Debian on Sparc...
I can't find any reference to the debian-sparc mailing list (or did one never exist?). Is anyone using Debian on a sparc (or barring that, is anyone using Linux on a sparc ;-). The heart of my question is this, is it possible to get Linux up and running on a sparc w/o a CD-ROM drive? Can Debian Linux/Sparc boot off a floppy and establish an ethernet connection so that the rest of the install can proceed off a mounted filesystem? --norm
Getting the same USB device?
I have three or four plug in devices: a firewire PCMCIA card and several USB devices. Depending on the order in which they're added to the system, they get installed in different places. Is there any way to control that behavior? Is there any way to make the USB floppy, for example, always have the same device name irrespective of what else is installed? Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Allow children to be happy in their own http://nwalsh.com/| way, for what better way will they ever | find?--Dr. Johnson pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
PNY USB CompactFlash card reader
I just picked up one of these and it doesn't seem to work very cleanly. If I just plug it in, the device is recognized as a usb storage device, but no drive is assigned to it. A little googling reveals[1] that it can be made to assign a drive by removing and reloading the usb_storage module. Bleh. This isn't necessary for the other USB reader I have (a SanDisk MMD card reader). Before I return the thing, I thought I'd see if anyone knows of a way to make it work cleanly. Be seeing you, norm [1] http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2002-Feb/2817.html -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Wherever they burn books they will http://nwalsh.com/| also, in the end, burn human beings.-- | Heine pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
statd/lockd hang?
Has anyone seen this? Suggestions? I've been running a Debian desktop box as a nfs-server for a while. Now I want to run nfs-client on there, too, so that I can mount a directory of my laptop and back it up (the CD burner is on the desktop). So I installed the nfs-client package and now I get: ... Starting NFS common utilities: statd lockd portmap: server locahost not responding, timed out portmap: server locahost not responding, timed out lockd_up: makesock failed, error=-5 portmap: server locahost not responding, timed out lockdsvc: Input/output error I've tried removing and reinstalling the nfs-* packages, but it didn't help. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Don't despair, not even over the fact http://nwalsh.com/| that you don't despair.--Kafka
Loading lp
I recently installed Debian 2.2 (from scratch) on my desktop box. Everything is fine, except that I can't get lp to load. I don't recall having any particular difficulty in the past, but now I get: /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/lp.0: invalid parameter parm_io My modules.conf contains options lp io=0x378 irq=0 and loading the parport modules doesn't (seem to) have any effect. Suggestions? Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just http://nwalsh.com/| is. And we dance to its music.--Richard | Dawkins
Where is libz1?
I'm trying to upgrade to XFree86 3.3.6 in order to get support for my Trident Blade 3D card. I've managed to get as far as attempting to install xserver-svga, but it claims to depend on 'libz1'. I've looked all over the debian site, but I can't find anything called libz1. Help? Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | My problems start when the smarter http://nwalsh.com/ | bears and the dumber visitors | intersect.--Steve Thompson, | wildlife biologist at Yosemite | National Park
Configuring networking
When I installed 2.2 (from the frozen tree), it didn't recognize my pcmcia card (a 3com Cardbus) so it wouldn't configure network support. For some reason, booting off the floppy that install created loads eth0 just fine. But now how do I get it configured? I tried reinstalling netbase but that wasn't sufficient. I could copy /etc/init.d/network and friends from my other machine, but I'm afraid I'd miss something... Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | I don't make predictions. I never have http://nwalsh.com/| and I never will.--Tony Blair
Failure to connect to some sites
Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface 140.186.114.3 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH0 0 0 ppp0 140.186.114.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 0.0.0.0 140.186.114.3 0.0.0.0 UG0 0 0 ppp0 Anyone see the trouble? Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | No victor believes in chance.--Nietzsche http://nwalsh.com/|
Installing an earlier kernel?
Dumb question time, I'm sure. I've been running 2.2.15 for a while, but in a desparate effort to get a modem that works on this laptop before next Wednesday, I've built 2.2.12 (so I can run the damn Lucent binary winmodem driver). I've been booting off a floppy and so far it seems ok. (I haven't tried to figure out what was fixed between 12 and 15.) But if I 'make install' the kernel to put it on /dev/hda5 and then run lilo: everything seems right; /vmlinuz is a symlink to 2.2.12 in the /boot directory; similarly, the other symlinks point to 2.2.12 tings., but /proc/version still says 2.2.15 is running. Huh? What'd I miss. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | There is a road from the eye to the http://nwalsh.com/| heart that does not go through the | intellect.--G. K. Chesterton
Re: Configure networking?
/ Sebastiaan [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | I do not know how to config the entire network, but you can configure the | files: Thanks. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | We dance around in a ring and suppose, http://nwalsh.com/| but the Secret sits in the middle and | knows.--Robert Frost
Re: PS/2 Mouse Pointer?
/ Jay Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | On Thu, 30 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Network problems I expected, but this one I didn't: the mouse | isn't working. The machine says it detects the PS/2 Mouse Port, | but when I start gdm, the mouse pointer won't move. | | What else should I be checking for? Thanks for the tips, everyone. My XF86Config file referred to /dev/mouse when I hadn't created that symlink...d'oh! Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | We dance around in a ring and suppose, http://nwalsh.com/| but the Secret sits in the middle and | knows.--Robert Frost
Kernel problems
Hopefully this will be my last problem for today :-) I can't seem to get the 2.2.17 kernel to build and install correctly. It seems to run, but there are three problems that concern me. 1. When the kernel boots, it complains that some symbols don't match what's in the System.map. That can't be good :-). I've run make clean; make dep; make; make modules; make install; make modules_install, from the kernel sources directory, and I'm not sure else to try. (FWIW, the vmlinux and System.map files in /boot match the ones in the /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage and /usr/src/linux/System.map). 2. Attempting to load the nfs module, I'm told: hermes:/home/ndw# modprobe nfs /lib/modules/2.2.17/fs/lockd.o: unresolved symbol do_lockdctl /lib/modules/2.2.17/fs/lockd.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.17/fs/lockd.o failed /lib/modules/2.2.17/fs/lockd.o: insmod nfs failed Um, but ksyms says I've got that symbol: hermes:/var/log# ksyms -a | grep lockd c01c5414 do_lockdctl_R__ver_do_lockdctl 3. Finally, the parport doesn't seem to load. But that's the least of my worries. It's possible I don't have the right config params for it, I'm mentioning it just in case someone thinks it's related... Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | The stone fell on the pitcher? Woe to http://nwalsh.com/| the pitcher. The pitcher fell on the | stone? Woe to the pitcher.--Rabbinic | Saying
Re: Kernel problems
/ Robert Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | Did you use kernel-package? It's a wonderful thing for maintaining | kernels. I hadn't been, but I gave it a try. I created kernel-doc-2.2.17_Custom.1.00_all.deb kernel-headers-2.2.17_Custom.1.00_i386.deb kernel-image-2.2.17_Custom.1.00_i386.deb kernel-source-2.2.17_Custom.1.00_all.deb pcmcia-modules-2.2.17_3.1.8-16+Custom.1.00_i386.deb and installed them all with dpkg. No change. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | We dance around in a ring and suppose, http://nwalsh.com/| but the Secret sits in the middle and | knows.--Robert Frost
Re: docbook and pagesize
/ Bob Bernstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | There is a lot of info in the docbook stylesheet docs but you kind of have | to eke it out. Norm gives an example of the driver file in his DocBook book | which is available online (somewhere). http://www.docbook.org/tdg/html/ch04.html#AEN5447 Or, more generally, most of Chapter 4. | The docbook-apps list is a good place | to get an answer, often from Norm himself. Also debian-sgml. The docbook-apps list (docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org) is the right place for tools-related DocBook questions. (The docbook@lists.oasis-open.org list is for questions about DocBook markup.) Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | A man can believe a considerable deal http://nwalsh.com/| of rubbish, and yet go about his daily | work in a rational and cheerful | manner.--Norman Douglas
python/python2.3 circularity in unstable?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In a recent apt-get update/upgrade cycle on a machine running unstable, I seem to have stumbled over an inconsistency. # apt-get upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be upgraded python python2.3 2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 2897kB of archives. After unpacking 16.4kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main python 2.3.2-6 [153kB] Get:2 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main python2.3 2.3.2-6 [2744kB] Fetched 2635kB in 3m16s (13.4kB/s) Reading changelogs... Done (Reading database ... 73727 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace python 2.3.2-2 (using .../python_2.3.2-6_all.deb) ... Document `python-policy' is not installed, cannot remove. Unpacking replacement python ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/python_2.3.2-6_all.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/share/doc/python2.3/python-policy.html', which is also in package python2.3 dpkg: considering removing python in favour of python2.3 ... dpkg: no, cannot remove python (--auto-deconfigure will help): python-gdk-imlib-1.2 depends on python ( 2.4) python is to be removed. dpkg: regarding .../python2.3_2.3.2-6_i386.deb containing python2.3: python2.3 conflicts with python (= 2.3.2-5) python (version 2.3.2-2) is installed. dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/python2.3_2.3.2-6_i386.deb (--unpack): conflicting packages - not installing python2.3 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/python_2.3.2-6_all.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/python2.3_2.3.2-6_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Is this a known inconsistency, or have I mangled something on my machine? Be seeing you, norm - -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | The aging process has you firmly in its http://nwalsh.com/| grasp if you never get the urge to | throw a snowball.--Doug Larson -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/ iD8DBQE/w8F6OyltUcwYWjsRAiSQAJwJv13f2oE8hq+klg/kgFNsk2EEgQCfTcD7 W0EZrqCXiePZAn/P5IWmUwA= =Lg0k -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PID for ksoftireqd_CPU0 and friends
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello world, Out of curiosity more than anything else, I ran chkrootkit (0.42 from unstable) on my laptop. It comes back clean (though I recognize that that's not definitive), except for a warning about LKM because there are 4 processes hidden from the ps command. I did a little digging and, following some advice that I googled, I compared the PIDs in /proc with the PIDs from the PS command. It turns out, AFAICT, that the only discrepancy is that processes 4, 5, 6, and 7 are missing from the PS command. Those, according to /proc are ksoftirqd_CPU0, kswapd, bdflush, and kupdated. And I can see why they don't compare properly, because the PS output reports them all as PID 0. USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 1 0.0 0.0 1484 444 ?SDec03 0:03 init root 2 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Dec03 0:01 [keventd] root 3 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Dec03 0:00 [kapmd] root 0 0.0 0.0 00 ?SWN Dec03 0:00 [ksoftirqd_CPU0] root 0 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Dec03 0:16 [kswapd] root 0 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Dec03 0:00 [bdflush] root 0 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Dec03 0:00 [kupdated] root59 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW Dec03 0:00 [khubd] Is this normal? Be seeing you, norm - -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Individuality seems to be Nature's http://nwalsh.com/| whole aim--and she cares nothing for | individuals.-- Goethe -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/ iD8DBQE/0HzUOyltUcwYWjsRAn2oAJ4scNCvv6s8a+3lSeRupi9aHEeX5gCcDSBY 3d4lpBrBA0T4JUxQyHOTtPA= =LuGg -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Equivalent of ide-cs for kernel PCMCIA?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I recently managed to get IEEE1394 working with kernel PCMCIA (an apparent requirement that I'd previously been able to work around, but nevermind). Today I popped my PCMCIA CompactFlash adapter into the slot and found that there's no ide-cs module. Uhm. Is there something else that I can use to mount a CF card? Be seeing you, norm - -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Allow children to be happy in their own http://nwalsh.com/| way, for what better way will they ever | find?--Dr. Johnson -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.7 http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/ iD8DBQE/M+vbOyltUcwYWjsRAkB5AJ4pgyIRFAx0kPS+0jawUgwk9rBWgQCfbaru H7axS6aT9XeGd3ZQuOKJsGE= =eSB+ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bug in libc6
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 / Harshwardhan Nagaonkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | Well, icaclient is not the only commercial app that I have seen that | falls prey to this. A CAD designing software also segfaults with the | new libc (both of these work *great* on Woody, which has the older | libc, horray for 'stable' :) . I hope the newer versions of these | softwares fix this. Is this problem the result of a bug in the current unstable libc6, or is it the result of an incompatible change in libc6? Is it fair to assume that by the time this version of libc6 occurs in a stable release, old commercial apps will run, or will they have to be recompiled? Be seeing you, norm - -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [They] say the Earth is flat, but I http://nwalsh.com/| know that it is round, for I have seen | the shadow on the moon, and I have more | faith in a shadow than in | [them].--Ferdinand Magellan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.7 http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/ iD8DBQE/PRBQOyltUcwYWjsRAuT6AJ9dkytB0BC4fJaQ87Q7L1G4z9P1oQCcDBYN cmWxWNIM0+oZ3Zh2BFeIV80= =scR2 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bug in libc6
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 / Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | If you need to continue running a old, old, commercial, proprietary app | that requires an old version of libc (or anything else, really), you can | install it into it's own little chroot containing whatever old libraries | you might need. http://people.debian.org/~walters/chroot.html explains | how. It's also mentioned in the quick reference if people.d.o is still | down when you get this. Before I go off and do this, it occurs to me that running an X server in chroot might be problematic. Intuition suggests that if the X server is running chrooted, then all of the apps that are started by the server (and indirectly by the window manager, etc.) are going to be running in that chroot environment. Is my intuition mistaken? Be seeing you, norm - -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Why in our youth does the life we still http://nwalsh.com/| have before us look so immeasurably | long? Because we have to find room for | the boundless hopes with which we cram | it.--Schopenhauer -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.7 http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/ iD8DBQE/Qip/OyltUcwYWjsRAkEJAJ47JedEfiUYFPolRVUbOLI7umki9QCeLs7/ Ff+FemB9frMPMzKP6mC8DTs= =JJFF -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Running X chroot?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 With the (current in unstable) binary incompatibility in libc, I'm having trouble getting my old commercial X server running. One suggestion was to run it chroot with the old libc libraries. I can see how this would theoretically allow me to update the rest of the system. So I gave it a try, I setup an /AccelX directory with the commercial binaries and configuration files and the necessary libraries. It took a little fiddling to get /proc mounted under /AccelX and to recreate the obviously necessary devices under /AccelX/dev (console, mem, null, psaux, tty0, tty7, and xsvc) but I figured it out eventually. Now if I run chroot /AccelX /usr/X11R6/bin/Xaccel The server starts. Progress. My next step was to attempt to get the server running chroot as part of the normal init process. Observing that /usr/X11R6/bin/X was a symlink to /usr/X11R6/bin/Xaccel, I replaced it with a small shell script that contains: exec chroot /AccelX /usr/X11R6/bin/Xaccel $@ Now if I run, for example, 'startx' the server starts but nothing happens. When I kill off the server, I get xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. So clearly applications can't talk to the X server. Because I didn't create some necessary device? Because I've overlooked something obvious? Clues appreciated. Be seeing you, norm - -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | We have fewer friends than we imagine, http://nwalsh.com/| but more than we know.--Hugo Von | Hofmannsthal -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.7 http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/ iD8DBQE/Q1/iOyltUcwYWjsRAloxAKCEXiQxziQtdWTPzJaDxei9bE6i9QCgpy8m Mi+eDnFGy6FWgo4i95H7jAs= =CxbW -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Xlib: Maximum number of clients reached
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello world, After running for a couple of days, I get: Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Maximum number of clients reached xterm Xt error: Can't open display: :0.0 I don't see an enormous number of processes running or anything. Can anyone suggest why I'd run out of connections? Can I increase the number allowed somehow? This is on a debian box running unstable. Be seeing you, norm - -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | He who seeks happiness for himself by http://nwalsh.com/| making others unhappy is bound in the | chains of hate and from those he cannot | be free.--The Dhammapada -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/ iD8DBQE/42v2OyltUcwYWjsRArZ7AJ91oiGyM5u0sewMJWe9Z8WcTcPabwCfXl24 TUVnyRfEAK3t/GI9q/r835s= =XqQE -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Xlib: Maximum number of clients reached
/ Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | on Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 12:14:49AM -0800, Karsten M. Self ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | on Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 04:21:58PM -0500, Norman Walsh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | | Hello world, | | Sorry, the world is out of the office for a moment, can you take a | message? I'd be happy to, but the world never checks messages with me. | IIRC, there's a hardcoded limit somewhere in X to the number of clients | which can connect. Quickly scanning Google Groups suggests it's 127. | One possibility is that you've got a client which is poorly behaved and | is spawning a number of instances which X is treating as independent | clients. There are some tools to view and list clients, though they | don't come to me off the top of my head. | | 'xlsclients' is one. I find that xlsclients only shows a normal-looking list of about 20 clients when the error occurs. Any other hints? Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this http://nwalsh.com/| day-to-day living that wears you | out.--Anton Chekhov pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Python/bssddb troubles in testing?
I noticed this morning that sb_filter.py was failing because of some DB-related error. It may have been failing for a while, I'm not sure. I thought I might have dropped some DBM-related Python package by mistake, so I attempted to install python-gdbm. That exhibited an error too: Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main python2.3-gdbm 2.3.3-4 [20.7kB] Get:2 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main python-gdbm 2.3.3-4 [14.4kB] Fetched 35.1kB in 2s (12.8kB/s) Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/apt-listchanges, line 67, in ? seen = anydbm.open(config.save_seen, 'c') File /usr/lib/python2.3/anydbm.py, line 83, in open return mod.open(file, flag, mode) File /usr/lib/python2.3/dbhash.py, line 16, in open return bsddb.hashopen(file, flag, mode) File /usr/lib/python2.3/bsddb/__init__.py, line 192, in hashopen d.open(file, db.DB_HASH, flags, mode) bsddb._db.DBError: (38, 'Function not implemented -- process-private: unable to initialize environment lock: Function not implemented') Hmm. My attempts to search bugs.debian.org didn't turn up anything that looked relevant, but I might have missed something. Is this a known problem? Anyone have a clue to spare? :-) Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | We make out of the quarrel with others, http://nwalsh.com/| rhetoric, but out of the quarrel with | ourselves, poetry.--W. B. Yeats pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
gs and the stp driver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've been struggling for a while to get printing working (under woody). My most recent fallback position is, screw getting it working on the network, just make it possible to print a file from my laptop. Hack. Hack. Hack. Eventually I get to this: foomatic-gswrapper: gs '-dPARANOIDSAFER' '-dNOPAUSE' '-dBATCH' '-sDEVICE=stp' '-sModel=escp2-cx3200' '-sOutputFile=| cat 3' '/dev/fd/0' 31 12 GNU Ghostscript 6.53 (2002-02-13) Copyright (C) 2002 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA. All rights reserved. This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file COPYING for details. Printer escp2-cx3200 is not a known model Unable to open the initial device, quitting. Flushing FIFO. But I can't for the life of me figure out what the 'stp' driver is, how to find it, or how to make it support my printer (an Epson CX3200). Help? Be seeing you, norm - -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Everything the same; everything http://nwalsh.com/| distinct. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.7 http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/ iD8DBQE/CujPOyltUcwYWjsRAsM1AJ9kfB2MrkB4kwKYZcSj+WepTkfc8QCfXNfI vPUgo79XxQVIqdyxeWql8Yg= =hYZN -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RPC call returned error 111
Hi, I recently did and update/upgrade for the latest unstable (yeah, yeah, silly me :-), and now I get the following messages when I attempt to start an nfs server on that machine: portmap: RPC call returned error 111 RPC: task of released request still queued! RPC: (task is on xprt_pending) lockd_up: makesock failed, error=-111! ... lockdsvc: Connection refused Can anyone point me in the right direction to resolve these? I'd really like to mount those drives again :-) Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Our culture peculiarly honors the act http://nwalsh.com/| of blaming, which it takes as the sign | of virtue and intellect.--Lionel | Trilling
Re: RPC call returned error 111
/ \Timothy J. Ford\ Timothy J. Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | This looks like the problem that I had. | This issue came up on debian-user a few days ago. | Check the archives for Feb. 10 -- 12. Humorously, the web archives of debian-user end at Feb 09 and my personal archives begin late on Feb 12... | The solution is to install net-tools_1.58-2_i386.deb. Alas, that had no effect. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | The man with ten children is better off http://nwalsh.com/| than the one with ten thousand fonts of | type, because the man with ten children | doesn't want any more.
Re: Net-tools
| * backported ifconfig change from 1.59 to avoid closing socket too early | on some systems (depending on the protocols installed). | Closes Bug: #85688, #85743 This didn't resolve my NFS error 111 problem. Does anyone have other suggestions? (I have checked that the portmapper starts first, and I'm pretty sure it does.) Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | He that overvalues himself will http://nwalsh.com/| undervalue others, and he that | undervalues others will oppress | them.--Dr. Johnson
Re: RPC call returned error 111
Sorry to be a pest. Are there really no other suggestions for fixing this problem? Upgrading net-tools didn't help... / Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | I recently did and update/upgrade for the latest unstable (yeah, yeah, | silly me :-), and now I get the following messages when I attempt to | start an nfs server on that machine: | | portmap: RPC call returned error 111 | RPC: task of released request still queued! | RPC: (task is on xprt_pending) | lockd_up: makesock failed, error=-111! | ... | lockdsvc: Connection refused | | Can anyone point me in the right direction to resolve these? I'd | really like to mount those drives again :-) Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Nothing is more depressing than http://nwalsh.com/| consolations based on the necessity of | evil, the uselessness of remedies, the | inevitability of fate, the order of | Providence, or the misery of the human | condition. It is ridiculous to try to | alleviate misfortune by observing that | we are born to be | miserable.--Montesquieu
Re: RPC call returned error 111
/ Sebastiaan [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | I just read the guide of ltsp, and they said something about this. Do you | have tcpwrappers enabled (do not ask me what that is)? If so (or just | try) to add in /etc/hosts.allow: | portmap: 192.168.0. | | This allows portmapper access to all computers in 192.168.0.0 network. That had no effect. And neither did turning off spoof protection alltogether. (This machine's behind a firewall, I don't really care about security on it...well, at least not until I get this problem solved.) Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | A man is not necessarily intelligent http://nwalsh.com/| because he has plenty of ideas, any | more than he is a good general because | he has plenty of soldiers.--Chamfort
lilo 'Block move error 0xAE'
Can anyone help me get past this error? Google search didn't turn up anything useful. Lilo can boot my Win98 partition and I can boot the relevant kernel off a floppy, but attempting to boot Linux from the hard disk produces 'Block move error 0xAE'. Help? Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Nothing hath an uglier look to us than http://nwalsh.com/| reason, when it is not on our own | side.--Marquess of Halifax
Re: lilo 'Block move error 0xAE'
/ ktb [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 12:03:02PM -0400, Norman Walsh wrote: | Can anyone help me get past this error? Google search didn't turn | up anything useful. Lilo can boot my Win98 partition and I can boot | the relevant kernel off a floppy, but attempting to boot Linux from | the hard disk produces 'Block move error 0xAE'. | | | I don't know what the error message means but... | When you run - | # /sbin/lilo | are there any errors? Nope. zeus:~# /sbin/lilo Added Linux (alias 1) * Added Win98 (alias 2) My /etc/lilo.conf is: # Specifies the boot device. This is where Lilo installs its boot # block. It can be either a partition, or the raw device, in which # case it installs in the MBR, and will overwrite the current MBR. # boot=/dev/hda # Specifies the device that should be mounted as root. (`/') # root=/dev/hda5 # Installs the specified file as the new boot sector # install=/boot/boot.b # Specifies the location of the map file # map=/boot/map #delay=20 message=/boot/bootmess.txt prompt single-key vga=normal default=Linux image=/vmlinuz label=Linux append=hdc=scsi read-only alias=1 other=/dev/hda1 label=Win98 alias=2 | Does the output of - | # rdev | match what you have in /etc/lilo.conf? I think so: zeus:~# rdev /dev/hda5 / Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | He who seeks happiness for himself by http://nwalsh.com/| making others unhappy is bound in the | chains of hate and from those he cannot | be free.--The Dhammapada
Re: lilo 'Block move error 0xAE'
/ Guy Geens [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | Try adding the line `lba32' to lilo.conf, and then re-run lilo. No change. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | There is always some accident in the http://nwalsh.com/| best of things, whether thoughts or | expressions or deeds. The memorable | thought, the happy expression, the | admirable deed are only partly | yours.--Thoreau
New bash and tab completion
Not strictly speaking a debian question, I suppose, but... The last apt-get upgrade that I performed installed a new version of bash (2.05a.0(1)-release). Since this upgrade, I've discovered that tab completion of a symbolic link that points to a directory no longer automatically includes the trailing slash. For example, on my disk /sourceforge - /projects/sourceforge so if I type /pro[tab], I get /projects/, but if I type /sour[tab], I get /sourceforge (without the trialing slash). If I type tab again, I get the trailing slash. (There's no file called sourceforge in /). This behavior is consistent on all symlinks to directories, and I find it exceptionally annoying. A quick scan of the man page doesn't reveal any option that obviously would effect this behavior (and why doesn't bash_2.05a-2_i386.deb include an info page, no, that's a separate issue :-) Is there a setting to fix this behavior? Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | It is important what a man still plans http://nwalsh.com/| at the end. It shows the measure of | injustice in his death.--Elias Canetti
Re: Yahoo messenger
/ Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | What tool do Debian folks use that interoperates with Yahoo! IM? Everybuddy Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | My problems start when the smarter http://nwalsh.com/| bears and the dumber visitors | intersect.--Steve Thompson, wildlife | biologist at Yosemite National Park
Re: New bash and tab completion
/ Brian Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Is there a setting to fix this behavior? | | I don't know if there is a way to revert back to the old behavior, but | this change is mentioned in /usr/share/doc/bash/changelog.gz: | | c. The completion code no longer appends a `/' or ` ' to a match when | completing a symbolic link that resolves to a directory name, unless | the match does not add anything to the word being completed. This | means that a tab will complete the word up to the full name, but not | add anything, and a subsequent tab will add a slash. Well, I figured out how to get the old behavior back :-) YMMV, Caveat user, etc. I also fired a note off to the bash maintainer. I'll pass along anything I find out. *** lib/readline/complete.c~Mon Oct 15 14:31:41 2001 --- lib/readline/complete.c Fri Nov 30 16:12:30 2001 *** *** 1191,1195 else if (s == 0 S_ISLNK (finfo.st_mode) stat (filename, finfo) == 0 S_ISDIR (finfo.st_mode)) ! ; #endif else --- 1191,1195 else if (s == 0 S_ISLNK (finfo.st_mode) stat (filename, finfo) == 0 S_ISDIR (finfo.st_mode)) ! rl_insert_text (/); #endif else Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | If you understand: things are as they http://nwalsh.com/| are. If you do not understand: things | are as they are.
Joliet file names
This is marginally debian related since I'm trying to build a CD of the boot images for stable and testing... mkisofs reports: Error: stable/md5sum.txt and testing/md5sum.txt have the same Joliet name Joliet tree sort failed I've seen this before, but I've usually just tarred up the files and made the CD of that. In this case, however, I want the files on the CD to be...on the CD. Is there a workaround? Can I assign the names for Joliet to use? Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who http://nwalsh.com/| keeps the inner madman under lock and | key.--Val\'ery
Problem with iptables and 2.4.17
I'm trying to get iptables working with a recently built 2.4.17 kernel. I think I enabled the correct options, but I get the following errors when I attempt to load the ip_tables module: /lib/modules/2.4.17/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o: unresolved symbol nf_unregister_sockopt /lib/modules/2.4.17/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o: unresolved symbol nf_register_sockopt /lib/modules/2.4.17/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.17/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o failed /lib/modules/2.4.17/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o: insmod ip_tables failed A quick google search reveals that I'm not entirely alone, but doesn't provide any solutions. Thoughts? Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Every new beginning comes from some http://nwalsh.com/| other beginning's end.
Re: PCMCIA
/ Vaughan, Curtis [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | Here's what I get: | Starting PCMCIA services: modulesinsmod: a module named pcmcia_core already | exists | insmod:/lib/modules/2.2.17/pcmcia/yenta_socket.o: No such file or directory | ds: no socket drivers loaded! | /lib/modules/2.2.17/pcmicia/ds.o: init_modules: Device or resource busy | Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including | invalid IO or IRQ parameters | cardmgr. I accidentally let 'apt-get update' upgrade my PCMCIA config as well and now I'm having the same trouble. I went back and rebuilt the kernel (2.4.17) and PCMCIA (3.1.29) that worked yesterday, moved /lib/modules/2.4.17/ out of the way and reinstalled everything, confident that the problem would be fixed...and it wasn't. I tried rebuilding with 3.1.31 PCMCIA sources too, same problem. Help!? What's changed here? I need my wvlan_cs support back next week... Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Individuality seems to be Nature's http://nwalsh.com/| whole aim--and she cares nothing for | individuals.--Goethe
Re: pcmcia
/ Michael Epting [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | Well, I'm running an older 2.4 kernel on my ancient Toshiba laptop and I | needed to change /etc/default/pcmcia from yenta_socket to i82365. | Everything is back to fine now. Curiously, this seems to have fixed the problem for me, too, even though I'm running 2.4.17 on a new Toshiba laptop...anyway, whew! Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Many who find the day too long, think http://nwalsh.com/| life too short.--Charles Caleb Colton
D-Link DWL-520 Wireless?
Does anyone know if there are drivers for the D-Link DWL-520 Wireless PCI Adapter? A quick Google didn't turn up anything useful...alas. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Someone has changed your life. Save? http://nwalsh.com/| (y/n)
Fighting with lilo
I've installed lilo on several machines and it's always performed flawlessly until now. I have one machine, a Compaq desktop on which it gives Block move error 0xAE errors. It used to be that it *always* gave this error, so I'd given up and installed BootMagic on it. I'm messing with that machine's configuration again and so I thought I'd give a recent lilo another try. A quick scan of google results on the block move error lead me to run 'fdisk /mbr' from the Windows partition, hoping that perhaps that would help. After reinstalling the DOS MBR, I booted linux off a floppy, moved the existing boot.xxx files out of /boot and re-ran lilo (regenerating a boot.0300 file, which I also thought might help). Upon rebooting, I get the LILO menu and when I select Linux, I get the block move error (which flashes past very quickly) then the boot menu again. Out of frustration, I wacked the enter key a bunch of times and to my stunned surprise, it succeeded on the fourth or fifth try. Color me confused. Can anyone suggest how I might fix this correctly, permanently? Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sites disappear; others are created. http://nwalsh.com/| That nasty little railway station, | devoid of taste and style, becomes an | element of beauty in the landscape | which first made it ugly.--R\'emy De | Gourmont
Re: D-Link DWL-520 Wireless?
/ Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | Does anyone know if there are drivers for the D-Link DWL-520 Wireless | PCI Adapter? A quick Google didn't turn up anything useful...alas. Just to close the loop, linux-wlan-ng-0.1.13-pre2 contained the driver I needed. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | All of us are creatures of a day; the http://nwalsh.com/| rememberer and the remembered | alike.--Marcus Aurelius
Re: Fighting with lilo
/ Tom Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | Sounds like a borked disk to me. Or maybe memory. I think the memory is fine, at least I've never had any other memory problems. So, considering the disk, do you mean borked physically bad or borked logically bad? If the latter, what can I do to unbork it? Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | We are thinking beings, and we cannot http://nwalsh.com/| exclude the intellect from | participating in any of our | functions.--William James
sk_run_filter and irda.o?
Hi, I just built a 2.4.4 kernel this weekend (running on top of Debian 2.2 with http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/kernel-24.html). Although things seem to be running fine, I notice that irda won't load: hermes:/home/ndw# modprobe irda /lib/modules/2.4.4/kernel/net/irda/irda.o: unresolved symbol sk_run_filter /lib/modules/2.4.4/kernel/net/irda/irda.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.4/kernel/net/irda/irda.o failed /lib/modules/2.4.4/kernel/net/irda/irda.o: insmod irda failed I've looked through the source tree and CONFIG_FILTER is 1 so net/core/filter.c should provide sk_run_filter. I also note that sk_run_filter is in the System.map: hermes:/usr/src/linux$ grep sk_run_filter System.map c019a794 T sk_run_filter c02044e0 ? __kstrtab_sk_run_filter c02080f0 ? __ksymtab_sk_run_filter Any thoughts? Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | To probe a hole we first use a straight http://nwalsh.com/| stick to see how far it takes us. To | probe the visible world we use the | assumption that things are simple until | they prove to be otherwise.--E. H. | Gombrich
Resolved: Re: sk_run_filter and irda.o?
/ Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | I just built a 2.4.4 kernel this weekend (running on top of Debian 2.2 | with http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/kernel-24.html). Although things seem | to be running fine, I notice that irda won't load: | | hermes:/home/ndw# modprobe irda | /lib/modules/2.4.4/kernel/net/irda/irda.o: unresolved symbol sk_run_filter Following some advice from google for a related problem, I saved my .config, made mrproper, restored my .config and rebuilt. And the problem went away. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | To create a little flower is the labour http://nwalsh.com/| of ages.--Blake
gdm/.Xclients on 2.2?
I'm trying to figure out what's going on behind the gdm login process. It doesn't appear to execute .xsession, .xinitrc, or .Xclients, but I've heard tell that it should. Looking in /etc/gdm/Sessions, I see several possibilities (Debian, Default, Gnome, and Xsession). My first question is, how does gdm choose which one to run? It seems to be running Default which is a symlink to Gnome. Ok, so it's running Gnome. Now, it explicitly checks /etc/X11/Xsession.options, where I have # configuration options for /etc/X11/Xsession # See Xsession.options(5) for an explanation of the available options. allow-failsafe allow-user-modmap allow-user-resources allow-user-xsession use-ssh-agent but in fact, it never runs my ~/.xsession file, even though the options say it would be allowed. Is this a bug or a feature? This file also contains no mention of .Xclients, although it does run .gnomerc. Finally, it ends by running gnome-session. At the moment, I've short circuited this by putting exec /usr/local/bin/fvwm2 at the end of my .gnomerc file. But I've noticed that if I logout a couple of times, gdm never comes back, so I'm not sure I've done the right thing. Comments? Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Abandoning rhyme and fixed rules in http://nwalsh.com/| favor of other intuitive rules brings | us back to fixed rules and to rhyme | with renewed respect.--Jean Cocteau
External USB hard disks?
Does anyone have experience with external USB hard disks? I was looking, for example, at the Maxtor 120Gb USB2 external drive. I'd like to have a hunk o' portable storage for data; mostly for moving digital photos around. I'm not looking to boot off it or anything. Comments? Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | If brute force doesn't work, maybe http://nwalsh.com/| you're not using enough brute force. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: External USB hard disks?
/ Richard Moe [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | man, 2002-04-22 kl. 21:25 skrev Norman Walsh: | Does anyone have experience with external USB hard disks? I was | looking, for example, at the Maxtor 120Gb USB2 external drive. | | Yes, I'm using a Datafab USB 1 cabinet with a 60GB disk and it works | really well with both Linux and Windows. I think you need kernel 2.5 | for USB 2.0 support, at least until someone backports it to 2.4. Ah, worth knowing. I think I'll search for a USB1 device for my production machine :-) Thanks! Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | You look wise. Pray correct that http://nwalsh.com/| error.--Charles Lamb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PCMCIA Firewire adapters? (was Re: External USB hard disks?)
/ Mike Frisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 12:11:31AM +0200, Mark Janssen wrote: | You'd better go for firewire then. I have the maxtor firewire 80 GB. | It works like a charm in both linux and windows... it's faster than USB1 | (and 2)... and it work with a standard 2.4 kernel | | Seems like the obvious solution, however many more machines have USB | ports than Firewire (unfortunately). If the original poster is moving | the drive between only two machines, it is the better solution. Well, my laptop doesn't have a firewire port, but I suppose this would be a good excuse to buy a firewire PCMCIA card. Anyone have experience using a firewire PCMCIA card and an external hard disk? Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Wandering in a vast forest at night, I http://nwalsh.com/| have only a faint light to guide me. A | stranger appears and says to me: My | friend, you should blow out your candle | in order to find your way more | clearly. This man is a | theologian.--Diderot -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: External USB hard disks?
/ Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | Do you have a preferred firewire card? When I asked a similar question, Michael D. Crawford helpfully replied: I don't have personal experience with any PCMCIA firewire adapters, but this page may help you: http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/hcl.php Note that very likely what you want is a CardBus card, rather than a PCMCIA card. Strictly speaking, PCMCIA is the ISA bus in a small form factor to fit in a laptop slot. CardBus cards look the same, but they are PCI bus cards and so have both much higher performance and less impact on the host computer. The main reason to choose PCMCIA over cardbus is when the host OS doesn't support it yet; for example, the BeOS never shipped with CardBus support, but Linux does support it. Having skimmed that list, I've mostly settled on the this one from FirewireDirect (but I don't actually have it yet, so I'm engaged in a bit of speculation): http://www.firewiredirect.com/firewire/products/cardbus.shtml It's reasonably priced, the list above says it works great and I'm encouraged by the fact that they list Linux as a supported OS. Supposing I pony up the cash and buy myself the 160Gb external Firewire drive and get it all working, what's the collective opinion on filesystems for it? One great big EXT2 partition? A few somewhat smaller ones? One of the journaling filesystems? Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Irrationally held truths may be more http://nwalsh.com/| harmful than reasoned errors.--T. H. | Huxley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Spooling a print job to a Windows box
Apologies for this just-barely-debian-related post. I've done the usual googling, but haven't turned up anything. Running smbclient -L 10.0.0.101 on my debian box reveals: Domain=[WORKGROUP] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager] Sharename Type Comment - --- My Documents Disk IPC$ IPC Remote IPC SharedDocs Disk print$ Disk Printer Drivers Epson Printer Epson Stylus COLOR 740 ESC/P 2 epson740i Printer EPSON Stylus COLOR 740 So it seems that the epson740i printer is indeed shared. But if I run DEVICE_URI=smb://10.0.0.101/epson740i smbspool 1 ndw title 1 none .bash_profile smbspool reports ERROR: cli_session_request() failed... ERROR: Unable to connect to SAMBA host, will retry in 60 seconds...: Success I've tried all the combinations username/password/workgroup that I can think of in the DEVICE_URI. Does cli_session_request() failed shed light for anyone? Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Are you not the future of all the http://nwalsh.com/| memories stored within you? The future | of the past?--Val\'ery -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Printing from firefox (xprt)
After a recent upgrade, attempting to print from firefox results in the following error: There was a problem printing. No Xprint server(s) could be found. Sure enough, I didn't have xprt installed. So I installed it. And I still get this error. Googling didn't turn up an obvious instructions for telling xprt about my cups-controlled printer. And xplsprinters clearly doesn't know about it: $ xplsprinters xplsprinters: no printers found for printer spec . Suggestions? Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | It is seldom that any liberty is lost http://nwalsh.com/| all at once.--David Hume pgpELgGFWbnnk.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Printing from firefox (xprt)
/ Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 07:20:20AM -0400, Norman Walsh wrote: | And xplsprinters clearly doesn't know about it: | | $ xplsprinters | xplsprinters: no printers found for printer spec . | | Suggestions? | | Is $XPSERVERLIST set? In my .xsession, I have a line | export XPSERVERLIST=`/etc/init.d/xprint get_xpserverlist` that lets | everything see my printer. Hmm. I'd swear I tried setting that yesterday and it had no effect. Either I'm wrong, or it has a different effect today :-) Thanks... Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | The perfect man has no method; or http://nwalsh.com/| rather the best of methods, which is | the method of no-method.-- Shih-T'ao pgpQQgpYYnjFa.pgp Description: PGP signature
Gnome font trouble
I upgraded my unstable distro recently (I'm not sure exactly when this started as I've been running the same session for a week or two) and now all the applications using Gnome fonts are using a large, bold font. For example, the font used in menus in XChat, Mozilla etc, the fonts used in Gaim, etc. are all large and bold. I've run the gnome-control-center and set the Font properties to Sans 8 but that didn't seem to have any effect. What/how do I make the menu/button font something smaller? Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | To the man who is afraid everything http://nwalsh.com/| rustles.-- Sophocles pgpj3SQhD9INY.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Gnome font trouble
/ Brian Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | I upgraded my unstable distro recently (I'm not sure exactly when this started | as I've been running the same session for a week or two) and now all the | applications using Gnome fonts are using a large, bold font. For example, | the font used in menus in XChat, Mozilla etc, the fonts used in Gaim, etc. | are all large and bold. | | I've run the gnome-control-center and set the Font properties to Sans 8 | but that didn't seem to have any effect. | | What/how do I make the menu/button font something smaller? | | What does: | | $ xdpyinfo | grep resolution resolution:120x123 dots per inch | say? Recently on my system, something decided that my fonts should be | 112x112 or something, which made most everything appear with *huge* | text. I ended up modifying the Xservers configuration file for my | display manager to pass -dpi 100 to /usr/X11R6/bin/X to force 100x100 | dpi fonts. It turns out that if I go into the gnome-control-center font configuration and explicitly select a different font (Georgia 8, for example), things switch to that font. Oddly, this doesn't seem to be persistent, I have to do it everything I start a session. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | I think age is a very high price to pay http://nwalsh.com/| for maturity.--Tom Stoppard pgptKaBrtvqVs.pgp Description: PGP signature
/dev/hda2 on / type unknown ???
My root partition is /dev/hda2. My machine boots up and runs fine. $ cat /etc/fstab | grep hda2 /dev/hda2 / ext2defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 $ mount | grep hda2 /dev/hda2 on / type unknown (rw,errors=remount-ro) That looks a little frightening to me. I touched /forcefsck and rebooted. It found errors on the root partition, claimed to fix them, and rebooted but the result was still an unknown partition type. Thoughts? Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Music is the only language in which you http://nwalsh.com/| cannot say a mean or sarcastic | thing.--John Erskine pgpl8NztkXLGa.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: /dev/hda2 on / type unknown ???
/ Felix C. Stegerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: [...] | It might be of interest which version of Debian you and I are using, | and what kernel. My set-up: | Linux 2.6.7-mm1 (built from kernel.org) | Debian testing/unstable (APT prefers unstable) Linux 2.4.26 running unstable. | It'd be nice if someone could shed some light on this. I think it's the result of a recent update. Skimming the root changelogs, maybe one of the changes to sysvinit in the last couple of weeks? Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | If you are losing your leisure, look http://nwalsh.com/| out! You may be losing your | soul.--Logan Pearsall Smith pgpbGXviFE9A9.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Gnome fonts and themes
/ Lee Hanxue [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | I am using Debian testing/unstable, and running Gnome 2.6 I use | Windowmaker as my window manager. The problem is whenever I start a | gnome app, such as gnome-terminal or galeon, the font will appear | awfully small. On my system, the font is awfully large. | The fonts will become okay when I start gnome-font-properties. I did | not even change a single thing: just start gnome-font-properties, | and the font size in gnome-terminal will increase automagically. Can | anyone be kind enough to explain what is happening, and how can I | set gnome apps to use the larger font by default? I'm seeing the same behavior with unstable, though I'm using fvwm as my window manager, so I think it's directly related to some underlying Gnome setting and not the WM. I'm pretty sure it's the result of some recent apt-get upgrade of a gnome package or library, but I haven't had the time or energy to try backing them out one-at-a-time to deduce which one is the culprit. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth http://nwalsh.com/| keeps turning round and gets nowhere. | The moment is the only thing that | counts.--Jean Cocteau pgpGGdcHJhoXK.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Gnome fonts and themes
/ David Mesler [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | It's not necessary to pass options to gnome-settings-daemon. I just run | it as gnome-settings-daemon and it works fine. Bingo. Thank you. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Testing can show the presence of http://nwalsh.com/| errors, but not their absence.--E. | Dijkstra pgpsLFLeK66iM.pgp Description: PGP signature
Unknown root partition type?
There was a short thread about this a couple of weeks ago, but I don't recall seeing any resolution. I do remember that I wasn't the only one experiencing the problem. Did I miss something, or is it still unresolved? Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | During the first period of a man's life http://nwalsh.com/| the greatest danger is: not to take the | risk.-- Kierkegaard pgpPAUfD2BpAt.pgp Description: PGP signature
Stretched printing in Firefox with CUPS
For a few weeks now I've been getting stretched printing from Firefox. By that I mean that all the text is vertically elongated so that the page runs off the bottom of the physical paper. Printing works from other applications. I've been hoping this would just go away with some upgrade of Firefox, but it's persisted long enough to become irritating. Google reveals I'm not alone, but doesn't point to any answers. Anyone worked out a fix? Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | You look wise. Pray correct that http://nwalsh.com/| error.--Charles Lamb pgpEtMCxCX2Rp.pgp Description: PGP signature
about:config in Firefox is broken
Trying to load about:config results in XML Parsing Error: syntax error Location: jar:resource:///chrome/toolkit.jar!/content/global/config.xul Line Number 1, Column 1:ig.xulUT Is it just me, or is this a problem with the Debian firefox distrib? (I'm running unstable, updated this morning.) Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | The finest amusements are the most http://nwalsh.com/| pointless ones.--Jacques Chardonne pgpIJ1rzwNjHu.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: about:config in Firefox is broken
/ Brian Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | Just you. Have you had firefox running since before the update? If so, | you probably need to restart it. Got it in one. Thanks! Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 'tis expressly against the law of arms: http://nwalsh.com/| 'tis as arrant a piece of knavery, mark | you now, as can be offer't; in your | conscience, now, is it not?--Fluellen, | Henry V pgpQaPv7RSkRg.pgp Description: PGP signature
Firefox 'stretched' printing
I mentioned[1] this problem a few weeks ago, in the hopes that someone would be able to tell me how to fix it. A few people replied that they were experiencing the problem, but no suggestions were forthcoming for how to fix it. Is there anyone out there who has had this problem and successfully fixed it? For the record, I'm running Debian unstable (updated today) with a build of X11/R6.8.1 from X.org instead of the stock XFree server. (But the problem was exactly the same with the stock XFree server.) Be seeing you, norm [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/08/msg09264.html %snip% For a few weeks now I've been getting stretched printing from Firefox. By that I mean that all the text is vertically elongated so that the page runs off the bottom of the physical paper. Printing works from other applications. I've been hoping this would just go away with some upgrade of Firefox, but it's persisted long enough to become irritating. %snip% -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Everything has been said before, but http://nwalsh.com/| since nobody every listens we have to | keep going back and beginning all over | again.--Andr Gide pgpG5nXZPAd2X.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Firefox 'stretched' printing
/ Jacob S [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | This sounds like a xprt problem. If your printer is setup with cups, | try printing using the Postscript/default option and see if that looks | better. Success! Once. After the first time, each attempt to print with Postscript/default produces the dialog You cannot print while in print preview, which I'm not. | If it does, you can either stop using xprt (my choice) or edit xprt's | configuration files in /etc. How can I stop using xprt? Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | We measure the excellency of other men, http://nwalsh.com/| by some excellency we conceive to be in | ourselves.--John Selden pgpw9cFJmLWcT.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Firefox 'stretched' printing
/ Jacob S [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 16:32:50 -0400 | Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] | How can I stop using xprt? | | When I was doing the same, I used 'apt-get remove xprt'. Yep. The odd thing is, I thought it got installed because it was required by one of the mozilla packages. But apparently not. Thanks for your help! Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Always and never are two words that you http://nwalsh.com/| should always remember never to | use.--Wendell Johnson pgpbshKdFRLwx.pgp Description: PGP signature
NCR53c7,8xxx SCSI controller?
The Debian boot disk (from 7/14/96) does not recognize my NCR53c7,8xxx SCSI controller. It seems to think it's a 53c406a with no ports available. I don't think it's a hardware problem because the RedHat 3.0.3 boot disks seem to work fine. But I don't really want to use RedHat ;-) Are alternate boot disks available anywhere? (I seem to recall a selection of them back in the Debian 0.9x days.) --norm -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X S3 bug?
I'm using the S3 X server and the display doesn't map quite right. It seems to be off by a small number of pixels (leaving a slim vertical bar across the far right of the display). This is sporadic behavior, sometimes it snaps into proper alignment and sometimes it snaps out. Is this a known bug? Is there a fix? Cheers, norm --- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | On a clear disk you can seek forever Technical Director, Online Publishing | O'Reilly Associates, Inc. | Telecommuting from Amherst, MA| (413) 549-3868 Voice and FAX | http://www.ora.com/staff/norm -- This message was delayed because the list mail delivery agent was down.
Ctrl+Alt+F1 not working?
I'm running unstable and after some upgrade a few weeks ago, I noticed that Ctrl+Alt+F1 will no longer get me to the console if I'm logged in (it will From the GDM login screen). Do I have to frob some setting in Gnome or something? Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | In the life of saints, technically so http://nwalsh.com/| called, the spiritual facilities are | strong, but what gives the impression | of extravagance proves usually on | examination to be a relative deficiency | of intellect.--William James pgpcHawsW0VtA.pgp Description: PGP signature
Mozilla remote control not working
After an upgrade last week (on unstable), remote control no longer works. I can start firefox just fine, but if I attempt to load another window, nothing happens. A little debugging revealed that the remote control app doesn't know that there's an instance running. In fact, if I dig my way through the shell scripts and run /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox-bin -remote 'openurl(http://localhost/,new-window)' I get No running window found. And if I run /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox-bin the Mozilla 1.6 (!?) profile manager pops up. I tried removing Mozilla 1.6 but there seem to be things that depend on it. Suggestions? Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Old age is the most unexpected of all http://nwalsh.com/| the things that happen to a man.-- | Trotsky pgp45KRFDI7uZ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Mozilla remote control not working
/ Michael Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | Norman wrote: | After an upgrade last week (on unstable), remote control no longer | works. | I can start firefox just fine, but if I attempt to load another | window, nothing happens. A little debugging revealed that the remote | control app doesn't know that there's an instance running. In fact, if | I dig my way through the shell scripts and run | | Have you tried running: | | firefox www.website.co.uk | | as I think the firefox script deals with the -remote stuff | automagically. Yeah, it does, but it does it by running the -remote stuff that doesn't work. Actually, looking at the sh -x output led me a little further. It turns out that the -remote stuff sort-of works: /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/mozilla-firefox-xremote-client 'openurl()' works, it pops up a dialog asking what to open. /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/mozilla-firefox-xremote-client 'openurl(localhost)' works, it loads localhost in whatever window/tab it thinks is current. /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/mozilla-firefox-xremote-client 'openurl(localhost,new-tab)' works, it loads localhost in a new tab in whatever window it thinks is current. /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/mozilla-firefox-xremote-client 'openurl(localhost,new-window)' doesn't work at all. Is there some setting I've frobbed? Could this be related to the tabbrowser extension? Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | One must look for one thing only, to http://nwalsh.com/| find many.--Cesare Pavese pgpwiqK1s65p5.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Ctrl+Alt+F1 not working?
/ Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: [...] | I started a thread on this a few weeks ago. The consensus was that if | you are using xmodmap the above command doesn't work. I have to live | with it at present. Bleh. That's it alright. I removed my .Xmodmap and the problem went away. From casual inspection of my .Xmodmap file, last edited in 2001, it's not clear if I'll care that I'm not using it anymore. Has this been bug reported, do you know? Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | There is no safety in numbers, or in http://nwalsh.com/| anything else.--James Thurber pgpo2lrfAf5OT.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Mozilla remote control not working
/ Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | Is there some setting I've frobbed? Could this be related to the | tabbrowser extension? Yes. I removed the tabbrowser extension and the problem went away. Sorry for the noise. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Everything should be made as simple as http://nwalsh.com/| possible, but no simpler. pgpiuQFpfGbf1.pgp Description: PGP signature
Evolution oddness
I don't know when or how I broke this, I don't run evolution very often, but I'd like to run it to try out some calendaring stuff. When I start evolution and click on the Calendar shortcut, I get the Calendar view with the Tasks displayed. Nothing I click on gives me the calendar view. So I rm -rf'd the ~/evolution directory and made sure all the bonobo-related tasks were killed. But when I restarted evolution, the problem persisted. Clues solicited. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | We make out of the quarrel with others, http://nwalsh.com/| rhetoric, but out of the quarrel with | ourselves, poetry.--W. B. Yeats pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Evolution oddness
/ Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | I don't know when or how I broke this, I don't run evolution very often, | but I'd like to run it to try out some calendaring stuff. When I start | evolution and click on the Calendar shortcut, I get the Calendar view | with the Tasks displayed. Nothing I click on gives me the calendar view. | | So I rm -rf'd the ~/evolution directory and made sure all the | bonobo-related tasks were killed. | | But when I restarted evolution, the problem persisted. Clues solicited. Removing, purging, and reinstalling evolution didn't help. Neither did removing ~/.gnome* and ~/evolution and restarting (in a very default desktop :-). I wasn't surprised when the former didn't help, but I did expect the latter to help... Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Everything should be made as simple as http://nwalsh.com/| possible, but no simpler. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Evolution oddness
/ David Clymer [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | Looks like I'm having a similar problem with evolution 1.4.5. I didnt | really notice because I dont use the calendaring feature. Evolution is | also failing to shutdown correctly at times, usually after being open | for a significant amount of time (i think). | | What version of evolution are you using? 1.4.5, from an unstable distro updated this morning. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | The important thing is not what the http://nwalsh.com/| author, or any artist, had in mind to | begin with but at what point he decided | to stop.--D. W. Harding pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Evolution oddness
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Re: Evolution oddness
/ David Clymer [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | I fixed this problem by removing my ~/.gconf/apps/evolution folder and | rerunning the evolution config druid. So, my problem had something to do | with the evolution config, but as for what it was exactly, I have no | idea. That fixed it for me, too. Thanks! Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | The Future Begins Tomorrow!--Yoyodyne http://nwalsh.com/| Propulsion Systems pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Fixing dependency problems with some sort of alias?
With gaim being broken indefinitely, I thought I'd give ymessenger a try. I'm running unstable so there's a dependency issue with the install (libssl0.9.6 is required but I have libssl0.9.7). I used --ignore-depends on the dpkg install command to get ymessenger installed and it works fine. But apt-get notices the problem and wants to fix it. Is there anyway that I can tell apt-get to just ignore the problem, just alias libssl0.9.7 as libssl0.9.6 or something like that? Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Space isn't remote at all. It's only an http://nwalsh.com/| hour's drive away if your car could go | straight upwards.--Fred Hoyle pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
modprobe usb-uhci hangs machine
Hello world, I'm running Debian unstable with a custom 2.4.23 kernel on an old IBM NetVista. All seems well until I try to load USB modules to setup a printer. Loading usb-uhci reports two ports detected (that's right) and then locks the machine up tight. A little googling didn't reveal a solution. Any suggestions? Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Optimistic, even in the face of reality. http://nwalsh.com/| pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
