dpkg freezes system
Dear Debian Users, I've recently installed debian linux on my portable and have run into a problem with dpkg. First, some background. I don't have access to an up and running linux machine, except for one with minimal disk space. I used that to make floppies for a base installation. Then I put my zip drive on a mac with an ethernet card and ftp-ed the most of the debian installation from my our mirror (most means Packages.gz and the directories admin, base, comm, devel, doc, editors, mail, math, misc, net, news, shells, sound, tex, text, and x11) I ftp-ed these to a dos formatted zip disks. Next, I reformatted my hard drive with three partitions: one for linux, one for linux swap and one a 200 Mb dos partition. Then, I booted DOS from a floppy that included drivers for my adaptec pcmcia scsi card, and I copied everything from the zip disks to the dos partition on the hard drive. After that, I rebooted with the linux boot floppy and went through the installation procedure. Up to this point all was great. I had a working base installation and I could boot linux from my hard drive. When running dselect, all seemed to be ok, but I couldn't seem to install anything, even when dselect told me it had installed things. So, I looked at the debian .deb files on the msdos partition. Because they were copied from a mac to a dos formatted disk, they all had names like `!acct_62.-0d'. To simplify dealing with them from bash, I wrote a script that removed the `!' from the filenames. Still, dselect didn't seem to be able to find them, so I started using dpkg by itself. This worked great, until I started trying to install xlib and emacs. Now dselect tells me that they are both half installed and need to be reconfigured. When I run dpkg to reinstall them, dpkg freezes my machine. Any ideas? Regards, Mike
VC buffer
Hi, Is there a way to access the Virtual Console's scrollback buffer, for example to save the screen to a text file? Perhaps something in /proc? Thanks.
Re: Questions
On Fri, 2 Aug 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am installing debian linux from CDROM. My CDROM is panasonic CR-562 CDROM. I select the sbpcd module. Is that correct? When the system boots, the busy light in CDROM flashes. But when I use dselect, it ask me the block device name. How do I answer it? And when I use mount command, it doesn't show CDROM is mounted. What's happened? Read the CDROM-HOWTO. It has the answers to all your questions. Gerry
Problems booting with new kernel...
I've built a kernel with the sources from 2.0.6, but I'm having problems when I try to run it. I get the error: VFS: Cannot open root device 03:02 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:02 This is what I have in my .config file: # # Filesystems # # CONFIG_QUOTA is not set # CONFIG_LOCK_MANDATORY is not set CONFIG_MINIX_FS=y # CONFIG_EXT_FS is not set CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y # CONFIG_XIA_FS is not set CONFIG_FAT_FS=y CONFIG_MSDOS_FS=y CONFIG_VFAT_FS=m CONFIG_UMSDOS_FS=m CONFIG_PROC_FS=y CONFIG_NFS_FS=y # CONFIG_ROOT_NFS is not set # CONFIG_SMB_FS is not set # CONFIG_ISO9660_FS is not set # CONFIG_HPFS_FS is not set # CONFIG_SYSV_FS is not set # CONFIG_UFS_FS is not set Any Ideas? Thanks, Rob --- Rob Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] ADC Telecommunications, Inc. http://www.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu/alumni/rob_nielsen 4900 West 78th Street, MS34 (612) 896-2706 Minneapolis, MN 55345(612) 896-2959 - fax
PS2 PROBLEM SOLVED -- sort of
Many thanks to Susan, Digge, Adrenolin, JinHo, and others who responded to my call for help in getting my mouse set up. I think that I have solved my problem with using my PS2 mouse with X. My solution is to not use a PS2 mouse. Use a serial mouse instead. My theory is that the base system for Debian 1.1 does not support PS2 mice for certain non-standard but common hardware configurations. I believe that the root of the problem is somewhere in the land of /dev/. This is certianly speculation on my part, but I do have some evidence to back it up. I will submit a bug report through normal channels and put the details there. Mike
Re: a memory + SCSI error??
I recently had a memory problem that I solved by reseating the SIMMs. I didn't remove them. I just wiggled them. If you try it, be sure to protect against static discarge. Mike
IP aliasing question
I have a single machine on the net (zachs.place.org) with ip aliases to make it also be (eth0:0) juggling.place.org and (eth0:1) www.worldwind.com. Which all works fine. Except... that anywhere I telnet to from that machine sees me as coming from www.worldwind.com instead of from zachs.place.org. Which screws up ip-based filters, and etc. So does anyone know how/why this happens? IMHO, telnets should appear to come from the 'primary' (non-aliased) IP, not from one of the aliases. ideas? --Zachary
Re: Problems booting with new kernel...
Hi, VFS: Cannot open root device 03:02 your IDE driver is missing or can't find the disk. Is there any lines about IDE disks on the screen? Greetings Bernd
Re: gpm and X mouse conflicts
On Mon, 5 Aug 1996, Mark Phillips wrote: When I try to run startx, it dies complaining that: Fatal server error: Cannot open mouse (Device or resource busy) I then kill gpm and startx works fine. How can I get both to work together? I could do this under slackware. Read the man page for gpm. I think you want the -R option and some setup in X to use /dev/gpmdata. I read man, and it seems that the -R option is designed primarily for bus-mice and I quote: -R Causes gpm to act as a repeater: any mouse data received while in graphic mode will be produced on the fifo /dev/gpmdata in mouse-system protocol. This means that you can configure the X server to use that fifo as a mouse device. This option is useful for bus-mouse owners to override the single- open limitation. ... But my mouse is a normal, MouseSystems compatible, serial mouse. Surely I shouldn't have to use the -R option? I didn't have to under slackware. I suspect that slackware runs the daemon with the -R option and sets up X to use /dev/gpmdata. Try it ;-) Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257 Flexible Software Fax: NONE Black Creek Critters e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you don't see what you want, just ask --
Re: how to avoid some upgrades from a distrib
On Mon, 5 Aug 1996, Eric Delaunay wrote: Hello, I would avoid upgrade of few packages when I upgrade my system from a new distribution. The concept you're looking for is 'Hold'. Just move the highlight to the packages you don't want upgraded and press 'H' to put them on hold. When you do want to upgrade them, just 'unhold' them by pressing the 'G' key. Here are the relevant lines from the 'Select' help screen of dselect: Mark packages for later processing: +, Insert install or upgrade =, H hold in present state -, Delete remove :, G unhold: upgrade or leave uninstalled _ remove purge config -- Eric Delaunay | La guerre justifie l'existence des militaires. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | En les supprimant. Henri Jeanson (1900-1970) :-) Christian
Re: help with debian perl installation
On Mon, 5 Aug 1996, James D. Freels wrote: I get the following error messages every time perl starts up on my debian-linux machines (perl and return with do it!) This is the current perl-5.003 release. Any idea how I can rid my system of this problem? (The perl scripts all run fine, I am not that familiar with perl). warning: setlocale(LC_CTYPE, ) failed. warning: LC_ALL = (null), LC_CTYPE = (null), LANG = de, warning: falling back to the C locale. 1. Have you installed the wg-locale (or something like that) package? You need to if you want to use locales. 2. Even then, I doubt 'de' is a valid locale name. Try 'de_DE' (or any other one of the de_* locales that come with wg15-locale.deb Christian
smail upgrade from old Slackware - Debian?
I'm finally upgrading a 2-years-ancient Linux system, running an old Slackware 1.2 (or so) distribution. Back then Slackware's default mail agent was smail; since then they've switched to sendmail. Slackware 3 was pre-installed on the new machine I bought, so I thought I'd try using it as the base system and selectively restoring my old setup as needed. I had problems compiling the latest smail from source, and the current Slackware smail binaries aren't configured to look for the same things as the old ones did. After a few hours of tinkering I had outgoing mail working but not incoming. I'm wondering if it wouldn't just be easier, since I'm in for a reinstall anyway, to junk Slackware and try building on a new Debian system. I'd be interested in hearing from anyone who has taken a similar leap from an old Slackware setup, especially re: the smail configuration. -- David Sewell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Night-walkers, wizards, Dep't of Geosciences, University of Arizona | bacchanals, revellers, http://packrat.aml.arizona.edu/~dsew/ | sharers in the mysteries. | --Heraclitus
Re: rename a machine
On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, Warwick HARVEY wrote: Can anyone tell me how to _Permanently_ change the hostname on my machine ??? If I issue the hostname command: hostname newname the node name is set to newname - HOWEVER after a reboot the original name returns. The host name of a machine is stored in /etc/hostname. This file is read by /etc/init.d/boot at boot time. Change it here and it's permanent. lots of other config files may have the old hostname as well. When i change the hostname on a machine i usually edit /etc/hostname as mentioned above, and then grep in /etc for any other files containing the hostname. e.g. if the old hostname is oldhost, then: find /etc | xargs grep -l oldhost will give a list of files containing the word oldhost. edit them with your favourite text editor (vi!) to change them. some files will just want the hostname. some will want hostname.domain.name. check the relevant man pages to be sure if it isn't obvious from the file you are editing. /etc/hosts /etc/mailname /etc/smail/config yep, also look in /etc/mail/sendmail.mc, /etc/mail/sendmail.cw if you are running sendmail. the find ... | grep ... command above should find them all. Craig
Re: Ftp method in dselect
On Mon, 5 Aug 1996, Rich Deighton wrote: The other day I removed the package dpkg-ftpd (the perl script) as dselect reported it as an 'Obselete/Local package'; this seemed sensible at the time, however I now can't utilise ftp as an install method. As I understand it there is an alternative way of doing this... but I couldn't find any packages on a debian mirror, and I'm not sure how to integrate the dftp-1.5 script I found in the tools directory. 'Obsolete/Local' is just dselect's way of saying it found the package installed on your system but not in the Debian distribution. You certainly don't need to uninstall packages in there... unless you want to, that is. Just reinstall dpkg-ftp and the 'ftp' method of dselect will work again. Christian
Re: Installation-problem
On Mon, 5 Aug 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I'm a new user of the Linux-system especially Debian-Linux. I recieved a CD from you from July. I've got a problem if a want to install other programs on my system: I already installed the base-system and that's all. Now I want to install X11, but if I start 'dselect` and say, that I want to install from CD the program doesn't find a path on CD. The program want to know the top level of the Debian system. If I enter a path (for example: /contrib), the program says that the directory `/contrib/stable/binary-i386' doesn't exists. So I look on the CD and there's no directory called `.../stable/...'. What have I done wrong or what's wrong with the program/CD? Is there another way to install other programs (like the (Win-)DOS-emulator or editors...) You need to specify the path as: /YourCDMountPoint/contrib for the contrib sections. You might also want the updates directory: /YourCDMountPoint/updates Luck, Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257 Flexible Software Fax: NONE Black Creek Critters e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you don't see what you want, just ask --
Re: Installation-problem
On Mon, 5 Aug 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: On Mon, 5 Aug 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I'm a new user of the Linux-system especially Debian-Linux. I recieved a CD from you from July. I've got a problem if a want to install other programs on my system: I already installed the base-system and that's all. Now I want to install X11, but if I start 'dselect` and say, that I want to install from CD the program doesn't find a path on CD. The program want to know the top level of the Debian system. If I enter a path (for example: /contrib), the program says that the directory `/contrib/stable/binary-i386' doesn't exists. So I look on the CD and there's no directory called `.../stable/...'. What have I done wrong or what's wrong with the program/CD? Is there another way to install other programs (like the (Win-)DOS-emulator or editors...) You need to specify the path as: /YourCDMountPoint/contrib for the contrib sections. You might also want the updates directory: /YourCDMountPoint/updates Sorry, I realized almost immediately after pressing send that I had misunderstood your question. (It's what follows 'contrib' in the path that dselect is not finding) I remember some discussion of this...try: dpkg -i /YourCDMountPoint/updates/binary-i386/base/dpkg_1.2.11elf.deb and let me know if that resolves the issue. On the other hand, you could copy the relevant directories off of the CD and put them into the path structure that this version of dselect wants to find them. Hope this helps more than the last post, Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257 Flexible Software Fax: NONE Black Creek Critters e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you don't see what you want, just ask --
How do I get into debian-devel?
Hi, I should write this message in debian-devel, but I don't know how to subscribe to it, so I post this here. I've got my account on master.debian.org, so I should be a developer, but some e-mails asking for help to several people got no reply. Can anybody help me? Thanks, /___ /_ /___manuele ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
tar gives segmentation fault !!
hi folks, Just after having installed Debian 1.1.3 from buzz-fixed/1996_07_14 I was using tar to copy debian packages on the disk, more precisely: tar -xvMf /dev/fd0 (they are multi-volume files). Doing this I get segmentation fault. I've tried with different volume sets (I've done one for each section, base, admin, devel etc) and I get inconsistent results. Some stops at the very first disk and some after that. Moreover dropping the -M or -v or both option (that of course results in a incomplete backup) works for the volume sets that stops at the first disk. Anyboby experiencing the same? Any idea. Any help is very appreciated. --- Guglielmo Rabbiolo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Mathematics Department, Purdue University, W Lafayette IN ---
Re: Installation-problem
On the other hand, you could copy the relevant directories off of the CD and put them into the path structure that this version of dselect wants to find them. what exactly IS that path structure that dselect expects? I would like to know the answer to this for two different scenarios: 1) Long (i.e. original) filenames on a Linux-native (ext2fs) file system; 2) Short (msdos) filenames on an msdos partition. Thanks in advance, renald (Sorry Dale, I sent my first copy of this to your address because that's what my editor puts in automatically, and I forgot to change it before sending).
Re: LILO boot problem (still!)
You are probably way ahead of me but I remember getting that error under 2 conditions (I think). 1. If the geometry of the disk didn't match its real geometry or the boot partition went past the 1024 sector (although it is supposedly possible to fake out the boot proms according to a little pamphlet by Matt Welsh that came with the old Infomagic CD set.) 2. If I installed a new vmlinuz without rerunning lilo. Good Luck, Nathan
Re: problem using DC fonts in latex
Eric Delaunay writes: I have upgraded my Debian system using latex_2e-7 and mflib_1.0-8 as described in an earlier message I read from this mailing list. However, when I tried to use T1 font encoding, I got a lot of errors regarding font availability. Yes, that's because the dc fonts are way too old. The way I hear it Erick is working on new release but there are copyright problems, so it may take a while. I did manually upgrade mfbasfnt and put it on ftp://feivel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/debian.local/binary-i386/local/mfbasfnt-1.0-3.deb Please try this and tell us if it works. It did for me. Michael -- Michael Meskes |_ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | / ___// / // / / __ \___ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \__ \/ /_ / // /_/ /_/ / _ \/ ___/ ___/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]| ___/ / __/ /__ __/\__, / __/ / (__ ) Use Debian Linux!| //_/ /_/ //\___/_/ //
Re: how to avoid some upgrades from a distrib
On Mon, 5 Aug 1996, Eric Delaunay wrote: Hello, I would avoid upgrade of few packages when I upgrade my system from a new distribution. The concept you're looking for is 'Hold'. Just move the highlight to the packages you don't want upgraded and press 'H' to put them on hold. When you do want to upgrade them, just 'unhold' them by pressing the 'G' key. Here are the relevant lines from the 'Select' help screen of dselect: Mark packages for later processing: +, Insert install or upgrade =, H hold in present state -, Delete remove :, G unhold: upgrade or leave uninstalled _ remove purge config Christian In fact, it's in help page ;) But I didn't saw it a while ago then used dpkg directly for months. Yes, I should read help pages carefuly before posting so trivial query :-( I'll go through dselect at next upgrade :-) Thanks for your reply. -- Eric Delaunay | La guerre justifie l'existence des militaires. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | En les supprimant. Henri Jeanson (1900-1970)
More adaptec 2842 problems
Now I have found bootdisk (.../buzz-updates/disks-i386/special- kernels/boot/boot1440_2.0.5-1.bin) from wich I can boot. That's good, but now new problems has raised. After ``booting/rooting'' I tried to install the basedisks. While doing that the installation process sometimes stops telling that one of the basedisks (it's random witch one) is bad, but they are not, they are new and I have checked them with more disk utilities. Mustly I can read all the disks correctly, but when time comes to extracting the files new problems shows up. Each time when extracting the files each time I most likely get a new error. Typical I get a message somthing like: general protection : CPU : 0 EIP : 0010:[00118be4] EFLAGS : 00010206 . . . several register, stack, ... dumps . . . Segmentation fault One time I was actually lucky installing the basesystem. But (again) then a new problem showed up. I copied some *.gz files to my computer and then tried gzip's integrity test (on the file ) gzip -tv filename.gz (file on the computer) and sometimes I am told that the same file is OK and sometimes not (more or less random). But what is much worse is that I often get one of the ``Ooops'' and dumps like a I have just mentioned. What I am telling is that something acts unstable and that's what I would like to ask some of the experts out there about. Is it - Because of some bugs in the rather new kernel version or some of the modules (aic7xxx or some other), or is it - Because of my hardware (jumper settings, BIOS settings, etc) or whatever one can imagine. Is there som thing special one should be aware of installing on a PC machine with an adaptec 2842 host adapter. I am ready to give more details about my everything. I can tell that DOS (5.0 or 6.2) is running fine on my machine, but on the other side a real mode system as DOS does not require much of the host adapter. Niels Bo Johansen
Re: unreliable service of I-Connect
I am to in this situation: waiting for the CD for 4 weeks. I can't have any response from Simon Shapiro (I-Connect) on my order since 2 weeks so I am considering to ftp the files and master a CD for my use. bye, Daniel -- Daniel ANDRE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] IRIS Technologies 155 rue Jules Delcenserie, Bat B3 59700 MARCQ en BAROEUL, FRANCE
Re: help with debian perl installation
1. Have you installed the wg-locale (or something like that) package? You need to if you want to use locales. Perhaps this package needs higher priority. 2. Even then, I doubt 'de' is a valid locale name. Try 'de_DE' (or any other one of the de_* locales that come with wg15-locale.deb de should be valid. Erick
Re: gpm and X mouse conflicts
Dale Scheetz wrote: On Mon, 5 Aug 1996, Mark Phillips wrote: But my mouse is a normal, MouseSystems compatible, serial mouse. Surely I shouldn't have to use the -R option? I didn't have to under slackware. I suspect that slackware runs the daemon with the -R option and sets up X to use /dev/gpmdata. Try it ;-) Dwarf No, Slackware doesn't either. In fact the -R option is NOT needed for most systems to get gpm and X to happily share the mouse. My system at home, several friends' systems and many systems at work all work fine without the -R option. However, -R does seem to be needed for bus mice and in some cases it seems to be needed even for serial mice. I don't know what the common denominator is for these cases but since I've seen a couple, I'd sure like to know. -- David M. Cooke [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Installing Kernel
In the installation step that installs the kernel I get an error: :error in archive format. I've tried a couple of different floppies, downloaded a new boot bin, and even tried loading a kernel image. I'm beginning to think the problem is in one of the base disks, but which one? If I shell out and look at how far the installation of the kernel got, it is about 337,000 bytes or so. I am running and trying to load kernel 2.0.5.5 (PCI NCR3c810). Any clues? Thanks, Steve Millard
Re: unreliable service of I-Connect
I ordered my cd July 26, a little over a week ago, and I still haven't received it either. I wish they wouldn't post that they can ship in 2-3 days if they can't. That's very frustrating, I've preped my system and all I'm waiting for is the distribution. I'm going to call and tell them if I don't receive it this week I'm canceling my order. -Josh Stockwell
Two Questions
1. How do I set up a boot so I can boot Debian or Win95? Now I have to use a boot disk to get debian to boot... 2. How do I change the diplay mode in XF86 from 8bit to 16bit color? I have a Diamond Stealth 64 Video VRAM w/ 2MB and use 16bit color in win95 so there shouldn't be any probs to get it in X too..
Re: VC buffer
Return-Path: kubla Received: (from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) by birke.netz.klinik.uni-mainz.de (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA12902 for kubla; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 15:02:57 +0200 Received: from vega.netg.se (vega.netg.se [194.52.205.3]) by trudi.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA29983 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 01:09:23 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (qmail-queue invoked by uid 40); 5 Aug 1996 19:28:24 - Resent-Date: 5 Aug 1996 19:28:24 - Resent-Cc: recipient list not shown: ; Old-Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 5 Aug 96 15:33 EDT From: Stephen Masterman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: VC buffer Resent-Message-ID: 2V_GZ2.0.0u4.Oja1o@vega Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org X-Mailing-List: debian-user@lists.debian.org archive/latest/4457 X-Loop: debian-user@lists.debian.org Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, Is there a way to access the Virtual Console's scrollback buffer, for example to save the screen to a text file? Perhaps something in /proc? Thanks. Thats what /dev/vcs* is for. Look at the kernel Documentation (aka Source) for further information ... :( Yours, Dominik Kubla
Re: des encryption..
Look at my SSLeay Package (not yet fully functional) at ftp://ftp.uni-mainz.de/pub/Linux/debian-local/ It contains the whole familiy of des commands. (BTW. This is the first Debian package to actually use /opt, so make sure your root partition has enought free space before installing it or make a symlink /opt - /usr/opt) Yours, Dominik Kubla
Re: Problems booting with new kernel...
Actually it looks like your root device isn't set up properly .. are you using a boot disk .. if you are check out the rdev command it enables you to set your root partition. If it is not set correctly then you will get the following error. Michael Hi, VFS: Cannot open root device 03:02 your IDE driver is missing or can't find the disk. Is there any lines about IDE disks on the screen? Greetings Bernd
shutdown: non-existing PID
shutdown -h now console-message: start-stop-daemon:warning: failed to kill 218: No such process Indeed there is no PID 218. BTW the pid-number changes with every shutdown. I think it has something to do with X Windows because I have another debian-system without X Windows installed - and I don't get this message. Which script invokes this message? (I use sysklogd 1.3-8) for message-logging and start debian with loadlin. Please include my personal email-adress in your r. Cheerio, Michael. Michael Gaertner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel/Fax +49-761-32684
Re: unreliable service of I-Connect
On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, Daniel ANDRE wrote: I am to in this situation: waiting for the CD for 4 weeks. I can't have any response from Simon Shapiro (I-Connect) on my order since 2 weeks so I am considering to ftp the files and master a CD for my use. For what it's worth, I'm in Canada and it took about 2 weeks to receive my CD from Simon. Best regards, Nick -- Nick Busigin[EMAIL PROTECTED] --
Re: help with debian perl installation
On Mon, 5 Aug 1996, James D. Freels wrote: I get the following error messages every time perl starts up on my debian-linux machines (perl and return with do it!) This is the current perl-5.003 release. Any idea how I can rid my system of this problem? (The perl scripts all run fine, I am not that familiar with perl). warning: setlocale(LC_CTYPE, ) failed. warning: LC_ALL = (null), LC_CTYPE = (null), LANG = de, warning: falling back to the C locale. Try perl_5.003-2.deb from the updates directory. Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257 Flexible Software Fax: NONE Black Creek Critters e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you don't see what you want, just ask --
pppd2.2.0f Patch (fwd)
Guys... saw this in linux-ppp mailing list... Has this patch been
incorporated into the debian pppd??
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Date: Mon, 05 Aug 1996 19:58:33 +0200
From: Michael Lausch [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: linux-ppp@vger.rutgers.edu
Subject: pppd2.2.0f Patch
This is a patch which removes an error when using Linux as a server
and Windows for Workgroups as a client with PAP authorization.
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Subject: Re: FW: pppd2.0.2f and Trumpet Winsock
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You get more then requested :-). I'm including the whole debug trace.
It's MIME encoded to preserve formatting.
Oops, looks like the NAK from Trumpet was perfectly OK, and the bug is
in pppd. This is something I fixed a little while ago in ppp-2.3,
which is only in alpha release as yet, and its linux port needs some
more work. So I've tried to isolate the necessary changes to
pppd/lcp.c and put them into the ppp-2.2.0f source. I've included the
patch below. Let me know if it works.
Paul.
--- lcp.c.orig Wed Dec 27 13:25:51 1995
+++ lcp.c Wed Jul 24 10:30:17 1996
@@ -792,19 +792,22 @@
*/
if ((go-neg_chap || go-neg_upap)
len = CILEN_SHORT
-p[0] == CI_AUTHTYPE p[1] = CILEN_SHORT) {
+p[0] == CI_AUTHTYPE p[1] = CILEN_SHORT p[1] = len) {
cilen = p[1];
+ len -= cilen;
+ no.neg_chap = go-neg_chap;
+ no.neg_upap = go-neg_upap;
INCPTR(2, p);
GETSHORT(cishort, p);
if (cishort == PPP_PAP cilen == CILEN_SHORT) {
/*
-* If they are asking for PAP, then they don't want to do CHAP.
+* If we were asking for CHAP, they obviously don't want to do it.
* If we weren't asking for CHAP, then we were asking for PAP,
* in which case this Nak is bad.
*/
if (!go-neg_chap)
goto bad;
- go-neg_chap = 0;
+ try.neg_chap = 0;
} else if (cishort == PPP_CHAP cilen == CILEN_CHAP) {
GETCHAR(cichar, p);
@@ -822,7 +825,7 @@
/*
* Stop asking for PAP if we were asking for it.
*/
- go-neg_upap = 0;
+ try.neg_upap = 0;
}
} else {
@@ -831,25 +834,14 @@
* Stop asking for what we were asking for.
*/
if (go-neg_chap)
- go-neg_chap = 0;
+ try.neg_chap = 0;
else
- go-neg_upap = 0;
+ try.neg_upap = 0;
p += cilen - CILEN_SHORT;
}
}
/*
- * Peer shouldn't send Nak for protocol compression or
- * address/control compression requests; they should send
- * a Reject instead. If they send a Nak, treat it as a Reject.
- */
-if (!go-neg_chap ){
- NAKCISHORT(CI_AUTHTYPE, neg_upap,
- try.neg_upap = 0;
- );
-}
-
-/*
* If they can't cope with our link quality protocol, we'll have
* to stop asking for LQR. We haven't got any other protocol.
* If they Nak the reporting period, take their value XXX ?
@@ -869,6 +861,11 @@
looped_back = 1;
);
+/*
+ * Peer shouldn't send Nak for protocol compression or
+ * address/control compression requests; they should send
+ * a Reject instead. If they send a Nak, treat it as a Reject.
+ */
NAKCIVOID(CI_PCOMPRESSION, neg_pcompression,
try.neg_pcompression = 0;
);
@@ -895,7 +892,7 @@
while (len CILEN_VOID) {
GETCHAR(citype, p);
GETCHAR(cilen, p);
- if ((len -= cilen) 0)
+ if (cilen CILEN_VOID || (len -= cilen) 0)
goto bad;
next = p + cilen - 2;
@@ -903,6 +900,9 @@
case CI_MRU:
if (go-neg_mru || no.neg_mru || cilen != CILEN_SHORT)
goto bad;
+ GETSHORT(cishort, p);
+ if (cishort DEFMRU)
+ try.mru = cishort;
trouble with perl ... continued
I took the advice of a couple of individuals: (1) installed wg15_locale_1-1 (2) already had perl_5.003-2 installed This did not fix the problem below. I have verified that the /usr/share/locale and /usr/share/nls directories are present. I think there may be something missing in the configuration of either perl or wg15_locale. Just say the word, and I'd be glad to issue a new bug report... I get the following error messages every time perl starts up on my debian-linux machines (perl and return with do it!) This is the current perl-5.003 release. Any idea how I can rid my system of this problem? (The perl scripts all run fine, I am not that familiar with perl). warning: setlocale(LC_CTYPE, ) failed. warning: LC_ALL = (null), LC_CTYPE = (null), LANG = de, warning: falling back to the C locale. - -- /--\ | James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. | Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | FAX:(423)574-9172 | H | I | | Research Reactors Division | Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | F | N | | P. O. Box 2008 | Reactor Technology | I | U | | Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6392 | world's best neutrons! | R | X | |--| | out the 10Base-T, through the router, down the T1, over the | | leased line, off the bridge, past the firewall...nothing but Net | \--/
Problems with install from PHT CDROM
I borrowed a friends monthly Pacifix Hitech CDROM to install Debian. I created all the disks and started the install. I had to redo each of the base disks at least once because of errors. Then when installing the kernel it gives me a crc error with gzip. The system will boot from the custom boot disk but I can't mount the CD to continue installation, because it says the kernel does not support iso9660 which I thought was rather strange. Any ideas? Thanks. Tim Gray
Re: a memory + SCSI error??
Sounds to me like you might have unseated one of the cards, most likely SCSI, or loosened a SCSI cable. You might want to check that. Also make sure all your termination switches (if any) are right. -- Rob
boot floppy problems - invalid compressed format
I'm having a lot of trouble getting Debian on a 486 box. It's a pretty generic machine, with an IDE hard drive cdrom, AMD 486 CPU on a motherboard with the Opti chipset. Special kernel 0 doesn't get anywhere at all. THe standard kernel gets to this point: Loading. Uncompressing Linux invalid compressed format (err=1) -- System Halted I'm stuck. Any ideas? thanks, Steven Gaarder Network and Systems Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] A C Technology, Ithaca, N.Y., USA
Re: unreliable service of I-Connect
On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, Joshua Stockwell wrote: I ordered my cd July 26, a little over a week ago, and I still haven't received it either. I wish they wouldn't post that they can ship in 2-3 days if they can't. That's very frustrating, I've preped my system and all I'm waiting for is the distribution. I'm going to call and tell them if I don't receive it this week I'm canceling my order. I'm sorry to but in here, but I feel I must comment. If you are impatient after only waiting a week (or three in the case of the Israel order) you need to kick back and chill out a bit. Joshua in particular needs to get a grip. I ship CDs both inside and outside the US and have often had shippments take more than a week inside the US. Outside the US, an AirMail posting from New Zealand took almost 4 weeks to get here, and my AirMail deliverys to Europe take a good solid 3 weeks. So, be patient and don't lay all the blame on Simon. Technically, I am in competition with I-connect (and the rest of the world) for CD sales, but (as far as I know) Simon and I are friends and associates, and I must say that I know Simon to be honest and trustworthy, and as dedicated a person as I have know in this group. Those who have complained about the poor service, will, I hope, spread the responsibility for the delays more evenly on the rest of the people that are in your critical path and not heap it all on one person, who is doing his best to provide service. Soapbox mode off, Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257 Flexible Software Fax: NONE Black Creek Critters e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you don't see what you want, just ask --
Re: unreliable service of I-Connect
Joshua, I too had a similar problem. My order from i-Connect was three weeks late, but I called Simon and he explained the problems he had and apologized. He also gave me a new ship date another week later, which was acceptable. I would have liked to have gotten my CD on time too, but sometimes these things happen. I know from dealing with Sun Microsystems that these things happen to everyone and not just i-Connect. I think that as long as Simon is keeping his customers properly informed, and not BS'ing us, we should have a little patience in understanding his situation. I've been waiting for Sparc Ultra 2's from Sun for two months, but instead of getting upset, I simply need to be informed of the current ship status. Simon has been honest and up front with me, so I have nothing bad to say. If i-Connect can't meet your needs though, perhaps you should look at other options. I simply don't think bashing Simon here is going to help matters. JMHO. :-) I believe Dale and Bruce are also selling CD's, no? Maybe you should see what their lead times are and see if they can meet your needs. I can tell you that after finally getting my Debian CD, it was well worth the wait. On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, Joshua Stockwell wrote: I ordered my cd July 26, a little over a week ago, and I still haven't received it either. I wish they wouldn't post that they can ship in 2-3 days if they can't. That's very frustrating, I've preped my system and all I'm waiting for is the distribution. I'm going to call and tell them if I don't receive it this week I'm canceling my order. -Josh Stockwell Richard G. Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] 201-739-2886 - whippany, nj -- *** Bear Stearns is not responsible for any recommendation, solicitation, offer or agreement or any information about any transaction, customer account or account activity contained in this communication. ***
RE: Two Questions
1. How do I set up a boot so I can boot Debian or Win95? Now I have to use a boot disk to get debian to boot... I believe there's a command line linux loader you can use to boot linux. I suppose the easiest thing to do would be set a batch file to present you a menu and allow a selection of either 95 or linux. I can't remember the name of the command line loader though, I use LILO on a machine that runs just Linux. 2. How do I change the diplay mode in XF86 from 8bit to 16bit color? I have a Diamond Stealth 64 Video VRAM w/ 2MB and use 16bit color in win95 so there shouldn't be any probs to get it in X too.. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I think there is a problem with the Diamond card. If memory serves me well, Diamond does not publicize code to drive their cards without signing a non-disclosure agreement. Since Linux includes all source code under GNU, this would break the NDA and cause all sortsa trouble. Good luck with it, and like I mentioned, I think what I just said is accurate, but check me on this one, I may be thinking about a different video card. Tim --- I am Pentium of Borg. Division is futile. You will be APPROXIMATED! [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- (Primary email) ---
Re: syslogd stopped working
On Sat, 3 Aug 1996, llucius wrote: Make sure you have a domainname set or apply patch found in bug #3526. Hmm #3526 isn't on the UK bugs site. Dermot -- Dermot BradleyEmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communications Director Tel: 01232 560552 Genesis Project Ltd Fax: 01232 560553 Belfast Derry, Northern Ireland WWW: http://www.gpl.net/
Re: How can I submit packages to be included in the distribution?
On Sat, 3 Aug 1996, Craig Sanders wrote: hylafax would be great!
what files does dselect/dpkg use to discern choices?
Now, to explain the question, since I can't understand the Subject: line and I wrote it myself... I've got approximately 50 machines I need to build. My best option for the initial system build, unless I've missed something, would be to run deselect on one machine, then take a deselect-generated file containing my selections and exporting that file to all the other machines, so I can just start up dselect and choose Install without having to go through Select on each. How can I accomplish this? Which file(s) do I need to export in order to make this happen? And, is there a better way to achieve the same results? Now, a meta-issue. I've been extremely pleased with the Debian distribution, as well as the support I've received from this list. Thanks, all! David [EMAIL PROTECTED] aka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Office: 3503 WeH, x86720
Re: How can I submit packages to be included in the distribution?
On Sat, 3 Aug 1996, Craig Sanders wrote: hylafax would be great! Started work on it last night - just a bit confused with libgr/libgr-dev versus libtiff3/libtiff3-dev/zlib1 needed for building it. - nocol Network monitoring package that sounds interesting. where can i find information on what exactly it does? Have a look at ftp.navya.com in /pub/vikas - gated (for internal use - Gated have strict redistribution policies!) if you do create a package for this, could you distribute your debian.* files? maybe in a package which contained just the debian.rules etc, and either a pointer to where to get the source from, or a script to fetch the source...it would be great if it were possible to make the build/install process as simple as: Sounds fine..just have to find out in which linux distrib/source /usr/include/netinet/ip_var.h lives as gated needs it. Dermot
lost lib
When I try to use ftp I get a message ftp: can't find library 'librl.so.2' I also am not able to find this library any of the places I looked. Thanks in advance for any help finding this library. Bob
Re: unreliable service of I-Connect
I am to in this situation: waiting for the CD for 4 weeks. I can't have any response from Simon Shapiro (I-Connect) on my order since 2 weeks so I am considering to ftp the files and master a CD for my use. For what it's worth, I'm in Canada and it took about 2 weeks to receive my CD from Simon. Europe, three weeks. Still waiting for a bill though (don't know if the credit card has been credited yet). Never got a receipt of order confirmation of any kind... (the CD is fine though :) Niels
Re: Unreliable service of I-connect
-- Begin Forwarded Message -- Message 2: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Aug 6 13:25:08 1996 Received: from stealth.ctron.com ([134.141.5.107]) by mer-mail.ctron.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA15749 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 13:25:05 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from gatekeeper.ctron.com by stealth.ctron.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA21039; Tue, 6 Aug 96 13:19:19 EDT Received: (from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) by gatekeeper.ctron.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) id NAA16865 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 13:20:52 -0400 Received: from nomis.i-connect.net(206.139.73.10) by gatekeeper via smap (V1.3mjr) id sma016806; Tue Aug 6 13:20:28 1996 Received: (qmail-queue invoked by uid 105); 6 Aug 1996 17:21:04 - Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: cdrom To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joshua Stockwell) Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 10:21:04 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] from Joshua Stockwell at Aug 6, 96 08:36:51 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25 PGP2] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: R I ordered my cd July 26 and I still haven't received it. I'm not to anxious yet, but I've been seeing quite a few postings on debian mailing lists reporting that it took four to five weeks. If you're experiencing some sort of problem it would be appreciated if you would send out a notification to your customers that it will be late and with a reason. Please remember that one of the reasons I choose to order from you was becuase you advertised that you would ship within 3 days. Sincerely, Josh Stockwell Hello Josh Stockwell, Our records show we shipped your CD 31 July. You should be receiving it any day. Thanks for your order and your comments--yes, we have tended to be a little disorganized as we've been getting this process up and running. Sincerely, Ann [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- End Forwarded Message --- All I need is a little feedback and I'm happy. -Josh Stockwell
Re: syslogd stopped working
On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, Dermot Bradley wrote: On Sat, 3 Aug 1996, llucius wrote: Make sure you have a domainname set or apply patch found in bug #3526. Hmm #3526 isn't on the UK bugs site. I might have gotten the # wrong, but the latest sysklogd (1.3-10) has the patch applied. (It's still in incoming.) Leland __ Y_ a_ m_ b_ o_ | The leanest, meanest, fightinest sweet tater on Earth! oo o oo o o | o o o | [EMAIL PROTECTED] o ooo o | -- -- -- -- -- -- | http://www.millcomm.com/~llucius (maybe one day)
