Version: 3.0.14a (debian stable: 3sarge1)
I just upgraded to 3.0.22 (debian testing) and have the same problem.
I could really use some help on this one!!!
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I'm just about finished converting our
Version: 3.0.14a (debian stable: 3sarge1)
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I'm just about finished converting our company's network from NIS to
LDAP. Part of that involved updating Samba to use that same directory
so all the information
I'm trying to rebuild the 2.6.15 kernel under a stable system using
the debian source packages.
It compiles fine, but when trying to build the actual binary packages
(i.e. debian/rules binary), it fails like this:
for dir in Config docs examples ruleset scripts pkg po; do
How does one import a stream intended for Windows Media Player in to a
Linux application like RhythmBox? The link I'm tring to access is:
http://www.cfra.com/listen/index.asp#
It's contents include:
object id=player width=320 height=70
As far as I can tell, it's because the 2.6 kernel is compiled with IDE
as a module instead of including it in the kernel proper. Is there
something I still need to do to allow this module to be loaded?
a) either compile your own kernel ... or modify your initrd.gz file that
corresponds to your
When I try to install a stock Debian kernel (2.6-386) on my system, it
won't boot any longer (VFS: Unable to mount root fs). The stock 2.2
kernel that comes with Woody rescue disk boots fine.
As far as I can tell, it's because the 2.6 kernel is compiled with IDE
as a module instead of including
When I hit C-_ (undo) in an X window, it works fine. If I hit it from
a console window, it does nothing and I have to hit C-- (no shift) for it
to work. I tried M-x describe-key C-_ but it doesn't even seem to notice
when I try to press C-_.
Any ideas? I did a search on Google, but couldn't
I've been trying to stop kernel log messages (generally from iptables)
from going to the console, and thus making the console unusable for login.
I've tried different things, but they just keep popping up.
I have iptables lines like:
iptables -A WATCH -m limit -j LOG --log-level
I've been trying to stop kernel log messages (generally from iptables)
from going to the console, and thus making the console unusable for login.
I've tried different things, but they just keep popping up.
I have iptables lines like:
iptables -A WATCH -m limit -j LOG --log-level warn
Pursuant to Appendix A of the Debian Constitution and the guidelines
offered at http://www.debian.org/vote/howto_proposal, I hereby offer
the following draft proposal as the beginning of a General Resolution
process to decide this issue.
i do NOT second this proposal.
if, however, it
I'm having trouble getting INN to run such that it requires userid/password
to get access to it. I suspect this is because it doesn't have permission
to read the /etc/shadow file, but I don't know why. I've tried adding
news to the shadow group. I've tried setting the passwd file to specify
Our new ISP has assigned us a small subnet and has given the router an
IP address equal to the network address.
network:209.161.204.232
netmask:255.255.255.252
broadcast: 209.161.204.235
router: 209.161.204.232
machine#1:
Hi!
I've just moved our fileserver over to a new machine with a more up-to-date
version of Debian installed. Unfortunately, I can't get the dhcp-dns
package to work any longer.
bind: 8.2.2p5-11
dhcp-dns: 0.50-3
I've attached the dhcp-dns update data file. Here
I've just finished installing PHP4 and PHP4-MySQL. I added the module in
to apache...
LoadModule php4_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/libphp4.so
And now php files seem to get executed correctly. However, as soon as they
try to access a MySQL database, it appears the functions are not found:
read /usr/share/doc/php4/README.Debian (you need to load the mysql module
into php4)
Oh believe me, I read everything trying to find this. THe README.Debian
is far from helpful here...
==
php4 for Debian
I installed the new telnetd (v0.14-8) in an upgrade from Slink, but every
connection attempt failed until I modified /etc/inetd.conf to say root.root
instead of telnetd.telnetd.
The user and group telnetd exist, and telnetd belongs to the utmp group.
Is there something else that needs to be set?
APC general comments (http://www.apcc.com/)
- Brian White [EMAIL PROTECTED] has a Back-UPS Pro and it works with
the genpower Debian package and the apc-pnp cable. He doesn't think
the Back-UPS works with apcd (no smart signalling) or with standard
genpower (different cable
Just as a follow-up... If I put back my original /etc/X11/Xmodmap file
(which has settings to make keyboards with the Windows keys work), then
emacs recognizes the Alt keys (emacs wants the Meta keysym). Tcsh still
doesn't recognize it properly, though... Alt-Backspace prints a garbage
I just upgraded to X 3.3.2.3a-7 and now the Alt key no longer has any
effect. Neither emacs or tcsh (under xterm) recognize that it has been
pressed. Looking at xkeycaps, pressing Alt does register but doesn't affect
the KeyCode, KeySym, or ASCII in any way. Fvwm still recognizes it, though.
Can apache automatically decompress files ending in .gz and send the
uncompressed stream (along with the correct mime-type) over the HTTP
connection?
Brian
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Is there any way to make a program dump core and then continue execution?
Sorta like taking a snap-shot of the current program state.
Brian
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Yes. use CTRL-\
I've never heard of that.
Actually, though... I was looking for the program to dump core when it
wanted (rather than at user request) and then be able to keep executing.
Brian
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Assuming that forking a kamakazi child is not an acceptable
solution, is there some way of capturing the image of the process from
the kernal?
Hmmm... That's interesting. Assuming there is no library/system call
to force a core dump, I could fork a child and then make the child access
mem at
Currently it seems to me that debian-devel is serving two unrelated
purposes. On the one hand it is a forum for developers to pick each
others brains, and ask opinions of interested debian users.
On the other hand, it also serves to monitor the status of the frozen and
unstable
I have the following ld.so.conf file:
/usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw95
/usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw3d
/usr/local/lib
/usr/lib/libc5-compat
/lib/libc5-compat
/usr/X11R6/lib
/usr/X11R6/lib
/usr/X11R6/lib
Question: Shouldn't /usr/X11R6/lib be before the libc5-compat directory
and shouldn't there only be one of them?
/usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw95
/usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw3d
/usr/local/lib
/usr/lib/libc5-compat
/lib/libc5-compat
/usr/X11R6/lib
/usr/X11R6/lib
/usr/X11R6/lib
Question: Shouldn't /usr/X11R6/lib be before the libc5-compat directory
Not necessarily. As long as you don't have any duplicate
Is there any way to get X to turn on NumLock when it starts up?
According to the manpage xset led integer should do that. But I
tried it and couldn't get it work. Someone any idea?
It was my impression that that simply turned on the led -- it doesn't
actually enable NumLock.
To make people report these duplications. A lot of bugs have been
submitted and many of those have been fixed now. The result will be that
there will be a lot less of these imperfections in hamm when it is
released. When it is released, --force-overwrite is supposed to be turned
on again
Is there any way under fvwm2 to make all transient windows automatically get
focus when they appear? It would be much more convienient than having to
move the mouse to that window.
Brian
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I am ready to install netscape on my system, but have a problem. The netscape
loader is for version 3.01. ftp.netscape.com only has version 3.04 or the
newer communicator 4.0x versions. Version 3.01 is not available. My system is
a bo (1.3.1) system. What can I do to get netscape installed?
I am ready to install netscape on my system, but have a problem. The
netscape
loader is for version 3.01. ftp.netscape.com only has version 3.04 or the
newer communicator 4.0x versions. Version 3.01 is not available. My system
is
a bo (1.3.1) system. What can I do to get netscape
Is there any way under fvwm2 to make all transient windows automatically get
focus when they appear? It would be much more convienient than having to
move the mouse to that window.
I don't think so.
You can give focus to any window easily, but the command has to be run
from a
Is there any way under fvwm2 to make all transient windows automatically get
focus when they appear? It would be much more convienient than having to
move the mouse to that window.
Perhaps for you, but for me, it's just the opposite. I hate touching
the mouse. When I do a search in
Brian Perhaps it would be best if the transient only automatically
Brian got focus if its parent already had focus? Perhaps this option
Brian could be tri-state: never, always, if-parent-has-focus.
Couls you see if the Next [*] Focus bound to, say, F12 would
solve it for you? I
Is there any way to get X to turn on NumLock when it starts up?
Brian
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According to my calculations, that
Does anybody have any experience with the inner workings of libtiff?
I'm trying to use the libtiff library, but am having some problems and
was wondering if anybody could clarify something...
I have a small image with the following information:
Image #0: TIFF Directory at offset 0x8
Subfile
hello everyone, I was wondering how to get lynx to play sound files ie
..wav and .au? I know it can be done. I think it has to do with a
..mailcap file. but i'm not sure. Thanks in advance.
Paul
You have to install the mime-support package and of course some audio-player.
There is a
Is there any way under fvwm2 to make all transient windows automatically get
focus when they appear? It would be much more convienient than having to
move the mouse to that window.
Brian
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My signify signature's, when used with pine sometimes die completely, and
I am completely frustrated :) And to top it all off, I only sometimes get:
[1]+ Broken pipe signify --fifo=$HOME/.signature
I suppose I should mention that I use the fifo option...
Has anyone had
I am just trying to find out a quikly if the APC UPS is compatible with
Linux. I am not to sure and I don't want to purchase the wrong one for a
client.
Sure is! We have 6 APC BackUPS-Pro 650's here (4 workstations and 2
servers) under genpower using the apc-pnp cable supported by the
version
I attached strace to the update process and it is doing as it says,
sleeps for 5 seconds and then calls bdflush(). I can't watch bdflush
because it is a new process everytime.
Have you tried strace with the -f option and friends (-o, -ff)?
Brian
( The following was filed as a bug, but doesn't really belong there since
it isn't specific to any package (except possibly kernel-image). Thus,
I'm forwarding it to debian-user to see if anybody can help this person. )
Dear Folks,
We have just loaded the most recent available
( This was originally a bug report. I'm forwarding it to debian-user. )
Package: Debian Installation
Version: 1.3
When I try to install Debian GNU/Linux to my machine, every time Debian
tries to write to my hard drive, I get an error. For example, when I am
following the installation
Like a dummy, I bought a UPS without bothering to check if genpowerd
supports it (I don't think it does). But before taking it back (I
believe I have a week to do so and it's real stormy now, so I'm glad
to have it anyway), I wanted to ask if anyone knew if I could do
anything with it.
I
Hamm (Debian 2.0) will be released when we're finished with it.
what is this deity project that i have heard of? i assume it will be
a part of debian 2.
Deity is the code-name of the improved package interface.
Brian
Just ask and the gateway will be gone. I did this because I thought this
would be of benefit to the project. If you want to make Debian smaller and
make it difficult for people to access information about the project then
that is your problem.
The gateway was set up after approval by
This is a request for some feedback from current and potential users of
GPC.
I have GPC 2.0 compiled for hamm, built using GCC 2.7.2.3. The next
version of GPC (currently 971001) is in beta, but is already more stable
than GPC 2.0. There seems to be a few possibilities available.
then I get the warning:
ld: warning: libdl.so.2, needed by /usr/lib/libtk8.0.so, may conflict with
libdl.so.1
I have been unable to find where this libdl.so.1 is coming from since the
dl libraries are:
You probably have a left over link in /lib. Perhaps you 'forced'
something
When trying to link using libc6 and tcl8, I can no longer include -ldl on
the link line without getting an error. If I have
[...] -ltcl8.0 -lm -lnsl
then it links okay. If I have
[...] -ltcl8.0 -lm -lnsl -ldl
then I get the warning:
ld: warning: libdl.so.2, needed by
The Deity team is still looking for a couple more members to help with
implementation. If you'd like to help, please send me some mail with
your experience and qualifications.
Brian
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Thanks to Jason building a libc5 verison of the new CVS (with read-only
patches), I've now made the Deity source archive available to everyone.
To get it, go to the directory you want to place the source and do the
following:
cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cvs login (password:
Please tell me: Does stable mean not-changing or not-segfaulting?
For the most part, it means non-changing. While it would be nice to
fix each package with a problem, doing so always runs the risk of breaking
other packages on the system. Verifying the integrity of the system as a
whole is far
It appears the tell(path) command is missing from libc6. What
should I be using instead?
The only tell that I could find in libc-5.4.33 is the following one:
file sysdeps/linux/tell.c:
off_t
tell (int fildes)
{
return __lseek (fildes, 0, SEEK_CUR);
}
That's the one.
If that
I tried it with MS-Word 6.0c, MS-Excel and Matlab
4.2c (all 16bit applications) and they run to my satisfaction.
I have not tested them thorougly but I am quite impressed already.
You got Word-6 to run under it? Wow! I never been able to get it to
run ever under the 9708xx versions.
Excel
When running top on my 2 cpu machine, I get some interesting states:
12:12pm up 18:03h, 5 users, load average: 1.52, 0.76, 0.49
65 processes: 61 sleeping, 4 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 90.2% user, 107.5% system, 0.9% nice, 0.0% idle
Mem: 128044K av, 110520K used,
It appears the tell(path) command is missing from libc6. What should
I be using instead?
Brian
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the difference between
Is there any way I can tell how each CPU on a multi-processor system is
being used?
Brian
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Generated by Signify v1.02.
How can I adjust the responsiveness of the mouse under X? Right now I
almost have to move the mouse half way across the room to cross the
screen? It's a PS/2 mouse.
I've adjusted (lowered) the resposiveness under GPM. Could that be affecting
things in X? X is accessing the mouse
How can I adjust the responsiveness of the mouse under X? Right now I
almost have to move the mouse half way across the room to cross the
screen? It's a PS/2 mouse.
I've adjusted (lowered) the resposiveness under GPM. Could that be affecting
things in X? X is accessing the mouse directly, not
I think there was recently a discussion about this, but I
deleted it as I wasn't interested at the time.
I'm looking to provide a simple system generated Email reply to
a specific address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). I wish to send a
simple message :- Thankyou for your enquiry I'm available in 3
I'm having a problem with my computer hanging for large amounts of time
when it is not connected to the network because of some NFS mounts it does.
I've tried adding options so it would try this in the background instead
of holding up the boot, but no luck. Here is what I have now...
Has anybody had any success in running X with an ATI 3D Graphics Pro Turbo
video card? I'm having great difficulty getting it to display on my
monitor.
- 1600x1200 mode isn't available (too low dot-clock),
- 1280x1024 doesn't display (screen stays black)
- 1024x768 runs (doesn't sync)
-
Has anybody had any success in running X with an ATI 3D Graphics Pro Turbo
video card? I'm having great difficulty getting it to display on my
monitor.
- 1600x1200 mode isn't available (too low dot-clock),
- 1280x1024 doesn't display (screen stays black)
- 1024x768 runs (doesn't sync)
OK. I guess I should have been clearer; I HAVE renamed the file, and
put it in /tmp. I then run dpkg -i netscape_3.01-4.deb and get the
error above. I think that I may have in fact slightly misinterpreted
the error at first; it seems to be generated by the *post*installation
script. It
I really like the netscape installer package and used it many months ago to
get netscape working. I have 3.01-1 currently installed.
So far, when dselect tells me there is an update available on the netscape
package, I've placed it on hold. However, I was wondering if it is
It just dawned on me that all intel packages must be compiled for 386 to
make them intel platform-independant. I am wondering how much of a
performance boost can be had by recompiling them for 486 or pentium.
10% improvement would probably be about the maximum. While 10% is the
point where
From: Jason Gunthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Have you ever seen numbers for running Pentium code on a 486 and 386 vs
native code?
I think the Pentium code generator now uses Pentium-specific instructions.
Before then, Pentium code on 386 and 486 sometimes ran faster than the 386
and 486
There was a decent article about Linux in the latest issue of Wired. It
was honest and fair, in my opinion, and Linux came out looking really good.
Brian
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my company uses Debian very seriously so I think is very fair to help the
project with donations. I have just bought 2 Official Debian 1.3.1 CD's
from LSL and I chose the product that includes a 5 dollar donation to the
Debian project.
And since I am in such a pissed off mood over
And choosing a simple, consistent, and comprehensible release naming scheme
is such an issue. Hambone, bopeep, 1.3.1, and now revision 2... all
very confusing. I've been trying to convince the people in the seul
project to use Debian: they think Debian is flaky. I like Debian. I use
Would some please show me what is wrong with the following
cfengine that is sent to my 'root' every day:
Check the log file under /var/log to see if there is more information
there. If not, try running cfengine by hand to see if it provides more
information that way.
Why change the version numbering scheme? It is a small change, it makes
sense for marketing reasons, it is easy to do, and there was no reason not
to do it. We're not holding up releases because of it.
I suppose all 67 megs in bo-updates is being held there for some other
reason?
Does anybody know how to use signify with pine? I've copied one example
as my .signify in my $HOME dir., but I'm clueless on how to make it work
with pine.
The easiest way to do this is to add a command like
sh -c signify --fifo=$HOME/.signature
to your .login file. However,
I looked at the pine and netscape mail files and they appear to be in the
same format, except netscape has a summary file for each file. Would it
be safe to have procmail deliving mail to a shared mailbox file that
netscape and pine are reading (and have netscape or pine open)?
I use
Alan Eugene Davis wrote:
Something happened to my system so that Netscape Navigator will not
show on the X screen. If I start netscape a second time, I get a
message that it is already running. If I start it as netscape
-iconic it establishes an icon, and I can now open.
Does this ring
Thank you for your response. It is this:
Netscape 3.01/export, 20-Oct-96; (c) 1995,1996 Netscape Communications Corp.
Did you install this with the Debian package? If so, which revision of
the package?
Brian
(
Just when I thought it was safe to throw away my APC Smart UPS along
comes apcd. Bravo.
APC is also supported by the Genpower package. It only does dumb signalling,
but can use the Plug-n-Play cable that comes with the APC units these days.
Brian
I'm just curious what happened to the netscape-beta package. I can't seem to
find it tho it is listed in the search at www.debian.org.
I removed it because it doesn't work the the latest releases. I have
a new package I'll upload as soon as I get a chance to test it.
I know that I've used Netscape 3.01 off-line before to read documents...
now whenever I try to run it while not connected to my ISP, it simply
hangs. One time it even locked out my other X apps.. I had to kill the
server.
Sounds like the home page is trying to be loaded. The hang-up is
I'm trying to get my girlfriend's Debian machine updated to 1.3 but so far
its been a real pain because she is behind a corporate firewall and I have
to manually ftp the files. Is there any way to configure deselect to go
through the firewall?
Dftp was able to go through firewalls with FTP
Downloaded and installed Netscape, excelent install, I commend
the writer of that package.
Thanks!
Anyway, it won't send mail. I get FCC file not found.
Not being one to believe too seriously in every conspiricy theory
I run accross in alt.conspiricy.black-helocopters, do tell what
is
Dum and voila! I could no longer tail -f my logs. Bummer.
Can't you just add yourself to the log (or whatever) group, then?
It's actually adm, but this seems the best solution.
Brian
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Sorry to ask for a recap, but I missed the beginning of this thread...
So to ask probably already answered questions: What is the correct
genpower (or... dangit can't rememebr the other UPS package) cable-type
for the PowerShute Black cable that comes with the APCs?
Genpower does not support
Next question and then I'll hopefully shut up for a day or two about this
topic :-)
Does anyone know where I can get in contact with the people and/or the
product of the Diety project? I checked www.debian.org's web site and
didn't find anything, and am not going to even bother with an
There used to be a package, netscape-beta, that could be used to install
communicator, it's gone now. Is there a reason it disappeared.
I removed it because it doesn't work for beta-5 and above. I have a
fixed version I just need to test for a bit before uploading.
I choose to run shutdown by itself because I had to assure that the last
action on master is to shut down the ups. Instead I should probably follow
the genpower approach and supply a small program that does this from the
command line.
I worked with Miquel about this when building the genpower
I'm trying to compile wine ... we don't seem to have a package for it,
understandable, since it's only in alpha at the moment.
There is a package for wine under project/experimental. I maintain it.
Brian
( [EMAIL
Wait - you're saying that creating a new updated debian package for wine
1.0 would be to apply win-1.0*.diff to the .deb?
The diffs for the Debian source contain nothing but the Debian directory.
Thus, you can patch any version of the wine source and probably build
it without any changes (other
Since I get on average about 10 fatal crashes of netscape a
day, when combined with the flaky behavior, I'd say that
Netscape for linux is the most unstable but working application
I've ever seen.
I run netscape 3.01 for days at a time without problems. (Hint: never
hit get new mail while
I have just tried to get two APC Smart UPS v/s 650s up and running in my
department but unfortunately, genpower does not support the cable, a black
PowerShute(TM) cable with serial number 940-0024C.
Genpower 1.0.1-4 does have support for the Win95 Plug-n-Play cable (serial
number 940-0095A).
It is stated very clearly in documentation all over that you should
run as root as little as possible... Besides, it is common sense.
When I first taught myself Unix, this was impressed on me very
clearly. The Linux NAG and SAG mention it, I'm sure, as do some
various HOWTOs.
gee,
Has anybody got this emulator working? All i get when i try and
boot something is a bunch of '@' signs filling up the screen and nothing
after that. I'm running 1.3, kernel 2.0.29, and have a matrox if it's
pertinent.
I use it without any problems. What apple disk are you using?
I've now had this happen twice. When i install netscape, it works. The
next day, however, i get a message that I have 3.00 resources instead of
3.01. Do i need a daily install? :)There has never been any other
netscape on this installation; just the *deb file from unstable, and the
They will go on a machine with 3 200m ide drives, which will be a poor-man's
server. My current thinking is to mount / on the first controller, and
use the other pair as /usr on the second interface. /usr will be NFS
exported. Or would I be better off putting the two /usr drives on
I have just upgraded my netscape and I seem to have a problem, which I
hope you may help me resolve. I seemed to have a problem with my
java_301 therefore I purged the old package. Downloaded new one and now
I seem to have pa problem (I think it still relates to java problem). I
get this
./ns-install: line 289: 15565 Broken pipe tar -cf - ${i}
15566 Done| ( cd ${TARGET}/java/classes; tar
-xf - )
This is a bug in the tar available in Bo. It's supposedly been fixed
in the version in Hamm.
I also found that netscape 4.0 installer have a
For the record and mailing list archive;
The 128bit versions of Netscape 3.01 and 3.01Gold do work with
the currect Debian install package.
Would you happen to know if the latest beta (communicator-v40b5*) will
work with the *.deb install shell?
Apparently not. It's on my list of
Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for #C0C0C0
Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for default background
Probably running on an 8-bit display. Netscape trys to
get lots of colors and quickly runs out with only 8-bit display.
Try
netscape -install
to make
All of which brings me to my question: Once X and Netscape were up, I
could run netscape, only I got the error message listed here.
Would someone please tell me WHY I get this, and more to the point,
what I can do to make Netscape work? What does it mean, cannot allocate
colormap entry for
Does the installer for Netscape/gold 3.01 work with the 128bit version ?
I'll have to rename promise.cgi to what the installer wants.
I've never tried it. If the filenames within the archive are the same,
then it should.
Brian
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