Linux-Misc Digest #21, Volume #20 Sun, 2 May 99 16:13:11 EDT
Contents:
Re: I broke KDE: Desktop blank, programs won't run ("Prasanth Kumar")
Re: seti@home graphical client ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: 'screen' and dselect/lynx/mutt/slrn (terminfo?) (Peter Granroth)
how to get atteched files (Chri)
User removal (Rizwan Syed)
Re: No sound playing CD's ("William B. Cattell")
Scanner stopped working in Linux. Why? (Phillip Deackes)
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From: "Prasanth Kumar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.windows.x.kde
Subject: Re: I broke KDE: Desktop blank, programs won't run
Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 18:56:50 GMT
Did you change your path variable?
<snip>
> Let's see... the last thing I remember doing was adding some "export"
> lines to the end of my /etc/profile file for some Voodoo2 settings
> (using pico). After that, I noticed that the KDE desktop icons were
> gone, and I couldn't execute any progams from the menus at the bottom.
> I then went and removed those lines, but the problem still remains. Did
> I accidentally delete a line, or foobar it up somewhere? The last few
> lines of the profile file look like:
>
> INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc
> export PATH PS1 HOSTNAME HISTSIZE HISTFILESIZE USER LOGNAME MAIL INPUTRC
>
> for i in /etc/profile.d/*.sh ; do
> if [ -x $i ]; then
> . $i
> fi
> done
>
> unset i
>
>
> The only other thing I remember doing recently was "rpm-e" on a couple
> of *-devel.rpm that I didn't think I needed. I didn't get any
> complaints about broken dependencies, though.
>
> So that's my story. Any help is appreciated since I'm sorta new at this
> Linux stuff (Redhat 6). Oh well, at least I had Linux Quake3 running
> for a little while...
>
> ACF
>
> to reply, change the jc in the email address to js. If possible, please
> post a reply, as this account will be shutting down soon.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: seti@home graphical client
Date: 2 May 1999 18:36:25 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc David E. Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article <oap4g7.qsk.ln@snowwhite>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>> Of course, this is all a moot point to those of us with Alphas :-(. All
>> that processing power waiting to be used and they don't seem to want it.
> Right you are :(. I also wonder why some of these "let's borrow your
> computer" type of global computing engines are released without
> any source code. This of course precludes you running it on a
<snip>
> Of course, data integrity is an issue here that's important, and it
> might be not a good thing to get results that are wrong because some-
> one miscompiled or otherwise changed the output of the program (which
> of course might be justification for not releasing source).
There you've hit the nail on the head. Section 1.9 of the seti@home
FAQ (http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/faq.html#q1.9) gives pretty
much this exact answer -- they want to ensure completely uniform analyses.
They're also worried about people deliberately faking results or trying
to screw up their database.
> And for those actually using setiathome: I've been running 0.42 for
> a few weeks now, and I've noticed a slow memory leak in it: the
> process used to take approximately 13 megs or so according to the
> SIZE field in 'ps' and now it is up to 19-20 megs now, although it
> does release a significant amount of its memory when sleeping, when
> it can't connect to the server, etc.) I noticed that a newer version
> of it was available - perhaps I should get it...
I didn't notice the leak in 0.42 (i686-pc-linux-static), and I had it
running for a while as well. I'm now running the 0.46 version
(i386-pc-linux-glibc2), and it seems to be fine as well. Note that
your time per work-unit will increase drastically (8x) with the new
version. Some of it may be due to optimization (the only 686 version
available is for glibc2.1), but they state (also in the FAQ) that the
new version does a more detailed analysis of the data.
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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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From: Peter Granroth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 'screen' and dselect/lynx/mutt/slrn (terminfo?)
Date: 02 May 1999 16:46:18 +0200
"T.E.Dickey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Tim Sutherland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I'm having a problem with 'screen' in Debian GNU/Linux 2.1.
>
> is that 3.7.6? (that's current)
>
> > With mutt and dselect, scrolling messes up the screen (it appears lines that
> > should be erased or overwritten are not). By changing TERM to screen-w, this was
> > fixed. I have been unable to determine the difference in screen or screen-w that
> > causes this.
>
> I'd check on dselect, but haven't been able to find a tar file that
> contains it (no, I'm _not_ downloading all of Debian to look for it ;-)
dselect is in the dpkg package. sources are available at any debian
mirror, e.g:
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/source/base/dpkg_1.4.1.1.tar.gz
HTH
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From: Chri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: how to get atteched files
Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 17:53:53 +0200
how can i get atteched files out of saved mails (with mail ex: save 1
/root/m1
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rizwan Syed)
Subject: User removal
Date: 2 May 1999 17:53:14 GMT
One more question! How do I remove a user that was created by
accident? I've tried manually deleting all files, and then deleting
directories, even deleted the mail file under /var/spool/mail/ but
just to test, I tried creating that username again, and it said it
already existed.
Thanks
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From: "William B. Cattell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: No sound playing CD's
Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 18:44:59 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I'm a newbie and I've followed the procedure as far as configuring my sound
> card, and can hear the sound sample given, but when I attempt to play a CD
> I'm getting no sound. Any help would be appreciated, thanks in advance...
> Allan
>
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Having just gone through this I have some questions about your
config... Can you 'cat' sound files to /dev/audio or /dev/dsp? Can you
play midi, wave or .au files via a sound player?
What does your 'cat /dev/sndstat' look like? Do you get any error
messages on the console when trying to play audio CDs?
I had a situation where I could play audio CDs on one drive (a BCP 40x
CDROM drv) but when I moved to another machine (it had a Memorex 40x
drv) I couldn't. I was getting a message on the console when trying to
play audio CDs via bcd or xmcd. Putting the BCP CDROM drv in the
machine resolved the issue - the sound and kernel config were shown to
be good, it was a hardware incompatibility issue.
Bill
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phillip Deackes)
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Scanner stopped working in Linux. Why?
Date: 2 May 1999 19:11:33 GMT
I have not used my scanner under Linux for a while, then today I
attempted to do a scan and my Agfa Snapscan 310 just blinked its LED at
me and did nothing. I use Gimp with SANE. The SCSI card is being
recognised on bootup as is the scanner itself.
I just wondered if anyone else has noticed anything similar? I am using
kernel 2.2.6, Sane 0.74-2 and Gimp 1.0.4-1, with Debian 2.1.
The trouble is, I can't remember at what stage my system was at when the
scanner worked OK - whether it was pre-2.2 kernel, pre-Slink or what. I
do know it used to work perfectly. I checked that it was still OK by
booting into Windows and scanning from there. No problem at all.
Any ideas would be gratefully received.
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Phillip Deackes
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian Linux v.2.1
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