xterm disappears after 'xterm -e login username'
Does anyone know why $ xterm -e login username briefly flashes an xterm window which immediately disappears if username differs from the currently logged in user and if the currently logged in user isn't root? Normally the new xterm would remain with a password prompt. This started happening today for no apparent reason. It reports no errors and I found no related errors logged in /var/adm/messages, .xsession-errors or /var/log/auth.log. I'm still able to login as username at another virtual terminal outside of Xwindows. My software versions are: xbase3.3.2.1-1 login980403-0.2 bash 2.01-5 kernel 2.0.33 For what it's worth, I've noticed two other, possibly related bugs: 1.) $ su username After entering username's password, it says: shell-init: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories job-working-directory: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories job-working-directory: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories job-working-directory: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories job-working-directory: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories job-working-directory: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories 2.) The keyboard sometimes freezes or fails to clear an input line while typing in an xterm. For example, the mail reading program named Mutt will prompt the user for the filename to save a mail message to. It's stopped allowing me to clear all of the default filename. Thanks, Kingsley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Rusting (machine becomes slower over time)
Adrian Bridgett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just upgraded [...] to 2.1.101 and [...] The The rusting seems much better (the machine used to become slower over time - My 2.0.33 kernel seems to slow down over time and is faster after I reboot. Can anyone direct me toward some documentation of this so called rusting? Thanks, Kingsley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Program to blink LED when mail arrives?
Is there a Debian package that blinks a keyboard LED when email arrives? mailleds is supposed to do that, but I haven't found a Debianized package for it. Alternatively, does anyone have a good script for telling when new mail has arrived? Thanks, Kingsley -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Swap Used is getting Bigger, BIGGER and B I G G E R!
Does anyone know why the free command would report that the swap space used is growing? A lot? Is there a swap leak bug? For example, no swap is being used immediately after booting the box. This is good. Then after using various and sundry applications, AND EXITING OUT OF THEM, the free command reports that their swap space is still being used! In fact, the amount of swap space used keeps increasing instead of leveling off. I'm reasonably certain that unless drastic measures are taken soon, it will probably eat New Jersey. ;-) It seems to me that swap space isn't being relinquished because the sum of the individual swap spaces used by each process as reported by the SWAP column of the ps -auxm command is less than the total swap space used which the free command reports. It's like some kind of swap leak. I've noticed this behavior with both the 2.0.30 and 2.0.32 kernels. Thanks, Kingsley -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: /etc/profile and set -o vi
Walter L. Preuninger II [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: before I upgraded to unstable, set -o vi, which was in my /etc/profile worked. Now, I have to manually do a set -o vi after getting logged in. Any ideas? This is a known problem. See Bug # 14672 at http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/14/14672.html I think you can work around it by commenting out the set -o vi, in /etc/profile and putting set editing-mode vi set keymap vi in $HOME/.inputrc Cheers, Kingsley -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Lyx, Latex, \today deZember
Has anyone found a way to make the latex statement \today in a lyx file translate into December instead of Dezember? I live in the States ^ ^ where the former spelling is used. Thanks, Kingsley -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Where is the Incoming directory?
Would someone be so kind as to tell me where the Incoming directory is? I'd like to check if updates of some programs that I use have arrived. (lyx and imagemagic, for example) Thanks Kingsley -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xinetd does not run at boot
Nick Gilliam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know this is probably something really simple but after installing xinetd in place of inetd, the super server (xinetd) no longer loads at boot. [...] I ran into this bug too. It's a known problem. See http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/12/12021.html for a patch. Thanks, Kingsley -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Imagemagick doesn't release shared memory
Will someone please test the 3.9.0-1 (unstable) version of Imagemagick to see if it releases shared memory on your box? It doesn't on mine, and I'd like to verify that it's a bug in Imagemagick, and not my box, before I file a bug report. Here's how to duplicate it: $ # First look at how much shared memory is already being used $ ipcs -m $ $ # Use Imagemagick's display program on a jpg or gif file. For example: $ display some_picture_file.jpg $ $ # Look at the two new shared memory entries $ ipcs -m $ $ # Exit from display, which would normally release the shared memory $ $ # Re-examine shared memory. Was display's shared memory released? $ ipcs -m Please post your results to this list so other people won't duplicate your effort. Thanks, Kingsley -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: sl0: transmit timeout, bad line quality?
On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Orn E. Hansen wrote: Now, I can use pppd to manually put up my network... but diald (which I normally use) doesn't work, it will fail with 'sl0: transmit timeout, bad line quality?'... I just finished debugging it on my box. It's a known bug. See http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/14/14207.html Thanks, Kingsley -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Bash 2.01-5 vi-style line editing- FIXED
Some days ago I asked for help on getting version 2.01-5 of bash to work with vi-style line editing. It turned out that putting set -o vi in $HOME/.bashrc breaks vi-style line editing! I filed a bug report and worked around it by putting set editing-mode vi set keymap vi in $HOME/.inputrc Cheers, Kingsley -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
What happens to stable packages at ftp sites?
I must admit that I've been disappointed several times when I discovered that I couldn't find packages in the stable ftp directories. This has happened with the mutt, xmcd and probably other packages as well. A specific example at the moment is xmcd at ftp.debian.org in dists/unstable/main/binary-i386 and dists/stable/main/binary-i386. It seems to me that the unstable version won't install and the stable version is gone! The typical scenario is that I try to upgrade to an unstable version of a package, it doesn't work, and then I can't go back to the stable version because it's no longer at the ftp site or is just a pointer to a package in an unstable ftp directory. As long as I'm on my soap box, I would be interested in knowing the reasoning behind having packages in stable ftp directories point to packages in unstable directories. Doesn't that circumvent the whole idea of having the choice between stable and unstable versions? Hopefully someone will enlighten me with the ftp address of old stable packages. Thanks, Kingsley -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
How to use bash 2.01-5 vi-style line editing
Has anyone found a way to use vi-style line editing in the 2.01-5 version of bash? When I do a $ set -o vi $ esck to recall the last command, I just get a beep instead of the last command. Has anyone found a way to use vi-style line editing in the 2.01-5 version of bash? Thanks, Kingsley -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
nm reports no symbols
Does anyone happen to know why the nm command would report no symbols? Here's how I got it... $ nm /lib/libreadline.so.2.1 /lib/libreadline.so.2.1: no symbols Every other library that I've tried nm with reports no symbols also. I'm using libreadlineg version 2.1-7 and binutils version 2.8.1-2 on 2.0.30. Thanks, Kingsley -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: How to use bash 2.01-5 vi-style line editing
On Thu, 6 Nov 1997 Joost Kooij [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, Kingsley G. Morse Jr. wrote: Has anyone found a way to use vi-style line editing in the 2.01-5 version of bash? When I do a $ set -o vi $ esck to recall the last command, I just get a beep instead of the last command. Has anyone found a way to use vi-style line editing in the 2.01-5 version of bash? put this in your $HOME/.inputrc: set editing-mode vi set keymap vi Or, if your a real vidiot, put it in /etc/inputrc - the global inputrc for libreadline. See readline(3readline) and `info readline' for more information. Thanks for your time and attention. I agree with you reasoning that adding set editing-mode vi set keymap vi to $HOME/.inputrc or /etc/inputrc is a good idea. I also suspect a library problem because since my last post, I've discovered that now older versions of bash have the same problem. I've even tried making these changes to $HOME/.inputrc and /etc/inputrc but I'm sad to say they didn't work. Running bash with strace didn't show much either. Pressing esck gives read(0, \33, 1) = 1 read(0, k, 1) = 1 write(2, \7, 1) = 1 sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL) = 0 Would someone else like to suggest a way to use vi-style line editing in bash after upgrading to the latest versions of libreadlineg2, libc6 and ncurses3.4? Thanks, Kingsley -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Lyx figures and mice
Does anyone know how to use figures in 0.10.7 version of Lyx from the frozen and contrib directories? When I click on the figure icon on the menu bar, I'm not prompted for the filename of a figure to include. :-( It WILL display a figure however, which I tested by editing the User Guide (/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/lyx/doc/UserGuide.lyx) to use the correct path for a picture of a platypus. I changed it to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/lyx/clipart/platypus.eps The User Guide says that the user should click with the center mouse button to popup a dialog box which allows you to insert a postscript figure, but it doesn't work for me. In my case, pressing the middle mouse button dumps out Xwindow's paste buffer or nothing, depending on where the pointer is. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Mutt and aliases
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Luis Francisco Gonzalez) wrote: [...] I have been trying to get mutt to recognise the aliases but after quitting, even thought it has saved them, it doesn't re-read the file because I can't use them. [...] I've had the same problem with all versions of Mutt up to 0.69-1. I've even reported the bug to its author. I see that version 0.71-1 is out... I'll try that. Kingsley -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Mutt Segmentation Fault at certain messages?
I seem to remember having similar problems a long time ago and fixed them by re-ordering the configuration lines in .muttrc. I attributed it to Mutt corrupting its stack while processing .muttrc, but I really don't know. Good luck, I hope you get a better answer. Perhaps you could try upgrading Mutt. I see 0.71-1 is available. -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: shell problem after bo upgrade
John M. Rulnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sh: -c:line 1:missing closing ')' for arithmetic expression sh: -c:line 1:syntax error near unexpected token ';' sh: -c:line 1:'((gv /tmp/MO233499B410060202.ps); rm /tmp/MO233499B410060202.ps ) ' when I try to view a PostScript file under Netscape. I think this may be caused by a bug in the 2.0 version of the bash shell. I seem to remember getting this error after upgrading to the 2.0??? version of the bash shell, which involved a symlink to sh. I fixed it by going back to bash version 1.14.7. Good luck :-) Kingsley
