Re: Question about libc6
Some time around Mon, 07 Sep 1998 01:12:28 +0200, Fernando =?iso-8859-1?Q?Hern=E1ndez?= Caso wrote: Hello: I´m an user of the debian linux distribution and I was download the libraries libc6 which are necesaries to install the x-windows window manager KDE. But when I execute the command dkpg -i libc6_2_0_7t-1.deb, it give me a dependency error of libc5. I would like to know how can I install it. Thanks. You are running bo (1.3), right? If this is the case, getting packages from the new 2.0 is not as easy as just installing them. You'll need to go through a special step of upgrading your system to libc6. This is because between 1.3 and 2.0, the major version of the C library changed. We migrated to libc6. Unfortunately, there is no way to upgrade cleanly using existing (1.3) tools. What you need to do is either use autoup.sh script or apt.deb package. Autop.sh is just a script that performs necessary upgrades for you in the right order. apt-get (from apt.deb) is the backend of next-generation package selection tool, a dselect replacement. Either of the methods are documented to work well. At this point, it is a matter of choice. Both autoup.sh and apt.deb as well as upgrade instructions can be had from debian/dists/stable/upgrade-i386 on any debian mirror. Greetings: IoZ e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /de v/null -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Your friends...... whatever.
Some time around Mon, 07 Sep 1998 18:44:35 +1200, Michael Beattie wrote: On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Igor Grobman wrote: Having said that there is one exception to this rule ;-) and that is aol.c om . It has been established that 99.9% of the mail with @aol.com from field ha s nothing to do with any topics relevant to debian lists. Right now, all aol.com posts come to me, and I forward them to the list if necessary (I haven't had to do any of that lately). Heh... its funny really.. AOL has quite strict rules does it not? Correct me if I am wrong. Yes they do, but they do have a huge customer base and it's very easy to sign on even for a newbie, plus their clueful/clueless ratio is probably the lowest in the industry ;-). That means that the spammers have no problem signing on with a new account as soon as they are kicked off, and that the chances of a relevant post to debian lists are very low. I haven't seen one in about 2 months. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation problems
Some time around Mon, 07 Sep 1998 03:19:22 EDT, Richard Heller wrote: Hi, I'm having a couple of problems installing Linux on my machine. The problem s are revolving around two pieces of hardware, my ethernet card and my video card. My ethernet card is a 3com 3c905TX card. During the boot messages, the card appears to be correctly detected, however I don't seem to be able to commun icate with any other machines. Every so often, I also get the following mes sages on my screen: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status ff status fff. eth0: Transmitter encountered 16 collisions -- network cable problem? eth0: Interrupt posted but not delivered -- IRQ blocked by another device? eth0: Host error, FIFO dagnostic register . (That line repeats a bunch of times) eth0: Too much work in interrupt, status . Temporarily disabling functi ons (7800) This sounds like you have an irq conflict. Make sure your card is detected at the correct irq, and that the irq isn't being used by something else. If it's the former, read ethernet HOWTO on how to pass the settings to the kernel on boot. If it's the latter, reconfigure your card for another irq. The card works fine under Win98. Any suggestions? Win98 is not as strict with IRQ conflicts and may be working around the problem. My video card is a Real 3D StarFighter AGP card with 8M of RAM. There doesn 't seem to be any support for this card and when I try to use the SVGA serve r, it detects the amount of RAM wrong. It thinks I have 64k instead of 8M a nd therefore don't have enough memory to start the server. At best I can ru n X Windows with 320x200 resolution, which is something I wouldn't wish on m y worst enemy. Is there an X server out there that works with this card? What chipset does it have? Maybe it needs a special server (as opposed to SVGA) designed for its chipset. Figure out what chipset your card has, and search the net for what the status of the driver development is. I was so looking forward to installing Linux. It kind of sucks that I've hi t these road blocks. They are not that bad. Everyone has some kind of problem first time they install. Thanks, Rich -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /de v/null -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help! finding superblocks on hosed partition table
Some time around Wed, 02 Sep 1998 07:52:25 CDT, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: Oh, dear. Just as i decided to store the whole file system, reinit the hd, and reinstall, it beat me to it by one boot. I had been getting error messaes from fdisk, and it wouldn't create my new partition 3. (the resource busy, reboot to save message) The last act was to use mtools to copy from a dosimage to the floppy. The new files didn't show up on the floppy, and now there's no partition table. And I don't recall the sizes :( What I do know is that hda1 was a small (30mb?) partition for /boot. I forget what was on hda2, but it was small enough that hda3 could start in the first 1024 cylinders. and hda4 was an extended partition. You can create a partition table from scratch if you knew the exact geometry using linux fdisk. I am not sure if you can do this without knowing it at all. A couple of weeks ago, i read about a program to scan the disks for superblocks to try to solve these problems. Does anyone recall what/where it is? The superblocks are usually located every 8k on the filesystem. The first one is at block 1, second is at 8193 and so on... You can tell e2fsck (and other ext2 utils such as tune2fs, dumpe2fs) the location of the superblock by using the -b option. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian-user-digest Digest V98 #913
Some time around Wed, 02 Sep 1998 11:15:31 EDT, Person, Rod wrote: I can't figure this out. I have been installing Debian for about 2 weeks of and on. I'm downloading from the net to a DOS partition. Every so often my Linux partition gives me a 'can not allocate memory error.' I run df and sure enough 100% of my partition is in used. Then I run dselect again or re-boot and I get the correct reading of 62% of the partition used! The last time this happened was last night. The night before I was using linux, but made no modification. I didn't add any files or remove any. I did touch and of the configuration file (the one that I know are anyway). I was in X using dfm to explore the structure I try to figure out the other problems I have. Maybe it has something to do with the way I logoff, that's all I can figure out. Can someone clue me in? Something must be opening a huge temporary file (or not that huge, how big is your linux partition?), and of course, after you reboot, the file disappears. Look for interesting things in /tmp and try to track down when exactly the hd usage goes up to a 100 (i.e. which program uses all that space). Your problem is you try to figure out everything, and I can't figure nothing out! -my wife. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /de v/null -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Your friends...... whatever.
Some time around Thu, 03 Sep 1998 14:37:55 +1200, Michael Beattie wrote: Isnt that a valid reason to filter out @hotmail.com, @lycos.com etc? I am the debian anti-spam person, and I don't like to blanketly filter on from: addresses. Hotmail or lycos do not have anything to do with spammers. Most of the time the spammers set their from address to an invalid hotmail address just because that's the service they know. However, there are more than a few people who use such email services legitimately. I would rather block the real providers of the spammers (those that give them access and/or relay for them) rather than block on the from: address which does not mean much with spammers. Having said that there is one exception to this rule ;-) and that is aol.com . It has been established that 99.9% of the mail with @aol.com from field has nothing to do with any topics relevant to debian lists. Right now, all aol.com posts come to me, and I forward them to the list if necessary (I haven't had to do any of that lately). I dont know about anyone else... But that sort of [EMAIL PROTECTED] really bugs me. Unfortunately, my spam filter wont catch stuff sent to the list.. :( I am trying my best to make sure debian lists do not get spam. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
*H*E*L*P* (fwd)
You really should post to Debian-user with questions like this. I am sorry I don't have time to answer questions such as this most of the time. I took the liberty of forwarding your message to the list. Igor. --- Forwarded Message Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivery-Date: Sun Aug 30 23:15:58 1998 Received: from localhost [127.0.0.1] (igor) by hmm.nothinbut.net with esmtp (Exim 2.02 #1 (Debian)) id 0zDKRh-0003M7-00; Sun, 30 Aug 1998 23:15:57 -0400 Received: from mail.nothinbut.net by fetchmail-4.5.6 POP3 for igor/localhost (single-drop); Sun, 30 Aug 1998 23:15:57 EDT Received: from master.debian.org ([EMAIL PROTECTED] [205.229.104.5]) by bigpapa.nothinbut.net (8.8.8/8.8.8/Debian/GNU) with SMTP id WAA03966 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:35:30 -0400 Received: (qmail 2581 invoked by uid 992); 31 Aug 1998 02:35:27 - Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 2577 invoked from network); 31 Aug 1998 02:35:25 - Received: from sdq1.tricom.net (205.160.164.2) by debian.novare.net with SMTP; 31 Aug 1998 02:35:25 - Received: from rider (net0port64.tricom.net [205.160.164.84]) by sdq1.tricom.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA27302 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:36:18 +0400 (GMT) Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 02:06:00 -0300 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: ID #35375-x , [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Unkown Organization X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: *H*E*L*P* Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-UIDL: f0731565686ed2dccf6ff420b29bbddb I am not writting because I want to write a FAQ. I am writting to you because I can't find anyone else to write to! Please, you have to help me!!! I bought 4 CD's of Debian from CheapBytes. I installed the CD's everything was very confusing but I somehow managed to install Debian and get it working with Windows 95 on the same computer. I have a Pentium 150 with 32 Mb ram and a 1 Gb hard drive. I have a PnP Modem (33.6Kpbs) and a PnP sound card (AWE64 Gold). Now, I tried my level best to learn a few commands of Linux. But I think it is simply impossible. I have downloaded the Debian Manual. I am still searching for a way to access my drives. I don't even know how to copy files in this Operating System. It seems that this operating system is very cAsE-SeNsEtIvE! I read many FAQ's but all the FAQ's tell you is that Linus Para... made Linux with a bunch of Hackers! Then it tells you how good Linux is and how bad windows 95 is. But I haven't come across a single Help file or a FAQ that actually tells you how to use this Operating System. Please send me some info on the basic commands and on how I can connect to internet using Linux. I know there is a isapnp utility and it is supposed to configure my PnP Hardware using the isapnp.conf file (which is a dump from the isapnpdump file). Anyhow, the problem is the diald or the pppd. I don't know. What to do. I am at a stage at which I am pulling out my hair in frustation. Please Help Me. !! Any Help Will Be Highly Appreciated - Thank You-- --- End of Forwarded Message -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
All of uu.net about to be banned.
In the last 3 weeks, the debian lists and their subscribers have been attacked by spammer(s) from uu.net. Since the time I started handling spam for Debian, uu.net comprised about one third of the spam that Debian has gotten, but lately it has been darn close to 100%. This is too much, IMO, and I believe a block of all incoming mail going through debian.org servers is necessary. It will be implemented shortly. I understand that uu.net is a huge provider. and many large ISP's use their pop's (dial-in locations) for their service. You have to understand that I am only blocking mail sent directly from uu.net dynamic IP addresses and stuff sent through relay*.uu.net. Relay*.uu.net is being blocked because way too much spam is going through those servers from the same uu.net spammers that sometimes inject spam directly. This block only affects you if you are using uu.net dial-in (your dynamic IP resolves to something.uu.net), _and_ you configured your mail software to send out mail directly instead of forwarding everything to a smarthost (your provider's mail server). The block also affects you if you use relay*.uu.net servers as your smarthost. I understand this is not the case for almost anyone. If you are one of those affected, you'll have to change your configuration to forward all mail through your provider's smarthost, or change providers. Remember, this only affects mail you send _to_ the lists, or any of the debian.org addresses, but does not affect the mail that you receive _from_ debian lists. Please contact me if you have any questions, and sorry for the inconvenience. Igor -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
another broken news gateway
Well, looks like yet another broken news gateway injected loads of old mail into debian-user. I blocked it for now till I get a confirmation that it has been stopped. Again, sorry for the inconvenience. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: real audio for slink?
Some time around Mon, 15 Jun 1998 11:19:48 EDT, Paul McDermott wrote: hello my debian user friends, i got my soundcard to work. It was a pnp awe64. ok, is there an installer for the realaudio player for the slink version. I now there is one for bo and hamm. The one under slink uses old libs ie xlib6, g++27, and lib5 i don't want to put them on unless I have to. Any help would be much appreciated. thanks, paul I don't think real.com has released a libc6 version yet. Given the fact that it's totally non-free binary-only software you have no choice but to install libc5-based libs whether you use the installer or not. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: compiling sendmail on libc6: redefinitions in socket.h
Some time around Wed, 17 Jun 1998 13:05:50 +0200, Lutz Kotoll wrote: Hi, On 16 Jun 1998, Jens Ritter wrote: Have a look at the slink sendmail package. debian/dists/slink/main/source/mail/sendmail_8.9.0-3.diff.gz etc. ahh, nice to have it as a package. But: that doesn't help me compile it myself (from the original sources) -- how do i get around the error messages? (maybe it hasn't to do with sendmail itself but with local libc6 configuration?) Take a look at the debian patch which is included in the sendmail source package (debian/hamm/hamm/source/mail/sendmail*diff.gz). It probably has all the libc6 fixes. This way you will save yourself a lot of time figuring out and fixing the errors. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Install disks for Debian/PowerMac?
Some time around 17 Jun 1998 17:51:39 PDT, Tor Slettnes wrote: The Debian Hamm tree contains binaries for i386, alpha, m68k, sparc and powerpc; but only install disks for the first four of these architectures. How does one obtain install disks or a pointer to an install procedure for Debian on PowerPC/PowerMac? Powerpc port is in a very early stage of its development. The install disks do not exist for that architecture yet. In case you are interested in helping with this port, you should subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Otherwise, you just need to wait. NOTE: I am not involved with powerpc at all. I just know a bit about the state of the port through irc conversations. Thanks -tor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] g -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GECM.COM: Delivery Notification: Delivery has failed
Some time around Sun, 14 Jun 1998 18:42:38 EDT, Paul Miller wrote: Either debian.org or someone on this list has or relays to a system called 'gecm.com'. I've been receiving lots of messages saying that a delivery has failed, which is not true. These messages are usually over a day later than when I sent them, have been successfully received by the destination, and sometimes they've even replied! .. so if this is your server, please fix it! You should direct such complaints to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . They can unsub the offending subscriber. Posting this to the list is kind of pointless. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt weirdness
Some time around Fri, 12 Jun 1998 17:56:04 EDT,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am doing 'apt-get update' and it dies saying:
Get ftp://ftp.debian.org frozen/contrib Packages
31% [Packages 2920/21.4k 13%]Uncaught exception from user code:
Timeout at /usr/lib/perl5/Net/FTP.pm line 334
Carp::croak('Timeout') called at /usr/lib/perl5/Net/FTP.pm line 1060
Net::FTP::I::read('Net::FTP::I=GLOB(0x8365cb0)', 'M-M-m^JL^[M-V ^_;
M-pN
kM-%M-/JUM-]6M-H?M-^TM-YM-^Q1M-DM-{mM-q^HM-\[EMAIL PROTECTED]@lM-A
M-1^
Zd^M1M-mM-)7M-iVM-^E?^M_MM-^OZg...', 1024) called at /usr/lib/perl5/Net/FTP.
pm l
ine 334
Net::FTP::get('Net::FTP=GLOB(0x830d498)', '/debian/dists/frozen/cont
rib/
binary-i386/Packages.gz', 'ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_frozen_contrib_binary
-i38
6_Packages') called at /usr/lib/apt/methods/ftp line 476
main::handle_requests('Configuration', 'HASH(0x81c50d4)') called at
/usr
/lib/apt/methods/ftp line 545
main::main('ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/frozen/contrib/binary-
i386
/Pac...', 'ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_frozen_contrib_binary-i386_Packages',
'ft
p://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/Packag...', 'ftp.deb
ian.
org_debian_dists_frozen_main_binary-i386_Packages', 'ftp://ftp.debian.org/de
bian
/dists/frozen/non-free/binary-i386/Pa...', 'ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_froz
en_n
on-free_binary-i386_Packages') called at /usr/lib/apt/methods/ftp line 549
Fetched 29.0k in 2m55s (165b/s)
ERROR ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/frozen/contrib/binary-i386/Packages.
gz
Bad return code from subprocess
My apt is version .16, Any ideas anyone?
Just got the same thing while updating. It looks like the ftp session timed
out, but I don't think it should complain this loud about it ;-). Hence, I am
cc'ing this to apt developers.
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Re: Mail problems
Some time around Mon, 18 May 1998 22:21:23 MDT, Mike Patterson wrote: I've started getting this error when trying to send mail, and I can't recieve mail: What now? send post: problem initializing server; [BHST] no servers available send: message not delivered to anyone This sounds like an error message from mh. You are using one of mh clients, right? What this message is really saying is that you probably have your mail server misconfigured or not running. What mail transport agent are you using (i.e. qmail, smail, sendmail or exim)? Check that it's configured properly. Try doing this: telnet localhost 25 if you get connection refused, your mail server is not running. Start it using the appropriate /etc/init.d script. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian, Notebook, and Parallel CDROM
Dear Debian Community, Could anybody give me a hint on where to find a 'notebook-howto' or the like? Check out PCMCIA-Howto which can be found on many linux related sites (http:// www.linux.org comes to mind) and also check faqomatic's section on PCMCIA at http://www.debian.org/cgi-bin/fom, then click configuration, then PCMCIA. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AOL and spam (way OFFTOPIC)
M.C. Bezemer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi! Just in case you didn't yet notice, it seems that the spam mail on the debian-user list is coming from only ONE sender. Well, all the spam that came from aol. I notice that no one seems at all upset about the obviously commercial spam (even to me, a non-chinese speaker [1]) sent from netvigator.com by way of hkstar.com, in chinese. (this seems especially odd as that spammer very obviously tried to hide his/her identity) Does spam only offend if it is legible by the recipient? Is the real offense in spam not the wasting of disk space (for truly, these aol spams are really very short things, individually) but the forcing of commercial thoughts into the heads of the recipient. No, it's just that I assumed it was someone trying to get help in chinese ;-). I am sure most other people skipped the message on the same grounds. The offense of spam is that if you don't stop it in time, your bandwidth and hd space *will* be wasted. The latest stats show that 80% ( i might be a little off on this) of usenet traffic is spam and spam cancels. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gcc problem
My hamm system crashed and burned yesterday the problem was related to an accidently installe dpackage not unmounting filesystems properly on reboot in any case today I re-installed. I installed bo then I upgraded to hamm via autoup.sh and the CD I burned on 3-4-98 then of course dselect and all...installed X etc... then I was about to re-build my kernel...when I got an error message from gcc...here is a little snipit from a try: [EMAIL PROTECTED] sjc]gcc hello.c gcc: Internal compiler error: program ld got fatal signal 11 This sounds like a hardware problem. See www.bitwizard.nl/sig11 for explanation. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Tcl/Tk source ?
I wondered if there is a way to 'mimic' install/remove with dpkg? Thanks, Mac If you go to /var/lib/dpkg, you will find a file called status. This appears to be how dselect keeps track of what's installed/configured/etc. The format is pretty self explanitory, so you should be able to hack the status line of the package in question, fooling dselect into thinking it installed the package. Mucking with status file is a Very Bad Idea (tm). There was ascii2deb utility floating around in random .deb files ;-) a while ago. It does not seem to be present in hamm. There is also an equivs package available in hamm which should do the job well. Due to its nature, you should be safe with installing it on a bo system (it does not use libc6 and such) -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: I need help
On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, IIR == Ivan Ines Rojas wrote: IIR Hi there, I just finish installing and setting my linux box, which IIR wasn't a easy job for a windows user :-) and then I decided to use PPP. IIR I install the module accordingly with the PPP-HOWTO but I'm missing the IIR ppp-on and ppp-off files. PPP-HOWTO's way is not quite compatible with debian. I suggest you read http://www.debian.org/cgi-bin/fom?file=20 and ask questions here if it doesn't help. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: BGP
Just a note: AFAIK debs.fuller.edu does distribute gated .debs -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: dpkg --help | less
On Tue, 17 Feb 98, IW == IAN WATKINS wrote: IW On my system the dpkg --help seems to come out on the wrong console. For IW instance if I do a dpkg --help | less then less doesn't seem to come into IW the picture at all. To check this out I did dpkg --help 2 dpkg.txt and all the help came IW out in the file. IW Is this correct behaviour or am I missing something? AFAICT all the IW other packages I have done a | less on to get the help have worked as I IW expected. Dpkg --help prints on stderr, not on stdout as most others do. This is not an expected behavior, and a bug is already filed. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: wanted packages
On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, LOLZ == Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: LOLZ Is there any address where we can send our wishes to debian packages LOLZ we would like to see created? Send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a request to add the packages to Work Needing and Prospective Packages list. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Hard Install
Well, I must confirm. Every time I reinstall win95, it reenables the default APM configuration in my BIOS, and I don't even have a standard one, but rather the obscure Acer BIOS. This behaviour has been very consistent, and I can easily reproduce it. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Checking mail from several ISPs
Install fetchmail, and look over its manpage. It can do everything you want. On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, IP == Ian Perry wrote: IP Hi all, IP I have set up a Debian system to allow several computers to utilise the IP one internet modem line using IP masquerade, and would like to get linux IP to check several email accounts at different ISPs, and route them to a IP mailbox, for the relevant win95 desktop to pick them up automatically, at IP say 10 minute intervals, while online. IP There are several email addresses going to several desktops, but there IP are no repeated email addresses. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Installproblem Xfree86.
Please use the debian packages of X, not the tarballs distributed by XFree86. See http://www.debian.org/cgi-bin/fom?file=21 for instructions. On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, JB == Joakim Burman wrote: JB Hello Debian-users! JB Can someone help me with some Newbie questions.. JB 1. When I try to install Xfree86 whith gzip I got (I think) an JB errormessage like Broken Pipe. What does that mean? 2. How do you JB run shell script? In Howto:s for Xfree86 they say you want to run the JB shellscript preinst.sh first of all but I don«t now how to do that. JB 3. It don«t seems that I have the manual-klient man. What packagename JB is that manual-klient? When I try to run with startx as root the JB message I get is: ... -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: tricks for fetchmail and signify
I'll create a section called Debian Tips in faqomatic, and put this as the first one to start it all :-). Sounds good? -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: where is it?
Now that two people gave the same advice, I'm going to dissent. The instructions in install.txt are adequate if you have Debian on CDROM. Not if you download to disk yourself. I downloaded what I believed was an accurate copy of ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/linux/debian/bo onto a spare hard drive and mounted it on the machine being installed. But I could never find an answer that would satisfy the ambiguous prompt that wants to know where to find the Debian distribution already mounted. (Is there a missing top level directory? What's its name?) You probably should have entered debian/bo/disks-i386/current. The script jusst looks for a directory that contains all the files needed for the initial setup, and they all come from disks-i386 I installed from CD ROM later with no problems. Install.txt glosses over this, I suppose because most people are installing from the CD or over the network. I don't know how to fix it or I would have sent in a patch. For now, we shouldn't be telling newcomers to Linux that install.txt is all the info they'll need to install Debian. The ones who try to download it may be disappointed. Well, install.txt has its shortcomings, and that's why I have taken over the maintenance of it. However, I haven't done work on it yet, because I was told the new bootdisks are completely redone, and I decided to wait for their release. Of course, this means that the bo install.txt will never get improved, but I don't see much sense in doing it at this point. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: exmh dependencies
I'm trying to install the exmh package, but I'm running into an interesting problem. It depends on tcl40 or tcl41, and I have tcl42. ALso, it depends on tk74 or tk75. I have tk76. Is this a bug/problem, or normal? This is a stable system, right? I guess the dependencies were wrong, but it's too late to change at this point. You can safely use --force-depends in this case. Igor (who took over maintaining exmh package after the release of bo) -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: FAT32 support for LINUX
Does anybody know if the version of Linux that was provided with 11/97 bootDISC CD support FAT32? No, it does not support fat32 in default kernel. You will need to apply fat32 patches and compile a custom kernel. You will find the patches at http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/fat32.html -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: debian-user FAQ: your help is needed!
Hi, I took a look at the FAQ. I think you should change the way the menu is sorted, e.g. About the FAQ in the middle of the list isn't very useful. Also newbie question are asked before questions concerning the installation, etc. Yea, I know, I've created categories as I thought of them, not in any particular order. I've been thinking of reordering them, and I guess now is as good time as any to rearrange it :). -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
debian-user FAQ: your help is needed!
Greetings all! I've set up a framework for debian-user FAQ using FAQ-O-Matic by Jon Howell. Faq-o-matic allows maintaining a FAQ using web interface. I hope this FAQ will become one of the best and most thorough databases of linux info on the net. This requires most of us to contribute however. At this point, I am looking for moderators for each section (see below). I am also looking for feedback regarding the setup. I am sure some categories need to be added, and the color scheme is probably not the best, but I am not sure which is better. Anyone who wants to customize the color scheme of faqomatic should contact me. The way I set it up for debian-user FAQ is for every section (category) to have a maintainer who would be the only one allowed to modify the items in the section. Under every section, there is a world-writable submit your answers section where users can post their submissions, and the maintainer would later move it. To sum up, the responsibility of the section moderator/maintainer is to make sure his section is up-to-date, add answers based on the threads in debian-user, and manage the user-submitted answers and feedback. Please contact me if you'd like to help. Thanks! P.S. the FAQ is at http://www.debian.org/cgi-bin/fom almost forgot :-) -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: SVGATextMode - thanks for help
On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 04:48:30PM -0500, Igor Grobman wrote: - don't use SVGATextMode if X is started Why? works fine here. He's right. X Server looks at the Textmode to save and restore it properly, but only once at startup-time. It then assumes that the mode keeps the same. So it fails to restore it properly if you switched mode in the meantime. Try: stm 100x37; startx; change back to console; stm 80x25; change to X and back to console, you get a skewed screen. It always worked fine for me here, and it does now, but the manpage does mention that X-server indeed only saves textmode once at startup-time. Maybe it only works for some vidcards, or maybe the more likely reason is that I am running the latest X-server(3.3.1-2) while bo has 3.3 which is older. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: SVGATextMode - thanks for help
problems: - maybe the mouse is stuck in the upper screen (I didn't take care of that actually) you need to add the following to your TextConfig (or uncomment it as the case might be): ResetProg /path/where/reset/script/is/located the reset script from the hamm version of stm is attached. The unstable version of stm fixes the problem by including the script attached as /usr/sbin/STM_reset and having TextConfig point to it. - don't use SVGATextMode if X is started Why? works fine here. Igor (debian stm maintainer) #!/bin/bash # # This scripts is called from the resetprog line in TextConfig, # when SVGATextMode has finished switching modes. # # This example only restarts selection, since that's all I need. # # Adapt this script so it suits YOUR system setup. # #echo Screen resized to $1x$2. Restarting GPM... #/usr/bin/gpm -k # kill gpm #/usr/bin/gpm -t ms # for MicroSoft Mice # # The following should work, too, but a kernel bug prevents it from working (according to Mr Rubini). # A kernel patch is included in this directory which SHOULD solve this. # # *** modified by Igor Grobman to work with debian's gpm package if [ -f /var/run/gpmpid ] then echo Screen resized to $1x$2. Restarting GPM... kill -WINCH `cat /var/run/gpmpid` # gets pid from current gpm daemon, and send resize signal to it fi # ** end modifications # # # Some programs need not be restarted, but just need a SIGWINCH signal sent to them. # Emacs and gpm seem to be examples of this (according to Alessandro Rubini) # # killall -WINCH -v emacs # this sends window change signal to all processes called emacs # # for those still using selection: this restarts it # # /bin/killall -v selection # (/usr/bin/selection -t ms ) # for MicroSoft mouse. Other mice need other option! # # If you want to make sure you also get back to a sane keyboard state, use # kbd_mode -a here, and put the command stm -o your_mode under a # mousebutton combination in the GPM mouse driver # Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re:libc5 to libc6 auto-upgrade script
This version should be close to good enough. The major change since the last one that was posted is the ability to upgrade from files in the current dir instead of a local mirror requirement. This script still needs testing. --cut here-- #! /bin/sh # upgrade a libc5 (bo) machine to libc6 (hamm). # based on Scott Ellis' excellent Debian libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO # document at http://www.gate.net/~storm/FAQ/libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO.html # Author: Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # Copyright Status: This script is hereby placed in the public domain # # Revision History: # v0.0: 1998-01-08 (morning) # - a rough transcript of scott's doc and my own experiences # v0.1: 1998-01-08 (night) # - a few bugfixes # - i got unlazy and put in the right subdirectories for each package. # should run a lot faster. # - now checks for failure at critical points and exits with a different # exit code for each failure. # - now uses 'binary-$(dpkg --print-installation-architecture)' instead # of 'binary-i386'. # v0.2: 1998-01-09 # - fixed the perl-base/perl install (thanks Lindsay!) # - improved the DEVPACKAGES=$(dpkg --get-selections...) and added -dbg # packages. # v0.3: 1998-01-09 (p.m.) # - fixed some directories # - changed -iB to -iBE so that if the script fails and is run again # it will not disturb things already in place. # - added a final dpkg --configure --pending. # - sanity check that we are in the right place added # v0.4: 1998-01-10 (Igor Grobman) #-made it possible to place all packages in current dir. #-added -pic packages to removal list. #-make sure dpkg-dev does not get selected for removal. #-moved dpkg-ftp and dpkg-mounted to the end. #v0.5: 1998-01-10 (Igor Grobman) #-added a note about upgrading libraries # # # TODO: (probably by somebody else. this script is mostly good enough imo) # - error checking echo This script will install the packages necessary to ensure a safe echo upgrade to hamm. You need to either have a local or remote mirror echo mounted, or have the following packages available in the current echo directory: ldso, libc5, libc6, timezones, locales, echo ncurses3.0, ncurses3.4, libreadline2, libreadlineg2, bash, libg++272, echo dpkg, dpkg-dev, dpkg-ftp, dpkg-mountable, libgdbm1, libgdbmg1, perl-base, echo and perl. If you are using a mirror, press 'm'. If you have the files echo -n if you have the files in the current dir, press 'c': (m/c) read answer case $answer in m) #local mirror available # first, build up a list of installed -dev packages so that we can # remove them. remove wg-15-locale too. # # this is necessary even on machines which aren't doing libc6 # development because libc5 can't be upgraded to latest version without # removal of libc5-dev which also necessitates removal of other -dev # packages like libdb1-dev and libdl1-dev if they are installed. DEVPACKAGES=$( dpkg --get-selections | grep -v dpkg-dev | grep -v deinstall | cut -f1 | grep -- -dev$\|-pic$\|-dbg$ ) dpkg --remove -B $DEVPACKAGES wg15-locale || exit 1 # now install the new versions of things. Just the bare minimum to let # the user safely run dselect for the rest of the upgrade. # change this to prompt the user for the location of the debian archive. cd /debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-$(dpkg --print-installation-architecture) # sanity check that we are in the right place [ -f base/libc6_* ] || exit 9 # libc # dpkg -iBE base/ldso_*.deb base/libc5_*.deb base/libc6_*.deb \ base/timezones_*.deb admin/locales_*.deb || exit 2 # libreadline, ncurses, and bash # dpkg -iBE libs/ncurses3.0_*.deb base/ncurses3.4_*.deb || exit 3 dpkg -iBE oldlibs/libreadline2_*.deb || exit 4 dpkg -iBE base/libreadlineg2_*.deb || exit 5 # paranoia says run ldconfig NOW. don't laugh, i've needed to do this on # some libc5-libc6 upgrades. i know that the postinst scripts for the # libs are supposed to do it but ldconfig dpkg -iBE base/bash_*.deb || exit 6 # new dpkg # dpkg -iBE devel/libg++272_*.deb || exit 7 dpkg -iBE base/dpkg_*.deb utils/dpkg-dev_*.deb # perl # dpkg -iBE base/libgdbm1_*.deb devel/libgdbmg1_*.deb || exit 8 # paranoia says run ldconfig now. ldconfig dpkg -iBE base/perl-base_*.deb || exit 9 dpkg -iBE interpreters/perl_*.deb # strictly speaking, dpkg-ftp and dpkg-mountable are not essential to # upgrade right now but they're both very useful. dpkg -iBE base/dpkg-ftp_*.deb admin/dpkg-mountable_*.deb # paranoia says to run this at the end dpkg --configure --pending # paranoia says: run sync, so lets do it :-) sync ; sync ; sync ;; c) #all packages in current dir # first, build up a list of installed -dev packages so that we can # remove them. remove wg-15-locale too. # # this is necessary even on machines which aren't doing libc6 # development because libc5 can't be upgraded to latest version without # removal of libc5-dev which also necessitates removal of other
Re: New gv does not find Xaw3D-libs
Hi all, recently I completed my libc6-upgrade with no further problems but now I cannot start gv anymore. It gives me: $ gv gv: error in loading shared libraries libXaw3d.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory And ldd shows: $ ldd /usr/bin/X11/gv libm.so.6 = /lib/libm.so.6 (0x4000f000) libXaw3d.so.6 = not found libXmu.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6 (0x40028000) libXt.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x4003a000) libSM.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x40082000) libICE.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x4008b000) libXext.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x400a) libX11.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x400ae000) libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40151000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 = /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x4000) I am using the gv-package gv_3.5.8-.1.deb form unstable and I do have this xaw stuff installed: $ dpkg -l | grep xaw ii xaw-wrappers0.11 allow use of programs with xaw replacements ii xaw3d 1.3-6.1Adds a cute 3d to X apps using the athena wi ii xaw95 1.1-4.1Windows 95-like look for X apps using the At looks like you need xaw3dg installed. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Unidentified subject!
I don't have a modem or network card and I want to install Linux on a clean harddrive I have a rescue disk but I need base installation disks . See all of the base files I have are on cdrom Which my system will not detect untill I reboot it What can I do?? You can make a small dos partition, and copy the following files in a dir on that partition: everything from boot/ dir on your cdrom + base1_3.tgz and drv1440.bin from stable/disks-i386 directory on your cdrom. You can also rawrite the floppy images on floppy disks using rawrite utility (int tools/ dir). You will need to rawrite the following files on the floppies: resc1440.bin, drv1440.bin and base*bin, and then boot with the rescue disk in your floppy drive. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: 3FA: ???
Run liloconfig, and answer the questions it asks you appropriately. Is this the right program? all three questions are yes/no types, rather than allowing me to change them. It wants to use /dev/hda3, /, for boot, and has no option to change to /dev/hda1. I took a look at it, and it indeed assumes that if you want to boot off linux partition, then you want it to be /. You may want to submit a bug against lilo. Your only option is to edit /etc/lilo.conf and make it something like this: boot=/dev/hda root=/dev/hda3 install=/boot/boot.b read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux Then you should run lilo and reboot Note that this will install lilo into MBR. If you don't want to do that, and want to leave the debian mbr block in there (the thing that produces 123FA at times), you can take a look at /usr/sbin/liloconfig (perl script) and see the weird ways it handles it :-). Also, see /usr/doc/mbr. However, I don't see a reason debian does this anyway, I was once told that the reason is because mbr is safer than lilo. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: e2fsprogs
Hi, How does one move to the libc6 e2fsprogs without using force in dpkg ? I tried installing commer2g and dpkg tried removing e2fsprogs. How does go about upgrading ? You should install e2fsprogsg. This name change is a bug in itself (appending g is for the libc6-based shared libraries, not programs) , and the maintainer will soon release a new e2fsprogs package which will have the old name. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: KDE mismatched packages...
Hey.. Is there anyreason that some of the packages in non-free are beta2-1 and some are beta2-2? Very frustrating when there isn't enough of either of them for a full install. This is because some of them are stuck in the Incoming AFAIK. Our archive maintainer, Guy Mayor, has just returned and everything should be fixed soon. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: 3FA: ???
I've seen the 1FA business before, but now that I've managed to move my file system over to my new drive, and lilo'd it, I get a 3FA: after the hardware check. The key sequence A1 (i think) will get me to LILO, which will boot if left alone. I checked and I'm not touching the keys as it boots. /hda1 is /boot, which contains the kernel, and /hda3 is /, which is well past 1024 sectors. How do I get rid of this? It would be nice to go back to being able to boot without intervention :) Run liloconfig, and answer the questions it asks you appropriately. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Filling in the dialog boxes with Taper 6.8.2
Hello, I've just installed the Taper 6.8.2 backup to tape programme. I have encountered a curious phenomena namely that I cannot type any characters in the message boxes, i.e. name of backup etc. The cursor left and right arrows are the only things that work. The programme is a semi-graphic type of programme i.e. colours, cursor driven menu, etc. and I was wondering if I needed to do something with setterm. Anyone got an idea? sounds like an ncurses problem. Try reinstalling ncurses3.0 and/or ncurses3.4 packages (depending on whether you run stable or unstable). -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: cu connects to PnP modem ok, but no response for AT
Earlier, I reported that: # cu --speed 115200 ---line /dev/ttyS1 cu: open (/dev/ttyS1): Permission denied cu: /dev/ttyS1: Line in use To fix this, I did: # vigr [added my user name to the 'dialout' group] # newgrp dialout Then: # cu --speed 115200 --line /dev/ttyS1 Connected [here I type atf, which is not echoed] cu: write: I/O error Disconnected # Looks like your modem is not really detected by linux. The connected message from cu only means that it was able to access /dev/ttyS1 device, but the fact that your commands are not echoed means your modem is not detected. Most pnp modems need isapnptools to work, unless there is a way to get it back into legacy mode. Install isapnptools package, and take a look at /usr/doc/isapnptools/INSTALL. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Cleaning dselect
Does anyone know a way to clean dselect to only show info on the installed packages? no, you have to clean up your mess ;-) I botched some of it, and now its nuts trying to figure what is to be installed.. what is considered on purge.. and what is removed. Try to run through install and configure stages a couple more times, and watch the messages that go scrolling on your screen. They should give you a clue of what's failing. I have entries for packages that haven't installed correctly (ie xv.. due to a conflict ) that isn't on the system to work with anyways... I'd like it removed. mark them for removal by putting the cursor on the name of the package, and pressing - to remove or _ to purge. After you marked them for removal, go into remove step of dselect, and it should remove all the packages you don't want. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: fat32 in installation vfat module?
I'm interested in submitting a 'Beginner's Debian Installation Guide' of some sort. I have about 80% of the framework of one completed, but am concerned about the lack of fat32 support. As is stands, if someone has a new computer formatted in fat32, they would have to format a fat16 partition to download the packages into. the vfat module in the Not correct. In no case do you have to download the packages onto a non-Debian partition. dselect can automatically grab the packages you need on-the-fly via PPP, Ethernet, Token Ring, or whatever network system you have. There is no need to download them beforehand; in fact, doing so will probably be much more difficult. I was under the impression that the base install doesn't come with full PPP support (it says this during installation). After the base install (from floppy), you still are unable to dialup. If you could dialup, that would, of course, solve everything. The ppp support is not fully setup, you need to provide some configuration, but all the programs needed for a ppp connection are part of base -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: cannot find qt1g in unstable
Hi, I am trying to install the KDE desktop, which depends on qt1 and some if it's libraries on qt1g. I cannot find qt1q in the hamm distribution.. It's stuck in the Incoming. llug.sep.bnl.gov and ftp1.us.debian.org are 2 of the many sites that carry it. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Ports using X
try netstat -a Hello, Can someone tell me how to find out which ports X uses. Example : If I run XVision from win95 and connect to a remote client how can I find out which port is being used at the remote machine. This may not make a bunch of sense but if you can decipher it please let me know the answer. thanks, Sudi Patel, HSDC -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Using source code for debian; compiling debian
On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: Several hundred of the Debian packages will compile automaticaly. A number of them will not, and require a bit of hand tweaking. You can't install _all_ debian packages, as many of them conflict with each other. For example we distribute at least 4 web servers, and you'd only want one. I think this is a major shortcoming of the debian package system. Why wouldn't I want to run two different web servers? Two packages that provide the same functionality don't need to be mutually exclusive. Likewise, I'd very much like to see support for multiple concurrent package instances. This is key for migration in a production environment. It goes without saying that its a must for a development environment. It would require rethinking quite a few things though. Actually, you _can_ run all 4 web servers at the same time. I just checked, they don't conflict. You can't have more than 1 MTA though. I suspect this is because they all provide /usr/bin/sendmail and other conflicting files for compatibility. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Private XF-Mail package available
On Aug 31, Britton wrote While on the subject of odd things that I don't begin to understand: since I fixed my chatscript so my modem hung up when DTR went low (by initializing the modem with ATZ and ATD2), my computer occasionally decides to connect itself to the internet without my doing anything at all. I run pon, later run poff, and a few minutes or hours later I hear my computer dialing. It has done this twice now. I have looked for residual ppp or chat processes with ps -ax but I don't see any. On both occasions rc5v2 was running, set to communicate freely on all ports. I don't have diald installed. Could it be the /sbin/request-route script, part of modutils? Apparently, this is a script called by kernel whenever it cannot find a route. You migt want to change this script to make sure it doesn't randomly connect you to your isp. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: integrate X-programms
On Aug 31, Volker Bauer wrote Hi, finally I have now Debian installed after putting a simple / to the question were is my top level located. Now I wonder why the X-Server doesn't run (3D Virge) although I installed the particiular server, just it runs in vga16 mode. How can I configure X? (xconfig or make xconfig doesn't work) you need the following packages installed: xbase, xlib6, xserver-vga16 (if you want graphical config interface), xserver for your card (my guess is xserver-s3 or xserver-svga in your case). After you've installed them, run XF86Setup (graphical configuration) or xf86config (text-based configuaration). As well how can I integrate all X-programms and games on the X-screen? There is currently just the desktop and a shell for input. Looks like you are missing a window manager. Debian has a number of window managers to choose from, including afterstep, fvwm2, fvwm95, twm and so on. They are all located in section x11. YOu may also want to install menu package which will put most of the programs you have installed on your window manager's menu. You may also edit you window manager's rc file to create custom menus, or you may use the menu package's custom menus, which will make your custom menus available to all window managers. Sorry for these questions - I'm brandnew to Debian and Linux. I checked some Faq's but didn't find the proper answers. As well I got some problems while installing Netscape. It didn't worked although I made the selection in dselect. I always got errormessages until I unselceted Netscape. Is there a known bug? No. Debian is not allowed to distribute netscape. The netscape package you see is just an installer. YOu need to put netscape archive in /tmp for the installer package to work. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Printing html Debian documentation?
On %M %N, Douglas Bates wrote Alternatively, am I completely missing the boat and trying to retrofit a printed copy from the html version of the documentation when there is another, more easily printed, version. Yes :). If you get the source of dpkg, you will find the sgml source of the manuals (probably callled packaging.sgml). It can be easily converted to postscript using debiandoc2ps program provided in debiandoc-sgml package. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: making poff hang up phone
On %M %N, Britton wrote On Sat, 30 Aug 1997, Joerg Friedrich wrote: On Sat, 30 Aug 1997, Shaleh wrote: Unless your modem does something odd when it connects, yeah poff should send the hang-up command. Try following the files poff calls and see if one of them is not doing its job. Most modems hangup on an 'ATH'. I think 'poff' lowers dtr. try atd2 How do I send this? This should be part of the init string sent to the modem in the chatscript. Here is the relevant part from my /etc/ppp.chatscript ATFD2W2 OK ATDTXXX I have already tried (perhaps unwisely) putting echo 'ATH0' /dev/ttyS3 in the poff script but it didn't do anything. if for some reason the above trick will not work, you may want to put the following in poff echo '+++' /dev/ttyS3 # put modem in command mode sleep 5 echo 'ATH0' /dev/ttyS3 This is an untested example and may not work. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Looking for Talk - HOWTO
I have a question concerning talk. I would like to talk with a friend
if he and I are online.
We both connect to the net via ppp.
My friend gets my IP-number, say by e-Mail.
Now he could talk to me by talk [EMAIL PROTECTED], right?
If he tries this, I can see a connect message in my xconsole like
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Aug 5 14:52:42 fliwatut in.talkd[3207]: connect from foo.foo.org
^^^
my hostname here
But I don't get a
Talk requested by-message on any terminal I am logged in.
So my question is:
How can I be talked at my local Debian-machine??
You need to set your hostname to the one that resolves into your ip address.
For example node32.yourprovider.com This can be done by modifying /etc/hosts
each time you connect, or by using hostname command (and running it as root).
Running 'hostname node32.yourprovider.com' will set your default hostname to
the above.
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Re: Minimizing Mail Packages?
HTML I would appreciate it if you lose HTML tags. PHello All, PConnected intermittantly to internet using PPP to an ISP who uses POP3 for mail.nbsp; I am attempting to minimize the number of packages needed to run mail.nbsp; It seems there are many mail packages but not a great deal of information on there interrelationships. PAm running on X the following Debian mail-related packages :nbsp; exim, fetchmail, mh and exmh with subsidiary packages of metamail and mime-support.nbsp; I know one needs both mh and exmh to do mail processing if exmh is used.nbsp; Also POP3 support is needed for mail to and from the ISP. PAre exim and fetchmail also required?nbsp; Can one one just use mh and exmh by themselves to do all mail composing and handling as well as receiving and sending mail via POP3 to the ISP? I don't believe there exists an mh tool that gets pop3 mail, so you need fetchmail, or some other pop3 client. Exim is not actually required for a single user system. If you are already using procmail for sorting, you may want to make fetchmail pass the mail directly to procmail (see the fetchmail manpage) rather than delivering it to port 25 (exim, in your case) which it does by default. I believe you can also make fetchmail append directly to /var/spool/mail/user file, in case it is not possible, you can get fetchpop client which can do it. This would let you get rid of exim. PI tried mutt and think it's great for subsidiary usage. Now that you mention it, mutt has some POP3 support which I never tried. I assume it's quite inflexible though, so I would recommend leaving fetchmail on your system. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Need help: Mail Setup
Hi! I've got a problem: First: I'm new to Linux! :) Welcome! :) I recently installed Debian. My system is connected to the internet via dialup-connection (ppp). I use 3 different Mail-accounts on 2 servers (POP3). I want linux to connect automaticly 4 times a day and download the mails of these account. The mails should delivered to 3 different logins on my maschine. How can I do this? download fetchmail package, and read its manpage. It can be configured to deliver to any number of local accounts easily. You can then set up a cron job that would dial up your ISP, run fetchmail, and 'sendmail -q' (or 'smail -q' or runq or whatever depending on the mail program you have installed ) which delivers all outgoing mail to your isp's mail server provided you configured your Mail Transport Agent(MTA, examples: sendmail, smail, exim) correctly. (Btw: What to do that other user than root can dialup by 'pon'?) put the user in group dip -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: question on bo-updates: found on ldso security update
I was notified this morning about the recent CIAC security announcment on ld.so. I went to my Debian mirror and found that the fix was already available under bo-updates directory. I *thought* that since my system was up to date [i.e., v 1.3.1 + ] that I probably already had the fix incorporated. But alas, I did not. 1.3.1 was released before this exploit was discovered. In fact, I found that there were about 20 .deb files in bo-update that do not show up automatically with dselect. Apparently, bo-updates is not intended to be in the dselect tree unless the user incorporates it by hand? The packages in bo-updates are there for testing by everyone, namely the testing group, and to be subsequently included into next release when sufficient testing has been done. You are welcome to download and install them, but they will not appear in dselect until the next point release is made. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: staroffice / netscape debian packages?
Hi! It may have been asked before but I didnt find it in my messagebase (must have been flushed out already.): 1) is there a staroffice debian package? if yes, where? There is a staroffice installer package just uploaded to Incoming. We are not allowed to distribute staroffice itself. 2) is there a netscape debian package? if yes, where? does not have to be the newest version, more important is wether is runs stable there is a netscape installer package for 3.01 in contrib, communicator is being worked on. 3) does the dosemu supports Windows? Not really. There are a couple of win emulators available: wine and twin. Twin hasn't been packaged yet, but is being worked on, and wine is available in project/experimental. Is there a debian ppc in development? I look forward to buy a ppc based machine next year, either a CHRP or a Amiga successor ;-) Yes there is. AFAIK, they are just getting started. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Mouse not responding (gpm)
Has anyone had any problems with the mouse not responding? The mouse was/is working fine, (MS serial mouse), however when I attempt to load-up x-windows, the mouse does not respond at all. I have checked the /etc/gpm.conf and tried other serial ports such as ttyS0 through ttyS3, and still nothing works. Any help to resolve this would be appreciated. the way X accesses your mouse is specified in /etc/X11/XF86Config. To make sure gpm and X don't conflict, specify /dev/gpmdata as the mouse device in the pointer section of XF86Config, and add append=-R in /etc/gpm.conf. After restarting both X and gpm, everything should be working right. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Pre-newbie question: X configuration with Debian?
I'm thinking of setting up a new Linux system with the Debian distribution, and was wondering if it includes anything for configuring X windows; I'd do almost anything to avoid hand editing an X config file (again). I've searched the package list on Debian's web site for something like Xconfigurator, but to no avail. How do Debian users usually handle this? Standard X distribution comes with xf86config (textmode) and XF86Setup (graphical) setup utilities. XF86Setup is in xserver-vga16 package, and xf86config is part of xbase, so you are bound to have it installed. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: 1.3.1 upgrade: getting rid of the package base 1.1.0-13 -- dselect and downgrading dosemu
Hi, i first installed Debian 1.1 (how was it called btw ?) and then upgraded some packages from rex, bo and hamm. I did not upgrade the whole system with deselect as i had neither a CD reader nor a network connection. So i could only use floppy disks to get and install some packages with dpkg. Among the packages i upgraded were base 1.2 and base 1.3. Now i have upgraded with dselect from a 1.3.1 CD and everything is going well except for two minor details: - dselect reports the package base 1.1.0-13 as obsolete but will not purge it (neither will dpkg --purge) because it is an essential package. It does not stop me from working but it would be cleaner if i could remove it. Removing its entry from the status file would it be safe ? NO NO NO!! Don't try removing this package. It owns all of your device files. Removing it will leave your system in a completely unusable state. Just leave that package as it is. - dselect did not downgrade the packages i had installed from hamm except for dosemu. I had dosemu_0.66.6-1 and now i have dosemu_0.66.3-1 (the version in bo). you can just upgrade back to hamm version. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: XF86 3.3-3
I had a similar problem. The reason was a corrupted ~/.Xauthority file. Try deleting it, and relogging on. That fixed it for me. HTH I've seen other messages about XF86 3.3 not working. I am also experiencing problems. I upgraded from 3.2 using the 3.3-3 packages, and now when I try to startx, the screen flickers and goes black, and the keyboard locks up. Nothing else. Unfortunately, because of the screen blanking, I really have no idea whats going wrong. Someone else I know is having the exact same problem, I'm using the S3 server(#9 motion 771 card), and he's using standard SVGA for his Trident I believe. In any case, the XF86 3.3 packages are definitely broken. I'd fill out a bug report, but unfortunately, I can't be any more specific than that right now. Do the package maintainers know that something is wrong? I'd be happy to supply any info that I can. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian on Compaq Deskpro 6000
Has anyone tried installing Debian 1.3 on a Compaq Deskpro 6000? It loads the rescue disk then spontaneously reboots. There's a howto for the Deskpro XL out there which I looked at but it didn't help. Alternative question: Is there a way to get the kernel to not probe for an etherned card? That's where I suspect it is bombing. what you might want to do is compile a custom kernel which includes all needed drivers for that particular box, and replace the linux file on the rescue disk with the one you compiled. Don't forget to compile ramdisk support into that kernel. If you don't have a linux box around, contact me, and I will compile the kernel for you. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: PPP dial-up script
Frank Barknecht wrote: Here's my way: I su to root and start the connection with $ pon This starts pppd with the chatscript directives I have stored in /etc/ppp.chatscript. All normal debian-ppp usage! When I type pon, I get this: /dev/modem: unrecognized command pppd version 2.2 patch level 0 Usage: /usr/sbin/pppd [ arguments ], where arguments are: and a list of arguments. I don't have a file called /etc/ppp.chatscript. The HOW-TO I read (http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/PPP-HOWTO-15.html) specifies files called ppp-on, ppp-on-dialer and ppp-off (in /etc). Would simply having a correctly configured /etc/ppp.chatscript cause pon to operate correctly? Or Do I have another config problem? Or something else I need to install? BTW my PPP connection works fine when I start it manually with minicom and then start pppd. you need to specify your modem's port in /etc/ppp.options_out. The modem port is one of /dev/ttyS* devices. If your modem was on COM1 under dos, it would be /dev/ttyS0, COM2 would be /dev/ttyS1 and so on. Attached is a sample ppp.options_out. Could you (or anyone else?) perhaps send me a working example of /etc/ppp.chatscript? chatscripts are very simple. They consist of expect: execute pairs. attached is also a sample ppp.chatscript. Note the \q in front of the password, it hides the pass from logs. binK2Adfd4pEQ.bin Description: ppp.chatscript binDUF1GisNie.bin Description: ppp.options_out Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PPP problem with netscape and dselect
I'm fairly new to unix from an administrator's point of view. I set up my PPP awhile ago and for the most part it works just fine. But whenever I run netscape 3.0gold my connection hangs. At first I thought it might be a problem with multiple connections, but I can run several telnet and/or ftp sessions without a problem. Any ideas on how I can fix this? ppp.log doesn't seem to help much either. Looks like it's trying to look up some inexistent address. Let it hang for a while, and it should come back with url not found in DNS or something like that. Then, modify preferences to load some sensible home page. btw, communicator 4.01b6 works flawlessly here (no crashes yet!) The other question I had was regarding ftping through dselect. I noticed some other people had problems with it as well, but was wondering if anyone ever found a solution. I've been using dselect's ftp method for a while. could you explain what is your problem? -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: safely downgrading from hamm
Hi, I have the following problem: The system was installed with debian-1.2 and since then someone installed a 'hamm' ld package, namely: ldso_1.9.2-3.deb Why someone did this I have no idea as there are no traces of any system admin documentation on the system. None of the packages in bo should depend on this ldso, so someone must have tried to get something from hamm. I was trying to upgrade to the latest perl and when executing dpkg -i ldso_1.8.10-2.deb it output to console something about downgrading the package, chucked a fit and left the system hanging. This bug has bitten a number of developers. There is no safe way to downgrade ldso, and you shouldn't try it. This was just great! nothing would execute except for the alrady loaded shell stuff like 'echo' ... The system upon reboot would hang at the VFS ... line. So I had to ftp to debian from the web server box, where I found in the 'unstable' 'hamm' section the above mentioned ldso_1.9.2-3.deb, unpack it with -x, tar it up, put it on a floppy along with 'tar', use a 'rescue' disk to boot the nameserver, mount the root partition somewhere and 'tar -cvf the hamm ld' then 'ldconfig -v', cross fingers, touch wood and reboot the box ... it came up. Now, I would very much like to first find out why does this system have the 'hamm' ld on it. Is there some means of querying the debian system to find out what program/lib is depending on this 'ld'? you can grep /var/lib/dpkg/status for packages that depend on it. And if there is no program/lib that _has_ to have this 'hamm' 'ld' I would like to know what is the *safest* way to downgrade to the stable ldso_1.8.10-2.deb. I don't think there is a way to downgrade, but I don't believe this ld breaks anything (except if you try downgrading). Also, having this hamm ld is it going to interfere with un upgrade to 1.3.x ? I wanted to upgrade perl and I got Preparing to replace perl 5.003.07-2 (using perl_5.003.07-10.deb) ... Unpacking replacement perl ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of perl: perl depends on ldso (= 1.8.0-0); however: Package ldso is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing perl (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: perl try running dpkg --configure ldso -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Can't open ./install.sh from rescue disk
Hi -- I'm trying to install Debian 1.3 from a set of 1.44 floppies; which contain a kernel compiled just for my setup by kind Susan Kleinmann ( and based on 2.0.30 kernel). (Stock rescue floppy gets stuck on my aic7xxx driver...) Installation goes smoothly through setting up a color display, keyboard config (US-english), initializing and checking for bad blocks on /dev/sdb5 (swap), /dev/sdb6 (/), /dev/sda6 (/usr), /dev/sda7 (/var) and /dev/sdb7 (/usr) partitions and mounting filesystems. Next option is Install operating system kernel and modules. I hit Enter nad then answer Install from rescue floppy-or something to that effect- (which is in /dev/fd0 initially- and that initial message screen which comes up after booting recognizes it as /dev/fd0 1.44 Mb...) and use /dev/fd0. Instead of transferring kernel over to hard disk installation comes back with the message: Installing from the rescue floppy... ./install.sh: Can't open ./install.sh The attempt to extract the rescue floppy failed... Press ENTER when you are ready. I was hit by this problem once. What happens is the system reads the floppy drive (you see the light come on) and at the same time displays this message. If you hit enter before the light comes off, the drive would be unreadable, hence the error message. Try waiting before the light on the floppy drive turns off. This only happens on some boxes, it looks like. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Where can I get libtermcap.so.2 ?
I did a dpkg --search libtermcap.so.2 and it couldn't find it. Does that mean that it doesn't exist anywhere in the debian distribution? No, this means that it is not installed on your system. This library is included in termcap-compat package. Does anyone know where I can get it from? -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Mail Reader Question
There are plenty of linux apps who would let you read your mail without moving it from your mailbox. Mutt, pine, elm can do the job. Tkmail is one that I can think of for X. Ok, I'll keep my keyboard open until someone makes a clear recomendation. Everyone has their favorite, and you don't want to start a mailer war, do you? :) I tried all of the above at one time. Right now, exmh suits me best, but I am very fickle with mailers :). I also can't get exmh PGP to work right, works for me.. could you elaborate? It reports correctly that I have two keys, but will not select just one to use. I select which key, and the error that there is more than one key for [EMAIL PROTECTED] comes up again and again. sorry, no idea on this one, looks like a bug though, here is a chance try out the debian bug reporting system, if you haven't before. :) nor to have my base [EMAIL PROTECTED] rather than the [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is a problem I have no idea how to solve. We'll see if anyone else comes up with anything. I don't like the idea of messing with the machines name... This is such a simple thing, I'm suprised that it's not clearly in the config menu. (it's not even in the config file) I know, I've read through all exmh and mh manpages, and even looked through mh-papers, but there doesn't seem to be a solution out there. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Dependency problem got me stumped....
I want to compile the kernel-29 or kernel-30 source and I want to be able to use make menuconfig. The problem is: kernel-source-2.0.29 suggests ncurses-dev (for menuconfig) kernel-source-2.0.29 recommends gcc ncurses-dev depends on libc5-dev gcc conflicts with libc5-dev You must be getting packages from unstable. Unstable gcc is configured to work with libc6, hence it conflicts with libc5-dev. in order to compile with libc5 while using unstable, you need to get altgcc, libc5-altdev and other relevant altdev packages (ncurses3-altdev in this case). However, you can just get the ncurses3.4-dev which is compiled with libc6 and you would not need to use any of alt* packages. Unfortunately, ncurses3.4-dev is still stuck in the Incoming, I think. Now, I suppose that I *could* install the kernel and ncurses to *configure* and then remove ncurses and then install gcc to compile, but this is, as an associate likes to say, functional, yet dysfunctional. That wouldn't work, because you need to compile the menuconfig front end. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Installing debian
I accidently removed my linux partition *GAAAH* ... anyway (after an couple of days depression ;)) I´d like to install debian again ... heres the problem... I destroyed my floppy =(is there ANYWAY(!) to install debian without floppy?? Of course :). Download the following files from debian/stable/disks-i386: root.bin drv1440.bin rsc1440.bin base1_3.tgz linux you also need loadlin boot loader from debian/tools directory Put them all in the same directory on your dos partition, and type in DOS prompt: loadlin linux root=/dev/ram initrd=root.bin and there you have it, a floppyless installation :). Whenever the installation program asks you for base disks/modules/kernel floppies, point it to the dos partition where you have put the files you downloaded. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: HELP!!! dpkg messed up X11 (?)
Looks like the installation of libc5, an essential package failed. Download it from debian/stable/binary-i386/libs and install with dpkg -i libc5*deb Need Your Help: I was downloading some packages from stable so that I could try to build a custom kernel. While I was downloading and installing (with dpkg), I got bored and wanted to play maelstrom - but mealstrom refused to start, same for xtetris. Then dpkg reported it was having problems installing packages. Now, I cannot even start X - after logging in via xdm I simply get back the xdm login screen. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: HELP!!! dpkg messed up X11 (?)
Igor Grobman wrote: Looks like the installation of libc5, an essential package failed. Download it from debian/stable/binary-i386/libs and install with dpkg -i libc5*deb yup, that's what i tried right after my original post - and i tried it again after reading your reply - with the same result: I tried these libc5 packages in turn: libc5_5.4.20-1.deb (the one from my old cdrom) libc5_5.4.23-4.deb (the one in unstable) libc5_5.4.33-3.deb (the one in stable - has the higher number than in the one in stable !?) That a mistake by the maintainer, and archive maintainer is on vacation, so this problem never got corrected. It will be corrected with next release of libc5, I assume. Always with the same error: ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/usr/lib/libc5-compat (No such file or directory), skipping This is not the problem. libc5 installs this directory, but it is empty, so that's why there is the error, I assume. It shouldn't prevent you from running anything though. the upshot: x11 is still not running. in general, it seems that at least some of the shared libraries cannot be found/loaded, despite the fact that they clearly exist on the disk. in particular though: Which package creates the file /usr/X11R6/lib/usr/lib/libc5-compat ? see above. thanks for your tip. if you or other people on the list have any more suggestions, I would be very glad to hear from you... I looked over your original mail, and it states that you weren't able to load libraries other than libc5, I seem not to have noticed that :). Make sure you have /usr/X11R6/lib in /etc/ld.so.conf, and if not add it there, and run lddconfig as root. If this does not fix the problem, try getting the ldso package from unstable, as your problem might be due to a bug with altdev packages (packages for compiling with libc5 on libc6 systems) recently discussed on debian-devel. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: HELP!!! dpkg messed up X11 (?)
That a mistake by the maintainer, and archive maintainer is on vacation, so this problem never got corrected. It will be corrected with next release of libc5, I assume. Always with the same error: ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/usr/lib/libc5-compat (No such file or directory), skipping This is not the problem. libc5 installs this directory, but it is empty, so that's why there is the error, I assume. It shouldn't prevent you from running anything though. Wait a second, guys! I looked up the beginning of this discussion and noticed that you were downloading stable packages. I assume therefore that you have bo (or rex) installed. The problems you are mentioning are surely hamm - relevant. no, stable libc5 includes libc5-compat directory. In fact, stable libc5 is of later version that the one in unstable for whatever reason. I do have to retract my suggestion to install ldso from unstable, as downgrading back may cause a multitude of problems. I just checked, and xpm4.7 (one of the libraries reported not to load) is symlinked to bo in hamm, and hasn't been updated for a while (since march 20), so my guess that this is the problem with altdev packages is clearly wrong and upgrading to new ldso shouldn't be needed. HTH. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: dselect ftp hamm
I have had no problems using dselect ftp to install files from all
directories but hamm. I answer the ftp prompts in an obvious fashion
and voila everything works OK.
What do I do to install files from /debian/hamm/hamm
/debian/hamm/contrib and /debian/hamm/non-free? That is, how do I
answer the ftp prompts from dselect so that I can install the files from
the above directories? I've tried various answers to the prompts with
no success. It's driving me bananas. Another of life's little
mysteries.
Below is the patch you need to apply to /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/install
Then, in access step of dselect, you have to choose debian/ as the top
directory, and hamm/hamm hamm/contrib hamm/non-free as the distributions.
--- /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/install.orig Thu Dec 5 07:37:13 1996
+++ /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/install Wed Apr 16 01:47:34 1997
@@ -139,6 +139,7 @@
print \nProcessing Package files...\n;
my $dist;
foreach $dist (@dists) {
+$dist =~ tr/\//_/;
my $fn = Packages.$dist;
if (-f $fn) {
print $dist...\n;
--
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Re: dselect ftp hamm
hello, Igor Grobman wrote: I have had no problems using dselect ftp to install files from all directories but hamm. I answer the ftp prompts in an obvious fashion and voila everything works OK. What do I do to install files from /debian/hamm/hamm /debian/hamm/contrib and /debian/hamm/non-free? That is, how do I answer the ftp prompts from dselect so that I can install the files from the above directories? I've tried various answers to the prompts with no success. It's driving me bananas. Another of life's little mysteries. Below is the patch you need to apply to are all install problems patched in 1.3.1? I don't believe this particular problem is fixed in 1.3.1 There weren't any new releases of dpkg-ftp other than those in experimental. This particular problem only affects downloading from unstable, however, and shouldn't ever cause any problems with stable. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: /etc/resolv.conf has wrong permissions
On Sun, 22 Jun 1997, George Bonser wrote: However, /etc/resolv.conf is installed with or modified to root/root -rw--- permissions. This sounds logical until a normal user tries to dial out. It was weird, my normal account would dial and login ok, but all of the net calls would show a Host name lookup failure. I could even su to root and things would work fine. Interesting. On my 1.1 upgraded to 1.2 and then to 1.3 system the file is -rw-r--r-- and owned by root.root Mine (installed 1.3) also has these permissions and ownership. Strangely, `dpkg -S /etc/resolv.conf` shows no owning package. That's because this file is either created during the configure the network phase of the initial setup (bootdisks) or isn't created at all. This problem probably existed in one of the older bootdisk versions. The permissions are fine on both of my machines (one originally 1.1, other 1.3). -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: talk ntalk
On Jun 18, Obi wrote Hi all, I'm sorry if this is a FAQ, but I couldn't find it ... I have problem with the talk command. From my Debian 1.3 laptop, there is no way to talk to somebody else. I tried on a SunOS, on another Linux box (slackware) but with no luck: the talk sits with a Checking for invitation on a caller's machine. You have a connection with dynamic IP, right? In order to use talk in these circumstances, you need to change your hostname to one that corresponds to your IP. Something like line43.yourprovider.net. The command for changing hostname is hostname, so to make it work, you have to type hostname line43.yourprovider.net You can do this from your ip-up script to make sure you have talk always working If from the SunOS/Slackware box I do a talk to my machine, same problem, but if I do a ntalk I got the message on my Debian machine, but I cannot answer (I guess that ytalk/talk does not understand the ntalk protocol). Both of them do understand ntalk protocol. However, suns have their ntalk/talk ports switched as opposed to linux. Your /etc/services file should containt the following lines: talk517/udp ntalk 518/udp On suns, talk would be port 518 and ntalk is 517. The solution is to fix this problem on one of the ends. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Upgrade to Xfree 3.3
On Jun 19, Will Lowe wrote I need to upgrade to 3.3 'cuz 3.2 doesn't support my video card (Diamond 3D 3000) very well. ... I was gonna upgrade with the packages in /unstable/x11/ ... do I need anything other than xbase and xS3V/SVGA? I'm not terribly worried about upgrading all my applications unless it's necessary to use the new Xfree release. you also need the new xlib6. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: 1.3 Installation Report
On May 29, Bruce Perens wrote From: Che Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pretty much everything went well -- the biggest surprise was that the base disks, although there were 5 of them, offered *much* more functionality this time around than ever before. Having elvis was lovely That's not Elvis, it's an Elvis impersonator! If I'm not mistaken it's actually a macro file for ae to emulate vi! Bruce, you must have missed the latest editor war while on vacation! :). As a result, we have elvis-tiny (the reduced elvis) on the base disks (no impersonators! ). -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ftape problems
Thanks for your response! I tracked the problem down to ECC failures. Here is what happens: first time after format, the ftape gives ECC failures, but taper (the app I was using) told me that it saw unknown data, and asked me if it should overwrite it... before I made the connection between the ECC failures and taper unknown data error, I always picked overwrite, and after that the tape worked fine except very slow due to write errors. Anyway, the HOWTO states that this problem (ECC failure) can be caused by either bad ethernet or video card. I tried to unload my ethernet card's module, and it did not help. Do I have to physically take it out to make sure it's not at fault, or can I now safely assume that video card is the guilty one here? The video card is Cirrus Logic CLGD5434 and ethernet card is some very cheap ne2000 clone. On May 28, Christian Meder wrote On May 28, Igor Grobman wrote I recently got myself a Seagate Tapestor3200 TR3/QIC 3020 tape drive. It works fine under DOS, however when I try to backup anything in Linux, I get the following errors: May 28 19:43:36 whoever kernel: [047]ftape-write.c (ftape_write_segment) - write error, retry 1 (399). May 28 19:43:46 whoever kernel: [048]ftape-write.c (ftape_write_segment) - write error, retry 1 (415). May 28 19:44:42 whoever kernel: [049]ftape-write.c (ftape_write_segment) - write error, retry 1 (615). I get tons of messages like this in my /var/adm/messages, and I hear the tape start and stop moving all the time, instead of moving continuously as it does under DOS. I tried using it with both zftape and ftape devices, but I still get the same errors. I am using ftape-3.03 from sunsite. Is this a known ftape-driver bug? HOWTO seems to imply that all drives conforming to QIC TR* standards should work, and AFAIK, my model is pretty standard. Thanks in advance for the help. Hi, I uploaded a ftape-2.0.30_3.03 debian package to unstable on master a couple of weeks ago. So if you are running 2.0.30 you don't have to compile yourself ;-) In 1 or 2 days I will upload the bugfix 3.03a ftape for 2.0.30. Perhaps you should try the bugfix release. I can't really comment on your specific problem as ftape is working fine for my Iomega Ditto 800. I think the messages indicate that there were write errors on different segments of your tape but the retries succeded. You could try to format your tape with the new ftape-3.03 but it takes approx. 4 hours. Otherwise send me an email with the messages and we can try to figure it out (I can forward it to dev.linux.tape) Greetings, Christian -- Christian Meder, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's the railroad to me ? I never go to see Where it ends. It fills a few hollows, And makes banks for the swallows, It sets the sand a-blowing, And the blackberries a-growing. (Henry David Thoreau) -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: 1.3 Installation Report
On May 29, Bruce Perens wrote From: Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bruce, you must have missed the latest editor war while on vacation! :). As a result, we have elvis-tiny (the reduced elvis) on the base disks (no impersonators! ). Oh. I hope nobody gets too used to it - eventually I'd like to shrink that disk some more so that I can get PPP and FTP on it, so that we can do a one-floppy install via FTP. Note that I said on the base disks. Rescue disk still has the good old ugly ae on it :). -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
ftape problems
I recently got myself a Seagate Tapestor3200 TR3/QIC 3020 tape drive. It works fine under DOS, however when I try to backup anything in Linux, I get the following errors: May 28 19:43:36 whoever kernel: [047]ftape-write.c (ftape_write_segment) - write error, retry 1 (399). May 28 19:43:46 whoever kernel: [048]ftape-write.c (ftape_write_segment) - write error, retry 1 (415). May 28 19:44:42 whoever kernel: [049]ftape-write.c (ftape_write_segment) - write error, retry 1 (615). I get tons of messages like this in my /var/adm/messages, and I hear the tape start and stop moving all the time, instead of moving continuously as it does under DOS. I tried using it with both zftape and ftape devices, but I still get the same errors. I am using ftape-3.03 from sunsite. Is this a known ftape-driver bug? HOWTO seems to imply that all drives conforming to QIC TR* standards should work, and AFAIK, my model is pretty standard. Thanks in advance for the help. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ppp packet errors
On May 23, Lindsay Allen wrote I used to get excellent ppp transfers, but of late I get errors and the modem lights often cease activity for several seconds at a time. ppp version is 2.2.0f-23. ifconfig shows:- ppp0 Link encap:Point-Point Protocol inet addr:203.59.0.18 P-t-P:203.59.24.26 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING MTU:552 Metric:1 RX packets:27767 errors:524 dropped:524 overruns:0 TX packets:14018 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 Do you have irqtune installed and configured to give your modem (serial port, actually) the first priority. I used to get a lot of errors like this before I discovered irqtune. It is in the hwtools package, btw. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
#debian irc channel
Greetings, Just wanted to remind you that #debian channel is still available. In the last month it grew quite a bit. We usually have at least a couple of developers on to answer your questions, and to simply chat on various debian-related topics. #debian is available on undernet and linpeople, the two channels are linked via eggdrop bots, so no matter which network you use, you'll get to talk to everyone that is currently on. For a list of undernet servers, go to http://www.undernet.org, or try us.undernet.org server which will connect you to a random US server. For a list of linpeople servers, see http://www.linpeople.org, or connect to irc.linpeople.org. See you on #debian! -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Q: Update from 1.2 to 1.2.14!
On May 13, Timothy Phan wrote Hi, I'm new user of the Debian distribution and I've purchased a 1.2 CD a while back and had some problem installed some of the packages onto my system. I'd like to know: 1. How do I upgrade this broken 1.2 system to the 1.2.14. Well, there are 2 ways: either use dpkg -i from the prompt, or use dselect. 2. How do I find out what are the updated/changed packages. Dselect will download the updated changes for you automatically. If you want to do it the dpkg way, then you will find all updated packages in /debian/rex-updates. Download and install them. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: deb-make-question: where/what is DESTDIR?
On May 14, Johann Spies wrote Please excuse my lack of understanding. I am trying to use the deb-make-package and in the documention the instruction is 3. Make any modifications to get the program to compile. If the makefile is set up to install in DESTDIR, then you will only need to make minor changes to debian/rules (DESTDIR is set in debian/rules to make sure things go into the right place). Well, many upstream programs come with a makefile that automatically installs everything in DESTDIR. If your upstream program's makefile doesn't contain it, you will have to make the necessary modifications in order to make sure everything is installed into debian/tmp. I found the variable DESTDIR nowhere in rules or in the debian-directory created by deb-make. Look in the binary-arch target of debmakes's default rules file. there is an make install DESTDIR=`pwd`/debian/tmp line there. That's what the doc is describing. I do not know what modifications I should make to get the program to compile. I do not know what the compilation process needs. I feel stupid asking this questions as the documentation is supposed to help the first time packager to quote the documentation. The packaging documentation is not close to being good yet, but we are working on it. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: X configuration
Also make sure that the dimensions of virtual (in the Screen section of /etc/X11/XF86Config) are divisible by 32. On May 9, Brian N. Borg wrote If your monitor is as old as the rest or your equipment, it could be the result of a long persistence phosphor. --Brian Kyriakos Nikos E. Gorogiannis wrote: Hi. I have an EISA 486, with an ISA 16-bit TIGA gr. card, with and onboard Tseng ET4000 SVGA chip. I have configured XF86_SVGA, with the correct settings about monitor and graphics adapter (one can never be too sure, but i have tripple-checked the configuration). However, window borders leave traces when moved and button borders frequently appear distorted and/or leave traces on screen. What can i do? And something secondary: if you know ways to speed-up this old VGA by configuring X differently (without upgrading, that is) i would be very gratefull. Thanks in advance and sorry, if i'm too irrelevant with the contents of the list, but i'm really new at this. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: How to trick debian into thinking a package is installed
There used to exist 2 utilities called deb2asc and asc2deb which were very useful for this kind of thing. They were part of debmake at one time then were moved to adpkg, and after adpkg's removal from distribution seem to have disappeared. Christoph, would you put them back into debmake or anywhere else for that matter? These utilities are truly useful for creating dummy packages. With those utilities available, you would just need to create a text file containing something like this: %control Package: dummy Version: 1.0 Provides: motif, tetex (and some more standard control file lines) Then you run asc2deb, and a .deb package is built. On May 9, Steve Hsieh wrote Hi, Can someone tell me how I can trick debian into thinking that a package is installed? Specifically, I have the real motif installed on my system. However, since this is (obviously) not a debian package, debian has no idea that I have it. And so if I try to install the xmcd package, it refuses to install because lesstif isn't installed, but I can't install lesstif without overwriting the real motif... I guess I could also use the --force-depends option in dpkg to force an install? So my questions are; 1. what's the dirty way to modify the config files so debian thinks lesstif is installed? 2. if I create my own binary .deb package with my motif binaries inside it, how do I change the control file so it provides lesstif? On a side note, motif apps really ought to require a motif package, and lesstiff should provide motif, as opposed to packages directly requiring lesstif. Steve -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: gpm configuration and mc question
On May 10, Bob Nielsen wrote Also, mc seems to require libgpm.so.1 This isn't installed by mc or gpm. What package contains it? mc installed without any dependency errors, but I get the message when trying to run it can't load library libgpm.so.1. You need to install libgpm1 package. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: dpkg question
On May 9, Ryan Shaw wrote Check our new domain names! http://www.netforward.com v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v in redhat there are source packages and binary packages. one may download the source package and use `rpm --rebuild package name' to build binary packages from that. quite easy, and useful in my case. the gcc that shipped with redhat didn't function correctly on my AMD K5 so i had to recompile it and then install the locally compiled package. is there any feature like this in dpkg/debian? i noticed there aren't any source packages per se, but there were .orig.tar.gz files. how would i accomplish what i described above with debian/dpkg? You need to get .orig.tar.gz, .diff.gz and .dsc files. Then type dpkg-source -x name-of-package.dsc This will unpack a debianized source into a package-version directory. cd there and type debian/rules binary The .deb will be built in the dir a step above current. HTH -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
cdrom mounting problems
I am trying to help my friend install debian. He is getting the following error when dselect tries to mount his cdrom: mount: /dev/hdd has wrong major or minor number unable to mount /dev/hdd on /var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt type iso9660 Anyone know what major/minor number mean? By the way, his cdrom is recognized by the kernel on boot. Thanks. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Slirp
On Thu, 20 Mar 1997, Pete Poff wrote: Hi, I've gotten and compiled slirp. It works, I guess. For me to access my slip account I have to dail into a place called Socket and it give me a slip account. Will slirp dail into Socket? Also after I've opened out do I get it to run in the back ground? Why do you think you would need slirp?? Slirp is needed when you have a shell account and you want to emulate the SLIP connection, AFAIK. It is not needed when your provider provides you the SLIP connection. Try dip. It is included in netbase. As for putting it into the background... if you need it to be in the background from the start then just add without the quotes to the commandline, and if you need to put into the background later, after you do something manually, then type ctrl-Z to put the program that is in the foreground to the background. HTH __ Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ftp with new debian install
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 18 Mar 1997, Brian Freeze wrote: I wrote this list last week with this question but I still have not found the answer. Problem: ftp out of the new system has major delays after username requested. All other services work fine on the system. I can ftp in with know delays. I can telnet into and out of the new system. Things checked: 1) resolve.conf and hosts files have been checked against the other debian system I have. It is debian 1.0 and the new system is the current release. just to make sure: are the nameservers listed in this form? nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx If not, it might well be the source of the problem. Otherwise I have no idea what it could be. __ Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3 Charset: noconv iQBVAwUBMy8xJv6MRr9c8VylAQFHiQH/RM+0sb4X7dNTPAMxXKsFFyly0zkpSGiW c4jJWfGRWve1cDp+h6G6q+clP6ltsX+xeq+fkl/zvyqetGs4Uiw/sA== =x0G7 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: GNU/Linux 1.2, help please!
On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, val.tamarov wrote: Hi there! Thanks for reading this! Need help !!! I just got myself GNU/Linux 1.2 from sunsite.unc.edu and I was trying to install it on my computer. I have Pentium Pro 200Mhz, 2.12GB, 452Kb hard drives and 40 Mb of RAM. I am currently using System Commander to separate operating systems. I had win95, DOS 6.22 as my boot options before installing Linux. Then I installed Linux on drive D (452Mb), and everything was fine. After rebooting I got new boot option : Linux (cool), but when I tried to boot to Linex System Commander gave me an error message: The selected operating system appears to have a defective boot record. The normal boot signature is missing. There was an option to Boot as-is, when I clicked on it my PC just stopped doing any thing. Then I rebooted from bootable floppy which I created during Linux installation, and everything went fine. Linux booted from floppy and I was prompted to create an boot password, then create regular account, user name and password for it, and dselect. So I assumed that booting from floppy is doing fine and I installed Linux properly. Then I rebooted again from Rescue disk and went right to option Make Linux bootable from hard disk and got message LILO wasn't able to install. You'll still be able to boot your system if you create a boot floppy but it won't be able to boot without a floppy. The most common reason for LILO to fail is an over-large root (/) partition. LILO is unable read any block of the kernel from a disk cillinder numbered higher than 1023. This is often a problem with disk larger than a Gigabyte or so. One way to solve the problem is to make a separate / and /usr disk partition, so that the entire / partition will be below the 1023 cillinder. I checked my hard disks and 2.12GB has 1023 cillinders and 452KB has 1018 cillinders. But I decided to repartitioned my disk anyway. So I created 50KB partition on drive D as root and I marked it Bootable, 350KB partition as /usr, 52KB partition as swap and reinstalled the Linux from very beginning, but the same problem occur. I still be able to boot it from boot floppy but not from the HD. Do you still get the same error message from Lilo when you try to install it after the repartitioning? Could you send me the contents of your /etc/lilo.conf please? I do have System Commander installed, and running with no problems, so it looks like this is not where the problems are coming from. __ Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Slip Acount Dialer
On Mon, 10 Mar 1997, Pete Poff wrote: Hi, I was wondering if there is a slip acount dialer program that could allow me to connect to my socket slip acount and be able to use the programs like ftp and telnet? Try dip. It is included in netstd package. __ Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SVGATextMode...
Hi, I am the maintainer of SvgaTextMode... On Fri, 7 Mar 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, (1) Please could someone confirm that the latest version of SVGATextMode is 1.4 (or am I missing something out) Yes. (2) I seem to have a problem configuring my SVGATextMode program. For a start I have a cirrus Logic GP-5446 Card and this in not listed amongs the list of supported cards (XFREE does) Also, could someone with a cirrus logic car, who has SVGATextMode running mail me their TextConfig file ... I do have Cirrus Logic card, but it is CLGD542x chipset, which is supported. Yours seems to be unsupported. I gather you don't like having a generic VGA chipset which is set by default, but I don't think you have any other options. Sorry. __ Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug with libraries? -I'm having this problem!
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, Daniel Robbins wrote: On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, John T. Larkin wrote: Two friends of mine receintly installed the stable Debian distribution, and both had the same problem. (One installed about 2 months ago, the other 2 days ago from an updated mirror). The file /etc/ld.so.conf did _not_ include the line: /usr/X11R6/lib This was bad; everything linked with the x libraries couldn't run since they couldn't find the libraries. They had installed a bunch of X packages, so one of the packages should have been responsable for making sure that this line was added to /etc/ld.so.conf, correct? I'm having a similar problem! My new Debian installation is up and running, and Afterstep and Fvwm95-2 can't start because they can't find libXpm.so.4 or something like that. I am a beginner, so I have no idea on how to fix this problem. I'll take a look at /etc/ld.so.conf and see if I can figure it out. Could you post a solution (fix) to this problem? Thanks, All you need to do is put the line that he posted in /etc/ld.so.conf The line is: /usr/X11R6/lib This is a known bug, and I believe, has finally been fixed in 1.2.7 . __ Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3 Charset: noconv iQBVAwUBMwu1//6MRr9c8VylAQHsWQIAxuuuKp/NIGLOm2SExMbHIvvLKtjIqGIn awrFFshObDrvdYORq312fg6kWuixPY1E5uYc5UG6DVRy6olfaVsHJw== =n07h -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unstable vs. Stable
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Daniel Robbins wrote: On 19 Feb 1997, Rob Browning wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John T. Larkin) writes: This was bad; everything linked with the x libraries couldn't run since they couldn't find the libraries. They had installed a bunch of X packages, so one of the packages should have been responsable for making sure that this line was added to /etc/ld.so.conf, correct? Yes, this has been fixed in unstable. Could someone please explain to me the difference between the unstable and stable directories? Since it seems like all the bug fixes go in unstable, isn't the unstable stuff more stable than stable? Unstable is the beta directory. It contains all the latest releases of debian packages. You are free to download anything from there, just be aware that it might be buggy. However, due to the problems we've been having (lack of testing mainly), the stable distribution can be seen as less stable than unstable, but we are in the process of fixing it. BTW, the ld.so.conf bug is fixed in 1.2.7 which hasn't reached all the mirrors yet. __ Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3 Charset: noconv iQBVAwUBMwzkmP6MRr9c8VylAQEBtgIAoViVghqb0YOYYkQo3P9qlOQwK3Mtj21G yfWk/4IyAuI589NHagHTnBm+Ek6Cn/2sr1tkDqI9bB8yl1X8UOXsZQ== =S5Oc -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian installation
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Shaya Potter wrote: On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: OK - I went back a few messages and you did show us your partition table. Boot Begin Start End Blocks System /dev/hda1 * 1 1 163 82120+ Linux native /dev/hda2164 164 244 40824 Linux swap /dev/hda3245 245 1260 512064 Linux native /dev/hda4 1024 1261 2484 616896 Extended Am I reading this right? Could the extended partition in hda3 be overlapping the one in hda4? I see hda3 ending at 1260 and hda4 beginning at 1024. I think the problem is that I don't understand extended partitions, and thus I don't see what the difference is between begin and start. /dev/hda5 1024 1261 1870 307408+ Linux native /dev/hda6 1024 1871 2484 309424+ Linux native Something is wrong here. If Extended means what it does in the dos world i.e. as opposed to primary, something is very wrong. hda1-4 should be primary and hda5-... would be extended. This means that when it says Extended, Extended is a type, such as linux native, dos fat, HPFS, NTFS. No, not exactly. Extended partition itself has to be primary, that is, one of the first four. Inside the extended partition, you can create as many logical drives (what people usually call extended partitions) as you want to. The strange thing is that begin and start numbers don't coincide. They do coincide for every partition on my machine, which has a similar setup. I would guess fdisk docs might explain why this would happen __ Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3 Charset: noconv iQBVAwUBMwpuof6MRr9c8VylAQHUlwH8Dfk0xdM8UNlZgg4FXA87M6KAmKjStZR4 GOAz98KrhaxnwOIdocjxsee+1oIPdfs99CAeOsk6ikk9iUNT+3PwEA== =3Aqd -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: minor DNS problem
[sorry if you get this twice, I had problems sending it out the first time] On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, Andrew Spencer wrote: hi all, Sorry to come back to the list again. Just a little glitch really, but it has me stumped... I can't get IP name resolution working properly. (All I want to do is resolve IP addresses using an available nameserver.) I can connect to machines on the local ethernet fine, using numeric IP addresses (can't see outside the local domain, due to the firewall, but that's another story..). Also, I can connect using name instead of number for a couple of machines I put into /etc/hosts by hand. My /etc/host.conf file says order hosts,bind multi on and /etc/resolv.conf says search bath.ac.uk nameserver 138.38.32.3,138.38.32.46 These are wrong. they should look like this: nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx The way they are configured by default doesn't work. It is a known bug, BTW. __ Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
