Log message: dditional sense indicates Tracking servo failure
Hi All! I found the following message in the kern.log. What does it mean? If it means that my HD is about to quit on me, how do I find out which harddisk is affected? TIA Thorsten PS. Please cc to me directly too, so that I don't miss the post. Thanks === Jun 6 20:18:58 localhost kernel: Additional sense indicates Tracking servo failure Jun 6 20:19:00 localhost kernel: Additional sense indicates Tracking servo failure ... (repeats itself at other times) -- \\|// ( o.o ) \(_)/ oOOo-oOOo E-Mail: Thorsten Manegold [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Keys on public keyservers KeyID: 0xBEACCF0D - __/ / \ \__ (___| |___) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Log message: dditional sense indicates Tracking servo failure
Once upon a time around Friday, 7. June 2002 20:36, in a galaxy far, far away someone known as Mike Dresser wrote: On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Thorsten Manegold wrote: === Jun 6 20:18:58 localhost kernel: Additional sense indicates Tracking servo failure Jun 6 20:19:00 localhost kernel: Additional sense indicates Tracking servo failure Got a tape drive in that machine? Maybe SCSI DDS? Nope. I don't own such high tech ;-) TIA Thorsten -- \\|// ( o.o ) \(_)/ oOOo-oOOo E-Mail: Thorsten Manegold [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Keys on public keyservers KeyID: 0xBEACCF0D - __/ / \ \__ (___| |___) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Log message: dditional sense indicates Tracking servo failure
Once upon a time around Friday, 7. June 2002 20:38, in a galaxy far, far away someone known as Robin Putters wrote: On Fri, 2002-06-07 at 18:09, Thorsten Manegold wrote: I found the following message in the kern.log. What does it mean? If it means that my HD is about to quit on me, how do I find out which harddisk is affected? Yes, one of your disks is dying.. Check the ide-smart package, it should tell you which HD is dying (never had the need to figure out how it works, but you should be able to tell which disk is failing with it)... Does that mean it's an IDE drive that is affected? I have 2 SCSI and 2 IDE drives. Also how is LVM (logical volumes) affected if one disk dies? Can the extends that are not on that drive still be accessed? TIA Thorsten -- \\|// ( o.o ) \(_)/ oOOo-oOOo E-Mail: Thorsten Manegold [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Keys on public keyservers KeyID: 0xBEACCF0D - __/ / \ \__ (___| |___) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
KDE uses wrong codepage
Hi! Somehow KDE does not use iso8859-1 for its apps. Since I have a german environment set, I get the german menues and those contain german umlauts and sz and such. Those are however not displayed correctly, but I get some funny other charakter. Same thing happens to (german) web pages displayed in kfm. What is wrong and how/where can I change that? TIA Thorsten Manegold
Re: apt-get failed SOLVED
HI! I had the same error. Upgrading debconf by hand solved it. Thanks! Thorsten On 02-Nov-99 Joey Hess wrote: Upgrade debconf by hand to the current version in unstable. jack wrote: hi, the error message is: debian:~# apt-get -f dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: w3-el-e20 The following NEW packages will be installed: libgtkmm The following packages have been kept back kbd libmime-base64-perl mixviews mon mutt perl-tk 76 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 6 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/47.6MB of archives. After unpacking 13.4MB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 100% [Scanning packages] Configuring packages ... /tmp/filekpETin: /usr/share/debconf/confmodule: No such file or directory E: Sub-process dpkg-preconfig --apt returned an error code (1) E: Failure running script dpkg-preconfig --apt Any idea? thanks jack -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- see shy jo -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 03-Nov-99 Time: 12:00:59 This message was sent by XFMail --
faxrunq in what package
Hi! I have a man page for faxrunqd (part of the mgetty package), but not the program. Also I don't have faxrunq, which is mentioned in the man page. Where can I find those? My HylaFAX server only spools faxes and I think I need this program to make it send it out. TIA Thorsten \\|// ( o.o ) \(_)/ oOOo-oOOo--- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 07-Aug-99 Time: 16:22:22 CET PGP Keys on public keyservers KeyID: 0xBEACCF0D __/ / \ \__ (___| |___)
rebuliding dpkg database
Hi! As someone already asked about problems with dpkg after dataloss... Is there a way to rebuild the dpkg database if it gets corrupted? With rpm there was a way to rebuild if you had some data still intact. TIA Thorsten
dpkg -- html?
Hi! with rpm there is a tool rpm2html to make the database readable via a browser (espec. the depenancies and files). Is there something like that for debs as well? TIA Thorsten Manegold
(ana)cron message
HI! What does the following (ana)cron message mean? I get it every time. 45375 45375 File /usr/lib/emacs/19.34/i386-debian-linux/movemail registered but not installed TIA Thorsten Manegold \\|// ( o.o ) \(_)/ oOOo-oOOo--- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 01-Jul-99 Time: 22:13:06 CET PGP Keys on public keyservers KeyID: 0xBEACCF0D __/ / \ \__ (___| |___)
HD activity
Hi! I seem to remember, that this was asked before, but can't find it in the list-archive: 1) What causes the HD activity every 3 seconds? That way powersaving will never take effect. 2) How can I change the setup, so that the HD will not be needlessly acsessed? TIA Thorsten Manegold
RE: Getting there
... Then there is email software connected to Gnome and KDE. I do not want that either. Is Linux going to become worse than Windows, because you will have to choose a desktop environment you do not really like because it comes with must have apps? I hope not Help me out here! :) Why? You don't need to run KDE just to use KMail. Dto for Gnome. Sure you need to install the runtime libraries (like qt for KMail) and maybe it's easier to install the environment, but you can run those apps from Windowmaker too (or from any another Windowmanager). Thorsten Manegold \\|// ( o.o ) \(_)/ oOOo-oOOo--- E-Mail: Thorsten Manegold [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 18-Jun-99 Time: 23:14:20 CET PGP Keys on public keyservers KeyID: 0xBEACCF0D __/ / \ \__ (___| |___)
difference between magicfilter and apsfilter
Hi! I sent this question before but did not receive any reply, so I try again: What is the difference between magicfilter and apsfilter? As far as I can tell they both do about the same. Is one better? TIA Thorsten Manegold \\|// ( o.o ) \(_)/ oOOo-oOOo--- E-Mail: Thorsten Manegold [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 16-Jun-99 Time: 22:19:35 CET PGP Keys on public keyservers KeyID: 0xBEACCF0D __/ / \ \__ (___| |___)
Re: default ungziped /usr/doc/*/* ?
Carl Mummert wrote: I am uploading here a small, hackish perl script that, along with some apache configuration changes, will allow you to view the compressed files in http://your-machine/doc as if they were not comrpessed. Very nice, but I urge people to file bug reports against packages that have compressed html files without hacked URLs such that they still work. Not good. If the html is hacked so that links work while it is compressed, then when someone UNcompresses it, the links will break. This would certainly be a surprising effect of unzpping html files. Then don't do that! :-) My point is that files should work as installed by dpkg. If you uncompress them, then you're on your own wrt upgrading, package purging, and yes, even wrt the package working correctly. There are lots of _surprising effects_ after unzipping packaged files. Sometimes html _is_ hacked so that links work when the file is compressed in order to save space on user systems. This should only be done on large HTML documentation packages. AFAIK, not many packages do this, but I have done it myself. Should you file it a bug report on it, the most I'd do is provide a decompressor script to change the URLs so it still worked, with a large disclaimer saying that using it would render the package not upgradable and not removable by dpkg. teTeX is on area in which the html page does not work because of the gz. format. Where do I have to report that to? Do I understand correctly, that all files in /usr/doc are supposed to be gz? If yes, then rezipping them recursevly should solve the problems with dpkg updateing etc. Thorsten Manegold
RE: kppp error - pppd dies unexpectedly
On 11-Jun-99 Micha Feigin wrote: when i try to connect to my internet provider with kppp i get a message pppd died unexpectedly, and then it hangs up. Any solution to the problem? [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi! This is caused by a bug in kppp. It requires that the entry lock in /etc/ppp/options to be removed. HTH Thorsten Manegold \\|// ( o.o ) \(_)/ oOOo-oOOo--- E-Mail: Thorsten Manegold [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 11-Jun-99 Time: 22:05:32 CET PGP Keys on public keyservers KeyID: 0xBEACCF0D __/ / \ \__ (___| |___)
Re: systemtime
On 10-Jun-99 Brian Servis wrote: *- On 10 Jun, Thorsten Manegold wrote about systemtime Hi! What does the file /etc/adjtime do? It seems that when it is there hwclock.sh that is called at startup always sets my systemtime to some funny value... Any ideas? Read the hwclock man page, there is a discussion about this file and its use. Thanks. Must have overlooked that % man hwclock [] The Adjust Function The Hardware Clock is usually not very accurate. However, much of its inaccuracy is completely predictable -- it gains or loses the same amount of time every day. This is called systematic drift. Hwclock's adjust function lets you make systematic corrections to correct the systematic drift. It works like this: Hwclock keeps a file, /etc/adjtime, that keeps some historical information. This is called the adjtime file. [] Is it off by a fixed hour everytime? I think Debian by default sets the hwclock to GMT/UTC time and then sets the local time according to your timezone. Run tzconfig and make sure your timezone is correct. I am not an expert on this so this is about all the advice I can give. No it changes all over the place (last time to the year 2006. So now I at least know that I don't have a Y2K bug...). The Bios however is not that bad as that. I first thought it might be the mainboard battery, but after I checked the bios before startup for a while I came away ok. Often I will find it set to the time/date that I last shut down my system (almost to the second according to my messages file). Almost as if it saved the time to restore it when started again... Anybody else have more concrete advice? TIA Thorsten Manegold \\|// ( o.o ) \(_)/ oOOo-oOOo--- E-Mail: Thorsten Manegold [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 11-Jun-99 Time: 19:43:48 CET PGP Keys on public keyservers KeyID: 0xBEACCF0D __/ / \ \__ (___| |___)
Re: HylaFAX
On Wed, Jun 09, 1999 at 12:32:50PM +0200, Thorsten Manegold wrote: Hi! Has anybody HylaFAX working?. I've been using it for a few years without any problems (I never could get efax to work). I use slink and HylaFAX just spools the files to fax but does not start to fax at all. Just a thought, but: Have you installed both hylafax-server and hylafax-client? Yes. Did you run faxaddmodem? Yes What does faxstat indicate? something like ... ttyS1 .. idle as it should I assume, that the problem is in the stage where it converts the PS files to fax/tiff files. How can I verify this? Also what ownerships to the files in /var/spool/fax have to have? In SuSE (there it is working) they have uucp.uucp. On my system (potato) it is root.fax. dto here. So that is not the problem I looked at the log files, but can't find an error-message. Any more thoughts? TIA Thorsten Manegold
Re: HylaFAX
On Wed, Jun 09, 1999 at 12:32:50PM +0200, Thorsten Manegold wrote: Hi! Has anybody HylaFAX working?. I've been using it for a few years without any problems (I never could get efax to work). I use slink and HylaFAX just spools the files to fax but does not start to fax at all. Just a thought, but: Have you installed both hylafax-server and hylafax-client? Yes. Did you run faxaddmodem? Yes What does faxstat indicate? something like ... ttyS1 .. idle as it should I assume, that the problem is in the stage where it converts the PS files to fax/tiff files. How can I verify this? Also what ownerships to the files in /var/spool/fax have to have? In SuSE (there it is working) they have uucp.uucp. On my system (potato) it is root.fax. dto here. So that is not the problem I looked at the log files, but can't find an error-message. Any more thoughts? TIA Thorsten Manegold
Re: ESD and x11amp
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Thorsten Manegold wrote: Hi! I want to compiele x11amp so that it usese esd. However the configure script does not find esd. I installed enlightenment 0.15.5 from source to /usr/local. You can get esd from your preferred Debian mirror, just install the packages esound, libesd0, and libesd0-dev (for compiling) I have the slink version of libesd0 and esound installed, but their version is not sufficient. The debs from the unstable branch seem to be linked to libc2.1... Also I have esound (0.2.8 I think) compieled from source in /usr/local but it seems like it's not found there... Also, the x11amp deb has esound support, so you don't need to compile if you don't want to. Yes, but the deb-package for the beta1.1 version is linked to libc 2.1 which does not work with slink. Ho can I have configure find essound in /usr/local ... TIA Thorsten Manegold
difference between magicfilter and apsfilter
Hi! What is the difference between magicfilter and apsfilter? As far as I can tell they both do about the same. Is one better? TIA Thorsten Manegold
systemtime
Hi! What does the file /etc/adjtime do? It seems that when it is there hwclock.sh that is called at startup always sets my systemtime to some funny value... Any ideas? TIA Thorsten Manegold
HylaFAX
Hi! Has anybody HylaFAX working?. I use slink and HylaFAX just spools the files to fax but does not start to fax at all. I assume, that the problem is in the stage where it converts the PS files to fax/tiff files. How can I verify this? Also what ownerships to the files in /var/spool/fax have to have? In SuSE (there it is working) they have uucp.uucp. I looked at the log files, but can't find an error-message. TIA Thorsten
ESD and x11amp
Hi! I want to compiele x11amp so that it usese esd. However the configure script does not find esd. I installed enlightenment 0.15.5 from source to /usr/local. TIA Thorsten Manegold
Re: Web site shuts down Netscape
Hi! Try disabling java and javascript and see what happens. For me, some java pages either lock Netscape up, or kill it dead. That one might be problematic, as even though you try to swich javascript off it stays on. That checkbox seems to be only windowdressing... Regards Thorsten Manegold On Sun, May 23, 1999 at 11:15:28PM -0500, Kent West wrote: My cousin sent the following link to me: http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/Castle/7393/Police.html Whenever I try to access it using Netscape 4.5 on a system using a 2.2.1 kernel, I start to connect to the site and then Netscape just quits; no warning; no error messages, just bang! and it's gone. I can restart Netscape, but if I try to access the site again, bang! gone again. I was able to access it via lynx, and was able to tell that it's just a humour/joke page, so it's not at all important, but I'm concerned that simply accessing a web page can shut down Netscape. Do I have something configured wrong, or is Netscape that flakey, or what? Thanks for any info. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Jim Foltz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ACORN techie http://www.acorn.net AOL/IM Jim Foltz -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: packages for dialing isp
Hi! AFAIK kppp does not like to have lock set in /etc/ppp/options. Commenting it out made kppp work for me. HTH Thorsten Manegold On 14-May-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 5/13/99 5:24:17 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How about x-isp or kppp (for KDE users)? If you use x-isp (you can search xisp on Yahoo for the URL) you will first need to install xforms. I might have the URL for x-isp. I will send it to you if I find it. kppp is for KDE but xisp will work with any window manager. YMMV - I tried KPPP (I do have KDE installed) and could never get a successfull connection. I can dial using any other means without problems, but KPPP refuses to do the job. XISP is nice, but I couldn't get it to dial over 38,000kbps for me for some reason. WVDial is what I use now. It's not graphic, but does the job, and does it well. I'd love to find an app that works AND will dock in KDE's panel - but so far, no such luck. -Jay -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null \\|// ( o.o ) \(_)/ oOOo-oOOo--- E-Mail: Thorsten Manegold [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 16-May-99 Time: 00:06:01 CET PGP Keys on public keyservers KeyID: 0xBEACCF0D __/ / \ \__ (___| |___)
contens fo /etc/rc0.d
Hi! Hitting return a bit too fast I deleted the rc0.d directory. Now I know, that there are only links to the scripts in /etc/init.d in there, so it should be easy to repair. I copied the links from /rc1.d but that does not seem to be all there was. So could anybody send me their directory-list of rc0.d? TIA Thorsten Manegold
changing default LANGUAGE
HI! I managed to change the default language for the shells via the LANG environment-variable, that I put into /etc/profile and ~/.bashrc. When I start apps that support NLS from there they come up the way they are supposed to in my language, but starting them from the Panel of KDE 1.1 (or via mime-assoziation) they don't. What do I have to change to make that work? I have set the languge in K-Controlcenter but that does not change it. TIA Thorsten Manegold
setting domain - name
HI! I installed Debian using the dialup option. It asked me the name that my computer should get, but not the domain name. I guess that's ok as I'm only using PPP? Does the local mail-delivery work without a fully qualifide name? From my SuSE experience I know, that pine constantly complains without a domainname. So. How do I set the domainname?? TIA Thorsten Manegold
Re: deb vs. rpm
Hi! No, RPM has nothing like APT. If you have any dependency problems, misconfigured packages, etc, one apt-get -f install will fix it. I can set up an /etc/apt/sources.list file that points to two different FTP sites and APT will automagically download any package I tell it to and all of the dependencies. Want to upgrade to the latest stuff in unstable? Just run apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade. FTP installation/update with RedHat is a pain, probably b/c their main economic goal is to sell more CDs. Personally, I've been using Debian for several years and have never bought a CD. I've gone from waiting 4 hours on a 64K ISDN line to waiting about 30 minutes on a 10MB cable modem. So if I understand you and others who have replied correctly, the main advantage is the automatic dep-resolustion via ftp. But it seems to me that this has nothing to do with the deb format itself. Instead it is something that results out of Debian making better use of the features of the packageformat. I guess you could write a program like apt-get for rpm too. As I see it after reading the comparison at http://kitenet.net/~joey/pkg-comp.html the rpm format is comparible with the dep format feature-wise. Rpm is even ahead in some (IMHO important) areas like file-dependencies whereas dep only supports package deps. The area in which dep is better in an important area is recommendations/suggestions. So maybe RedHat (and others) only do not make use of the features that rpm offers, while dep-Packagers do. Also with deps you can be sure that they are comptible with your Debian system, something not the case with rpms. Am I missing someting here? TIA Thorsten Manegold
deb vs. rpm
HI! Could someone please enlighten me to the differences in functionality between deb and rpm packages? I'm especially interested in dependencies. Is this done on a per file basis, so that each package has info, what files the program needs, or on a package(name) basis (meaning the packages contains the names of other packages that it requires). Which behaves better during updates? TIA Thorsten Manegold
Re: deb vs. rpm
It is done on a per package basis. So in that respect it's like rpm. No? 'apt-get install exim' will install all libraries that it depends on and Doesn't rpm do that too? uninstall all mta's that it conflicts with. With or without asking? The .deb format is not just a package format it is a database of information about packages, namely version, dependencies, conflicts and As far as I know that is the case with rpm too, isn't it? recommends. That is not a feature of rpm as far as I know. Thus when you upgrade your system, dpkg/apt downloads all software selected and dependencies, then sets them up, if there is a conflict it uninstalls what is conflicting, then after everthing is installed and configure correctly, it deletes the downloaded packages so that your system is not loaded down with .deb files. There is nothing like it in existence, it is the superior package format. Forget about popularity for a moment and think about raw technical superiority. That is the debian format. You will love it when you try it. I heard that it's supposed to be supperior. As a matter of fact that is the main reason for me to try Debian (I started out with SuSE and am still using it. However I don't like the way they package things as it's not compatible to rpm's that I find on the net since they aor usually for RedHat). Where can I get a more detailed comparison? TIA Thorsten Manegold On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, Thorsten Manegold wrote: HI! Could someone please enlighten me to the differences in functionality between deb and rpm packages? I'm especially interested in dependencies. Is this done on a per file basis, so that each package has info, what files the program needs, or on a package(name) basis (meaning the packages contains the names of other packages that it requires). Which behaves better during updates? TIA Thorsten Manegold -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
