Error al compilar tetex-bin
Hola a la lista.
Estoy recompilando tetex-bin, y en un momento dado, me da un error que es:
TEXMFCNF=../kpathsea TEXMF=/usr/lib/texmf ./tex --progname=latex --ini \\input
latex.ltx /dev/null
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.2) (INITEX)
(/usr/lib/texmf/tex/latex/base/latex.ltx
(/usr/lib/texmf/tex/latex/config/texsys.cfg)
! Missing control sequence inserted.
inserted text
\inaccessible
...
l.194 ...xists{:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:}}{}}}
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! Emergency stop.
inserted text
\inaccessible
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l.194 ...xists{:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:}}{}}}
No pages of output.
Transcript written on latex.log.
make[3]: *** [latex.fmt] Error 1
Aqui detiene la compilación, y hay algunos ejecutables que no genera. El ultimo
tetex-base, lo tengo instalado.
Saludos.
Re: Deshacer RM
On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, Octavio Rodriguez Perez wrote: Hola, ¿Alguien puede explicarme por que no existe un 'undelete' en todos los unices? ¿Es por problemas de seguridad? ¿Como puede afectar? Tal como yo lo veo es un problema de filosofía. En Windows se asume que el usuario es ignorante de todo y todo lo que indica que quiere hacer no debe tomarse demasiado en serio. En SO tipo Unix se asume que la responsabilidad de las acciones peligrosas recae en primer lugar sobre el administrador de la maquina que establece una política adecuada de seguridad. En este caso por ejemplo prodría haber protegido los ficheros sensibles con unos permisos adecuados, o con una politica de backups adecuada o sustituyendo el comando rm para guardar una copia de lo que borre en algun lugar. Hay varias utilidades en este sentido y tampoco es dificil hacer una. En SO tipo Unix el sistema proporciona el minimo de impedimentos porque no hace grandes distinciones entre un ususario de carne y hueso y un usuario software. Por todo esto muchos considera a los SO tipo Unix como mucho más sencillos mientras que otros los consideran mucho más complicados. Esta claro que un usuario final sin conocimientos tecnicos lo consideratá un SO hostil aunque lo que procede no es hacerlo amibable, sino recubrirlo con un interfaz amigable. Un SO debería tener como misión principal la gestion eficiente de los recursos del sistema. La interfaz de usuario no debería formar parte de un SO. Almenos no hasta el punto en que incluso los programas que interactuan con el SO sean considerados potencialmente tan torpes como los humanos. En Unix los comandos se piensan para ser utilizados fundamentalmente por otros programas. Cada uno hace una cosa muy determinada y se pueden combinar entre ellos. Gracias, Octavio -- Para DARSE de BAJA, enviar un mensaje que diga unsubscribe en el Subject a [EMAIL PROTECTED] En caso de problema, escribir a [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- En caso de contestar a la lista mandame copia personal. /\ /\ Los mas importantes desarrolladores de Bases de datos \\W//están portando sus productos a Linux. Porque crees tu _|0 0|_ que será ?Yo creo que Linux es el futuro. +-oOOO--(___o___)--OOOo--+ | . . . . U U . . . . Antonio Castro Snurmacher | | http://slug.ctv.es/~acastro.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | +()()()--()()()--+
Re: LEAFNODE, gracias pero NO VA
Hola, uso la distribución Debian 2.0 y he instalado el leafnode con su deb. Lo he configurado y he marcado los grupos que quiero que me baje, pero al volver a ejecutar fetch -v me dice que hace poco que se ha bajado la lista de grupos y no hace nada más (me devuelve la shell). Lo mismo lo he repetido al cabo de 7 días y entonces lo único que hace es volverse ha bajar los grupos de news pero no los mensajes de los grupos a los que me he suscrito. En /var/spool/news/interesting.groups (escribo el nombre del archivo de memoria) veo como los grupos que yo quiero allí estan (tambien tengo los mismos nombres de archivo repetidos en el mismo directorio pero ocultos, todos de tamaño 0kb). Veo que hablas sobre un fichero .overview en las news, de que se trata? Yo no lo he encontrado. Que me falta configurar? Donde puede estar el problema? Un saludo y asta pronto, Josep Parera P.D. hay algún otro daemond de las mismas características que leafnode? Nada de INN y parecidos.
Re: Using apt-get to upgrade to slink
On 19 Sep 1998, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: I'm thinking about making the upgrade to slink since it has a couple of additions I'd like to try. After hearing all the great things about apt-get I thought I'd give it a try. I have a local mirror of the Debian ftp site and I'm having trouble figuring out how to modify sources.list to point to it. The trick is that my mirror isn't on an anonymous ftp server, I have to log in to it with my username and password. How can I make apt-get use these when it attempts the ftp? I think I want something along the lines of: deb ftp://my.local.machine/usr/local/mirror/debian slink main contrib non-free non-US typically if you need to specify username/password in a URL you'll use the form: ftp://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/path/file let us know if this works for me. - dave -- | oOOooO / [EMAIL PROTECTED] --|oOobodoO/ We're just two lost souls, swimming in a --| ooOoOo /fish bowl, year after year. Running over | II / the same old ground, what have we found, | II / The same old fears. Wish you were Here.
HELP! Seriously messed up bo - hamm
Please help -- I really messed up my 1.3 system today trying to upgrade to 2.0 using the 2-cd set from LSL. I'd like to be able to find a way out of this mess and be able to upgrade properly rather than having to save my /usr/local and /etc and then reinstall new... This is what happened: * The autoup.sh on the cd-rom didn't run as listed in the documentation (not executable); * So I decided to try the apt method, since it'd worked so nicely on another machine I had. I installed apt, and then changed /etc/apt/sources.list to point to the cd-rom. * I ran apt-get update. This is where the trouble started: Get file:/cdrom/debian/ stable/main Packages 0% [Packages ' 0] Updating package file cache...done Updating package status cache...done Checking system integrity...dependency error You might want to run apt-get -f install' to correct these. Sorry, but the following packages are broken - this means they have unmet dependencies: wget: Depends:libc6 wine: Depends:libc6 Depends:libwine0.0.971116 Depends:xlib6g Depends:xpm4g /cdrom/upgrade # * So then I went ahead with apt-get -f dist-upgrade anyway: /cdrom/upgrade # apt-get updat^H^H^H^H^H-f dis^Gt^G^G-upgrade Updating package status cache...done Checking system integrity...dependency error Correcting dependencies...ok The following packages will be REMOVED: wine xpdf 9fonts gv apache-modules gs-aladdin getty tk42-dev playmidi ncurses3.0-dev splay libg++27-dev tcl76-dev imgstar xdaliclock pstoedit xsnow svgalib1-dev ghostview libnet 9wm xloadimage xcolorsel 9menu tetex-extra libc5-dev libreadline2-dev libpthread0 libdb1-dev tetex-bin libgdbm1-dev tgif xfig The following NEW packages will be installed: libmime-base64-perl libpng2 xpm4g libpaperg svgalibg1 netpbm1 freetype1 libdb2 liblockfile0 libnet-perl libstdc++2.8 whiptail zlib1g dpkg-perl perl-base sgml-base libhdf4g libgdbmg1 tcl8.0 tcl7.6 libg++272 libpng0g libtiff3g newt0.21 data-dumper libgpmg1 libmpeg1 libc6 gawk ncurses3.4 cdrecord libjpegg6a libreadlineg2 slang0.99.38 The following packages have been kept back xaos wily fvwm2 xext xserver-vga16 xbase rxvt floatbg swisswatch rgrep afterstep xcdroast xfnt75 xfntbase transfig mctools-lite tk42 xfntbig xcontrib xserver-s3 fvwm-common imagemagick xfnt100 xcolors xlockmore xfntscl xfntcyr xspread xfntpex 9term jed xbooks xpaint tix41 tetex-dev 173 packages upgraded, 34 newly installed, 33 to remove and 35 not upgraded. 3 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0b/56.1M of archives. After unpacking 3017k will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y (Reading database ... 27573 files and directories currently installed.) Removing ghostview ... Update-menus: waiting for dpkg to finish (forking to background) Update-menus: (checking /var/lib/dpkg/lock) Removing wine ... Removing libgdbm1-dev ... install-info: No dir file specified; try --help for more information. dpkg: error processing libgdbm1-dev (--remove): subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1 install-info: unrecognized option --description=The GNU Database Routines' Try install-info --help' for a complete list of options. dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Removing libdb1-dev ... Removing tk42-dev ... Removing tcl76-dev ... Removing libg++27-dev ... [...] So now, every time I run apt, I get this error: Updating package status cache...done Checking system integrity...dependency error You might want to run apt-get -f install' to correct these. Sorry, but the following packages are broken - this means they have unmet dependencies: wget: Depends:libc6 libg++27-dev: Depends:libc5-dev libgdbm1-dev: Depends:libc5-dev Running dselect doesn't help, either. dpkg is broken -- every time I run it I get something like: (Reading database ... 23523 files and directories currently installed.) Removing wget ... install-info: No dir file specified; try --help for more information. dpkg: error processing wget (--remove): subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1 Update-menus: waiting for dpkg to finish (forking to background) Update-menus: (checking /var/lib/dpkg/lock) Errors were encountered while processing: wget And a lot of packages have been removed from my system -- it's not useable as it is right nowI downloaded the new autoup.sh on debian.org, and that one worked -- but I still get the above errors. I really need help -- what should I do? Thanks. m
gs-aladdin 5.10 always crashing
I installed the gs-aladdin package, but I get an error message like this whenever I try to use gs: $ gs Aladdin Ghostscript 5.10 (1997-11-23) Copyright (C) 1997 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA. All rights reserved. This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details. Unknown paper size: (A4). Unrecoverable error: stackunderflow in dup Unexpected interpreter error -17. Error object: dup(d84)name(0x818af74#449) Execution stack at 0x818855c: 0x8191934: 0x0f oper --F---e-- 0x 0x08079630 = %interp_exit 0x819193c: 0x03 file --G-rxe-- 0x0001 0x081950a4 0x8191944: 0x05 mpry --G-rxe-- 0x0039 0x081c89e6 Dictionary stack at 0x8188484: 0x8192164: 0x02 dict --Gwrx--- 0x 0x081922bc 0x819216c: 0x02 dict --Gwrx--- 0x0819 0x081d5418 0x8192174: 0x02 dict --Lwrx--- 0xbfff 0x0819928c 0x819217c: 0x02 dict --Gwrx--- 0x 0x081922bc This is preventing me from printing any PostScripts or PDF or viewing them with GV. Any help on this would be appreciated. Alex.
lilo setup
Hi, I just installed Debian Linux and have some questions about lilo. I used Linux a few years ago and the way lilo worked then was that when you booted the machine, you got a LILO: prompt and then could type linux, dos, or whatever to boot the desired operating system. There was also a way to have it not time out so that it would just sit there until you told it which one to boot. I would like to have that same sort of thing setup now, but that doesn't seem to be the default anymore. When I installed lilo, it requires that the shift key be held down for the lilo boot prompt to come up, which can best be described as annoying, and for some reason it won't boot linux for me. Instead of entering a name for the OS to load, it wants a partition number and the only one it lets me use is my Win98 partition. Does anyone know how to set up lilo the way I described? I basically want the LILO prompt to come up when I boot my machine, I don't want it to time out, and I want to be able to enter english names for the different OS's I want to load (of which there are two, Linux and Win98). Thanks, Rich
Re: After ftp upgrade of slink, module loading fails
After allowing an upgrade of slink packages without watching too closely, I then discovered that the auto loading of modules (ppp,sound,vfat) fails for all modules. I can use insmod to *manually* load these modules (in dependency order) and everything works. The modules.dep file is correct (depmod -a doesn't help), it has the right dependencies and locations. I have done nothing to the kernel; no new kernel. I booted up this morning with everything working, connected to an ftp site with dselect, allowed it to upgrade about a dozen packages, and afterword all module loading is broken. Anybody seen this? i got hit with this one too, but good, yesterday. I noticed something going to slink about modules being handled differently, but the message and the instructions flew by. Having caught that it had something to do with modules, i reinstalled modconf modutils from hamm, and seems to work again. also, it didn't merely stop at not autoloading, they didn't seem to stay properly loaded once inserted. in particular, i'd log in, insert the ppp module, log out, connect and try to start a ppp session, and the host where i was doing this would report to syslog that the kernel didn't support ppp. anyway, downgrade the two modules, and it seems to work. For that matter, putting ppp in /etc/modules still gave me the not supported problem. rick
Real3D StarFighter video card
Hi, I have a Real3D StarFighter AGP video card, which is based on the Intel i740 chipset. Unfortunately this chipset is currently unsupported by XFree86, at least it is according to their FAQ. The only place I've seen that offers an X server for this chipset is XiG. The problem is that they want $100 for it. That just seems a bit much for something that I was expecting to be free. My question is, does anyone know of any other place to get an X server for the i740 chipset? Or should I just bite the bullet and pay the money? Thanks, Rich
Re: Rescue Disk
I think that in most cases simply dd the approptaite file will do. dd if=resc1440.bin of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 conv=sync ; sync Can anyone tell me the correct procedure for creating a rescue disk after installation. I had a problem with my floppy during the install and it could not create one, now the floppy is fixed and I would like to make one. Thanks in advance.
Ipip/redir
This is a little off topic so a more approiate place to direct this question if it existed would be appreciated.. Here a really in depth programming question relating these two I have a computer within a firewall, that is prevented from accepting outside connections(Though www/ftp/telnet all work as normal). I gone an ethernet connect to eastablish servers, not to be blocked off... So I have been working on solution to fix this bug :) I've been inside out redir's source and know it very well(I fact rewrote it use generalized functions, to make easier to read). And I just gotten ipip's tar.gz.orig to look at(I will have to create a server/client to estblish the connection from inside) But anywhat In this method. a modified redir would access this modified ipip so I can route multiple sockets over the one socket establish from my inside computer. Since I don't have IP numbers to give out(except over the vitrual tunnel network), I don't think I'll be able to use the normal route. instead redir will have to interface to the ipip daemon more directly. My question is how to I create sockets so that they are guaranteed to use a cretian ip interface in linux the socket functions memntioned in the info file under sockets are awful general and don't give me control I need. Any help/existing programs/other source would be appreciated. Philip Thiem -- PENQUIN-LOVER-CODER ALERT: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All windows user please exvacuate the building (So I can install a better OS on the comps) Pass on the GAS get NASM instead.
Re: lilo setup
On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, Richard Heller wrote: Hi, I just installed Debian Linux and have some questions about lilo. I used Linux a few years ago and the way lilo worked then was that when you booted the machine, you got a LILO: prompt and then could type linux, dos, or whatever to boot the desired operating system. There was also a way to have it not time out so that it would just sit there until you told it which one to boot. I would like to have that same sort of thing setup now, but that doesn't seem to be the default anymore. look at the lilo manual pages. you probably need to tweak the timeout= setting. When I installed lilo, it requires that the shift key be held down for the lilo boot prompt to come up, which can best be described as annoying, and for some reason it won't boot linux for me. Instead of entering a name for the OS to load, it wants a partition number and the only one it lets me use is my Win98 partition. if you press tab it lists the labels it knows about. each one of these is defined in /etc/lilo.conf Does anyone know how to set up lilo the way I described? I basically want the LILO prompt to come up when I boot my machine, I don't want it to time out, and I want to be able to enter english names for the different OS's I want to load (of which there are two, Linux and Win98). man lilo.conf should give you all you need to make it do this dave -- | oOOooO / [EMAIL PROTECTED] --|oOobodoO/ We're just two lost souls, swimming in a --| ooOoOo /fish bowl, year after year. Running over | II / the same old ground, what have we found, | II / The same old fears. Wish you were Here.
control characters with bit 8 high ppp
I've finally managed to make a ppp connection over my isn (not isdn) line; the connection is made and i can ping other machines. I've set asyncmap at both ends to 0x to block all control characters from being used. However, the hardware on the isn line uses ^S/^Q. However, it does this in hyardware for both the values themselves, and for the corresponding values with bit 8 high. So my connection doesn't stay up long enough to do anything useful-- even launching xterm telnet session is too much for it. So is there any way to add the high control characters to the asyncmap? Or do I have to switch over to a 6 bit slip instead of ppp? rick
Re: Iomega Zip
As far as Mac and PC flavors, I believe it's possible to reformat a Mac Zip to a PC Zip, and vice versa - They come preformatted for much the same reason floppies do - for our convenience. Mike Kenneth Scharf wrote: Not only that, but I don't think that you can low level format a zip drive, as you can with a floppy. You MUST buy preformatted zips, which is why they come in PC and Mac flavors. ---
Re: Iomega Zip
You're absolutely right, Mike! I personally have a half dozen pre-formatted Mac Zips I'm using with my Pentium. Adalberto Michael Vanecek wrote: As far as Mac and PC flavors, I believe it's possible to reformat a Mac Zip to a PC Zip, and vice versa - They come preformatted for much the same reason floppies do - for our convenience. Mike Kenneth Scharf wrote: Not only that, but I don't think that you can low level format a zip drive, as you can with a floppy. You MUST buy preformatted zips, which is why they come in PC and Mac flavors. --- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Adalberto da Silva Instituto Astronomico e Geofisico Universidade de Sao Paulo Brasil [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: control characters with bit 8 high ppp
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. writes: I've set asyncmap at both ends to 0x to block all control characters from being used. The right way to do this is to omit the asynchmap option entirely. This may not be what you want to do, though. So is there any way to add the high control characters to the asyncmap? Take a look at the 'escape' option. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. Elmwood, Wisconsin Do not send email advertisements to this address.
Re: HELP! Seriously messed up bo - hamm
On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, Michael Stutz wrote: Please help -- I really messed up my 1.3 system today trying to upgrade to 2.0 using the 2-cd set from LSL. I'd like to be able to find a way out of this mess and be able to upgrade properly rather than having to save my /usr/local and /etc and then reinstall new... ... snip ... Running dselect doesn't help, either. dpkg is broken -- every time I run it I get something like: (Reading database ... 23523 files and directories currently installed.) Removing wget ... install-info: No dir file specified; try --help for more information. dpkg: error processing wget (--remove): subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1 Update-menus: waiting for dpkg to finish (forking to background) Update-menus: (checking /var/lib/dpkg/lock) Errors were encountered while processing: wget I'd first resolve the dependency problems by removing the packages with dpkg dpkg --remove wget If the prerm or postrm scripts fail, edit them to remove the problems. They're located in /var/lib/dpkg/info. Once the dependencies are resolved, add only a few packages at a time starting with the essential ones. -- Jean Pierre
Re: configuring my kernel
Nathan E Norman wrote: If you can't find any information about your NIC, and you can't get any of the modules to work with it, I think you're screwed. Is it impossible to replace the NIC? -- I am doing a fresh install on the new machines. The ethernet howto does tell me which module to use, and it instructs me to set the io and irq values. This is to avoid probing. I do this, but when the module is being added to the kernel a little blip comes across the screen. The blip says something about 'root no such user'. Then the installation is marked as failed. This is a little odd since module configuration comes before configuring the root account in the install process. I guess I could go buy another card, but I would prefer to use the one I got for free. There is a unique pleasure in finding good uses for other peoples junk.
differential SCSI adapter supported?
I am thinking of getting several 18GB IBM drives. The ones I see being auctioned right now have differential interfaces. I see that Adaptec has a model 2940U2W that seems to support this interface. Is it supported by linux? Are there any other decent supported differential adapters I should look at? Thanks, Michael Laing
Re: Iomega Zip
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Not only that, but I don't think that you can low level format a zip drive, as you can with a floppy. You MUST buy preformatted zips, which is why they come in PC and Mac flavors. No. I've bought Mac-format (HFS) floppies and reformatted them for use on DOS/Windows machines. Granted, I did that under OS/2. (Yes, I do use lots of operating systems, why do you ask?) So one *can* reformat a Zip disk. I suspect fdformat would work, but I've never had to do it under Linux so that's a complete guess. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum http://dm.net
Re: configuring my kernel
Tom Malloy writes: The ethernet howto does tell me which module to use, and it instructs me to set the io and irq values. How can you know what module, io, and irq to use if you have no information on the cards? I do this, but when the module is being added to the kernel a little blip comes across the screen. The blip says something about 'root no such user'. This is a bug in the install program. It seems to be harmless, and I don't think it is related to your problem. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. Elmwood, Wisconsin Do not send email advertisements to this address.
Plip, Plip My Kingdom for a Plip
Hi all, I want to plip a hamm box to win95 box. I asked for help on this some time ago and got lots of good stuff, but none of it worked out. Then I saw a msg from someone with the same desire. People told him some good stuff, what I cough of it. - I only saw a few of the replies. It sounded like he was on to something. I got the plip to work on my hamm box. I can ping the LPT. I read something about the upgraded Dial-Up Networking aplet would work with PLT's, but I upgraded it and still can't get it to use the LPT. Does anyone have good news for me. P.S. I tried the mini howto on the sun site and it's not there anymore. I read that Linux Journal has an article but it's only open to subscribers. I have seen howtos for Linux to Linux and they help some, but not with this. Thank you all John McPeek
Netscape locks up all the time
Netscape locks everytime I use it now. I have Netscape Communicator 4.05 and I am running Debian 2.0. It never used to due that and I haven't changed or added anything to this machine. If anyone has had this trouble before I would appreciate some suggestions. -- Thanks, Keith Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://www.naples.net/~nfn11988
Re: Using apt-get to upgrade to slink
On 19 Sep 1998, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: I'm thinking about making the upgrade to slink since it has a couple of additions I'd like to try. After hearing all the great things about apt-get I thought I'd give it a try. I have a local mirror of the Debian ftp site and I'm having trouble figuring out how to modify sources.list to point to it. The trick is that my mirror isn't on an anonymous ftp server, I have to log in to it with my username and password. How can I make apt-get use these when it attempts the ftp? I think I want something along the lines of: deb ftp://my.local.machine/usr/local/mirror/debian slink main contrib non-free non-US Try the file:/ syntax. deb file:/usr/local/mirror/debian slink main contrib non-free non-US but is there any way to get it to prompt me for a username or password? The man page for sources.list says that the ftp method is highly configurable and to see the ftp.conf(5) man page. Trouble is that man page didn't seem to get installed on my hamm system, even after installing apt from slink? Apt is only 0.1.6. Thats nowhere near 1.0. Sure it should be there, but it still in the development stages Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key available, reply with pgpkey as subject. - WinErr: 015 Mouse not found - A mouse driver has not been installed. Please click the left mouse button to continue. - Debian GNU/Linux Ooohh You are missing out!
Mailing list digest size.
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Re: Iomega Zip
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 21:56:57 -0300 Ok let me correct myself. What you did was to highlevel format the zip drive to work with a dos or mac file system (like doing a mkfs). But you CANNOT lowlevel format a zip drive to increase it's capacity as you can for a floppy. You have no control over the drive's lowlevel parameters. - You're absolutely right, Mike! I personally have a half dozen pre-formatted Mac Zips I'm using with my Pentium. _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: unsuscribe
Alan, The bit of geek-speak at the bottom of the messagess in this list tell how to unsubscribe. Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null In plain language, this means send mail (any mailer will do, UNIX mail Eudora, Elm, Pine, Netscape's mailer..) to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subject line containing only unsubscribe and an empty message body. If this fails to stop messages, send another message to the list explaining the problem and ask for help. I think there is a person at debian-user-request who will mnanually unsubscribe, but I don't know how to make him/her read the message. Let me know if this fails --David On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, Alan Maciel Salcedo. wrote: unsubscribe Alan Maciel [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Kernel Panic: VFS Unable to mount root fs on 03:01
On Sat, Sep 19, 1998 at 11:41:24PM +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: VFS: Can't open root device 03:01 Kernel Panic: VFS unable to mount root fs on 03:01 Sounds like you didn't compile in the driver for your harddisk. You did compile in (not as module) the IDE driver right? And support for the ext2 filesystem? Looks like missing IDE support was my problem. I had read only the beginning of the help on the Enhanced IDE support: ... the full-featured IDE driver to control up to four IDE interfaces ... and had figured that, since I have only two IDE drives, I did not need this full-featured driver. If I had read further: ... If you have one or more IDE drives, say Y ... I could have spared us this thread. Well, problem solved, and thanks for your help. Lesson learned: R(all)TFM. Matt Miller
Re: After ftp upgrade of slink, module loading fails
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: After allowing an upgrade of slink packages without watching too closely, I then discovered that the auto loading of modules (ppp,sound,vfat) fails for all modules. I can use insmod to *manually* load these modules (in dependency order) and everything works. The modules.dep file is correct (depmod -a doesn't help), it has the right dependencies and locations. I have done nothing to the kernel; no new kernel. I booted up this morning with everything working, connected to an ftp site with dselect, allowed it to upgrade about a dozen packages, and afterword all module loading is broken. Anybody seen this? i got hit with this one too, but good, yesterday. I noticed something going to slink about modules being handled differently, but the message and the instructions flew by. Having caught that it had something to do with modules, i reinstalled modconf modutils from hamm, and seems to work again. This did it; I didn't have modconf installed, but downgrading modutils solved the problem. THANK YOU. PS: The problem must have something to do with the /etc/modutils/ config files in the slink package. The /etc/modutils/ dir is a recent development isn't it? rick -- Ed C.
Re: MTA Frustration: Exim
On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, George Bonser wrote: Unfortunately, it doesn't work. I've also tried running eximconfig and selecting local system (mail is sent and recieved only locally). This doesn't work either. This is making me quite suspicious: maybe something else is broken. Is it possible exim doesn't like my machine name (Caliban) starting with a capital? Can you give an example of the exact error you are getting. A look at the /var/log/exim/mainlog and /var/log/exim/paniclog might be helpful. *slaps himself on the forehead* Of course, check the logfiles! *solemly puts on duncecap* Okay the messages I get when local delivery attempted are: main: 1998-09-20 15:55:28 0zKaau-7s-00 == [EMAIL PROTECTED] T=local_delivery defer (13): Permission denied: creating lock file hitching post /var/spool/mail/ajt.lock.Caliban.36047cb0.01ea paniclog: 1998-09-20 15:42:54 socket bind() to port 25 for address (any) failed: Address already in use: daemon abandoned This looks diagnostic, although I don't know what to do about it. I would change that hostname to caliban if I were you. have done so. I was rather more ignorant of hostname/username conventions when I first set up the machine. I guess I could always use Pann's smail configuration stuff, but I've read too much of the exim docs to give up now. Anyhow, I like exim better than smail :] Andrew Tarr If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate
RE: REMOVE!!!
On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, Steve Lamb wrote: On Fri, 18 Sep 1998 00:06:27 -0400, Braden N. McDaniel wrote: Me too. Anyone who knows what the current tagline means probably didn't have to look for the information there in the first place. It's cute and all, but isn't the whole point of the information being there to help inexperienced users and minimize the number of unsubscribe me messages sent to the list? To obfuscate this message strikes me as counterproductive. I see it a different way. Look at this way, the person was using Eudora, right? This is a Linux mailing list. Does the tag there work with Linux? Hell yeah, it works pretty much as a cut and paste. How much more simple do you want it to be? The fact this person was using Eudora is irrelevant since, last I checked, Eudora wasn't ported to Linux. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. ---+- If Braden is correct that the whole point is to help inexperienced users, then I as a linux/unix newbie who still uses Eudora/Windows (for several reasons, but not because of affection for Windows) qualify as a valid voice in this discussion: the tagline meant nothing to me. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OFF TOPIC: W/95 term progs COM5?
On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, Edward J Young wrote: Sorry to ask about a W/95 issue here, but I need to validate a board on W/95 before I use it on Linux. I need to be able to talk to my extended serial ports using a terminal program. I can't find any Software that will open a terminal and talk to anything above COM4. PCPlus, hyperterm, etc are hardcoded to COM4 and below, so I can't even get started with those. I am using a Cyclades 4yo board which adds 4 more serial ports and works under Linux. Too bad W/95 apps are limiting me. Ed Young I've never played with more than 4 com ports, so this may not work at all, but you can give it a go. Attach a modem to one of the ports (say, COM5), then from a Command Prompt Only (or Restart Computer in MS-DOS Mode) prompt, enter a command like: echo ATDT(phone_num_of_your_second_line) COM5 and see if the modem dials your second phone line. If so, then you know the card is (at least partially) working. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hard disk spinning down
Hi folks, I have a Debian box turned on 24-hrs a day. The hard disk is spinning at the full speed. Is there a program to slow down the spinning when my system is not in use? Please let me know. Thanks in advance. Jimmy Lu e-mail address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hard disk spinning down
On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, Jimmy Lu wrote: Hi folks, I have a Debian box turned on 24-hrs a day. The hard disk is spinning at the full speed. Is there a program to slow down the spinning when my system is not in use? Please let me know. Thanks in advance. (E)IDE?? package: hdparm Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key available, reply with pgpkey as subject. - Two most common elements in the universe: Hydrogen Stupidity. - Debian GNU/Linux Ooohh You are missing out!
Re: OFF TOPIC: W/95 term progs COM5?
Kent, I guess I didn't make myself clear. I need a com program to *use* the ports, not to verify that they work. I already know that they work, and that the card is working. I know this by some other diagnostics which the board came with. The new ports are mapped to com5 and above. I need to use the board to communicate serialy with some other systems. To do this I need a com program that will work with com5 and above. I know this is possible, but since com ports above 4 are nonstandard in the W/World, most programs don't go up there. I believe it's simply that they have hardcoded their programs, not that it's not possible. Thanx, Ed On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, Kent West wrote: I've never played with more than 4 com ports, so this may not work at all, but you can give it a go. Attach a modem to one of the ports (say, COM5), then from a Command Prompt Only (or Restart Computer in MS-DOS Mode) prompt, enter a command like: echo ATDT(phone_num_of_your_second_line) COM5 and see if the modem dials your second phone line. If so, then you know the card is (at least partially) working. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Install problems
On Sat, Sep 19, 1998 at 12:55:58PM -0500, EGRET Lures wrote: Just a note... I use Mutt...and when it recives no messgae and an HTML attachment it runs lynx to read the message... this makes replies VERY hard and is a PITA. Please refrain from posting HTML to the group...text replies are apreciated. -Steve -- /* -- Stephen Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] */ E-mail Bumper Stickers: A FREE America or a Drug-Free America: You can't have both! honk if you Love Linux pgp2qDN1RJDDA.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Hard disk spinning down
On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, Jimmy Lu wrote: : Hi folks, : : I have a Debian box turned on 24-hrs a day. : The hard disk is spinning at the full speed. : Is there a program to slow down the spinning : when my system is not in use? Please let me : know. Thanks in advance. You could enable APM support in the kernel, but you shouldn't. Spinning disks up and down is harder on them then leaving them running all the time. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
Re: Dselect Freeking ...
On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, Alvaro Reguly wrote: It is one single partition with 2gb free ... really weird ... How big is your /tmp partition? (or is it /var/tmp?) At 09:12 PM 9/17/1998 -0300, you wrote: Hi there .. I got a dselect freek (don't know where that came from) last week, I was trying to upgrade (proposed upgrades), when I got to step 3 (Install) dselect freeks (nice ANSI there :)) complaing about hard disk space, but the thing is I have 2gb+ free space .. Method is FTP. What do you think about that ? Just a guess, but do you have one partition that has 2 gig free, or do you have more than one partition, and one of those has 2 gigs free? If the latter, it may be that the downloaded files are being saved to a smaller partition. Alvaro Reguly Network Administration Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul Porto Alegre - RS - Brazil -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] /\ \ / CAMPANHA DA FITA ASCII - CONTRA MAIL HTML X ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN - AGAINST HTML MAIL / \ -- df shows 2gb free? Are you running dselect as root? If not, perhaps your permissions are too limiting. Do any of the packages get downloaded, or does it spit up blood immediately upon entering the install option?
Re: re-rebooting during installation
If you get a private reply that answers this, please post it; I've seen the question here before without having seen the answer, and I'd like to know too. Thanks. On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, G. Crimp wrote: Hi, Question first, details follow for those that want them. Question: How can I get Deb to present me with the profile selection screen that one gets during installation of Deb 2.0, after one has partitioned, initialized, configured the net and the base system and rebooted ? You know, where one decides if one wants to create an Admin box, stand alone box, home box, development box, etc. Details: I'm just having a go at installing 2.0 from an official CD image. Got through all the initial installation routine stuff, rebooted, root password etc, etc. Then I got to the part where you pick a profile. I went and had a look at custom, then wanted to go back and have a look at some of the other profiles. I hit cancel at the custom selection screen. It didn't take me back to where I could select another profile. I didn't want to go straight to dselect, so I rebooted. We are having a nation wide installfest in Canada next weekend. I'm doing my part and I want to know more about the various profiles so I can better help installees go home with an appropriate configuration. When I rebooted, I was sent directly to a login as if installation was complete. I guess it was complete, but I want to play more with the installation procedure and profile selection. If anyone can tell me what the mechanism is to restart the root password selection, user account creation, profile selection routine, it would be greatly appreciated. I don't really want to have to go back and redo the whole install thing. Thanks, Gerald -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Iomega Zip
Thanks for that clarification. I think someone went looking for some tar and feathers. :) BTW - Someone posted that it would be unwise to reformat for Linux because of the lack of Iomega disk tools causing data loss. Please elaborate. We've been working and reformatting disks on our Macs sans the tools (we just have the basic driver loaded). Also, when you get the option to do maintanance to the disk on a Windoze system, the standard defrag/scandisk dialogue comes up, and the reformat is the stock Windows flavor. The only good I've seen with the utilities is the find utility, so I don't load them. Is there something I'm missing? I certainly wish to use Zip, and eventually Jaz with Linux, and in my extreme desire to completely seperate myself from the Microsoft dictatorship, I also wish to toss the Fat16 format these disks have in favor of the far superior ext2. Mike You wrote: Ok let me correct myself. What you did was to highlevel format the zip drive to work with a dos or mac file system (like doing a mkfs). But you CANNOT lowlevel format a zip drive to increase it's capacity as you can for a floppy. You have no control over the drive's lowlevel parameters.
^X in pine; from w95
Hi All, It seems that this is not a debian prolem, but I hope someone would be able to help me. There is a win95 box connected to my debian via ppp by mean of an old 1200 modem. During telnet session it is impossible to send mails in pine pressing ^X. Instead it sends only one 'x' symbol. The same with other CTRL+? keys. Terminal set to vt100 in telnet settings. So I can't figure out what the matter. From ppp.log it is seen that asyncmap is 0xa which is same when the situation is ok ( I mean connection from another w95 machine ). Thanks in advance for any help, Eugene Sevinian CRD, YerPhI, 375036, Armenia URL: http://crdlx5.yerphi.am/ Phone: 374-2-344873
Re: MTA Frustration: Exim
On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, Andrew wrote: There must be tons of people in my position, on average a lot more email-stupid than those with complex networks to manage. There should really be a file saying here's what you do if you're a single machine user with a dial-up account. Maybe there is already, but I never found it. Maybe it should be in the FAQ, or the FAQ_O_MATIC, or in the eximconf script itself. I will support that. I have tried maybe a dozen times to get exim running without success. The documentation most of the time explains some technical detail that I am not interested in. I just want to know how to set up the mail on my single PC with a dialup ppp connection to an ISP. That I have not been able to figure out with the present exim documentation. With Debian 1.3.1 it was easy to do setup smail. Now on Debain 2 smail's setup is also complicated and it took me a few days after upgrading to get my mail system working again. Johann -- | Johann Spies Windsorlaan 19 | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]3201 Pietermaritzburg | | Tel/Faks Nr. +27 331-46-1310 Suid-Afrika (South Africa) | -- Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. Malachi 3:10
does smail know batched email?
Does smail as shipped with Debian 2.0 handle batched and compressed email (incoming) delivered via UUCP properly? When I had 1.3.1 installed it did not and I never found a solution to the problem. Many email batches were lost until I switched to non batched delivery to my machine. But I really like compressed email batches because they save $$$.
Re: Arla
I installed arla about one month ago,.. I tried version 0.8 and 0.9,.. compiling all that worked fine,.. demo modus worked too very well! But I couldnt not really install the deamon. After playing around for 2 hors or so I decided to wait for at least the next version. May be you fetch the sources from http://www.stacken.kth.se/projekt/arla/. The instructions how to complie it are very clear. Hey! this must have been one of the first sources I could compile without (any) problems:) Best wishes Selim PS: I run hamm. (may be it was slink,.. but think I switched to slink just very recently,.. I am not sure; I dont think it does matter at all) Max wrote: Has anyone here had any success either compiling Arla or installing the RPM package with alien? When I try to compile, it complains about all sorts of missing header files. The RPM installation doesn't work because it can't find libreadline.so.3 (Debian only provides libreadline.so.2). I got the latest libreadline RPM from RedHat but the linker for Arla still fails. What gives? I'd really like to get AFS working here and it looks like Arla is my only choice if I want to use the development kernel. Thanks, Max -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Selim Issever | Tel: 040 8998-2843+- The world is my true ration, DESY-F15 | Fax: 040 8998-4033+- Its people are my nation Notkestr. 85 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] + Yunus Emre --- 22603 Hamburg/Germany | http://www.physik.uni-dortmund.de/~issevers
Re: SVGALib, Xpert@Play and sQuake/Quake II
In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; from Ryan Kirkpatrick on Fri, Sep 18, 1998 at 07:35:44PM -0500 On Fri, Sep 18, 1998 at 07:35:44PM -0500, Ryan Kirkpatrick wrote: On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Adrian Bridgett wrote: Does ldd squake.real say anything useful? Er, que? (spot the newbie sysadmin...) Which seems okay to me - the top one is the libc5 maths library, the bottom one is the libc5 C library and the middle one is the libc5 vga library. I am having exactly the same problem with squake on my Debian 2.0 system as well, only I have a Matrox Millium(sp?) card. 'ldd `which squake.real`' gives me: Matrox Millenium isn't particularly well supported by SVGAlib at the moment. I have an improved patch here, but I'm a bit wary of some trimmed security patches which are in the upstream release - the fewer patches we apply the better, however we don't want to compromise security. Have you tried other SVGAlib programs. libm.so.5 = /lib/libm.so.5 (0x4000b000) libvga.so.1 = /usr/lib/libvga.so.1 (0x40014000) libc.so.5 = /lib/libc.so.5 (0x40051000) libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4010f000) ld-linux.so.2 = /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x401b4000) Something is definetely wierd here, as linking to two libc (different versions no less) can not be good for the health. I have tried different values for LD_LIBRARY_PATH and LD_PRELOAD, but to no avail. Have you tried unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH; unset LD_PRELOAD - you may be forcing something nasty upon squake. The only lead I have on this is that Netscape 4.x was giving me simular problems to this as well. If I hand installed a copy of netscape into /usr/local/..., it would segfault on start, and an ldd showed that that it has also linked to both libc's, 5 and 6. When I feed the debian wrapper package for netscape the same tar.gz distrib file as I had used to install manually, netscape magically got installed in such a way that it looks for only libc5. Wierd - the netscape wrapper script doesn't appear to do anything to the library loading. ldd /usr/lib/netscape/netscape shows libc5 stuff only. What are the contents of /etc/ld.so.conf? Here are mine: /usr/X11R6/lib/neXtaw /usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw3d /usr/local/lib /usr/X11R6/lib /usr/lib/libc5-compat /lib/libc5-compat From this, I suspect that the problem has little to do with svga lib or video cards, but with messed up linking. I need to look at the source to the debian wrapper package for netscape, the answer probably lies there, but I have not had time yet. My two cents, hope they help! I agree - the dynamic loader seems to have got confused what versions of these packages are you using (dpkg -s package-name): libc5 5.4.38-11 libc6 2.0.7t-1 ldso 1.9.9-5 I'm running slink (aka unstable) - last upgraded about a fortnight ago (two weeks for Americans and other non-English readers g) so your versions are likely to be a bit older. Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers Debian Linux http://www.debian.org The superior Linux distribution
Which package contains xpm.h?
The subject says it all. I try to compile wmppp-1.3.0 which needs xpm.h and I don't know where to find it. Can anyone tell me the right package. BTW, is there a method to find a currently not installed package containing a certain file? TIA, Thomas
complex syslog facility daemon
Hi, we've got a lot services runnig and every is logging to daemon.log. It's a PC with Debian 2.0. Before we had a SUN Sparcstation running Redhat. Many of the services had to be newly compiled for the sparc architecture so we had the posibility to change the facilities to some LOCALs in the source. Now the splitted logs were clearer to read. But I think the LOCAL facilities are not provided for such a behavior. So, are there any tools splitting daemon.log into cleaerer parts or is this not desired? Or should I just recompile using the LOCALs? How do you handle your complex log files? Thanks for any comments and suggestions. Juergen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which package contains xpm.h?
Thomas Apel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The subject says it all. I try to compile wmppp-1.3.0 which needs xpm.h and I don't know where to find it. FYI : wmifs supersedes wmppp... IMHO, the best solution to your pb is to download the Packages file from a Debian ftp site. Then, if you wish to install, say wmppp, a grep in this file will give you : =-=-=-=-=-= Package: wmppp.app Version: 1.1-1 Priority: optional Section: net Maintainer: Marcelo E. Magallon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Depends: libc6, xlib6g (= 3.3-5), xpm4g (= 3.4j-0) Suggests: wmaker Architecture: i386 Filename: dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/net/wmppp.app_1.1-1.deb [cut...] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= So, you know you have to have the depends installed... and you know where to find the package on the ftp site. (dselect is probably able to do that but i don't want to hear something about this... euh, program ?) -- --- Éric Jacoboni « J'ai épuisé le tout-venant, je vais me risquer dans le bizarre » (M. Audiard) ---
Re: Which package contains xpm.h?
*-Thomas Apel [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | The subject says it all. I try to compile wmppp-1.3.0 which needs | xpm.h and I don't know where to find it. xpm4g-dev | Can anyone tell me the right package. BTW, is there a method to find a | currently not installed package containing a certain file? Get the file Contents from your favourit ftp server and distribution (for example debian/dists/stable/Contents-i386.gz). Then zgrep through that file: zgrep xpm.h Contents-i386.gz -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [-: .elOle. :-] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Configuring history list in bash ?
Hello, can anyone tell me if it is possible to configure the history list in the bash-shell so that duplicates are removed? /Tomas Petersson
emacsclient in XEmacs
Does XEmacs (20.4) have any functionality similar to (server-start)/emacsclient in GNU Emacs? (With this feature you can let external programs open a file in an already running Emacs instead of starting their own. If this doesn't exist I'll throw away any plans of switching.) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [-: .elOle. :-] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Real Player
I have installed both Netscape 4.06 and rvplayer 5.0 with the .deb installers. Rvplayer works fine when I invoke it from the command line like this: rvplayer pnm://live.wksu.org/wksu.ra Started this way, rvplayer will play any file locally or from the internet correctly. I configured rvplayer for Netcape under applications, and when I click a link in Netscape rvplayer will start, but not play. It behaves as if I simply invoked it from the command line with without a URL. It comes up on the screen and just sits there. How do I fix this? Thanks, David Densmore [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Configuring history list in bash ?
*-Tomas Petersson [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Hello, can anyone tell me if it is possible to | configure the history list in the bash-shell so | that duplicates are removed? HISTCONTROL=ignoredups will make sure that no consecutive duplicates are entered. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [-: .elOle. :-] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Plip, Plip My Kingdom for a Plip
The PILP mini-HOWTO is stil on Sunsite in /pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/unmaintained/mini It is also in the Debian hamm doc-linux-text package (but not the latest slink version for some reason ??) Bob On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, john mcpeek wrote: Hi all, I want to plip a hamm box to win95 box. I asked for help on this some time ago and got lots of good stuff, but none of it worked out. Then I saw a msg from someone with the same desire. People told him some good stuff, what I cough of it. - I only saw a few of the replies. It sounded like he was on to something. I got the plip to work on my hamm box. I can ping the LPT. I read something about the upgraded Dial-Up Networking aplet would work with PLT's, but I upgraded it and still can't get it to use the LPT. Does anyone have good news for me. P.S. I tried the mini howto on the sun site and it's not there anymore. I read that Linux Journal has an article but it's only open to subscribers. I have seen howtos for Linux to Linux and they help some, but not with this. Thank you all John McPeek -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
RE: differential SCSI adapter supported?
There are at least 2 differential driver standards. The current, popular one is LPD or Low Power Differential. The 2940U2W supports LPD _only_. Be sure to get the details on those IBM drivers before you do any bidding :)I think Linux support is beta but check for the latest at: ftp.dialnet.net. FYI, I'm currently using a 2940U2W and a Seagate ST34502LW Cheetah on an NT server. VERY fast!! I am thinking of getting several 18GB IBM drives. The ones I see being auctioned right now have differential interfaces. I see that Adaptec has a model 2940U2W that seems to support this interface. Is it supported by linux? Are there any other decent supported differential adapters I should look at? Thanks, Michael Laing
ppp won't work under new kernel
Hello everybody, just compiled the new kernel that is 2.1.122 with ppp, slip and cslip support. I am having some trouble. It works fine the first time I boot up but anytime after that it does not. I searched high and low in the mailing list archives to find the answer. I remember seeing a similar question posed but could not find it. This is an example of what I am doing in the ppp.log file Sep 20 09:48:47 hal9000 pppd[1381]: pppd 2.3.5 started by paul, uid 1000 Sep 20 09:48:48 hal9000 chat[1382]: abort on (BUSY) Sep 20 09:48:48 hal9000 chat[1382]: abort on (NO CARRIER) Sep 20 09:48:48 hal9000 chat[1382]: abort on (VOICE) Sep 20 09:48:48 hal9000 chat[1382]: abort on (NO DIALTONE) Sep 20 09:48:48 hal9000 chat[1382]: abort on (NO ANSWER) Sep 20 09:48:48 hal9000 chat[1382]: send (ATZ^M) Sep 20 09:48:48 hal9000 chat[1382]: expect (OK) Sep 20 09:48:48 hal9000 chat[1382]: ATZ^M^M Sep 20 09:48:48 hal9000 chat[1382]: OK Sep 20 09:48:48 hal9000 chat[1382]: -- got it Sep 20 09:48:48 hal9000 chat[1382]: send (ATDT6610010^M) Sep 20 09:48:48 hal9000 chat[1382]: expect (CONNECT) Sep 20 09:48:48 hal9000 chat[1382]: ^M Sep 20 09:49:08 hal9000 chat[1382]: ATDT6610010^M^M Sep 20 09:49:08 hal9000 chat[1382]: CONNECT Sep 20 09:49:08 hal9000 chat[1382]: -- got it Sep 20 09:49:08 hal9000 chat[1382]: send (^M) Sep 20 09:49:08 hal9000 chat[1382]: expect (name:) Sep 20 09:49:08 hal9000 chat[1382]: 31200/ARQ/V34/LAPM/V42BIS^M Sep 20 09:49:10 hal9000 chat[1382]: ^M Sep 20 09:49:10 hal9000 chat[1382]: ^M Sep 20 09:49:10 hal9000 chat[1382]: User Access Verification^M Sep 20 09:49:10 hal9000 chat[1382]: ^M Sep 20 09:49:10 hal9000 chat[1382]: Username: Sep 20 09:49:10 hal9000 chat[1382]: -- got it Sep 20 09:49:10 hal9000 chat[1382]: send (??) Sep 20 09:49:11 hal9000 chat[1382]: expect (ssword:) Sep 20 09:49:11 hal9000 chat[1382]: pmcdermo^M Sep 20 09:49:11 hal9000 chat[1382]: Password: Sep 20 09:49:11 hal9000 chat[1382]: -- got it Sep 20 09:49:11 hal9000 chat[1382]: send (??) Sep 20 09:49:11 hal9000 chat[1382]: expect () Sep 20 09:49:12 hal9000 chat[1382]: ^M Sep 20 09:49:12 hal9000 chat[1382]: ^M Sep 20 09:49:12 hal9000 chat[1382]:UWONET IP Terminal Server^M Sep 20 09:49:12 hal9000 chat[1382]: ^M Sep 20 09:49:12 hal9000 chat[1382]: TYPE For a connection to^M Sep 20 09:49:12 hal9000 chat[1382]: ---^M Sep 20 09:49:12 hal9000 chat[1382]: panther ITS Unix service^M Sep 20 09:49:12 hal9000 chat[1382]: library UWO library catalogue^M Sep 20 09:49:12 hal9000 chat[1382]: hpc ITS CRAY service^M Sep 20 09:49:12 hal9000 chat[1382]: uwovax ITS VAX/VMS service -- uwovaxretu rn Sep 20 09:49:12 hal9000 chat[1382]: -- got it Sep 20 09:49:12 hal9000 chat[1382]: send (ppp^M) Sep 20 09:49:12 hal9000 chat[1382]: send (\d) Sep 20 09:49:13 hal9000 pppd[1381]: Serial connection established. Sep 20 09:49:14 hal9000 pppd[1381]: Using interface ppp2 Sep 20 09:49:14 hal9000 pppd[1381]: Connect: ppp2 -- /dev/modem Sep 20 09:49:14 hal9000 pppd[1381]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 asyncmap 0x0 mag ic 0x908f pcomp accomp] Sep 20 09:49:15 hal9000 pppd[1381]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x2b asyncmap 0xa magic 0x8603f3bb pcomp accomp] Sep 20 09:49:15 hal9000 pppd[1381]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x2b asyncmap 0xa magic 0x8603f3bb pcomp accomp] Sep 20 09:49:17 hal9000 pppd[1381]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 asyncmap 0x0 mag ic 0x908f pcomp accomp] Sep 20 09:49:17 hal9000 pppd[1381]: rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 asyncmap 0x0 mag ic 0x908f pcomp accomp] Sep 20 09:49:17 hal9000 pppd[1381]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x0 magic=0x908f] Sep 20 09:49:17 hal9000 pppd[1381]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x1 addr 0.0.0.0 co mpress VJ 0f 01] Sep 20 09:49:17 hal9000 pppd[1381]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x0 magic=0x8603f3bb] Sep 20 09:49:17 hal9000 pppd[1381]: rcvd [IPCP ConfNak id=0x1 addr 129.100.154. 238] Sep 20 09:49:17 hal9000 pppd[1381]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x2 addr 129.100.154. 238 compress VJ 0f 01] Sep 20 09:49:17 hal9000 pppd[1381]: rcvd [IPCP ConfAck id=0x2 addr 129.100.154. 238 compress VJ 0f 01] Sep 20 09:49:19 hal9000 pppd[1381]: rcvd [IPCP ConfReq id=0x13 compress VJ 0f 0 0 addr 129.100.154.12] Sep 20 09:49:19 hal9000 pppd[1381]: sent [IPCP ConfAck id=0x13 compress VJ 0f 0 0 addr 129.100.154.12] Sep 20 09:49:19 hal9000 pppd[1381]: not replacing existing default route to ppp0 [129.100.154.13] Sep 20 09:49:19 hal9000 pppd[1381]: local IP address 129.100.154.238 Sep 20 09:49:19 hal9000 pppd[1381]: remote IP address 129.100.154.12 Sep 20 09:49:47 hal9000 pppd[1381]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x1 magic=0x908f] Sep 20 09:49:47 hal9000 pppd[1381]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x1 magic=0x8603f3bb] Sep 20 09:50:17 hal9000 pppd[1381]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x2 magic=0x908f] Sep 20 09:50:17 hal9000 pppd[1381]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x2 magic=0x8603f3bb] Sep 20 09:50:47 hal9000 pppd[1381]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x3 magic=0x908f] Sep 20 09:50:47 hal9000 pppd[1381]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x3 magic=0x8603f3bb] Sep 20 09:51:17
Re: emacsclient in XEmacs
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ole J. Tetlie) | | Does XEmacs (20.4) have any functionality similar to | (server-start)/emacsclient in GNU Emacs? Sorry, I found it. If anyone else wants to know, it's (gnuserv-start) and gnuclient. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [-: .elOle. :-] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HELP! Seriously messed up bo - hamm
I'd first resolve the dependency problems by removing the packages with dpkg dpkg --remove wget If the prerm or postrm scripts fail, edit them to remove the problems. They're located in /var/lib/dpkg/info. Once the dependencies are resolved, add only a few packages at a time starting with the essential ones. also, you can get through this with a few rounds of alternating between --d 10. Logout Enter number of selection or use arrow keys: 1 Telnet host... eyry.econ Xyplex -010- Session 1 to EYRY.ECON established Debian GNU/Linux slink eyry.econ.iastate.edu eyry login: hawk Password: Linux eyry 2.0.34 #1 Mon Sep 14 13:41:18 CDT 1998 i586 unknown Copyright (C) 1993-1998 Software in the Public Interest, and others Most of the programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are freely redistributable; the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the individual files in /usr/doc/*/copyright Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by applicable law. Last login: Sat Sep 19 21:49:52 on ttyp1 from hawkins.econ.iastate.edu. You have new mail. tcsh: No entry for terminal type network tcsh: using dumb terminal settings. eyryttyp0:hawksetenv TERM xterm eyryttyp0:hawktelnet pv2086.vincent Buffers Files Tools Edit Search Help cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: HELP! Seriously messed up bo - hamm In-reply-to: Your message of Sat, 19 Sep 1998 21:47:46 EDT. [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd first resolve the dependency problems by removing the packages with dpkg dpkg --remove wget If the prerm or postrm scripts fail, edit them to remove the problems. They're located in /var/lib/dpkg/info. Once the dependencies are resolved, add only a few packages at a time starting with the essential ones. also, you can get through this with a few rounds of alternating between --dpkg --configure --pending and --dpkg -iGER /var/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/debian/dists/stable rick
Re: HELP! Seriously messed up bo - hamm
On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: I'd first resolve the dependency problems by removing the packages with dpkg dpkg --remove wget If the prerm or postrm scripts fail, edit them to remove the problems. They're located in /var/lib/dpkg/info. Thanks, it's working now -- dpkg -r wget did nothing, but after checking the prerm and postrm scripts in /var/lib/dpkg/info I just nuked them completely, since the actual package was not on the system. This worked just fine, and then I was able to upgrade to 2.0 in minutes using the apt-get method. Now to just solve that patch manager problem...
Re: Iomega Zip
I have not followed every detail of this tread, but I think there may be some confusion here about low level and High level formating. Putting a file system on a disk is the same thing as high level formating. I have created ext2 file systems on a zip drive. The command (if memory serves) was mkfs.ext2 /dev/sda4 mkfs has many options you may want to read them. I also keep a msdos system on a zip drive which I use with dosemu. This saves harddisk space, but lets me have access to dos if I actually need it. And of course these file systems are easily trasportable and mountable on other machines. According to the zip howto you can put a small linux system on a zip drive therby having linux available on any machine you attach your zipdrive to. That is the next thing I will try Tom
sound module died in hamm upgrade
I just did an upgrade from 1.3 to 2.0; everything works except for sound; I'm using the Linux Ultrasound Project's gus driver, compiled as a module. I didn't change or make any updates to the kernel or to the sound package, which has been working fine for a long time on this system. Anyone see this one? Will downgrading my modutils and/or modconf packages fix this problem, or is there something else I should do? Thanks. This is what happens at boottime: Sound: IRQ15 already in use GUS MAX support was not compiled in!!! Invalid minor device 255 Sound: IRQ15 already in use GUS MAX support was not compiled in!!! Patch manager interface is currently broken. Sorry Patch manager interface is currently broken. Sorry gus: unable to get major device number 14 Sound: IRQ15 already in use GUS MAX support was not compiled in!!! Invalid minor device 255 Sound: IRQ15 already in use GUS MAX support was not compiled in!!! Patch manager interface is currently broken. Sorry Patch manager interface is currently broken. Sorry gus: unable to get major device number 14 Patch manager interface is currently broken. Sorry Patch manager interface is currently broken. Sorry
[CtrlAltEnd] as [CtrlAltDel] ?
Hi there, how can I make a key combo work? In etc/inittab I get the following line: # What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed. ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now which is ok for shutting the system down and rebooting. But, how about shutting down and halting? I tried adding the line: # What to do when CTRL-ALT-END is pressed. ca:12345:ctrlaltend:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -h now which was just a guess, and obviously didn't work. I suppose I should first of all configure [CtrlAltEnd] as a key combo, but how and where? Thanks, Saludos, Horacio [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- El hombre-masa actual es, en efecto, un primitivo, que por los bastidores se ha deslizado en el viejo escenario de la civilización. Ortega y Gasset - La Rebelión de las Masas. --
Re: Which package contains xpm.h?
Eric Jacoboni wrote: Thomas Apel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The subject says it all. I try to compile wmppp-1.3.0 which needs xpm.h and I don't know where to find it. FYI : wmifs supersedes wmppp... Hmm!? I thought they are different apps. wmppp does the ppp monitoring and some other ppp specific stuff while wmifs does the general interface monitoring, I thought. Correct me if I'm wrong. The reason why I want to play with the sources is that both (in version 1.1) don't work properly with my isdn ippp interface. Is there anybody who also uses these apps with isdn? Thomas P.S. Thanks for your replies, Eric and Ole.
Re: Real Player
I configured rvplayer for Netcape under applications, and when I click a link in Netscape rvplayer will start, but not play. It behaves as if I simply invoked it from the command line with without a URL. It comes up on the screen and just sits there. I bet you put application name as rvplayer, not as rvplayer %s :) Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+
Re: Using apt-get to upgrade to slink
dsb3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | On 19 Sep 1998, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: | | I'm thinking about making the upgrade to slink since it has a couple | of additions I'd like to try. After hearing all the great things about | apt-get I thought I'd give it a try. I have a local mirror of the | Debian ftp site and I'm having trouble figuring out how to modify | sources.list to point to it. The trick is that my mirror isn't on an | anonymous ftp server, I have to log in to it with my username and | password. How can I make apt-get use these when it attempts the ftp? | I think I want something along the lines of: | | deb ftp://my.local.machine/usr/local/mirror/debian slink main contrib non-free non-US | | | typically if you need to specify username/password in a URL you'll use the | form: | | ftp://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/path/file | | let us know if this works for me. Thanks Dave. It does indeed work! Gary
Segmentation fault during install partition
I'm trying to install for the first time on a 486DX33, AMIBIOS 2.3, 8M RAM, 170M HD. As I step through setup, I get to the 'Partition a Hard Disk' step. I select next and am offered the single choice of /dev/hda. I select it, the screen quickly shows a segmentation fault, says its determining the current state and comes back to the main menu at the same step. I tried this first from a directory w/in a WIN95 setup at a DOS-Mode prompt, then booting from the rescue floppy, then booting from the rescue floppy after deleting the WIN95 partition. Always the same result. I downloaded all these files from ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/current/. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Otherwise, I'm going to have to go back to WIN95 (ugh). Chris
Re: libraries have no symbols
On Sat, Sep 19, 1998 at 05:31:31PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Sep 20, 1998 at 01:14:30AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Why do the system libraries not have symbols? They do have some symbols in them. Try e.g. nm --dynamic --defined-only /lib/libc.so.6 Hmmm, okay. So why doesn't gdb use them? Is that only my system, or everyone's? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [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
Network latency?
I've got two Linux boxes in my room here connected via the campus network, going additionally through a hub in the room. Both of the boxen are running kernel 2.1.122, although I've also tried 2.0.36 and the results are the same. Anyway, the problem is that one of the boxen, a 486/25 with an NE2000 clone card, causes problems for the other Linux box (a Pentium II with a pair of SMC EtherPower IIs) when I try to access it via the net. Sometimes it works. Other times, nothing at all happens for up to a couple of minutes--pings don't come back, telnet sessions stop, ftp stalls. This doesn't happen when accessing the Linux box from a Windows machine in the same room. It doesn't happen when a keyboard is attached to the machine's console and you type at the keyboard. Also, sometimes ftp sessions *from* the 486 stall. I tried enabling the `CPU is too slow for network' option in the kernel options, but it didn't help. Does anyone have a suggestion? This is really mysterious behavior. I'm considering trying a different network card. Thanks, Ben.
Re: Network latency?
On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote: [ snip ] : Does anyone have a suggestion? This is really mysterious behavior. : I'm considering trying a different network card. I have an irrational fear of NE2000 clones - I've never seen one work right :) I'd replace it and see what happens. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
mouse not detected in debian 2.0
Hello, I've recently installed debian 2.0 from cheapbytes CD's. everything went fine except i can't get gpm or X to detect my mouse The mouse is a logitech First Mouse and works fine in DOS. it is connected to /dev/ttyS0. gpm-mouse-config cannot find it, and neither can X. I know the port is ok because i've run my external modem through it. I'm at my wits end trying to get this to work. thanks in advance for any help Mike O'Cleirigh __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
How to get rid of the motd
This certainly isn't a serious problem, but I've been a little perplexed at not being able to get rid of the little blurb about Debian/GNU software not being responsible for your machine blowing up, blah, blah, blah that appears directly after login. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Sean
security hole in named?
A Friend sent me an e-mail telling me about a security hole in named: It should be possible to gain root privileges by sending named a too long paket. Does the named in Debian 1.3.1 have this bug? Stef
Re: How to get rid of the motd
Why dont you just edit /etc/motd? Selim Sean Johnson wrote: This certainly isn't a serious problem, but I've been a little perplexed at not being able to get rid of the little blurb about Debian/GNU software not being responsible for your machine blowing up, blah, blah, blah that appears directly after login. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Sean -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Selim Issever | Tel: 040 8998-2843+- The world is my true ration, DESY-F15 | Fax: 040 8998-4033+- Its people are my nation Notkestr. 85 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] + Yunus Emre --- 22603 Hamburg/Germany | http://www.physik.uni-dortmund.de/~issevers
Re: How to get rid of the motd
On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, Selim Issever wrote: Why dont you just edit /etc/motd? Selim Sean Johnson wrote: This certainly isn't a serious problem, but I've been a little perplexed at not being able to get rid of the little blurb about Debian/GNU software not being responsible for your machine blowing up, blah, blah, blah that appears directly after login. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. you have to both edit /etc/motd to remove the text, plus edit the boot files to remove the first line (which is the output of `uname -a`. Take a look at /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh for the last few lines ... -dave -- | oOOooO / [EMAIL PROTECTED] --|oOobodoO/ We're just two lost souls, swimming in a --| ooOoOo /fish bowl, year after year. Running over | II / the same old ground, what have we found, | II / The same old fears. Wish you were Here.
Some Help
I have jusd installed debian linux version 2.0 on a computer. I want to install packages on it from the Internet. The process will be thus. I will download the files to a diskettes and install them. The things I want to know is 1. what linux command do I use to know the free disk space remaining on my hard disk. 2. How do I read information on my floppy dis drive ( mouting and installing packages from them). 3. what files do I need to install x windows. 4. What files to I need to make dhcp work 5. Which files do I need to do general administration. 6. How to I get comprehensive help using the manager system. Thanks for you help in advance Wilson
I broke X when moving /home
I had an NT partition, but decided I could live without it, so I fdisk'd it and mke2fs'd it. Since it's a 2gb partition, I figured that'd be a good place to put /home. So I moved /home to /tmp (mv home /tmp), then mounted the new partition as /home, then copied the old /home to the new (cp -r /tmp/home/* /home). It looked like everything was fine. This is a new setup (only a couple of weeks old), and I only have three users (root, westk, and sheasbys, who hasn't actually logged on and done anything yet). Now when I login as root, I can run X fine, but if I log in as westk, I get a message about xauth: timeout unlocking authority file /home/westk/.Xauthority. I have KDE installed. I tried editing /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc and changing the last exec to run another window manager, but apparently I don't know what I'm doing (very likely, since I Don't know what I'm doing) or KDE doesn't look to this line to start itself, which means to me that KDE apparently thinks it's more than just a window manager. (As you can tell, I'm a bit confused here.) So the gist of this paragraph is I tried to change to a different windowmanager to see if the problem was with KDE or something else and I failed to make the change. After a while of trying to unlock the authority file (or after I press Ctrl-C; I'm not sure which action causes it to go on), X tries to start, but only gets to the dull graphic screen. I rebooted, and deleted /home/westk/.Xauthority. Then I tried starting X again as westk. This time I still get the messages about unlocking the authority file, but when X finally starts it starts up just fine, except that KDE tries to create several directories in westk (desktop, templates, etc). When I shutdown X and then restart it, KDE again tries to create the directories. Any clues as to what I need to do to fix this? Thanks.
Re: Some Help
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wilson Tuma) writes: I have jusd installed debian linux version 2.0 on a computer. I want to install packages on it from the Internet. The process will be thus. I will download the files to a diskettes and install them. The things I want to know is 1. what linux command do I use to know the free disk space remaining on my hard disk. 'df' 2. How do I read information on my floppy dis drive ( mouting and installing packages from them). Well, you could use the mtools suite and DOS/FAT formatted floppies. This is probably the easiest way. Then you don't have to mount floppies at all. Take a look at the mcp, mformat, and mtools manual pages. For the rest, please read the FAQ, etc. .A. P. [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onShore.com/
adding SCSI disks
Hi all, this is not a debian problem, but probably many debianers know the answer to this question. I have an IBM netfinity 3000 with 2 SCSI adapters, one aha 2940UW and one 2940AU. the second one is supposed to drive an external box with 4x9.1GB disks, the first one drives the internal disk only. the external box can contain up to 8 disks, and in the future we'll probably use more disks. my question is: no matter how I tried, the 'finity sees the 2940au as the first adapter, so the internal disk is named after the external diskis. now it's called sde and lilo config says to boot from sde. if I add new (external) disks, the internal will be called sdf/sdg/sdh/whatever and the machine won't boot. how can I change lilo.conf before adding new disks to let the machine boot again? I know it can be done (it's done at the end of debian config, when the istall program asks: do you want to boot from hd?) I have tried with lilo -C path-to-lilo.conf -i path-to-boot.b but it complained about not finding /vmlinuz .. TIA -- |||| ||| Marco Frattola Microsoft is not the answer ||`..'|| |||... Piacenza, ItalyMicrosoft is the question ||| ||| |||''[EMAIL PROTECTED] No is the answer ||| ||| ||| www.enjoy.it/users/~mk/index.html Live Linux, live free!
Re: I broke X when moving /home
*-Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | I had an NT partition, but decided I could live without it, so I fdisk'd That's the spirit. :-) | I tried editing /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc and changing the last exec to run | another window manager, but apparently I don't know what I'm doing (very | likely, since I Don't know what I'm doing) or KDE doesn't look to this | line to start itself, which means to me that KDE apparently thinks it's | more than just a window manager. (As you can tell, I'm a bit confused | here.) So the gist of this paragraph is I tried to change to a different | windowmanager to see if the problem was with KDE or something else and I | failed to make the change. I'll try to unconfuse you. The last line in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc is just used if nothing else is found. The file you want to edit is /etc/X11/window-managers. It will execute the first winman it finds there. You could also have your own .xsession like this: #!/bin/sh /usr/X11R6/bin/my_favourite_winman (This might fail if there is some problem with your home dir) | After a while of trying to unlock the authority file (or after I press | Ctrl-C; I'm not sure which action causes it to go on), X tries to start, | but only gets to the dull graphic screen. | | I rebooted, and deleted /home/westk/.Xauthority. Then I tried starting X | again as westk. | | This time I still get the messages about unlocking the authority file, | but when X finally starts it starts up just fine, except that KDE tries | to create several directories in westk (desktop, templates, etc). When I | shutdown X and then restart it, KDE again tries to create the directories. | | Any clues as to what I need to do to fix this? Thanks. Are you sure you mount the partition with you home dir? Put an entry in /etc/fstab to do it automatically. You could also check /etc/passwd, but it should be OK if /home is mounted. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [-: .elOle. :-] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: About realplayer
On Fri, Sep 18, 1998 at 09:22:59AM -0700, Carl Johnson wrote: James Dietrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've followed this discussion on RealPlayer with interest, as RealPlayer doesn't work on my system either--but it gives a different error. A couple weeks ago I did a fresh install of Hamm (including RealPlayer) and everything worked just fine. However, after upgrading to Slink, RealPlayer stopped working. When I try to run the welcome.rm provided there are a few frames of video and then it says this: General error. An error occurred. For more information, please see Error 1 at: http://www.realaudio.com/help/errors and goes no further. The same thing happens when I click on a link in Netscape--I get perhaps 1/3 second of video/sound and then the above error. Yes, I'm using the Debian package, and yes, I have purged and reinstalled it (several times) to no effect. Anybody got any ideas? Any more information about my system I'll be glad to provide. I just went through this, but with different symptoms, so I can give some ideas where to look. First, try running rvplayer from the command line, and see if it gives any error message. In my case I was getting an error like: audio: write error: -1 bytes errno: 5 Also try checking the log files in /var/log. I found messages (all the same) in messages, syslog, and kern.log. In my case I had DMA errors, but it worked when I disabled 16-bit audio in the preferences menu. I do have a 16-bit card, but obviously I don't have the 16-bit parts configured properly. I don't think you have the same problem, since mine wasn't playing at all before I switched the preferences. Thanks for your tips--but I am still having the same problem. Actually, this morning I installed the most recent version of rvplayer 5.0-6--the one that uses the RedHat 5.x version from www.real.com. Now it seems that I can listen to some files without trouble, while others give trouble. For example, the 14.4 news broadcast from http://www.npr.org/news/ has no problems, but the 28.8 news broadcast from the same site fails with the error message given above. Others, such as live RealVideo of NASA TV from http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/ltc/live/ play OK for a while and then fail with the same error. And trying to play the welcome.rm that comes with rvplayer from the commandline fails immediately with that same error quoted above. I can't seem to figure this out. I have rebuilt my kernel with the sound built in, instead of using a module to avoid any possible module problems, and 'cat /dev/sndstat' shows everything installed properly. Does anybody have any more ideas? I would really like to have this working properly :-) If my description of the problem seems a bit vague it is because there seems to be no definite cause or set of conditions that cause the error. So I'll gladly try other things or answer other questions about my setup if that will be helpful. Thanks for your help! James Dietrich
Re: Iomega Zip
On Sun, Sep 20, 1998 at 10:41:58AM -0400, Tom Malloy wrote: According to the zip howto you can put a small linux system on a zip drive therby having linux available on any machine you attach your zipdrive to. That is the next thing I will try FWIW, I've done it and the procedure I used is detailed at the URL in my sig. Luck, Pann -- What's All the Buzz About Linux? http://www.rdrop.com/users/pann/
Debian 2.0/m68K on a Mac SE/30
I have problems installing Debian 2.0 on my Mac SE/30 under system 7.1.2. and DOS Mounter 95. After downloading all the necessary files mentioned in the installation instructions for Macintosh (v1.0) from the ftp.de.debian.org ftp-server, I've the started the installation procedure with the debian file in the root file of the MacOS harddisk partition (after unstuffing there from the install.sit file). Before installation, I created an A/UX root and an A/UX swap partition with FWB Harddisk Tool 1.7.6. and a MS-DOS formatted floppy with with a copy of the resc1440.bin floppy image on it. I put the files of this floppy image either manually using the finder after opening this image by Diskcopy 6.2 or Winimage 4.0 under Windows95. The installation procedure is then accomplished without a problem until the operating system kernel and modules have to be installed: The installer is not able to find the file or files to do this neither on the harddisk nor on one of my prepared floppies and I have to leave the installation process. At this point, I would be grateful for some help or a hint to solve my debian installation problem. Thorsten
Another FAT32 question...
Hi, This is of course a FAQ but either I'm extremely bad at finding the answer or the debian FAQ file isn't maintained well.. I would like to install Debian from my FAT32 partition, but the installation image does not understand FAT32! Surely someone must have made an image available that can read FAT32? When can we expect an official Debian installation that supports FAT32? Cheers, Kenneth -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Center for Educational Technology Umeå University, Sweden phone: +46-90-786 9846 mobile: +46-70-631 5520
Iomega Zip
I have an Iomega zip drive that i used in win98, but when i do mount /dev/sda /zip -t msdos it won't let me saying it doesn't recognize a block device tehre, anyone know the problem? Perhaps i'm useing the wrong dev or there is something else? thanks
Re: Compiling kernel?
George, could you also say how you compile additional modules with the kernel (e.g., pcmcia-cs)? Thank you. Remo | Dr. Remo Badii | Paul Scherrer Institute | | Nonlinear Dynamics and | 5232 Villigen PSI | | Stochastic Processes Group | Switzerland | ||___| | badii at psi.ch | http://www1.psi.ch/~badii | ||___|
kernel + pcmcia compiling
Hi - I've just recompiled a custom 2.0.34 kernel and was trying to compile the pcmcia support. However, I get an error: dpkg-deb: maintainer script `preinst` has bad permissions 700 (must be = 0555 and = 0775) after which it exits out with an error...I've tried changing permissions (they seemed ok to me) but with the same result please help :( thanks! --- Nothing is impossible for anyone impervious to reason. D'jinnie/Jinn, encountered on IRC and select MU**. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key
Re: sound module died in hamm upgrade
On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, Michael Stutz wrote: I just did an upgrade from 1.3 to 2.0; everything works except for sound; I'm using the Linux Ultrasound Project's gus driver, compiled as a module. I didn't change or make any updates to the kernel or to the sound package, which has been working fine for a long time on this system. ... Patch manager interface is currently broken. Sorry Fixed. Explanation, for the search engines: what happened is that I must've compiled an oss sound module a while back for the gus and it was laying around in /lib/modules -- I deleted it, and now everything's fine. I must say, you can feel the work that was put into hamm -- the improvements are tremendous. I also appreciate the increased number of packages available -- I can clear out a lot of stuff from /usr/local/ now. I'll also second the remark someone made that it feels more like a system than bo or earlier, and future versions are only going to get better. I love Debian. If only cars and houses were engineered the way Debian is...
Re: I broke X when moving /home
On 20 Sep 1998, Ole J. Tetlie wrote: *-Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | I had an NT partition, but decided I could live without it, so I fdisk'd That's the spirit. :-) | I tried editing /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc and changing the last exec to run | another window manager, but apparently I don't know what I'm doing (very | likely, since I Don't know what I'm doing) or KDE doesn't look to this | line to start itself, which means to me that KDE apparently thinks it's | more than just a window manager. (As you can tell, I'm a bit confused | here.) So the gist of this paragraph is I tried to change to a different | windowmanager to see if the problem was with KDE or something else and I | failed to make the change. I'll try to unconfuse you. The last line in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc is just used if nothing else is found. The file you want to edit is /etc/X11/window-managers. It will execute the first winman it finds there. You could also have your own .xsession like this: #!/bin/sh /usr/X11R6/bin/my_favourite_winman (This might fail if there is some problem with your home dir) | After a while of trying to unlock the authority file (or after I press | Ctrl-C; I'm not sure which action causes it to go on), X tries to start, | but only gets to the dull graphic screen. | | I rebooted, and deleted /home/westk/.Xauthority. Then I tried starting X | again as westk. | | This time I still get the messages about unlocking the authority file, | but when X finally starts it starts up just fine, except that KDE tries | to create several directories in westk (desktop, templates, etc). When I | shutdown X and then restart it, KDE again tries to create the directories. | | Any clues as to what I need to do to fix this? Thanks. Are you sure you mount the partition with you home dir? Put an entry in /etc/fstab to do it automatically. You could also check /etc/passwd, but it should be OK if /home is mounted. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [-: .elOle. :-] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks for the info on window-managers. That helps. I found and fixed my problem. Apparently the cp command doesn't copy file permissions. I chown -R westk .* and chown -R westk *'d the westk directory and that solved my problems. Thanks! [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I broke X when moving /home
the new partition as /home, then copied the old /home to the new (cp -r /tmp/home/* /home) You've got forgotten the -p flag (preserve) to duplicate owner, group and permissons, too. Just an idea. Juergen
Connecting to NT share via samba
I'm new to Linux/Unix/Debian/Samba. I've got Samba installed on a hamm box, but when I try to connect to an NT share I always get connected as guest. My username on the Debian box is westk. My username on the NT box is West Kent. I'm using the command: smbclient luke\\pc_apps -n West Kent It asks for a password, then reports connectected as guest security=user and I don't have the access on the NT box that I should have. I've also tried putting my NT username in double-quotes, single-quotes, and I've tried West_Kent and West$Kent. (I'm also confused about the 4 /'s in the service path; I thought the HOWTO said there only had to be 3, but 3 didnt' work for me.) TIA. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I broke X when moving /home
On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, Juergen Nagler wrote: the new partition as /home, then copied the old /home to the new (cp -r /tmp/home/* /home) You've got forgotten the -p flag (preserve) to duplicate owner, group and permissons, too. Just an idea. Juergen Nope; didn't forget it; just too new to linux/unix to know about it. That was the problem though. I chowned everything back to me (as westk) and that solved my problem. Thanks!
How to find my IP address
Okay, this oughtta be an easy one. How do I determine what IP address I've been given by my dhcp server? Okay, I just figured out one way: ping HOSTNAME. Duh. But is there another way? Thanks. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SVGALIB
When running gs as user, I receive the following error message: SVGALIB -- Cannot get I/O permissions. How can I solve this? Regards, Ruud.
Re: Iomega Zip
On 20 Sep 1998 22:57:18 +0200, in list.linux.debian.user you wrote: I have an Iomega zip drive that i used in win98, but when i do mount /dev/sda /zip -t msdos it won't let me saying it doesn't recognize a block device tehre, anyone know the problem? Perhaps i'm useing the wrong dev or there is something else? Yes, it's the wrong device. You have to use /dev/sda4. /dev/sda is the whole disk not a partition to mount. On every preformated ZIP-disk the fourth partition entry is used. Should solve your problem. A little tip: use fdisk -l /dev/sda or with any other harddisk to see all partitions. Juergen
WIN NT and Linux
I am currently running WIN NT 4.0 (SP3) on my Pentium2. I have a 8 gig HD, of which 3 GB have been left unformatted so that I may install a version of Linux. However, at this point, I have not been able to find an FAQ detailing how to install with NT running. If anyone could please send me a file, link or help of that nature, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks Tom _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
apmd
I can't seem to locate any conf files for apmd. What I'd like it to do is not to suspend when my laptop is not running off of the battery. Any ideas? --- A conscience does not prevent sin. It only prevents you from enjoying it. D'jinnie/Jinn, encountered on IRC and select MU**. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key
Re: SVGALIB
On Sun, Sep 20, 1998 at 10:12:55PM +, Ruud de Bruin wrote: When running gs as user, I receive the following error message: SVGALIB -- Cannot get I/O permissions. How can I solve this? You have to set the suid bit (It's a security hole, your user could get root rights if there's a problem in svgalib!). chmod +s /usr/bin/gs (or with suid-register if installed) Marcus -- Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.Debian GNU/Linuxfinger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.orgmaster.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09
Re: Another FAT32 question...
Hi, This is of course a FAQ but either I'm extremely bad at finding the answer or the debian FAQ file isn't maintained well.. I know the feeling. There's a lot of info out there and sometimes it's hard to dig through it all. I would like to install Debian from my FAT32 partition, but the installation image does not understand FAT32! Surely someone must have made an image available that can read FAT32? When can we expect an official Debian installation that supports FAT32? I had no problems mounting my Win98 partition when installing Debian. When it asked for the location of the install stuff, I switched to another virtual terminal using alt-F2 and did mount /dev/hda1 /mnt from that terminal. I then switched back using alt-F1 and selected already mounted file system. I had the Debian stuff under c:\My Documents\linux\debian, so for the location of the files I used /mnt/mydocu~1/linux/debian. Hope that helps. Rich Cheers, Kenneth -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Center for Educational Technology Umeå University, Sweden phone: +46-90-786 9846 mobile: +46-70-631 5520 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: WIN NT and Linux
You can't install LInux with NT (or any other OS for that matter) running . Since you already have saved a good amount of space, you're well ahead of the game. All you have to do is insert the linux boot floppy, reboot, and follow the directions. When you install LILO, be sure to NOT install LILO on the master boot record, only use the superblock of the linux partition. You'll probably want to make a boot floppy as well. There exists a HOWTO concerning putting Linux into NT's boot manager. Personally, I like LILO better, and use it for NT, 95, and of course Linux. Sean Tom Consmith wrote: I am currently running WIN NT 4.0 (SP3) on my Pentium2. I have a 8 gig HD, of which 3 GB have been left unformatted so that I may install a version of Linux. However, at this point, I have not been able to find an FAQ detailing how to install with NT running. If anyone could please send me a file, link or help of that nature, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks Tom _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: WIN NT and Linux
On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, Tom Consmith wrote: - I am currently running WIN NT 4.0 (SP3) on my Pentium2. I have a 8 gig - HD, of which 3 GB have been left unformatted so that I may install a - version of Linux. However, at this point, I have not been able to find - an FAQ detailing how to install with NT running. If anyone could - please send me a file, link or help of that nature, I would greatly - appreciate it. - - Thanks - Tom - - _ - DO YOU YAHOO!? - Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com - - - -- - Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null - - http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Linux+NT-Loader.html This Howto helped me getting NT 4.0 and Debian 2.0 running on the same machine. During the install proccess most of the different flavors let you tell it which partitions of which drive to install on. Hope this helps. -Allan || | Allan K. Neal | Electronics and Computer Technology | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Utah State University | | http://cc.usu.edu/~slvkd/ | ASTE Network Administrator| || |The mind is like a parachute; it works much better when it's open. | ||
