Strange xterm behaviour
Hi, I am facing some problems with xterm (3.3.3) on my slink machine. I run icewm as my window manager. When I invoke xterm from the menu, and run mc, I do not see the standard blue color. If I invoke xterm from an rxvt and then run mc, I get to see the colours. The colours are also missing when I run mc from the menu (by xterm -e mc). Another thing I noticed is that the mouse clicks are disabled when I run mc in an rxvt. How can I get the colours for mc in the xterm when I invoke it from the menu? Thanks, sridhar Sridhar M. A. Department of Physics University of Mysore, Manasagangotri Mysore 570 006, INDIA ***
Re: Debhelper for slink
On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Joey Hess wrote:
What was the error message?
Script started on Wed Nov 3 11:24:08 1999
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp$ cd debhelper-2.0.67
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp/debhelper-2.0.67$ fakeroot ./debian/rules binary
sh -e debian/fixlinks
touch link-stamp
./dh_clean
rm -f debian/substvars debian/postinst.debhelper
debian/postrm.debhelper debian/preinst.debhelper debian/prerm.debhelper
rm -rf debian/debhelper
rm -f debian/files
find . -type f -a \( -name \#\*\# -o -name \*\~ -o -name DEADJOE -o
-name \*.orig -o -name \*.rej -o -name \*.bak -o -name .\*.orig -o -name
.\*.rej -o -name .SUMS -o -name TAGS -o -name core -o \( -path \*/.deps/\* -a
-name \*.P \) \) -exec rm -f {} \;
DH_VERSION=10 perl -MTest::Harness -e 'runtests grep { ! /CVS/ } @ARGV' t/*
t/dh_linCan't locate Test.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
/usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.004 /usr/lib/perl5
/usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux /usr/local/lib/site_perl .
/usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.004 /usr/lib/perl5
/usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at t/dh_link
line 2.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at t/dh_link line 2.
dubious
Test returned status 2 (wstat 512, 0x200)
FAILED--1 test script could be run, alas--no output ever seen
make: *** [test] Error 2
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp/debhelper-2.0.67$ exit
Script done on Wed Nov 3 11:24:38 1999
Package: perl
Status: install ok installed
Version: 5.004.04-7
sridhar
Sridhar M. A.
Department of Physics
University of Mysore, Manasagangotri
Mysore 570 006, INDIA
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Debhelper for slink
Hi, I tried compiling the latest version of debhelper (from potato) under slink and could not succeed. Is there anything that I should upgrade before I can do that? Thanks, sridhar Sridhar M. A. Department of Physics University of Mysore, Manasagangotri Mysore 570 006, INDIA ***
PCI512 Card
Hi, I am trying to use a Creative PCI512 card under slink. The accompanying literature says that it is identical to the SBLive. So I tried the driver downloaded from Creative site (0.2b) under kernel 2.2.5 as per the docs. But the module does not load with a message 'Device busy' and/or something similar. Has anybody used this card? Thanks, sridhar Sridhar M. A. Department of Physics University of Mysore, Manasagangotri Mysore 570 006, INDIA E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Strange bash prompt
Hi, I noticed a strange behaviour of bash regrding the prompt. I have set PS1='\h:\w$ '. With that I get both the host name and the working directory as my shell prompt. Yesterday I noticed a strange behaviour accidentally. The sequence is given below: mysxrd:~$ cd /var mysxrd:/var$ prompt is correct mysxrd:/var$ cd ../usr mysxrd://usr$ prompt has 2 slashes! I am surprised by this behaviour. Is it expected? The bash version is: GNU bash, version 2.01.1(1)-release (i486-pc-linux-gnu) TIA, sridhar Sridhar M. A. Department of Physics University of Mysore, Manasagangotri Mysore 570 006, INDIA Tel: +91-821-516133 Fax: +91-821-516133 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
apt starngeness
Hi, I upgraded one of my system from hamm to slink via the apt method as suggested in README.upgrade by following method: 1. Installed the new apt package on the cd 2. After editing the /etc/apt/sources.list to point to my cdrom, did apt-get update apt-get -f dist-upgrade Well, everything went well and nothing was broken. I was under the impression that apt-get update would update the info about available packages under slink. Unfortunately it does not seem to do it. If I run dselect (after upgrading), I still see the same packages, of course with newere version numbers. Should not apt add the info about the new packages that are in slink and not in hamm? Is this a bug? Just to see if I could get the info of new packages, I ran dselect and did 'update' (without install). Now, dselect lists all the packages that were installed as Obsolete/local packages. Why the discrepancy? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, sridhar P.S: Sorry if it has already reached the list. There was some problem during sending and hence am sending it again. Sridhar M. A. Department of Physics University of Mysore, Manasagangotri Mysore 570 006, INDIA ***
Printing under slink
Hi, Under hamm, I could print plain text files with the command lpr filename. After upgrading to slink, the printer does not print anything with the same command. lpq shows that the job is pending. If I try to do lprm job_num, the system does not respond. I have to press ctrl-c, to get back the prompt. I am using a custom kernel wherein the parallel port support is loaded as a module. I have checked this with the lsmod command also. But for a text file, I can do cat filename /dev/lp0. What can be done to restore the old behaviour? Anything else to be done for lprm to behave properly? Thanks, sridhar Sridhar M. A. Department of Physics University of Mysore, Manasagangotri Mysore 570 006, INDIA
Fetchmail problems
Hi, I upgraded my hamm system to slink. Everything went well. The old configurations generated by ppconfig run equally well under the new system also. But I am having some trouble with regard to getting the mail from my isp. This has happened after upgrading to slink. When I do a fetchmail, I get the following error message: mysxrd-in-haralu:~$ fetchmail 1 message for mysxrd at giasbg01.vsnl.net.in (1241 octets). reading message 1 of 1 (1241 octets) fetchmail: SMTP listener doesn't like recipient address [EMAIL PROTECTED]' fetchmail: can't even send to mysxrd! fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from giasbg01.vsnl.net.in fetchmail: Query status=10 With this I am not able to download the messages from the isp to my machine. Can anyone suggest some remedy for this? TIA, sridhar Sridhar M. A. Department of Physics University of Mysore, Manasagangotri Mysore 570 006, INDIA
Where is telnet, ftp?
Hi, I upgraded my hamm system (Debian 2.0) to slink (Debian 2.1) using the cd's from Linux Central. Everything went well. I am having some problems with the system after upgrading which seem strange. 1. After upgrading, I cannot find the program telnet. Previously it was in netstd, but the contents of netstd package do not show telnet (found using dpkg -L netstd). Which package has this program? I am also not able telnet in to the system. But rlogin works bothways. 2. Previously I had installed wu-ftpd and ftp services were enabled, even anonymous ftp was posible. After upgrading, all the ftp services have been disabled. If I try to ftp to the machine, I get a message ftp: connect: connection refused. What should I do to get wu-ftpd-academ to allow ftp services including anonymous ftp? Thanks, sridhar Sridhar M. A. Department of Physics University of Mysore, Manasagangotri Mysore 570 006, INDIA ***
Kernel compilation
Hello, I am currently using Debian 2.0 with kernel 2.0.34. I downloaded the patch files and patched the kernel source to 2.0.36. No problems encountered during the patching. Even appled the debian patch. Then I used make menuconfig and set up all the options that I needed including kerneld support. Sound was included as a module along with serial, ne, isofs, vfat. Used make-kpkg --zimage kernel_image to compile the kernel. Kernel compilation was smooth and I had the kernel_image.deb ready for installation. I installed it and ran lilo. Before rebooting, I edited the /etc/modules file and commented out the loading of modules and put auto there. After boot up I am having a couple of problems: 1. kerneld gets started and is not able to load modules like ne. Doing it manually with modprobe works. Should not kerneld do it automatically? Have I misunderstood the writeup on it? 2. When make-kpkg created a kernel_image.deb, I found that not all the modules I had set were there. For example, for sound I had put in as modules opl3, mad16, midi, etc. All of those files are there in the source tree, but do not come in the modules directory after compilation. Anything else that needs to be setup to get them there? 3. Even though there is a sound.o file in /lib/modules/2.0.36/misc, modprobe sound says can't locate module sound. What is wrong? sridhar Sridhar M. A. Department of Physics University of Mysore, Manasagangotri Mysore 570 006, INDIA Tel: +91-821-516133 Fax: +91-821-516133 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: Q: User access to hardware peripherals - preferred method?
Hi, IIRC, to add an user to a group, the syntax is adduser username groupname I have done that to add users to floppy, audio, etc. From the man page of adduser . Add an existing user to an existing group If called with two non-option arguments, adduser will add an existing user to an existing group. . As mentioned before, for the new permissions to work, logout and login. HTH, sridhar Sridhar M. A. Department of Physics University of Mysore, Manasagangotri Mysore 570 006, INDIA Tel: +91-821-516133 Fax: +91-821-516133 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Help with CD writing
Hello, I am using an ide cd-writer (HP7100i) to burn cd's. I have recompiled the kernel (2.0.34) with scsi emulation enabled. So far I am able to burn cd's after making an image of the files/directories I need to burn using mkisofs. I have some problems/questions for which I need some assistance: 1. When scsi emulation is enabled, how do I mount my regular cd's? 2. Xcdroast could detect both my ide-cd reader and writer. But I was not able to copy data/auido cd onto a blank cd. It always says that the cd-drive is empty. What has to be setup to get it working? Thanks for any suggestions, sridhar Sridhar M. A. Department of Physics University of Mysore, Manasagangotri Mysore 570 006, INDIA Tel: +91-821-516133 Fax: +91-821-516133 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: diff.gz file size
On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, David Wright wrote: No idea, but it's important not to unzip these files because the checksums don't work anymore. If you want to browse them, either make a copy before unzipping, or, better, use mc which will do this magically on the fly. But it still does not answer my question. Why the difference in the size? How to get back the same if I decompress? Any maintainer who is reading this thread would like to clarify? TIA, sridhar Sridhar M. A Department of Physics University of Mysore, Manasagangotri Mysore 570 006, INDIA Tel: +91-821-516133 Fax: +91-821-516133 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: Using Procmail
On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Jeremy wrote: Maybe an example will help... Here, fetchmail connects to ISP's mail over to procmail. Here are the lines out of my .procmailrc which puts all mail from this list into it's own folder: As mentioned earlier, the mail is received on the spool correctly. But procmail does not seem to be doing its job. Well, here is something which might help in troubleshooting. 1. As soon as I dial-up and the ppp link is established, the root does not do a fetchmail. I do it as a normal user. Does it in any way affect the behaviour of fetchmail? 2. I am using pine to send mails directly after having redefined the server in the configuration (giasbg rather than localhost). Does the MTA come into picture here? If it helps, .fetchmailrc and .procmailrc are given below: $HOME/.fetchmailrc poll giasbg01.vsnl.net.in proto pop3 user mysxrd password limit 10 fetchall * $HOME/.procmailrc LOGFILE=$HOME/.maillog VERBOSE=no PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin MAILDIR=$HOME/mail :0 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] debian-user :0 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] linind Hope I can get some answers/clues to get procmail working. sridhar Sridhar M. A Department of Physics University of Mysore, Manasagangotri Mysore 570 006, INDIA E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
diff.gz file size
Hello, I am facing some problem with regard to gzip. I dowmloaded the icewm-0.9.33 files from debian archive. Netscape, unzipped the diff.gz file while downloading. To get on with the compilation, I just gzipped the diff file. But, the size in the dsc file and the actual size vary. So I thought the problem might be the level of compression that gzip is using and so set it to highest. Still I could not get the file size that is on the archive. The exact figures are: icewm_0.9.33-1.diff.gz 6475 (actual) icewm_0.9.33-1.diff.gz 6480 (got with gzip --best ice...) How do I achieve a higher compression? Or is the gzip version I am using (from stock hamm) older? Thanks for any help, sridhar Sridhar M. A Department of Physics University of Mysore, Manasagangotri Mysore 570 006, INDIA E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Using Procmail
Hi, Currently I am using fetchmail and pine to get the mail from my isp account and to read/send the messages respectively. As the number of messages I am getting has increased, I am feeling the need to use procmail to sort the mail into different folders. How do I go about putting the messages in different folders (should be readable by pine)? Much of the documentation talks about MH folders. Are they same? TIA, sridhar Sridhar M. A. Department of Physics University of Mysore, Manasagangotri Mysore 570 006, INDIA Tel: +91-821-516133 Fax: +91-821-516133 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
[Off-topic] Creating a print file
Hi, Occassionally I have to take printout on a printer (non-postscript, like deskjet, dotmatrix, etc) connected to a machine running dos/windows. It is in a different place and not connected to my machine. Under dos/win, I could do a Create print file and then do copy/b file.prn lpt1 to get the printout. In a similar manner, how can I create a printfile from a dvi file, etc. in linux? Would it be possible for me to copy the resulting file on to a diskette and take the hardcopy using the copy/b... command on the remote machine? In the same way, how do I print the printfile under linux (generated either under dos or linux)? TIA, sridhar
Compiling Vim 5.4c
Hello, I tried compiling Vim-5.4c and could not succeed. When I type make (after configure), the program aborts when trying to compile getchar.c where it tries to access a file hangulin.c. Even if itry to disable it by means of arguments to configure or through feature.h, it still tries to look for that non-existent file. Where can I get it or what is the workaround? Any help will be appreciated. TIA, sridhar P.S: BTW, is there a deb of the above package? Could not find it even in potato.
Installation problems
Hello, Recently I tried installing hamm on a colleagues machine (Pentium 200MMX, 32 MB RAM, 2GB HDD). The base installation goes without any errors. But after reboot, the problems start. The boot messages appear normal (like detecting hdd's, cdroms, etc) and I get theses messages (sorry I am not able to send a dmesg output or even screen capture as I am not able to login even): Mounting local file systems Not mounted anything /etc/init.d/rcS: line 56: 53 Segmentation fault (trap - INT QUIT TSTP; set start; $i) . /etc/init.d/rcS: line 56: 58 Segmentation fault $i start After this, login propmpt appears. When I try to login as root, it says, cannot intialise /dev/tty1 for root. Can somebody suggest where the problem might lie? Thanks, sridhar
Compiling with libc5
Hi, I wanted to compile a program on my hamm machine and ran into some problems. I found that the reason for the errors were due to libc5 dependency of the program. I installed libc5-altdev package and tried to compile the program with the following command line: gcc -nostdinc -I/usr/i486-linuxlibc1/include \ -I/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/2.7.2.3/include -c xxx.c as mentioned in the Glibc2 howto. Unfortunately, this is not compiling the program complaining about undefined functions, unknown sizes, etc. The very same thing compiles neatly on a bo box. Are there any other options that I have missed? Thanks, sridhar
RE: WindowMaker 0.19.1
On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, Paulo J. da Silva e Silva wrote: Hi, I4ve posted a question about this on Saturday. You can search the wmaker 0.19 thread. That is where I got the address of the download site (from the maintainer, I think). First, I recommend you to download the Debian version of wmaker 0.19.1 (it is in unstable section (slink) in a Debian mirror site). Better than compiling things yourself and no fear of putting things in the wrong place. I have downloaded the debian packages of the program. I had mentioned the particular files I downloaded. After that you4ll still have the _Xsetlocale problem. To solve it I was asked to try two things: 1) As root run ldconfig. 2) Upgrade to xlib6g 3.3.2.3-1 (it4s in hamm). I have it installed. Any other clue? TIA, sridhar Sridhar M. A Department of Physics University of Mysore, Manasagangotri Mysore 570 006, INDIA Tel: +91-821-516133 Fax: +91-821-516133 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
WindowMaker 0.19.1
Hello, I am running hamm. To install the latest windowmaker, I downloaded the following files for WindowMaker 0.19.1 from http://master.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages (as was suggested by the maintainer): libproplist0-dev_0.8.1-2.deb libproplist0_0.8.1-2.deb libwings-dev_0.19.1-1_i386.deb libwmaker0-dev_0.19.1-1_i386.deb libwmaker0_0.19.1-1_i386.deb libwraster1-dev_0.19.1-1_i386.deb libwraster1_0.19.1-1_i386.deb wmaker_0.19.1-1_i386.deb Installation was without errors. But when I do a 'startx', the xserver crashes with the following error message: .. /usr/X11R6/bin/WindowMaker: error loading shared libraries undefined symbol: _Xsetlocale What else has to be downloaded or installed to make it work? BTW, on the same machine, I can compile the source (not the deb's) and run WindowMaker. I also installed icewm from slink? Why does it not put an entry in /etc/X11/window-managers? Is this expected? Thanks, sridhar Sridhar M. A Department of Physics University of Mysore, Manasagangotri Mysore 570 006, INDIA Tel: +91-821-516133 Fax: +91-821-516133 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: HELP with Sound Card
Hello, On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: My sound card is Aztech Galaxy (claims to be compatible with SoundBlaster 16, non pnp). Didn't you read the documentation? There is no SB 16 compatible card on the market. .. Yes, I read the documentation and it said that some cards might work. That is why I mentioned that the card claims to be compatible. So, you can't blindly activating options in the driver and hope that it works. Well, I tried different settings (again, the docs do mention to try things). So, I tried and failed. Come back if you still encounter problems, ,but be sure to provide us with more information about the type of your card (there are many Aztech Galaxy cards), I am sorry that I cannot give you more info. The cards manual does not tell anything much. If it helps I can post the details of the IC's on the card. Thanks for your help. sridhar Sridhar M. A Department of Physics University of Mysore, Manasagangotri Mysore 570 006, INDIA Tel: +91-821-516133 Fax: +91-821-516133 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
HELP with Sound Card
I am currently running Debian bo and wanted to compile sound support. My sound card is Aztech Galaxy (claims to be compatible with SoundBlaster 16, non pnp). The card works fine under dos with the following settings: SB 16io=0x220, irq=10, dma=1 MPU-401 io=0x330, irq=2 In the kernel (2.0.30) compile options I selected SoundBlaster support yes MPU-401 support yes /dev/dsp and /dev/audio yes MIDI interface support yes FM synthesizer support yes under the Sound options (with the same adresses as under dos). Evrything compiles neatly and I can even boot the system with the new kernel. But sound module cannot be loaded. During boot up I get a message /lib/modules/2.0.30/misc/sound.o: unresolved symbol DMAbuf_init /lib/modules/2.0.30/misc/sound.o: unresolved symbol audio_init I could not get the answer for the above problem. Can somebody help me on this matter? Thanks, sridhar
SCSI Emulation for IDE???
I too had faced this problem when I wanted to burn a cd on my ide cd-rw (hp7100i). One of the suggestions was to use a kernel later than 2.1.74. Since I could not compile the kernel 2.1.94 on my bo system, I compiled the 2.0.32 kernel with scsi emulation enabled. If you are planning to burn the cd's, you have to get cdrecord and apply the patch given therein. Hope this helps, Bye, sridhar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
