Re: [CVS] Merging external snapshot to local repository
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 04:30:53PM +1100, Sam Watkins said On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 04:47:53AM +0100, Mateusz ?oskot wrote: I'm running Debian and looking for some tools and solutions which could help me with merging external snapshot of some project into my own local version of it in the CVS repository. There is a progam called cvsup, http://www.cvsup.org/, maybe this is what you need. For some reason it isn't in Debian, http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/1999/04/msg01587.html has a link to some .debs It was removed[0] because it became uninstallable after another package was removed from the archive. [0]: http://ftp-master.debian.org/removals.txt -rob -- Words of the day: bullion S Box Semtex Lexis-Nexis Sears Tower number key -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: which version of the ssh daemon is more secure?
On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 02:00:17PM +0200, Anonymous said I'm running an unstable system and I need remote access by ssh. Stable is considered better for servers (but I need unstable for newer versions of a lot of packages on my workstation), testing gets security updates last, but unstable has a higher version number of ssh. it safer to run the stable ssh (1:3.4p1-1.woody.3) or the unstable one (1:3.8.1p1-8)? Neither have any known vulnerabilities at the moment. -rob -- Words of the day: eternity server AGT. AMME Syria Semtex FIPS140 kilo class -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is there a stable mail client for linux?
On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 10:30:46AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre said is still annoying. I don't have this problem with the mbox format. Mail won't be delivered to a mbox while you're reading it. -rob -- Words of the day:Rand Corporation propaganda Pine Gap enigma Panama CIA signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: question
On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 10:35:37AM -0400, Michael Marsh said On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 23:24:19 +1000, Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm pretty sure you need the headers to build against the library. If you mean link as in link up at runtime, then yeah, my wording was sloppy :-) Sure, but the error that the OP pasted into his message was a link error, not a compile error. A link error at compile-time, resulting from the lack of the libvte.so file (well, symlink), which is in the libvte-dev (or whatever) package. The library might not even be needed, and the -lvte could possibly be removed from the link statement. True. -- Words of the day: Rumsfield Capricorn cybercash advisors advisors 22nd SAS emc signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: testing SILENTLY removed mozilla-firefox
On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 12:29:25PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman said How annoying! The current versions of mozilla-diggler and -tabextensions are apparently incompatible with the current version (in testing, that is) of mozilla-firefox, so an aptitude update removed firefox. I know it's 'testing' but that behavior seems really bad. It didn't silently remove anything. When you hit g to tell aptitude to Go Do Stuff, it will print exactly what it's planning to do, and wait for you to hit g again to accept it's plan. Yes, it's annoying something was uninstalled, but aptitude did it's best to warn you. -rob -- Words of the day:BROMURE Ermes bluebird SCUD missile Janet Reno North Korea signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Command line arguments in applications and X
On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 07:58:31PM +0200, Inge Thorin Eidsaether said Hi all! Does anyone have an idea what command line arguments or switches to pass to an MDI application, so that, when a running instance of the application exists in system memory, a new one isn't spawned? I believe that kind of arguments to be local to the application, and not global in X, but feel free to correct me... It is application-specific. Specifically, I use gFTP to open a remote site, and Bluefish to edit web documents. When called from gFTP to edit a document, the above desired effect is produced, but that is obviously due to the following settings in Bluefish: Edit Preferences Files: [x] Open files in already running bluefish window However, focus is not returned to the editor, and when I manually switch to it, the new document tab is not brought to the front. I cannot find any window manager settings (sawfish) to control this behavior, although I think that at least the first step has to do with window management. Fixing this would make editing a little smoother. It's not really a window manager issue. It sounds like gftp is just telling bluefish to open a file, with no WM interaction at all. It *is* possible for bluefish to request the focus and to be raised to the top, but it would require modifications to bluefish, afaik. Maybe file a wishlist bug? Sawfish is scriptable in lisp, of course, so you *could* get gftp to call a wrapper script that raises and focuses the bluefish window, then tells it to open a file... I use perlpanel as a taskbar, by the way. Maybe that causes the focus problems? Now I don't mind Bluefish, but I would like to try other editors for their features (speed, simplicity, etc.), but so far no one opens in the desired way. I don't think any of them will... -- Words of the day:enigma HAMASMOIS PLO War Crimes wire transfer arrangements signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: bind in jail?
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 01:03:51PM +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone said Now should bind run in a chroot'd environment, an entry using a remote exploit in bind would be contained inside the confines of the chroot jail. In theory damage can be compartmentalized to the directory hosting the jail. Of course if your machine does get compromised its wise to just reformat the entire system than waste time in ascertaining trustworthiness of some binaries you'd be using for 'unrooting' the machine Just to make it clear to everyone: if bind in a chroot gets rooted, the attacker can escape from the chroot and will have root on your main system. If the attacker only gets a normal user account in the chroot, though, they are locked in (unless they find a local root exploit, etc). -rob -- Words of the day: Ron Brown munitions IDEA underground wire transfer global signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: How to Get Latest Thunderbird, KDE?
On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 01:50:37PM -0400, Ed Sutherland said What do I add to my sources.list to apt-get install the latest mozilla-thunderbird and kde 3.3? Software doesn't magically get packages, someone has to do them. KDE 3.3 is partially in unstable, but I'm not sure if it's usable or not. The debian-kde list probably knows more. According to apt-cache policy mozilla-thunderbird, unstable has 0.7.3-6. I added 'deb ftp ftp.us.debian/org unstable' but apt said I already have That won't work, you need something like: deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable main Also, if you're using stable, this will more or less move you to unstable, so make sure that's what you want. -- Words of the day:TELINT Craig Livingstone Roswell UNSCOM Perl-RSA Ft. Bragg signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: question
On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 10:52:26AM -0400, Michael Marsh said I am trying to compile a structure editor which I found on the internet. But I get the following message: -- gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -DPACKAGE_DATA_DIR=\/usr/local/share\ -DPACKAGE_LOCALE_DIR=\/usr/local/share/locale\ -I../scintilla/include -DGTK -DSCI_LEXER -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -g -O2 -c `test -f 'utils.c' || echo './'`utils.c Package libgnome-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libgnome-2.0.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'libgnome-2.0' found Not sure if this is really needed, since it wasn't a fatal error, but do you have libgnome2-0 installed? You'll need the corresponding -dev package installed, if you want to build against it. libgnome2-dev looks like what you need. I generally use apt-cache search libwhatever | grep dev to find 'em. g++ -lvte -DGTK -o cssed main.o support.o interface.o document.o xmlparser.o callbacks.o selectorparser.o cssdialogs-interface.o cssdialogs-callbacks.o utils.o -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lm -lpangox-1.0 -lpangoxft-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lglib-2.0 ../scintilla/gtk/LexCSS.o ../scintilla/gtk/LexHTML.o ../scintilla/gtk/LexOthers.o ../scintilla/bin/scintilla.a /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lvte collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [cssed] Error 1 It looks like you're missing the package libvte4, which has the terminal emulator widget for GTK+ 2.0. libvte-dev - Terminal emulator widget for GTK+ 2.0 - development files -rob -- Words of the day:Verisign Chobetsu International Criminal Court signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: overriding files in nfs mount
On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 12:52:53PM +0300, Micha Feigin said Bottom line, is it possible to mount /etc through nfs and the override some of the files with local ones without resorting to playing around with links? Yes, use bind mounts to mount dirs and files from the local disk into /etc/. e.g. mount --bind /home/server-specific/passwd /etc/passwd -- Words of the day:Chobetsu VX nerve gas high security Geraldton bullion Iraq signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: NOT ALL of the packages are in CD
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 12:30:23PM -0700, belahcene abdelkader said Hi, I checked all the 13 CD of the sarge version, I didn't find the lyx package, but I lyx exists in the sarge (testing) in editor section. does that mean that NOT ALL of the packages of the sarge, are in the 13 CD's. LyX was temporarily removed from testing a while back, if your CDs were generated at that time it might explain the omission. -rob -- Words of the day: Rumsfield e-bomb Elvis SAFE broadside Crypto AG Forte signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: blackbox broke
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 03:13:59PM -0600, statik tzu said i recently did an `apt-get update; apt-get dist-ugprade` and one of the packages it touched was blackbox. since then, i haven't been able to get blackbox to just start, it says something about not being able to connect to the screen. i'm using sarge. i was able to get it up by starting fluxbox then switching to blackbox but i can't start vmware running this way. any help would be welcome. Please provide us with the complete error message. Also, how are you starting X? If you're using startx, does this $ echo exec gnome-session ~/.xsession then startx work? -rob -- Words of the day: Yukon JPL NASA AIEWS S Box SWAT propaganda Delta Force SAFE signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: [Way OT] Re: GMAIL Invites..!
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 10:37:11PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman said (I'm bottom-posting only because this list - uniquely, in my experience - insists on it. You really should try reading your email in reverse chronological order. It works.) Every single technical list (far too many) I'm on is *strongly* slanted to the post-below-what-you're-replying-to-so-it's-easy-to-keep-up worldview. These are almost exclusively FS lists, though. -- Words of the day:Ortega security revolution Axis Of Evil Iran terrorist signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Printing From Browser Uses Ugly Font
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 01:13:35PM -0500, Jacob S. said I'm not exactly sure when this started, as I've done a couple of updates recently. This is on a box running all of the latest updates to Sarge. Whenever I print from Mozilla, Firefox or Galeon, all using the 'Postscript/default' printer option, the html is printed using a really ugly font nothing at all like what I see on the screen. The font looks like it's supposed to be some sort of fancy script font, but it just doesn't look right having a page full of text written in a font that big and gaudy. Have you checked the bug list for mozilla-firefox and gsfonts? IIRC the problem was with one of them, and the workaround was to use default as the printer. Or was it Postscript? One or the other ;-) -rob -- Words of the day: Clinton Iraq 22nd SAS top secret Lon Horiuchi class struggle signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: How to Get Latest Thunderbird, KDE?
On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 11:02:40PM +0300, Ivan Adams said I think that the right server was: ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable main this have to be in first place in /etc/apt/sources.list apt (unless you're pinning) will use the most recent version of each package, regardless of the ordering in sources.list. The ordering *does* matter if the same version of a package is available from multiple sources; apt will pick the source listed first. -rob -- Words of the day:CDC North Korea ICE benelux bce Project Monarch illuminati signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Can't get a gnome gui
On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 11:10:19AM -0300, Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra said Em Fri, 10 Sep 2004 15:40:19 +0200, Paul Akkermans escreveu: I was hoping to get a Gnome environment dpkg -l gnome* aptitude gnome-desktop-environment You need an install in between those two, too :) An echo gnome-session ~/.xsession should then make startx start up X and gnome for you, too. -- Words of the day:BLU-114/B CIA Ft. Knox Uzi clones clones broadside freedom signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: [Linux newbie asks:] Why dhelp_parse: no title found for directory
On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 11:44:59PM -0400, David A. Cobb said On several of my recent installs, (I'm using dpkg --install -R dir You could just chroot into it from a working linux system... because I still haven't got my Linux talking to my network controller ) I get a boatload of Unpacking replacement libapt-pkg-dev ... Preparing to replace libapt-pkg-doc 0.6.25 (using .../libapt-pkg-doc_0.6.25_all.deb) ... dhelp_parse: no title found for directory Apps/Programming dhelp_parse: no title found for directory doc dhelp_parse: no title found for directory libs dhelp_parse: no title found for directory music dhelp_parse: no title found for directory windowmanagers dhelp_parse: no title found for directory Apps That's apt from experimental. If no one else has, file a bug. -rob -- Words of the day:Yukon Ceridian Hacker plutonium Qaddafi infowar Kosovo signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Gdk-ERROR **: BadValue
On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 12:11:50AM +0800, Cathayan said Hi, friends, I am using Debian Unstable, and try to switch from xtt font engine to freetype. But when I change this in XF86Config-4, xmms, rxvt can not run. The error is: Gdk-ERROR **: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) serial 99 error_code 2 request_code 45 minor_code 0 And then, I install and load the xfs-xtt font service, the error is gone, every thing is ok. But I don't want to load xfs anymore, what is the problem? when I use xtt, it can work without xfs. I don't know the answer, sorry, but you might try asking on the debian-x mailing list. -rob -- Words of the day:Dateline propaganda MD4 terrorism Delta Force ASO digicash signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Cannot get this virtual package right!
On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 11:15:02PM -0400, David A. Cobb said REPLIES INLINE Travis Crump wrote: David A. Cobb wrote: I currently am running kernel-2.6.7-1 and I've slowly brought many key components up to the bleeding edge. I have apt at 0.6.25 I keep getting (aptitude, and others) depends on libapt-pkg-libc6.3-5-3.3; however: Package libapt-pkg-libc6.3-5-3.3 is not installed. it is provided by apt in testing/unstable, if you want to use experimental's apt you will have to rebuild aptitude et al against libapt-pkg-dev from experimental. Ah. OK, for the moment, I'll drop back to apt 0.5.whatever. By rebuild, do you mean configure make from sources? Yes. But it may or may not work, depending on if apt 0.5 is source-compatible with apt 0.6. Oh, apt-get source -b apt, maybe with -t experimental or whatever. Have a look at apt build-dep, too. -rob -- Words of the day: illuminati Legion of Doom un-Australian domestic disruption signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: question
On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 09:05:33AM -0400, Michael Marsh said On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 09:43:15 +1000, Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 10:52:26AM -0400, Michael Marsh said /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lvte collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [cssed] Error 1 It looks like you're missing the package libvte4, which has the terminal emulator widget for GTK+ 2.0. libvte-dev - Terminal emulator widget for GTK+ 2.0 - development files Not if you only need the library to link against, at least in unstable. I'm pretty sure you need the headers to build against the library. If you mean link as in link up at runtime, then yeah, my wording was sloppy :-) -- Words of the day: Arnett corporate security Vince Foster Dateline morse signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Copyright/License of Debian Constitution
On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 04:32:19PM -0400, Carl Fink said On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 02:55:28PM -0400, Travis Crump wrote: a) Go try and 'reword' a book and try to pass it off as your own. Perfectly legal. Note that WEST SIDE STORY is not ROMEO AND JULIET for copyright purposes. Yes, ROMEO is in public domain ... but WSS is not, which it would be if it were considered identical to the original. Anyone can effectively assert copyright of public domain works, so WSS could be RJ with s/romeo/trogdor/, and still be subject to $modern_whoever's copyright. -- Words of the day: industrial espionage Etacs Blowfish spy AIMSX STARLAN signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: ldd output
On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 02:47:37AM -0400, Arthur E. Conrad said in the following case is does [libcrypt.so.1 = /lib/libcrypt.so.1 (0x40034000)] == [libcrypt.so.1 = /lib/libcrypt.so.1 (0x40154000)] I'm no elf expert, but I'm pretty sure that they're refering to the same library loaded at a different address. [EMAIL PROTECTED] saslauthd]# ldd saslauthd libcrypt.so.1 = /lib/libcrypt.so.1 (0x40034000) libresolv.so.2 = /lib/libresolv.so.2 (0x40061000) libpam.so.0 = /lib/libpam.so.0 (0x40073000) libc.so.6 = /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x4200) libdl.so.2 = /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x4007b000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 = /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x4000) [EMAIL PROTECTED] saslauthd]# ldd /usr/sbin/postfix libz.so.1 = /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x40034000) libm.so.6 = /lib/tls/libm.so.6 (0x40042000) libsasl2.so.2 = /usr/lib/libsasl2.so.2 (0x40064000) libpcre.so.0 = /lib/libpcre.so.0 (0x40077000) libdb-4.0.so = /lib/libdb-4.0.so (0x40081000) libnsl.so.1 = /lib/libnsl.so.1 (0x40129000) libresolv.so.2 = /lib/libresolv.so.2 (0x4013f000) libc.so.6 = /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x4200) libdl.so.2 = /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x40151000) libcrypt.so.1 = /lib/libcrypt.so.1 (0x40154000) libpthread.so.0 = /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0 (0x40181000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 = /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x4000) -- Words of the day: Bellcore Bellcore quiche New World Order ASLET revolution signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Perl Apache::Session
On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 06:36:40AM -0400, Tom Allison said I was looking but not finding the following: Apache::Session::CacheAny in the deb's. Just to be certain, does anyone know if this is available as a deb (and I'm using bad search terms) You can search for individual files in Debian using http://packages.debian.org/ or apt-file, but at a guess I'd say it's in libapache-session-perl if it's in Debian at all. otherwise I'll use CPAN. dh-make-perl is a nifty tool for this. -- Words of the day:condor PLO Etacs SEAL Team 6 Crypto AG Iran rail gun AMEMB signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: EnableHiMem for Memory == exactly 1GB?
On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 12:26:55AM -0700, William Ballard said On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 05:31:11PM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: For 1-2 GB machines there is also a patch that gives you a 2GB-2GB memory split which allows you to use up to two GB without highmem (not sure where the exact limit is). The upside is no memory remapping on But without this patch and without himem enabled your machine will not be able to use 1GB of memory, correct? Correct. -- Words of the day: basement Bletchley Park Forte tempest Bosnia War Crimes Maple signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Visual C++?????
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 08:11:41PM -0400, Paul Tsai said Joris Huizer wrote: The worst thing I know of Visual C++ is, for (int i = 0; ) ... ... ... for (int i = 0; ) is the bad thing the declaration of int in the for loop? According to scoping rules i is only in scope for the first for loop so the second declaration should be ok. It's been a while since I used VC++ but is the issue the fact that MS has the scoping rules messed up (i.e. the second for loop prompts an error)? That indeed was the problem: the int i declaration was considered to be out of the loop scope, and thus declared twice in the same scope (the function). Ick. I found a short discussion here: http://www.mvps.org/vcfaq/lang/1.htm. I do believe it has been fixed in recentish versions of VC++, though. -- Words of the day:CID Capricorn CIDA Commecen Adriatic spies clandestine signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Debian + The New PowerBook G4s
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 10:37:54PM +0100, Matthew T. Atkinson said 'ello, Thanks very much for the info (especially on wireless and the good news about production issues). I'd totally forgotten that Debian had a PowerPC users list; I'll post on that very soon. Not having wireless would be a shame. I'll let you know if I hear any good news in that area. I've just bought an ibook g4 and a netgear ma111 usb wireless thingy, which works quite well...it would be cool if the airport extreme was one day supported, though... -- Words of the day: Lon Horiuchi ARPA CIDA assassination munitions bluebird signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: weird pb
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 02:18:29PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said Hi, I have a really weird problem on one of my box (woody): [(14:15:00) Linux Wifix ~]$ ls Segmentation fault [(14:15:02) Linux Wifix ~]$ any idea? Does dmesg print a kernel oops after running this command? -- Words of the day:radar gamma AIMSX sweep IDEA codes bullion STARLAN signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Memory limit testing: whether user really can use 2100MB memory
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 11:56:46AM -0400, Jameson C. Burt said As a user, without administrative privileges, I want to determine if I really can consume a certain amount of memory. Try to consume it, and see if malloc() fails or your kernel locks up. There are a huge number of factors: * The fact that 32-bit applications use 32-bit pointers means they can never use more than 4GB each. * The default design of Linux means that each app is limited to 3GB (but you can apply a patch to use the full 4GB, at the cost of context-switch speed). * Linux will generally let you allocate as much memory as you want, anyway (up to the previous limit), and only *really* allocate memory when you use it (ie write to the page). strict overcommit is the keyword to google for if you want the kernel to only allocate memory it actually has. * Different kernels can handle the past two items differently, so assume it will differ between Linux and AIX. It also differes between different versions of the Linux kernel. -- Words of the day:FBI number key Kennedy USCOI ANDVT signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: EnableHiMem for Memory == exactly 1GB?
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 11:25:03PM -0700, William Ballard said Greg Madden in [EMAIL PROTECTED], suggested enabling CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y for machines with 960MB memory; however the help for this option in 2.6.7 says if you will never run a machine with more than 1 Gigabyte of memory. It seems to suggest that for the interval [0,1024] it should be not set and (1024,4096] it should be set; i.e. not set at exactly 1GB. Is this correct? I'm pretty sure the limit is at 896MB of RAM. Without HIGHMEM, the kernel will ignore all memory above that. With it, the kernel will use up to $bignum GB of RAM, but (some? all? I forget) memory access will be slower. The conventional wisdom seems to be that if you have less than 1GB of RAM, then this slowdown negates the benefit of the extra = 128 MB of RAM you would have access to. Or so I've heard; my biggest machine has 512MB of RAM. It's probably one of those things where you need to test it yourself to decide whether it's worth it for you or not. -- Words of the day: CDMA Firewalls quarter AK-47 bullion unclassified War Crimes signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Problems with apt
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 10:05:30AM -0700, Jonas Jasas said Hello I have problems with apt, tell me the way in this situation how to make apt work? After I added to my source.list deb http://mars.iti.pk.edu.pl/~jakub/dist/sarge ./ and tryed to install gimp 2.0 I am getting: Are you using sarge? If so, I think you'd be *far* better off getting gimp 2.0 (in the gimp package) from unstable. Also, finger and libxft-dev should not be spitting out errors like they are for you, are you using some weird mishmash of non-Debian sources? -- Words of the day: assassinate Rubin Noriega AMW Kosovo broadside advisors signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Unknown root partition type?
On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 04:06:00PM -0400, Norman Walsh said There was a short thread about this a couple of weeks ago, but I don't recall seeing any resolution. I do remember that I wasn't the only one experiencing the problem. Did I miss something, or is it still unresolved? I missed the thread, but is it related to this: http://www.davidpashley.com/cgi/pyblosxom.cgi/debian/linux26_xp.html ? -- Words of the day: BROMURE Ron Brown Rand Corporation Subversion Baranyi embassy signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Frontpage-extensions and php in apache
On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 08:47:46PM +0200, Colemont Bert said ok, I cannot find what is wrong,... any help? Read /usr/share/doc/php4/README.Debian.gz -- Words of the day: STARLAN Freeh TELINT BLU-114/B White House CIDA 2600 Magazine signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: No mysql lookup table types in postfix
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 03:32:24PM +0200, Joost De Cock said Hi list, I want to use a mysql table for check_recipient_access lookups in postfix. I installed postfix-mysql, and that should do the trick. However, postconf -m gives me this: static nis dbm regexp environ btree unix hash No mysql there. It says in the documentation that for Debian all you have to do is install de postfix-mysql package. Do I need to tell postfix somewhere that mysql table types are available now? Oh, I've restarted postfix, no changes. That was enough for me...what versions, etc are you using? Does postfix complain it's logs? -- Words of the day: Hacker Hacker eternity server Comirex Verisign arrangements signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Changing from testing to unstable.
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 01:45:56PM +, Adam Funk said To change from testing to unstable, is is as simple as s/testing/unstable in /etc/apt/sources.list, `apt-get update` and `apt-get upgrade` (or do I need to use dist-upgrade for this)? Yes, use dist-upgrade. If I have problems with a package from unstable and want to revert to a lower-numbered version, how would I do so? You can't, generally. Often you can downgrade individual packages by dpkg -i'ing them from /var/cache/apt/archives/ or playing apt pinning games, but don't depend on being able to go back. -- Words of the day: Australia Marxist JUWTF advisors interception explosion SHA signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Debian + The New PowerBook G4s
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 06:12:30PM +0200, Bob Hentges said Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 10:37:54PM +0100, Matthew T. Atkinson said snip I've just bought an ibook g4 and a netgear ma111 usb wireless thingy, which works quite well...it would be cool if the airport extreme was one day supported, though... Now that is interesting, is that a 802.11b or 802.11g chip? Have you got a link to the item, and some more informations on it please ;-). 802.11b, google:+site:netgear.com ma111. I'm not sure what more you'd want to know...kismet works, but hostap doesn't. For some reason I couldn't get the packaged linux-wlan-ng drivers to work, but downloading the source worked fine. -- Words of the day: Ft. Meade supercomputer advisors Legion of Doom gamma Consul signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: mysql and libgcc_s.so.1
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 12:50:33AM -0400, Philip C. said I was using mysql-4.0.14 compiled under stable so I decided to move to mysql-4.0.20 compiled under unstable to no avail. Every time the thread You're built it from source on unstable, on the exact machine you're trying to run it on? Yes, both 4.0.14 and 4.0.20 were built on the machine it was run on and 4.0.20 was compiled post unstable upgrade. This exact version is in unstable anyway. Does the Debian binary package work for you? Yes, and of course that's other odd thing, I noticed that people had all sorts of problems with core software... Only mysql is giving me trouble, under unstable (sorry, sorta new to Debian -- thought unstable was just dev woody). So it could be a mysql bug or it could be an unstable bug... I figured I would start here, since I ran everything ok, pre unstable. You could try building the Debian source package and seeing if that works for you; perhaps a configure option you chose did something odd. -- Words of the day: Treasury Lon Horiuchi freedom asset assassination rs9512c signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: can not compile kde, some xmkmf problem
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 06:51:56AM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez said If nothing gets resolved about that 4.4 release in the future, The XFree86 group seems to be refusing to back down. I am considering installing 4.4 in my system too, so, I would like to hear recommendations about making it happen. Erm, what do you want that 4.4 has, but that the X.org and FreeDesktop trees don't? -- Words of the day:gamma enemy of the state ASO Craig Livingstone signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: can not compile kde, some xmkmf problem
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 09:54:21AM +0200, LeVA said That *is* the default install path, and I think installing to anywhere else is a *really* bad idea... No, it's a good idea, since it won't confuse dpkg. You can just point configure scripts at whatever dir you put them in. -- Words of the day:Soviet MD4 sniper Firewalls government eternity server signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: can not compile kde, some xmkmf problem
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 12:13:23PM +0200, LeVA said 2004. június 24. 04:31, Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Debian-User [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 11:54:05AM +0200, LeVA said Since XFree86 4.4.0 isn't in Debian, you must have installed it from a tarball or something. You'll need to point the KDE configure script at the location you unpacked it to. Or just install the Debian packaged X headers. The /usr/X11R6 install path is standard, so the configure must find the dir Um, you installed a binary tarball of X to /usr/X11R6? That's a *really* bad idea. Nonetheless, Debian has the X headers packaged. Or get them from XFree86. -- Words of the day: industrial intelligence president e-cash number key InfoSec signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: can not compile kde, some xmkmf problem
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 03:28:14PM +0200, LeVA said [...] checking for xmkmf... /usr/X11R6/bin/xmkmf checking various X settings... failed configure: error: /usr/X11R6/bin/xmkmf (imake) failed. Make sure you have all necessary X development packages installed. On some systems a missing /lib/cpp symlink is at fault. Hi! I figured out what is the problem, but I don't know how to fix it: After the ./configure in the kdebase dir, I get this message: checking for X... libraries /usr/X11/lib, headers . So the configure script didn't find the header files. It is interesting, because I have the header files in my /usr/X11R6/include directory. Anyone knows, what this configure script is looking for? What is it checking? Maybe it is a missing .h file, or something else? Did you tell the configure script to use that directory directly? -- Words of the day: ANDVT Roswell electronic surveillance Commecen Agfa Skipjack signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Something odd in XFree86 (unstable)
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 03:08:51PM +0100, David Goodenough said Just recently the Alt+some key shortcut to get to KDE menu entries stopped working. I commented on this on the debian-kde list and got the reply that someone had cured it by backout from 4.3.0dfsg.1-5_all to 4.3.0-7_all. I am unsure which of the various xfree86 packages to raise a bug on. Is this a known problem and is there hope of a fix? It's a known problem, which will be fixed in the next upload of XFree86. The cause was xlibs, iirc, so http://bugs.debian.org/xlibs. -- Words of the day: Merlin offensive information warfare signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: software suspend on 2.6.5-1-686-smp
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 03:04:13PM -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi said Can someone help me how to get software suspend working on debian unstable machine? In particular I would like to try the hibernating feature. I am using default kernel-image and the /boot/config-2.6.5-1-686-smp has the following lines # # Power management options (ACPI, APM) # CONFIG_PM=y CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND=m Now my question is what lines should I add to /etc/modules inorder to load this module? I tried running modconf, but could not find an entry relating swsusp. I was able to get acpi up and running though. I'm almost certain swsusp on SMP in 2.6.5 will either not work or will do Bad Bad Things. I just saw Pavel post some patches to make it work on SMP on lkml today, though, so you might give them a try. -- Words of the day:CID VX nerve gas Freeh afsatcom White Water Consul Qaddafi signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: no deliver from Subsystem
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 05:33:50PM +0200, Frank Kaldewey said Hallo, I install postfix on linux-debian. I receive and send mails from everyuser on system without error. Now I have to deliver mails via webserver(apache) in php On other system with sendmail it is no problem to deliver mails. I add php.ini sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/postfix Just call /usr/sbin/sendmail, every non-Sendmail MTA includes it for compatibility anyway. -- Words of the day: INSCOM Steve Case Armani Maple bce Iran Aldergrove Capricorn signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: mysql and libgcc_s.so.1
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 07:40:38PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said I'm experiencing something very strange since I moved to woody unstable. woody and unstable are different versions of Debian. *very* different versions. From the versions you give below, though, it seems you are indeed running unstable. Since updating, I can't get my locally compiled copy of mysql to survive more than a single connection. After the connection is closed, mysqld exits everytime. I was using mysql-4.0.14 compiled under stable so I decided to move to mysql-4.0.20 compiled under unstable to no avail. Every time the thread You're built it from source on unstable, on the exact machine you're trying to run it on? for the connection tries to clean up, mysql tries to open libgcc_s.so.1. Somehow, mysqld fails to find this file!? I've noticed that it tries to open the correct file, but the open returns ENOENT. Permissions are fine from / all the way down to /lib/libgcc_s.so.1. I'm running the most recent woody unstable and I have the following: gcc --version gcc (GCC) 3.3.4 (Debian) ldd --version ldd (GNU libc) 2.3.2 /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql --version /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql Ver 12.22 Distrib 4.0.20, for pc-linux This exact version is in unstable anyway. Does the Debian binary package work for you? -- Words of the day:cryptographic quarter emc PGP explosion UNSCOM signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Cancel Apt-Get
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 10:49:33AM -0700, Michael Montagne said So I've got myself into a bit of a dependency problem by jumping the gun. kdelibs-data needs a later version of openoffice.org than will be installed. I think if I just let libranet handle this it would be ok but I need to get apt cleared up first. How can I cancel all pending actions and allow myself to upgrade adminmenu, etc.? apt-get doesn't store a list of pending actions. If it's trying to do something, it's because of the current state of the system, not because it's trying to do some new thing. If adminmenu is some package (it's not in Debian, at least), then apt-get install adminmenu will update it to the latest available version. -- Words of the day: clandestine codes class struggle bank UOP CBNRC Crowell signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Missing packages or modules for Sid 2.6.X kernels?
On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 01:31:06PM -0700, Charlie Zender said Hi, I use Debian Sid pre-packaged kernels on my Dell laptop. When a new binary kernel package comes out I do a apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.26-1-686 kernel-headers-2.4.26-1-686 \ kernel-pcmcia-modules-2.4.26-1-686 lm-sensors-2.4.26-1-686 \ nvidia-kernel-2.4.26-1-686 and then edit my GRUB menu.lst and I'm done. However, I have trouble getting 2.6 debian pre-packaged kernels running. There seem to be only two packages for 2.6, kernel-image, and kernel-headers. When I install these apt-get install kernel-image-2.6.6-1-686 kernel-headers-2.6.6-1-686 and then try to boot into 2.6.6, I get kernel panic because, apparently, none of the kernel modules were installed and the kernel does not like that. Did you tell grub to use an initrd? Do you see modules in /lib/modules/2.6.6/ or so? 1. Am I supposed to be installing 2.6.X versions of the packages kernel-pcmcia-modules, lm-sensors, and nvidia-kernel? Yes, kernel modules need to be built for the exact kernel you're using. If so, where are these packages located, I can't find them. If they're not there, you can build them from source. Install kernel-package and lm-source, nvidia-kernel-source, etc. apt-cache search is your friend. 2. Is there a completely different package name(s) for the modules for the Sid 2.6.X kernel? If so, what is it? Not that I know of, but, again, apt-cache search should make light work of finding out. 3. Is it just that all the required Debian packages for 2.6.X kernels have not yet been finished so everyone else who tries the binary kernels encounters the same problems I do? There is always a delay from a new kernel being uploaded to the surrounding modules being rebuilt; but you have the module source (mostly...), you can build the packages yourself quite easily. -- Words of the day: Delta Force interception strategic World Trade Center UOP signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: MAC address not shown?
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 02:27:40PM -0400, David Piniella said My sarge machine has a weird problem: it's set to DHCP and the DHCP server has the machine's MAC address bound to a particular 10.x.x.x IP; lately another computer has been getting IP conflicts with the same IP, even though it has a different MAC address. Doing an nbtstat -a on the Debian sarge machine tells me that that MAC on it is 00-00-00-00-00-00 (a languard scan says the same thing...) Does ifconfig show the correct MAC address? Does it say the NIC is in PROMISC mode or such? -- Words of the day: propaganda airframe pink noise Elvis JUWTF enigma cypherpunk signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: can not compile kde, some xmkmf problem
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 11:54:05AM +0200, LeVA said Hi! After reading the #76360 bug at kde.org, I decided to compile a kdebase snapshot, but during the configure, I get this error: [...] checking for xmkmf... /usr/X11R6/bin/xmkmf checking various X settings... failed configure: error: /usr/X11R6/bin/xmkmf (imake) failed. Make sure you have all necessary X development packages installed. On some systems a missing /lib/cpp symlink is at fault. I have xfree-4.4.0 installed, and I have the header files installed too. What could be the problem? Anyone experienced this before? Since XFree86 4.4.0 isn't in Debian, you must have installed it from a tarball or something. You'll need to point the KDE configure script at the location you unpacked it to. Or just install the Debian packaged X headers. -- Words of the day: Crowell Bletchley Park Kosovo afsatcom Lexis-Nexis Perl-RSA signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: ITP Ximian Connector?
On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 12:06:57PM -0400, Paul Smith said So, who's going to ITP Connector for Debian? :-) http://www.novell.com/news/press/archive/2004/05/pr04034.html #248555. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day:nitrate morse CISU hackers Firefly class struggle Ft. Knox signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Problems finding CD-rom
On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 10:00:52PM +0200, Thomas De Groote said Hey all, I have a debian box with 2 HDs installed in raid-0 (hda and hdb). I wanted to read from the CD-ROM drive, but when I use /dev/hdc it gives the following error: mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device (lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root8 Sep 26 2003 /dev/cdrom - /dev/hdc) mount: /dev/hdc is not a valid block device eject: unable to find or open device for: `/dev/hdc' Is there any way to find out how to use the CD drive ? dmesg | grep -i cd that should say which the kernel thinks is a cd rom device. If you're using ide-scsi, you'll need to look through the output of dmesg and see where it was remapped to, too. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: Fortezza BROMURE SCUD missile Mantis brigand signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: install path for a deb package
On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 10:09:55PM +0100, Lars E. D. Jensen said Hi list I'm trying to make a deb package for the first time. You can try asking on the debian-mentors list, it's specifically for package questions like this... -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: Bletchley Park attack interception Mossad strategic JFK radar signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: My System Down-Pls Reply to dryden@verizon.net
On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 05:14:10PM -0400, Emily Dryden said Ligthning strike killed my Linksys wireless router. I have replaced it and wavemon shows good signal strength at my computer but no link. Presumably the problem is just in the setup but I cannot access the setup. This computer (my daughter's) is connected to the router by an ethernet card and can reach the web. When I try to access the router setup by http://192.168.1.1 I get a message that the connection was With which browser? Mozilla, afaik, doesn't use gconf at all, so shouldn't be affected by that. Does links or lynx work? The connection refused message means that the host you were connecting to told you to buzz off. Is it possibel that it is restricting access to only certain IPs? -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: Reno embassy White Water attack Taiwan class struggle Etacs signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: UnixODBC/MDBTools on Debian Testing
On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 09:29:57AM -0600, Jason Bouwmeester said I'm trying to install unixodbc: I'm using debian testing, have installed unixodbc, mdbtools, and php-odbc using apt-get, restarted apache. I get an error message in my apache error.log /usr/lib/libmdbodbc.so.0: undefined symbol: mdb_get_option I ran a ldd /usr/lib/libmdbodbc.so.0 and the output is as follows: libglib-2.0.so.0 = /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x40029000) libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4008d000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 = /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x8000) Are you sure you don't have any unofficial packages from outside debian, or old libs in /usr/local/lib? If so, file a bug on the mdbtools (I guess) package. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: nuclear InfoSec SDI Reno quarter CipherTAC-2000 White House signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: phpnuke
On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 11:02:31AM -0400, Michael Banta said Does anyone know where I can obtain a copy of phpnuke? As a Debian package? tarball? Anything. apt-cache search phpnuke comes up with nothing. phpnuke.org only seems to have a windows .zip file available for download. You might want to consider using Postnuke or one of the fifty bazillion other CMS's out there; the reason phpnuke isn't in Debian (anymore) is that the license doesn't let you distribute it (the main author has added restrictions above and beyond the GPL license other contributors used). See the archives of the debian-legal list for the gory details. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: armed overthrow Pakistan Ft. Meade FBI M-14 enigma radar signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: How much disk space do I allot for different distros ?
On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 06:31:47PM +0530, Sanjay Chigurupati said Hi, I am thinking of allocating space for different distros on my 40 GB hard disk at home. a) Have a 4.5 GB for XP ( dont flame) b) plan on 1.5 GB for backup ( Important files like resume and other docs in case I remove XP and put somethin else) c) Debian woody - 10 GB ( Is this too much) 10gb is a lot of space for debian software...I have loads of packages (1689, in fact) and my / only uses about 4GB. This is with /home on a separate partition, however... d) Gentoo version 1.4 ( 2 cds) - 5 GB ( Is this sufficient) Depends what you're using it for. Note that Debian's X packages take 4GB to build these days, so I'd ask a gentooite how much space they recommend, first. g) RH 9 - 7 GB ( is this 2 much) - plan to do some development for SANE I imagine this would be plenty of space, but asking a RH person would be a good idea. h) LFS ( Linux from Scratch) - 4 GB The same deal with gentoo here, you need extra space to build things. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: smuggle Delta Force Pakistan Firewalls Iraq BATF CDMA rs9512c signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Scheduling problems
On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 02:22:50PM +0100, Chris Boot said Hi, I'm having several problems concerning scheduling on my linux box. I'm running it as a server and therefore I'd like it to be as reliable as possible, but several niggling factors force me to reboot the box relatively often. The biggest problem I have is if there is no CPU idle time (as reported by top(1)) processes take a very long time to start up, and sometimes even fail to start entirely. I can trigger this very easily and it is very reproducible. I tried to run the Distributed.net client at some point but it ground my system to a halt (even nice'd to 19). This prevents me from logging in using SSH to kill the offending process, or checking my email, or any other task that requires starting processes. You say below that you have 1GB of RAM, are you using highmem? This is all I can think of, and would be a kernel bug...do you see anything related on http://bugzilla.kernel.org/? The next biggest problem is related to the above, I think. When I connect to my box using SSH, and the connection is broken somehow, the SSHd process takes up all the available CPU after just a couple of seconds. All I need to do to trigger this is to connect to the server, then kill the SSH client process. After a few seconds, the server process reaches 99.9% CPU usage: [EMAIL PROTECTED] bootc]$ pa | grep notty bootc24408 99.9 0.4 10688 3928 ?R14:15 0:38 sshd: [EMAIL PROTECTED] bootc24448 0.0 0.0 1576 496 pts/7S+ 14:16 0:00 grep notty No idea about this, I can't imagine why SSH would suddenly take so much CPU time. Is there anything in the ssh Debian bug list about this? -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: Ron Brown Lon Horiuchi enigma nitrate argus Freeh government signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Problem with newly installed kernel-2.6.3
On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 06:45:20AM -0700, jack kinnon said Hi I have checked the archive without any help to my problem. Using the 'scroll-lock' key, I was able to scroll-and-stop the screen during boot-up. I found three error msg. 1. Fatal server error: Cannot establish any listening socket - Make sure an X server isn't already running. 2. modprobe: Error during install command for serial /dev/ttyS0 3. syslog: cannot create /dev/log: Address family not supported by protocol. These explain why I am not getting syslog and the gui. I can't figure out what's wrong. Any suggestions? Did you build your kernel yourself? Did you include support for Unix domain sockets? I suspect yes and no, respectively ;-) -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: FTS2000 Project Monarch Comirex airframe underground signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: nfslock
On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 04:23:10PM -0700, Sarah Trefethen said Hopefully a quick question! I'm still learning my way around debian, I have a process that's trying to put a lock on a file shared over an nfs mount, and not having any luck. since there isn't a majic scrip called nfslock in my init.d I don't know what to do! Hmm, are you using the userspace NFS server (nfs-user-server)? It won't support file-locking, afaik...(yes, I'm clutching at straws ;) Using the kernel one (nfs-kernel-server) does require a kernel which supports it, however (none of the install ones do, I suspect, but the kernel-image-foo packages should). -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: investigation sniper Juiliett Class Submarine Subversion signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: [SLUG] After kernel 2.6.5-1 install, cursorprinting lost, reboot hangs after upgrade...
On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 06:15:23PM +1200, Adam Felix Bogacki said Hi, attempting to installing MPlayer, I found had no audio with the 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel. I apt-installed the 2.4.25-1-686 kernel, headers, and alsa-modules but was ultimately informed on alsa-users that my kernel/modules were 'foobar' . Kernel 2.6 .5-1-686 includes alsa-modules so I tried that. Well, 2.4.25 has about 6 local root exploits, but, aside from that, you can certainly build the ALSA modules from the alsa-source package. On first reboot, I found that OO0 1.1 and AbiWord would not print but that MPlayer had good audio and video, when it worked. On subsequent reboots, the cursor was frozen in the center of screen following login but I could use command-line functions in unconfigured windows, Yes, you do indeed need to read the kernel CHANGES document, or one of the trillions of 2.4-2.6 guides before embarking on a major kernel upgrade. For a start, you need to load the mousdev module, and possibly the psaux or psmouse one if you have a PS/2 mouse. Also, make sure you have hotplug installed. Some google hints: dave jones 2.6 upgrade and wonderful world of 2.6. Printing problems probably stem from not loading the lp module. including mutt and MPlayer. I tried a number of 'apt-get updates' and 'apt-get dist-upgrades --fix-missing' in the hope that appropriate package downloads would fix the cursor and problems. No, they were (probably) kernel config problems, which apt won't ever be able to fix. The last 'dist-upgrade --fix-missing' included an upgrade of 'kernel-image-2.6.5-1-686' and the install of a 'libmouse' package, but then came a message that modules needed to be re-generated during boot, and that I needed to 'reboot soon'. On rebooting however, I get the message Loading Linux .. and then the screen hangs. That's, uh, bad. Does it go blank or does it just not change from that point? Does the disk audibly churn? I can access the system on a 2.25 kernel rescue disk, but which does not have net access. Can you purge (dpkg -P) and reinstall the kernel-image-2.6.5-1-686 package from this kernel? -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: clandestine rs9512c Blowpipe csim kilderkin Centro halcon signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Logcheck unstable broken?
On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 12:27:30AM -0600, Dana Laude said Greetings, I've been running unstable and noticed that logcheck has stopping working. (looks like a cron deal) Anyways, I remember during the upgrade it popped up with something about adding the group logcheck and I checked it out and the adm group has logcheck, plus a seperate entry of logcheck as a user. Permissions seem OK for the log files that logcheck uses. Ideas anyone? If no one has filed a bug in the BTS yet (http://bugs.debian.org/logcheck), go ahead and file one yourself (reportbug is useful for this). -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: underground cybercash Uzi bullion supercomputer Manfurov signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 03:10:58PM +0200, Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro) said My new kernel is compiled with ext2, ext3 and the others also. My filesystem is ext3. In the kernel or as modules? They have to be builtin for it boot. When i reboot my system i can choose to boot the debian2.6.5 but in the boot process i get this: Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) Did you include support for your ide/scsi controller IN the kernel, too? -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: corporate security Bosnia Syria ICE Verisign SRI Nazi signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: libxft-dev install issue.
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 06:10:08PM +1000, Caveman said HI all. I did up system update but its seems that there is a a problem with the package libxft-dev. I get this error when I run apt-get Preparing to replace libxft-dev 2.1.2-5 (using .../libxft-dev_2.1.2-6_i386.deb) ... diversion of /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft.h to /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft1.h by libxft-dev Removing `diversion of /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft.h to /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft1.h by libxft-dev' dpkg-divert: rename involves overwriting `/usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft.h' with different file `/usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft1.h', not allowed dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libxft-dev_2.1.2-6_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libxft-dev_2.1.2-6_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) I was just wondering if anyone else has had this trouble and what they did to fix it. I hear there is a fix, but google did not seem to know about it. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=237511 -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: Panama chameleon man AVN ANC Nazi CDC gamma Nazi signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: MailScanner 4.29.7-1 and MCP
On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 02:08:15PM -0700, Matt Krause said MCP is no longer working. They only thing I have really changed is I upgraded from testing 4.28.6-1 to unstable 4.29.7-1 this morning. Not sure if they are related or not. I kept all of my config files when asked. /var/log/mail.log says it calls MCP, but never finds any of the banned text in /etc/MailScanner/mcp/mcp.cf. Anyone else had issues with the new unstable MailScanner and MCP checking? Thanks. Does downgrading it fix it? -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day:class struggle diwn Fidel Castro Pope ammunition Ft. Meade signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: (pam_securetty) access denied
On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 01:16:09AM +, Volker Schlecht said Hi, since a few days (weeks?) I notice a message saying (pam_securetty) access denied: tty ':0' is not secure in my auth.log when I log in via kdm or do an su in a konsole. The login and the su do work, though. I don't see any such message when I log in or su in a normal console. I'm pretty sure this is because :0 isn't in /etc/securetty. Why not just use sudo? -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: Cocaine gamma mailbomb War Crimes munitions supercomputer signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Kernel paging errors
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 01:26:19PM -0400, Nathaniel Eliot said I'm running a Debian Sarge installation, with the 2.4.22-1-386 kernel. Its a fairly lightweight server, running SSH and our accounting software. I'm very unfamiliar with the error reporting of Debian, so bear with the stupid questions and conclusions. I'm getting recurring kernel errors, that disappear for a while on reboot. The error starts with Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address. Its initial EIP varies, but once the errors started the EIP remains the same until I reboot. However, it hits many different processes, so I'm assuming the problem is something to do with a common library. - error from kern.log - Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address d0e8c3e0 printing eip: c013eb5b *pde = Oops: 0002 CPU:0 EIP:0010:[prune_dcache+135/295]Not tainted EFLAGS: 00010246 eax: ce9836f8 ebx: c0e8c368 ecx: c0e8c370 edx: d0e8c3e0 esi: c0e8c350 edi: c0cbea00 ebp: 125e esp: c12fdf60 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process kswapd (pid: 4, stackpage=c12fd000) Stack: 0020 01d0 0006 0037 c013ee53 1919 c0128dd3 0006 01d0 c0233550 01d0 0006 c0233550 c0128e1d 0020 c0233550 c12fc000 c02334a0 c0128efd c02334a0 c12fc245 0008e000 Call Trace:[shrink_dcache_memory+27/45] [shrink_caches+95/121] [try_to_free_pages_zone+48/74] [kswapd_balance_pgdat+65/136] [kswapd_balance+20/40] [kswapd+148/173] [rest_init+0/39] [arch_kernel_thread+35/45] [kswapd+0/173] Code: 89 02 c7 41 04 00 00 00 00 c7 43 08 00 00 00 00 8b 7e 08 85 - end error - I'm at a loss as to the source of these errors. I've dug around with Google, without luck. The memory and hard drive are both fully tested, and work fine. Have you tried chkrootkit[0]? A poorly-written rootkit could be corrupting memory. [0] read the BTS before posting any questions about it's output, it has known false-positives. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: CIDA Marxist Khaddafi assassinate radar Mafia Janet Reno signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: who's killing xinetd?
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 01:30:12AM -0500, Will Trillich said
something is making our xinetd process self-terminate, which
throws a monkey wrench into sending and receiving email... and
we'd like to know what we can do to find out a) what's sending
these signals, and b) how to stop it...
from /var/log/syslog this morning --
Apr 6 06:36:16 boss xinetd[10615]: {general_handler} (10615) Unexpected signal: 11
(Segmentation fault)
Apr 6 06:36:16 boss last message repeated 9 times
Apr 6 06:36:16 boss xinetd[10615]: {bad_signal} Received 10 signals in 1 seconds.
Exiting...
Apr 6 06:36:16 boss xinetd[10616]: {general_handler} (10616) Unexpected signal: 11
(Segmentation fault)
Apr 6 06:36:17 boss last message repeated 9 times
Apr 6 06:36:17 boss xinetd[10616]: {bad_signal} Received 10 signals in 1 seconds.
Exiting...
Apr 6 06:36:16 boss xinetd[10617]: {general_handler} (10617) Unexpected signal: 11
(Segmentation fault)
Apr 6 06:36:17 boss last message repeated 9 times
Apr 6 06:36:17 boss xinetd[10617]: {bad_signal} Received 10 signals in 1 seconds.
Exiting...
Apr 6 06:36:16 boss xinetd[5525]: {general_handler} (5525) Unexpected signal: 11
(Segmentation fault)
Apr 6 06:36:17 boss last message repeated 9 times
Apr 6 06:36:17 boss xinetd[5525]: Resetting...
Apr 6 06:36:17 boss xinetd[5525]: {general_handler} (5525) Unexpected signal: 11
(Segmentation fault)
Apr 6 06:36:17 boss last message repeated 8 times
Apr 6 06:36:17 boss xinetd[5525]: Resetting...
Apr 6 06:36:17 boss xinetd[10623]: {general_handler} (10623) Unexpected signal: 11
(Segmentation fault)
Apr 6 06:36:17 boss last message repeated 8 times
Apr 6 06:36:17 boss xinetd[10623]: {bad_signal} Received 10 signals in 1 seconds.
Exiting...
Apr 6 06:36:17 boss xinetd[5525]: {general_handler} (5525) Unexpected signal: 11
(Segmentation fault)
Apr 6 06:36:17 boss last message repeated 8 times
Apr 6 06:36:17 boss xinetd[5525]: Resetting...
Apr 6 06:36:17 boss xinetd[5525]: {general_handler} (5525) Unexpected signal: 11
(Segmentation fault)
Apr 6 06:36:17 boss last message repeated 2 times
Apr 6 06:36:17 boss xinetd[5525]: {bad_signal} Received 50 bad signals. Exiting...
Have you run memtes86 lately? Bad ram could make it segfault. But
since it's a network service, so could (potentially) a remote attack. I
don't know anything about xinetd, but can you see if it was receiving
connections just before each segfault, and from who?
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Re: libstdc++.so.5 for woody?
On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 06:11:41PM +0200, Johann Spies said I am setting up a mail server on woody using backports for exim(4.31) and spamassassin (2.63). I want to use uvscan on it but uvscan needs libstdc++.os.5 which does not seem available for woody. Rebuild it against the libstdc++ in woody? If that's not an option, maybe make a sarge chroot and run it in there. http://people.debian.org/~walters/chroot.html explains how. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: MP5K-SD Semtex TWA AMW assassination secure SDI Belknap signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: ayttm blocks /dev/dsp
On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 08:54:24AM +0530, J.S.Sahambi said I am using ayttm with Debian/unstable. When I start ayttm and send my first message, a blip is heard from the speakers. But after that no further sounds can be heard. Then, with fuser /dev/dsp/, I find that /dev/dsp is blocked by me. At ths point, other applications, like mplayer, also dont give any sound output. Only when I kill the /dev/dsp, I get the sounds back. The /dev/dsp again gets blocked after the first sound output by ayttm. By the way, If I use gaim or ymessenger, there is no prblem with sounds and I can even play mplayer along with ymessenger and still get the audio from mplayer. Tell ayttm to use esd. If you can't, try using esddsp to force it. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: Ft. Meade Bosnia chameleon man cryptographic Reno COSCO signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Unidentified subject!
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 10:40:00PM -0500, James Baer said Hello, I've got an HPPA B1000 box, and have tried installing CDs for it. It will boot (I've tried both vmlinux32 and 64) but it doesn't recognize either my keyboard or mouse, so I can't get past the release notes screen. Is there a patch or something I should download that will allow it to see these? Both of them are USB devices. You might get better reponses on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list. Also, don't forget a subject next time. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: csystems Area 51 sweep encryption JFK bank government MDA signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Warning: Do not use gcc-3.3.3-5 in testing
On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 03:10:50PM -0500, hugo vanwoerkom said MrVanes wrote: Hi, I recently apt-get updated my debian-testing machine and received g[cc ++]-3.3.3-5. After this for some reason I (re)compiled Qt 3.3.1 and got stuck with a broken KDE i.e. I could no longer start KDE through KDM. Starting KDE from xdm, or from a bare xsession was possible, but fonts were mangled. It turned out that qtconfig crashed with a segmentation fault when I tried to reconfigure my fonts and so did the fonts part of kcontrol. After long searching, recompiling Qt, KDE, reverting to Qt 3.3.0 etc. etc. it dawned to me that the more I recompiled things, the more got broken... Hence my guess it could be my compiler (valgrind-ing qtconfig told me the error was in the fresh compiled libqt-mt.so.3 library and nowhere else). Upgrading g[cc|++]-3.3.3-5 to 3.3.3-6 (from unstable) and recompiling Qt 3.3.1 and KDE-libs + base solved all my problems. DO NOT USE g[cc|++]-3.3.3-5!!! Hope these 2 cents can save some people from ugly broken systems! Grtz. Martin Well, since switching back to gcc/g++ 3.2.3 from 3.3.3-1 on Sarge all my weird problems have disappeared: - valgrind runs normally - no more segfaults in the QString destructor - segfaults in Qt applications Has either of you two filed a bug on g++ for this? -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: Centro radar gamma offensive information warfare Serbian signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Help needed
[Please wrap your lines! It makes it much easier to read, and thus more likely that you'll get a response. Anywhere between 70 and 80 is acceptable; 72 seems to be a nice value.] On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 09:11:44PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said I have a harddisk size of 160GB. I am finding it hard to find a release of Debian that supports 48bit LBA which is what I need to partition this disk so that I can use all of the 160GB available. Currently I can see only 137GB of usable space. I have tried various ISO's, sid included. However, sid doesnt load by default, I have to use boot: linux ramdisk=1 otherwise it cant load, however, it then has script errors before the install starts. So I cant use this one. Debian doesn't make sid isos available, complain to whoever made them. I have tried a netinstall, which fails when it tries to install certain packages. Check the md5 sum of the CD with the image you downloaded and the oen listed on the Debian website, it might be corrupted. Could someone please point me to an ISO that supports 48bit LBA. Sarge beta3 has kernel 2.4.25, which should support it. www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: class struggle Ft. Meade Fortezza Glock FBI armed overthrow signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Some sox questions.
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 01:28:57PM +, Adam Funk said On Wednesday 24 March 2004 07:40, Rob Weir wrote: On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 11:23:03AM +, Adam Funk said (I'm running sox 12.17.4 on Debian testing.) sox -h and the man page suggest mp3 support, but $ sox foo.wav foo.mp3 sox: Sorry, no MP3 encoding support produces nothing (actually an empty file), although $ sox foo1.mp3 foo1.wav sox: Do not support MPEG audio (layer I, III or III) with 16-bit data. Forcing to Signed. produces a wav file. I assume this is because of licensing issues with the MP3 encoding algorithm, right? Yes, Debian contains no mp3 encoding code. You can get packages of So how is it that the Debian-packaged normalize works on MP3s? It must encode as well as decode them since it modifies the MP3 file. Hm, I don't know. It does Depend on libmad0 which is a MPEG audio decoder library, though. Maybe it's possible to scale the amplitude of MP3s without re-encoding them? Or maybe it just outputs normalised .wav files? (Curiously, it doesn't support Ogg-Vorbis!) IIRC, the Vorbis format has a metadata field within the file that lets you specify a normalisation level, which decoders will honour. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: AIMSX Geraldton fraud supercomputer Uzi MD5 JPL rail gun signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: memory of video card
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 09:23:52PM -0500, Tom Allison said I ran into an interesting problem. I upgraded to kernel 2.6.3 and the xfree86 doesn't work. No problem, thought I would just re-run the dpkg-reconfigure script and run through it again. Problem is, I can't remember how much RAM in on the video card. Checked 'lspci -vv' and it doesn't come back with anything decipherable What happens if you just hit enter and leave it blank? I'm pretty sure X can figure it out for itself most of the time. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: BCCI asset AMW Leitrim militia JFK Mossad Manfurov AMW Nazi signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Re: Message
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 08:42:24PM -0800, Rino Mardo said --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See the attached file for details. ATTACHMENT part 2 application/octet-stream name=message_details.pif THIS IS SPAM EMAIL! I'VE UNSUBSCRIBED A LONG TIME AGO! PLEASE REMOVE MY EMAIL ADDRESS FROM YOUR LISTS!! Try reading the headers, it was probably using a spoofed From: address. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day:number key bank smuggle Exon Shell airframe Majic BRLO signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: magnifier
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 09:11:44PM +0100, Luis Fernando Llana D?az said Hello, I am trying to install gnopernicus. I have a problem with the magnifier. I get the following error: Activation error: during magnifier activation: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0 (srcore:31959): gnopernicus-WARNING **: Could not locate magnifier ** Magnifier initialization failed. (Possible cause : 1. You don't have gnome-mag installed 2. GNOME_Magnifier.server file is missing) gnopernicus-Message: Waiting for data on port UDP 7000. Do you have gnome-mag installed? -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: Becker assassination Pakistan Pope Honduras Adriatic Baranyi signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: (maybe solved -- well, not) Re: apt-get reports conflicts while installing j2sdk
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 03:28:57PM -0500, H. S. said Apparently, _H. S._, on 03/22/04 15:01,typed: So how do I remove whateve was left over from j2sdk1.3 remove operation? I think solved: ~# dpkg --remove j2re1.3 ~# apt-get install j2re1.4 seemed to have worked. Well, not exactly. Mozilla cannot find java and does not load the plugins. Here are my links so far. Where do I go from here? 15:27:17:/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins# ls -l /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ total 20 lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 44 Mar 11 01:52 flashplayer.xpt - /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/flashplayer.xpt lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 35 Mar 22 14:59 javaplugin_oji.so - /etc/alternatives/javaplugin_oji.so lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 46 Mar 11 01:52 libflashplayer.so - /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so -rw-r--r--1 root root20048 Nov 6 23:51 libnullplugin.so lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 29 Mar 14 21:23 raclass.zip - ../../RealPlayer8/raclass.zip lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 25 Mar 14 21:23 rpnp.so - ../../RealPlayer8/rpnp.so 15:27:27:/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins# ls -l /etc/alternatives/javaplugin_oji.so lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 59 Mar 22 14:59 /etc/alternatives/javaplugin_oji.so - /usr/lib/j2se/1.4/jre/plugin/i386/mozilla/javaplugin_oji.so 15:27:41:/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins# ls -l /usr/lib/j2se/1.4/jre/plugin/i386/mozilla/javaplugin_oji.so -rw-r--r--1 root root 258492 Nov 1 2002 /usr/lib/j2se/1.4/jre/plugin/i386/mozilla/javaplugin_oji.so You need a JRE built with gcc 3.2 for it work with sarge/sid's mozilla. AFAIK the blackdown debs are built with gcc 2.95 and will NOT work. Try getting the j2re1.4-gcc3.2 tarball and put it in /usr/local. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: NORAD NATO UOP BLU-97 A/B Clinton Panama Peking Rumsfield signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Some sox questions.
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 11:23:03AM +, Adam Funk said (I'm running sox 12.17.4 on Debian testing.) sox -h and the man page suggest mp3 support, but $ sox foo.wav foo.mp3 sox: Sorry, no MP3 encoding support produces nothing (actually an empty file), although $ sox foo1.mp3 foo1.wav sox: Do not support MPEG audio (layer I, III or III) with 16-bit data. Forcing to Signed. produces a wav file. I assume this is because of licensing issues with the MP3 encoding algorithm, right? Yes, Debian contains no mp3 encoding code. You can get packages of lame (which will encode) and mplayer (which will convert from pretty much anything to anything else) here, though: ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ More bizarre, however, is the fact that $ sox foo1.mp3 foo1.wav produces a WAV file of a type that XMMS cannot play and cdrecord cannot use (although the WAV file can be converted by sox into valid files in other formats such as ogg). Why is this? What does file say the weird .wav is? -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day:bluebird Aladdin brigand SHA Montenegro propaganda DES signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: xmms show some errors
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 09:33:51PM +0800, blue_stone said The font -bitstream-bitstream vera sans-medium-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-p-*-iso10646-1,-tlc-song-medium-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-c-*-gb2312.1980-0 does not support all the required character sets for the current locale zh_CN.GB2312 (Missing character set GB2312.1980-0) Sounds like you should just choose a font that can handle your locale better, using switch or the gnome control center. Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate loadable module in module_path: libxfce.so, If you run switch or the GNOME 1.4 control centre, what theme does it say you are using? libmikmod.so.2: ???ù???: ?? Assuming this is the Chinese equivalent of this: libmikmod.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory ignore it; you can install libmikmod2 if you really want to listen to MOD files. Inconsistency detected by ld.so: ../sysdeps/generic/dl-tls.c: 72: _dl_next_tls_modid: Assertion `result = _rtld_local._dl_tls_max_dtv_idx' failed! That's bad, and there was an open bug about it, somewhere... -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day:Area 51 passwd 22nd SAS VX advisors Ermes South Africa signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Where is XFree86?
On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 12:30:48AM -0500, Lei said I am a newbie debian and I am trying to make my toshiba 2405-s202 laptop to work with xserer. As root, run: # apt-get install discover mdetect read-edid x-window-system-core # dpkg -P --force-depends xserver-xfree86 xfree86-common # apt-get install xserver-xfree86 xfree86-common And it will try to auto-detect whatever it can. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: BATF NATO military infowar bce Rand Corporation ISEC brigand signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Can't login to RXVT in X
[Please don't top quote! It makes your message harder to read, especially in long threads.] On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 08:18:16AM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer said I can log into the console with no problem. The error message I get appears when I try and open a terminal in X. It appears as a seperate pop-up. Did you recently change your kernel? rxvt/gnome-terminal require you to have the pts file system mounted. It's part of devfs in 2.4, but NOT in 2.6. Run mount and you should see output like this: devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) or something about devfs if you're using devfs with 2.4. If it's not mounted, mount it. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: VX nerve gas high security JFK condor bomb CESID Perl-RSA signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: GNOME font problem.
On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 04:33:08PM +, Adam Funk said On Monday 23 February 2004 18:50, Adam Funk wrote: When I installed Debian testing on my computer, I got KDE and WindowMaker working but had some trouble with GNOME -- I think this was because of conflicts between GNOME1 and GNOME2. I had however been using several GTK- and GNOME-related packages. I successfully installed a bunch of GNOME2 packages today and can now log in from gdm to GNOME, but the fonts in a number of apps now look awful and I can't figure out how to fix them. I've used gnome-font-properties to fix a few things (such as the panel text in this screenshot) but others (such as GIMP) won't budge. http://www.ducksburg.myby.co.uk/misc/bad-fonts.png I received an e-mail suggesting that I use Rob's font guide http://egads.ertius.org/~rob/font_guide.txt which I had referred to previously, but I've gone through it again. My XF86-Config-4 now includes this: Section Files FontPath /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType FontPath/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 EndSection I've restarted the X-server. The GTK applications font has changed to something slightly less offensive but still too big. How can I fix this -- can I just manually set the GTK app font somehow? Sure, with switch (for GTK1.2) and switch2 (for GTK2) from the gtk-theme-switch package. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day:Watergate basement condor IRA industrial espionage hackers signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: OT: google or debian-user?
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 12:50:17AM -0800, Paul Johnson said On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 02:37:19PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: Of course, just saying RTFM and SFTW when there's no FM or W hits to read is not OK, either. At least not without qualifying it with where one can find it on TFW or in TFM. Yup, exactly. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: Agfa Leitrim 9705 Samford Road arrangements Medco credit card signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: OT: google or debian-user?
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 02:39:29PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said It is a shame that at times debian-user can be so inhospitable to debain users. I think it is unfair to have a question answered with try google or some other variation of RTFM. Am I to understand that instead of using the debian-user list that I should use a search engine? It's not an instead, it's an as well. Google is an amazing tool, and you can often find a solution to your problem far quicker than it would take for someone here to reply. Also, RTFM and STFW are attempts to distribute some of the load. This is an extremely high-traffic list, answering every question with a short essay is a waste of everyone's time if there is already a solution out there. Take the Dynamic MMAP out of room problem with apt. That (at least used to) come up once a week, but just punching the error message into google gives you hundreds of pages detailing the solution. Of course, just saying RTFM and SFTW when there's no FM or W hits to read is not OK, either. I was under the impression that the debian-user list was a forum for debian users. I always search the debain-user archives before asking a question and if I don't find an answer then I ask my question. Generally I do not do google searches unless I am seaking global information such as is my hardware supported under linux. But I know that debain does things differently than the way other distros do things, (otherwise there would be no need for .deb packages, right?) so in most cases I figure the problem has something to do with a debain specific driver or setting. I am rather new to linux in general and have ever only used Debian so I am not familiar with what is just specific to debian and what is global across all linux distros. That's fair enough, but there are other Debian support forums out there, indexed by google. Also, probably 50% of the questions asked on the list are *not* Debian-specific...Also, I tend to find google to search list archives themselves better than lists.debian.org does. I suppose I could have asked is my issue at hand something that is supported differently in debian than other distros or do all distros support it the same? but that is even more annoying than asking the question outright. Very true. However I will in the future assume that any problem I have is the same in all distros That's a silly attitude to take. Even if you can't find a Debian-specific solution to a Debian-specific problem with google, you can often find background info about the system you're having trouble with that helps you figure things out yourself. If nothing else, you can slap anyone who STFW's you ;-) -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: Merlin Mena Semtex colonel Ruby Ridge unclassified diwn signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: apt-get rollback packagename !?!
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 10:42:40PM +0100, David Baron said On Wednesday 25 February 2004 19:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While I agree that this feature would be awesome, I believe I've seen many discussions indicating that this would be a lot more difficult to implement than it might seem. Awesome and or difficult, we see now it has become necessary. Um, it's not generally possible to downgrade packages at all, much less automagically. If something breaks, file a bug, then install the previous version from /var/cache/apt/archives/ with dpkg. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: IDEA Qaddafi Oil deals terrorism codes blackjack FBI Kennedy signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: chgrp not permitted
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 12:21:10PM +, Dave Howorth said I'm having trouble changing the group of a directory. I'm sure I'm doing something dumb, but I can't spot it :) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ chgrp www-data tmp chgrp: changing group of `tmp': Operation not permitted [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ groups dhoworth dhoworth : dhoworth root adm www-data staff [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -ld tmp drwxr-xr-x3 dhoworth dhoworth 4096 Feb 19 11:25 tmp/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -ld . drwxr-xr-x 50 dhoworth dhoworth 4096 Feb 24 12:13 ./ I'm the owner of the directory. I belong to the new group. I don't understand what's stopping me doing the chgrp? Is it on a DOS (vfat/ntfs) filesystem? Can root chgrp it? -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: industrial espionage Debian Ft. Knox STARLAN Delta Force signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Trouble with GTK fonts
On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 09:59:54AM -0800, Aaron Peters said I'm having trouble with GTK fonts on a testing/unstable system. Basically, fonts in every GTK-based (1.2) app come up as compeletely garbled. I'm using XFree 3.3.6 (due to an old video card) and xfs- I don't know if this is the problem. I'd be happy to send a xwd screendump in order to illustrate garbled, and provide any other pertinent info. Try moving the Type1 fonts to the end of your FontPath list in both X and your font server? -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: Verisign Mole Chobetsu Cheney Delta Force MDA bomb beanpole signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Wrong md5sum in some files on sarge
On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 11:02:10AM +0100, Daniel Alomar said Hi, I have download the sarge distribution (10/02/04, 15/02/04 and 22/02/04 versions) and I noticed that while the iso checksum is ok, there are some files that the checksum doesn't agree with the one listed on the md5sum.txt that is on the CD. i.e. the README.html. I've missed some instalations due to integrity fault on the CD and this is why I check the mdsum. How are you checking the md5sum of the files? Under windows? -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: InfoSec SHA electronic surveillance spies assassination bomb signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Stolen debian logo?
On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 10:00:06AM -0500, David Clymer said This indicates that my saying a work is licensed under the GPL, any user thereof must abide by the GPL when using the work in ways addressed by this license. One is explicitly denied permission to use the work in ways which violate this license. Permission to use the work in accordance with the license is implicit. NOOO. The GPL explicitly places NO restrictions on the use of software, only distribution. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: Consul INSCOM IDEA Centro Belknap CNCIS explosion signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Error Code whe using apt-get
On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 12:33:14AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said He's right. Let me guess, this happens when you su -m to root. I've had this happen, most users don't have those three in their path, and -m keeps settings like that for root. Either set the user's path before su -m , or use just su. Or, better still, sudo. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day:embassy Becker Semtex airframe Baranyi Project Monarch signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Module piix cannot be unloaded due to unsafe usage
On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 03:18:50PM -0500, Darin Strait said -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a i810e motherboard, PIII/866MHz/320MB, single 120 GB IDE udma4 disk, a CD-RW and an SMC 10/100 NIC. I am using the onboard audio and video. I am running a stock debian kernel: Linux kiyone 2.6.2-1-686 #1 Sat Feb 7 13:49:20 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux My problem is the following message from boot time: Module piix cannot be unloaded due to unsafe usage in include/linux/module.h:489 That's fine, it's not a problem unless you really want to unload it. This seems to be true, since I can't modprobe -r to remove the piix module: kiyone:/etc# lsmod | grep piix ata_piix8036 0 libata 40928 1 ata_piix,[permanent] piix 12672 1 [unsafe] ide_core 160952 3 ide_disk,ide_detect,piix kiyone:/etc# modprobe -r piix FATAL: Module piix is in use. How much of a problem is this Do you really want to remove it? Isn't it the module for your IDE controller? and what do I do to fix it? AFAIK, it requires the ata_piix code in the kernel to be fixed. You're welcome to try :-) -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: 64 Vauxhall Cross Medco FTS2000 industrial espionage condor signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: recommended reading?
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 10:17:09PM +0100, Thorsten Haude said Hi, * Rob Weir wrote (2004-02-15 07:44): On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 07:16:54AM +0100, Thorsten Haude said * s. keeling wrote (2004-02-09 06:44): Just because it doesn't mention kde 3.x doesn't mean it's obsolete. The book is 20 years old! There wasn't even an X Window to speak of! I haven't read the book under discussion, but this seems rather odd. How does X enter into systems administration or Unix programming at all, aside from the obvious? It enters right before the KDE mentioned above. Huh? That makes even less sense than the original message did. Let me re-phrase: What on earth does X have to do with Unix systems administration and programming? (What is the obvious?) Configuring X itself is obviously a X-related systems administration task, and programming X apps is obviously a X-related Unix administration task. General administration and programming are NOT X-related in any way, however. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: USDOJ BLU-114/B Steve Case Qaddafi enforcers Iraq White House signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: syslog messages on console
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 02:30:07PM +0200, Johann Spies said I have two PC's, one sarge and the other sarge with exactly the same configuration for syslog-ng. They are on the same segment in our network. On the sarge machine I regularly get messages on tty1-11 (I have X11 on tty12) about invalid ICMP broadcast packages from a machine somewhere else on the same segment. Not on the sid machine. Edit /etc/init.d/klogd and put -c3 inside thses quotes: KLOGD=. Then restart klogd. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: kilo class CBNRC $400 million in gold bullion CBNRC S Key signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: GCC
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 05:29:46PM -0600, Debian User said
I have a snippett of code that is supposed to work under GCC 3.3.2 and
does under Redhat, however it gives me compiler errors of the GCC 2.95
days...
Perhaps you could share the error message with us?
I run testing and GCC -v shows 3.3.2, can anyone give me some
information and/or pointers to some solutions?
Thanks, Brian
#include StudentRecord.h
You didn't include this file, so nobody else can attempt to replicate
your problem.
#includeiostream
#includestring
#includecctype
#includeiomanip
#includealgorithm
void StudentRecord::MakeCaseInsensitiveKey(void)
{
string key;
key = lastName + + firstName;
// transform(key.begin(), key.end(), key.begin(), tolower);
// method explained in class above, however won't compile under GCC
3.3.2 Debian
// reference for fix:
//
http://gethelp.devx.com/techtips/cpp_pro/10min/2002/Oct/10min1002-2.asp
transform(key.begin(), key.end(), key.begin(), (int(*)(int)) toupper);
}
Is it that you forgot to using namespace std; after the #include's?
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Re: TrueType fonts and X
On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 01:20:29AM +0100, Tomas Hoger said Hi! I know it's boring, but I do have one another question / problem with fonts, specially truetype fonts. I've seen some recent threads about fonts, I've read this (http://egads.ertius.org/~rob/font_guide.txt) howto, but it does not help ;(. Long story short: truetype fonts does not seem to work with X and gtk1. They works fine under KDE3, gtk2, OpenOffice, ... . I do have x-ttcidfont-conf and defoma installed and correct paths set as suggested by Rob's font_guide. I also have msttcorefonts, but xfontsel does not show foundry microsoft and those fonts are not available to gtk1 apps (gtkfontsel, switch). Does /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 mention the x-ttcidfont-conf directory? However when this Sid box was installed about 6 months ago, tt fonts were working out-of-box. On one another box I've installed at about the same time, tt fonts works fine, so I guess screwed my config somehow, but I really have no idea how. Any suggestions and hints are appreciated. Compare their /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 files. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day:Sundevil VX nerve gas satellite imagery Leitrim War Crimes signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: mixing apt-get and aptitude
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 09:13:28AM -0600, David said However, it seems that aptitude always exits with status 0 regardless of what's happened. FWIW, I've filed a wishlist bugreport in this regard. Ah, cool. Now, would it be the same to use apt-get for at least the update Yup. , or perhaps even the -d upgrade? Yes, but apt-get won't notice that aptitude has some packages on hold. It seems that apt-get upgrade does not show up in dselect, and I wonder if there would be any probs between apt-get and aptitude.. You need dselect update for dselect to see new things. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: bootleg 2600 Magazine IMF embassy AGT. AMME Rubin White Water signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: apt-proxy without inetd
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 02:05:14PM +0100, Benedict Verheyen said - Original Message - From: Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2004 6:54 AM Subject: Re: apt-proxy without inetd Hi, is it possible to run apt-proxy without inetd? I'm not using inetd or xinetd and would like to keep it that way. Why? Just install it and disable everything aside from apt-proxy. Because i like things to run as daemons as opposed to inetd. Anyway, i don't think i have an option here, it seems as if it's only going to run via inetd. apt-proxy is a shell script, and thus cannot run as a daemon. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: Centro PLO Arnett Semtex BRLO mailbomb ANDVT ASO passwd signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: apt-proxy without inetd
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 04:34:48PM +0100, Benedict Verheyen said Hi, is it possible to run apt-proxy without inetd? I'm not using inetd or xinetd and would like to keep it that way. Why? Just install it and disable everything aside from apt-proxy. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: explosion IRA Vince Foster JFK SP4 condor bullion signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: modules
On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 11:15:34AM -0500, cdummy said Hello. I'm new with testing. I have a few questions. Please answer or send me to proper list. I used daily built of Sarge installer without any big problems. Just trouble to get out of setting sources for apt, but I did them manuallly and hit cancel which took me to main menu. System works almost no problems just at the boot I'm getting message couln't open /etc/mtab but from what I see this is typical problem of this installer. I need advice.. I'd like to compile kernel. When I do lsmod I see all my modules loaded : snip usb-uhci 19696 0 (unused) usbcore52588 0 [usb-uhci] via82cxxx_audio17756 1 ac97_codec 11412 0 [via82cxxx_audio] uart401 6244 0 [via82cxxx_audio] sound 50568 0 [via82cxxx_audio uart401] soundcore 3268 4 [via82cxxx_audio sound] ide-scsi8464 0 3c59x 24016 1 snip but my /etc/modules looks like that: sd_mod ide-cd ide-detect If I go to /etc/modutils there are no my sound modules to load. When I take look on my stock kernel config file above sound modules are compiled as modules: snip # CONFIG_MSNDPIN_HAVE_BOOT is not set CONFIG_MSNDPIN_INIT_FILE=/etc/sound/pndspini.bin CONFIG_MSNDPIN_PERM_FILE=/etc/sound/pndsperm.bin CONFIG_SOUND_VIA82CXXX=m CONFIG_MIDI_VIA82CXXX=y CONFIG_SOUND_OSS=m snip And they are in /lib/modules. How do they load? Kernel loads modules automatically? Do you have something like discover or kudzu installed? They will load modules as they detect hardware. How come they are not in /etc/modutils/aliases Last kernel I compiled was 2.4.20 and I compiled modules and than added them to /etc/modules so they load. SCSI and IDE I always compile into kernel. And there comes my second question. I read 2 articles about compiling Debian specific kernel.: http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=2949page=1 http://www.tux.org/~tbr/debiankernelpkg/ But all new kernels are coming with initrd.img. Is this a must or can I compile old way? You can build kernels with make-kpkg without using initrd, Debian's kernels just use it so they can include everything as modules. If you're not using an initrd, don't forget to build all your essential stuff (IDE controller, filesystems) INTO the kernel, and not as modules. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: KGB PGP strategic Firefly Australia counter intelligence signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Fonts, one more time
On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 03:49:11PM -0200, Leandro Guimar?es Faria Corsetti Dutra said On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 14:38:49 +, M.Kirchhoff wrote: Sarge includes Gnome 2.4 and KDE 3.x, fonts *will* look good out-of-the-box, thanks in part to the high-quality bitstream-vera set of fonts. Aren't them proprietary? There was a little dispute over their DFSG status, but they are certainly not proprietary. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: ANC CIA radar Oil deals UNSCOM Axis Of Evil signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Sid PHP4-Mysql
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 11:55:58AM -0600, techlists said I installed Sid on a box yesterday. I set it up with apache, php4, and mysql. I transfered a working site over to the box, but when I connect I get an error that mysql_pconnect is an undefined function. I checked and I do have the php4_mysql package installed, as a matter of fact I re-installed the package just to make sure. As usual, it added it's extension to the php.ini file, so I am at a loss as to why it's not working. Does phpinfo() show that it is loaded? Has this happened to anyone else running sid? What does the BTS say? ie, if someone has, they would have reported it on http://bugs.debian.org/. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day:ASDIC BLU-114/B Rubin Ron Brown attack Cheney JUWTF passwd signature.asc Description: Digital signature
