Problems with compilation
configure:1575: checking for g++ configure:1604: result: no configure:1617: checking for C++ compiler version configure:1620: g++ --version /dev/null 5 ./configure: line 1621: g++: command not found Therefore, I tried apt-get install g++ but it gives me The following packages have unmet dependencies: g++: Depends: cpp (= 4:4.3.2-2) but it is not going to be installed Depends: gcc (= 4:4.3.2-2) but it is not going to be installed Depends: g++-4.3 (= 4.3.2-1) but it is not going to be installed Depends: gcc-4.3 (= 4.3.2-1) but it is not going to be installed E: Broken packages What can I do? Uwe (Please, Cc: to me, I am not following all the posts, thanks!) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: X gets killed immediately after successful graphical logon
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 6:35 PM, John Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: now switch to the X display (Alt+F8 probably) move cursor to the xterm, and # /usr/bin/startxfce4 now see what happens. Now, no, I think I should change the subject or start a new thread? It seems my install simply fails me completely now. I had to do some repair when booting a few days back, then it worked and now the repair tends to come up at boot, again. But even if it doesn't, it is not okay. Unfortunately, all messages flash by too quickly, and don't show in dmesg neither. But there is always something like /dev/shm not found, some udevdevdevsdev-message, the wireless is recognized, but fails latrer during boot, and now apt-get also shows some weird messages. That means, I better forget the whole thing and install, again, after some 3 years? But I'd still like to save/backup as much as possible. The following script shows some of the misery: % apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 10 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y Setting up linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 (2.6.18.dfsg.1-18etch4) ... Running depmod. Finding valid ramdisk creators. Using mkinitramfs-kpkg to build the ramdisk. /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs-kpkg: line 35: /usr/bin/touch: Permission denied mkinitramfs-kpkg failed to create initrd image. Failed to create initrd image. dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 9 Setting up libxul0d (1.8.0.15~pre080323b-0etch2) ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/libxul0d.postinst: line 6: /usr/bin/touch: Permission denied dpkg: error processing libxul0d (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of acroread: acroread depends on libxul0d; however: Package libxul0d is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing acroread (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of acroread-debian-files: acroread-debian-files depends on acroread (= 8.1.2); however: Package acroread is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing acroread-debian-files (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of acroread-escript: acroread-escript depends on acroread (= 8.1.2-0.3); however: Package acroread is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing acroread-escript (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of acroread-plugins: acroread-plugins depends on acroread (= 8.1.2-0.3); however: Package acroread is not configured yet. acroread-plugins depends on acroread-escript; however: Package acroread-escript is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing acroread-plugins (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Setting up iceweasel (2.0.0.14-0etch1) ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/iceweasel.postinst: line 12: /usr/bin/touch: Permission denied dpkg: error processing iceweasel (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mozilla-firefox: mozilla-firefox depends on iceweasel (= 2.0.0.14-0etch1); however: Package iceweasel is not configured yet. mozilla-firefox depends on iceweasel ( 2.0.0.14-0etch1.1~); however: Package iceweasel is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing mozilla-firefox (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xulrunner-gnome-support: xulrunner-gnome-support depends on libxul0d; however: Package libxul0d is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing xulrunner-gnome-support (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of acroread-data: acroread-data depends on acroread (= 8.1.2-0.3); however: Package acroread is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing acroread-data (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 libxul0d acroread acroread-debian-files acroread-escript acroread-plugins iceweasel mozilla-firefox xulrunner-gnome-support acroread-data E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Is there any 'repair' function in Debian, some checking of packages? Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X gets killed immediately after successful graphical logon
I can't get into any of my sessions, whatever I do. The machine starts up and shows kdm, as it has been doing for some years. Only, whenever I logon, as any user, or any session (kde, gnome, xfce), it starts, then some scrambling of the screen, and back I am at login applet. The only one that works is Failsafe. Therefore, it can't be a problem of a wrong password; it rather looks like any X session started after the successful logon must have some setting that kills X. Unfortunately, the Xorg.log does not show anything extraordinary. I wonder how to debug this further ...? Uwe Please, Cc: to me in case of answers; due to the traffic on this list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X gets killed immediately after successful graphical logon
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Andrew Reid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder how to debug this further ...? If you are logging in successfully, then error messages are being sent to the .xsession-errors file in your home directory -- check there for more clues. It is empty: % ls -ltra [...] -rw--- 1 udippel udippel0 2008-05-15 10:39 .xsession-errors -rw--- 1 udippel udippel 245 2008-05-15 10:39 .Xauthority Also, the default start-up runs the .xsession file in your home directory, if it exists and has appropriate permissions. Try removing/renaming that. No change, I deleted it. It contained: exec esd exec /usr/bin/startxfce4 I also created a new user, and she experiences the same problem. -rw--- 1 testo testo0 2008-05-15 10:43 .xsession-errors What else could I do? Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Update of ROOT servers
Minor, minor. Only for completeness. Made some recent movements for some items in my /etc/bind today, and since it didn't work, also checked tail /var/log/daemon.log to find about my lack of knowledge w.r.t. CN. But also, there was some check_hints: A records for L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET class 1 do not match hint records Obviously some time ago there was a change of IP. To update, simply # dig ns . @M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. /etc/bind/db.root -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SMTP error: 550 Administrative prohibition
On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 07:50:01 -0500, Haines Brown wrote: There seems to be a problem getting my fetchmail requests being authenticated at the mail server. Here's what fetchmail tells me: ... fetchmail: Issuer Organization: Courier Mail Server fetchmail: Issuer CommonName: localhost fetchmail: Server CommonName: localhost fetchmail: Server CommonName mismatch: localhost != pop.hartford-hwp.com fetchmail: pop.hartford-hwp.com key fingerprint: 44:B3:8D:19:D1:83:C1:06:95:CB:22:69:73:CE:08:61 fetchmail: Server certificate verification error: self signed certificate Okay, but this has nothing to do with Exim. Fetchmail doesn't touch it here. You'd better off with a fetchmail/courier mailing list, eventually, respectively Google. I tried for you, fetchmail: Server CommonName mismatch: localhost and got some promising results, like http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2006-June/014043.html I guess, ping teufel will show a proper resolution by your /etc/hosts. Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SMTP error: 550 Administrative prohibition
On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 07:23:59 -0600, John Hasler wrote: Exim in Debian is a political decision; due to licensing. Not true. Maybe what I wrote is not true, but when you search the archives, the discussion has never ceased, from 1999 onwards. One term you'll find is that postfix was not DFSG-free. (DFSG=Debian Free Software Guidelines.) Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SMTP error: 550 Administrative prohibition
On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 13:37:59 -0500, Haines Brown wrote: $ hostname teufel $ hostname -a teufel Here I have: $ hostname wira $ hostname -a wira and fetchmail runs pretty well, including SSL. Why would the whole fingerprint come up if you didn't use SSL ? Have you tried telnet, then ? Does it work ? Can you show your .fetchmailrc ? Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SMTP error: 550 Administrative prohibition
On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 19:01:12 -0500, Haines Brown wrote: I've lost e-mail, and so in desperation turn to news groups. In trying to configure my exim4 to use spamassassin, I apparently messed up the confituration somehow. At first, all downloaded messages were deleted as spam, and as I fiddled, fetchmail could not download messages because the mail server did not like the information it received (SMTP error: 550 Administrative prohibition), and now fetchmail does not even see any messages. This isn't all too helpful, I know. Exim in Debian is a political decision; due to licensing. The first thing I always do to any Debian-box is installing Postfix. Not that I had anything against Exim, only at installing Debian, it would offer several alternatives of configuring Exim that I, as a professional, couldn't understand. That's useless software for you. My 2 sen. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Network (LAN) 'lost'
On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:11:57 +0100, Benjamin Schmidt wrote: The configuration file you need, is: /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules delete the entry with eth0 and rename the other entry from eth2 to eth0. Ok, now reboot (or only restart udev, don't know) and you will have eth0 again. True enough. Tried it, and spot on! /etc/init.d/udev stop / start will bring it back. Filed a bug report (456197), but was shot down: Sorry. So far people who know about udev and the kernel much more than you have not found better solutions and 'closed'. Intelligence remains constant, but the number of people increases Thanks again, Benjamin ! Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Network (LAN) 'lost'
This morning, at boot, suddenly no LAN. The boot screen already had some SIOCSIF errors. Solaris booted properly, with LAN. In a nutshell, eth0 suddenly migrated to eth2, as one and only eth device. Details: This is what I get from dmesg: ... ACPI: Processor [CPU1] (supports 16 throttling states) 8139cp: 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v1.2 (Mar 22, 2004) 8139cp :00:09.0: This (id 10ec:8139 rev 10) is not an 8139C+ compatible chip 8139cp :00:09.0: Try the 8139too driver instead. 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27 ACPI: PCI Interrupt :00:09.0[A] - GSI 18 (level, low) - IRQ 169 eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xd800, 00:02:44:90:97:27, IRQ 169 eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D' Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ... And there is no other eth: $ dmesg | grep eth eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xd800, 00:02:44:90:97:27, IRQ 169 eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D' $ ifconfig says # ifconfig loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:600 (600.0 b) TX bytes:600 (600.0 b) # ifconfig does not 'up' eth0: # ifconfig eth0 up eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device # But it is in there: # lspci -v ... 00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RT8139 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 169 I/O ports at d800 [size=256] Memory at febff400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 Only man ifconfig gave me an idea: # ifconfig -a eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:44:90:97:27 BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) Interrupt:169 Base address:0xd800 loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:600 (600.0 b) TX bytes:600 (600.0 b) sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4 NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) # And it does work !: # dhclient eth2 Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client 2.0pl5 Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Internet Software Consortium. All rights reserved. Please contribute if you find this software useful. For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html sit0: unknown hardware address type 776 sit0: unknown hardware address type 776 Listening on LPF/eth2/00:02:44:90:97:27 Sending on LPF/eth2/00:02:44:90:97:27 Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net DHCPREQUEST on eth2 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPACK from 192.168.116.200 bound to 192.168.116.101 -- renewal in 432000 seconds. Now I ask myself WHY !? How can a properly working system suddenly end up with a strange eth2 instead of eth0 ? How does an eth0 recognised in dmesg at boot migrate to eth2; on its own ? Is this a bug ? Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Network (LAN) 'lost'
On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:11:57 +0100, Benjamin Schmidt wrote: If you have udev installed and it recognizes a ethernet adapter with a unknown mac address, it will assign a new eth*-reference. So maybe you used a mac changer or some updates deletes a udev specific file. I don't know. The configuration file you need, is: /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules delete the entry with eth0 and rename the other entry from eth2 to eth0. Ok, now reboot (or only restart udev, don't know) and you will have eth0 again. Somewhat true. Lightning struck and killed the other, same type, NIC. I had shut down and plugged a new one. I wonder how anyone can *not* call this behaviour silly buggy. :( Thanks anyway, Uwe, deeply disappointed by a stupid crap like this udev behaviour. Who would ever dare to talk about acceptance of Linux as desktop with such useless stuff ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrade of kernel fails due to lack of space
Raffaele Morelli wrote: 2007/5/16, Uwe Heinz Rudi Dippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: I know, you can always scold me for not enough space. But this is an old box with a small hard disk: df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda7 133M 93M 33M 74% / tmpfs 126M 0 126M 0% /lib/init/rw udev 10M 60K 10M 1% /dev tmpfs 126M 0 126M 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda1 89M 16M 69M 19% /boot /dev/hda101.4G 1.1G 185M 86% /home /dev/hda6 89M 4.1M 80M 5% /tmp /dev/hda8 633M 232M 368M 39% /usr /dev/hda9 721M 207M 475M 31% /var With too little space (in '/', '/lib', I guess): Are you upgrading from sarge to etch? No. I did this already and it went through smoothly. try cleaning apt cache using apt-get clean if you never did before. Done, quite a few times (see my /var has 475M available). I guess it is /lib that has insufficient space. Are there any official requirements for a proper kernel update ? If not, I call this a bug. Any other good suggestions, please ? Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrade of kernel fails due to lack of space
Raffaele Morelli wrote: Any other good suggestions, please ? With 33Mb in / there's really poor room to work, and a kernel install requires space for modules, around 50 for me. du -sh /lib/modules/* Easier said than done: '/' has 93 MB used, and 73 of that is in '/lib': /lib$ du -h -s 76M . And when I look around there, it is mostly kernel stuff. Actually, after the upgrade to Etch, there were only 18 MB left in '/', and I could already salvage 15 MB. Still, not enough. It still looks buggy to me, in a wider sense: One cannot permit an install/upgrade that enters a dead-end road. Etch ought not have permitted the upgrade from Sarge (2.4.27), when it would kind of strangle itself. (On Sarge upgrades were no problem). Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wrong behaviour of touchpad / mouse after upgrade to Etch; and problems with xfce
Johnmon2 wrote: Is the panel running? You can add buttons to a panel to access the settings page like the menu button. But if the right click button is not working, maybe the desktop manager isn't running. Right. What a pile of crap. Here goes what I found: Panel is running (I'm a long-time user of Xfce). But there was no menu to be added; only items from Launcher, Action Buttons Windows List. Then I tried from an xterm: $ xcfe-setting-show That would bring up the settings menu. You were right, no xfdesktop installed or started. I also found the meta-package missing: xfce4 Therefore I 'apt-get install xfce4', which informed me that it would uninstall fam, libfam0, libfam0c102. I agreed. While doing all this, I got a long list of k... applications that would depend on libfam0; from klipper to some kde-base. Whatever. After a reload, suddenly the Xfce menu appeared in 'add to panel', and I added it. Still no mouse clicks, though, and no xfce background. Once again xterm, and starting xfdesktop4 manually; bringing up the xfce4 backdrop. But still no mouse action. Another reload did not bring xfdesktop4 up automatically. Something seems badly broken here; at least for an upgrade Sarge-Etch. Now I wonder if it is time for a bug report. Only, I wouldn't know what to report in order for a proper report. In any case: for all you out there, with Xfce4 on Sarge: your time is up when you upgrade to Etch, all your settings are lost. Xfce might not even work for you any longer as of today. Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Console Login of kdm disappeared after upgrade to Etch
I did the upgrade, with some minor problems on X. In order to debug it, I need a console login. Alas, kdm has lost the 'Console Login' option here. Also, X cannot be killed with a series of Ctrl-Alt-Backspace any longer, it came back here for surely 30 times. I tried 'init 3', 'kdm stop' but nothing seems to work (the last one is funny, but there is no message about syntax problems; so what would it do, anyway ?) Yes, please, give me back the 'Console' option ! Uwe P.S.: Since I am not subscribed, please Cc: to me -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Console Login of kdm disappeared after upgrade to Etch
Kent West wrote: I tried 'init 3', 'kdm stop' but nothing seems to work When you say that you tried kdm stop, do you mean you tried /etc/init.d/kdm stop? If not, try that. (You'll need to do so as super-user). Thanks Kent, long time no hear ! - Yes, yes, I know. Alt-F2, log on, su, etc. How ugly. No, I was 1. hoping for a way to get Console Login back 2. trying to understand, what 'kdm stop' does. It does: # kdm stop # but doesn't stop it. Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wrong behaviour of touchpad / mouse after upgrade to Etch; and problems with xfce
Slightly disappointed by Etch: 257302 is unresolved after 3 years. On the DELL D400 X -configure still sets xorg.conf to /dev/mouse; and does not find any mouse. So it needs vi to change to /dev/input/mice before it starts. The default configure at upgrade leaves the touchpad almost non-functional: To move the mouse pointer across the screen, I need 10 full strokes on the pad; the sensitivity is very low; and is unaffected by the settings in the desktop; whatever I set, the sensitivity remains extremely low and unchanged. Therefore I did the X -configure, vi xorg.conf.new, cp xorg.conf /etc/X11. Now the sensitivity is normal. The whole set of personal settings for Xfce are lost. I get a default setting, which is wrong (AFAICS), because there seems to be no way to reach the 'Settings'; I can't change anything. The right mouse click does not show anything; contrary to a fresh install. Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cdrecord / xcdroast on Sarge / 2.6.8-3 as user - FYI
Call this redundant (and soon - with Etch - outdated). The archive is full of posts on this topic, but none seems to wrap it up. Instead of you having to to sort it out, try this: 1. All this 'ATAPI' is logically correct, but not technically. Use 'ATA'. 2. 'cdrecord dev=ATA: -scanbus' is the way to go. 3. Then use the result of 2 above for your commands for cdrecord; as in cdrecord -v blank=fast dev=ATA:1,1,0 (whatever 2 came up with). 4. Delete the found device in xcdroast, add [ATA:1,1,0] manually in the setup, wait for it to recognize the drive. Save. Enjoy either of the two as user. Instead of sudo, root or set-uid: # ls -l /usr/bin/cdrecord* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root133 2005-01-10 00:55 /usr/bin/cdrecord -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 348556 2005-01-10 00:55 /usr/bin/cdrecord.mmap -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 351404 2005-01-10 00:55 /usr/bin/cdrecord.shm # ls -l /dev/hdd brw-rw 1 root disk 22, 64 2004-04-30 08:27 /dev/hdd The only thing needed is that your user is member of group 'disk'. The latter shows why. Have fun, Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cdrecord / xcdroast on Sarge / 2.6.8-3 as user - FYI
On Sat, 25 Nov 2006 19:04:21 +0100, Stephan Seitz wrote: Don't use the group disk, use group cdrom instead. Anyone in group disk can read and write direct to the disks (e.g deleting partitions). You don't want this. Ah, sure ! - I think now it is perfect. Thanks, Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Faxprinter for Staroffice
On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 00:40:28 +0200, Bernd Kloss wrote: Capisuite is installed, but: capisuite.log: Thu Aug 24 18:48:23 2006 CapiSuite 0xaff73f48: CapiSuite 0.4.5 started. capisuite.error: Thu Aug 24 18:48:23 2006 CapiSuite 0xaff73f48: CapiSuite 0.4.5 started. Thu Aug 24 18:48:23 2006 CapiSuite 0xaff73f48: Can't start Capi abstraction. The given error message was: CapiError: Error in CAPI20_ISINSTALLED: CAPI not installed. occured in Capi::getCapiInfo() Have you tried the fine list at http://www.hylafax.org ? (You need to subscribe before posting) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: TV-out with XFree86 and nv - possible?
On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 10:24:32 -0500, Ryan Nowakowski wrote: I've been trying for a few weeks. I have a mythtv box based on debian with an NVidia GeForce 4 card that I want to use to connect to my TV. *None* of the configs I've tried have worked with either the nv or nvidia drivers. I know right now tv out is broken in the nvidia driver. I even tried nvtv with no success. Good luck. If you get anything working I'd sure like to hear about it. Hmm. Cannot confirm this. For me, TV-out is fine with nvidia 8776 (and it was with the earlier versions, as well). You need to study the README, though, and add stuff to XF86Config, something similar to (depends on your card, your primary display, etc., of course): Driver nvidia Option TwinView Option MetaModes 1280x1024, 640x480 Option TwinViewOrientation Clone Option TVStandard PAL-G Option TVOutFormat SVIDEO Me, for my part, I'm very interested in getting rid of that blob nvidia and use nv instead. If you get anything in this direction, please let me know. (Please, with a Cc:; since the traffic is too high for me to follow up on the list.) Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Migrate from K7 to AMD64-K8
I have searched Google and the archive, but not found what I am looking for. Probably this is too obvious, though not for me: I understand all that stuff about install and chroot a 32/64 bit partition. But I fail to find hints on a clean migration path for my Sarge 32-bit installation to AMD64. Is this possible at all ? I have checked and booted the kernel, but then userland and applications fail me miserably. So I can I 'update' to 64-bit ports ? Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Monitor Question: 20 Wide
On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 13:58:33 +0200, Chris wrote: How can I tell if my Graphics Hardware will support the monitors resolution. 1600x1200 or 1680x1050 for instance. man radeon contains no information about supported resolutions. I can tell you that my 9200 three years ago supported 1920X1200; with blob fglrx, though. Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Total Freeze of Mplayer with one movie
I usually have Mplayer as my favourite movie application. But one movie makes the whole box freezes completely: WalterMoersDerBonker.avi 22615978 Byte md5sum: d44d5d06151e25ba58333666a462caf7 The details: reboot-start xfce4-mplayer WalterMoersDerBonker.avi- freeze reboot-start fluxbox-mplayer WalterMoersDerBonker.avi - freeze So, it can't have to do with hanging apps, earlier run movies, windows manager. I tried in a console, same result. Last lines before the freeze (mouse vanishes as well): Movie-Aspect is 1.25:1 - prescaling to con ... (rest is below movie) VO: [vx] 450x360 = 450x360 Planar YV 12 ... then everything is frozen. I play everything else with Mplayer. The movie plays fine with Xine, though. 2.6.8-3-k7 #1 Thu Sep 7 05:09:40 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux (Sarge) mplayer 1.0-pre8-0.1sarge2 Is this only me ? P.S.: Please Cc, because the frequency is too high for me to follow the list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thunderbird does not show attachments any longer
On Tue, 05 Sep 2006 04:44:19 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: OTOH, IMNSHO, what the heck are you doing running Moz 1.0.2 (or 1.0.8)??? Upgrade already! No, Ron, you don't get it here. Debian stable is what I run. It is not my task to find out that I ought to upgrade. I trust Debian and leave it to Debian to decide when the moment has come to upgrade Mozilla et al in stable. Then the upgrade will be included and apt-get upgrade will do it on my boxen. Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thunderbird does not show attachments any longer
On Tue, 05 Sep 2006 04:45:50 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: I think that's what he's running. Thanks, Ron, for the clarification. Why the hell would I take all this pleading and yelling on me if I were running Sid or Testing ?? Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thunderbird does not show attachments any longer
On Mon, 04 Sep 2006 10:46:31 +0200, Alexander Sack wrote: Look here [1] on how to get a fix for this. The fixed package will be rolled out as soon as all architectures build. BTW, we need more testers for security releases. Just keep the apt lines mentioned in that bug and report issues to me or file a bug. This would help a lot, thx. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=385071 Sure, done ! - Download takes hours, so I'll report back when it is ready. I'll keep the line(s), as well. Very good job on your side; and things *can* break. What is not good, though, is the lack of information; somehow. I googled intensely; read all archives, lists. Nothing. Didn't think of a bug report. Invested 1 hour. No solution. Wrote to the list; had some good hints (meaning: more people involved - kind of uselessly). IMHO, there must be a repository, a list, a means to get a message like this one out. There are and were hundreds of 'broken for me' on this list; if not thousands. The most obvious thing to do, is a list of some kind that confirms 'broken' or 'currently broken' and finally 'unbroken'. Would save everyone plenty of time to consult such a list !: If something doesn't work, consult it, find out someone (maintainer) confirms breakage. Done. Simply wait for the 'unbroken'. One might write a small application with tags; an info on status like mail in a systray; and so on and so forth. To me this list preferably came in parallel to the package update(s); maybe as extra file: # apt-get update Hit.Get Hit .[] Fetched 383kB in 1m31s (4171B/s) Reading Package Lists... Done Of the packages installed on your system, mozilla-thunderbird is currently marked as broken since Aug-28-2006. Of the packages installed on your system, myphoto has been marked as unbroken since Sep-02-2006. or similar. Would have saved me plenty of time. Multiplied by tens, who were doing similar inquisitions as myself. What do you think ? Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thunderbird does not show attachments any longer
On Mon, 04 Sep 2006 17:08:11 -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: Other than filing bugs in BTS and using apt-listbugs, you can also put information about serious breakages etc., in http://wiki.debian.org/Status/Unstable Thanks, Raju, for pointing out that I am *right* ! Not everyone has the time (or the desire) to spend his days hunting for information how to get his installation back up again. At least not me. If there is a breakage, I want to know. And not from extra applications; Wikis, bug-tracking lists, and stuff. I have a job to do and a part of it is system administration. If a service / system fails, the first thing I do is telling my users. So that they don't have to mail me; I don't have to answer their questions and they don't lose time, but can do something else or work around until stuff is back. And I want Debian to work for me similarly. Thanks, Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thunderbird does not show attachments any longer
On Mon, 04 Sep 2006 16:18:07 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Nevertheless, have you considered upgrading to 1.5.0.6, either thru backports.or or the mozilla.org binary? I answered this elsewhere here: If ever we wanted to take a larger part of the desktop / server market, we have to change our attitudes. If I run Debian stable, apt-get should give me a proper, working system. What a strange approach, to suggest users follow development of their applications and decide to upgrade from other sources to prevent bit-rot. Ron, this is surely not personal. I appreciate your input, even. But if we wanted to convince Joe User to go for Linux (or GNU/Linux), we can't want to require Joe to become a geek in order to use it. apt-get is one of the greatest items in FOSS; superior to anything else, including Windoze update (of course). It must be and remain a one-stop item to get a system to update and for a user to run in order to know about the current state of your 'stable' system. Not Wikis, lists, googles, bit-rots, bugzillas, backports and stuff. My 2 sen, Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thunderbird does not show attachments any longer
On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 10:48:56 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: apt-get remove --purge mozilla-thunderbird apt-get remove --purge mozilla-thunderbird cd /etc/mozilla-thunderbird/ rm -Rf * cd .. rmdir mozilla-thunderbird/ apt-get install mozilla-thunderbird (there was some dpkg - warning: while removing mozilla-thunderbird, directory `/etc/mozilla-thunderbird/pref' not empty so not removed.) Still, same behaviour. http://metalab.uniten.edu.my/~udippel/no_att_1.png shows the empty Attachments, with the attachments visible in the 'edit as new' *after* the purge action above. And, no, this emptyness is not restricted to junk mail. It applies to any other attachment as well. What now ? Uwe What now ?? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thunderbird does not show attachments any longer
... after the last upgrade of Thunderbird on Sarge, I noticed that of the Attachments field only the upper third part was visible . No chance to see a name of an attachment or click on any. No, I'm not a newbie I have tried resizing the window, the panes, fonts, you name it. It simply doesn't show anything more. It is a field below the message, quite low but rather wide, that does keep its size seemingly invariable: about one third of what it ought to be (used to be). To me that's a real show stopper; if there is no solution I have to switch to another client rapidly, since I cannot get to any attachment sent to me. Please, help ! Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re:Thunderbird does not show attachments any longer
By now I have followed some advice:
Added
#attachmentView {
-moz-appearance: none !important;
height: 65px !important;
overflow: auto !important; }
to userChrome
Now the 'Attachments' is much larger, but the field white and empty.
I have created a new profile, and the same thing happens for the new
profile.
I have
apt-get remove mozilla-thunderbird
apt-get install mozilla-thunderbird
and I see no changes
So, there seem to be no attchments at all, even though there *are*.
Therefore I tried. 'edit as new ...' and - voilà - the attachments show
up in the new message.
mozilla-thunderbird_1.0.2-2.sarge1.0.8b.1_i386.deb is the version I'm
running here on Sarge.
Still hoping for some more advice ...
Uwe
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Re: (OT) Prejudice against sendmail?
On Fri, 01 Sep 2006 14:09:29 +0100, John Kelly wrote: daves:~ # ls -al /usr/sbin/sendmail -r-xr-sr-x 1 root mail 681648 2006-08-12 14:59 /usr/sbin/sendmail This is not a good one. Though I don't doubt the flexibility of sendmail, the .mc and compiler dependency is a bit out of touch with Joe User. I learnt sendmail the hard and long way and used to like it very much. But on my production boxes, I rather have unprivileged daemons. Let's face it: sendmail is a fantastic, clunky, army knife for an MTA. But written when the ARPANET was a nice and friendly place. Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wordpress Multiple Blog Configuration
On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 08:08:17 +0800, Chris Purves wrote: I just installed Wordpress and got it running. In the README.Debian file there's a mention that the Debian configuration can support multiple blogs, but no instructions as how to accomplish that. The default wp-config.php searches for a (mysql) configuration filename based on the blog's host. This allows you to host more than one blog on a Debian system. I guess this means something else; this means the one-install-per-user solution as pointed out on wordpress site. You might as well look into this for a less-than-one-install-per-user: http://www.lauchlin.com/2005/05/15/multiple-wordpress-blogs-from-a-single-install/ Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
breakage of setserial in Sarge
setserial is broken, with respect to several aspects. Here is my story: Internal Modem on ttyS2 (COM3), IRQ5. Since the Linux kernel is too dumb to find out (the BSDs always find on their own, but this is another topic), I install setserial. Immediately it asks and suggests 'autosave once'. Okay, done. But it doesn't recognise my modem with the correct parameters. So I have to issue setserial /dev/ttyS2 irq 5 Now the modem works. How to save the state for after a boot ? On RH I used setserial stop. Tried, doesn't work. That's okay, we are on Debian. man setserial says: /etc/serial.conf But it doesn't exist. The archive says: dpkg-reconfigure setserial. It asks me if I want to save the current state (autoconfigure once), and I say 'yes'. But still, it doesn't survive the boot. It also does not produce a serial.conf. We have to admit, that man setserial is wrong, and the function of saving the configuration beyond a reboot is broken. Here is how to do it: Install setserial, click 'autosave once'. Make your modem work using setserial with all necessary options. Once it works and setserial -bg /dev/ttyS* shows the good values, apt-get remove --purge setserial apt-get install setserial Now the reboot should be okay. Reason: 1. the automatic configuration at install is the only time when the file is written. A dpkg-reconfigure will simply do nothing. Plus it fails to warn that it will *not save anything*. 2. contrary to logic and man pages, the config is saved as /var/lib/setserial/autoserial.conf 3. the dpkg --configure started immediately before install is logically wrong: since there is no setserial before you install setserial, all settings are default settings, taken from BIOS / Kernel. There is no need at all to save them 'autosave once'; because any reboot will bring them back. Only after one or more setserial commands will a 'save' be of any use. Worse: only *after* using setserial does 'autosave once' make any sense. But then it does not accept new values any longer. Shoddy quality control, sorry to say. For those not having read the full story and asking how should it work ?: 1. go back to saving the configuration under /etc/ 2. do not 'force' an autosave at install. Rather ask: Do you want to save your settings now ? Probably you don't, because you installed setserial to change the default settings, right ? So you better chose No now; fix the settings for your serial ports. When you are done, run dpkg-reconfigure setserial to store your settings to be permanent and survive a reboot. When the choice is 'Yes', the current menu comes up. At the suggested 'No', the dpkg --configure setserial is exited. When the settings are done, dpkg-reconfigure setserial will 'autosave once' create the serial.conf in /etc/ Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: breakage of setserial in Sarge
On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 17:12:10 -0500, W. Paul Mills wrote: Perhaps you should read /usr/share/doc/setserial/README.Debian.gz See /usr/share/doc/setserial/serial.conf for a sample serial.conf file if you need one. I don't need one if the serial.conf is where it is supposed to be. Paul, my qualms are not about it not working. It is bad practice to start reading documentation somewhere down in /usr/share/doc/... of whose existence we don't know. It is good old tradition instead to refer to man and start reading the man pages. If these are wrong, it is a bug. It is not the task of the user to keep track on how often and if he ever dpkg-reconfigured an application. If dpkg-reconfigure cannot do what I request, it needs to tell me; but not to pretend it does. It is logically false to save default system settings once before you can install a program that you need to change those settings. Except as backup. But here those new settings for which you install, cannot be saved. Except in /var/lib/setserial/, which again is a very wrong place for a config file that good old tradition wants us to see in /etc/. Had the latter been the case, I would have simply followed my instincts and vi-ed another line to it. KISS Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Do I have to use Exim?
On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 21:21:20 -0400, Scott Fitzgerald wrote: I don't want to learn to use this thing! If I want to get mail off my local system I will use my ISP's smtp server. So this does work, right ? what is the simplest MTA that will just pass messages between /var/mail spools? Sorry, this is *not* how e-mails work. MTAs don't pass messages between spools. I am afraid, if you want to do what I guess, you will have to read a bit. No good pointer from here, though. 'Passing messages' means retrieving them (client) and sending them to an MTA for subsequent delivery. And if the answer is exim is the simplest then tell me, how can I do without an MTA? I don't consider it the easiest. Though quite seasoned, I never fully understand those alternatives of which I have to click one at an install. So, my next step then is always to apt-get install postfix. If you don't want to receive for a domain and don't want Maildir, it ought to work as is. Together with any some client; CLI or GUI. HTH, Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: daytime not working - despite enabling it
On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 07:55:37 +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: Seems I have to file a bug report against update-inetd ! hahaha ! Funny one here. Look at the bug reports, and has been broken for almost eight years ! Ought it not have been removed by now ?? Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: daytime not working - despite enabling it
On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 22:50:54 -0500, Ryan Nowakowski wrote: Looks like daytime is still disabled(commented out). Uncomment both daytime lines and do a killall -HUP inetd. Sure; noticed myself, did so; added a gentle kill -s SIGHUP `cat /var/run/inetd.pid` and everything was as expected. A bit disappointed, Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: My Grub/MBR went bye bye
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 14:55:04 -1200, Jason Edson wrote: My girl just bought me a new laptop, Averatec 6100A, I used gparted from a live cd to split my ntfs partition to make way for debian. All went well and worked great. The problem is when I booted Wnd**sa dialog kept popping up saying there was an error. It kept popping up so I clicked fix and now when my computer boots it gets to the point where grub should show but then my computer keeps re booting. So my question is, how to I re-insyall grub eithout having to reinstall debian? Very simple. I always suggest and resort to the Grub boot floppy in cases like this. Install grub-doc. Then: $ info grub (scroll down to) Installation Enter (scroll down to) Creating a GRUB boot floppy:: Enter (follow the instructions) Reboot to floppy, and $ info grub (scroll down to) Installation Enter (scroll down to) Installing GRUB natively:: Enter (follow the instructions - print them out so that you have them after your boot to the grub boot-floppy) Worx. I bet someone will say, 'hé, we have a grub-disk as .deb and apt-get install is easier than the creation of a grub floppy !' In my opinion, the creation helps to read the info grub that is needed anyway later to re-install the MBR. Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problème de disque dur sur un Laptop : bruit de rangement de tête à intervalle régulier (problème d'alimentation ?)
On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 02:51:49 +0200, KLEIN Stéphane wrote: Bonjour, :) Par avance, je m'excuse si mon message est un peu hors sujet. Bonjour, tu as raison. On est assez hors sujet. Il me semble que la disque dure dont tu parle soit borked et doit être échangée. TMPV, Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian Sarge with Kernel 2.4.27 and Bootsplash
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 22:38:48 +0200, Michael Wuest wrote: For some days now I am trying to teach my Debian Sarge with Kernel 2.4.27 to use Bootsplash. I read many articles and HOW TO´s, but my results are not what I want. It seems to me that I have a very simple problem. Dunno about 2.4.27, but 2.6.8 does show the splash by default. Switch kernel version, eventually, Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How can I configure debian, to boot to a text mode login (new Debian user)
On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 16:12:56 +, Hans-Peter Sulzer wrote: I knew that, but I wanted to boot to a text mode login, as I want to install the Nvidia drivers, and they recommend to boot to text login, if something goes wrong. Exactly. The great point on kdm: You get a console login choice by default. Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: daytime not working - despite enabling it
On Sun, 07 Aug 2005 12:43:58 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: $ grep daytime /etc/inetd.conf #daytimestream tcp nowait rootinternal #daytimedgram udp waitrootinternal Seems I have to file a bug report against update-inetd ! Do you have a firewall enabled? No, here. Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Postfix configuration
On Sun, 07 Aug 2005 10:18:02 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Postfix is not one single package. For example I have (dpkg-query -- list | grep postfix): postfix2.1.5-9A high-performance mail transport agent postfix-doc2.1.5-9Postfix documentation postfix-mysql 2.1.5-9MYSQL map support for Postfix postfix-pcre 2.1.5-9PCRE map support for Postfix Thanks for the answer; though unconvincing. Don't see any reason why we have a castrated package and no obvious way to get a full one. Yes, I tried dpkg-reconfigure, but it never proposed a full install. I saw the postfix-doc, but I don't really need it. vi main.cf usually gets me where I want. I don't want MySQL neither, so why install ? I don't need perl-stuff, neither. So why install ? I would understand a cut-down /etc/postfix with a full one elsewhere; but then reconfigure should ask and enable it. He, am I the only one missing transport maps and stuff ?? You can check http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html for main.cf options. I know this URL. Why make things easy when you can make them complicated ? It is much easier to find all options in an option file; with empty fields or commented; then an empty option file and up to the user to search, find and copy paste these options into the options file and set them properly. Really wonder who invented this folly !? Another effort: where, in which package, can I find the complete set of option files, please ? Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
daytime not working - despite enabling it
update-inetd --enable time,daytime is the correct command according to the man page man update-inetd. Except, it would not work: $ /usr/sbin/rdate -p 10.10.10.10 rdate: connect: Connection refused Even tried and restarted inetd - nothing - and rebooted. Still nothing. What is going on ?? nmap shows 22/tcp open ssh 25/tcp open smtp 53/tcp open domain 80/tcp open http 143/tcp open imap 993/tcp open imaps Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Postfix configuration
To me it quite strange. Did it on vanilla postfix; but here, on Debian, it is quite strange to me. Usually I expect plenty of config files in /etc/postfix; with many options in main.cf. In Debian, there are very little. I understand that someone has decided to make it simpler. But actually, it is worse: in the full main.cf the comments are most helpful. Here it even takes quite some time and google to remember how to deliver to Maildir/. Can someone explain why this is so strange ? Furthermore, I do need transport maps and stuff. But the Debian install seems to not have it. What am I missing ? Or is postfix on Debian screwed up ? I can't believe so ! Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 855resolution help
On Fri, 05 Aug 2005 03:07:27 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: (II) I810(0): Xdebc Monitor: Using hsync range of 30.00-75.00 kHz (II) I810(0): Xdebc Monitor: Using vrefresh range of 50.00-85.00 Hz (II) I810(0): Not using mode 1280x1024 (no mode of this name) (--) I810(0): Virtual size is 1024x768 (pitch 1024) (**) I810(0): *Built-in mode 1024x768 (**) I810(0): *Built-in mode 800x600 (**) I810(0): *Built-in mode 640x480 Gene answers the whole lot. Only for confirmation: Here I run a notebook with 1024x768 and 855 and that is the limit. When I plug my nice high-res monitor and switch the notebook to external monitor at grub, I get a proper 1600x1200 at 85 Hz, because Xfree86 detects the monitor: (II) I810(0): Monitor0: Using hsync range of 30.00-121.00 kHz (II) I810(0): Monitor0: Using vrefresh range of 48.00-160.00 Hz (II) I810(0): 360 kBytes additional video memory is required to enable tiling mode for DRI. (--) I810(0): Virtual size is 1600x1200 (pitch 1600) (**) I810(0): *Built-in mode 1600x1200 (**) I810(0): Built-in mode 1280x1024 (**) I810(0): Built-in mode 1024x768 (**) I810(0): Built-in mode 800x600 (**) I810(0): Built-in mode 640x480 (II) I810(0): Attempting to use 85Hz refresh for mode 1600x1200 (5a) Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: udev - easy setup ?
On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 22:52:46 -0600, Jules Dubois wrote:
Mount your devices as you've done previously, so that they're sda1 and sdi1.
Then run
udevinfo -a -p $(udevinfo -q path -n /dev/sda)
$ udevinfo -a -p $(udevinfo -q path -n /dev/sda)
udevinfo starts with the device the node belongs to and then walks up the
device chain, to print for every device found, all possibly useful attributes
in the udev key format.
Only attributes within one device section may be used together in one rule,
to match the device for which the node will be created.
device '/sys/block/sda' has major:minor 8:0
looking at class device '/sys/block/sda':
SUBSYSTEM=block
SYSFS{dev}=8:0
SYSFS{range}=16
SYSFS{removable}=1
SYSFS{size}=2880
SYSFS{stat}= 20 15 168 8636000
00 8636 8636
follow the class device's device
looking at the device chain at
'/sys/devices/pci:00/:00:1d.1/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.0/host1/1:0:0:0':
BUS=scsi
ID=1:0:0:0
DRIVER=sd
SYSFS{detach_state}=0
SYSFS{device_blocked}=0
SYSFS{max_sectors}=240
SYSFS{model}=USB UF000x
SYSFS{queue_depth}=1
SYSFS{rev}=1.50
SYSFS{scsi_level}=3
SYSFS{state}=running
SYSFS{timeout}=30
SYSFS{type}=0
SYSFS{vendor}=NEC
looking at the device chain at
'/sys/devices/pci:00/:00:1d.1/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.0/host1':
BUS=
ID=host1
DRIVER=unknown
SYSFS{detach_state}=0
looking at the device chain at
'/sys/devices/pci:00/:00:1d.1/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.0':
BUS=usb
ID=2-2:1.0
DRIVER=usb-storage
SYSFS{bAlternateSetting}= 0
SYSFS{bInterfaceClass}=08
SYSFS{bInterfaceNumber}=00
SYSFS{bInterfaceProtocol}=00
SYSFS{bInterfaceSubClass}=04
SYSFS{bNumEndpoints}=03
SYSFS{detach_state}=0
SYSFS{iInterface}=00
looking at the device chain at
'/sys/devices/pci:00/:00:1d.1/usb2/2-2':
BUS=usb
ID=2-2
DRIVER=usb
SYSFS{bConfigurationValue}=1
SYSFS{bDeviceClass}=00
SYSFS{bDeviceProtocol}=00
SYSFS{bDeviceSubClass}=00
SYSFS{bMaxPower}=500mA
SYSFS{bNumConfigurations}=1
SYSFS{bNumInterfaces}= 1
SYSFS{bcdDevice}=0150
SYSFS{bmAttributes}=80
SYSFS{detach_state}=0
SYSFS{devnum}=3
SYSFS{idProduct}=0040
SYSFS{idVendor}=0409
SYSFS{manufacturer}=NEC
SYSFS{maxchild}=0
SYSFS{product}=NEC USB UF000x
SYSFS{speed}=12
SYSFS{version}= 1.10
looking at the device chain at '/sys/devices/pci:00/:00:1d.1/usb2':
BUS=usb
ID=usb2
DRIVER=usb
SYSFS{bConfigurationValue}=1
SYSFS{bDeviceClass}=09
SYSFS{bDeviceProtocol}=00
SYSFS{bDeviceSubClass}=00
SYSFS{bMaxPower}= 0mA
SYSFS{bNumConfigurations}=1
SYSFS{bNumInterfaces}= 1
SYSFS{bcdDevice}=0206
SYSFS{bmAttributes}=c0
SYSFS{detach_state}=0
SYSFS{devnum}=1
SYSFS{idProduct}=
SYSFS{idVendor}=
SYSFS{manufacturer}=Linux 2.6.8-2-686 uhci_hcd
SYSFS{maxchild}=2
SYSFS{product}=Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) USB UHCI #2
SYSFS{serial}=:00:1d.1
SYSFS{speed}=12
SYSFS{version}= 1.10
looking at the device chain at '/sys/devices/pci:00/:00:1d.1':
BUS=pci
ID=:00:1d.1
DRIVER=uhci_hcd
SYSFS{class}=0x0c0300
SYSFS{detach_state}=0
SYSFS{device}=0x24c4
SYSFS{irq}=11
SYSFS{subsystem_device}=0x4541
SYSFS{subsystem_vendor}=0x8086
SYSFS{vendor}=0x8086
looking at the device chain at '/sys/devices/pci:00':
BUS=
ID=pci:00
DRIVER=unknown
SYSFS{detach_state}=0
and
udevinfo -a -p $(udevinfo -q path -n /dev/sdi)
$ udevinfo -a -p $(udevinfo -q path -n /dev/sdi1)
udevinfo starts with the device the node belongs to and then walks up the
device chain, to print for every device found, all possibly useful attributes
in the udev key format.
Only attributes within one device section may be used together in one rule,
to match the device for which the node will be created.
device '/sys/block/sdi/sdi1' has major:minor 8:129
looking at class device '/sys/block/sdi/sdi1':
SUBSYSTEM=block
SYSFS{dev}=8:129
SYSFS{size}=250592
SYSFS{start}=32
SYSFS{stat}= 64 27400
follow the class device's device
looking at the device chain at
'/sys/devices/pci:00/:00:1d.7/usb4/4-5/4-5.2/4-5.2:1.0/host2/2:0:0:0':
BUS=scsi
ID=2:0:0:0
DRIVER=sd
SYSFS{detach_state}=0
SYSFS{device_blocked}=0
SYSFS{max_sectors}=240
SYSFS{model}=DATA TRAVELER
SYSFS{queue_depth}=1
SYSFS{rev}=1.11
SYSFS{scsi_level}=3
SYSFS{state}=running
SYSFS{timeout}=30
SYSFS{type}=0
SYSFS{vendor}=KINGSTON
looking at the device chain at
'/sys/devices/pci:00/:00:1d.7/usb4/4-5/4-5.2/4-5.2:1.0/host2':
BUS=
ID=host2
DRIVER=unknown
SYSFS{detach_state}=0
looking at the device chain at
Re: udev - easy setup ?
On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 09:37:36 -0600, Jules Dubois wrote
BUS=usb, SYSFS{product}=NEC USB UF000x, NAME=%k,
SYMLINK=usb-floppy
BUS=usb, SYSFS{manufacturer}=KINGSTON ,
SYSFS{product}=DATA TRAVELER, NAME=%k, SYMLINK=usbhd%n
This should put your floppy device at /etc/usb-floppy and one (or more)
Kingston-brand thumb drive(s) at /etc/usbhd0 (and usbhd1, etc.)
It's obviously not a general solution. My guess is that a general solution
requires using the output of the section containing DRIVER=usb-storage
and I don't know nearly enough about something -- almost certainly USB --
to say more.
Thanks, but this is exactly how far I had gone myself (whatever I posted).
Though, as you pointed out (and I had pointed out in the first post): I am
not interested to recognise this particular NEC floppy or a Kingston
thumb drive.
Since it looks like an interesting problem, I'll look into it further,
if you like.
Yes, please, for sure !
Uwe
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udev - easy setup ?
Hi, and yes, I read the great source written by Dan:
http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html
Only, it is too difficult for me to understand, and I read it a few times.
Though I have to consider the idea to create the device nodes as
phantastic, I also have to dismiss its current implementation as
'braindead', because nobody can be expected to devise rules like
BUS=usb, KERNEL=sd*, SYSFS{product}=USB 2.0 Storage Device,
NAME=%k, SYMLINK=usbhd%n
to get a thumbdrive loadad.
/rant
This is my problem for which I your help:
I have a notebook with USB-floppy; with udev.
When I plug the floppy, it comes up as sda1. So I put it into fstab,
otherwise it wouldn't mount. Now it mounts fine.
When I plug a thumb-drive to the notebook, udev allocates sdi1.
So I put sdi1 into fstab. Now both can be mounted properly.
Now, when I unplug both and plug back the thumbdrive only,
udev makes the thumbdrive sda1. The mess starts: thumb doesn't mount.
This is actually where the site above - sorry to say - doesn't help me
further. I have understood how I could identify the {product} and get
*this* thumb drive to be allocated the sdxxx of my liking; but my problem
is much different: I simply want *any* USB mass storage show as sdi1, so
that my mount applet can work on any. And any USB-floppy to get sda.
Can anyone get me closer to a solution, please ?
Uwe
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Funny Dependencies !
If ii gcc3.3.5-3The GNU C compiler ii gcc-3.33.3.5-13 The GNU C compiler ii gcc-3.3-base 3.3.5-13 The GNU Compiler Collection (base package) is what you find on your box, you think you can compile. At least Hello World. Wrong: /usr/bin/ld: crt1.o: No such file: No such file or directory Obviously, apt-get has buggy dependencies here; and we # apt-get install libc6 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done libc6 is already the newest version. Not yet there. Let's give it one more shot: # apt-get install libc6-dev Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: linux-kernel-headers Huh, why do we need kernel headers to compile Hello World ? And who is supposed to know (and understand) these dependencies ? Have fun, Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
intel graphics driver - FYI
Tried the Intel Graphics driver; i915Graphics.tar.gz; on a DELL D400; with :00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02) :00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corp. 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02) Not much success, though. During install it pointed out that it would support 2.4-kernels only; but went through. After reboot, X didn't come up automatically any longer (I use kdm, no idea why), but startx would do the trick. glxgears *are* faster at around 340 fps compared to 220 fps of the Debian-native-i810 driver. ppracer however hoovered around 1 fps compared to 12 fps of the native install. I couldn't find / insmod 830. Since I am no X-expert and don't really need it, I tried the uninstall part of the ./install in dripkg and it worked like a charm; bringing back kdm at boot and the previous values for fps. As the subject says: FYI Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Register Debian-Java in /var/cache/apt/archives ?
Here I want to clone machines from a parent; with a script that installs packages from a list file automatically. In order to speed up the process, I will prepare the /var/cache/apt/archives with all .deb packages. Okay, this works. I also created the pseudo-Java package as described (e.g. http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/142), and copied it there as well. What is not so nice is: apt-get autoclean would remove it from there as shown here: # apt-get -s autoclean Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Del sun-j2sdk1.5 1.5.0+update04 [65.2MB] How can I 'register' it with apt-get as *installed* and latest package; so that apt-get does not insist any longer on throwing it out ? Seems I don't understand the dpkg / apt-get relationship yet; since dpkg knows about it: $ dpkg --get-selections | grep sun sun-j2sdk1.5install Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: last update / upgrade killed grub ...Attention !
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 22:53:28 +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: Confirmed here. I cannot reinstall grub (okay, I can, from grub-floppy; and it tells me 'success'. But when I reboot, the grub menu doesn't come up; but the kernel is loaded immediately.) I also notice that the screen is almost unreadable; the characters completely distorted; some vertical dotted lines are visible; the characters like 'smear' all over the screen. No, hold your breath; when X starts everything is fine and okay. It's getting even stranger: when I boot from grub-floppy, the same kernel; same commands, everything is fine; the characters are normally visible while the lines of the boot screen flush by. Finally found the culprit: grub is broken on the kernel-updater when a splashimage is included. In short: grub's update writes an extra (duplicate) splashimage line above the latest kernel, which can mess up the display and prevent the menu from being displayed. When you run into this, just remove the splashimage-line from above the latest kernel within the 'restricted area' of menu.lst. Details: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=318706 Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
lprngtool - where has it gone ??
Seems lprngtool is not available on Sarge any more ? Made a search, but nothing shows. Also searched the Debian site, but no results. I know we used to have it ! Has it been dropped accidentially ? And, no, I don't want to use CUPS instead. Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian or Ubuntu Dilemma
On Sat, 16 Jul 2005 07:11:55 -0700, Bernie Betlach wrote: I'm new to Linux but have a little programming experience. Which should I install Ubuntu or Debian??? No doubt: Debian Reason: I tried Ubuntu, is nice to install, recognised my hardware. The great and decisive 'but': packages are less reliable to install; when I did it, transcode would not install; and a few more that you might consider 'non-free' respectively multimedia-related. So I sighed off Ubuntu and subscribed to Debian another time. Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: System needs repair after fsck
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 01:04:43 -0400, Marty wrote: A likely fix is to purge and reinstall the affected python packages. How !?! The circular effect sets in. Somehow I must consider this a bug in the whole concept of Debian !? Alternatively it may be possible to just comment out this line for now just to get debsums installed. Hopefully somebody else will give more specific advice, but I think you are close to the solution. I can think of something easier, but I'd need an apt expert: It has *somewhere* stored that it wants to upgrade / reinstall several packages; one of them debconf. Since debconf seems to be quite okay - from all what I have been doing - chances are, if I can remove it from the 'stack' of apps to be (re-)installed, the whole thing will work: # apt-get upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 5 not fully installed or removed. ^^ if I could get rid of this, and simply start from scratch, I might be done ! Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Setting up debconf (1.4.30.13) ... ^^this 'bloody' debconf messes up the whole shebang !: Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/lib/python2.3/compileall.py, line 156, in ? exit_status = not main() File /usr/lib/python2.3/compileall.py, line 146, in main force, rx, quiet): File /usr/lib/python2.3/compileall.py, line 83, in compile_dir if not compile_dir(fullname, maxlevels - 1, dfile, force, rx, quiet): File /usr/lib/python2.3/compileall.py, line 83, in compile_dir if not compile_dir(fullname, maxlevels - 1, dfile, force, rx, quiet): File /usr/lib/python2.3/compileall.py, line 83, in compile_dir if not compile_dir(fullname, maxlevels - 1, dfile, force, rx, quiet): File /usr/lib/python2.3/compileall.py, line 68, in compile_dir except py_compile.PyCompileError,err: AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'PyCompileError' dpkg: error processing debconf (--configure): ^^ it *thinks * it isn't configured, but its conf-files are okay! subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of debconf-utils: debconf-utils depends on debconf (= 1.3.20); however: Package debconf is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing debconf-utils (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of debhelper: debhelper depends on debconf-utils (= 1.1.1); however: Package debconf-utils is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing debhelper (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of alien: alien depends on debhelper (= 3); however: Package debhelper is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing alien (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of debsums: debsums depends on debconf (= 0.5) | debconf-2.0; however: Package debconf is not configured yet. Package debconf-2.0 is not installed. Package debconf which provides debconf-2.0 is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing debsums (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: debconf debconf-utils debhelper alien debsums E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) It is here where I want to know about the file storing these 5 packages. How could I trick apt-get into forgetting them, and just do a Python reinstall ? Or anything else, except debconf ? And debconf at the very end only ? Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: System needs repair after fsck
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 01:04:43 -0400, Marty wrote:
# find /var/lib/dpkg/info/ |xargs grep '\.py' |grep -v python
[]
/var/lib/dpkg/info/debconf.postinst:if which $PYTHON /dev/null 21 [ -e
/usr/lib/$PYTHON/compileall.py ]; then
/var/lib/dpkg/info/debconf.postinst: $PYTHON -O
/usr/lib/$PYTHON/compileall.py -q $i
/var/lib/dpkg/info/debconf.postinst: $PYTHON
/usr/lib/$PYTHON/compileall.py -q $i
/var/lib/dpkg/info/debconf.prerm: awk '$0~/\.py$/ {print $0c\n $0o}' |
This is where I owe you a drink !
So what I did, was abusing the -e in the first line and rename the file to
compilezall.py; and apt-get went through.
Then I issued a
# apt-get install --reinstall python2.3
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/2905kB of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 152140 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace python2.3 2.3.5-3 (using .../python2.3_2.3.5-3_i386.deb)
...
rm: cannot remove `/usr/lib/python2.3/distutils/command/build_ext.pyc': Is a
directory
dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 123
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
Package `prerm' is not installed.
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
dpkg: ... it looks like that went OK.
Unpacking replacement python2.3 ...
Setting up python2.3 (2.3.5-3) ...
Compiling python modules in /usr/lib/python2.3 ...
Compiling optimized python modules in /usr/lib/python2.3 ...
This does not sound too sane, but went through. With some luck we should
be done now.
Still, it is a bug in Debian: once Python breaks, dpkg and apt are down,
until a clever hacker intervenes.
I'll keep you updated in case I find more trouble (or insights).
Thanks a bunch again, I would have never managed on my own,
Uwe
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Re: System needs repair after fsck
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 01:59:49 -0400, Marty wrote: It seems as of now and for me, that debconf is the problem. Once it is screwed, there seems to be no way out; you can't install / upgrade anything without; you can't reinstall it; a circular problem ? Some things I meant to add to my first reply was the in lieu of debsums you can unzip all the files and directories of the deb package files into a temporary directory using dpkg-deb, and compare them to your installed version. This doesn't seem to hard to do in a script. Done, and it seems okay; no differences. I've heard of cases of corruption the /var/lib/dpkg/info/ install and deinstall scripts, so you might want to give those special attention. There are about 2000; I tried my best and don't find differences. Finally, if you haven't already, you might give some thought to what is corrupting your disk. Nothing. There were no problems before and there are none when I run fsck afterwards. If there's a hardware problem you could be getting ongoing failures and even make the condition worse. You may want to clone the disk and work on the copy on another system. Yes, but I rather clone it when it is back to normal. Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: System needs repair after fsck
On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 23:13:53 -0400, Marty wrote: Sorry, that should be depends, and python doesn't appear, so I don't know where python is being called, but it still probably has some corrupted files. Maybe it *is* a problem of Python ? (Though I have no clue where Python is called) I did a debconf reconfigure and find -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4820 2005-07-15 11:48 /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/debconf.pyc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4820 2005-07-15 11:48 /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/debconf.pyo -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 72808 2005-07-15 11:48 config.dat -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 72812 2005-07-15 11:47 config.dat-old -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2708446 2005-07-15 11:47 templates.dat -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2708446 2005-07-15 11:40 templates.dat-old -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 72808 2005-07-15 11:48 /var/cache/debconf/config.dat -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 72812 2005-07-15 11:47 /var/cache/debconf/config.dat-old -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2708446 2005-07-15 11:47 /var/cache/debconf/templates.dat -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2708446 2005-07-15 11:40 /var/cache/debconf/templates.dat-old as changed files on a sane system, using # for files in `locate debconf`; do ls -l $files | grep 2005-07-15 ; done On the sick system I find -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 74232 2005-07-15 11:51 config.dat -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 74232 2005-07-15 11:28 config.dat-old -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2941851 2005-07-15 11:51 templates.dat -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2941851 2005-07-15 11:28 templates.dat-old -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 74232 2005-07-15 11:51 /var/cache/debconf/config.dat -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 74232 2005-07-15 11:28 /var/cache/debconf/config.dat-old -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2941851 2005-07-15 11:51 /var/cache/debconf/templates.dat -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2941851 2005-07-15 11:28 /var/cache/debconf/templates.dat-old Meaning, the .pyc and .pyo cannot be created or are not being created. Actually, there is none on the whole system: # locate debconf.py /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/debconf.py # python Python 2.3.5 (#2, May 4 2005, 08:51:39) [GCC 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-12)] on linux2 Type help, copyright, credits or license for more information. So, python itself looks okay. Anyone out there to help me further ? Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: System needs repair after fsck
On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 23:13:53 -0400, Marty wrote: Marty wrote: Here's what I get on my sarge system: $ apt-cache rdepends debconf |grep python python2.3-popy python2.2-popy python2.1-popy libapache2-mod-python2.3 libapache2-mod-python2.2 Sorry, that should be depends, and python doesn't appear, so I don't know where python is being called, but it still probably has some corrupted files. The saga continues: Since any apt-get action ends in Setting up debconf (1.4.30.13) ... Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/lib/python2.3/compileall.py, line 156, in ? exit_status = not main() File /usr/lib/python2.3/compileall.py, line 146, in main force, rx, quiet): File /usr/lib/python2.3/compileall.py, line 83, in compile_dir if not compile_dir(fullname, maxlevels - 1, dfile, force, rx, quiet): File /usr/lib/python2.3/compileall.py, line 83, in compile_dir if not compile_dir(fullname, maxlevels - 1, dfile, force, rx, quiet): File /usr/lib/python2.3/compileall.py, line 83, in compile_dir if not compile_dir(fullname, maxlevels - 1, dfile, force, rx, quiet): File /usr/lib/python2.3/compileall.py, line 68, in compile_dir except py_compile.PyCompileError,err: AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'PyCompileError' on /usr/lib/python2.3/compileall.py I checked the sanity of this Python source; on a sane system: $ md5sum /usr/lib/python2.3/compileall.py fc8159171507a474468f41270ff20f74 /usr/lib/python2.3/compileall.py and on the sick system: $ md5sum /usr/lib/python2.3/compileall.py fc8159171507a474468f41270ff20f74 /usr/lib/python2.3/compileall.py So, the source is okay. Can I compile it manually ?: # python /usr/lib/python2.3/compileall.py Listing /usr/lib/python2.3 ... Compiling /usr/lib/python2.3/quopri.py ... Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/lib/python2.3/compileall.py, line 156, in ? exit_status = not main() File /usr/lib/python2.3/compileall.py, line 149, in main success = compile_path() File /usr/lib/python2.3/compileall.py, line 104, in compile_path force, quiet=quiet) File /usr/lib/python2.3/compileall.py, line 68, in compile_dir except py_compile.PyCompileError,err: AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'PyCompileError' I cannot; meaning that ? what ? Is python broken ? If yes, how to reinstall it without using apt / dpkg (which cannot be used, because debconf is broken - the circular effect ! ) ?? Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: System needs repair after fsck
On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 06:57:15 -0700, James Vahn wrote: Uwe Dippel wrote: Overall, this is less than satisfactory; there are surely more problems, and I would be disappointed if apt / dpkg could not check the integrity of their respective packages; and worse: missed any 'repair'. Have you tried debsums -s ? It is unfortunate that not all packages contain the required md5sums, but still, debsums is a very useful tool and will ease your worries considerably. It is able to generate md5sums if the debs are available - simple instructions how to do this are in the manpage. # locate debsums d400:/home/udippel# apt-get install debsums Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: debsums 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 4 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 21.0kB of archives. After unpacking 65.5kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 ftp://mirror.averse.net sarge/main debsums 2.0.16 [21.0kB] Fetched 21.0kB in 1s (12.4kB/s) Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously deselected package debsums. (Reading database ... 152129 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking debsums (from .../debsums_2.0.16_all.deb) ... Setting up debconf (1.4.30.13) ... Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/lib/python2.3/compileall.py, line 156, in ? exit_status = not main() File /usr/lib/python2.3/compileall.py, line 146, in main force, rx, quiet): File /usr/lib/python2.3/compileall.py, line 83, in compile_dir if not compile_dir(fullname, maxlevels - 1, dfile, force, rx, quiet): File /usr/lib/python2.3/compileall.py, line 83, in compile_dir if not compile_dir(fullname, maxlevels - 1, dfile, force, rx, quiet): File /usr/lib/python2.3/compileall.py, line 83, in compile_dir if not compile_dir(fullname, maxlevels - 1, dfile, force, rx, quiet): File /usr/lib/python2.3/compileall.py, line 68, in compile_dir except py_compile.PyCompileError,err: AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'PyCompileError' dpkg: error processing debconf (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of debconf-utils: debconf-utils depends on debconf (= 1.3.20); however: Package debconf is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing debconf-utils (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of debhelper: debhelper depends on debconf-utils (= 1.1.1); however: Package debconf-utils is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing debhelper (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of alien: alien depends on debhelper (= 3); however: Package debhelper is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing alien (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of debsums: debsums depends on debconf (= 0.5) | debconf-2.0; however: Package debconf is not configured yet. Package debconf-2.0 is not installed. Package debconf which provides debconf-2.0 is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing debsums (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: debconf debconf-utils debhelper alien debsums E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) As long as debconf fails and cannot be reinstalled, I'm afraid, there won't be any solution (had started another thread, but now I think it is the same problem). Is there really no solution but re-install ?? Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: System needs repair after fsck
On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 23:06:59 -0400, Marty wrote: As long as debconf fails and cannot be reinstalled, I'm afraid, there won't be any solution (had started another thread, but now I think it is the same problem). There is always a solution if you have a running system. This is what I *expect* Is there really no solution but re-install ?? That's never a solution. This is what I have been preaching over the years; but this time I don't see any on my own. This is why I am asking for help. It seems as of now and for me, that debconf is the problem. Once it is screwed, there seems to be no way out; you can't install / upgrade anything without; you can't reinstall it; a circular problem ? Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: System needs repair after fsck
On Fri, 08 Jul 2005 12:17:57 +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: On Fri, 08 Jul 2005 12:08:05 +0800, Robert Vangel wrote: What about `apt-get install --reinstall' Tried, been there: # apt-get install --reinstall Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Actually, I tried a lot of things, like dpkg --get-selections | sed -ne 's,[[:space:]]install$,,p' | xargs apt-get install --reinstall --yes which I got from the archives; but it won't do the trick: snip Reinstallation of libwraster2 is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 954 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgrad Need to get 0B/583MB of archives. After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used. E: Couldn't configure pre-depend coreutils for debianutils, probably a depen y cycle. Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Reinstallation of lprngtool is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. Reinstallation of mc-common is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. snip 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 383 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgrad Need to get 0B/349MB of archives. After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used. E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration (2) on passwd I also didn't find can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct on all of google. dpkg-reconfigure --all came with many similar errors and finally crashed. So what I did was apt-get install --reinstall locale which removed those error messages. Then apt-get install --reinstall dpkg Finally I selected all packages for reinstall containing fonts: dpkg --get-selections | grep font | cut -f 1 fontfile for fils in `cat fontfile`; do echo reinstalling $fils; apt-get install --reinstall $fils --yes; done and similarly everything about xfce4: dpkg --get-selections | grep xfce | cut -f 1 filexfce for fils in `cat filexfce`; do echo reinstalling $fils; apt-get install --reinstall $fils --yes; done and rebooted. Now most of the fonts are back, and so are the functions of xfce4 that I had used before. Overall, this is less than satisfactory; there are surely more problems, and I would be disappointed if apt / dpkg could not check the integrity of their respective packages; and worse: missed any 'repair'. And now I ask for your advice because I have no courage to do the trick as done above for all packages; like dpkg --get-selections | cut -f 1 allfiles for fils in `cat allfiles`; do echo reinstalling $fils; apt-get install --reinstall $fils --yes; done since it works now and I don't want to screw the system completely. Rather, I still have a hope that there is an integrated repair function for the rest of my problems. Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: grub splash image
On Fri, 08 Jul 2005 01:02:42 -0600, wrote: hello, i have a small problem, i am trying to add a splash image to my bootup, grub and the initial loading before xserver starts, everything i have read that refers to this sort of thing mentions a file called grub.conf but it appears that file is not on my system, the closest thing i can find that might be it would be menu.lst right there. The other one is a twist off the original. and i have tried adding in the line splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/myfile.xpm.gz but that seemed to have no effect whats so ever, is there something i am doing wrong? i have grub installed on the mbr, please help with this problem of mine. splashimage=(hd0,5)/grub/splash.xpm.gz is the one I use. First, you cannot just use any image, it needs to be in the correct format. Make sure you don't just rename myfile to myfile.xpm.gz ! With respect to hdX,Y, that depends on your partition layout. It really depends where your grub sits in the partitions (nothing to do with MBR). In my case, /boot is /dev/hda6, so in grub-speak it would be hd0,5. This is simply where grub and menu.lst are located. HTH, Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
debconf broken - How to repair ?
Dunno if it has to do with the earlier problem, but now debconf is broken here: # apt-get install alien Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done alien is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 4 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used. Setting up debconf (1.4.30.13) ... Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/lib/python2.3/compileall.py, line 156, in ? exit_status = not main() File /usr/lib/python2.3/compileall.py, line 146, in main force, rx, quiet): File /usr/lib/python2.3/compileall.py, line 83, in compile_dir if not compile_dir(fullname, maxlevels - 1, dfile, force, rx, quiet): File /usr/lib/python2.3/compileall.py, line 83, in compile_dir if not compile_dir(fullname, maxlevels - 1, dfile, force, rx, quiet): File /usr/lib/python2.3/compileall.py, line 83, in compile_dir if not compile_dir(fullname, maxlevels - 1, dfile, force, rx, quiet): File /usr/lib/python2.3/compileall.py, line 68, in compile_dir except py_compile.PyCompileError,err: AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'PyCompileError' dpkg: error processing debconf (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of debconf-utils: debconf-utils depends on debconf (= 1.3.20); however: Package debconf is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing debconf-utils (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of debhelper: debhelper depends on debconf-utils (= 1.1.1); however: Package debconf-utils is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing debhelper (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of alien: alien depends on debhelper (= 3); however: Package debhelper is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing alien (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: debconf debconf-utils debhelper alien E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) And I cannot reinstall it either: # apt-get install --reinstall debconf Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 4 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Setting up debconf (1.4.30.13) ... Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/lib/python2.3/compileall.py, line 156, in ? exit_status = not main() File /usr/lib/python2.3/compileall.py, line 146, in main force, rx, quiet): File /usr/lib/python2.3/compileall.py, line 83, in compile_dir if not compile_dir(fullname, maxlevels - 1, dfile, force, rx, quiet): File /usr/lib/python2.3/compileall.py, line 83, in compile_dir if not compile_dir(fullname, maxlevels - 1, dfile, force, rx, quiet): File /usr/lib/python2.3/compileall.py, line 83, in compile_dir if not compile_dir(fullname, maxlevels - 1, dfile, force, rx, quiet): File /usr/lib/python2.3/compileall.py, line 68, in compile_dir except py_compile.PyCompileError,err: AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'PyCompileError' dpkg: error processing debconf (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of debconf-utils: debconf-utils depends on debconf (= 1.3.20); however: Package debconf is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing debconf-utils (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of debhelper: debhelper depends on debconf-utils (= 1.1.1); however: Package debconf-utils is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing debhelper (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of alien: alien depends on debhelper (= 3); however: Package debhelper is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing alien (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: debconf debconf-utils debhelper alien E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) And I did try # /usr/share/debconf/fix_db.pl # , but it doesn't help. I also tried to remove debconf, but then everything gets removed. Any help on how to repair it will be appreciated ! Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
System needs repair after fsck
Last night at boot the system checked (after 30 boots or so) my /usr partition. It dropped me to console; I did the suggested fsck /dev/hda8. After the lengthy check it came up; but with some errors; like screwed up XFCE configuration (some apps missing); some screwed up fonts; and can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct when I 'man foo'. For the rest it works well as far as I have tried. How to repair the system best without re-installing ? I read the doc for apt; dpkg; but didn't find an unambiguous check / repair option; like I had used before for RPMs. Is there any, so that I can make out damaged packages ? What to do to get the system repaired, that otherwise boots fine ? Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: System needs repair after fsck
On Fri, 08 Jul 2005 12:08:05 +0800, Robert Vangel wrote: What about `apt-get install --reinstall' Tried, been there: # apt-get install --reinstall Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Actually, I tried a lot of things, like dpkg --get-selections | sed -ne 's,[[:space:]]install$,,p' | xargs apt-get install --reinstall --yes which I got from the archives; but it won't do the trick: l# dpkg --get-selections | sed -ne 's,[[:space:]]install$,,p' | xargs apt-get install --reinstall --yes Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Reinstallation of flashkard is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. Reinstallation of flashplayer-mozilla is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. Reinstallation of gmc is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. Reinstallation of gstreamer-audiofile is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. Reinstallation of gstreamer-flac is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. Reinstallation of gstreamer-gconf is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. Reinstallation of gstreamer-gnomevfs is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. Reinstallation of gstreamer-mad is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. Reinstallation of gstreamer-misc is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. Reinstallation of gstreamer-oss is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. Reinstallation of gstreamer-plugin-apps is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. Reinstallation of gstreamer-plugin-libs is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. Reinstallation of gstreamer-tools is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. Reinstallation of gstreamer-vorbis is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. Reinstallation of gxine is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. Reinstallation of ipw2100-modules-2.6.8-2-686 is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. Reinstallation of kernel-headers-2.6.8-1 is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. Reinstallation of kernel-image-2.4.25-1-386 is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. Reinstallation of kernel-image-2.6.7-1-686 is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. Reinstallation of kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686 is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. Reinstallation of kernel-source-2.4.26 is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. Reinstallation of kgeo is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. Reinstallation of kpaint is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. Reinstallation of libboost-python1.31.0 is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. Reinstallation of libcairo1 is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. Reinstallation of libcdio0 is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. Reinstallation of libcroco2 is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. Reinstallation of libcurl2 is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. Reinstallation of libdb4.0 is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. Reinstallation of libdb4.0++c102 is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. Reinstallation of libdns11 is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. Reinstallation of libdns5 is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. Reinstallation of libdvbpsi2 is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. Reinstallation of libdvdcss2 is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. Reinstallation of libexif9 is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. Reinstallation of libfaac0 is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. Reinstallation of libfaad2-0 is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. Reinstallation of libfame-0.9 is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. Reinstallation of libflac4 is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. Reinstallation of libgcrypt1 is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. Reinstallation of libgcrypt7 is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. Reinstallation of libgdkcardimage0 is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. Reinstallation of libgimp1.2 is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. Reinstallation of libgksu0 is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. Reinstallation of libgnutls10 is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. Reinstallation of libgnutls7 is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. Reinstallation of libgstreamer0.6-0 is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. Reinstallation of libgtkhtml20 is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. Reinstallation of libgucharmap3 is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. Reinstallation of libhowl0 is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. Reinstallation of libisc4 is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. Reinstallation of libiso9660-0 is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. Reinstallation of libkdegst0.6 is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. Reinstallation of libkdgantt0 is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. Reinstallation of liblinc1 is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. Reinstallation of libmagick5.5.7 is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. Reinstallation of libmjpegtools0 is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. Reinstallation of libmp4-0 is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. Reinstallation of libofx0c102 is not possible, it cannot be
Re: last update / upgrade killed grub ...Attention !
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 23:30:08 +0100, Bruno Boettcher wrote: hmmm was just wondering, have one machine down, completely due to the malfunction of grub Confirmed here. I cannot reinstall grub (okay, I can, from grub-floppy; and it tells me 'success'. But when I reboot, the grub menu doesn't come up; but the kernel is loaded immediately.) I also notice that the screen is almost unreadable; the characters completely distorted; some vertical dotted lines are visible; the characters like 'smear' all over the screen. No, hold your breath; when X starts everything is fine and okay. It's getting even stranger: when I boot from grub-floppy, the same kernel; same commands, everything is fine; the characters are normally visible while the lines of the boot screen flush by. As mentioned, all this started with the latest kernel-update (2.6.8) on Sarge. Also remarkable, I run two almost identical machines, and it only happened on one (DELL Inspiron 8100). My question to Debian and grub: what might have happened during that update ? How is it that I can install grub from floppy; successfully !; and still it is not called, but the kernel booted on its own ? firing up a knoppix and launching grub-install had no effect either... installing lilo neither quite clue less about what's happening! I'm using the latest grub update in Sarge with no problem. Do we have the same version? I have version 0.95+cvs20040624-10. I also have the one from cvs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
last update / upgrade killed grub ...Attention !
If you need grub, take care, the last upgrade (17-18 Nov.) killed grub here on Sarge (no, not SID !). Somehow grub doesn't get activated any longer at boot and the PC boots directly off MBR (so I guess). I checked the /boot/grub/menu.lst; everything fine and there. At boot, grub doesn't come up at all; no splash, no nothing; the kernel gets loaded immediately. Here is no help needed; I'll take out a grub-floppy and get it setup again; I guess. So this is FYI and take care ! Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is there a problem with the Debian mirror on mirrors.kernel.org?
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 12:30:25 +0100, Shaul Karl wrote: Are there other seeing that? Yes, thought it was my mirror ! But just now it is back to normal for me. Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
problem with sound (esound) since a few days
Though I didn't change anything on purpose; just the usual upgrades, I lost my sound a few days ago. Only today is the time to check it: esd doesn't start any longer (it always did): $ esd [1] 28425 $ /dev/dsp: No such device Esound is and remains installed: # apt-get install esound Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done esound is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Quite a few modules are loaded: # lsmod | grep snd snd_intel8x0m 20264 0 snd_intel8x0 36460 0 snd_ac97_codec 70020 2 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0 snd_pcm_oss55048 0 snd_mixer_oss 20096 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_pcm98728 3 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm_oss snd_timer 25668 1 snd_pcm snd_page_alloc 11752 3 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm gameport4704 1 snd_intel8x0 snd_mpu401_uart 7968 1 snd_intel8x0 snd_rawmidi25156 1 snd_mpu401_uart snd_seq_device 8200 1 snd_rawmidi snd57156 10 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device soundcore 10336 1 snd Finally, the lspci -v gives me: :00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01) Subsystem: Dell: Unknown device 0139 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 7 I/O ports at d800 [size=256] I/O ports at dc40 [size=64] Memory at faeff800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512] Memory at faeff400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 Any help ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problem with sound (esound) since a few days
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 13:50:09 +0200, Uwe Dippel wrote: Though I didn't change anything on purpose; just the usual upgrades, I lost my sound a few days ago. Finally, the lspci -v gives me: :00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01) Subsystem: Dell: Unknown device 0139 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 7 I/O ports at d800 [size=256] I/O ports at dc40 [size=64] Memory at faeff800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512] Memory at faeff400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 Firstly, thanks to all of your helpful advices in this friendly community ! The problem is 'solved'. To me it's no solution, since - as I wrote in the OP - I hadn't done any changes. Running for months and just apt-get update / upgrade. And then it *must not* break on Sarge. This is what I found in dmesg: ACPI: PCI interrupt :00:1f.5[B] - GSI 7 (level, low) - IRQ 7 unable to grab IRQ 7 Intel ICH: probe of :00:1f.5 failed with error -16 And /proc/interrupts were identical; showing IRQ 7 to be occupied by LPT0:, contrary to what lspci makes me believe. I rebooted and disabled the Parallel Port at reboot and now everything is back to normal. Better said: 'normal'; because there is no inherent necessity to load the audio controller to IRQ7; and neither does it complain; I ask you to read the dmesg properly: ACPI has its problems with it. This is how it looks when working properly: ACPI: PCI interrupt :00:1f.5[B] - GSI 7 (level, low) - IRQ 7 0: 66676279 XT-PIC timer 1: 22 XT-PIC i8042 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 7: 170589 XT-PIC Intel 82801DB-ICH4, Intel 82801DB-ICH4 Modem 8: 4 XT-PIC rtc 9: 0 XT-PIC acpi 11:9023557 XT-PIC eth0, ehci_hcd, uhci_hcd, uhci_hcd, uhci_hcd, y enta, yenta, ohci1394 12: 58 XT-PIC i8042 14: 182138 XT-PIC ide0 Since I don't need the local LPT0:, I shall leave this 'solution' in place. But someone else might hit this bug / trap elsewhere; so beware ! Thanks again, Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xcdroast stops working
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 03:20:06 +0200, Uwe Dippel wrote: Linux dell 2.6.8-1-686 #1 Thu Oct 7 03:15:25 EDT 2004 i686 GNU/Linux xcdroast 0.98+0alpha15 No solution, yet. But something wrong with 2.6.8: I simply booted to 2.6.3 and everything worked splendid; without any other changes. Just booted to 2.6.3. Strange ! Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xcdroast stops working
Robert Parker wrote: I think it's wong with 2.6.8. For security reasons it won't allow you to run setuid root programs. The only way you can run cdrecord is as the root user. You're abolutely right. I didn't think of limits of setuid. AFAIK xcdroast is just a front end to cdrecord just like k3b. Sure, it is. But I prefered to use the app I'm simply more used to. Maybe I'm wrong but I can't see how running a binary as root user is any more secure than running it setuid root. Sure, more secure. But also quite braindead. By default it is more secure, because you cannot 'pass' permissions. Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
xcdroast stops working
Sitting on Sarge as-it-comes, daily updated. Suddenly xcdroast stops working today; last week it was okay. This is what I get: Calling: /usr/lib/xcdroast/bin/xcdrwrap CDRECORD dev= ATAPI:0,1,0 gracetime=2 fs=4096k driveropts=burnfree -v -useinfo speed=24 -dao -eject -pad -data /toast/track-01.iso ... scsidev: 'ATAPI:0,1,0' devname: 'ATAPI' scsibus: 0 target: 1 lun: 0 Warning: Using ATA Packet interface. Warning: The related Linux kernel interface code seems to be unmaintained. Warning: There is absolutely NO DMA, operations thus are slow. SCSI buffer size: 64512 Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a34 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling cdrecord: Drive does not support SAO recording. NOTE: this version of cdrecord is an inofficial (modified) release of cdrecord cdrecord: Illegal write mode for this drive. and thus may have bugs that are not present in the original version. I'm not really into this; so I can't see what's wrong. Didn't make any config changes, either. Here are some details: Linux dell 2.6.8-1-686 #1 Thu Oct 7 03:15:25 EDT 2004 i686 GNU/Linux xcdroast 0.98+0alpha15 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Intel 855 driver install worries
Got intelgraphics_060704.tar.gz and read the manual. After unpacking, I get Compiling new agppart module .. ERROR: AGPPART module did not compile Compiling DRM module ... ERROR: Kernel modules did not compile with dri.log saying: make -C /lib/modules/2.6.8-1-686/build SUBDIRS=/home/mydir/Sources/dripkg/agpgart-2.0 modules make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.8-1-686/build: No such file or directory. Stop. make: *** [default] Error 2 Makefile.linux:139: *** Cannot find a kernel config file. Stop. There is none such, but I have kernel-source and -headers installed: $ dpkg -l | grep kernel | grep 2.6.8 ii kernel-headers 2.6.8-4Header files related to Linux kernel version ii kernel-image-2 2.6.8-4Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on PPro ii kernel-kbuild- 2.6.8-1Linux kernel 2.6 kbuild tools ii kernel-source- 2.6.8-7Linux kernel source for version 2.6.8 with D What am I doing wrong ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Intel 855 driver install worries
Rituraj C. Buddhisagar wrote: PLease apply a patch from http://www.joepenguin.com/ Compiling intel driver did not succeed. I just applied that pacth and now it works!!! I did, but it doesn't solve my problem. It seems I make a stupid mistake somewhere else: it doesn't find my kernel-stuff. Just look at the details: the patch makes changes much later in the process ! What could it be ?? Thanks anyway, Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lost printing from OpenOffice; spadmin doesn't add printer
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 17:20:13 +0200, Uwe Dippel wrote: I found it impossible to generate a new printer with spadmin. Though I'm running from su, New Printer ... only offers fax and PDF; the upper Add a Printer is greyed out; just as the lower Import printers System-wise, lprng is doing a good job; I can use lpr without any trouble. I never installed CUPS: And this turned out to be the problem. It only creeps up when you use any other printing system. With the help of some kind OpenOffice.org people I could finally solve it. The problem sneaked into (Debian)OpenOffice some time ago with a backport: Now OO thinks you have CUPS installed, when it finds libcups (I guess almost everyone has it as dependency of Gnome, KDE !). And whenever it so thinks, it will grey out the fields, so that the user is forced to set printing with CUPS. Difficult to do, though, if there is no CUPS ! Workaround: Uncomment the (last) line in /etc/openoffice/openoffice.conf: export SAL_DISABLE_CUPS=1 And then use oopadmin (spadmin won't work !) to add your new printer(s). Works flawlessly here. FYI, Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Lost printing from OpenOffice; spadmin doesn't add printer
I found it impossible to generate a new printer with spadmin. Though I'm running from su, New Printer ... only offers fax and PDF; the upper Add a Printer is greyed out; just as the lower Import printers Initially I had two printers defined and working. Since I moved office, the parameters had to be changed. I tried to add one; with the result as above (greyed out), changed one, without success (seemed to not accept my new parameters). Finally I deleted the existing ones to start from scratch. Now the field is empty; I have all printers lost; and the Add a Printer still greyed out. System-wise, lprng is doing a good job; I can use lpr without any trouble. I was stupid enough to file a bug with OpenOffice, since this seems most normal as I was told immediately: That's not a bug at all but shows that you are running CUPS (and the lpr you are using in this case is most likely the CUPS backwards compatibility tool). In this case adding a printer is disabled since you can, should and must do this using your system printer administration tool. I'm obviously too much of a newbie and still don't understand. I never installed CUPS: $ dpkg -l | grep cups ii gnome-cups-man 0.18-2 CUPS printer admin tool for GNOME ii libcupsys2-gnu 1.1.20final+rc Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - libs ii libgnomecups1. 0.1.12-1 GNOME library for CUPS interaction ii libgnomecupsui 0.18-2 UI extensions to libgnomecups $ and don't want to use it. I set the printers with lprngtool; and added them last time just a few months back with spadmin. I simply cannot print now; there is no printer available in OpenOffice and nothing prints. Can someone please give me a site or something that is comprehensible enough to tell me how to get printing back for OpenOffice ?? And I prefer lprng compared to CUPS. Thanks, Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
XMMS freezes - not playing after apt-get upgrade on Testing
Subject says it. Did my daily dose of upgrade, rebooted, and now XMMS doesn't want to play. At 'play' it keeps at 0:00, but active. Another click on 'play' makes it freeze. It can only be removed with kill then. It uses esd as output plugin; esd works and is running. Yesterday it had been fine. How to rectify this ? Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mail server in DMZ
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 22:20:08 +0200, Curtis Vaughan wrote: Behind it, we have 1 Postfix server w/Courier IMAP and 1 Exchange 5.5 Server (soon to be moved to another Postfix server). I dunno what IPCop is, but I have postfix and Courier-IMAP in the DMZ. 2) accept all incoming mail and only relay that mail for internal recipients to the appropriate recipient. Of course, no problem ... Also, I'm a little confused as to how a mail server in the DMZ would route mail to the internal network. Or is that something it wouldn't have to worry about, but IPCop would (since it's the router). This *is* 'any input': The mailserver usually doesn't contact the Inside (and with a well-configured firewall it cannot and must not be able to do so); but of course the Inside clients contact the server; the firewall keeps state, and that's it. Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XMMS freezes - not playing after apt-get upgrade on Testing
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 11:00:31 +0200, Andrew Schulman wrote: See if other users have the same problem. If not, then the problem is in your ~/.xmms, which you could remove. No, didn't help. OSS-driver doesn't work, arts does, (plays and shows spectrum) but I have no output (I simply don't run arts). Maybe it's a kind of esd-problem, then ? Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
2.6.8-3 kernel freezes on Inspiron 8100 at isapnp
(today I'm kind of unlucky with the daily update, it seems: Thunderbird broke, XMMS broke and now:) After the update from 2.6.8-2 (??), but 2.6.8 in any case 2.6.8; the kernel freezes at isapnp. I tried three times (Power-Off); and then booted to 2.6.3; the install-kernel; without any problem. I wonder if I'm the only one and should file a bug-report ? Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cdrdao not working - still ??
Using 2.6.7; I still try to get cdrdao into burning .bin and .cue The writer is okay (xcdroast works; from user accounts as well); but cdrdao segfaults whenever it is called: cdrdao write --device 0,0,0 Monty_SD2.cue Cdrdao version 1.1.9 - (C) Andreas Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] SCSI interface library - (C) Joerg Schilling Paranoia DAE library - (C) Monty Check http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/drives.html#dt for current driver tables. Using libscg version 'schily-0.8' 0,0,0: HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4241NRev: A101 Using driver: Generic SCSI-3/MMC - Version 2.0 (options 0x) WARNING: Unit not ready, still trying... WARNING: Unit not ready, still trying... Burning entire 74 mins disc. Starting write at speed 4... Pausing 10 seconds - hit CTRL-C to abort. Process can be aborted with QUIT signal (usually CTRL-\). Turning BURN-Proof on Executing power calibration... Power calibration successful. Segmentation fault Always reproducible. 28 Dec 2003 someone suggested to use cdrecord with -dao instead; but also this fails me: cdrecord dev=0,0,0 -dao -useinfo cuefile=Monty_SD2.cue Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a29 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling NOTE: this version of cdrecord is an inofficial (modified) release of cdrecord and thus may have bugs that are not present in the original version. Please send bug reports and support requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. The original author should not be bothered with problems of this version. scsidev: '0,0,0' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.5.31 Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. Device type: Removable CD-ROM Version: 2 Response Format: 2 Capabilities : Vendor_info: 'HL-DT-ST' Identifikation : 'RW/DVD GCC-4241N' Revision : 'A101' Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-ROM. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in real SAO mode for single session. Last chance to quit, starting real write0 seconds. Operation starts. cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 2A 00 FF FF FF 6A 00 00 1B 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 24 00 00 00 Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x24 Qual 0x00 (invalid field in cdb) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) resid: 63504 cmd finished after 0.103s timeout 200s write track pad data: error after 0 bytes BFree: 1605 K BSize: 1605 K cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 2A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1B 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 24 00 00 00 Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x24 Qual 0x00 (invalid field in cdb) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) resid: 63504 cmd finished after 0.103s timeout 200s write track data: error after 0 bytes cdrecord: A write error occured. cdrecord: Please properly read the error message above. Any hint welcome, Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Warning: Possible Bug in BIOS DELL Latitude D400_A06 !
On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 15:50:07 +0200, Kent West wrote: After several attempts to convince Dell the problem was with their hardware (firmware), and not with me running unsupported OSes, they sent me a beta version of a BIOS which fixed my problem. Now I read this posting of yours, and I have to wonder if Dell's BIOS team is focused on getting something out the door that works with WindowsXP instead of being focused on producing quality code. I'm quite disappointed by DELL; another time. These are two different things: - support Linux - provide decent hardware that permits the user and system administrator to use / support Linux I actually thought they'd be grateful for that (possible) bug report (the BIOS came out a few days back) and investigate if there was anything to it or a case- / machine-specific trouble. This is their 'encouraging' reply: Dear Uwe, Thank you for contacting us at Dell Asia Pacific Customer Center (Dell APCC) via website. It appears that this issue is related to software(Linux). Unfortunately this product is not supported by Dell, and we do not have complete information regarding this product. Please contact the manufacturer or the vendor from where you purchased the software, they will be able to assist you to resolve the issue. I'm sorry I'm not able to assist you further. Please do not hesitate to contact us should you require further assistance Thank you once again for providing me an opportunity to serve you as our Valued Customer, Hope I have been some help to you. This is both arrogant and wrong. Once again, I'm not into asking for support of Linux. But referring me back to the manufacturer or the vendor is just that. My DELL Latitude D400 works with the originally supplied BIOS, but doesn't work with a specific, newly introduced BIOS from DELL. A minimal common sense indicates a hardware- / firmware-problem. Not one of XFree86. This reminds me of the issue 'fair use'. I don't buy a PC that works with XP only; but when I buy one, I buy a piece of hardware that is supposed to work with x86-software. Any x86-software. And if DELL is not willing to sell standard x86 hardware that runs x86-software; but instead sells hardware that is only guaranteed to run XP, I'll never ever buy or recommend this company again. 2 sen and YMMV, as usual. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Warning: Possible Bug in BIOS DELL Latitude D400_A06 !
Serious Warning - Possible Bug in BIOS update !
A06 will not support any UNIX-/ LINUX-GUI (at least on this machine).
I tried Debian-Linux ('testing'); and tried OpenBSD 3.5 (multi-boot).
Both will inevitably fail with a light yellow screen and an unresponsive keyboard
(no Ctrl-Alt-Del; neither Ctrl-Alt-Backslash). Only hard reset will help.
This also applies to the (possible) XFree86 configuration method:
# cd
# XFree86 -configure [goes through]
# XFree86 -xf86config /root/XF86config.new [freezes as above]
XP, however, starts well !
Confirmation: I could - puuhh - flash it back to A03 and it is back at
work without any problems.
DELL must urgently investigate this problem and find out if this is
machine-specific for my machine or a bug effecting everyone.
I can also confirm, that during both flashing operations no error or
warning was given; the checksums considered okay.
So I have to assume that the problem is not based on a download-error.
It *may* be machine-specific, though, since I had earlier filed a problem
with DELL that the flashing operation had not been possible from XP. This
problem had been unresolved despite various on- and off-site efforts by
DELL technicians. (ET20040709_004929)
Any BIOS-Update for this type of machine is discouraged as long as it is
not guaranteed to be a problem of an individual machine. Still, YMMV.
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video very bad since a day or two
Video was great here, until a day or two back. I installed Mplayer (from the known resources) as debian package. The first day it worked well; since yesterday it freezes whatever I do. So I uninstalled it. But now even xine is almost unable to play anything; just sound, a bad / blue screen and 100% usage of memory; with crashes (of xine) at times. Nor does it play DVD (crashes outright). Before everything had been as fine as you may expect on a 1.4 GHz machine with 256 MB RAM. This is what I get when I start it from the command line (as gxine): The program 'gxine' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'. (Details: serial 134 error_code 11 request_code 142 minor_code 19) (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously; that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it. To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.) I didn't change the XF86Config, to be complete. A Google search brought a lot of results, but none seems to be related; like turn off XMMS, etc. None of those brought a solution. Up2date to Debian Testing; here is the config: cat /etc/X11/XF86Config Section ServerLayout Identifier XFree86 Configured Screen 0 Screen0 0 0 InputDeviceMouse0 CorePointer InputDeviceKeyboard0 CoreKeyboard EndSection Section Files RgbPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb ModulePath /usr/X11R6/lib/modules FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ EndSection Section Module Load dbe Load dri Load extmod Load glx Load record Load xtrap Load speedo Load type1 EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard0 Driver keyboard Option XkbRules xfree86 Option XkbModel pc105 Option XkbLayout de_CH EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse Option Protocol ImPS/2 Option Device /dev/input/mice Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection Section Monitor Identifier Monitor0 HorizSync30-121 VertRefresh 48-160 VendorName Monitor Vendor ModelNameMonitor Model EndSection Section Device ### Available Driver options are:- ### Values: i: integer, f: float, bool: True/False, ### string: String, freq: f Hz/kHz/MHz ### [arg]: arg optional #Option NoAccel # [bool] #Option SWcursor # [bool] #Option ColorKey # i #Option CacheLines# i #Option Dac6Bit # [bool] #Option DRI # [bool] #Option NoDDC # [bool] #Option ShowCache # [bool] #Option XvMCSurfaces # i Identifier Card0 Driver i810 VendorName Intel Corp. BoardName 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device BusID PCI:0:2:0 EndSection Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device Card0 MonitorMonitor0 DefaultDepth 24 SubSection Display Depth 1 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 4 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 8 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 15 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 16 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 24 Modes 1600x1200 EndSubSection EndSection Thanks for any help, Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mozilla Thunderbird wierd .....
Actually, I didn't want to spend more time with this and simply apt-get downgrade the packages. Now everything is back to normal and as it had been before. Thunderbird just as well as Firefox. Thanks for all your help ! Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: video very bad since a day or two
On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 16:10:16 +0200, Kent West wrote: Sounds like some sort of video playing library has been replaced by Mplayer, that is hosing your playback ability. Kent and Ryan, I've been busy with this over the last hours. As of now, I see 2 things: 1. Xine works dependant on the display. On the notebook (1024x768) it is okay; on the monitor (1600x1200) it isn't. Might have to make with the chipset and shared memory; though everything else is fine. 2. Mplayer does a lot of crap and crashing: 3 consecutive pop-ups: 'MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: unknown MPlayer crashed by bad usage of CPU/FPU/RAM. Recompile MPlayer with --enable-debug and make a 'gdb' backtrace and disassembly. Details in DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports_what.html#bugreports_crash. MPlayer crashed. This shouldn't happen. It can be a bug in the MPlayer code _or_ in your drivers _or_ in your gcc version. If you think it's MPlayer's fault, please read DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html and follow the instructions there. We can't and won't help unless you provide this information when reporting a possible bug. This however goes away with another audio setting. The default (alsa) does this. Just selecting a non-default (e.g. esd) - and starting esd, mine wasn't up - results in a functional display and (heavily) delayed audio. No more crashes. To confirm, I went back to Alsa and the same pop-ups as above including crash. IMHO this would be very weak on the side of mplayer, since there are no indications that audio is responsible for these crashes. I'll keep you updated should I find more; especially something about the first item (memory ??) ! Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mozilla Thunderbird wierd .....
On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 08:55:40 +0200, Alexander Sack wrote: Your profile directory can be found in ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/default/zxczxczxc.slt/ There you can find a compreg.dat which can be removed. The mentioned chrome directory is ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/default/zxczxczxc.slt/chrome do something like this to rename it: mv ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/default/zxczxczxc.slt/chrome ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/default/zxczxczxc.slt/chrome.old After that a restart should solve your problems! Thanks, that's much clearer. But it doesn't solve it. It is exactly the same as in Firefox. We probably don't want attachments here, so I add a URL: http://metalab.uniten.edu.my/~uwe/temp/strange_footer.png -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mozilla Thunderbird wierd .....
On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 11:30:19 +0200, Alexander Sack wrote: Quite unlikely ... Firefox and thunderbird don't share a codebase, It looks identical with both. so maybe you have done too times the same thing Please, don't jump into assumptions ! Just simply apt-get update / upgrade (e.g. installing a bad extension as root)? I think I only had two extensions and both are gone Never Tell me: what version are you running? ii mozilla-firefo 0.9.1-4lightweight web browser based on Mozilla ii mozilla-thunde 0.7.1-1 If moving your whole profile directory (e.g. mv .mozilla-thunderbird .mozilla-thunderbird.sav) does not help, It does help; yes. After a restart the offending thingy is gone. So I moved it back, restarted again, and it is back. But I have all my mails in there and can't possible start from scratch. If this does not help either tell me what you have done :) See above ! $ ls /usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird chrome greprefs libgtkxtbin.so libnss3.so libprldap50.so libxlibrgb.so mozilla-thunderbird-bin res components icons libldap50.solibnssckbi.so libsmime3.so libxpcom.so mozilla-thunderbird-xremote-client run-mozilla.sh defaultslibgkgfx.solibmozjs.so libplc4.so libsoftokn3.so libxpcom_compat.so regchrome startup-hooks.d extensions libgtkembedmoz.so libnspr4.so libplds4.solibssl3.so libxpistub.so regxpcom $ ls /usr/share/mozilla-thunderbird chrome icons parts res $ apt-get install mozilla-thunderbird! # apt-get install mozilla-thunderbird Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done mozilla-thunderbird is already the newest version. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mozilla Thunderbird wierd .....
Alexander Sack wrote: try: http://www.jwsdot.com/debian/faq.html#q4a I did. Please, always think of the not-newbie (I am not); who still is not quite up at your level. please suggest to rename your profiles chrome directory is - sorry - incomprehensible to me. What to do ? Just delete ?? What ?? and/or remove your profiles compreg.dat file This is possible, though (I'll try 'locate'). I'll try my best ! Thanks, Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mozilla Thunderbird wierd .....
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 13:27:57 +0200, Alexander Sack wrote: There is an instruction on howto manually migrate your old profile in /usr/share/doc/mozilla-thunderbird/README.Debian Pretty incomprehensible, though. I found a better one in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=258741 and paste it here. It finally recovered all the misery. a) open thunderbirds profile manager: mozilla-thunderbird -P b) selecte create profile ... - Next c) select a name of your profile (e.g. default) and d) choose folder ... select your old profile folder (e.g. /home/user/.mozilla-thunderbird/default/vc3zm897.slt) e) finish the profile creation f) start thunderbird with your new profile I have a very strange class=t ^ field below thunderbird and firefox now; taking about 1/10 of the screen size. Any idea how to get rid of it as well ?? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OpenOffice doesn't update ! Attention !
With the last apt-get upgrade on SID I was getting OpenOffice1.1.2 yesterday. Now, with usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice I get the 'Install-Script' Screen and a question if I wanted to install a fresh profile or update the 1.1.0. Firstly, the question is 'wrong', because the previous version - I follow apt-get update daily - was 1.1.1. Worse, I clicked to keep the profile (what else !?), but it was removed and the next usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice gives me a start from scratch (all empty fields). I know, I'm living on 'Unstable'; but for the last year, it has been very stable. Now, with the Thunderbird problems, OpenOffice problem all in a single day, I might think to go back to 'Testing' ! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OpenOffice doesn't update ! Attention !
On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 11:12:56 +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: The existing, latest, profile is under ~/.openoffice/1.1.1/ The 'new' profile sits under ~/OpenOffice.org1.1.0/ It is unclear, why it lives here. How to solve it: cd ~/OpenOffice.org1.1.0 rm -Rf * cp -a ../.openoffice/1.1.1/* . This copies the 1.1.1 into the folder where 1.1.2 seems to expect it. YMMV A bug report has been filed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: audio on DELL latitude d400 screwed up
On Sun, 04 Jul 2004 15:35:54 +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: Installed testing on a DELL Latitude d400 with 2.6.6 kernel. Now audio is screwed up, though dmesg identifies the i810 correctly (??). Sorted. The screwed up thingy was the motherboard. After a swap everything is fine. Thanks for the ideas sent to me ! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: audio on DELL latitude d400 screwed up
On Sun, 04 Jul 2004 10:58:36 +0200, Philipp Weis wrote: Are you using ALSA or OSS? I have the same notebook and had problems with the ALSA driver. The OSS driver works fine for me and therefore I haven't bothered to take a closer look at the ALSA driver. And how do you do that ?? (Using OSS versus ALSA) By the way, my chip is reported by lspci as Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) AC'97 Audio Controller. Mine as well. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
