gs eats all memory
[ I'm not on debian-user, so please Cc me on replies ]. Has anyone else experienced this behavior? When printing any file (using lpr -Plp somefile), such as this one: -rw---1 bma bma 1278 Aug 21 01:01 klingon-programmer.txt and using redhat's printtool, gs consumes every drop of available memory, leaking approximately 4MB every 5 seconds. Even on my 256MB machine, it hoses the box in a short amount of time, and the machine finally begins croaking with messages like this in syslog: Oct 24 08:11:07 trantor kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd... This problem has begun happening recently (within the past month or so), so I don't think it's gs' fault (last upload was in march or so). Versions of relevant software: ii gs 5.10-10Postscript interpreter with X11 and svgalib ii printtool 3.53-2 Printer administration tool. ii smbclient 2.0.7-3A LanManager like simple client for Unix. Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks, Brian -- Brian M. Almeida Linux Systems Engineer | http://www.winstar.com | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian Developer | http://www.debian.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpWAU2dd8lAc.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Really no sponsor out there?
On Tue, Dec 28, 1999 at 09:36:44AM +0100, Stefan Hornburg wrote: That is understandable, but how one becomes Debian maintainer from scratch ? This is the cause why Dennis and I need a sponsor. We developing this software and Dennis will maintain the Debian packages. When I joined Debian about a year and a half ago, you didn't need to be sponsored. The only reason sponsors are so popular right now is because since new-maintainer is closed, it is the only way for you to get your package into debian. Once it reopens, there shouldn't be any issues. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Announcing FAI 1.0 (Fully automatic Installation) (fwd)
- Forwarded message from Bradley M. Alexander [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 06:41:34 -0500 (EST) From: Bradley M. Alexander [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Announcing FAI 1.0 (Fully automatic Installation) (fwd) X-UIDL: 946309117.21886.k7mail.winstar.com Thought you might find this interesting... -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 20:14:59 + (GMT) From: Martin Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Announcing FAI 1.0 (Fully automatic Installation) --- Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 21 Dec 1999 21:47:15 + --- --- Forwarded message from Thomas Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-Date: 21 Dec 1999 17:30:23 - X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Thomas Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 18:30:14 +0100 (MET) To: debian-admintool@lists.debian.org, debian-boot@lists.debian.org, debian-devel@lists.debian.org Subject: Announcing FAI 1.0 (Fully automatic Installation) X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under Emacs 19.34.1 Resent-From: debian-devel@lists.debian.org X-Mailing-List: debian-devel@lists.debian.org archive/latest/51382 X-Loop: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm very happy to announce the first release of FAI (Fully automatic installation). FAI is a non interactive system to install a Debian Linux operating system on a PC cluster. You can take one or more virgin PCs, turn on the power and after a few minutes Linux is installed, configured and running on the whole cluster, without any interaction necessary. In addition, the configuration can be changed automatically on all Linux cluster nodes. Thus you have a scalable method for installing and updating a cluster with little effort involved. We use the Debian distribution and a collection of shell- and Perl-scripts for the installation process. Changes to the configuration files of the operating system are made by the tool cfengine. The home page for FAI is http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/ FAI is free software, distributed under the terms of the GNU Public License, version 2. For more information, see the file COPYING. There is no warranty, expressed or implied, associated with this product. Use at your own risk. Comments, bug reports, fixes, enhancements etc. are welcome. Send them to [EMAIL PROTECTED] FAI for Linux is created by: Mattias Gaertner[EMAIL PROTECTED] Thomas Lange[EMAIL PROTECTED] Jens Ruehmkorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] I hope you enjoy the fully automatically installation ! -- Thomas -- Thomas Lange Institut fuer Informatik mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Universitaet zu Koeln Pohligstr. 1Telefon: +49 221 470 5303 50969 KoelnFax: +49 221 470 5317 -- [forwarded to beowulf list(s) by: -- Martin Wheeler - StarTEXT - Glastonbury - BA6 9PH - England [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.startext.co.uk/ --- To unsubscribe send a message body containing unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - End forwarded message - -- Brian M. Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://bma.debian.net/~balmeida Debian Developer | http://www.debian.org When you open Windows, bugs get in! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug#34594: Problems with Enlightenment
[ I'm Cc'ing this to all the places I posted, so that this won't happen again ] On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 02:09:37PM +0200, Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote: Packages: enlightenment-conf enlightenment-nosound dox enlightenment I have Debian Slink with many not-so-system-critical packages from Potato. I want to have the latest Enlightenment with related utilities, but I do not want to break my system with glibc 2.1 or other too system-critical packages. I specifically said NOT to use the Bug Tracking System for these packages until they are installed into unstable. In a day or two someone (maybe me) will compile enlightenment against glibc2.0 and it will be placed in http://www.debian.org/~jim/debian-gtk-gnome/gnome-stage-2/ The ~jules URL will be for POTATO compiles and as such will have compilations against glibc2.1. pgpiQrN8McclK.pgp Description: PGP signature
E 0.15.1 debs
Well, a new release, a new set of debs. Same thing as before: http://www.debian.org/~bma/enlightenment/ Apt line: deb http://www.debian.org/~bma enlightenment/ Also, people asked about the gnome staging area - apt line deb http://www.debian.org/~jules/gnome-stage-2 unstable main Imlib 1.9.4 debs are there, along with much more. As before, any comments should be mailed directly to me, not to the bug tracking system. NOTE: These debs contain a bunch of fixes from the first set. I'll paste from the changelog. enlightenment (0.15.1-1) unstable; urgency=low * New upstream release -- Brian M. Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat, 13 Mar 1999 23:53:57 -0500 enlightenment (0.15.0-3) unstable; urgency=low * Added postinst scripts for the themes, so the user can decide the default theme * All themes now Provide: enlightenment-theme * enlightenment[-nosound] now only Recommends: enlightenment-theme, it's possible for a user to just get a theme of a site, and have E read it from ~/.enlightenment * enlightenment-nosound now contains /usr/share/enlightenment/config * Changed description of enlightenment-docs to be more accurate -- Brian M. Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat, 13 Mar 1999 16:52:27 -0500 enlightenment (0.15.0-2) unstable; urgency=low * Whoops, didn't make Recommends: enlightenment | enlightenment-nosound for all the packages -- Brian M. Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat, 13 Mar 1999 15:28:18 -0500 enlightenment (0.15.0-1) unstable; urgency=low * New upstream release * Added enlightenment-nosound package * Split themes up into seperate packages, courtesy of Jules Bean [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Added undocumented manpages for eesh and epp * Versioned dependency on imlib -- Brian M. Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat, 13 Mar 1999 00:51:26 -0500 pgpksy296X5pZ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Enlightenment 0.15 .debs
Enlightenment 0.15 .debs are out. They will not be uploaded into the distribution, they are placed in the GNOME staging area. This is so that Debian can make sure all the packages for gnome/gtk/imlib work together, and working packages will be uploaded, not broken ones. In the meantime, you can access the .debs at http://www.debian.org/~bma/enlightenment/ They are also apt-accessible. Add this line to /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://www.debian.org/~bma enlightenment/ If you encounter any problems with these, please email me directly, instead of using Debian's bug tracking system, since they are not released officially yet. Enjoy! bma Uber-E maintainer for Debian pgpUfAmsGyzED.pgp Description: PGP signature
New emusic packages - broken upgrade path
I just uploaded emusic_0.8-5 to incoming. emusic (0.8-5) unstable; urgency=low * Recompiled against GTK+ 1.2 * Consolidated into one package * This WILL not install cleanly through dselect. Remove all your emusic packages first (this is because dpkg cannot do versioned Provides:) But this is unstable, so thems the breaks. * EsounD now a Recommends instead of a Depends * Changed debian/rules to use DESTDIR * Updated download location in copyright file -- Brian M. Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun, 28 Feb 1999 22:42:20 -0500 Just --remove libemusic0 emusic-data emusic-docs emusic, then apt-get install emusic. I asked on -mentors about this, there was no opposition to it and only one reply. I know this is messy, but so is dpkg not allowing versioned Provides:. This is only an issue from potato-potato. People going from the slink emusic to potato emusic will not have any problems, becasue the slink packages did not have versioned Depends:. Brian
Re: Bug#33901: cvs enlightenment will not run as user, but runs as root
On Fri, Feb 26, 1999 at 11:02:17AM -0800, Mike Garfias wrote: when I run cvs enlightenment as a user I get an error message similar to this (exact wording not known): Enlightenment cannot find the directory /usr/share/enlightenment/config. I've checked the directory for proper permissions, everything is r-xr-xr-x. I am using Debian 2.2, kernel version 2.2.1 They are NOT OFFICIAL packages. They are NOT supported. They are provided for the convience of users. I am closing this bug report, as it has no relevance to the package in the distribution. If you are having difficulties with the CVS debs, please contact Jules Bean, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am Cc'ing debian-devel and debian-user on this to prevent it from happening again. Brian
Re: XFree86 3.3.3.1 packaged.
On Sat, Feb 20, 1999 at 07:37:21PM +0100, Vincent Renardias wrote: If you feel bored this WE or happen to have one of those gfx cards supported only in the most recents XFree86 releases, you may want to try my 3.3.3.1 packages. They're accessible on: http://master.debian.org/~vincent/xfree-3.3.3.1/ Notes: - Based on the Debian changes from 3.3.2.3a-10 and upstream 3.3.3.1 sources. - One new binary package produced: xserver-glint; boards supported: GLINT 500TX with IBM RGB526 RAMDAC, GLINT MX with IBM RGB526 and IBM RGB640 RAMDAC, Permedia with IBM RGB526 RAMDAC and Permedia 2 (classic, 2a, 2v). - Takes ~1.5h to build on my Celeron 385 ;) - These are _not_ the 3.3.3.1 official packages. Branden should make them in a while. - These packages WorkForMe(tm), but I haven't tested them too much. If you have problems/questions about them, please report to me directly. I'd appreciate it if you could make a build with the patch included at http://www.debian.org/bugs/31827, so I can test it and let branden know if it works. It's only about a 100 line patch and applies cleanly to the 3.3.3.1 source tree. patch it from xfree86-3.3.3.1 with cat foo.patch |patch -p2 Thanks!
Re: XFree86 3.3.3.1 packaged.
On Sat, Feb 20, 1999 at 03:00:49PM -0500, Brian Almeida wrote: I'd appreciate it if you could make a build with the patch included at http://www.debian.org/bugs/31827, so I can test it and let branden know if it works. It's only about a 100 line patch and applies cleanly to the 3.3.3.1 source tree. patch it from xfree86-3.3.3.1 with cat foo.patch |patch -p2 Woohoo! eMusic works with Debian's GTK again. Could people using the XInput extension please test these so Branden will put it in the official release (he mentioned being wary about accepting this patch ;). Thanks!
Re: Bug#33558: [SECURITY] Trivial root exploit with eterm (fwd)
To hopefully allay any fears, here: any title command in .Eterm/themes/Eterm/MAIN will be executed with rootprivileges: As I've already responded, this is not true. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [~]: ls -l /tmp/foo.txt ls: /tmp/foo.txt: No such file or directory In the MAIN file: title `touch /tmp/foo.txt` After running Eterm: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [~]: ls -l /tmp/foo.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 balmeida balmeida0 Feb 18 14:17 /tmp/foo.txt
Re: Bug#33558: [SECURITY] Trivial root exploit with eterm (fwd)
As I've already responded, this is not true. D'oh! I've just heard from the author differently, saying an exploit is possible with a little coding. I'll have a fixed version up by tonight. *sigh* Sorry for the confusion. pgpBa2Fq5ceEM.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Root Exploit in Eterm
On Thu, Feb 18, 1999 at 02:25:33PM -0600, Michael Jennings wrote: Find the patches for this attached, one for 0.8.8, and one for 0.8.9. A fixed version of the Debian package now resides in Incoming, it will be installed into the main archive tomorrow. In the meantime, you can find these fixed .debs at: http://www.debian.org/~bma/eterm/eterm_0.8.8-5_i386.deb http://terminus.lwc.edu/eterm/eterm_0.8.8-5_i386.deb The source .diff.gz and PGP-signed .changes/.dsc files are also in those directories. Here is the md5sum: 27e22c0283615803b5cc2a3d7d31cc02 eterm_0.8.8-5_i386.deb Brian Almeida Eterm Debian maintainer pgpNqXw6NeOto.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Eterm and X server
On Sun, Oct 18, 1998 at 06:46:19PM +0200, Leon Breedt wrote: I installed Eterm from the hamm cd, but i cant get it to work on any account except root. These are the error messages I get when I try to run it from an xterm: Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: client is not authorized to connect to server Eterm: can't open display :0.0 and looking at the console from which i started X: AUDIT: Sun Oct 18 18:42:51 1998: 891 X: client 4 rejected from local host help! it works when i run it as root. i copied root's .Xauthority file to the users I want to be able to use Eterm, no go. Are you running linux 2.1.x? If so there was a bug in it that is now fixed in the Eterm CVS... Brian
Re: Hiding a linux computer
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 05:41:44PM -0700, Jeremy Blonde wrote: However a few problems arise. They are using dhcp, which I can work with (I get the ip address and can hit all the servers, etc.), but this also leaves a record in the dhcp ip address listing in this format: ipaddress hostname mac address The Linux machine shows up like this: X.X.X.X (null) XX:XX:XX:XX:XX Try running dhcpcd with the -h hostname option (man dhcpcd for more details) I'd like to not even use the dhcp server but I think that would mean I'd have to setup the Linux machine to be a DNS server wouldn't it? I don't know what that would do to the rest of the machines on our network, I can't be messing them up or else I'll be in hot water. You'd have to have a static IP/dns entry...just try to get DHCP to work, it's the best way :) Also try putting the following line in /etc/dhcp/config HOSTNAME=foobar # your hostname here Worked for a friend of mine here at school... Brian
Re: enlightenment
On Wed, Oct 07, 1998 at 10:47:58PM -0500, Default Debian Reader wrote: I know this is supposed to be a demo and such but i was wondering if anyone else had my same problem. When i start enlightenment it starts up good and fine and shows me the screen but then goes into this loop playing audio sounds trying to initiallize then it starts spitting out some error message saying my IRQ or DMC something or other is not configed right. I can play audio with everything else so this seems to be an enlightenment problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated. could you please send me hte exact error messages it is spitting out? I don't believe I've ever heard of this problem. Make sure you are using hte latest esound in slink, 0.2.5-3. Thanks. Brian esound maintainer -- Brian Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/~bma/ _ _ _ __| | ___| |__ (_) __ _ _ __ / _` |/ _ \ '_ \| |/ _` | '_ \ Debian GNU/Linux Developer | (_| | __/ |_) | | (_| | | | | PGP Key: 0x3A800C65 \__,_|\___|_.__/|_|\__,_|_| |_| http://www.debian.org Debian Linux: Because Size DOES Matter
Re: mp3 player
On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 08:36:36AM +0200, Jens Ritter wrote: They are in the non-free and contrib sections. Look for mpg123 and x11amp (for example). My MP3 player package, eMusic, is in main. Also, FreeAMP is in main. Brian -- Brian Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/~bma/ _ _ _ __| | ___| |__ (_) __ _ _ __ / _` |/ _ \ '_ \| |/ _` | '_ \ Debian GNU/Linux Developer | (_| | __/ |_) | | (_| | | | | PGP Key: 0x3A800C65 \__,_|\___|_.__/|_|\__,_|_| |_| http://www.debian.org Debian Linux: Because Size DOES Matter
Re: GTKICQ
On Wed, Sep 16, 1998 at 06:56:11AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't understand how much of these configuration things are supposed to work, but I got the impression that it didn't configure itself properly for our debian system and is still for the authors? redhat system. So I simply went thru the files in gtkicq-xx/support/.deps and replaced all the occurances of i386-redhat-linux with i486-linux. (Which is what the difference in the header directory is on my machine - you can check and make sure its the same on yours). After that it all compiles fine. A simple 'rm -rf gtkicq-0.53/support/.deps' will do the trick. Basically the author is not cleaning out the tree before making a tarball. He is obviously developing on a redhat machine. Simple fix, yet a PITA that should be fixed at the source... Brian -- Brian Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/~bma/ _ _ _ __| | ___| |__ (_) __ _ _ __ / _` |/ _ \ '_ \| |/ _` | '_ \ Debian GNU/Linux Developer | (_| | __/ |_) | | (_| | | | | PGP Key: 0x3A800C65 \__,_|\___|_.__/|_|\__,_|_| |_| http://www.debian.org Debian Linux: Because Size DOES Matter pgp46s26eObGA.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: AIM, Netscape 4.05
On Tue, Aug 04, 1998 at 09:23:12PM -0400, McGill wrote: I've recently moved to Debian 2.0 from slackware 3.2 (kernel 2.0.29), and I am having trouble getting AOL's instant messenger (AIM) and netscape 4.05 running. When I am in X (using WindowMaker wm... if that makes a difference...) and type ./aim or ./netscape in a xterm, I get Segmentation Fault. All the correct libs are installed for netscape, and I installed and added java support to the kernel. Does anyone know what is causing this problem? It's the fact that Debian 2.0 uses glibc, whereas AIM is linked against libc5. Get the jdk1.1-runtime package and install it. Then set the JAVA_HOME shell variable in your .bashrc or .tcshrc: bash: export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jdk1.1 tcsh: setenv JAVA_HOME /usr/lib/jdk1.1 If that doesn't get things working, lemme know. P.S.: I rarely use bash, so anyone seeing any problems with my syntax please correct me ;) -- Brian Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/~bma/ Debian/GNU Linux Developer -- http://www.debian.org/ PGP Key: pub 1024/3A800C65 1998/04/20 Brian M. Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] People who don't understand UNIX are doomed to recreate it, badly. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Dell Laptop install problems
Hey, I'm trying to install Debian 2.0 on a Dell Latitude XP laptop with Advanced Port Replicator. It gets to 'Loading linux' then hangs after it is done loading the kernel. Anyone else seen this problem, and if so, do you have a solution? I'm using the newest set of disk images off of ftp.debian.org. Thanks guys! Brian -- Brian Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/~bma/ Debian GNU/Linux Developer - http://www.debian.org People who don't understand UNIX are doomed to recreate it, badly. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: DNS question
On Tue, Jul 28, 1998 at 05:20:27PM -0400, Shaleh wrote: I was under the impression that the use of CNAME was not smiled on. Is this the case? If so, what is the preferred way to handle CNAMEs? I just talked to our sysadmin at work -- he says CNAMEs are ok 'cept when you're talking about mail exchangers -- then you really need an IN A. That's the way we have it set up here at our work. Brian -- Brian Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://web.terminus.cicat.com Programmer/Systems Administrator CICAT Networks 9900 Main Street, Suite 301 Fairfax, VA 22031 [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.cicat.com/ People who don't understand UNIX are doomed to recreate it, badly. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
eMusic .debs
Just a heads up that eMusic-DR0.6 .debs are in incoming. You can also grab them from my site: http://web.terminus.cicat.com/software/emusic/ Please let me know if you find *any* problems with them. I know a lot of you have been waiting for these..:) Cc me on any replies, as I'm not subscribed to debian-users. Thanks, Brian. -- Brian Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://web.terminus.cicat.com Programmer/Systems Administrator CICAT Networks 9900 Main Street, Suite 301 Fairfax, VA 22031 [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.cicat.com/ People who don't understand UNIX are doomed to recreate it, badly. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
