Re: HELP - dpkg status file was lost
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 05:57:41PM +1000, Richard Brooks wrote: After having repaired the partition, and losing a few crashed sectors along the way . . . I lost the status file for dpkg/dselect/apt-get. Now - I cannot do any dselect/apt-get/dpkg operations without a segmentation fault (which doesn't need a reset) or it tells me to run dpkg --configure -a to fix it - which won't work. Is there any way to re-make the status file ? Is /var/lib/dpkg/status-old intact? -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: sound problem -ES1869
On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 12:15:59PM -0600, Russ Cook wrote: Thanks for the tip. I tried setting the IRQ to 10, as suggested with modprobe sb esstype=1869 irq=10 I then got the error: kernel: sb: Interrupt test on IRQ10 failed - Probable IRQ conflict looking at /proc/interrupts shows: 0:timer 1:keyboard 2:cascade 10: soundblaster 11: eth0 12: PS/2 Mouse 14: ide0 15: ide1 There is a second column between these two labeled CPUO. It has a non zero value for all but 2, 10, NMI, and ERR. Can anyone offer any further ideas? Try other interrupts. The manuals for two of my systems have tables of interrupts. This function list gives for the most part what is stated in the newer table, except when the older table is more clear. Level Function SMI Power management unit NMI Parity error detected, I/O channel error 0 Interval timer, system timer output 0 1 Keyboard 2 Interrupt from controller 2 (cascade) 3 Serial port 2 4 Serial port 1 5 Reserved (in older table: Parallel port 2) 6 Diskette controller 7 Parallel port 1 8 Real time clock 9 Cascaded to INT 0AH (IRQ2) 10 Reserved 11 Reserved 12 PS/2 mouse 13 INT from coprocessor (in older table: 80287) 14 Hard disk controller 15 Reserved From the looks of your output, IRQ5 might work. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sound problem -ES1869
On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 01:36:42PM -0600, Russ Cook wrote: Thanks! IRQ 5 works. I can now play wav and mp3 files with XMMS. Confused as to why the /proc/interrups file didn't help me. It helped me. I looked at an interrupt level table (the table that I showed in my previous response) and your /proc/interrupts. From your /proc/interrupts, I saw which interrupts you were using, and with my table, I could see which interrupts were safe to use. Can you now tell me how to get midi file capability? xmms does not play my midi files. neither does playmidi or mpg123. I get the error: open /dev/sequencer: No such device or address What must I do to configure a midi player? modprobe opl3 -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Happy XMAS O.T.
On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 07:42:33PM -0500, Shawn Lamson wrote: On Mon, 23 Dec 2002 10:29:46 +0100 Oliver Fuchs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 22 Dec 2002, Gary Turner and Shawn Lamson wrote: 1) Yuenling Porter. 2) A bottle (750mlgrin) of Chimay Ale? HoHO, that are already two beers. What about: Carminativum-Hetterich N (http://www.hetterich.de/Galenika/Blaehungen.htm) Since there are a few days left until Christmas - please have a Tuborg for me - they arent available here, AFAIK. P.S. pretty strange this thread started about Christmas but is now about the beer :) I wouldn't mind some good non-alcoholic ginger beer as I haven't reached the local drinking age yet and the ginger ale around here is very weak. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Manual install permissions
On Wed, Dec 25, 2002 at 01:24:23AM +1100, Russell wrote: I installed a CAD package to /usr/local/vutrax, and the install instructions say to set the permissions to rwx for all. Is there a better way? Should i add a user and group called vutrax, and add myself to the vutrax group? rwx for all? Why would some random user need to write to it? If people using it need to write to it, I would take a look at the source and see if the required writes could be moved to the user's home directory instead, and change it if possible, and if it couldn't be changed, then I would reconsider using the package. If no writes to /usr/local/vutrax are needed, then rwx only for the owner, and r-x for everyone else. If you set it to rwx for all, altered binaries could be written by anyone to /usr/local/vutrax, generally a Bad Thing. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: framebuffer support in 2.4.18 kernel sources
On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 08:04:55PM -0500, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: I am trying to get my Handspring Visor to work, running into a baffling problem where the module loads, but the visor won't sync. I thought perhaps I had a bad module and downloaded the 2.4.18 kernel from the Debian archives (I read the FAQ and used the Debian way to do things AFAIK). I rebuilt the kernel successfully. I can't find any option in the make xconfig to allow console framebuffer support! I have a T21 Thinkpad, and I'm using 128x48 console windows in Redhat 7.3, and for that matter, in the install copy of Debian. But not in the kernel I compiled... What am I missing? I can't find any option to allow this - the choices about framebuffers remain greyed out in xconfig. There is an option Prompt for developmental and/or incomplete code/drivers. Select that. Framebuffer choices will stop being greyed out. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: howto for compiling of deb packages
On Wed, Dec 25, 2002 at 11:01:55AM +0100, Matthias Hentges wrote: Am Mit, 2002-12-25 um 10.52 schrieb Roland Wegmann: Hello I have to know how you can build deb packages from source. Could somebody tell me if there exists an apt-get(able) doc package that introduces me in the topic of compiling your own deb packages from source? Or if someone of you know links/howtos etc. with information about building debian packages, let me know, too. Read the The New-Maintainer's Debian Packaging Howto: http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/index.en.html It should answer all your questions. You can also apt-get install it, it's part of the main archive. apt-get install maint-guide -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Heres a dpkg challenge ..
On Wed, Dec 25, 2002 at 09:07:55PM +, Tom Badran wrote: How can i get a list of all the 'suggested' packages for those the packages i have installed, without the 'suggested' packages i already have. I have a slow method of doing this that does not take virtual packages such as mail-transfer-agent into account. In this, foo, bar, and baz are arbitrary file names. The final output is to stdout and is formatted as 1 package per line, in alphabetical order. dpkg --get-selections | grep -w install | sed -e s/[[:space:]].*// \ foo apt-cache show `cat foo` | grep ^Suggests | sed -e s/^Suggests:\ // \ -e s/\(.*\)//g -e s/[,\|]//g bar tsort bar | sort baz grep -vf foo baz -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: probable newbie cannot get X to run (Was: no subject)
Before my reply, I have a message for Bear. Please configure Outlook to send messages in plain text (not HTML) and add a meaningful subject line. You are more likely to get a response from a real person that way. Please also check the spelling in your messages, which can be important when referring to file names (with file systems like ext2, even the case of it can make a difference; XF86Config is a config file, xf86config is a configurator, and XF86config does not exist). On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 04:11:46PM -0800, Bear wrote: I have tried to reconfigure to get x windows to run, plus tried reload of the entire system to get x windows to run, but x windows still does not work. I am getting the following error _x11 TransSockectUnix Connect Can't connect errno = 111 unable to communicate with xsever Is your xserver installed and running? What is the output of startx? Are all the packages necessary for X to run installed? The packages that are generally required/useful for a desktop machine are: 0) xserver-xfree86 1) xserver-common 2) xfree86-common 3) xfonts-base 4) xfonts-scalable 5) xfonts-75dpi or xfonts-100dpi 6) xlibs 7) xbase-clients 8) xterm 9) a window manager the/ect/x111/XF86 config file was not created ^^- should be /etc/X11/XF86Config Run the command: # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 The '#' at the beginning of the command refers to the prompt. As it is '#', run the command as root. If the prompt were '$', then the command would be run as an ordinary user. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: probable newbie cannot get X to run (Was: no subject)
On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 06:13:09PM -0800, Bear wrote: [please keep this on-list and without top-posting] Yes I am new at Linux, but have allot experience with computers. Yes I had previously load all components to get x windows up and running several times. I ran the command you suggested and received the following error; 'debconf: package xserver-xfree86 is not installed or does not use debconf' So I ran dselect again and received the original error I previously mention. I believe my video on my mother board is not compatible with x windows, I have SIS on board video with 4 megs of shared ram for video memory. I have load Red Hat 5.1 on the same box and was able to run x windows, but I was hoping to practice Linux with a newer version. If you got X to run on an old version of Red Hat, it should be able to run on Debian. SiS is compatible, but (after the xserver is installed) you should read /usr/share/doc/xserver-xfree86/README.SiS.gz. As root, run the command apt-get install xserver-xfree86. I know that that package uses debconf, so I know that you do not have that xserver installed. A package can be selected but not installed. When you ran dselect, did you go to menu item 3, install after selecting the packages you to install? You might want to use aptitude instead of dselect; I find aptitude easier to use. If you don't have it installed, just apt-get install aptitude and after it installs, enter aptitude at the command line. -Original Message- From: Seneca Cunningham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2002 4:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: probable newbie cannot get X to run (Was: no subject) Before my reply, I have a message for Bear. Please configure Outlook to send messages in plain text (not HTML) and add a meaningful subject line. You are more likely to get a response from a real person that way. Please also check the spelling in your messages, which can be important when referring to file names (with file systems like ext2, even the case of it can make a difference; XF86Config is a config file, xf86config is a configurator, and XF86config does not exist). On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 04:11:46PM -0800, Bear wrote: I have tried to reconfigure to get x windows to run, plus tried reload of the entire system to get x windows to run, but x windows still does not work. I am getting the following error _x11 TransSockectUnix Connect Can't connect errno = 111 unable to communicate with xsever Is your xserver installed and running? What is the output of startx? Are all the packages necessary for X to run installed? The packages that are generally required/useful for a desktop machine are: 0) xserver-xfree86 1) xserver-common 2) xfree86-common 3) xfonts-base 4) xfonts-scalable 5) xfonts-75dpi or xfonts-100dpi 6) xlibs 7) xbase-clients 8) xterm 9) a window manager the/ect/x111/XF86 config file was not created ^^- should be /etc/X11/XF86Config Run the command: # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 The '#' at the beginning of the command refers to the prompt. As it is '#', run the command as root. If the prompt were '$', then the command would be run as an ordinary user. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New Install (Video and DeMuDi apt-get problems)
On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 08:07:32PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: I cheated on my install (I've posted a few quesitons on it). I booted Knoppix (for those that don't know, Knoppix is a CD-based, Debian-based distro) and used the install script to copy it over to my hard drive. Now X works perfectly with my ATI Radeon All-In-Wonder. For several reasons, I would prefer to be working with a strict Debian based system (it seems to effect menus, a few other UI type details). How can I tell what modules are being used by Knoppix to deal with my video card (I know I can do modprobe -l, but that lists all modules), and how can I tell of Gatos, or any other video drivers are installed? In other words, how can I find out what Knoppix is doing to get X to work with my video card when Woody won't? lsmod will list all loaded kernel modules, take a look at your /etc/X11/XF86Config (or XF86Config-4) to see what is happening with X. Next question: I've added DeMuDi as a source for apt-get, as explained by the DeMuDi web page, by adding this line to /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://http.demudi.org/debian woody local main contrib non-free DeMuDi lists Cinelerra as an available package (the site is unreachable right now, at least from my neck of the woods). It might be listed as testing or unstable. Is that why I can't get it, or is there some other reason? Is there any way to find and read the list of packages from a particular source (I don't mean read it in my system's cache -- I mean read it from the site)? There is no testing or unstable there, only woody. I temporarily added that line to my sources.list and updated. No mention of a package called cinelerra. I hope you don't use http.demudi.org as your only package source, most of the packages are over a year old, many of which are different versions in the current woody, as at the time, woody was testing. Some of the packages there are many versions behind. (example: libssl0.9.6 is version 0.9.6a-3 at demudi and the currently listed woody version at packages.debian.org is 0.9.6c-2). -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X Win and Mouse
On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 01:29:24PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: Two mouse questions: 1) Can someone confirm for me (I'm having strange troubles, again...) that if I have a mouse port (ATX mobo w/ keyboard and mouse ports above each other), that it is configured as /dev/psaux (no serial connection, no USB for the mouse -- just the mouse port next to the keyboard port). If the port is PS/2, then the device is /dev/psaux. If the mouse is acting strangely, you might want to make sure its clean, properly plugged in, the proper drivers are being used, and that gpm (if installed) is not causing problems. 2) Does anyone know how X behaves if it is looking for the mouse on the wrong port? Does it not start, start w/out a mouse, keep restarting until it finds the mouse, or what? If no mouse is found, X doesn't start and it complains. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lynx wraps table cells inproperly
On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 07:47:27PM +0100, Robert Land wrote: On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 04:28:20AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: Yes. This is also not a bug. It's trying to fit things to your terminal width. If you want something that doesn't smash tables into term width, go grab links-ssl. Keyboard commands are roughly the same, [ and ] scroll left and right roughly the same distance as INS and DEL does moving up and down. Paul - is links-ssl a deb package? I'm still using potato and apt-cache search fails to find this application. Besides, what is links-ssl? The term ssl reminds me of secure socket layer but this doesn't seem to fit in this context? links-ssl is post-potato deb. ssl is secure socket layer, and there is also a links deb (also post-potato) that was not compiled with ssl support. Although it has different keybindings, you could try w3m. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrading Package
On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 08:55:47AM +0500, Anoop K Vijay wrote: I am using debian 3.0 stable version.Now i would like to install cyrus21imapd in the stable version.The package is available in unstable version.So how can i configure apt-get for this installation? Can anybody help If you want your system to remain at stable, get the source and compile it yourself. The cyrus21-imapd deb has a number of dependencies that are only available in unstable - including libc6, it depends upon 2.3.1-1 and the version in stable is 2.2.5-11.2. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Terminus game and libstdc++.so.2.8
On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 06:12:54PM -0600, Gianfranco Berardi wrote: I got the game Terminus and installed it on my Woody box. Every time I try to run it I get this error: terminus: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.2.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [...] Grab libstdc++2.8 from potato. It should still work OK. (/debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/oldlibs/libstdc++2.8_2.90.29-2.deb) The question I have is: How? I tried to simply add a line to sources.list that replaces stable with potato, but it had issues when it got to that line. Just use ftp. A sample session of me downloading that file: seneca@dodecagon:~$ ftp ftp o mirror.direct.ca ftp: mirror.direct.ca: Unknown server error [normal for this mirror] ftp o mirror.direct.ca [normal welcome stuff] ftp cd pub/linux/debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/oldlibs 250 CWD command successful. ftp binary 200 Type set to I. ftp get libstdc++2.8_2.90.29-2.deb [getting file] 226 Transfer complete. ftp quit 221 Goodbye. seneca@dodecagon:~$ sudo dpkg -i libstdc++2.8_2.90.29-2.deb -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: console messages flit by too fast
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 01:57:17AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: I can't believe this is still not solved. I boot the system. I see some ominous warnings. They scroll by so fast and are gone. E.g. something about mtab. Ok, cd /var/log; grep mtab * */* Nothing. You will answer oh, mtab, don't worry about that. But the general problem of messages that appear at boot but go off the screen is not solved for me still. Am I really supposed to hit ^S^Q like back 30 years ago? What if I am not fast enough still? You will answer: that is the fault of whatever package author for also not logging his message to syslog. But that isn't helping me: what package? the name went by too fast. Isn't there something that I can turn on to capture all these, or are we too early in the startup? Try using dmesg (or less /var/log/dmesg) Perhaps all the stupid questions I post about why I can't enter the audio age could be solved if I didn't miss one of those ominous messages that go by too fast. Some clues as to the driver can sometimes be seen there. I hit ALT CTRL F1 etc. but I don't suppose those `man console(4)` tty can be scrolled backwards. The console can be scrolled backwards (SHIFT+PG_UP), you can only scroll what was put up after the last time you returned to it (in my experience). -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Desperate for Mplayer apt sources
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 05:33:20PM +0800, Elijah wrote: I'm trying to install Mplayer 386 or 686 via synaptic but it seems I don't have libvidencore0. I checked out libvidencore0's dependency and it requires libc6. It doesn't seem to accept my current libc6 (currently installed) because it needs at least version 2.3 upwards. I've searched the debian site and only found libc6 version 2.2.5. Can someone help me find a newer version for this? libc6 2.3 is in sid. Try this line in your sources.list (if you don't want sid): deb http://marillat.free.fr/ stable main -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Strange Number Lock Behavior
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 09:07:59PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 11:49:06PM -0500, Erinn wrote: Hi, Previously, I had an all text Debian firewall. Everytime I would boot it, the number lock would turn off. I thought it was specific to that box until I installed Debian on my workstation. The behavior persists and as I'd never witnessed it in any previous operating system, I thought it was Debian-specific, and was wondering two things: 1. Has anyone else experienced this? All Linux users have. The kernel pretty much assumes the BIOS is an idiot and ignores it. 2. If so, is there any way to stop it? Probably. Easiest is to hit number lock. 8:o) Take a look at /etc/console-tools/config. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: terminal descriptions: how to get the terminfo source packages and/or add in sound support
On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 08:48:19PM +0100, Wim De Smet wrote: I'd like to get the terminfo source packages so I can recompile one to support the bell sound (which doesn't seem to work) Could anybody help me out with the right apt-get cmd or whatever? After installing libncurses5-dev (apt-get install libncurses5-dev), try reading terminfo(5), tic(1), and infocmp(1). -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Motorola SM56 on Debian Linux
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 05:53:24PM -0800, S Yuval wrote: [please wrap your lines to about 72 characters] Own a Motorola SM56 winmodem and run Red Hat Linux 7.1. Frustrated with the poor maintenance capabilities of Red Hat I am considering moving to Debian. However, that decision depends on whether I can be assured that my modem works. Currently I am using drivers supplied in rpm form from Motorola; these run only on the older 2.2.* kernel. From my short experience with Red Hat 8.0 there is no way to migrate the drivers to the newer 2.4.* kernel. I just took a look at Motorola's site, and the system requirements state that the driver requires a 2.4 kernel, and that it would not work with a 2.2 kernel. From the research I have done so far it appears to me that it should not be difficult to convert the rpm package into a deb package using alien. The question is however, which release of Debian to purchase and whether I have of a choice between what kernels I want to use. According to LinuxMall.com, Debian 3.0r0 allows the user to choose which kernel to install. From what I've read, you should install a 2.4 kernel. I can't say anything about installing woody, as all of my systems were installed with a set of potato floppies, followed by floppied X and netscape (to allow my system to connect to a java-requiring proxy), then apt-get dist-upgrading my way to sid (and replacing netscape with phoenix). Does this mean there is any chance my modem will work? If it does, I should get Debian 3.0r0 and install the older kernel, or should I get an older version (e.g. 2.7.*) ? I'd appreciate your assistance. 2.7? I don't remember any 2.7. Do you mean potato (2.2r7)? Anyway, woody (currently 3.0r1) supports the 2.2 kernels, but it seems like the current driver for your winmodem will not. If the modem works, fine (although I don't like proprietary binary only drivers), if it doesn't, obtain a good external modem to replace it. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Order of identifying filesystems for auto
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 02:12:20PM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: Is there a way, other than rewriting the code for mount, to have it look that little bit more to see if the freshly found FAT volume is aactually vfat, or have I been fortunate and that is already done and I should just try it again? See mount(8). You can create /etc/filesystems to change the probe order. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: md driver?
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 06:29:42PM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: During boot I keep getting: md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 md: could not lock [dev 08:01], zero-size? Marking faulty. What is this? If I determine I don't need it how do I remove it in the kernel? According to the kernel docs, its software RAID. If you don't need it and its a module, rmmod it, else change kernel. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I do not have Super Cow Powers
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 04:45:45AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: So what does Super Cow Powers mean? I see it with 'aptitude --help'. All I know is that there are no Easter Eggs in aptitude, and that apt-get has Super Cow Powers. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ls colors oddity
On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 11:08:17AM +0800, csj wrote: On my system the colors printed by a simple ls (actually an alias for ls --color=auto) differ from the colors when the command is qualified by a file name or wildcard, say, ls -d * or ls configure. With either ls -d * or ls configure, the file name configure is printed out in green. With just ls, configure is bare black. Is this a bug or the right behavior? See bug #175135 -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what can be done with broken packages
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 12:21:39AM +0100, Roland Wegmann wrote: I installed aptitude and therefore find out that I have some broken packages on my debian powerpc box (testing). cpp-2.95, perl, perl-base, libstdc++2.10-glibc2.10 What does a broken package mean? And how can I made a package 'unbroken'? A package is considered broken when there are some dependancy-related problems. You can fix broken packages by upgrading, downgrading, installing, placing on hold, or removing packages. As you are using aptitude, you can easily find the broken packages by entering ~b into the search dialog. After going into the broken package's information, look for any depends or conflicts lines that are listed in red. Then resolve the dependancies. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: corrupted directory, I can not clear !! help !!
On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 10:41:41PM +, Dave Selby wrote: I have since moved debian to an 80GB drive hda. I want hdb to be a single linux partition I can use to archive data. I used linux fdisk to remove all partitions on hdb, I then created one partition on hdb, ie hdb1 taking up the entire disk. I ran mkfs.ex2 /dev/hdb1 All AOK Except when I mount it and go into the directory I get . Mounted as read-only or read-write? debian:/mnt# cd archive/ debian:/mnt/archive# ls [windows installation] ie my windows directory !!! I dont undestand .. I cd to /mnt/archive, ie hdb1 rm -rf * rm: cannot unlink `Program Files/Common Files/Microsoft Shared/Stationery/Santa Workshop.gif': Read-only file system [...] Im stuck guys. I have tried e2fsck, it check out aok but somehow I am stuck with a corrupted DOS directory which I can not clear ?? How is /dev/hdb1 mounted? Read-only? I need an equiverlant of a DOS format command I think, the nearest I can find is fdformat but this is only for floppy disks. What I've always used is cfdisk followed by mke2fs. Any ideas how I can wipe my hdb disk clean ?? # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdb -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: anyone recommend news aggregator (rss/rdf) ?
On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 11:59:34PM -0500, Shawn Lamson wrote: Hi - can anyone recommend a news aggregator similar to k.r.s.s. that is not dependant on a window manager (KDE/gnome/WM)? Basically I need a ticker like the one in Evolution's Summary page but don't want to have to run Evolution to have it. You could use gkrellm-newsticker. If you use sid, you should not use the current version of gkrellm with gkrellm-newsticker, as gkrellm-newsticker (like some of the other plugins) doesn't work if the gkrellm version is = 2. Alternately, you could do something like what I have done (and is not X dependant), and write your own script. I wanted something similar to what you want, but I wanted it for the console. My script is a little long to send to the list (365 lines), but if you want to take a look at it, let me know, and I'll send a tarball containing it. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: galeon personal security manager needed?
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 05:55:39PM -0600, will trillich wrote: so -- what's this personal security manager galeon is looking for? how can i apt-get it? apt-get install mozilla-psm -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related careers/schooling?
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 04:30:54PM -0700, Scott --sidewalking-- wrote: I am new to the Linux world and have settled on Debian as my winning horse for learning Linux, to the best of my abilities. The talk on this list is a little out of my comprehension now, as I am so new, but I am still taking general ed classes in college, and am hoping I can survive the math classes to pursue a CS degree. There is a class or two on Unix essentials or Unix internals, but that is all. Some programming, of course, is involved. That's certainly more than what I've gotten so far. I attend an all M$ high school (in an all M$ school board, quite annoying, I remember a few times when viruses brought the networks down), where their most advanced CS course is on Java (JDK1.1), but only covers some AWT and non-standard packages. I was considered a bit unusual among my classmates for my distaste for GUIs and my predilection for going over my code in hard copy in the library while waiting for the bus after my classes ended. I wonder if all (or most) of you are in similar careers and that is why you are so proficient with compiling and testing and tweaking all of this stuff. Or is it just a hobby that has gone on for so long that you have advanced your knowledge of Linux/Debian to these levels that all of you are at? At this point I am just a high school student (OAC, formerly known as grade 13) hoping to get accepted into university (and big scholarships). My career won't get started for a while. But if you want to know the length of my experience, it is 1 year, 1 month, and 2 weeks. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: WAS: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related--NOW, I gave up and went back to Mandrake :-(
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 10:57:54AM -0700, Scott --sidewalking-- wrote: I am REALLY liking GNOME 2.0, so Debian Sid is going to be very welcome in my home when it shows up as a stable release! You'll be waiting a long time... sid will never be stable. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: a basic aptitude question - how to install a virtual package
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 05:56:37PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: how do i install a 'virtual' package in aptitude? for instance, i can see latex as a package in aptitude. when i hit +, it does not get marked. Press enter on the listed virtual package. You should then get a screen similar to that of regular packages. Under Versions there will be a list of all packages that provide that virtual package. Install one of them. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X not installed by default (Was: Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2003 #185)
If you are starting a new thread, please start one and not have it as a reply to another message. Especially not a reply to the digest, quoting the entire thing. On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 03:39:59PM -0800, anthony baldwin wrote: I'm a new Debian user with only about 9 months of redhat use for Linux experience in general. I have just installed a a base system on a machine I built, but could not mark packages on the package list, for some reason, and now have only a shell installed. I would like to Normal for a fresh Debian install. A base system is quite simply a base system: just enough enable you to install what you need. have a gui, like kde, and be able to install more packages, but in the So, you want X, and with KDE it seems. You should look in /usr/share/doc/apt or /usr/share/doc/dpkg for information about installing packages. shell I do have, when I cd to /mnt/ nothing is recognized there, with By default, on a Debian system, /mnt is an empty mountpoint. the cd in the drive, so I am not even able to see what is on the cds to install anything. Tried to $cd /mnt/cdrom (with deb cd in drive) and got no such directory message. Debian does not do any auto-mounting by default. Also, the cdrom's mount point is /cdrom, not /mnt/cdrom (unless you edit /etc/fstab and add the mount point). To read a cdrom, mount the cdrom with mount /cdrom and then cd into /cdrom. You should also add your non-root user to the group cdrom, if you want to be able to mount/umount and use it fully as non-root. I'm lost, but this system is useless to me if all I get is a terminal/shell. Debian, by default, does not install X. You can easily install X by apt-get installing the following packages (I think that's all of them): 1) xlibs 2) xbase-clients 3) xfonts-base 4) xfonts-scalable 5) xfonts-75dpi or xfonts-100dpi 6) xserver-common 7) xserver-xfree86 8) xterm 9) twm (or any other window manager) 10) xfree86-common Since you mentioned KDE earlier, 11) kde apt-get will probably want to pull in some other packages to satisfy depenancies, let it. You will then have to configure X. You may also want to use a frontend such as aptitude for package management. Once you have aptitude running, take a look in the doc section; you might want to install some of the contents, such as man-db and manpages if they aren't yet installed. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: no xserver
[please don't quote the entire digest at the end of your message] On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 08:49:18AM -0800, anthony baldwin wrote: I installed woody for the first time yetserday on a frankenstein box I made outta spare parts (It has run redhat). I had several issues, starts and restarts, but I finally got through the entire install and rebooted...and the xserver wouldn't start... 1) Have you installed X? If no, install X (apt-get install x-window-system-core). If yes, proceed to step 2. 2) Does X start when you issue the command startx from the command line? If no, install xbase-clients. If yes, but with errors, read /var/log/XFree86.0.log and reconfigure and/or install new packages as necessary. If yes with no errors, proceed to step 3. 3) Do you have a window manager installed (X will exit shortly after starting with no window manager installed)? If no, install a window manager. If yes, proceed to step 4. 4) Do you have a display manager installed? If no, install a display manager (xdm, gdm, kdm, or wdm) If yes, what errors are occurring? This is a bit frustrating, I must say. It certainly doesn;t take me all weekend to install Red Hat. Of course, I know that Debian is not trying to make money, just build great FREE software, and I respect that. I have an old monitor that someon was throwing away (can't handle more than 800x600 at 60, and 256 colors, even). The video is onboard the mobo, an MSI G11-CB00056 Any ideas? As exasperating as your install is, I totally dig the true spirit of freedom and community that Debian appears to embody. I'm not sure about which video driver to use, but generic vga should work. If you plan on spending a lot of time in X, I would suggest that you get another monitor. While its true that you can do X with that (and although I've used 640x480, 16 colours, before, X is much nicer to look at with a few more pixels and colours). Since you said that the system has run Red Hat, do you have a copy of your old X config that you could look at? For reference, I have only about 10 months experience using Linux all together. I have installed and used several RedHats (7.0-8.0), Corel(debian based, right? but has a graphical install that is much easier to follow), Blue Linux, and Lycoris. I've always had problems with graphical installers. They tend not to like my systems (all except one are at least seven years old, the newest one does not have a (physically) working cdrom). It might help if I had newer hardware or a mouse with a working left mouse button (when I use X, I use a two-button mouse that only the right mouse button works on), but I like the console, so it doesn't matter too much to me. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dependancy not found (apt-get)
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 10:18:53AM -0600, Jor-el wrote: I am trying to use my apt preferences setup to install straw from unstable onto my stable system. Here is what I get : [...] trillian:/etc/apt# apt-get install -t unstable straw python-gnome2 python2.2-gnome2 libnautilus2-2 libgnome-desktop-0 [...] Package libgnome-desktop-0 has no available version, but exists in the database. This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents of sources.list E: Package libgnome-desktop-0 has no installation candidate (1) What does this mean and (2) Is there hope for me? It's interesting... I run unstable, and apt can't find libgnome-desktop-0, but its dependancies are listed at http://packages.debian.org/unstable/libs/libgnome-desktop-0.html and it doesn't seem to exist anywhere else... Maybe you'll be able to install straw later. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: vim and basic .bashrc questions
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 04:37:13PM -0800, CM Miller wrote: I like to do programming in the Linux environment cause I love VIM. I can run VIM as root, but not as cmmiller. I've never had that problem with vim. What happens when you try? Also, I have been able to set .bashrc preferences as root, like rm = rm -i. This works for root, but not for my user cmmiller. How can I make these changes for cmmiller as well? In ~cmmiller/.bash_profile uncomment: if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then source ~/.bashrc fi -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ethernet setup?
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 05:55:03PM -0800, Tom Zych wrote: Edit /etc/network/interfaces to specify dhcp or a static IP address (man interfaces), then try /etc/init.d/networking start. Is there supposed to be a /dev/eth0 device? There isn't... There is no /dev/eth0. Its just eth0, an interface. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2003 #198
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 05:54:31PM -0800, CM Miller wrote: [please keep the attributions in place] I like to do programming in the Linux environment cause I love VIM. I can run VIM as root, but not as cmmiller. I've never had that problem with vim. What happens when you try? I'm not getting any of the color coding that VIM does when programming GCC or GCC++. But directories now blue and ./ files are now green. If you want the colour coding, uncomment the line syntax on in /etc/vim/vimrc (comments are preceded by ''). Also, I have been able to set .bashrc preferences as root, like rm = rm -i. This works for root, but not for my user cmmiller. How can I make these changes for cmmiller as well? In ~cmmiller/.bash_profile uncomment: if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then source ~/.bashrc fi That did it, thanks, the aliases work now. But what did I uncomment here? .bashrc is used when starting non-login shells, .bash_profile is used when starting login shells. The if statement that you uncommented in .bash_profile tells bash to include the contents of .bashrc, if it exists. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ls color's messed up
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 12:42:36PM -0800, Curtis Spencer wrote: This one is kind of strange. My ls colors work on everything except for executables. In other words it turns archives red and directories blue, but Files with 700 privileges are still gray. When I just use 'ls --color' do I not get any green. However, when I use ls --color -l it works fine. Strange... Known bug. Look up coreutils in the BTS. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel fallback
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 05:53:55PM +, Paul W wrote: Hello all, I've been trying (and still am) to compile a 2.4.20 kernel with alsa modules to enable my soundcard, as per the good advice given me earlier. So far I've tried the Debian way and the old fashioned way and I'm nearly there but not quite - I now have a 2.4.20 kernel that doesn't work right as the default and a 2.4.18 kernel in good order (apart from sound) that I can boot into from lilo. My question is - If I now try to install another kernel will my current 2nd choice (2.4.18) disappear, and if so how do I stop it from doing so as it's my only fully operational choice at present? Depends upon how you're doing it. I have a system with 4 kernels to select from. You just have to spend a couple of minutes in /etc/lilo.conf, and add your own image listings. All you have to do after adding in more images is to make sure that what you wrote for the image location matches the reality (and run lilo). I don't rely upon the symlinks /vmlinuz and /vmlinuz.old, I make my own that contain a bit more information (such as /vmlinuz-2.4.18). -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lilo warning causing problems
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 12:44:41PM +0100, Felipe Mart?nez Hermo wrote: I have just installed a new Debain box and configured a new kernel. I run Lilo and it says: Warning: Int 0x13 function 8 and function 0x48 return different head/sector geometries for BIOS drive 0x80 (also for drive 0x81) It installs correctly the boot sector, but when I try to boot with my new kernel, after the first kernel messages it reboots again and again and again For information about the LILO message, take a look at this: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/debian-user-200205/msg03669.html What do the kernel messages say before it reboots? -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Error updating unstable non-free Packages
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 03:06:05PM +0800, Tim Wood wrote: I get a parsing error in unstable non-free Packages, which results in Dynamic MMap ran out of room error. This occurs parsing package graphviz (NewVersion1). If this is a bug where do I report it as occuring? If not, where might the fault lie? As you asked this question, I can tell that you haven't checked in the archives. This particular question has been asked dozens of times in the past month or so, I think most recently yesterday or the day before that. Take a look in the archives. http://lists.debian.org -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 12:40:17PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: I wonder -- are the people that start with Debian people who are new to Linux, but used to Unix or sys admin/programming on other systems, or are they just at the user (or just above) level? Back when I started with Debian (Dec. 2, 2001), I had no experience with anything other than DOS or Windows. A few years previously, I got some experience with networks as the assistant admin for my elementary school. One day I was an ordinary student who knew how to get to a DOS shell from a game on the old network, soon thereafter I was given the network's root-equivalent login and password and was told to give a new teacher an account. But most of my experience in that position was loading the dot matrix printers, plugging in mice, and undeletion after students decide to show off their skills with DOS, do their del *.* in the wrong directory and panic when their work disappears. I came from Windows with a dislike for GUIs, and one of the first things I installed was X (followed by Netscape, needed for a Java-based login to connect a proxy to the internet). Every package I used had to be copied from a nearby Windows machine with a working network connection to my Debian system by floppy (my first Debian system was a laptop, and all it had was a Notwork Interface Card), using spanning archives when needed. For the first five months or so, I kept my Debian system dual boot with an old version of MS-DOS so I could transfer large files when needed, until the replacement for my notwork card came in (my notwork card was still under warranty). -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: phoenix and java?
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 12:27:55PM -0500, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: Is there a way to add java support to Phoenix by using debian packages? I did a quick google and came up with these: Phoenix works for me with the Blackdown Java debs. When I install the plug-in directly from phoenix's site (running the browser as root) I get the following error when I go to the web site I want (running the browser as either root or as me): java_vm: relocation error: /usr/local/phoenix/plugins/java2/lib/i386/libjava.so: symbol __libc_wait, version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Could not read ack from browser System error?:: Resource temporarily unavailable Which version of Java, which version of libc6? For a while, I had some issues with the Java plugin, but they work for me now (J2SDK1.4 1.4.0.99beta-1, libc6 2.3.1-10). Is this an install issue with the plug-in or is it the web site? I'm trying to renew my books at: http://www.tpl.toronto.on.ca. The browser crashes when the pop-up window opens to renew my books. (Link is on the left hand side second big button from the top.) Possibly the website. I tried that link with Phoenix, Galeon, and Mozilla, and all I could get was a window saying Error connecting the server (aftert waiting for the applet to load up). -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dist-upgrade question
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 06:17:29AM -0800, D. wrote: I'm running Testing on a PII 350 and attempted to do a dist-upgrade last night. Here is the results of the apt-get -u dist-upgrade. My questions is why is it trying to remove the task-x-window-system-core? If I did this wouldn't I have lost my Desktop and only had text only mode? Tasks contain dependancies, not content. The following packages will be REMOVED: atlas2 libctl1 task-gnome-desktop task-x-window-system-core The following NEW packages will be installed: atlas2-base coreutils dash guile-common guile1.4 libctl2 libgnet1.1-glib1 libguile-dev libltdl3-dev atlas2-base replaces atlas2 libctl2 replaces libctl1 The tasks are just packages containing dependancies. If you had said 'y' to the upgrade, the two task-* packages would be removed, but not X. The following packages have been kept back balsa debian-policy tetex-bin You might want to take a look at their new dependancies to see why they were kept back. The following packages will be upgraded ash console-data debconf debconf-utils dh-make docbook-xml fileutils gnomeicu initrd-tools latex2html libctl-dev lintian mpb sgml-data shellutils textutils xbase-clients xfree86-common xlibs xlibs-dev xserver-common xutils 22 packages upgraded, 9 newly installed, 4 to remove and 3 not upgraded. As you can see here, X would be upgraded, not removed. Need to get 17.1MB of archives. After unpacking 1910kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n 'y' -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xwindows
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 03:32:00PM +0100, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: Hi Bob! You wrote: i successfully installed debian,how do you start xwindows ? Normally, X is started with the command startx. Alternatively, you can install a so-called display manager (like wdm or kdm), which will start X and present you with a nice login window. Although, if you just installed Debian, you might have to install X before startx will work. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: active programs overview
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 07:52:36AM -0800, Joris Huizer wrote:
What is the program to use when I want to know which
programs are running ?
ps aux
top
si
grep Name /proc/[0-9]*/status | awk '{ print $2 }'
There are more ways, but I think that this is enough.
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Re: bash, but no .bashrc??
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 03:52:53PM -0500, Andy Estes wrote: I am running Debian Woody (3.0r1). The default shell for my user account is bash, and I can verify this by typing 'ps' once I am logged on. However, the contents of my .bashrc do not get executed by default. If I explicitely invoke bash (typing 'bash' at the shell), .bashrc is executed properly, but if I simply log in (locally or remotely), it doesn't happen. Can anyone explain what is going on here? Take a look at ~/.bash_profile. ~/.bashrc is used for non-login shells. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mounting partitions HELP
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 12:49:12AM -0800, Joris Huizer wrote: /dev/hda : - windows stuff /dev/hdb : - /dev/hdb1 : / (root) - /dev/hdb2 : swap - /dev/hdb3 : /boot NOT IN USE - /dev/hdb4 : extended partition - /dev/hdb5 : /home - /dev/hdb6 : /usr I've got two questions: 1. How can I mount the /dev/hda ( the bootloader says /dev/hda1 ) (as root and/or as normal user) ? If only as root, # mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt If you also want ordinary users to be able to mount it, add it to your /etc/fstab (see mount(8) and fstab(5)). /dev/hda1/mntvfatdefaults,user,noauto 0 0 2. Is it possible to clean (format, initialize) the /dev/hdb3 and set a new partition ( /tmp) there ? I created during the first partition for redhat; It's rather big as I didn't know a /boot should be small and it was used to start the install of debian from that partition. If /dev/hdb3 is not empty, move its contents to /boot on /dev/hdb1. # umount /dev/hdb3 # mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb3 /mnt (change ext2 to the file system) # cp -a /mnt /boot # diff -r /mnt /boot (if contents match, continue) # rm -f /mnt/* # umount /mnt Now, /dev/hdb3 is empty. You can then set it up as your new /tmp. Add the following line to your /etc/fstab (changing ext2 if needed): /dev/hdb3 /tmp ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 0 reboot Oh, and what type should be used ? I think /tmp or /var but I don't know for sure. /tmp and /var are not partition types. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian rookie trying to get his bearings...
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 08:09:29AM -0600, Jeff Hahn wrote: One quick question to get me going a little better... How do you install services (apache, samba, whatever) and NOT have them start on system startup? In RedHat, this is done with chkconfig. I've got a number of services installed that aren't configured and I certainly don't want them running at startup. Try using update-rc.d. You can also do some manual modifications in /etc/rc* -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-get
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 08:08:43PM -0600, N.D.O wrote: I understand the apt-get , the thing is how do i add a source to the sources.list so that debian will know where to find something and it will know where to find, lets say opera, just giving an example. Take a look at sources.list(5) -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PGP Signatures
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 02:51:39PM +, debian parisc wrote: forgive me for my ignorance, but I see a lot of emails on this list with PGP signatures. Exactly what purpose does it serve having PGP as part of your signature? They just look like a string of characters that could have been made up to me. It maybe because I receive most of the emails from this list in windows95 (I'm at work), that they have no significance. The signatures are a way of verifying the sender and content of an email. The sender of a message has two keys, a private key, and a public key. The sender signs the message with the private key, and the signature can be verified with the sender's public key. If the contents of the message are changed, the signature does not match the message. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] msg26602/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Debian 3.0r_0 setup - lots of questions
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 05:21:33PM +, sonali wrote: I installed the base system from the Debian 3.0r_0 CD and installed X-windows, and lots of other packages via apt-get from stable. Now, I am behind a http proxy and cannot access everything properly. My current problems are: 1. apt-spy does not run from behind the http proxy to setup a good sources.list. Right now, I am using mirrors.kernel.org, which is not very fast Have you a default route to the proxy? On my systems I set the default route to the proxy. 2. I can access www via a browser like say mozilla/galeon using the http proxy config in teh Advanced tab...but can't browse using links, etc. How do i tunnel other apps through the http proxy? Well, in links, in the setup menu, select network options and enter in your proxy information. After that, save your configuration. [...] So, mostly these doubts about accessing the internet. Also, is it a good idea to stick to stable and not use testing and unstable? stable has old versions of most packages that I use on a workstation, so what is the best way to use new versions of packages? And can someone please mail me a good sources.list offlist? I use unstable, but unstable will occasionally have problems. Until you feel ready to deal with them, you should probably stick to stable or testing. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: do i need stable in my sources.list?
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 01:43:32AM +, iain d broadfoot wrote: testing/unstable, do i still need the stable entries? No. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: partition is NOT CHECKED before mounting
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 01:23:27AM -0800, Joris Huizer wrote: Wow... that was easy in the end :-) Thanks for the pointer! By the way, what exactly does the 2 in that row mean (or the 1 for the root partition) ? Take a look at fstab(5). The sixth field, (fs_passno), is used by the fsck(8) program to deter- mine the order in which filesystem checks are done at reboot time. The root filesystem should be specified with a fs_passno of 1, and other filesystems should have a fs_passno of 2. Filesystems within a drive will be checked sequentially, but filesystems on different drives will be checked at the same time to utilize parallelism available in the hardware. If the sixth field is not present or zero, a value of zero is returned and fsck will assume that the filesystem does not need to be checked. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gvim / vim -g WON'T WORK
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 12:16:30PM -0800, Joris Huizer wrote: When I try to run gvim I get this error: E25: GUI cannot be used: Not enabled at compile time What does it mean ? How can it be solved ? I'm not somebody who thinks every prog should be graphical but it's easier to have more than one file open so I can view them at the same time Install vim-gtk. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: need help in installing nic drivers
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 03:11:48PM -0600, Kenn Murrah wrote: I just purchased a Dell server with the intention of installing Debian woody on it ... all looks good except the NIC ... instructions seem to be for Red Hat 7.x only, about which it says, There is native driver support for the integrated Intel 10/100/1000 NIC. To enable Linux support for the NIC, install the e1000.o module from (location given) Since the base installation was unable to find the NIC, i'm assuming that Debian will require the same module (?) ... if so, where can I find info on installing it (I'm trying to move up in the world, having experimented with Mandrake for the last several months, and I've never needed to know how to do this ... Feel free, of course, to tell me to RTFM, but please point me the right direction ... You may have to compile your own kernel (module). I didn't see it listed in stable, although it is a module in the testing and unstable 2.4.20 kernels. Once you have the module, just modprobe e1000, and, if necessary, manually configure it and the routing table. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Slang for money [was: Re: Backup Consensus?]
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 04:48:04PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: The '#' has a crapload of names: some I know are [...] 4) octothorpe; I guess this is the typographical name or something. I even used to know _why_, but I'm too lazy to look it up. In a book I have, it gives '#' a meaning of Insert a space (the context is in revising a text). octo - eight thorp - I saw what this part means a while ago. I think it is village PS Is there a one character symbol for a shilling? Does anyone other than the US use the '?' (cent) character? How the hell do I type a euro character? :-) IIRC, it was '/'. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PGP Signatures
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 11:39:57AM +0100, mess-mate wrote: On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 17:26:26 -0800 Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 08:50:06PM +0100, mess-mate wrote: | But the senders public key must be retrieved from a key-server and added | to your own key-list before an automated check is possible. | mess-mate | | Unless you've set your gnupg to automagically grab public keys from | the keyserver for you. | Uhh, good idea, how can I do that ?? In ~/.gnupg/gnupg.conf, uncomment or add keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: very very strange bash/sed bug !!
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 11:52:36AM +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote: it's been a loong time I have a bug on my system: ./libtool is incorrectly generated by ./configure. I haven't been able to correct it for months. Today I discovered where lies the bug: it's somewhere between bash and sed. First and foremost, I'm running debian/unstable, and have sed 3.02-8.1, bash 2.05b-6 and libtool 1.4.3-5 (but it's been there since several versions). Now the bug: echo xx lt1 echo xx lt2 sed '' /usr/share/libtool/ltmain.sh lt1 sed '' /usr/share/libtool/ltmain.sh |less lt2 diff lt1 lt2 They differ !!! And surprisingly, only lt2 is correct ! I ran those commands and lt1 and lt2 do not differ. I use the same versions of sed, bash, and libtool as you. What is the difference between lt1 and lt2? -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: is /dev/dsp in use?
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 12:09:16PM +0100, Felipe Mart?nez Hermo wrote: I have just installed testing on a new box and several programs say /dev/dsp is in use. However, if I type cat foo /dev/dsp it sounds, so I suppose it is well configured. /dev/dsp has rw permimsions for everyone How can I know which process is holding that device and why? fuser -v /dev/dsp will tell you the process that is using /dev/dsp. As for why, that you'll have to determine yourself. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cu program?
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 09:29:13AM -0600, Larry W.Irwin Sr. wrote: I cannot locate the cu program. Can someone point me in the right direction? Install the package uucp if you are using stable or testing. Install the package cu if you are using unstable. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: boot log
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 04:15:16PM +0100, Florian Sukup wrote: is there a log file where I can find all boot messages? Or, if not, is there a possibility to make them written into a log file? /var/log/dmesg contains boot messages. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bash: finding if mozilla is running
On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 10:22:53AM +0100, David selby wrote: Writting a small script to make mozilla show the results of HTML code written in vi, when vi saves, the script automaticly changes mozilla to show that HTML. I need to know if mozilla is running, if not I need to call it first ... seemed simple if ! ps ax | grep mozilla-bin /dev/null; then /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla -P web . [...] Ie its picking up on the grep process, finding mozilla-bin, saying yep its running, dont call mozilla bang, script fails. ps --no-headers -C mozilla-bin | grep -q -- -bin -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: reiser kernel support?
On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 05:29:36PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mount: fs type reiser not supported by kernel Now I presume that this means that I have failed to install reiser support for the kernel -- but mkreiserfs did not seem to have any relevand dependencies. Just what *do* I have to install to get the necessary kernel support? Recompile the kernel. There is a list of filesystems that you can compile support for, either as a module or directly. If you are going to use reiserfs on your root filesystem, you should compile it into the kernel itself, instead of as a module. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Mozilla and Blackdown Java Plugin
On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 05:42:37PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: Short summary: MozillaJRE Works? == 1.2.1-2.bunk j2re1.3 YES 1.2.1-2.bunk j2re1.4 unknown 1.3-5 j2re1.3 NO 1.3-5 j2re1.4 NO 1.4-2 j2re1.3 NO 1.4-2 j2re1.4 NO Why? And how to fix? Compiler versions. Install a copy of the desired version of Java that is compiled with gcc 3.2 if you want to use one of the newer versions of Mozilla; use your current installation if you want to use the older version of Mozilla (it was compiled with gcc 2.95, like the installed Java). -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: whois not working?
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 12:03:21PM -0500, George Georgalis wrote: Can anyone explain why whois (Debian stable) is not working for _some_ domains? I've tried at a few different sites to lookup galis.org and sdriw.org and no match found is the result?? A bug report mentioned a new tld server list. That could be the cause. Various website based whois programs, and I understand at least one 'Unix' whois program is working correctly. Take a look at the BTS. In the report for bug #178788, there are some sources for a version of whois with an updated list. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with mouse + X
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 12:53:57PM -0500, Chris M. wrote: For some reason, X won't startup, saying Screens found; none usable. When Debian prompts me to configure X, my mouse refuses to work. If I select anything from Mouse Configuration, it exits out and leaves me at a blank screen, unable to get back to the terminal. I tried using Expert Mode to change my mouse to /dev/psaux, but it seems to always default back to /dev/mouse. Perhaps you could symlink /dev/mouse to /dev/psaux (take a look at ln(1)). If you can think of anything I can do at the console to fix this, it would be much appreciated. The X config program never cleanly exits and makes me sit through the root check everytime I startup Linux. I've always gotten my working configurations by using xf86config then manually changing /etc/X11/XF86Config to a state that works and is customised the way I want. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: More detailed post ...
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 10:34:04PM +, Dave Selby wrote: 1. Is there a downloader for debian that will handle broken downloads ? If not can anyone recommend one ? Take a look at wget (I'm thinking of its options -c (continue a previous partial download) and -t (retries)). 2. How do I sent an 'ATZ' reset string to my modem from the command line ? Assuming your modem is /dev/ttyS1, echo ATZ /dev/ttyS1. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: More detailed post ...
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 11:48:45PM +, Dave Selby wrote: wget looks good to me, it even resets the modem and re-dials if it is not getting the file Probarbly asking the earth ... There isn't a GUI wrapper for it ??? Just do a reverse-depends check on wget in aptitude, I found two GUI packages that look like they use wget for their downloading: gtm and kmago. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: out of space in /var/cache/apt/archives
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 09:19:11PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: so, it's pretty full. 288M of that is in /var/cache/apt/archives, and are a lot of debs. can i safely delete these all to make room for the new ones? there's nothing here that i need for these packages to run, right? You don't need those debs. Just run apt-get clean. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Downgrading to xfree86 3.x
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 08:02:59PM -0600, Jeffrey Taylor wrote: I have an old VLB video card (ATI Graphics Ultra Pro). It does not appear to be supported in xfree86 4.x. How do I downgrade to xfree86 3.x in woody? Looking at the readme (README.ati.gz) for X 4.2, your video card appears to be supported (mach32). If you want to downgrade, just use an xserver that is not xserver-xfree86 (for that card, xserver-mach32). -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sed help
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 04:06:06PM +0900, Geengun Guim wrote: The identity is not www but the first +- simbol. c:\tmp\mbc+-www.mbc.co.kr+-cgi-bin+-cgi.cgi c:\tmp\mbc+-cs.mbc.co.kr+-cgi-bin+-cgi.cgi c:\tmp\mbc+-cdi.kbs.co.kr+-cgi-bin+-cgi.cgi [...] Besides, I'd like to insert ping 66.66.66.66 everylines for waiting several seconds.. So the last output is like, www.mbc.co.kr+-cgi-bin+-cgi.cgi ping 66.66.66.66 cs.mbc.co.kr+-cgi-bin+-cgi.cgi ping 66.66.66.66 cdi.kbs.co.kr+-cgi-bin+-cgi.cgi ping 66.66.66.66 cat test.txt c:\tmp\mbc+-www.mbc.co.kr+-cgi-bin+-cgi.cgi c:\tmp\mbc+-cs.mbc.co.kr+-cgi-bin+-cgi.cgi c:\tmp\mbc+-cdi.kbs.co.kr+-cgi-bin+-cgi.cgi sed -e 's/c:\\tmp\\mbc+-//' -e 'a\ ping 66.66.66.66 ' test.txt -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X won't start
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 04:24:18PM +0100, Andy Van Hoof wrote: [please wrap your lines at ~72 characters] i just reinstalled debian (stable 3.0) and used tasksel to select some packages, one of them the kde graphical environment. after the installation i got some automated setup stuff, telling me to select my gfx card etc (it's a matrox productiva g100 agp), then i tried running startx and it crashed on me saying: no usable screens found What is in the rest of your startx output? What is in your /etc/X11/XF86Config? The no usable screens error is quite common whenever there is a config problem. Your graphics card is supported. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to determine whether (first) printer is lp0 or lp1?
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 12:43:05PM -0500, Daniel Barclay wrote: Is there a direct way determine whether the (first) printer is /dev/lp0 or /dev/lp1? echo yes /dev/lp0 -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to determine whether (first) printer is lp0 or lp1?
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 02:17:58PM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 13:45, Seneca wrote: On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 12:43:05PM -0500, Daniel Barclay wrote: Is there a direct way determine whether the (first) printer is /dev/lp0 or /dev/lp1? echo yes /dev/lp0 Doesnt always work. For instance on my printer, youll get nothing. A better way is cat /var/log/kern.log | grep lp That should show you what port your printer is on. That, too, doesn't always work. On this system, lp0 (my printer) is not mentioned in /var/log/*. dmesg | grep lp, does mention lp0, and only because the lp module was loaded last night (I decided to get around to getting this system to print, and I wanted to make sure I entered the right device into magicfilterconfig). -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cluttered up system?
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 04:15:30PM +0100, Bruno Boettcher wrote: is there a way to find out which packages are taking up how much space? making some stats about what's installed, where and how much ressources it eats up? would i e.g. by throwing out gnome get back 3/4 of my HD?? (if that's the case i would happily go back to fvwm2...) dpigs, which is part of debian-goodies. To get it to show more than the top ten space hogs, you'll have to modify it slightly, but it's a fairly simple script. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Size of an i386 mirror (unstable and testing)
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 02:11:55PM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote: what is the algorithm used in dselect out of a list of different servers as specified in /etc/apt/sources.list ? I think it is the mirror closest to the start of sources.list with the desired version. If there is a problem downloading the file, apt tries downloading the package with the next mirror with the desired version. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: saving mutt email headers
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 01:23:23AM +, p wrote: in mutt, when i save an email to a file, how do i save the headers, too? I just saved a copy of your message in mutt. I looked at the saved copy with less, and the headers were there. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lost some binaries in crash
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 08:59:45PM -0500, Matthew Schibler wrote: My desktop system had a recent filesystem corruption problem. After running fsck I discovered I am now missing a few binaries. For example perl was missing, which I temporarily recovered by copying a working binary from another debian system. This allowed me to run apt-get (some portion of dpkg is perl based I think). I recovered a few things. Atleast what I am aware of. I still have a problem though. I need to know what is not complete, what files are missing or corrupted. Is coreutils (specifically, the md5sum binary) good? Is there some way I can check my installed packages against those available and install what is missing/corrupted? Is /var/lib/dpkg/info/ intact? Each installed package has its md5sums in there. You can run (from /): for PACKAGE in /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.md5sums; do md5sum -c $PACKAGE; done This will output whenever a file cannot be opened (don't worry about not having locales that you didn't generate) or when the md5sum didn't match. One non-corruption cause of non-matching md5sums is diversions, so you should watch for them. You can find out about diversions and missing files with dpkg -S foo, where foo is the file that you are looking for the owner of. After determining which packages are missing files, just reinstall the damaged packages (apt-get install --reinstall foo). -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Woody, Sarge, SID, WTF?
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 07:20:33PM -0200, Barry Rab wrote: Rick Macdonald wrote: If you did apt-get update after changing sources.list, then the subsequent apt-get dist-upgrade has you running unstable, which is sid. That said, is there anyway of backing out of this type of situation i.e. getting back to Woody? A few weeks ago, there was an article on Debian Planet about how someone downgraded from testing to stable (I think the URL is http://debianplanet.org/node.php?id=880). Unstable is more different to stable than testing, but if you want to try, just be sure to make a backup and be ready to reinstall if needed. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /cdrom -vs- /dev/hdc
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 06:46:37PM -0500, Bruce Park wrote: I'm having some trouble loading my audio cd through /cdrom directory. Before I start talking about the problem, here are the files that are of use to this problem. [...] I can actually load audio files through /dev/hdc and /dev/cdrom but I cannot load them through /cdrom. I can mount and run data cds perfectly through /cdrom but the audio files don't show up there for some reason. Does anyone have an idea why this doesn't work? I'm looking to solve this problem rather than to ignore it and use /dev/hdc or /dev/cdrom to load audio files. Any help or suggestion is greatly appreciated. Data disks generally have a file system, while audio disks generally don't. You need a file system to mount the disk. You can get a list of tracks that are on a disk using a package like cdcd (on the command line, cdcd tracks). You are probably familiar with the basic concept of formatting floppies for general use. The formatting first sets the sector size, interleave, the number of cylinders used on the disk. After that, a file system may be put onto the disk, a common one being FAT12. When that is done, you can mount the floppy. However, the disk does not need to have a file system put onto it; a fair number of my floppies that I use don't (file transfer using tar -rf /dev/floppy/0u1440 foo). If I try to mount one one of those floppies, I get an error. I can, however, read the files contained in the archive. All I do list the files is tar -tf /dev/floppy/0u1440, to extract, tar -xf /dev/floppy/0u1440 foo. With many audio CDs it is a similar situation to that of floppies with no file system. While you can listen to the disks by specifying the drive, you cannot mount them. You can take a look at the contents, but you need to use something designed for that task. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel-package
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 11:39:37PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: I haven't found this in the docs - does make-kpkg create a new initrd image for me, or do the package scripts do that as part of the install process, or do I need to do it myself (presumably after installing the kernel package and before rebooting)? man make-kpkg. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel Compilation and Keyboard
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 11:33:00PM -, Kevin Smith wrote: I'm running Debian Woody 3.0r1 on a powerpc (AppleMac G3 beige) and have used the precompiled Kernels in the past. I decided to compile a Kernel from source (2.4.20) and everything works perfect apart from the keyboard, where the mapping is completely wrong... in fact, every key is different. What do I need to do in order for the keyboard mapping to be correct for my location? (UK). BTW, this is before I boot into X, this is at the console that the keyboard mapping is wrong. install-keymap foo, where foo is a valid keymap, will set the default keymap on the console to foo. loadkeys foo will change the currently used keymap to foo, but will not change the default. Keymaps are found in /usr/share/keymaps, try with loadkeys the layouts that look like they may be the one you want (perhaps mac-uk). -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Enabling frame-buffer support in debian kernel
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 06:51:13PM +, Steve Webster wrote: I'm trying to enable frame-buffer support while configuring kernel-source-2.4.18, but all I get is a greyed-out list of choices in xconfig. This is what I've done [...] d) in /usr/src/linux did make-kpkg kernel_image --added-patches debianlogo,preempt which adds the debian patches and executes xconfig ...and that's about as far as I get. I can't see what choices I've made that could have disabled frame-buffer and I can't find any relevent patches. You don't need a special patch. Try enabling an option that you have not enabled before. Has anyone got any ideas how I can get this working? Select Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: your mail
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 03:36:13PM +0100, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote: [please use a non-blank, meaningful subject line] After my upgrade to testing/unstable everything still works fine except my KDE sound. Tried XMMS, this one works fine but there aren't sounds from KDE. When I go to the shell and run commands with arts in it, I still get the message: /usr/bin/artsd: error while loading shared libraries: libvorbisfile.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory How can I solve this one? I searched with apt-cache and dselect, the libvorbis0 package isn't installed correctly (i think). After apt-get install libvorbis0: Sorry, libvorbis0 is already the newest version. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Hessel:/home/normaal# libvorbisfile.so.0 is not in testing or unstable. It is in stable. The libvorbis0 in unstable has libvorbis.so.0 and libvorbisfile3 has libvorbisfile.so.3. Where are your artsd and libvorbis0 from? -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Apt-install base system to non-root drive?
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 09:30:40PM -0800, Paul Mackinney wrote: Hi, I'm off to cruise through the docs, but some quick help on this would be appreciated. I have a booting, network-capable system, but it's not running well. I'd like to install a clean copy of Sarge to a spare hard drive. The Sarge net-install CD was a total failure (see rant below, or ignore it). So is there any easy way to run the base install to a local partition? Once it's there I can boot it with grub and I'll be set. The Apt-HOWTO doesn't seem to cover this. Can dpkg or dselect do it? Try using debootstrap. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: modconf doesn't show drivers
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 01:33:16PM +0100, Yildiz, Murat wrote: I have woody 3.0 with kernel 2.4.19 self-compiled and now want to load a kernel module but when I run modconf no package is being shown. I have checked /lib/modules/2.4.19 , it exist.Where does modconf read available modules information? After a quick look at modconf, it looks like it would get its module listings by looking through all the directories in /lib/modules/2.4.19, and finding *.o. Are modules in /lib/modules/2.4.19? -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: File systems -- reiser vs. ext3
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 09:23:27PM -0500, Daniel B. wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: ... My pick of ext3 was the fact that all the tools that work with ext2 work just as readily with ext3. I was also able to convert within a few minutes from ext2 on the command line. What do you use to convert? tune2fs -j, although I would suggest that you read the manpage. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sound in Kernel-Config
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 05:24:04PM +0100, Dieter Schoppitsch wrote: I try to compile a Kernel which supports my soundcard. I have a Yamaha OPL3 SA3 sound system (which I was told is a pcm). In my Kernel-.configure I have the following options: # Sound # CONFIG_SOUND=y [...] # CONFIG_SOUND_OSS is not set dmesg doesn't show anything pcm/sound-like. Which choices I have to make to support my Yamaha pcm? Take a look at the options that you can select after you select OSS sound modules. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 09:29:08AM -0800, nate wrote: there was also hamm(2.0), and slink(2.1), not sure if those were part of toy story too ? They are. Hamm is the piggy bank, and slink is the slinky dog. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian kernel configuration
On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 09:29:14AM -0700, Andreas J Guelzow wrote: does anybody know where I can find the kernel configuration for the debian kernels (the 2.4.18-smp to be exact)? I have to recompile the kernelafter changing a few settings and would like to start with the settings in the default kernel (since I know that they are working, except that they don't support all the memory I would like to use). If the kernel image is 2.4.18-smp then /boot/config-2.4.18-smp. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PHP --with-imap
On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 12:29:33PM -0600, Craig Jackson wrote: [...] I get this error: configure: error: Cannot find imap library (libc-client.a). Please check your IMAP installation. libc-client2001 is in /usr/lib/ but libc-client.a is nowhere on the system. Hints please. Try using Search the contents of packages on http://packages.debian.org (it's near the bottom). libc-client.a is in libc-client2001-dev. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: server side ftp
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 07:14:46PM -0600, Noll, Ralph wrote: i need ftp installed so i can ftp to the box any ideas apt-cache search ftpd -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Changing process priority
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 10:30:26PM +, Rodrigo Sobrinho wrote: well, when I logged at non super-user, I can not alter the priority of my process to negative number. Deny permission for me [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ nice -n -1 kedit nice: n?o consigo alterar prioridade: Permiss?o negada why? An exerpt from renice(1): Users other than the super-user may only alter the priority of processes they own, and can only monotonically increase their ``nice value'' within the range 0 to PRIO_MAX (20). (This prevents overriding administrative fiats.) The super-user may alter the priority of any process and set the priority to any value in the range PRIO_MIN (-20) to PRIO_MAX. Useful priorities are: 20 (the affected processes will run only when nothing else in the system wants to), 0 (the ``base'' scheduling priority), anything negative (to make things go very fast). -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt trouble
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 01:13:48PM +0530, Sukrit wrote: i am trying to get some packages of the unstable tree. So added following line to my source.list deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free Then did a apt-get update. apt gets it's files from the server, everything is well. Database is updated. Now if i try and install something, like apt-get -t unstable install gkrellm2 [gkrellm2 is there in the unstable tree, i checked with other files too like libc6 etc] i get an error couldn't find pacakge? What am i doing wrong? You forgot to add a main line, such as: deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free Also, you might want to install gkrellm instead of gkrellm2; gkrellm2 is at 2.1.3-1 and gkrellm is at 2.1.7-1. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dselect
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 01:16:24PM +0530, Sukrit wrote: i am trying to installing a functional but minimalistic debian system. Right now i am doing the following to install packages - $apt-cache search package $apt-get install package Obviously it is the worst thing to do in this case. i tried using It is not the worst thing to do. For my first 5 months of using Debian, my system did not have a working NIC. On a nearby Windows machine, during those months, I would go through the Debian website, check on dependencies, download the packages (via either the website or FTP), floppy them to my system, and install. Not only that, but that system was running unstable, updated on weekends (it took to long to be updated at any other time). dselect but it is bent on installing some 17 packages on my system. It seems that this is becuase i am using dselect on the system for the first time and those are the recommended packages. Pressing 'R' or 'D' should tell dselect to mind it's own business says the help but that isn't helping. dselect still wants to act like a controlling wife (and i don't want to act the henpecked husband). You could try using aptitude. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: help
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 05:24:43PM -0600, Solomon Goldstein wrote: Hi, my name is Solomon Goldstein. I am installing Debian on my machine. After I'm done, I get to the Login promt, so I login and when I type StartX, I get error message saying Fatal Server Error: No screens found. Would this mean that I forgot to install something? No, but you did forget to show us the rest of the output (and it's startx, NOT StartX). No screens found is a common error caused by misconfiguration; look at the rest of the output from startx, look at /etc/X11/XF86Config, compare the two and what you know of your setup. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Setting Default Framebuffer Mode
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 03:31:54PM -0600, Ian Melnick wrote: Every time my computer starts I need to use fbset to change the resolution. Is there a way to set the default framebuffer mode? An excerpt from $KERNEL_SOURCE/Documentation/fb/framebuffer.txt: 3. Frame Buffer Resolution Maintenance -- Frame buffer resolutions are maintained using the utility `fbset'. It can change the video mode properties of a frame buffer device. Its main usage is to change the current video mode, e.g. during boot up in one of your /etc/rc.* or /etc/init.d/* files. Fbset uses a video mode database stored in a configuration file, so you can easily add your own modes and refer to them with a simple identifier. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Kernel errors
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 09:41:52PM -0500, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: I just compiled a fresh 2.2.20 kernel and rebooted into it for the first time. During the boot, the kernel went into an endless cycle of the same error message, something to the effect of cannot modprobe switch switch switch binfmt###c; error=8. That's from memory, so I forget what the switches are, and 'modprobe' could have been cannot insert module. I also can't remember the exact name, I just know it started with binfmtnumberc. The error code is correct. Did I set a configuration setting wrong? Possibly, I've never seen that error before. It looks like a misconfiguration, though. Upon seeing 'binfmt' in the error, I remember I set up the kernel to use MISC binaries, and unset ELF and JAVA binaries. But the help said I could do that... Just because the help said you could doesn't mean you should. ELF is what your kernel and modules are probably compiled as; ELF support should be compiled in, while a.out and misc could just be modules. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Sound
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 09:25:41PM -0500, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: Ok, so I just compiled kernel 2.2.20 with sound support and emu10k1 (or whatever it's called) supported by default. So what do I need to install to actually get some sound playing? Some sort of sound infrastructure or something? I have a soundblaster audigy. cat foo /dev/dsp, however I can't promise that it'll sound good ;-) You should add yourself to the audio group, download some proper audio players, and try playing something. If by supported by default you mean that it is compiled directly into the kernel, and is not a module, then you don't have to load it separately. Otherwise, just do a quick modprobe emu10k1 before trying to play anything. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
