helix gnome vs sid (apt problem)
I seem to have screwed up my system by changing apt-lines from helix-gnome to sid, and partially de-installing gnome. Now, whenever I try to apt-get install anything, I get the following. Can anyone help? aurelius:/home/ocorrain# apt-get install kppp Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: libgnome32: Depends: gnome-libs-data (= 1.2.13-4) but 1.2.11-ximian.1 is to be installed libgnomesupport0: Depends: gnome-libs-data (= 1.2.13-4) but 1.2.11-ximian.1 is to be installed libgnomeui32: Depends: gnome-libs-data (= 1.2.13-4) but 1.2.11-ximian.1 is to be installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution). Trying... aurelius:/home/ocorrain# apt-get -f install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following extra packages will be installed: gnome-libs-data 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 582 not upgraded. 4 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/294kB of archives. After unpacking 511kB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] (Reading database ... 94769 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace gnome-libs-data 1.2.11-ximian.1 (using .../gnome-libs-data_1.2.13-8_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement gnome-libs-data ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-libs-data_1.2.13-8_all.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/share/idl/name-service.idl', which is also in package libgnorba27 dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-libs-data_1.2.13-8_all.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Can anyone help? Tiarnan
Re: Gnome: short question
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 07:26:31PM +0100, William Leese wrote: A shamefully stupid question: how do i change the text background (and foreground) colors of gtk apps? I found the .gtkrc file but had no clue how to change the colors (if it does that) because of the odd way of defining different colors (0.897 / 0.763 etc.. ) I've installed a few themes to see if they changed it from the default white to something more dark but that didnt work either. Actually, some themes didnt work at all, the only ones that do are pixmapped ones. The 'color themes' dont change a thing. in Gnome Control Center the only option there is for changing the appearance of gtk apps is the Themes section. I'm using unstable, with blackbox as my WM and (as far as i'm aware) just about all the core packages from GNOME installed. William You probably need gtk-engines-flat to enable color themes. It's apt-gettable. Cheers Tiarnan
RPC: Program not registered
Hello all, I'm trying to run a nfs system, mounting two remote partitions on each computer at boot time. Every computer except one is working perfectly. The offender prints mount: RPC: Program not registered when I try to mount the filesystem. This sounds like something really trivial, but I don't know where to look. Help would be much appreciated. All the best Tiarnan
Re: Extra keys on keyboard
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 06:33:54PM -0800, Matheson Cameron wrote: I reconfigured X so that it's using the Microsoft Natural Pro keyboard map-thing, but the buttons at the top aren't doing anything. I was wondering how I assign them to different programs, etc (I figure I probably use xmodmap, but the man page wasn't incredibly enlightening) Try using xev to capture the keysyms, and xmodmap or xkeycaps (the latter is easier) to assign events to them. Cheers Tiarnan
Re: kernel compile error
OK, then when I go to copy the bzImage file to /boot/, it's not there. In fact, I the reran bzImage step and in fact it cuts out with an error messageI doesn't compile the source codeAnybody know what I'm doing wrong? I am migrating from RedHat and maybe I'm assuming things I shouldn't beAny clues? Could be something to do with your assembler -- I seem to recall having some similar problem. Make sure you have all of the programs listed in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Changes. Then recompile the kernel with make mrproper make config make dep bzImage modules modules_install make.log and if it still breaks down, post the relevant section of make.log. Cheers Tiarnan
Re: rpcinfo problems
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 06:58:44PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 11:43:22PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I'm trying to install debian on a small box using PLIP. The HOWTO was treating me fine until I encountered the following... aurelius:~# rpcinfo -p rpcinfo: can't contact portmapper: RPC: Remote system error - Connection refused Any ideas? Is portmap running? The package that contains it seems to vary by Debian distribution (maybe netbase or portmap). Note: I highly recommend firewalling sunrpc (port 111) if you run it. Indeed it wasn't. Neither did I have some nfs utilities installed. Cheers Tiarnan
Re: Install problems: X and virtual consoles
I selected xdm on install but loaded the gnome packages on install. I want to run Gnome so how do I get gdm and remove xdm? apt-get install gdm? Precisely. It should remove xdm and substitude gdm seamlessly... Cheers Tiarnan
Re: Install problems: X and virtual consoles
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 03:26:04PM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: Hi, I don't know if this is because of a laptop keyboard or what but since my X setup doesn't work I can't do anything after boot. I try the ctrl-alt-bs to kill the x server and that doesn't work. I also try ctrl-alt-f2 etc to get a virtual console so I can kill X and that doesn't work. What is the correct way to boot up to the point where X start. Like boot to single user mode or something. What file control the final runlevel? Eric :-) Type 'linux single' at the LILO prompt (press Shift to get the prompt). You'll boot into single user mode. Enter your root password, and check /etc/init.d for xdm/gdm. To remove the X/Gnome display manager from your startup scripts, try '/etc/init.d/xdm' remove (or '/etc/init.d/gdm remove' if you're using Gnome). Now type 'telinit 2' to bring the system to runlevel 2. You should be presented with a virtual console, and Alt-F[1-6] should switch consoles. When you've sorted out your X problems, check 'man update-rc.d' to boot your computer into X directly. Good Luck! Tiarnan
rpcinfo problems
Hello all, I'm trying to install debian on a small box using PLIP. The HOWTO was treating me fine until I encountered the following... aurelius:~# rpcinfo -p rpcinfo: can't contact portmapper: RPC: Remote system error - Connection refused Any ideas? Cheers Tiarnan
Re: True Type fonts
Here's the equivalent section from my XF86Config (using X4) Section Files RgbPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb FontPathunix/:7101 FontPathunix/:7100 FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc EndSection It seems to work fine: 7101 are TT fonts, 7100 the standard fonts, and an explicit path is given for the 'misc' default font. Try the TrueType Fonts in Debian mini HOWTO http://www.dimensional.com/~bgiles/debian-tt.html Cheers Tiarnan
Re: Newbie Shell Script Problems
When you run your script, do you need to preface the command with ./ eg ./myscript took me ages to find out that one! Or else add '.' to your PATH, but I think there are security reasons for not doing this. Cheers T
kernel 2.4 woes
Dear All, Having successfully compiled 2.4 for my desktop PC (a Compaq Deskpro w/ 500 mhz Penium), I decided to do the same for my laptop (compaq armada with 233 mhz mmx). Everything seemed to be going happily until I tried to boot (after editing lilo.conf and running lilo -v), whereupon the computer loaded the kernel, announced 'Ok, booting the kernel', and stopped dead in its tracks. I have the uptodate versions of ppp, modutils and so forth, and am (against advice) compiling under gcc 2.95, which produced no problems on the desktop machine. Has this happened to anyone else. Any advice? I was tempted to think that it was something wrong with lilo, until I noticed that the version on the laptop was actually more recent than the desktop, Help much appreciated Tiarnan
postfix installation broken
Hey all-- I tried to replace slink exim with potato postfix using apt-get install postfix. The installer downloads the relevant debs, then breaks down with: -- Setting up postfix (0.0.19991231pl05-2) ... dhelp_parse: You can add only directories under /usr/doc! dpkg: error processing postfix (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: postfix E: Sub-process returned an error code (1) -- Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Tiarnan
