I'm working from the command line and need to put two lines of writing on
a 4x6 card as a sign so need the font larger than 8 point type. I have
emacs on this machine and am wondering if something in emacs might help or
might there be something else I have to use?
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The script couldn't install because it doesn't know what to do with the
--skip-federated option being passed. Apparently a new option being used
by mysql.
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A last resort possibility to fix this problem would be to get and use a
dban cd from dban.sf.net on the hard drive. That will return everything
on the hard drive to the way it was before any data was put on it though.
It's known as stacking the deck and getting to a known state but all that
At the boot: prompt I usually key in autostart 5 then hit enter. A 200GB
disk takes about 8 hours to clean so figure your timing accordingly if you
decide to use this.
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Was there a firmware update released for the KXP-1123 during its history?
It could be the ppd file that's available for that printer needs that
firmware update installed if such exists.
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This is getting interesting now and I have some good news. I hooked the
printer up to a real dos box that never had any other operating system on
it and used a file manager to print a file. This time, the file came out
legible with no garbage. So, I'm thinking printing with this kind of
, 2009 at 2:31 AM, Jude DaShiell jdash...@shellworld.netwrote:
I put together a .gotmailrc file as documented in the gotmail man page and
ran gotmail. The message I got back was no action specified on form page.
What would be doing that? So far as I can tell, there is a connect that
does happen
AM, Jude DaShiell jdash...@shellworld.netwrote:
I put together a .gotmailrc file as documented in the gotmail man page and
ran gotmail. The message I got back was no action specified on form page.
What would be doing that? So far as I can tell, there is a connect that
does happen before
A friend and me used linuxprinting.org and openprinting.org and have
foomatic and cups and the ppd file for this printer on my machine. I got
new ink cartridges for this printer from databaazar.com and we can make
the printer do the self-test externally but even after foomatic is given
the
I put together a .gotmailrc file as documented in the gotmail man page and
ran gotmail. The message I got back was no action specified on form page.
What would be doing that? So far as I can tell, there is a connect that
does happen before this message comes up too.
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What can be done to update tags inside of info files so these tags out of
date messages don't appear anymore when reading info files like the one
for forms as an example?
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A friend came over and the printer now is alive and working. It does need
a new printer cartridge and I know where to get those so should be
printing in a few days.
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I have a new Panasonic 1123 dot matrix printer I've been trying to get
working with debian and cups can't seem to find it. lpadmin fails and
printconf can't do anything either. Are these printers even Linux
compatible and if so, how can I set this up so it will print? I chose a
dot matrix
Though the package does what it thinks is a successful install, once
installed gnome ought to have at least one sound theme available and it
doesn't. The gnome-audio package installed its contents into
/usr/share/sounds and when it was finished did not make
/usr/share/gnome/sounds and
When I installed the gnome-audio package it put all sound files into
/usr/share/sounds. Gnome does not find them in that location. I read in
the README file in gnome-audio that there is supposed to be some path
prefix/gnome/share where those sound files can be installed. So far as
I've been
After having installed gnome-audio a friend went into the preferences
sound area of gnome and found sound themes were grayed out. is there some
reason gnome hasn't yet got available sound themes from which to choose?
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Are any command line interface packages available in debian to place a
watch on a specific package of interest? I'm thinking possibly something
like watchupstream since that package wasn't specifically described as
being graphical user interface but don't know for sure.
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Is it possible just using aptitude to log what happens as a result of
system upgrades and package installations? I had a situation with
x11-common and xserver-xorg where --print-installation-architecture had
been used. I'm wondering if I had configured aptitude correctly aptitude
could have
I tried a command line like: grep -in print-installation-architecture *
| less cr and got me a surprise. I was in /var/lib/dpkg/info when I did
this and was curious to know what other scripts might have that deprecated
command in them. Grep responded with an undocumented error of argument
rgrep throws the same argument list too long error as did grep.
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Apparently argument list too long is an operating system error. I made it
happen with ed too. I can divide and conquer though by limiting argument
lists with regular expressions in this case.
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A sighted friend came over and left a few minutes ago. We managed to get
gnome up and me logged in and managed to get vlc to play sound files on
the computer. When we ran orca though orca wouldn't talk even after
preferences were set to have it talking after login. This is either an
orca
When I start the system, I get the login beep but can't log in. I can log
in after hitting control-alt-f1 then hitting enter to a command line
console using the same credentials I tried using for an X session though.
When I try logging in with X though, I key in username after beep then hit
Two of the packages distributed for squeeze with
--print-installation-architecture in them are x11-common and xorg-server.
If those architectures are critical to gnome and xwindows running this may
explain part of why that doesn't happen. I'm going to go on a grep search
and change the
I just managed to install gnome-orca again and gnome-accessibility too and
in a little bit I'll find out how nicely they'll play together. Two notes
though on these recent updates for the package builders. 1) The
gnome-accessibility package is an essential prerequisite for gnome-orca
without
Script started on Mon Jun 1 20:50:14 2009
localhost:~# aptitude install ed
Reading package lists... 0%Reading package lists... 100%Reading package
lists... Done
Building dependency tree... 0%Building dependency tree... 0%Building dependency
tree... 50%Building dependency tree... 50%Building
I download from us.debian.org and security.debian.org and have had several
failures since yesterday to install this package. The desktop
accessibility previously provided by gnome-accessibility and gnome-orca
has been terminated until further notice too. Seems the rest of gnome
suddenly
Yesterday I was running ia32-apt-get when e2fslib came up for installation
and that package converts libraries to be compatible with amd flavored
machines when it works. Yesterday, it didn't work because dpkg flagged
amd-e2fslib as being corrupt. When I removed ia32-apt-get from this
system
Franklin, thanks much for the description of udev. I found a website with
an article on writing udev rules and that was at the top of google's sort
order and started reading it earlier today. There was much work done on
udev and it's quite impressive how it handles usb type devices. Earlier
Do any such files exist? Earlier I tried using mtools and even mount to
access a floppy disk and udev is configured to block access even to root.
In future maybe mtools could talk to udev and give udev some clues and/or
instructions to tell it to create certain devices when those might not yet
On the date that I did it, the squeeze upgrade process killed exim4 over
here so I ended up replacing it with postfix. As time permits I'll try
installing exim4 again and see when exim4 and squeeze will live together
without trying to burn down the house. Can either of these packages first
Upgrades are breaking parts of openoffice.org on this machine under
squeeze.
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The perl warnings are still with me:
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = en_US.UTF-8
are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling
back to the
Does debian flavor of gnome come with sound that can play on the sound
card when gnome starts up? If so, what needs to be done to turn that
capability on?
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When I finished the upgrade, the locale environment variables were not set
and later could not be set. When I open man pages I get warnings about
lc_all and language variables. That stuff was selected back when I
installed lenny though. Can I do something to straighten things out? I
had
I ended up having to use a sarge disk which installed lenny for me then
upgraded to sid. I had to do this a couple different times because using
an amd64 kernel on a k7 machine udev didn't like whtn it was time to boot
into sid. I got an endless looping udev selected 408 unimplemented error
I had installed sid three times in all. The first was the most successful
and longest lasting in which I had a few weeks to learn vbnc and use it a
little. I did all of that since we're changing over to visual studio 2008
at work and I had been without projects for several years on the job
The specs on the sound card Lenny found and configured I was able to cut
and paste and those are:
intel8x0 nVidia Corporation CK804 AC'97 Audio Controller (rev a2)
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Is postgresql 8.3 still uninstallable on sid? Last time I tried
installation failed since postgresql 8.3 had a forward dependency on an
obsoleted package.
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I forgot to mention tiger had also been installed on this system. When
tiger got removed earlier today, all the sudden a whole bunch of
postgresql packages were removed with it. Apparently there was some kind
of dependencies issues with stuff in the tiger packages. I am puzzled by
this
Having failed to install postgresql on sid for reasons already discussed
on this list, I ran updatedb then did locate postgresql | less to see what
I could find. Not to my surprise, I found all kinds of postgresql cruft
littering my system after having done aptitude remove --purge postgresql
once mono-vbnc is installed on sid, where are vbnc's assemblers and
libraries? I managed to get that hello world program compiled and it runs
on debian. I'll try it on windows xp later. Now I'd like to learn more
so I can do more. The windows version of vb.net is the programming
language
I found out a little more just now. Having failed to find the debian
packager's installation instructions for postgresql I removed the packages
from this system. Later I figured to install everything and take another
look. I used the current sid tasksel and checked data base and hit ok.
The
Okay, I figured all of it out. postgresql is uninstallable because
postgresql-common requires postgresql79 and that's uninstallable. That
sets up a situation almost similar to what I encountered when I tried
installing emacs and gnus but at least gnus is already in the current
version of
This gets stranger by the second. I managed to get postgresql going as
user postgres with postgresql -h 127.0.0.1 cr. Then I was able to run
createuser dashielljt successfully and createdb too. So I exited the
postgres identity and dropped back to dashielljt and tried psql -h
127.0.0.1 and
It makes no difference if you've done su - postgres before running
createuser, the same error message appears. I checked that to make sure.
I do have a firewall up and running on this machine and port 5432 is not
open to the world if that helps any.
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I installed version 8.3.5 with tasksel. When I ran initdb, it ran in
debug mode but ran successfully so far as I can tell. I was then able to
run postgres -D /usr/local/postgresql/data and the message that came back
said postgres was ready to accept connections. I exited that and the
I managed to make the postgresql cluster with initdb but can't do anything
with createuser because postgresql by default is trying to use a unix
socket at address 5432. I'm running on amd hardware and don't know what
needs to be done to either enable this socket or go with another
alternative
I have a parallel to scsi converter and a jazz drive. If I hook that up
to the debian box I have running, how will debian see that drive? I
expect I can activate parallel port support but once done what kind of a
new device should I expect to find?
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That was the apache-mpm package trying to do something when I started up
the system. I took apache off as well as the web mail reader which was
its dependency since apache unless configured and maintained correctly is
a security hole and some internet service providers ban web servers in
The packages like gnus and calc in emacs 21 once emacs 22 is installed are
superfluous packages because both calc and gnus are included as commands
that can be run inside emacs 22. There may be other emacs add-ons in this
class, I don't know for sure. It's possible timidity-el and edb may be
Like calc gnus got added to the current version of emacs so there's no
need for the older package to be on current systems. In reading up on
gnus with info the last message on info's status line is Tags out of D.
Does that mean tags are out of date and if so how can those be updated?
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If metacity isn't yet a dependency of gnome-orca, it needs to be made one
so gnome-orca can work correctly.
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With the current version of dpkg on lenny has anyone yet managed to
install gnus yet without errors? Originally I thought the problem I ran
into a few minutes ago might be aptitude connected so did aptitude -y
remove --purge gnus and then tried apt-get install gnus but the same
problem showed
In latest update to alsa packages running alsaconf gets the following
interesting warning:
Loading driver...
Usage: /sbin/modprobe [-v] [-V] [-C config-file] [-n] [-i] [-q] [-b] [-o
modname] [ --dump-modversions ] modname [parameters...]
/sbin/modprobe -r [-n] [-i] [-v] modulename ...
Could the repeated error messages actually be accurate? I was doing some
reading over in the ubuntu forum and one possibility that was suggested
was apt might be running at the same time aptitude was running looking for
package updates. If that's possible what might have enabled it in all the
Given the changes in the debian system is it correct to run rkhunter
propupdate or may something else be going on?
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I've had the usual emacs upgrade disasters with locks not being able to be
gotten by dpkg and consequently as usually happens ended up removing all
emacs add-on packages from this system just to clear the errors. The
weird dpkg behavior happens in such a way that error messages loop and
Same problems in earlier kernel versions happen again with 2.6.26.26 in
that dpkg can't get locks. Discovered this when trying to do aptitude
install gnupod-tools -r earlier today so did aptitude remove --purge
gnupod-tools to at least get broken packages off the system.
Interestingly
Earlier I was having problems installing podracer; clamav, and nethack on
lenny. That version of lenny was built with upgrades starting with etch.
Earlier I downloaded mini-beep.iso which only installs a current lenny
system and kernel on my computer. There were no problems installing any
of
Has anyone on this list running lenny succeeded in installing any or all
of the following packages who is not running any of the speakup
distributions? I'm trying to find out if what happens here is speakup
specific or not. The packages could be installed using a command line
like: aptitude
Install and run arno-iptables-firewall and tell it your internet port like
eth0 or ppp0 and leave the rest of the defaults alone. Port 113 will be
closed once this is done since one of the defaults with
arno-iptables-firewall is to first deny all portsthen only open up those
you specifically
So far as I can tell, the firewall package is only installing itself after
the network has already come up. From what reading I've done, this is the
wrong order. How can I correct that order after the package has been
installed so arno-iptables-firewall runs just before the network
distro is lenny and packages in question are screen; clamav,
nethack-console and nethack-common. I spent quite alot of time trying to
install these with no luck. The post-install scripts for whatever reason
all couldn't get locks. Other than the accounts that were open on this
machine no
What package or packages need to be installed so when I connect to an irc
server I don't get the message Ident is disabled?
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why doesn't aptitude offer a check option like apt-get offers?
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The etch versions of emacs don't have problems running on etch. When an
upgrade is done from etch onto lenny with emacs pre-installed on a machine
though emacs cannot finish its installation and throws dpkg errors. I
checked the version of the iso I used to install debian and it came up as
I think I figured out what I'm going to need to do to use emacs on a
debian system upgraded beyond sarge. On the sarge level, everything I
have tried builds and installs successfully connected to emacs. As soon
as I attempt to upgrade beyond sarge the new emacs packages fail to do
their
I got a dvd burner in a refurbished more modern machine and may have got
the wrong brand and model. Later I'll get some help changing booting
order in cmos to pick this drive up. For now I don't know what device to
try and mount this drive with:
Script started on Fri 25 Apr 2008 04:03:35 AM
I'm going to have to replace my current typescript file with a new one
evidently. I distinctly heard the dpkg installer trying to call aptitude
repeatedly during installation and repeatedly hitting errors as a result
of aptitude not being on the machine. The new typescript file will
probably
I'm about to do a bit of emacs research here. First I'm going to
downgrade the system to sarge stable and see if I can install emacs and
bsdgames and emacs add-ons and do it successfully. If that fails, one of
two possibilities exist a) the hardware is failing it's close to 9 years
old now,
Check this out, I downgrade to sarge which was the highest form of sarge
before everything moved along into etch and later lenny. The aptitude
package was uninstalled and so I try repeating that operation where
bsdgames and emacs21 get installed together. Emacs21 has aptitude as a
dependency
For one thing the preseed.cfg file is so large (128k) in my case and has
lots of error messages in it I never encountered during installation.
Can the preseed.cfg file safely be cleaned up to reflect actual
installation choices made? The instructions I followed are in the debian
installation
I'm surprised anyone is able to use emacs let alone emacspeak on anything
later than the sarge distribution of debian given my own experiences.
I'm happy for whoever can manage to do this though. Things to try.
First install ircII on your system and get out and connected to a known
irc
I have a few bones files from playing nethack by now and installed the
hearse package. I played those games as a system user not as root.
Whenever I run hearse as a user I get told that user token file
/etc/nethack/hearse.user-token file exists but cannot be read permission
denied. However
http://www.shellworld.net/~jdashiel/typescript
should now be readable. Those 600 permissions work okay for sensitive
files but not for public consumption.
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Does debian have a utility I can run to check and repair disk permissions?
On a mac under applications and utilities and under disk repair utility
there's a function for repair disk permissions which can check permissions
against a known default set and repair if necessary. It could be the
dpkg troubles referenced earlier hit those packages too when I tried doing
a dist-upgrade. I cleared the broken stuff off the system afterwards too.
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http://www.shellworld.net/~jdashiel/typescript
dpkg loops lots too unfortunately too.
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Why is it ddpart has to be used to get dictionaries-common off of debian
systems?
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If you don't mind specifying your reference file on the command line as a
shell script parameter, you can use $1 inside the shell script to pick its
name up and do things with it.
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The conflict is wider than that since dictionaries-common and dpkg are
also involved in the fighting here. For some reason dpkg persists in
trying to get a lock when it fails the first time. Probably some
misconfigured dpkg default I'll find later can help me abbreviate future
output in
grml has xwindows components too provided you can figure out how to get
them installed and talking. Since I have grml on a laptop and myself am
totally blind that's the next project I have in mind. The orca package
may or may not be in the grml archives, I'll have to check or perhaps
maybe aptitude autoclean then mandb then aptitude -f install might work.
On Sun, 9 Mar 2008, laura eznarriaga wrote:
Software index is broken
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Software index is broken
It is impossible to install or remove any software. Please use the package
I remember when installing bsdgames package on a command-line-type system
very early in the installation openoffice's dictionary directories were
updated. Later those for emacs were updated. That was in earlier
packages chronologically. What was downloaded that would have given
First, RedHat has a business product which is more stable than Fedora
deliberately. Second, unless I'm much mistaken RedHat also offers its
business customers phone support for fees. Third, RedHat was the first
distro in Government and business took note of that decision and followed
along
Using unstable distribution installing bsdgames and emacs does not work
completely successfully. It's either one package or the other but not
both on the same machine. Probably both packages dependencies need
updating on the debian repositories so that whenever one is installed it
It appears emacs 21 and dictionaries-common have a fight going on and dpkg
is caught in the middle. This is the second time I ran into their
squabble. Does anyone know what the back story is and if there's likely
to be a treaty signed in the near future?
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Does anyone know what format change was done to
/etc/exim4/exim4.conf.localmacros? In order to use verizon.net we needed
something like: 'AUTH_CLIENT_ALLOW_NOTLS_PASSWORD = true' in the file in
the past. Now the only way that gets past update-exim4.conf is by
stripping the apostrophes and
There's at least one broken pipe error in those packages. I'm about to
remove the system from this machine and wait for a fix to this version.
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gcj could be causing problems undercover. I read over on the
gnome-accessibility list that for accessibility at least the applications
that do accessibility were all tuned to the sun java packages and not gcj.
If all else fails it may possibly help to do a replacement and check out
results.
In order to fix evince when it broke on me in the installation, I
uninstalled the entire desktop environment then reinstalled the
environment. When I did that, the evince failure went away. Now before I
wipe out openoffice exclusively, I'm wondering if a repeat operation might
just fix
latex2 writer unopkg fails and that prevents openoffice from being
configured at least by dpkg. The reason I got a broken pipe error was
desktop environment had to be removed in upgrade process to preserve
certain gnome packages that had already been installed. Interestingly
this time
First read the contents of the paniclog file. If that problem still
exists go and correct it. Then use touch on the paniclog file to make it
have a 0 length and continue with your upgrade.
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After recent Exim4 setup on a new Debian 4.0r3
Script started on Sat 05 Apr 2008 12:22:24 AM EDT
ns:~# aptitude -y install emacs -r
Reading package lists... 0%
Reading package lists... 100%
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... 0%
Building dependency tree... 0%
Building dependency tree... 50%
Building dependency
This is one dpkg failed to recover from; just the relevant lines of the
script file follow:
Selecting previously deselected package libdjvulibre21.
Unpacking libdjvulibre21 (from .../libdjvulibre21_3.5.20-5_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing
Selecting previously deselected package libdjvulibre21.
Unpacking libdjvulibre21 (from .../libdjvulibre21_3.5.20-5_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libdjvulibre21_3.5.20-5_i386.deb
(--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/share/djvu/osi/cs/messages.xml', which is also
Last night I did a complete reinstall of debian and am in the sid
distribution now. That was to clear the iceape problem. A few minutes
ago though this same thing happened when installing nethack-common a
totally unrelated package. Something almost for sure is broken with the
debian package
The loop that's causing the package installation problems happening here
is one without an exit so far as software performance behavior on this end
show. I can leave aptitude or apt-get run with this error condition and
they none of them terminate unless and until I hit control-c a couple
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I tried installing the browser with dependencies and have a nearly never
ending loop running with dpkg because dpkg can't get a lock it needs. I
had read that that browser was accessible elsewhere but it appears it
won't get installed over
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