doc-linux-text Not in Wheezy?
Searched archive and found nothing regarding any discussion of it being removed. I did find it available for Squeeze. However, as I stated it is not found in the package lists for Wheezy. Has it been renamed, removed, or otherwise squashed? -- Paul Lane KC9EYE -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/cadngoocpamrvzs7va7fg3kmgx4iq0a5xz9nvothdxik8djc...@mail.gmail.com
Re: 2013 -- KDE or GNOME?
On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Go Linux goli...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Evuraan evur...@gmail.com Subject: 2013 -- KDE or GNOME? To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Sunday, June 9, 2013, 1:47 PM I've been on Gnome for years. (vdpau, GT430, 1080p - the typical nvidia setup) Looking at http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current-live/i386/bt-hybrid/, I gotta ask: These days, kde or gnome - which one? iirc, kde does retina display (high dpi), and gnome yet may not etc. thanks in advance! IMHO, neither. I went with LXDE. I wanted functional and fast. As for trying both, I did and ended up taking a day with deborphan, awk, grep, and dpkg just to remove all the unnecessary stuff left over afterwards. KC9EYE -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CADngOOdmzaDasz+P2NMKOz8UzczYACy-=epngsszio-rcge...@mail.gmail.com
Re: apache2 and virtual hosts
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 4:48 AM, Pol Hallen de...@fuckaround.org wrote: apache 2.2.16-6+squeeze11 cat /etc/apache2/site-enabled/001-default: VirtualHost *:80 ServerName domain1.com DocumentRoot /var/www/ Directory / Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None /Directory Directory /var/www/ Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride None Order allow,deny allow from all /Directory /VirtualHost cat /etc/apache2/site-enabled/domain2 VirtualHost *:80 ServerName domain2.com ServerAlias www.domain2.com # Indexes + Directory Root. #DirectoryIndex index.html DocumentRoot /home/domain2/domain2/htdocs/ /VirtualHost Try defining the directories as in the top VirtualHost stanza. I believe just defining the DocumentRoot is not enough. Apache needs to know what it can due there. Also, make sure that the www-data user has reading permission of the directory in /home/domain2/domain2/htdocs/. Or at least the directory is system readable. KC9EYE -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CADngOOd5sA74cmUxz9mf+6LXQ28dy2Bn7sbYDvEy81N=ruo...@mail.gmail.com
Re: apache2 and virtual hosts
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Karl E. Jorgensen karl.jorgen...@nice.com wrote: Hi On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 10:48:17AM +0100, Pol Hallen wrote: Ah.. But http://www.domain2.com; is NOT the same as http://domain2.com; - the www is merely a common convention. It actually makes it a different site. At the technical level, there is nothing wrong with presenting completely different websites on http://example.com and http://www.example.com. Just like http://example.com; and http://intranet.example.com; are different sites. No ServerAlias www.domain1.com ?? Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen As Karl suggests it may be a problem with your DNS pointing. Try looking at the return of : $nslookup www.domain1.com and then: $nslookup www.domain2.com Make sure that they return the same ip for the host. KC9EYE -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CADngOOcsi0Z9=tezy9ult19ke0xaif2z2wcodax9+6u2yga...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Feedback needed: How to disable services at startup... and keep them so.
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, A month ago, I disabled Network Manager service in my Squeeze system so it doesn't run on start up. I wanted to keep NM installed (just in case) but preferred to use the old ifup network setup method. So I issued update-rc.d network-manager remove and also disabled gnome NM applet from being started. So far so good, no more NM running at booting. I missed something -there is a better way to handle this or should I write a report? Greetings, -- Camaleón AFAIK, the method to disable a boot time service is to change the name of its symlink in the appropriate runlevel (normally 2, for debian) folder. I'm not sure what the name of the NM script is as I did this many moons ago. But, if you look in /etc/rc2.d/, you will find a README that explains it all. Reprinted here for clarity: The scripts in this directory are executed each time the system enters this runlevel. The scripts are all symbolic links whose targets are located in /etc/init.d/ . To disable a service in this runlevel, rename its script in this directory so that the new name begins with a 'K' and a two-digit number, where the number is the difference between the two-digit number following the 'S' in its current name, and 100. To re-enable the service, rename the script back to its original name beginning with 'S'. For a more information see /etc/init.d/README. -- Paul Lane KC9EYE - Water which is too pure has no fish. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktimjcf9nxa0etbyp6v_eimyyk1uaaeousrj2f...@mail.gmail.com
Re: live cd/usb projects?
thanks for the feedback. sorry it has taken some time to reply but I have been reading before responding. I hope my post isn't too long but I wanted to keep most of the replies intact. debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: Subject: Re: live cd/usb projects? From: Jiří Paleček jpale...@web.de Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:41:37 +0100 On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:30:02 +0100, Geoffrey Lane freebal...@gmail.com wrote: [ snip ] I wonder first how many has done what I'm looking to do? Perhaps many. Are there some people using linux-live script to make one, or another method? I am using dfsbuild (not really maintained, had to patch it) to make a similar (in extent, not in purpose) live CD. It contains some 5 kernels, gcc, gdb, cmake, some -dev packages, web browser (opera), emacs. You may also have a look at the KDE Four live CD, and how they make it. I'm not a fan of kde, mostly because the size. Like 400mb instead of 40mb for xfce or even smaller for lxde or fluxbox. I will look to see how its made, or maybee they have some scripts available Difficult but not unattainable. But you'll probably have to use compression somehow (on the CD I use zisofs). snipped I've only used zfs.. for a live cd (multimedia) called geexbox. I assume it will not have any issues with booting just shrinking the size of the cd contents? I'm not sure about the office apps, but I'm sure you can fit the rest on a CD, which is about the size you need. Regards Jiri Palecek I was thinking more about abiword. Sorry for the confusion. An office suite would be nice but its way to big. Subject: Re: live cd/usb projects? From: Rob Owens row...@ptd.net Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:34:56 -0500 I currently use Debian Live. I create my own images for USB using the live-helper scripts. The latest one I made came in at just over 700MB. Here's the list of packages I specified to include (not all the dependencies are listed): lxde lxlauncher snipped package list If you need pointers on how to do this yourself, let me know. If you want to give me a list of apps and have me make an image for you, I can do that as long as you have a way for me to get it to you (rsync server, ftp server, etc). I will probably do that. I have alot of apprehension making these as I know it takes alot of time waiting for results sometimes to have it crash or worse you make a mistake. I'm doing my best to get ready like I did with knoppix even if I have to ask a stupid question or two. I could probably setup access for you on ftp server if it doesn't come throu but let you know ahead of time. Size should be a bit smaller - I hope. Thank you for the offer I will get back to you :) Note that I use fluxbox as my window manager, but I install LXDE as well because brings in a lot of apps that I find handy. Plus I intend to experiment with using LXDE...someday. -Rob -- 'Bill Gates can't guarantee Windows, so how in the HELL can you guarantee our safety!' --John Crichton (Farscape) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
live cd/usb projects?
Will try to make long story short here, I know I probably just need a larger drive to accommodate a full distro but I can't afford to right now. I have been reading but unsure of the outcome, being pulled into other directions. I also wanted to ask somethings before I start. I've been looking around to find a good desktop replacement style live cd. I know I need to just spend some more money on a larger usb thumbdrive but in this economy who can blame me for trying to get most bang for my buck? My thumbdrive is a biometric (as in fingerprint reader) 2gb drive. It partitions the safe data aside from public files. I want to repartition it to allow roughly 512-768mb for Linux - in this case less is better! Perhaps I'm picky and I'll be the first to admit that. My ideal is of course Debian and apt-get/deb. The Debian/xfce live cd is ok @ 400mb but I'd like to shrink it or keep it same size with my preferred apps. The remaster guide is straight forward - similar to my knoppix (except back then it was cloop). I have also looked at other live cd scripts like the one slax uses [http://www.linux-live.org/] and the ones listed in Debian repo. I'm cautious because the Debian scripts (SEEM) to be no longer maintained, and the slax scripts are designed for Slackware I wonder first how many has done what I'm looking to do? Are there some people using linux-live script to make one, or another method? Am I making things to difficult? I mean are my expectation on size too much? Are there projects like this (maintained)? My ideal cd is a desktop replacement, I could use xfce, openbox, fluxbox, e17 - ANYTHING. I want things like internet apps (web, email, ftp, irc, im, torrent), picture and documents, archive maker/extractor and if possible multimedia (music, video). A few Linux apps like vnc, gparted or rescue apps, console would be nice but not necessary -- (why I want apt-get) Any help, comments are welcome. If there are some discussions elsewhere please let me know or if you want to chat with me off list. I'm sorry the size of the email but I wanted to show my work, I have looked around and read some sites about this. Thanks for reading Geo -- 'Bill Gates can't guarantee Windows, so how in the HELL can you guarantee our safety!' --John Crichton (Farscape) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Lenny upgrade Report
Successfully upgraded to Lenny from stock Etch with desktop task selection yesterday. All went well, except (like the other Lenny report) had a problem with the xserver refusing to start do to an error, and exim4 paniclog being none empty error, which caused things depending on exim4 to be left in an unconfigurable state. It appears that the xserver config was left looking for the ati module, nut apperantly it was replaced by the radeon module. # modprobe radeon # depmod # startx solved that problem. Appaerently with exim4 you must accept the maintainers new config file even if you don't want to. Otherwise it leaves the DEBCONFsomethingDEBCONF in the config which causes the error whitch cascades from there. Tried # dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config , to no avail. It could not find the debhelper. Had to purge exim4 which left aptitude wanting to install Xmailer which I did, and then reinstall exim4, which uninstalled Xmailer and brought up the debconf screen for exim4, and alls well now. I followed the release notes and will be submiting my report when I have time. Just wanted to give a quick run down. Would be nice though if the debian-archive-keyring from volitile.debian.org would have been in the release notes. -- Paul Lane |Debian-Etch Like a Rock KC9EYE|GNU/Linux 2.6.26-1-486 |Mutt 1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Amateur Radio and Linux like Peas and Carrots http://www.qsl.net/kc9eye -- Freedom is the light of all sentient beings. Optimus Prime -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
New Kernel
Hello all, I'm new to debian, just switched over from ubuntu. I heard news of the new 2.6.27 kernel coming out, and has atheros driver support. My laptop has an atheros card I haven't gotten to work yet, and I'd like to get the new kernel to get that card working. My kernel is 2.6.18, running the latest distro of debian. I understand I can compile my own kernel if I wish to, but I never have. I'm also aware kernel.org has daily image builds, but I don't really know how to install a kernel image or compile my own as I've never done it. Thanks for the help! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New Kernel
Thanks for all the friendly help. I've added the repository to my apt sources, and when I do an apt-get upgrade it tries to upgrade to the same kernel version (2.6.18). I don't mind installing rc9, I'd just like to get my hands on a 2.6.27. I've read a bit about needing to edit my grub boot menu once I've installed a kernel image, and I have no problem doing that, I just am curious where I can get a package (.deb?) to install the 2.6.27 kernel image, and where it would be located to add to my grub boot menu. Sven Joachim wrote: On 2008-10-12 18:45 +0200, Matthew Lane wrote: Hello all, I'm new to debian, just switched over from ubuntu. I heard news of the new 2.6.27 kernel coming out, and has atheros driver support. My laptop has an atheros card I haven't gotten to work yet, and I'd like to get the new kernel to get that card working. My kernel is 2.6.18, running the latest distro of debian. I understand I can compile my own kernel if I wish to, but I never have. I'm also aware kernel.org has daily image builds, but I don't really know how to install a kernel image or compile my own as I've never done it. Thanks for the help! If you don't want to build your own kernel, http://wiki.debian.org/DebianKernel has links to a repository you can include in your sources.list. It seems that 2.6.27 hasn't been packaged yet, but 2.6.27-rc9 is available and should be very close. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New Kernel
I believe I need the ath9k driver. However, I now have my new 2.6.27-rc9 kernel working flawlessly and my wireless card is up and working. Thanks for all the help guys! I'm still going to look into building my own kernel; good knowledge to have. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: exim4 authentication in etch?
On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 05:56:35PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: Tried *:my-user-name:my-password with the same result: Authentication Required. Poured through the /usr/share/doc/exim4 documentation (also exim4-base and exim4-config) which insist there is a file exim4-conf-localmacros which can be set to modify line 1895 .ifndef AUTH_CLIENT_ALLOW_NOTLS_PASSWORDS in the exim4-conf-template file. I have done all sorts of searches for exim4-conf-localmacros without success but there is a directory /etc/exim4/conf.d/auth which contains a dummy file 00_exim4-config_header and a file 30_exim4-config_examples duplicating the relevant section of the exim-conf-template file. If this is what is meant to be a macro I don't know how to use it. I tried brute force - i.e. changing line 1895 to AUTH_CLIENT_ALLOW_NOTLS_PASSWORDS = true. update-exim4.conf did not like this. Tom Hello, I went through this also as I have Verizon as outgoing smarthost. If you are using the single config file option for creating your template you will have to create the exim4.conf.localmacros file with the line AUTH_CLIENT_ALLOW_NOTLS_PASSWORDS = true Save it to the /etc/exim4 directory with root permissions and then run update-exim4.conf. -- Paul Lane |Debian-Etch Like a Rock KC9EYE|GNU/Linux 2.6.18-6-486 |Mutt 1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Amateur Radio and Linux like Peas and Carrots http://www.qsl.net/kc9eye -- Freedom is the light of all sentient beings. Optimus Prime -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gnome Nautilus: How to Open Same Folder in Same Window
On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 09:59:01AM -0700, Kejia wrote: Hi all, I am not meaning the Nautilus spatial window. Now, when I click the same folder twice, there are two windows for the same folder. Is it possible to configure nautilus so as to only show the open existed window of one folder rather than to open the second one? Thanks a lot for any suggestion. Cheers, Kejia I am not sure what you mean by spatial window. But I think what your talking about, is that Nautilus is not browsing. Nautilus can be set to browser mode by clicking; Edit\ Prefrences\, selecting the Behavior\ tab and checking the Always open in brower window. Paul Lane |Debian-Etch Like a Rock KC9EYE|GNU/Linux 2.6.18-6-486 |Mutt 1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Amateur Radio and Linux like Peas and Carrots http://www.qsl.net/kc9eye -- Freedom is the light of all sentient beings. Optimus Prime -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gnome hosed--theme crashing!
On 08/25/2008 09:12 PM, ZephyrQ wrote: PauL Lane wrote: On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 08:38:00PM -0500, PauL Lane wrote: Hello, have you recently upgraded libxml2? I had the same problem. Try; $ dpkg -l libxml2 If it comes back; ii libxml22.6.27.dfsg-3 GNOME XML library Try downgrading to 2.6.27.dfsg-3. Also have a look at; http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496125 My bad, should be downgrade to 2.6.27.dfsg-2. I downgraded, but I'm still having the same problem with the themes app in gnome (I can't change theme). I checked out the bug report, but the fix requires me to start using unstable, and I'm not comfortable enough (and don't have the time in the short term to research) with pinning to try and 'mix' my etch sources. Anything I missed? Did you reboot? If I remember correctly I had to reboot. Actually come to think of it, when I did install the security update, the problem didn't start until I rebooted the next morning. I thouhgt dpkg would stop and restart services when upgrading? Paul Lane |Debian-Etch Like a Rock KC9EYE|GNU/Linux 2.6.18-6-486 |Mutt 1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Amateur Radio and Linux like Peas and Carrots http://www.qsl.net/kc9eye -- Freedom is the light of all sentient beings. Optimus Prime -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gnome hosed--theme crashing!
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 08:01:16PM -0500, ZephyrQ wrote: My desktop died. Others on the machine (a KDE and my son's gnome) is ok, but something on mine bit the dust. I've moved the .gtk* files and a couple other directories, but when I try to recreate the desktop, the themes module is unresponsive. There must be a quick fix! (otherwise, I'm creating a new user and moving files over, one by one...forever...I'm *very* picky about my desktop--which is why I'm using Linux...;- Hello, have you recently upgraded libxml2? I had the same problem. Try; $ dpkg -l libxml2 If it comes back; ii libxml22.6.27.dfsg-3 GNOME XML library Try downgrading to 2.6.27.dfsg-3. Also have a look at; http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496125 -- Paul Lane |Debian-Etch Like a Rock KC9EYE|GNU/Linux 2.6.18-6-486 |Mutt 1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Amateur Radio and Linux like Peas and Carrots http://www.qsl.net/kc9eye -- Freedom is the light of all sentient beings. Optimus Prime -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gnome hosed--theme crashing!
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 08:38:00PM -0500, PauL Lane wrote: Hello, have you recently upgraded libxml2? I had the same problem. Try; $ dpkg -l libxml2 If it comes back; ii libxml22.6.27.dfsg-3 GNOME XML library Try downgrading to 2.6.27.dfsg-3. Also have a look at; http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496125 My bad, should be downgrade to 2.6.27.dfsg-2. -- Paul Lane |Debian-Etch Like a Rock KC9EYE|GNU/Linux 2.6.18-6-486 |Mutt 1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Amateur Radio and Linux like Peas and Carrots http://www.qsl.net/kc9eye -- Freedom is the light of all sentient beings. Optimus Prime -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
libxml2 security update
Hello to all, Updated the libxml2 package from security updates yesterday. Booted up this morning and Gnome is foobarred. For those you have not updated from this security warning, DON'T. Unless you are comfortable working from the commandline. Thanks for the heads up on that also, I thought that the security update would have fixed the aforementioned problem that the gentleman had previously mentioned. But, I stand corrected. Used aptitude to purge the package and it naturely thought I was insane and naturely downgraded to the previous version, little did it know that is what I wanted it to do. Back in business now. -- Paul Lane |Debian-Etch Like a Rock KC9EYE|GNU/Linux 2.6.18-6-486 |Mutt 1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Amateur Radio and Linux like Peas and Carrots http://www.qsl.net/kc9eye --- Freedom is the light of all sentient beings. Optimus Prime -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pppoeconf / Verizon DSL
On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 01:26:12AM -0800, Larry Fletcher wrote: I finally got summary page to load and was able to change the username and password. I still don't have access to the Internet, but I think it's because I was never able to complete the modem setup on the Verizon site. I still can't do it because IE running under Wine won't download ActiveX. So I'll just have to tell the Verizon techs that I can't complete the installation process. Larry Hello again Larry, Good! If you can connect to your modems connection summary page, then your end is working. Now you need to inform Verizon that their end is not. Make sure you didn't place one of those filters on the phone line going to your dsl modem. Also add the line about the default gateway posted earlier to your routing table. Good Luck! -- Paul Lane KC9EYE http://www.qsl.net/kc9eye/ - Life after all, is a fatal disease, and the mortality rate for humans, at the end of the day is 100%. K.C. Cole (from The Universe and the Teacup) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pppoeconf / Verizon DSL
On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 10:09:49AM -0800, Larry Fletcher wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: Larry writes: What I'm thinking is maybe Verizon gives people different modems. My modem says it's a DSL2+Router, so maybe it would work if it was just a DSL2 modem without the Router? Pppoeconfig will work if the modem is configured for bridge mode (like mine) but not if it is configured as a router (like yours). I suggest that you follow Mike Bird's advice below. You are making it more complex than it is. Going by the replies I've received, if I use DHCP I will have to use IE to set the username and password in the modem (the IE I have running under Wine can't access the modem). I think this is probably true, because I don't see a way to enter the username and password in dhclient.conf. Should the username be entered in the modem as just 'user' or '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'? I'll try to setup DHCP without a password and see if it works, but it will take awhile to figure this out. I do know someone that uses Windows and they live close enough that I might be able to use their computer to set the modem. The techs at Verizon say I could change the modem from router mode to bridge mode using IE, but then I would have to use a router with the modem, which I don't have don't want to do. So is it possible to use the modem in bridge mode with pppoe and not use a router? If so, it seems like it might be better this way because then I will probably be able to see the transfer rate on my toolbar. But then it might be faster using DHCP. Does using the modem in router mode protect the computer better than using it in bridge mode? Anyway this is still pretty confusing to me, so I hope I'll be able to figure it out in the next couple of weeks. Thanks for the help so far, Larry Hello Larry, I am running debian etch with verizon dsl. I also have the Westell 6100 dsl modem. I believe that the suggestions you are getting in regards to dumping everything having to do with pppoe are correct. Have you gone into the connections settings of your browser and configured it for direct connection to the internet? Can you open any browser and type in the address bar 192.168.1.1 and click go. This should bring you to the connection summary page of the Westell modem. If you can not connect to this page, could you provide, the output of `ifconfig`, `cat /etc/resolv.conf`, `route`. -- Paul Lane KC9EYE http://www.qsl.net/kc9eye/ - Life after all, is a fatal disease, and the mortality rate for humans, at the end of the day is 100%. K.C. Cole (from The Universe and the Teacup) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
question about mdadm + grub interaction
Greetings. In order to insure that a Debian stock kernel (i.e. the kernel installed from the linux-image-2.6.22-2-686-bigmem package) boots correctly off of a mdadm RAID 1 set of two disks if one of the disks is dead, do we: 1) Have to manually install grub on the MBR on *both* drives, or is this done automagically by the grub package installer if the RAID 1 set is in place at the time of the grub install? 2) Need to have something that looks like this in /boot/grub/menu.lst: A) title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.21-2-686-bigmem, RAID1 root(hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.21-2-686-bigmem root=/dev/md2 md=0,/dev/sda1,/dev/sdb1 ro initrd /initrd.img-2.6.21-2-686-bigmem savedefault title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.21-2-686-bigmem, BROKEN RAID1 root(hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.21-2-686-bigmem root=/dev/md2 md=0,/dev/sdb1 ro initrd /initrd.img-2.6.21-2-686-bigmem savedefault i.e. with the 'md=...' configuration options? Or do we just need this: B) title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.21-2-686-bigmem root(hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.21-2-686-bigmem root=/dev/md2 ro initrd /initrd.img-2.6.21-2-686-bigmem savedefault which is the sort of thing that is installed automagically by the kernel package installer? 3) Need to have the 'md=...' configuration option point at the *boot* partition, or the *root* partition, so that if we have: md0 : active raid1 sda1[0] sdb1[1] md2 : active raid1 sda3[0] sdb3[1] and /dev/md0 /boot /dev/md2 / do we then need: md=0,/dev/sda1,/dev/sdb1 md=0,/dev/sdb1 or: md=2,/dev/sda3,/dev/sdb3 md=2,/dev/sdb3 Any pointers to *detailed* documentation about how the 'md=...' option works would be much appreciated; I've already seen: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/238 (which has a question at the very bottom of the page, a bit over two months old, asking very similar sorts of questions -- no answer on the page so far...); and http://alephnull.net/software/linux-raid/4%20-%20Setup.html (which is lilo-specific, but also informative); and http://www.epimetrics.com/topics/one-page?page_id=449topic=Bit-head%20Stuffpage_topic_id=120 AND: http://www.opensubscriber.com/message/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/7889881.html (which is informative, but doesn't get at precise answers to my questions). Thanks much, -- Steve Lane System, Network and Security Administrator Doudna Lab Biomolecular Structure and Mechanism Group UC Berkeley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: how to read a .msg file
Did you ever figure out how to read a .msg file? A friend of mine sent me a file that she says is 'music' but Outlook won't open it or anything else I've tried. Any ideas? Thanks, Lane Erickson, Specialist Network Eng. (AAIS) ofc: 425-261-5940 fax: 425-258-1215 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian potato 2.2 - apt sources.list
Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 07:05:00PM -0700, dale lane wrote: For the last 2 days I have been trying to Install Debian potato 2.2r? on an old computer that I have. Why? It hasn't had a security update in over a year, so it's guaranteed to be dangerous to put on a network. What makes you think 2.2 will be more limited-resource friendly than Woody or Sarge? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com deb http://archive.debian.org potato main contrib non-free But that server appears to be down. -- deb http://archive.debian.org potato main contrib non-free is down and has been down for several days. Debian potato 2.2r7 or whatever is not going on to a network, just on to an old computer salvaged out of a thrift store, and it uses quite a bit less disk space than other more current versions of Debian, and xfree86 will work and surf the internet on 32 megabytes of ram. I am still trying to find a Debian potato 2.2 server other than deb http://archive.debian.org/ that I can download potato 2.2 packages from ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
debian potato 2.2 - apt sources.list
Hello All, For the last 2 days I have been trying to Install Debian potato 2.2r? on an old computer that I have. It only has 32 megabytes of ram and a slower processer. Is there no place that is a valid Debian 2.2 Potato Archive ? Somewhere where I can put the location in my /etc/apt/sources.list ? deb http://where-is-valid-site potato main contrib non-free deb ftp://where-is-a-valid-site potato main contrib non-free I know there has to be one valid site left out there, Someone must know where it is, Please let me know too. Thank You dale -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SSH permits root-Logins with wrong password
I tried to duplicate this on a sid box and a sarge box (that hasn't been upgraded for awhile). I couldn't duplicate your results. The sid box has ii ssh3.8.1p1-4 Secure rlogin/rsh/rcp replacement (OpenSSH and the sarge box has ii ssh3.6.1p2-3 Secure rlogin/rsh/rcp replacement (OpenSSH) Sarge box: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ssh -l root 10.224.112.121 [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: Permission denied, please try again. [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: Permission denied, please try again. [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: Permission denied (publickey). [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Sid box: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ssh -l root 66.122.133.154 Password: Password: Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: Permission denied, please try again. [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: Permission denied, please try again. [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: Permission denied (publickey,password,keyboard-interactive). [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 08:43, Frank Niedermann wrote: Hello, I have a Debian testing server on my network with OpenSSH running. If I try to log in as root but with wrong password I get the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED] deniedfr $ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Password: wrong password here Password: the same wrong password Password: the same wrong password [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: the same wrong password Last login: Wed Jun 16 17:03:11 2004 from dettnb80.tt.de.ifm dettlx18:~# uname -a Linux dettlx18 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 GNU/Linux dettlx18:~# The /var/log/auth.log: sshd[1335]: (pam_securetty) access denied: tty 'ssh' is not secure ! sshd[1335]: (pam_unix) authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=dettnb80.tt.de.ifm user=root sshd[1333]: error: PAM: Authentication failure sshd[1336]: (pam_securetty) access denied: tty 'ssh' is not secure ! sshd[1336]: (pam_unix) authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=dettnb80.tt.de.ifm user=root sshd[1333]: error: PAM: Authentication failure sshd[1337]: (pam_securetty) access denied: tty 'ssh' is not secure ! sshd[1337]: (pam_unix) authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=dettnb80.tt.de.ifm user=root sshd[1333]: error: PAM: Authentication failure sshd[1333]: Failed keyboard-interactive/pam for root from 172.16.15.80 port 32896 ssh2 sshd[1333]: Accepted password for root from 172.16.15.80 port 32896 ssh2 sshd[1338]: (pam_unix) session opened for user root by root(uid=0) If I try to use 'x' as wrong password, ssh won't let me in: [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: Permission denied (publickey,password,keyboard-interactive). Just as I would expect it. If I use a longer or similar password as the real root password, ssh will let me log in, example: real root password = linux4me - success :) fake root password = fun4linux - success! :( The ssh package version: ii ssh 3.8p1-3 Secure rlogin/rsh/rcp replacement (OpenSSH) Any idea about that behavor? Regards, Frank -- Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] XMPP: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gnome 2.6 and keybindings
Menu/Applications/Desktop Preferences/Keyboard On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 14:02, Paul Yeatman wrote: Hi, sorry for such a basic question but can't seem to find (what seems should be) a quick answer. How do I switch key bindings in Gnome 2.6 (for Sarge)? I like to switch Caps Lock and Control and have done this for the console but it gets unswitched when Gnome (gdm) is started. How do I switch it within Gnome, too? Thanks! -- Paul Yeatman (858) 534-9896[EMAIL PROTECTED] == ==Proudly brought to you by Mutt== == -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Please advise me...
Since when is a personal computer a good investment that holds it's value? Computers are like cars, the day you buy it, it drops in value 20%!!! Now, IBM's might keep value RELATIVELY better than OTHER laptops, but it hardly makes them a good investment that keeps it's value. --Patrick On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 13:11, Martin Fluch wrote: Had so far three IBM laptops (Thinkpad 770, Thinkpad 600, Thinkpad T20) of which I bought the last two used at e-Bay. All worked great with Linux and anyways they are an good investment, great working machines which keep their value. - Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Shutdown
I am probably coming in the middle of this thread and don't know exactly what's going on (just re-subscribed to the list). But are you trying to get a shutdown button in gnome without having to log out and do it via gdm? Simply make a new launcher that runs 'gksu poweroff'. When you press it, you'll get a dialog box asking for password, then it shutsdown for you. On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 10:53, Ken Simon wrote: Hope this isn't a double post... A guy in MDLUG figured out how to do it. It actually has to be compiled in :-/ (Hence why some distros can do it and some distros can't) http://www.teamprimerib.com/mdlug/viewtopic.php?t=233sid=1aed65eb198bae9deeea0528223ca44d ^^ There's the forum post that describes it. On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 12:52, Ralph Katz wrote: On 06/11/04 11:23, alex wrote: I managed it to work from gdm manager, but I wan't to eliminate the step of logging out before shutdown. Control-alt-backspace would do the trick. It should bring you right back to the gdm menu to shutdown. Ah, but do you want those users to /know/ about Control-alt-backspace? That is the question Regards. -- Ken Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Partition sizes
everything looks reasonable to me except that / is definitely too small
and I generally allocate a lot more space to /tmp. Any reason in
particular you're keeping it so small? I also usually have a /boot
partition.
btw, my box is named blue also, damned biter! =)
On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 12:55, David Balch wrote:
Hi,
I think I need to change my hard drive partitioning on a testing
install, and want to make sure I'm not missing something that
would mean I didn't have to. Here's the situation...
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a
Linux blue 2.4.25-1-386 #2 Wed Apr 14 19:38:08 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ df -h
FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 133M 92M 34M 74% /
tmpfs 253M 0 253M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda5 4.6G 2.3G 2.2G 52% /usr
/dev/hda6 2.8G 2.0G 672M 75% /var
/dev/hda7 15M 1.1M 13M 8% /tmp
/dev/hda8 105G 2.5G 97G 3% /home
I'm practically out of space on my root partition, which was allocated
133Mb by Debian Installer. (Although I'm not certain it wasn't picking
up some older partitioning.) The space is used (approx) by:
blue:/# du -hs /lib /etc /boot /sbin /bin
43M /lib
28M /etc
12M /boot
2.9M/sbin
2.8M/bin
When attempting to install a second kernel, / runs out of space and the
install fails.
Does this look within a sensible range for a desktop with Gnome?
i.e. my / partition is just too small, and I'll have to change it.
Cheers,
Dave.
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Re: Shutdown
It's equivalent to typing poweroff at a command line. I've been shutting off this way for a couple months, no side effects that I've seen/noticed. On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 14:40, Zenaan Harkness wrote: On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 04:12, Patrick Lane wrote: I am probably coming in the middle of this thread and don't know exactly what's going on (just re-subscribed to the list). But are you trying to get a shutdown button in gnome without having to log out and do it via gdm? Simply make a new launcher that runs 'gksu poweroff'. When you press it, you'll get a dialog box asking for password, then it shutsdown for you. How does this solution interact with Gnome session management? Is it like hitting CTRL-ALT-Backspace, and are there any gotcha side effects we might want to know about? tia zem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: need advice Iptables/2.4.25
On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 10:55:19AM +0200, Thierry wrote: [ errors omitted ] Is that kernel bug or me or iptables ? Those are unresolved symbols in the kernel modules. You can try another kernel build with a clean (make mrproper) source tree. There is a FAQ somewhere that explains the process. Should i send a bug report ? Not necessary for iptables. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: iptables question: no chain/target/match by that name...
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 02:08:35PM -0500, hugo vanwoerkom wrote: I'm trying it now with multiport + eject enabled in netfilter. Check REJECT in /proc/net/ip_tables_targets and check for multiport in /proc/net/ip_tables_matches. Using either loaded netfilter modules or built in netfilter support, netfilter functionality should be listed in ip_tables_names, ip_tables_targets and ip_tables_matches. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lost configuration after reboot
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 01:32:47AM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: (1) Setup your iptables configuration. (2) Do ``iptables-save /etc/iptables.conf''. (3) Add ``iptables-restore /etc/iptable.conf'' to /etc/init.d/network. Instead of altering /etc/init.d/networking, I suggest looking at interfaces(5), particularly: up, pre-up, down and post-down. Do NOT use /etc/init.d/iptables until it's audited -- there is/was a potential security breach (see Bug#225805), and other issues are probably to be discovered. iptables-save is broken in various ways. It can produce output that iptables-restore can not parse. iptables-restore is broken in one spectacular way, having no ability to recover from errors. That can range from broken input (see above) to simply failing because of missing netfilter features, in the kernel or modular. (In other words, trying to load some match or target that it has no kernel support for.) And the error messages iptables-restore produces are not terribly useful. Of course, beyond the typo that caused the bug reported in Bug#225805, the init script in woody also suffers being entirely dependent on iptables-save and iptables-restore. Bug#225805 is corrected in proposed-updates, though not as a security issue. I still recommend not using that init script. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: can't install mutt with apt-get
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 11:48:21AM +0900, Clemens Schwaighofer wrote: when I check for libidn9 I can't find anything. Anyone can help me out here? http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libi/libidn/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt not getting any updates to unstable for several days
On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 10:49:26PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: For the last several days my aptitude and apt-get are not seeing any updates to my system in unstable. I usually get at list a couple of updates a day and this started after a lockup in the middle of an update, which led me to think that there may be a problem. Also the packages files are being download on each update. Try a different mirror site. apt-setup can help. http://marillat.free.fr unstable/main Packages has also failed to update for a few days (I logged in and there was a problem with the directories) Load the page into a browser and you can see the new repository info near the bottom. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cdrdao, atapi, k3b
On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 01:03:24PM -0400, Stephen Cormier wrote: You may want to look at the archive for Monday, Janurary 12, 2004 in the thread cdrao not working with 2.6. I mis-posted my reply to debian-devel earlier -- have a look there for output from an actual run and comments from the cdrdao Debian maintainer. But to summarize, cdrdao (1.1.7-5 in testing and sid) had ATAPI support added by the maintainer sometime around July 2003. I don't know about k3b. I just downloaded it, ran k3b and watched it open 671 instances of cdrecord before I alt-sysrq-K'd the mess. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: adding extra network routes
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 02:27:49PM +0300, Alphonse Ogulla wrote: The last three lines are repeated five times. This brings me to my question. Where should I put my one line script 'route00' in order to add an extra route to a network without seeing the above errors on startup? A few thoughts... Test $IFACE and exit the script appropriately. #!/bin/sh [ $IFACE = eth0 ] || exit route add -net 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 dev eth0 Add the line directly to your /etc/network/interfaces stanza. auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp up route add -net 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 dev eth0 Or a variation of the last one. Run the script from somewhere other than the .d/ directories. auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp up /path/to/my/script -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt wants to remove packages installed with dpkg -i
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 11:43:48AM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: When I install a package with dpkg -i (say one I made myself with dh_make, or one from make-kpkg), the next time I run aptitude, it is selected for automatic removal. Put the package on hold with dpkg or dselect. Alternatively, put an epoch in front of the version number in the changelog when you build the package. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: delete file based on content
(oops, list reply) On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 06:08:02PM -0600, Michael Martinell wrote: #rm `grep -li Processing completed correctly *` Any other thoughts? grep -Zli Processing completed correctly * | xargs -r0 rm -v -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Find command to display attributes
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 05:50:08PM +0100, VEGH Karoly wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test$ find . -name *[123]* -exec ls -l {} \;
With GNU find:
find . -name *[123]* -ls
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Re: 2 NIC's, assigned in wrong order
On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 07:22:04PM -0700, Dean Allen Provins wrote: [ parts omitted ] That seemed like such a good suggestion. I created scripts to assign the desired names to the desired MAC addresses and placed them in /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/, and then added invocation in the interfaces file, but I keep getting the messages (in syslog): [ ... ] iface eth0 inet static pre-up /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/eth0.sh As an aside, /etc/network/*.d/ directories are the places to put scripts that are run automatically, run-parts(8) style. Scripts run from /etc/network/interfaces should be placed elsewhere. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with dpkg-reconfigure passwd
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 04:23:47PM -0300, Hugo S. Carrer wrote: Whats going on? Enable md5 passwords in the various /etc/pam.d/ files, at the least. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gnome sound server monopolizing alsa's audio
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 06:29:15AM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: Is this a known bug, and if so, is there a workaround? I tried searching the BTS, but I wasn't really sure which package to look for. Any given program can hog a single DSP. Here are a few workarounds: A) hardware that supports opening the DSP multiple times B) hardware with multiple DSPs or multiple sound cards C) software mixers (artsd, esound, etc) D) alsa's dmix plug-in (see the alsa wiki for details) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to write Console output to a log file
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 03:30:27AM -0800, Sebastia Altemir wrote: If, under SuSE 8.2, I put this line echo *** Running /ETC/INIT.D/NETWORK *** in /etc/init.d/network, I can find this line in /var/log/boot.msg Under Debian, - kernel 2.4.20 -, I place a similar ECHO line in /etc/init.d/networking, can see (very fast) on the console screen, but can't find it in any file at /var/log. What must I do to have it logged ? (boot.msg does not exist) logger(1) in bsdutils is an option. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
error
I attempted to file a complaint on line. Each time I was informed that the phone number (my phone number) was incorrect; yet, my phone number, 972 727 7260 is registered on the Do Not Call list. I could not file my complaint except by calling 1 888 382 l222. Norman Lane
Newbie: dcopserver error with user
I just installed my first copy of sarge from a netinstall CD from the site, everything
went well in installation.
But the normal user I created freeballer cannot log into kde, but root works fine.
Could someone help me out I would appreciate it
here is the error log created:
/etc/gdm/PreSession//Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp
/etc/gdm/PreSession//Default: running: sessreg -a -w /var/log/wtmp -u /var/run/utmp -x
/var/lib/gdm/:0.Xservers -h -l :0 root
stdin: is not a tty
+ WM=kde3
+ cp /dev/null /root/.kde3-errors
+ chmod 600 /root/.kde3-errors
+ exec
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debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2003 : Issue 3659
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Re: No mouse in gpm: Resolved-Sort O [ Mark Healey [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
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have u tried using alien?
# alien apackage.rpm
Alien must be run as root or fakeroot.
Alien will produce a debian package that can be install using
#dpkg -i apackage.deb
You may find that there are some library issues ie.
A package look for abc.so.1 while in debian there is abc.so. To fix this
simply create a symlink of abc.so called abc.so.1
Cheers
Paul
On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 04:02, alberto wrote:
Hi all,
Intel has a powerful f90 compiler, the only one freely available on
the market, as far as I know, which runs under Linux. It is an
extremely important tool for those who run numerical simulations for
scientific purposes.
http://www.intel.com/software/products/compilers/downloads/forlin.htm
Unfortunately for Debian users, Intel distribute the compiler as an
rpm archive, and the install script is accordingly written.
I have succesfully and easily installed the compiler on my Debian
Woody in a kind of a dirty way and I've put a brief HOWTO on my web
site:
http://www.nordita.dk/~bigazzi/varie/Intel_F90_on_a_Debian_GNU_system.html
I'm sure, though, that the install script, wich you find on the same
page of mine, can be just adapted to Debian and made available to
Intel for them to include Debian as a supported platform for their
compiler.
Notice that, in the scientific community, the availability of such a
compiler for Debian, will greatly benefit our favorite distro.
Does anyone want to take the task of rewriting the script for Debian?
alberto.
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Hello All,
A couple of colleagues and I are planning
to set up an ftp/http server which hosts
the debian packages, so that people can
install Debian on their machines over the
office intranet.
What is the best way to go about this?
Things that we are planning are,
1.the users should be able to do an
apt-get update and the packages
should be fetched/updated from this
server on the intranet.
2.users who are migrating from windows
must be able to install Debian on their
machines. (with the use of boot floppy, etc.)
Also, what is the best way to keep this
server up-to-date? Guess, what I'm asking
for is like a mirror of the Debian packages...
Thanks in advance,
-vikas
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 11:59:30PM -0500, H. S. wrote:
SNIP
Here is what I get now:
{tmp} pon dsl-provider
/usr/sbin/pppd: Can't open options file /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider:
Permission denied
{tmp} ls -l /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider
-rw---1 root root 1813 Nov 14 01:12
/etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider
Am I supposed to change thepermission fo the above file manually?
-HS
Not sure about manually but on my system these files are set to
root/dip with perms of 640.
so as root do:
chown root:dip /etc/ppp/peers/*
chmod 640 /etc/ppp/peers/*
Thats my suggestion.
-Kev
Yes, this seems to be working fine. I had a couple of other files which
had different permissions:
~# ls -l /etc/ppp/peers/
total 8
Newbie: dcopserver error with user
I just installed my first copy of sarge from a netinstall CD from the site, everything went well in installation. But the normal user I created freeballer cannot log into kde, but root works fine. Could someone help me out I would appreciate it here is the error log created: /etc/gdm/PreSession//Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp /etc/gdm/PreSession//Default: running: sessreg -a -w /var/log/wtmp -u /var/run/utmp -x /var/lib/gdm/:0.Xservers -h -l :0 root stdin: is not a tty + WM=kde3 + cp /dev/null /root/.kde3-errors + chmod 600 /root/.kde3-errors + exec -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: setting hardware clock from NIST
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 09:04:58PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: So my first question is, what is debian's equivalent to clock. All it did, with the -w option, was to set the hardware clock from the system clock. I presume the former is GMT, and so there is a time offset invoved. hwclock -w Second, where to put it? I placed a copy of my time.rc into /etc/init.d, and then created a symlink to it in /etc/rc2.d so that the hardware clock is reset on boot, and also in /etc/cron.daily, so that the clocks are reset daily according to NIST. Will this work; is there a better arrangement? Anywhere after the network device initialization should do. The ntpdate package may interest you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm a newbie and would like help configuring x and kde
I'm a total newbie to debian and been using redhat for sometime now and it's worked fine. I have tried knoppix for sometime too and love the package management of debian and been thinking of switching but don't know exactly how to get kde/gnome, X setup and working because redhat basically does everything for you. The debian setup seems to end without configuring X or setup of KDE or gnome. I'd appreciate if someone could redirect me to a site, a newbie list or howto get it setup on my dell inspiron so that I can have a gui. Thanks for the time Freeballer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fixed libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 package
On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 11:05, Craig Dickson wrote: Seriously, for your own sake (and this is the generic you, I'm not addressing Paul specifically, as I don't know what he can or can't do for himself), why run unstable, which is _intended_ as a place for leading-edge testing -- catch it here before it breaks something really important -- if you aren't able to deal with the problems that sooner or later _will_ arise? Craig Some of us using unstable use it because we have to. That is, we have to if we want to run Debian. For example, I installed unstable for XF86 4.2. w/o it, I had to do a mickey mouse work-around to get my xserver to start, which to me is way worse. I think your point of view on people running unstable only if they can fix these 'basic' problems that arise is foolhearty. The more people using unstable, the more bugs that are found, reported, and eventually fixed for future stable releases. Just my pair of lincolns. Patrick -- Patrick Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SonicBlue Rio S50
I recently bought a Rio S50 w/ the impression that it would easily work with linux (I see Rio 500 support everywhere). However, I can't for the life of me get this thing to work. Has anyone had any experience with this, or any other newer Rio model, and linux? (sorry for the duplicate to those on debian-laptop I sent it to the wrong list at first) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mac-binhex translation
What about .sit.hqx files? I can't seem to find any way to get those useable. On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 06:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried some of the programs like mcvert, but never really liked them. Then just by chance one day I tried Xdeview which I found on my Debian menus (in windowmaker). It worked great at decoding binhexed attachments that my friends with macs send me. Best, Ric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT - Power Supply 300w or 400w?
tomshardware.com had a review of 20 some-odd different power supplies. check it out: http://www.tomshardware.com/howto/02q4/021021/index.html --Patrick On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 10:40, John Hasler wrote: Chip writes: I'm buying a new computer - upgrade option available to get 400w power supply versus standard 300w. Benefits? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie Debian 3.0 GeForce4 MX 440
On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 12:33, Aedificator wrote: Recently i've installed DEbian 3.0 on my PC (512 mb ram, P4 1.6 GHz, GF4 MX 440). When trying to run X i get the no screens found error. No matter which driver (svga, nv) i choose during the installation process the Xserver fails. Show us the screens section of your XF86config file My system worked fine under Red Hat 7.3 so it's a Debian thing. That's a pretty hasty assumption Can anyone help me? Nvidia makes linux drivers (available at www.nvidia.com). They work a lot better than the nv drivers. I doubt that's exactly your problem, but their a good thing to have anyways. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CUPS + Epson480 don't work!!
Check your logs (located in /var/log/cups/) for any clues as to what happened. On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 09:02, Gustavo Rahal wrote: Hi I'm having problems with cups and epson480. I think I installed all the packages and properly configured the printer using the cups web interface (port 631). But when I send a job nothing happens. Does any body know what I should check? Thanks Gustavo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OpenOffice
I tried installing fonts as root with the oopadmin tool. Before I even started root had fonts in all the openoffice programs. After installing the fonts, my user still does not have any fonts. I don't know what gives =( --Patrick On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 22:39, Jeff wrote: Patrick Lane, 2002-Oct-16 20:33 -0700: Hello All, Recently, all of my OpenOffice applications seem to have lost their fonts. What I mean by this, is that all text in the applications is missing. Menu text, text typed in by a user...ALL TEXT. It's odd. This happened a couple of days ago and I'm just now getting around to trying to fix it. I can't remember if anything happened to change the system (obviously must have) before this problem arose. I'm just not sure. I'm running sid and am getting the OpenOffice debs here: deb http://www.phy.olemiss.edu/openoffice/ unstable main contrib Any help is greatly appreciated. --Patrick There was a short thread a few days ago that might help you with this. The subject said in part ooadmin/spadmin. There was a font issue that had something to do with defoma. You might want to check the archive. jc -- Jeff Coppock Systems Engineer Diggin' DebianAdmin and User -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OpenOffice
Hello All, Recently, all of my OpenOffice applications seem to have lost their fonts. What I mean by this, is that all text in the applications is missing. Menu text, text typed in by a user...ALL TEXT. It's odd. This happened a couple of days ago and I'm just now getting around to trying to fix it. I can't remember if anything happened to change the system (obviously must have) before this problem arose. I'm just not sure. I'm running sid and am getting the OpenOffice debs here: deb http://www.phy.olemiss.edu/openoffice/ unstable main contrib Any help is greatly appreciated. --Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Soundblaster Live! Card Not Working
I compile support for the sblive directly into the kernel and it works grand. --Patrick On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 15:48, Benjamin Pharr wrote: No, the card doesn't show up when I do a lspci. Does that mean I've got a bad card? Thanks, Ben On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 09:15:08AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 13/05/02 Benjamin Pharr did speaketh: I just bought a Soundblaster Live! soundcard, and I can't get it to work. I'm running Debian GNU/Linux with the 2.4.19-pre8 kernel. When I When you do an lspci do you see the card? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 ...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort. -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to Unix -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: woody eterm - unable to handle images for background
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 04:11:40PM -0400, Jason M. Harvey wrote: [ second reply, on list ] Eterm: Error: Unable to load image file tile/nebula.jpg -- No loader available for that file format That tells the full story: no loader is available for that image format. CVS imlib2's loaders and filters (all *.so files) were errantly moved to the libimlib2-dev package along with the .so library symlinks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
gFTP
Is it just me, or does anyone else have stability problems with gFTP? It crashes on me often. I'm using testing, kernel 2.4.18, nvidia X driver, everything up-to-date. --Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CUPS: client-error-not-possible
I'm getting this error: client-error-not-possible when trying to print a test page via the cups web based admin tool. I'm using sid, completely updated. I have no experience with CUPS, can anyone give me a hand? --Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Apache libphp4.so
Did you give that file a .php extension? And if you did, did you point your browser directly at the file? Apache won't recognize index.php unless you tell it to. On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 12:00, Roy Pluschke wrote: On Tue, 16 Apr 2002 08:19:57 -0400 Kurc, Marcin A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: why don't you just uncomment the line an restart apache? Marcin Kurc CAD Systems Administrator Cooper-Standard Automotive That was the first thing that I tried but when it didn't work I thought you may have to use apacheconfig. Note that I am running woody and also have the following lines uncommented in httpd.conf # And for PHP 4.x, use: # AddType application/x-httpd-php .php AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps Plain html files render fine from my public_html directory but the following doesn't work html head titleExample/title /head body ?php echo Hi, I'm a PHP script!; ? /body /html Is the a way to query apache as to what modules are loaded?? perhaps a permissions problem or something else which must be configured ? Thanks in advance, Roy Pluschke [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
getting CUPS to work.
I have a HP DeskJet 880C. I installed CUPS, configured the printer. The CUPS server shows all test pages as being printed, however, the printer receives no data. The output of 'lpinfo -v' is as follows: blacktop:/home/mandingo# lpinfo -v network socket network http network ipp network lpd direct parallel:/dev/unknown-parallel0 serial serial:/dev/ttyS0?baud=115200 serial serial:/dev/ttyS1?baud=115200 serial serial:/dev/ttyS2?baud=115200 serial serial:/dev/ttyS3?baud=115200 direct usb:/dev/usb/lp0 direct usb:/dev/usb/lp1 direct usb:/dev/usb/lp2 direct usb:/dev/usb/lp3 direct usb:/dev/usb/lp4 direct usb:/dev/usb/lp5 direct usb:/dev/usb/lp6 direct usb:/dev/usb/lp7 direct usb:/dev/usb/lp8 direct usb:/dev/usb/lp9 direct usb:/dev/usb/lp10 direct usb:/dev/usb/lp11 direct usb:/dev/usb/lp12 direct usb:/dev/usb/lp13 direct usb:/dev/usb/lp14 direct usb:/dev/usb/lp15 network smb Any help would be EXTREMELY helpful. Thank you. --Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: getting CUPS to work.
On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 05:19, dman wrote: On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 10:25:38PM -0700, Patrick Lane wrote: | I have a HP DeskJet 880C. I installed CUPS, configured the printer. The | CUPS server shows all test pages as being printed, however, the printer | receives no data. That's a parallel port printer and plugged directly into the parallel port? What does echo test /dev/lp0 do? | The output of 'lpinfo -v' is as follows: Where did you get this command? I don't have it on my system. -D echo test /dev/lp0 prints out test on a piece of paper. Is there anyway that CUPS is not using lp0? I also have vmware setup to use lp0, it prints fine from winxp (albeit very slow). lpinfo was installed on my system, I have no idea what package it was installed with. I am running sid with kernel 2.4.18 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MPEG Player?
I suggest MPlayer. It's not a debian package, nor will it be, so you have to compile it yourself. It does have a lot of supported file formats though (divx, mpeg, avi, dvd, etc...). www.mplayerhq.hu --Patrick On Sat, 2002-04-13 at 22:23, Dennis Krinke wrote: It seems like smpeg-gtv is no longer a woody package? What mpeg player is recommended? Thanks, Dennis Krinke -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PS/2 mouse lagging
Any time there is any hard drive activity, my mouse will freeze up until the hard drive stops being accessed. This has only happened since I've downgraded to woody (reformatted). I do not have a slow computer. I'm running a Athlon 1200, 1 GB of RAM, and UDMA 100 HDDs. I'm also using kernel 2.4.17. Any ideas? --Patrick
Re: PS/2 mouse lagging
blacktop:/home/mandingo# for i in a b; do hdparm -d 1 /dev/hd$i; done /dev/hda: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted using_dma= 0 (off) /dev/hdb: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted using_dma= 0 (off) blacktop:/home/mandingo# It won't let me. Do I have to enable something in the kernel? On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 00:09, Crispin Wellington wrote: On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 15:57, Patrick Lane wrote: Any time there is any hard drive activity, my mouse will freeze up until the hard drive stops being accessed. This has only happened since I've downgraded to woody (reformatted). I do not have a slow computer. I'm running a Athlon 1200, 1 GB of RAM, and UDMA 100 HDDs. I'm also using kernel 2.4.17. Any ideas? Try switching on DMA access on your ide bus. for i in a b c d; do hdparm -d 1 /dev/hd$i; done Kind Regards Crispin Wellington -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
xlib and woody
After an indeterminate amount of time (not too terribly long however) I can no longer open new x applications. This is the error emssage I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ galeon Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server I just did a clean install of woody. Everything is up to date. Any ideas? --Patrick
Java Virtual Machine
What do I need to do to get java working in Galeon and/or Mozilla? I'm using unstable with current packages (not cvs). Thanks in advance. --Patrick
php4-mysql package
Which packages do I need to install to be able to use mysql and php4 together? There are more mysql packages than just php4-mysql I'm assuming. I currently have apache, php4, and php4-mysql installed. --Patrick
Re: galeon bugs -- crashing
Karsten M. Self wrote: on Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 04:33:21PM -0500, Rohan Deshpande ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Greetings, I have just updated to galeon, and everytime I try to use any plugin Version? Java VM? I'm was having the same problem trying to get the flash plugin installed. I just updated galeon from the unstable package and it works like a champ. --Patrick
Re: DVD Player Software
Jim McCloskey wrote: David Harrigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Therefore, I'm asking this esteemed group which combo of DVD Player | software does it for you..plus what limitations does your chosen bit | of software have? Xine is now very mature and very stable. The Debian packages (even in unstable) lag a little behind, but I've had no trouble compiling and installing the current version (0.9.1) from source on my Debian (testing) system. For legal reasons, the official version does not do any CSS decryption, but there are a number of excellent plugins available from a variety of sources which do the needful. All relevant information is available at: http://xine.sourceforge.net/ Jim Again, I like Mplayer (www.mplayerhq.hu). To my knowledge there is no debian package, but it isn't too terribly hard to compile from source (I'd be willing to help). It will play mpegs, avis, divx, DVDs, and more. It even has a skinable gui now.
Galeon in unstable
I'm trying to apt-get install galeon in unstable. It's telling me that it needs mozilla-browser 0.9.5 and that mozilla-browser 0.9.5-2 is to be installed. Anything I can do? --Patrick
Re: Looking for console IRC client with DCC auto-get and auto-accept
I believe BitchX will do that, ScrollZ will too. --Patrick Morbo wrote: Hi, Could anyone please suggest a good console based IRC client with the possibility to download files from mIRC Fserve fileservers, and the possiblility to set auto-accept and auto-get for DCC transfers. Many thanks in advance! regards, Balazs
Re: Software DVD players
I use MPlayer, it now has a GUI! =] www.mplayerhq.hu You have to compile it from source, but it's worth it. The best media solution around in my opinion. Plays mpegs, avis, divx files as well --Patrick Ross Burton wrote: Hi, Does anyone know of a good software DVD player for Debian unstable? I am willing to build from source if I have to but would prefer something packaged. Thanks for any help, Ross Burton
Re: Software DVD players
no. I forget the library it needs, it's in the documentation. you CAN use win32 dlls for divx, but it's not required, and is actually being phased out of the project all together Craig Dickson wrote: Patrick Lane wrote: I use MPlayer, it now has a GUI! =] www.mplayerhq.hu You have to compile it from source, but it's worth it. The best media solution around in my opinion. Plays mpegs, avis, divx files as well Does it require Microsoft Win32 DLLs to play divx files? Craig
Re: Help with GDM
I have a different problem with GDM2. I am running the latest development kernels. Unfortunately, the way shrmem works has been changed. Now, prebuilt GDM packages give me executables that crash when I run them. I am left attempting to get GDM2 to run after building and installing it from CVS source. The problem I have is that I cannot seem to get the Xauth stuff to work. I have added the requisite entries to /etc/pam.d/gdm, I have the /var/gdm directory correctly configured, permissions and ownershipwise. I am totally flumoxed. I have tried for over a day to get the damn thing to work, to no avail. I've tried setting the various dir prefixes to make sure all my settings were being found, but that hasn't helped. I must say, a fairly obvious fix that would seem to me to be obvious would be to have the installation proceedure check which distribution was being used (at least for Mandrake, SUSE, RedHat, Debian) and then install the various pieces in the same places that the packages for those distributions use. It just seems that setting up GDM is harder than it needs to be (comments in the gdm2/INSTALL notwithstanding). Miles On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote: I've just upgrade from Debian 2.1 to unstable, and i have everything working except gdm. X comes up, and i can see that /etc/gdm/Init/Default is being run because the xsetroot command there turns the background blue, but this script does not complete because the xterm it's supposed to run never appears. Then X dies. This happens about 5 more times, and then i'm left with X running, along with my xterm and gdmlogin. gdm is no longer running at this point. gdmlogin reads in my username and password, but then disappears, but both X and the xterm are still running. I have to ctrl-alt-backspace it. Attached are the relevant parts of /var/log/syslog and the only two files i've modified from the default debian install, /etc/gdm/Init/Default and /etc/gdm/gdm.conf. -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Let us be thankful we have commerce. Buy more. Buy more now. Buy. And be happy. --OMM (THX 1138)
NIC can't be found.
During the boot sequence I am receiving the following message; eth0:unknown interface: Operation not supported by device I cannot figure out why my NIC is not being seen. I have tried several flavors of NICs (even a NE2000) and have been through the BIOS with several configurations to make sure PnP is not a problem. I have even recompiled the kernel (2.2.12) just for good measure. It is not possible to load the driver module since theeth0 is not being created. At this point, I am running out of ideas. Any pointers would be very much appreciated. Thank you! -Lane
Re: Can Separate Partitions Interfere?
Would it be possible to replace in the lilo.conf above: 1) /dev/hda2 by /dev/hdb1 and 2) /dev/hda3 by /dev/hdb2, because I plan to install the 2 others distribitions on a second disk? The first 2 partitions of /dev/hdb are of course below the 1024 cylinders limit? You bet! I didn't do anything special to get Mandrake running on my hdb. I still have to get Debian's boot partition below 1024 for it to run. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Getting where I want to be with Linux...
Re: Troubleshooting My PPP
If you really wanted to get cute, maybe you could have just one lilo.conf: symlink /etc/lilo.conf to point to /boot/lilo.conf. Does anyone else do this, or are there problems with this I haven't thought out? Well, that's what I have: just the one Corel lilo.conf. I installed the other two distros with a floppy boot so that they wouldn't mess with the MBR. The Corel LILO gives me a menu that lets me select which distro to start. But I still need to know how large to make my replacement boot partition below 1024 cyl. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Getting where I want to be with Linux...
Troubleshooting My PPP
I tried the command George Bonser suggested: echo 0 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_timestamps but that had no effect. He also suggested turning off all ppp header compression, but I could not find where that is specified. Does the /etc/ppp/options file get read before each dialup, or only once for each login? I tried some editing of the file, but nothing I did made any difference. Here is a copy of the options file without any comments: asyncmap 0 auth crtscts lock modem mru 542 proxyarp lcp-echo-interval 30 lcp-echo-failure 4 noipx Are any of the other files in /etc/ppp important? Keith Murphy mentioned modem init strings. Kppp in Corel Linux uses only ATZ, but I see that wvdial, which I'm using in Debian, has the following strings: Init1 = ATZ Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 C1 D2 S11=55 +FCLASS=0 Well, I hope the above suggests something, or that you can provide me with some other tests or how I can get information that may be useful. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Getting where I want to be with Linux...
Re: Thank you, Corel, for PPP]
I'm back! I've had another go a ppp in Debian slink. Jonathan Chang wrote: On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, George Bonser wrote: Try: echo 0 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_timestamps That didn't work for me. Turn off all ppp header compression. I couldn't figure out how to do that. I've discussed this ppp problem with others on this list before. And it looks like this problem occurs only when using PCMCIA modems from my experience. My modem is an external USR Courier V.Everything that works fine in Corel Linux, Win NT, and Win 98. At John Hasler's suggestion, I ran plog, and it said, This system lacks kernel support for ppp. I hope you won't get mad at me for saying this, but I'm trying to accomplish the same thing, so far unsuccessfully, in Mandrake 6.1. I'm getting the same basic error messages: kernel has no ppp support. What makes it interesting in Mandrake is that last night I reinstalled with the Install Everything option, some 1600M of stuff. When Mandrake boots, there are a lot of messages about wrong kernel version, which leads me to a more fundamental question that I think I'll put in a separate thread in case the right person is skipping this one: can one distribution interfere with another? -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Getting where I want to be with Linux...
Can Separate Partitions Interfere?
That may not be the best way to phrase the Subject, but my problems with ppp with both Debian and Mandrake suggest this possibility to me. On my system I have three Linux installations: Corel, Debian, and Mandrake. The latter two will not connect me to the Internet, and the basic complaint is that ppp support is not included in the kernel. I did not say no to anything that looked like it might something to do with this, and in fact, with my latest Mandrake install, I took the Install Everything option. So is it possible that these Linuxes are interfering with each other in some way? The boot process certainly looks like the three are independent, and the X interface is unique to each. However, I do see in the Mandrake boot (dmesg stuff) repeated errors that say /boot/System.map has incorrect kernel version. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Getting where I want to be with Linux...
Troubleshooting My PPP
How embarrassing! My PPP problems had nothing to do with PPP! They were caused by my ignorant use of lilo in booting my three Linux distributions. I'm not sure exactly what was going on, but I was having a kernel running a filesystem for which it was not designed. After I edited lilo.conf correctly, I was able to get online with Mandrake immediately. The holdup with Debian is that lilo told me that Debian's boot partition was beyond cylinder 1024! I think I have some space closer to the beginning that I can use instead for the boot partition. My thought is to create the partition with Partition Magic (which I feel comfortable using), copy the contents of the present boot partition to the new one, and then edit lilo.conf to reflect the change. Does the above sound workable? How large does the boot partition need to be to hold things? -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Getting where I want to be with Linux...
Re[2]: Thank you, Corel, for PPP
Keith wrote: I have seen several postings on this list about your problem, but never any response when asked (by John Hasler) for details. Maybe you go offline with gurus with your problem, but I suspect you'd be better served, if you are sincerely interested in getting Debian to do this, if you persisted with the list and offered us some details like: logs; type of modem; dialup strings that Debian (and Corel) are using. And what's your provider; maybe someone else has that one and knows the pitfalls. Hit-and-run won't get it; it only frustrates everybody. Well, I am sincere about wanting Debian to do the job for me. You are correct that some folks, including John Hasler, asked me for details privately. I agree that it would be better to do the whole thing on the list in case others have suggestions or have similar problems that can be solved by the interchange. I reported what I had seen in my earlier messages (pon does nothing and says nothing; wvdial seems to log on OK, but then dies with an Error #1). I had run pppconfig. But you've mentioned some information above that I did not supply, and I'll try to provide that in a later message. I noticed that under Debian you used wvdial. I've never used that; only pppconfig and pon. That should do a perfectly good chat script for you. Have you considered starting afresh and getting wvdial out of the act? Sure, I'm open to anything. The attraction of wvdial was that it provides a running report of what it's doing, so I thought it would be better for diagosis. wvdial has worked well under Corel Linux, too. I'll report back on the modem strings... well, if they're different, I'll change Debian's so that it's the same as Corel's. Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA
Re: Newbie made a boo boo surprise surprise
On 20 Feb 2000, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: Suggestion: wipe your install, install a base system, add packages a few at a time, and get used to your system. You'll have a much better understanding, and a much more stable system, this way. I'm a Linux fairly-newbie, and your advice surprises me. My conclusion thus far with a little experience with Red Hat, Corel Linux, and Debian is that the only road to happiness in Linux is to install every blasted library you can think of, and then maybe you can start to install new stuff without dependencies stopping your every effort. But maybe with apt-get that isn't necessary, although my few attempts to use that system have not been very successful. I do the apt-get update and then apt-get install [package], and then it proceeds to tell me why it didn't do what I asked it to. OTOH, my only experience with real Debian has been with the CD that came with the Learning Debian book, and I'm not sure that CD is OK. I mean, what kind of Linux distro would come without ppp support... and in spite of following all kinds of guru advice, I was never able to get that system online. When potato becomes stable (or however you say that), I'm going to give Debian another look, and I hope apt-get will actually do for me what it does for others: not only install the requested packages, but also fetch any dependencies. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Getting where I want to be with Corel Linux
How to apt-get gnome
Is there a single command to apt-get that will fetch all of the latest gnome basic system packages? -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Getting where I want to be with Corel Linux
Apt-get Confusion
According to the apt-get man page: install install is followed by one or more packages desired for installation. Each package is a package name, not a fully qualified filename (for instance, in a Debian GNU/Linux system, ldso would be the argument provided, not ldso_1.9.6-2.deb). All packages required by the package(s) specified for installa tion will also be retrieved and installed. I must be doing something wrong, because the last sentence above is not true for me. All apt-get does is tell me what's missing: CorelLinux:/home/llester# apt-get install ripple Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Sorry, ripple is already the newest version You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: ripple: Depends: libaudiofile0 but it is not installed Depends: libesd-alsa0 (= 0.2.16) but it is not installed Depends: libggi2 ( 1:1.99.2.0b2.1) but it is not installed Depends: libgii0 ( 1:0.6) but it is not installed Depends: libsdl1.0 but it is not installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution). I did run apt-get update before the above. The above example is not unique; I almost always get the same kind of report. And when I try to install the missing items, there's always something wrong with that: incomplete filename, wrong filename, etc. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Getting where I want to be with Corel Linux
Re: Apt-get Confusion
On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote: Have you tried 'apt-get -f install', I've had similar problems also and apt-get -f install solves most... Is that safe? I seem to recall doing that once some time ago, and it mangled my system. It would still run, but I recall an awful lot of stuff got changed. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Getting where I want to be with Corel Linux
Re: Apt-get Confusion
Ron Rademaker said: I've done it a few times and never had any real trouble, once it did delete a few packages I actually wanted to keep, but afterwards I just reinstalled them and all was fine. I did it, and now I'm in trouble. One of the packages it removed was kde-corel. That's no big loss except that it took kdm, which worked well, and kppp, which gets me online. xdm works poorly for a number of reasons. icewm won't get me back to an X logon screen so that I can switch root/user. Something sometimes grabs the CPU. And just like with my real Debian installation, my Corel Linux system will no longer go online, either with pon or wvdial, after I configured them. The errors are the same ones I kept getting with Debian, even after a lot of help from Debian gurus. I'm having to use Win98 to send this message. :-( I guess I'll go back in, and see if I can get kde-corel reinstalled from the CD. Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA
Unidentified subject!
With my current installation of Corel Linux, I am getting more segmentation faults, and they are with programs that did not have this problem with my previous install (Adobe Acrobat, for one). I don't see segmentation in the indices of the Running Linux or Learning Debian/GNU Linux books. Is there a solution? -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Getting where I want to be with Corel Linux
Re: Installation problem
kanupriya wrote: The system lacks kernel support for PPP. This could be because the PPP kernel module is not loaded or because the kernel is not configured for PPP. Sea the README.linux file in ppp-2.3.5 distribution. Did you, by any chance, install the Debian CD that came with McCarty's book? I wonder because I did, and I get the same error when I run pon. This happened with two installs, first with the Dialup (!) package and secondly with a manual selection of stuff. I've decided to blame the CD, since gobs of gurus have been unable to get me online with Debian. A suggestion to recompile the kernel before you can get online with a distribution seems extreme, if you don't mind my saying so. I'm planning to get Debian from another source and try it. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Getting where I want to be with Corel Linux
Re: First Kernel Recompile
Shaul Karl said: I would try to install everything that is recommended by the kernel-package package. In fact, have you installed kernel-package? Yes, I have. How do you find out what is recommended by the k-p package? Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA
Re[2]: Newbie's experience Installing Debian
David wrote: I decided not to use the CD, figuring that if they got that wrong, the rest was not likely to be OK either. I borrowed a Cheap Bytes Slink CD at work. I wonder if this would explain the very silly situation that I cannot get online with an install from that CD. I've decided to give up on Debian until potato goes stable (or however you say that). And in case, you missed my earlier whines, I have had all kinds of good advice about solving my ppp problem. Nothing works, neither wvdial nor pon will stay online after the first few seconds. The book is for newbies only. It is very good for newbies, but it provided few answers to questions I had. As somewhat of a newbie, it was helpful. But I thought it was pretty thin for the price. Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA
10 gig Drives W/O EZDrive?
I have EZDrive installed in order to have full access to my two 10-gig drives. I've found a way to run Win NT without EZDrive, but I'm wondering whether Linux (and Win 98, for that matter) needs it to access the drives fully. Do you know? If it's possible, how does one remove EZDrive without trashing everything on the drive? Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA
pam needed for ppp?
I've never been able to connect to the Internet with Debian Linux, even though I don't have that problem with Corel Linux. Another message leads me to ask this question: Is the pam stuff needed for ppp (pon and wvdial) to work? If so, what do I tell apt-get in order to install what's missing? (I installed a Dialup package my first install, and yesterday I left pam out of my package-by-package install.) Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA
Library Names
I was =sure= I installed every library I was likely to need, but I can't even get nedit to run. It says it's missing libm.so.5 and of course, apt-get says there's no such package as libm. I sometimes suspect that's one of the Linux Standards: no library file can have a name that's even similar to the package that contains it. Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA
First Kernel Recompile
I did a fair amount of reading and asking first, but now I've tried my first kernel recompile. make xconfig wouldn't work, and it seemed to be because it couldn't find the tk stuff. make config worked OK, but make dep wouldn't, and it seemed to be because it couldn't find the standard C headers, such as stdio.h. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Getting where I want to be with Corel Linux
Dialup Doesn't Dialup
Having enjoyed some of the features of Corel Linux, I decided that I wanted to try the real thing. I bought McCarty's book and installed the CD. A number of packaged installs were offered, and I selected Dialup, both for dialup and the X graphics emphasis. Imagine my dismay when I couldn't dialup! Since installing, I have fiddled with granting permissions, joining groups, commenting auth out of options, and I've lost count about what else. But when I run wvdial, everything goes fine until it looks like I've logged on to my ISP (username and password accepted), and then it says something like PPP (D?) died (error 1). Can you help me start getting where I want to be with Debian? -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Getting where I want to be with Corel Linux
RE: Based On
On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Robert Ruzbacky wrote: Yes, Corel has apparently based their flavour of linux on debian as well!! Yes, indeed. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Getting where I want to be with Corel Linux
Re: Check This Out!
On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, David Wiard wrote: exactly what software do you install that automatically emails everyone in an address book advertising DSL service? It's probably the software that the Free DSL service provides. It generates ads on your screen in return for the free service. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Getting where I want to be with Corel Linux
