Re: Kernel installation woes on Athlon 1100: hda: lost interrupt.
Adam Funk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm running Debian testing on an Athlon 1100 and currently using the
2.4.23-1-386 kernel. I've tried to upgrade to the following packages:
kernel-image-2.4.25-1-386
kernel-image-2.4.26-1-386
kernel-image-2.4.26-1-k7
and they all get stuck on hda: lost interrupt while trying to boot. I
thought any 386 kernel ought to be upward-compatible with an Athlon,
and a k7 ought to be ideally suited for it. Any ideas what's wrong?
Try booting with noapic.
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Re: why must Debian call Taiwan a Province of China?
Katipo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But it doesn't stop there. After the Han,
which is the group that make up approx. 46% of the population,
Han makes up 92% of the population, not 46%.
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Re: Unable to unmount /initrd during startup
Jaap Haitsma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I get a message during init that it is unable to unmount /initrd
This is being called in initrd-tools.sh
Also after booting I'm unable to unmount it manually.
Anybody an idea what could be wrong?
I'm running sid (fully up2date) with the 2.6.4 kernel
http://bugs.debian.org/239029
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Re: Initrd problems
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 11:04:22AM +1100, Lewis Shobbrook wrote:
Basically the driver module is not loading and we can't mount the root
filesystem. The module FastTrak.o can't be found, but I've mounted the
rd image and can verify the inclusion. I've adjusted the modules file
within the /etc/mkinitrd folder, and added the module as
/lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/drivers/scsi/FastTrak.o and simply
FastTrak.o, the result is the same. It looks close, but I'm unable to
get around the failure to locate the module.
I've scrounged through what little info I can find and have struck a bit
of an impasse.
Can anyone offer any advice on how to do this correctly?
Please show me the contents of the files that you've modified under
/etc/mkinitrd.
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Re: Initrd problems
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 10:23:14AM +1100, Lewis Shobbrook wrote:
# Examples:
#
# ext2
# wd io=0x300
FastTrak.o
Try just FastTrak.
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Re: kernel 2.4.22 on testing
TK [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
network card drivers. I manually tried insmod via-rhine but got a
unsolved symbols errors. Looking into /boot, the kernel file is
You should use modprobe instead of insmod.
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Re: kernel image install error
Chris Knoblock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hi all, wondering if anyone can help me with this one.
running unstable and trying to install
kernel-image-2.4.22-1-686 is giving me an error
ldd: /lib/ld.linux.so.2 exited with unknown exit code
(139)
Failed to create initrd image.
can anyone help with this?
ldd is screwed.
Does ldd /bin/bash work?
If not, please file a bug against libc6.
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Re: apt-move and local obsolete files
James Vahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Trying to get apt-move to move an apparently unknown package
(libsensors-1debian1) into the partial mirror, I've created a file,
/mirrors/debian/.apt-move/testing.binary.local containing this line:
libsensors-1debian1 optional main/l/lm-sensors-
The fourth column must contain the source package name or it won't
work. The third column should be a section name but it is optional.
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Re: Enable ACPI on kernel-image-2.4.22?
Damien Solley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
#211594). However, when I boot with acpi=on as a kernel argument, I
get no ACPI.
There is an off-by-one bug that breaks acpi=on. Try acpi=force instead.
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Re: diffs between kernel-source-2.4.22 and source of kernel-image-2.4.22?
David Fokkema [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yeah, well, `even with the same config', meaning that I used the config
from kernel-image-2.4.22. That should work, shouldn't it?
No it's not. The precompiled images put vesafb in /lib/modules/*/initrd
which means that it is loaded automatically by the initrd image.
Unless you did the same with your package that would not happen.
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Re: diffs between kernel-source-2.4.22 and source of kernel-image-2.4.22?
David Fokkema [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Installing kernel-image-2.4.22 I can boot with vga=834 resulting in a
nice 1400x1050 framebuffer display with the vesa driver. However,
compiling a fresh kernel from kernel-source-2.4.22 (even with the same
config) results in a black screen. I can use vga=normal, so I know it
You need to compile VESAFB into the kernel.
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Re: booting problems after installing lm-sensors kernel modules from sid / can't mount root fs
Manuel Bilderbeek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, I took my older (Woody-beta) installation cd and booted with rescue
root=/dev/hda6. Also, this didn't work out: again a kernel panic,
because it can't mount the root fs... This time there was some error
about unsupported optional features.
Any idea about this then?
It means that your rescue floppy does not support ext3. ext3 filesystems
requiring a journal recovery cannot be mounted as ext2.
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Re: getting the initrd to load
Ian Melnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Use the kernel-source from Debian if you don't. It contains the patch needed
to make initrd accept cramfs.
Is there an alternative to cramfs that I can use that works without this patch?
You can use romfs or even ext2/ext3. Check out the MKIMAGE setting
in mkinitrd.conf.
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Re: Problem with kernel 2.4.20
Jaroslaw Tabor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was using kernel 2.4.20 compiled and installed by myself (without
initrd). Everything was working fine.
I've installed by apt kernel-image-2.4.20-686, updated lilo.conf to use
initrd and executed lilo. After this when I'm trying to use this image
linux crashes displaying a log of messages about missing modules in
/lib/modules/2.4.20-686/kernel/fs/
It looks that he cannot mount root filesystem. I don't have any
expirience with initrd. Can anyone help me ?
This is a bug in initrd-tools 0.1.37 and 0.1.38. Installing 0.1.39 and
regenerating the initrd image should fix the problem.
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Re: Problem with kernel update
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 09:27:17AM +0100, Harry Brueckner wrote:
My initrd-tools are version 0.1.37 which seems to be the most current
version.
Any other ideas?
If you go to packages.debian.org/initrd-tools you'll find that the
latest version is 0.1.38.
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Re: Problem with kernel update
Harry Brueckner , Harry Brueckner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Any idea what could be wrong? I found several postings about this problem
but not a single useful reply to them. :-/
Upgrade your initrd-tools package and reinstall kernel-image.
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Re: initrd -- what exactly is it?
Pigeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The rescue disks appear to use an initrd in 'root.bin' which isn't
cramfs... at least the above doesn't work, nor does -t auto. Any idea
what type this is? My curiosity has been aroused!
It's a gzipped ext2 file system. Uncompress it with gunzip before
mounting it.
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Re: How have I misconfigured DHCP?
Shyamal Prasad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Finally, 'man interfaces' says that pump is only supported on 2.2.x
kernels. Perhaps that is the clue you are looking for? I don't know if
No it says pump is supported on 2.2.x and *newer*.
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Re: Compiling a kernel on an UltraSparc?
Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
BTW, 2.4.20 is not the kernel you want if you run ext3 filesystems.
OTOH, 2.4.19 seems to not want to provide DRM support for the Creator.
2.4.20 ext3 is OK as long as you don't enable data=journal (the default
is data=ordered).
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Re: cannot boot OldLinux
On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 12:46:05PM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
# Needed for debian kernel packages
initrd = /initrd.img
This should be in the image section. You need to load initrd.img.old
for vmlinuz.old.
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Re: shell game
Michael Heironimus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There is a way that looks slightly better, but it's still ugly because
it relies on bash-specific options. Something like this should do it.
#! /bin/bash
# Make globs that don't match expand to null string
shopt -s nullglob
if [ -n $(echo /path/to/*.jpg) ] ; then
# Do stuff because .jpg files exist
fi
Here's how you can do it in a POSIX shell:
set -- /path/to/*.jpg
if [ -e $1 ]; then
# Do stuff because .jpg files exist
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Re: modifying initrd.img
Richard Hector [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Unfortunately, the loadmodules script tries to load INI9100 for my SCSI
card, but that module doesn't exist, so I end up with a kernel panic
(can't mount root fs).
Make sure you've got initrd-tools = 0.1.23 and regenerate the initrd
image:
mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd.img-xxx /lib/modules/xxx
lilo
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Re: ide-scsi and initrd
David P James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
options ide-cd ignore=hdb
alias scd0 sr_mod
alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi
pre-install sg modprobe ide-scsi
pre-install sr_mod modprobe ide-scsi
pre-install ide-scsi modprobe ide-cd
The thing I don't understand is the ordering in the last line, yet every
example I've ever seen online is like this. I'm tempted to flip it one
day just to see what happens.
When ide-cd gets loaded, you should see the message
ide-cd: ignoring drive hdb
If you don't, then ide-scsi is not going to work.
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Re: ide-scsi and initrd
David P James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Herbert Xu was roused into action on 2002-11-23 16:11 and wrote:
David P James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
options ide-cd ignore=hdb
alias scd0 sr_mod
alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi
pre-install sg modprobe ide-scsi
pre-install sr_mod modprobe ide-scsi
pre-install ide-scsi modprobe ide-cd
# more /var/log/dmesg
[snip]
PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
PIIX4: chipset revision 1
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
scsi1 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
OK, the problem is that ide-probe isn't loaded at this point in time
so there is nothing for ide-scsi to use. Perhaps this is something
that modprobe could do by default.
Try
pre-install ide-scsi modprobe -k ide-probe-mod
You will need to run update-modules and then regenerate the initrd image by
mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd.img-version /lib/modules/version
and run lilo if you use that.
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Re: Kernel panic booting woody 2.4.18 root=301
Tom Schutter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am having trouble setting up Debian woody on a IOpener. I am
setting up the IDE drive on another machine, and then hooking it up to
the IOpener and attempting to boot. When I attempt to boot with the
drive in the IOpener, I get:
VFS: Cannot open root device 301 or 03:01
Please append a correct root= boot option
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:01
The IOpener may not be seeing the disk as hda (aka 03:01). Please post
the messages before that as it may tell you what the kernel thinks the
disk is called, or if it doesn't see it at all.
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Re: UNIX shells - Bourne and C
Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ash is supposed to be POSIX compliant, and according to the package
description it makes a better /bin/sh because it is smaller. However
I beleive there are some Bourne shell features not present in ash (I
don't have a reference for that, it's from memory which may be
faulty).
Please don't spread FUD. I certainly am not aware of any missing
features relevant for shell scripts.
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Re: Problem with mkinitrd
Pierre Burri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
partition and a mount -t proc proc /proc. Everything worked fine until the
kernel installation (apt-get -y installation kernel-image-2.4.19-686). The
problem is with mkinitrd that doesn't find the root partition. I can
reproduce the problem by invoking directly mkinitrd.
I would greatly appreciate some help.
Here the terminal output:
sun:/# dpkg --configure kernel-image-2.4.19-686
Setting up (2.4.19-3) ...
/usr/sbin/mkinitrd: Cannot determine root device
What version of initrd-tools are you using?
Please show me the content of /etc/fstab and /proc/filesystems.
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Re: Problem with mkinitrd
On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 12:21:51PM +0100, Pierre Burri wrote:
thanks for your answer.
I had a mistake in fstab, /dev/hda11 was still /mnt/debian insthead of /.
I corrected that, but there is still a problem with ldd:
ldd: ./: No such file or directory
You need to install the latest bash from unstable.
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Re: Fwd: Bug#164498: mkinitrd doesn't seem to create the correct initrd image
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 07:14:34AM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote:
My question is, why go to great trouble to store and then change
real-root-dev. Why can't all of the meat of the action just happen in
linuxrc and then pivot_root to the original root?
Because 2.4.19 broke automatic module loading while linuxrc is running...
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Re: SOLVED: idiosyncratic ln not making hard links
Elizabeth Barham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
shelby:~# touch x
shelby:~# ln x y
Well it works now. Thank you everyone!!
There is a known bug in the 2.4 VFS where if you attempt to open a
bad inode on your file system, then all further attempts to do
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Re: cramfs: wrong magic, kernel panic
Neal Pollock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was experimenting with different video modes and I can no longer boot my
system. I was passing different modes at the prompt, and used 'scan' from
the video mode menu. I chose a mode and couldn't see anything so I gave the
machine a clt-alt-del. Now I can't boot either of my two kernels (2.2.20
2.4.18) from lilo, I get the following messages:
I presume your root filesystem is on /dev/hdb6. If this is not the case,
then you need to tell lilo where it really is.
(2.2.20)
[MS-DOS FS Rel. 12, FAT 12, Check=n, conv=b, uid=0, gid=0, umask=022, bmap]
[me=0x0, cs=0, #f=0, fs=0, f1=0, ds=0, de=0, data =0, se=0, ts=0, ls=0,
rc=0, fc=42949672
Transaction block size = 512
Invalid session number or type of track
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 3:46
I'm afraid this means that your root fs has been corrupted so it can't
be mounted. You may be able to recover it by booting from the resuce
disk and perform an fsck on the partition.
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Re: awk segfault on make menuconfig to build kernel
David De Graff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On each attempt to execute make menuconfig, I get the error:
gcc -o lxdialog checklist.o menubox.o textbox.o yesno.o inputbox.o util.o
lxdialog.o msgbox.o -lncurses
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.19/scripts/lxdialog'
/bin/sh scripts/Menuconfig arch/i386/config.in
Using defaults found in .config
Preparing scripts: functions, parsingscripts/Menuconfig: line 1: 663
Segmentation fault awk $1
Awk died with error code 139. Giving up.
make: *** [menuconfig] Error 1
See http://bugs.debian.org/81487/
The quick solution is to use gawk instead of mawk.
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Re: ReiserFS to EXT3
Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So it needs to be enabled. If it is root, initrd needs to be made to
support this. (I use ext3 for the ease of maintanance for all partition.)
initrd-tools supports this already. However there is a bug in 0.1.2[67]
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Re: EXT3 questions
Michael Meskes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just did a mkinitrd to create a new initrd, changed my lilo.conf, ran
lilo and rebooted, but nothing changed. The ext3 module is loaded but
unused and /proc/mounts says /dev/root is mounted as ext2.
If you are using the -386 flavour then this is a known problem. The only
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Re: booting problems - new machine, kernel 2.4
dman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
With both the kernel-image packages I get the error
Kernel Panic : Couldn't mount root fs on device major:minor
More details please, start with the major:minor and the few lines before
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Re: Why 2.2 kernel instead of 2.4
Xeno Campanoli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually, I can't get 2.2.20 by default. I don't see it on stable, and
last time I asked about it I was told to get it off testing. Kindof
bad since security listings strongly recommend updating production
systems to 2.2.20.
2.2.19 in Debian's stable is just as secure as 2.2.20, please read
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Re: FW: Kernel identification
curtis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
apt-get install kernel-imgage-version
In this case, when I type apt-get install kernal-image-2.4.17-386 (the
kernel version on my other computers), I get the following message:
Package kernel-image-2.4.17-386 has no available version, but exists
in the database.
This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and
never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents
of sources.list
E: Package kernel-image-2.4.17-386 has no installation candidate
2.4.17 has been removed due to the zlib security hole. Just install
2.4.18 instead.
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Re: traceroute errors
Bud Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I started getting these errors yesterday. I can't figure out where
they're coming from. System is mostly woody with a few packages from
unstable. Any hints would be most appreciated.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ traceroute www.debian.org
traceroute: Warning: findsaddr: error sending netlink message: Connection
refused
traceroute: Warning: ip checksums disabled
traceroute to www.debian.org (198.186.203.20), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
The next release will have this in the manual page:
If your kernel does not support rtnetlink (routing messages),
you will get a warning of the form
traceroute: Warning: findsaddr: error sending netlink message:
reason
traceroute: Warning: ip checksums disabled
This is harmless as IP checksums will be provided by the kernel,
and UDP checksums (which are also disabled when rtnetlink is
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Re: kernel recompile takes the work out of network
Yury Sulsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
- When I recompiled, I simply changed all of the modules that I need to be
built-in, including the tulip driver. Maybe I have to do something extra to
get this to work?
The tulip driver is known to be broken on some older chipsets. You can
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Re: Upgraded to kernel 2.4.18, and pcmcia cards no longer work.
Rich Warren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
# /etc/init.d/pcmcia start
Starting PCMCIA services: modulesinsmod: a module named pcmcia_core already
exists
/lib/modules/2.4.18-586tsc/pcmcia/i82365.o: unresolved symbol
isapnp_find_dev_R9991be23
/lib/modules/2.4.18-586tsc/pcmcia/ds.o: init_module: Operation not permitted
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including
invalid IO or IRQ parameters
cardmgr.
This is a known bug in pcmcia where it uses insmod instead of modprobe
to load the PIC module. You can work around it by putting isapnp into
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Re: dosemu: com port problem partially solved
Cheryl Homiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I discovered that my com ports work as root, but I'm not sure how to get
access
myself. My ttySx are currently set for root and dialout, and this isn't a
problem in linux since i am a member of dialout. However, I have tried
resetting
permissions to 666 and even 1777 and this doesn't seem to help me use my com
ports in dosemu. Any suggestions?
By the way, I'm not sure if this mattered or not, but I did change the speaker
line in the dosemu.conf to emulated also.
Try running dosemu with -D+a -o file to see what the problem is.
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Re: Pump and Dhclient
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
pump does not obey the RFC and has been known to not work on all networks.
Debian is moving away from it.
This is no longer the case. pump is now useing AF_PACKET to send discover
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Re: Kernel 2.4, 8 megs of ram and kernel panic
Gr?gory Kar?kinian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I understand the reason of this error (only 8 megs of ram on this
computer, but is is possible to boot a 2.4 kernel with 8 megs ?
(Making a smaller ramdisk ? Been searching on google, found out it's 4
megs by defaut... That's a lot).
Yes, but you'll need to setup a custom initrd image. Please refer to
mkinitrd.conf(5) for details.
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Re: [Re: Kernel 2.4.17 (smp) problems]
Deva Seetharam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Feb 5 23:14:29 mathura kernel: IO-APIC (apicid-pin) 2-5, 2-10, 2-11, 2-13,
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Feb 5 23:14:29 mathura kernel: probable hardware bug: clock timer
configuration lost - probably a VIA686a.
Feb 5 23:14:29 mathura kernel: probable hardware bug: restoring chip
configuration.
Try booting with noapic.
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Re: How to enable EXT3 FS on 2.4
On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 05:55:34PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote:
Because you've changed fstab which contains the root filesystem type...
I did not remount. So root FS is still ext2 until reboot. Besides,
file location of all files (kernel image, initrd image is stationally)
mkinitrd uses fstab to find out the root file system type, which decides
what goes into the initrd image...
You could also simply reinstall kernel-image of course.
I did install kernel-image before editing fstab. Is not it enough?
Reinstalling kernel-image runs mkinitrd automatically.
I greped source of lilo and I only see fstab in configuration scripts
(liloconfig, lilo_find_mbr) which are not used and will not be affected
by my fstab edit.
Try grepping /usr/sbin/mkinitrd.
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Re: How to enable EXT3 FS on 2.4
Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1. Boot screen had fsck messafge printing out:
...
fsck 1.25 (20-Sep-2001)
fsck.ext3,ext2 ... complain something like command does not exist.
You can't put comma separated lists of types in fstab.
This is not in dmesg but just on console screen.
2. dmesg contain cramfs: wrong magic
That's a harmless warning and will go away once mkinitrd starts using
pivot_root.
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Re: How to enable EXT3 FS on 2.4
Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
# cd /etc; mv fstab fstab.old
# sed 's/ext2/ext3,ext2/g' fstab.old fstab # forged to be better :)
mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd.img-2.4.17-686-smp /lib/modules/2.4.17-686-smp
lilo
It does not harm but kernel-image already comes with initrd image and it
runs lilo during install. Is there any specific reason why this
command needs to be run again?
Because you've changed fstab which contains the root filesystem type...
You could also simply reinstall kernel-image of course.
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Re: a problem with pcmcia-modules-2.4.17 in sid
Seneca Cunningham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
icosagon:~# dpkg -i /floppy/*.deb
Selecting previously deselected package psmcia-modules-2.4.17-386.
(Reading database ... 20503 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking pcmcia-modules-2.4.17-386 (from
.../pcmcia-modules-2.4.17-386_
3.1.31-3k1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /floppy/pcmcia-modules-2.4.17-386_3.1.31-3k1
_i386.deb (--install):
trying to overwrite `/lib/modules/2.4.17-386/pcmcia/pcmcia_core.o',
which
is also in package kernel-image-2.4.17-386
This is because the kernel-image package already contains a set of
PCMCIA modules. The fact that it's occupying the same namespace as
the ones from pcmcia-modules is a bug which will be resolved soon.
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Re: Upgrade to 2.4.17 Problem
Ed Lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just upgrade the kerenl on my woody box from 2.2.19 to 2.4.17-k6.
Everything went smoothly and it rebooted into the 2.4 kernel without
problems. However, I've lost network connectivity. The NIC is
recognized, it is there under ifconfig, I can ping the assigned address,
but I canot ping any other machine of the network nor access the
Internet (obviously). Perhaps I need to reconfigure something? What
might be the cause and where should I look? TIA
What type of NIC?
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Re: How to enable EXT3 FS on 2.4
Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I did following to enable ext3 fs on my system. If there are better
way, let me know. (kernel-image-2.4.17-686-smp)
# apt-get update; apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.17-686-smp
...
# tune2fs -j -i 0 /dev/hda1
# tune2fs -j -i 0 /dev/hda2 # ... For all EXT2 FS which moves to EXT3
# cd /etc; mv fstab fstab.old
# sed 's/ext2/ext3/g' fstab.old fstab
mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd.img-2.4.17-686-smp /lib/modules/2.4.17-686-smp
lilo
# shutdown -r now
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Re: initrd and kernel 2.4.17
Rupa Schomaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A real pain though since the lvm tools require a writable filesystem
(they create files in /etc). Debian uses cramfs for initrd which is
read-only.
The solution of course is to mount tmpfs on /etc...
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Re: trying to run VMwareworkstation 3.0.0-1455..says I have wrong kernel headers
David Z Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
source tree corresponding to your kernel; if you're running a
Debian-provided kernel, you can use the appropriate kernel-source-*
package for this purpose.
That should be the appropriate kernel-headers-* package.
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Re: Unable to compile a bootable kernel, or, how do I make a romfs?
Timothy J. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I never had these problems prior to moving to initrd stuff. 8(
So stop using it. Custom kernels do NOT need initrd.
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Re: dosemufreedos
Joachim Trinkwitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Gerhard Kroder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
README says:
cd /usr/lib
mkdir -p dosemu freedos
ln -s ../freedos dosemu
my guess here: mkdir -p dosemu/freedos; cd dosemu/freedos before
linking?
Nope, it's meant to be like that.
But the ln command as in the README won't work, because the directory
exists!???
Which directory? If /usr/lib/dosemu/freedos exists your system is screwed
and you should remove it by hand.
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Re: dosemufreedos
Gerhard Kroder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
README says:
cd /usr/lib
mkdir -p dosemu freedos
ln -s ../freedos dosemu
my guess here: mkdir -p dosemu/freedos; cd dosemu/freedos before
linking?
Nope, it's meant to be like that.
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Re: shell script kommands
MaD dUCK [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
also sprach Timeboy (on Thu, 13 Sep 2001 01:41:08PM +0200):
Is there a possibility to do this with a bash script?
#!/bin/bash
cnt=0
while read i; do
var[cnt]=$i
cnt=`expr $cnt + 1`
done
echo there are $i object(s) in array var[].
or you could do
#!/bin/sh
eval $(
sed -n =;s/\([^']*\)\('*\)/'\1'\\2\/gp;$= |
sed -n ':s;N;s/^/var/;s/\n/=/p;n;$s/^/cnt=/p;bs'
)
echo there are $cnt object(s) in array var[].
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Re: apt-move .exclude file question
Markus Grunwald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I tried for example
...
**/kdetoys/eyesapplet*
**/kdebase-crypto/kdm-krb*
**/kdeutils/kab*
**/kdegames/kabalone*
**/kdesdk/kapptemplate*
...
The version of apt-move in testing still uses the old archive layout.
That means you need to use the old section/package notation. For
example, the eyesapplet line should be written as
*/eyesapplet*
or
*/games/eyesapplet*
The next apt-move release will support pools.
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Re: vmware: kernel-source vs. kernel-headers
Martin F Krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
trying to install vmware, it needs
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/version.h, which is not in the
kernel-source package but in kernel-headers. however, kernel-headers
alone doesn't suffice for vmware:
If you're compiling the modules for a precompiled kernel image, you should
use its corresponding kernel-headers package.
Otherwise, you need to go with the kernel source tree where you built your
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Re: 2.4.7 kernel boot hangs with cramfs: wrong magic
On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 12:11:43AM -0400, Jerome Acks Jr wrote:
In one of your earlier messages, you mentioned turning off DMA. I've
done some searching with google, looked at documentation for kernel and
lilo, and I'm not quite sure how to do that. Would I need to intall
hwtools and hdparm and put put add an hdparm line into
/etc/init.d/whtools? Or is there a way to do this passing parameters
through lilo at boot?
Make sure you've got initrd-tools = 0.1.10. Then create these files
(watch out for the tabs):
--/etc/mkinitrd/exe--
/bin/mount
/bin/umount
--/etc/mkinitrd/scripts/dma (must be executable)--
#!/bin/sh
cd $INITRDDIR
mkdir proc
cat scripts/dma.sh - EOF
mount -nt proc proc /proc
echo using_dma:0 /proc/ide/hda/settings
echo using_dma:0 /proc/ide/hdb/settings
umount -n /proc
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Re: 2.4.7 kernel boot hangs with cramfs: wrong magic
On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 08:24:30PM +1000, herbert wrote:
--/etc/mkinitrd/scripts/dma (must be executable)--
#!/bin/sh
cd $INITRDDIR
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Better insert
modprobe ide-probe-mod
here.
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Re: 2.4.7 kernel boot hangs with cramfs: wrong magic
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 09:11:04PM -0400, Jerome Acks Jr wrote:
I tried the -386 kernel package. I no longer get cramfs: wrong magic.
Please give 2.4.8 a go.
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Re: 2.4.7 kernel boot hangs with cramfs: wrong magic
On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 10:46:12PM -0400, Jerome Acks Jr wrote:
The disk light is off.
In that case please try the -386 kernel package.
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Re: 2.4.7 kernel boot hangs with cramfs: wrong magic
On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 02:30:53PM -0400, Jerome Acks Jr wrote:
Partition check:
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: [EZD] [remap 0-1] [700/255/63] p1 p2
p5
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0: [PTBL] [2491/255/63] p1 p2 p3 p4 p5
p6 p7
cramfs: wrong magic
VFS: Mounted root (est2 filesystem) readonly
You mean ext2?
change-root: old root has d_count=2
Freeing unused kernel memory: 184k freed
The boot hangs at this point. Sometimes is hangs at the line cramfs:
wrong magic
Is the disk light on at this point in time? If it is, you need to turn
DMA off on your IDE disks.
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Re: dosemu mystery
Mike Pfleger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
into there. Still unable to cp from my home dir (D: in dosemu) to
the tmp dir (C:\tmp\ in dosemu).
What am I missing?
It's a bug. Please file it against dosemu and I'll fix it. Basically
the dosemu scripts should handle the tmp directory for you.
The reason you can't write to it is because it's readonly (see dosemu.conf).
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Re: dosemu
Jeroen Valcke jeroen@valcke.com wrote:
I would like to run a very old dos application (I know what am I thinking)
So I installed the dosemu package.
Trouble is the 'dosemu' command isn't on the system. Nowhere can I find an
executable 'dosemu'. I should be installed. I followed the notes from
'Running Linux' after running the setup, they say:
Now you are ready to start your Dosemu with:
dosemu -C
But euuh no dosemu for me.
The dosemu command is only available from version 1.0.2. In previous
versions, the command is either dos or xdos.
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Re: Tmpfs questions
Stefan Srdic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2. Is it recomended to mount /tmp as a Tmpfs by using the following in
fstab:
tmpfs/tmptmpfsdefaults00
Replace defaults with size=size where size is some sane limit based
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Re: Tmpfs questions
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 01:15:15PM -0600, Stefan Srdic wrote:
Just another question, would it be more efficient to use a ramfs instead of a
tmpfs to mount /tmp onto?
No.
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Re: Grub: Does it allow for modularized kernel fs
Guy Geens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I tried it, but I discovered I couldn't use it: LVM needs a writeable
initrd file system.
Actually, I use LVM and initrd-tools together and it does work. You need
to use the provided scripting mechanism to mount tmpfs on /etc in order to
run vgscan/vgchange.
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Re: Kernel images
Raffaele Sandrini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I run woody. At this time i compile the kernel by myself. Yesterday i saw in
dselect that there are many kernel images avalible. But they are all 2.2.x
kernels and only one, the 2.4.0-test1 from the 2.4.x series.
Now my question is: Why aren't there all the newer images? Does Debian no
more precompile a kernel?
I know that i can do the same with the kernel-package.
They're still waiting to be moved into testing. You'll see them if you
use unstable. They'll probably enter testing within a week.
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Re: apt-move question
Yuri Leikind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I noticed that apt-move doesn't work with non-native
packages, like, say, ximian gnome or kde for potato, which are
not officially in the distribution. It just skips them.
Is there a way I could make apt-move move them, too?
Set up sources.list entries for them and list them in APTSITES. After
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Re: Creating an initrd
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Fairly easy to make, biggest snag is you really have to be root to make them
properly.
If you're building a cramfs or romfs image, then root is unnecessary as
fakeroot works just fine.
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Re: Creating an initrd
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well there is a package in unstable called mkcramfs that makes initrds
for debian, and it is supported by kernel packages for unstable.
Actually, mkcramfs just makes a cramfs image. It's initrd-tools that
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Re: trouble booting 2.4.4
Jason Healy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
flexible == good. Unfortunately, there wasn't much warning about it, so I
bet a lot of people (and their respective machines) are panicing.
Hmm, I thought the message in the preinst was as prominent as it could be.
Any suggestions on how it can be improved?
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Re: make-kpkg broken?
Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
somewhere along the way from stable to unstable and Linux 2.4.3,
something happened to break make-kpkg:
+ make-kpkg clean
dpkg: warning, architecture `i386-none' not in remapping table
Sounds like a dpkg-dev problem.
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Re: Woody, 2.4 Kernels, Ramdisks and ReiserFS
Jim Farrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is the initial ramdisk there so that the kernel can load modules before
it has mounted the root partition?
Yes.
If so, does this mean I can put my root partition on a ReiserFS
partition, even though ReiserFS is (in the default kernel-image package)
compiled as a module?
Yes.
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Re: high characters in file names change in new potato vs. current slink
Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can someone tell me what I need to do to fix the following problem?
ls --show-control-chars
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Re: Fwd: Bug#61223 acknowledged by developer (Unresolved symbols after setting up kernel-image)
On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 11:29:25PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote:
* kernel modules need to be built for the specific kernel they'll be run
with, or they won't work properly
* they won't work because they have the wrong memory addresses
* The error messages I got are NOT the product of wrong memory addresses,
but missing symbolic information
You are getting errors because it's trying to match the modules' symbols with
the kernel that you're currently running. I don't know why it tries to do
depmod at install time, perhaps Manoj can answer that one.
* Compact and regular kernels are the same, except the former has fewer
drivers
They are configured differently, thus the checksums which are part of the
symbols are different.
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Re: telnetd can't get ttys
On Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 05:14:47PM -0500, Brian White wrote:
I installed the new telnetd (v0.14-8) in an upgrade from Slink, but every
connection attempt failed until I modified /etc/inetd.conf to say root.root
instead of telnetd.telnetd.
The user and group telnetd exist, and telnetd belongs to the utmp group.
Is there something else that needs to be set? There doesn't seem to be
any mention of this in the telnetd manpage, nor is there any other
documentation.
Any ideas? Thanks!
The problem is that the new telnetd requires you to have Unix98 ptys or it
won't work as you've observed. Tradition ptys must be operated as root.
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Re: telnetd can't get ttys
On Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 02:35:14PM -0800, aphro wrote:
i had to to the same to get identd working ..not sure why ..
let me know what u find out if its not posted to the list
Please explain what you mean by identd not working.
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Re: telnetd can't get ttys
On Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 05:15:01PM -0800, aphro wrote:
identd would not reply to requests for ident. happened i believe after i
upgraded from hamm to slink. i believe slink by default set ident to user
nobody, and identd didnt work, i tried several different ident daemons and
all were the same, did not work..till i changed the user to root (had the
same problem on about 5 machines after doing an upgrade to slink). i
think i posted to the list about this when i had the problem(~6-8 months
ago)
Please see if you can still reproduce the same problem with
the version in potato (from pidentd).
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Re: ash - options to `echo' command
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 04:50:38PM -0500, Gregory T. Norris wrote:
I'm afraid that I'm not familiar with the SuS. Could you give me a URL
for this?
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/toc.htm
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Re: ash - options to `echo' command
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 09:27:48PM -0500, Gregory T. Norris wrote:
I was just curious about why ash's builtin `echo' command no longer
accepts any options? It causes interesting (though generally harmless)
output in a variety of places, because I use ash as /bin/sh. For
example:
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I haven't filed a bug report because changelog.Debian.gz shows that it
was an intentional change... so I assume that it was done in order to
conform with POSIX (or another such standard). Is this correct? If
The change was made in line with the SuS. Note that it is not possible
to write echo statements portably across platforms because of legacy
shells that do support options. That is why it is recommended to use
printf instead of echo.
so, I guess I should start filing `bashism' bug-reports against scripts
which start out `#! /bin/sh' and make use of `echo -n' or `echo -e'?
Yes, options are not supported under the SuS.
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video card driver (fwd)
I'm forwarding this to debian-user.
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From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Jun 6 02:31:48 1997
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Date: Thu, 05 Jun 1997 10:33:51 -0600
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: video card driver
Hi There,
I am installing linux debian on dell machine and it has a Matrox
MGA Millennium PowerDesk video card and I haven't found any Matrox Video
Cards in the database provided by the linux. If you please tell me which
one in the closest match for the Matrox Video Card's driver, I'll really
appreciate it.
Sincerely,
Riaz Khan
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Re: xterm color
Guy Maor wrote:
Instructions for turning on recognition of the color change escape
sequences is in the xterm man page.
Yes indeed. And that means you need this resource line:
XTerm*customization: -color
in your /etc/X11/Xresources file or your user Xresource file
if you don't want it for the world.
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Re: deliver and biff and comsat
Eloy A. Paris wrote:
All this introduction is to ask if someone knows a way of getting a
sendmail based system to notify comsat of new mail arrival. Does any
one know of a patch for deliver or another MDA that can work with
sendmail?
You don't need to do anything like that. Just install
biff and uncomment the comsat line in /etc/inetd.conf
and you're on your way.
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Re: Please do not use Qt (fwd)
William Burrow wrote:
On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
Yes. However, we still might look askance at Qt due to the other licensing
terms, which are more restrictive than the GPL, especially since V (another
C++ GUI) is under the GPL.
Please understand I'm not making a technical criticisim. I just wish they
would GPL the darned thing and leave it at that.
While the Qt authors may have different concerns than Knuth does over
TeX, the idea may be the same: modified versions may reflect badly on
Troll Tech.
This is not the point. They can release it under any
license as long as they allow other people to release
modified versions, even if it has to be under a
different name. This is so that the applications
won't get caught when Troll stops releasing free Qt
versions.
Think of what would happen if you weren't allowed to
release modified versions of X and that company which
has taken over X decided to make X non-free.
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Re: Please do not use Qt (fwd)
William Burrow wrote:
Well, you see, once the source code has been released, it is somewhat
like Pandora's box. Programs relying on the old Qt will function as
always. Free programs relying on the new, unreleased, pay-for-it Qt...
well, there just won't be many of those around.
If there were no bugs in that free version.
As for not being able modify Qt, not really. Qt supports inheritance, so
can be modified at a higher abstraction. Your argument is based on FUD.
Meanwhile the freeware community diddles around with various uncompleted
toolkits.
Again, this assumes the parent classes are bug free. But remember that
the this thread started as discussing the relevance of kde to Debian.
And as far as I am concerned there is no point in using Qt for developping
kde when there are other free alternatives around, such as V.
flame
Personally, I expected much more from the X development model than has
appeared. The X world seems to have grasped a commercial library, Motif.
Where is the plethora of excellent concepts and toolkits? Seems the big
commercial OSes get those (MacOS, Windows, OS/2 -- not neglecting NeXT,
it just didn't get to the big status). So, what went wrong?
/flame
There is a plethora of toolkits; concepts? Don't know.
I don't support Qt as much as I support a free toolkit that is being
developed on a continual basis. It would not be a first to put a wrapper
around Qt calls, if you so desired, either.
I don't mind individual programs such as nethack using Qt. What I
dislike is people putting in a lot of time and effort developping
things like kde on top of a non-free toolkit like Qt when there are
viable free alternatives around.
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Re: Please do not use Qt (fwd)
Martin Konold wrote:
On 20 Nov 1996, Arnt Gulbrandsen (Troll) wrote:
As I said wrote earlier, the license doesn't limit distribution in any
way which is particularly relevant to CD distribution. Quoting:
You may copy this version of the Qt toolkit provided that the
entire archive is distributed unchanged and as a whole,
including this notice.
That's what applies to FTP archive administrators, and that's what
applies to CD vendors.
Ok, I will forward this to the cdrom producers/Debian people.
Oh come on, who cares if you can distribute them on CD's,
when they can stop releasing any new versions under this
license any time they feel like it? Let's simply forget
about QT.
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Re: XFree86 3.2 Initial Reports
Stephen Early wrote:
One of the good things, in my opinion, about Debian is that it
provides packages that are set up sensibly with 'normal' defaults. I
don't want to start doing anything fancy just to look pretty; other
distributions have tried this, and it occasionally causes confusion
and problems. It's more a philisophical issue than a technical one,
really - people should be able to configure their systems however they
like, without having to undo all sorts of distribution-specific gunk
first.
Sure, the user should be able to customise things if
they want to. But if you don't have a pretty default,
people will simply say that Debian looks ugly!
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Re: X is painful + GPLed solution
Bill Bumgarner wrote:
# Have look at the kde project.
I will-- and if it is as cool as you make it sound, I'll happily put
together the debian packaging information...
The problem with kde is that they use qt, which has a very
restrictive license that makes it non-free software (in
particular, they do not allow any modified version of the
library to be distributed).
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Re: X is painful
Stephen Early wrote:
Ah. The X Window System is not a user interface. It is a standard by
which applications can drive displays and input devices. It provides
mechanism, not policy.
Sure. But I must remind you that we are concerned with
developping Debian, not X per se. Using the above as an
excuse to not making a coherent, and pretty graphical user
interface is IMHO not acceptable.
Creating a user interface under X that is as good as NextStep is just
a matter of getting every X application author to agree to adhere to
the same policy. I wish you luck.
I agree that this is very diffcult. But the Debian developers
should do their best at getting Debian programs to cooperate.
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Re: X11 bashing
Martin Konold wrote:
On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, Larry 'Daffy' Daffner wrote:
- Have look at the kde project.
[ Stuff snipped ]
I strongly doubt that KDE has the momentum to succeed. It's based on
Qt, which is a proprietary standard. Granted the implementation is
delivered 'free for noncommercial use', but I don't see that as a
significant difference. It's still a proprietary toolkit, which will
keep the GNU crowd disinterested, as well as making it inappropriate
for Debian proper.
In contrast to motif Qt is fully C++ OO.
Qt comes with source. Any gpled sw can be distributed with soure or binary
of Qt.
Just building proprietary sw without source.. cost money.
So it is really free and can be well used for gpled sw.
Qt forbids anybody from modifying their source code. So what
if they changed their license when they've gained enough momentum?
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Re: xv requires libtiff3
Martin Konold wrote:
On Fri, 15 Nov 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just upgraded to the most recent release of xv from the
non-free section and it is giving me the dependency problem
that it requires libtiff3. Yet, I can't find libtiff3.
Am I looking in the wrong place or something?
Did you have a look at ftp.sgi.com?
/sgi/fax/source/tiff-v3.4-tar.gz should work.
Please don't. Get the proper deb file from ftp.debian.org.
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Re: xconsole stops logging
Pete Templin wrote:
On Mon, 11 Nov 1996, Luis Francisco Gonzalez wrote:
I have noticed that xconsolo stops logging any kernel messages when the
daily
cron scripts get run and the current /var/log/messages file gets renamed to
/var/log/messages.0 and a new one gets created. Is this something normal or
is there anything I am doing wrong?
It's probably still logging to the file that has become *.0 . I'd suggest
writing a script to kill -HUP any processes which access those
(rotated) log files. The kill just asks the xconsole to close whatever
log files it has open and reopen its log file by name, thereby releasing
its hold on the renamed file.
Alas that won't work. See bug #3751 and my patch. Though I no longer
use
xconsole as it keeps growing unless you kill it. Right now I have a
simple
C program that resembles tail but reopens the fifo when the other side
reopens
it. This in addition to a simple script and xterm replaces the
functionality of
xconsole nicely.
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Re: rdist
Fundamental wrote:
Does debian have rdist or the equivalent program? I checked the package
finder and found nothing.
It's in my netstd 2.07-1.
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Re: Netscape 3.01 libc5_5.4.7 crashes
Guy Maor wrote:
libc5_5.4.7-7 will be in the archive soon, and it includes the older
malloc as a seperate library for buggy software like netscape. You'll
be able to run netscape like this:
LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libgnumalloc.so netscape
and java apps will work.
The path might might not be correct above, but /usr/doc/libc5/FAQ.gz
will contain details.
So would the netscape maintainer *please* release a new netscape package
with a script named netscape that does the above?
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