you really get nowhere with your mouse, before you abandon debian you could try using Knoppix (a debian based distrobution) from http://www.knoppix.net/ especially if you are happy to download a CD image ~600MB. If not, you may as well ignore the rest of this email. You can run Knoppix completely from CD (i.e. it doesn't write anything to your hard drive) and it also has hardware detection so it should pick up most/all of your hardwar, particularly your mouse. If your mouse works under Knoppix it will work with Debian, just take a look at the file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 when running Knoppix. Somewhere in there will be a 'Section InputDevice' line followed by some info about how your mouse is setup. For an example, here is a snippet from my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 Section InputDevice Identifier Configured Mouse Driver mouse Option Protocol MouseManPlusPS/2 Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 Option Device /dev/psaux Option SendCoreEvents true EndSection Unless you have a logitec wheel mouse, you may have slightly different values for the Options, most noticably you need to know which protocol is being used. If you find several of these sections, look at the begining of the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file and it will tell you which one is actually being used. Hope this helps. Johnny. Subject: Re: installing mouse From: David Fokkema [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 06:46:32 +0200 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 05:27:17PM -0400, Leonard Stevens wrote: I am a new user or in the act of trying to be one. My problem at least at this stage is I can't get Linux to recognize my bus mouse. I made the mistake of installing xwindows and it goes straight there but without a mouse. I told it in setup that it was a bus ps/2 mouse but it could care less. I couldn't figure a way out so I reformatted the disk and started over. This time I made the mistake of installing the desktop and had the same result. I ounce more reformatted and am about to try a third time. How in gods name do I get it to install a mouse driver?? Thanks anyone who can help. Leonard Stevens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wheelmouse
Logitech wheelmice usually use a different protocol to PS/2. Try using MouseManPlusPS/2 as the protocol. Here is a snippet from my XF86Config-4: Section InputDevice Identifier Configured Mouse Driver mouse Option Protocol MouseManPlusPS/2 Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 Option Device /dev/psaux Option SendCoreEvents true EndSection Please note that the above will only work if gpm (General Purpose Mouse) package is NOT installed. Johnny. Subject: Re: Wheelmouse From: Stefano [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 09:36:44 +0200 To: Piero [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 19:48, sabato 21 giugno 2003, Piero ha scritto: I'm not able to make my wheelmouse work. It's a basic Logitech wheelmouse. The corresponding lines in my /etc/X11/XF86Config file are: Section InputDevice # Identifier and driver Identifier Mouse1 Driver mouse Option ProtocolPS/2 Option Device /dev/psaux Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 Option Emulate3Buttons EndSection Anything tu suggest? Thanks I had the same problem with the same mice. I've tryed a lot of configurations but problem goes away only when I've upgrade XFree to 4.3 version! - --==§==-- stefano (stefanoceci.it) openyourmindopenyoursource -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+9q4WbWLalhiEs1QRArMoAJ0WTc6YU9DetvP6JF7xrCP2rZiMXgCffeYP UbW9ZVk8o05TnAFgzwjA0ME= =V5iD -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2003 #1796
You could try apt-listchanges package which will present you with a list of all updates to your system (not to sure about removed packages though). This can be viewed during the installation process and/or results mailed to a user. It might not be exactly what you want, but it should do some of it. Johnny. Subject: logging apt-get/dpkg activity From: John Habermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 14:06:05 +1000 To: Debian User Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi I am just wondering if anyone can tell me how I can set logging in apt-get or rather dpkg. I would like to keep track of what packages have been installed or removed but I can't seem to find any information on how to turn logging on in apt-get or dpkg. Is this possibe? I looked in syslog.conf but could see any mention of how this could be set up and there is nothing in the apt howto or the man pages of apt and dpkg and I couldn't find anything in google. Is there another easy way of doing this perhaps. Thanks for any help John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2003 #907
Using dselect I searched for gimp and found this package that should meet your needs: gimp1.2-nonfree - GIF support for the GNU Image Manipulation Program Enjoy.. Johnny. Subject: GIF driver for Gimp ? From: dave selby [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 14:46:35 + To: Debian List [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am using gimp quite heavily, I need to save files in .GIF format but it appears not to be supported. I have been on the Gimp mailing list, they suggest I may need a .deb file to enable it because it is supported in standard Gimp. Having browsed through aptitude there are a lot of files related to GIF, and some legal stuff about not being able to compress images. Does anyone know which .deb to install to enable .GIF on Gimp, preferible in compress mode as well as de-compress. Dave __ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2003 #907
You should look at the package: cron-apt This probably does everything you need, without doing any damage to you system by default I just use it to do an update and download (not install) any packages overnight). Once I read the changelogs in the morning, I then decide whether to let the install proceed... I have used cron-apt successfully before to automatically install packages, but this was on a pure 'stable' release of debian, about 4 months into the release. I did not have any third party sources, I used the automatic install solely for security updates, but things still could have gone wrong. I also stoped the automatic install well before the 'testing' release was to become the new stable. Johnny. Subject: Re: Auto apt-get upgrade From: Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 03:24:53 -0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 10:24:33AM +, Rus Foster wrote: I'm just debating about scheduling a cron job to do apt-get update apt-get update. Is this reasonable or am I going to be asking for trouble down the line? That's just begging for a cosmic ass-whooping, from my experiance when I tried it. Doing this is only for people who switched from Windows and really, really miss things randomly breaking for seemingly no reason. - -- .''`. Baloo Ursidae [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' :proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+dF8FJ5vLSqVpK2kRAljuAJ9Xgzqm/9REtdxrdIDG6TaoqEad5ACgwMUz VdXqjecsbrfVdw0NJaI9nUY= =5bCV -END PGP SIGNATURE- __ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mozilla stops accepting typed input
I have had this very same problem with Mozilla and have found two 'remedies', but no real answer 1) The anonying remedy: Minimise or shade the window that is not responding to text input and then unminimise / unshade that window. You should now be able to insert text. 2) The 'Okay so far' remedy: Upgrade Mozilla. I am now running testing + the Gnome 2.2 backport for woody (which includes Mozilla 1..2.1). I have been using this newer version of mozilla for about a week and have filled in many forms and typed in many URLs. If you want to upgrade to Gnome 2.2 (very worthwhile in my opinion) then check out Debian Planet ( http://www.debianplanet.com/ ) for the latest details of mirrors for these debs. Hope this helps a little. Johnny. I'm having an irritating problem with Mozilla. After what appears to be a random length of time (often very short, eg, after one entry), it stops accepting typing in, for example, the address box, or in a google text input area. I have to kill that instance and start another to get it to accept typed input. Clicking on links still works normally. Does anyone have any ideas? I've thought that perhaps I'd remove a config file and let it reconfigure, but I don't see any obvious rc files - 'locate mozillarc' only gives /etc/mozilla/mozillarc, which has only one line. Nothing obvious pops out from my ~/.mozilla directory - there's a binary file in there called appreg, and two folders - /fonts, and /my_logon_name; the latter only has the rather mysteriously named folder /b3nzixf2.slt, which has lots of stuff relating to bookmarks, cookies, etc, but nothing seems to stand out as possibly corrupted. Nothing I've looked for in Google has turned up any clues, so I'm turning to the list... I'm running testing, kernel 2.4.20, X 4.2.1 with an Athlon XP1500+, 512 MB RAM and an nVidia GeForce2/MX-400 64MB video card. I have been bitten by the AMD-AGP issue, but this seems to be pretty much under control with the 2.4.20 kernel (it was a problem through 2.4.18). Please hold suggestions that I use a different browser; I know that (and I've used various), but I would like to get this Mozilla problem fixed because I like its many features (popups, cookie and login management, eg). Thanks for any ideas... __ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Blender menu problems
I am running the testing distribution of Debian and have problems with the application 'blender'. On launching the program it automatically spans the whole screen, seems to work outside of the window manager (i.e. no window decoration) and most importantly the menus are drawn (when selected) about quater of the screen down. I have not tried blender since using testing and the only thing I have added to testing is the new gnome2.2 debs from: ## Backport of Gnome2 for Woody deb http://mirrors.evilgeniuses.org.uk/debian/backports/woody gnome2.2/ deb-src http://mirrors.evilgeniuses.org.uk/debian/backports/woody gnome2.2/ Any clues?? John. __ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Choosing Packages?
One way to emulate the 'initial install' package group selection is to find and install packages that have the 'task-' name, such as task-debian-devel. This will bring up a dependancy list of things that are useful if you want to develop debian packages. In case you dont know, use the / key to enter a search. keyword, then the \ key to continue the search for the same task- name. Johnny. Geopoliticus wrote: Hello, I have a few questions about dselect. Because I am just learning Debian I would like to have the option of installing a set of default packages on my system. I was given this option on first boot of the system after running the installation. But because I installed from disks, I wanted the network up and running on my computer so that I could install the packages using dselect. Now that I have already forgone that first chance to install a set of initial packages, I can't seem to figure out how to get the inital install screen back. Does anyone have an idea how to do this? I'm sure it's simple! Thanks! Michael -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: .deb for the latest version of lilo? any ideas?
It would be great if the latest version of lilo could be droped into the potato boot flopies, especially as one of the main problems our site has had was not being able to boot our laptops from the hard drive unless we got hold of partition magic or re-installed NT from scratch. We have pre-installed laptops with NT and a spare 4GB partition at the end of the 12GB hard drive. Debian installs no problem, but wont boot of the hard drive because lilo cant deal with the partition ending after 1024 cylinders. Even if lilo cant make the boot floppies, it would be dissapointing if it didnt make it into potato, especially with so many large hard drives around these days... How about a 'potato service pack' if everything is fixed in potato?? Johnny. Eugene Teo wrote: the subject says it all. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
apache + mod_proxy
Hello, I have a problem with apapche and mod_proxy. I added the following to the /etc/apache/http.conf ## www proxy settings CacheRoot /var/www/cache CacheSize 500 CacheDirLevels 3 CacheDirLength 1 and uncommented the LoadModule proxy_module line. I set the clients to access the webserver, using the machine name and port 80. When I got to a web site through the proxy (using netscape), instead of getting the web site I asked for I get the index.html page of the web site that is set up on the web server. This happens for any web site. Have I missed anything from the above?? I am now using squid instead and that works fine, except I cant now access the local website on the same machine, doh!!! Thanks for any suggestions... Johnny.
Re: local mirror dist.
You can use apt-move to add downloaded debs into a local cache, it can also be used to grab and sort all the debs for a particular distribution 'apt-move mirror'. Johnny. Harry ten Berge wrote: Hi, I want to use dselect/apt with a local mirror of a debian site to update/install new machines. Is there a standard tool which automatically maintains a local mirror of a official debian (mirror) site? If no, how could I fix this?
Re: External monitor in X
Hello Kari, Kari Ruohonen wrote: I apologise to contact you directly but I would like to ask a few further questions if you don't mind. Not a problem Thank you for your answer. I am running the modified xserver Mach64 from Steve's Dell-pages. What version of debian are you running? I cannot find t he xserver corresponding to ATI Rage 128 (generic) from potato (that you said you are using). I can get external monitor working if I set 'only CRT' option from BIOS but this is very annoying because if I forget to set it back to LCD before I shutdown the machine, I will have no screen at all on the road! I am running the most up-to-date potato that there is, we have a local mirror that updates from the debian UK site every night. I have not added anything from woody (yet). Last weekend I gave storm linux a try out and it does auto detection of hardware. It reported my video card as an ATI Mach64 3D Rage Pro. I didnt like storm that much, so I reinstalled debian potato and therefor X using 'XF86Setup' and chose the card that storm had detected. I selected all the modes from 800x600 to 1600x1400(?), default 16 Bit color. I can now run X on the laptop LCD at 1024x768 or on an external monitor at 1600x1400, but obviously not at the same time!!! Everything seems to work just great, although it is a bit of a come down from the external monitor to the lcd!!! I have attached the XF86Config file for interest.. Johnny. # XF86Config auto-generated by XF86Setup # # Copyright (c) 1996 by The XFree86 Project, Inc. # # Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a # copy of this software and associated documentation files (the Software), # to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation # the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, # and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the # Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: # # The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in # all copies or substantial portions of the Software. # # THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED AS IS, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR # IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, # FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL # THE XFREE86 PROJECT BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, # WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF # OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE # SOFTWARE. # # Except as contained in this notice, the name of the XFree86 Project shall # not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or other # dealings in this Software without prior written authorization from the # XFree86 Project. # # See 'man XF86Config' for info on the format of this file Section Files RgbPath/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic:unscaled FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi EndSection Section ServerFlags EndSection Section Keyboard ProtocolStandard XkbRulesxfree86 XkbModelpc101 XkbLayout gb EndSection Section Pointer ProtocolIntelliMouse Device /dev/mouse BaudRate1200 SampleRate 30 Resolution 100 Buttons 3 EndSection Section Monitor Identifier Primary Monitor VendorName Unknown ModelName Unknown HorizSync 31.5-82.0 VertRefresh 40-100 Modeline 1600x1200 162.00 1600 1664 1856 2160 1200 1201 1204 1250 +hsync +vsync Modeline 1280x1024 135.00 1280 1312 1416 1664 1024 1027 1030 1064 Modeline 1152x864 135.00 1152 1464 1592 1776 864 864 876 908 Modeline 1024x768 115.50 1024 1056 1248 1440 768 771 781 802 -hsync -vsync Modeline 800x60069.65 800 864 928 1088 600 604 610 640 -hsync -vsync EndSection Section Device Identifier Primary Card VendorName Unknown BoardName ATI Mach64 3D Rage Pro EndSection Section Screen Driver Accel Device Primary Card Monitor Primary Monitor DefaultColorDepth 16 SubSection Display Depth8 Modes1600x1200 1280x1024 1152x864 1024x768 800x600 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth15 Modes1600x1200 1280x1024 1152x864 1024x768 800x600 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth16 Modes1600x1200 1280x1024 1152x864 1024x768 800x600 EndSubSection SubSection
Re: Gnome desktop
You shoud really just edit the .xsession file in your user directory, /home/username/.xsession You do not need to include a command to run the window manager (fvwm2), gnome-session will do that for you. Check that you dont have a .xinitrc file in your home directory as this will override the .xsession file and cause it not to be looked at. Johnny. Sandy Shapiro wrote: I think I am already doing that, althought I may not have done it correctly. I edited Xsession and added the lines: fvwm2 exec /usr/bin/gnome-session I also tried adding the line: gmc but that didn't make any difference. Did I leave something out, or do I need to do this differently? Thanks, Sandy Alternitvely, you could use gnome-session which will run gmc and the gnome panel (an anything from previous sessions) for you. Create a .xinitrc file in your users home directory and include the following line: gnome-session Hope this helps. Johnny. Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong wrote: Sandy == Sandy Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I installed Debian (slink) and the X Window system. My manual that came with the CD, Learning Debian Gnu/Linux has a section on using GNOME. Most of the things they refer to are there, but two are missing: home directory icon and File Manager. I suspect they didn't get installed. I used dselect to check the CD Rom, but I can't find any Gnome related files that are uninstalled. Are they listed under another name? Is there some other way to complete the installation? I kind of enjoy using Gnome, and I would like to find and install the rest of it. They are both the same think. You need the gmc package, and just run gmc when you are in X windows. Marshal Thanks, Sandy Shapiro -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null begin:vcard n:Stevenson;John x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:Valtech Ltd adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Technical Consultant / Trainer x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:John Stevenson end:vcard begin:vcard n:Stevenson;John x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:Valtech Ltd adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Technical Consultant / Trainer x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:John Stevenson end:vcard
Re: paths (/usr/this, /usr/that)
A very simplistic (and rough) answer would be: /lib /bin are to do with the real core of unix/linux, like the kernel modules live in /lib/modules /usr/lib /usr/bin are the applications/libraries that run on top of the core unix/linux, things that the users make use of, hence '/usr' /usr/local/lib /usr/local/lbin are the apps/libraries that are specific to one machine, i.e. an application that is installed but is not part of the debian distribution I hope this gives some small explianation... Johnny. Vitux wrote: w trillich wrote: my 2.1 cd installed a great deal of stuff under /usr/doc, and the new potato (i.e. 'apt-get upgrade', with /etc/apt/sources.list pointing to 'frozen') puts bunches of stuff in /usr/share/doc. what's the functional or intellectual distinction: /lib /usr/lib /usr/local/lib /var/lib /usr/doc /usr/share/doc /bin /usr/bin /usr/local/bin /sbin /usr/sbin /usr/local/sbin this topic is covered briefly in one-o-them HOWTOs, which i can't find right off hand... (dhelp search for directories? paths? structure? besides, having just reinstalled everything, dsearch isn't finding squat anyway...) some of these are more obvious to me than others; i bet a couple of you newer debian-user subscribers (like me) are interested in this, too. begin:vcard n:Stevenson;John x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:Valtech Ltd adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Technical Consultant / Trainer x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:John Stevenson end:vcard
Re: Gnome desktop
Alternitvely, you could use gnome-session which will run gmc and the gnome panel (an anything from previous sessions) for you. Create a .xinitrc file in your users home directory and include the following line: gnome-session Hope this helps. Johnny. Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong wrote: Sandy == Sandy Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I installed Debian (slink) and the X Window system. My manual that came with the CD, Learning Debian Gnu/Linux has a section on using GNOME. Most of the things they refer to are there, but two are missing: home directory icon and File Manager. I suspect they didn't get installed. I used dselect to check the CD Rom, but I can't find any Gnome related files that are uninstalled. Are they listed under another name? Is there some other way to complete the installation? I kind of enjoy using Gnome, and I would like to find and install the rest of it. They are both the same think. You need the gmc package, and just run gmc when you are in X windows. Marshal Thanks, Sandy Shapiro -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null begin:vcard n:Stevenson;John x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:Valtech Ltd adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Technical Consultant / Trainer x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:John Stevenson end:vcard
Re: Potato Installation Bug ?
I have always had a problem with the boot disks occasionally dying. The things I can advise are: * check that floppy access has actually finished and then give it a few seconds * going too fast throught the install (and swapping disks) make it more likely the install will hang If it hangs at the point where everything is done, you dont need to do the install all over again, just reboot with the original rescue disk, but instead of initialising a Linux partition, just mount the ones you created last time. The next step will then take you to create boot disk or boot from hard drive. You can then keep on trying untill you get a successful boot disk!! Johnny. Dan Hutchinson wrote: I get the same error when trying to create a boot floppy. Your floppy disk may be bad? I usually skip this step and reboot the system. I would recommend making a boot disk of your finished system anyway. It is more valueable after your system is up and running. Dan I know this is just a work around Shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am installing the Debian 2.2 over the network. Each time I select Make a Boot Floppy it fails with Creation of a boot floppy failed... I have tested this on two different machines and several floppy diskettes. This used to work few weeks ago. Has anyone seen this before? Is this a bug?. Thanks Shane --== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==-- Share what you know. Learn what you don't. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null ___ To get your own FREE ZDNet Onebox - FREE voicemail, email, and fax, all in one place - sign up today at http://www.zdnetonebox.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null begin:vcard n:Stevenson;John x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:Valtech Ltd adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Technical Consultant / Trainer x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:John Stevenson end:vcard
Re: Java IDE
You could try using the Blackdown JDK from www.blackdown.org, get the Release Candidate 4 (RC4), this uses native threads and has the sun JIT compiler in it. This make a noticable improvement of speed on my machine. It seems to work fine with all Java apps I have tried, with the exception of Together from Object International which doesnt like the JIT when running and doesnt like native threads when installing. Johnny. Martin Bishop wrote: Oki DZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Have you ever run Forte on Debian systems? I have looked at it on Sun's website. The doc says that to run it you'd need a powerful system (P. III). The IDE is distributed on .rpm format, the size is about 9M. I was wondering whether Forte would eat up so much CPU power; does it so? Any experience with it? Any hope to run it on P 133? Thanks in advance. Oki Hi Oki, I've tried Forte on a Celeron 450 with 128MB using Sun's JDK 1.2.2 and it is slooow. On WinXX it is much better, still a bit slow, but you can work comfortably. If you must use a Java IDE in Linux, may I suggest JBuilder. It's a bit faster than Forte. MB. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null begin:vcard n:Stevenson;John x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:Valtech Ltd adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Technical Consultant / Trainer x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:John Stevenson end:vcard
ftp but no apt
Hello I have set up a partial mirror of debian on one of our machines. This was orignially on the same subnet x.x.1.x as all the laptops we use. Apt worked fine and we reduced d/l time emensly. Now we have moved the box to another subnet, x.x.3.x and now apt no longer works. It stalls at the first attempt to actually get a package list. It connects to the server okay, but fails to fetch any package list. I thought there must have been something denying ftp access, but straight ftp works fine. Is there a difference in port that apt uses against normal ftp?? I cant see this myself as the mirror is just set up as an anonymous ftp server. I guess that this must constitue a bug against apt, unless anyone has any suggestions. I have tried this accross 3 different subnets and had exactly the same effect. Very strange!! Johnny. begin:vcard n:Stevenson;John x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:Valtech Ltd adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Technical Consultant / Trainer x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:John Stevenson end:vcard
Re: netscape6 anyone?
I have netscape6 (mozilla in netscapes clothing...) running fine on my potato install. I ran it as root first (a bit risky but its not an important system) and it complained about missing library: libstdc++ So I checked thorugh dselect and noticed some old versions of this library. Once I had installed them + an upgrade of all the latest packages in potato, everything works very nicely. Now I dont know for sure whether it was the old library or just the update, but it works and I am happy with it!! One thing I did note was that you need to change to the directory which contains the netscape script, then run ./netscape Without this, I got permission problems from the run-mozilla.sh script (which seems to be called from the ./netscape script. Johnny. Christian Hammers wrote: Hello Did anybody get the new netscape6-beta working on a Debian potato/woody system? (here it silently ends without giving more information) ... WEBSHELL+ = 1 I am inside the initialize Hey : You are in QFA Startup (QFA)Talkback loaded Ok. WEBSHELL+ = 2 assuming dd is off for Navigator nsCollationUnix::Initialize mLocale = de_DE nsCollationUnix::Initialize mCharset = ISO-8859-1 Inside netscape.xul overlay... bye, -christian- -- Christian HammersWESTEND GmbH - Aachen und Dueren Tel 0241/701333-0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet Security for ProfessionalsFax 0241/911879 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null begin:vcard n:Stevenson;John x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:Valtech Ltd adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Technical Consultant / Trainer x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:John Stevenson end:vcard
Installing StarOffice 5.1 from CD
Hello, I am trying to install StarOffice 5.1 from the official sun CD onto a debian potato system. However when I try the set up program from inside the /cdrom/linux/office51 directory, I get the following error: # ./setup bash: ./setup: Permission denied I have tried this both as root and as a normal user. I dont even know where to start on this one!!! Anyone have any ideas??? Johnny. begin:vcard n:Stevenson;John x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:Valtech Ltd adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Technical Consultant / Trainer x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:John Stevenson end:vcard
Re: Installing StarOffice 5.1 from CD
The file is executable by all users and I do not have noexec opions on the CD. I have set the umask to 222. I sill get the same problem and after reading through the readme on the CD it seems that there is a problem with glibc libraries. It looks like star office needs to have a specific version installed, which I beleve is older than the current version in potato. I dont fancy messing around with libraries so I guess I will just bin star office until someone comes up with an installer. Johnny. Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: I am trying to install StarOffice 5.1 from the official sun CD onto a debian potato system. However when I try the set up program from inside the /cdrom/linux/office51 directory, I get the following error: # ./setup bash: ./setup: Permission denied the file has probably no execute permissions. a ls -l setup should show up permissions like r-xr-xr-x or only r-x--. have you mounted the cdrom with the noexec or umask options? umask should be 222 and noexec must not be used, if you want to install directly from cd. -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Linux - the last service pack you'll ever need. begin:vcard n:Stevenson;John x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:Valtech Ltd adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Technical Consultant / Trainer x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:John Stevenson end:vcard
Re: ln -s /usr/doc /home/doc
Is it me or do you have this command the wrong way round. I would have thought that you wanted: ln -s /usr/doc /home/doc I hope this fixes things for you... Johhny Debian Mail wrote: I moved /usr/doc to /home/doc, since I have more space on the partition that is mounted on /home. Then I created a softlink to it: ln -s /home/doc /usr/doc The problem is now, that some packages (r-base 1.0.0-1 is an example) store documentation in different locations, and refer to it with softlinks using ../ These softlinks now clearly point to a non existing location. Is there a nice solution to solve this problem? Stef -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null begin:vcard n:Stevenson;John x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:Valtech Ltd adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Technical Consultant / Trainer x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:John Stevenson end:vcard
Re: XWindows Error
One of the quickest ways I know is to go to dselect and search for the packages: xf86setup xserver-vga16 xserver-svga Install these packages and any packages they depend upon. Once installed, as root use the following command to set up X: XF86Setup This will launch the vga server, which is a basic server that should work on any hardware. Go through the option tabs at the top and choose the right settings for your hardware. When you get to the card database, select the card description that matches you graphics card. If the correct driver for that card is not installed, it will warn you and tell you which driver it needs. If the driver is there, then you get no warning and you can save and run X again (startx). If not there, exit the program and install the driver (using dselect). This should get X going for you (if you know what hardware you have), but you will also need to have a window manager. These are some names of window managers: enlightenment wmaker sawmill blackbox icewm and loads of others, which you can probably find in the same section in dselect. Try experimenting!!! Using dselect is a lot easier for dealing with dependancies than apt-get (which only tells you one problem at a time). Hope this is the level of detail you need!!! Johnny. Dan Hutchinson wrote: Hello Debian Users, I am a newbie to Linux and I loaded a workstation with Debian Linux - Potato recently. When I try to start Xwindows with the startx command I get the following error xinit: No such file or directory (errno2); no server X in PATH Use the -- option, or make sure that /usr/X11R6/bin is in your path and that X is a program or a link to the right type of server for your display. Possible server names include: XF86_SVGA SVGA color display on i386 PC XF86_Mono monochrome display on i386 PC . . . _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 giving up. xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. My first question is how can I check that I have all the software to run XWindows? Second, how do you use apt-get to get debian packages if I need more. I am using a Micron Pentium 200 with a Stealth Pro 2000 video card. Dan ___ To get your own FREE ZDNet Onebox - FREE voicemail, email, and fax, all in one place - sign up today at http://www.zdnetonebox.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null begin:vcard n:Stevenson;John x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:Valtech Ltd adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Technical Consultant / Trainer x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:John Stevenson end:vcard
Re: DHCP
Perhaps you are using pump as the dhcp client, therefore you could probably try: pump eth0 or just: pump Hope this helps. Johnny. Chris Mason wrote: On a Linux box, just run dhcpc eth0, I get command not found when I try that. On 01-Apr-2000 Chris Mason wrote: How do I force the machine to renew it's DHCP IP allocation? I've changed parameters on the DHCP server and I want the machine to reflect those changes. begin:vcard n:Stevenson;John x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:Valtech Ltd adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Technical Consultant / Trainer x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:John Stevenson end:vcard
Re: Stock kernel config info?
You will fine the file at: /boot/config-x.x.x where the x is a value of your kernel release. Johnny Terry Hancock wrote: Is it possible to determine what the configuration settings were for the stock kernels that Debian packages? I need to recompile the kernel (1st time), and I would like to change as little as possible, since the stock kernel is working well for the most part. (I just need to enable ide-scsi module support for a CD-RW install). Also, it appears that you cannot simply compile the modules and install on the existing kernel binary (I tried this and got a bunch of error messages at start-up, and lots of stuff stopped working, including my parallel port). I am surprised by this, expecting that the modules would operate more independently, but I suppose not? Please CC direct to me, as I am only on this list intermittently. Thanks, -- Terry Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null begin:vcard n:Stevenson;John x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:Valtech Ltd adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Technical Consultant / Trainer x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:John Stevenson end:vcard
running gmc remotely
Hello, I have a problem using gmc when I have telnet'ed to another machine. I have two potato (frozen) systems, a laptop and a desktop I run X on the laptop and allow connections for X apps using the 'xhost +desktopname' command. I then open a telnet session from the laptop to the desktop. In this telnet session I issue the command 'gmc' to run the gnome midnight commander. This runs fine, except that it gives me the file system of the laptop, not the file system of the desktop that I am telnet'ed in to. Does anyone know why this happens and more importantly how to change it so that I can see the desktops filesystem remotely!! I am running gnome-session to control X and the window manager, so I assume that this might have something to do with it. I cannot find any documention that discusses this issue. Any help is appreciated. Johnny. begin:vcard n:Stevenson;John x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:Valtech Ltd adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Technical Consultant / Trainer x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:John Stevenson end:vcard
local debian mirror subnets
Hello, I have a very strange problem regarding a local mirror of debian and subnets. We have two subnets: x.x.1.x Laptops x.x.3.x Servers We have set up a local mirror of debian on a machine on the server subnet. This can be ftp'd to and telnet'ed by a user and anonymous ftp. However, when we try and use dselect or apt-get to install new packages (or check for updated files) then the process stalls (i.e. like when trying to recieve lists). Here is an excerpt from dselect update packages.. Get:1 ftp://proxy frozen/main Packages [837kB] Err ftp://proxy frozen/main Packages Read error - read (104 Connection reset by peer) Get:2 ftp://proxy frozen/main Release [93B] 0% [2 frozen/main 0/93B 0%] Now, okay it could be a problem with the subnet or routing, but then how come we can ftp and telnet and ping to the server??? It could have been a problem with the mirror of debian, but then we put the machine on to the same subnet as the laptops and everything worked with dselect and apt-get. Does anyone have any idea why dselect or apt wont work accross a subnet when everyting else (especially ftp) does??? I am really stumped here!!! Johnny. begin:vcard n:Stevenson;John x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:Valtech Ltd adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Technical Consultant / Trainer x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:John Stevenson end:vcard
Re: xwindows
This is of course assuming that you have installed the window maker package (wmaker). If you install a window manage (such as window maker) it should add itself to the alternatives in /etc, but I am no expert on that Johnny. C. Folstrom wrote: On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 10:11:01PM -0800, Beavis wrote: i have been playing with the xf86config but can't seem to get everything to work the best i can do is get to a grey scrren with an x in the middle. You need to add a line in ~/.xinitrc as follows: exec wmaker This would run Windowmaker when X starts up. The principal holds for other window managers. Curt -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null begin:vcard n:Stevenson;John x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:Valtech Ltd adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Technical Consultant / Trainer x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:John Stevenson end:vcard
Re: dselect
It seem that you have not pointed dselect (apt) to a more up-to-date distribution. As root, try running the apt-setup command and select a complete mirror. Then run dselect and chose the update option to get a new list of packages from the chosen source. Once the packages are updated, you are returned to the main menu and you can then enter the selection menu and have significantly more packages to choose from Hope this helps. Johnny. FreeMan wrote: I think my list isn't as long as you think. There are just 7 pages - that's all and I just can't find Samba. As I already told, it seems to there are only packages displaied, which are already installed. I already tried the search function but after typing in samba, I just hear a short beep and the cursor jumps back to the begining of the list. What do I have to do, to see all available packages? begin:vcard n:Stevenson;John x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:Valtech Ltd adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Technical Consultant / Trainer x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:John Stevenson end:vcard
dhcp webserver
I have a laptop running dhcp (pump) which successfully gets its IP address from our dhcp server. The problem is, how do I then get other people on the same internal network to attach to the web server running on that laptop?? Obviously there needs to be some name resolving to get the correct IP address of my laptop, but how is this best achieved?? I have had a brief read through the net-3 and net-4 howto's but have not seen anything relevant. Can anyone give me any pointers on this subject (or even some answers). Thanks, Johnny. begin:vcard n:Stevenson;John x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:Valtech Ltd adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Technical Consultant / Trainer x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:John Stevenson end:vcard
Re: C:\CoolProgs\Pretty Park.exe
Apparently it is someones attempt at a virus (or something as undesirable). Our mail client didnt like it and removed it as an attachemet. Johnny. Ron Rademaker wrote: What is this about??/ On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Arne wrote: Test: Pretty Park.exe :) Arne -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null begin:vcard n:Stevenson;John x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:Valtech Ltd adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Technical Consultant / Trainer x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:John Stevenson end:vcard
Re: New Mozilla (M14-1) causes seg fault
Have you tried moving your orignial ~/.mozilla folder. It may have config settings that the new version of mozilla doesnt like... Johnny Bryan K. Walton wrote: Hi everyone, This morning I performed my daily distribution upgrade on frozen, and to my delight, my Mozilla was upgraded from M13 to M14! BUT WAIT! . . . I can't get Mozilla to start. When I run it, this is what I get from the shell startup: $ mozilla Profile Manager : Profile Wizard and Manager activites : Begin Profile Manager : Command Line Options : Begin Profile Manager : Command Line Options : End ProfileManager : GetProfileDir ProfileManager : GetProfileDir Profile Manager : Profile Wizard and Manager activites : End Segmentation fault --Any ideas? Thanks, Bryan Walton -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null begin:vcard n:Stevenson;John x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:Valtech Ltd adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Technical Consultant / Trainer x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:John Stevenson end:vcard
Re: dselect: failed to getch in main menu: Success
There is a problem with dpkg_1.6.10 which gives this error. Please downgrade the dpkg file to dpkg_1.6.9. I assume that you have just done an upgrade to the new package and this broke dselect. dpkg itself still works, so you just need the file and use: dpkg -i packagename.deb Then when dselect is working go to the selection menu and put dpkg on hold for now. Johnny. Jaume Teixi wrote: Any dselect menu crashes with that msg !! please hlp :) begin:vcard n:Stevenson;John x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:Valtech Ltd adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Technical Consultant / Trainer x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:John Stevenson end:vcard
Re: Maestro sound driver
I dont know if this really helps, but I have a Dell Latitude wich also has the ESS Maestro sound chip. I installed using the latest potato boot floppys, selected Maestro module along with the 3 OSS modules and everything worked just fine. I had a couple of hangs due to the sound card, but I think this was due to some apps not working in tandem with esound. I didnt need to add or change anything in the defaults of debian potato. John. Dan Pomohaci wrote: Hello I have Micron TransPort Trek 2. I installed potato with the kernel 2.2.12 and everithing is OK except sound. My laptop have ESS Maestro ES1968 sound chip. I read laptop-howto, sound-howto. I tried to install the driver maestro from: http://people.redhat.com/zab/maestro compilation process was OK but when I tried to insmod computer hung. I tried also the the kernel 2.2.14 which have maestro builted in but it doesn't work. If somebody have a solution please help me. Dan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lock file Debs over NFS
I believe that you are not supposed to delete the lock file. I had this problem at first when I had a shared debs directory between the machines on my local network. I also had a problem with the lock file being on the nfs mounted system and got round the problem by linking it to a lock file on the real file system. Hope this helps... John. Brendon Baumgartner wrote: I can't get access to my debs on my desktop over the network. This lock file is getting in my way! Okay my laptop hostname is debian (just installed) and my desktop is viper. For some reason when I do apt-get dist-upgrade, a lock file is created and it won't delete it and complete the command. Also, my archive cache directory has been changed to /mnt/debs on both machines. It works fine on my desktop, but the laptop which accesses the debs via nfs doesn't like it. Any ideas? debian:/mnt/debs# rm lock debian:/mnt/debs# apt-get dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: perl-base 39 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. E: Could not get lock /mnt/debs/lock - open (13 Permission denied) E: Unable to lock the download directory
Re: JDK 1.2 debs for slink?
As far as I know there are no jdk1.2 debs for any debian distribution.. Using the jdk1.2 from blackdown is what most people do (www.blackdown.org). There are two versions availble differing on glibc. Get version 2.0 for slink. John. Rick Macdonald wrote: Are there JDK 1.2 debs for slink available? Preferably with native threads. ...RickM... -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Gnumeric fonts missing
Hello all, I have come across a problem with gnumeric, when I run it I get the following error: ~$ gnumeric Gnumeric failed to find a suitable default font. Please verify your gnome-print installation and that your fontmap file (typically located in /usr/local/share/fonts/fontmap) is not empty or near empty. If you still have no luck, please file a proper bug report (see http://bugs.gnome.org) including the following extra items: 1. Values of LC_ALL and LANG environment variables. 2. Your fontmap file, see above. Thanks -- the Gnumeric Team I have checked the path to the fonts and it does not exist. Am I missing a package ?? I havent over-ridden any dependancies and I usually select things that are suggested. Any suggestions to fix this problem ??? John.
Re: Gnome panel and Enlightenment
I have taken a giant leap of faith and gone back to using gnome-session. In the earlier days of gnome, this used to cause load of interesting effects to happen, but now everything seems to work just fine. Try the following in your .xsession file (and dump your .xinitrc file) exec gnome-session Thats it !! This command will run the default window manager for you (so dont include a line for enlightenment), as well as all the gnome stuff you want. You will have to run them the first time so they are included in the session though. Gnome session will also remember the state you leave your (gnome) applications in when you log out, so they will be there when you come back (log back in). Hope this helps, John. Pedro Sanchez wrote: I did what you suggested but it doesn't work across X sessions (I mean login out and in again) for the gnome-panel which I'm calling from my .xsession file. The suggestion by alisdair works fine though. Thank you, -- Pedro Harlan Crystal wrote: I've never used gnome panel, but I use enlightenment all the time. To make a window in enlightenment show up on all desktops, make it stick. To make a window stick, hold down alt and right click on the window (the panel) and a menu will pop up from which you can choose stick. if you want enlightenment to always make this window sticky, alt-right-click it again and go to remember and tell it to remember that setting. - Harlan Crystal -Original Message- From: Pedro Sanchez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 1999 9:16 AM To: debian-user Subject: Gnome panel and Enlightenment Hello, I have two virtual desktops defined in enlightenment but when I launch the gnome panel it only shows up on one of them. How do I get the panel to show up in every virtual desktop? I'm running the latest from potato. Thank you, -- Pedro -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: stopping x from starting automatically
Hello, I am not a developer or expert on policy, but as far as I know the intent of xdm is to start linux up X rather than on the terminal. Now as debians default init level is 2, it seems natural to me to make the appropriate links for xdm in that init level (otherwise it would seem to the uninitiate that xdm was not working). IMHO, if you dont want X to start up on boot, then why do you want to install xdm?? If it is not installed, it doesnt make the links John. Adam C Powell IV wrote: Brian Servis wrote: *- On 12 Nov, Adam C Powell IV wrote about Re: stopping x from starting automatically Is there some reason xdm and gdm are linked from /etc/rc.2 and /etc/rc.3? I thought only runlevel 5 was supposed to start X by default. I remove these links myself, but it seems like making this default would be real easy, and would make Debian that much more standard.
Re: Upgrade from slink to potato causes things to stop working
Hello, Did you install a new kernel when you upgraded to potato?? If so, did you install from sources or from a kernel image? I updated from slink to potato on my laptop at the weekend and had no real problems with the upgrade. However, I did make sure that I had all the packages I needed in order to recompile my own kernel, especially the pcmcia module source package. It sounds like some of the other problems you are having may be due to an unsuitable kernel. Bart Szyszka wrote: Hi, I'm having major problems upgrading from slink to potato (stable to unstable apt sources). After one of the packages is being setup, I get a whole list of stuff like this: depmod: /lib/modules/2.0.36/pcmcia SOMETHING.o is not owned by root Then after something related to PCMCIA gets installed, I get a shorter list of maybe eight /dev/tty* stuff not working with one of those being my mouse. What's going on? I've upgraded from slink to potato before without problems and with these last three times it's impossible. Now my network card, support for mounting vfat systems, and a lot of other things (again, the /dev/tty part where my mouse is) get disabled in the process. I *need* that network card because I have to have it for my Road Runner cable connection. This is incredibly frustrating because I've posted a message about this depmod... stuff a few days ago and didn't get any responses. I've said this before and I'll say it again: on the Red Hat mailing lists, as far as I could tell, *every* message gets at least one response. Here several posts get skipped over every day. How can you actually tell this?? Considering the ammount of traffic on the debian mailing list(s), it is impossible to see if all emails are answered (never mind if they are answered usefully), unless of course you have days of spare time on your hands. Does Red Hat have so very little traffic on their maling lists ?? Again, I haven't had problems with upgrading until the last three times that I tried it in the past week or so. Before that, the last time I had installed Debian was at least a month away from now. Probably closer to two months. I have upgraded 3 machines (all different hardware configs) from slink (various different levels of package installs) and have had very few problems. The only thing I had was a mild problem installing cron, as it detected a cron process still running that it could not kill. After killing this process cron (and all other dependancies) installed fine. If you keep on having problems, make a backup of your data, install a minimum slink from scratch (using the part of dinstall that asks you what kind of set up you require, I selected basic). Once this has installed, point apt (sources.list) at a suitable potato mirror and do: apt-get upgrade apt-get dist-upgrade Then install any other stuff that you need. Hope this helps Johnny.
Setting Up ProFtp Server
Hello, I am trying to set up an ftp server to hold some non-free debian suff I dont have no cd. I am using proftpd and am able to ftp to the machine, but I cannot see any files or directories. I have read the docs for proftpd and only found info on how to hide directories (but they are already hidden without including these directives.) I have attached a copy of the proftpd.conf file incase I have missed something obvious... Anyone have any clues... John.# This is a basic ProFTPD configuration file (rename it to # 'proftpd.conf' for actual use. It establishes a single server # and a single anonymous login. It assumes that you have a user/group # nobody and ftp for normal operation and anon. ServerName ProFTPD ServerType standalone DeferWelcomeoff ShowSymlinkson DefaultServer on # Port 21 is the standard FTP port. Port21 # Umask 022 is a good standard umask to prevent new dirs and files # from being group and world writable. Umask 022 # Set the user and group that the server normally runs at. Userftp Group nogroup # A basic anonymous configuration, no upload directories. Anonymous ~ftp User ftp Group nogroup # We want clients to be able to login with anonymous as well as ftp UserAlias anonymous ftp RequireValidShell off ## # Limit the maximum number of anonymous logins MaxClients10 # We want 'welcome.msg' displayed at login, and '.message' displayed # in each newly chdired directory. # DisplayLoginwelcome.msg # DisplayFirstChdir.message # Limit WRITE everywhere in the anonymous chroot # Directory * Limit WRITE DenyAll /Limit # /Directory /Anonymous begin:vcard n:Stevenson;John tel;fax:+31 20 34 22 820 tel;work:+31 20 34 22 820 x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:www.oa.nl org:OA Europe version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Technical Consultant adr;quoted-printable:;;Objective Alliance=0D=0AHoghilweg 14L;Amsterdam;Zoud Oust;1101 CD;Nederlands x-mozilla-cpt:;-11328 fn:John Stevenson end:vcard
Re: the ~ files
If you want a little bit of safety you can alway add this to your .bashrc (or what ever shell profile you source) alias rm='rm -i' This will ask you to confirm your deletions, so long as you do not use the -f option. The -f option will just do it no matter how your shell is set up. I guess you could try aliasing rm -f but I dont know if that is possilbe or feasable. John. Michael Beattie wrote: [snip] Using wildcards can dangerous when used with the rm command. From experience, I know it is all too easy to type rm -rf * ~ instead of rm -rf *~ I get jittery even thinking about typing that in email Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key available, reply with pgpkey as subject. - Windows: the world's first commercially successful virus! - Debian GNU/Linux Ooohh You are missing out! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/nullbegin:vcard n:Stevenson;John tel;fax:+31 20 34 22 820 tel;work:+31 20 34 22 820 x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:www.oa.nl org:OA Europe version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Technical Consultant adr;quoted-printable:;;Objective Alliance=0D=0AHoghilweg 14L;Amsterdam;Zoud Oust;1101 CD;Nederlands x-mozilla-cpt:;-11328 fn:John Stevenson end:vcard
Re: Xauth, how to get rid of it?
There is a nice little command called xhost which allows you to specifiy from which machines users are allowed to run X applications. So this alters the Magic Cookie stuff. If you type: xhost +mymachine where mymachine is the hostname of the computer you are currently typing at, then no matter what user you su to, then you are able to run X applications. I do this when I want to install applications when they have X installs. First I login as username then run startx and work as normal. If I want to run an X applicaton as another user, say root to install a non-debianised X app, then I would type the above command first then su to root. I can now run all the X apps I so desire. I also use this mechanism to read my email stored on another machine, using netscape as my mail reader. I type: xhost +othermachinename rlogin othermachinename export DISPLAY=mymachine:0.0 netscape -mail In order, this allows me to run and X application from another machine using xhost. Then I login to the other machine. Then tell the othermachine to put the X applications display on mymachine so I can control it. Then I run my X application. A word of warning though, if you do xhost + then you are allowing anyone to run an X app on your machine, which may be not what you desire. Hope this all helps. Pollywog wrote: On 07-Apr-99 Richard Harran wrote: Do you mean that you are trying to start a second X session while the first is still running, or are you having difficulty starting for a second time having exited the first session? If it is the first (and you get an error like: server is already active for display :0, or something) you can fix it with startx -- :1 to start the second X server on display 1. This will probably associate it with ctrlaltF8. If it is the second, I think you have a problem (X not exiting properly?) 'cos I don't think that should happen. I get those annoying MAGIC COOKIE warnings when I su from a regular user and this even happens when I use vim after 'su'. I am still able to edit stuff, and the only problem is when I need to run some X program as superuser. I saw somewhere how to deal with this Xauth stuff, but I don't remember where. -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/nullbegin:vcard n:Stevenson;John tel;fax:+31 20 34 22 820 tel;work:+31 20 34 22 820 x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:www.oa.nl org:OA Europe version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Technical Consultant adr;quoted-printable:;;Objective Alliance=0D=0AHoghilweg 14L;Amsterdam;Zoud Oust;1101 CD;Nederlands x-mozilla-cpt:;-11328 fn:John Stevenson end:vcard
apache proxy configuration on slink
Hello Debian land, Does anyone know where I should put the configuration directives, in order to switch on proxy caching. I am following the guidelines in the O'Riely book on apache, and it says to place the directives in a file called .../site.proxy This file I created as /etc/apache/site.proxy The file contains the following directives: User www-data Group www-data ServerName draal.oa.nl AccessConfig /dev/null ResourceConfig /dev/null Port 8000 ProxyRequests on CacheRoot /var/www/site.proxy/cache CacheSize 1 CacheDirLevels 3 CacheDirLength 2 I have re-started apache and even re-booted the machine, so if apache was going to read this file it would have. I have a feeling thought that this information should go into one of the other config files in /etc/apache/ Anyone have any clues..? Thanks, John.begin:vcard n:Stevenson;John tel;fax:+31 20 34 22 820 tel;work:+31 20 34 22 820 x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:www.oa.nl org:OA Europe version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Technical Consultant adr;quoted-printable:;;Objective Alliance=0D=0AHoghilweg 14L;Amsterdam;Zoud Oust;1101 CD;Nederlands x-mozilla-cpt:;-11328 fn:John Stevenson end:vcard
Re: HP Web JetAdmin
I got HP Web JetAdmin to work okay on my Hamm distribution, after making a few sym-links to make up for the differences in filespace layout. However, I tried it again with slink and it refuses connection. I wonder if there are some access permissions that changed default from the two distros'. Either that or I changed something on Hamm that I didnt replicate on slink (slink was a clean install). If anyone gets this going I would like to hear about it, also if they can actually print successfuly using linux to a HP printer with a direct ethernet connection. John. Kevin Cheek wrote: I was wondering if it is possible to get the HP Web JetAdmin software working with debian. I tried running the installer, but it seems to depend on the layout of a Redhat system in order to work correctly (the hp web page specifically mentions Redhat). I got several errors while running the installer. It seemed to want touch to be in /bin (it's in /usr/bin on my slink system) and it wanted to use init scripts in /etc/rc.d/init.d (as opposed to /etc/init.d). I worked around the 'touch' problem, installed the software in /usr/local/hpwebjet and told it to use port 8010. The hpwebjetd daemon seemed to be running after running the installation script, but I was unable to connect to it using a web browser.begin:vcard n:Stevenson;John tel;fax:+31 20 34 22 820 tel;work:+31 20 34 22 820 x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:www.oa.nl org:OA Europe version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Technical Consultant adr;quoted-printable:;;Objective Alliance=0D=0AHoghilweg 14L;Amsterdam;Zoud Oust;1101 CD;Nederlands x-mozilla-cpt:;-11328 fn:John Stevenson end:vcard
Re: linuxconf
Last I heard about linuxconf was that it had a negative affect, as it does not follow the debian file structure properly. I guess that if the debs are in experimental then you should not install them on a machine that you arent prepared to trash. John. Oliver Thuns wrote: Hi! Does anyone use linuxconf with slink? Is it save to install linuxconf and use linuxconf? (I found a deb in ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/project/experimental/) Oliver -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/nullbegin:vcard n:Stevenson;John tel;fax:+31 20 34 22 820 tel;work:+31 20 34 22 820 x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:www.oa.nl org:OA Europe version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Technical Consultant adr;quoted-printable:;;Objective Alliance=0D=0AHoghilweg 14L;Amsterdam;Zoud Oust;1101 CD;Nederlands x-mozilla-cpt:;-11328 fn:John Stevenson end:vcard
Re: Multiple gnome-panels are started by gnome-session and other problems
I have the same 'feature' running slink with the slink-staging-area gnome debs (these few do work quite nicely actually). In order to avoid the problem, I always log out of the gnome pannel before exiting from the window manager. It would be nice if there was a more elegant way around this though. John. Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: Hi, I've been playing with gnome stuff in my debian box. I upgraded it to potato, to have to most recent things, as the ones in slink don't work very well. Well, it looks like every time I exit gnome (log out), the session records the very gnome-panel as an application to be started when the gnome-session begins, so the second time I log in, there will be 2 panels, the third time three panels etc. Worse, I can't close any of those panels... Another problem is that if I choose the lockscreen from the panel, a screensaver is started, but it's not password protected. Any clues? -- Luiz Otavio L. ZorzellaComputer Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/nullbegin:vcard n:Stevenson;John tel;fax:+31 20 34 22 820 tel;work:+31 20 34 22 820 x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:www.oa.nl org:OA Europe version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Technical Consultant adr;quoted-printable:;;Objective Alliance=0D=0AHoghilweg 14L;Amsterdam;Zoud Oust;1101 CD;Nederlands x-mozilla-cpt:;-11328 fn:John Stevenson end:vcard
Re: Weird behavior with GNOME - Solved my own weird problem..
I get the same problems with gnome. I have also got an even weirder problem that I dont even know how to report. I had been running Enlightenment 0.15 with some of the gnome apps from www.debian.org/~jim/debian-gtk-gnome/gnome-stage-slink unstable main Everything was working fine, although as below the gnome session took about 30 - 45 seconds to start up. But gmc worked very nicely along with the panel and a few other applets. Then I tried it out as root (dont know why) and all was working until it crashed swithching from X to the virtual terminal and back. I think this is a seperate bug due to the psaux mouse on my Dell Laptop (Pentium II 233, 80Mb, 64MB Swap). After this crash I am unable to run a gnome session as a normal user (i.e. anyone but root). I get an error complaining about permission denied for /tmp/orbit-username where username is the name of the user I ran X as. I have checked the permissions of /tmp and they seem to have changed group to sys, my other slink install (without gnome upgrades) is root group for /tmp. I also get a segmentation fault from when I try and run Eterm, which worked okay before the crash. Eterm works for root when running X though. I guess there must be something wrong with permission setting, but I definately didnt change anything myself. Should this be reported as a bug? If so, against which package?? SOLVED PROBLEM: I managed to change back the permissions on the /tmp directory and surprisingly enough things start to work agian, Nice. I do wonder what screwed /tmp up in the first place though. Everything seems to be working again, but I still have the errors mentioned below. I guess it is just life on the bleeding edge. John. William R Pentney wrote: My GNOME 1.0 runs all right, except that it takes an unusually long time to load, and the Control Center/Midnight Commander panels are slow to load. I thought little of this, until I noticed several recurring lines on my xconsole, including: Priority 50: Registering ID = ... Unable to connect to server port 35091 sometimes repeated several times GnomeUI-WARNING **: Could not open help topics file NULL Methinks I left something out of my installation, and GNOME is not performing as it might. Might I be missing a package? I don't think I have all of the GNOME help system. Thanks - Bill -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/nullbegin:vcard n:Stevenson;John tel;fax:+31 20 34 22 820 tel;work:+31 20 34 22 820 x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:www.oa.nl org:OA Europe version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Technical Consultant adr;quoted-printable:;;Objective Alliance=0D=0AHoghilweg 14L;Amsterdam;Zoud Oust;1101 CD;Nederlands x-mozilla-cpt:;-11328 fn:John Stevenson end:vcard
Slink Install: Kernel Unpacking Sound Problems
Hello, I have to problems that I think may be related. 1) I installed slink from scratch on a Dell Laptop (which worked using hamm) and selected the source for kernel 2.0.36. When I went to the /usr/src directory, I fount the tar file had not been extracted and therefore there was no linux symbolic link to the extracted tarball. This suggests that there is a bug in kernel_package somewhere, as this happened twice. I extracted the tarball and created the linux link to it (now this is where I may have missed some steps out in setting up all the neccessary links) I then when through the make menuconfig (loading a config file I had used for hamm to get the sound working as the defaults dont work for my laptop). I checked everything was still okay and when through the make-kpkg stuff, make modules, make modules_install. Everything works fine, or seems to from the boot messages, but this brings me onto problem two: 2) Sound does not work (even though it says so at boot up). From looking round the filespace, none of the sound directories in /dev seem to exist, which explains why sound wont work. Is there anything I can do except try install the whole thing again?? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, John.begin:vcard n:Stevenson;John tel;fax:+31 20 34 22 820 tel;work:+31 20 34 22 820 x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:www.oa.nl org:OA Europe version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Technical Consultant adr;quoted-printable:;;Objective Alliance=0D=0AHoghilweg 14L;Amsterdam;Zoud Oust;1101 CD;Nederlands x-mozilla-cpt:;-11328 fn:John Stevenson end:vcard
Backing up a Linux Machine (and NT)
Hello, How do I back up our linux server (Debian slink) using a HP SureStore DAT8 tape drive. The Dat Drive is an external box attached to the linux server via an adapted scsi card. This is probably a simple questiong to answer, but I cant find the right info. Which packages should I use to backup the server, so that it can be left to automatically backup selected files overnight. It would be nice to also access a winNT machine to backup about 20Meg of files, from the same linux server. Any ideas how this could be done? I had thought about NFS, but was told by our windoze 'expert' that winNT did not have NFS by default !!! Any advice would be helpful, as I cant find any HOWTO's that talk about these issues. Thanks, John.
smb and 95
Hello,
I am having problems installing printers on win95 machines. I
am using a linux server running debian slink and have been able
to set up clients running windows98 to use the linux printer,
but windows 95 refuse to acknoledge that the server even exists.
Attached is my smb.conf file.;
; /etc/smb.conf
;
; Sample configuration file for the Samba suite for Debian GNU/Linux
;
; Please see the manual page for smb.conf for detailed description of
; every parameter.
;
[global]
printing = bsd
printcap name = /etc/printcap
load printers = yes
guest account = nobody
invalid users = root
; security = user is always a good idea. This will require a Unix account
; in this server for every user accessing the server.
; security = user
; Change this for the workgroup your Samba server will part of
workgroup = OA.NL
server string = %h server (Samba %v)
; This socket options really speed up Samba under Linux, according to my
; own tests.
socket options = IPTOS_LOWDELAY TCP_NODELAY SO_SNDBUF=4096 SO_RCVBUF=4096
; Passwords are encrypted by default. This way the latest Windows 95 and NT
; clients can connect to the Samba server with no problems.
encrypt passwords = yes
; It's always a good idea to use a WINS server. If you want this server
; to be the WINS server for your network change the following parameter
; to yes. Otherwise leave it as no and specify your WINS server
; below (note: only one Samba server can be the WINS server).
; Read BROWSING.txt for more details.
wins support = no
; If this server is not the WINS server then specify who is it and uncomment
; next line.
wins server = 172.16.1.10
; Please read BROWSING.txt and set the next four parameters according
; to your network setup. There is no valid default so they are commented
; out.
; os level = 0
; domain master = no
; local master = no
; preferred master = no
; What naming service and in what order should we use to resolve host names
; to IP addresses
name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast
; This will prevent nmbd to search for NetBIOS names through DNS.
dns proxy = no
; Name mangling options
preserve case = yes
short preserve case = yes
; This boolean parameter controlls whether Samba attempts to sync. the Unix
; password with the SMB password when the encrypted SMB password in the
; /etc/smbpasswd file is changed.
unix password sync = false
; For Unix password sync. to work on a Debian GNU/Linux system, the following
; parameters must be set (thanks to Culus for pointing this out):
passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
passwd chat = *New\spassword:* %n\n *Re-enter\snew\spassword:* %n\n
*Password\schanged.* .
; The following parameter is useful only if you have the linpopup package
; installed. The samba maintainer and the linpopup maintainer are
; working to ease installation and configuration of linpopup and samba.
; message command = /bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/linpopup %f %m %s; rm %s'
; The default maximum log file size is 5 MBytes. That's too big so this
; next parameter sets it to 1 MByte. Currently, Samba rotates log
; files (/var/log/{smb,nmb} in Debian) when these files reach 1000 KBytes.
; A better solution would be to have Samba rotate the log file upon
; reception of a signal, but for now on, we have to live with this.
max log size = 1000
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
browseable = no
; By default, the home directories are exported read only. Change next
; parameter to no if you want to be able to write to them.
read only = no
; File creation mask is set to 0700 for security reasons. If you want to
; create files with group=rw permissions, set next parameter to 0775.
create mask = 0775
; Directory creation mask is set to 0700 for security reasons. If you want to
; create dirs. with group=rw permissions, set next parameter to 0775.
directory mask = 0775
[printers]
comment = All Printers
browseable = yes
path = /tmp
printable = yes
public = yes
writable = yes
create mode = 0700
; A sample share for sharing your CD-ROM with others.
;[cdrom]
; comment = Samba server's CD-ROM
; writable = no
; locking = no
; path = /cdrom
; public = yes
;
; The next two parameters show how to auto-mount a CD-ROM when the
; cdrom share is accesed. For this to work /etc/fstab must contain
; an entry like this:
;
; /dev/scd0 /cdrom iso9660 defaults,noauto,ro,user 0 0
;
; The CD-ROM gets unmounted automatically after the connection to the
;
; If you don't want to use auto-mounting/unmounting make sure the CD
; is mounted on /cdrom
;
; preexec = /bin/mount /cdrom
; postexec = /bin/umount /cdrom
Re: smb and 95
To add to the mistery, I have one win95 machine that works just
fine with two linux samba servers, but I have three win95
machines that refuse to connect, stating that the share name is
incorrect.
Anyone have any clues ??
The users now all have accounts on the linux server and I have
used all three levels of access (server, user and share) but
have not had any luck. I am assuming it is something obscure
with the win95 machines, but in the system description they are
all using the exact same version of win95 (4.00.950 B) which is
the osr2 release I believe.
I read through the samba docs and applied the plain password
registration file on one of the non-working win95 boxes, but
that did not help either.
I have tried a number of different uses, but they all act in the
same way.
I really have no clue what is going on, and assume that it is
something wacky with windoze, maybe to do with regional
software, some is English(British) and some is
English(International). But I am only guessing
Last resort is to upgrade the machines to win98, which seems to
work just fine on six machines that I have tried with the samba
servers.
Hope some one can help,
John
John Stevenson wrote:
Hello,
I am having problems installing printers on win95 machines. I
am using a linux server running debian slink and have been able
to set up clients running windows98 to use the linux printer,
but windows 95 refuse to acknoledge that the server even exists.
Attached is my smb.conf file.
;
; /etc/smb.conf
;
; Sample configuration file for the Samba suite for Debian GNU/Linux
;
; Please see the manual page for smb.conf for detailed description of
; every parameter.
;
[global]
printing = bsd
printcap name = /etc/printcap
load printers = yes
guest account = nobody
invalid users = root
; security = user is always a good idea. This will require a Unix account
; in this server for every user accessing the server.
; security = user
; Change this for the workgroup your Samba server will part of
workgroup = OA.NL
server string = %h server (Samba %v)
; This socket options really speed up Samba under Linux, according to my
; own tests.
socket options = IPTOS_LOWDELAY TCP_NODELAY SO_SNDBUF=4096 SO_RCVBUF=4096
; Passwords are encrypted by default. This way the latest Windows 95 and NT
; clients can connect to the Samba server with no problems.
encrypt passwords = yes
; It's always a good idea to use a WINS server. If you want this server
; to be the WINS server for your network change the following parameter
; to yes. Otherwise leave it as no and specify your WINS server
; below (note: only one Samba server can be the WINS server).
; Read BROWSING.txt for more details.
wins support = no
; If this server is not the WINS server then specify who is it and uncomment
; next line.
wins server = 172.16.1.10
; Please read BROWSING.txt and set the next four parameters according
; to your network setup. There is no valid default so they are commented
; out.
; os level = 0
; domain master = no
; local master = no
; preferred master = no
; What naming service and in what order should we use to resolve host names
; to IP addresses
name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast
; This will prevent nmbd to search for NetBIOS names through DNS.
dns proxy = no
; Name mangling options
preserve case = yes
short preserve case = yes
; This boolean parameter controlls whether Samba attempts to sync. the Unix
; password with the SMB password when the encrypted SMB password in the
; /etc/smbpasswd file is changed.
unix password sync = false
; For Unix password sync. to work on a Debian GNU/Linux system, the following
; parameters must be set (thanks to Culus for pointing this out):
passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
passwd chat = *New\spassword:* %n\n *Re-enter\snew\spassword:* %n\n
*Password\schanged.* .
; The following parameter is useful only if you have the linpopup package
; installed. The samba maintainer and the linpopup maintainer are
; working to ease installation and configuration of linpopup and samba.
; message command = /bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/linpopup %f %m %s; rm %s'
; The default maximum log file size is 5 MBytes. That's too big so this
; next parameter sets it to 1 MByte. Currently, Samba rotates log
; files (/var/log/{smb,nmb} in Debian) when these files reach 1000 KBytes.
; A better solution would be to have Samba rotate the log file upon
; reception of a signal, but for now on, we have to live with this.
max log size = 1000
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
browseable = no
; By default, the home directories are exported read only. Change next
; parameter
Re: smb and 95
To answer my own problem, it was a windoze config problem. We found a win98 doing the same thing and discovered that the subnet mask was incorrect on some of the client machines, doh. What a pain... John John Stevenson wrote: To add to the mistery, I have one win95 machine that works just fine with two linux samba servers, but I have three win95 machines that refuse to connect, stating that the share name is incorrect. Anyone have any clues ??
Remote Unix printer - Permissions
Hello, I am running a linux print server that is working very nicely with win95 clients (using samba) but am having trouble connecting to the printer from linux clients. I have read the printing howto (see snippet below) and it refers to the /etc/hosts.lpd file, but I have know idea what the structure of this file is supposed to be. I have tried this from debian and from the red hat printing tool, both configs are refused permission. So I assume that I need to enter details about which computers can print in the remote hosts /etc/hosts.lpd config file. Anyone have any examples of this file. Thanks in advance. John. Printing HOWTO snippet: To allow remote machines to print to your printer, you must list the machines in /etc/hosts.equiv or /etc/hosts.lpd. (Note that hosts.equiv has a host of other effects; be sure you know what you are doing if you list any machine there). You can allow only certain users on the other machines to print to your printer by usign the rs attribute; read the lpd man page for information on this.
Re: remote printing permissions [solved]
To solve my problem of remote printing, it was very simple (once I found out what I was doing). Edit the /etc/lpd.perms so that it allows remote print job requests: Find these following lines in the file: # reject remote prints from arbitrary hosts REJECT SERVICE=XRPQ NOT SERVER Replace them with the following lines: # accept remote prints from arbitrary hosts ACCEPT SERVICE=XRPQ NOT SERVER Most importantly of all you need to re-run the printer spooler. If you have lprng installed (instead of lpr) then you have to do the following: /etc/init.d/lprng restart You may also have to do: /etc/init.d/lpd restart and then everything should be working... It is not needed to edit /etc/hosts.lpd or /etc/hosts.equiv Hope this helps you all out. John. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 14 Mar, Alec Smith wrote: You can use individual IP addresses -- Mine is 130.108.229.31 130.108.229.32 You can also use something like 130.108.229 to indicate that an entire subnet has access. The general format is something similar, but not identical to hosts.allow/hosts.deny. Other than that, there really isn't all that much. Be sure and restart lpd after editing this file... In /etc/init.d do a ./lpd restart Without doing this, your changes will not take effect until the machine is rebooted.
[Slightly Off-Topic] Printing from Netscape - page address
Hello, Is there any way to get the Netscape Browser (in communicator 4.5) to include the address of the web page on the top corner of the printout. The same version of netscape but for M$ does this automatically, even when attached to a linux print server. Is there anything I can do to get this functionality. It is not that important (not worht using M$ for) but it would be nice. Thanks in advance. byeee John.
Re: ICQ for Linux
If you have slink installed then I suggest using GTKICQ which looks (more or less) identical to the mirabilis version for windoze Seems to work quite nicely for me to talk to people using mirabilis... bye John. Andrei Ivanov wrote: What Linux version of ICQ? Do you mean the java version from Mirabilis or one of the find ICQ clones? I use Licq, but kicq and kxicq are also good ICQ clones for UNIX and Linux. Java version of ICQ is extremely buggy and extremely slow. Clones, on the other hand, are much better. I use micq, it's as advanced as a text-based clone with ncurses can go. Andrew --- Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 12402354 http://members.tripod.com/AnSIv --Little things for Linux. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: keboaard prooblems :)
I had a problem with my keyboard when I used the tleds package (which used the keyboard leds to indicate events). This stoped my laptop keyboard working. If you have a package like this installed, it may be causing the problem. John. Daniel J. Brosemer wrote: On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Robert V. MacQuarrie wrote: Hi there Daniel, How much do you use your computer? I find i go through a new keyboard at least once a year and this is a regular symptom of it going. I often find my Shift and Ctrl keys going and they are simply worn out. Test this by pluging in a new/borrowed keyboard into your system. BTW.. I find this happens to both 9.99 and 79.99 keyboards so i tend to stay with the cheaper ones :-) Hope this helps. Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't think that is the problem. This machine is dual-booting win95, and I hate to say it, but the keyboard works fine there. I was thinking the typomatic rate settings might need to be tweaked? But then, I've never messed with a keyboard before, no need. And I don't know where to look for such things. -Dano -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Screen Size in X
Before you start editing your /etc/X11/XF86Config file, try using the following key press combination: control Alt - control Alt + Pressing these three keys (Holding control and Alt then tapping either plus or minus) will change the resolution that your screen runs at. Using this method will allow you to quickly find out what resoultion your monitor and video card can run at, as well as letting you see which resolution works best on your eyes. You can run xterm (or what ever) to find out what resolution you like best, dragging the xterm to the bottom right of the screen should tell you the position of the cursor and therefore the screen size. Then edit your XF86Config file by placing the resolution you want to be first in the list. Warning: If your X server locks up or your monitor starts making funny noises (unlikely but possible) then you can use the key combination of control Alt Backspace to kill X. John. Stephen Lavelle wrote: How do I adjust the size of myscreen in X. Its too tall (vertical) and when I open some apps (Emacs, MAKE xCONFIG) i cannot see some parts of them. I think its currentlt set to 640x480 . also how do i get the output of the Xserver? Regards Stephen Austanners Wet Blue Pty Ltd. ~ Australian Tanned Wet Blue Leather ~ 110 Heales Road, Lara, Geelong, Australia 3212 Tel:++(03)52742232 Fax:++(03)52742350 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The information contained in this email is privileged and confidential and intended for the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient, you are asked to respect that confidentiality and not disclose, copy or make use of its contents. If received in error you are asked to destroy this email and contact the sender immediately. Your assistance is appreciated. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: strange messages at boot.
I have just had a similar problem with my laptop. It seems to have been caused by one of the following reasons: * Conficting Modules installed * Conflicting IRQ when trying to configure my sound card. I seem to have fixed these problems at the same time and now no longer get the messages as below. I never got this problem until I started to install my own kernel images, so it may be due to you doing something with the kernel If you have recompiled the kernel, make sure you removed any modules you initially installed (using modconf) if you are going to compile those modules into the kernel directly. Check your IRQs with windoze (if you are running dual boot), If you installed you hard drive on the second IDE then IRQ 15 will be used by the hard drive, but you shouldnt have anything else using this IRQ anyway. Hope this guides you in the right direction. John. Jim Lynch wrote: 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]
Re: HP Web Jetadmin
I cheated to install the Jet Admin package. I created a symbolic link inside /etc called rc.d which linked to the above directory, which was etc. The install was then able to carry on with no problem. I think I was even able to remove the rc.d link when the install had finished. I have not actually tested it on our printer (still waiting for the network card to arrive) but it runs okay inside netscape (Hamm distribution + Netscape 4.5 downloaded and installed with the Netscape Installer package). John. Lawrence Walton wrote: I tried; I got it to run to a degree but the services/rc was more than a small pain to fix. I gave up. *--* Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *--* Voice: 425.739.4247 *--* Fax: 425.827.9577 *--* HTTP://www.otak-k.com/~lawrence/ -- - - - - - - O t a k i n c . - - - - - On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Bruce Jackson wrote: Has anyone managed to get the HP Web Jetadmin for Redhat to work under Debian? I would appreciate any help you can give. -- Bruce Jackson Linux: because reboots are for hardware upgrades!!! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: not a plain file - apt install with dselect
I guess we are better off using Imperial college in london that manchester. I now use src.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/Linux/debian and have had no problems. David Wright wrote: Quoting John Stevenson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): [...] I am installing the frozen distribution from ftp.mcc.ac.uk using the apt method of dselect. I installed apt via the instructions in the updatepackages/Readme file on the ftp site. I have 95% of the packages installed, however it seems that apt wont install the files its fetched untill it has all of them. I can understand this. However apt is having problems getting a few of the files. See the error message below. Is there a problem with apt, the ftp site or my installation? Any clues ?? This is what I sent to mcc.ac.uk back in August last year. I got no reply. --8 Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 15:26:13 +0100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ftp.mcc.ac.uk oddities I've emailed this address because the file ftp://ftp.mcc.ac.uk/.message says that if I have problems, I should email %E [sic]. I use the ftp.mcc.ac.uk server to download from the /pub/linux/distributions/Debian tree. Over recent weeks, I seem to have problems with parts of the tree suddenly disappearing. My client freezes up, and if I kill it and reconnect, chunks of the tree are missing, but they usually return after a few minutes if I keep re-listing the directory. Am I alone here? For example, just a few minutes ago, I could only see the READMEs and /hamm in /pub/linux/distributions/Debian, but everything is back now. --8 Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
NeoMagic Card with Slink
Hello, Has anyone had any problems using Slink with a Neomagic video card. I am currently using Hamm with Precision Insights XFCom_NeoMaic Xserver. Now from what I have seen from slink is that a lot of changes happen when you upgrade to slink, especially with the fonts. My question is will the Precision Insights XFCom_NeoMaic Xserver still work if I upgrade to slink or am I going to have to find another solution. Any advise would be helpful.
not a plain file - apt install with dselect
Hello Debian Land, I am upgrading from Hamm and have come across a problem with using apt method of installing the new packages. I am installing the frozen distribution from ftp.mcc.ac.uk using the apt method of dselect. I installed apt via the instructions in the updatepackages/Readme file on the ftp site. I have 95% of the packages installed, however it seems that apt wont install the files its fetched untill it has all of them. I can understand this. However apt is having problems getting a few of the files. See the error message below. Is there a problem with apt, the ftp site or my installation? Any clues ?? 264 packages upgraded, 65 newly installed, 4 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 754k/149M of archives. After unpacking 29.1M will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Get ftp://ftp.mcc.ac.uk frozen/main dpkg-http [13.0k] Error ftp://ftp.mcc.ac.uk frozen/main dpkg-http 550 /pub/linux/distributions/Debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/admin/dpkg-http_0. 19.deb: not a plain file. -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl Its grip'd, its sorted..
Re: not a plain file - apt method with dselect
Looks like I have found the problem. It seems to have been the ftp site I was using. I eventually got through to another site and dont seem to have the same problems. Still strange though. I might try to just ftp the files by hand and see if there is a real problem -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl Its grip'd, its sorted..
Re: UML Software for Linux
Mamoun Alissali wrote: Hello, I'd like to know if there is any (free) software for UML under Linux. For the moment I'm using a commercial software under Windows. There is an application called Dia at the following web address: http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/dia.html Here is a brief description from the web page: Welcome to Dia's homepage. Dia is a gtk+ based diagram creation program released under the GPL license. Dia is designed to be much like the commercial Windows program 'Visio'. It can be used to draw different kind of diagrams. In this first version there is support for UML static structure diagrams (class diagrams) and Network diagrams. It can currently load and save diagrams to a custom fileformat and export to postscript. This program is in an early state, but parts of it is usable. Please try it out and tell me what you think of it. Check out the code too, you might even want to contribute... -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl Its grip'd, its sorted..
Re: Setting Prompt
I use the following prompt which gives the hostname first, followed by the name of the current directory. #prompt PS1=`hostname`': ~\W ' export PS1 You should probably just try to cut and paste it, rather than type it. You have to make sure you get the right apostrophies etc... John. M.C. Vernon wrote: This wasn't what I wanted I only want the current working directory to show. I took a look at the man page for bash. It said that \w would list my working directory. So I tried the following: If I use, export PS1='\w:\\$ ' I get, ~:$ ^ This is your working directory - ~/ is short for your home directory. If you did cd /etc/init.d, then the prompt would say /etc/init.d:$ Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl Its grip'd, its sorted..
Re: printing to NT with smbclient
Our NT server (doh) is used by both Linux and windoze clients at the same time, with out any problems (apart from the usual ones with NT) John. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, John Stevenson wrote: I took the easy way out of this situation by using rlpr instead of samba. Simply install the rlpr package and run Printing over TCP/IP Services on the NT machine. Thank you for your tip, I forgot totally this option, in the other hand: I hope there is no problem exporting an NT printer as Windows printer and as an LPR printer concurrently thanks -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl Its grip'd, its sorted..
