[OFFTOPIC]: How to recover reiserfs from bad blocks on HD?
Apologies for not directly debian-related question on the list, but I run sid on the problem computer ( hope this is good excuse:-) ) One of my hard drives had developed bad sectors on reiserfs partition and kernel paniced. Now I cannot mount that partition, because of the read errors on the drive. How do I salvage the data? So far I made an image of that partition with copy-blocks tool from ftp://ftp.atnf.csiro.au/pub/people/rgooch/linux/disc-recovery-utils-current.tgz and I can mount the image using loop devices. However I am concerned with files/metadata damaged by missing data from the bad sectors and possible further damage from journal replay. How can I figure out if anything is damaged and if yes what files are damaged? How do I match sectors/blocks with filesystem data? Also, any thoughts on future use of that HD are welcome. -- = mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ===http://www.geocities.com/astavitsky = GPG Key 0xF7343C8B: 68DD 1E1B 2C98 D336 E31F C87B 91B9 5244 F734 3C8B |_Alexander Stavitsky pgpSmUSuugZ9D.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: CVSup equiv. in debian
$ apt-cache show cvsup Package: cvsup Priority: optional Section: net Installed-Size: 909 Maintainer: Mike Goldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Architecture: i386 Version: 16.1-3 Depends: libc6 (= 2.1.2), libpm3, libpm3-extra, libz1, xlib6g, xlib6g (= 3.3.5) Filename: dists/potato/main/binary-i386/net/cvsup_16.1-3.deb Size: 323912 MD5sum: bc9d4d5ca299982458f2ed0d9e9a9b2c Description: A network file distribution system optimized for CVS (client) CVSup is a software package for distributing and updating collections of files across a network. It can efficiently and accurately mirror all types of files, including sources, binaries, hard links, symbolic links, and even device nodes. CVSup's streaming communication protocol and multithreaded architecture make it most likely the fastest mirroring tool in existence today. In addition to being a great general-purpose mirroring tool, CVSup includes special features and optimizations specifically tailored to CVS repositories. $ On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 05:11:55PM +0100, Jamie Heckford wrote: Hiya, Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but thought I would give it a shot :) I've been using FreeBSD for a few years now, and have heard great things about debian so I thought I would give it a try. Impressive btw :) One thing I miss is the cvsup utility in FreeBSD, where I could update the source and recompile the entire source tree. Is there an equivilant in debian, or am I being completly stupid and missed it somewhere? Thanks, Jamie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- = mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ===http://www.geocities.com/astavitsky = GPG Key 0xF7343C8B: 68DD 1E1B 2C98 D336 E31F C87B 91B9 5244 F734 3C8B |_Alexander Stavitsky pgpeZB2Zcm8YO.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: CVSup equiv. in debian
Sorry, I missed the point... -- = mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ===http://www.geocities.com/astavitsky = GPG Key 0xF7343C8B: 68DD 1E1B 2C98 D336 E31F C87B 91B9 5244 F734 3C8B |_Alexander Stavitsky pgpklXDieTENd.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Netscape makes X server crash!!!
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 10:50:54AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
something other than Netscape. Alternatives exist, all better, most
capable of being run on similar or lesser hardware. Galeon, Konqueror,
Skipstone, Mozilla, Opera, w3m... Take your pick.
If the problems persist, post back, with 'strace' output for both your
browser and X sessions, trimmed to start of errors preceeding crash.
Unfortunately, if I start Xserver or Netscape from under strace they hang.
And if I attach strace to the running process,
it doesn't seem to follow children.
Anyway, X server gets segfault.
I attach snippets from strace output, but I can't make anything out of it.
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1820 read(21, \24\0\6\0\33\0\0\2\344\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0, 5160) =
24
1820 read(21, 0x88c8d20, 5160) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily
unavailable)
1820 writev(21, [{\1
\10\v\0\0\0\0\302\1\0\0\20\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0..., 32}], 1) = 32
1820 gettimeofday({993235690, 377077}, NULL) = 0
1820 select(256, [1 3 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23], NULL,
NULL, {102, 757000}) = 1 (in [21], left {102, 76})
1820 read(21, \24\0\6\0\33\0\0\2\344\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\346\377\0...,
5160) = 24
1820 read(21, 0x88c8d20, 5160) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily
unavailable)
1820 writev(21, [{\1
\t\v\4\0\0\0\302\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\4\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0..., 48}], 1) = 48
1820 gettimeofday({993235690, 378273}, NULL) = 0
1820 select(256, [1 3 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23], NULL,
NULL, {102, 756000}) = 1 (in [21], left {102, 76})
1820 read(21, \23\0\3\0\33\0\0\2\344\0\0\0, 5160) = 12
1820 gettimeofday({993235690, 379057}, NULL) = 0
1820 read(21, 0x88c8d20, 5160) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily
unavailable)
1820 writev(21,
[{\34\370\n\v\33\0\0\2\344\0\0\0\213\343uA\1V\222\10V\343..., 32}], 1) = 32
1820 gettimeofday({993235690, 379496}, NULL) = 0
1820 select(256, [1 3 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23], NULL,
NULL, {102, 755000}) = 1 (in [21], left {102, 76})
1820 read(21, \27\0\2\0\1\0\0\0, 5160) = 8
1820 read(21, 0x88c8d20, 5160) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily
unavailable)
1820 writev(21, [{\1/[EMAIL PROTECTED]..., 32}], 1) = 32
1820 gettimeofday({993235690, 380590}, NULL) = 0
1820 select(256, [1 3 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23], NULL,
NULL, {102, 754000}) = 1 (in [21], left {102, 76})
1820 read(21, \30\0\6\0\33\0\0\2\1\0\0\0\303\1\0\0\344\0\0\0\0\0\0\0...,
5160) = 24
1820 read(21, 0x88c8d20, 5160) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily
unavailable)
1820 writev(15, [{\36/[EMAIL PROTECTED]..., 32}], 1) = 32
1820 gettimeofday({993235690, 382086}, NULL) = 0
1820 select(256, [1 3 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23], NULL,
NULL, {102, 752000}) = 1 (in [15], left {102, 76})
1820 read(15, \22\0\n\0\33\0\0\2\344\0\0\0\303\1\0\0\10RS\0\r\0\0\000...,
4096) = 84
1820 gettimeofday({993235690, 382806}, NULL) = 0
1820 read(15, 0x887e188, 4096) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily
unavailable)
1820 writev(21,
[{\34\0\f\v\33\0\0\2\344\0\0\0\216\343uA\0\20\0\0\0\0\0\0..., 64}], 1) = 64
1820 gettimeofday({993235690, 383264}, NULL) = 0
1820 select(256, [1 3 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23], NULL,
NULL, {102, 751000}) = 1 (in [21], left {102, 76})
1820 read(21, \24\0\6\0\33\0\0\2\344\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0, 5160) =
24
1820 read(21, 0x88c8d20, 5160) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily
unavailable)
1820 writev(21,
[{\1\10\r\v\0\0\0\0\303\1\0\0\r\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0..., 32}], 1) = 32
1820 gettimeofday({993235690, 384468}, NULL) = 0
1820 select(256, [1 3 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23], NULL,
NULL, {102, 75}) = 1 (in [21], left {102, 75})
1820 read(21, \24\0\6\0\33\0\0\2\344\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\346\377\0...,
5160) = 24
1820 read(21, 0x88c8d20, 5160) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily
unavailable)
1820 writev(21, [{\1\10\16\v\4\0\0\0\303\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\r\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0...,
48}], 1) = 48
1820 gettimeofday({993235690, 385624}, NULL) = 0
1820 select(256, [1 3 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23], NULL,
NULL, {102, 749000}) = 1 (in [21], left {102, 75})
1820 read(21, \23\0\3\0\33\0\0\2\344\0\0\0, 5160) = 12
1820 gettimeofday({993235690, 386750}, NULL) = 0
1820 read(21, 0x88c8d20, 5160) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily
Netscape makes X server crash!!!
Hi! I'm using communicator-smotif-477. On some pages it crashes bringing X down with it. I experienced many Netscape crashes over the years, but this is new. It bring Xserver down!!! Example: http://www.tigerdirect.com With StyleSheets enabled it crashes everytime. IMHO, the fact that Xserver dies as well is pretty outrageous. I am at loss as to which piece of software is actually at fault. -- = mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ===http://www.geocities.com/astavitsky = GPG Key 0xF7343C8B: 68DD 1E1B 2C98 D336 E31F C87B 91B9 5244 F734 3C8B |_Alexander Stavitsky pgpAZlWWY9en9.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: 486 router is very slow
I had a similar problem that manifested itself in virtually stopping all network traffic if there is any activity on the dialup-masq server (Pentium 100, 24Mb and plenty other services running) The reason was that any HD activity stopped interrupts and serial port stopped. The solution was to unmask IRQ with hdparm: hdparm -u1 /dev/hda or wherever your hard drive is. Read hdparm manpage carefully - it warns about the use of -u with CMD640 and RZ1000 IDE controllers. Your 486 might have of those. If you use floppy-based router, that should not be the problem though. I also use irqtune, but that didn't give any significant performance advantages and didn't cure the above mentioned problem. -- = mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ===http://www.geocities.com/astavitsky = GPG Key 0xF7343C8B: 68DD 1E1B 2C98 D336 E31F C87B 91B9 5244 F734 3C8B |_Alexander Stavitsky pgp7eWACQI8VL.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Strange problem with Plextor IDE-Drive W121032A
I had a problem with Plextor drive a while ago. Your problem sounds vaguely familiar. Try switching DMA off for the plextor drive. In my case that was the solution. -- = mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ===http://www.geocities.com/astavitsky = GPG Key 0xF7343C8B: 68DD 1E1B 2C98 D336 E31F C87B 91B9 5244 F734 3C8B |_Alexander Stavitsky pgpyu9PcoeYm8.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Netscape startup hangs
Did you try to strace it to find out where exactly it is hanging? Also if it hangs in DNS lookup, you will find the host it's looking for. -- = === mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] = http://physlab.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~stalex |__ Alexander Stavitsky pgpEMA8GnsV5l.pgp Description: PGP signature
Who sets up $DISPLAY
I've kind of stupid problem: DISPLAY used to be :0.0, now it is unix:0.0 and vmware becomes confused. My question is who exactly sets up DISPLAY variable and why this change has occured. I know I can reset it manually, but I'm trying figure out how it has happened. -- = === mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] = http://physlab.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~stalex |__ Alexander Stavitsky
Re: Bizarre Clock Problem
On Sun, Aug 15, 1999 at 01:18:41PM +0930, Matthew Tuck wrote: I'm having a problem where my clock seems to jump all over the place. At the moment I have to set it every start up, when I remember that is. I have searched the archives and not found anything. Basically the clock is out by a number of hours, usually in the past. I don't know if there is a pattern in this time difference, there is probably, but in my flailing about to fix things, I probably don't notice. I do set the hardware clock with hwclock. It's not a hardware fault because I can set it under Windows and it will stay correct. It seems every time I boot Linux it gets set backwards in time, and that these changes _accumulate_. I had this problem couple of days ago. It appeares that /etc/adjtime got corrupted somehow. Now I am wondering if that is a bug. Anyway, try removing /etc/adjtime and setting the correct time with date or ntpdate. In my case the problem went away. There is no danger in removing /etc/adjtime, I think. It'll get recreated after the next reboot. If that solves the problem for there is probably a bug in util-linux that gets /etc/adjtime corrupted on upgrade. If not it might be a battery. To be sure check the time in BIOS setup BEFORE you boot into linux in the morning and then see if after bootup the time differs. My timezone and clock as local time settings have not changed and are correct. I am not running chrony, ntp, ntpdate, although I have when I was experimenting, and this might have happened when I removed them, although I am not sure. They may have been running at the same time. Reinstallation and purging has been unsuccessful in preventing the problem. I suspect something is going on in the rc scripts, although I don't have enough experience with them to tell. There is a file called /etc/rc0.d/S25hwclock.sh, and I don't know whether this is normal. Help! -- Matthew Tuck - Software Developer All-Round Nice Guy mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (ICQ #8125618) Check out the Ultra programming language project! http://www.box.net.au/~matty/ultra/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- = === mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] = http://physlab.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~stalex |__ Alexander Stavitsky
Re: VMware for Debian
On Sun, Aug 08, 1999 at 02:04:52PM -0500, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: Hi all, I have a slink machine with 2.2.10 at home and tried to install vmware to port a Delphi (argh) program to gtk. I got the last vmware but installing it I get the following error: ### Something is wrong with the system include files on ### your machine! The file linux/version.h is for a ### 2.0.36 Linux system but you are running a 2.2.10 ### kernel. This will not work for building the VMware device ### drivers; you must have include files that match the version ### of your operating system. What is wrong? The problem is header files version mismatch. You are running 2.2.10, but kernel headers included with libc are for 2.0.36 Here is simple solution: Untar driver-only.tar and vmnet-only.tar. Edit Makefiles in driver-only and vmnet-only directories to add current kernel headers to headers search path. For example I have the following include lines in driver-only/Makefile: INCLUDE = -I$(TOPDIR)/include -I$(TOPDIR)/common -I$(TOPDIR)/linux \ -I$(TOPDIR)/export/include -I/usr/src/linux/include and in vmnet-only/Makefile: INCLUDE = -I. -I/usr/src/linux/include If your 2.2.10 kernel sources are installed in different directory you should adjust /usr/src/linux/include to wherever you put your sources. After that just run make in vmnet-only and in driver-only directories and compiled the modules to vmware-distrib top directory. Run install.pl. It should not complain anymore. I have done this at least dozen times with different kernels and never had a problem. However modules need to be recompiled any time you change the kernel version. Thanks,Paulo Henrique -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- = === mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] = http://physlab.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~stalex |__ Alexander Stavitsky
Re: Connection to localhost:25 refused
On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 08:00:23PM -, Pollywog wrote: On 01-Jul-99 Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: I've just upgraded to potato fully, with exim 3.02, and now I can't connect to port 25 on localhost: [root:~] # telnet localhost 25 Trying 127.0.0.1... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused Obviously, fetchmail now doesn't work, and I can't receive mail via SMTP either. I've checked /etc/exim.conf for anything obvious but I can't see anything blocking connections. Can anyone help me please? Several of us had the same problem with this Exim version. There is a patch for it, but I am now running Exim from inetd and that fixed the problem for me. If you have upgraded from pre-3.00 exim postinst script will disable smtp entry in /etc/inetd.conf. If you are running exim from inetd you should execute eximconfig -i after installation to reenable smtp service in inetd. This ONLY applies if you are not running exim as daemon. There was another problem with exim running as daemon. Check old messages on this list for more info. -- Andrew -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Netscape bus errors after upgrade to 3.3.3.1-3
Communicator 4.51 started to give bus errors after the X upgrade to 3.3.3.1-3 Actually it is possible to start it, but when I quit it produces bus error. This seems pretty innocent, but apparently it gives bus error when closing certain windows ( or when the child exits? ). As a result, i cannot use roaming profiles any more since upon entering password it closes the password prompt window and bus errors. To make it work I had to edit preferences manually and disable roaming profiles. Should I file the bug against xlib or communicator? Also does anybody know where I can get the older X packages ( I do not want to go all the way to slink)?
Re: vmware
On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 02:38:31PM +1000, Corey Ralph wrote: I'm having a problem getting vmware to install on slink with 2.2.3 kernel. Something to do with include files. First, I still had the 2.0.36 headers installed. I upgraded these to the 2.2.3 versions. The error that it is reporting is that there is no include path to find asm/cache, followed by several more. I am sure this is just something wrong with the way I've installed the kernel headers. Any ideas? Yeah - untar tar files with modules source code, modify makefiles to look for header files in /usr/src/kernel-2.2.3/include (or where you put you kernel source) first and compile those modules yourself then copy them to the directory where install.pl is. And reverse the kernel headers upgrade. Look in /usr/doc/libc6/FAQ.Debian.gz for justification why. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Use apt to form a partial local mirror of Slink -- how?
On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 11:02:34AM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Mark Phillips wrote: My second best option is to use nfs to symlink the laptop's /var/cache/apt/archives to the desktop's. This might work --- the only problem here is that dselect-apt decides to delete all the files in the cache! How can I turn this off??? This actually is the best option, there is no need to rebuild a directory structure, a flat directory will work just as well and is much easier for APT to manage. The latest APT in ptoat has an option to force dselect to not erase files. I think that maintaining local partial mirror still has its merits. I can slowly build it up when upgrading computers with apt, then I can run fmirror at some point to make a complete mirror, that can be used to burn a CD. Then I can continue on partial mirroring with apt. Also I feel that local partial mirror is easier to share between several computers as apt always treats it as read-only. (Mounting apt cache directory doesn't work for me because broken NFS lock handling). I have created another method (apt-mirror) for dselect that will use apt to download package then copy them to local mirror tree and then use apt again to install them. It's slightly broken at the moment because of the changes in apt 0.3.2. If anybody is interested in this, I can make it available. Perhaps the best solution would be to integrate local partial mirror capability into apt. Or better yet to merge formats for apt cache (flat) and debian archive tree. Perhaps the best solution would be to merge apt cache -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
=20 and such in the email messages.=20
Hi! Recently I started to see those =20's (blank spaces?) and other quote-printables in some of the emails. Now I figured I am not the only one. Debian bug reporting system also sees them. Check this out: http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/34/34923.html What is happening and how to fix it?
Re: pseudo ttys
On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 10:42:48AM -0600, Mike Merten wrote: Hi, I'm running a 2.2.2 kernel with support for the /dev/pty filesystem (UNIX98 pty support) enabled. My question is this... does this obsolete the 64 or so /dev/ptyxx devices, or are they still used for something? As far as I can tell, some programs use /dev/ptyxx, some will probe for new ptymx in some way and use that, some (to be written) will only use /dev/pty filesystem. So dont' get rid of /dev/ptyxx just yet. Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 28460680 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Creating a vfat file system
On Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 01:17:06PM -0600, Douglas Bates wrote: [Please reply to me personally as well as to the list. I don't usually have the time to keep up with this list.] There is nothing special about VFAT filesystem. You can just create regular FAT16 partition with mkdosfs form dosfstools package. I do not know if there is a way to create FAT32 from under Linux. VFAT is just an extension to FAT that does not require any special formatting, it's just the way directory entries are being created. There is no connection between VFAT FAT32. I doubt however that the problem will go away. Since Win98 has overwritten /dev/hda6, I suspect that this might be 1024 cyl problem. At least Win95 will corrupt partitions when trying to write past 1024 cylinders. Does you BIOS set up for LBA? How many cylinders linux fdisk is showing? If Win98 shows the number of cylinders - what is it? Another reason may be if you did not erase the first sector of /dev/hda2 after repartitioning with linux fdisk You should do dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda2 bs=512 count=1 before MS format can work. For further help be sure to post the printout of partitions from linux fdisk. Is there a way within Debian GNU/Linux i386 to make a VFAT file system on a hard disk partition? Background to the question: My laptop came with Windows 98. I repartitioned keeping the Windows 98 in /dev/hda1. I installed Debian GNU/Linux on /dev/hda3 with a swap partition on /dev/hda5 and /users on /dev/hda6. /dev/hda2 was reserved for Windows NT in case I wanted to use that at work. Eventually I decided to remove NT. I would now like to use /dev/hda2 as a second VFAT partition. I used cfdisk to reset the partition type to Win95 FAT32 (0B), which is the same type as /dev/hda1. When I started up Windows 98 it found that the D drive was not formatted and I agreed to have it format that drive. Then Win98 wanted to run Scandisk with the thorough option. I allowed that. It got about halfway through the partition according to its calculations then went into a tight loop. Apparently Scandisk was detecting every block as being corrupt and marking them as corrupt. I think it was Scandisk that had the problem not the disk itself. Next time I booted Linux there were all sorts of errors on /dev/hda6 of all places. Fortunately /dev/hda3 looks ok. Is there a mkfs.vfat or something like it within Debian that I can use to create the VFAT file system safely? My experience with Microsoft utilities is not encouraging. I would prefer to manipulate my file systems under Linux where I have some chance of understanding what is going on. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: CD-RW and CD-ROM both scd0
On Sun, Feb 28, 1999 at 05:32:12PM -0800, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: At boot time, my cd-rw is recognized, and when I run xcdroast, the ide/scsi info seems to say that my nec cd-rom and my hp cd-rw are both on host scsi0. Why is this. When I type mount -t iso9660 /dev/sr0, my cd-rom is mounted, sr1-12 all mount my cdrom. Where would my cd-writer I'm not sure this is the cause of the problem but IDE-SCSI do not seem to work properly for me when Probe all LUN's is selected in SCSI kernel configuration. I had my CD-RW listed multiple times. When I deselected Probe all LUN's it only detected one device. I can speculate that you have kernel compiled with this option and your cdrom shows up as multiple devices and fills all device entries. Try to recompile the kernel that will only probe until the first LUN and see if it helps. be? NatePuri Certified Law Student Debian GNU/Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ompages.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: CD-RW mount errors
On Sun, Feb 28, 1999 at 10:45:29PM -0800, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: When I mount /dev/hdd I get: office:~# mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdd /cdrom ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0) end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 64 isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=16:40, iso_blknum=16, block=32 mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdd, or too many mounted file systems [snip] What is your kernel version? How did you compile it -- if you have selected both ide-cd and ide-scsi, ide-cd is used. I do not think it's a good idea to compile both in. If you really need it - compile both as modules and load/unload them when you want to switch between ide-scsi emulation to plain ide-cd. Please show the part of dmesg output or kern.log showing the detection of the cd drives. This is strange: office:~# mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdd /cdrom ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0) On my computer with ide-scsi compiled in the result is: eagle:/$ sudo mount /dev/hdc /mnt /dev/hdc: Input/output error mount: you must specify the filesystem type Also please use the reply feature to keep your messages in the same thread.
Re: CD-RW mount errors
On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 12:05:26PM -0800, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: Here is my dmesg output: Linux version 2.2.2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #50 Sun Feb 28 19:42:41 PST 1999 Detected 266618583 Hz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 266.24 BogoMIPS Memory: 387708k/393216k available (968k kernel code, 408k reserved, 4072k data, 60k init) [snip] PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfc90-0xfc97, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfc98-0xfc9f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA hda: Maxtor 86480D6, ATA DISK drive hdc: NEC CD-ROM DRIVE:28B, ATAPI CDROM drive hdd: no response (status = 0xd0), resetting drive ^ This is not good... hdd: HP CD-Writer+ 7200, ATAPI CDROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: Maxtor 86480D6, 6149MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=784/255/63, UDMA Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306 scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices scsi : 1 host. Vendor: NEC Model: CD-ROM DRIVE:28B Rev: 3.05 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Vendor: HPModel: CD-Writer+ 7200 Rev: 3.01 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 scsi : detected total. Well, I think it supposed to say: scsi : detected 2 SCSI cdrom total. I also have line: Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.52 Would you post your /usr/src/linux/.config? PPP: version 2.3.3 (demand dialling) TCP compression code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California PPP line discipline registered. tulip.c:v0.89H 5/23/98 [EMAIL PROTECTED] eth0: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC at 0xf800, 00 a0 cc 3b f6 96, IRQ 9. eth0: MII transceiver found at MDIO address 1, config 1000 status 782d. eth0: Advertising 01e1 on PHY 1, previously advertising 01e1. Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 60k freed Adding Swap: 130748k swap-space (priority -1) SoftOSS driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1997 TIOCSER?WILD ioctl obsolete, ignored. TIOCSER?WILD ioctl obsolete, ignored. eth0: Changing PNIC configuration to half-duplex, CSR6 812e. registered device ppp0 PPP BSD Compression module registered PPP Deflate Compression module registered VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0) ide-scsi: hdc: unsupported command in request queue (0) end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 64 isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=16:00, iso_blknum=16, block=32
Apt vs mirror
I remember the discussion of apt vs mirror some time ago. I seem to remeber somebody mentioning that they use apt to download packages that they need and then run a script that will move packages from apt cache to the mirror tree. For some reason I couldn't find that discussion in the archive. Anybody still has the script? -- = === mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] = http://physlab.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~stalex |__ Alexander Stavitsky
Re: roaming access
On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 03:57:49PM +0100, Karsten Bolding wrote: I have tried to get roaming to work with netscape and experineced some very basic problems. I can not pass the auticentication - netscape keep re-asking for my passwd. My /etc/apache/httpd.conf was automatically changed when I installed libapache-mod-roaming_0.9.1-1.deb and if I look in this file all the things mentioned in /usr/doc/llibapache-mod-roaming/README are present. I tried to re-install libapache-mod-auth-sys_1.10-4.2.deb with out any luck. As far as I can tell libapache-mod-auth-sys doesn't work. I got roaming access working forcing deinstallation of libapache-mod-auth-sys and providing htpasswd file instead of using system password files. Probably edited httpd.conf too - the section about libapache-mod-roaming. Karsten -- ** Karsten Bolding, CEC - Joint Research Centre, ISPRA Direct: +39 0332 789314 Space Applications InstituteSec.+39 0332 789177 Marine Environment Unit, TP690 FAX:+39 0332 789034 I-21020 Ispra(VA) - Italy E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- = === mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] = http://physlab.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~stalex |__ Alexander Stavitsky
Re: help translating docs to Russian
On Tue, Nov 10, 1998 at 05:55:49PM -0600, D'jinnie wrote: Anyone want to help me make a Russian translation for docs? :) (sorry for the cross-post, wasn't sure where this should go) Count me in. -- = === mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] = http://physlab.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~stalex |__ Alexander Stavitsky
Re: STB velocity 128
On Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 12:11:49AM -0500, Default Debian Reader wrote: I have an STB velocity 128 AGP card and don't see it anywhere in the supported cards in xf86config? Does anyone else use this card, and if so how did you set it up for X? Thanks alot for any help. Just use Riva128. I ahve a friend who has the card and it works ok. (as long as you keep dotclock not too high). He used XF86Config. -- = === mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] = http://physlab.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~stalex |__ Alexander Stavitsky
Re: STB velocity 128
On Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 02:55:57AM -0400, Alexander Stavitsky wrote: On Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 12:11:49AM -0500, Default Debian Reader wrote: I have an STB velocity 128 AGP card and don't see it anywhere in the supported cards in xf86config? Does anyone else use this card, and if so how did you set it up for X? Thanks alot for any help. Just use Riva128. I ahve a friend who has the card and it works ok. (as long as you keep dotclock not too high). He used XF86Config. Oops, ^^^ - I meant XF86Setup. -- = === mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] = http://physlab.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~stalex |__ Alexander Stavitsky
Re: Weird stuff in X
On Thu, Sep 24, 1998 at 09:35:28AM -0700, Adam Klein wrote: I have a Diamond Viper V330, and in X at 1024x768x32bpp, it behaves strangely. When I scroll or move a window, little blips come up on the screen. They go away when I stop. Does anyone know how to get rid of this? It is a documented problem with riva128 driver. It happens when high dot clock is used. Try to change modeline to lower dotclock to see if you can find a dotclock that doesn't give you blips, yet high enough for refresh rate to be reasonable. It also might help to switch to 16 bit color (I think). -- = === mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] = http://physlab.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~stalex |__ Alexander Stavitsky
Re: Weird stuff in X
On Fri, Sep 25, 1998 at 10:08:44AM +0200, E.L. Meijer Eric wrote: OK, I'll throw in my 2 cents. I see the `blips' at 32 bit color, but not at 16 bit (Diamond Viper 330). I will try lowering the dotclock setting. My roommate has STB Velocity128 on Riva128ZX and he uses 1152x864x16bit He had blips at 137 Mhz dotclock but not at 110Mhz. -- = === mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] = http://physlab.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~stalex |__ Alexander Stavitsky
New imap saves all mail to $HOME/mbox ????
Since I installed imap 4.1.BETA-1 every time I access my mailbox by IMAP it dissapears. Actually everything is saved in $HOME/mbox and mail spool file is empty. Why did it start happening and how to stop it? = === mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] = http://physlab.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~stalex |__ Alexander Stavitsky -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New imap saves all mail to $HOME/mbox ????
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: On Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 03:25:53AM -0400, Alexander Stavitsky wrote: Since I installed imap 4.1.BETA-1 every time I access my mailbox by IMAP it dissapears. Actually everything is saved in $HOME/mbox and mail spool file is empty. What mail client are you using? Have you changed it recently? I think it would be more responsible for where your mail goes than imapd itself. I use fetchmail and I do not think I upgraded it recently, although I might be wrong. This happens even if I telnet to port 143 and just check how many messages I have. Besides, imap server still counts those in mbox as messages. It looks like it concatenates mbox and /var/spool/mail/$USER when showing user's INBOX. That's why I think it's impa problem, not client problem. = === mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] = http://physlab.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~stalex |__ Alexander Stavitsky -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New imap saves all mail to $HOME/mbox ????
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Tim Sailer wrote: I use fetchmail and I do not think I upgraded it recently, although I might be wrong. This happens even if I telnet to port 143 and just check how many messages I have. Besides, imap server still counts those in mbox as messages. It looks like it concatenates mbox and /var/spool/mail/$USER when showing user's INBOX. That's why I think it's impa problem, not client problem. Nutscrape takes a look at every file/directory in your home dir and treats it as a mailbox.. :( I do not think I mentioned Netscape anywhere in my email and that's because I DO NOT USE it for email. I'm saying that even if I just telnet to port 143 and issue SELECT INBOX it shows not only messages in /var/spool/mail/$USER but also in $HOME/mbox, appending those in /var/spool/mail/$USER to those in $HOME/mbox. Here's a sample of a what is happening: physlab:~$ mail Mail version 8.1 6/6/93. Type ? for help. /var/spool/mail/stalex: 1 message 1 new N 1 stalexWed Apr 22 14:01 18/451 Test x physlab:~$ telnet localhost 143 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. * OK physlab.sci.ccny.cuny.edu IMAP4rev1 v10.210 server ready a001 login stalex *** -- password deleted a001 OK LOGIN completed a002 select inbox * 47 EXISTS * 48 EXISTS * OK [UIDVALIDITY 893187849] UID validity status * OK [UIDNEXT 49] Predicted next UID * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Draft \Seen) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\* \Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Draft \Seen)] Permanent flags * OK [UNSEEN 48] 48 is first unseen message in /home/grad/stalex/mbox * 1 RECENT a002 OK [READ-WRITE] SELECT completed a003 logout * BYE physlab.sci.ccny.cuny.edu IMAP4rev1 server terminating connection a003 OK LOGOUT completed Connection closed by foreign host. physlab:~$ mail No mail for stalex physlab:~$ It is clearly a suddenly changed IMAP behavior. Why is the change and how to get back the old behavior. = === mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] = http://physlab.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~stalex |__ Alexander Stavitsky -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: adduser_trouble
On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Richard Sevenich wrote: I am having a problem with 'adduser'. The behavior is as follows: Upon entering 'adduser some_name' entries are created in /etc/passwd /etc/group a home directory is created and the files from /etc/skel are copied to it. But error messages are issued Unknown error passwd: unknown user: some_name. The /etc/passwd entry has the character ! in the encrypted password field (I think that's what this field is) and a subsequent login attempt is unsuccessful. Yesterday, adduser worked OK. The system is a tiny one with NIS installed and working (yesterday). Well, adduser never worked with NIS. What happpens is that adduser adds new user AFTER the plus entry in /etc/passwd and passwd doesn't see it. I remember several bur reports about this but apparently this behaviour still is'n fixed. It's probably not too hard to fiddle with adduser (if you know perl) to make it add users before plus entry or to a specified NIS map. If you do please post a patch and send it to adduser maintainer. Any hints? Regards, Richard -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . = === mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] = http://physlab.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~stalex |__ Alexander Stavitsky -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Weird /tmp permission/ownership problem
I'm using relatively current hamm. All of a sudden my /tmp is owned by user 1000, group 1000 permission 755 That led to discovery of unfixed bug with dpkg dpkg-dev (all their files are owned by user/group 1000/1000). But that doesn't explain the mysterious change of ownership/permission of /tmp. I've changed all incorrect files from dpkg/dpkg-dev to root.root Shortly after /tmp went back to permission 755 but now without change in ownership. All of this is really weird. Has anybody else experienced this? Also - how can track down the process that changes /tmp permissions? = === mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] = http://physlab.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~stalex |__ Alexander Stavitsky -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Weird /tmp permission/ownership problem
On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Scott K. Ellis wrote: On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Alexander Stavitsky wrote: You did dpkg -x dpkg.deb /tmp didn't you? That's what broke your /tmp I guess I did. Thank you for solving the mystery. permissions, you need to make a subdirectory to extract into, the root of the directory you extract the package into has its permissions changed. This is not a bug but a feature = === mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] = http://physlab.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~stalex |__ Alexander Stavitsky -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian on CD.
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Cleto Pescia wrote: For now, the only thing I can tell you for sure is that you should *NOT* buy the Debian CDs from Greenbush Technologies Corp. (www.greenbush.com). I ordered the official CD set in September by filling out their secure on-line form, they charged my credit card (at least that is what I've seen on my bank's reports), but never shipped anything... I sent them e-mail twice ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), politely asking them what was going on, but never got an answer. Maybe I should have sent them a fax as well, but you really expect a company with an online ordering system to have some way to read its e-mail... I had exactly the same problem with Greenbush. They don't seem to answer on polite emails, but they/he do react on the impolite ones. I've subscribed to four monthly CD's in April and so far have only received 2. If you can write a really nasty email they will probably send something. Cleto = === mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] = http://physlab.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~stalex |__ Alexander Stavitsky -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
PPPD and CHAPMS
Is there a paritcular reason why pppd distributed with debian doesn't have support for MS chap compiled in? = === = mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |__ Alexander Stavitsky http://physlab.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~stalex -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: PPPD and CHAPMS
On Sun, 14 Dec 1997, George Bonser wrote: I think Hammish posted last night that the names of the options have changed with pppd but the options file was not changed. It is a matter of entering the correct option names. Check posts made by Hammish in the last 24hrs. On 15-Dec-97 Alexander Stavitsky wrote: Is there a paritcular reason why pppd distributed with debian doesn't have support for MS chap compiled in? I was asking why the distributed pppd doesn't support the version of CHAP(Challenge/Handshake Authentication Protocol) that M$ is using. In other words why it isn't compiled with -DCHAPMS -DUSE_CRYPT Also I tried to rebuild the ppp-2.3.2 package and it failed complaining about parse errors in pppd.h If somebody can help - I'll post/mail the error messages and other relevant info. = === = mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |__ Alexander Stavitsky http://physlab.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~stalex -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: PPPD and CHAPMS
Oops, disregard unable to rebuild package part of the previous message. I guess I had some old headers from ??-dev hanging around. Removed all *-dev packages and reinstalled libc6-dev - it compiles. I wonder what was wrong. = === = mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |__ Alexander Stavitsky http://physlab.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~stalex -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Stupid mirror question.
Thanks, I am aware of -T option but it takes an extra run to switch
between mirrors. My guess is that the problem stems from timezones
somehow. I'm wondering if it is possible to make mirror always work in
UTC and forget about the existence of timezones altogether.
On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, Timothy Phan wrote:
Hi Alexsander,
NO. This was my previous stupid question! :)
I do not know why. But someone has suggested to do a
'mirror -T '
whenever you switch sites the way you did. The -T simply
sync up the time/date stamp with the new site.
After than you can start the 'mirror' with the new site
again.
Alexander Stavitsky wrote:
:
:
:Sorry for asking stupid questions on the list but I was unable/too lazy
:to figure this out:
:
:I mirror debian site at school (lets call it site A). I also mirror it at
:home(site B).
:Sometimes I point my home mirror to school site(A), sometimes to official
:mirrors(O). Very often then the mirror at home triesto re-get the current
:files because the timestamps are somehow screwed. All mirrors I run with
:get_newer=true. So why the timestamps on site A and site(s) O do not
:agree even though site A is a mirror of site O.
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Stupid mirror question.
Sorry for asking stupid questions on the list but I was unable/too lazy to figure this out: I mirror debian site at school (lets call it site A). I also mirror it at home(site B). Sometimes I point my home mirror to school site(A), sometimes to official mirrors(O). Very often then the mirror at home triesto re-get the current files because the timestamps are somehow screwed. All mirrors I run with get_newer=true. So why the timestamps on site A and site(s) O do not agree even though site A is a mirror of site O. = === = mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |__ Alexander Stavitsky http://physlab.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~stalex -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Problem with Samba, PAM and NT
On Thu, 10 Jul 1997, dpk wrote: I get these same errors, and I am just using the linux box for authentication, however it will let me connect. I am interested likewise why this happens, because this didn't happen until I upgraded to Debian 1.3. Jul 10 17:50:02 aeidns pam[124]: (other) illegal module type: OTHER Jul 10 17:50:02 aeidns pam[124]: (other) illegal control flag: auth Jul 10 17:50:02 aeidns pam[124]: unable to dlopen(/usr/lib/security/required) Jul 10 17:50:02 aeidns pam[124]: [dlerror: File not found] Jul 10 17:50:02 aeidns pam[124]: adding faulty module: /usr/lib/security/required Jul 10 17:50:02 aeidns pam[124]: (other) illegal module type: OTHER Jul 10 17:50:02 aeidns pam[124]: (other) illegal control flag: account Jul 10 17:50:02 aeidns pam[124]: (other) illegal module type: OTHER Jul 10 17:50:02 aeidns pam[124]: (other) illegal control flag: password Jul 10 17:50:02 aeidns pam[124]: (other) illegal module type: OTHER Jul 10 17:50:02 aeidns pam[124]: (other) illegal control flag: session These are caused by bugs #10497 #10758: /etc/pam.d/other is in wrong format Just remove word OTHER from the above file to get rid of these annoying errors. I doubt this is affecting SAMBA though. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . = === = mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |__ Alexander Stavitsky http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~stalex -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Possible bug on Rescue Disk?
Hi! I've found something, that looks like a bug to me: I was installing Debian 1.3 with all linux partitions in the extended one. When installation asks if you want to boot directly from hard drive, it installs lilo on the boot sector of the extended partition(!?)(/dev/hda4) and perhaps something else in the MBR and makes hda4 extended partition active(bootable). After that the system is unbootable from the HD. I had to edit lilo.conf and re-run lilo to put it in MBR. = === = mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |__ Alexander Stavitsky http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~stalex -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: NFS mounting /usr, Debian over NFS
Hi! Some time ago you posted a question on debian-user list regarding Debian NFS setup. There seems to be no useful follow-ups on the problem. I am in similar situation. I'm trying to set up a server with seven clients. Home directories are NFS mounted - that's easy part. I also want clients to function(to certain extent) when server is down. So just NFS mounting /usr on clients won't work. I'm leaning toward using cfengine and recursively linking local and NFS /usr's. However questions about upgrading packages, /etc directory remain. I would appreciate any information about this problem. And also if the discussion is taken out of mailing list I think it's a good idea to bring it back. These days, as Debian is gaining popularity, it would be extremely useful to have Debian specific recipes for that kind of setup. = === = mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |__ Alexander Stavitsky http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~stalex -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Add NIS-only headaches
As adduser, useradd are still not quite compatible with NIS, it is a major headache to add a NIS-only users(with alternate passwd map). Is there some workaround that I don't know about? It really is painfull to add NIS users by hand and change their passwords. Yppasswd wouldn't change password without asking(and checking) the old password even if you are root! = === = |__ Alexander Stavitsky mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~stalex -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Problems upgrading to 1.3
On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Gernot wrote: I am having problems upgrading to Debian 1.3 with the latex-packages. I know that I have to purge the old packages and it works fine despite for the babel-package. I get the following error-message when i dpkg --purge --force-depends babel: mother# dpkg --purge --force-depends babel (Reading database ... 27160 files and directories currently installed.) Removing babel ... Purging configuration files for babel ... Building new format(s) without babel support using install-fmt-base(8) /var/lib/dpkg/info/babel.postrm: install-fmt-base: command not found dpkg: error processing babel (--purge): subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 127 Errors were encountered while processing: babel I'm new to debian but it looks like postrm script is using install-fmt-base, which is in tex//mflib, tex//xypic packages, that you've alreday removed. The soluition might be to install them ^^^ and try to remove them tex without --force-depends or at least remove babel first. -- Gernot Bauer University of Linz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . = === = |__ Alexander Stavitsky mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~stalex -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Mirror delays.
It has been two days since the announcement of 1.3 but ftp.debian.org did not catch up yet. In fact, even Packages file in bo/binary-i386 is inconsistent with directory contents. What is going on up there? = === = |__ Alexander Stavitsky mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~stalex -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Xemacs?
On 3 Jun 1997, Dale Martin wrote: Alexander Stavitsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It seems to be withdrawn from bo distribution. Is there an explanation somewhere? As someone else mentioned, it's back in bo. Also, version 19.15 is in hamm, and it can coexist with regular emacs. I've been using it for a week or two, and aside from a few very mior bugs, it's working pretty well. Yes, it's back in bo but not in bo Packages file. This better be fixed soon, as 1.3 is already announced. -- + finger for pgp public key -+ | Dale E. Martin | University of Cincinnati Savant Research Laboratory | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| http://www.ececs.uc.edu/~dmartin | +--+ = === = |__ Alexander Stavitsky mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~stalex -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Xemacs?
It seems to be withdrawn from bo distribution. Is there an explanation somewhere? = === = |__ Alexander Stavitsky mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~stalex -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: DSELECT question
On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Andy Mortimer wrote: On Jun 3, Fredrik Ax wrote On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Alexander Stavitsky wrote: Dselect in that respect works fine for me. I am however upset with dselect when using cdrom/mounted access methods. In those cases dselect does want to see all of the packages mentioned in Packages file present. Even those that you've chosen not to install. It also ignored symlinks across filesystems. I agree with you that it is a bit irretating that deselect scans for ALL pakages ... I can see that it's done for consistency reasons, BUT it would be great if there was a switch to turn this off. I'm afraid you've got slightly the wrong end of the stick. ;) Using the default methods, dselect scans through all *files* under the tree you point it at, and for each one checks to see if it needs installing. There No, what I have experienced is dselect trying to find all files mentioned in Packages and stop at the point where the package is missing. I'll try it again with when I have time and report if it is really happens. -- Andy Mortimer, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.poboxes.com/andy.mortimer PGP public key available on key servers -- I sing of you in my demented songs. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . = === = |__ Alexander Stavitsky mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~stalex -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: DSELECT question
On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Curt Howland wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Good morning, I've installed from frozen, and run dselect a couple of times to snag interesting or oops, needed that packages since. I've found that each time, dselect selects for download many, many packages that are of the same version as presently installed. Dselect in that respect works fine for me. I am however upset with dselect when using cdrom/mounted access methods. In those cases dselect does want to see all of the packages mentioned in Packages file present. Even those that you've chosen not to install. It also ignored symlinks across filesystems. I had a slightly broken CD-ROM distribution and the only way around was to copy the whole distribution onto the hard drive. Symlinks from hd to cdrom were ignored and dselect wouldn't work if some package is missing. Perhaps this is already fixed, I've used stable(1.4.0.7)dpkg back then. --stuff deleted-- What am I missing? Curt- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.2 iQBVAwUBM5MlbTcqfTGtEDyfAQGKMQIArRX48pvZ1rDy93irtr6Oo8B3415n6oZB xg4Ys3KlVB3J4fNAN2tOiJpE0gK8aDv7oTY9WXbOy+REtsfjjwQXnQ== =YK4i -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . = === = |__ Alexander Stavitsky mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~stalex -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
