Re: LILO boot problem (fixed!)
Thanks to all that helped me out on this one. Once I entered the BIOS disk parameters it worked great. Al Youngwerth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ftp method in dselect
I also just purged dpkg-ftp accidentally but I can't find it anywhere! Is dpkg-ftp only in the base package included on the boot floppies? Al Youngwerth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Adaptec corruption relieved! (so far)
I posted earlier that my 2.0.0 kernel, using aic7xxx, corrupted my superblock, whereas my previous 1.2.13 kernel (aha274x) didn't. On the advice of Dan Eischen, I got linux kernel 2.0.7 plus a patch for aic7xxx. I compiled the patched kernel, installed it, and now I can reboot with impunity. The superblock stays clean. Here's where I got the source and patch: ftp.teleport.com:/pub/users/deang/Linux/aic7xxx/Experiment/ I still need to try some device-stressing stuff (big tars to and from floppies, for example) to see whether the fix holds up. But so far, so good. Other correspondents suggested other fixes which I haven't tried out: 1. Downgrade to kernel 1.3.97 2. Get a firmware revision from Conner (I think this may apply only to the 1060S, my disk is a 1080S). 3. One correspondent had the same problem, but it only occurred with reboots, not halts. They were able to fix the superblock with an emergency floppy using an alternate superblock (8193, for example). Many thanks to the following: = Dan Eischen Holger Kemper Fredrik Lundholm Allan K. Smith Bernd Melchers (I apologize if I forgot anybody). Danny Heap, UCSF, California St., Room 102, SF CA, 94122 [EMAIL PROTECTED], voice: (415) 476-8910, fax: (415) 476-1508
Re: shutdown: non-existing PID
On Tue, 06 Aug 1996 15:42:37 +0200 Michael Gaertner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: 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. I have the same minor problem, and it's '/etc/init.d/xdm stop' which causes the trouble. From what I've found, start-stop-daemon will kill the process tree of the daemon to stop. In case of xdm, it will try to kill xdm first, then X. But, xdm kills X too when it's about to shutdown. The message appears when xdm kills X before start-stop-daemon. Sometimes, no message appears, and I assume that happens when start-stop-daemon kills X before xdm. I have no fix yet. (It's only a minor annoyance) Phil.
Re: unreliable service of I-Connect
I'm quite happy with i-Connect. My CD arrived in less than one week. They probably have problems right now, or are overwhelmed with orders :-) Phil.
installng ( was Re: Problems with install from PHT CDROM
I'm an experienced linux user (I've been using slackware). Is there any instructions on having a ramdisk based filesystem (using loadlin's initrd= option?) I don't want to have to make floppies... I should be able to run everything off a cdrom from dos, booting loadlin... marty
Re: unreliable service of I-Connect
In my situation, after two weeks I sent a query and got a prompt reply that the current 2.0.0 version of the kernel had some known bugs and they had been waiting for a better version and that they were shipping the CD today. It arrived two days later. This was a few weeks ago. That they held my order until they had a good kernel was reasonable to me. My suggestion to I-Connect is that they add expected shipping dates to sites throughout the world to their Web page if they haven't already done so, but more importantly, notify the customer via email if they cannot ship immediately. Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: +1-415-854-1857 fax: +1-415-854-3195 Say it with MIME. Maintainer of comp.mail.mh and news.software.nn FAQs. If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane.
Re: Problems with install from PHT CDROM
On Wed, 7 Aug 1996, Tim Gray wrote: 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. If memory serves, the support is as a module (unless you built your own kernel) so you will need to uncomment the auto line in /etc/modules so that kerneld can load it. You will also need the controler driver loaded before the no support message will go away (and your CD will hopefully work) Let me know if this isn't 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: Two Questions
On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, Dan Bergman wrote: 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... Check out loadlin in the tools path. You will need to set up config.sys with a menu, so you can choose between Linux and Win95. Then set up autoexec.bat to run loadlin, or win95 depending on your selection from the menu. Check with me if you need more details. 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.. I hesitate to say anything here, as my knowledge may be dated or just plain incorrect. It is my understanding that the Diamond Stealth cards are not supported due to NDAs being required by Diamond. If this has changed, someone please correct me ;-) 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: gpm and X mouse conflicts
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 It *used* to be needed for busmice and in particular ps2 mice. However, many of the busmouse drivers (and definitely the ps2 mouse driver) were fixed to permit multiple opens during 1.3, so -R is not needed *any more* for most if not all of the cases it was used for previously.
Installed from floppies, now what?
Maybe I am missing the obvious, but would someone please tell me where to find instructions on installing packages? I see dpkg and dselect mentioned, but when I use these commands, I feel that I am lost I do not have a distribution cd, nor do I want to purchase another set of disks that wil be outdated in a year I have downloaded some packages, do I keep them in a directory system similar to what is on the ftp server, or do I put them all in one directory? When I start dselect, it asks me where certain things are , and I actually have very little idea what they are referring to.. Does the file packages need to be on my system? Where? .gz or ascii? I would like to use the dpkg-ftp, but I *think* that I need to install/configure the modem first... I don't need each question awnsered individually if there are instructions (other than install.html) on this matter. thank you, I am sure there are others with these questions.. mike cotherman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Two Questions
On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, Tim O'Brien wrote: 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 That's the way it used to be, but diamond has become much more friendly to the linux community and they don't force the xfree group to sign the non disclosure aggrements anymore. Shaya Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Adding nfs and ip modules to base
Hi, During installation I was prompted to select some modules to install. I wanted nfs but it replied nfs_mknod undefined nfs_sillyrename_create undefined nfs_create undefined undefined nfs_mkdir undefined undefined nfs_lookup_cache undefined undefined nfs_rename undefined undefined nfs_lookup undefined undefined nfs_nfs_rmdir undefined undefined nfs_link undefined nfs_refresh_inode undefined nfs_symlink undefined nfs_unlink undefined Loading failed ! The module symbols (from linux-2.0.6) don't match your linux-2.0.6 Installation failed For the internet protocol drivers it said: Can't locate module console And for my ne2000 card: ne.c : Module autoprobing not allowed append io=0xNNN values (Howabout pointer to Ethernet Howto in Installation doc where values to try above can be found) I also tried (with identical results): modprobe -t fs nfs.o Fortunatly, can still use computer since didn't overwrite previous system. However, can't install Debian since cannot mount the nfs drive where distribution will be kept. Have read the Module-Howto and related Docs but can't find a solution to these problems. I fed the first line of nfs error message to dejanews using 200,000 linux messages and it found nothing ! It looks simple, since the messges don't seem cryptic, but what do I know ... Thanks in advance for any enlightenment, Jay
Floppy won't boot with internal cache enabled
I am installing Debian 1.1.1 on a generic clone with an AMD 486 on an Opti-based motherboard. If I have the internal cache enabled in setup, I get the error invalid compressed format after the uncompressing Linux message. If I disable the cache, it boots fine. It boots ok from the hard drive either way. Anyone know what is going on? thanks, Steven Gaarder Network and Systems Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] A C Technology, Ithaca, N.Y., USA
tar gives segfault
hi, this is a follow-up to my previous message: 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. I've done more experiments. I created a multi-volume archive by using tar -cvMf. Then extracting the files with tar -xMf gives: IOT trap/Abort (core dumped) While extracting with tar -xvMf gives only segmentation fault. What bothers me is that I've used tar before unpaching multi-volume archives and worked fine. However I'm realizing now that before I was creating the archive with tar 1.11.2 and unpacking with tar 1.11.8. Right now I can reproduce the error with archives created with 1.11.8 and works fine with archives created with version 1.11.2. Also I've used tar from slackware 3.0 without any problem and now I guess it was not version 1.11.8. Does anybody know what this IOT trap/Abort message is all about? Is someone willing to repeat this simple experiment (create/extract) to confirm (or not) that this is a bug with this version of tar? Where do I get older versions of tar? Lawrence Chim [EMAIL PROTECTED], answering to my first post wrote: you forgot to mount your floppy drive first I don't quite understand this. I thought tar creates disks with raw data on them, so how should I mount the floppy drive if there is no filesystem built on it? Thanks a lot for any help!! --- Guglielmo Rabbiolo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Mathematics Department Purdue University, W Lafayette IN ---
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 Hmmm... I did a 'find / -name librl.so.2' on my system and I found no such library... weird! Would you like to double check the library name again just in case. One more thing, I did happen to have 'librle.so.1' I don't know if that helps you or not. Good luck Mike...
Re: getting the mouse to work
When installing gpm, I set my mouse device to /dev/ttys0... Then, I = pointed everything else that wanted a mouse device to /dev/mouse. = What is the difference between /dev/ttys1, /dev/cua1 and /dev/mouse (a soft link) and when should each be used? Thanks, Mark Phillips. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: How can I submit packages to be included in the distribution?
Dermot Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Started work on it last night - just a bit confused with libgr/libgr-dev versus libtiff3/libtiff3-dev/zlib1 needed for building it. libgr is dead. Use the individual libs. -- Rob
dselect/dpkg problem: install/remove
I seem to have a similar problem with dselect/dpkg, but not with the dpkg-ftp option (haven't gotten that far yet) The dselect package has given me problems from the first. I made a few errors in my 1st attempt at the CDRom install, but managed to get most of the selected packages unpacked installed. Where dselect hung was on the kernel-source/kernel-headers packages. (where is local/binary ??) I have tried to remove these packages, but upon running either dselect or dpkg I get something along the lines of Package is in an unstable/condititon please re-install before attempting to remove As I do not clearly understand the package system yet, I'm afraid to simply delete the packages and mess up dpkg's database. I can't install the package, can't re-install the package, and dselect/dpgk won't remove it! Coming from the SlackWare Distribution, I learned how to compile install programs using make, so there was no problem using the code to create a kernel boot floppy, which I now use to bring up the system. There are some problems with this too, but that will wait for another time. Can anyone help?
catch 22?
Oh Debian L'ers, I've managed to get myself in a catch-22 kind of dilemma. In an effort to get a working 2.0.0 kernel with the proper options to support IP masquerading, somehow or other both my kernel-image and kernel-source packages have gotten to a state where I'm stuck fast! I cannot successfully build a kernel at this point, and I can't remove or reinstall either of the packages. Attempting to reinstall results in errors during the prerem or postrem scripts for both the source and image package. Attempting to remove, errors with a recommendation to reinstall (which fails of course!--hence the dilemma) before attempting to remove! I am stuck in that proverbial hard place. Is there some way to force dpkg to reinstall (or remove) in spite of the error it encounters attempting to remove the older package first? Or is there some reasonable way to fake it out by creating the .deb files in some magic place where the remove will work, for example, or even by copying them from the CD to an appropriate place (I do have the I-Connect CD cut on 6_16)? I haven't been successful attempting to use dpkg -i either, but that could be me not getting the syntax correct perhaps. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks. Stuck fast Paul
Re: Two Questions
On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, Dan Bergman wrote: 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... Check out loadlin in the tools path. You will need to set up config.sys with a menu, so you can choose between Linux and Win95. Then set up autoexec.bat to run loadlin, or win95 depending on your selection from the menu. Check with me if you need more details. 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.. I hesitate to say anything here, as my knowledge may be dated or just plain incorrect. It is my understanding that the Diamond Stealth cards are not supported due to NDAs being required by Diamond. If this has changed, someone please correct me ;-) Diamond did cooperate, and most of the Stealth cards are supported. I use Stealth 64's on all my linux PC's and they work under the accelerated S3 server. To choose 16 bit color, you can invoke: startx -- -bpp 16. The '--' prevents the startx front end from evaluating the -bpp option so it gets passed to X. Syrus. -- Syrus Nemat-Nasser [EMAIL PROTECTED]UCSD Physics Dept.
Re: Discrepancies between mirror sites
Mark Is there any way for mirror to discern timezone differences and Mark adjust times accordingly? If the answer is no, then surely we should Mark ask all debian mirrors not to alter time stamps? We could try to persuade _all_ mirrors to use use_timelocal=false This suggestions seems very sensible. Is there an official way to persuade? Mark Phillips. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
XServer for ET4000/W32p hangs!!
Hi, I have a friend who I am trying to help install debian 1.1. He has an ET4000/W32p graphics card. I installed the appropriate server, went through the xbase-configure program to create an XF86Config file, and then ran X -probeonly 2 out.txt to try and get a clock line. The system just hung and I had to do a Ctr-Alt-Del to get out. I couldn't work out what the problem was. Any ideas? I include the out.txt file below. Thanks, Mark Phillips. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) XFree86 Version 3.1.2 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6001) Operating System: Linux Configured drivers: ET4000W32: accelerated server for ET4000W32 graphics adaptors (Patchlevel 0): et4000w32, et4000w32i, et4000w32p_rev_a, et4000w32i_rev_b, et4000w32i_rev_c, et4000w32p_rev_b, et4000w32p_rev_c, et4000w32p_rev_d (using VT number 7) XF86Config: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config (**) stands for supplied, (--) stands for probed/default values (**) Mouse: type: Microsoft, device: /dev/cua1, baudrate: 1200 (**) ET4000W32: Graphics device ID: Hashem's Video Card There are 11 lines left (71%). Press space for more, or 'i' to return. Message 4/476 From Hashem Najafi Page 2 (**) ET4000W32: Graphics device ID: Hashem's Video Card (**) ET4000W32: Monitor ID: Hashem's Monitor (--) ET4000W32: Mode 1280x1024 needs hsync freq of 64.25 kHz. Deleted. (--) ET4000W32: Mode 1280x1024 needs hsync freq of 78.86 kHz. Deleted. (--) ET4000W32: Mode 1280x1024 needs hsync freq of 81.13 kHz. Deleted. Warning: The directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/ does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. Warning: The directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/ does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (**) FontPath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75 dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ (--) ET4000W32: ET4000: Initial hibit state: low
Re: Ftp method in dselect
Al Youngwerth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I also just purged dpkg-ftp accidentally but I can't find it anywhere! Is dpkg-ftp only in the base package included on the boot floppies? look in project/experimental. Guy: could you move dpkg-ftp into unstable, this would avoid these problems. Andy.
Re: Installed from floppies, now what?
I personally find dselect very confusing. I install all packages using just dpkg (dselect is a front-end to dpkg). It is actually very easy. The only thing that is more difficult is in manually dealing with dependencies between packages. The simplest thing to do is to identify any packages you want, e.g., minicom, ppp, etc. Download your selected packages from any Debian archive (best to get them from the stable distribution). For the two I mention above, this would be: stable/binary-i386/comm/minicom_1.75-1.deb stable/binary-i386/net/ppp_2.2.0f-2.deb Once you have them on your Linux box you should check what other packages they depend on: $ dpkg --info minicom_1.75-1.deb This lists various things about the package. Look for a line that begins with Depends: You can do a dpkg --list to see if you have all of the required packages. If so, then simply install the new package: $ dpkg --install minicom_1.75-1.deb This actually unpacks the package and then configures the package. If you don't like the package you can simply remove it with: $ dpkg --purge minicom It removes all files that were installed and undoes appropriate configurations. Hope this helps. (My Linux box is home at present so I'm working from memory but I've done this often enough to be pretty sure it's correct. The --help option of dpkg lists all available options.) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED],--_|\ Tel: (+61 6) 216 7042 Senior Research Scientist, Data Mining / \ Fax: (+61 6) 216 7112 CSIRO Div of Info Tech, Aust Nat Univ \_.--_*/ GPO Box 664 Canberra URL:http://www.dit.csiro.au/~gjw v ACT 2601 Australia
printing and .profile problems
Hi, I hope I'm doing this right. I tried to post to the linux.debian.user newsgroup without success. Anyway, I just installed Debian 1.1.2 in late July (my first Debian installation), with a few problems. I've fixed some of them thanks to this forum, but there are two among the many left that I'm trying to fix right now. 1. dselect didn't configure lpr correctly so I did it myself using the printing HOWTO which I've done successfully many times before with Slackware releases. Now root can print but users get the message, usr can't create /usr/spool/lpd/hp4p/.seq. This is with the permissions on that file set to rw_rw_r as the HOWTO says. I tried changing the permissions to rw_rw_rw but then a user gets the message usr can't create /usr/spool/lpd/hp4p/tfA006Aa01777. As far as I know I have the permissions set correctly in all the directories leading to this file, but this seems like a permission problem. I'm stuck! 2. another problem, which I didn't have under Slackware, is using a .profile in the user's home area. I have just one line in it, alias 'lo'=exit which has always worked before but the lo commanded doesn't get recognized. I also tried renaming the file to .login but still no luck. Any ideas? Thanks in advance for any help. Chris Beamis
Re: LILO and W95
On Fri, 2 Aug 1996, John Tran wrote: ok, i just loaded linux after w95 for the first time. i know very little about linux or unix for that matter and i'm having a real problem - 95 will not 'recognize' LILO, and boots right into 95. i didn't have this problem with 3.1. what i need is for someone to be gracious enough to take me by the hand and show me how to overcome this (to keep w95 from controling what's booted). please email me if you'd like: run fdisk and set bootable flag (A) to your dos partition only. Linux does not need this flag set. Just catching up on my list mail and I wanted to throw in my 2 cents worth. I have been using LILO with my Win95/Linux box with no problems whatsoever. I have noticed that Win95 tends to reinstall the MBR but there is a simple fix to this that I have noticed by accident. I usually install Linux first and I leave a space at the beginning of the disk for the Win95 partition to be added later. My Linux boot partition is /dev/hda2 (I resrve /hda1 for the Win95 partition). When I install LILO I make all the appropriate responses telling it that I will be booting more than one OS and then I find that hda2 is set as the active partition and is fully bootable. Later, when I install Win95, the first partition is formatted and made to be the boot partition automatically (as a number of people have noted already). But if I run fdisk from a DOS prompt and make the second partition bootable once again, voila`, LILO boots Linux the next time the machine is restarted. At this point all I need to do is add the appropriate lines to my /etc/lilo.conf in order to get Win95 to boot when I choose it (Linux is the default of course...): boot=/dev/hda2 root=/dev/hda2 compact install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal delay=20 image=/vmlinuz label=Linux read-only other=/dev/hda1 label=Win95 table=/dev/hda If you inspect the first line of this lilo.conf file, you will notice that the boot is set to a partition (/dev/hda2) rather than a disk (/dev/hda) and so LILO is installed using a boot sector on the second partition rather than on the Master Boot Record as would be done if only the disk were specified. I believe that this is possible because the Linux fdisk permits up to 4 primary partitions (the DOS fdisk only allows 1) and each can be made bootable. The result is that if I wish to go back to booting Win95 only (heaven forbid), I need only activate the first partition and my LILO is still sitting there intact for me to use later. This will allow me to reinstall Win95 to my heart's content and not mess up my Linux loadability and dual boot. This method will not, to my knowledge, work unless the boot partitions of both Win95 and Linux are on teh same disk and reside under the 1024 cylinder limit imposed by DOS and LILO. Anyway, just thought I'd lay my experiences out for all to use if they like... Carlo *** *Carlo U. Segre * * Department of Biological, Chemical and Physical Sciences * *Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL 60616 * * Voice: (312) 567-3498 FAX: (312) 567-3494* * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * ***
enlarge the ext2 partition without reinstall
Is it possible to enlarge my current partition without reformatting it? My current partition is 1GB and I would like to extend it to 1.5GB.
Re: what files does dselect/dpkg use to discern choices?
On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, David C Winters wrote: 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 I don't think you can do much in terms of recording input to dselect. I would look at something like a tape-backup technology, or using a null modem to transfer the data. (I assume if you have 50 machines you have more advanced networking than a null modem). If you recompile the kernel, there is an option for Root filesystem on NFS. If you could get an NFS on one drive to export, you could boot all the machines with NFS and then copy stuff en mass from machine to machine. I'm not sure how to actually send the data, but you could use something like afio to packages the filesystem up and send it through the NFS. A neat idea: look into dbackup... (but it isn't done yet, AFAIK) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/GNU__1.1___Linux__2.0.11___ We believe that man is essentially good. It's only his behavior that lets him down. This is the fault of society. Society is the fault of conditions. Conditions are the fault of society. -- Steve Turner, Creed
Re: Two Questions
On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, Dan Bergman wrote: 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.. generally, you type: startx -- -bpp 16 You need XF86Config set up correctly (is it possibly already correct?) You can also edit the Xservers file (type locate Xservers it should be in /etc/X11 somewhere) to use 16 bit. Mine has: :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -gamma 1.5 -bpp 16 as the active ingredient. [EMAIL PROTECTED]/GNU__1.1___Linux__2.0.11___ We believe that man is essentially good. It's only his behavior that lets him down. This is the fault of society. Society is the fault of conditions. Conditions are the fault of society. -- Steve Turner, Creed
Re: what files does dselect/dpkg use to discern choices?
On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, David C Winters wrote: 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 Let me suggest (in addition to my last suggestion) the use of afio (or cpio) with the utility called netcat. Send the compressed volume through a pipe to netcat, and do the opposite on the other end. nc just acts as a pipe between two systems. Note that afio may do bad things if it overwrites running programs, so look out for that. -- you may want to create a 15 MB or so partition on each machine to run Debian until you get it set up minimally (base system + some networking). When you are done, you can use the bootstrapping partition as an emergency repair system, or just add it on as more swap space. [EMAIL PROTECTED]/GNU__1.1___Linux__2.0.11___ We believe that man is essentially good. It's only his behavior that lets him down. This is the fault of society. Society is the fault of conditions. Conditions are the fault of society. -- Steve Turner, Creed
Sendmail configuration question
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I have been playing about with my new Debian distribution for a week or so now. Great stuff. I have managed to configure most of my file, print, mail and fax server apart from a small send mail issue (and of course that mgetty console message: '/usr/lib/mgetty+sendfax/new-fax: No such file or directory' which I assume to be a minor bug for the time bieng). My problem is that I am unable to get any mail queued for UUCP delivery. Internal SMPT mail works fine, incoming UUCP no probs. I am no way near of a mail expert and I have spend some time fiddling with the configuration script and adding some UUCP lines. This resulted in the following .mc file. I would be happy if anyone would shoot at it... # # This file is used to configure sendmail for use with Debian systems. # divert(0) VERSIONID(`@(#)sendmail.mc 8.7 (Linux) 3/5/96') OSTYPE(debian)dnl FEATURE(nocanonify)dnl FEATURE(masquerade_envelope)dnl FEATURE(use_cw_file)dnl FEATURE(use_ct_file)dnl FEATURE(nodns)dnl define(`confTO_QUEUEWARN', `1d')dnl MAILER(local)dnl MAILER(smtp)dnl Cwavondel.xs4all.nl MASQUERADE_AS(avondel.xs4all.nl)dnl ## Custom configurations below (will be preserved) MAILER(uucp)dnl define(`SMART_HOST', uucp:avondel) - -- My setup is really simple: my ISP is called: xs4all.nl my UUCP node: avondel I really hope someone can point my in the right direction. Thanks all for the attention, Erik van der Meulen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: cp850 iQCVAwUBMghd1wSsHV9rOgLdAQHaMwP/fsSPuoLgKGKm5k2ldfaEFcR55ob5gcxo 97MgvtRNyFQJ9RJPVWrshhy6NDg43Gpc9o9ybZDbuo5S6pMI7+pnmo65YzlWDlvP pMkrl4zv4umc2+m5PI4IYZ+jQXKwjf5yv74f+CTczGD1jpu7FbnzCsa7DVHcGq2i kEF8OzjflkM= =3okw -END PGP SIGNATURE- Erik van der Meulen SFS+: [EMAIL PROTECTED] p: +31 30 2803222 f: +31 30 2803909 NCM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] p: +31 20 5532116 f: +31 20 5532829 Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] p: +31 20 6851618 f: +31 20 6896569
Re: Two Questions
Dan Bergman writes: 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... Try this lilo.config: # Start LILO global section boot = /dev/hda compact# faster, but won't work on all systems. delay = 50 vga=extended ramdisk = 0 # paranoia setting # End LILO global section # Linux bootable partition config begins image = /vmlinuz root = /dev/hda2 label = linux # Linux bootable partition config ends # WIN95 bootable partition config begins other = /dev/hda1 label = win95 loader = /boot/chain.b # WIN95 bootable partition config ends I haven't tried it yet (since my WIN95 is on hdb not hda it has to be different). It should work, though. In any case you get the idea. Once you started lilo from Linux you should be able to boot both via the LILO prompt. Michael -- Michael Meskes |_ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | / ___// / // / / __ \___ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \__ \/ /_ / // /_/ /_/ / _ \/ ___/ ___/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]| ___/ / __/ /__ __/\__, / __/ / (__ ) Use Debian Linux!| //_/ /_/ //\___/_/ //
dosemu, libX11.so.6 problem
Trying dosemu-0.60.3-1.deb to run on linux 2.0.10 Compilation on .tgz sources also error and do not want to compile with X support, have not yet tried without it. Will appresiate any help. After dpkg -i the binary package: problem === $ dpkg -i x11/xlib-3.1.2-7.deb ... $ cp /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6.0 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 $ dos -A dos: can't load library '/usr/lib/libX11.so.6' Exec format error dos: can't find library 'libX11.so.6' Ioannis Tambouras [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP 512/D042DD45, West Palm Beach, Florida
Re: lost lib
On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, Robert Van Horn wrote: telos 16 % zgrep -i librl.so /data/deb/Contents.gz lib/librl.so.2.0.3.dist aout-librl It is in: filename: Debian-1.1/binary-i386/devel/aout-librl-2.0.3-4.deb msdos-filename: Debian-1.1/msdos-i386/devel/aoutlbrl.deb size: 112098 md5sum: 46972d5000aa7785bad36eed1d4505e7 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 Ioannis Tambouras [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP 512/D042DD45, West Palm Beach, Florida
Re: shutdown: non-existing PID
On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, Philippe Troin wrote:
On Tue, 06 Aug 1996 15:42:37 +0200 Michael Gaertner
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
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.
That's not true. examin with ps -ef
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.
I have the same minor problem, and it's '/etc/init.d/xdm stop' which causes
the trouble. From what I've found, start-stop-daemon will kill the process
tree of the daemon to stop. In case of xdm, it will try to kill xdm first,
then X.
But, xdm kills X too when it's about to shutdown. The message appears when
xdm kills X before start-stop-daemon. Sometimes, no message appears, and I
assume that happens when start-stop-daemon kills X before xdm.
Ok, what happens is:
PID (ex.) COMMAND
151 /usr/bin/X11/xdm
159 \_ /usr/X11R6/bin/X
160 \_ -:0 ;(local display-server)
shutdown invokes k01xdm:
star-stop-daemon --stop --verbose --exec /usr/bin/X11/xdm
invoked by hand prints same message:
[...] failed to kill 160: No such process
stopped /usr/bin/X11/xdm (pid 160)
which gets printed by start-stop-daemon script (r1.2.13):
[...]
for $pid (@found) {
if ($testmode) {
[...];
} else {
if (kill($signal,$pid)) {
push(@killed,$pid); is this wrong ?
} else {
print start-stop-daemon: warning: failed to kill $pid:$!\n;#
}
}
Maybe Jan can help?
I have no fix yet. (It's only a minor annoyance)
you can always use ssd --quite ;)
Phil.
Michael Gaertner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tel/Fax +49-761-32684
Re[2]: shutdown: non-existing PID
Phil, Michael, Maybe pstree (and friends mentioned in the man page) can help you to trace the problem Lazaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Reply Separator _ Subject: Re: shutdown: non-existing PID Author: debian-user@lists.debian.org at cclink Date:07.08.96 02:39 On Tue, 06 Aug 1996 15:42:37 +0200 Michael Gaertner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: 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. I have the same minor problem, and it's '/etc/init.d/xdm stop' which causes the t rouble. From what I've found, start-stop-daemon will kill the process tree of the daemon to stop. In case of xdm, it will try to kill xdm first, then X. But, xdm kills X too when it's about to shutdown. The message appears when xdm ki lls X before start-stop-daemon. Sometimes, no message appears, and I assume that happens when start-stop-daemon kills X before xdm. I have no fix yet. (It's only a minor annoyance) Phil.
Re: Adding nfs and ip modules to base
Hi Jay, There have been some postings (since the 1.1.2 release) to this list reporting the same problem. Check last week's ones as I sent a kind of reports-log. I heard of no answers so I am not sure whther we are exceptions# to the rule. My solution was to reinstall 1.1 (stable tree) download install the packages in the updates. Among them the kernel-source-2.0.6-0.i386.deb (please check the name) but not the kernel-image. I the recompiled the 2.0.6 with the debian script to create a kernel-image package. Look at kernel source tree for a debian. . As a result I got the kernel-image-2.0.6-choose.your.tag.here.deb which I installed with dpkg (instructions are in the debian script) Now I have a custom (leaner) kernel and no problems so ever with the undefined messages. Lazaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Reply Separator _ Subject: Adding nfs and ip modules to base Author: debian-user@lists.debian.org at cclink Date:07.08.96 05:25 Hi, During installation I was prompted to select some modules to install. I wanted nfs but it replied nfs_mknod undefined nfs_sillyrename_create undefined nfs_create undefined undefined nfs_mkdir undefined undefined nfs_lookup_cache undefined undefined nfs_rename undefined undefined nfs_lookup undefined undefined nfs_nfs_rmdir undefined undefined nfs_link undefined nfs_refresh_inode undefined nfs_symlink undefined nfs_unlink undefined Loading failed ! The module symbols (from linux-2.0.6) don't match your linux-2.0.6 Installation failed For the internet protocol drivers it said: Can't locate module console And for my ne2000 card: ne.c : Module autoprobing not allowed append io=0xNNN values (Howabout pointer to Ethernet Howto in Installation doc where values to try above can be found) I also tried (with identical results): modprobe -t fs nfs.o Fortunatly, can still use computer since didn't overwrite previous system. However, can't install Debian since cannot mount the nfs drive where distribution will be kept. Have read the Module-Howto and related Docs but can't find a solution to these problems. I fed the first line of nfs error message to dejanews using 200,000 linux messages and it found nothing ! It looks simple, since the messges don't seem cryptic, but what do I know ... Thanks in advance for any enlightenment, Jay
Re: lost lib
To exactly know which library a given command (say foo) needs you can try $ ldd foo If you don't find the library referenced ( e.g. library_name) in your system with: $ find / library_name) you can locate that library by $ zgrep library_name Contents.gz so you can install the package. lazaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply Separator _ Subject: lost lib Author: debian-user@lists.debian.org at cclink Date:07.08.96 08:13 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 Hmmm... I did a 'find / -name librl.so.2' on my system and I found no such library... weird! Would you like to double check the library name again just in case. One more thing, I did happen to have 'librle.so.1' I don't know if that helps you or not. Good luck Mike...
Re: dselect/dpkg problem: install/remove
Hi, where is local/binary ?? I _think_ is a local filesystem or directory where you put your any extra package which is not present under the stable|contrib|non-free tree. For example you can put ther a) Your own packages like a custom kernel created out of the kernel-source and made (autoamtically) kernel-image-custom.deb b) the ftp'ed partial tree if you don't have the CD Anybody knows of other use for it? I have tried to remove these packages, but upon running either dselect or dpkg I get something along the lines of Package is in an unstable/condititon please re-install before attempting to remove ..I can't install the pac kage, can't re-install the package, and dselect/dpgk won't remove it! ^ It happened to me too with dselect when I run out of space in /usr (The size of the packages being selected and the free space on the filesystem would have helped... Ian, Bruce are you listening?). In my case, only the front-end dselect could not install or remove those unstable packages. This however worked for me: 1) Quit dselect 2) Install the unstable packages with dpkg -i giving the full path something like: # dpkg -i /cdrom/stable/binary-i386/devel/kernel-source-2.0.6-0.deb That will install the package and update the files dselect needs to configure/remove/purge or whatever you want to do next with the package within dselect. As I do not clearly understand the package system yet, I'm afraid to simply delete the packages and mess up dpkg's database. Don't worry, you're not alone :-). Just read the documentation you find _many_ times untill you get the feeling. dpkg --help | less and all the manual pages mentioned in the fake dpkg manpage (man -k dpkg can help too). But be patient... the Debian packaging system is a several years project so _it is_ a complicated and _excelent_ system! look also at the /var/lib/dpkg/info to learn by example what comes with every package. In my case, the package_name.list file for the unstable packages in that directory was missing ...and that confused dselect. Lazaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Reply Separator _ Subject: dselect/dpkg problem: install/remove Author: debian-user@lists.debian.org at cclink Date:07.08.96 10:26 I seem to have a similar problem with dselect/dpkg, but not with the dpkg-ftp option (haven't gotten that far yet) The dselect package has given me problems from the first. I made a few errors in my 1st attempt at the CDRom install, but managed to get most of the selected packages unpacked installed. Where dselect hung was on the kernel-source/kernel-headers packages. (where is local/binary ??) I have tried to remove these packages, but upon running either dselect or dpkg I get something along the lines of Package is in an unstable/condititon please re-install before attempting to remove As I do not clearly understand the package system yet, I'm afraid to simply delete the packages and mess up dpkg's database. I can't install the package, can't re-install the package, and dselect/dpgk won't remove it! Coming from the SlackWare Distribution, I learned how to compile install programs using make, so there was no problem using the code to create a kernel boot floppy, which I now use to bring up the system. There are some problems with this too, but that will wait for another time. Can anyone help?
