Trying to recover data from messed up MSDOS floppy
We saved some important data from one of our experiments to a floppy in one of our digital oscilliscopes. The o'scope can write to MSDOS formatted floppies only. I usually then copy the data over to my Debian machine for processing. However, this floppy turned out to have some bad areas (mostly in the FAT region of the disk). I was wondering if there is a disk editor in Linux (which I would probably trust more than letting Norton mess with my disk)? Any suggestions? Thanks for any assistance, Paul Rightley
Do I have a win-sound card?
I just bought a new machine (at work) and it came with both video and sound on the motherboard. I tried (briefly) to get XFree to work with the on-board video controller, but to no avail (other than at standard VGA resolutions). I used instead the video card from my 'old' machine. I did not have a sound card in the 'old' machine and I was interested in getting sound working. The motherboard is made by Amptron and is a PM-9100. The description of the sound is SB 16/PRO compatible with DirectSound 3D support, HRTF 3D Positional Audio Technology with full duplex stereo, Supports 44.1K digital audio-in (SPDIF) and Windows NT/98/95/3.1 and MS-DOS supported by drivers This last statement makes me doubt that I will get it to work, however I though I would ask the list. I compiled in sound (SB16 with appropriate addresses), but - so far - to no avail. Does anyone have any experience with such a motherboard? Thanks for any assistance, Paul Rightley
RE: LS-120
The hamm installation disks work perfectly with an LS-120. I wrote a message to debian-user a while ago regarding the installation - check the archives if you are interested - or email me (assuming I can remember). A coworker of mine is using this machine currently and has experineced no significant troubles using only an LS-120 and no other floppy. Paul On 01-Jun-98 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A while ago I tried to boot slackware a compaq deskpro here at work and found that it would not boot using the standard boot disk. The problem, of course, is that the machine does NOT have a floppy drive, it uses an LS-120 drive. Now I know that this drive is supported under linux as a removable IDE disk, usually as /dev/hdX where X is b,c or d (the ls-120 CAN't be set as the first disk unless the primary hd is scsi.) Under dos and windows the ls-120 is always a floppy disk, ie: drive A:, no matter what kind of diskette is in the drive. The bios or the OS knows to use the ide controler, even though the disk is used as a floppy. The bios knows how to boot this beast. If you try to boot an LS-120 under Linux lilo will fail on the second stage boot because it thinks that it was booted from a floppy. My question is this. If I were to replace the floppy disk on my computer with an LS-120 (this will free up an interrupt by moving the 'floppy' to the IDE interface), can I configure linux to completely support the drive? This means being able to read, write, and format both LS-120 and 1.44m floppies. It also means being able to boot a kernel from the ls-120 drive (assuming my bios can boot a dos floppy from the ls-120). I know that the stock slackware boot disk was NOT configured for ls-120 support, but even if that kernel DID support ls-120 IDE disks, the configuration for LILO would not have been correct to boot a kernel from the drive? Has anyone been able to boot Linux from an LS-120, and if so what configuration of the kernel and lilo was required? Thank you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A tough file to delete
I have a file (actually a few files - all on the same drive) that I cannot delete. They all report in at about 3.3GB in size (all on a 2.1GB partition). [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.33/arch/m68k# rm console rm: remove `console', overriding mode 6467? y rm: console: Operation not permitted [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.33/arch/m68k# chmod 666 console chmod: console: Operation not permitted How do I get rid of these problems - the one above prevents me from using dpkg for kernel-source? Thanks for any assistance, Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: setting up ethernet 3com 3509b card
I have run the 3509b successfully with both Debian and W95. I configured the card out of PnP mode and specified the port (i.e. coax or 10base-T). When configured this way, Linux sees my card without trouble, and I just had to delete and install the card's driver in W95 to get it to work there. However, I still have to press the reset button between Linux and W95 to get W95 to see it properly (I haven't been able to solve this problem). Good Luck, Paul On 28-Apr-98 Ardo van Rangelrooij wrote: Hi, A collegue of mine had the same problem. The solution that worked (at least for him :-) was to dipswitch the card to non-PnP and voila! it worked. Only Win95 did not accept the card anymore (even not manual configuration!), but that was not important. Hope this helps! Thanks, Ardo Marcus Brinkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I had trouble setting up an EtherlinkII 3com 3509b card with 2.0.32 and 2.0.33 kernel. I configured pnp, compiled the right driver as module, but the module gives me either initialization failed or symbol not found when specifying io=0x210 irq=3... Any help is appreciated. Marcus -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: possible intrusion in my box ??????
On 14-Apr-98 Ossama Othman wrote: On the systems that I run, I have disabled all incoming telnets, ftps, rsh/rlogin/rexec/etc, finger, rusers, ident, etc. The only way in is via Secure Shell. Note that outgoing telnets and ftps would still work. If -Ossama I already use ssh, but would like to exclude access by other means just as you describe. How do I go about doing this? Is there a good place to read about such methods? Thanks for any assistance, Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fonts in X [Off Topic]
I have been using gimp to produce some overheads lately (in the hope that I can finally rid myself of the necessity of booting into and Windows product). However, when I create large text (like 50 pixels high), it looks pretty pixelated - even if the image itself has a much higher resolution. Is there a way to make smoother text? Since gimp seems to use the X fonts, maybe I just need a scalable (?) font in X? I know nothing about adding fonts to X (that are not conveniently provided by a debian package). Thanks for any assistance (even if it is just the fm to r), Paul P.S. Thanks for the outstanding debian distribution, and the support found on this list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fonts in X [Off Topic]
I am sorry if I am clueless... I installed xfntscl and looked in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo and Type1 for the fonts listed in fonts.scale (I assume that this is how one determines if a font is scalable). I then tried using these fonts in gimp. This worked the same way as before (strong pixellization of the characters). I know nothing of fonts in X. Is there something that I am doing wrong? Is there a good reference on this sort of thing? Paul On 17-Apr-98 Ossama Othman wrote: Have you tried the xfntscl package? Those fonts are scalable. -Ossama __ Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- PGP Keys --- Public: http://astrosun.tn.cornell.edu/staff/othman/OO_PUBLIC.asc REVOKED: http://astrosun.tn.cornell.edu/staff/othman/OO_REVOKED.asc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fonts in X [Off Topic]
I have installed xfstt, but it seems to be documentation-poor. I know nothing of fonts in X (or in Windows for that matter - I guess I am the prototypical luser). Where would I get some TTF fonts and where would I put them to use them? Are there fonts of this sort that follow the DFSG (which I would prefer)? Paul On 17-Apr-98 Remco Blaakmeer wrote: On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Paul Rightley wrote: I don't know where GIMP gets it fonts, but if it gets them from the X server I think I have a solution for you. Take a look at the xfstt package. This is a font server for X that handles TTF fonts. With it, you can have all your favorite Windows fonts on your X display. Try it and see if it works for you. Remco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: desperately seeking installation
On 25-Mar-98 Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 1998 at 10:48:40PM -0600, Ender Wigin wrote: Through long practice and much patience, I was able to see the word Calibrating on the display before it reboots, so if there's a stage during ... I just compiled 2.0.33. (I had been using 2.1.90 and that worked fine, and I booted each of 2.1.54, 2.1.65, 2.1.72, and 2.1.86 earlier today without incident). 2.0.33 reboot immediately, several times. I recompiled it with --zimage and it worked immediately. I didn't compile 2.1.90 like that though, so it's probably coincidental. I seem to be about the only one having this problem on a desktop machine. I, too, have had one machine that continually reboots when booted from the boot disk I created near the end of an installation with the (at the time) 'unstable' disks. It boots the rescue disk perfectly, though... Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How do I create /proc???
I am trying to backup my Debian 1.3.1 system and make it bootable from a Jaz drive. I have copied the essential directories (cp -a) from my system to the Jaz. If I create an empty /proc directory on the Jaz and boot from a floppy with the Jaz as root, the boot fails just before I get a prompt - absolutely no error message. If I delete the /proc directory from the Jaz drive, I manage to get a login prompt (but I get many errors at bootup about there being no /proc directory). How do I resolve this problem? I have not found any FM to R. Thanks for any assistance, Maria Rightley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Trouble with /var/spool/mail/????
Out of necessity, I have recently moved /var to another partition. I tar'ed up the directory and then untar'ed it on the new partition. This morning, I cannot get xfmail to open /var/spool/mail/user saying that it cannot lock the file. I figure the problem results from the movement of /var. Also, when I run dselect, I often see the message: Update-menus: Cannot remove lockfile /var/run/update-menus.pid which may come from the same cause. Any suggestions on solving these troubles? What are the appropriate permisions for /var/spool/mail/user? Thanks for any assistance, Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Posting to the mailinglist...
I use xfmail to read debian-user. When xfmail lists a folder, one column displays the name of the sender of each message. However, when I send a message to the list, the column displays To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What am I doing differently than everyone else? Does this bug people? Thanks for any assistance, Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing with LS-120 drive
Actually, I got the installation to work with the LS-120 drive. After installing debian and creating a boot floppy, upon reboot I get 'Loading...' and then the machine reboots... Thanks for the suggestions, Paul On 10-Mar-98 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems that I did not understand what is the problem. I thought you can't *start* the installation process because the machine has no normal floppy drive. Reading your reply made me thought that the problem is that the installation process does not run becuase the default kernel could not get loaded. Where this problem is due to the special floppy drive. Well, if I got it correctly this time then a possible solution might be to get the installation process to start using a custom kernel. Where the custom kernel will not look for the fd, because it was compiled without any fd support. In any case, I am thinking of ways to make /dev/hdb the root partition. Sorry it has taken me so long to get back to this... The big problem with the machine we are installing Debian on is the fact that it does not have a normal floppy drive. I have not looked into using the LS-120 as the root partition, but I will try it one of these days. Paul I have persuaded a co-worker to install Debian on his machine. However, he has a LS-120 drive (essentially a 120MB capacity floppy) and no normal floppy drive. I wrote a resc1440.bin (from hamm/main/disks-i386/current) for him since rawrite2 will not work (apparently) with these disk drives. The problem is when it comes to install the kernel and modules on the HDD, the system cannot mount the floppy drive. I am trying to install Debian on /dev/hdb (an IDE drive), and /dev/hda has a NT installation. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing with LS-120 drive
Sorry it has taken me so long to get back to this... The big problem with the machine we are installing Debian on is the fact that it does not have a normal floppy drive. I have not looked into using the LS-120 as the root partition, but I will try it one of these days. Paul On 01-Mar-98 C.J.LAWSON wrote: Hi, This is a really interesting problem... Sorry I cannot be of any help. It however is of interest to me as, just this afternoon, I was thinking of the possibility of putting a minimal installation (90Mb) on a 120Mb disk drive and running linux off that. Concievably there will be a second floppy disk drive on the machine which could then be mounted as the utility floppy drive The (non-x) possibilites apear to be endless with such. I wonder what your thoughts about this are ... Regards Jonathan On Sat, 28 Feb 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have persuaded a co-worker to install Debian on his machine. However, he has a LS-120 drive (essentially a 120MB capacity floppy) and no normal floppy drive. I wrote a resc1440.bin (from hamm/main/disks-i386/current) for him since rawrite2 will not work (apparently) with these disk drives. The problem is when it comes to install the kernel and modules on the HDD, the system cannot mount the floppy drive. I am trying to install Debian on /dev/hdb (an IDE drive), and /dev/hda has a NT installation. Any ideas how to overcome this? Perhaps by copying resc1440.bin from this LS drive to the HD, toghether with loadlin; And running loadlin to boot into Linux ? -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Installing with LS-120 drive
Thank you for the suggestion. I got it to install without the use of loadlin. I made a rescue disk on a normal 1.44 floppy and then put a debian/hamm/main/disks-i386/current tree on a LS-120 and put resc1440.bin and drv1440.bin and base2_0.tgz in the current directory. Before installing the kernel and modules, I took out the 1.44 floppy and mounted the LS-120 floppy. Then the installation program installed everything successfully. Now the problem is that the machine reboots after Loading from the boot floppy produced during the installation. Paul On 28-Feb-98 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have persuaded a co-worker to install Debian on his machine. However, he has a LS-120 drive (essentially a 120MB capacity floppy) and no normal floppy drive. I wrote a resc1440.bin (from hamm/main/disks-i386/current) for him since rawrite2 will not work (apparently) with these disk drives. The problem is when it comes to install the kernel and modules on the HDD, the system cannot mount the floppy drive. I am trying to install Debian on /dev/hdb (an IDE drive), and /dev/hda has a NT installation. Any ideas how to overcome this? Perhaps by copying resc1440.bin from this LS drive to the HD, toghether with loadlin; And running loadlin to boot into Linux ? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- Paul Rightley DX-3 Hydrodynamics, MS P940 Los Alamos National LaboratoryLos Alamos, NM 87545 Phone: (505)667-0460 Fax: (505)665-3359 -- -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Where did /usr/tmp go?
Thanks for the information. I edited the appropriate tripwire config file and had it use /var/tmp instead. Everything is working fine again. Should this behavior be filed as a bug against tripwire (if it hasn't already been done). Paul On 25-Feb-98 Behan Webster wrote: Paul Rightley wrote: Last night, tripwire -initialize failed on me because I (suddenly?) had no /usr/tmp directory. I swear I had one before. I made a new one and chmod'ed it to 1777, but what happened to the old directory? Does anyone have any ideas? You never actually had a /usr/tmp. It was a link to /var/tmp. The latest base-files removed the link as it should no longer be necessary. That link was for compatibility with older packages. Packages that should have already been updated to use /var/tmp. I suspect you updated your packages to the latest available from hamm yesterday? I didn't make the change, I just watch the announcement on debian-devel. Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Installing with LS-120 drive
Neither my coworker nor I have been able to find the time to try to attack the new problem - and I really don't know where to begin at the moment. We got a system installed using the LS120 drive and the hamm installation disks (and I am will write up a little HOWTO to describe it - since it was not entirely obvious to me). Since I have no experience with NT bootloader, I decided that we should make a boot floppy. However, after we did the reboot the computer step, the floppy would get the 'Loading..' and then reboot the machine. I remember this behavior described on this list, but have not had a chance to go through the lists archives yet... Thanks for any assistance, Paul Rightley On 02-Mar-98 Ben Pfaff wrote: Thank you for your suggestion. I managed to get the installation to go (the kernel in the hamm boot floppies recognized the LS120 as /dev/hdc). It took a bit of work (and we are now having another tough problem), but it did work... Is this other problem something that I could help you with? Sometimes these apparently difficult problems are simple if you know what's going on. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
What is /var/log/messages telling me???
I looked in my /var/log/messages and found the following lines (where I have removed any specific names and/or IP's). What are these lines telling me? Feb 24 06:54:45 shroom syslogd 1.3-3#22: restart. Feb 24 13:34:21 shroom kernel: ICMP redirect from IP.IP.IP.IP Feb 24 13:34:21 shroom last message repeated 3 times Feb 24 13:34:21 shroom kernel: ICMP: cannot handle TOS redirects yet! Feb 24 13:34:21 shroom last message repeated 3 times Feb 24 13:35:38 shroom ftpd[895]: repeated login failures from some.machine.com Are there any well documented (i.e. usably documented) articles and/or books on securtiy in Linux. I have no idea what TCP wrappers (or whatever) are, but I hear talk of them... I would really love an easy-to-set-up security utility and readible security logs. I know, I know, I should go out and write something like this (Now, if I would just learn a language other that Fortran...) Thanks for any assistance, Paul Rightley -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Remote OpenGL applications
A co-worker is installing Debian alongside NT on his new machine. He has asked if Debian (in X11R6) can display a remote application from an SGI machine that uses the OpenGL library. When we tried to do such a thing on my machine (up-to-date hamm), it would fail with many - Xlib: extension GLX missing on display shroom.lanl.gov:0.0. errors. I do have the mesa2g package installed, but I am not sure that has anything to do with the solution to this problem. Can such a thing be done? Thanks very much for any assistance, Paul Rightley -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Installing with LS-120 drive
I have persuaded a co-worker to install Debian on his machine. However, he has a LS-120 drive (essentially a 120MB capacity floppy) and no normal floppy drive. I wrote a resc1440.bin (from hamm/main/disks-i386/current) for him since rawrite2 will not work (apparently) with these disk drives. The problem is when it comes to install the kernel and modules on the HDD, the system cannot mount the floppy drive. I am trying to install Debian on /dev/hdb (an IDE drive), and /dev/hda has a NT installation. Any ideas how to overcome this? Thanks for any assistance, Paul Rightley -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: 'LaTeX' mode in xemacs
Thanks for the information. I found out that auctex is included in the xemacs packages in hamm. All I needed was to get my .emacs file correct. Thanks again, PAul Rightley On 25-Feb-98 Martin Bialasinski wrote: Paul Huygen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul Rightley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I edit a LaTeX file on this RedHat machine with xemacs, I get a LaTeX menu when I right-click. Also, xemacs has 'command' and 'LaTeX' pull-down menus in this situation. On my hamm machine [..], I get no such menu when editing a LaTeX file. How do I go about changing this? The features that you refer to are supplied by the auctex package. It is a good idea to install that package. This shouldn't be necessary for xemacs. From the auctex package: Currently XEmacs ships with its own AUC TeX, so this package should only be used with GNU/Emacs. (I.e. you don't need to install it if your site has only XEmacs installed.) But I don't do any TeX yet, so I can't help any further. Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- Paul Rightley DX-3 Hydrodynamics, MS P940 Los Alamos National LaboratoryLos Alamos, NM 87545 Phone: (505)667-0460 Fax: (505)665-3359 -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Does eiffel make a good laptop for debian
I seem to have heard a couple of mentions of Eiffel laptops on this mail-list before. It looks like they have some pretty good machines for sale. Are these machines any good at running debian? Does anyone have suggestions as to the ideal (considering price/performance) laptops for linux? Thanks for any assistance, Paul Rightley -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
'LaTeX' mode in xemacs
Sorry if this is not specifically Debian related (but this seems to be a wholely polite mail-list - a rarity lately). I have an up-to-date hamm installation. I sometimes work on a RedHat machine (through an 'X-terminal' Sun running Sparc linux). When I edit a LaTeX file on this RedHat machine with xemacs, I get a LaTeX menu when I right-click. Also, xemacs has 'command' and 'LaTeX' pull-down menus in this situation. On my hamm machine (in my office and at home), I get no such menu when editing a LaTeX file. How do I go about changing this? (I tend to use debian as a turn-key system and still am not a big fan of 'info'.) Thanks for any assistance, Paul Rightley -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Where did /usr/tmp go?
Last night, tripwire -initialize failed on me because I (suddenly?) had no /usr/tmp directory. I swear I had one before. I made a new one and chmod'ed it to 1777, but what happened to the old directory? Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks for any information, Paul Rightley -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Compute Farm
But I would suggest reading the article anyway. If RedHat makes it easy
to install on many machines, the group in the article did NOT use such a
solution. Instead, they spent time writing some scripts and setting up
a generic hdd that they sent to their hardware vendor. The scripts were
designed to customize each machine as it arrived. I have never really
seen a solution to this problem (although I find it hard to imagine that
RedHat has solved it - it seems tough to me).
Paul
On 10-Feb-98 Hunter H Marshall wrote:
Behan Webster wrote:
Hunter H Marshall wrote:
Tim Sailer wrote:
They want to be able
to configure 1 machine and mirror the setup to each machine
See if the recent aricle in Linux Journal might be
of help. The article concerned the use of 160
Alpha Linux boxes for graphics rendering. I belive
it was the Jan '98 issue.
http://www.ssc.com/lj/
Since Tim wants reason to use Debian instead of Redhat, and the article
you suggest talks of using Redhat, that probably won't be very helpful.
I do not have the article in hand. I was afraid of
something like that!
:-{
hunter red-faced marshall
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RE: xfmail 1.2p0-1 seg-faults
I have noticed that this version of xfmail does produce more segfaults than earlier versions. However, I have not had this trouble with new mail (until one time this morning, of course). I have not seen any segfaults from folder changes. I am using hamm. Paul On 08-Feb-98 Stefan Baums wrote: Hi all, I'm running xfmail 1.2p0-1 under hamm (i.e., I think all the other packages which I think _might_ be relevant to this problem are from hamm). When xfmail has to deal with new mail (in this new version marked in pink) on startup (or even folder change (?)) it crashes with a Segmentation fault. When I restart it, the new mail is no longer considered new (and not pink anymore) and xfmail works fine (until the next new mail arrives, that is). Could this even be an upstream problem? Have a nice day, Stefan -- Paul Rightley DX-3 Hydrodynamics, MS P940 Los Alamos National LaboratoryLos Alamos, NM 87545 Phone: (505)667-0460 Fax: (505)665-3359 -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: MANPATH etc
I have found it difficult to get dselect to work correctly with the non-US site(s). I usually just ftp ssh*.deb from the correct directory and install it with dpki -i ssh*.deb There may be a better way (but I don't know about it). Paul On 05-Feb-98 Dave Mallery wrote: thanks much... the MANPATH problem is history. i wonder if you can use the FTP option of dselect to get the secure shell (and the other encryption materials) since it seems to be located in /debian-non-US rather than the usual /stable location. dave -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- -=+=- Dave Mallery, K5EN po box 520; ramah nm 87321 running Debian GNU/Linux.Free at last -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- Paul Rightley DX-3 Hydrodynamics, MS P940 Los Alamos National LaboratoryLos Alamos, NM 87545 Phone: (505)667-0460 Fax: (505)665-3359 -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: Matrox Mystique or Diamond 3d 3000?
I cannot startx X more than once (per reboot) with my Diamond 3D 3000 card. If I do, the machine locks up hard. Another person mentioned this same problem when I last commented upon it. I am running the latest hamm. Maybe go with the Matrox (but I am ignorant if it is supported at all). Paul On 04-Feb-98 Fernando Tadeu C Brandt wrote: My supplier offers Matrox Mystique or Diamond 3d 3000. Which one is best supported by debian? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Clean hamm installation
No, I never used --force-blah. The trouble was that I had xdm going, and my video card cannot start X more than once (unless there is a reboot in between) - my card is a Diamond Stealth 3000 3D. Also, I had followed the upgrade mini-HOWTO, but had not upgraded libgdbm and perl (since this was only 'suggested' by the HOWTO - as opposed to being said to be necessary). Because of this, a lot of packages were having many troubles configuring themselves (I know that this occurs anyway, but it seemed much worse this time). Then, the install stopped and started xdm and my machine hung. I have to press 'reset' at this time (there is no other way to bring it back). When the machine rebooted, it was in an unusable state. I suppose I could have brought it back (I tried several suggestions offered on the lists, but that just got me to another problem, and another, and another). After this, I gave up and retinstalled. This was not too bad, because my installation was quite old and was not entirely 'clean' (beacuse I had learned to use Debian on this machine). Its just too bad - I had had it going since buzz... I think that, if I had waited a week (and kept up with debian-user), I would have had no troubles. I am just wondering about those people out there who are not reading the mailing list... Paul On 16-Jan-98 Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 1998 at 03:15:14PM -0700, Paul Rightley wrote: Yes, I understand very well NOW that there are no hamm disks yet. My point was that this upgrade of Debian is really expecting a lot of typical Debian users. At first glance, I thought that disks under dists/unstable/main/disks-i386 would actually belong to the unstable distribution. It is such slight perception that can really make things difficult for most users. For instance, Scott Ellis' Mini-HOWTO is very good - I followed all of the portions of it that called out specific packages and that didn't seem like suggestions (as opposed to necessary steps). In this case, I did not upgrade libgdm1 and perl and due to another (slight) circumstance, was left with an unusable system after I launched dselect. Did you ever use --force-blah with dpkg? Was it ever possible to hose your system without using --force-blah? I upgraded my system before Scott's HOWTO was written; at that stage it was fairly simple and all the dependencies seemed to prevent me from doing anything wrong. IIRC, it was basically a case of installing new ld.so, removing the libc5 -dev libraries, installing libc6, installing the hamm non-g libraries, then installing the hamm g libraries, then anything else, like bash. For a while I only upgraded the libraries (just to support running new libc6 stuff from hamm), not bothering with existing packages. Never any sign of trouble. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- Paul Rightley DX-3 Hydrodynamics, MS P940 Los Alamos National LaboratoryLos Alamos, NM 87545 Phone: (505)667-0460 Fax: (505)665-3359 -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Clean hamm installation
On 15-Jan-98 Ben Pfaff wrote: Is it already possible to install a new system directly with hamm? I need to do an install tonight, and want it to be hamm. There aren't an hamm boot disks yet. You have to install bo, then upgrade. I wish that this were the case... Unfortunately, under dists/unstable/main/disks-i386/current, there are boot disks. I now understand that, but I didn't this weekend -- when I was installing Debian at home. So far, I will say that upgrading from libc5 to libc6 has required that I completely reinstall two systems (both of which had been going since just previous to Debian 1.1 days). I will not go into detail regarding the problems I had except to say that I didn't HAVE to reinstall, but it surprised me that even a relative Debian verteran was caught up so effectively - I really think that the unpgrade script may solve some of the troubles. Just had to get a load off - still think Debian is head-and- shoulders above the other distributions (besides, this time I could reinstall and feel good about setting up tripwire and a couple other security measures), Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Clean hamm installation
Yes, I understand very well NOW that there are no hamm disks yet. My point was that this upgrade of Debian is really expecting a lot of typical Debian users. At first glance, I thought that disks under dists/unstable/main/disks-i386 would actually belong to the unstable distribution. It is such slight perception that can really make things difficult for most users. For instance, Scott Ellis' Mini-HOWTO is very good - I followed all of the portions of it that called out specific packages and that didn't seem like suggestions (as opposed to necessary steps). In this case, I did not upgrade libgdm1 and perl and due to another (slight) circumstance, was left with an unusable system after I launched dselect. The crux of my statement was to say that I have used Debian a long time. I keep up (pretty much) with debian-user. And yet, I was stung HARD by the upgrade to unstable. I do not want to imply that I feel wronged - it IS unstable after all. I am just trying to say that this upgrade has a long way to go before it doesn't turn off a lot of typical Linux/Debian users. I still tell everyone that Debian is the greatest Linux distribution. Paul On 16-Jan-98 Norbert Veber wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 1998 at 10:07:33AM -0700, Paul Rightley wrote: On 15-Jan-98 Ben Pfaff wrote: Is it already possible to install a new system directly with hamm? I need to do an install tonight, and want it to be hamm. There aren't an hamm boot disks yet. You have to install bo, then upgrade. I wish that this were the case... Unfortunately, under dists/unstable/main/disks-i386/current, there are boot disks. I now understand that, but I didn't this weekend -- uhm, if you look more carefully, you'll notice that the /ac121/linux/distributions/debian/hamm/hamm/disks-i386/current is actually a link to: ../../../bo/disks-i386/current which are the bo disks. So in fact there are NO hamm disks (yet). -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Is e2fsprogs OK now?
A while back there was a warning regarding the hamm version of the e2fsprogs package - e2fsprogs_1.10-4.deb I believe. I now have e2fsprogs_1.10-10.deb installed and have had a few weird problems at home with a partition greater than 2GB in size. Is there a known problem with this package? Thanks for any information, Paul Rightley -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ThinkPad 560
I have been led to believe that the 'tecra' disks had the kernel patch AND were compiled as zImages. I may very well be wrong on this account. However, I have yet to see a bzImage (that I have compiled) boot my Thinkpad. Paul On 08-Dec-97 Kirk Hilliard wrote: Hi Paul! Paul Rightley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know of no Thinkpads that can boot bzImages (though I do not know many Thinkpads) - which is why the 'tecra' disks work (i.e. they are zImages). Is this true? I thought that the Tecra disks were still bzImages, but were compiled with the kernel patch from Jen's Maurer's site, Linux on the Toshiba Tecra series: http://www.cck.uni-kl.de/misc/tecra710/ If this is still the case, is the patch provided in one of the source packages? Kirk Hilliard -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Bash 2.01 Upgrade/Libc6
Thanks for the idea. I have already suggested to Scott Ellis to put the locations of the packages mentioned in the Mini-HOWTO for other brain-dead people like me. Paul On 07-Dec-97 Christopher Jason Morrone wrote: On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Brandon Mitchell wrote: On Sat, 6 Dec 1997, Paul Rightley wrote: I am trying to follow Scott Ellis' Libc5/6 upgrade mini-HOWTO to the letter (fearing for my system if I do not). It says that, in order to upgrade bash to 2.01, I must first install ncurses3.0_1.9.9e-2. However, I cannot find this package anywhere (stable has ncurses3.0_1.9.9e-1 and it does not appear to be under 'oldlibs' in hamm. ftp://llug.sep.bnl.gov/pub/debian/dists/unstable/hamm/binary/libs/ncurses3.0_1. 9.9e-2.deb It just takes a while to find these things, but they are ususally there. You can just get the Packages file and do a word search through it... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: ssh and shosts file
Note: I never really understand what I am doing with Linux, I just try brute force... I have solved similar problems by setting up the .shosts files to the way they should be and logging in to the remote machine (usually using my password or passphrase) and then logging back into the local machine (again with a password/phrase). After this, it usually worked. If this doesn't help, I am afraid that I have no other suggestions except to find someone who actually understands ssh. Paul On 07-Dec-97 James A.Treacy wrote: I am trying to use a .shosts file to allow password-less logins when using ssh. Both machines have a known_hosts file with the other machine in it (automatically set up by ssh). The machine I'd like to go to has a .shosts file which is mode 600. Yet when I use ssh to go to that machine it still asks for a password. This seems like it should be trivial to set up (I used .rhosts files many years ago and they always worked fine). Anybody have any ideas? - Jay -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- Paul Rightley DX-3 Hydrodynamics, MS P940 Los Alamos National LaboratoryLos Alamos, NM 87545 Phone: (505)667-0460 Fax: (505)665-3359 Email: Paul Rightley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: Debian Problem after Compiling Kernel
I am no expert, but...
Are you sure that you compile the correct driver for your
networking card into the new kernel? I get errors like
this after I have recompiled the kernel with the wrong
ethernet card driver. If you think you did this correctly,
did you compile the driver as a module? Are you sure that
it is loaded early enough in the boot process? (I usually
compile networking into the kernel - since memory is cheap.)
HTH,
Paul
On 07-Dec-97 Vaibhav Goel wrote:
Hi;
I posted about this a couple of weeks ago and someone responded with
apossible solution. But this did not seem to work so here I go again. I
would really appreciate it if someone could help me out here.
I installed Debian 1.3.1 off the InfoMagic Developers CD. This release
incorporates the 2.0.29 kernel. Installation goes without a hitch.
Everything works fine. I download the latest developers kernel (2.1.71)
and compile it. Everything seems to compile fine. Upon reboot with the
new kernel, I get the following error message
SIOADDCRT: Invalid argument
I have determined this to come from the following command which is issued
in /etc/init.d/network.
route add -net ${NETWORK}
Here is what my /etc/init.d/network file looks like
#! /bin/sh
ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
route add -net 127.0.0.0
IPADDR=204.69.208.4
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=204.69.208.0
BROADCAST=204.69.208.255
GATEWAY=204.69.208.1
ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR} netmask ${NETMASK} broadcast ${BROADCAST}
route add -net ${NETWORK}
[ ${GATEWAY} ] route add default gw ${GATEWAY} metric 1
Please note that this exact same file works great with the CD installed
kernel (ie precompiled kernel). I have tried downloading and compiling
2.0.30 but I get the same error.
Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong?
Regards,
Vaibhav
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RE: ThinkPad 560
On 08-Dec-97 Matt Thompson wrote: Paul, Thanks for your reply. I found that, for some reason, my TPad didn't want to boot any 'bzImage', but that any 'zImage' was fine. ??? All is well, now. I have a tendency to do things manually with regards to the kernel. :) Cheers, Matt Matt, Good to here things are working now. I know of no Thinkpads that can boot bzImages (though I do not know many Thinkpads) - which is why the 'tecra' disks work (i.e. they are zImages). I would highly recommend the kernel-package package (i.e. make-kpkg). It really converted me and it makes compiling the kernel (and installing it) a breeze. Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Bash 2.01 Upgrade/Libc6
I am trying to follow Scott Ellis' Libc5/6 upgrade mini-HOWTO to the letter (fearing for my system if I do not). It says that, in order to upgrade bash to 2.01, I must first install ncurses3.0_1.9.9e-2. However, I cannot find this package anywhere (stable has ncurses3.0_1.9.9e-1 and it does not appear to be under 'oldlibs' in hamm. I currently have stable (and therefore ncurses3.0_1.9.9e-1) and the ldso in hamm as well as libc6_2.0.5c-0.1. Can I safely upgrade from where I am to ncurses3.4_1.9.9g-5 and then get on with upgrading bash? Thanks for any assistance, Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: ThinkPad 560
On 30-Nov-97 Matt Thompson wrote: I seem to be having trouble configuring a custom kernel. The only kernels that work are on the 'tecra' rescue disk, and the one I got from Valery Petrov's site, but those don't support fat32 and when I make a boot floppy from the rescue disk, it loads the kernel then immediately reboots when it tries to boot the kernel. I have successfully installed Debian 1.3 on my Thinkpad using the 'tecra' disks. To get a useful boot floppy, I had to be sure to install the kernel from the rescue floppy onto the harddisk prior to making a boot floppy (if I remember correctly). I always have to make sure to force make-kpkg to make zImages when I recompile the kernel (to add FAT32 support for instance). Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
An X problem
I am using the current version of the stable tree (I guess Debian 1.3.1 r6). I have recently upgraded my video card from an ancient old thing to the Diamond Stealth 3000 3D. I have used both xf86config and XF86Setup to produce XF86Config files that provided some usable modes. However, if I exit X and then restart it (with startx), my machine will hang (i.e. no keystrokes will modify the blackness - I have not tried to log in from another machine and correct the problem that way). If I reset the machine, I can again startx ONCE before the same thing happens. Does anyone know a solution to this? I hate to have to reboot, much less reset my machine. To get around this for now, I have started using xdm. Now I have noticed that my backspace key is not working (except in xterms). I do not know if this is associated purely with xdm or if it is associated with a new XF86Config I created today to try to get around the problem presented above (which I did NOT manage to accomplish). Now, in an rxvt, I get a ~ whenever I press the backspace key. Also, other applications to not repond to the backspace key. What have I done wrong? Thanks in advance for any assistance on these matters, Paul Rightley -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Another X problem
I successfully reinstalled Debian on my Thinkpad 365XD. This time I used the Oficial Debian 1.3 CD's from LSL. This worked fine with the Tecra disks (which maybe should be renamed). Thank you to all who have worked on Debian (it was sure easier to install 1.3 on this laptop than 1.2 - back then I had to install 1.1 and upgrade). I got X working in 640x480 mode using the SVGA server. All was well with the world. Once I got a PCMCIA modem and got this laptop connected, I upgraded it to the lastest in stable (this moved X from 3.2 to 3.3). I cannot get X to work correctly now. When I startx I see this screen but it is very garbled with a lot of horizontal lines and noise. I tried to correct it with a new XF86Config, but that did not help. The only thing that I tried that worked was downgrading X back to 3.2. Is there a way that I can successfully use X 3.3 on my laptop? Thanks in advance for any assistance, Paul Rightley -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: thinkpad install
The tecra rescue disk worked fine for me to install on my THinkpad 365XD. I would recommend that it be called something other than 'tecra' since - at least to me - its biggest seeling point is the zImage kernel (at least I think that that is the case). Thanks for such a great distribution, Paul Rightley On 30-Oct-97 Rocky Burt wrote: I'll try that right now Rocky Could the user with the thinkpad problems try the disk in: disks-i386/current/special/tecra/ The testing group was trying to verify problems with the thinkpads and possibly consider special boot disk for them. However, the tester lost access to the thinkpad shortly after posting about the problems. If the tecra patch works, we should probably modify the install instructions. Thanks, Brandon - Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds Phone: (757) 221-4847 --Linus Trovalds -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: 3C509 acting strangely on Win95/Debian dual boot system
I have the same problem with my 3c509b. I dual-boot W95 and Debian (stable). Initially, when I was using loadlin, I used the 3COM DOS setup utility when I switched between the OS's to toggle the card into and out of PnP mode (PnP for W95 and nonPnP for Debian). When I decided to go with lilo, this became impractical and I decided to try to get W95 to talk to the card when it was not PnP (not an easy task for me). Now, I need to press 'reset' when going from Debian to W95 for W95 to recognize the card. I suppose I could have tried to keep it in PnP mode and get Debian to deal with that (except that I have never played around with isapnp before). I do not know if this would influence the situation. Does anyone alse have any helpful ideas? Paul Rightley On 29-Oct-97 kevin havener wrote: The problem began when the network guys switched from Novell server to NT Server...in the process they (up/down)graded me from WfW 3.11 to Win 95 on my local machine. This machine has Debian 1.3.4 (whatever) on it and I dual boot with regularity. When rebooting into Linux from W95 everything works great. YESS! When rebooting into W95 from Linux, I have to power cycle the machine to get it to recognize my 3C509 ethernet card. I've been doing this for a couple of months now...I'm just now getting tired of this behavior. So far my network admins have suggested that I run their configuration managed linux kernel 2.0.23 or something using loadlin. Didn't work. I'm put LILO back in place. Didn't work. Went back to my 2.0.29 and now 2.0.30 debian kernel. Still doesn't work. Now you and I know this is almost assuredly a micro$oft W95/NT problem. Has anyone else encounterd this problem or could otherwise give me a clue how to make 95/NT act as nice as WfW 3.11 did with Linux. TIA kevin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Work-Needing and Prospective Packages
On 06-Oct-97 Yann Dirson wrote: Philippe Troin writes: Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux Philippe Troin, [EMAIL PROTECTED] $Id: packages.sgml,v 1.57 1997/10/06 09:59:38 phil Exp $ ... 6. Programs that aren't available yet in Debian Programs listed in this section aren't yet available as Debian packages, but there has been an expressed desire to include them. If you want to create a Debian package, send me an e-mail. 6.1. Programming and development: 6.3. Graphics: 6.4. X11: Don't know in which of your section it would enter, but I suggest someone packages the Khoros system (Huge development stuff mainly aimed at data manipulation, with a powerful visual programming language, toolboxes for signal and image processing, 2/3D data visualization, matrix calculus, etc.) As I understand it, although a version of Khoros is freely available, KRI (the company that created Khoros) reserves the right to distribute Khoros to itself. Also, if this beast were packaged for Debian, everybody would be repartitioning their systems to fit it (this application is why my /usr/local is 500M)! Paul Rightley It was one of the systems I had planned to package when I joined Debian at first, but I never found enough time to start it. In case anybody wants to take a look at it, primary site was ftp://ftp.khoros.unm.edu last year, I think it would have stayed the same ;) -- Yann Dirson [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Stop making M$-Bill richer richer, alt-email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| support Debian GNU/Linux: | more powerful, more stable ! http://www.a2points.com/homepage/3475232 | - A computer engineer's looking for a job ! - -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: losing keys in fvwm2
I have found that, whenever I exit Netscape (3.01 in my case), I cannot alt-arrow to shift virtual screens. However, if I user the page and click into another virtual screen, the alt-arrow keys will again work. I have not tried other fvwm2 keystrokes and I am sure that I only see this happen when exiting Netscape. Paul On 29-Sep-97 Will Lowe wrote: On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote: At times, the keystrokes for fvwm2 simply stop working. Particularly, alt-arrow to shift virtual screens, alt-f9 (to icocnify) and the like, and teh alt-click combinations to move windows forward/back. Slap me if you've tried this, but turning numlock on in X does all sorts of funky things to alt and function keys. I often find (particularly using forms in netscape) that I turn on numlock, and then spend half an hour trying to figure out why my keyboard doesn't work anymore ... turn off numlock and it goes away. Will -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: IBM THINKPAD
The problem arises from the fact that the 365xd cannot boot Linux bzImages. These kernel images have been used by Debian since 1.2. I solved the problem by installing Debian 1.1 and then upgrading to 1.2 and later to 1.3. I do think that there is a better solution, but it may require compiling a new kernel. I have not tried this, but I will try it soon. If I have any success, I will be sure to inform you. Paul On 26-Sep-97 EL TUCK wrote: i´m triying to install debian ver 1.3 on mi IBM 365 xd laptop for the first time i have 8mb of ram, a 810 mb hard disk drive (cyl 788 , heads 32 , sectors 63) , but the systems stops when booting from the rescue disk , when i pressed F4 the table says something like HARDWARE PARAMETER TO SPECIFY IBM PS/1 or ValuePoint (IDE disk)hd=cylinders,heads,sectors IBM Thinkpad floppy=thinkpad but now i dont really know what to do now . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xrsh?
I had problems with broken ssh connections (modem to home) when sending X applications through the connection. It went away when I turned on the compression flag to ssh. I have not tried xv, though. Otherwise, I have no troubles with ssh (and it makes life so much easier). I would emphatically suggest to everyone to start using it. Paul On 08-Sep-97 Heikki Vatiainen wrote: That's hmm. interesting :) Have you tried running ssh with the verbose flag (-v) on? That way you can see which version of ssh and ssh protocol the local and remote end are using. Here's an excerpt from the ssh faq: 5.21 Ssh suddenly drops connections! This is a problem which has been reported by several people for SunOS 4, Solaris 2, Linux, and HP-UX 9 and 10, with 1.2.16 and 1.2.17. It happens with scp, when transferring large amounts of data via ssh's stdin, or when forwarding an X connection which receives a large amount of graphics data (such as a MPEG movie). [rest of the answer including the patch cut] The current released version is 1.2.20, the location of faq is http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~ig25/ssh-faq/ Gergely Madarasz wrote: Unfortunatelly I had trouble with ssh... the X connections are forwarded through the ssh channel, encrypted... and sometimes they get broken. For example I was unable to run an xv through an ssh connection, xv exited with server kill or something like that immediatelly :( Greg // Heikki -- Heikki Vatiainen * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tampere University of Technology * Tampere, Finland -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Problem with ppp
On 02-Sep-97 Magossa'nyi A'rpa'd wrote: On Tue, 2 Sep 1997, Paul Rightley wrote: [Snipped] [It is an item in the Hungarian linux lists' FAQ, so please learn Hungarian :)] It seems that the problem is really with the IDE driver disabling interrupts while handling the hard drive. You have two options: hdparm -u 1 /dev/hd? (substitue your device here) or use irqtune, you will find a nice description of it at http://www.best.com/~cae/irqtune/ Thank you for your suggestion. However, it was a defective modem or a modem/computer incompatibility problem. I returned the old modem and bought another, cheap one which works perfectly. Thanks again, Paul Rightley -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Problem with ppp
Over the weekend I tried out a new external 33.6 modem (as an upgrade to my old 14.4 internal). It didn't take me long, before I had it working with my Debian 1.3.1 box - thanks Debian. The one major problem is that - when I down/up load relatively large things (like most web pages) - the modem eventually hangs (the RX light will no longer flicker) and when I 'poff' it will not even hang up the line (I have to turn the modem off and on again to get it to work further). One thing that has changed is that my ISP has also taken this last weekend to move half of his subnet to another town. This meant (according to him) that I needed to make my sub netmask 255.255.255.128 instead of 255.255.255.0. I managed to get my netmask to be 255.255.255.128 by using 'netmask 255.255.255.128' in the /etc/ppp.options_out file. This did not solve my problem. Does anyone out there have any idea what I need to do? Could I have a flaky modem? I have not worked with a 33.6 modem before - I still have the default speed set in /etc/ppp.options_out (38400) - does this need to change? Thanks for any assistance, Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Possible security troubles and the 'new' Debian way...
I like the new way of making releases into stable (i.e. holding them in bo-updates and testing them and then moving them into stable when everything checks out). The only concern that I have with this method regards security updates. For those of us who are lazy (and brainless?) we do not always think of looking at bo-updates - rather we just point dselect to stable. As I understand it, the security fix for ldso is still sitting in bo updates and is not in stable. Although I am not direly in need of such security updates in a hurry, it seems strange to leave important fixes such as this out of stable. One of the reasons that I chose Debian was Bruce's strong commitment (in my perception) to security. Just my $0.02 Paul Rightley -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: Problems with Debian 1.3 new installation and ThinkPad 365XD
On 11-Jul-97 Timothy J. Miller wrote: I'm attempting a new install on the ThinkPad 365XD w/800x600 display, 40Mb RAM, CDROM and external floppy; at boot, the system reports root.bin loaded, then linux, then it simply halts. I thought that the consensus was that the 365XD cannot boot bzImages. I went the route of installing Debian 1.1 (with boot disks using zImages) and then upgrading. The most direct solution is to compile an appropriate zImage on a working Linux machine and add that to the boot floppy. The ThinkPad 760LD is running an upgrade from Debian 1.2. I didn't have any boot problems with the initial Debian 1.1 installation on the 760LD, *or* with the complete reinstall I did with Debian 1.2. The linux-2.0.30 without modifications; in the past it has also booted the 2.0.27, 28, and 29. From messages on this list, the 760LD works fine with the boot floppies. I would be interested in your experience with the 365XD if you get Debian installed. I have had troubles with sporadic kernel panics and other errors. Although I followed the instructions for upgrading from 1.2 to 1.3, I have ended up with a bad ldso package (probably through a kernel panic or other error that went unnoticed by me). Now I cannot use dpkg to successfully perform any act to rescue my system. So far, nobody on the debian-users list has been able to suggest a way to rescue the system. Maybe I will just have to reinstall from scratch - so much for the power of Debian on my Thinkpad. Paul Rightley - -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: bash won't see existing binaries/Upgrade Troubles
It's these /usr/sbin/???: No such file or directory errors that have been plaguing my upgrade on my Thinkpad 365XD. I swear I followed the upgrade instructions for going from an 'old' 1.2 to 1.3. Now, it would appear that I have a bad ldso package (I might not have been paying close enought attention when I did that part of the upgrade, but also, Debian and Linux in general has been relatively marginal on this hardware). Now, when I try to install the ldso package (ldso_1.8.10-2.deb), I get errors because /usr/sbin/install-info: No such file or directory - although /usr/sbin/install-info is there... Let me check... Doing a dpkg -s ldso says that I have version: 1.8.10-2! So why would dpkg -i ldso_1.8.10-2.deb even try to install the package??? What can I do to save my system? Thanks for any help, Paul Rightley After installing the 'unstable' package wn_1.17.11-1.deb the installation failed with a (for me) mysterious error: bash says /usr/sbin/wn: No such file or directory, and the same thing with all other executables which belongs to WN, but all files _are_ correctly installed (in my opinion). As described in the original ELF HOWTO, when you get this message mysteriously, it usually means you don't have the correct dynamic loader. In your case, you probably need to install libc6 and ldso from unstable as well. If this is the problem and wn doesn't depend on libc6, this is a bug. - Carey Evans * [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Upgrade Troubles on Thinkpad 365XD
I am having a lot of trouble upgrading my Thinkpad 365XD from 1.2 to 1.3 (cleanly). Most of the packages installed nicely, but now I cannot remove the kernel-source-2.0.27 package or install any of the newer kernel source packages. I am also having trouble getting a couple of other packages installed that have not given me any problems on my other machines. Now, for instance, when I want to install kernel-source-2.0.29, I get 'dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute post-installation script: No such file or directory.' I get this from dselect as well as when I simply use dpkg to install the package. When I try to remove kernel-source-2.0.27, I get a similar error, but for the post-removal script. Does anyone know what could be going on? Is there a way to recover my system. (I do not have much of value on the system at the moment, but I hesitate to start from scratch with this distribution on this machine, because it cannot boot bzImages. Here is one place that my old (nonupgradable) Slackware has outshone Debian - it ran very well on this machine. I hope to never have to go back to Slackware, however...) Paul Rightley -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: dosemu comes w/o conf file
The solution to this problem is simply to purge dosemu and then reinstall it. Thank you Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler. The problem is that dselect only removes packages - it does not purge them. This means that one cannot use dselect and remove and then successfully install dosemu. This is analogous to the problems I had reintsalling the teTeX packages recently. In both cases, one cannot remove and then immediately reinstall some packages because of simple problems. Perhaps I am the only one encountering such problems - but probably not. Maybe this should be in the release testing program? (Sorry, but I cannot volunteer to do this at the moment...) Paul Rightley On 27-Jun-97 Paul Rightley wrote: I just install dosemu 0.66.3-1 (the version in stable). It manages to install perfectly, but 'dos' gives the error 'can't open /etc/dosemu/conf' or something similar. When I look in /etc/dosemu, I find conf link to a file that is not present - 'dist'. Also, no /etc/dosemu.conf file is provided. This leaves dosemu unusable (at least as far as I know and as far as I have RTFM). Has this been seen before? Paul Rightley -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
dosemu comes w/o conf file
I just install dosemu 0.66.3-1 (the version in stable). It manages to install perfectly, but 'dos' gives the error 'can't open /etc/dosemu/conf' or something similar. When I look in /etc/dosemu, I find conf link to a file that is not present - 'dist'. Also, no /etc/dosemu.conf file is provided. This leaves dosemu unusable (at least as far as I know and as far as I have RTFM). Has this been seen before? Paul Rightley -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Where is make-kpkg
I have finally decided to try to compile my kernel 'the Debian way.' Until now, I have always done it 'manually.' In /usr/dos/kernel-source-###/ debian.README it says to use make-kpkg. I cannot find this command on my system or by a search under dselect. I am 'up-to-date' with stable and have dpkg and dpkg-dev 1.4.0.8 installed. Thanks for any assistance, PAul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Big problem with TeX/LaTeX
teTeX does seem to install now (and I do not have the TeX environment variables set... To me, this is not right. This means that I cannot use dselect to remove the teTeX packages and then reinstall them without executing commands not related to dselect. Is this a fault with one of the install scripts? It has apparently bitten several people other then myself. Thanks for such a great distribution, Paul On 23-Jun-97 Christoph Martin wrote: Paul Rightley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What about TEX specific environment variables as sugested in the output? Unset all of them for installation. Christoph I was wondering if anyone has run into this lately and if it is something I am doing wrong... I have used the 'new' tetex packages of Debian for some time now. I was recently 'forced' to remove X and tex from my machine temporarily. Now I have X back and running, but am having problems getting the tetex packages to install and work. (I have seen at least one other posting describing one of the symptoms I am having.) I start with a 'tex-clean' system. Then I do a dpkg -i tetex-base_0.4pl6-5.deb This seems to work fine. Then I do dpkg -i tetex-bin_0.4pl6-8.deb and things start going wrong. When it tries to configure the package, it produces errors like: Please set the environment variable TETEXDIR or TEXMFCNF correctly. For details see the teTeX and the Kpathsea manual kpsetool: language.dat not found. kpsetool: modes.mf not found. kpsetool: texmf.cnf not found. /usr/bin/texconfig: cd: /web2c: No such file or directory Error opening terminal: generic. /usr/bin/texconfig: /tmp/texconf4119/logfile: No such file or directory Output of initex is in /tmp/texconfig.out If you want to change the default settings, use /usr/bin/texconfig to configure teTeX. Running /usr/bin/texconfig produces similar errors. Now, when I go to latex something, I get This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (C version 6.1) I can't find the default format file! Which is the symptom reported recently in this mail list. What should I do to get a working latex installation? Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Big problem with TeX/LaTeX
I was wondering if anyone has run into this lately and if it is something I am doing wrong... I have used the 'new' tetex packages of Debian for some time now. I was recently 'forced' to remove X and tex from my machine temporarily. Now I have X back and running, but am having problems getting the tetex packages to install and work. (I have seen at least one other posting describing one of the symptoms I am having.) I start with a 'tex-clean' system. Then I do a dpkg -i tetex-base_0.4pl6-5.deb This seems to work fine. Then I do dpkg -i tetex-bin_0.4pl6-8.deb and things start going wrong. When it tries to configure the package, it produces errors like: Please set the environment variable TETEXDIR or TEXMFCNF correctly. For details see the teTeX and the Kpathsea manual kpsetool: language.dat not found. kpsetool: modes.mf not found. kpsetool: texmf.cnf not found. /usr/bin/texconfig: cd: /web2c: No such file or directory Error opening terminal: generic. /usr/bin/texconfig: /tmp/texconf4119/logfile: No such file or directory Output of initex is in /tmp/texconfig.out If you want to change the default settings, use /usr/bin/texconfig to configure teTeX. Running /usr/bin/texconfig produces similar errors. Now, when I go to latex something, I get This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (C version 6.1) I can't find the default format file! Which is the symptom reported recently in this mail list. What should I do to get a working latex installation? Paul -- Paul Rightley DX-3 Hydrodynamics, MS P940 Los Alamos National LaboratoryLos Alamos, NM 87545 Phone: (505)667-0460 Fax: (505)665-3359 Email: Paul Rightley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: xforms, offix: what are they?
I may be wrong, but the xforms package became the xforms0 package recently. Purging the old xforms package and installing the 'new' xforms0 package should get rid of and obsolete package and will work just as good. (I think - I am using the xforms-0.86 package from hamm so that I can use the most recent release of xfmail...) Paul On 11-Jun-97 Randy Edwards wrote: I've got two packages installed which dselect reports are obsolete. They're xforms 0.81-4 and offix 2.3a1. Does anyone know what they are and whether it's safe to remove them? I also have a copy of linuxdoc-sgml 1.5-4 installed which dselects also reports as obsolete. Does anyone know what the status of this package is? | Debian GNU/ __ o Regards, |/ / _ _ _ _ _ __ __ .| / /__ / / / \// //_// \ \/ / Randy| // /_/ /_/\/ /___/ /_/\_\ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | ...because lockups are for convicts... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- Paul Rightley DX-3 Hydrodynamics, MS P940 Los Alamos National LaboratoryLos Alamos, NM 87545 Phone: (505)667-0460 Fax: (505)665-3359 Email: Paul Rightley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
base is still obsolete
I have been using Debian on my machine at work for quite some time. When the box was upgraded to Debian 1.2, it was left with one obsolete package - base. Just as a matter of compulsive cleanliness - will we ever be able to purge base or will there always be one obsolete package popping up in deselect? Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian as a server.
On 01-May-97 Kevin Traas wrote: The only people who have reasonably stable Windows machines are the tech heads and geeks who have the time, ability, and the inclination to mess about it with it for days and weeks on end. Funny. Sounds like most Linux people I know However, I resent being called a geek grin (Just to add some valuable input here: Sure, Linux is stable out-of-the-box, but there's a lot of work to do before you've got a machine that can do everything you need/want it to - and, IMHO, it's not all that easy and quite beyond non tech-heads and geeks Take, for instance, a PPP connection to an ISP. Under Win95, even the BDU's I support have done this with little help on my part (oh, BDU=Brain Dead User - my pet name for non-techiesg). Doing this in Linux is a little more difficult - and you've still got the browser, e-mail, etc. to install config I would just like to point out that (even though I do have substantial experience with Linux and Debian) I had never used PPP until a couple of weeks ago. When I wanted to get PPP up, I edited /etc/resolv.conf (with the ISP's DNS server and /etc/ppp.chatscript (with the ISP's phone number) and amazingly it worked. It took something like 2 minutes to be up and running. Things can (and do) change. With the number of people using Linux and Debian for PPP connections, it was inevitable... I'm not a Windoze lover; however, each OS certainly has it's strengths (and weaknesses) and, I guess, if holding onto one particular OS is a religious/faith thing for people, then I'm one to take the best piece out of every pie...) I agree. For the first time ever I have been able to specify the OS for the machine I use at work. I am dual booting Linux and W95 (so that I can still communicate with others here). As I see it, there is usually little choice in which OS you get to use... Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: failed installation of 1.2 on thinkpad. Tips?
I have had this very same problem. I solved it by using the old Debian 1.1 boot/base disks. Then I pointed dselect to Debian 1.2. This worked well and was the only way (short of possibly creating a custom boot disk) that I found. I also had no problem installing Slackware on my Thinkpad... HTH, Paul P.S. You should be able to find Debian 1.1 disks on one of the main Debian ftp machines (but I have forgotten which one). On 12-May-97 Jim Meyering wrote: First, thanks to all who have taken the time to reply. I really appreciate all the help. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Hanson) writes: |From: Jim Meyering [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: failed installation of 1.2 on thinkpad. Tips? | |I am trying to install Debian/GNU/Linux 1.2 from floppy disks on |a Thinkpad w/pentium. |I have made the 6 disks as described in | | ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/stable/disks-i386/current/install.html | |I inserted rescue diskette and power cycled. |I read through the on-line instructions and typed | | linux floppy=thinkpad | |and hit Enter. | |Then I got the loading root.bin..., then loading linux.. |messages, but nothing more. It just hung -- I waited at |least 15 minutes before giving up. | |Have I missed something obvious? | | I used these disks to install on a ThinkPad 760C about a month ago. | They worked fine. | | The most likely answer to your problem is that you should not use | floppy=thinkpad; I didn't use it on the 760C. Modern ThinkPads do | not need that switch, only older ones, such as the trusty 755C I'm | using right now. I tried with the pre-1.3 rescue disk, with all combinations of the options floppy=thinkpad and floppy=... to no avail. I still haven't gotten past the `loading linux' part. Here's more info that I should have mentioned before: I'm using a thinkpad 760EL there's an internal CD-ROM drive the floppy drive is external I have not tried the floppyless installation because blush I don't even know how to boot DOS on this system, and haven't found any instructions for the floppyless install. Pointers welcome. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: mouse problem
On my laptop which has a PS/2 compatible pointing device, the device I use is /dev/psaux. I had to compile support into the kernel. HTH. Paul Rightley On 07-May-97 Klaus Hergerschiemer wrote: If you have ps/2 mouse support compiled in the kernel it's /dev/psmouse joe | joseph robert palicke [EMAIL PROTECTED] |.|--| .| [_] [] \ / http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/palicke On Wed, 7 May 1997, System Account wrote: Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 00:46:40 -0400 (EDT) From: System Account [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian-Users-List debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: mouse problem Resent-Date: 7 May 1997 05:44:53 - Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Resent-cc: recipient list not shown:;@cs.purdue.edu hello debians i have a new mouse here and can not get gpm to find it. the new mouse is called 'Mouse in a box' by Kensington. it is a 2 button serial / ps2 mouse. (it comes with a serial connector and a ps2 adapter). it runs fine in dos/windows3.11 with the Microsoft, or IBM PS/2 drivers. i have tried gpm -m /dev/mouse -t just_about_everything_i_could_find and i just get /dev/xxx no such device. does anyone out there have this mouse and/or know what device to use? TIA for any info -Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Critical Times article
On 23-Apr-97 Matthew Tebbens wrote: I'll have to agree with Rick. I cannot believe that this person is a journalist !?!? I could tell right away that he did alot of research on the subject ! :) On Wed, 23 Apr 1997, Rick Jones wrote: All I have to say is...what a fu**ing maroon. He has obviously never even looked at a computer with Linux on it. And he calls himself a Journalist?!? Why is everyone so incredulous that this man is a journalist? Is there some minimum standard that people are held to before they can write for a newspaper? (If so, I would recommend that it be 'upgraded' to remove the bottom feeders that have become prevalent in our media of late.) Lord knows, if I wanted to sit around and spout off my opinions all day without concern for reality I would try to become a newspaper columnist. Leave the guy alone - remember Bruce's admonishment regarding fights with idiots. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: The ultimate fate of Debian
This may have already been addressed, but back in the late 70's and into the 80's (I believe) the leader of the group did call himself 'Bo' and his sidekick, Ms. Nettles or whatever, was called 'Peep.' That was back when they spent some time here in the great state of New Mexico. Paul On 02-Apr-97 Jason Costomiris wrote: On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Paul Rightley wrote: Now, the leader of this group was/is (depending upon your beliefs) a man who at one time called himself 'Bo'. Uh He called himself Do. Not Bo. Run, do not walk to the closet, put on your Nike's, get your shroud, and visit http://www.highersource.org, and laugh. Yes, .org, and not the .com site that belonged to those deranged losers. Jason Costomiris | Finger for PGP 2.6.2 Public Key [EMAIL PROTECTED] | There is a fine line between idiocy My employers like me, but not | and genius. We aim to erase that line enough to let me speak for them. | --Unknown http://www.jasons.org/~jcostom
The ultimate fate of Debian
I know that there is great debate over the future of the various Linux distributions. Now I am seriously concerned for the future of Debian. As we all know (or at least those of us up-to-date with the current news of the US), a group of computer-literate people just killed themselves so that they could 'hop' (an interesting combination of the name of the comet) on Hale-Bopp (or at least on a spaceship associated with it). Now, the leader of this group was/is (depending upon your beliefs) a man who at one time called himself 'Bo'. Hopefully you can see my concern for Debian. It must not be a coincidence that the next release of Debian bears this name...that it will be release just as Hale-Bopp hurtles away from the inner solar system. I solemly hope that, with the release of bo, the entire Debian developers team does not use the same cosmic 'hlt' instruction! Just a thought. (Hope its not wasting too much bandwidth...) Paul
RE: X server not working
I, too, once had this problem with. Just make sure that /usr/X11R6/bin is in your path. Paul On 26-Mar-97 The Gardyan wrote: I have the Debian distribution of Linux. When I type xdm as they suggest i get the command not found message although I can clearly see the binary in the directory. I checked to see the file attributes and they are set to be 755 so I don't understand what the problem is. When I try running startx it also gives me the same error although I can see the the startx binary as well. What's going on? thanks for your help. -- Paul Rightley DX-3 Hydrodynamics, MS P940 Los Alamos National LaboratoryLos Alamos, NM 87545 Phone: (505)667-0460 Fax: (505)665-3359 Email: Paul Rightley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Received: (qmail 8894 invoked by uid 888); 26 Mar 1997 15:33:45 - Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 8892 invoked by uid 888); 26 Mar 1997 15:33:45 - Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 8890 invoked from network); 26 Mar 1997 15:33:44 - Received: from bdschi.xsite.net (HELO chilin.bdschi.com) (206.126.244.8) by master.debian.org with SMTP; 26 Mar 1997 15:33:42 - Received: from coolin (coolin.bdschi.com [192.9.201.3]) by chilin.bdschi.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA09260; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 09:06:48 -0600 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 09:06:31 -0500 From: Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Business Data Services X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: R. Chris Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: PPPproblem References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit R. Chris Ross wrote: I have a Debisn 1.2 system which I had been using on the net at one time. For various reasons I had to stop using it and now I am trying to get it going again however there is a problem with PPP. In the ppp.log file the dymamic ip addresses are acknolaged and a lock established then there is a line that says that it is attempting to add an ethernet address to the arp table. What ethernet address? his or mine? If mine I don't have one and if his what should it care since it is running via modem? After this line the link is dropped. This means that somewhere (most likely in the /etc/ppp/options file) pppd is getting the proxyarp option. Naturally proxyarp is not useful (and may be causing ppp to fail) if you don't have a network card. At other places amd at the end there are ppp.log entries that say the line is not 8 bit clear and that bit 7 is 0. What does this mean? At some point my ISP's system was taken out of service for maintainance but it may have been at that point that I started recieving this second error. This often happens when you don't get past the chat with the other modem to log in. When you try to connect to a host which prints out a user-readable login: and banner screen, naturally all the data which is printed out will have bit 7 = 0 since there aren't any standard printable characters with an ascii code above 127. Any help would be greatly appriciated. Chris I don't know if the above will completely solve your problem. It generally helps those of us trying to help when you include the *actual* error/log messages which occur. Remember, when asking a question of the list keep in mind detail, clarity, and brevity. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
fvwmrc -- fvwmrc2
I have heard a mention here of a (Debian?) install script that might convert a .fvwmrc file to a .fvwmrc2 file. Where can I find such a utility? I have Debian 1.2 going well, and I want to transition to fvwm2, but don't have the time to recreate the whole rc file. Thank you for any help, Paul Rightley
RE: permanently running syslogd
The most likely problem then, is that some news directories associated with inn are still present in /etc/syslog.conf. Delete these entries in this file (as I remember they are near the beginning) and then everything should work correctly. (I had the same problem) Paul On 06-Mar-97 Karlheinz Nolte wrote: Hello all, I have an Debian GNU/Linux 1.2.2. The problem I have is as follows: After booting the PC, the syslogd daemon is permanently in the run state. Therefore the PC (486DX33) is very slow. When I kill the syslogd, and start it by hand with /sbin/syslogd, the syslogd now sleeps. I think this is a problem of the start-stop-daemon perl script, which is used in the /etc/init.d/sysklogd startup script. This problem I have only since last week. I remember, that I deinstalled the inn package at this time. Could that be the reason for this behaviour? Thanks in advance, Karlheinz. -- Karlheinz Nolte, VS/ETB5, ALCATEL SEL AG D-70430 Stuttgart, Germany Tel.: +49-711-821-41834 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Paul Rightley DX-3 Hydrodynamics, MS P940 Los Alamos National LaboratoryLos Alamos, NM 87545 Phone: (505)667-0460 Fax: (505)665-3359 Email: Paul Rightley [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
RE: Current rescue disk will not boot a Thinkpad 365X
Even though you may utilize the Debian 1.1 floppy set to start out, it doesn't mean that you can't do an unstable install. Use the floppies and then point dselect at whatever Debian version you have/or are interested in. It worked fine for me to go right from the 1.1 base install to 1.2. That's the beauty of Debian. HTH, Paul On 23-Feb-97 Rob Browning wrote: I tried to install Debian on a friend's Thinkpad 365X, and it gets to the Loading stage and then locks up. I've tried the floppy=thinkpad option at the boot prompt with no effect. I found someone else had asked about this on the list, and there was no definitive answer. Also there were a number of questions on usenet about this. The only solution mentioned was to use the Debian-1.1, Slackware, or RedHat boot disks, but I wanted to do an unstable install. Any other ideas? Thanks -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Paul Rightley DX-3 Hydrodynamics, MS P940 Los Alamos National LaboratoryLos Alamos, NM 87545 Phone: (505)667-0460 Fax: (505)665-3359 Email: Paul Rightley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Filesystemsize
On 24-Feb-97 Dirk Bernhardt wrote: Stefan Walder writes: does anyone know how big a ext2-filesystem can be? From /usr/src/linux/fs/ext2/CHANGES: Changes from version 0.5 to version 0.5a [..] - Check that no data can be written to a file past the 2GB limit. That says 'file' not 'filesystem.' Last I remember, no file could be over 2GB, but filesystems up to 4TB are possible. Paul -- Paul Rightley DX-3 Hydrodynamics, MS P940 Los Alamos National LaboratoryLos Alamos, NM 87545 Phone: (505)667-0460 Fax: (505)665-3359 Email: Paul Rightley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Battery level monitor for Linux and X11?
'xapm' works just as well as the utility provided with W95 on my Thinkpad 365XD. Paul On 21-Feb-97 Robert Nicholson wrote: dmesg reports the correct information from the BIOS so that APM stuff is working fine. So does anybody know of a good notebook battery level monitor? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Paul Rightley DX-3 Hydrodynamics, MS P940 Los Alamos National LaboratoryLos Alamos, NM 87545 Phone: (505)667-0460 Fax: (505)665-3359 Email: Paul Rightley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: load now pegs at 1
You have not given a sufficient amount of information to diagnose the problem. What process is causing the high load. I suspect that it is syslogd. If this is the case, you probably have some directories specified in /etc/syslog.conf that do not exist on your machine. Comment out the lines in /etc/syslog.conf and reboot (although there must be a more gentle way to restart syslogd). Things should then work OK. Of course, if syslogd is not the cause of the high load, then all bets are off. Paul On 20-Feb-97 Richard Morin wrote: Hi folks, little anomyly that I'd like to share. I had a few probs with dpkg, and bash, which are now take care of thanks to the list. :-) Only things is now I notice a load which doesn't drop below 1, even when I am not doing anything. This is a single user machine p100 with 32megs of ram, and 16M of swap(I know should be 64...) Should I be looking for any other problems that I might not be aware of? Rich M [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Paul Rightley DX-3 Hydrodynamics, MS P940 Los Alamos National LaboratoryLos Alamos, NM 87545 Phone: (505)667-0460 Fax: (505)665-3359 Email: Paul Rightley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: What's the state of X in rex-fixed?
I did not have a problem using XF86Setup with my Thinkpad 365XD which uses a PS/2 mouse as its 'trackpoint.' As I remember it, it was pretty easy to choose the mouse using keystrokes. Paul On 16-Feb-97 Robert Nicholson wrote: Is this 3.2 or 3.1.2G or worse? Also why is it I always have to edit the TCL for XF86Setup so that it uses a PS/2 mouse by default? You cannot select all the options ie. you cannot get to the PS/2 button when it's configured as a serial mouse. with the keyboard ie. you need to use the mouse to configure the mouse .. trying moving a PS/2 mouse when it's configured as a serial device. -- Proud supporter of Sun's 100% Pure Java Program. Write once, run anywhere. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Paul Rightley DX-3 Hydrodynamics, MS P940 Los Alamos National LaboratoryLos Alamos, NM 87545 Phone: (505)667-0460 Fax: (505)665-3359 Email: Paul Rightley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Where to point dselect for Iconnect CD ?
On 15-Feb-97 Philippe Troin wrote: On Sat, 15 Feb 1997 15:08:39 EST Stan Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Just finally got my shiny new Iconnect CD. Now I'm ready to upgrade. Qell not exactly. dselect doesn't sem to like anything that I tell it. My CD is /dev/hdc, mounted on /cdrom. What am I supposed to tell dselect when it prompts for distribtion Top Level ? Try just `.' or `Debian-1.2'. Note that the CD has to be unmounted when you start dselect (dselect mounts it somewhere under /var/lib/dpkg). I have gotten IConnect CD's to work when mounted. I then point dselect to the top of the CD filesystem (in the case under consideration, /cdrom). Paul -- Paul Rightley DX-3 Hydrodynamics, MS P940 Los Alamos National LaboratoryLos Alamos, NM 87545 Phone: (505)667-0460 Fax: (505)665-3359 Email: Paul Rightley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to rebuild available file ?
On 15-Feb-97 Philippe Troin wrote: On Sat, 15 Feb 1997 15:48:18 EST Stan Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I just got a new CD from Iconnect. I ran Update availble and now I have a problem. An simple atemp to do dpkg -i package_name returns the folowing erro: dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 13771 package `zlib1': empty value for version What can I do to rebuild this file correctly ? Just choose [U]pdate in the dselect menu. It will rebuild an available file. I usually got this error when doing an update (or at least right after updating). It seems to be the consensus on debian-user to do something like a 'dpkg --clear-avail' and then upgrade dpkg to the one currently in stable. Paul -- Paul Rightley DX-3 Hydrodynamics, MS P940 Los Alamos National LaboratoryLos Alamos, NM 87545 Phone: (505)667-0460 Fax: (505)665-3359 Email: Paul Rightley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Need information from people who have had problems with boot
No, its an 8MB Thinkpad. I will happily test out any new boot floppies that are forthcoming. Paul On 14-Jan-97 Bruce Perens wrote: I think this was a low-memory problem - it's a 4MB thinkpad, right? Dale Scheetz and Sven Rudolph are currently working on reducing memory usage in the boot floppies. Thanks Bruce Subject: RE: Need information from people who have had problems with boot I would like to point out that I have finally managed to produce a working Debian installation on my Thinkpad 365XD. I found the 1.1 diskset on ftp.infomagic.com and installed the base system from those. The 1.1 disks have no trouble booting the Thinkpad (though I have had no luck whatsoever booting with the 1.2 disks). I then pointed dselect to the iConnect 1.2 CD that I had purchased and worked from there. I no longer see the 1.1 distribution on ftp.debian.org - would it not be a good idea to keep it? Paul On 07-Jan-97 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] is building a new boot disk set while I am out cleaning up after a flood in my home and have no working computers. I know there are a number of people who have had trouble booting for various reasons, and Dale does not have any of the feedback you gave me. Please send him information on what drivers hang up your system, etc. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Paul Rightley DX-3 Hydrodynamics, MS P940 Los Alamos National LaboratoryLos Alamos, NM 87545 Phone: (505)667-0460 Fax: (505)665-3359 Email: Paul Rightley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- End of excerpt from Paul Rightley -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Paul Rightley DX-3 Hydrodynamics, MS P940 Los Alamos National LaboratoryLos Alamos, NM 87545 Phone: (505)667-0460 Fax: (505)665-3359 Email: Paul Rightley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Fax programs! help please. (fwd)
On 14-Jan-97 Johann Spies wrote: As a traditional DOS-user who does not like Windows I have been trying out Linux for the past few months and I am impressed escpecially with LaTeX (I use TeTeX because of problems with the debian LaTeX packages I experienced), Emacs, lynx and pine. What sort of troubles did you ecperience with the Debian LaTeX package? I ask because I have had some trouble too, and was wondering if these were caused by the Debian TeX distribution or the newer TeX's in general. Also, how do you go about getting/installing TeTeX in Debian? Thank you, Paul -- Paul Rightley DX-3 Hydrodynamics, MS P940 Los Alamos National LaboratoryLos Alamos, NM 87545 Phone: (505)667-0460 Fax: (505)665-3359 Email: Paul Rightley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Installation problem
Just yesterday, I managed to install Debian 1.2 on an IBM Thinkpad that I was having trouble with. I found the Debian 1.1 distribution on a mirror (ftp.infomagic.com I think) and used the 1.1 floppies. Then I pointed dselect to the 1.2 distribution and eventually got a working system. I have tried everything to get the 1.2 floppies to boot the Thinkpad, but have had no luck. Paul On 12-Jan-97 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to install Debian 1.2 on a Micron Millenia Transport laptop. For some reason (probably conected with the fact that there is no way of disabling shadow video for this board) the laptop display switches off fairly early in the procedure last message SJCD resetting. If I connect an external monitor, either activated together with or instead of the internal display, it remains active. I had a similar problem with 1.1 (for which I never finished the install since 1.2 became available) but one of the special kernels (2.0.18_0) solved it. There don't seem to be any such special kernels in 1.2, and I have no nformation about what configuration was used to generate the one which worked for me. I would try continuing with the 1.1 installation, but the floppies have gone bad. Any suggestions? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Paul Rightley DX-3 Hydrodynamics, MS P940 Los Alamos National LaboratoryLos Alamos, NM 87545 Phone: (505)667-0460 Fax: (505)665-3359 Email: Paul Rightley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Need information from people who have had problems with boot
I would like to point out that I have finally managed to produce a working Debian installation on my Thinkpad 365XD. I found the 1.1 diskset on ftp.infomagic.com and installed the base system from those. The 1.1 disks have no trouble booting the Thinkpad (though I have had no luck whatsoever booting with the 1.2 disks). I then pointed dselect to the iConnect 1.2 CD that I had purchased and worked from there. I no longer see the 1.1 distribution on ftp.debian.org - would it not be a good idea to keep it? Paul On 07-Jan-97 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] is building a new boot disk set while I am out cleaning up after a flood in my home and have no working computers. I know there are a number of people who have had trouble booting for various reasons, and Dale does not have any of the feedback you gave me. Please send him information on what drivers hang up your system, etc. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Paul Rightley DX-3 Hydrodynamics, MS P940 Los Alamos National LaboratoryLos Alamos, NM 87545 Phone: (505)667-0460 Fax: (505)665-3359 Email: Paul Rightley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Some help with X11
I have recently installed XFree 3.2 from the Debian 1.2 distribution. I have a Cirrus Logic 5434-based card. I have run XF86Setup and managed to get some working modes that looked good. I then saved the config file. However, when I type 'startx' there is always an error that reads something like 'clgd5434 is an invalid chipset.' How can the XF86Setup utility work and start the server with usable modes only to be left with a useless XF86Config. BTW I put the new XF86Config's in /etc/X11/ and have a link from /usr/lib/X11R6/ (or whatever the appropriate directory is for XF86Config's) to /etc/X11/XF86Config. Thank you for any help, Paul Rightley -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Ghostscript Version: 4.01-4
Whenever I have had such problems, it usually results from the fonts being in the incorrect directory. I seem to remember that sometimes GS expects its fonts under /usr/local/share/... It seems to depend on how the binary was compiled (though I am not sure). I do not know how to tell GS in what directory to look for fonts. PAul Rightley On 09-Jan-97 Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: Hi, I'm getting a error concerning fonts not found: Aladdin Ghostscript 4.01 (1996-7-10) Copyright (C) 1996 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA. All rights reserved. This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details. Can't find (or can't open) font file n021003l.pfb. Unable to substitute for font. Error: /invalidfont in findfont Operand stack: --nostringval-- Times-Roman 28548 --nostringval-- Times-Roman NimbusRomNo9L-Regu The specified file exist and is in /usr/lib/ghostscript/fonts: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root35161 Oct 24 18:55 n021003l.pfb -rw-r--r-- 1 root root34996 Oct 24 18:56 n021004l.pfb -rw-r--r-- 1 root root37139 Oct 24 18:56 n021023l.pfb -rw-r--r-- 1 root root36325 Oct 24 18:56 n021024l.pfb Is this a problem with this version of GS? Is it possible to test, in some way, a *.pfb file? Any hints? []s, mario Mario O.de Menezes - oo-O-oo- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Nuclear and Energetic Research Institute - IPEN-CNEN/SP | | BRAZIL - fone (+55) 011-816.9175 fax (+55) 011-8l6.9188 | | http://tucano.ipen.br - http://www.ipen.br/~mario/mario.html | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Paul Rightley DX-3 Hydrodynamics, MS P940 Los Alamos National LaboratoryLos Alamos, NM 87545 Phone: (505)667-0460 Fax: (505)665-3359 Email: Paul Rightley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Help installing Debian on a Thinkpad
I am trying to install Debian (1.2) on my Thinkpad 365XD. I cannot get the rescue disk to boot (I have tries both the 12/8/96 and the 1/4/97 disk sets). The symptoms are as follows. I put the floppy in the (external) drive and power-up the machine (same thing happens on warm reboots). I get through the 'boot:' prompt screens by either typing nothing or 'linux floppy=thinkpad'. In either case, I get 'Loading root.bin' and then 'Loading Linux.' and then nothing happens. I had this trouble before Christmas (and have not solved it since then) and I was forced to try installing Slackware 3.0. For Slackware, the installation works just fine and I could even get a poor looking X going. Now however, if I try to latex anything, I get a kernel OOPS and a segmentation fault. TeX seems to work, but both TeX and LaTeX are symlinks to virtex. I would really appreciate any assistance on this problem. Thank you, Paul Rightley -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian Boot Problems on a Thinkpad
I hope that I am not missing a FAQ anywhere, but I am having trouble getting the Debian 1.2 floppies to work on my IBM THinkpad 365XD. Booting the rescue floppy just gets to 'Loading Linux' and then it hangs. I have been forced to install Slackware 3.0 on the machine in the interim (and that boot/root floppy combination worked perfectly). What can I do to get this working? TIA, PAul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Large Harddrive Problems
I just bought a new Maxtor 3.5G drive on which I am going to put Debian 1.2 at home (I already have Debian at work). My motherboard at home is from early-mid 1995 and supports a Pentium 120. The Award BIOS (which definitely supports LBA) detects the new Maxtor and gives the correct settings, but states that the size of the drive is something like 1.395G. When I run fdisk from the Debian 1.2 floppies, it sees all 3.5G of the drive, but when I start to initialize file systems I get large numbers of errors (don't remember the exact error). The way I have it set up now, I have a 1G partition at the beginning of the drive for W95. If I try to give the rest of the drive to W95 in another partition, it too has errors upon formatting (but its fdisk also sees it as a 3.5G drive). It sounds to me like a BIOS problem. Maxtor provides software to make DOS/W95 see the entire disk, but will this solution work for Linux? Isn't there a work-around for this in Linux? I can no longer find the old Large-Harddrive HOWTO (although this may have addressed another problem). TIA, Paul Rightley -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: upgrading tips (was Re: Any pitfalls of upgrading to libc in
The only problem I had with upgrading debian was the information on how to do it. Now that I know, I see that it is VERY simple and straightforward, but maybe, it should be discussed somewhere in the install guide or some such (I could not find a description on the debian.org web site). I am extremely grateful to those who assembled this distribution. The upgrade path (now clear to me) is truly outstanding. It is entirely too simple if one is on the net to get dpkg-ftp running and then upgraded in a relatively automated fashion. Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I upgrade from 1.1 to 1.2?
Regarding this discussion... I still do not understand the mechanics of upgrading my 1.1 distribution to 1.2 Assuming I get dpkg-ftp to work, when I fire up dselect, what do I need to do to upgrade ALL of the various packages I have installed? I am concerned regarding all of the security updates - do I need to read all of them and then upgrade each package individually? I have not really found any documentation to this point. Thanks for any help provided Paul On 05-Dec-96 Rick Macdonald wrote: On Wed, 4 Dec 1996, Eloy A. Paris wrote: !Hola! I am sorry if I ask a couple of dumb questions... No such thing! ;-) 1) When 1.2 is released, will it be named 1.2 or 1.3? I thought odd revision numbers were for stable releases and even ones for development releases (I guess this was a side effect after a wrong version of Debian was put on CD, I think originally it was the opposite was: odd for development and even for stable) What you describe is for Linux Kernel versions, not Linux distributions. or whatever it's called when it's released) without changing my current system configuration or breaking any packages or something? !Claro que si! This is the whole idea, and one of Debians main claims to fame. ...RickM... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
