Ghostscript 5 for 1.3.1 working?
I installed gs 5 a while ago, but I havn't been able to make it work with my Epson Stylus Color 600. When I install the package, it says that it can't be configured (for reason which I forget at the moment). It seems to try to work though, but I can't figure out how to make the new unified printer driver thingy work for me. Anyone gotten this new system working? __ I like six eggs when starting on a journey. Fried - not poached. And mind you don't break 'em. I won't eat a broken egg. -- Thorin Oakenshield -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
kernel-module version mismatch...
Hi, When I try insmod paride, which was compiled my me running kernel 2.0.32 and /usr/src/linux is link against 2.0.32 kernel, I get this error: /lib/modules/2.0.32/misc/paride.o: kernel-module version mismatch /lib/modules/2.0.32/misc/paride.o was compiled for kernel version 2.0.29 while this kernel is version 2.0.32. The 2.0.29 was the kernel that came with Debian 1.3.*, but since then, I have rolled my own though not in debian way. I have also tried other modules that were compiled outside the kernel compile, and I get same message. Hope someone has a hint as to what is causing this. Thanks for any help, David -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Printing
Hi! I've got a Canon BJ-200ex printer. Can I use it under LINUX? I have used ghostscript 5.03 and magicfilter, but it doesn't working! ghostscript_5.03-3_i386.deb (I've done it with alien) magicfilter_1.2-10.deb This is my /etc/printcap file: (magicfilterconfig) lp|bj|bj200|Canon BJ-200ex:\ :lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/var/spool/lpd/bj200:\ :sh:pw#80:pl#72:px#1440:mx#0:\ :if=/usr/sbin/bj200-filter:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs: I use this command: lpr debian-faq.ps The /var/log/lpr.log contains this line Dec 19 02:57:54 moslek lpd[7496]: lp: Daemon filter 'f' terminated (13) The /var/log/lp-err contains this line Can't find initialization file gs_init.ps I think, I have to set GS_LIB and GS_FONTPATH. Can anyone help? Corleone -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
scsi problems, ncr53x8xx and 2+ devices resets bus
I've just added a SONY SDT-5000 DDS-2 tape drive to my system, and am getting a lot of scsi bus resets whenever two or more scsi devices are accessed simultaneously. At first i thought it was just the tape drive, but i tested various combinations of hardware and can reproduce the error by using ANY two or more devices simultaneously (e.g. 'du' on one of the scsi disks plus a tar cv writing to the tape, or 'du' running on both scsi disks simultaneously). all of the scsi devices work fine if i physically remove the other scsi devices from the system. The SCSI bus is terminated correctly. The cable is a 7 device cable. I think i've got a 2 device cable lying around somewhere - i'll try that later today and see if it helps. I have tried various options with the ncr53c8xx driver (as suggested in /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/README.ncr53c8xx), including disabling disconnect, disabling synchronous, disable queued command etc. Nothing makes any difference. I've run out of clues. any help would be appreciated. Thanks hardware details: Gigabyte 586-HX motherboard, with Cyrix 6x86-P166 CPU. 1 x 1.6GB EIDE hard disk 1 x Quantum Empire 540 SCSI disk 1 x SONY SDT-5000 SCSI DAT tape 1 x Seagate ST41651 SCSI disk 1 x PCI SOYO brand NCR 53c810 scsi host adaptor 1 x PCI 2MB Trio64 SVGA card 1 x wd8003 8 bit ethernet card on irq 5 1 x Jazz16 sound card (io 0x220, irq 7; dma 1,5) -- rarely used 96MB memory (The Seagate ST41651 got installed this morning - it has been sitting gathering dust for over a year because it's an ancient and extremely noisy full-height clunker. i only installed it to see if i could reproduce the problem without having the tape drive installed.) The SOYO ncr53c810 card is quite old. it's one of the early 53c810 cards. is it just useless crap? should i go and get an aha2940 or buslogic or advansys? anyone know where to get a buslogic or advansys at a decent price here in melbourne? software: debian hamm (current as of a few days ago) Linux kernel 2.0.32 scsi and sd drivers compiled into kernel ncr53c8xx driver compiled as module st driver compiled as module interesting stuff from /proc (with comments from me): $ cat /proc/pci PCI devices found: Bus 0, device 10, function 0: VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. Trio32/Trio64 (rev 0). Medium devsel. IRQ 11. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe000. Bus 0, device 8, function 0: Non-VGA device: NCR 53c810 (rev 1). Medium devsel. IRQ 15. Master Capable. Latency=64. I/O at 0x6100. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe080. Bus 0, device 7, function 1: IDE interface: Intel 82371SB Natoma/Triton II PIIX3 (rev 0). Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0xf000. Bus 0, device 7, function 0: ISA bridge: Intel 82371SB Natoma/Triton II PIIX3 (rev 1). Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. No bursts. Bus 0, device 0, function 0: Host bridge: Intel 82439HX Triton II (rev 3). Medium devsel. Master Capable. Latency=32. $ cat /proc/scsi/ncr53c8xx/0 General information: Chip NCR53C810, device id 0x1, revision id 0x1 IO port address 0x6100, IRQ number 15 Using memory mapped IO at virtual address 0x682e000 Synchronous period factor 25, max commands per lun 4 Profiling information: num_trans= 1040 num_kbytes = 4711 num_disc = 1594 num_break= 155 num_int = 210 num_fly = 1040 ms_setup = 80 ms_data = 5550 ms_disc = 5080 ms_post = 70 This is a SOYO brand NCR 53c810 card. I'm using the BSD ncr53c8xx driver because it is more reliable than the 53c7xx,8xx driver. if i use 53c7xx,8xx then the machine will lock up rather than just reset the scsi bus. $ cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: QUANTUM Model: EMPIRE_540S Rev: 1202 Type: Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 02 Lun: 00 Vendor: SONY Model: SDT-5000 Rev: 3.30 Type: Sequential-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 04 Lun: 00 Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST41651 Rev: 7668 Type: Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02 The seagate is at the end of the chain and is terminated.
Re: kernel-module version mismatch...
Hi, I take it these are third party kernel modules you are trying to compile and run. Welcome to the bleeding edge. Firstly, this is likely to be tricky. Secondly, you need to compile the module using the 2.0.32 kernel header files (judicious use of -I/usr/src/linux/include/ in makefiles is going to be required). (If you are upto some wizardry, look into the use of /usr/src/modules and the modules-config modules-image targets in /usr/lib/kernel-package/rules). I must warn you, though, kernel modules are not for the faint of heart, as you have discovered. In case you are curious, I am including an explanation as to why Debian does this. manoj __ This document contains comments from Linus Torvalds (made in an ``off-the-cuff'' personal email) to help clarify the rationale behind the Debian way of handling symlinks, but this should not be seen as an official policy statement by Linus. I'm attaching a disclaimer in his own words. The only reason that Linus's message is quoted in here is that he can explain the technical reasons with far more lucidity than I can, and now that I have permission to include his mail, I am removing most of my far less facile efforts in that regard. David == David Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED] said on Mon, 24 Feb 1997 Linus == Linus Torvalds said on Mon, 24 Feb 1997 David Hi Linus, David No matter how well we try to explain ourselves, the symlinks issue David keeps coming up. Would you mind if we used your message below in David our responses? Linus Sure. Don't make it the word of God - please point out that Linus it was a off-the-bat personal reply to a question concerning Linus this, and while I'm more than happy to have the email Linus circulated it shouldn't be seen as a official document in any Linus way.. Linus Linus --- The headers were included in libc5-dev after a rash of very buggy alpha kernel releases (1.3.7* or something like that) that proceeded to break compilations, etc. Kernel versions are changed far more rapidly than libc is, and there are higher chances that people install a custom kernel than they install custom libc. libc6 includes it's own version of /usr/include/linux and friends form the beginning (that is, this is no longer a Debian only feature, the upstream version has moved to this scheme as well). Linus == Linus Torvalds said on Wed, 22 Jan 1997: Linus The kernel headers used to make sense exporting to user space, Linus but the user space thing has grown so much that it's really not Linus practical any more. The problem with Debian is just that they Linus are different, not that they are doing anything wrong. That Linus leads to differences between the distributions, and that in Linus turn obviously can result in subtle problems. Linus As of glibc, the kernel headers will really be _kernel_ Linus headers, and user level includes are user level Linus includes. Matthias Ulrich did that partly because I've asked Linus him to, but mainly just because it is no longer possible to try Linus to synchronize the libc and the kernel the way it used to Linus be. The symlinks have been a bad idea for at least a year now, Linus and the problem is just how to get rid of them Linus gracefully. Personally, I'm counting on glibc, which we are Linus already using on alpha. Linus Just to give you some idea of exactly why the includes really Linus can't be handled by simple symlinks: the main problem is Linus version skew. Lots of people want to upgrade their library Linus without affecting the kernel, and probably even more people Linus want to be able to upgrade their kernel without affecting their Linus compilation environment. Right now doing that has been Linus extremely fragile. Linus Just to give _one_ example of why the symlinks are bad: NR_OPEN Linus and fd_set. I have had no end of problems making NR_OPEN Linus larger in the kernel, exactly _because_ of the damn Linus sym-links. If I just make NR_OPEN larger (the right thing to Linus do), the problem is that people with old libraries will now Linus compile against a header file that doesn't match the library Linus any more. And when the library internally uses another NR_OPEN Linus than the new program does, interesting things happen. Linus In contrast, with separate header files, this doesn't make any Linus difference. If I change NR_OPEN in the kernel, the compilation Linus environment won't notice UNTIL the library and associated Linus header files are changed: thus the user will continue to compile Linus with the old values, but because we'll still be binary Linus compatible, the worst thing that happens is that new programs Linus won't take advantage of new features unless the
a few questions...
Hi...
I have Debian/hamm box at home, and I have a problem:
When I try to print, I do:
lpr file
it hangs and strace lpr file stops at
connect(4, {sin_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(515),
sin_addr=inet_addr(195.113.48.42)}, 16 unfinished ...
(195.113.48.42 is invalid adress used during installation from my work.
It looks to me that I have to re-configure the network and/or lpd to use
localhost address. Where?
Thanx in advance...
Ax
P.S. Why isn't xforms in hamm? I used LyX very often but I can't install it...
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3c503 module
I just re-installed Debian 1.3.1 and I installed the kernel module for a 3c503 EtherLink II/16 bit ethernet card. It detected it fine. When I booted off the floppy, it says: 3c503 That's it. It says this when loading the modules. If it helps, I'm using Debian 1.3.1 on a 486SX/25 with 8MB RAM. Thanks very much. -- ` Aaron Walker Work: Site: http://www.iconmedia.com Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Personal: Site: http://www.iconmedia.com/aaron Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] `` -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Printing
I don't know about you, but when I tried to install GS 5 (the libc 5 package anyway) I got an error saying the package couldn't be configured (though GS 4 was configured, as far as I know). Did you get this? Could it be responsible for your problem? On Fri, 19 Dec 1997, Toth Laszlo wrote: Hi! I've got a Canon BJ-200ex printer. Can I use it under LINUX? I have used ghostscript 5.03 and magicfilter, but it doesn't working! ghostscript_5.03-3_i386.deb (I've done it with alien) magicfilter_1.2-10.deb This is my /etc/printcap file: (magicfilterconfig) lp|bj|bj200|Canon BJ-200ex:\ :lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/var/spool/lpd/bj200:\ :sh:pw#80:pl#72:px#1440:mx#0:\ :if=/usr/sbin/bj200-filter:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs: I use this command: lpr debian-faq.ps The /var/log/lpr.log contains this line Dec 19 02:57:54 moslek lpd[7496]: lp: Daemon filter 'f' terminated (13) The /var/log/lp-err contains this line Can't find initialization file gs_init.ps I think, I have to set GS_LIB and GS_FONTPATH. Can anyone help? Corleone -- 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: bootable Debian 1.3.1 CD
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Regarding bootable Debian 1.3.1 CD of 03:26 AM -0800 1997-12-17, Christian Hagemeier wrote: My motherboard supports the feature to boot from a CD-ROM. I read that I can install Debian this way. But how do i create such a CD? Or is the Official CD such a bootable CD? The Official CD is bootable, yes. - -- Joel Espy Klecker Debian GNU/Linux Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux http://www.debian.org/ PGP Fingerprint (RSA Key): 12 92 9C E4 60 DF 62 CD FC AD 18 47 9A 74 E7 D1 Apple Flavored Unix http://www.espy.org/apple-flavored-unix/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.5 iQCVAwUBNJn4dQoYIlYX1XaBAQH//gQAg1P7dlnGqBIZtjYzsa3NA7EMA9fMcPyR q8iw17xjcqy0bwri14hQWggRNifbAYX7FUMdKgXSAT2/iMBLu7WhCqNoyoq6gaFQ Rd9vHlVzcUupy2IJMzCY/NTu91BzU1ZRuu0q0cz+sow8ifmbOnUDon2QARkyaXWH yk+gOhqSHLQ= =TsDU -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
sendmail installation
Hi,
I've just install the debian 1.3.1.r6 on a new harddrive and
the sendmail gave me some error: (PLEASE HELP)
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# dpkg -i /pub/debian/bo/binary-i386/mail/sendmail_8.8.5-1.deb
Selecting previously deselected package sendmail.
(Reading database ... 11862 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking sendmail (from .../mail/sendmail_8.8.5-1.deb) ...
Setting up sendmail (8.8.5-1) ...
Sendmail Configuration
--
By answering the following questions, you can configure sendmail for your
system. Default values are determined either by your existing configuration
or from common usage.
Press [ENTER]
Mail Name
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Your `mail name' is the hostname portion of the address to be shown on
outgoing news and mail messages (following the username and @ sign). This
name will be used by other programs besides sendmail; it should be the single,
canonical name from which mail will appear to originate.
hostname: Host name lookup failure
dpkg: error processing sendmail (--install):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
sendmail
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NEC America, Inc. ASL
1525 Walnut Hill Ln. Irving, TX 75038
tel: (214)-518-3437 fax: (214)-518-3499
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Re: dselect question
I wanted to use dselect because it could show me dependencies and suggestions, before it tried to install them. I grabbed a few packages and it turned out they had some dependencies I did not expect. So I had a half installed package left behind. Thought dselect might have helped here. Is there a way to find this out ahead of time? Yes, there is a way. dselect uses dpkg to find out about dependencies. With the dpkg --info package.deb command you will get a lot of info, among which a line starting with `Depends'. This line will tell you what the package depends on. Eric Meijer -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax+31 40 2455054 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Debian Linux in Compaq Armada 7300
I´m just installing debian linux to my Compaq Armada 7300 series laptop. I suppose there will be some slight problems with network cards (I´m using compaq netplex 10/100 integrated on the docking station and PCMCIA 3C589D.) and possibly with display adapter. I´m interested to hear if someone else has managed to get Debian with X up and running. Please mail me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sincerely, -- Timo Multamäki |Data Fellows Ltd GSM:+358-40-5479523|Support Specialist Fax:+358-9-85990763| [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Is it possible to start X Windows in multiple V/C .
I'm wondering is it possible to start X-Windows in multiple virtual consoles and if so how. Thanks. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
dpkg and deb files
HI (Me again) I am still having major problems with dpkg and deb files, as suggested i have re downloaded the deb files several times, both with cute ftp (in binary mode) and msie, yet when ever i try to install them with dpkg i always get the same error messages. unexpected eof, something about the archive not being in gzip format, if fact the same messagaes you get when tring to install anyole file (ie not a deb). I have getting nowwhere at all. I have tried installing from both mounted vfat and msdos partitions, and copying the files to /tmp, but still no joy at all, I have checked the packages file and have not missed any dependcys that i know of (trying to get manpages to work, so i have, man-db, manpages, groff, and a lib required by groff) and nothing will install at all. - *HELP!* Rick Email - [EMAIL PROTECTED] homepage - http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/kitty5/ (Raytracing, 3D Animation and Emulation) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xcdroast is using cdwrite - why?
Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Hi! : I've installed xcdroast from hamm and I'm trying to copy an audio cd. : Xcdroast is still using cdwrite - which isn't installed anymore. Even : worse cdwrite won't work with my cdwriter, only cdrecord does it. : What Do I need to do to let xcdroast use cdrecord? You'll need at least xcdroast-96c. Have a look at comp.os.linux.announce. Ciao ... ... PIT ... : -- : TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] . : Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- -- Peter Allgeyer | http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~allgeyer Birkenstr. 10 | _-_Phone: 0 86 23 / 91 98 25 84558 Kirchweidach | 0(o_o)0 linux inside ... ---oOO--(_)--OOo-- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
TFTP booting
Hi, I was wondering if someone can give me any pointers as to how to set up a Debian host to act as a server for an NCD X-Terminal that boots through TFTP. Thanks, Luis -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: /usr full !?
Mario Filipe writes: Hi I have a question to pose and I hope I will tell you everything you need to help me. I'm running Debian 1.3 (2.0.29). I was running x, pine (and a xterm associated with it), a xterm and netscape 4.04 and an rc5 client, plus apache, postgresql and all the other servers. One minute I had 30 Megs free on /usr the next I had 0. Another strange thing is the results that i get from free : total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 31004 30356648 23424228 -/+ buffers:30128420 Swap:32252 2560 29692 9788 I noticed it because i ran xosview and noticed that most of the used memory was on shared. Does anyone have an ideia of what might have happened here ? I'll be willing to give any information (except root password:-) that you need to help me ... Try looking for a core file on /usr. Sounds like something may have core dumped. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK - member of ARRL @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Printing
Hi! I tried out , what you said. #dpkg -i ghostscript_5.03-3_i386.deb Selecting previously deselected package ghostscript. (Reading database ... 16188 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking ghostscript (from ghostscript_5.03-3_i386.deb) ... Setting up ghostscript (5.03-3) ... # I have'nt got error message. Corleone -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
xcdroast and generic scsi
I'm having a problem getting xcdroast to start -- I get this message: Error: Some or all Generic-SCSI-Devices are missing. Please create first the devices. Run ./MAKEDEV.sg in the xcdroast-0.95c directory. Trouble is, there _is_ no xcdroast-0.95c directory. The MAKEDEV.sg script is not on my system. I read the xcdroast README and it said to run the file ./syscheck for troubleshooting; that file too doesn't seem to exist. I've burned CDs before -- I have a working HP SureStore 6020i and have successfully used cdwrite etc. in the past. My cdwriter is on /dev/sr0; the README said that both sr0 and sr1 should exist, so I made a symlink from /dev/scd1 to /dev/sr1. I also have the devices sg[0-7] and sgb; I ran ./MAKEDEV sg in the /dev directory, which didn't do anything but then I ran ./MAKEDEV sg[a-g] which seemed to create the device files that xcdroast thinks I need. Still no go. Does anyone know what I should do next? Thanks. m Michael Stutz . http://dsl.org/m/ . copyright disclaimer etc stutz@dsl.org : finger for pgp : http://dsl.org/copyleft/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Filter
Hi! I tried out my old Epson FX-1000, with epson9 filter, and It works. I used this gs: gs-aladdin_5.03-0.99_i386.deb and magicfilter: magicfilter_1.2-10.deb The Canon BJ-200ex, doesn't work with bj200 filter. I think, this printer can't work under Linux.Is this right? Corleone Ui: Does HP L5 printer work under Linux? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Filter
On Fri, Dec 19, 1997 at 02:36:19PM +0100, Toth Laszlo wrote: Ui: Does HP L5 printer work under Linux? Do you mean 5L? Works great. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Filter
Hi! Yes 5L. :)) What do you use for it? Corleone -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
tar: Skipping to next header file
I am trying to unpack the newest kernel source in /usr/src. It goes along fine until it stops and says: tar: Skipping to next header file gzip: linux-2.0.33.tgz: invalid compressed data---crc error tar: Archive - EOF not on block boundary I used the following commands to try to uncompress the kernel source: gzip -dc linux-2.0.33.tgz | tar xvB tar xpvf linux-2.0.33.tgz They both produced the same error. Any ideas? Please help. Thanks. -- ` Aaron Walker Work: Site: http://www.iconmedia.com Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Personal: Site: http://www.iconmedia.com/aaron Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] `` -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: tar: Skipping to next header file
Try using tar -zxvf linux-2.0.33.tgz. If you get that error again, it means that the file is corrupted and you will have to download the source again. All the kernel sources I download come with a tar.gz extension... I get them usually from kernel.org or sunsite. Did someone else package that for you? Dennis -- dpk [EMAIL PROTECTED], Systems/Network | work: 353.4844 Division of Engineering Computing Services | page: 222.5875 On Fri, 19 Dec 1997, Aaron Walker wrote: I am trying to unpack the newest kernel source in /usr/src. It goes along fine until it stops and says: tar: Skipping to next header file gzip: linux-2.0.33.tgz: invalid compressed data---crc error tar: Archive - EOF not on block boundary I used the following commands to try to uncompress the kernel source: gzip -dc linux-2.0.33.tgz | tar xvB tar xpvf linux-2.0.33.tgz They both produced the same error. Any ideas? Please help. Thanks. -- ` Aaron Walker Work: Site: http://www.iconmedia.com Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Personal: Site: http://www.iconmedia.com/aaron Email: [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] .
Perl installation problem
While testing the upgrading of rex to hamm I have discovered several problems or possible bugs. I will post each of these as separate messages, and ask if anyone else has encountered them, and if they should be reported as bugs. While updating perl 5.003.07-10 using perl_5.004.04-3.deb, I first installed perl-base_5.004.04-3.deb, then perl_5.004.04-3.deb. This resulted in the following error: dpkg: error processing perl (--install): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 123 The perl.postinst script was examined, and the effects of the commands in this script were checked. The symlinks and directories to be created by this file existed, and the directories to be removed were not there. A dummy perl.postinst was prepared, and perl configured successfully by dpkg. I am using bash 2.01-5, and a custom compiled kernel 2.0.27. This problem is reproducible, at least on my system. I have The problem appears to be in the last command in perl.postinst: find /usr/lib/perl5/i486-linux -type d -links 2 -print0 | xargs -r0 rmdir -p 2 /dev/null fi # the last will remove all the directories that are now empty or will be empty when the empty subdirs disappear This command is intended to remove any empty subdirectories in /usr/lib/perl5/i486-linux. On my system, this find command returns three non-empty directories, which the rm command properly refuses to remove. So far so good. However, since the script is set -e, this causes it to exit immediately with a non-zero exit status [1]. IMHO, the -e option should be unset prior to this command, and another error trapping approach used that does not cause the script to fail when the rm command acts properly. As a test, I have removed the output redirection from this script and inserted echo statements before and after the find command in question. The echo statement immediately before the find command is executed, but the script exits before executing the second echo command. Has anyone else encountered this failure in perl? Should it be reported as a bug against perl? [1] The -e option does not cause a script to exit if the command that fails . . . is part of an if statement. I am not sure if this means part of an if . . . then construct, or just part of the conditions of the if statement, but I believe it is the latter. Bob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
dselect thru SOCKS4 firewall
After installing libsocks4_4.3.beta2-3 and socks-clients_4.3.beta2-3, setting up /etc/socks.conf, and setting the SOCKS_NS and SOCKS_SERVER environment variables I can rftp through the SOCKS firewall to the internet. dftp and dselect do not connect to servers on the internet though. After upgrading to dftp_3.2-1, dpkg_1.4.0.19, and dpkg-ftp_1.4.0.19 dftp and dselect still do not connect to servers on the internet. After linking /bin/ftp to /bin/rftp dftp now works. dselect still does not connect to servers on the internet though. How do I get dselect to work through a SOCKS4 firewall? Stephen Serafin [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Changing the domain
Hi, I was wondering about the way one can manually change the domain name of a debian system. On other systems, I was used to have an /etc/domain file, or something similar, but not with debian. I do change the fqdn of my host in the files /etc/hosts and the local domain name in /etc/resolv.conf. Is this all I need to change ? By the way, we've started with a domain named 'univ-ubs.fr'. As our server is now below a firewall, we'd like to use subdomain names, eg 'fw-cguvaens.univ-ubs.fr'. We encountered problems with our server when sending mail into this subdomain. Do we need to change anything in sendmail.cf to make it work, or do you think this problem comes from the firewall (it seems that the incoming messages pass trough the firewall, but don't go anywhere after that; when we send a message from the inside of our subdomain to the outside, it works:-(). Thanks for your help, Seb. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
changing group IDs
Hi! Would anything brake if I changed the ID of group 'disk' to 8 and the ID of group 'mail' to 6. Of course, I would make sure all the files get their ID's changed as well. I already posted this question once, but got no answer. Should I be asking questions like this on a different list? feri. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
compiling autofs
Hi! I'm trying to compile the hamm version of autofs on my bo system (since there does'nt seem to be a debian package for bo). This is what I get: ... gcc -shared -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall -I../include -fpic -DAUTOFS_LIB_DIR=\/usr/lib/autofs\ -o lookup_yp.so lookup_yp.c -lnsl ld: cannot open -lnsl: No such file or directory ... where do I get libnsl ?? feri. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: tar: Skipping to next header file
What you suggested did not work, so I downloaded the source again (from kernel.org). Now it says: tar: Skipping to next header file It doesn't say anything else like last time. It just ends and goes back to the prompt. Any ideas? dpk wrote: Try using tar -zxvf linux-2.0.33.tgz. If you get that error again, it means that the file is corrupted and you will have to download the source again. All the kernel sources I download come with a tar.gz extension... I get them usually from kernel.org or sunsite. Did someone else package that for you? Dennis -- dpk [EMAIL PROTECTED], Systems/Network | work: 353.4844 Division of Engineering Computing Services | page: 222.5875 On Fri, 19 Dec 1997, Aaron Walker wrote: I am trying to unpack the newest kernel source in /usr/src. It goes along fine until it stops and says: tar: Skipping to next header file gzip: linux-2.0.33.tgz: invalid compressed data---crc error tar: Archive - EOF not on block boundary I used the following commands to try to uncompress the kernel source: gzip -dc linux-2.0.33.tgz | tar xvB tar xpvf linux-2.0.33.tgz They both produced the same error. Any ideas? Please help. Thanks. -- ` Aaron Walker Work: Site: http://www.iconmedia.com Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Personal: Site: http://www.iconmedia.com/aaron Email: [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] . -- ` Aaron Walker Work: Site: http://www.iconmedia.com Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Personal: Site: http://www.iconmedia.com/aaron Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] `` -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: tar: Skipping to next header file
Hi, I think you should download the sources from a different site perhaps? I've had good results from ftp.kernel.org. manoj -- Don't tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done. James J. Ling Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/ Key C7261095 fingerprint = CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: dpkg and deb files
Hi, Which ftp site have you been using? Are *all* the deb files apparently corrupted? manoj -- EXCLUSIVE: Imported product. Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/ Key C7261095 fingerprint = CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: tar: Skipping to next header file
I have downloaded linux-2.0.33.tar.gz from kernel.org twice and neither one has worked. Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi, I think you should download the sources from a different site perhaps? I've had good results from ftp.kernel.org. manoj -- Don't tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done. James J. Ling Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/ Key C7261095 fingerprint = CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- ` Aaron Walker Work: Site: http://www.iconmedia.com Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Personal: Site: http://www.iconmedia.com/aaron Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] `` -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re:tar: Skipping to next header file
At 08:19 -0600 on 12/19/97, Aaron Walker wrote: I am trying to unpack the newest kernel source in /usr/src. It goes along fine until it stops and says: tar: Skipping to next header file gzip: linux-2.0.33.tgz: invalid compressed data---crc error tar: Archive - EOF not on block boundary I used the following commands to try to uncompress the kernel source: gzip -dc linux-2.0.33.tgz | tar xvB tar xpvf linux-2.0.33.tgz They both produced the same error. Any ideas? Please help. Thanks. The message from gzip makes me think the file was not downloaded as a binary file but as a text file. I would suggest trying the download again and explicitly specify the binary option. Butch Butch Butch Kemper | Free sound advice available Kemper Associates Consulting Group | 95% sound and 5% advice 409-361-2324 | Refunds cheerfully provided -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: sendmail installation
On Fri, 19 Dec 1997 00:54:47 CST, wrote: Hi, I've just install the debian 1.3.1.r6 on a new harddrive and the sendmail gave me some error: (PLEASE HELP) --8 # dpkg -i /pub/debian/bo/binary-i386/mail/sendmail_8.8.5-1.deb Selecting previously deselected package sendmail. (Reading database ... 11862 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking sendmail (from .../mail/sendmail_8.8.5-1.deb) ... Setting up sendmail (8.8.5-1) ... Sendmail Configuration -- By answering the following questions, you can configure sendmail for your system. Default values are determined either by your existing configuration or from common usage. Press [ENTER] Mail Name - Your `mail name' is the hostname portion of the address to be shown on outgoing news and mail messages (following the username and @ sign). This name will be used by other programs besides sendmail; it should be the single , canonical name from which mail will appear to originate. hostname: Host name lookup failure dpkg: error processing sendmail (--install): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: sendmail --8 Hi, I presume you tried to enter your isp's hostname, or weren't given the chance. It appears you selected the Satelite model, which is commonly used for static ip isp service, which is somewhat uncommon unless you have special internet needs. For more common dynamic ppp connections, the Internet model is the one you want. If your DNS is not correctly identified (/etc/resolv.conf), and you're not connected to the internet, then your hostname which you will be masquerading as probably will not be visible. You have several options, depending on what is going on. You can configure your dns, you can switch to the Internet model, or you can connect to the internet and try re-entering your isp's hostname, or you can do any combination of the three. /etc/resolv.conf (there's a man page for this) --- search your.isp.hostname nameserver 123.45.678.9 nameserver 012.34.567.8 Where you fill in the numbers for your nameservers, domain names Also, sometimes it takes dselect a few tries, I dunno why. After the trouble I went through with sendmail configuration, I'd recommend you stick with the Debian recommended MTA, smail. Most of the commands are identical, it's plenty configurable, good documentation, the syntax of the config files is far nicer. -- David Stern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://weber.u.washington.edu/~kotsya/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: sendmail installation
On Fri, 19 Dec 1997 00:54:47 CST, wrote: Hi, I've just install the debian 1.3.1.r6 on a new harddrive and the sendmail gave me some error: (PLEASE HELP) --8 # dpkg -i /pub/debian/bo/binary-i386/mail/sendmail_8.8.5-1.deb Selecting previously deselected package sendmail. (Reading database ... 11862 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking sendmail (from .../mail/sendmail_8.8.5-1.deb) ... Setting up sendmail (8.8.5-1) ... Sendmail Configuration -- By answering the following questions, you can configure sendmail for your system. Default values are determined either by your existing configuration or from common usage. Press [ENTER] Mail Name - Your `mail name' is the hostname portion of the address to be shown on outgoing news and mail messages (following the username and @ sign). This name will be used by other programs besides sendmail; it should be the single , canonical name from which mail will appear to originate. hostname: Host name lookup failure dpkg: error processing sendmail (--install): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: sendmail --8 Hi, I presume you tried to enter your isp's hostname, or weren't given the chance. It appears you selected the Satelite model, which is commonly used for static ip isp service, which is somewhat uncommon unless you have special internet needs. For more common dynamic ppp connections, the Internet model is the one you want. If your DNS is not correctly identified (/etc/resolv.conf), and you're not connected to the internet, then your hostname which you will be masquerading as probably will not be visible. You have several options, depending on what is going on. You can configure your dns, you can switch to the Internet model, or you can connect to the internet and try re-entering your isp's hostname, or you can do any combination of the three. /etc/resolv.conf (there's a man page for this) --- search your.isp.hostname nameserver 123.45.678.9 nameserver 012.34.567.8 Where you fill in the numbers for your nameservers, domain names Also, sometimes it takes dselect a few tries, I dunno why. After the trouble I went through with sendmail configuration, I'd recommend you stick with the Debian recommended MTA, smail. Most of the commands are identical, it's plenty configurable, good documentation, the syntax of the config files is far nicer. -- David Stern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://weber.u.washington.edu/~kotsya/ -- David Stern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://weber.u.washington.edu/~kotsya/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: tar: Skipping to next header file
On Fri, 19 Dec 1997, Aaron Walker wrote: Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi, I think you should download the sources from a different site perhaps? I've had good results from ftp.kernel.org. I have downloaded linux-2.0.33.tar.gz from kernel.org twice and neither one has worked. When you ftp in, be sure to type binary at the prompt. Sometimes downloads get sent as ASCII when they shouldn't, and the resultant files are useless. :- Sincerely, Raymond Ingles (248) 377-7735 [EMAIL PROTECTED] They said there'd be snow at Christmas; They said there'd be peace on Earth. Halelujah Noel, be it Heaven or Hell; The Christmas we get we deserve. -ELP, I Believe in Father Christmas -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Is it possible to start X Windows in multiple V/C .
On Fri, 19 Dec 1997 08:24:50 +0300, cs51wcs wrote: I'm wondering is it possible to start X-Windows in multiple virtual consoles and if so how. Thanks. Hi Scott, This worked for me (I tried other ways and this was the only way): Ctrl-Alt-F2 (from within X, to get to VC2) ..then login.. startx -- :1 (this starts a new x-server on VC8) Ctrl-Alt-F7 (to get back to the original X-server on VC7) **This was mostly a summary of what Ted Harding wrote on Nov. 25 . -- David Stern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://weber.u.washington.edu/~kotsya/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: bootable Debian 1.3.1 CD
Christian Hagemeier hat gesagt: // Christian Hagemeier wrote: Hi! My motherboard supports the feature to boot from a CD-ROM. I read that I can install Debian this way. But how do i create such a CD? Or is the Official CD such a bootable CD? Chris Debian-CDs are bootable, at least the official ones. If you are using the CD from Lehmanns-Bookstore: this one is! -- Yours a href=http://www.koeln-online.de/einblick/; Frank Barknecht Das Koelner Stadt- und Unimagazin - /a -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
kernel panic
I have a machine running (sorta) that with kernel 2.0.29 runs fine for a long time, but with .30 or .32, it panics after a few hours with errors on the screen something about SKPUT (I dnd't get a chance to write them down.). Nothing gets written to the logs. Does anyone have a pointer? Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps Actually, I *do* know everything. I just don't get paid enough to show it. ** 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] .
Re: Skipping to next header file
-Original Message- From: Aaron Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian User List debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Friday, December 19, 1997 9:44 AM Subject: tar: Skipping to next header file I am trying to unpack the newest kernel source in /usr/src. It goes along fine until it stops and says: tar: Skipping to next header file gzip: linux-2.0.33.tgz: invalid compressed data---crc error tar: Archive - EOF not on block boundary I used the following commands to try to uncompress the kernel source: gzip -dc linux-2.0.33.tgz | tar xvB tar xpvf linux-2.0.33.tgz They both produced the same error. Any ideas? Please help. Thanks. -- ` I use ftp.kernel.org. The cmd zcat filename|tar xv works fine. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: dpkg and deb files
-Original Message- From: Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Friday, December 19, 1997 6:01 AM Subject: dpkg and deb files HI (Me again) I am still having major problems with dpkg and deb files, as suggested i have re downloaded the deb files several times, both with cute ftp (in binary mode) and msie, yet when ever i try to install them with dpkg i always get the same error messages. unexpected eof, something about the archive not being in gzip format, if fact the same messagaes you get when tring to install anyole file (ie not a deb). I have getting nowwhere at all. I have tried installing from both mounted vfat and msdos partitions, and copying the files to /tmp, but still no joy at all, I have checked the packages file and have not missed any dependcys that i know of (trying to get manpages to work, so i have, man-db, manpages, groff, and a lib required by groff) and nothing will install at all. - *HELP!* Rick I can't remember for sure, but are you mounting with the option binary? Maybe the vfat/msdos filesystem is translating the file on the fly, because it thinks it is a text file. Something like mount -t msdos -o binary,rw /dev/hda2 /dos Adam Heath of Borg-Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] Join the H.323 effort. Email http://www.debian.org - Get Your Own Linux! [EMAIL PROTECTED] with http://wwp.mirabilis.com/3375265 - Page Me the word subscribe in the body. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Skipping to next header file
-Original Message- From: Aaron Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian User List debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Friday, December 19, 1997 9:44 AM Subject: tar: Skipping to next header file I am trying to unpack the newest kernel source in /usr/src. It goes along fine until it stops and says: tar: Skipping to next header file gzip: linux-2.0.33.tgz: invalid compressed data---crc error tar: Archive - EOF not on block boundary I used the following commands to try to uncompress the kernel source: gzip -dc linux-2.0.33.tgz | tar xvB tar xpvf linux-2.0.33.tgz They both produced the same error. Any ideas? Please help. Thanks. -- ` I use ftp.kernel.org. The cmd zcat filename|tar xv works fine. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: dpkg and deb files
On Fri, 19 Dec 1997 10:38:50 GMT, Rick wrote:
HI (Me again)
I am still having major problems with dpkg and deb files, as suggested i
have re downloaded the deb files several times, both with cute ftp (in
binary mode) and msie, yet when ever i try to install them with dpkg i
jokes aside, this has had probs with binaries
always get the same error messages. unexpected eof, something about the
archive not being in gzip format, if fact the same messagaes you get when
tring to install anyole file (ie not a deb). I have getting nowwhere at
Well, I don't know what file format you're referring to, but certain
files require use of tar or gunzip (.tgz, .tar.gz, .tar, .gz).
all. I have tried installing from both mounted vfat and msdos partitions,
and copying the files to /tmp, but still no joy at all, I have checked the
I see you used binary mode, and that's good, but the first thing I'd do
is confirm that the files are intact. The first test I'd do would be
to a byte comparison because files can be abbreviated by interrupted
transfers. Are the files you have exactly the same size as where you
got them? You can do an ls -l from the ftp directory. Next, I'd try
to use dpkg to get info from the files, as a good first to check to
confirm that the file format is proper. I think you just type `dpkg -i
filename' (see the man page).
packages file and have not missed any dependcys that i know of (trying to
get manpages to work, so i have, man-db, manpages, groff, and a lib
required by groff) and nothing will install at all. - *HELP!*
Hmm..I wonder if your filesystems are mounted properly and you have the
proper permissions set on the mount points for the dos partitions. I
know you said you tried /tmp, so that should be ruled out. You are
root, I take it?
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digest list and GLX extensions
I have a couple of unrelated questions. First, I subscribe to the digest version of this list (debian-user-digest) and it seems to be broken (at least I haven't gotten anything from it in about a week). I sent email to debian-user-request about the problem yesterday and haven't heard anything back. Anyone else I should contact, or should I just bide my time? I tried unsubscribing and resubscribing, which seems to have worked, but I'm still not getting any content from the list, just responses to queries on the *-request address. Second, I just spied a new project, creating a GLX extension for XFree86 (http://www.cs.utah.edu/~sparker/xfree86-3d). This is great and I'd like to try the alpha version out. It requires that the XFree86 source be patched though and I'm wondering what the best way to go about doing that on my Debian box is? Is there a source distribution for debianized XFree86, or should I just go and suck the raw XFree86 source down and go from there? Thanks in advance, and please Cc me on any replies since my debian-user-digest subscription doesn't seem to be working these days. Gary -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Partitioning
On Wed, Dec 17, 1997 at 01:12:08PM +0100, Gertjan Klein wrote: [snip] DOS (and W95) require to be booted from drive C: (ignoring floppies again). During booting, at some stage before processing config.sys, it switches from loading files from the actual boot drive to loading them from drive C:. If these are not the same, weird things can happen (processing of config.sys of another partition, or refusing to load command.com because it has the wrong version number). The way DOS assigns drive letters is this: * All non-DOS partitions are completely ignored. This includes OS/2's hidden DOS partitions. * Each _active_ primary DOS partition on each subsequent drive is assigned the next drive letter, even if it is not the first primary DOS partition. If a drive has no active (DOS) partition, its _first_ primary DOS partition is assigned a drive letter. If no primary DOS partition exists on the drive, no drive letter is assigned in this stage. [snip] It seems that NT probably does the same thing - if you happen to have an OS/2 HPFS partition (id #9), then NT thinks it is an NTFS partition(id #9). If you are unlucky, then this partition will be in such a place that it is assigned drive letter C. NT will then get confused as it can't actually understand what's on C: God, I *love* mount points - and I *loathe*, *hate*, *despise* drive letters :-) Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Linux - www.debian.org http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | Because bloated, unstable PGP key available on public key servers | operating systems are from MS -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: I burst my LILO (new user)
On Thu, 18 Dec 1997, ADRIAN CLAYTON wrote: Having installed from diskimage floppies, I accidentally deleted some stuff (in the /dpkg directory) and decided to start over again. Since I reinstalled, LILO sticks every time I boot from harddisk. I then also imported LOADLIN~.DEB and configured it, without visible effect. I can reboot from the Rescue Disk OK, but otherwise it goes: LI LI (hangs without getting to LO) I find that after a new install I have to boot to the boot disk (not the rescue disk, the boot disk that's made during installation) and run lilo. No options, I just log in as root and type lilo. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: scsi problems, ncr53x8xx and 2+ devices resets bus
Craig, Here are 2 driver messages from your report and what they let me think: Dec 19 12:24:24 siva kernel: ncr53c810-0:0: ERROR (a0:0) (47-67-80) (8/33) @ script (628:0f00). Dec 19 12:24:24 siva kernel: ncr53c810-0: script cmd = 6040 DSTAT= 0xa0 - bit 0x20 means PCI BUS fault condition detected. DCMD/DBC = 0x0f00 CLEAR ACK (current SCRIPTS instruction) DSP points to 0x6040 MOVE WHEN MSG_IN (nextSCRIPTS instruction) The weird thing is that I did'nt find such a sequence of SCSI SCRIPTS instructions in the source. Such a sequence exists but with instructions in reverse order. The offset in the script (628) is near the SCSI reselection step, probably near the read of the IDENTIFY message. Even if your problem seems to be triggered by SCSI device configuration and/or load, the above lets me think that it is a real PCI bus problem. You are using a very old 810 chip (rev. 1) on a recent system. I donnot have access to any errata of so old chips, but my guess is that they probably suffer of bunches. Using such a old 810 chip with a recent host bridge is IMO not a very safe configuration. Telling so, I did agree with you, but I disagree on your statement about such a board being 'useless crap'. I have a 3 years old system with such a chip (810 rev. 1) that works flawlessly since the day I've received it (It is PCI 2.0). All your recent hardware will be stated as out of age probably in less than 3 years, and I am about sure it suffers of bunches of bugs and so is probably as crap as the 810 A rev. 1. It is 'usefull crap' today and will become 'useless crap' to-morrow. I would be very interested in the result with a recent 810 chip version (=0x12). (In case of you could borrow one). Gerard. On Fri, 19 Dec 1997, Craig Sanders wrote: I've just added a SONY SDT-5000 DDS-2 tape drive to my system, and am getting a lot of scsi bus resets whenever two or more scsi devices are accessed simultaneously. At first i thought it was just the tape drive, but i tested various combinations of hardware and can reproduce the error by using ANY two or more devices simultaneously (e.g. 'du' on one of the scsi disks plus a tar cv writing to the tape, or 'du' running on both scsi disks simultaneously). all of the scsi devices work fine if i physically remove the other scsi devices from the system. The SCSI bus is terminated correctly. The cable is a 7 device cable. I think i've got a 2 device cable lying around somewhere - i'll try that later today and see if it helps. I have tried various options with the ncr53c8xx driver (as suggested in /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/README.ncr53c8xx), including disabling disconnect, disabling synchronous, disable queued command etc. Nothing makes any difference. I've run out of clues. any help would be appreciated. Thanks hardware details: Gigabyte 586-HX motherboard, with Cyrix 6x86-P166 CPU. 1 x 1.6GB EIDE hard disk 1 x Quantum Empire 540 SCSI disk 1 x SONY SDT-5000 SCSI DAT tape 1 x Seagate ST41651 SCSI disk 1 x PCI SOYO brand NCR 53c810 scsi host adaptor 1 x PCI 2MB Trio64 SVGA card 1 x wd8003 8 bit ethernet card on irq 5 1 x Jazz16 sound card (io 0x220, irq 7; dma 1,5) -- rarely used 96MB memory (The Seagate ST41651 got installed this morning - it has been sitting gathering dust for over a year because it's an ancient and extremely noisy full-height clunker. i only installed it to see if i could reproduce the problem without having the tape drive installed.) The SOYO ncr53c810 card is quite old. it's one of the early 53c810 cards. is it just useless crap? should i go and get an aha2940 or buslogic or advansys? anyone know where to get a buslogic or advansys at a decent price here in melbourne? software: debian hamm (current as of a few days ago) Linux kernel 2.0.32 scsi and sd drivers compiled into kernel ncr53c8xx driver compiled as module st driver compiled as module interesting stuff from /proc (with comments from me): $ cat /proc/pci PCI devices found: Bus 0, device 10, function 0: VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. Trio32/Trio64 (rev 0). Medium devsel. IRQ 11. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe000. Bus 0, device 8, function 0: Non-VGA device: NCR 53c810 (rev 1). Medium devsel. IRQ 15. Master Capable. Latency=64. I/O at 0x6100. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe080. Bus 0, device 7, function 1: IDE interface: Intel 82371SB Natoma/Triton II PIIX3 (rev 0). Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0xf000. Bus 0, device 7, function 0:
Re: Is it possible to start X Windows in multiple V/C .
On 19-Dec-97 David Stern wrote: On Fri, 19 Dec 1997 08:24:50 +0300, cs51wcs wrote: I'm wondering is it possible to start X-Windows in multiple virtual consoles and if so how. Thanks. Hi Scott, This worked for me (I tried other ways and this was the only way): Ctrl-Alt-F2 (from within X, to get to VC2) ..then login.. This worked fine for me. startx -- :1 (this starts a new x-server on VC8) But this didn't: Fatal server error: Server already active for display 0: If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock and start again. When reporting ... Ctrl-Alt-F7 (to get back to the original X-server on VC7) **This was mostly a summary of what Ted Harding wrote on Nov. 25 . -- David Stern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://weber.u.washington.edu/~kotsya/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . - Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mary bought a pair of skates upon the ice to frisk now wasn't that a crazy way her sweet young *? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Xlock
Hi, I just installed the new version of Xlock on my computer ... And now when I type xlock -mode flag it thinks for a second (or two it's only a lowly 486) and then spits out the message Unable to determine hostbyname What does this mean ... how do I fix it TIA -Kevin, kc5vxy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Col, 3:23 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Is it possible to start X Windows in multiple V/C .
Are you really, really sure you did not forget the space after those two slashes. I use the command almost every day and it works just fine. However, if if type startx --:1 ^^^-- note, no space after the second slash I get the same error as you about X already being active for display 0. The two slashes mean that there are no more arguments to the startx script and all the following arguments should be passed to the X server. In this case the X server is started as X :1 and it starts on VC8. // Heikki -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re:tar: Skipping to next header file
On 19-Dec-97 Butch Kemper wrote: At 08:19 -0600 on 12/19/97, Aaron Walker wrote: I am trying to unpack the newest kernel source in /usr/src. It goes along fine until it stops and says: snip The message from gzip makes me think the file was not downloaded as a binary file but as a text file. I would suggest trying the download again and explicitly specify the binary option. I just got bit by this - I'd been spoiled by ncftp which defaults to binary mode and had to use plain ftp to upload my web page to my ISPs NT box. A .gif that I uploaded broke, and drove me crazy trying to figure out why. Failing to set binary was why. Butch Butch Butch Kemper | Free sound advice available Kemper Associates Consulting Group | 95% sound and 5% advice 409-361-2324 | Refunds cheerfully provided -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . - Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mary bought a pair of skates upon the ice to frisk now wasn't that a crazy way her sweet young *? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Is it possible to start X Windows in multiple V/C .
On 19-Dec-97 Heikki Vatiainen wrote: Are you really, really sure you did not forget the space after those two slashes. I use the command almost every day and it works just fine. However, if if type Yep, I'm absolutely certain - I entered: startx -- :1 the only spaces were between x and -- and between -- and :1 three tokens, and I just re-tried to be absolutely certain. Oops, this time I ran as root and voila, it worked! So I tried it again as myself, and once again it failed, go figure! startx --:1 ^^^-- note, no space after the second slash I get the same error as you about X already being active for display 0. The two slashes mean that there are no more arguments to the startx script and all the following arguments should be passed to the X server. In this case the X server is started as X :1 and it starts on VC8. // Heikki -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . - Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mary bought a pair of skates upon the ice to frisk now wasn't that a crazy way her sweet young *? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
vxtreme through linux firewall
Hi, I have a linux server and NT4.0 workstation clients. I use IP forwarding for the NT clients. Realaudio, regular ftp and http connection works fine. vxtreme does not work: It make the connection but fails to transfer the data I get the message that I should call the system administrator to set up proxy server. I have httpd running on my linux machine ( it can serve as a proxy server). When I set Internet connection On the NT using my linux as proxy it still does not work. Any ideas how to fix this. Thanks Oz Dror -- NAME Oz Dror, Los Angeles, California EMAIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux since 8/15/94 PHONE Fax (310) 474-3126 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
dpkg and deb files, Thanks
Hi, Thanks to a suggestion i have managed to sucessfully install some deb files from a mounted vfat\msdos partition! Hurrah! There were still some err messages when installing man-db, but they we only about not finding some language files, everything works fine! the command i used to mount the vfat/msdos partition is mount -t vfat -o binary,rw /dev/hda5 /dos-d Thanks to all who helped! All i need now is some guidence on what files to get next!, i am leaving x-win until the cd arrives, but if anybody has any farorite packages that will be good for a newbie, just some general thinks to help get to grips with linux, fun stuff etc! anyhow, thanks again. Rick Email - [EMAIL PROTECTED] homepage - http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/kitty5/ (Raytracing, 3D Animation and Emulation) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Emacs RCS under 1.3.1r6
I did a quick search in the bugs and couldn't find anything about this problem. If I try to generate a ChangeLog file via C-x v a works fine on the initial run. After a changelog exists, I get this at the top of the changelog buffer; rlog: unknown date/time: 19/12/1997 23:41:45 rlog aborted I tried it on 2 machines, one that was upgraded from 1.2 and one that was installed from scratch with 1.3.1r6. The rlog command works fine when ran from the command line. Also, as far as I know this isn't an Emacs 19.34 bug. Any hints? TIA, Glenn -- Glenn Amerine Inet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems AnalystVoice: (614)224-1336 Metropolitan Human Services Commission Fax: (614)224-6472 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Help I broke my X instalation.
AHHH I very very carefully followed the instructions in the lic5-lic6-Mini-HOWTO.txt and upgraded to libc6 today Great I thought that the Packagename and the packagenameg files could coexist ... apearntly not ... the xlib6g replaced my xlib6 package rendering my x instalation unuseable now when I try and open a rxvt I get a message about not being able to open a library that I have traced back the xlib6 package ... now my question is this ... did I install something wrong ...? do the g and non g packages coexit peacefully ... where can I get a libc5 linked xlib6 package that can coexist with the libc6 linked xlib6 How can I fix this HELP... -Kevin, kc5vxy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Col, 3:23 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Filter
On Fri, Dec 19, 1997 at 02:43:34PM +0100, Toth Laszlo wrote: Yes 5L. :)) What do you use for it? Not that much. Printing from Windows apps via samba (Office97 as well as SmartSuite 97), and also printing from Linux apps with magicfilter/ghostscript doing conversion, eg from Navigator 3. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Is it possible to start X Windows in multiple V/C .
Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yep, I'm absolutely certain - I entered: startx -- :1 the only spaces were between x and -- and between -- and :1 three tokens, and I just re-tried to be absolutely certain. Oops, this time I ran as root and voila, it worked! So I tried it again as myself, and once again it failed, go figure! That's, hmm, interesting :) About the only thing I can think of now is the /tmp directory permissions. Since it works as root and not as an ordinary user maybe the /tmp permissions are messed up. It's also strange that the error message mentions display 0 even though you tell it to use display 1. Maybe for some strange reason you have startx in two different locations and the root user sees different startx than the non-root user. Command 'which startx' should tell where startx lives. Also to correct myself; it's minus not slash :). // Heikki -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: scsi problems, ncr53x8xx and 2+ devices resets bus
On Fri, 19 Dec 1997, Gerard Roudier wrote: Here are 2 driver messages from your report and what they let me think: Dec 19 12:24:24 siva kernel: ncr53c810-0:0: ERROR (a0:0) (47-67-80) (8/33) @ script (628:0f00). Dec 19 12:24:24 siva kernel: ncr53c810-0: script cmd = 6040 DSTAT= 0xa0 - bit 0x20 means PCI BUS fault condition detected. DCMD/DBC = 0x0f00 CLEAR ACK (current SCRIPTS instruction) DSP points to 0x6040 MOVE WHEN MSG_IN (nextSCRIPTS instruction) The weird thing is that I did'nt find such a sequence of SCSI SCRIPTS instructions in the source. Such a sequence exists but with instructions in reverse order. The offset in the script (628) is near the SCSI reselection step, probably near the read of the IDENTIFY message. Even if your problem seems to be triggered by SCSI device configuration and/or load, the above lets me think that it is a real PCI bus problem. You are using a very old 810 chip (rev. 1) on a recent system. I donnot have access to any errata of so old chips, but my guess is that they probably suffer of bunches. Using such a old 810 chip with a recent host bridge is IMO not a very safe configuration. thanks for your reply, it explains what i found out after i wrote my message. first, i tried another scsi cable - no difference. second, i installed the SONY tape drive into a 486 box with an ASUS SP3G motherboard (built-in NCR 53c810 chip). it worked perfectly, backing up from a Seagate 4GB Hawk drive to the SONY DAT. Took 93 minutes to fill a 90M (2.1GB) tape, with a 'find . -type f | xargs file' running in the background as a simple stress-test. I'm reasonably happy with this arrangement because the tape drive was intended to be a network backup device anywayit doesn't really matter which machine it's connected to as long as it works. I'll still have to get a new scsi card for my Gigabyte HX machine (can't trust my disks to a scsi adaptor which gets flaky under load, especially when i'm planning to add at least 4GB of fast scsi disk, get rid of the IDE drive and make it scsi-only). I had decided to buy an advansys or buslogic card, but from what you say i should be able to just get a newer 53c810 card. Good. the 810 cards only cost around $80 here in Australia, but the others cost at least $300 or $400. cat /proc/pci on the ASUS machine (axolotl) looks like: $ cat /proc/pci PCI devices found: Bus 0, device 6, function 0: VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. Trio32/Trio64 (rev 0). Medium devsel. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfb00. Bus 0, device 2, function 0: Non-VGA device: Intel 82378IB (rev 132). Medium devsel. Master Capable. No bursts. Bus 0, device 1, function 0: Non-VGA device: NCR 53c810 (rev 1). Medium devsel. IRQ 9. Master Capable. Latency=80. I/O at 0xe800. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfbfef000. Bus 0, device 0, function 0: Non-VGA device: Intel 82424ZX Saturn (rev 4). Medium devsel. Master Capable. Latency=96. so the 810 chip on axolotl is also a Rev 1 - not suprising, it was one of the first boards to come out with built-in 53c810 scsi. Telling so, I did agree with you, but I disagree on your statement about such a board being 'useless crap'. I have a 3 years old system with such a chip (810 rev. 1) that works flawlessly since the day I've received it (It is PCI 2.0). All your recent hardware will be stated as out of age probably in less than 3 years, and I am about sure it suffers of bunches of bugs and so is probably as crap as the 810 A rev. 1. It is 'usefull crap' today and will become 'useless crap' to-morrow. :-) I would be very interested in the result with a recent 810 chip version (=0x12). (In case of you could borrow one). well, i'll probably be buying one in the near future (maybe not until january). I'll let you know how it goes. I'll put my old 810 card into one of my PCI 486 boxes...load it up with my old archive viper 150MB QIC tape and ancient panasonic scsi cd-rom. craig -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
