kernel-image-2.4.2[01].*-k7.deb bootet readonly

Hi, die aktuellen genannten Kernel booten auf meinem nforce2 Chipsatz Board anscheinend nur im readonly Modus. Der init prozess kommt nicht in die Gänge, keine shell oder login möglich, auch bei boot argument 'single'. Erkenne bei den Kernel-Boot-Meldungen zwischen den vielen Ausgaben sowas

Re: Cups-Fehlersuche

Zieht das Papier wie gewohnt ein. Druckt Zeile um Zeile, ohne das etwas auf dem Papier zu sehen ist hatte ich auch mal, (Farb-) Tinte leer und er wollte partout in Farbe drucken... ;) -- Haeufig gestellte Fragen und Antworten (FAQ): http://www.de.debian.org/debian-user-german-FAQ/ Zum

Re: Formulare in mozilla

Marcus Jodorf wrote: Jan Ulrich Hasecke [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Windowmaker als Windowmanager? fvwm :) Damit hat mozilla seit einiger Zeit erhebliche Probleme bzw. umgekehrt. U.a. kommen Eingabeprobleme dabei öfter vor, weil das Focushandling nicht klappt. Auch 'mein' mozilla macht

Re: drucken/lp0 klappt nicht

Bertram Scharpf wrote: Ich hatte den _Verdacht_, daß Gerhard sich keine Zugriffsrechte auf `/dev/lp0' eingeräumt hatte. mein Problem hat sich mittlerweile erledigt. Drucken klappt so wie es soll. Ursache meines Problems wahr wohl ein Konfigurationsfehler :( Es war für mich leider nicht so

drucken/lp0 klappt nicht

Hallo, usrprüngliches Problem war, das cups nicht drucken wollte (device busy). Jetzt wollte ich mit 'cat textfile /dev/lp0' mal sehn, ob das wenigstens ganz unten im Keller klappt. Keine Druckdaemonen im Spiel. Da rührt sich aber nix. Wie/wo kann ich da noch was machen? blöd Unter $Win

Re: Asus a7n8x deluxe

Marcin Pankowski wrote: Hi, Leute.. HAt einer von euch Erfahrung mit diesem Board?? Bei mir läuft alles mit Mühe hatte auch probleme das ans laufen zu bekommen, lag aber an der graka. ansonsten straight forward potato-upgrade sarge, nvidia treiber für grafik, netz. nur 3com noch nicht

cupsd bjc6000: rendere or PostScript error

Hallo, mein Drucker will unter Linux keinen mucks kann mal jemand helfen? irc#debian konnte nicht, bug tracing system oder google haben mir leider auch nicht geholfen... Habe aktuelles testing/sarge system mit cupsd, den bjc6000 (paralell port) über das Webinterface von cups konfiguriert.

Re: PCMCIA Netzwerk

Steffen wrote: Diese wird auch super erkannt (als eth0) wenn ich sie reinschiebe. immerhin... meine muß ich immer zweimal reischieben, beim ersten mal passiert nix... via hotplug(für cardbus), oder? Leider ist sie nicht aktiviert, ich muss nun manuell ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.1 netmask

mail import in mozilla

Hi, ich habe mehrere alte mailfolder/dirs/subdirs aus verschiedenenen netscape/mozilla (etwa ab netscape 4.1) versionen, die ich gerne in den aktuellen mozilla importieren möchte. Ich glaubte mal ein import/mail in mozilla gesehen zu haben, kanns aber nicht mehr finden. is die option weg?

Re: program to display graphically postgres relations?

Bruno Boettcher wrote: Hello, i was wondering if there was some tool to display graphically SQL tables and relations between them ... especially in the case of a postgres database... there are some solutions... one i know to work is installing odbc and use staroffice, it's db-module

dosemufreedos

there is something wrong, isn't it? README says: cd /usr/lib mkdir -p dosemu freedos ln -s ../freedos dosemu my guess here: mkdir -p dosemu/freedos; cd dosemu/freedos before linking? Gehard

Re: Woody: X won't start after upgrade to 4.1

David Harrigan wrote: Probably Branden Robinson's comment applies There is a bug in /etc/X11/Xsession.d/99xfree86-common_start in 4.1.0-7: Change: exec $REALSTARTUP to: exec $REALSTARTUP i had the same problem: startx died, GDM login either. Applying the above solved it.

Re: Help with install: Woody

Lars Jensen wrote: How do I install woody over a ppp connection? Here's what I've done so far: First I downloaded the images and created the three installation floppies, rescue.bin, root.bin, drivers.bin. The installation goes fine until the installer asks where to find the base

fetchmail or ipopd messed up my emails?

hi, usualy i get lots of emails from mailinglist, and netscrape -messenger is quite blocked untill all mails are downloaded. so i installed current ipopd, fetched my mail with fetchmail $PROVIDER from provider to local mda (exim). now i tried (actually i did...) to retrive emails from local ipopd

Re: Netscape download

Vittorio wrote: I've tried to find the downloaded file under /.netscape and $HOME to no avail. Any help? usually download goes to where you started netscape, i.e. working dir from where you called the command. don't know what it does when started from a window manager, but i guess it should

Re: fetchmail or ipopd messed up my emails?

Gerhard Kroder wrote: one attached. subjects, sender, dates bodies, just all mixed up. more precisely: sometimes sender, sometimes bodies, somtimes combinations, ect btw: where does From [EMAIL PROTECTED] come from? Seems to be on all messed up mails. Ah , found it as Return-Path

Re: testing

Martin F Krafft wrote: also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] (on Wed, 12 Sep 2001 12:12:32PM -0500): how stable is testing? would it be too risky to upgrade from stable to testing? as mentioned before, a matter of taste. But it's not too risky. Instead it's quite stable. I've had once in a while

Re: Folio file types / AS Physics

Hereward Cooper wrote: called nse2html. It works OK, but I have to problem that the file is 220Mb+ and I just run out of memory when trying to convert it (I'm running 416Mb)! But it works on smaller files. You may enlargen your swap space temporary, to meet larger ram requirements,

Re: Folio file types / AS Physics

Hereward Cooper wrote: Hi, Does anyone know how to read a folio file under linux/debian? The file extension is a nfo. tryed out command 'file xyz.nfo' already? Maybe it knows this type. gk

Re: upgrading from debian 2.0 to debian 2.2

Bostjan Muller wrote: Hi! I have installed base system for debian 2.0 on an old i486 machine with only 4mb of ram.. I'd like to upgrade it to debian 2.2 over the net now. I was told to get apt-hamm, but that was not available on the net anymore, could someone please tell me how to upgrade

import cyrus-imap mails

Hi, i need to import a backup copy of my old cyrus imapd (from woody/testing) mail dir on a new server. Can this be done just by copying the mail files (numbered 1. to xxx.) and subdir into new created user mail dir? -- MfG Gehard Kroder

Re: import cyrus-imap mails

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Gerhard Kroder wrote: i need to import a backup copy of my old cyrus imapd (from woody/testing) mail dir on a new server. Can this be done just by Cyrus does not use the maildir format ;) yeah, i was refering to it's dirs

Re: FortranPlus F95 Compiler Packs: New Release now shipping

NAS Marketing wrote: Upgrade Prices == I wonder if they will offer a cross-grade/trade-in, i might giv'em g77 ;-) gk

Re: Unresolved dependencies

Marcus Günther wrote: about unresolved dependencies. I already tried the -f option but it didn't work either. How can I solve the dependencies problems? all the time just using apt? strange symptom. dist-upgrade? how does your sources.list look like? give us a typescript or cut'n'paste of

Re: Stop apt-get downloading same Packages.gz from different mirrors

Karsten Heymann wrote: Is there any possibility or plan to stop this double download? just a thougt: link files in /var/lib/apt/lists together, like ln -s $PRIMARY_Package $SECONDARY_Package. When updating, apt or dselect should download only newest file (by timestamp), which might be

Re: xfree 4: unknown reason for exeption; clock problems

On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, John Galt wrote: You probably wanted [EMAIL PROTECTED] no, i intentionally posted to mailinglist first. But since nobody could help i'll goto bugs... Gerhard

xfree 4: unknown reason for exeption; clock problems

Package: xserver-xfree86 Version: 4.0.1-3 Hi there, after upgrading from 3.3.6 to 4.* my X(Free86) is out of order, i don't get it running any more on my own. I took a look on debian-x mailing list and found one similar problem (Michiel Mieeuwissens's), which ended up (AFAIK) with no solutuon.

diskus on distribution contents?

a short question: where to ask or discuss about contents of a Debian distribution, what belongs to it or will be taken into distribution? I wonder why nisplus is not provided by Debian's... -- Gerhard Kroder +49 241 5295 275 Unices, Networks, Services

switching from/to X -query display

i have an sun-server accessable to run remote X sessions (dtlogin fetched with X -query ...). logging onto the sun works fine, switching back to local (linux) X with ctrl-alt-f7 is fine, too. but switching to sun's display back again i run in trouble. all i can see is a black screen with a

Re: switching from/to X -query display

Gerhard Kroder wrote: i have an sun-server accessable to run remote X sessions (dtlogin fetched with X -query ...). logging onto the sun works fine, switching back to local (linux) X with ctrl-alt-f7 is fine, too. but switching to sun's display back again i run in trouble. all i can see

nisplus avaliable on debian?

i need to run nisplus on debian systems. is there any chance to get a deb-package for potato? if not i'll go get it as tar and install it the old way... gerhard.

Re: nisplus avaliable on debian?

Gilbert Laycock wrote: Gerhard Kroder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i need to run nisplus on debian systems. is there any chance to get a deb-package for potato? if not i'll go get it as tar and install it the old way... See http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/nisplus/index.html i knew that one

rsync:@ERROR: chroot failed

i run into problems using rsync to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: chroot failedr debians ftp archive, which worked for a while. but now all i get is this error message: @ERROR: chroot failed. i don't even know who makes this error. i tried to do it manually, as follows: sh-2.03$ LOGFILE=rsync.debian.log

potato install-disks and package selection

do the potato boot-disks contain the base package selecion menue? i used the disks from before a week and did run in troubel with this. gerhard

update-menus problem with potato

i've just setup a brandnew potato system (builtup from scratch as potato) an try to get x/windowmanagers runnig. i noticed that update-menus doesn't run throug correctly, but i can't find the problem. running on the new system shows: [EMAIL PROTECTED] gerdk more update-menus.log In file

s3 trio 3d (86C356) won't work in svga

i try to get a s3 trio 3d runninc (came onboard wiht a ibm pl 300). im using recent potato with xf86_svga (xfree 3.3.5), which seems recognize the card correctly (uses virge-driver ...). but i can't get a valid mode with svga server. i've already tried the modelines written in faq for 1024 rsp.

nisplus package?

is ther a debian package for nisplus out already? i haven't seen it so far an want to try it out... gerhard

scsi-device: how deatache?

hi, it's somewhat known already how to attache a scsi-device to a running system (echo add... /proc..), and it works well. but what if you deattache a device. i want to move my external dat-streamer to some other machien. is there any harm with just plugging it of an runnung system? i expect so.

Re: staroffice , potato , unrecoverable error

Eric G . Miller wrote: I have SO5.1a running fine for a few months now on a potato box. Got it from the Sun website a couple months ago. Many fewer hiccups than version 5.0. well, i'm having same trouble, too. downloaded 5.1 from sun, installed it, was running fine a couple of days, and then

Re: staroffice , potato , unrecoverable error

Eric G . Miller wrote: On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 09:05:44AM +0100, Gerhard Kroder wrote: well, i'm having same trouble, too. downloaded 5.1 from sun, installed it, was running fine a couple of days, and then unrecoverable error i'm updating my potato every week, but the problem

where to find this bug: Use of uninitialized value at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm line 177, GEN20 chunk 2.

i try to apt-get upgrade and get this error since a week or two. and since i don't understand perl enough i can't realy trace back. is it a problem of perl perl5005, debconf, dpkg? what to do? apt-get upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following

Re: where to find this bug: Use of uninitialized value at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm line 177, GEN20 chunk 2.

Martin Fluch wrote: Does an dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/debconf* help? oh, yes, cycled from .22 up to .48 why didn't debconf update throughout regular apt-get update cycles? gerhard

upgrade error

while trying to upgrade (apt-get {update|upgrade} ) my potot i get errors (see attachement) since some days. can somebody tell me what this means resp. how to fix it? gerhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc apt-get check Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NIS question: ypserver=localhost in yp.conf on slave NIS?

Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: step that is NOT contained in the howto. can't cover all possibilities Whenever my master server was unreachable the slave server couldn't read the passwd map. So I entered ypserver localhost in /etc/yp.conf, et voila, things worked again. so your localhost is the

mirror: server gone away

hi, i try to setup an intranet mirror (with mirror v2.9-12) for potato, but i guess i get into timeouts. running mirrorr -d -d conffile tells me somewhere in exluding stuff: exclude: dists/potato/main/source/misc/x-face-el_1.3.6.1-1.diff.gz --- PWD remote server gone away exclude:

Re: I screwed up w/ shadow passwords

Martin Waller wrote: Hello, I have on old 486 on which I installed debian (slink) (any excuse), but forgot my root password. So I went in and edited /etc/passwords, where there were 'x's fro the password fields. [...] How do I fix this? these 'x's are ther because you have shadow

8N2 communication?

recently i had to configure a cisco isdn router, wich requieres 2 stopbits (at eight data and null parity bits) as communication parameters. the only communication programm avaliable on my 80mb deb2.1 was minicom, which didn't have 8N2 to set up. do you know others that support 8N2, or how else

Re: .profile BASH in PATH?

Pollywog wrote: You could make a directory $HOME/bin and put your shell scripts there, and also add it to your PATH in your user .profile: PATH=$PATH:/home/username/bin export PATH That would be better than just adding . to your PATH. even better might be using $HOME rather than

Re: r utilities went missing

Lewis, James M. wrote: What happened to in.rexecd (and the rest of them)? They used to be in netstd in slink. I upgraded this morning and they went missing. this seemed to happen somewhat earlier, i miss`m some days I got the Contents-i386.gz from potato and they were not in there.

Re: Netscape 4.61 - ???

Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: Ok, is there anyone actually using netscape 4.61 as provided in potato? I only get a segfault. If you are able to use it, what combination of kernel/libc/what-the-hell do you have ? well, my config looks like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] gerdk bug -p communicator

dpkg: error processing libcgi-perl (--remove)

Wall's Practical Extracting and Report ^^^ (Provides virtual package perl5) libwww-perl Not installed or no info -- Unices, Networks, Services Gerhard Kroder +49 241 5295 275

test

excuse me, i don't get mail from list, so testing

nis(+) shows wong map

hi, i try to setup automount for linux using solaris-nis+ maps. i need to adopt them to work with linux automounter. but my problem for now is, that auto-maps on sunserver are different than what i can see from linux: linux ypcat auto.master auto_direct auto_home -hosts -nosuid and on

Re: Potato

Account for Debian group mail wrote: Anyone using the Potato release on a machine that needs to be up. How stable is it at this point? what do you want? uptimes, load meters? my potato goes down only when i feel i need to reboot (installing new kernel image or beeing too stupid do set some

Re: su/PATH newgrp/HOME

Kent Howard wrote: 1) Is it just me or does su set the PATH to a default and forget the currently set one? Is this intentional? it depends on invocation (and thoug is intentional): you may set a complete su-environmen with su - or just change your effective user id with su, see man su

Re: .tgz? How do I go about extracting them?

Revenant wrote: There's a very complex method listed in my Running Linux book. But, given the rate at which Linux is evolving, pretty old. Is there a easier, newer way than that convoluted string piping from gzip to tar etc. ? well, tgz is (supposed to be) a gzip'ed (i.e. compressed) tar

Re: bash scripting

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to put a 30 second pause in your bash script? ever RTFM for bash? it says: wait [n] Wait for the specified process and return its ter­ mination status. n may be a process ID or a job specification;

Re: bash scripting

Gerhard Kroder wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to put a 30 second pause in your bash script? ever RTFM for bash? it says: wait [n] huups, guess it's me to RTFM... of course you do not need (nor is it applicable) bash's builtin wait but the commmand sleep (man

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

Marek Habersack wrote: * Philip Lehman said: I had that problem, the fix (for me at least) was deleteing my ~/.netscape Dunno why, but somthing get corupted. Hmmm... this is the first suggestion that has worked for me! i still get bus errors trying to login to dhs.org, but i

Apologising for Re: bash scripting

Gerhard Kroder wrote: Gerhard Kroder wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to put a 30 second pause in your bash script? ever RTFM for bash? it says: wait [n] hey, shame on me, i know,... sorry, my working day just starts and i'm not quite awaken. and i

distributed-net/proxy errors

i get some errors in logfile, what does it mean? Anything wrog with my setup? Package: distributed-net Version: 2.7106-3 System Information Debian Release: potato Kernel Version: Linux stardust 2.2.10 #2 Wed Jul 14 15:41:43 CEST 1999 i686 running this with local proxy (Package:

Re: Lynx Problems

problem for people used to netscape type browsers is that Lynx with do everything that they do (sans waste bandwidth downloading huge, and usually useless, graphic images) and a whole lot more but things are done in a different way. On Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 08:07:11AM +0200, Gerhard Kroder wrote

Re: Lynx Problems

Doug Young wrote: Does anyone know of a real basic web browser thats simple to setup configure. I am fast running out of patience with lynx due to its virtually useless documentation and excessively complicated config file. you are thinking in terms of netscape or similar? why don't you

Re: Suggestion for Newbie Guide Lines

Stephan Engelke wrote: Hi folks, On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 09:57:26PM -0400, Carl Mummert wrote: One issue: there is already a lot of documentation out there. ( I will not vouch for its quality or lack thereof, but volume is something that it does not lack). Every package should have

problems with distributed-net-pproxy startup script

Package: distributed-net-pproxy Version: 280-2 Severity: normal startup script seems to be more confued than i am about it. it starts proxy as user nobody, with running start-stop-daemon. but, nobody hasn't got access rights to /var/run/* or /var/log/*. does that make sense? once startet, it

smbmount, random timestamp

found some strange behaviour of smbmount-2.2.x, is it me or is it smb? doing smbmount-2.2.x '\\ntserver\user' user -U user -c 'mount /mnt/smb/user -u myname -g 0' mounts as expected, but touching a file in smbmounted dir gives random timestamps instead of actual time =:-( looks like

Re: smbmount, random timestamp

Mirek Kwasniak wrote: From linux-2.2.10-ac5/Documentation/filesystems/smbfs.txt :) aah, i forgot to look there. but anyway, i'v 2.2.9 running. just got 2.2.10 and going to install.. [...] Mount-Time Options Windows 95 has several bugs that affect SMB operations, and smbfs includes

smbmount, random timestamp

found some strange behaviour of smbmount-2.2.x, is it me or is it smb? doing smbmount-2.2.x '\\ntserver\user' user -U user -c 'mount /mnt/smb/user -u myname -g 0' mounts as expected, but touching a file in smbmounted dir gives random timestamps instead of actual time =:-( looks like

Re: smbmount, random timestamp

Gerhard Kroder wrote: found some strange behaviour of smbmount-2.2.x, is it me or is it smb? doing smbmount-2.2.x '\\ntserver\user' user -U user -c 'mount /mnt/smb/user -u myname -g 0' mounts as expected, but touching a file in smbmounted dir gives random timestamps instead

Re:

Doug Young wrote: Would someone please explain in words of less than two syllables just what steps are required to use dselect ?? . I have followed the instructions in the manual at least 20 times so far but it seems there must be something more than + and - involved in selecting packages

Re: Adaptec 2940AU

Michael Konrad wrote: (scsi0)Adaptec AHA=2940A Ultra SCSI host adapter found at PCI 19/0 (scsi0)Narrow Channel, SCSI ID=7, 3/255 SCBs (scsi0)Cable present (Int-50 YES, Ext-50 NO) (scsi0)Downloading swquencer code ... 419 instructions downloaded may be timing problems? is your pc-bios set up

Re: Slow rsh performance linux-solaris

George Bonser wrote: I am wondering if there might be some giant delay in resolving the hostname (so a .rhosts lookup might work). A test of this would be ... does the total real time stay about the same if you double the transaction size. since installing ssh, i found that simple r*

Re: Can't write to an nfs export

And of course, see /usr/doc/nis/nis.debian.howto.gz My huge home network consists of 2 computers and even in this simple situation nis is making life easier. ;-)

Re: Can't write to an nfs export

Mark Brown wrote: On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 08:40:52AM -0500, Kent West wrote: Yet when I try to create a directory or copy a file, etc I get Permission Denied errors. Are you trying to do this as root? As a security measure, NFS defaults to converting all accesses from root to

Re: https connections?

Nate wrote: Hi folks. I have installed apache-ssl. I still cannot get https connections. What do I have to do to get this going. Documentation? Thanks give us a little more... how do you try, what does it say, what does logfile say, is there any appropriate networking set up? docs may

Re: A stylistic question?

Revenant wrote: Hi. I finally worked out how to do the Linux equivalent of batch files (scripts) and was wondering if there was a generally accepted directory for keeping user (and/or root) scripts in. you don't like $HOME or it's subfolders? you may customize then /usr/local as you like.

openssl

found some things that look strage to me, almost a bug, isn`t it? ||/ NameVersionDescription +++-===-==-=== ii openssl 0.9.2b-3 Secure Socket Layer and related cryptographi - openssl contains no

Re: Alternative to NIS?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I understand that NIS is fairly insecure. What is a good alternative for synchronizing system files? I don't think there is a debian package for NIS+ AFAIK linux supports at least nis-clients in traditional yp style _and_ nis+, for more info about look at

Re: How/where can I see the messages from booting

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when booting linux there are lots auf messages scrolling away, so I can't read. I guess they are stored in a logfile anywhere in the system for later viewing. But where? you may try look at /var/log/messages, depends on your /etc/syslog.conf, or just try dmesg

communicator/mailfilter/imapserver

need some help with not propperly working mailfilters... i' using netscapes for quite a while. since i recieve a lot of email i've set up some mailfilters in netscapes (currently 4.6 messenger, static motif), which used to work quite well on previus used pop-server. recently i switched from an

Re: Netscape 4.6 crashes

Matthew Gregan wrote: On Mon, May 31, 1999 at 07:29:48PM +0200, Andreas Voegele wrote: The faulty behaviour is most obvious if you've got more than one Navigator window opened. Instead of closing the selected window only the whole application crashes sometimes. I've been having that

Re: Potatoe - usable ?

Patrick Colbeck wrote: So what the consensus of opinion, is potatoe usable at the moment ? I dont mind some problems but is it reasonably stable ? i upgraded from slink to potato (via dselect/apt-get) an my system runs suficciently well. ther was some trouble during reboot, can't realy rememer