Re: Issues with CD burning (invalid CDs)
S. Massy wrote: Hi all, I have a Toshiba Satellite 1110 (which comes with a cd-r/w burner) with which I have burnt countless CDs in the past without so much as the shadow of a problem. Now, however, things have changed for the very worse... Are you burning at a speed that matches the disc? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Controlling which modules are loaded at boot
Doofus wrote: Dell Inspiron sarge/2.4.27 Not strictly a laptop question this, but... The last time I spent my quality time playing with debian this subject mostly came down to the contents of /etc/modules. I've just compiled a new kernel and although it's highly modular and I've emptied /etc/modules, all manner of guff is auto-loaded that I really just want to load manually as and when needed - especially on a battery powered laptop (eg hw_random, ide_cs for a pcmcia microdrive, ieee1394, and even the USB modules). Can someone tell me where things have changed and what I should be doing to prevent auto-loading of anything I choose (or what I should be reading). At first glance it seems to be a mixture of the hotplug subsystem and some new hardware discovery utility? Does /etc/modules even have a worthwhile function anymore, or are we headed for a virtual plug and play ah - we're so clever we know what all your hardware is and therefore insist on spinning your microdrives until your battery is dead wether you're using it or not scenario? Ignore my cynicism, it just doesn't seem very linux-like anymore; we could have all this with windows 98. I always have minimal or no modules (some pcmcia tools require modular format tho), and compile all the required stuff in. You must remove unneccesary stuff from /etc/modules. Use lspci, things in /proc, and dmesg to see what hardware you have, after reading the mainboard specs. Lastly, I'll be very grateful if someone explain and tell me how I can trace the failure in the following bit of boot message: usb.c: registered new driver hub uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1 uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xbf80, IRQ 11 usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 2 ports detected uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xbf20, IRQ 11 usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 2 ports detected uhci: loaded successfully pci [success] usb usb [success] isapnp isapnp [success] ide ide [success] input input[failed] scsi scsi [success] done Cheers. Try disabling some usb modules and see what happens. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: Why the net Sucks: Stonehenge
Nano Nano wrote: Watching a program on PBS, I decided I wanted to read about Stonehenge. Off to google, I go, searching for Stonehenge. Didn't like the results. Tried Google directory, Yahoo, and Teoma: didn't like any of them. The experience I wanted was a deep, rich, complete, authoritative, well-annotated, and well-accepted Library-like experience reading about Stonehenge: names of the best scholars, the names of the most influential histories and critiques on the subject, in short the sort of experience I would get at a University Library, only faster. The internet is nothing like that. I am lucky in than San Jose has opened a San Jose State's University library to the public: even though it is not a world-class university, the quality of the knowledge available there *blows away* what I can find on the Internet. Help me out here. The net is best for finding out what books to read;) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problem switching from stable to testing...
enantiomer wrote: I have recently made the switch over to debian (woo hoo!) and am definitely a newbie. I noticed that when using the apt utilities like apt-get and apt-cache, much of the software that I want just isn't available in stable (stable worked fine though). so i moved over to testing but couldn't get it to work. here are the steps that I took... 1. first used apt-spy to get a list of testing servers 'apt-spy -d testing' 2. then tried 'apt-cache search firebird' but it didn't work it kept on giving me a Couldn't stat source package list ftp://mirrors.usc.edu TESTING/contrib Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/mirrors.usc.edu_pub_linux_distructions_debian_dists_TESTING_contrib_binary_i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) error type of message for each testing source in my sources.list file i then tried running 'apt-get update' and got the same error. why does this process work under stable but not testing? I have scoured the google groups site trying to figure this out and have read close to a hundred articles probably and would really appreciate some help. Anyone? Thanks! Enantiomer What's in /etc/apt/sources.list? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel upgrade help (newbie)
James F. Green wrote: I installed woody from a downloaded CD image (I only downloaded the first CD, not the whole set) but alas no support for my network card. After searching Usenet I found that 2.4.21 or higher has support for my hardware. So I seem to need to upgrade my kernel in order to get my network connection working. 2.4.18 is the latest kernel-source package available in the stable distribution. The testing distribution has kernel-source-2.4.19-23 plus a couple of versions of 2.6.0. My question -- which CDs contain the packages I need? Just apt-get the kernel. apt-cache search kernel Must I download the entire testing CD set (11 CDs)? I found 2.4.18 on the stable CD #1 I already downloaded. But unless I'm doing something wrong with apt (highly possible), I can't find any kernel-source packages on the first CD #1 of the testing distribution. Many thanks to anyone who can either answer this or point me in the right direction in the documentation. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hard drive install
Gary Thibeault wrote: Hello and thanks for the free download of Debian 3.0 r2. I'm a newbie who's interested in trying linux and I can't seem to find details on how to install the OS from the iso to the hard drive as I have no cd-rom. Can you help? ... thanks in advance...Gary PS:If the info was in the lengthy installation instructions http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual I suppose I'm too new to understand it. I learned that Red Hat's boot disk is capable of installing directly from an un-opened ISO ona Fat32 partition (ideal for me), so I'm sure Debian has something equal It will take a few hours, but is educational. Read the network install instructions on the debian site. Download the bf2.4 base system onto 25 floppies. Starting from the first boot floppy, you can get a base debian system running. After setting up the package source in /etc/apt/sources.list, you can apt-get any debian package you want over the net. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: switching from woody to unstable/testing
Goran Christiansson wrote: Dear All, I am a newbie to Debian, and I ran into problems today. I did just like it says here below, but when I reboot I do not come further than LI of LILO. After googleing a bit I found that this was a well known problem, and that it can be solved using a boot disk. Could someone explain to me, step by step, what I shall do when I have booted with the boot-disk? Boot from the rescue floppy. At the prompt, type: rescue root=/dev/hda1 (or wherever your root partition is). Fix and rerun lilo. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ifup/ifdown
Michael D Schleif wrote: Russell Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004:01:11:14:37:42+1100] scribed: snip / netstat -rn gives: Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U40 0 0 eth0 How do i get: 192.168.0.0 127.0.0.1 255.255.255.0 U40 0 0 eth0 What -- exactly -- are you trying to do? Please, step back from this, and take a long, hard look at what you expect to happen. Perhaps, you will find another way . . . The problem is that when i put http://127.0.0.1/ or http://192.168.0.1/ into mozilla, it goes thru the dialup isp instead of going direct to my own system. When i ping either address, the time is 0.1-0.2ms which seems that routing is working correctly. Why then does mozilla go thru the isp to get these addresses? When i'm offline, mozilla seems to try and access the outside connection instead of the local apache. It seems more like a mozilla problem. In mozilla: Edit|Preferences...|Advanced|Proxies, i have: HTTPProxy: proxy.iprimus.com.auPort: 8080 SSL Proxy: proxy.iprimus.com.auPort: 8080 FTP Proxy: proxy.iprimus.com.auPort: 8080 Gopher Proxy: proxy.iprimus.com.auPort: 8080 Is port 8080 what mozilla tries to access at the isp whenever i view a URL? What does this proxy do? I have apache set for port 80 which is maybe half the problem? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ifup/ifdown
Matt Perry wrote: On Sun, 11 Jan 2004, Russell Shaw wrote: The problem is that when i put http://127.0.0.1/ or http://192.168.0.1/ into mozilla, it goes thru the dialup isp instead of going direct to my own system. It seems more like a mozilla problem. In mozilla: Edit|Preferences...|Advanced|Proxies, i have: HTTPProxy: proxy.iprimus.com.auPort: 8080 You have indeed found your problem. It seems like you don't fully understand how proxies work. The proxy retrieves web pages on your behalf. Any page requests will be forwarded to the proxy, which retrieves the page, and then hands it back to your browser. So even if you put in http://127.0.0.1/, that request is sent to the proxy which then will then try to access a page at 127.0.0.1. Well, a properly configured proxy will ignore non-routable addresses such as that one and return an error. What you need to do it go to Edit|Preferences...|Advanced|Proxies and in the field labeled 'No Proxy For' add localhost, 127.0.0.1 without the quotes, of course. That way Mozilla will make a direct connection to those addresses instead of forwarding the request to the proxy. Thanks, it Works :):):) (I changed apache back to port 80 too) However, in the no proxy field, numerical IPs don't work, but localhost does. What do these isp proxies do? (apart from blindly relaying stuff) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Apache
Wayne Topa wrote: Russell Shaw([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: Nitebirdz wrote: I think some confusion comes from mozilla 1.2.1. When i enter http://127.0.0.1/, then a dialog says: connection refused when attempting to connect to 211.27.82.52. This happens when i'm offline (no ppp or any other networked PCs connected), and whether apache is started or stopped. I don't know where 211.27.82.52 comes from. Is it hard-coded into mozilla? whois 211.27.82.52 inetnum: 211.26.0.0 - 211.27.255.255 netname: INTERNETPRIMUS descr:Primus Telecommunications descr:Internet Services Network country: AU It's your ISP. I would check your /etc/resolv.conf. See man pppconfig (Dynamic DNS) While connected mine looks like this: # resolv.conf created by pppconfig for cap1 nameserver 204.97.128.2 nameserver 204.97.128.4 while 'not' connected it looks like this: # resolv.conf search domain mtntop.home capital.net nameserver 127.0.0.1 HTH=Hope This Helps, YMMV=Your Mileage May Vary, HAND=Have A Nice Day Wayne Hi, I fixed the problem by putting localhost into the mozilla no proxy field. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: downloading mail?
0debian user wrote: I have a PPP dialup (56k modem) account to the net and get a dynamic IP. I am not always connected. I would like to be able to send mail outside (i can send mail locally fine) to other domains besides my localhost. Ideally I could send message and they would be queued and automatically delivered once a PPP connection was detected. How precisely may I do this? Mail config files and detailed instructions welcomed :) Set up a local mail server such as exim4 on your pc. The retry rules of exim could send the mail when the link is up, or you could initiate it using a script triggered by pon. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Apache
Nitebirdz wrote: On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 05:08:55PM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote: Hi, I just installed apache-1.3 from debian-unstable. In /etc/httpd.conf, i put: ServerName 192.168.0.1. When i put http://192.168.0.1/ in mozilla, the address isn't found. What should i check now? Russell, There are several things that could be wrong. Here are a few suggestions to troubleshoot the problem: o Do you have a dynamic or a static IP? If dynamic, it could obviously be that the IP address changed. The dial-up is with pon and netstat -rn shows the dynamically obtained ISP address. However, i have my pc set statically for 192.168.0.1 in /etc/hosts. This doesn't matter much,, because i did the tests offline. o Do you have a firewall in the middle or something? It could be blocking the packets. No. o Try 127.0.0.1 instead, which is the local loopback device. That should always work if Apache is correctly set up and running (you obviously need to launch the daemon in order to gain any web access). I think some confusion comes from mozilla 1.2.1. When i enter http://127.0.0.1/, then a dialog says: connection refused when attempting to connect to 211.27.82.52. This happens when i'm offline (no ppp or any other networked PCs connected), and whether apache is started or stopped. I don't know where 211.27.82.52 comes from. Is it hard-coded into mozilla? o How about a command such as 'telnet localhost 80', does it work? Does it show something? Try 'telnet 192.168.0.1 80' then too? This should connect to your HTTP daemon and display at least a banner message. If you see that, then it is working fine. Thnks. I'd forgotten about testing with telnet. This confirms apache is working. So what's mozilla doing? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ifup/ifdown
Hi, In /etc/network/interfaces (debian-unstable), i have: auto lo eth0 iface lo inet loopback iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.0.0 netstat -rn gives: Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U40 0 0 eth0 How do i get: 192.168.0.0 127.0.0.1 255.255.255.0 U40 0 0 eth0 Everything i try causes errors. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel 2.4.8 doesn´t recognize a 80GB disk
Julio León wrote: I´ve recently bought a seagate ST380011A 80GB ( 7200 rpm ) and installed it in my AMD K7 ( Athlon ) 2.0 GHz and re-installed debian pre3.0 ( hsu from june 2002 ) using the bf24 option - kernel 2.4.8 - but it didn´t recognize the disk partitions. Actually, linux identifies the HD but tries to access the partitions again and again until it gives up. I tried all hd jumper setting and BIOS setting and got the same result : nothing. Did you format and partition it first? But when i use the vanilla kernel - 2.2.20 i think - it runs flawlessly... but with no 2.4 feature ( no sound support for an instance ) needless to say it makes me REALLY unhappy. Any bit of advice will be appreciated. Thank you The specifications of the box were described, the HD is attached as master and a CDROM as slave on ide0 ( from where it reads the installation CD ) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: localhost - /etc/hosts?
Michael B Allen wrote: Doesn't Debian have an /etc/hosts file? SquirrelMail needs to resolve 'localhost'. What's the correct way to do this on Debian? In /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.0.1 mypc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to find new url's for sources.list?
s. keeling wrote: Incoming from Greg Madden: On Saturday 10 January 2004 04:04 pm, tripolar wrote: Recently when doing apt-get update I get failures from deb http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib I chose that mirror when I did the install because it is near. How do I find other sources? Preferably a .edu in wisconsin, minnesota or 'netselect-apt Debian version' will test a list of mirrors, and build an 'apt-sources.list' from the fastest ones it finds. These are not necessarily the ones geographically closest. Nor are they necessarily working. I did this this afternoon, found ftp3.nrc.ca was the fastest non-US (from here), yet apt-get choked on it whenever it tried to contact it. Fall back is non-us.debian.org http://www.debian.org/mirror/list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ifup/ifdown
Akira Kitada wrote: On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 02:37:42PM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote: Hi, In /etc/network/interfaces (debian-unstable), i have: auto lo eth0 iface lo inet loopback iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.0.0 How do i get: 192.168.0.0 127.0.0.1 255.255.255.0 U40 0 0 eth0 Everything i try causes errors. First of all, what's the 'everything'? Please explain what you call everything. I tried: auto lo eth0 iface lo inet loopback iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.0.0 gateway 127.0.0.1 but ifup -av gives: Configuring interface lo=lo (inet) run-parts /etc/network/if-pre-up.d ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 up run-parts /etc/network/if-up.d Configuring interface eth0=eth0 (inet) run-parts /etc/network/if-pre-up.d ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 up route add default gw 127.0.0.1 eth0 SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable I see this as wrong: route add default gw 127.0.0.1 eth0 I downloaded the source and read the docs, but didn't help. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Woody/stable: kernel-source-* kernel-headers-* ?!? Confused.
s. keeling wrote: Could someone please 'splain to me what goes with what here? I've updated to 3.0r2. The plan so far is: (i) Install kernel-image-2.4.18-686 (ii) Go for updated kernel sources and re-build. I see there's kernel-source-2.4.18 and: kernel-headers-2.4.18 - Header files related to Linux kernel version 2.4.18 kernel-headers-2.4.18-686 - Linux kernel headers 2.4.18 on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV kernel-headers-2.4.18-1-686 - Linux kernel headers 2.4.18 on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV kernel-headers-2.4.18-bf2.4 - Headers for Linux kernel version 2.4.18 (bf variant) on 386 Will all of those work with kernel-source-2.4.18? Which one _should_ I be using (PIII laptop workstation box; not server)? Probably 2.4.18-686. dpkg -p kernel-headers-2.4.18-686 Package: kernel-headers-2.4.18-686 Priority: optional Section: devel Installed-Size: 35284 Maintainer: Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Architecture: i386 Source: kernel-image-2.4.18-i386 Version: 2.4.18-5 Provides: kernel-headers, kernel-headers-2.4 Depends: fileutils (= 4.0) Filename: pool/main/k/kernel-image-2.4.18-i386/kernel-headers-2.4.18-686_2.4.18-5_i386.deb Size: 3484714 MD5sum: 5724a523d83fc4491747aea47ef0b7c7 Description: Linux kernel headers 2.4.18 on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV This package provides kernel header files for version 2.4.18 on Pentium Pro/Celeron/Pentium II/Pentium III/Pentium IV, for sites that want the latest kernel headers. Please read /usr/share/doc/kernel-headers-2.4.18-686/debian.README.gz for details What's bf variant and why should I care? One of the google pages I looked at said, The bf2.4 kernel is limited by the desire to keep it on floppies during installation. I can't imagine why I would want to do that. If it doesn't boot, I'll just slap a bootable CD in, boot from that, and fix whatever's broken. I don't think I need to care about bf*, or am I missing something? I'm booting with grub, fwiw. Thanks, much appreciated. PS Just a suggestion, but it might help, in the future, if those descriptions above were tightened up a bit. Both kernel-headers-2.4.18-686 and kernel-headers-2.4.18-1-686 are described the same. PPSFor extra marks :-), why the proliferation of source header packages? I thought this kind of thing was supposed to be controlled by #ifdef friends. I can understand having thirteen pre-built kernel-image packages, but why sixteen kernel-headers-2.4.18? Try dpkg -p on them all. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: localhost - /etc/hosts?
Michael B Allen wrote: Michael B Allen wrote: Doesn't Debian have an /etc/hosts file? SquirrelMail needs to resolve 'localhost'. What's the correct way to do this on Debian? In /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.0.1 mypc Ok. Strange my install didn't have it. Creating it was enough to satisfy SM. I think etherconf handles it via debconf. apt-get install etherconf. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mozilla lockup
Dave Howorth wrote: I've been running mozilla on woody for quite a while now without any problems, but it's just started locking up for no apparent reason and I'm looking for help to fix it. It starts normally and I can browse web pages or view mail but when I try to view the source of a page or to compose a mail, it locks up. By which I mean it stops responding or redrawing the screen; top shows it eating most of the CPU cycles. The common factor to me seems to be that the problem occurs when it is trying to open a new window, though I can open a mail window from a browser window or open the About Mozilla window without a problem. The lockup occurs regardless of whether I use the mouse or a keyboard shortcut to try to open the window. Does mozilla produce a log file? I can't find any mention of one, but there's no output to stdout/stderr if I start it from a terminal. I'm running Mozilla 1.2.1 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021213 Debian/1.2.1-2.bunk I've found this problem on windows installs too. Go to the directory similar to this: ~/.mozilla/default/dhrjvqdx.slt Delete any large machine-generated database files. I always delete this one (it's usuall 2-3MB or more): XUL.mfasl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problem with two same 3c905c-tx ethernet cards, but no problem with only one
vincent de bossoreille wrote: I am configuring my firewall under Debian .0r2 kernel 2.4.18 When it is only one card intalled, I can go the Web and surfing as I want, and so on. for that, the module is 3c59x into the kernel and PPPs modules (using pppoe protocol) for the ADSL modem Fast 908 with ethernet interface. So with one card, there is no problem. but a firewall has at least two interfaces to proceed NAT, Firewalling, etc... But when I put the secand card into the PCI bus, the modem is not only not found, but also the second interface make an internal error so that the machine is not processing for ever until rebooting. When pppoeconf is searching interface to locate the modem, the first interface doesn't respond (but it must I think) and the second is causing the problem. At boot, the two cards as assigned to IRQ10, so is that ok or not? in my /etc/network/interfaces, I put the network 192.168.10.x the the first card and 192.168.20.x to the second. I don't know if this causes problems (but I don't think). Is anyone could help me to resolve the problem and explain me why the system doesn't work normally? For information, the PNP OS Bios is off. Check /etc/network/interfaces. Probably getting eth0 and eth1 assigned differently when the extra card is put in. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel Problem: cs5530_set_xfer_mode(UDMA2)
Kevin Boergens wrote: Hi! I've got a nasty problem with my kernel (2.4.18-bf2.4) on Woody I discussed a long time about it in de.comp.os.unix.linux.hardware, but no solution was found, maybe someone over here can help, it looks like a Debian problem: My southbridge is a National Semiconductor CS5530 http://www.national.com/pf/CS/CS5530.html And the IDE-Controller doesn't change to UDMA2. I bootet with a S.u.S.E. 7.3 with Kernel 2.4.10-4GB and there I read the following message in the kernel log: hda: cs5530_set_xfer_mode(UDMA2) And with S.u.S.E everything works fine. How do I get my Debian kernel (I just apt-getted the image) to do it alike? A guess: man hdparm, search for udma2. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: Missing package on mirror
On 2004-01-09, Russell Shaw penned: Hi, I did: apt-get update from unstable, then: apt-get install php4-pgsql [snip] What do i do now? Wait. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=202393 If you generally use dselect or aptitude, you can use '=' to put the package on hold, so that they won't continually try to install it. Hi, That bug is quite old, and seems to be not precisely the thing i'm seeing. I found that the package catalog: ftp://ftp.monash.edu.au/pub/linux/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/Packages contains: Package: php4-pgsql Priority: optional Section: web Installed-Size: 112 Maintainer: Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Architecture: i386 Version: 3:4.3.3-1 Replaces: php4-cgi-pgsql Depends: libc6 (= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libpq3 (= 7.3.1), phpapi-20020918, debconf (= 0.5) Filename: pool/main/p/php4-pgsql/php4-pgsql_4.3.3-1_i386.deb ... However, 4.3.3-1 is not on the mirror. There is only: FTP Listing of /pub/linux/debian/pool/main/p/php4-pgsql at ftp.monash.edu.au Up to higher level directory php4-pgsql_4.1.2-4.diff 7,091 Apr 02 2002 00:00 GNU Zip Compressed Data php4-pgsql_4.1.2-4.dsc701 Apr 02 2002 00:00 php4-pgsql_4.1.2-4_i38620,900 Apr 02 2002 00:00 php4-pgsql_4.1.2.orig.ta... 168,190 Apr 02 2002 00:00 GNU Zip Compressed Data php4-pgsql_4.3.2+rc3-3.d... 7,936 Sep 03 2003 02:32 GNU Zip Compressed Data php4-pgsql_4.3.2+rc3-3.d... 710 Sep 03 2003 02:32 php4-pgsql_4.3.2+rc3-3_i...36,922 Sep 03 2003 02:32 php4-pgsql_4.3.2+rc3.ori... 216,482 Aug 17 2003 03:32 GNU Zip Compressed Data The packages file gets used in the system at: /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.monash.edu.au_pub_linux_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages So what do you do when the mirror is in error? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Apache
Hi, I just installed apache-1.3 from debian-unstable. In /etc/httpd.conf, i put: ServerName 192.168.0.1. When i put http://192.168.0.1/ in mozilla, the address isn't found. What should i check now? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Missing package on mirror
Hi, I did: apt-get update from unstable, then: apt-get install php4-pgsql It gives: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be upgraded php4-pgsql 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 554 not upgraded. Need to get 38.3kB of archives. After unpacking 4096B of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 ftp://ftp.monash.edu.au unstable/main php4-pgsql 3:4.3.3-1 [38.3kB] Err ftp://ftp.monash.edu.au unstable/main php4-pgsql 3:4.3.3-1 Unable to fetch file, server said '/pub/linux/debian/pool/main/p/php4-pgsql/php4-pgsql_4.3.3-1_i386.deb: No such file or directory. ' Failed to fetch ftp://ftp.monash.edu.au/pub/linux/debian/pool/main/p/php4-pgsql/php4-pgsql_4.3.3-1_i386.deb Unable to fetch file, server said '/pub/linux/debian/pool/main/p/php4-pgsql/php4-pgsql_4.3.3-1_i386.deb: No such file or directory. ' E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing? Looking in the mirror directory, there is no php4-pgsql_4.3.3-1_i386.deb. I tried another mirror too. I downloaded the latest package there and installed it with dpkg -i. However, whenever i run apt-get, it tries to install it and gives the same error. What do i do now? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem Installing exim
ARYAN AMERI wrote: Hi there: I am running a mixture of sarge/sid and am trying to install exim. apt-get install exim seems to fetch and install it OK, but it is not able to set it up, I receive the following error message: # apt-get install exim Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: exim 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1019 not upgraded. Need to get 756kB of archives. After unpacking 1434kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 ftp://ftp.debian.org unstable/main exim 3.36-8 [756kB] Fetched 756kB in 19s (38.1kB/s) Selecting previously deselected package exim. (Reading database ... 167326 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking exim (from .../archives/exim_3.36-8_i386.deb) ... Setting up exim (3.36-8) ... hostname: Unknown host hostname --fqdn gave non-zero exit code 256 dpkg: error processing exim (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: exim E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) *** dpkg --configure exim also gave me the same error message. I don't have access to any SMTP server right now (don't ask how I am sending this!) and so I need this MTA in order to send my mails, help is aapreciated. Please CC me as I am temporarily not on the list. Check /etc/hostname, /etc/hosts, /etc/resolve.conf, etc. Try: hostname and uname -n -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Exim (was Re: spam software)
Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 03:24:55AM +1000, Russell Shaw wrote: | Paul Johnson wrote: | On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 10:28:49AM -0400, Vivek Kumar wrote: | | Thanks.. I got it. I was reading the docs and it seems there is no | configuration/install help for sendmail ?? Is there any docs/help for | sendmail configuration. I am sorry to bother you. I am new to Debian and | linux world so pardon my questions. | | http://www.procmail.org/ might have information. Sendmail is a real | bitch, I *strongly* recommend you use sa-exim and exim4, as this | really makes life easy. | | Is exim4 any better than exim3? A lot. | Exim3 is very vague on header re-writing rules for dialup pop3 | accounts (it seems to be an afterthought-cludge). How so? The rewriting rules are very flexible, and fully explained in the manual (/usr/share/doc/exim/spec.txt.gz). I've read thru the O'Reilly Exim3 book a few times. I wanted to rewrite all From and Reply-To headers only on mail that is sent out the smtp transport to my dialup isp. However, exim3 doesn't let you rewrite envelope addresses on per-transport rewrites. The only other option is to use the rewrite rule in the generic section of exim.conf. This applies the rule to every local message floating around the system, so its effects are too undefined for my liking. Does exim4 allow envelope rewriting on only an smtp outgoing mail transport? | I'm trying out postfix now. Also a good choice. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Exim (was Re: spam software)
Ross Boylan wrote: On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 03:43:13PM +1000, Russell Shaw wrote: ... all From and Reply-To headers only on mail that is sent out the smtp transport to my dialup isp. However, exim3 doesn't let you rewrite envelope addresses on per-transport rewrites. The only other option is to use the rewrite rule in the generic section of exim.conf. This applies the rule to every local message floating around the system, so its effects are too undefined for my liking. Does exim4 allow envelope rewriting on only an smtp outgoing mail transport? Yes. I use this feature ini an exim4 installation. But I see it described in the exim3 book on p 177: a new generic transport option called headers_rewrite was added to Exim for release 3.20. There is more detail on P.342. I have this in exim.conf: remote_smtp: driver = smtp headers_rewrite = [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Then test with: mail -s test [EMAIL PROTECTED] Another test ^D The response shows that [EMAIL PROTECTED] hasn't been replaced with [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message 1: From MAILER-DAEMON Sat Sep 27 19:08:21 2003 Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Failed-Recipients: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Mail Delivery System [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 19:08:21 +1000 This message was created automatically by mail delivery software (Exim). A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SMTP error from remote mailer after MAIL FROM:[EMAIL PROTECTED] SIZE=1364: host smtp.iprimus.com.au [203.134.152.42]: 553 [EMAIL PROTECTED] unable to verify address -- This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. -- Return-path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from russell by main.mypc.com.au with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1A3B3s-0001Or-00 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Sat, 27 Sep 2003 19:08:20 +1000 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: test Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Russell Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 19:08:20 +1000 Another test -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lots of scary segfaults
Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: Hi all! Last night, the cronjob on my main server reported this: ... So, there is a segfault there too, but I guess this really doesn't imply there is a trojan, but that this is a consequence of the same problem as above. Any ideas? fsck the disk. Find a specific program that segfaults. Reinstall the program. If it still segfaults, then ldd prog to find its libraries. Check or reinstall the libraries. Run ldconfig and check for errors. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lots of scary segfaults
Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: Thanks for the quick response! On Saturday 27 September 2003 16:21, Russell Shaw wrote: fsck the disk. OK! However, physical access to this computer is a complex issue, and to run fsck on the / and /usr partitions (which are the most obvious places to look), I can't think of a way to unmount them without having to reboot from a rescue system. Is there a way, or is there a way to check without unmounting? Find a specific program that segfaults. Reinstall the program. If it still segfaults, then ldd prog to find its libraries. Check or reinstall the libraries. Run ldconfig and check for errors. OK, so most likely, it is a damaged binary? It could be, but it's usually a symptom of slight filesystem corruption that can be easily fixed with fsck. If you know a specific binary that's segfaulting, then you could copy it to your local pc and compare it against a good one. If it's not that, you can do the same with its shared libs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OpenOffice.org Margins?
Robert Tilley wrote: I am moving some documents from M$ Word to my home computer that uses Debian Linux. The document in question was saved in the RTF format from Word and then re-opened in OOo Writer. The issue with the document is margin-spacing. I wish to have a document-wide left and right margin of one (1) inch. Selecting All (ctrl-A) and then adjusting the margins does not move the margins to a document-wide setting. I suspect this is because in Word, the document had many Section Break, Next Page-marks thus causing many different margin settings to exist. This should be easy to correct, now that I know the probable cause. Without starting a flame-war, I would like to know a good editor for long text-based documents. I have a set of documents that I am, as mentioned, transferring from M$ Word to an open standard (corporate bylaws, corporate minutes, etc.) that only need basic formatting (bold, underline, heading, etc.) for text files. Abiword -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel painic, failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: kmod : failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k VFS : cannot open root device 305 or 03:05 Pleace append a correct root= boot option kernel panic; VFS:unable to mount root fs on 03:05 Hello, this is the message when I try to boot up with my compiled 2.4.21 kernel, I did not use initrd, I tried that and does not matter. I have two other kernels 2.4.18 and 2.4.22 and they both work. I cant find out what I did wrong in the compiling prosess. 3:05 looks like hda5. Did lilo run right? Did you compile the root filesystem type into the kernel? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Disabling USB devices?
Phil Edwards wrote: A machine is running sid with a 2.4.20 kernel, and has some very power-hungry USB devices plugged into it. The devices themselves don't have power switches, but we'd really like to be able to turn them off and save power. Why not just unplug them? We could, but the physical arrangement of the machine, the devices in question, the other gear in the room, and the pesky walls holding up the roof make the plugging/unplugging a hassle, not to mention dangerous to the other gear (think stray elbows). Is there a power this USB device down and ignore it command? IIRC, power management is a big thing in the 2.6 kernel. http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=enie=UTF-8oe=UTF-8q=2.6+kernel+%22power+management%22+usbbtnG=Google+Searchmeta= -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: spam software
Paul Johnson wrote: Please reply on list. Please do not top post. http://learn.to/quote/ On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 10:28:49AM -0400, Vivek Kumar wrote: Thanks.. I got it. I was reading the docs and it seems there is no configuration/install help for sendmail ?? Is there any docs/help for sendmail configuration. I am sorry to bother you. I am new to Debian and linux world so pardon my questions. http://www.procmail.org/ might have information. Sendmail is a real bitch, I *strongly* recommend you use sa-exim and exim4, as this really makes life easy. Is exim4 any better than exim3? Exim3 is very vague on header re-writing rules for dialup pop3 accounts (it seems to be an afterthought-cludge). I'm trying out postfix now. Also, i've been filtering M$ spam with mailfilter by deleting anything 100kB. Unfortunately, you can't AND conditions together like procmail. Is there a thing like mailfilter that can AND conditions and delete the spam in the pop3 box before download? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cron
Hi, I set this with crontab -e : 3 * * * * /usr/bin/mailfilter ; /bin/echo Mailfiltering | /usr/bin/mail -s mai 1 * * * * /bin/echo Date is `date`. | /usr/bin/mail -s cron root ### I should get mail every minute, but it doesn't work. If i try: /bin/echo Date is `date`. | /usr/bin/mail -s cron root in the shell, then i do get mail. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cron
Travis Crump wrote: Russell Shaw wrote: Hi, I set this with crontab -e : 3 * * * * /usr/bin/mailfilter ; /bin/echo Mailfiltering | /usr/bin/mail -s mai 1 * * * * /bin/echo Date is `date`. | /usr/bin/mail -s cron root ### I should get mail every minute, but it doesn't work. If i try: /bin/echo Date is `date`. | /usr/bin/mail -s cron root in the shell, then i do get mail. 3 * * * * would be once an *hour* at three minutes past the hour. Five stars is every minute. Aha, man 5 crontab : # every 5 minutes: */5 * * * * /bin/echo Date is `date`. | /usr/bin/mail -s cron root ### -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrade to 'testing
Jianan Huang wrote: Hi folks, I am now running 'stable' which I installed from a CDROM created online. Now I intend to upgrade to 'testing'. What's the easiest way to go about it? Can I upgrade online by downloading some approriate packages or do I have to create a 'testing' CDROM? http://www.debian.org/doc/user-manuals#quick-reference http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-woody.en.html#s-upgrade-system http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-package.en.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CUPS gone mad
Christophe Courtois wrote: Hi, I'm going crazy. Thanks for any idea how to solve this mess: * Although it worked perfectly some times ago When trying to print something from Gimp or KDE, Cups creates hundred thousands of files (000) in /var/spool/cups/. These are almost all 34796 bytes long,a d and file says these are PostScript document text conforming at level 1.0 . I must stop cups by /etc/init.d/cupsys stop to gain control on my computer back, or it swaps until death. * I've tried to delete the printer and reinstall it. All seems perfect through KDE or the web interface. But when trying to print the test page, it fails immediately. The jobs list indicates : Aborted. T've found this in my logs :... Check the partition with fsck. If that doesn't help, reinstall CUPS. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Broken Zope, Python, xbase-clients, etc
Russ Cook wrote: Thanks for the continued help. Attached are the results of 'whereis python' and 'ls -l /usr/bin/python'. The symlink points to python2.3. And yet, the zope pre-removal script encounters errors in python1.5, which makes me think it is explicitly seeking and calling routines from the earlier version. More thoughts? Interesting. I'd try apt-get remove python1.5 if nothing important depends on it. Before a package is removed, its preremoval script is run. After removal, the postremoval script is run. These scripts are in /var/lib/dpkg/info. You could inspect the script and, run it, but i don't know how messy or disruptive that would be. fsck the partition apt-get remove --force-remove-reinstreq --force-depends zope (IIRC that was already tried) If that doesn't work, i'd manually delete all the zope files and directories, shown with dpkg -L zope. Edit /var/lib/dpkg/status so that zope looks like an uninstalled package. apt-get install zope Make a backup of /var/lib/dpkg/status and anything else important. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Broken Zope, Python, xbase-clients, etc
Russ Cook wrote: Hi Russell, I ran apt-get update, then apt-get install python. I did not specify a version. The system stated I am already at the latest version. I then ran apt-get install --reinstall --fix-broken zope. The log looks the same. If you still have a log of the session I sent previously, please notice that the python routines which are run seem to be from /usr/lib/python1.5, even though python2.3 is installed. Does Zope explicitly look for version 1.5? I'm really at a loss as to what is going on here. On my system: whereis python python: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/python2.2 /usr/bin/python2.1 /etc/python2.1 /etc/python2.2 /usr/lib/python2.1 /usr/lib/python2.2 /usr/include/python2.1 /usr/include/python2.2 /usr/share/man/man1/python.1.gz ls -l /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/python - python2.2 Your system may have: /usr/bin/python - python1.5 If so, symlink it to point to python2.2. The other way is the debian alternatives system. You can have multiple versions of a tool, such as gcc-2.95.4, gcc-3.3, etc, but one gets called by the generic name of gcc. man update-alternatives rm /usr/bin/python rm /usr/share/man/man1/python.1.gz ln -s /etc/alternatives/pythonbin /usr/bin/python ln -s /etc/alternatives/pythonman.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/python.1.gz update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/python pythonbin /usr/bin/python2.2 20 \ --slave /usr/share/man/man1/python.1.gz pythonman.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/python2.2.1.gz Now check. ls -l /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/python - /etc/alternatives/pythonbin ls -l /etc/alternatives/pythonbin /etc/alternatives/pythonbin - /usr/bin/python2.2 ls -l /usr/share/man/man1/python.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/python.1.gz - /etc/alternatives/pythonman.1.gz ls -l /etc/alternatives/pythonman.1.gz /etc/alternatives/pythonman.1.gz - /usr/share/man/man1/python2.2.1.gz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kdm
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi! i have a problem in woody: I installed it in a ibm thinkpad A31, but xfree (4.1.0) wasn't working because the video card (radeon M6) is not supported, so i went to xfree86.org and download 4.3.0 version, and installed it (with Xinstall.sh). All is working ok, except kdm. In /var/log/kdm.log: /usr/bin/kdm: relocation error: /usr/bin/kdm: undefined symbol: _XdmcpWrapperToOddParity I'm using kde with gdm, but i would like to use kdm. apt-get remove gdm apt-get install kdm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mozilla and Print
Jerome Lacoste wrote: On Sun, 2003-08-31 at 20:59, Bijan Soleymani wrote: On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 05:28:22PM -0400, Rodrigo Gesswein wrote: Hello! I have installed Debian 3.0r1 and Mozilla 1.4, but when I try to print a html page, CPU goes to 100% and nothing happend, I must kill mozilla manually. LPD is installed and configured right. Any ideas ? What happens if you print to a file and then run lpr on that file? I've had the same problem in the past month. CPU goes 100% while preparing the document. I cannot print on my printer neither on file. I tried creating a new profile. It worked once but doesn't work anymore. It could then be profile related, but I doubt. I wonder if it could be font related... I have been on #mozillazine but nobody could help me. In subdirectories of ~/.mozilla, you'll find mozilla-generated files that are modified every session. Delete them. Mozilla will forget a few graphics preferences and other things you previously set. Don't delete the files that contain the main settings such as prefs.js. (make a backup of all the files if you want to hack it more) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ctrl-Alt-Fn and Ctrl-Alt-Bksp switch to blank screens in X
Edward Ho wrote: Recently I've installed Woody on my Dell CPt laptop (Mobile P2-400). The installation was started from scratch using the bf2.4 floppy+http (not from cdrom), so I'm sure my system has the latest stable release. Since GUI is required for my engineering work, I used apt-get to install the x-window-system-core and wmaker packages after I'm satisfy with the network and apm setup in console mode. No [gkx]dm was installed, and I typed 'startx' manually after user login to go into X. The problem is that once I am in X, I cannot go back to text concole mode any more without resetting the system by Ctrl-Alt-Del. Ctrl-Alt-Bksp does kill the X server, but I am left with a blank screen without the prompt. The system is not completely hung, as Ctrl-Alt-Del can be issued to shut it down gracefully. Similarly, Ctrl-Alt-F[1-6] does not give me a virtual console as documented. I only get a blank screen. Ctrl-Alt-F7 would get me back to X, and I can continue my work there. Can someone kindly give me some clues on how to debug this? Probably a few answers in the archives of debian-laptop. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dpkg fails after removing some packages
Benedict Verheyen wrote: Op zo 07-09-2003, om 04:45 schreef Russell Shaw: apt-get update apt-get install -f base-files Nope, that doesn't work. Apt-get downloads the packages, then says (Reading database...) and shortly afterwards, i get the E: Subprocess /usr/bin/dpkg exited unexpectedly. I really haven't got a clue of what is wrong. I think i might be looking at a reinstall here. Does dpkg succeed with anything? You could download the dpkg .deb and install it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: where is netscape 4 in testing?
Alexander Mikhailian wrote: I recently upgraded to testing and found out that netscape 4 is missing in the list of packages. Where can I get a working version of netscape 4 for testing? Netscape is based on mozilla, so install that instead. Mozilla has options to stop pop-up ads, but netscape has not. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Broken Zope, Python, xbase-clients, etc
Russ Cook wrote: Hi Russell, Thanks for the continued help. I tried the command you suggested, and the result is in the attached script file. Still no luck. On Sun, 7 Sep 2003, Russell Shaw wrote: Russ Cook wrote: Russell, The sources.list file was OK, but it referenced a local mirror for apt-move, which wasn't valid yet. I corrected that, and ran 'apt-get update' again, and then ran apt-get install -t testing zope, as you recommend. Attached is that script file. The errors are essentially the same. Can you or anyone else offer more suggestions? I would be very grateful. (Reading database ... 64003 files and directories currently installed.)^M Preparing to replace zope 2.3.3-1 (using .../zope_2.6.1-10_i386.deb) ...^M dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1^M dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...^M invoke-rc.d: initscript zope, action stop failed.^M dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/zope_2.6.1-10_i386.deb (--unpack):^M subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1^M dpkg -r --force-remove-reinstreq --force-depends zope apt-get install zope Removing zope ... dpkg: error processing zope (--remove): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 /usr/lib/python1.5/py_compile.py:54: DeprecationWarning: strop functions are obsolete; use string methods codestring = string.replace(codestring,\r\n,\n) Zope assumes a later version of python: stable: http://packages.debian.org/stable/web/zope.html [depends] python (= 2.1.3-1) An interactive object-oriented scripting language (default version) [depends] python ( 2.2) An interactive object-oriented scripting language (default version) testing: http://packages.debian.org/testing/web/zope.html [depends] python2.1 (= 2.1.3-1) An interactive high-level object-oriented language (version 2.1) So, apt-get update apt-get install appropriate python (this should auto-deinstall 1.5) apt-get install --reinstall [--fix-broken] zope -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getting XFree 4.3?
Jon Haugsand wrote: * Russell Shaw dpkg --audit or dpkg --yet-to-unpack dpkg --audit The following packages are only half configured, probably due to problems configuring them the first time. The configuration should be retried using dpkg --configure package or the configure menu option in dselect: console-common Basic infrastructure for text console configuration nbjhh1-laptop:/# dpkg --yet-to-unpack nbjhh1-laptop:/# Try: apt-get install -t testing --fix-broken console-common apt-get install -t testing --fix-broken console-common Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... Sorry, console-common is already the newest version. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 80 not upgraded. 1 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Setting up console-common (0.7.25) ... Looking for keymap to install: no dpkg: error processing console-common (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: console-common E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) (Tanks for your effort. I must be pretty hopeless..) dpkg -p console-common shows it pre-depends on debconf. dpkg -p debconf shows it depends on a bunch of other things. I'd either use dselect to install debconf from testing (with all its suggests/recommends), or: apt-get update apt-get install -t testing all the following packages Depends: debconf-i18n | debconf-english Pre-Depends: perl-base (= 5.6.1-4) Recommends: apt-utils (= 0.5.1) Suggests: debconf-doc, debconf-utils, whiptail | dialog | gnome-utils, libterm-readline-gnu-perl, libgnome-perl, libnet-ldap-perl, perl Conflicts: cdebconf, debconf-utils ( 1.1.0), debconf-tiny ( 1.0), apt ( 0.3.12.1), menu (= 2.1.3-1), dialog ( 0.9b-20020814-1), whiptail ( 0.51.4-7), whiptail-utf8 (= 0.50.17-13) apt-get install -t testing console-common -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Install a dfiferent network card on debian 3.0
momo momo wrote: Have been trying to install a different NIC, a Tulip card. Tried running /usr/sbin/base-config This does not reconfigure the NIC Would appreciate it if someone can point me in the right direction. Make sure the card driver is available as a module or is built into the kernel. If it's a module, put it in /etc/modules. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to tell apt-get or dpkg to forget about a package?
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Thanks Russell! I did not know about the reference you quoted. But... I did not explain well enough! I do NOT want to remove the kernel-image package because it will remove my kernel which works very well. I just want him not to try to reinstall, because it is already installed, except for the initrd image which does not matter because it is not used by Knoppix! I cannot believe nobody else has run into this, they must not use make-kpkg nor the booted Knoppix CD to customize a kernel. Reading man dpkg I do not see an option that says: do not try to reinstall the package... I haven't used kpkg for a long time. When you remove a package from the system, it doesn't usually remove the .deb file, so you can use dpkg -i to reinstall it. You could try making a copy of it just in case. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Broken Zope, Python, xbase-clients, etc
Russ Cook wrote: Please help. I tried to upgrade my system, after a long period of stable operation. During the upgrade attempt, use apt-get dselect-upgrade, Zope failed to upgrade, due to pre remove script failure. Zope is currently installed at 2.3.3-1 level, trying to upgrade to 2.6.1-10. It is trying to run python-base, which apparently is no longer available, and not on my system. I did reinstall python1.5_1.5.2-27_i386.deb and python1.5-dev_1.5.2-27_i386.deb, from ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/python1.5. Additional problems are that startx no longer exists on my system, and I can't run X. I don't know if this is directly related, but dselect and apt-get fail during all attempts to upgrade due to zope and python script errors. I am not a sophisticated user, and apparently have done myself damage. Can anyone offer some steps for me to try to restore my system? I will be happy to provide a copy of 'dpkg -l' or any logs to anyone willing to help. First, make sure you have lines for testing in sources.list. Then: apt-get update apt-cache search zope|sort for a list of zope things. apt-get install -t testing zope if it stalls on any dependencies, then apt-get them too. When that is complete, you can apt-get the X system. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to fix broken package
john john wrote: Hi, I messed up my xserver-xfree86 package. I had already installed this package and then I had some X driver issues so I went into the directories, and deleted a couple of files ie. /usr/X11R6/lib/modules stuff. You probably broke another package. dpkg -S /usr/X11R6/lib/modules libglide2, xlibmesa3, xserver-xfree86: /usr/X11R6/lib/modules (your system might have more packages than this) apt-get update apt-get remove libglide2 xlibmesa3 xserver-xfree86 apt-get install libglide2 xlibmesa3 xserver-xfree86 xserver-xfree86 (+deps) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to fix broken package
Russell Shaw wrote: john john wrote: Hi, I messed up my xserver-xfree86 package. I had already installed this package and then I had some X driver issues so I went into the directories, and deleted a couple of files ie. /usr/X11R6/lib/modules stuff. You probably broke another package. dpkg -S /usr/X11R6/lib/modules libglide2, xlibmesa3, xserver-xfree86: /usr/X11R6/lib/modules (your system might have more packages than this) apt-get update apt-get remove libglide2 xlibmesa3 xserver-xfree86 apt-get install libglide2 xlibmesa3 xserver-xfree86 xserver-xfree86 (+deps) This should stop dependent packages from being removed: apt-get remove --force-depends libglide2 xlibmesa3 xserver-xfree86 apt-get install libglide2 xlibmesa3 xserver-xfree86 xserver-xfree86 (+deps) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Broken Zope, Python, xbase-clients, etc
Russ Cook wrote: Russell, I did as you suggested, but it made no difference in the errors I received. I scripted the output of apt-get, which I have compressed and attached. Can you make sense of this? The errors seem to occur in /usr/lib/python1.5/* and /usr/lib/zope/lib/python/* Thanks for any additional suggestions. It looks like you don't have a valid line in sources.list: W: Couldn't stat source package list file: testing/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/_mirrors_debian_dists_testing_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list file: testing/contrib Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/_mirrors_debian_dists_testing_contrib_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list file: testing/non-free Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/_mirrors_debian_dists_testing_non-free_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) Preconfiguring packages ... Fix that, then apt-get update. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Broken Zope, Python, xbase-clients, etc
Russ Cook wrote: Russell, The sources.list file was OK, but it referenced a local mirror for apt-move, which wasn't valid yet. I corrected that, and ran 'apt-get update' again, and then ran apt-get install -t testing zope, as you recommend. Attached is that script file. The errors are essentially the same. Can you or anyone else offer more suggestions? I would be very grateful. (Reading database ... 64003 files and directories currently installed.)^M Preparing to replace zope 2.3.3-1 (using .../zope_2.6.1-10_i386.deb) ...^M dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1^M dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...^M invoke-rc.d: initscript zope, action stop failed.^M dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/zope_2.6.1-10_i386.deb (--unpack):^M subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1^M dpkg -r --force-remove-reinstreq --force-depends zope apt-get install zope -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How stable is SiD ?
Johan Kullstam wrote: Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 03:27:47PM +0200, Joris Lambrecht wrote: Can anyone advise on starting to use SiD as resource for my Debian Workstation ? Doesn't it have to many issues left open, broken dependencies etc. If you have to ask, sid is not stable enough for you. Perhaps his video card isn't supported with the woody shipped xfree86? That's why I went straight for sid last August. (ATI Radeon 8500 needs 4.2.1.) At work I just got some crap corporate box with i845g graphics. I need xfree86 4.3. Please advise. There's some useful posts on installing X 4.3 in the archives in the last couple of weeks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dpkg fails after removing some packages
Benedict Verheyen wrote: Hello, i reinstalled a local broken server using my own desktop backups. It's a mixed testing/unstable system. All went well but when i tried to remove some packages, something went wrong with dpkg. It seems linked to base-files. dpkg is version 1.10.10, base-files 3.0.10 This is what happens when i try apt-get install base-files: --- Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... The following extra packages will be installed: base-files The following packages will be REMOVED: aalib1 gimp1.2 libwine wine 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 to remove and 109 not upgraded. 5 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/32.8kB of archives. After unpacking 48.5MB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] (Database inlezen ... E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg exited unexpectedly --- apt-get update apt-get install -f base-files -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: woody newbie help
mnicolet wrote: Hello I am a newbie to Linux, but not to the *NIX world. I allways tried Debian distros. But I had no time to go too far. Now I installed woody ( bf2.4 ). All went ok exception of 1) My Debian box has a generic two button serial mouse. Using some utility ( don´t remember which one ), the mouse is correctly seen as attached to /dev/ttyS0. Main parameters as shown by stty seems correct, by example baud rate is 1200. /dev/mouse is a symlink to /dev/ttyS0. When I configure XFree86, xf86config correctly guess what the mouse device is. But when X and KDE are up, I have no mouse response. Of course, I need to go to console mode. Is there a console mouse test and trouble-shooting utility ? Am I doing something wrong ? Am I missing something ? XFree86 may be conflicting with gpm. gpm works the mouse in console mode. When the mouse works in the console, use gpm repeater mode to send mouse events to X. Google will find lots of answers. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mixing stable and testing
Vikki Roemer wrote: On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 01:14:02PM +1000, Russell Shaw wrote: In same directory: dpkg-source -x metalog_0.7beta-3.dsc cd metalog_0.7beta dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -rfakeroot cd .. dpkg -i metalog_0.7beta-3_i386.deb Ok, I did all that, but when I try to run dpkg -i, I get the following output: neuromancer:~# dpkg -i metalog_0.7beta-3_i386.deb dpkg: regarding metalog_0.7beta-3_i386.deb containing metalog: syslog-ng conflicts with system-log-daemon metalog provides system-log-daemon and is to be installed. dpkg: error processing metalog_0.7beta-3_i386.deb (--install): conflicting packages - not installing metalog Errors were encountered while processing: metalog_0.7beta-3_i386.deb neuromancer:~# How can I uninstall syslog-ng and install metalog? dpkg won't let me uninstall syslog-ng before I install metalog because a plethora of packages depend on system-log-daemon. Maybe apt-get will work. cp metalog_0.7beta-3_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives apt-get install -t testing metalog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why held back? Command ...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've a bunch of machines on unstable ... one is holding back a lot of stuff on update/upgrade ... is there a command/switch that will tell me what dependency is holding things up? ... I'll just kill it off if it's non critical, as it's holding up postgres, openoffice, php and a bunch of other stuff ... You could apt-get install a single package and it should say what it depends on and why it won't install. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: Howto get assembly of linux or windows executables ?
Elizabeth Barham wrote: Joris writes: I'm currrently learning assembly and I'd like to get more used to it - is there a way to get to see the assembly of a compiled program, what program(s) do I need for that gcc is able to show the assembly it generates with the -S option and leaves the result in a file of the same name as the input file but with an .s extension. ... For disassembling an executable file the only thing I can think of off hand is the debugger, such as gdb. man objdump -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which release
Mario Vukelic wrote: On Fre, 2003-09-05 at 19:53, Joey Harrison wrote: My preference would be to have the most recent packages, but also somewhat tested, so should I use testing? I'v run stable, testing and unstable. In you case, I would start with stable. Most software in Linux is so mature these days that it doesn't really matter if it's all that recent for the most part. Desktop environments (Gnome, KDE) are an exception, but you can get good (unofficial) backports to stable at http://www.apt-get.org You should also consider Libranet, it's a commercial distro based on Debian, with a friendlier installer and more recent packages than stable. Avoid testing!! Testing is for testing /the distribution/ and is quite fd most of the time, as packages trickle in from unstable in a quite random manner. E.g., Gnome in testing is severely broekn, since some packages of 2.2 are in testing, but other important packages are helb ub by bugs. If you use a lighter wm such as icewm, then there's no problem at all with testing. I'd recommend that because there's less changing and less chance of system breaks as with unstable. You can install single packages from unstable easily too. Unstable is ok, it's not so much the packages that are unstable, but the package list changes frequently -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to tell apt-get or dpkg to forget about a package?
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi Debian Users! I use make-kpkg to create a new kernel-image for Knoppix and install it using dpkg. The install will go all the way except for a Failed-config because he is trying to create an initrd.img on /boot and cannot because there is no /etc/fstab around. There won't be a fstab because Knoppix from CD creates that on-the-fly. But everything is OK, he puts vmlinuz, etc. into /boot and creates /lib/modules/2.4.21-xfs. But... Now everytime when I use apt-get install he tries to re-install that kernel-image that I am already using. He displays the prose that make-kpkg creates and wants a continue. At that point I hit Ctrl-c and he installs what I apt-getted. Question: how can I tell him to forget about the failed-config of kernel-image-2.4.21-xfs and leave it as is. I don't want to read about kernel-image everytime I install something... Eventually I will purge it, but not now because it is my remastered kernel? http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-system.en.html#s-removeoldkernel There's probably other dpkg options you could use too that won't delete everything, like --force-remove-reinstreq --force-remove-essential. man dpkg. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getting XFree 4.3?
Jon Haugsand wrote: * Russell Shaw Hmm, I still have problems: apt-get install -t testing xfree86-common xbase-clients xserver-xfree86 xlibs Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... Sorry, xfree86-common is already the newest version. Sorry, xbase-clients is already the newest version. Sorry, xserver-xfree86 is already the newest version. Sorry, xlibs is already the newest version. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 80 not upgraded. 1 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Setting up console-common (0.7.25) ... Looking for keymap to install: no dpkg: error processing console-common (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: console-common E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) See what the half-installed package is. dpkg --audit or dpkg --yet-to-unpack Try: apt-get install -t testing --fix-broken console-common or: apt-get install -t testing --fix-broken xfree86-common Get each package installed one at a time is probably the easiest way. To see what a package is: dpkg -p package, to see what it depends on: apt-cache depends/show/showpkg package, to see status: dpkg -s package, to see what the package has installed: dpkg -L package, to see what package a file belongs to: dpkg -S file, etc. Remember to: apt-get update after changing sources.list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: deb from source
Colin Watson wrote: On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 02:19:49AM +1000, Russell Shaw wrote: Ok, i started again, but i still get the md5sum error. Could the downloaded debian package be in error? With the errors you're getting, this seems unlikely. I've downloaded it twice from the bottom of this page: http://packages.debian.org/testing/libdevel/libgtk2.0-dbg.html ~/SRC/GTK2: dpkg-source -x gtk+2.0_2.2.1-6.dsc dpkg-source: extracting gtk+2.0 in gtk+2.0-2.2.1 ~/SRC/GTK2: ls gtk+2.0-2.2.1 gtk+2.0_2.2.1-6.diff.gz gtk+2.0_2.2.1-6.dsc gtk+2.0_2.2.1.orig.tar.gz ~/SRC/GTK2: cd gtk+2.0-2.2.1 ~/SRC/GTK2/gtk+2.0-2.2.1: dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -rfakeroot [...] dpkg-source -b gtk+2.0-2.2.1 dpkg-source: building gtk+2.0 using existing gtk+2.0_2.2.1.orig.tar.gz dpkg-source: failure: md5sum gave bogus output `' What versions of dpkg and dpkg-dev do you have installed? I found the problem was solved by upgrading to dpkg-dev from testing. I had upgraded dpkg, but didn't know there was a dpkg-dev. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie Hardware/Partitioning
TR wrote: ATI Radeon 7500 64B/Dual Head I use Woody with a backported X 4.3.0. My Radeon 7500 works fine. I haven't tried it with the standard woody X though. I have a Radeon 9800 (128mb ddr), no luck in finding what would work for it. Does anyone know of any developments? I'm using a radeon 7000 in X 4.3. http://www.xfree86.org/current/Status6.html#6 4.3.0: Accelerated support is provided for Mach64, Rage, Rage 128 and Radeon chips by the ati driver, as is unaccelerated support for all of the others except the Mach8 and some early Mach32 chips. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems installing Debian on PIII using Adaptec 2400A RAID 5array as boot drive
Derek Chew En-Hock wrote: Hi Everyone, been using Debian for about 7 months now and loving every minute of it... so far, I managed to install Debian on more than 10 machines (some my own, some in the office and some for friends whom I'm trying to encourage to use Linux) and so far besides some quirks, the experience has been quite good... In fact, a few months ago, I shifted from using my Win XP machine to my Debian Machine as my main machine at home... while my XP Machine is just left for me to play EVE-online :) Anyway, recently I was handed a PIII Machine which has a 3 disk RAID 5 array created using an Adaptec 2400A IDE RAID Controller... I wanted to install Debian on it for use as an Intranet Web Server for the office... Well, I booted off the Debian 3.0 Disc 1, used the bf24 option and discovered that I could not find any hard drives on board... looking around the USENET for clues, I found out that you needed to use a floppy to load in the required modules to get Debian to recognise the RAID Controller.. I managed to find a floppy image at http://people.debian.org/~blade/install/preload/ and it managed to allow my Debian installation to happily detect the RAID Controller... I then proceeded to partition my disk as follows: /dev/sda0 /boot ext2 700 MB /dev/sda1 / Reisfer FS110 GB /dev/sd3 SWAP1.2 GB I set a swap partition to 1.2 GB as I have 512 Meg of RAM and I think I read somewhere that you should have a swap partition with a minimum of twice your available RAM right? Anyway, I made /dev/sda0 bootable and rebooted the machine... what greeted me was a blinking cursor and a beeping sound... I also tried to reinstall and add the some RAID5 kernel modules during the setup but that doesn't help either... Any suggestions any one? Apparently there isn't much people on USENET with 2400A Linux machines as I could only find a few posting and their situations doesn't help mine much... Perhaps it's a quirk of booting off scsi disks. Is the scsi card bootable? Is the bios set right? Is the card driver available at boot-time using the initrd system? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mixing stable and testing
Vikki Roemer wrote: On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 04:27:36PM -0800, Greg Madden wrote: You would need to setup a /etc/apt/preferences file, add testing to yor sources.list, and use pinning. Even so libc6 (upgrade) will be a depend on anythig from Testing. For what you want, it may be safer/easier to use 'apt-source' and build the few packages you want. If you are lucky there won't be any depends or only a couple that you will have to also build. You may need to run 'apt-get build-dep' in order to build your package, you would get an error message to this effect. Um, ok, another stupid newbie question: how do I build a package from source? I downloaded metalog's source, but the package won't build if I use dpkg -b metalog-dir -- it comes up with errors in the DEBIAN/control file. Am I going about it the right way? I've compiled programs before, I've just never compiled a *package*. http://packages.debian.org/testing/admin/metalog.html Download source: http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/m/metalog/metalog_0.7beta-3.dsc http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/m/metalog/metalog_0.7beta.orig.tar.gz http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/m/metalog/metalog_0.7beta-3.diff.gz In same directory: dpkg-source -x metalog_0.7beta-3.dsc cd metalog_0.7beta dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -rfakeroot cd .. dpkg -i metalog_0.7beta-3_i386.deb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getting XFree 4.3?
Jon Haugsand wrote: * Russell Shaw E: Sorry, broken packages I think by setting up apt-get pinning or something, these dependancies can be downloaded and installed automatically. However, i haven't figured that out, so i resolve these problems manually (it doesn't happen very often). Some of these errors may go away if you put this in apt.conf: APT::Default-Release testing; APT::Cache-Limit 1000; Also, put an official testing source into sources.list too. How? http://www.debian.org/mirror/ http://www.debian.org/mirror/list Primary mirrors: Norway ftp.no.debian.org /debian/ /debian-non-US/ http://ftp.no.debian.org/debian/ http://ftp.no.debian.org/debian-non-US/ Secondary Mirrors: NO Norway - ftp.no.debian.org /debian/ /debian/ debian.marked.no /debian/ Try in sources.list: For stable: deb ftp://ftp.no.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free For testing: deb ftp://ftp.no.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free For unstable: deb ftp://ftp.no.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free Then do: apt-get update -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CUPS alternative?
Christoph Simon wrote: On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 22:53:24 -0400 Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there any workable alternatives to CUPS? Any alternatives that folks actually RECOMMEND using? It would be great to run a somewhat leaner print system... lpd or lprng are still the best solutions. They are modular, i.e., you can have the functionality you wish without carrying around things you don't need, they have decent documentation, not a repetitive prayer like CUPS, and above all, they are transparent, i.e., they allow you to trace down any strange situation to the very point where things are breaking. This particular point can be extremely annoying if you first have to set up a webserver to do CUPS configuration, as CUPS is so authoritative to decide what you may know and see and what not. Once I had a breve conversation with one of the gimpprint developers who loves CUPS, but finally admited that there is nothing in CUPS you can't also do with lpd. CUPS seems to be designed for former windows users who need a graphical interface to set up a printcap file. For anybody else, even with more than enough RAM I would always recommend lpd or lprng. I use them with magicfilter, but apsfilter seems to do an equally good job. HTH Which one is best? : gnulpr - GNUlpr printing system. lpr - BSD lpr/lpd line printer spooling system lpr-ppd - BSD lpr/lpd line printer spooling system lprng - lpr/lpd printer spooling system pdq - Simple printing system for workstations rlpr - A utility for lpd printing without using /etc/printcap tlpr - a Trivial LPR client Are there others? (i have a postscript laser and an epson stylus inkjet) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux permissions and which(1)
Bill Moseley wrote: I was looking at the source code to the which(1) command (apt-get source which = which-2.14 ). As you might imagine, which(1) prepends the path to a name, checks if it exists and then checks if it's executable by the current process (your uid). In the which package is a file bash.c that contains the following code. At this point the file has been found and now it's just checking permissions. /* If we are the owner of the file, the owner execute bit applies. */ if (user_id == finfo.st_uid X_BIT (u_mode_bits (finfo.st_mode))) return (FS_EXISTS | FS_EXECABLE); /* If we are in the owning group, the group permissions apply. */ if (group_member (finfo.st_gid) X_BIT (g_mode_bits (finfo.st_mode))) return (FS_EXISTS | FS_EXECABLE); /* If `others' have execute permission to the file, then so do we, since we are also `others'. */ if (X_BIT (o_mode_bits (finfo.st_mode))) return (FS_EXISTS | FS_EXECABLE); else return (FS_EXISTS); This seems wrong, if I understand Linux permissions correctly. If you are the *owner* of a file, then it's the *owner* permissions that count. If the owner perms say you can't read it then it doesn't matter what the group and other perms are. In that code above if you are the owner but don't have execute perms then it moves onto checking the group perms, and then other perms. Am I crazy is is that code wrong? After some simple tests, it seems wrong. -rw-r-xr-- and -rw-r--r-x aren't executable while -rwxr--r-- *is*. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Shared library versions
Mark Ferlatte wrote: Russell Shaw said on Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 03:42:43PM +1000: Hi, How do programs determine what version of a shared (.so) library they get when run? They use whatever version they are linked against. Sometimes they are linked against libfoo.so, which is a symlink to the current default, other times they are linked against libfoo.so.1.2.3.4, so they will require that specific version to be present. The dynamic linker worries about all of this for you, on startup. You can use the ldd command to determine which libs a given executable wants (ie, ldd /bin/ls). I'm tracking down a bug in xgettext (from gettext 0.12.1): debconf2po-update xgettext: error while loading shared libraries: libgettextsrc-0.11.5.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory gettext installs: /usr/lib/libgettextsrc.so which is a symlink to: libgettextsrc-0.12.1.so So, xgettext should look for the libgettextsrc.so symlink. If a program calls a shared library via a symlink, how does it tell the linker what version to get? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Shared library versions
Russell Shaw wrote: Mark Ferlatte wrote: Russell Shaw said on Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 03:42:43PM +1000: I'm tracking down a bug in xgettext (from gettext 0.12.1): Doesn't matter now. Had old versions in /usr/local ;) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Traction (was Re: OT: Debian Mailinglist server slow?)
Karsten M. Self wrote: on Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 02:19:39AM -0700, Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 01:44:43AM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..2 reason diesel-electric locomotives are popular; they are about as clean as your average power utility, and they dont put heavy loads on the power grids. Nope, and nope. Diesel electrics are popular because they give the most bang for the buck. Vastly more efficient than gasoline engines and mechanical transmissions (it's 2003, why can't I get a diesel electric car?, with fewer moving parts than the steam engines it replaced. This makes them dirt cheap and bloody reliable. The railroads really couldn't give a damn about how much electric they're using since they're not having to string thousands apon thousands of miles of overhead lines (another costly expense railroads don't bother with unless they can get economic benefit from the typically heavier and faster trains that electrified lines run). Electric traction offers a few benefits: - Quieter. - Less (near zero) right-of-way (RoW) pollution. - Better high-speed performance. - Fewer ventilation issues for tunnels or enclosed operations (e.g.: RR terminals). - Ability to power all axels. The track maintenance is less with electrics because there's no pulsing action like with steam that pounds the tracks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Print packages.
David Palmer wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 21:47, Russell Shaw wrote: David Palmer wrote: Hello, Which is the more stable/ efficient Debian print package? Printtool or Cups? Regards, I've used cups with epson stylus colour inkjets and lexmark postscript laser printers. Works flawless (testing distro). http://www.linuxprinting.org/ http://www.cups.org/ Regards and thanks, One thing to watch for is when things get stuck in the print queue. This can happen for formats that aren't listed in /etc/cups/mime.types. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: font fix found, but how to make it stick?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmm... While I was considering editing the binary font file (helvB12.pcf.gz), I noticed a different font file in the same location: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/helvB12-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz After some inspection, it would seem that many fonts default to iso10646, but also are available in a iso8859 versions. What is the Debian way to give preference to the iso8859 versions? I found that simply deleting the iso10646 version (helvB12.pcf.gz) and then doing a update-fonts-dir does work. BUT -- I think as soon as package xfonts-75dpi is upgraded, it will undo the fix... If i run xfontsel, i can pick fmly=helvetica, and rgstry=iso10646. Can you? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Configuring HP Inkjet Printer
bob parker wrote: I've just installed a HP 3325 printer. I configured it using cups after downloding and compiling the latest hpijs driver (1.4.1). It's printing OK, from web pages at least, but my problem is that it is doing it at maximum resolution. Because I got this little cheapie just so I can output text quickly and cheaply I need to learn how to configure it to print in draft mode etc. man lpoptions ROOT ACCOUNT OPTIONS When run by the root user, lpoptions gets and sets default options and instances for all users in the /etc/cups/lpoptions file. FILES ~/.lpoptions - user defaults and instances created by non- root users. /etc/cups/lpoptions - system-wide defaults and instances created by the root user. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
/dev/lp0
Hi, When i do: cp test.txt /dev/lp0 shouldn't it blindly copy the text to the port and return immediately? (it hangs) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /dev/lp0
Elie De Brauwer wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2003 11:39, Russell Shaw wrote: Hi, When i do: cp test.txt /dev/lp0 shouldn't it blindly copy the text to the port and return immediately? (it hangs) That depends, in some cases that could work unless you have a printer like hp deskjet 710, 720 etc who require additional filtering, the models mentioned require (cpu intensive) filtering thru a pnm2ppa filter. It would be a good idea to mention which printer you are using It's a lexmark postscript laser (optra R+). I was wondering if the command should work even if there was no printer connected. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /dev/lp0
Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl wrote: I'm not sure if this will do what you expect (I'm not behind a Debian box now so I cannot check) but why don't u try: cat file.txt /dev/lp0 ?? That hangs the same way too. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /dev/lp0
Elie De Brauwer wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2003 11:51, Russell Shaw wrote: Elie De Brauwer wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2003 11:39, Russell Shaw wrote: Hi, When i do: cp test.txt /dev/lp0 shouldn't it blindly copy the text to the port and return immediately? (it hangs) That depends, in some cases that could work unless you have a printer like hp deskjet 710, 720 etc who require additional filtering, the models mentioned require (cpu intensive) filtering thru a pnm2ppa filter. It would be a good idea to mention which printer you are using It's a lexmark postscript laser (optra R+). I was wondering if the command should work even if there was no printer connected. Try catting a postscript file, i thnk you printer should understand 'postscript'. That's how i've done tests before. It took me ages to figure the latest problem. I connected the inkjet, and cp test.txt /dev/lp0 worked (obviously needs a printer attached). I forgot to change the printer box, so when i did lp -d Laser test.txt, i got postcript ascii text on the inkjet too. Anyway, the problem was i just had to power-cycle the laser. Simplest problems waste the most time chasing;) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Voodoo Graphics still supported?
markus koller wrote: Hi, I've got an old Voodoo1 (Diamond Monster 3D) and I'd like to use it with X4.2. It worked without problems with X3.3 and Mesa, but I can't figure out how to get it to work again. I googled around a bit, and got only more confused, so I thought maybe I'd find help here. XFree86 -configure will generate a config file with available options. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cups install problem
Tom Allison wrote: Russell Shaw wrote: Tom Allison wrote: Russell Shaw wrote: Tom Allison wrote: Well, I tried a purge and reinstall of cups on my server. This is one of the many problems I'm seeing. ... I finally got it. And it was brain dead simple. After I removed the rouge libraries... Thank you so much everyone who was willing to put up with me and my issues. :) I hate this. It's always simple when you're looking back. I just didn't do a dutiful enough job stripping out all the little lost libs. The one that I ran into didn't have any dependencies or conflicts or anything. It was a little hard to chase down the exact name of at first, dselect didn't show it at all. But, I can print from Mozilla, OpenOffice, and lpr. GIMP gives me a stair-case postscript goo. gv gives me good text I probably need the printer driver for gimp installed. Is that on the client and not the server? I'd guess it goes on the X client. Probably need cupsys-driver-gimpprint. dpkg -p cupsys-driver-gimpprint apt-cache search gimp print | sort cupsys-driver-gimpprint - Gimp-Print printer drivers for CUPS escputil - A maintenance utility for Epson Stylus printers foomatic-db - linuxprinting.org printer support - database foomatic-db-engine - linuxprinting.org printer support - programs foomatic-db-gimp-print - Printer/Driver database and print system - gimp-print database gimp1.2-print - The Print plugin for the GIMP gimpprint-doc - Users' Guide for GIMP-Print and CUPS gimpprint-locales - Locale data files for gimp-print gpaint - GNU Paint - a small, easy to use paint program for GNOME ijsgimpprint - Inkjet Server - Ghostscript driver for GIMP-Print libgimpprint-dev - header files for compiling programs with libgimpprint libgimpprint-doc - Documentation and example code for the gimpprint library libgimpprint1 - Gimp-Print printer drivers - core library libgimpprint1-dev - Header files and extras for compiling programs with libgimpprint libgimpprint1-doc - Documentation and example code for the libgimpprint library libijs-0.34 - IJS raster image transport protocol: shared library libijs-0.34-dev - IJS raster image transport protocol: development files xsane - A gtk-based X11 frontend for SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Shared library versions
Hi, How do programs determine what version of a shared (.so) library they get when run? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CUPS
Tom Allison wrote: I need some help. I've been posting all over the internet about a CUPS problem I have and searching the docs/google for about five days straight. Well, almost, I sleep and do other things but I think I've logged about 20 hours so far. Why is it that when there is a problem with CUPS there is absolutely no one to support anything and no information on the errors? I had it working at one time and it just simply broke during the summer. I didn't change anything in that time unless something in -testing was upgraded. But there haven't been any messages. Check for disk errors. tune2fs -c 10 -C 10 /dev/hda1 then reboot for a disk check of whatever partitions you have. I find a couple of posts about the exact same error, ReadClient() 7 IPP Read Error!, but absolutely no one has ever responded, that I can find, to assist in resolving the problem. Not just to me, but on the cups mailing list, suse mailing lists and a few other LUGS that I found on google.com. Is it so obvious that the only answer is RTFM? The Troubleshooting section seemed a bit thin... It is imperative that I have a printer working by Tuesday afternoon. I do not believe in the reinstall the OS under Debian. But at this point I can only come up with two possible solutions: purge everything that's related to cups, deleting all the config files and start over again. move to another distribution of linux that has more automated and complete support for printing out-of-the-box. Or are my posts on CUPS being ignored because I'm coming off as being a complete ass-wipe? apt-get remove/install cups and try again. Try some more primitive tests like ls | /dev/lp0. Check your ppd exists. Check the config files in /etc/cups. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ide-scsi CDRW and a real SCSI CDROM
Kirk Strauser wrote: I'm running `unstable' on a system with a Samsung IDE CDRW and a Panasonic SCSI CDROM. I've followed various instructions culled from mailing lists, HOWTOs, etc., but I'm still having problems with getting the two to play nicely together. If I enable ide-scsi for the CDRW, I can't find the real SCSI CDROM anywhere. If I don't enable ide-scsi, then the SCSI CDROM is available, but the CDRW is only writeable via ATAPI. Can someone point me toward some documentation on using ide-scsi on a system with real SCSI devices? Many thanks. The real scsi will appear under sdxx such as sda1. There's a cd-write howto, and a scsi howto. scsitools is also useful. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Some odd comments and questions for all
Joris Lambrecht wrote: Hello, I've been re-installing Debian after an over-courages attempt at getting used to Windows, again. I'm really pleased with what has changed in the meantime. The 2.4.21 kernel is really something to keep a good eye one and Gnome2.2, slurp. Mozilla-xft package ! Greaaat! It surely won't be long before this platform starts really-really kickin' ass now. Compliments to all the people who put in their time and effort. Well, Debian GNU/Linux surely looks much more yummy. I've got plans for looking into,with the help of a musician, the DEMUDI debian-branch as well. People who can advise on commercial as well as OSS-midi-software/softsynths/sequencers, VJ-software etc. Please let me know. I'm also building a site wich will be partly focused on Linux Multimedia. What i had also been wondering about is all the wonderfull repository's wich can be found at http://www.apt-get.org ... what if ... someone put some malicious code into these repository's. I wouldn't know why and this would probably soon be found out about but still, i wouldn't want to use these repository's when running a production-server or something similarly critical. What's the catch and what's the way to go ? I'm not really fond off recompiling stuff since i get pretty confused doing that :-) Some of the packages on apt-get.org are maintained by official debianites. Is there any safe way to run unstable with woody ? (Given unstable is still sid) Install testing and get unstable packages whenever you need one. Also, rolling back versions of software to previous versions. How is this done, if doable at all. Download and unpack a source package. Modify the autoconf, debian packaging files, and program source to use older standards, build-tools and libraries (not trivial). Rebuild the .deb and dpkg -i. And why are there that many dependency issues with backports ? Are it only the poorly backported applications wich show dependency issues ? Interfaces with various tools and libraries are different, so you have to adapt. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: font fix found, but how to make it stick?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi to all, I have an old X client that requests this font: -adobe-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-* ( /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/helvB12.pcf.gz ) Unfortunately, iso10646 encoding causes this client to show only boxes. I've found that I can fix it by manually editing /usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/fonts.dir like so: helvB12.pcf.gz -adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-70-iso10646-1 --- helvB12.pcf.gz -adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-70-iso8859-1 ... changing the encoding to iso8859 for the font in question. My problem is that 'update-fonts-dir' completely un-does my edit! There's probably a defoma tweak that I need to make, but I can't figure it out. Is there a global setting to always prefer iso8859 for all fonts when possible? Any help is be greatly appreciated! Change the name of the font in the font files. update-fonts-dir will regenerate fonts.dir from that info. man update-fonts-dir http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-customized-programs.html#s11.8.5 The kernel has language settings you can select for things like 8859 etc. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CUPS admin web site errors
Kevin McKinley wrote: On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 16:23:36 -0400 Tom Allison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been staring at this for a while yet and haven't found anything to help me here. google.com shows me that this happens with a lot of people out there (or has in the past) but I haven't found anything to show me a solution or even a potential cause. I had the same problem when I tried to set up a pure-Woody machine as a print server. For this reason and another (paper size issues) I gave up after trying the linuxprinting.org and cups.org message boards. Defaults such as paper size can be set with lpoptions (user or root), or by editing the ppd (/etc/cups/ppd), or by editing /etc/cups/lpoptions. CUPS 1.1.18 solved that problem for me on another machine, but I don't know if that's a reasonable alternative for you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dual Parallel Ports and a PLX 9052 chip
Jody Grafals wrote: I just bought cheepy PCI dual Parallel Port card with a PLX 9052 chip for my home linux server so I can add a second printer and a Old school Connectix Web Cam but I can not get it working. I already have a Zip drive and a printer working with the onboard parallel port with kernel 2.5.69. The PLX 9052 chips is in all kinds of wired stuff so I have not had much luck on google looking for answers. Has anyone used this chip before to support parallel ports or can anyone point me in the right direction? I get nothing about the card in dmesg but I do get this output from lspci # lspci -vv 00:0f.0 Network controller: PLX Technology, Inc. PCI - IOBus Bridge (rev 02) Subsystem: Unknown device d841:0012 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium TAbort- TAbort- MAbort- SERR- PERR- Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10 Region 0: Memory at e8002000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128] Region 1: I/O ports at b000 [size=128] Region 2: I/O ports at b400 [size=8] Region 3: I/O ports at b800 [size=8] Region 4: I/O ports at bc00 [size=8] Region 5: I/O ports at c000 [size=8] Look for an option when you build the kernel. See if something prints. Connect a printer, then: ls | /dev/lp[0|1|2] http://www.google.com.au/search?q=plx9052+linuxie=UTF-8oe=UTF-8hl=enbtnG=Google+Searchmeta= -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cups install problem
Tom Allison wrote: Well, I tried a purge and reinstall of cups on my server. This is one of the many problems I'm seeing. I also ran into a wonderful conflict between hpjis (something like that) and it's foomatic-db-hpjis cousin. They appear to have a circular dependency upon each other and I don't know that they will actually install. But first things first... Unpacking libcupsys2 (from .../libcupsys2_1.1.14-5_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libcupsys2_1.1.14-5_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libcupsimage.so.2', which is also in package libcupsimage2 I have both of them installed ok. Did you purge *both* of them before reinstalling? Are you running stable or testing? (i'm on testing). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Print packages.
David Palmer wrote: Hello, Which is the more stable/ efficient Debian print package? Printtool or Cups? Regards, I've used cups with epson stylus colour inkjets and lexmark postscript laser printers. Works flawless (testing distro). http://www.linuxprinting.org/ http://www.cups.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cups install problem
Tom Allison wrote: Russell Shaw wrote: Tom Allison wrote: Well, I tried a purge and reinstall of cups on my server. This is one of the many problems I'm seeing. I also ran into a wonderful conflict between hpjis (something like that) and it's foomatic-db-hpjis cousin. They appear to have a circular dependency upon each other and I don't know that they will actually install. But first things first... Unpacking libcupsys2 (from .../libcupsys2_1.1.14-5_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libcupsys2_1.1.14-5_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libcupsimage.so.2', which is also in package libcupsimage2 I have both of them installed ok. Did you purge *both* of them before reinstalling? Are you running stable or testing? (i'm on testing). I purged everything I could find under dselect that matched /cups/ I'm running a spread of trees(*), but the installation was all -stable. I use apt_preferences to select different trees, but default to -stable when I don't identify it in 'apt-get install -t testing'. If you can tolerate testing, i'd highly recommend installing everything from there. CUPS might have stopped working previously due to packages from testing being installed with stable. I'd run fsck before doing anything else tho (do it when the partitions are read-only). If you still want to install from stable, then i'd search for package debris now. updatedb, then locate cups. Manually delete any leftovers. Then reinstall CUPS. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ide-scsi CDRW and a real SCSI CDROM
Kirk Strauser wrote: At 2003-09-01T11:12:07Z, Russell Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The real scsi will appear under sdxx such as sda1. Except that it doesn't. In fact, it's not even detected in dmesg. What I've done so far: 1) Added this to my grub boot parameters: hde=scsi ignore=hde 2) Created an /etc/modutils/cdrw: # First, get the ide-cd drive to not latch onto /dev/hdd options ide-cd ignore=hde # # # Set up an alias for /dev/scd0 to load sr_mod alias scd1 sr_mod # # # Now get ide-cd followed by ide-scsi loaded before the SCSI drivers pre-install sgmodprobe ide-scsi pre-install sr_modmodprobe ide-scsi pre-install ide-scsi modprobe ide-cd 3) Ran update-modules. 4) Added `ide-scsi' and `sg' to /etc/modules. 5) Rebooted. Anything I missed Does lsmod show the low-level driver for the scsi card? If not, put it in /etc/modules. Does lsmod show the rest of the drivers you've attempted? http://www.linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/SCSI-2.4-HOWTO/index.html http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/SCSI-Generic-HOWTO/ Drivers for card and scsi system in: cat /proc/scsi Before doing all that stuff in /etc/modutils, i'd try the driver install sequence by hand one step at a time, then duplicate the working sequence with /etc/modules and /etc/modutils. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mozilla and Print
Andreas J. Guelzow wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 10:09, Bijan Soleymani wrote: On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 06:54:11AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: Bijan Soleymani wrote: On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 05:28:22PM -0400, Rodrigo Gesswein wrote: Hello! I have installed Debian 3.0r1 and Mozilla 1.4, but when I try to print a html page, CPU goes to 100% and nothing happend, I must kill mozilla manually. LPD is installed and configured right. Any ideas ? What happens if you print to a file and then run lpr on that file? Bijan Is this the CUPS version of lpr or the real lpr? I'm asking because I am running into the same problem under cupssys-bsd. cups-server logs, under debug, show a problem, but I can't seem to get it working yet, IPP Read Error I recommended that he use lpr (the real lpr) because he said lpd was working. If you have the same problem with mozilla but you're using cups then you should probably try it with lp. On the other hand I don't see why lpr (the cups one from cupsys-bsd) should be failing. Okay, some thoughts on this issue: Tom is unable to administer his cups server with server:631. He seems to get the web pages but committing his changes doesn't work. This looks to me like a misconfiguration of cups on the server (not client). lpr works from the command line but not when called by Mozilla: I suspect that there are in fact still 2 binaries on the system: An lpr from the regular unix printing package and an lpr belonging to cupsys-bsd. Differences in path cause Mozilla to use the cups version while on the command line the regular version is used. If the server also runs an cups lpd compatibility daemon, you could then print from the command line but not from cups. To check this (wild) guess: on the client we should search for binaries with name lpr. We should look at the cups configuration file on the server to see whether the client has appropriate privileges. whereis lpr lpr: /usr/bin/lpr /usr/share/man/man1/lpr.1.gz dpkg -S /usr/bin/lpr cupsys-bsd: /usr/bin/lpr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hot-plugging USB storage devices.
Iain Georgeson wrote: Roberto Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: --- Iain Georgeson [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: I would prefer it each device was always mounted in the same place - /camera for the camera and /keychain for the keychain, for example. Is there any way of doing this with usbmgr or something else like hotplug? I don't get it. Why not just do something like: # ln -s /camera /keychain [...] The only downside is that you would not be able to mount both devices at the same time. That's a problem. I want to be able to plug the devices in in whichever order and be able to cp -a /camera/dcim /keychain for example I could have a /storage0 and a /storage1 and remember which order they got assigned, but it just isn't as nice. scsitools solves the ordering problem by giving scsi devices a unique name based on its hardware. dpkg -p scsitools apt-get install -t testing scsitools -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X problems with unstable
R Ransbottom wrote: In installing xserver-common (4.2.1-10) on unstable I get a note: Note: not updating /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config; file does not exist. This is followed by xserver-xfree86 (4.2.1-10) noting: Note: not updating /etc/X11/X; file does not exist. Note: not updating /etc/X11/XF86Config-4; file does not exist. What should I read/do to get X going? Thanks. man dpkg Try the confmiss option. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sound Blaster Audigy and ati radeon 9800 not seen by kernel 2.4.18
Antonio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a sound blaster audigy card and an ati radeon 9800, none of them seem to be visible to the kernel 2.4.18 (woody source) that I compiled. According to what I have seen, emu10k1 should work with this card, but insmod is not working for the reason that the card is invisible. Any ideas what could be the reason? I am attaching some info hoping for some help. Thanks. Seems like you need XFree86 4.3 for the radeon. http://www.xfree86.org/current/Status6.html#6 Install 4.3, then XFree86 -configure to generate a video-card config. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
deb from source
Hi, I'm trying to build gtk2.0-dbg .deb from source. I downloaded: gtk+2.0_2.2.1-6.dsc gtk+2.0_2.2.1-6.diff.gz gtk+2.0_2.2.1.orig.tar.gz then: tar -xzvf gtk+2.0_2.2.1.orig.tar.gz gunzipgtk+2.0_2.2.1-6.diff.gz patch -p0 gtk+2.0_2.2.1-6.diff cd gtk+2.0_2.2.1.orig ~/SRC/GTK2/gtk+2.0-2.2.1.orig/dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -rfakeroot gives: dpkg-buildpackage: source package is gtk+2.0 dpkg-buildpackage: source version is 2.2.1-6 dpkg-buildpackage: source maintainer is Akira TAGOH [EMAIL PROTECTED] dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture is i386 fakeroot debian/rules clean /usr/bin/fakeroot: line 126: debian/rules: Permission denied So i do: ~/SRC/GTK2/gtk+2.0-2.2.1.orig: chmod +x debian/rules then: ~/SRC/GTK2/gtk+2.0-2.2.1.orig: dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -rfakeroot gives: dpkg-buildpackage: source package is gtk+2.0 dpkg-buildpackage: source version is 2.2.1-6 dpkg-buildpackage: source maintainer is Akira TAGOH [EMAIL PROTECTED] dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture is i386 fakeroot debian/rules clean dh_testdir sed -e 's/@SONAME@/0/g' -e 's/@VERSION@/2.2.1/g' debian/control.in debian/control dh_testdir dh_testroot # Add here commands to clean up after the build process. /usr/bin/make -f debian/sys-build.mk source.clean make[1]: Entering directory `/home/russell/SRC/GTK2/gtk+2.0-2.2.1.orig' make[2]: Entering directory `/home/russell/SRC/GTK2/gtk+2.0-2.2.1.orig/debian/scripts' make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/russell/SRC/GTK2/gtk+2.0-2.2.1.orig/debian/scripts' make[2]: Entering directory `/home/russell/SRC/GTK2/gtk+2.0-2.2.1.orig/debian/scripts' make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/russell/SRC/GTK2/gtk+2.0-2.2.1.orig/debian/scripts' make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/russell/SRC/GTK2/gtk+2.0-2.2.1.orig' rm -rf build-tree/gtk+-2.2.1-shared rm -rf build-tree/gtk+-2.2.1-static rm -rf debian/stampdir dh_clean dpkg-source -b gtk+2.0-2.2.1.orig dpkg-source: warning: source directory `./gtk+2.0-2.2.1.orig' is not sourcepackage-upstreamversion `gtk+2.0-2.2.1' dpkg-source: warning: .orig directory name gtk+2.0-2.2.1.orig.orig is not package-upstreamversion (wanted gtk+2.0-2.2.1.orig) dpkg-source: building gtk+2.0 using existing gtk+2.0_2.2.1.orig.tar.gz dpkg-source: failure: md5sum gave bogus output `' I tried changing the tree from gtk+2.0-2.2.1.orig to gtk+2.0-2.2.1, but i still get the last line saying md5sum gave bogus output. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: deb from source
Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 11:26:13PM +1000, Russell Shaw wrote: I'm trying to build gtk2.0-dbg .deb from source. I downloaded: gtk+2.0_2.2.1-6.dsc gtk+2.0_2.2.1-6.diff.gz gtk+2.0_2.2.1.orig.tar.gz then: tar -xzvf gtk+2.0_2.2.1.orig.tar.gz gunzipgtk+2.0_2.2.1-6.diff.gz patch -p0 gtk+2.0_2.2.1-6.diff cd gtk+2.0_2.2.1.orig That's a ... convoluted (and wrong) way to extract a source package. Remove that gtk+2.0_2.2.1.orig directory, and try this instead: dpkg-source -x gtk+2.0_2.2.1-6.dsc I thought there was an easier way! So i tried: ~/SRC/GTK2: dpkg-source -x gtk+2.0_2.2.1-6.dsc dpkg-source: extracting gtk+2.0 in gtk+2.0-2.2.1 ~/SRC/GTK2: ls gtk+2.0-2.2.1 gtk+2.0_2.2.1-6.diff.gz gtk+2.0_2.2.1-6.dsc gtk+2.0_2.2.1.orig.tar.gz ~/SRC/GTK2: dpkg-source -b gtk+2.0-2.2.1 dpkg-source: building gtk+2.0 using existing gtk+2.0_2.2.1.orig.tar.gz dpkg-source: failure: md5sum gave bogus output `' Should this step generate a .deb file? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getting XFree 4.3?
David Z Maze wrote: Jon Haugsand [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My Dell Latitude needs XFree 4.3, but I'm not sure how to get it for my Woody laptop. IMHO, you'll run into too many problems if you try to go the backport route; lots of things depend on the X libraries (which, fundamentally, haven't changed in 10 years) and there have been reports of people mixing backports and running into huge dependency problems. All you really want is a newer X server. So find your favorite XFree86 mirror, download Xxserv.tgz and Xmod.tgz, unpack those in /usr/local (or a subdirectory of /usr/local/stow, if you use stow), repoint the /etc/X11/X symlink to point at /usr/local/bin/XFree86, and edit your XF86Config-4 file. You're still using the XFree86 4.1 libraries, but this shouldn't make a difference to anything (aside from maybe dpkg). An easier way to get Xfree86 4.3: Put this unofficial from http://www.apt-get.org/ into sources.list: # XFree86 4.3: deb http://people.debian.org/~nobse/debian/woody/experimental/ ./ (i have sources for testing distro too) apt-get update apt-get install -t testing xfree86-common xbase-clients xserver-xfree86 xlibs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
