Re: how to find a package that provides ____._____
If you didn't already know the answer, you could try: apt-cache search libXt Of course, libXt can be substituted by any other string. rich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Howdy all, I need libXt.so.6 and libX11.so.6 to run Wordperfect how do I find out which .deb package provides these? -- Kevin Dalley SETI Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /etc/rc* and locate
locate -e limits your output to files in the database which still exist. Noah L. Meyerhans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 08:16:26PM +0100, john gennard wrote: which locate (after updatedb) shows as being present when in actual fact they are not there. I did not remove them by hand, it was only when trying to do so that I found this situation. Does anyone have any explanation of why this is so? Locate uses a database that is updated nightly on Debian. If those files existed last night, but are gone today, then locate will still show them to you. Most likely they were deleted automatically when you uninstalled the package. noah -- ___ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html -- Kevin Dalley SETI Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian, PCMCIA and DHCP
With the unstable version of pcmcia packages, you should set DHCP to y in /etc/pcmcia/network.opts. You may need to set DHCP_HOSTNAME as well. DHCPCLIENT and PUMP are no longer used. The current /etc/pcmcia/network unfortunately uses only the first one of dhcpcd, dhclient, or pump which exists on the system. If one of them fails, the others are not tried. I tried using DHCP at a wireless cafe. I had dhcpd and pump installed. dhcpd failed and pump wasn't tried. Once I removed dhcpd, pump connected easily. Andrei Pelinescu - Onciul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Edit /etc/pcmcia/network.opts and set DHCP=y or DHCPCLIENT=y or PUMP=y, depending on the dhcp client you want to use. Also set IPADDR=. Now you only have to do a cardctl eject; cardctl insert (or change the scheme) and your network interface should get an ip address from the dhcp server. [...] Which packages do I need beside dhcp, dhcp-client? You need only one of them. There are 3 packages for dhcp clients: dhcp, dhcp-client and pump. I use pump. Andrei -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Kevin Dalley SETI Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: locate warning . . . ?
Which version of findutils do you have installed? findutils-4.1-40 is the preferred version. If you are using certain older versions, updatedb will not run on a daily basis. Usually, /etc/cron.daily/find is run every day, which updates locatedb. Bryan Walton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Greetings, Today, I have noticed that when I do a locate on something, I get a warning message that locatedb is more than 8 days old. See the example: --cut-- work:/home/walton# locate xf86config locate: warning: database `/var/lib/locate/locatedb' is more than 8 days old /usr/share/alien/patches/xf86config-glibc_1.0.0.i386-3.diff.gz /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config /usr/X11R6/man/man1/xf86config.1x.gz --cut-- Any ideas about what this means? Thanks, Bryan Walton -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Kevin Dalley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HELP: update produces an empty db???
Sorry, I screwed up an upload. The corrected version should be available soon, findutils-4.1-40. Bruno Boettcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hello, i tryed it now by hand: localhost:~# updatedb /usr/bin/updatedb: frcode: command not found updatedb: new database would be empty and in effect the db is empty what's this frcode about and how do i get this problem solved? -- ciao bboett == [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://inforezo.u-strasbg.fr/~bboett http://erm1.u-strasbg.fr/~bboett === the total amount of intelligence on earth is constant. human population is growing -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: updatedb not working
Just download findutils-4.1-37. The stable version of findutils works fine. -- Kevin Dalley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: updatedb error
Just download 4.1-37. Unfortunately, there was an NMU just below the freeze date, followed by problems with my attempt to upload the fix. You don't want to change the files suggested. -- Kevin Dalley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Locate question
Yes, there was a bad NMU to findutils just before the freeze. 4.1-37 fixes this problem. John Bagdanoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've noticed this the last few days with both slink to potato upgrade and a fresh potato install on another drive. The problem looks like the latest findutils package. I downgraded to the slink findutils which fixed the problem. John Svante Signell wrote: Hello, Sometime during updates from slink to potato the locate database is not updated any longer. Anacron is running after a reboot, but the updatedb does not locate recent files. Can somebody enlightenment me how things are workingtogether: find, locate, update, updatedb, anacron and cron. -- Kevin Dalley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gimp segfault within script-fu
Ingo Reimann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks for that hint, but i have been using the unstable releases of gimp from the beginning on. Unstable and unusable is something quite different, don't you agree? Unstable suggests that it is in danger of being unusable at any time. When it becomes unusable, file a bug report and move back to the stable. -- Kevin Dalley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ugh!! Why does my time keep resetting?!
Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: p My /etc/defaults/rcS has the GMT= set, so shouldn't my system realize that the hardware clock is set to local time? Each time I boot into linux it screws me up, and I don't realize it until I receive a message that I sent to this list So sorry about screwing up everybodies incoming mail. Try the latest version of apmd, 3.0beta9-2. This fixes a bug which sounds a lot like your bug. -- Kevin Dalley SETI Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Scanner
Wayne Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Probably because, AFAIK, parallel port scanners aren't yet supported? Ckeck/look for the sane site (www.sane.org ??). There were, last I checked, some work arounds being done for 'some' parallel port scanners. Mine was not among them. :-( There actually is some support for some parallel port scanners. For the Mustek, from the sane-mustek man page. As of sane-1.0.1, uploaded soon to a Debian archive near you, Mustek 1200 ED is not listed as a supported scanner. The only non-SCSI scanner that has some support at this point is the 600 II N scanner which comes with its own parallel port adapter (i.e., it does not attach to the printer port). More info on how to use the 600 II N can be found below in section PARALLEL PORT SCANNERS. and more A parallel port scanner can be configured by listing the port number of the adapter in the mustek.conf file. Valid port numbers are 0x26b, 0x2ab, 0x2eb, 0x22b, 0x32b, 0x36b, 0x3ab, 0x3eb. Pick one that doesn't conflict with the other hardware in your computer. Note that for parallel port scanners root privileges are required to access the I/O ports. Thus, either make fron tends such as scanimage(1) and xscanimage(1) setuid root (generally not recommend for saftey reasons) or, alterna tively, access this backend through the network daemon saned(1). Also note that after a while of no activity, some scanners themself (not the SANE backend) turns off their CCFL lamps. This shutdown is not always perfect with the result that the lamp sometimes continues to glow dimly at one end. This doesn't appear to be dangerous since as soon as you use the scanner again, the lamp turns back on to the normal high brightness. However, the first image scanned after such a shutdown may have stripes and appear to be over-exposed. When this happens, just take another scan, and the image will be fine. -- Kevin Dalley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: UMAX 1220S, SCSI card (436P?)
joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As the SANE docs told me the UMAX 1220S should work OK, I just bought one of those scanners. The scanner came with it's own ISA SCSI adaptor. The vendor already told me the card was somewhat strange, but well, I went for it. Anyway, I cannot get Linux 2.2.3 to recognise it (Simply turned on all SCSI interfaces). So, does anyone know if the UMAX Astra 1220 S also works with a normal SCSI card? (If so, I'll just buy one of those). Or, maybe someone has tips how to get the card I've got to work? UMAX Astro 1200S definitely works with sane, I use it. 1220S has also been reported to work with a normal SCSI adaptor. I have heard mixed reports about the SCSI adaptor which comes with the UMAX, but someone else has already reported on that. -- Kevin Dalley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Potato
Avoid 2.2.1 kernel. The compiler sometimes died on my with this kernel. Under potato, I only have a handful of packages which don't work correctly now. Madel, Kurt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, For those of you using Potato, I was wondering how unstable it is. I have a Zip Plus drive and know that it is naturally supported by the 2.2.X kernel, so would like to move to a 2.2.X distribution as soon as possible and would like to use Debian because I believe in freedom.
Re: timezones FAQ
Wayne Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I 'had' the same problem. The only clue I had was to read the manpage for tzconfig. It led me to look at /etc/timezone which contained 'EDT'. It also led me to see what /etc/localtime was pointing to, wonder of wonders, /usr/share/zoneinfo/EDT. As /usr/share/zoneinfo also contains a 'EST5EDT', I simply changed the link (/etc/localtime) from /usr/share/zoneinfo/EDT to /usr/share/zoneinfo/EDT5EST and changed /etc/timeone to EDT5EST, and it fixed the time. Running tzconfig without reading the man page works fine for me. In the past month I have switched time zone quite a few times, which included moving into daylight savings time in two of those time zones. While I read the tzconfig manual, it wasn't necessary.
Re: XFree86 with Neomagic
Ian Lynagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I am currently running Linux on a Compaq laptop with a Neomagic NM-2160 video card. I would like to use Debian 2.1. Could I use XFree86 3.3.1 with Debian 2.1, even though the distribution supports an older version. Thanks for any help. Debian 2.1 has the neomagic driver. If you MUST have the 3.3.1 version, install Debian's X like usual, then go to master.debian.org/~vincent/ and grab the temporary 3.3.1 debs. or you can simply place xfree86.orgs xserver binary in /usr/local/bin and edit /etc/X11/Xserver to call it. Using 3.3.1 would be advisable if you don't want X to break when you upgrade to Debian 2.2 (glibc2.1 apparently kills it). You may also need the 2.2.x kernel. My Neomagic servers were broken until I upgraded the kernel to 2.2.1, from 2.0.36. Both the older Neomagic specific server was broken and the newer svga server By the way, I am now using the svga server. -- Kevin Dalley SETI Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 with Neomagic
David Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Quoting Kevin Dalley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): You may also need the 2.2.x kernel. My Neomagic servers were broken until I upgraded the kernel to 2.2.1, from 2.0.36. Both the older Neomagic specific server was broken and the newer svga server By the way, I am now using the svga server. I'm not sure what you're saying is broken. I appear to be running a Neomagic-specific server on 2.0.34 and the NM2160 chipset with no problems: Well, the server core dumped on startup. I also have an NM2160 on a Thinkpad 600. It core dumped shortly after the fonts was read. My older NeoMagic server works with the new kernel. Here is my /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable non-US deb http://www.debian.org/~jules/gnome-stage-2 unstable main deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free -- Kevin Dalley SETI Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: out of ptys
J.H.M. Dassen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Mar 23, 1999 at 10:51:53 -0500, Will Lowe wrote: rlogind: Out of ptys. rlogind cannot allocate a pseudo-terminal, which is necessary for an interactive terminal session like rlogin. This can e.g. happen if you've switched to glibc2.1, run a 2.2.x kernel compiled with UNIX98 support, but don't have a devpts /dev/ptsdevpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 line in /etc/fstab. Is it reasonable and possible to automate the change in /etc/fstab? Many people will get hit with this problem. Documenting the problem is not as effictive as it might seem. The rlogind message does not make it obvious where to search for a solution to the problem. -- Kevin Dalley SETI Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: endless loops on ThinkPad install
Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I installed Debian last night on a ThinkPad and this morning had to continue, but it kept going into loops, installing emacs and python again and again until I rebooted the thing. Now I will remove emacs and python, since I don't think I will need emacs and if I need python I can reinstalll it. In Debian 2.0, emacs does fail to compile certain elisp packages. This causes attempts at compilation after each installation, whether emacs or not. Fortunately, this problems does not exists in Debian 2.1, the slink release. -- Kevin Dalley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Intent to Party like its 1999
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hm. I could probably organize a north bay carpool and get most north bayers down there, if necessary. But it'd have to start after 6:30pm or we'd certinly be late (I can't leave until 5 myself). The alternative is to just push it back until Tuesday, then we could do it after the Debian booth closes, which lets us advertise it at the booth some, and ensures that a lot of north bay people are already in San Jose. There is mass transit in much of the Bay Area. Personally, I would prefer Oakland on Monday. It's closer for Joey (and just coincidentally for me). There are a number of nice pubs near BART. Unfortunately, south bay people don't have real mass transit. Most people's day may end after the Debian booth closes on Tuesday, but I have to move to the SETI Institute booth at 7:30. Actually, there are sponsors paying for food, drink, and music at Exhibit Hall 3. Let's assume that they are celebrating the Debian release. The party lasts from 7:30-11:00. -- Kevin Dalley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Intent to Party like its 1999
David Welton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok, so the consensus seems to be that everyone wants to meet near where they live;-) It might be nice to carpool a bit further south, so as to accomodate the people closer to san jose... Urk, I don't know if I want to drive with all those swarms of other people during rush hour, though. San Mateo, which someone mentioned, isn't that far, though. How is the evening traffic coming north? I guess I could do Oakland, if we meet near the BART thing. The traffic going north is often bad. Mountain View to Oakland usually takes an hour to an hour and a half around 6 PM. Unfortunately, if it is on Monday, I can only make it for a short while, unless the meeting continues past 10 PM, then I can return. To be difficult, should slink be released on schedule considering the number of fixes which are still coming through. I just reported a critical bug against pcmcia-modules-2.0.34, which doesn't work. Our usual plan is to wait a week after packages are uploaded before releasing the system. -- Kevin Dalley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian and Redhat-are most linux users missing the point?
Tommy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One last thing I think it is unfortunate that Debian is know as the geekiest distribution of a geek os. I have no CS backround but, I downloaded 0.93 from the net and have used Debian ever since, except the time when my ex girlfriend took my computer. I have never had a serious problem. Well my current install is pretty hacked but that's another story Debian should be pro-geek, but not limited to geeks, if this is possible. While I may be a geek, I don't enjoy being able to upgrade a system without knowledge about each of its parts. -- Kevin Dalley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Intent to Party like its 1999
Chris Waters [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Disclaimer: I live in San Jose. :-)
But still, if this is supposed to be a post-Linuxworld gettogether,
wouldn't it make the most sense to have it *near* Linuxworld?
Convenient for people visiting the area for Linuxworld and staying in
nearby {h,m}otels, convenient for people attending Linuxworld from
around the bay. Inconvenient only for those who aren't going to
Linuxworld and aren't nearby.
Probably more people will be LinuxWorld on Tuesday than Monday. If we
need to have a Monday party, it doesn't need to be near LinuxWorld.
If the party is on Tuesday, it might as well be at LinuxWorld.
--
Kevin Dalley
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male friendships
I found this on a Linux group. I'm sure that your father would enjoy it. Alexander N. Benner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alexander N. Benner - The Seven Promises of a Promise Keeper: -2- A Promise Keeper is committed to pursuing vital relationships with a few other men, understanding that he needs brothers to help him keep his promises.
Re: cfengine cron job
However, the best thing to do would be for cfengine to run without error straight from the package. Even if cfengine doesn't do anything, it shouldn't look ugly. -- Kevin Dalley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ben == Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 12:20:51PM +, Graham Ashton wrote: What would be the most debian friendly way of disabling it? I thought of removing the cfengine package, but then thought that there might be a less heavy handed approach, other than deleting/moving the files from /etc/cron.daily and /etc/cron.weekly. Execute this command: /usr/sbin/dpkg-divert --local --add --rename --divert /etc/cron.daily/cfengine /etc/cron.daily/cfengine.norun
Re: problems with locate
There is a second possibility. The file you are looking for is in a directory which is not readable and executable by world. updatedb is run by nobody, which doesn't have any real permissions. Running updatedb as root will allow everyone's files to be listed, even if the directory are not world readable. There is a version of updatedb which is being investigated which records all files, with permissions. The corresponding locate only releases information which is accessible by the user. Of course, the database is larger. -- Kevin Dalley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is there a Debian package for SANE 0.74 or 0.73?
Well, there is a workaround. Edit /etc/sane.d/dll.conf by commenting out all scanners which you do not have on your system. There is a bug somewhere in 0.74, but I haven't found a fix for it yet. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a UMAX Astra 1200s: When using sane 0.74-1 my GIMP locks up on startup with an xsession? error of plugin crash. So i've had to downgrade to 0.72-1.1 Any ideas on how to fix 0.74? -- Kevin Dalley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Netscape Dead -- forced into WinDoze!
I have Netscape on 2 systems. On one of them, Netscape crashes when it brings up Java. However, if I use a different DISPLAY, Netscape works fine on that system. Does your version of Netscape crash if Java is avoided? Howard S. Ostrowsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: About two weeks ago, something changed on my mostly Hamm system, and Netscape stopped working. Since then, I get a SEG FAULT every time I try to start Netscape. I have tried everything I can think of to fix this. I have downloaded three different versions of the Netscape or Communicator tar-ball and tried re-installing (using the netscape.deb file). The installation goes fine, but I still get a SEG FAULT when I try to run it. I have downloaded the latest libc5 and libc6 and Xlib .deb files and reinstalled them. Still no luck. I have to use Windoze in order to access the Web, including this list. Can anybody give me any pointers as to how I might fix this? -- -- Kevin Dalley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cron and find
As long as nfs is included in PRUNEFS in /etc/find.conf, the nfs mount points should be excluded. However, I have heard of a few instances of complaints. I tested it again last night, with findutils-4.1-25, and it worked for me. If you experience difficulty, please email me. Kirk Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I often have some nfs filesystems mounted on my machine and whenever cron runs updatedb I end up with a huge mail listing each file on the nfs filesystems saying permission denied. Is there a way to stop this message without unmounting the filesystems? Hi G'razel! Have you tried adding the NFS mount point to PRUNEPATHS in /etc/updatedb.conf? Check out updatedb(1). -- Kevin Dalley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: nobody is running find at too high a priority
This is a valid complaint. I have to determine whether this problem should be solved by findutils, which is my responsibility, or by cron. My preference is for cron. This will not be fixed in Debian-1.3, but perhaps in the next release. jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't know debian well enough to know which process is running find at 7AM in the morning, but, I suspect it is rebuilding the locate database. The problem is that it is being run at normal priority which REALLY puts a dent in performance. I would suggest that any jobs which are rebuilding databases as nobody should be automatically niced to something that will allow X-windows to work concurrently. -- Kevin Dalley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: nobody is running find at too high a priority
Since this is an entirely individual item which cannot please everybody, I suggest that you change /etc/crontab to meet your needs. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I guess the Debian developers are all nightowls. 7AM is *not* early enough to be scheduling this sort of thing. -- Kevin Dalley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Xemacs?
xemacs is back in bo. Alexander Stavitsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It seems to be withdrawn from bo distribution. Is there an explanation somewhere? -- Kevin Dalley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: local updatedb files ... [Was: Finding files not present]
Rick Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David B. Teague wrote: On my stand-alone machine at home, I get all files by making this change to /etc/cron.daily/find: #cd / updatedb --localuser=nobody 2/dev/null cd / updatedb 2/dev/null BTW Please explain why the is present in the script! I have never understood what that is doing... I'm no wiz shell programmer, but the means and, such that the second command (updatedb) is _not_ executed if the first command fails. Likewise, there is a || operator. See man sh, man bash, etc. If cd / is not included, then the updatedb starts from the home directory of root, /root, which gives a very incomplete listing. -- Kevin Dalley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Finding files not present (challenge to your intelligence)
Heiko Schlittermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: --AqsLC8rIMeq19msA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Mar 28, Kai Grossjohann wrote : Eloy A Paris writes: : : Eloy I was given a text file containing one file name (no full path : Eloy name) per line. My task consists of searching the entire : Eloy filesystem and generate a list of the files that are NOT : Eloy present. : : updatedb generates a database of all file names on the system. (It : only runs for a few minutes for my system.) Not of all files. Of files searchable by `nobody.nogroup'. You can run updatedb manually to get a list of all files. Look at the options in the info page for more information. -- Kevin Dalley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Locate
Pete Poff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, when I use locate I get an error. This is what I get if I type like locate what ever. Like locate new.stuff. I get locate: /var/lib/locate/locatedb: No suck file or directory. Can anyone tell me why? Another possibility is that you are using an old, buggy version of findutils. findutils-4.1-20 is the best version, which is currently in frozen. I introduced some bugs in the early versions of the current stable release of findutils. -- Kevin Dalley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: teTeX kind of broken
Putting the instructions in preinst may be too late, but it is better than nothing. Instructions in the mailing list are insufficient considering the number of users installing tetex. Christoph Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Marcelo Magallon writes: On 28 Feb 1997, Christoph Martin wrote: The obvious solution is to remove all TeX files conflicting with teTeX before installing teTeX, but this is not user friendly, nice, cool, etc. You have no other chance. dpkg can't handle all (more than one) the replaces. Then, to the maintainer, PLEASE, include instructions about this unless we want to see the question How do I upgrade TeX? n+1 times on debian-user... I'm guessing something in the lines of In dselect [R]emove packages *first*, *then* [I]nstall them would work, but a bit more Where do you want to put these instructions? I have posted instructions to debian-user and debian-devel. If you put it in the preinst script it is to late. descriptive/less cryptic. Also, isn't there a workaround for the latex bug? I wouldn't like to see that question either, considering THERE IS a known solution. The only solution I know is to do it in the right order, but how do you enforce this? -- Kevin Dalley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Writing to a boot floppy.
Try make-kpkg -r=custom.1.0 kernel_image in /usr/src/linux, assuming that you have kernel-package installed. You may need a preformatted disk, depending upon the current state of kernel-package. After you create the official debian package, then install the package as usual dpkg -i kernel-image-2.0.27_custom.1.0_i386.deb or whatever you produce. Bubonic [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I recompiled my kernel today (without any major problems) to 2.027, however, I can't seem to figure out how to create a new boot floppy. I have tried: cp vmlinux /dev/fd0 to a DOS-formatted disk, but when I tried to reboot my computer, it didn't work. I assume that I am missing or forgetting something, but the books that I have and the FAQS and HOWTO's I have read have very little information on this. They tend to deal more with LILO, as opposed to booting off of a floppy. I may not be even understanding the purpose of the boot floppy correctly, as I am somewhat of a newbie to LINUX, do I need to alter my boot floopy when I recompile the kernel? or change the kernel for that matter? -- Kevin Dalley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: findutils_4.1-12 makes /var/lib/locate owned by root.root
Yes, you are right. If you uploaded from a working version, the directory's permissions would not change. Hence, it has taken a few months for the change to be noticed. I will upload a fix later today. Esa Turtiainen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It seems that in new Debian installations /var/lib/locate is owned bu root.root instead of nobody.nogroup and that is why locate does not work. Cron routine can not update the database because it is run as nobody. I tried to trace the bug and it seems that in the source package the directory is installed OK but some later makefile changed the permissions again. -- Kevin Dalley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Package: Base
Daniel Stringfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 15 Dec 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: Which package? Smartlist. The 1.2 system has replaced base with base-files. However base-files doesn't remove base during an upgrade, but doesn't provide base either, so a new installation will appear to have no base support. Don't know what Bruce plans to do to fix this. I guess this could be a bug for the base/base-files. Hmm.. how does one file a bug report debian style? (Never done it before) This bug has already been reported--twice. It is #5729 and 5657. Bruce's response follow: It's OK for base to still be on the system. All of its files are taken over by other packages. Some people disagree. To report and look up bugs, go to: http://www.debian.org and look for bugs. Just follow the links and you will find everything you need to know about -- Kevin Dalley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Package: Base
Some of base is renamed base-files. Other parts have split up further. You should file a bug against the package which you are downloading which still depends upon base, if one hasn't already been filed against it. -- Kevin Dalley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with Kernal Source 2.0.27_1.00
Installing a custom kernel following the direction in: /usr/doc/kernel-source-2.0.27/debian.README.gz but before you do this, you need to apply the patch described in Bug #5659. Unfortunately, this fix didn't get into the Debian-1.1 release. -- Kevin Dalley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What's the trick with X 3.2?
Actually, you should just upgrade gwm before proceeding. gwm-1.8c-4 has the proper dependencies. This release has been out for quite a while now. The old release of gwm did not have the correct dependencies. Of course, if you are trying to upgrade gwm and the X libraries at the same time, you may run into difficulty. You could argue that it is a dpkg bug which prevents updating the libraries because the package depends upon it, even though the new release of the package has a dependency upon the new library. This bug may be difficult to explain. Fortunately, the new Debian packaging tools make this type of problem less likely in the future. Stephen Early [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In this particular case it's a bug in the gwm package; it depends on xlib when it should have depended on elf-x11r6lib. If you remove it before upgrading, the upgrade should work. You may find that there are other packages with a similar bug. You can tell which package it is that is getting in the way; dpkg tells you here: dpkg: considering removing xlib in favour of xlib6 ... dpkg: no, cannot remove xlib (--auto-deconfigure will help): gwm depends on xlib (= 3.1.2-4) ^^^ xlib is to be removed. dpkg: regarding xlib6_3.2-1.deb containing xlib6: xlib6 conflicts with elf-x11r6lib xlib provides elf-x11r6lib and is installed. dpkg: error processing xlib6_3.2-1.deb (--install): conflicting packages - not installing xlib6 Errors were encountered while processing: xlib6_3.2-1.deb === Once you have upgraded the X packages you can re-install the buggy packages using the --force-depends option. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: package sizes
If you use dselect with the ftp option, then you get the installed size of packages during the install phase. You also have an option to turn down a download on any particular file. Do you also want that informtion in the select phase of dselect? Antony F Ware [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I notice that in the contrib/Packages file there is information on the installed-size of the packages. Is there a way of finding out that piece of information about the mainstream packages before downloading/installing them? -- kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Oleo - Any docs?
Yes, there is additional oleo documentation. Steve Fisk has written nice info pages. Unfortunately, I haven't had a chance to integrate it into the oleo release yet. Oleo development has been ignored for a couple of years now. I'm trying to update some of the configuration. I expect to have the oleo documentation available in the next month or so. -- kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dpkg-ftp troubles
Try replacing cmpvers in /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/install with the
following function. While the maintainer has not yet blessed this
change, it seems to work for me.
# compare two versions (taken from dpkg docs)
sub cmpvers {
($a,$b) = @_;
my ($cm, $ad, $bd);
if( defined($a) !defined($b)) { return 1; }
if(!defined($a) !defined($b)) { return 0; }
if(!defined($a) defined($b)) { return -1; }
do {
$a =~ s/^\D*//; $ad= $; $ad =~ s/\W/ /g;
$b =~ s/^\D*//; $bd= $; $bd =~ s/\W/ /g;
$cm = $ad cmp $bd; return $cm if $cm;
$a =~ s/^\d*//; $ad= $;
$b =~ s/^\d*//; $bd= $;
$cm = $ad cmp $bd; return $cm if $cm;
} while (length($a) length($b));
return length($a) cmp length($b);
}
Joe == Joe Reinhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am having trouble with dpkg-ftp 1.4.0. I repeatedly get this error
when trying to install:
Processing status file...
Processing Package files...
unstable...
Argument isn't numeric in ncmp at /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/install
line 99,
PKGFILE chunk 1441 (#1)
Argument isn't numeric in ncmp at /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/install
line 99, PKGFILE chunk 1441.
non-free...
contrib...
Any ideas?
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Joe ReinhardtDivision of Physiologic Imaging
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Radiology, JPP-3960
Telephone: 319-353-7258 University of Iowa College of Medicine
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