mallinfo()
I have some source code that expects to find this function. Which library do I need to link in? Am I missing something obvious here? I know enough C to be dangerous, and that's not much. If you can point me to a web page or FAQ or something other than a newsgroup which will tell me about mallinfo I'd appreciate it. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls, SD 57104 Voice: (605) 334-4454 Fax: (605) 335-1173 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID: 0xA33B86E9 - Public key available at keyservers PGP Key fingerprint: CE03 10AF 3281 1858 9D32 C2AB 936D C472 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: tty with non-standard irq
On Aug 18, Joost Kooij wrote Um, I don't think it is a very healthy practice to use irq 2 for a serial port. Irq 2 is called the cascade interrupt. Pc-xt's, which have only one interrupt controller, have 8 irq's, but in at's a second controller is cascaded from the primary interrupt controller's irq 2 to yield a total of 15 usable interrupts (because you cannot use irq 2 for a real interrupt anymore.) Read a pc-hardware faq if you want to know more about this. So unless you are running linux on a 8086, you can forget irq 2, I think. I've been using this on my (internal) modem for a while now and havn't seen any problems - I used to get the full 3+Kbps that my modem can manage - but now I've moved and had an extension put in and it doesn't seem as good :-( As has been pointed out, it is also IRQ9 (win95 can't cope with 2!, and the modem doesn't have a jumper for 9) If this really is a problem, please let me know (but I've no idea which IRQ to use as most of the rest seem used up by various strange things!) Adrian -- .signature in post -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Daily Usenet Report
On Aug 18, Will Lowe wrote I have my machine on a dialup ppp linuk until I get back to school in a week, at which point it'll be full-connected all the time. Lately I've been getting the Daily Usenet Report (I suppose generated someplace in cron.daily) which _always_ has errors like these: Server status: No innd.pid file; did server die? Can't send mode command (sendto failure) No such file or directory. Questions: 1) What's generating these? I can't find an inn entry in /etc/cron.daily 2) Is there some way to quell these until I get back to school and have a real news connection? If I run the server from here, it dials my modem all the time trying to get news, and ties up the phone line ... 3) When I _do_ decide to run inn, should I run it from rc.boot or from one of the runlevel rc.* directories? I believe that it is innd - look in /etc/rc?.d/???inn. This is the inn server control - ones beginning with S start it and ones with K kill it. So a quick hack is to change the ones with S into K. There is a program to do this IIRC, but I can't remember what it is. Adrian -- .signature in post -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: SoundBlaster
I have a similar problem using kernel 2.0.27 with the really odd part being that I can play audio CDs using xplaycd. If something like saytime is run I get that /dev/audio is busy. In the kernel readme or sound howto it talks about checking that the device isn't being used by some other application and it is always free. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Iomega Ditto 2GB (internal).
I'm a sysadmin of a small network at my college and I'm going to buy a new tape drive in order to do the back-ups. Some friends told me that the Iomega Ditto 2GB (internal model) is a good choice. So, I'd like to know if this drive works fine under Linux. Are there any problems with it? Does the kernel recognizes it? Does anybody use it? Please, help me! ;-) Thanks in advance. Felix Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Iomega Ditto 2GB (internal).
On Mon, 18 Aug 1997 23:52:14 -0300 Felix Almeida ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm a sysadmin of a small network at my college and I'm going to buy a new tape drive in order to do the back-ups. Some friends told me that the Iomega Ditto 2GB (internal model) is a good choice. So, I'd like to know if this drive works fine under Linux. Are there any problems with it? Does the kernel recognizes it? Does anybody use it? Please, help me! ;-) Thanks in advance. Felix Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Debian Version Numbers Was: Is this the Debian Philosophy? (or.... $#@!@#$ bash 2.0!)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 16 Aug 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: From: Jim Pick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Does bash 2.01 solve the problem? We do update 'stable' - we're currently debating that strategy on the debian-private (developers only) mailing list right now. If bash 2.0 is sufficiently broken, then that might merit putting 2.01 into 'stable'. I'm going to have to set this straight, since Jim alluded to a discussion on our private list. The next version of the system will be called Debian 1.3.1 Revision 1. People who make long-term products based on Debian requested that we not change the version number of the system if we were only making a few bug fixes. For example, X windows was rebuilt because Richard Hang on, aren't I already running Debian 1.3 Revision 1 (or in other words Debian 1.3.1)? Anand. - -- `When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives' -- Robert A Heinlein, If this goes on -- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBM/kaAWRmcAD8BdppAQGqdQP/RIO4Z/cn09o0+qX/vXHwjm2phpMixWmn SZL9ygN1rZL0Kn+8NCVigRPUAnzASMEa3ivEL7H9JyW1r5PjjlRI2ljWedxKDmhr IHGlxTFyub0yGZAMEQ3vCP0N12RRIZkXUBJdXKLEnnAbtO5RLT0gA52OlIz31LoJ 9HqfPt+nSD0= =7P8H -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: /etc/init.d structure [long rant]
On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Dima wrote: Assuming runlevel is roughly equivalent to state, the above model is a stack of states. A state transition diagram would be a (potentially fully connected) graph of states. (Potentially) what a mess. :) I don't think so. Just because it's potentially fully connected, it's not necessary for its handling to be messy. Next question is how to define a state -- 6 basic states is what we have now. If we want more states (finer grain) our graph becomes messier. No,no. When we are talking about runlevels being a state, we should consider only the handling of state transitions. The actual graph depends on the actual usage, not anything else. And we have 9 states at least, read the init man page. Stack is a much simpler structure -- easier to implement, less bugs etc. Besides, it's almost there already. But it can be messy if you want real state machine. And you will definitely want real state machine in some cases. I myself want state machine because I make a mission critical system consisting of two machines. The system itself has to have more states, and the machines may also want to change role should some failure occur. In this state of affairs I have to link K scripts for every single service I dont't want to every single runlevel. It _is_ messy. And once more: the actual state machine has nothing to do with the init scripts, they only make up a state, and define a state transition. The state machine have to be implemented by the availability demon (coming soon to the public). --- GNU GPL: csak tiszta forrásból -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: kernel for m68k 68060 amiga 4000 tower ?
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Re: Using a Sun keyboard to a PC?
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Aug 18 19:47:48 1997 I was wondering if anyone has been able to connect a Sun keyboard to a PC? Yes, I know of few people. They used a self made converter. It ought to be possible since Linux can run on Sparc. But maybe the hardware is completely different? That's right. AFAIK PC keyboard interface is synchron (uses one bidirectional data wire) and Sun's one is asynchron (two wires, transmit and receive). Any hint? Check this one: http://www.it.kth.se/~pme/sunkbd.html You will find there a rather sparse description of a converter which should do the job. Although the circuit might look easy it requires from you some amount of electronic skill. If you don't have it do what I did: find a friend who has some :-) Seriously speeking, few days ago I built the converter and yesterday evening managed to program the eeprom in the microcontroller. This morning I gave it to a professional for debugging because it doesn't work :-( I will let you know as soon as there is some progress. -- /Jörgen Hägg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards, Chris Chris Osicki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) GfAI - Group for Applied Informatics Ltd. Dipl. Informatik Ing. HTLMettlenwaldweg 17 Systems Engineer CH-3037 Herrenschwanden Tel. +41 31 308 67 00Switzerland Fax. +41 31 301 30 04 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian Version Numbers Was: Is this the Debian Philosophy? (or.... $#@!@#$ bash 2.0!)
The next version of the system will be called Debian 1.3.1 Revision 1.
People who make long-term products based on Debian requested that
we not change the version number of the system if we were only making a
few bug fixes. For example, X windows was rebuilt because Richard
Hang on, aren't I already running Debian 1.3 Revision 1 (or in other words
Debian 1.3.1)?
1.3.1 != 1.3.1 Revision 1.
The latter is the first revision of the former.
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Re: Using a Sun keyboard to a PC?
On Mon, 18 Aug 1997, Joergen Haegg wrote: I was wondering if anyone has been able to connect a Sun keyboard to a PC? To be honest, I've never tried it. It ought to be possible since Linux can run on Sparc. Not very relevant here, I'm afraid. But maybe the hardware is completely different? Keyboards are more complicated than they might seem at first sight. The first obstacle is booting up a PC; difficult unless the keyboard mumbles the right things. Any hint? Read the specifications carefully, and forget any warranties! -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
[DEBIAN] AARGH PCMCIA network adaptor still not recognised
Howdy, I'm still having problems accessing my network from my portable. My 3Com Etherlink II 3C589D (or C) adaptor is recognised as a ... Anonymous Memory Card !!! I thought it was a problem with the PCMCIA drivers so I copied the pcmcia sources from a working portable (same network adaptor) and recompiled everything but it still doesn't work! I even tried installing Debian from a crapy InfoMagic CD I have (doesn't contain pcmcia drivers) and then installing the pcmcia sources from the the working notebook. This worked... until I upgraded Debian over the running network (making sure not to upgrade pcmcia support) When I rebooted pcmcia went to hell again!! Can somebody PLEEEASE give me a suteable solution for this! Having the user reboot a couple of times at startup is absolutely out of the question. I'm trying to convince my boss that Debian Linux is a good UNIX platform but I'm afraid this proves absolutely the oposite! Nico. -- -- Nico De Ranter Sony Objective Composer (SOCOM) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 17 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Virtual memory problem?
I've successfully installed Debian Linux 1.3.1 before a few times, but now I've got a problem with a computer. So, I think it's not a problem of the distribution, nor the kernel. Maybe a problem of configuration, maybe a hardware problem, ... I don't know. Some background: The machine: Mother Board: Pentium WB CACHE, PCI, ExpertBoard 8551, AMI BIOS (7/15/95) Processor: Pentium (P54C) 100MHz 16MB RAM, HD:~1GB (hda1:600MB DOS, hda2:32MB SWAP, hda3:400MB Linux) The OS: Debian Linux 1.3.1 (1 Aug 97) Kernel 2.0.29. The problem: I install the base system of Debian 1.3.1 (1 Aug 97) from floppy without problems. Then I boot and the dselect program starts to install the rest of the system (by ftp in my case). During the instalation process some errors appear (crc errors when decompressing, procceses that get killed) and at the same time I get a dump like this: Unable to handle kernel pagin request at virtual address cf2b7d4e current - tss.cr3=0073c000, %cr3=0073c000 *pde= Oops: 000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[00121f4b] EFLAGS: 00010203 eax: ...ebx: ... Process preinst (pid: 2292, process nr:25, stackpage=0090d000) Stack: fff7 08f4 Call Trace: [00121fe4] [0010a821] Code: 66 83 7e 0e 00 75 16 68 06 28 1f 00 e8 28 18 ff ff 31 c0 83 Afterwards, sometimes the system crashes in different ways: the system does not respond while keep dumping messages like the above, the screen is filled with black and white squares. In any case I have to press the RESET button to reboot the system. Other times the system keeps running for a while until another such dump and then may or may not crash again. The problem seems to be a virtual page that is not found where he expects it to be. ?? Solutions I've tried and their results: 1.- Reformat and surface check the swap and Linux partitions: install again - The problem persists 2.- Configure the BIOS SETUP as simple as possible: no shadow RAM, no power management, no external cache - The problem persists 3.- Enable the external cache - the problem persists but I get messages like this, beside the old ones: rw_swap_page: weirdness rw_swap_page: weirdness rw_swap_page: weirdness rw_swap_page: weirdness rw_swap_page: weirdness swap_free: weirdness swap_free: weirdness swap_free: weirdness swap_free: weirdness swap_free: weirdness 4.- Disable swapping - dpkg says: .dpkg: malloc failed (65552 bytes): Out of memory which was easily expected 5.- Disable swapping from hda2 and enable a swap file in /var/tmp of about 10MB - The problem persists. I'm quite surprised becouse I installed Debian before without problems. If you have any idea about what the problem should be, any clue, any idea or need more information to trace the problem, please contact me. Thanks in advance. Jorge. -- Jorge JUAN-CHICO Centro Nacional de Microelectronica [EMAIL PROTECTED] Edificio C.I.C.A. Phone: 34-5-4239923 Av/ Reina Mercedes s/n Fax: 34-5-4231832 41012-SEVILLA, SPAIN -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Help: My ISDN dial-in is not working
Hi there, I'm trying to get my ISDN working. I already have my card recognized in Linux, also the ISDN utilities are working. So no I want to dial in to my provider. I checked some URL's for help on ISDN4linux: http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~ui16lab/www/isdn/setup_e.htm http://www.wurtel.demon.nl/i4l-howto-nl.html So I did excactly what was in there: - I configured the kernal whith the following options: Code maturity level options: Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers: No Section General Setup: Networking support: Yes Networking Options: TCP/IP Networking: Yes Network device support: Yes PPP support: Yes ISDN Subsystem: ISDN support: Yes Support synchronous PPP: Yes Use VJ compression with synchronous PPP: Yes Support audio via ISDN: Yes Support generic MP (RFC 1717): Yes And I selected my Teles card for support. - I used the following script for ISDN start-up: PHONE=0206241968 MYPHONE=6451085 MY_EAZ=6451085 HUPTIMEOUT=90 #read MY_HOSTNAME /etc/hostname MY_HOSTNAME=zeus IP_ADDRESS=194.178.56.21 OPTIONS_FILE=/etc/ppp/options /sbin/isdnctrl verbose 0 /sbin/isdnctrl addif ippp0 /sbin/isdnctrl pppbind ippp0 0 /sbin/isdnctrl addphone ippp0 out $PHONE /sbin/isdnctrl addphone ippp0 in $MYPHONE /sbin/isdnctrl eaz ippp0 $MY_EAZ /sbin/isdnctrl huptimeout ippp0 $HUPTIMEOUT /sbin/isdnctrl secure ippp0 on /sbin/isdnctrl l2_prot ippp0 hdlc /sbin/isdnctrl l3_prot ippp0 trans /sbin/isdnctrl encap ippp0 syncppp /sbin/ifconfig ippp0 $MY_HOSTNAME pointopoint $IP_ADDRESS metric 1 /sbin/route add default ippp0 /sbin/ipppd /dev/ippp0 file $OPTIONS_FILE /sbin/route del default ifconfig ippp0 down - I use the following script to dialin: case $1 in on) /sbin/isdnctrl dial ippp0 sleep 5 route add default ippp0 ;; off) /sbin/isdnctrl hangup ippp0 route del default ;; *) echo -e \a Usage: 'isdn on' or 'isdn off' ;; esac - When I dial in, the syslog generates the following output: Aug 6 14:27:31 zeus login: ROOT LOGIN ON tty1 Aug 6 14:27:38 zeus kernel: isdn: Verbose-Level is 0 Aug 6 14:27:38 zeus syslog: Found 1 devices: /dev/ippp0, Aug 6 14:27:38 zeus pppd[381]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0 Aug 6 14:27:38 zeus pppd[381]: init_unit: 0 Aug 6 14:27:38 zeus pppd[381]: Connect[0]: /dev/ippp0, fd: 8 Aug 6 14:27:43 zeus kernel: ippp0: dialing 0 0206241968... Aug 6 14:27:45 zeus kernel: isdn_net: ippp0 connected Aug 6 14:27:45 zeus pppd[381]: PHASE_WAIT - PHASE_ESTABLISHED, ifunit: 0, linkunit: 0, fd: 8 Aug 6 14:27:46 zeus kernel: hscx_empty_fifo: incoming packet too large Aug 6 14:27:48 zeus last message repeated 481 times Aug 6 14:27:48 zeus kernel: ippp0: remote hangup Aug 6 14:27:48 zeus kernel: ippp0: Chargesum is 0 Aug 6 14:27:48 zeus pppd[381]: Modem hangup Aug 6 14:27:48 zeus pppd[381]: Connection terminated. Aug 6 14:27:48 zeus pppd[381]: taking down PHASE_DEAD link 0, linkunit: 0 Aug 6 14:27:48 zeus pppd[381]: link 0 closed , linkunit: 0 Aug 6 14:27:48 zeus pppd[381]: reinit_unit: 0 Aug 6 14:27:48 zeus pppd[381]: Connect[0]: /dev/ippp0, fd: 8 The hscx_empty_fifo messages are repeated very much, what is this and what can I do about it. - I think maybe my chap-secrets-file is not configured right or the options for ippd are nog configured right, who can give me some examples ?! And who knows the answer to my problem. - Anyway ISDN IS working under Windows NT with the same configuration of the IRQ (9) and port settings (0xd80h) and protocol EDSS1 Thanks in advance, Tom de Grunt The Netherlands Please mail me: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
vipw -s (shadow)
I thought I'd stop editing the password files directly, as soon I may have some more users. I use shadowing. All that happens is # vipw -s vipw: /bin/ae: Bad address vipw: /etc/shadow is unchanged vipw: /bin/ae: No such file or directory vipw: /etc/shadow is unchanged # vigr -s vigr: /bin/ae: Bad address vigr: /etc/gshadow is unchanged vigr: /bin/ae: No such file or directory vigr: /etc/gshadow is unchanged # I track stable, and ae is in /bin. Oh well, no one's logged in. -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Help: My ISDN dial-in is not working
T.G.H. de Grunt wrote: Hi there, I'm trying to get my ISDN working. I already have my card recognized in Linux, also the ISDN utilities are working. So no I want to dial in to my provider. I checked some URL's for help on ISDN4linux: http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~ui16lab/www/isdn/setup_e.htm http://www.wurtel.demon.nl/i4l-howto-nl.html Hello, I'm about to go through this process. I've noticed that many people treat the ISDN device just like a modem and skip all the other 'special stuff' from these help guides. I'm not sure if that is a locality issue though. HTH -- Greg. -- What do you want to spend today? Debian GNU/Linux (Free for an UNLIMITED time) http://www.debian.org/social_contract.html Greg VenceKH2EA/4 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: S/Linux
Eric Waldman wrote: Any info available on when debian for the SPARCstations will be available. I use debian on all of my pentiums, 486's, and 386's. I have a sparcstation 1 and Sparc classic and would like to stick with debian. There is something working. There is a boot disk. There is a working libc5, gcc, make and so on. There is an experimental glibc, and some packages compiled against it. I'm running a full debian system on a Sparc LX; anyway, don't expect to much: for example, there is no X, no Emacs, and some other important packages. We need help, this is sure. Refer to [EMAIL PROTECTED] bye -- Davide Barbieri - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP fingerprint = CD 8D A9 1E DB 0C B0 16 F8 2F BF 63 52 49 8B A8 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
SCSI Trouble
Hi! I have some troubles with Linux setup. Linux messaging Ports not found after autodect of SCSI controller, then it trying reset controller and locks up after messages error 01 and kernel panic. I'm using Adaptec SCSI controller on HP NetServer. Bye. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
rl_get_string_value_hook in bash 2.01-1 (unstable) question
Hello, I nearly crashed my system today when, after a successfull upgrade to libc6 (according to the mini-HOWTO described in Debian-user) I upgraded from bash 2.01-0.1 to bash 2.01-1. I made the mistake of using dpkg-ftp; should maybe have done this one by hand. I do not wish to report this as a bug; after all, I know the meaning of the word unstable. But can someone explain what I did wrong? This is the story: The install failed because all scripts returned with the error: /bin/bash: error in loading shared libraries : undefined symbol: rl_get_string_value_hook after which all scripts returned: subprocess insert one of prerm, postinst etc. script returned error exit status 127 after which I couldn't open new shells (login worked, but bash failed) etc.. you can imagine the situation! I could rescue it by: 0) NOT logging out of the one shell that still worked (i.e. was the instance of bash from which I was installing in the first place) 1) manually (ar, tar) unpacking my old bash 2.01-0.1 file /bin/bash, 2) copying that to /bin/bash, 3) (luckily I still had this) dpkg --force-downgrade -i bash-2.01-0.1.deb I have: i486, mainly Debian 1.3 removed all libc5-dependent libX-dev packages upgraded (in order, worked like a charm.. more or less.. at least AFTERwards) libc6_2.0.4-1 ldso_1.9.5-1 libreadline2_2.1-2.1 ncurses3.4_1.9.9g-3 libreadlineg_2.1-2.1-2 bash_2.01-0.1 locales_2.0.4-1 (system worked fine) no altgcc, altdev. new gcc, libc6-dev, binutils (system worked fine) installation of bash_2.01-1 failed. My question is: In which library does rl_get_string_value_hook() reside? What does it do? Thank you for listening to all this rambling, Frits -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: rl_get_string_value_hook in bash 2.01-1 (unstable) question
I had this problem a few days ago. An updated upgrade readme was released a few days ago including the fix for your problem. I can't remember the version numbers now, but, you need the latest libreadline and libreadlineg (I think it ends in a -3). Everything worked great after that. Brandon -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Virtual memory problem?
I've successfully installed Debian Linux 1.3.1 before a few times, but now I've got a problem with a computer. So, I think it's not a problem of the distribution, nor the kernel. Maybe a problem of configuration, maybe a hardware problem, ... I don't know. You might just have kernel corrupted. Make sure your diskette has no bad blocks and re- rawrite the rescue disk. That's usually the main problem with floppy install. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
help - 1.3 upgrade killed XFree86
Yesterday I used the dselect/ftp method to upgrade my machine from Debian Linux 1.2 to 1.3. The system is now running 1.3, but X doesn't work anymore. Normally I have xdm starting at boot time; now the screen never comes up but the relays inside the monitor click about every second and there is a flash on the screen. I assumed something changed in the S3 driver (I am using Stealth64/DRAM). I disabled xdm at startup and did a startx /tmp/x.out 21 to capture the error messages at startup and came up with some things I have never seen before, like error opening security policy file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy What is this? If anyone is interested and can help, I can email the full x.out file for your perusal. Thanks! --- Ken Gaugler, Systems Engineer Hybrid Networks, Inc., 10201 Bubb Road, Cupertino, CA 95014 Phone: 408-725-3250 x215 FAX: 408-725-2439 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.hybrid.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
transfer debian to CDR
I have mirrored the debian bo, non-free, contrib, and hamm. Now, my friend want to install it and ask me to burn a CD from the mirror. I know how to creating the CD-image already, the problem is that the mirror (*.deb files only) is around 840MB, a CDR can only store up to 650MB, how can I due with this problem? If I split it and store on two CDRs, say, bo, non-free and contrib on the first CDR, and hamm on the second CDR, would dpkg/dselect understands and ask me the swap the proper CDR? My friend want hamm because it comes with libc6. Lawrence -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian Version Numbers Was: Is this the Debian Philosophy? (or.... $#@!@#$ bash 2.0!)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, joost witteveen wrote: The next version of the system will be called Debian 1.3.1 Revision 1. People who make long-term products based on Debian requested that we not change the version number of the system if we were only making a few bug fixes. For example, X windows was rebuilt because Richard Hang on, aren't I already running Debian 1.3 Revision 1 (or in other words Debian 1.3.1)? 1.3.1 != 1.3.1 Revision 1. The latter is the first revision of the former. That is not what I what I was saynig. bash$ cat /etc/debian_version 1.3 bash$ So I am running Debian version 1.3 - and yet the CD says Debian 1.3.1 . My conclusion is that I am running Debian 1.3 Revision (PatchLevel) 1 - which would explain why the CD says Debian 1.3.1 I understand the commercial reason behind wanting a slower number: but Debian already has that -- the current version of Debian is 1.3 . I don't understand why you want to have two revision numbers. Anand. - -- `When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives' -- Robert A Heinlein, If this goes on -- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBM/mwZmRmcAD8BdppAQEhEwQAhCL0pG0vS8BNJSB88Q9NlSGW4fmL9SOn xv3eYnNfLdjYMOZvGuD/cbeacnPM4nHGPOb2l1zHgv7lxdH+dwRb/psWSl3iDGMb IkoU5ZE3oJo9O4bEswFnB1qLRRcoZs1RIC+nH4kF+ttN5q6HGTKv2mslQRRUmpi6 DA1XYNSm3PM= =/NOf -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
hamm and compiling.
On 1 machine I have, I'm running hamm... updating daily. Real bleeding edge. I have a problem with compiling a program that I don't understand. Here is the error: gcc -g -ansi -pedantic -Wall -I./../include -I../include -I. -I..-c fcgiapp.c -o fcgiapp.o In file included from ../include/fcgimisc.h:30, from fcgiapp.c:33: /usr/include/arpa/inet.h:46: parse error before `__net' fcgiapp.c: In function `FCGX_IsCGI': fcgiapp.c:1889: warning: pointer targets in passing arg 3 of `getpeername' differ in signedness fcgiapp.c: In function `FCGX_Accept': fcgiapp.c:2121: warning: pointer targets in passing arg 3 of `accept' differ in signedness make[3]: *** [fcgiapp.o] Error 1 The warinings I can deal with, but the parse error has me baffled. The line from inet.h that it's choking on is: /* Format a network number NET into presentation format and place result in buffer starting at BUF with length of LEN bytes. */ extern char *inet_neta __P ((u_long __net, char *__buf, size_t __len)); Can anyone point out what the problem is that I'm missing? Thanks, Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps Too much information running through my brain, too much information, driving me insane. -- The Police ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
mallinfo redux
For those who care, I thought I'd summarise answers to my mallinfo question of yesterday, and what I came up with. Frits Daalmans suggested that I try the dmalloc package from non-free. However, when I installed it, there does not appear to be a mallinfo() defined in dmalloc.h. I suspect dmalloc is a pretty heavy duty debugging package, probably overkill for what was needed here, anyway. Robert Stone advised that that the code for mallinfo() was indeed in libc (as I had guessed from grepping the usr/lib directory ...), and was at a loss to explain why it wouldn't link in. After fighting with it this morning, I decided to add -lc to my linker flags. To my surprise, it worked! Can someone explain why? I thought libc was always linked in ... Anyway, thanks Frits and Robert. I appreciate the quick help. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls, SD 57104 Voice: (605) 334-4454 Fax: (605) 335-1173 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID: 0xA33B86E9 - Public key available at keyservers PGP Key fingerprint: CE03 10AF 3281 1858 9D32 C2AB 936D C472 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: signify
Does anybody know how to use signify with pine? I've copied one example as my .signify in my $HOME dir., but I'm clueless on how to make it work with pine. The easiest way to do this is to add a command like sh -c signify --fifo=$HOME/.signature to your .login file. However, somebody said that pine didn't like this, so perhaps you could try adding signify ! $HOME/.signature instead. That will change the signature each time you log on instead of generating a new signature each time. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- It's not the days in your life, but the life in your days that counts. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: pine/netscape sharing mail files
I looked at the pine and netscape mail files and they appear to be in the same format, except netscape has a summary file for each file. Would it be safe to have procmail deliving mail to a shared mailbox file that netscape and pine are reading (and have netscape or pine open)? I use procmail and a custom movemail script to deliver mail directly into Netscape's mail boxes. There are the following problems: - writing directly to netscape's Inbox is bad. - summaries are regenerated automatically if the mailbox is newer than the summary. - when regenerating summaries, deleted (but not removed by compressing) mail reappears. Note: This is with netscape v3. v4 works different but since I don't like the new mail interface, I don't use v4. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- You can never be too good looking or too well equipped. -- Dilbert -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Iomega Ditto 2GB (internal).
Felix Almeida wrote: I'm a sysadmin of a small network at my college and I'm going to buy a new tape drive in order to do the back-ups. Some friends told me that the Iomega Ditto 2GB (internal model) is a good choice. So, I'd like to know if this drive works fine under Linux. Are there any problems with it? Does the kernel recognizes it? Does anybody use it? Please, help me! ;-) If you get the SCSI ditto drive it will definitely work. I'm pretty sure the other verions will work too. However, before you just consider the one product, remember what that product was originally designed for. The ditto drive (and indeed other backup devices using Travan tapes) was designed for home system use and may not be as fast or as durable as you were hoping for. I recently had to buy new servers for work (which will run linux, of course 8) ) and I decided to see if I could get away with getting a travan tape drive instead of a DAT drive. Well, after searching the web I came to this web page. I definitely think it's worth reading before making up your mind. http://www.hp.com/tape/wppos.html We decided that DAT was the way to go in the end and that the extra price of the DAT drive would be more than compensated for in the cheapness of the tapes. (Travan tape drives are much cheaper than DAT, but the Travan tapes are more expensive than DAT tapes). I hope this helps, Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
need HELP in RECOVERING a DEBIAN SYSTEM
I have installed an apparently incompatible ldso version 1.9.5-1 on a libc5 debian system. Some library was not found so I have decided to down grade to the previous version of ldso (1.8.x-x). But then rm could not be found. In short I could not downgrade. The end result is that nothing seems to be found. I am still logged in, but trying to telnet to the system results in disconnection. Is there a way to recover the system? Thanks for your thoughts. eythan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: SoundBlaster
On Mon, 18 Aug 1997, R. Chris Ross wrote: I have a similar problem using kernel 2.0.27 with the really odd part being that I can play audio CDs using xplaycd. If something like saytime is run I get that /dev/audio is busy. In the kernel readme or sound howto it talks about checking that the device isn't being used by some other application and it is always free. You probably have nas on. You need to stop it. Nas is something like Network Audio System and Debian puts it on by default and that is the reason for the busy message. Look for the processes nas and kill it. Is there anybody who can explain this better? ~~~ D.J. Mashao, [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: SoundBlaster
Look for the processes nas and kill it. Or, as root: /etc/init.d/nas stop You can later start it again with: /etc/init.d/nas start (whether you used kill to stop it or the init.d script) Peter -- Peter Galbraith, research scientist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maurice-Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada P.O. Box 1000, Mont-Joli Qc, G5H 3Z4 Canada 418-775-0852 - FAX 418-775-0546 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Problems unpacking source shadow-961025.orig
Hello, I want to change the maximum username length, therefore I have to recompile the shadowsuite. But I have a problem when unpacking the source: I copied all three shadow*-files from my Debian 1.3.1 cdrom and tried it several times (fiddling with the options -sn and -su and untaring if manually). --snip-- niep# dpkg-source -x shadow_961025-2.dsc dpkg-source: error: diff patches file (shadow-961025.orig/src/.deps/.P) whose directory does not appear in tarfile --snap-- Any ideas ? Regards, Robert M. Albrecht -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
problem with dump
HI,
I unbale to use dump to backup my linux box. I receive the error message:
poynting{root}:3dump 0ubdfs 126 54000 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev/rmt/1n 3000
/dev/hd
DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Tue Aug 19 12:03:14 1997
DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
DUMP: Dumping /dev/hda2 (/) to /dev/rmt/1n on host [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
DUMP: estimated 525567 tape blocks on 0.60 tape(s).
rdump: Lost connection to remote host.
DUMP: Bad return code from dump: 1
Anyone have a idea to solve the problem?
Thanks in advance,
Dany Dionne
Physics Department
Laval University, CAanada
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Re: Debian Version Numbers Was: Is this the Debian Philosophy? (or.... $#@!@#$ bash 2.0!)
I concur. The next release of the stable tree should be called 1.3 Revision 2, not 1.3.1 Revision 1. What problem has this solved for CD retailers? Will they still be bummed when 1.3 Revision X+1 is released and they just got 1.3 Revision X on the shelves? Did it make any difference that it was called 1.3 Revision X instead of 1.3.X? I think not. The whole idea of appeasing marketing types seems ill-advised. They just need to learn when to pick a release to burn for retail distribution. If I were doing it, I'd never pick an X.Y.0 version. If Debian were still using the business practice of the 1.2 release: just release the fixes whenever they're deemed suitable (and re-release them if necessary) the marketing types wouldn't have this problem. Instead, by bundling and holding the patches for further testing and releasing them as unit, we now have a meaningful minor revision number and a major headache! I still like the new practice better, I just don't think the name change is going to allow the marketeers to fool themselves for very long :-). .kevin On Wed, 20 Aug 1997, Anand Kumria wrote: 1.3.1 != 1.3.1 Revision 1. The latter is the first revision of the former. That is not what I what I was saynig. bash$ cat /etc/debian_version 1.3 bash$ So I am running Debian version 1.3 - and yet the CD says Debian 1.3.1 . My conclusion is that I am running Debian 1.3 Revision (PatchLevel) 1 - which would explain why the CD says Debian 1.3.1 I understand the commercial reason behind wanting a slower number: but Debian already has that -- the current version of Debian is 1.3 . I don't understand why you want to have two revision numbers. Anand. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: [DEBIAN] AARGH PCMCIA network adaptor still not recognised
Nico De Ranter wrote: Howdy, I'm still having problems accessing my network from my portable. My 3Com Etherlink II 3C589D (or C) adaptor is recognised as a ... Anonymous Memory Card !!! I thought it was a problem with the PCMCIA drivers so I copied the pcmcia sources from a working portable (same network adaptor) and recompiled everything but it still doesn't work! I even tried installing Debian from a crapy InfoMagic CD I have (doesn't contain pcmcia drivers) and then installing the pcmcia sources from the the working notebook. This worked... until I upgraded Debian over the running network (making sure not to upgrade pcmcia support) When I rebooted pcmcia went to hell again!! Can somebody PLEEEASE give me a suteable solution for this! Having the user reboot a couple of times at startup is absolutely out of the question. I'm trying to convince my boss that Debian Linux is a good UNIX platform but I'm afraid this proves absolutely the oposite! Nico. On my laptop I must *power-down* from Win95 before rebooting into Linux in order for my 3c589d to work. (The same holds true for rebooting from Linux into Win95). -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Help, Please!
I can't get Debian to access my 6.4 Gig HD. It will access my 3.2Gig but laughs at me when it reads the drive geometry from the BIOS. Can anyone help. The HD is a Quantum BigFoot CY6.4 Logical Cylinders 13446 Logical Heads 15 Logical Sec/Track 63 Sectors 12706470 Thanks A Bunch Shawn Fetterolf -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: help - 1.3 upgrade killed XFree86
On Tue, 19 Aug 1997 07:29:11 PDT Kenneth Gaugler ([EMAIL PROTECTED] id.com) wrote: Yesterday I used the dselect/ftp method to upgrade my machine from Debian Linux 1.2 to 1.3. The system is now running 1.3, but X doesn't work anymore. startx /tmp/x.out 21 to capture the error messages at startup and came up with some things I have never seen before, like error opening security policy file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy Hmmm, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver points is a symlink to /etc/X11/xserver and /etc/X11/xserver contains SecurityPolicy. Both files are provided by xbase 3.3-3. Can you check for these files ? Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: transfer debian to CDR
On Wed, 20 Aug 1997 10:51:22 +1000 Lawrence Chim ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have mirrored the debian bo, non-free, contrib, and hamm. Now, my friend want to install it and ask me to burn a CD from the mirror. I know how to creating the CD-image already, the problem is that the mirror (*.deb files only) is around 840MB, a CDR can only store up to 650MB, how can I due with this problem? If I split it and store on two CDRs, say, bo, non-free and contrib on the first CDR, and hamm on the second CDR, would dpkg/dselect understands and ask me the swap the proper CDR? The debian-cd packages builds two iso images (source and binaries) from a mirror tree. You might want to give it a try... Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
debian on compaq deskpro 5133
Has anyone out there installed Debian on a Compaq Deskpro 5133 ? Thanks, Alfonso -- Alfonso E. Urdaneta VOX: 407.729.3840 Harris Corp/Transcomm Division FAX: 407.729.1962 PO Box 5100, MS 6B.3827mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Melbourne, FL 32902.5100 http://www.transcomm.ess.harris.com The Harris Corporation agrees with everything I say. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: rl_get_string_value_hook in bash 2.01-1 (unstable) question
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, Frits Daalmans wrote: I nearly crashed my system today when, after a successfull upgrade to libc6 (according to the mini-HOWTO described in Debian-user) I upgraded from bash 2.01-0.1 to bash 2.01-1. [snipped] My question is: In which library does rl_get_string_value_hook() reside? What does it do? That is a known problem of upgrading your bash to 2.01-1 before upgrading libreadlineg2 to 2.1-3. Version 2.01-2 of bash will have predepends to prevent that from happening. Basically, you need to upgrade libreadlineg2 first. - -- | The bond that links your true family is not Scott K. Ellis | one of blood, but of respect and joy in each [EMAIL PROTECTED] | other's life. Rarely do members of one | family grow up under the same roof. | -- Illusions -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBM/nQu6Ck2fENdzpVAQFEFQQAlyJYNr5X1e8cZxCA4uhPOHQZyGiigSBB vO4KrzzUQ82PSNISIjZXwM/LInKnWBlztpY2lrf2NTrTUMolKVcZH0OAoHdoqEdb rEVCSPnD7WB4kGh0/THbYi1Cr6KluWlOC7YSa0T7KFtA0su2ma29oWtzYGU0yIMI 5zn9hikHwPw= =l+1/ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
xfree86
hello, i just changed to debian linux for the first time and have a small x problem: root can startx and everything works fine but when a user starts x no windows manager is loaded. which startup files do i have to copy/create for each user? thanks a lot! michael -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
install w. smc-ultra as module
Hi, I just got my first debian installation done (1.3.1), but would have needed only half the time if the following Problem hadn't occured: I started from dos drive hda1 the rescue system and tried to configure the drivers. My ethernetcard is a SMC 8216C, etherEZ says it is on io=0x220, irq=10, mem=0xc8000 .. 0xcbfff. When I insert the module first this is recognized fine, but the message: -- Executing module post-install script 'cdrom-symlink' script -ultra -ultra not found Executing shell_smc -ultra failed -- appears. After menu netconfiguration (ifconfig??) I get very fast endless lines saying eth0: mismatched read page pointers 0 vs c. (always 0 vs c). This is on all pseudo terms, but everything seems to work despite that. (You must be fast to work with the menus from now on;-) Afer rebooting with the freshly created bootdisk same happens... 1. The ethernet-HOWTO 3.7.4 says this happens sometimes with 8390 based cards (to which mine belongs) with nexgen cpu (I used a P90). 2. Another user reported this here for an smc 8416 card with debian 1.2 and a 2.0.27 kernel..., but I found no answers. My solution: A kernel with builtin network support did the job (taken from another distribution). After building a customized kernel I hopefully can forget about this. However, since I had to install via ftp, for a linux-newcomer this would not have been nice. Michael Taeschner DLR Braunschweig: [EMAIL PROTECTED] who needs gates in a world without fences... (author ?) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
dselect woes
I'm trying to use dselect to no avail. First I tried to tell dselect to read the cdrom. chose option a, saw the following If you make a mistake use the interrupt key ( ^C ) to abort. I see that /dec/cdrom exists and is a block device Inser the CD-ROM and enter the block device name [/dec/cdrom] So I inserted my handy dandy debian 1.3.1 binary cd, and hit return and got this. mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/cdrom as a block device ( maybe 'insmod driver'?) Unable to mount /dev/cdrom on /var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt, type iso9660. Insert the CD-ROM blah blah blah I figure OK, the machine does not like my cdrom drive. Why not try the insmod driver thing. So I type insmod /dev/cdrom and get /dev/cdrom: /dev/cdrom: No such device So I figure that I should try the FTP method instead. Picked that, chose all the defaults and then got Net::FTP: Bad hostname 'ftp.debian.org' at /usr/lib/perl5/Net/FTP.pm line 405 FTP ERROR query/setup script returned error exit status 1. OK, I obviously don't have a nameserver so I did a nslookup on ftp.debian.org and tried again with 130.207.7.21 ( which is aliased to santanni.cc.gatech.edu ). Default answer for everything else. Connecting to 130.207.7.21... FTP ERROR query/setup script returned errror exit status 1. What should I try now ? Alfonso ( aka confused ) -- Alfonso E. Urdaneta VOX: 407.729.3840 Harris Corp/Transcomm Division FAX: 407.729.1962 PO Box 5100, MS 6B.3827mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Melbourne, FL 32902.5100 http://www.transcomm.ess.harris.com The Harris Corporation agrees with everything I say. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Virtual memory problem?
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: I've successfully installed Debian Linux 1.3.1 before a few times, but now I've got a problem with a computer. So, I think it's not a problem of the distribution, nor the kernel. Maybe a problem of configuration, maybe a hardware problem, ... I don't know. It's both kernel and hardware. AFAIK the problem exists in all 2.0.x kernels, but it wasn't noticed until 2.0.30 (hint: don't upgrade to 2.0.30 ;) FWIW I can configure my box to produce Unable to handle paging request stack traces on 2.0.29, too. Try disabling PCI burst, increasing wait states, RAM timings, or whatever your BIOS allows you to do to slow down your box. Also, try making a custom bootdisk with kernel 2.0.27. Hope this helps -- Dimitri emaziuk at curtin dot edu dot au, if you're replying to --- a Usenet posting Avoid reality at all costs. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Help, Please!
I can't get Debian to access my 6.4 Gig HD. It will access my 3.2Gig but laughs at me when it reads the drive geometry from the BIOS. Can anyone help. The HD is a Quantum BigFoot CY6.4 Wow!!! I've never had my Debian system laugh at me! Guess I'll have to install a sound card grin Anyway, have you tried various BIOS HD translation settings? i.e. LBA, CHS, etc? Later, Kevin Traas Baan Business Systems Systems Analyst Langley, BC, Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 882-8169 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: debian on compaq deskpro 5133
Has anyone out there installed Debian on a Compaq Deskpro 5133 ? What hardware does it have? Sony CDU77e cdrom drive 3.25 Floppy 2 2.1 G IDE HD 32 M RAM Matrox Millenia graphics card Unknown ethernet card. Is this the older `Deskpro XL 5133' model? The following is an excerp from the Linux Compaq Deskpro XL HOWTO: http://www-c724.uibk.ac.at/XL/ Compaq maps the 32bit entry point of the PCI-BIOS way up around the 4GB address. Linux can not access it there with the mapping it usually has. Therefore if no special precautions are taken the kernel prints pcibios_init: entry in high memory, unable to access on booting. This leaves the PCI stuff unavailable and hinders the functioning of nearly all PCI devices. Compaq provides a BIOS relocation service called MOVEPCI (a kind of virtual device driver) that remaps the PCI 32bit BIOS entry point to an address that Linux can read. However, this has the major disadvantage that you have to boot DOS (to call MOVEPCI in your CONFIG.SYS) before you can boot Linux (by using the program loadlin). -- Aside from that (!), I don't know about the CD. The HARDWARE-HOWTO mentions: · Sony CDU31A/CDU33A · Sony CDU-535/CDU-531 The Matrox is supported by XFree-3.3 and above using the SVGA server. Peter -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: dselect woes
On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, Alfonso E. Urdaneta wrote: I'm trying to use dselect to no avail. First I tried to tell dselect to read the cdrom. [snip] So I type insmod /dev/cdrom /dev/cdrom: /dev/cdrom: No such device You should get your cdrom recognized. What kind of cdrom do you have? If it's IDE, things will be fairly easy. Also, what controller is the cdrom on? (I'm assuming that it is an IDE cdrom, and I'm asking if it is connected to the same cable as your primary IDE hard drive, or if it is on it's own cable). Also, what is your basic hardware configuration? Syrus. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Syrus Nemat-Nasser [EMAIL PROTECTED]UCSD Physics Dept. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
duplicating a floppy
Hi there! Hum, Hum ! I'm not sure that's the best place to ask it. Nevertheless ... I would like to duplicate a msdos floppy in such a way that even its mother won't make the difference.. I've tried mcopy, but the mother did the difference... Thanks in advance, ml P.S. what could make the difference between 2 floppies ? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: duplicating a floppy
Hum, Hum ! I'm not sure that's the best place to ask it. Nevertheless ... This list is always off the topic. But that's ok, it's still educational and linux related. I would like to duplicate a msdos floppy in such a way that even its mother won't make the difference.. I've tried mcopy, but the mother did the difference... 1) # insert original 2) dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/tmp/image bs=1024 3) # insert target (error free target that is) 4) dd of=/dev/fd0 if=/tmp/image bs=1024 5) man dd # to see what the heck you did For saftey reasons, you probably want the write protect tab set on the original. P.S. what could make the difference between 2 floppies ? At a very low level (bit wise), the normal copy program will make some changes that don't show up unless you are looking at the bits. HTH, Brandon -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: dselect woes
On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, Alfonso E. Urdaneta wrote: I'm trying to use dselect to no avail. First I tried to tell dselect to read the cdrom. chose option a, saw the following [ error sniped ] Is it recognized at boot up (try more | dmesg if you missed it)? If so, just mount it before going into dselect. (mount -t iso9660 /dev/ /cdrom, the should be apparent from dmesg. My ide cdrom uses hdc.) If it's not recognized, you may have to recompile your kernel to get the cdrom working. If all that did work, you may want to look at man fstab to make it more automatic. So I figure that I should try the FTP method instead. [ another error snipped ] How are you connecting to the net (or did you connect)? Also, did you set up the network correctly during installation? Good luck, Brandon -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: dselect woes
On Aug 19, Brandon Mitchell wrote On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, Alfonso E. Urdaneta wrote: I'm trying to use dselect to no avail. First I tried to tell dselect to read the cdrom. chose option a, saw the following [ error sniped ] Is it recognized at boot up (try more | dmesg if you missed it)? If ^ Better make that dmesg | more ---| so, just mount it before going into dselect. (mount -t iso9660 /dev/ /cdrom, the should be apparent from dmesg. My ide cdrom uses hdc.) If it's not recognized, you may have to recompile your kernel to get the cdrom working. If all that did work, you may want to look at man fstab to make it more automatic. So I figure that I should try the FTP method instead. [ another error snipped ] How are you connecting to the net (or did you connect)? Also, did you set up the network correctly during installation? Good luck, Brandon -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- - Mike Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.bend-or.com/~mschmitz Don't blame me - I voted libertarian!http://www.lp.org/ Use Debian Linux - the free Gnu/Linuxhttp://www.debian.org/ - -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Man question
How can I change it so that less is used to view man pages instead of more? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Man question
export PAGER=less (that's from memory, possible typos) Brandon On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, Shaleh wrote: How can I change it so that less is used to view man pages instead of more? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Help: My ISDN dial-in is not working
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: And I selected my Teles card for support. teles card ? please use a current kernel (2.0.29 or 30) with the 2.0.30A isdn patch (already included in debian kernels (-6 or -7 or so). /sbin/isdnctrl verbose 0 bad thing. use verbose 2 at least. /sbin/ifconfig ippp0 $MY_HOSTNAME pointopoint $IP_ADDRESS metric 1 /sbin/route add default ippp0 add a normal net or host route to the device first. othervice route maybe will not add a route /sbin/route del default ifconfig ippp0 down strange script. a) ifconfig down ? and no ifconfig up later ? that does work ? b) default route, but no normal route ? tha does work ? Aug 6 14:27:46 zeus kernel: hscx_empty_fifo: incoming packet too large kernel version ? please use 2.0.29/30 and 2.0.30A patch (included in debian kernels -6 and -7 (maybe also in earlier kernels)). kernel image has isdn as module (many people tell me, that isdn as module is better : isdn isn't 100% stable, so removing and readding the module is better than rebooting :-) what isdnutils do you use ? please use the newest 2.1.beta1 version (should be in incoming, bo-updates or so (but maybe will not work ?)). who can give me some examples ?! And who knows the answer to my problem. i have put my own configuration in isdnutils. isdn and ipppd are running fine (but isdnlog and vbox are nto always running). do you like to beta test ? new isdn package in these days... andreas -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian Version Numbers Was: Is this the Debian Philosophy? (or.... $#@!@#$ bash 2.0!)
bash$ cat /etc/debian_version 1.3 bash$ So I am running Debian version 1.3 - and yet the CD says Debian 1.3.1 . Oops. My fault. The reason for two numbers is mostly marketing. I know that marketing is anathema to most of us, but someone's gotta do it and I'm afraid the task fell on me. Feel free to call me up if you need a longer explanation. But maybe we should start with Revision 2 rather than 1. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
compiling Vim 5.0l, config broken?
I am having a hard time getting Vim 5.0l to compile. It appears the configure script is somehow broken, but I don't know anything about autoconf or whatever this is generated from... It lists functions and such which I know are availible and usable as not availible, and at the conclusion of the process, an error message appears: sed: file conftest.s1 line 8: Unterminated `s' command and no config.mk files appears. Vim 4.6 configured and built fine. Has anyone gotten any of the 5.0 alphas to compile under debian I'm up to date with stable. Thanks, Chris. Chris R. Martin email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Engineeringweb: http://http.tamu.edu/~crm7479/ Texas AM University... I'm a 21st century digital boy, I don't know how to read but I've got a lot of toys. -- Bad Relgion -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
GhostScript problem
I just installed the ghostscript package, and it's working great, except for this: every postscript document I print ends up with its last line cut off. How can I stop this? I'm using a Canon BJ-200e printer. Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian Version Numbers Was: Is this the Debian Philosophy? (or.... $#@!@#$ bash 2.0!)
On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: [snip] The reason for two numbers is mostly marketing. I know that marketing is anathema to most of us, but someone's gotta do it and I'm afraid the task fell on me. Feel free to call me up if you need a longer explanation. But maybe we should start with Revision 2 rather than 1. I really wish I could have seen the original discussion. It wouldn't happen to be archived anywhere would it? The only problem I forsee is that once the scheme goes into effect, what's to stop someone from asking a cd maker for 1.3.1 revision 2? Perhaps we should periodically make a commercial release so the vendors know what they should be making, and users know what's going on. If another vendor can make cd's for the minor releases too, more power to them. But those will probably be the same ones making releases of unstable on a gold cd. Also, how will the numbers change in the future: 1.3.1 R1, 1.3.1 R2... 1.3.2 (commercial release), 1.3.2 R1...? If so, revision 1 sounds better than revision 2. Sorry if I'm digging up an old thread, Brandon -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Help: My ISDN dial-in is not working
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: T.G.H. de Grunt wrote: I'm about to go through this process. I've noticed that many people treat the ISDN device just like a modem and skip all the other 'special stuff' from these help guides. I'm not sure if that is a locality issue though. uh, that's a difference ! in usa isdn is different, there is noly one supported isdn card, and everybody uses external isdn devices (they work like a modem). in europe most people use internal isdncards like teles, fritz, icn, and use them as real isdn cards (much advantages, but more difficult). andreas -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: dselect woes
I figure OK, the machine does not like my cdrom drive. Why not try the insmod driver thing. So I type insmod /dev/cdrom Actually, insmod means add a driver to the kernel. (Okay, it means load a module, but let's not get technical.) For instance, to use my CD-ROM, I have to type insmod sbpcd The sbpcd is SoundBlaster Proprietary CD. If your CD-ROM is not IDE or SCSI, you'll need either a custom-compiled kernel or a module (and module-aware kernel) to use it. Why not post to the list what model CD-ROM you have? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum http://dm.net -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
telnet and ftp..
Hello all! I'm not quite sure what I did.. but, somehow I managed to remove telnet and ftp from my Debian installation through dselect. Of course, this is rather inconvenient. Which package can I find these programs? Cheers! Richard.. - Richard Dansereau Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home page: http://pobox.com/~rdanse Electrical and Computer Engineering - University of Manitoba - Canada - -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
*jed*: How to remove the top _MENU_ line?
Hi, How to remove the top line - '*** Debian GNU/Linux *** ...' In emacs, I can do: '(menu-bar-mode -1)' thanks -mlt -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: about the gpc package
Look at the bug reports for the gpc package on www.debian.org for a fix . The one who took over the package has vanished appearantly. Anyone volunteering to maintain the package? On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, nik w wrote: I am unable to compile schtuff with gpc, namely: godg# pwd /usr/doc/gpc/examples/contrib godg# gpc screen.p ld: cannot open -lgpc: No such file or directory i _do_ have libgpc2 installed: godg# dpkg -L libgpc2 /. /usr /usr/lib /usr/lib/libgpc.so.2.8 /usr/lib/libgpc.so.2 would i be wrong in expecting to see a libgpc.a somewhere? thanks, nik w. --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
X reconfiguration for xdm ???
I've managed to break my X windows: is there any way of restoring the default so that xdm will boot and a windows manager will be selected. I can do startx / xinit and get a single xterm but I'd like xdm and a window manager back. I can reinstall xbase, but the default postinst refuses to touch existing servers. Andy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
How can I set the timezone on a computer?
Somehow the timezone on my computer is HST, not PST. I would like to set it to PST. How can I do this? -- oo Sending unsolicited commercial e-mail (UCE) to this address Legal Notice is indication of your consent to pay me $120/hour for 1 hour oo minimum for professional proofreading technical assessment. Terrence Brannon * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://quake.usc.edu/~brannon -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
tzconfig does not discriminate Pacific and Pacific-New!
Please enter the name of one of these cities or zones You just need to type enough letters to resolve ambiguities Press Enter to view all of them again Name: [Pacific] Pacific Pacific Pacific-New Please enter the name of one of these cities or zones You just need to type enough letters to resolve ambiguities Press Enter to view all of them again Name: [Pacific] Pacific Pacific Pacific-New Please enter the name of one of these cities or zones You just need to type enough letters to resolve ambiguities Press Enter to view all of them again Name: [Pacific] -- oo Sending unsolicited commercial e-mail (UCE) to this address Legal Notice is indication of your consent to pay me $120/hour for 1 hour oo minimum for professional proofreading technical assessment. Terrence Brannon * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://quake.usc.edu/~brannon -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: How can I set the timezone on a computer?
On 19 Aug 1997, Terrence Brannon wrote: Somehow the timezone on my computer is HST, not PST. I would like to set it to PST. How can I do this? as root, do tzconfig clock -s Will --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ For PGP Public Key, visit my website. --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: X reconfiguration for xdm ???
on Tue, Aug 19, 1997 at 10:20:06PM + EDST, Andrew Martin Adrian Cater [Andy] wrote: I've managed to break my X windows: is there any way of restoring the default so that xdm will boot and a windows manager will be selected. I can do startx / xinit and get a single xterm but I'd like xdm and a window manager back. I can reinstall xbase, but the default postinst refuses to touch existing servers. Andy If you are using the file-rc package try purging and then reinstalling it. My xdm wouldn't work and this fixed it for me. All the removeing and reinstalling of xbase, etc. wouldn't fix xdm for me. Victor -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
