problemilla con libc6

1999-01-02 Thread Felipe Sanchez
Hola a todos, ojala hayan pasado unas felices fiestas. En cuanto a mi, aproveche la noche da aqo nuevo para actualizar mi Bo a Hamm. Aparte de los problemas habibituales (teclado desconfigurado, no me parten las X), lo que mas me preocupa es las libc6, cuando trato de configurarlo usando dpkg, me

Unidentified subject!

1999-01-02 Thread Lluís/Jordi Meya

Re: Problemas con ppp

1999-01-02 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
Es posible que no tengas bien configuradas, posteriormente a lanzar el demonio, las rutas de tu máquina. Prueba a mirar (/sbin/route), las rutas antes y después de lanzar el 'pon'. Antes: Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref

xbase XFree86 bug 24985 ?

1999-01-02 Thread Michael and Diana Finney
I am having problems with xbase. Would you help? I am having trouble installing xbase as indicated in chapter 5 of The Debian Linux User's Guide. I am using the cds that came with the book (debian 2.0). xbase version 3.3.2.2-4 I've installed a system from scratch using 'Standard'

hamm, slink

1999-01-02 Thread Darko Martic
Hi What are those (in subject) ? Thanx !

Re: xbase XFree86 bug 24985 ?

1999-01-02 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, Michael! I am having problems with xbase. Would you help? When it tried to /usr/sbin/xbase-configure (XFree86 config file), it said to press Enter to switch to graphics mode. I did. The screen came You may want to try xf86config to set XF86Config. This is ascii mode program it'll ask

Re: hamm, slink

1999-01-02 Thread ktb
Check this link out: http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ See section 6.3 Kent Darko Martic wrote: Hi What are those (in subject) ? Thanx ! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

What tools are useful for script debugging?

1999-01-02 Thread jpjevans
Hi, folks The subject says it all. -- 'til next we type... HAVE FUN!! -- Jesse

Re: Termcap and Libc5/6 with Debian Problems...

1999-01-02 Thread Ryan Kirkpatrick
On 31 Dec 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote: Ryan Kirkpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now, how, if possible, can one get this binary running? I imagine that I need a libtermcap2 built/linked with libc6. Does such a debian package exists? Or do I need to go find the sources and built it

Re: AMD K6-2 3D Now 300 MHz

1999-01-02 Thread Ben Messinger
Darko Martic wrote: Hi ! Are there any problems about using the processor from the subject with Debian linux ? I'm buying a new processor and I think I'll buy that one. Thanx ! I am using that processor on two boxen with no problems. One is a server that has been up continuously since I

Anyone know a program to read HP690C printer status?

1999-01-02 Thread Stan Brown
I have an HP 690C printer which I use. This printer supportbi-directional communications under windoze, to tell when ink cartrdiges are empty etc. Has anyone rverse engineerd this? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154

Re: Problems with drive usage (Debian 1.3.1)

1999-01-02 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Fri, Jan 01, 1999 at 04:11:04PM +, Alexander Koch wrote: - Warning: Unknown PCI device (104c:3d07). This is probably no problem - you just have a pci device which is not known to your ancient kernel. No problem. - Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card. This is no problem either

Re: X11 'fixed' font error

1999-01-02 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Thu, Dec 31, 1998 at 12:03:33PM -0600, me wrote: After re-installing X11, (with all new fonts) -- 'frozen' distro, I still get the same error: could not open default font 'fixed' but: locate fixed gives /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fixed.pcf.gz. /etc/X11/XF86Config shows this

Edited file looses info

1999-01-02 Thread ktb
Hi, I'm trying to edit .netscape/prefereces.js I have edited a few files before with no problems but with this file what I've added doesn't stay in the file. I'm trying to add this line, user_pref(mailnews.reply_on_top, True); I am using joe and when I exit with 'ctrl k-x' it says that the

Quota stuff.

1999-01-02 Thread Amanda Shuler
About quotas.. I have managed to set up user quotas ok (I think). However, I have been having some problems setting up a group quota. I have 6.0 gigs of space on /home. I want to reserve 300 megs of that space for things other than user accounts and directories. From what I've read, 1 block

Re:debian-user-digest Digest V99 #2

1999-01-02 Thread Laurie Leinow
I will be out of the office on Dec. 31, 1998.

Problem on Gnome-0.30 panel

1999-01-02 Thread Tung-Han Hsieh
Dear Debian users, I have a question on the Gnome-0.30 panel. Since now I use hamm and haven't upgrade to slink, so I try to get all the necessary source of Gnome and other libs from the slink source tree and use dpkg-source, dpkg-buildpackage to build them. All seems OK, except the following

Grafting other kernels on Debian's rescue disks

1999-01-02 Thread Robert J. Alexander
As I am stuck on my Thinkpad with Debian, while other distributions happily boot (SuSe, Tom's RootBoot for example), I would like to know if and how can I graft the kernel on the working boot floppies on Debian's rescue. This is my last chance before sadly departing from Debian of which I have

Re: Strange PPP problem

1999-01-02 Thread Akop Pogosian
On 1 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for responce. I looked at old usenet archives and ppp-howto. It looks like I have a routing problem, either on my side or on the server side. I can talk to the dial-up server but no other hosts, even the DNS servers are unreachable. This is what

Re: LaTeX and overhead production

1999-01-02 Thread Carey Evans
Simon Read [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd like to use LaTeX to produce the overhead slides for my adjunct class. I seem to have enormous problems all along the path, can anyone help me? Have a look at http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/scriptintro.html which has a link to LaTeX

Used StrongARM set-top box

1999-01-02 Thread ferret
I have recently gotten hold of a SA-based set-top box. All I have is the box, power supply, and a digital network appliance CD. It has an SA-110s 233 CPU, a crystal lan ethernet controller, an ESS 1887 sound controller, and a few other subsystems I'm not sure of identity. Would this be a

Re: Xdm on remote servers.

1999-01-02 Thread Carey Evans
Johan Berglund [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have xdm installed on my server and have configured it to not start a local xserver. I also have a win98 computer with eXceed configured for XDMCP broadcast. I get the login window and it is able to authenticate me as a user and then the login window

Re: Changing(forcing) Alt-Fn to Ctrl-Alt-Fn

1999-01-02 Thread Carey Evans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When using the VT's I'd like to block Alt-Fn from being interpreted as a change to antother VT so that the key sequence would be available to the applications. How would that be done? Have a look at /etc/kbd/default.map, and the files under /usr/share/keymaps and

Can't access RAID - why?

1999-01-02 Thread Martin Schulze
Hi! I've tried to access a third RAID0 in a system without any success but a strange error message. I've set up /dev/md2 with # mdcreate -c8k raid0 /dev/md2 /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb2 which resulted in this line in /etc/mdtab: # mdtab entry for /dev/md2 /dev/md2raid0,8k,0,0d445432

Printing with gimp

1999-01-02 Thread Peter Weiss
Hello I'm a novice user to gimp (hamm's version 1.0.0) and got problems setting up the printer dialog for my print device. I found nothing in the GUM/ FAQ neither the manpage. Writing a line hp5l,/usr/bin/lpr -Php5l,ps2,,1,,A4,, to ~/.gimp/printrc gets overwritten every

Re: Grafting other kernels on Debian's rescue disks

1999-01-02 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Sat, Jan 02, 1999 at 08:22:53 -0500, Robert J. Alexander wrote: As I am stuck on my Thinkpad with Debian, while other distributions happily boot (SuSe, Tom's RootBoot for example), I would like to know if and how can I graft the kernel on the working boot floppies on Debian's rescue. The

Re: What tools are useful for script debugging?

1999-01-02 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, folks The subject says it all. Depends on the script language. With plain shell scripts I use sh -x script to debug. Mike. -- Indifference will certainly be the downfall of mankind, but who cares?

Re: serial mouse problem

1999-01-02 Thread Vincent Murphy
On Fri, 1 Jan 1999, Kent West wrote: in X, and when I returned this morning, the mouse was dead. So, I killed the Xserver, restarted it. Nothing. Rebooted in Win95, which didn't pick up the mouse either. When I rebooted into Linux, gpm started as normal, You might try switching your

Re: 512 Node Cluster Germany

1999-01-02 Thread Florian Lohoff
Hello, Anyone got some details about the 512 node Debian CLOWN cluster in English? I've seen it in the Debian news section for a couple weeks, but all of the hyperlinks are in German (at least the ones I followed), and was hoping there would be an english translation or summary. Hmmm -

A question about 'hostid'

1999-01-02 Thread Min Gyung Kang
How can I change hostid on Debian? Please give me an answer.

Re: Grafting other kernels on Debian's rescue disks

1999-01-02 Thread Robert J. Alexander
Thank you Ray. I tried with the bzImage file on SuSe and copied it to the 2.1.4 boot floppy. The floppy obviously now boots but now the last lines of the boot log: RAMDISK . Uncompressing . VFS : Mounted root VFS : Cannot open root device 08:01 Kernel panic : VFS unable to mount and

LyX and Page Numbering

1999-01-02 Thread Nuno Carvalho
Hi, What should I do for page numbering start on other number instead of 1 !? Thanks. Best regards, Nuno Carvalho ¨¨ Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho Dep. Informatics Engineering University of Coimbra PGP key available at finger

Re: Grafting other kernels on Debian's rescue disks

1999-01-02 Thread Gregory T. Norris
I believe that you also need to run the rdev script on the diskette, after copying the new kernel over. Also, the scripts expects that /mnt is where you have it mounted. On Sat, Jan 02, 1999 at 05:52:01PM -0500, Robert J. Alexander wrote: Thank you Ray. I tried with the bzImage file on SuSe

Re: X11 'fixed' font error

1999-01-02 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 1999-01-01 20:52, Torsten Landschoff wrote: On Thu, Dec 31, 1998 at 12:03:33PM -0600, me wrote: After re-installing X11, (with all new fonts) -- 'frozen' distro, I still get the same error: could not open default font 'fixed' but: locate fixed gives

Re: What tools are useful for script debugging?

1999-01-02 Thread Morgan Fletcher
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The subject says it all. Try the -x flag to bash - it's quite useful. Strace is also good, if you don't mind sifting through a lot of information. $ bash -x myscript.sh [...] $ strace myscript.sh | less [...] The above advice is based on the

Re: Defragging large filesystems

1999-01-02 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Eric Gillespie, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm not quite sure what you're talking about here. Seems to me fragmentation percentage would mean how much my files are fragmented. On all my other filesystems, the percentage is between 1 and 3. I can understand how the mp3 filesystem may have

Non US, PGP and slink

1999-01-02 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Has anyone else had problems with the non US debian slink sites? The Packages file seems to contain pgp-us version 2.6.3a-5, but, for at least a month now, the pgp-us package itself is version 2.6.3a-4. This has caused me no end of problems with apt-get upgrade, at least until I removed the nonus

Boot disk with parallel cable connection

1999-01-02 Thread Mosl Roland
Because of problems installing Linux on my old notebook, would it be possible to create for me a boot disk trying to create a prallel cable connection to my other notebook with Win95? So the notebook could boot from floppy and use the CD drive from my other notebook. Would also be very practical

Re: Web-based email for Debian

1999-01-02 Thread John Goerzen
There are quite a few. If you go to freshmeat.net and search for the words web mail, you'll find about a dozen. -- John On Tue, Dec 29, 1998 at 10:35:39AM -0500, Randy Edwards wrote: I'm running a slink system w/Exim as my MTA. Does anyone know of a web-based e-mail system that would fit

Re: Non US, PGP and slink

1999-01-02 Thread Randy Edwards
Has anyone else had problems with the non US debian slink sites? The Packages file seems to contain pgp-us version 2.6.3a-5, but, for at least a month now, the pgp-us package itself is version 2.6.3a-4. I get the same thing about several non-existent files in non-us/slink. This was

Re:debian-user-digest Digest V99 #3

1999-01-02 Thread Laurie Leinow
I will be out of the office on Dec. 31, 1998.

Re: Web-based email for Debian

1999-01-02 Thread Randy Edwards
John Goerzen wrote: There are quite a few. If you go to freshmeat.net and search for the words web mail, you'll find about a dozen. Thanks John. I went ahead and grabbed Ivan's imp*.deb package (http://www.tdyc.com/~rkrusty/Debian) that he's working on and that installed beautifully. --

Building custom install CDs

1999-01-02 Thread Bek Oberin
I want to burn a CD which is -basically- debian, but has two or three extra packages present and marked as necessary, and also runs a script which changes which packages are and aren't selected (depending on things such as the partition sizes) before it runs dselect. (It's for a volunteer

The Status Of Slink

1999-01-02 Thread Allan Bart
Hi, I am planning to put together another debian based system, I was wondering if I should wait until the 2.1 version is available or will it really be that easy to upgrade from hamm? thanks, allan bart == Allan W. Bart, Jr. Strategic Analyst

Re: Strange PPP problem

1999-01-02 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, 2 Jan 1999, Akop Pogosian wrote: [ snip ] : Dec 31 04:39:49 debian icmplogd: destination unreachable from : [209.44.32.73] : : I have no idea what that IP address is. It just starts pinging me once I : establish a ppp session. Here's who to ask if you want to find out:

Re: modem answering to a different song?

1999-01-02 Thread Dave Thayer
On Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 01:07:57PM -0500, Colin Telmer wrote: Has anyone been able to get a modem to answer to a distinct phone ring? My phone company allows one to have up to four numbers on one line each with a distinct ring and I would like to set up a fax server that answers only on one

StarOffice install

1999-01-02 Thread eferen1
How do I install Star office? I tried dpkg and install but I can't get anything to work. Yes, I did check the Debian FAQ. Or did I miss something? Any ideas to help? Thanx. Ed

Re: The Status Of Slink

1999-01-02 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Sat, 2 Jan 1999, Allan Bart wrote: I am planning to put together another debian based system, I was wondering if I should wait until the 2.1 version is available or will it really be that easy to upgrade from hamm? Slink is pretty darn stable right now. I need to get a look at the release

Re: modprobe: Cannot locate module char-major-10

1999-01-02 Thread Carey Evans
Jeroen N. Witmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have searched the mailing list archives for this problem, and I understand it can be solved by aliasing module char-major-10 to off, but I would like to understand what is going on. (It is not really a problem, because in spite of the message

Rescue disk fails for initial installation

1999-01-02 Thread Bucky Pope
I have an old IBM PC that I'm trying to install from diskettes (no CD drive). When I boot the rescue disk (most recent on the web) and hit enter, I get the following message: Loading root.bin... The boot process then hangs with the diskette light on solid, does not repond to c-t-a.

Question on a purchase I am considering

1999-01-02 Thread Shaleh
Hey all, I am considering buying a Sony VIAO Superslim notebook. The URL for it is www.sony.com/pc. Has anyone had good or bad experiences with these computers (even in non-Linux OS')?? Highlights include: 1 inch thick and 2.9 lbs weight (= magnesium alloy case -- tres chic

Rescue disk fails for initial installation

1999-01-02 Thread Bucky Pope
I have an old IBM PC that I'm trying to install from diskettes (no CD drive). When I boot the rescue disk (most recent on the web) and hit enter, I get the following message: Loading root.bin... The boot process then hangs with the diskette light on solid, does not repond to c-t-a.

Re: Grafting other kernels on Debian's rescue disks

1999-01-02 Thread Robert J. Alexander
GREAT !!! After a couple of days of sweat, headaches and the occasional fit of rage, mostly thanks to this great support group I made it. Recap: Dowload the 2.1.4 diskettes. Download tomsrtbt versio 1.7.102 (DOS ZIP) and extract the kernel Graft the kernel image from tom's (thank you tom)

Re: Rescue disk fails for initial installation

1999-01-02 Thread Robert J. Alexander
This might not be the easiest way but ... Try downloading tom's root/boot diskette (www.toms.net/rb) and see if the box will IPL from it. If it does follow the instrucctions in the append I just made to the list ... Good luck. Bob Bucky Pope wrote: I have an old IBM PC that I'm trying to

Re: Rescue disk fails for initial installation

1999-01-02 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, Jan 02, 1999 at 06:15:28PM -0500, Bucky Pope wrote: I have an old IBM PC that I'm trying to install from diskettes (no CD drive). When I boot the rescue disk (most recent on the web) and hit enter, I get the following message: Uh, it does have an 80386 or later processor, right?

Re: LyX and Page Numbering

1999-01-02 Thread Nuno Carvalho
Nuno Carvalho wrote: Hi, What should I do for page numbering start on other number instead of 1 !? I already had resolved this problem thanks to Pedro Quaresma. \setcounter{page}{n} Best regards, Nuno Carvalho ¨¨ Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho Dep.