Re: bootloaders selecting wrong video adapter [was: GRUB doesn't come up in new installation]
Out of necessity to have a working system ASAP, I installed Ubuntu which has the same problem, but does all the installation from the blue screen which I can see. Now when I boot up, the screen goes blank when GRUB should appear, and stays blank until the graphical part of the boot-up. I will try sumo wrestler's suggestions now in my spare time (rather than out of desperation) and post any solution I come up with, and file a report on debian-boot. The trial and error is a bit time-consuming since I have to go through the initial stages of the install up to the point of reboot to know if it worked or not. The same problem occurs with the Etch beta 2 business-card ISO. It goes further before rebooting, but then the same thing happens.
Re: GRUB doesn't come up in new installation
By the way, I just tried re-installing grub from a chroot environment within the liveCD environment, then comparing the new MBR with the one that I couldn't boot from. They're identical, so I don't think the bios is overwriting my MBR. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo mount /dev/hda1 /mnt [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo chroot /mnt [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# grub-install /dev/hda Installation finished. No error reported. This is the contents of the device map /boot/grub/device.map. Check if this is correct or not. If any of the lines is incorrect, fix it and re-run the script `grub-install'. (hd0) /dev/hda [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# exit [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo dd if=/dev/hda of=boot2.MBR bs=512 count=1 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 512 bytes transferred in 0.009921 seconds (51608 bytes/sec) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ md5sum boot.MBR boot2.MBR b41045a99bcddc6ee7c12e9f54c45852 boot.MBR b41045a99bcddc6ee7c12e9f54c45852 boot2.MBR
Re: GRUB doesn't come up in new installation
I've also noticed that the hard drive light goes on for a while after the screen goes black when GRUB should have appeared, so I wonder if the OS is booting but there's a problem with the video card? I don't know why the video could work fine for everything including liveCDs and installation discs but fail when GRUB comes up, but I'm at a loss. It's an AOPEN Geforce2 Model MX200 plug-in card. I can't see any onboard video on this mainboard. 2006/3/24, Levi Waldron [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm trying to install Debian on a fairly new machine, a Celeron 2GHz, ASUS P4S800 mainboard with SiS 648FX chipset, onboard NVidia Geforce video card, Award BIOS. It worked fine with the proprietary OS it had when I bought it. I just ran the Debian stable business card iso install disc, and re-partitioned and formatted the hard drive. But when I reboot without a CD in the drive, when GRUB should come up I get a black screen instead. Knoppix and Ubuntu Live CDs work fine, which is where I'm writing this email from. I've also tried using the Debian install disc as a rescue disc, ie: linux root=/dev/hda1 but I get a VFS: Cannot open root device kernel panic. Perhaps I'm just not using the rescue disc properly, I've gotten this error before when compiling a kernel without the --initrd option. I noticed that the BIOS had boot virus protection enabled, so I disabled this, without avail. Perhaps the BIOS is still resetting my MBR even though this virus protection is now disabled, and I have to do a hard reset of the bios? I'm attaching the file produced by the command dd if=/dev/hda of=/boot/boot.MBR bs=512 count=1 in case anyone knows how to read an MBR backup. Any ideas?
Re: bootloaders selecting wrong video adapter [was: GRUB doesn't come up in new installation]
2006/3/24, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED]: it probably is booting. you've got the wrong video mode for your setup. you should probably specify vga=ask in the kernel line of your boot also, this seemed appropriate: http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:iz_Ho_51kzoJ:www.linux-mag.com/content/view/77/2083/+grub+video+modehl=engl=usct=clnkcd=2 You seem to be onto something! I ran the stable install disc again, specifying linux vga=ask at the boot prompt. It offered me the choice to scan all available vesa modes, and *nothing* showed up on my screen during the scan. This seems to be equivalent to a bug that has been reported and resolved in Redhat: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=121819 I have a much better idea of what is going on, but am not any closer to getting Debian installed. I suppose I could do it with a pre-installed image with X already set up, avoiding VESA modes altogether. Or use a distribution with a graphical installer for now. I guess it's time to report this as a bug with the debian-installer folks. My hardware is: motherboard: ASUS P4S800 graphics card: AOPEN Geforce2 MX200 32MB, Part No. 90.05210.B19. processor: Intel Celeron 2 GHz BIOS: AWARD plug play BIOS Rev. 1004 extension v1.0A
Re: receiving unexpected IP address *outside* of VPN
2006/3/20, Florian Kulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sid it currently seems to be enough to have KDE installed and aptitude configured to automatically include recommended packages. Then this little pest will creep into your system via the kde kdenetwork kdnssd dependency chain and a succession of recommendations which goes through avahi-daemon and libnss-mdns. I actually am using gnome (on sid), and don't have KDE installed. I'm not sure how to check which chain of packages I have that recommend zeroconf, but if I figure that out I could file a minor or wishlist bug against it.
Re: receiving unexpected IP address *outside* of VPN
Thanks Florian, I figured out the chain of depends and recommends which resulted in zeroconf getting installed. It came from installing rhythmbox, then rhythmbox Recommends: scrollkeeper, yelp, avahi-daemon avahi-daemon Recommends: libnss-mdns libnss-mdns Recommends: zeroconf I would that think that rhythmbox should only suggest avahi-daemon? But I that has already been discussed on debian-security (http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-security@lists.debian.org/msg32391.html) and I guess this is just the way it goes.
receiving unexpected IP address *outside* of VPN
I'm on a VPN set up by a D-link router connected to a cable modem. The internal IP address of the router is 192.168.0.1, and its dhcpd is set up to deliver IP addresses between 192.168.0.100 and 192.168.0.199, with my MAC address bound to 192.168.0.109. The bizarre thing is that my computer seems to be getting the IP addrsess 169.254.46.151! This seems very strange to me. I'm using Debian unstable, and have tried the following two different stanzas in /etc/network/interfaces: auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp and auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.0.109 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.0.1 The DHCP stanza seems to show me getting the desired IP address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/network$ sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart Reconfiguring network interfaces...cat: /var/run/dhclient.eth0.pid: No such file or directory ifup: interface lo already configured Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client 2.0pl5 Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Internet Software Consortium. All rights reserved. Please contribute if you find this software useful. For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html sit0: unknown hardware address type 776 sit0: unknown hardware address type 776 Listening on LPF/eth0/00:d0:59:aa:7e:50 Sending on LPF/eth0/00:d0:59:aa:7e:50 Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3 DHCPOFFER from 192.168.0.1 DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPACK from 192.168.0.1 SIOCSIFADDR: File exists bound to 192.168.0.109 -- renewal in 302400 seconds. done. But ifconfig disagrees! [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/network$ sudo ifconfig eth0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:60:97:94:52:69 inet addr:169.254.46.151 Bcast:0.0.0.0 Mask:255.255.0.0 inet6 addr: fe80::2d0:59ff:feaa:7e50/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:40763 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:46031 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:33285720 (31.7 MiB) TX bytes:30327904 (28.9 MiB) What's going on?
Re: receiving unexpected IP address *outside* of VPN
No windows machines at all on the network, just this debian machine and a mac. It's happening right now with this being the only machine on the subnet. As for the differing hardware addresses, very observant! I made one of them up just for privacy, just for privacy even though I'm sure it really doesn't matter, and forgot to change the other. In reality there's only one hardware address. By the way, I've noticed the same thing when connecting by wireless.
Re: receiving unexpected IP address *outside* of VPN
2006/3/19, Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've seen on this list that this behavior is related to the zeroconf package. Try purging it. I purged zeroconf and that did the trick. Thanks! I didn't intentionally install it; it must have gotten installed with something else.
Re: moving (and losing?) partitions with cfdisk
2006/2/16, Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Remember, before doing anything to try to fix this, copy off your MBR, and the first sector of each partition you need to save. I know you don't have a floppy, but do you have a USB stick? Something? Anything? How about this: copy them off to your KNOPPIX RAM disc, and e-mail them to the debian user group as attachments, or at least to yourself. Then if things get worse, you can pull them back to your RAM disc again, and perhaps reinstall them. If you want a little insurance, e-mail me directly, and I'll copy them off. Then if you really need them back, I can e-mail them or send you a floppy. Will do, tomorrow. My laptop is still networked (thanks knoppix!) so I can email partition/sector data. I presume that I should backup the the first sector of each partition using dd?
[**solved by a reboot**] moving (and losing?) partitions with cfdisk
So I got up this morning (on the west coast, as you hoped), booted up into knoppix again, and started backing up my MBR and first sector of each partition. Then I noticed an icon on the knoppix desktop listing hda7 as a mountable partition, so I thought I'd try it again. Exactly the same way as last night, sudo mount /dev/hda7 /mnt but it mounted!!! No errors. So I immediately backed up off-site everything I might possibly need, including the MBR and first sectors of each partition. Then rebooted without knoppix, making no changes, and success! I even have the two new partitions I wanted. I remember now that cfdisk warns you that you may need to reboot in order to read the new partition table properly, but it just didn't occur to me this time. I'm sure glad I didn't start deleting and re-creating the partition table. Several lessons learned, a _relatively_ easy way: 1. backups don't count unless you have them on hand 2. in addition to data, back up the MBR and first sector of each partition before messing with the partition table: dd if=/dev/hda of=hda.mbr bs=512 count=1 dd if=/dev/hdax of=hdax.mbr bs=512 count=1 3. after changing your partition table, you really do have to reboot - at least this is my best guess as to what the problem was. Thank you for all your efforts Mike! I'll return the favour to someone if I can't to you :)
moving (and losing?) partitions with cfdisk
I had some unused space at the beginning of my hard drive, with my partition table looking something like: 5700MB free space hda5 logical linux ext3 [/home] hda6 logical linux swap hda2 primary linux ext3 [/] hda1 primary other OS I wanted to use the free space, so I booted up Knoppix and used cfdisk created two new partitions, putting th. But this moved my existing hda5 and hda6 to hda7 and hda8. No problem, I thought, I mounted the root fs and updated fstab and grub. Then I tried mounting home, and got a very scary error: (nb. I chrooted into hda2 first) #mount /home mount: wrong fs tyupe, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda7. missing codepage or other error (could this be the IDE device where you in fact use ide-scsi so that sr0 or sda or so is needed?) In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so And e2fsck doesn't recognize it: #e2fsck /dev/hda7 e2fsck 1.39-WIP (31-Dec-2005) e2fsck: Invalid argument while trying to open /dev/hda7 The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext23 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock: e2fsck -b 8193 device I'm still in Knoppix and haven't touched the modified partitions, so can I get my home partition back? Why did t his happen?
Re: moving (and losing?) partitions with cfdisk
2006/2/17, Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED]: First step before messing with partitions: do a backup. Second step before messing with partitions: save your MBR on a floppy. Third step before messing with partitions: save the first sector of each partition on a floppy. I have backups at home of everything important on the home partition, but I'm on the road right now and it will be very annoying if I have to resort to that... more info than needed though :). Point taken, backup backup backup. The MBR didn't seem like a big deal to me because I don't have a floppy, and figured I could always rebuild it from Knoppix. I didn't know about saving the first sector of each partition - thank you an I will in the future. I dunno what you have in your MBR for boot code, but I don't see how you created two more if you have a normal setup. With a normal setup, you can only have up to four partitions, one of which can be extended and have logical partitions in it. You already had three partitions, so how did you add two more? I suppose that hda5 and hda6 are inside of an extended partition you created before. Or are you using LVM? If you use LVM, I can't help you much if at all. What does fdisk say? What were the start/end addresses before you changed the PT? Here's my partition table now, in a couple different formats: cfdisk 2.11u Disk Drive: /dev/hda Size: 30005821440 bytes, 30.0 GB Heads: 15 Sectors per Track: 63 Cylinders: 62016 NameFlags Part Type FS Type [Label]Size (MB) -- hda5BootLogical Linux 4702.45* hda6BootLogical Linux 1000.10* hda7NC Logical Linux ext3 [/home] 14999.98* hda8Logical Linux swap 511.91 hda2BootPrimary Linux ext3 [/] 5000.01 hda1BootPrimary Win95 FAT32 (LBA) 3790.89 Primary Free Space 0.49 Partition Table for /dev/hda FirstLast # Type Sector Sector Offset Length Filesystem Type (ID) Flags -- --- - -- - -- - 3 Primary0 41434469 63 41434470 Extended (05) None (00) 5 Logical 63* 9184516* 63 9184454* Linux (83) Boot (80) 6 Logical 9184517*11137831* 63 1953315 Linux (83) Boot (80) 7 Logical 11137832*40434659 1#29296828* Linux (83) None (00) 8 Logical 40434660 41434469 63 999810 Linux swap (82)None (00) 2 Primary 41434470 51200099 0 9765630 Linux (83) Boot (80) 1 Primary 51200100 58604174 0 7404075 Win95 FAT32 (LBA) (0C) Boot (80) Primary 58604175 58605119 0 945 Free Space None (00) I didn't print the partition table before the changes, but it would have looked like this, gotten by deleting the two new partitions in cfdisk (without saving the changes): cfdisk 2.11u Disk Drive: /dev/hda Size: 30005821440 bytes, 30.0 GB Heads: 15 Sectors per Track: 63 Cylinders: 62016 NameFlags Part Type FS Type [Label]Size (MB) -- Pri/Log Free Space5702.57* hda5NC Logical Linux ext3 [/home] 14999.98* hda6Logical Linux swap 511.91 hda2BootPrimary Linux ext3 [/] 5000.01 hda1BootPrimary Win95 FAT32 (LBA) 3790.89 Primary Free Space 0.49 Partition Table for /dev/hda FirstLast # Type Sector Sector Offset Length Filesystem Type (ID) Flags -- --- - -- - -- - Pri/Log0 11137831* 0#11137832* Free Space None (00) 3 Primary 11137832*41434469 0 30296638* Extended (05) None (00) 5 Logical 11137832*40434659 1#29296828* Linux (83) None (00) 6 Logical 40434660 41434469 63 999810 Linux swap (82)None (00) 2 Primary 41434470 51200099 0 9765630 Linux (83) Boot (80) 1 Primary 51200100 58604174 0 7404075 Win95 FAT32 (LBA) (0C) Boot (80) Primary 58604175 58605119 0 945 Free Space None (00) Well, you are the one who did
Re: moving (and losing?) partitions with cfdisk
of an extended partition you created before. Or are you using LVM? If you use LVM, I can't help you much if at all. Sorry, I didn't answer this before: no, I'm not using LVM. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ls /mnt bin cdrom etc initrd lib media opt root srv tmp var boot devhome initrd.img lost+found mntproc sbin sys usr vmlinuz [EMAIL PROTECTED] find /mnt/usr/share/doc | grep lvm [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: moving (and losing?) partitions with cfdisk
I've read up a bit from the Partition-Rescue mini-howto, and am not feeling so panicked any more. My understanding is that cfdisk would have *only* changed the partition table, which resides on the MBR. And since I haven't accessed the portion of the disk for which I changed the partition table, there should be no data loss. All I have to do is restore the partition table to its original state, and everything will be just as it was. Its recommended course of action, *if* you have a copy of your original partition table, is to delete all your partitions and re-create them using fdisk. I am tempted to use cfdisk to delete the two logical partitions I created then try to mount /home, (still from knoppix) to see if that reverses the changes. If not, there are instructions in that howto for figuring out where your partition starts and ends, which looks annoying but possible. I think the smartest thing for me to do right now is sleep on it, see what advice those on this list have, then do it with a fresh mind in the morning. Mike, thank you for your replies - they are coming only to me, not to the list, just in case that is unintentional. It didn't take any time at all to write the changes I made in cfdisk, just a second or two. So perhaps it moved the location of the partitions without moving the data? Here is the output of fdisk -u and fdisk -u -l: [EMAIL PROTECTED] sudo fdisk -l Disk /dev/hda: 15 heads, 63 sectors, 62016 cylinders Units = cylinders of 945 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 54181 62015 3702037+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hda2 * 43847 54180 4882815 83 Linux /dev/hda3 1 43846 20717203+ 5 Extended /dev/hda5 * 1 9720 4592195+ 83 Linux /dev/hda6 * 9720 11787976626 83 Linux /dev/hda7 11787 42788 14648413+ 83 Linux /dev/hda8 42789 43846499873+ 82 Linux swap Partition table entries are not in disk order [EMAIL PROTECTED] sudo fdisk -u -l Disk /dev/hda: 15 heads, 63 sectors, 62016 cylinders Units = sectors of 1 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 51200100 58604174 3702037+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hda2 * 41434470 51200099 4882815 83 Linux /dev/hda363 41434469 20717203+ 5 Extended /dev/hda5 * 126 9184516 4592195+ 83 Linux /dev/hda6 * 9184580 11137831976626 83 Linux /dev/hda7 11137833 40434659 14648413+ 83 Linux /dev/hda8 40434723 41434469499873+ 82 Linux swap Partition table entries are not in disk order [EMAIL PROTECTED] (I'm including Mike's last message below for the archives, as it has some useful info in it) 2006/2/17, Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Levi Waldron wrote: 2006/2/17, Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED]: First step before messing with partitions: do a backup. Second step before messing with partitions: save your MBR on a floppy. Third step before messing with partitions: save the first sector of each partition on a floppy. I have backups at home of everything important on the home partition, but I'm on the road right now and it will be very annoying if I have to resort to that... more info than needed though :). Point taken, backup backup backup. The MBR didn't seem like a big deal to me because I don't have a floppy, and figured I could always rebuild it from Knoppix. I didn't know about saving the first sector of each partition - thank you an I will in the future. The first sector of each partition is the Boot Record for that partition, sometimes also called the BPB, though that's rather dated and not actually applicable for non-MSDOS partitions. First thing I did with my machine after I got it home was add a floppy disc drive. Dunno why they don't come with 'em any more. I dunno what you have in your MBR for boot code, but I don't see how you created two more if you have a normal setup. With a normal setup, you can only have up to four partitions, one of which can be extended and have logical partitions in it. You already had three partitions, so how did you add two more? I suppose that hda5 and hda6 are inside of an extended partition you created before. Or are you using LVM? If you use LVM, I can't help you much if at all. What does fdisk say? What were the start/end addresses before you changed the PT? The stuff to look at is the start/end disc addresses for the partitions, and the types. What I see here does not indicate that you simply moved some partitions down, unless cfdisk actually copied a bunch of data. That would have taken a significant amount of time. E.g. to copy /home to hda7 would require copying 15 GB which would take several minutes. I hope you understand that I'm sitting here reading this stuff and trying to make some sense of it. I know you are on tenterhooks, but I haven't gone away. Anyway
Re: moving (and losing?) partitions with cfdisk
Mike, I'm going to have to add you to my holiday card list, regardless of what happens :) I triple-checked that I'm trying to mount the correct partition and did it without using fstab, and that's not the problem, for example: [EMAIL PROTECTED] sudo umount /mnt (to unmount the root partition) [EMAIL PROTECTED] sudo mount /dev/hda7 /mnt/home mount: error while guessing filesystem type mount: you must specify the filesystem type -t ext2 or -t ext3 doesn't help (it's ext3). I'm going to call it a night and see if if there's any more advice by morning, then start making changes to hda in the morning when I'm more awake. Yeah, I do need the machine for work, and have learned a good rule 0 as you pointed out: don't mess with the partition table while on the road. It seems like I've messed with quite a few partition tables without any problems, and I guess I got brash :(. I will certainly keep you posted.
installing digikam from unstable on a testing GNOME system
I am running a testing system with GNOME, and digikam is missing right now from testing, I am not an apt-get expert, but I am tempted to install the digikam from unstable by putting unstable in my sources.list then doing: parkdale:~# apt-get install digikam digikamimageplugins kipi-plugins Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: gcc-4.0-base kdelibs-bin kdelibs-data kdelibs4c2 libarts1c2 libartsc0 libgphoto2-2 libgphoto2-port0 libjack0.100.0-0 libkexif1c2 libkipi0c2 libnetpbm10 libopenexr2c2 libqt3-mt libstdc++6 libvorbisfile3 menu-xdg netpbm python2.3-qt3 python2.3-sip4-qt3 Suggested packages: digikam-doc digikamimageplugins-doc gallery gphoto2 gtkam libqt3-mt-psql libqt3-mt-mysql libqt3-mt-odbc python2.3-qt3-gl python-qt3-doc libqt3c102-mt-mysql libqt3c102-mt-odbc libqt3c102-mt-psql Recommended packages: kdeprint konqueror perl-suid k3b imagemagick dcraw kmail kdeprinter sane-utils kooka akode jackd The following packages will be REMOVED: libqt3c102-mt The following NEW packages will be installed: digikam digikamimageplugins kdelibs-bin kdelibs-data kdelibs4c2 kipi-plugins libarts1c2 libgphoto2-2 libgphoto2-port0 libjack0.100.0-0 libkexif1c2 libkipi0c2 libnetpbm10 libopenexr2c2 libqt3-mt libvorbisfile3 menu-xdg netpbm The following packages will be upgraded: gcc-4.0-base libartsc0 libstdc++6 python2.3-qt3 python2.3-sip4-qt3 5 upgraded, 18 newly installed, 1 to remove and 190 not upgraded. Need to get 35.7MB/37.0MB of archives. After unpacking 97.1MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Will I be sorry if I do this, will it cause me pain and headache later? I especially wonder abou the upgparkdale:~# apt-get install digikam digikamimageplugins kipi-plugins Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: gcc-4.0-base kdelibs-bin kdelibs-data kdelibs4c2 libarts1c2 libartsc0 libgphoto2-2 libgphoto2-port0 libjack0.100.0-0 libkexif1c2 libkipi0c2 libnetpbm10 libopenexr2c2 libqt3-mt libstdc++6 libvorbisfile3 menu-xdg netpbm python2.3-qt3 python2.3-sip4-qt3 Suggested packages: digikam-doc digikamimageplugins-doc gallery gphoto2 gtkam libqt3-mt-psql libqt3-mt-mysql libqt3-mt-odbc python2.3-qt3-gl python-qt3-doc libqt3c102-mt-mysql libqt3c102-mt-odbc libqt3c102-mt-psql Recommended packages: kdeprint konqueror perl-suid k3b imagemagick dcraw kmail kdeprinter sane-utils kooka akode jackd The following packages will be REMOVED: libqt3c102-mt The following NEW packages will be installed: digikam digikamimageplugins kdelibs-bin kdelibs-data kdelibs4c2 kipi-plugins libarts1c2 libgphoto2-2 libgphoto2-port0 libjack0.100.0-0 libkexif1c2 libkipi0c2 libnetpbm10 libopenexr2c2 libqt3-mt libvorbisfile3 menu-xdg netpbm The following packages will be upgraded: gcc-4.0-base libartsc0 libstdc++6 python2.3-qt3 python2.3-sip4-qt3 5 upgraded, 18 newly installed, 1 to remove and 190 not upgraded. Need to get 35.7MB/37.0MB of archives. After unpacking 97.1MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] This doesn't seem too bad, but I especially wonder about the upgrade of gcc-4.0-base. Should I go for it?
Re: grave bug in epiphany extensions (was: installing epiphany-extensions does nothing)
This problem, although not reported as a bug against epiphany-extensions, is apparently already known: http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=opensp The epiphany-extensions package is out-of-date in testing because it is being held up by opensp. I guess that means I shouldn't report it on the bug tracking system?
SOLVED: installing epiphany-extensions does nothing
I installed epiphany-extensions 1.6.4-2 from unstable, which installed libosp4c2 and removed libosp4. The Tools menu then appeared in Epiphany the next time I started it, and with it access to the extensions. Thanks!
installing epiphany-extensions does nothing
I use epiphany under Gnome 2.6.12 in Debian Testing, and just installed epiphany-extensions, wanting to use some of its neat features like middle-click to scroll down web pages. Installing epiphany-extensions (apt-get epiphany-extensions) has no effect on the epiphany-browser, and there are no clues in /usr/share/doc for either package or in the epiphany-extensions help page on the gnome.org website. How do I activate the extensions? thank you
Re: installing epiphany-extensions does nothing
On 9/21/05, Hubert Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Click on the Tools menu, and select the Extensions item.Then selectthe extensions that you want to activate. This apparently is my problem: the only menus I have in my Epiphany 1.6.4 are File, Edit, View, Go, Bookmarks, Tabs, and Help. No Tools menu. How could that be?
grave bug in epiphany extensions (was: installing epiphany-extensions does nothing)
On 9/21/05, Hubert Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Strange. I've got Epiphany 1.6.3, and the Tools menu is there. Are the versions of your epiphany-browser and epiphany-extensions packages the same versions? (i.e. are they both 1.6.4?) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -l | grep epiphany ii epiphany-browser 1.6.4-1 Intuitive GNOME web browser ii epiphany-extensions 1.4.5-1 Extensions for Epiphany web browser [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ not the same versions, but that's what's in Sarge. I believe this is a grave bug since these versions are incompatible, as pointed out by someone on epiphany-list (see link below) A fix is outlined there in several steps: install libosp4 and epiphany-extensions from sid, then use gconfig to install the extensions since I guess there's no more Tools menu. http://mail.gnome.org/archives/epiphany-list/2005-September/msg00050.html Seem to me like I should report this as a 'grave' bug against epiphany-extensions in Sarge, unless someone knows better? (ie the package unusable, even if using the gconfig editor to attempt to add the extensions) There's no such bug reported yet, but can I really be the first person to notice something so obvious?
Re: critical install failure, most hardware attempting to use irq 1.
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 11:37:18 +, Ben Hutchings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try putting pci=noacpi on the boot command line. If you do that then the kernel will use the older PCI BIOS interface to find out the PCI configuration and is more likely to get correct answers. I'm afraid I haven't used d-i yet so I don't know quite how you edit the boot command line. Thanks for the reply. Before I got your reply, I worked around .7 the problem by the Woody installer, which worked fine. Once I upgraded the kernel, I found that the 2.4.26 kernel had the same problem but the 2.6.7 kernel worked fine. Perhaps it's the improved acpi support in the 2.6.7 kernel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
critical install failure, most hardware attempting to use irq 1.
I just tried to install sarge, using the pre-rc2 debian-installer, on an eMachines T1742 Celeron 1.7 GHz desktop system (82845G/GL [Brookdale-G] mainboard chipset). After installing the base system, the floppy drive, network card, and sound card do not work. Although they are supported hardware, there appear to be numerous irq conflicts (these devices sharing irq 1 with the keyboard) and possibly memory conflicts. I have included below some output showing the symptoms. Note that I have the same problems when trying Knoppix 3.2 in this box. This seems to be a major compatibility failure. Any advice on where to go from here? (ie try to fix it, go to kernel or developer's mailing lists, give up and get a new computer?) floppy drive (from /var/log/syslog): Nov 7 21:20:04 localhost kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M Nov 7 21:20:04 localhost kernel: floppy0: Unable to grab IRQ6 for the floppy driver Nov 7 21:20:20 localhost kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M3devfs_register(0u1440): could not append to parent, err: -17 network card - rtl8139 driver loads and eth0 comes up, but pppoeconf can't find DSL modem (nb. pppoeconf works on another debian computer in the house) Nov 7 20:10:49 localhost kernel: eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0x2000, 00:40:2b:3a:b2:d9, IRQ 1 sound card module fails to load: Nov 7 20:10:49 localhost kernel: i810_audio: unable to allocate irq 1 I see strange behavior in `cat /proc/pci` - it appears there is a lot of demand for irq 1! Bus 0, device 31, function 1: IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801DB Ultra ATA Storage Controller (rev 1). IRQ 1. I/O at 0x1860 [0x186f]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x1000 [0x13ff]. Bus 0, device 31, function 3: SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBM SMBus Controller (rev 1). IRQ 1. I/O at 0x1880 [0x189f]. Bus 0, device 31, function 5: Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 1). IRQ 1. I/O at 0x1c00 [0x1cff]. I/O at 0x18c0 [0x18ff]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe8080c00 [0xe8080dff]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe8080800 [0xe80808ff]. Bus 2, device 2, function 0: Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 16). IRQ 1. Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=32.Max Lat=64. I/O at 0x2000 [0x20ff]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe811 [0xe81100ff]. There are also strange (to me) things in /var/log/messages, such as: Nov 7 20:10:49 localhost kernel: PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 00:1f.1 Nov 7 20:10:49 localhost kernel: Transparent bridge - Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB/EB PCI Bridge Nov 7 20:10:49 localhost kernel: PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX/ICH [8086/24c0] at 00:1f.0 Nov 7 20:10:49 localhost kernel: PCI-APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I2,P0) - 0 Nov 7 20:10:49 localhost kernel: PCI-APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I29,P1) - 3(nb. many of these lines) Nov 7 20:10:49 localhost kernel: PCI: Via IRQ fixup for 02:0a.0, from 9 to 6 more strangeness from /var/log/syslog: Nov 7 20:10:49 localhost kernel: 126MB LOWMEM available. Nov 7 20:10:49 localhost kernel: found SMP MP-table at 000f6690 Nov 7 20:10:49 localhost kernel: hm, page 000f6000 reserved twice. Nov 7 20:10:49 localhost kernel: hm, page 000f7000 reserved twice. Nov 7 20:10:49 localhost kernel: hm, page 0009f000 reserved twice. Nov 7 20:10:49 localhost kernel: hm, page 000a reserved twice. Nov 7 20:10:49 localhost kernel: register #03: 0001 Nov 7 20:10:49 localhost kernel: ... : Boot DT: 1 Nov 7 20:10:49 localhost kernel: IRQ redirection table: Nov 7 20:10:49 localhost kernel: NR Log Phy Mask Trig IRR Pol Stat Dest Deli Vect: Nov 7 20:10:49 localhost kernel: 00 001 01 000 0 01 131 Nov 7 20:10:49 localhost kernel: 01 001 01 000 0 01 139 Nov 7 20:10:49 localhost kernel: 02 000 00 100 0 00 000 Nov 7 20:10:49 localhost kernel: 03 001 01 110 0 01 141 Nov 7 20:10:49 localhost kernel: 04 001 01 000 0 01 149 Nov 7 20:10:49 localhost kernel: 05 001 01 000 0 01 151 Nov 7 20:10:49 localhost kernel: 06 001 01 000 0 01 159 Nov 7 20:10:49 localhost kernel: 07 001 01 000 0 01 161 Nov 7 20:10:49 localhost kernel: 08 001 01 000 0 01 169 Nov 7 20:10:49 localhost kernel: 09 000 00 100 0 00 000 Nov 7 20:10:49 localhost kernel: 0a 000 00 100 0 00 000 Nov 7 20:10:49 localhost kernel: 0b 000 00 100 0 00 000 Nov 7 20:10:49 localhost kernel: 0c 001 01 000 0 01 171 Nov 7 20:10:49 localhost kernel: 0d 001 01 000 0 01 179 Nov 7 20:10:49 localhost kernel: 0e 001 01 000
Re: printing black white on a colour printer
On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 16:19:32 -0700, Roy Pluschke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also have a Deskjet, different model though. Even when I pick Greyscale in the Printout Mode under Resolution it still says something like: 300 dpi, greyscale, Black and Color Cart. This leads me to believe that the color catridge is used for greyscale printing or it is just a ripoff by HP to get us to by more ink. This seems to be true for many HP printers, but not the Deskjet 710C (see http://its.truman.edu/news/newsletters/HP_Deskjet_grayscale.stm ). When I select grayscale from the kdeprint dialog, shouldn't send a black white image to the printer anyways? Or does it still send the colour image but (supposedly) flag a grayscale option in the driver? It doesn't appear to do either, in my case. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
printing black white on a colour printer
I am using CUPS with the hpijs driver to print on an HP Deskjet 710C, on a Sarge/KDE workstation. I am out of colour ink and don't intend to replace it, as I only want to print in black white. Unfortunately, whenever I print something with colour, the colour portions come out blank as it tries to use the non-existent ink. I have tried: - Choosing grayscale from the options I get when sending a print job from KDE apps. This has no apparent effect. - Defining a Deskjet 600 non-colour printer to send print jobs to. There is no output when sending a job to this printer. Thanks for any ideas. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
printing from a telnet client
Is there a telnet client available in sarge that allows local printing? I access my university email by telnet, and would like to be able to print out emails locally. Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
pci hardware modem not working
I just went out and bought a brand new, fully hardware PCI modem (for $68!), USR 56K V.90 w/ Voice (2976/3298). Unfortunately, it does not seem to get assigned a ttyS* port during the boot process. The Modem HOWTO gives some tips for finding out the essential information, then says without giving specific directions, to use that info with setserial to assign a serial port to the hardware. However I am at a loss as to how to actually do that. Here are the relevant results of what I have tried so far. Any advice, or pointers to more detailed instructions? In the BIOS, PnP OS is OFF. Using pppconfig and setting the device to any of /dev/ttyS*, then pon, gives No dial tone results in plog. Output of wvdialconf are at the bottom of the info below. # dmesg | grep tty # dmesg | grep modem # lspci -vv :02:0b.0 Serial controller: 5610 56K FaxModem 56K FaxModem Model 5610 (rev 01) (prog-if 02 [16550]) Subsystem: U.S. Robotics: Unknown device 0110 Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium TAbort- TAbort- MAbort- SERR- PERR- Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 23 Region 0: I/O ports at 2400 [size=8] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=2 PME- # scanpci pci bus 0x0002 cardnum 0x0b function 0x00: vendor 0x12b9 device 0x1008 5610 56K FaxModem 56K FaxModem Model 5610 # cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 0:2539085IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 3128IO-APIC-edge i8042 7: 2IO-APIC-edge parport0 8: 4IO-APIC-edge rtc 9: 0 IO-APIC-level acpi 12: 9797IO-APIC-edge i8042 14: 8863IO-APIC-edge ide0 15: 52IO-APIC-edge ide1 16: 0 IO-APIC-level uhci_hcd 17: 19010 IO-APIC-level Intel 82801DB-ICH4, eth0 18: 0 IO-APIC-level uhci_hcd 19: 0 IO-APIC-level uhci_hcd 23: 0 IO-APIC-level ehci_hcd NMI: 0 LOC:2539368 ERR: 0 MIS: 0 # cat /proc/ioports -001f : dma1 0020-0021 : pic1 0040-005f : timer 0060-006f : keyboard 0070-0077 : rtc 0080-008f : dma page reg 00a0-00a1 : pic2 00c0-00df : dma2 00f0-00ff : fpu 0170-0177 : ide1 01f0-01f7 : ide0 0376-0376 : ide1 0378-037a : parport0 03c0-03df : vga+ 03f6-03f6 : ide0 03f8-03ff : serial 04d0-04d1 : pnp 00:0a 0778-077a : parport0 0cf8-0cff : PCI conf1 1000-107f : :00:1f.0 1000-105f : pnp 00:0a 1008-100b : ACPI timer 1010-1015 : ACPI CPU throttle 1060-107f : pnp 00:0a 1180-11bf : :00:1f.0 1180-11bf : pnp 00:0a 1800-181f : :00:1d.0 1800-181f : uhci_hcd 1820-183f : :00:1d.1 1820-183f : uhci_hcd 1840-185f : :00:1d.2 1840-185f : uhci_hcd 1860-186f : :00:1f.1 1860-1867 : ide0 1868-186f : ide1 1880-189f : :00:1f.3 18c0-18ff : :00:1f.5 1c00-1cff : :00:1f.5 2000-20ff : :02:02.0 2000-20ff : 8139too 2400-2407 : :02:0b.0 2400-2407 : serial # wvdialconf york Scanning your serial ports for a modem. ttyS0*1: ATQ0 V1 E1 -- failed with 2400 baud, next try: 9600 baud ttyS0*1: ATQ0 V1 E1 -- failed with 9600 baud, next try: 115200 baud ttyS0*1: ATQ0 V1 E1 -- and failed too at 115200, giving up. Port Scan*1: S1 S2 S3 S4 ttyACM0Info: Invalid argument Port Scan*1: ACM0 ttyACM1Info: Invalid argument Port Scan*1: ACM1 ttyACM2Info: Invalid argument Port Scan*1: ACM2 ttyACM3Info: Invalid argument Port Scan*1: ACM3 ttyACM4Info: Invalid argument Port Scan*1: ACM4 ttyACM5Info: Invalid argument Port Scan*1: ACM5 ttyACM6Info: Invalid argument Port Scan*1: ACM6 ttyACM7Info: Invalid argument Port Scan*1: ACM7 ttyACM8Info: Invalid argument Port Scan*1: ACM8 ttyACM9Info: Invalid argument Port Scan*1: ACM9 ttyACM10Info: Invalid argument Port Scan*1: ACM10 ttyACM11Info: Invalid argument Port Scan*1: ACM11 ttyACM12Info: Invalid argument Port Scan*1: ACM12 ttyACM13Info: Invalid argument Port Scan*1: ACM13 ttyACM14Info: Invalid argument Port Scan*1: ACM14 ttyACM15Info: Invalid argument Port Scan*1: ACM15 ttyUSB0Info: No such device or address Port Scan*1: USB0 ttyUSB1Info: No such device or address Port Scan*1: USB1 ttyUSB2Info: No such device or address Port Scan*1: USB2 ttyUSB3Info: No such device or address Port Scan*1: USB3 ttyUSB4Info: No such device or address Port Scan*1: USB4 ttyUSB5Info: No such device or address Port Scan*1: USB5 ttyUSB6Info: No such device or address Port Scan*1: USB6 ttyUSB7Info: No such device or address Port Scan*1: USB7 ttyUSB8Info: No such device or address Port Scan*1: USB8 ttyUSB9Info: No such device or address Port Scan*1: USB9 ttyUSB10Info: No such device or address Port Scan*1: USB10 ttyUSB11Info: No such device or address Port Scan*1: USB11 ttyUSB12Info: No such device or address Port Scan*1: USB12 ttyUSB13Info: No
Re: how to use this list
On November 27, 2003 04:38 pm, mighty sword wrote: snip So how do I reply to a particular message when I get a digest so that it appeas as a thread on linux.debian.user or gmane.linux.debian.user? snip I think (?) the mailto: links from the archives provide the proper in-reply-to header so your message will be threaded. Otherwise, I don't know of a practical to reply to the digest and have your reply be threaded. The digests are meant to be read-only. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
eth1 in router box stopped working
I've been using a P233MMX woody box with stock 2.4.18-i386 kernel as a router for a home network for a couple weeks. Had IP masquerading working using shorewall (also with the IPTABLES rules from the IPmasq HOWTO, but ended up staying with shorewall). Then out of the blue (I at least didn't change any networking settings), eth1 which is connected to the switch and the internal computers stopped transferring any data or connecting to any computers (See cat /proc/interrupts below). Can't ping in either direction, router -- client; the clients are isolated. Router is still connected to the outside world. I checked the ethernet cards by replacing the original 8139too eth1 card with a epic100 SMC card, and by swapping the 3c59x eth0 into the eth1 position, neither of which changed anything. The Ethernet-HOWTO says that since CPU0 = 0 in /proc/interrupts, there is likely a hardware conflict. I'm confused by the io nomenclature in /proc (ie b800-b81f), which is different than in the Ethernet-HOWTO. So my questions are: Does this look like a hardware conflict problem, or something else? What should I try next? There are added steps in the Ethernet-HOWTO for resolving hardware conflicts, but it would be nice to know whether this is the problem before rebuilding the kernel, adding printk() statements to the driver source code or other time-consuming attempts to resolve hardware conflicts. Is there a simpler way of reloading the network modules then either rebooting or shutting down networking and unloading all the networking modules, if it turns out I should play around with the io= parameters? Notes: eth0 is connected to a DSL modem eth1 to a switching hub and internal computers Using isapnp, all irqs are being assigned automatically PnP OS setting in bios is OFF. Sound modules are loaded, but no printer modules or anything using the parallel port. both ethernet cards are detected at boot During these debugging outputs, epic100 = eth0 and 3c59x = eth1 (the culprit!) I've included the output of the following commands, in order: cat /proc/interrupts cat /proc/pci cat /proc/ioports ifconfig -a route -n lsmod dmesg Thank you for any help, Levi retro:~# cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 0: 48466 XT-PIC timer 1: 1323 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 5: 2 XT-PIC MS Sound System 8: 3 XT-PIC rtc 10:126 XT-PIC eth0 12: 0 XT-PIC eth1 14: 7329 XT-PIC ide0 15: 0 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 ERR: 0 retro:~# cat /proc/pci PCI devices found: Bus 0, device 0, function 0: Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5597 [SiS5582] (rev 2). Master Capable. Latency=32. Bus 0, device 1, function 0: ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 85C503/5513 (rev 1). Bus 0, device 1, function 1: IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev 208). IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0xd000 [0xd00f]. Bus 0, device 10, function 0: Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c595 100BaseTX [Vortex] (rev 0). IRQ 12. Master Capable. Latency=248. Min Gnt=3.Max Lat=8. I/O at 0xb800 [0xb81f]. Bus 0, device 11, function 0: Ethernet controller: Standard Microsystems Corp [SMC] 83C170QF (rev 6). IRQ 10. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=8.Max Lat=28. I/O at 0xb400 [0xb4ff]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe580 [0xe5800fff]. Bus 0, device 19, function 0: VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5597/5598 VGA (rev 101). Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe700 [0xe73f]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe500 [0xe500]. I/O at 0xb000 [0xb07f]. retro:~# cat /proc/ioports -001f : dma1 0020-003f : pic1 0040-005f : timer 0060-006f : keyboard 0070-007f : rtc 0080-008f : dma page reg 00a0-00bf : pic2 00c0-00df : dma2 00f0-00ff : fpu 0100-0101 : opl3sa2 0170-0177 : ide1 01f0-01f7 : ide0 0213-0213 : isapnp read 02f8-02ff : serial(set) 0300-0301 : mpu401 0376-0376 : ide1 03c0-03df : vga+ 03f6-03f6 : ide0 03f8-03ff : serial(set) 0a79-0a79 : isapnp write 0cf8-0cff : PCI conf1 0e80-0e83 : WSS config 0e84-0e87 : MS Sound System b000-b07f : Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5597/5598 VGA b400-b4ff : Standard Microsystems Corp [SMC] 83C170QF b400-b4ff : epic100 b800-b81f : 3Com Corporation 3c595 100BaseTX [Vortex] b800-b81f : 00:0a.0 d000-d00f : Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] d000-d007 : ide0 d008-d00f : ide1 retro:~# ifconfig -a eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:29:24:01:EA UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:83 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:83 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0
Re: Installation has not created boot properly
On October 3, 2003 08:37 am, dan oram wrote: from the hard disk it gets as far as displaying the following: Booting from IDE 0 LI The following is from /usr/share/doc/lilo/README.common.problems . Although if you are able to boot from a floppy, it sounds like you may have forgotten to run lilo after modifying lilo.conf. Problem: When I boot, all I get is 'LI' === This means the first-stage loader gained control; it thought it success- fully loaded the second-stage loader; but it never got there. This most often occurs when the second-stage loader, '/boot/boot.b', is not load- able using the BIOS. First, have you tried specifying 'lba32' in your 'lilo.conf' file? On newer systems, this will almost always work, since the loader will now use the newer EDD packet calls, which are not cylinder-limited. Second, do you know your disk geometry? This means, do you know the numbers of cylinders/heads/sectors of all your hard drives; and are these the numbers that LILO is using when it installs the boot loader. Three reports of the disk geometry may be obtained: 1. Run 'lilo -t -v5' and check the geometry reports for each device. 2. Run 'lilo -Tgeom' and see if the same numbers are reported. (This may fail on some systems, where LILO has trouble running BIOS calls in v86 mode.) 3. Create the diagnostic floppy (see README.disk) and check the reported disk geometries. If any of the geometry reports differ, then you may have to specify the disk geometry to LILO using 'disk= heads= sectors='. Use the actual numbers reported by the BIOS: #3 above, or #2. The reports above will also indicate the BIOS device codes used by each disk. LILO uses heuristics to obtain these device codes, and usually gets the codes right on all-IDE or all-SCSI systems. However, systems with multiple IDE controllers, mixed IDE/SCSI systems, and SCSI systems on Future Domain controllers, will require you to tell LILO what disks are assigned to what device codes. This can be done using 'disk= bios=' lines in 'lilo.conf'. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lost sound capabilities (/dev/dsp: No such device)
I feel so stupid. ad1848 is not the correct module for the OPL3-SA2 sound board. opl3sa2 is the correct module. Arnt, you reminded me with your recursive module loading idea, that that is how I originally figured out which sound module to load: by loading every sound module and seeing which one worked. I ended up with unused sound modules in /etc/modules, then a while ago I cleaned up my modules, but cleaned out opl3sa2 obviously without thinking twice about it. Anyways, modprobe opl3sa2 makes sound work. PROBLEM SOLVED. Thanks for all your help, Arnt. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lost sound capabilities (/dev/dsp: No such device)
On September 21, 2003 11:02 pm, Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..where _is_ it? ;-) If you call it /etc/pnpdump, isapnp still has no idea, unless you play some cool tricks I have no idea about. ;-) It's called /etc/isapnp.conf, and I did some trial-and-error uncommenting of various lines in this file, running isapnp each time. The isapnp output would reflect the changes, modules would reload, but I got the same errors when trying to use sound. I'm not sure what kind of systematic approach to take, or whether any documentation for such exists - I can't find it in the isapnp package or the Sound-HOWTO. ..keep your custom kernel, but 'apt-get install' a standard kernel and compare 'lsmod' output, on booting between them. I'm already using the standard kernel kernel-image-2.4.18-386, sorry, that's what I meant by a stock non-installation kernel, I should have been more clear about that. ..play with modprobe, it looks like sound doesn't know what isa-pnp found. The problem I've been having here is that every time I specify any io= option to modprobe, I get an error! For example: retro:/# modprobe ad1848 io=0x220 irq=7 /lib/modules/2.4.18-386/kernel/drivers/sound/ad1848.o: init_module: Invalid argument Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters /lib/modules/2.4.18-386/kernel/drivers/sound/ad1848.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.18-386/kernel/drivers/sound/ad1848.o failed /lib/modules/2.4.18-386/kernel/drivers/sound/ad1848.o: insmod ad1848 failed retro:/# modprobe ad1848 irq=7 dma=1 dma16-5 mpu_io=0x330 retro:/# echo /usr/share/sounds/irmp3/off.au /dev/dsp bash: /dev/dsp: No such device retro:/# rmmod ad1848 retro:/# modprobe ad1848 irq=7 retro:/# echo /usr/share/sounds/irmp3/off.au /dev/dsp bash: /dev/dsp: No such device retro:/# ls -l /dev/dsp crw-rw1 root audio 14, 3 Mar 14 2002 /dev/dsp # Trying port address 0273 # Board 1 has serial identifieOPL3-SA3r 0f ff ff ff ff 00 08 a8 65 # (DEBUG) ..bo, never tried this one? Sorry, what do you mean? Are you suggesting I try something here? Many thanks, Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lost sound capabilities (/dev/dsp: No such device)
I feel so stupid. ad1848 is not the correct module for the OPL3-SA2 sound board. opl3sa2 is the correct module. Arnt, you reminded me with your recursive module loading idea, that that is how I originally figured out which sound module to load: by loading every sound module and seeing which one worked. Somehow, and I have no idea how, the opl3sa2 line in /etc/modules got changed to apl3sa2, and rather than noticing that I went about assuming that ad1848 is was the problem, when in fact it was an unused module. Anyways, modprobe opl3sa2 makes sound work. PROBLEM SOLVED. In the future, when lsmod says (unused) by a module, I'll remember that it really means it! Thanks for all your help, Arnt. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
how to | to /dev/null?
Easy question, I'm sure: How can I use a pipe to send something to /dev/null? Reason: kmail gives a pipe through filter option, ie send the message to | somecommand. It doesn't have a option. It's time to start sending the 400 some odd #!$@ swen messages/day I'm getting straight to /dev/null, I don't even want to see them in my SPAM folder anymore. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lost sound capabilities (/dev/dsp: No such device)
On September 21, 2003 11:02 pm, Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..where _is_ it? ;-) If you call it /etc/pnpdump, isapnp still has no idea, unless you play some cool tricks I have no idea about. ;-) It's called /etc/isapnp.conf, and I did some trial-and-error uncommenting of various lines in this file, running isapnp each time. The isapnp output would reflect the changes, modules would reload, but I got the same errors when trying to use sound. I'm not sure what kind of systematic approach to take, or whether any documentation for such exists - I can't find it in the isapnp package or the Sound-HOWTO. ..keep your custom kernel, but 'apt-get install' a standard kernel and compare 'lsmod' output, on booting between them. I'm already using the standard kernel kernel-image-2.4.18-386, sorry, that's what I meant by a stock non-installation kernel, I should have been more clear about that. ..play with modprobe, it looks like sound doesn't know what isa-pnp found. The problem I've been having here is that every time I specify any io= option to modprobe, I get an error! For example: retro:/# modprobe ad1848 io=0x220 irq=7 /lib/modules/2.4.18-386/kernel/drivers/sound/ad1848.o: init_module: Invalid argument Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters /lib/modules/2.4.18-386/kernel/drivers/sound/ad1848.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.18-386/kernel/drivers/sound/ad1848.o failed /lib/modules/2.4.18-386/kernel/drivers/sound/ad1848.o: insmod ad1848 failed retro:/# modprobe ad1848 irq=7 dma=1 dma16-5 mpu_io=0x330 retro:/# echo /usr/share/sounds/irmp3/off.au /dev/dsp bash: /dev/dsp: No such device retro:/# rmmod ad1848 retro:/# modprobe ad1848 irq=7 retro:/# echo /usr/share/sounds/irmp3/off.au /dev/dsp bash: /dev/dsp: No such device retro:/# ls -l /dev/dsp crw-rw1 root audio 14, 3 Mar 14 2002 /dev/dsp # Trying port address 0273 # Board 1 has serial identifieOPL3-SA3r 0f ff ff ff ff 00 08 a8 65 # (DEBUG) ..bo, never tried this one? Sorry, what do you mean? Are you suggesting I try something here? Many thanks, Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Lost sound capabilities (/dev/dsp: No such device)
-- Arnt Karlsen said: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ll /dev/dsp crw-rw1 root audio 14, 3 Mar 14 2002 /dev/dsp ...is missing on your box, mknod it. -- No, /dev/dsp exists with proper permissions (see further below in my posting). Rather, it seems that the ad1848 sound module is not being given the correct io and irq parameters by isapnp, and I can't figure out how to pass it the correct ones. (see my original message below) (Apologies for the top-posting, I filled up the email account that was receiving debian-user so I had nothing to reply to.) - My original message: - I had my YMH0800:OPL3-SA3 Sound Board working with the ad1848 driver, isapnp etc under Woody. Then somewhere in the course of installing a stock non-installation kernel, adding second ethernet card, and loading the IP masquerading and iptables modules, the sound stopped working. The symptoms are given below. The Sound HOWTO only recommends for such cases to go pnpdump /etc/isapnp.conf, uncomment the correct lines in isapnp.conf, run isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf, reload the modules, and enjoy. However I have no idea which lines of the *long* isapnp.conf to uncomment - it is quite non-obvious to me, and I'm not even sure this is on the right track. Any tips? Here is the output showing the symptoms and troubleshooting I've tried. The output of pnpdump is at the end, since it's so long. retro:/music# mpg123 The Twigs - The Turning.mp3 High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layer 1, 2, and 3. Version 0.59q (2002/03/23). Written and copyrights by Joe Drew. Uses code from various people. See 'README' for more! THIS SOFTWARE COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK! Title : The Turning Artist: The Twigs Album : Year : Comment: Genre : Playing MPEG stream from The Twigs - The Turning.mp3 ... MPEG 1.0 layer III, 128 kbit/s, 44100 Hz joint-stereo Can't find a suitable libao driver. (Is device in use?) retro:/etc# cat /usr/share/sounds/irmp3/off.au /dev/dsp bash: /dev/dsp: No such device retro:/etc# dd bs=8k count=4 /dev/audio /tmp/sample.au bash: /dev/audio: No such device retro:/etc# ls -al /dev/dsp crw-rw1 root audio 14, 3 Mar 14 2002 /dev/dsp retro:/etc# less /var/log/messages Sep 17 12:16:57 retro kernel: isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... Sep 17 12:16:57 retro kernel: isapnp: Card 'OPL3-SA3 Sound Board' Sep 17 12:16:57 retro kernel: isapnp: 1 Plug Play card detected total Sep 17 12:16:57 retro kernel: ad1848/cs4248 codec driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996 Sep 17 12:16:57 retro kernel: ad1848: No ISAPnP cards found, trying standard ones... retro:/etc# cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 0: 21468604 XT-PIC timer 1: 2 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 8: 3 XT-PIC rtc 10: 178022 XT-PIC eth1 12: 106590 XT-PIC eth0 14: 121560 XT-PIC ide0 15: 0 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 ERR: 0 retro:/etc# cat /proc/isapnp Card 1 'YMH0800:OPL3-SA3 Sound Board' PnP version 1.0 Logical device 0 'YMH0021:Unknown' Device is not active Active DMA 0,0 Resources 0 Priority preferred Port 0x220-0x220, align 0xf, size 0x10, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x530-0x530, align 0x7, size 0x8, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x388-0x388, align 0x7, size 0x8, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x330-0x330, align 0x1, size 0x2, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x370-0x370, align 0x1, size 0x2, 16-bit address decoding IRQ 5 High-Edge DMA 0 8-bit byte-count type-A DMA 1 8-bit byte-count type-A Alternate resources 0:1 Priority acceptable Port 0x240-0x240, align 0xf, size 0x10, 16-bit address decoding Port 0xe80-0xe80, align 0x7, size 0x8, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x388-0x388, align 0x7, size 0x8, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x300-0x300, align 0x1, size 0x2, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x100-0xffe, align 0x1, size 0x2, 16-bit address decoding IRQ 5,7,2/9,10,11 High-Edge DMA 0,1,3 8-bit byte-count type-A DMA 0,1,3 8-bit byte-count type-A Alternate resources 0:2 Priority functional Port 0x220-0x280, align 0xf, size 0x10, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x530-0xf48, align 0x7, size 0x8, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x388-0x3f8, align 0x7, size 0x8, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x300-0x334, align 0x1, size 0x2, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x100-0xffe, align 0x1, size 0x2, 16-bit address decoding IRQ 3,5,7,2/9,10,11 High-Edge DMA 0,1,3 8-bit byte-count type-A DMA 0,1,3 8-bit byte-count type-A Logical device 1 'YMH0022:Unknown' Compatible device PNPb02f Device is not
Lost sound capabilities (/dev/dsp: No such device)
I had my YMH0800:OPL3-SA3 Sound Board working with the ad1848 driver, isapnp etc under Woody. Then somewhere in the course of installing a stock non-installation kernel, adding second ethernet card, and loading the IP masquerading and iptables modules, the sound stopped working. The symptoms are given below. The Sound HOWTO only recommends for such cases to go pnpdump /etc/isapnp.conf, uncomment the correct lines in isapnp.conf, run isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf, reload the modules, and enjoy. However I have no idea which lines of the *long* isapnp.conf to uncomment - it is quite non-obvious to me, and I'm not even sure this is on the right track. Any tips? Here is the output showing the symptoms and troubleshooting I've tried. The output of pnpdump is at the end, since it's so long. retro:/music# mpg123 The Twigs - The Turning.mp3 High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layer 1, 2, and 3. Version 0.59q (2002/03/23). Written and copyrights by Joe Drew. Uses code from various people. See 'README' for more! THIS SOFTWARE COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK! Title : The Turning Artist: The Twigs Album : Year : Comment: Genre : Playing MPEG stream from The Twigs - The Turning.mp3 ... MPEG 1.0 layer III, 128 kbit/s, 44100 Hz joint-stereo Can't find a suitable libao driver. (Is device in use?) retro:/etc# cat /usr/share/sounds/irmp3/off.au /dev/dsp bash: /dev/dsp: No such device retro:/etc# dd bs=8k count=4 /dev/audio /tmp/sample.au bash: /dev/audio: No such device retro:/etc# ls -al /dev/dsp crw-rw1 root audio 14, 3 Mar 14 2002 /dev/dsp retro:/etc# less /var/log/messages Sep 17 12:16:57 retro kernel: isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... Sep 17 12:16:57 retro kernel: isapnp: Card 'OPL3-SA3 Sound Board' Sep 17 12:16:57 retro kernel: isapnp: 1 Plug Play card detected total Sep 17 12:16:57 retro kernel: ad1848/cs4248 codec driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996 Sep 17 12:16:57 retro kernel: ad1848: No ISAPnP cards found, trying standard ones... retro:/etc# cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 0: 21468604 XT-PIC timer 1: 2 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 8: 3 XT-PIC rtc 10: 178022 XT-PIC eth1 12: 106590 XT-PIC eth0 14: 121560 XT-PIC ide0 15: 0 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 ERR: 0 retro:/etc# cat /proc/isapnp Card 1 'YMH0800:OPL3-SA3 Sound Board' PnP version 1.0 Logical device 0 'YMH0021:Unknown' Device is not active Active DMA 0,0 Resources 0 Priority preferred Port 0x220-0x220, align 0xf, size 0x10, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x530-0x530, align 0x7, size 0x8, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x388-0x388, align 0x7, size 0x8, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x330-0x330, align 0x1, size 0x2, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x370-0x370, align 0x1, size 0x2, 16-bit address decoding IRQ 5 High-Edge DMA 0 8-bit byte-count type-A DMA 1 8-bit byte-count type-A Alternate resources 0:1 Priority acceptable Port 0x240-0x240, align 0xf, size 0x10, 16-bit address decoding Port 0xe80-0xe80, align 0x7, size 0x8, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x388-0x388, align 0x7, size 0x8, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x300-0x300, align 0x1, size 0x2, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x100-0xffe, align 0x1, size 0x2, 16-bit address decoding IRQ 5,7,2/9,10,11 High-Edge DMA 0,1,3 8-bit byte-count type-A DMA 0,1,3 8-bit byte-count type-A Alternate resources 0:2 Priority functional Port 0x220-0x280, align 0xf, size 0x10, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x530-0xf48, align 0x7, size 0x8, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x388-0x3f8, align 0x7, size 0x8, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x300-0x334, align 0x1, size 0x2, 16-bit address decoding Port 0x100-0xffe, align 0x1, size 0x2, 16-bit address decoding IRQ 3,5,7,2/9,10,11 High-Edge DMA 0,1,3 8-bit byte-count type-A DMA 0,1,3 8-bit byte-count type-A Logical device 1 'YMH0022:Unknown' Compatible device PNPb02f Device is not active Active DMA 0,0 Resources 0 Priority preferred Port 0x201-0x201, align 0x0, size 0x1, 16-bit address decoding Alternate resources 0:1 Priority acceptable Port 0x202-0x202, align 0x0, size 0x1, 16-bit address decoding Alternate resources 0:2 Priority acceptable Port 0x203-0x203, align 0x0, size 0x1, 16-bit address decoding Alternate resources 0:3 Priority acceptable Port 0x204-0x20f, align 0x0, size 0x1, 16-bit address decoding retro:/etc# lsmod(potentially relevant parts only) Module Size Used byTainted: P ad1848
cleaning up messy capitalization to transfer a web page from wintoes
I'm transferring a web page from a wintoes webserver to Debian, and all the capitalizations are inconsistent between the hyperrefs and actual directories and filenames. And of course all the filename extensions are .HTM. Does anyone know of a script to clean this up? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Securing a Debian server
On July 8, 2003 03:26 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We're thinking about starting to use Debian instead of RH on our Linux boxes and I have a question concerning this. RH offers to check servers and optimizing these for maximum security, does Debian offer this? Or is there a guide on how to do this somewhere? Perhaps these HOWTOs will be of help to you: Security-HOWTO.gz Security-Quickstart-HOWTO.gz On a Debian system with the HOWTO's installed, they're available in: /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt For a really easy firewall to set up, try apt-get install shorewall -Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cleaning up messy capitalization to transfer a web page from wintoes
On July 8, 2003 11:24 pm, K S Sreeram wrote:
Check out this page:
http://linuxvm.org/Info/HOWTOs/win2lin.html
Looks like it has what you need
This script would be great, except that it doesn't actually work. I first got
an error because the end of one line was missing a \. Then it ran, but
didn't actually correct the capital letters in a way to fix broken
hyperlinks. It seemed to lower-case the first letter in the a href=... but
do nothing to the filenames? Oh well.
If anyone's curious to look at the short bit of code, here it is. Maybe the
problem would be obvious to someone who really knows their sed and shell
programming. (I've fixed the first bug, the missing \ at the end of the line
-e 's/|/ /' \)
#!/bin/bash
D='/tmp/htmlrename/firelab/'
grep -ni a .*href= `find ${D} -name \*.html` \
| sed -e 's/:.*href=/|/i' -e 's/.*//' \
-e 's/a//' \
-e 's/#.*//' \
-e 's/|/ /' \
| grep '\..*\.' \
| grep -v http: \
| sort -u \
| while read source link
do
fd=`dirname $source`
EF=$fd/$link
[ -n ${link} ] \
[ ! -f ${EF} ] \
{
echo EF=${EF} s=$source d=$fd l=,$link,
AF=`find ${D} -iname ${link}`
echo AF=${AF}
cmd=grep -ni $link $source /dev/null
# echo ${cmd}
${cmd}
# grep -i $link $source /dev/null
echo
}
done
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Re: testing
On June 26, 2003 02:26 pm, Paul E Condon wrote: I seem to have lost the ability to post to this list. This is a test to see if I have. I seem to have as well, and I'm not receiving much from it either. Server problems perhaps? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
woody laptop hangs at various init scripts
I have an elderly Compaq Presario 1020 P120 laptop running Woody with icewm window manager, tetex, emacs, gnumeric, and not much else. One day, out of the blue as far as I can tell, it hangs during the boot process at: Initializing random number generator so I boot from a rescue CD and put exit 0 at the top of /etc/init.d/urandom. Then it hangs at: Configuring network interfaces: SIOCSIFADDR: No such device eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: no such device SIOCSINETMASK: No such device So from the rescue CD I disable /etc/init.d/networking. Then it hangs at: Cleaning: /tmp /var/lock /var/run Losing patience, I reformat and install the base system, since I have a full backup from when the machine was working. The base system boots just fine, but then I restore from backup with: mount /cdrom ; cd / ; tar -xvzf /cdrom/fullbackup.tar.gz I fix lilo.conf and run lilo for the newer kernel, change fstab to stick with ext2 so that copying .journal from backups won't cause problems, reboot, and the system goes back to hanging at various startup scripts. (Now at netenv, which I had disabled after the backup, then at Cleaning: /tmp /var/lock /var/run again.) Note that I don't use a display manager, I used to use 'startx' to start icewm. This seems very odd to me. Any ideas what might be going on? Or how to go about restoring just configuration from backup, preferably without losing the ability to boot? Otherwise I will just start over from the base system, and maybe restore only a few important files like xf86Config and modules.conf. The computer has a pcmcia network card, cdrom, floppy, sb16 sound, neomagic video driver. Sleep and hibernate never worked properly, I did some remapping of the keyboard. That's about all the configuration I can remember. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sharp tif to jpg or png image conversion
On June 24, 2003 01:58 am, Jon Haugsand wrote: * Levi Waldron I am trying to convert a .tif scanned image of text to something readable by web browsers, ie png or jpg. Have you tried convert? convert (part of the imagemagick package) worked perfectly! Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sharp tif to jpg or png image conversion
I am trying to convert a .tif scanned image of text to something readable by web browsers, ie png or jpg. Using xv there is a bad loss in image quality, so that the text becomes unreadable. I tried adjusting all the xv dials, but couldn't achieve acceptable quality. tifftopnm from the netpbm library gives the following error which is a documented bug which has been fixed in an upstream version, but I'd rather not backport it to woody unless I have to. Any other suggestions for doing this image conversion with minimal loss of image quality? bash-2.05b$ tifftopnm Culture2.tif tifftopnm: writing PBM file P4 1480 2001 tifftopnm: invalid value for fillorder: 0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: upgrading to unstable KDE
On April 1, 2003 06:11 pm, Noah Meyerhans wrote: You'll probably have much better luck using the unofficial native woody packages of KDE 3.1. See http://www.apt-get.org/, which will refer you to: deb http://download.us.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/latest/Debian/ woody main Thanks everyone for the apt-pinning warnings, and for this alternate tip. I installed KDE 3.1 from this source, with just some minor setbacks. gdm didn't seem to recognize kde3 upon logging out of kde after the reinstall, but setting kdm as the default display manager and rebooting got me in. -- We don't see the world as it is, we see the world as we are. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
upgrading to unstable KDE
I'm running Woody right now, but am tempted to dselect-upgrade KDE to the 3.10 in unstable (because of the improvements to kmail). Any thoughts on the potential pain/painlessness of this upgrade, before I try it? If there's a fair chance of having to spend a lot of time fixing a broken system, I'll just wait for it to arrive in testing. Thanks, Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: howto verify burn?
On March 7, 2003 10:51 am, bob parker wrote: That is easy if you have no subdirectories on the cdr, but gets a little messy if you do, the files have to be piped to md5sum from find and xargs. Hm? Why wouldn't you just check each file individually by: mount /cdrom md5sum -c /cdrom/md5sum.txt All the Debian cds have md5sum.txt in their / directory. This lists any bad files on the CD. If only packages or files you don't need are corrupted, then there's no need to remake the entire CD. -Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: KNOPPIX and it configure.
On March 7, 2003 02:55 am, Rob Weir wrote: As far as I can tell, this has absolutely nothing to do with Debian. Surely Knoopix has a user help mailing list somewhere... Well, it's related in the sense that Knoppix is an auto-configuring Debian live CD. It's a mix of stable, testing, and unstable which can be run off the CD in a virtual filesystem or turned into a real Debian OS by copying to your hard drive and, if desired, converting to unstable with apt-get dist-upgrade (although I've never tried this). I've given it to people who've never used GNU/Linux before just for them to boot up without touching their HD and see what a Debian system might look like. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: (Newbie) Knoppix.
On March 2, 2003 06:43 am, Brian Durant wrote: The only thing interesting that I found, was with the dmesg command. The response was eth0: Media Link Off. I have run into this response with Deb 3 rev. 1 as well. Don't know what it means one of the replies from the thread stated that it wasn't even in the source code! If your cable is in fact intact, you may be seeing a documented bug in the 2.4.18 version of the sis900 driver. Typing your error message eth0: media link off into google, I found: http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0203.3/0018.html This message suggests a workaround patch, but I didn't find any bugs reported at bugzilla.kernel.org. -levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: autologin in console mode
On February 27, 2003 10:12 pm, sean finney wrote: i just got something kind of like that to work. install the rungetty package, and then open up /etc/inittab. change the line that says: 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1 to 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/rungetty -u username --autologin username tty1 -- bash -i where you obviously replace username with the appropriate user. Thanks Sean! Perfect. -Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: switching between CUPS and PLIP?
On February 28, 2003 03:04 am, ScruLoose wrote: Hi all, I'm interested in installing woody on this hand-me-down P133 laptop that a friend's mom is no longer using, and it has neither CD-ROM drive nor NIC, so I'm thinking I'll try the install-over-plip thing. Now, most of the process is documented fairly well in a HOWTO that I found, but I'm left with a couple of questions. Presumably, on my desktop box with its one parallel port, I'll need to unload lp before loading plip, so that plip can 'own' the parallel port. Right? Yes. The only way it can't work is if lp is compiled into the kernel, which is not a standard option. As for switching back and forth between plip and printing, I have the requisite commands contained in shell scripts called plip-on.sh and plip-off.sh. Basically to switch back to printing, it's just removing the plip module and inserting lp again, which can be done with modprobe or insmod/rmmod. I'll give you a reference to those shell scripts in a moment. One fun way you could accomplish your task would be to start with a minimal floppy distro just to get plip going, then just copy an entire filesystem either over the minimal distro or on a new partition. I've done this on a couple old 386's and posted my experience at: http://www.superant.com/cgi-bin/smalllinux.pl?Small_Linux_Notes_By_Levi_Waldron Even if you don't use a minimal floppy distro to get started, this will guide you through the plip process. It's a great way to gain an understanding of the basics of how a GNU/Linux OS works, because a floppy distro is so much simpler than a full distro that things are more obvious. At the end of my smalllinux posting there are links to a couple floppy images that make using that tiny distro easier, and have plip-on.sh and plip-off.sh, which may or may not work out of the box for you. The annoying thing about using a tiny distro like that are that because it's so stripped down it may be missing tools you need, and have no easy way of compiling for the old kernel and libraries. I spent a bunch of time finding compatible binaries of those modules and programs, with the contents of those added floppies I made, it's easy. -Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
autologin in console mode
Is it possible to do an autologin into console mode? ie, when turning on the machine a particular user gets logged in every time without entering a username or password? It's for a visually-impaired user, so having to type that stuff in before the voice prompts are activated is a barrier even with a simple username/password. Then with an entry in .bashrc starting emacspeak -o the computer will go straight into voice mode every time it boots up. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian Download Problems
On February 26, 2003 10:24 am, hlingis wrote: ...ok, the ability to download a good copy (either ISO or jigdo) appears to be a myth, so my question is: if I buy a copy from some vendor, who, and where, and what hopes do I have to get an error free copy that way? I'm trying to avoid going redhat or mandrake or whatever... I don't know why jigdo isn't working for you - it worked marvellously for me, and it even checks cheksums for errors in the constructed image. If jigdo finished and said there were no errors, but you still ended up with a CD with errors, then there must be something buggy about your cd burning process. In any case, don't try starting an installation with bad CDs. Buying copy from a vendor is an excellent and cheap alternative. Some vendors are listsed at www.debian.org under CD vendors. I've had good experiences with www.chguy.net, who's in Canada but is cheap to the US too. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing debian
On February 26, 2003 12:11 pm, Carlos Taylor wrote: I then set my BIOS to boot from the CD.Nothing happens. It does not boot from the CD. Well, either you had a problem with the downloading and burning process, or your bios isn't really trying to boot from CDs, but there's no way for someone here to tell what happened without more information. Did you do the downloading/burning according to the instructions in the install manual at www.debian.org? You won't be able to get through the install without this manual. When you look at the contents of the CDs, do they show a whole directory structure (right) or just one large .iso file (wrong)? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Anacron vs cron
On February 25, 2003 03:58 pm, Mark Ferlatte wrote: Just apt-get install anacron. It will Just Work (tm). Yep, and leave cron in place (don't try to uninstall it). anacron recommends cron. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrading from Stable to Testing
On February 24, 2003 05:15 pm, M. Kirchhoff wrote: How do the two methods differ? I don't know anything about downreving, so I wasn't aware that modifying my sources.list as outlined below would prevent me from doing that... thanks for the response Keeping the stable lines in your apt.sources file will just keep your apt-cache aware of the stable packages that are available. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT]: 10pt in LaTeX?
On February 23, 2003 03:18 pm, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
does anyone know if it's possible to specify a smaller than 10pt font
size for a LaTeX document without resorting to putting the entire
document in one big \tiny{}? --which is cool for my purposes ... i'm
just curious.
See http://old.ait.iastate.edu/olc/packages/tex/pt.question.html for example,
for how to define your own fonts using the \newfont command - it's easy.
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Re: spamc vs. razor-check ???
On February 23, 2003 07:44 am, Paul Johnson wrote: Replace spamc with spamassassin and disable spamd if you're not going to use it at the MTA level, it's a bit more secure that way. However, calling spamc (a command-line client for spamd) seems to be much much faster than calling spamassassin. For me calling spamassassin took 5-10s per message, and spamc instead cut it down to a fraction of a second per message. -Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: spamassassin - three basic questions
On February 21, 2003 11:24 am, Dave Sherohman wrote: Maybe not necessary, but, unless your mailserver is horribly slow, it'll be done so quick that it's not going to hurt anything anyhow. I actually find spamassassin runs pretty slowly on my K6-2/500MHz 384MB machine (I know it's not real fast but not a dinosaur either). It takes about 5-10 seconds per message, so before I started filtering my debian-user messages before processing, it was prohibitive. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: spamassassin - three basic questions
On February 21, 2003 01:13 pm, Dave Sherohman wrote: I bet you're not running spamd, which means you're taking the hit for starting up perl on every message scanned. That would hurt pretty bad, now that I think about it... You're correct. I'm using kmail to fetch from POP3 mailservers and pipe each message individually through spamassassin -P -a. I didn't realize that using spamd would be so much faster. I could switch to fetchmail for the sake of spamd, although reading through the documentation I see that the spamc daemon could also improve my performance without changing my mail setup at all. I'll give that a try first, and report back... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bash not reading ~/.bashrc
If what you really mean is that .bashrc is not read when you login on a text console, then that's covered by bash's man page, which you really ought to read. .bash_profile or .profile is read by login shells; .bashrc is read only by non-login shells. If you want .bashrc to be read by all shells, then you need to put . ~./bashrc in your .bash_profile or .profile to make it happen. I have this in my .bash_profile. I think it was there, but commented out, by default. # Get the aliases and functions if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then . ~/.bashrc fi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: can anyone recomend an application ??? ...
On February 19, 2003 10:27 pm, Richard Hector wrote: apt-get install anachron anacron perhaps? Richard Oops, thanks for correcting my spelling. anacron it is. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to duplicate a CD?
On February 19, 2003 10:41 pm, stan wrote: I posted this a few months agoa, and got an answer involving cdparnoia, and cdrecord. But I sem to have lost the emails, and I can't seem to get the mailing list archive search engine to find it :-( I just typed your email address into the lists.debian.org search engine, and selected all the time periods (don't forget to do this), and it turned up your original thread: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/debian-user-200210/msg01073.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: can anyone recomend an application ??? ...
On February 19, 2003 12:22 pm, DvB wrote: I usually set up cron jobs to remind me of recurring things (man crontab). This, of course, only works if the computer is turned on when the reminder time comes around, but you just mentioned being logged on. apt-get install anachron the anachron daemon tries to make sure you don't miss cron jobs on machines that aren't on all the time. Sounds like not quite what Dave is looking for though. I like the sounds of the birthday app! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dselect --multi cd Install from a CD-ROM set
On February 17, 2003 03:44 am, Colin Watson wrote: Are they? I was under the impression that dpkg-multicd was all but unmaintained and that one should use apt instead. You're right - the latest news from dpkg-multicd is from Oct 2001. I guess I got the impression it was being worked on from something I read in the dselect guide, without realizing how old it was. Perhaps I should send a suggestion to the debian-doc folks to update to what the dselect Beginner's Guide says about dpkg-multicd: Quite large and powerful, this complex method is the recommended way of installing a recent version of Debian from a set of multiple binary CDs. -Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dselect --multi cd Install from a CD-ROM set
On February 14, 2003 07:08 pm, you wrote: Yes, this is how I eventually managed to get packages from the set but wouldn't it have been easier if the dselect's access menu had the 'multi cd' option? Supposedly my 3.0r1 Stable CD Official set was up to date. If you have all the CDs during the installation process then it's taken care of. Otherwise, you have to add them later. They're working on the multicd option for dselect but it's just not very user-friendly yet, which is why it's not a standard part of dselect yet. Try to make sure your replies stay on-list. Cheers, Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT Knoppix installation
Knoppix can be installed on your HD - the main disadvantage I've heard of is that it's a mix of stable, testing, and unstable, which makes package management trickier. For instructions, see: http://www.freenet.org.nz/misc/knoppix-install.html (from google: knoppix install) On February 14, 2003 11:17 am, stan wrote: I have a new laptop, and I was planing on istalling Koppix to take advantge of it's _great_ hardware auto detection, then merging back intot the Debain mainstream. Problem is, I can't figure out how to actully install Knoppix. I have a bootable CD (that was fun because of the size), and everythign works like a charm when I boot from it, but I can't figure out how to get that image onto the hard disk. One person has told me Knoppix is not intended to install. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug? - Boot disks and Kernel Source
On February 11, 2003 07:42 am, Dave Whiteley wrote: There is not a stable package for kernel 2.2.20! Yes, there are several. I checked first on my machine with apt-cache search kernel-image-2.2.20 then double-checked at http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages by searching for kernel-image-2.2.20 under stable, and in both cases got the following hits: stable kernel-image-2.2.20-idepci 2.2.20-5 (1360.6k) Linux kernel binary image. stable kernel-image-2.2.20-compact 2.2.20-5 (1689.8k) Linux kernel binary image. stable kernel-image-2.2.20 2.2.20-5 (5803.3k) Linux kernel binary image for version 2.2.20. stable kernel-image-2.2.20-reiserfs 2.2.20-4 (1669.3k) Linux kernel binary image for version 2.2.20. -- -Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Deb-List Subject Line Tag?
Even PINE has built-in filtering capabilities, and threading. I don't see how anyone could deal with the debian-user list volume without filtering and threading. -- -Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to mount CDROM and CDRW?
On February 14, 2003 01:09 pm, Carlos Jiménez wrote: I just installed Debian woody and i've had problems to mount the CDROM (hdb) and the CDRW (hdd). In the fstab file appears the following: /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0 Does it mean that CDROM is mounted? Shouldn't the mount point be in /mnt/? And if it wasn't mounted, how do i mount it? mount /cdrom would mount a data cd on /cdrom if your symbolic link for /dev/cdrom is set properly. Unfortunately, you probably don't yet know enough to ask the right question to get the answer that will help you. You would almost certainly benefit from some newbie help files, like: http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/peripherals/cdrw.html http://www.justlinux.com/nhf/Hardware/Adding_an_IDE_CD-Writer_to_Linux.html http://www.justlinux.com/nhf/Filesystems/Filesystems_Directories_and_Devices.html Give them a try, and feel free to post further questions here. Hope this helps, Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dselect --multi cd Install from a CD-ROM set
On February 14, 2003 02:56 pm, alex wrote: I'll be installing Debian on another computer and would like to have the 'multi cd Install from a CD-ROM set' to make things easier. How can I add this option to my dselect access menu? As root, just type apt-cdrom add for each cd while it is in the drive. Then dselect will prompt you for the correct cd whenever it needs it. There is another way with the package dpkg-multicd but this way is much easier. -- -Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help needed w/ PLIP connection
On February 12, 2003 03:12 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all: I am having trouble debugging my plip connection. I haven't set up plip for a couple years so my memory is a little foggy. I used the PLIP-HOWTO to set up the following scripts on the machine cedar to connect it via plip to birch; maybe they'll help. I don't have the birch scripts handy, but they were similar. Note: I defined the IP addresses for birch and cedar in /etc/hosts bash-2.05a$ more /usr/local/bin/plip-on.sh #!/bin/sh /sbin/rmmod lp /bin/echo 7 /proc/parport/0/irq /sbin/insmod plip /sbin/ifconfig lo netmask 255.255.255.255 up /sbin/ifconfig plip0 cedar pointopoint birch netmask 255.255.255.255 up bash-2.05a$ more /usr/local/bin/plip-off.sh #!/bin/sh /sbin/rmmod plip /sbin/insmod lp -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ext3 to ext2 convertion
On February 13, 2003 01:19 pm, Bruno Diniz de Paula wrote: Hi, how can I convert a ext3 partition to ext2? Is it only to change the type in fstab and reboot? How can I synchronize the modification stored in the journal file? From http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/sct/ext3/README : How to move back from ext3 to ext2 -- It's quite easy. If you unmount an ext3 filesystem cleanly, then you can remount it as ext2 without any other commands. If you crash and are left with an unclean ext3 filesystem, on the other hand, the filesystem will prevent you from mounting it as ext2: it is not safe to mount it until you have recovered the journal, and the only way to do that for now is to mount it as ext3. However, if for any reason you do have an ext3 filesystem which you want to convert permanently back to ext2, whether it was cleanly unmounted or not, you can use debugfs from e2fsprogs-1.17 or later to do it. First, run debugfs and open the filesystem (the -w flag means open for write, and the -f flag forces it to open the filesystem even if there are unknown journal flags set): [root@sarek /root]# debugfs debugfs 1.18, 11-Nov-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 debugfs: open -f -w /dev/sdb1 Now, use features to see which feature bits are set on the filesystem: debugfs: features Filesystem features: has_journal filetype sparse_super We want to clear the journal bits, then we can quit: debugfs: features -has_journal -needs_recovery Filesystem features: filetype sparse_super debugfs: quit [root@sarek /root]# debugfs That's it! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fsck finding thousands of errors
On February 13, 2003 11:42 am, George Georgalis wrote: anyway, you can use the -y option in fsck to answer yes to all the questions. I thank both of you for the tips. We're still not sure what caused the catastrophic hard drive failure, although it may become more clear after figuring out whether the drive is now junk or not. I had already give the -y order before reading Alvin's message. I'm still don't understand what there is to lose by fscking the disk, answering y to all the questions? Do you think there could be a problem with the bios or memory now that is now scrambling a previously good hdd through the fsck process? Anyways, there's nothing to lose here other than the annoyance of redoing a fresh installation and, he'd already yessed a couple thousand fsck fixes manually. Last I heard, it has been fixing inodes for almost 24 hours at a rate of about one per 2 seconds. I wonder if it will boot again if/when that ever finishes. Question, Alvin: - if its bad mmory... i dont want the disk touched assuming that it was shutdown properly ... - if your bios time is whacky... so can fsck... - if you have bad memory... it will try to fix the drive according to its bad memory content I'm not sure what these mean. Does bad memory = bad RAM memory bios time whacky = internal clock wrong? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fsck finding thousands of errors
On February 13, 2003 07:28 pm, Daniel Barclay wrote: Do you have IDE disks? Yes. Are you using DMA? It's a Western Digital 80G HD. The WD website at http://www.wdc.com/products/Products.asp?DriveID=5Lang=1 says, among other things: Interface: Ultra ATA/100 Mode 5 Ultra ATA100.0 MB/s Mode 4 Ultra ATA66.6 MB/s Mode 2 Ultra ATA33.3 MB/s Mode 4 PIO16.6 MB/s Mode 2 multi-word DMA16.6 MB/s Does this help answer your question? I didn't do anything outside of a normal stock installation to turn DMA support on or off. If so, what kind of motherboard and/or IDE controller cards are you using? Motherboard: Soyo Dragon - AMD Socket-A Base Via KT266 ATX CPU: AMD 1400 Thunderbird RAM: 256K 266-DDR /dev/hdb1 is 20GB fsck has now been running for 28 consecutive hours, and the numbering of the inodes suggests it has fixed 60,000 of them now. Maybe I can get a world record! How many inodes would one 20G partition have? I wonder what order of magnitude of time it might take for fsck to finish? -- -Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
fsck finding thousands of errors
I helped someone install Debian on a new hard drive a couple months ago. They didn't use that hard drive for the last couple months, then tried to boot into Debian and got the following errors during the boot process: -- mount: mountpoint /proc is not a directory ... (swap activates successfully) ... /dev/hdb1 contains a filesystem with errors, check forced. (fixes several inodes) Inode has magic flag set unexpected inconsistency, run fsck manually, without -a or -p options. -- So I get him to boot off an install CD as a rescue disk, since /dev/hdb1 is the root filesystem. He runs e2fsck /dev/hdb1 from the emergency shell, and it starts correcting THOUSANDS of inodes, hitting enter one by one. The types of messages that e2fsck reports are: --- -Inode has illegal blocks -Illegal block in Inode -Too many illegal blocks in Inodes -Inode has compression flag set on file sysstem without compression support -Inode is in use, but has dtime set -Inode has magic flag set -Special (device/socket/fifo/symlink) file (inode ) has append-only flag set ___ has immutable or append-only flag set -Inodes that were part of a corrupted orphan linked list found -Inode ___ was part of an orphaned inode list -Gal block 6 in inode ___ --- inodes are in the range of 1,030,000 and he corrected about 5,000 of them one-by-one before I said to give up. There is also a fat32 partition on this hard drive which had files on it, which are no longer being read by the windows half of the machine. The partition table seems to be undamaged. He doesn't think he's done anything damaging to this hard drive, or even used it since the last time it was working. Do you know what's wrong with this hard drive, or how to troubleshoot it? It's almost brand new, but is it a warranty item? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems downloading Knoppix
On February 4, 2003 08:13 am, bob parker wrote: Well I just completed downloading Knoppix using my steam powered dial up connection. I started on 27 January. That's such a sad story, if you have a hard time fixing the download let me know and I'll mail a KNOPPIX cd to you. -Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: running a command on many files in many subdirectories
Well, I wish I had gone and goofed off for the rest of the evening then come in and used one of these 2-3 line solutions this morning. Still, I learned some things reading them and will use them and the tldp reference for future scripting. Thank you, Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OT: running a command on many files in many subdirectories
I'm sure this is simple, but maybe someone here can help me do it in a few minutes instead of hours. I have a bunch of files in a bunch of directories, and I want to run the same command on each of them. For each input file, the output file should have the same name except ending in .txt, and the output files should be put a common directory. ie, java ImageInfo dir1/pic1.jpg commondir/pic1.txt etc, repeated over a bunch or directories and jpg files. The subdirectories only go one deep. If this is difficult I could copy all the jpg files into a single directory first with only a little bit of tedium. Thank you, Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OT: running a command on many files in many subdirectories
Never mind, I finished the task. I just first copied all the files into one
directory using:
find . -name *.jpg -print | xargs -i cp \{\} all/
Then wrote (modified, actually) a shell script to run imageinfo on a bunch of
files with a different output file each time:
#!/bin/bash
# run imageinfo on many files
ARGS=2
E_BADARGS=65
if [ $# -ne $ARGS ]
then
echo Usage: `basename $0` (extension of input files) (extension of output
files)
exit $E_BADARGS
fi
{
for filename in *.$1
do
java ImageInfo $filename ${filename%.$1}.$2
done
}
exit 0
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Re: How to make a boot disk in debian?
On November 29, 2002 11:11 am, Nicos Gollan wrote: On Saturday 30 November 2002 01:39, damar thapa wrote: Hi, I am now trying to recompile kernel for the first time in Debian. I do not have a floppy to boot the system in case the kernel panics. How can I do that in Debian? mkboot can also make boot floppies. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to make hda become hdb? (not a hardware question)
I have debian installed on /dev/hda, how can I switch this hard drive to become /dev/hdb? What I know: edit lilo.conf, run lilo edit fstab What about the partition table though? Apologies for my vague question. I know how to do the physical switch, but it's making sure it will boot after the switch that I'm not sure about. (This odd situation came about from installing Debian on a soon-to-be dual boot laptop where I wasn't able to boot off the CD, and the secondary HD can't be in at the same time as the floppy. So I had to temporarily put the Debian HD in the primary position for the install, now switch it back. Currently, this is my plan: Before the switch, -change fstab references from hda to hdb -in lilo.conf, change the root filesystem to root=/dev/hdb1 but leave boot=/dev/hda -run lilo -Put the HD in the secondary position and the win HD back in its primary position. Set up the win bootloader to give an option to point to the secondary HD. When this is chosen it should run the lilo MBR on the second HD, and I think boot up properly. Then I change in lilo.conf boot=/dev/hdb so future lilo executions will happen on its own hard drive, unless my friend who I'm doing all this for decides he's ready to let lilo write to the mbr of his win disk. The reason I'm being cautious is that if, after making the switch I just get a LI error or something like that, to fix it I guess I'll have to put it back in the primary position so I can use the floppy, use a linux micro-distribution to boot entirely off the floppy (root fs on floppy as well), then mount the debian hd, fix up whatever mistake I made, and chroot lilo to fix it. Not the end of the world, but I'd rather just get it right the first time. Does my procedure look sound? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to make hda become hdb? (not a hardware question)
On November 29, 2002 05:12 pm, Cameron Hutchison wrote: I dont know much about the windows bootloader, but it wouldn't suprise me if it didn't have the capability to chain boot to another MBR. It may expect to have the secondary boot loader inside a partition. I also don't know, but it wouldn't surprise me either. So, you may want to set lilo to boot=/dev/hda1 (to become boot=/dev/hdb1 after loading windows). I'd also do what you planned as well - that way you'll have two boot blocks and one of them should be able to please windows :) Thanks, I didn't know you could install lilo anywhere but on the mbr. So I will install lilo on both /dev/hda AND /dev/hda1. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem installing Base System
On November 27, 2002 01:22 pm, Michelle Konzack wrote: ??? Very interesting... How do you use dselect while installing the BASE ??? Good point - I just saw it was manpages and assumed it was post-base. Anyways, manpages are not essential, won't it allow you to continue after the error? If so, continue then install this package later from another source (over the net, after you have your /etc/apt/sources.list set for that). If it won't let you continue, I would try to get ahold of an error-free installation disc, since that's almost certainly the cause of your troubles. There's a CD vendor section on debian.org where you could buy an official CD for about $5. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
how to make hda become hdb?
I have debian installed on /dev/hda, how can I switch this hard drive to become /dev/hdb? What I know: edit lilo.conf, run lilo edit fstab What about the partition table though? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I add CD's to dselect package list?
On November 27, 2002 09:02 am, Wathen, Metherion wrote: Hi, well, i have real fast internet connection from work, so its easier to download there than at home. what i really need to do is get a laptop and install debian on it and then tie into the connection at work and ... (maybe one day) thanks for your help i going to make sure i have alien installed, that is one cool proggy! mw You could download some Debian installation discs from work, then have all the packages and dependencies and be able to add each entire disc in one fell swoop with apt-cdrom add Check the jigdo program from debian.org for the downloading. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem installing Debian woody
On November 27, 2002 03:07 am, D.H wrote: Hi all, I have tried to install Debian woody on my box for about 3 times(I downloaded all the 7 ISO image files and burn them on CD), but every time i got the same error when installing diald package, luckly, it doesn't interrupt the whole installation process. The error message says something about dpkg returns (-1) when reading diald_0.99.4-5_i386.deb, I am sure that this was not because of Module dependency, someone tell me maybe it was caused by the bad CD media, but there is no error occured during buring process.I am puzzled now, anyone can help me ? Thanks in Advance. Probably bad media. If you have a working Linux, check it by: mount /cdrom cd /cdrom md5sum -c md5sum.txt No output = good, error outputs = bad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: load module on boot
Specifically, add the line NVdriver to /etc/modules. Add it manually or type echo NVdriver /etc/modules to add it without editing the file. On November 27, 2002 03:00 pm, Andrew Perrin wrote: Put it in /etc/modules -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Ernesto Marquina wrote: Hi there, debian newbie here, I just configured my nvidia geforce2 go to work on my laptop (debian woody), I had to download and compile the nvidia drivers, and now it works fine. But in order to load the new driver I always have to load the module called NVdriver first by doing modprobe NVdriver How can I tell debian to always load it at startup?, and not having to type that command everytime I log in? Thank you Ernesto -- 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: How do I add CD's to dselect package list?
On November 27, 2002 09:32 am, Wathen, Metherion wrote: hey thanks that's a good idea, im planning on upgrading soon anyway, other than the install discs (7 for woody), you say that the other software is available as a downloadable iso or something? No jigdo iso, just download the program directly - it's small. It's ported to linux and windows. Check the download section of debian.org. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do you recover a long filename that Wndows squashed?
On November 26, 2002 04:10 pm, Wathen, Metherion wrote: well here's the weird thing, if i look at the files on my windows pc using filemanager the filenames are long, if i use mc on my debian machine the filenames are shortened with a tilde filling in the missing parts. so what ive been doing is umounting the cd, putting it in the windows box, writing the name on piece of paper, go back to the linux box, dpkg -i type in the long filename. its been an experience :) mw. I guess that's because your cd burning software added the Joliet extensions for long filenames in windows, but not the Rock Ridge extensions that Linux needs to see the long filenames. You could copy the the files onto your windows drive, then mount that drive from linux and linux will see the long filenames. ie, mkdir /windows mount /dev/hda /windows (sub hda with windows hd device name) On the other hand, can't you dpkg -i using the shortened filename? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem installing Base System
On November 24, 2002 11:44 am, wouter (xlocal) wrote: I could install the kernel and other parts, but with the Base System i got this message: file:/instmnt/pool/main/m/manpages/manpages_1.39-1.1-all.deb was corrupt and afterwards this one: couldn't download manpages. I've got various debian CD-ROMs with the minimum installation image and a 7 CD's installation as well, none of them could help me proceed. I've no clue how to continue... If you have a linux system already you could check if the CDs are corrupt by: cd /cdrom mk5sum -c mk5sum.txt No message = good, error message = bad It's quite possible that only one or a few packages on your CD are corrupt (mk5sum would tell you which ones). Since you know that one particular package is corrupt, remove it from your base install. In dselect, find it using / (to search), and - (to unselect it), then continue. If that's the only corrupt package, then you should have clear sailing. If there are other corrupt packages, remove them too as long as they're not essential. Then install them over the net after you have your base system working. -Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem installing Base System
On November 24, 2002 01:50 pm, Colin Watson wrote: That's md5sum. I've been seeing quite a few of these reports lately; perhaps there's some deeper problem ... Oops, thanks Colin - a little mind slip, minor keyboard dyslexia maybe? I made a set of Woody discs a little while ago and burned some of them on a couple different Wintoes computers in the lab in my faculty and some on my own Debian box. About 4 of 5 of the ones I burned in the lab came out with errors on at least one package, due to some combination of cheap CD writers and poor configuration I suppose? I re-wrote them on my computer which worked perfectly, of course. Wouter, how did you make or buy your install CDs? -Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xdm and startx
On November 22, 2002 11:05 am, Doug MacFarlane wrote: when i typ in startx i get fatal screen error, no screens found In 2 recent woody installs, I've gotten this error each time after finishing the dbootstrap setup. In one case (an old laptop) the autoconfigure didn't work, and I used xf86cfg to get it work. This is the config program provided by the xfree86 team, and it has the nice feature of not creating a big, complicated xf86config file. It's short and simple. and one of the shutdown messages is also that xdm is not running. That means you don't have X installed/configured. Try apt-get install x-window-system Kent, I assume that's the equivalent of running tasksel and selecting X-Windows? No, tasksel X-Windows gives you an assortment of window-managers, desktops, and stuff. apt-get install x-window-system just gives you: Depends: x-window-system-core, lbxproxy, proxymngr, twm, xdm, xfs, xfwp, xnest, xprt, xspecs, xterm, xvfb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
difficulties installing on a Compaq Presario 1020
I'm having a few problems installing Debian on an older Compaq Presario 1020 P120 with 48MB RAM. (Yes I just read the thread on Compaqs - I agree that after I get everything working it'll probably be great) 1) The worst one is that after apm -s, apm -S, or alt-F3 the system acts all weird after waking up again. The clock slows down to about half-speed and in X11 (icewm or blackbox) the screen keeps on blanking, until I reboot. -Doesn't matter whether I suspend in console or X mode. -Console mode seems to work find after suspend, although I haven't checked if the clock slows down there too. -stopping and starter x server doesn't help. I'm using a custom kernel with apm loaded as a module but all the other APM options off. My first custom kernel had most of them on but I recompiled with them off to try and solve the problem. Should I give up and go to a linux software-suspend? 2) How can I make it stop beeping every time I hit tab to auto-complete when there is more than one possibility, and when I hit backspace at the beginning of a line? Other than turning the volume all the way down. Happens in console and X. esound daemon is now uninstalled. 3) When I open up an xterm from the icewm toolbar, it doesn't read my .bashrc file. I have to type source .bashrc to get it to read it. The command the toolbar runs has the -ls option in it, which should be saying it's a login shell no? (OK, not Compaq's fault!) Other than that, and the modem which pppconfig can't find and I suspect may be a Winmodem (but it doesn't say in the owner's manual!), and the extra multimedia keys which xev doesn't think exist, it's running great. Emacs and Gnumeric run quite quickly. Thanks for any help, -Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: boot on cd
On November 19, 2002 03:01 pm, mess-mate wrote: Hi all, I have an old P330 (IBM) installed as ISDN router. Now I want to install other applications from a CD (bootable) but the machine won't boot on the cd. I did a try with several other bootable cd's without success :-( What's wrong about it ? Thanks in advance mess-mate Sorry, I don't think I understand your situation. Do you already have Debian installed on the machine? If so, why do you want to boot off the CDROM? There are 4 reasons that I know of why you might not be able to boot off a CD: 1) Your bios doesn't support it (Have you checked your BIOS?) 2) Your bios isn't set up to boot off the CD (again, check BIOS) 3) faulty CD 4) faulty CDROM drive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] CD-R Requirements (or Giving Back To Windows Users)
On November 17, 2002 08:22 pm, Osamu Aoki wrote: How do I watch the fifo? The new IDE CD-R has BurnProof so I think that will indeed help. Also use nice to lower nice of cdrecord (higher priority) $ nice --9 cdrecord A testimony: I have a K6-2/500MHz 256MB, 32x cdrw with burnproof. I've burnt data CDs with nice -18, and have opened browsers, kmail, and run md5sums in the cdrom simultaneously. Often have had fifo min fill 0%, but no problems with the disc - md5sums still check out. -- -Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] CD-R Requirements (or Giving Back To Windows Users)
On November 17, 2002 08:22 pm, Osamu Aoki wrote: How do I watch the fifo? The new IDE CD-R has BurnProof so I think that will indeed help. Also use nice to lower nice of cdrecord (higher priority) $ nice --9 cdrecord A testimony: I have a K6-2/500MHz 256MB, 32x cdrw with burnproof. I've burnt data CDs with nice -18, and have opened browsers, kmail, and run md5sums in the cdrom simultaneously. Often have had fifo min fill 0%, but no problems with the disc - md5sums still check out. -- -Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: system will not soft power down
A correction to my previous message, for the archives: If you have apm in the kernel and acpi loaded from a module, apm might win and won't work if your BIOS doesn't support ACPI. Try turning SHOULD READ --- doesn't support APM apm=off in lilo.conf, and loading acpid and the acpi module. -- -Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: URGENT - How to shutdown Debian 3? - URGENT
On November 15, 2002 07:44 pm, Michael Naumann wrote: shouldn't that read alias halt=sudo /sbin/halt or even better alias halt=/usr/bin/sudo /sbin/halt Yes, good eye. -- -Levi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
