Linux-Misc Digest #17, Volume #27 Sun, 4 Feb 01 14:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: RH7.0: "Unavailable Package" Message When Trying to Install Telnet Server
("Meron Lavie")
Re: RH7.0: "Unavailable Package" Message When Trying to Install Telnet Server (Mark
Bratcher)
Re: Converting text files from Microsoft to Linux and Linux to Microsoft (Mark
Bratcher)
Tools for migrating ext2 to ReiserFS (Wolfgang Hackl)
Re: 2nd par port board (Mark Bratcher)
Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else (Johan Kullstam)
Re: problems with GDM at boot. Any help? (Dances With Crows)
Re: problems with kernel 2.4.1 (Peter Eddy)
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From: "Meron Lavie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,aus.computers.linux,cern.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.setup,thenet.support.linux
Subject: Re: RH7.0: "Unavailable Package" Message When Trying to Install Telnet Server
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 19:24:10 +0200
After further investigation, I see that any attempt to add _any_ package
gives me this error message.
What am I doing wrong?
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"Meron Lavie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:95eis0$hq3$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I installed RH7.0 on my PC as a workstation consfiguration (no other OS on
> it). I installed directly from the 1st CD (I was never prompted for the
> second CD in the installation process).
>
> Now, when I want to add a Telnet server via linuxonf (using the linuxconf
> pseudo-graphic mode), I get an error mesage saying that:
> "We can't installed [sic] the package(s) because they require resources
from
> un-available packages".
>
> The list includes:
> rpmlib(CompressFileNames)
> rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix)
>
> How can I tell which packages are missing? Where can I get them?
>
> TIA,
> --
> Meron Lavie
> www.redmatch.com - World's Largest Hi-Tech Salary Site
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>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Bratcher)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,aus.computers.linux,cern.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.setup,thenet.support.linux
Subject: Re: RH7.0: "Unavailable Package" Message When Trying to Install Telnet Server
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 17:32:34 GMT
In article <95eqds$oij$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Meron Lavie wrote:
>After further investigation, I see that any attempt to add _any_ package
>gives me this error message.
>
>What am I doing wrong?
>
>--
>Meron Lavie
>www.redmatch.com - World's Largest Hi-Tech Salary Site
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>NOTE: THERE ARE NO NUMBERS IN MY REAL EMAIL ADDRESS HOST NAME: ANTI-SPAM!
>
>
>"Meron Lavie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:95eis0$hq3$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> I installed RH7.0 on my PC as a workstation consfiguration (no other OS on
>> it). I installed directly from the 1st CD (I was never prompted for the
>> second CD in the installation process).
>>
>> Now, when I want to add a Telnet server via linuxonf (using the linuxconf
>> pseudo-graphic mode), I get an error mesage saying that:
>> "We can't installed [sic] the package(s) because they require resources
>from
>> un-available packages".
>>
>> The list includes:
>> rpmlib(CompressFileNames)
>> rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix)
>>
>> How can I tell which packages are missing? Where can I get them?
>>
>> TIA,
>> --
>> Meron Lavie
>> www.redmatch.com - World's Largest Hi-Tech Salary Site
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> NOTE: THERE ARE NO NUMBERS IN MY REAL EMAIL ADDRESS HOST NAME: ANTI-SPAM!
>>
>>
>>
Sounds like perhaps rpm did not install proplery (?)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Bratcher)
Subject: Re: Converting text files from Microsoft to Linux and Linux to Microsoft
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 17:37:54 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Francois Labreque wrote:
>
>
>Edwin Johnson wrote:
>>
>> I have a small dos utility called flip which I've been using for years in
>> the dos environment to convert in either direction. In Linux you could
>> simply write a simple perl script to do the same thing. I can email you the
>> flip program if you so desire.
>
>DOS EDIT also converts unix text files to DOS text files properly. And
>it comes with DOS 5.0 and up, no need to hunt for third party utilities.
>
>As numerous others have mentioned, on the *nix side, you can use
>"unix2dos" and "dos2unix".
>
>--
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> flabreque | terrestrial intelligence is that they never
> @ | bothered to come down here and visit us!
> videotron.ca - Calvin
I haven't seen anyone suggest yet the 'conv=' option on the mount command.
This will allow automatic conversion of text files being read/written to
a FAT drive from Linux. However, it must be used with caution (as indicated
in the documentation).
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Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 18:42:51 +0100
From: Wolfgang Hackl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Tools for migrating ext2 to ReiserFS
<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
<html>
Hello,
<p>I wonder if there are already tools for changing the fs-type on a running
system (no space for backup and extra partitions).
<p>Wolfgang</html>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Bratcher)
Subject: Re: 2nd par port board
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 17:42:47 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John G. Sandell wrote:
>Mark Bratcher wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 03 Feb 2001 03:43:41 GMT, Bob Hauck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >On Sat, 03 Feb 2001 02:19:46 GMT, John G. Sandell
>> ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >
>> >>Anyone know of an add-on parallel port board that doesn't need Windows
>> >>drivers to make it work?
>> >
>> [snip]
>>
>> I've used 1-port and 2-port SIIG PCI cards without any problems.
>> Linux recognizes them without any additional software.
>>
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>> Mark Bratcher
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>
>Yes, yesterday I tried a SIIG PCI card and though it needed an odd
>address (0xb000) it works.
>
>Thanks.
>
>John Sandell
John,
I agree, when I got the SIIG PCI cards installed, they did come up with
what are not the "normal" default I/O addresses, but it does indeed work
normally. Glad it worked for you. :-)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 18:13:39 GMT
"Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In comp.os.linux.misc Aaron R. Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > John Hasler wrote:
> >>
> >> Walt writes:
> >> > The dictionary definition of "atheist" is, "one who denies the existence
> >> > of God."
> >>
> >> Make that "_a_ dictionary definition": at best an approximation. I (an
> >> atheist) prefer this definition: "one who denies the existence of your
> >> imaginary friend while not claiming to have one of his own".
> >>
> >> > That is definitely an active belief.
> >>
> >> "Does not believe" is not "believes not".
>
> > Geeze, you're as dogmatic as the people you deride.
>
> Uh, fella, this is as basic a piece of modal logic as one can get.
>
> You seem to be unaware of the logic of modalities like belief, proof,
> necessity, obligation, and so on. Id normally direct you to the
> library, but let's try ...
>
> Basically the logical operators "belief" and "not" do not commute, OK?
> I gave you a clearer example of how that can happen using Goedels proof
> operator ("prove not" != "not prove"), but the same goes for modal
> operators like belief, obligation, and so on.
>
> Now you know what the subject area is called - it's an important and
> large one - you can look it up.
you can stop trying. it is a lost cause. as far i can determine,
aaron r kulkis is a write-only device.
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J o h a n K u l l s t a m
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: problems with GDM at boot. Any help?
Date: 4 Feb 2001 18:17:08 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 3 Feb 2001 20:08:43 -0600, kgb staggered into the Black Sun and said:
>That worked perfectly, thanks. But there's more of a problem it appears.
>> Oh yes, your /etc/X11/XF86Config may be munged, or possibly your
>> ~/.gnome/somewhere . If gdm works alongside X for your mouse, then you
>> may wish to look through /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/ and make sure that gdm isn't
>> getting killed if you don't want it to be killed. HTH,
>When I go to start X, it will flicker the screen then dump me back to
>console. This is the tail end of what appears to be a normal series of
>messages from a starting X server. The tail end is where it goes wrong:
>
>:: normal series of messages, etc ::
>_FontTransSocketUNIXConnect
>Failed to set default font path 'unix/:-1'
>Fatal server error:
>Could not open default font 'fixed'
>
>And then it dies. Sometimes xinit will hang in the balance
This is a RedHat-specific problem, something to do with the font path
being screwed up. Since I don't use RedHat, I forget exactly what the
fix is here, but try going to http://deja.com/home_ps.shtml and
searching this NG for "font path" and "-1". It's reasonably common and
not too hard to fix from what I understand. HTH,
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Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
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=============================/ I hit a seg fault....
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From: Peter Eddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: problems with kernel 2.4.1
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 13:18:54 -0500
Thomas Weidner wrote:
>
> Hi NG,
>
> I updated my Kernel 2.4.0. Then i made make oldconfig and built the
> kernel. After this PPP and my ESS Solo1 soundcard don't work any more.
> What did i do wrong ? can anybody help me ?
Did you update ppp? I seem to remember reading that the ppp package
must be updated for the 2.4.x. kernel.
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