On Jan 4, 2005, at 11:32 AM, Markus Becker wrote:
Hello,
I have seen your posting to debian-users. Currently I'm trying to get
this
running as well on a debian machine, but I have several problems:
1) When doing make in the kernel subdirectory,
/lib/modules/2.6.9-1-686/source is not available.
How do I manually configure my kernel to build snd-hwdep.ko?
I built an extra kernel module (snd-bt-sco.ko) which requires
snd-hwdep.ko, but snd-hwdep.ko isn't built, there's no kernel
configuration option to enable it.
I tried manually adding CONFIG_SND_HWDEP=m to my .config, but it is
On Nov 17, 2004, at 5:10 AM, Andrea Vettorello wrote:
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 23:12:46 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Where should I put commands to be executed when I login, when I open
an xterm, but not when a shell is run on other occasions?
I want some commands executed when I
How do I write a script to set an environment variable?
I feel like I should know this. I want to set my PATH in pbuilder the
author suggested using an A hook. However, I can't create a hook - an
executable - which sets an environment variable.
I tried:
#!/bin/sh
export
Where should I put commands to be executed when I login, when I open
an xterm, but not when a shell is run on other occasions?
I want some commands executed when I login, but not when a shell is
otherwise run, so I put them in my ~/.login, vs. my ~/.bashrc.
Unfortunately, they aren't executed
On Oct 17, 2004, at 5:51 AM, Nate Bargmann wrote:
* Katipo [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004 Oct 16 21:56 -0500]:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can anyone suggest how else to learn more about aptitude's problem
with these kept back packages?
Thanks!
Which packages are you referring to exactly?
Regards,
The list
On Aug 26, 2004, at 1:56 AM, Thomas Adam wrote:
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 08:49:20AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
apt-get -y --print-uris install lyx | awk '/http:/ {print wget $1}'
I like to use the following for that:
http://linuxmafia.com/~n6tadam/apt-fetch
-- Thomas Adam
Thanks, everyone, for
On Oct 7, 2004, at 3:59 AM, robin wrote:
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Can someone please explain why some packages might be kept back, or
how I might find out?
I guess what I'd like to know is how to get more information about why
aptitude is concluding that these couple packages should be kept
Anyone know how to generate Contents files from a repository, for use
with apt-file? I found no hints in the apt-file documentation...
Thanks!
Jack
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On Oct 2, 2004, at 1:11 AM, Thomas Adam wrote:
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Can someone please explain why some packages might be kept back, or
how I might find out?
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=aptitude
Enjoy.
Thanks for the tip, Thomas, but did you mean this problem has
I'm a long time apt-get user, trying to make sense of aptitude.
I really like aptitude's automatic dependancy tracking; but it keeps
keeping packages back whenever I run aptitude dist-upgrade.
apt-get dist-upgrade doesn't keep packages back.
Examining these kept back packages in aptitude, they
I been trying for what feels like ever to build an initrd to boot an
LVM 2 root partition on a foreign architecture. Unfortunately, I keep
seeing:
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 164k init 4k chrp 32k prep
How does one examine conflicts between packages' dependancies?
I just tried upgrading my system, APT concluded that an important
package had to be removed. Now I must figure out which packages'
dependancies require my important package's removal, so I can remove
them, or otherwise satisfy
Is there a tool to quickly download, for a given architecture, a given
package its dependancies?
I've been doing a lot of cross development find myself downloading
lots of packages using the Debian web interface. Good as Debian's web
interface is, this is tedious.
Investigating apt-get, I
I run Debian unstable plan to setup dynamic routing (for the first
time). I'll probably start with RIP, maybe graduate to OSPF.
I notice that routed isn't available in Debian any longer. Anyone know
why this is? I think my alternatives include quagga or bird. Can anyone
with dynamic routing
How can I generate a directory listing, including permissions
represented in octal, instead of r, w, x?
I frequently use ls -l to list files, including their permissions,
but I thought sometimes it would be nice to list these in terms of
their octal values.
I couldn't find any hints in man
Why must libgle3 and xscreensaver-gl be removed when I try to install a
package which conflicts with, but provides xlibmesa-gl?
I'm experimenting with some (ugly) video drivers. I need to remove
xlibmesa-gl and install a different libGL.so, so I used the following
control file and equivs to
I've looked around for a Linux resolver mailing list, but failing that,
I thought I'd ask here.
I'm using the sortlist statement in my resolv.conf to prevent some
programs from being confused by multihomed hosts.
I've also setup mnemonic names for our networks, so, for instance:
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# route
How do I invoke make-kpkg to cross compile a kernel for powerpc?
I've built and installed gcc-3.3-powerpc-linux. I tried make-kpkg
--revision 200406241 --rootcmd fakeroot --arch powerpc kernel_image,
without success. Apparently the Specified GNU system type
powerpc-linux does not match gcc
Hmm ... I am also running unstable; a fresh install. Fresh as fresh can
be! I assumed that the installer had created this line - it asks for
the hostname when configuring the network - but I'd have to do another
installation to be sure.
Jack
On Apr 18, 2004, at 11:47 AM, Ken Irving wrote:
On
Thanks Jo! That should save me future problems.
Jack
On Apr 18, 2004, at 8:22 PM, Joey Hess wrote:
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Hmm ... I am also running unstable; a fresh install. Fresh as fresh
can
be! I assumed that the installer had created this line - it asks for
the hostname when configuring
Thanks very much for the info. Spot on. I've now got it working.
In addition to editing debian/rule, I discovered using
CONCURRENCY_LEVEL instead of -j is advised (necessary)?
Jack
On Apr 18, 2004, at 4:29 AM, Pigeon wrote:
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 10:17:58PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is
I just spent a painful couple of days trying to figure out why Kerberos
authentication was broken. DNS checked out, but it turns out hostname
-f was only returning the short hostname, due to the following entry
in /etc/hosts:
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127.0.0.1 kas localhost
---
This realized, it was a quick fix:
Is anyone successfully using distcc with dpkg-buildpackage?
I tried:
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MAKE=make -j4 CC=distcc DISTCC_HOSTS=localhost kas dpkg-buildpackage
---
but distcc wasn't used : (
Jack
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I run a cluster of machines w/ only one display; I need to run lots of
remote X apps. For performance, I think I need the X server listening
on a TCP port - but Debian makes a big deal about the security
implications. Have I any options besides A) using SSH, B) removing the
-nolisten tcp
Where does Debian recommend putting network driver kernel module
aliases for kmod (eg. alias eth0 8139too)? Should they all go in
/etc/modutils/aliases? Or in a separate file, like
/etc/modutils/net? Or each in its own file: /etc/modutils/eth0, et
cetera ... Or even something else? What
I'm using uniqueIdentifier objects to define objects in my LDAP
directory. Does a command exist to produce a random string?
Thanks!
Jack
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I need to add a sortlist option to my resolv.conf. Unfortunately,
it is periodically overwritten by my DHCP client. The nameserver
options are not overwritten, using the supersede domain-name-servers
option in dhclinet.conf. What configuration will prevent my
sortlist option from being
I am trying to rsh to my server. I am using kerberos authentication. I
believe I have configured everything correctly, but rsh simply
complains: hostname: Connection refused. I checked my inetd.conf.
Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to debug rsh. Even using the -d
option, nothing is
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