FW: Netscape

[Don Cavaiani]

> 
> Greetings,
> 
> 
> I am having a tough time getting netscape4 installed on debian.
> 
> I downloaded the archive from the ftp2.netscape.com site and unzipped it
> in /tmp.
> 
> However, I am very confused by the error message I get when I try apt-get
> install.  It says that the netscape files must exist in the /tmp directory
> with one of the two very long file names they show (both of those file
> names have several * in them and I don't know how to resolve the names to
> exactly match what is being looked for).  I ran gzip on the file I
> downloaded from the Netscape site.  I believe it is actually Communicator
> version 4.61 that I downloaded from Netscape..
> 
> Can you give me any direction?
> 
> Thanks,
> Don
> 
> 
>

Re: SMC EzCard 10/100

[Nate Duehr]

Ahh!  Good!

You've made me a very happy man today.  I'll go home and put it in my
system tonight!

Now to see if it's compatible with the various other OS's installed on
that box!

Thanks for the heads-up!

On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 02:30:46PM -0800, Bruce Mobarry wrote:
> Hi Nate,
> 
> I have exactly this card in my computer.  I first tried to get it
> working under slink with Linux 2.0.36 compilied as a loadable module,
> but failed.  I compiled it (using the RTL8139 chipset driver from Donald
> Becker) directly into a 2.2.13 kernel successfully and am running my SMC
> EzCard 10/100 under potato.  I am on a 10baseT net also.
> 
> Bruce Mobarry
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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Re: must squid.conf be world-readable?

[Miquel van Smoorenburg]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Pollywog  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>It appears as though squid.conf has to be world-readable.
>Is that in fact the case?

Well no, I don't think the squid config file needs to be world
readable. You might want to at least chgrp it to the "proxy" group
and give read access to the group so that squid can read the file
when you tell it to re-read it's config (I'm not sure if it is
running as "root" or as "proxy:proxy" at that time).

>It is true of Junkbuster, that the configs have to
>be world-readable.

Well readable for the user that Junkbuster runs at, you could do
the same as I outlined above (give read-access to the group only)

Mike.
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Re: lilo again

[Tom Pfeifer]

Well, I don't have that book but Lilo is intended to be used either way
- user's choice. I use it both ways on different machines without
problems. I don't know why Debian is singled out in the book as
something of a special case. Lilo is Lilo - it works the same on all
distributions. 

Unless it has something to do specifically with configuring Lilo during
the Debian installation - as opposed to any other time. It's been a
while since I actually installed Debian from scratch so I may be
forgetting

Tom

Rik Burt wrote:
> 
> If I may I will give some excerpts of "Running Linux"
> 
> This is from the /etc/lilo.conf section of the book:
> 
> ... If you give a partitiondevice name (such as /dev/hda2) instead of a
> drive device, LILO will be installed as a secondary boot loader on the named
> partition.  (Debian users should always do this.) ...
> 
> Then from the section Using LILO as a Secondary Boot Loader:
> 
> ... This restriction applies to the Debian distribution however, where the
> MBR can boot an operating system from a boot sector in an extended (but not
> logical) partition.  In order to boot Linux this way, th Linux root
> partition should be marked as active in the partition table. 
> 
> I have been using LILO in the usual way with Debian so I just don't
> understand why LILO should be used as a secondary boot loader.
> 
> These excerpts ar from "Running LINUX" 3rd edition by Matt Welsh, Matthias
> Kalle Dalheimer and Lar Kaufman
> 
> Rik
>

must squid.conf be world-readable?

[Pollywog]

It appears as though squid.conf has to be world-readable.
Is that in fact the case?  It is true of Junkbuster, that the configs have to
be world-readable.


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linuxppc

[Giuseppe La Susa]

Vi scrivo da Palermo e sono interessato a Linuxppc 
da montare su un IBM RS6000 modello 7248/100
visto che nel sito di linux.it dice che dovrebbe 
supportarlo.
 
Potete gentilmente darmi delle indicazioni su come 
o dove reperirlo?
 
Nel ringraziarvi anticipatamente per eventuale 
risposta porgo distinti saluti.

new unoffician Pine packages

[Noah L. Meyerhans]

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My mirror of Jaldhar H. Vyas's unofficial Pine binary packages (including
pico and pilot) has been updated with Pine 4.21.  These packages are not
apt-get-able at this point (though that may change), so you should go to
http://members.mint.net/frodo/pine/ to get them.  They're only built for
x86 potato at this point.  I will be working on versions for x86 slink
when I get a chance, but I'm not sure about any other platforms at this
point.  If anybody would be willing to build these packages on other
architectures, the source, diff, and .dsc files are available.

Enjoy.
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re:SMC EzCard 10/100

[Bruce Mobarry]

Hi Nate,

I have exactly this card in my computer.  I first tried to get it
working under slink with Linux 2.0.36 compilied as a loadable module,
but failed.  I compiled it (using the RTL8139 chipset driver from Donald
Becker) directly into a 2.2.13 kernel successfully and am running my SMC
EzCard 10/100 under potato.  I am on a 10baseT net also.

Bruce Mobarry
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On Sun, 2 Jan 2000 Nate Duehr wrote:

Anyone had any luck getting the SMC EzCard 10/100 to work under potato?

I have two of them here (one's still new in the box) that I'd like to
use for various things, but my initial attempts at getting it running
under slink were poor.  That's why one of them is still in the box! :)
The actual model number of the card is the SMC 1211TX.

I've got a ton of things going on right now, but if someone says they
have it up and working, it would be a nudge in the right direction
for me to take the time to set them up and get them in the boxes
that need them.

My original reason for going with them is that Donald Becker's SMC
drivers for the EtherEZ and other 10BaseT cards are just wonderful.
I made the poor assumption that the drivers for newer SMC cards
would be as nice, but it appears that these cards are made by
whoever bought out SMC, and they're not as easy to write drivers
for as the old SMC stuff.

In particular, when trying to get the card running on a 2.0.38
kernel, they continually had interrupt problems (it's a PCI card)
and they wouldn't autonegotiate to 10BaseT speeds correctly.

Netscape Communicator 4.7 dies silently.

[Todd Suess]

Greetings all,

Anyone else noticed that at times Communicator will just die silently while
minimized, leaving no error messages, etc?  I usually have about 5 navigator
windows open to various sites and check and referesh them regularly
(I am using potato, XFree 3.3.5, and Kde 1.1.2), but sometimes I will pull up
my window list and all occurances of Communicator will be closed with no
errors showing.  Just curious if anyone else has seen this behaviour and if
there is any workaround/fix for it.  I checked memory to see if that might be an
issue and while physical memory was a little low I still had plenty of swap
space left.

Regards,

Todd

Re: /etc/securetty and login failure logging

[Ben Collins]

Package: login
Severity: important

On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 04:06:27PM -0500, Salman Ahmed wrote:
> 
> I commented out most lines from /etc/securetty so that root is only
> allowed to login from tty3. Now I see the following messages when root
> tries to login from any other terminals:
> 
> Jan  3 15:46:55 phoenix login[25646]: FAILED LOGIN 1 FROM  FOR root, 
> Authentication failure
> Jan  3 15:47:13 phoenix login[25646]: FAILED LOGIN 2 FROM  FOR root, 
> Authentication failure
> Jan  3 15:47:37 phoenix login[195]: FAILED LOGIN 1 FROM  FOR root, 
> Authentication failure
> Jan  3 16:01:14 phoenix login[198]: FAILED LOGIN 1 FROM  FOR root,
> Authentication failure
> 
> But these messages (from /var/log/auth.log) don't indicate which
> terminal was used for the login attempt. Is there any way that
> information can also be logged in /var/log/auth.log ?

Looks like a bug, I've sent it to the BTS. I should get around to fixing
it soon.

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Re: kernel 2.2 -- no sound?

[Matthew W. Roberts]

> I finally broke down and decided to compile a 2.2.13 kernel despite
> the fact that my 2.0.36 kernel continues to work perfectly.
> 
Just curious, why did you decide to `upgrade'?  I'm trying to decide
whether I should do the same.


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Re: Exim

[Matthew W. Roberts]

> I have just recently upgraded from debian 2.1 to potato and I cannot send any
> email at all (either internal or external) i keep getting the following error
> message.
> 
> 1999-12-21 14:34:58 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: procmail director deferred:
> file existence defer in procmail director: Permission denied
>
> Does anyone know what is going on and how to get it working?  I have run
> eximconfig again and i select option 1 (internet mail) but that still doesn't
> work!

This looks like a procmail problem, so running eximconfig probably
won't help.  Are you using a procmail director in your exim.conf file,
or using the .forward method?  I know that using procmail with a 
.forward file is different with exim than with sendmail so you might
want to look at the exim documentation:  http://www.exim.org/

If you send me your exim.conf file I might be able to help...


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Re: How do I install additional modules?

[Konrad Mierendorff]

As to the modules:

# cd /usr/src/linux(or whatever the location of the kernel
source-tree is)
# make menuconfig
/* select some modules */
# make dep
# make clean   (you might want to leave that out)
# make modules
# make modules_install

As to XNLSPATH I'm sorry, but I don't know about that ...

Hope it helps ...
... write again if not!

- Konrad Mierendorff

Re: Y2K problem with slrn?

[Joey Hess]

Joey Hess wrote:
> I have just uploaded slrn 0.9.5.3-5 for stable, which fixes this bug. You
> can get it temporarily at ...

Er I meant to say at http://va.debian.org/~joeyh/slrn_0.9.5.3-5_i386.deb

> Pann, Jim please download that and let me know if it really fixes the problem.

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Re: Y2K problem with slrn?

[Joey Hess]

I have just uploaded slrn 0.9.5.3-5 for stable, which fixes this bug. You
can get it temporarily at ...

Pann, Jim please download that and let me know if it really fixes the problem.

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Re: Y2K problem with slrn?

[Joey Hess]

Brian Servis wrote:
> The bug by the way is the result of sloppy programming.  There is a c
> library call that returns the year as the number of years from 1900,
> also used in perl's Time::Local.  Authors were using that as the two
> digit year or just appending it to 19, so you are either seeing years of
> 100 or years of 19100. 

Actually the bug is due to some annoying vagueness in the nntp RFC. Not
really slrn's fult.

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TeX

[G. Crimp]

Hi,

I've been using TeX at work for a few weeks now.  Last week I got a
new computer and installed 2.1 on it (same as was on the old box).  As far
as I can tell, I have all the appropriate tetex packages in place.  TeX no
longer works, though.  When I try to run tex on a .tex file, I get the
following error:

This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.2)
I can't find the format file `tex.fmt'!

The tetex docs say to run the command `texconfig init' in such a case.  When
I run it I get tons of output, including the following excerpts:

[...]
Beginning to dump on file tex.fmt
 (format=tex 1999.12.30)
[...]
No pages of output.
Transcript written on tex.log
[...]

The command continues to run producing similar output concerning latex and
metafont.  However, the file tex.fmt is nowhere to be found on my file
system.  Maybe the line "No pages of output." explains that.  I thought I
could get some answers from the transcript in tex.log, but that file appears
not to have been written anywhere either.

Anybody know what I have done wrong on this new computer, or more
positively, how I can back to writing documentation with TeX ?

Thanks,

Gerald Crimp

mgetty & external sportster

[aphro]

I have an internal modem(not sure what brand) that works fine, but i want
to switch to an external incase the modem needs a hard reset we dont have
to shut the machine down.

Its been sooo many years since i used an external modem so im kinda rusty.

sofar, i got it to communicate with the sportster (both minicom and
mgetty) i can get minicom to establish a terminal connection and transfer
a file(by connecting with another computer and hitting 'ATA' when i saw
the 'RING')  the file transferred fine so i assume the modem is good.  but
when mgetty tries to answer i get this:


01/03 10:50:45 yS0   waiting for line to clear (VTIME), read: [0d][0a]
01/03 10:50:46 yS0   removing lock file
01/03 10:50:46 yS0  waiting...
01/03 10:50:46 yS0select returned 1
01/03 10:50:46 yS0   checking lockfiles, locking the line
01/03 10:50:46 yS0   makelock(ttyS0) called
01/03 10:50:46 yS0   do_makelock: lock='/var/lock/LCK..ttyS0'
01/03 10:50:46 yS0   lock made
01/03 10:50:46 yS0  wfr: waiting for ``RING''
01/03 10:50:46 yS0
got: 
x[fe][00][80]x[00][ff][80][80][f8]x[e0][80][80][80][f8][00]x[fe][00][80]x[00][ff]x[fe][00][80]x[00][ff][80][80][f8]x[e0][80][80][80][f8][00]x[fe][00][80]x[00][ff]
01/03 10:50:56 yS0  mdm_read_byte: read returned -1: Interrupted system
call
01/03 10:50:56 yS0  wfr: timeout waiting for RING
01/03 10:50:56 yS0   wfr: rc=-1, drn=0
01/03 10:50:56 yS0  huh? Junk on the line?
01/03 10:50:56 yS0   removing lock file

and mgetty clearly can communicate with the modem :

01/03 11:33:23 yS0  mgetty: experimental test release 1.1.18-Sep11
01/03 11:33:23 yS0  check for lockfiles
01/03 11:33:23 yS0   checklock: stat failed, no file
01/03 11:33:23 yS0  locking the line
01/03 11:33:23 yS0   makelock(ttyS0) called
01/03 11:33:23 yS0   do_makelock: lock='/var/lock/LCK..ttyS0'
01/03 11:33:23 yS0   lock made
01/03 11:33:24 yS0   tio_get_rs232_lines: status: RTS CTS DSR DTR
01/03 11:33:24 yS0  lowering DTR to reset Modem
01/03 11:33:24 yS0   tss: set speed to 38400 (017)
01/03 11:33:24 yS0   tio_set_flow_control( HARD )
01/03 11:33:24 yS0   waiting for line to clear (VTIME), read: 
01/03 11:33:24 yS0  send: ATZ[0d]
01/03 11:33:24 yS0  waiting for ``OK''
01/03 11:33:24 yS0   got: ATZ[0d]
01/03 11:33:24 yS0CND: ATZ[0d][0a]OK ** found **
01/03 11:33:24 yS0  send: [0d]
01/03 11:33:24 yS0   waiting for line to clear (VTIME), read: [0d][0a][0d]
01/03 11:33:25 yS0   removing lock file
01/03 11:33:25 yS0  waiting...

i've been going through documentation on the modem and on the AT command
set, but so far this is as far as i've gotten. looks like those
[0d][0a][0d] are escape codes? that could be screwing the modem up. im not
sure of the modem's model#  but it is a 28.8 sportster external, it has a
bunch of dip switches on it:

1 On  - data terminal ready normal **SET**
  off - data terminal ready override

2 Up - verbal result codes **SET**
  down - numeric result codes

3 Up - supress result codes
  down - display result codes   **SET**

4 up - echo offline commands **SET**
  down - no echo, offline commands

5 up - auto answer on first ring, or higher if specified in NVRAM
  down - auto answer off **SET** (i have tried both ways with same
results)

6 up - carrier detect normal **SET**
  down - carrier detect override

7 up - load NVRAM defaults **SET**
  down - load factory defaults

8 up - dumb mode
  down - smart mode **SET** (tried both ways, dumb mode the modem does not
respond at all)

any help would be greatly appreciated! 

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Re: Can log in through....

[Marc D Chapman]

I had this exact problem.  My solution, though not that elegant, did get
me back into the machine at the local console.  I simply logged in and
removed xdm, which spit me to the normal login screen and I was able to
fix the problems that I was encountering (namely a problem with
sawmill).  Hope this helps...

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Re: 2 questions on apt-get

[John Pearson]

On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 12:50:49PM +0100, Ulrich Hansmair wrote
> hi freaks,
> 
> recently I´m using apt-get to install my potato. I think this way of
> distributing debian is a great step into future and perfectly combines  the
> abilities of the internet and free software. Debian should go this way.
> 
> Now to the questions. 
> 1. After apt-get update/upgrade I always get the standard kernel-image and
> pcmcia-modules which overwrites my own compiled versions. How can I exclude
> this packages from being upgraded?

With kernel-images, build them using make-kpkg with a command line like
 # make-kpkg --revision=ulrich.0 kernel-image
and the revision string will appear 'newer' than any official version, 
ensuring they don't get replaced.  Use a similar revision string for
your pcmcia-modules.

> 2.apt-get upgrade gives the following message:
> 
> ...
> The following packages have been kept back:
> dpkg-dev kernel-package perl perl-base
> ...
> 
> I wanna this packages be included in the normal upgrade-procedure. What is the
> appropriate action?
> 

 # apt-get dist-upgrade 
may help; if you want to see just what the problem is, try (e.g.)
 # apt-get -s install dpkg-dev
and apt-get will tell you what would be required.  Chances are the newer
versions depend on a package you don't currently have installed, or perhaps
conflict with one that you do.  If you are happy for apt to proceed, you
can upgrade them by running the command again without the '-s'.


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Exim - config option for queuing remote mail only?

[Phillip Deackes]

I have exim v. 2.05-2 and cannot find the option to put in
/etc/exim.conf which will queue remote mail and send local mail
immediately. All I can find is the option for version 3.

Can anyone help?

Cheers.

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Re: alien not y2k compliant?

[Joey Hess]

Brian Servis wrote:
> Since you did not get a suggestion about dpkg-dev I assume you are using
> a version prior to 6.26.  Just to make sure, do you have dpkg-dev
> installed?  In slink dpkg-dev was only a Recommends dependency for
> alien, in potato it is a Depends dependency.

Thanks Brian -- that's almost certianly his problem. Alien doesn't parse any
dates, just looks at 822-date's return code.

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Help with lpd and netatalk

[Benjamin T. White]

Hello all,

I have had a Debian 2.1 setup running for several months as an AppleTalk
printer server.  It has worked quite well until the last few days.  Now
whenever I try to print from one of the Mac's on the network (or from a
linux machine through the AppleTalk network with 'pap').  I can still
print localy with 'lpr' and remotely with 'rlpr' on the affected machine

Here is the errors I get:

/var/log/lpr.log:

Jan  1 17:29:34 whitehouse papd[433]: child 718 for "DeskJet" from 21.4
Jan  1 17:29:34 whitehouse papd[718]: lp_conn_unix connect /dev/printer:
No such file or directory
Jan  1 17:29:34 whitehouse papd[718]: lp_print: lp_conn_unix: No such
file or directory
Jan  1 17:29:34 whitehouse papd[433]: child 718 done
Jan  1 17:30:34 whitehouse lpd[728]: lp: job could not be printed
(cfA012whitehouse.dyn.ml.org)

Now, I'm no expert on such matters, but I assume that /dev/printer is a
unix socket for that lpd manages for local printing jobs.  I have no
such file listed under my /dev/ directory.  

I recently upgraded a bunch of packages that had available updates via
dselect/apt, but I have to admit that I didn't notice if lpd or netatalk
was among them.  All of my config files (i.e. printcap, papd.conf, etc)
are unchanged from the versions that were working a few days ago.

Any help with this perplexing problem would be greatly apprectiated.

Ben
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Re: Xircom RealPort Ethernet/Modem on Debian

[Florian Lohoff]

On Fri, Dec 31, 1999 at 07:20:30PM -0600, Bryan K. Walton wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>   Has anyone got these new Xircom RealPort Ethernet 10/100+Modem 56
> PCMCIA cards to run on Debian?  If anybody has any ideas, I would be most
> appreciative.

It doesnt work with the Slink PCMCIA utils as i noticed - I backported
the potato source package 3.1.0 at that time and since then i am 
a happy real-port user ...

Thinkpad 390E + Xircom RealPort 

Now the only thing i havent tried is USB, SVHS and the Lucent Winmodem.
Everything else works flawlessly (Irda, Sound, XWindows, PCMCIA)...

Flo
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Re: Problem with exim rewriting rule

[Ronald Tin]

I am doing my rewrites this way:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ffr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] "${if eq {$sender_address}{} [EMAIL PROTECTED]" Tt

And I don't have the problem (mail delivered to [EMAIL PROTECTED] is ok)
Fetchmail works too.
I guess the b and c are for CC and BCC (need to look-up the docs for
that) and should not matter, but well, perhaps it does.


(The second line is there so delivery failures don't go out,
 and shouldn't affect normal mails too.)


On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 04:09:22PM +0100, Klaus Drews wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> exim works fine with me, but produced one silly "bug" because of low -level
> configuration. I wanted to replace my loginname with my original email-adress,
> so that my ISP will accept the sender adress as correct. Therefore I created a
> mail-address file and put the following into the rewriting rules section:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]${lookup{$1}lsearch{/etc/email-addresses}\
> {$value}fail} bcfrF
> This part works fine.
> The bug occurs, when I get mail from for example lpd for my local account. 
> Then
> the To-header will be changed and the mail will be delivered over my ISP 
> instead
> of directly to my local account.
> But all I wanted was to change the From-header part.
> Now I know, that I can do it with exim this way, but I do not know how. I 
> tried a lot
> and got lots of error messages.
> Can someone fill me an example to do this and a short explanation ? I don't 
> want it
> to work without knowing why ... . (And please do not only refer to the docs. 
> I read
> them all - it helped little).
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Klaus.

Re: problems w/Recent Upgrade to October GNOME

[Martin Bialasinski]

* "John" == John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

John> As you can guess I have never tried to recompile any debian
John> stuff from the sources so I need a little hand holding here.

No prob.

$ ls
mc_4.5.42-3.diff.gz  mc_4.5.42-3.dsc  mc_4.5.42.orig.tar.gz

$ dpkg-source -x mc_4.5.42-3.dsc
dpkg-source: extracting mc in mc-4.5.42

$ fakeroot debian/rules binary
dh_testdir
AWK="awk" CFLAGS="-O2 -g -Wall" \
[...]


Ciao,
Martin

Re: problems w/Recent Upgrade to October GNOME

[John Foster]

Martin Bialasinski wrote:
> 
> * "John" == John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> John> Since I have all of these installed-- then I can recompile mc
> John> from the source code and it should be OK--is that correct??
> 
> Yes. If you can get hold of the Debian sources for this version, you
> can also recompile the package, instead of compiling the upstream
> source.
> 
> When you have them dpkg-source -x mc*dsc will unpack them.

I found a mail-list archive with instructions to finish this. It worked
OK with mc-common and mc but the gmc_4.5.42-4_i386.deb file will not
install I get the following messages:

(Reading database ... 78011 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking gmc (from gmc_4.5.42-4_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing gmc_4.5.42-4_i386.deb (--install):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/convert-metadata.db.1.gz',
which is also in package mc
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)

Any idea what to do now is greatly appreciated!! BTW; this recompile did
fix the mouse problem as I used the debian source files from potato and
recompiled them for slink.
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epson laser 1500

[Paulo Henrique B de Oliveira]

anyone knows if this printer is supported under debian?
thanks, Paulo Henrique

Re: installing apache from source

[Steve Rothanburg]

I thought all you had to do was install (and configure)
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/web/php3_3.0.5-3.deb
to get php3 to work.

On the systems I've used it on, all I did was install it, uncomment the
php3 line from apaches config file, and edit the php3 config file so it
could find the rest of the php3 stuff I'd installed. I haven't tried
php3 on a slink system so I don't know if there is much more to do to
get it to work. Are you saying that doesn't work under slink or is there
a benefit of compiling from scratch? 

Anyway, If you mark the package to be Purged instead of removed it'll
remove the config files also. If you're REALLY paranoid about this stuff
you could always make a backup copy of the config files...

Steve.

hypnos wrote:
> 
> I'm gonna be downloading the sources for apache and
> php3, so that I can compile apache with support for
> php3.  I currently have apache installed (from slink
> .deb) on the machine.  What's the best way to go
> about this change?  I don't want my new installation
> of apache to conflict with the current installation.
> Should I use dselect to remove the current apache
> installation, and then install from source?  I believe
> that [R]emove (from dselect) will not delete my
> configuration files, so I should still be able to use
> those with the new installation, right?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> --
> hypnos  
> 
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ATARI MEMORY

[john oakes]

Hello Debian.
  I wonder if you could help me with a little problem.
my system is ATARI TT030
 4MB ST RAM
 AIXBOARD 32MB OR 64MB (PROBLEM AREA)
 
What I find is that I can use the 32MB but not 64MB with Linux 2.0.36
version. I have noted from an article in Linux Answers magazine on page
70 *Sort OUT YOUR RAM*. It mentions that of a problem recognising the
amount of rams. I have check each 32mb Rams separately both are okay
with linux bootup but not together. It sits happier in Atari on it own.
Is their anyway of counteracting this problem or will the newer version
solve this problem. As I have got this size of ram could I be able to
dispense with swap and replace it Linux, and could I do this.
I look forward to your reply.
regards-- 
john oakes :)

lilo again

[Rik Burt]

If I may I will give some excerpts of "Running Linux"

This is from the /etc/lilo.conf section of the book:

... If you give a partitiondevice name (such as /dev/hda2) instead of a
drive device, LILO will be installed as a secondary boot loader on the named
partition.  (Debian users should always do this.) ...

Then from the section Using LILO as a Secondary Boot Loader:

... This restriction applies to the Debian distribution however, where the
MBR can boot an operating system from a boot sector in an extended (but not
logical) partition.  In order to boot Linux this way, th Linux root
partition should be marked as active in the partition table. 

I have been using LILO in the usual way with Debian so I just don't
understand why LILO should be used as a secondary boot loader.

These excerpts ar from "Running LINUX" 3rd edition by Matt Welsh, Matthias
Kalle Dalheimer and Lar Kaufman

Rik

installing apache from source

[hypnos]

I'm gonna be downloading the sources for apache and
php3, so that I can compile apache with support for
php3.  I currently have apache installed (from slink
.deb) on the machine.  What's the best way to go
about this change?  I don't want my new installation
of apache to conflict with the current installation.
Should I use dselect to remove the current apache
installation, and then install from source?  I believe
that [R]emove (from dselect) will not delete my
configuration files, so I should still be able to use
those with the new installation, right?

Thanks

--
hypnos  

Upgrading from slink to potato

[Manuel Arenaz Silva]

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Hello,

I want to upgrade my Debian Linux Box from slink to potato. I have got a

4-CD copy of the potato system. It was obtained from a Debian mirror
around 20th december 1999.

A friend of mine told me that upgrading to potato was as easy as:

1) Installing apt-cdrom via "dpkg --install /apt-cdrom."
2) Running "apt-cdrom add" for each CD of the potato distribution. This
way apt updates its packages database.
3) Running "apt-get upgrade dist".

Nevertheless, I can't find the "apt-cdrom" package neither in any of the

four potato CD's nor in the www.debian.org  archives. What do I have to
do in order to install apt-cdrom? Are the options for dpkg correct? Do I

have to empty the apt database before doing step 2?

Thanks in advance,

 Manuel Arenaz



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Re: CTRL-C Doesn't work??!! ....

[Kevin Traas]

> > I've got a system here that I've been building from scratch - just to
> > ***learn*** how Debian / Linux works from the ground up (right from
> > building my own boot disk - initrd, etc.).  I've got everything working
> > great; however   Hitting CTRL-C does not kill a running process.
> >
> > The only clue I've got is that, sometimes, I get a message "Job Control
> > Disabled" when starting a shell.  Seeing as CTRL-C is a "form" of job
> > control, I'm thinking this might be related.  I'm using BASH as the
> > shell.
>
> I'd suspect that your shell isn't configured or installed quite right.
>
> The fact that you get the "Job Control Disabled" message seems to
> indicate that control-C and the signal Oliver mentions are working
> fine, but bash doesn't think it can do anything.

Thanks for the info.  And, yeah, I'm thinking the same thing.  I put stty
and tset on the "distro" and they reported all the correct things.  Using
stty, I tried resetting intr to another character and that changed things -
however, not for the better.  Pressing non-assigned characters (i.e. Ctrl-E)
shows a ^E onscreen; however, when intr is set to Ctrl-C, pressing that key
combo shows nothing onscreen - in other words, it's being 'captured' by the
shell or something  Resetting intr to another character has the expected
results.  (That char now doesn't show - and Ctrl-C does.)

So... in conclusion:  Ctrl-C is working fine - the signal is being
received.  However, the shell isn't killing the running process

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Kevin

Includes for adjtimex

[j way]

Where can I find the include files mat.h and confdefs.h for compiling
adjtimex v1.8?  Tnx.  Little bit of Y2K problem here.  -john way

Re: problems w/Recent Upgrade to October GNOME

[John Foster]

Martin Bialasinski wrote:
> 
> * "John" == John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> John> Since I have all of these installed-- then I can recompile mc
> John> from the source code and it should be OK--is that correct??
> 
> Yes. If you can get hold of the Debian sources for this version, you
> can also recompile the package, instead of compiling the upstream
> source.
> 
> When you have them dpkg-source -x mc*dsc will unpack them.
---
As you can guess I have never tried to recompile any debian stuff from
the sources so I need a little hand holding here. Where are the docs for
doing this? I looked at several in the Debian Packaging Manual. I did
not find any clear cut description of what to do next. I unpacked the
source files (mc-4.5.42.dsc, mc-4.5.42.diff.gz, mc-4.5.42.tar.gz. using
"dpkg-source -x -su mc*dsc". Two directories were created "/mc-4.5.42" 
and "/mc-4.5.42.orig". I tried running "dpkg --build" from different
locations and that did not work. I could eventually figure this out but
I need to get this working ASAP as this is a production system.
Thanks!
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Modem dials without reason

[Klaus Drews]

Hi there,

I configured demand dialing with diald on my machine. Now my modem dials every
five minutes without reason. I increased logging but could not find a hint why.
Does anyone know how to find the event that wants a connection ?

Another question:
When I run "route" my modem dials, but the command itself hangs. After a while
(the second or third dial) my routing table looks like this:
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface
194.1.1.1   *   255.255.255.255 UH1  00 sl0
194.1.1.0   *   255.255.255.0   U 0  00 sl0
localnet*   255.255.255.0   U 0  00 eth0
default *   0.0.0.0 U 1  00 sl0
default *   0.0.0.0 U 0  00 ppp0

After that route works fine. The ifconfig output is the following:
loLink encap:Local Loopback  
  inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
  UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:3924  Metric:1
  RX packets:751 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:751 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  Collisions:0 

eth0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 52:54:05:DE:DB:4E  
  inet addr:17.10.10.1  Bcast:17.10.10.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
  UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
  RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:73 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  Collisions:0 
  Interrupt:12 Base address:0xd800 

sl0   Link encap:Serial Line IP  
  inet addr:192.168.0.1  P-t-P:194.1.1.1  Mask:255.255.255.0
  UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
  RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:3099 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  Collisions:0 

ppp0  Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol  
  inet addr:212.184.131.140  P-t-P:193.158.137.77  Mask:255.255.255.255
  UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
  RX packets:9 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:13 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  Collisions:0 

Maybe these two questions are one.
Thanks in advance,
Klaus.

Problem with exim rewriting rule

[Klaus Drews]

Hi there,

exim works fine with me, but produced one silly "bug" because of low -level
configuration. I wanted to replace my loginname with my original email-adress,
so that my ISP will accept the sender adress as correct. Therefore I created a
mail-address file and put the following into the rewriting rules section:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]${lookup{$1}lsearch{/etc/email-addresses}\
{$value}fail} bcfrF
This part works fine.
The bug occurs, when I get mail from for example lpd for my local account. Then
the To-header will be changed and the mail will be delivered over my ISP instead
of directly to my local account.
But all I wanted was to change the From-header part.
Now I know, that I can do it with exim this way, but I do not know how. I tried 
a lot
and got lots of error messages.
Can someone fill me an example to do this and a short explanation ? I don't 
want it
to work without knowing why ... . (And please do not only refer to the docs. I 
read
them all - it helped little).

Thanks in advance,
Klaus.

Installing Quake2 with potato

[Chris Hoover]

I'm trying to get quake 2 to install.  However there seems to be some packages
missing.  
When I try to install quake2-bin, I get the following messages:
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
  quake2-bin: Depends: libgl1 but it is not installable
E: Sorry, broken packages 

When I try to install quake2 I get these errors:
Setting up quake2 (3.20-4) ...
ln: cannot create symbolic link `/usr/lib/games/quake2/opengl32' to 
`/usr/lib/libGL.so.1': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing quake2 (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 quake2
E: Sub-process returned an error code (1)

What do I need to do differently to get quake2 installed?

thanks,

chris

Thrown into console (X won't start)

[Arcady Genkin]

Hi, guys,

When I booted today, wdm didn't come up. I tried starting it manyally,
and it says
,
| (**) SVGA: chipset: RIVA 128
| (**) SVGA: videoram: 4064k
| 
| (**) SVGA: 24bpp not supported for this chipset
| 
| *** A configured device found, but display modes could not be resolved
| ***
`
This is the correct chipset, ram, and it worked just fine with that
resolution yesterday. I checked /etc/X11/XF86Config... all looking
good. Just in case, I restored it from backup -- to no avail.

I went into dselect, and removed X from the system. Then I reinstaled
X. Still the same problem.

XF86Setup cannot switch into graphical mode, so I guess even 16bpp
doesn't work. On a side note, I have a graphical mutlibooter, and it
comes up w/o any problems (in 16bpp, I would guess).

I have a slink system with XFree 3.3.5 installed. The card is Diamond
Viper330.

Any ideas as to what could have happened and how to debug this thingy? 

Thanks!
-- 
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"'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who
loves man is nailed?..'" (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche)

Re: Can login through telnet but not at local machine?

[Nathan York]

I had difficulty logging in when i upgraded to potato as wellreasoning
behind this, my "qwerty" keyboard map had been changed to an "azerty"
keyboard map (not sure why), all he has to do to fix this(if this is it)
is run kbdconfig.to check and see if this is the problem typ 'qwerty'
at the login prompt and make sure 'qwerty' shows up and not 'azerty'

-- Nathan York
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Harlan Crystal wrote:

> Greetings:
> 
> I installed slink on a friend's machine a little while back.  I recently got
> a email from him saying that he moved to potato and now he can log in
> through telnet but not at his own keyboard.  He was asking me how to fix it,
> and if he couldn't log in at all I would have some suggestions, but given
> that he can get in through telnet but not onscreen, I'm stumped.  The only
> difference I can cite is that when he logs on screen he says he's using "a
> graphical login" (I assume XDM...)  and it won't let him in.  He said that
> he can "alt-F2" to a console and try to log in but that gives him the same
> result.
> 
> I myself moved from slink to potato without glitches like this numerous
> times without major problems.  I haven't personally seen his machine since
> the problem but I will be soon.  Does anyone have any idea what I can look
> at when I go there to try to fix it?
> 
> 
> thank you,
> 
>  - Harlan
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> 
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Re: Wrong timestamp on modules.dep

[Ethan Benson]

On 3/1/2000 Brian Servis wrote:


 I don't see why not.  hwclock lives in the /sbin directory so it will
be on the root partition along with /lib, so it should be able to run
before the rest of the filesystem is mounted in the S35mountall.sh
script.

But for some reason I feel like I am missing something as to why it is
setup the way it is.  Anybody else care to add a comment on this?


/etc/localtime is usually a symlink to the real timezone file in 
/usr/share/zoneinfo, if /usr is a separate filesystem from / then you 
will have problems.  a solution to that of course is to copy the 
timezone file to /etc/ instead of using a symlink.  (which is done 
sometimes but tzconfig creates symlinks)



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Re: Wrong timestamp on modules.dep

[Brian Servis]

*- On  2 Jan, John Dalbec wrote about "Re: Wrong timestamp on modules.dep"
>>*- On  2 Jan, John Dalbec wrote about "Wrong timestamp on modules.dep"
>>> My Hardware Clock is set to local time to keep another OS happy.
>>> /etc/rcS.d has
>>> S20modutils
>>> S50hwclock.sh
>>> (among others)
>>> so modules.dep is timestamped as though the Hardware Clock were set to GMT.
>>> I have kernel 2.2.13 and "RTC stores time in GMT" set to "no" under APM.
>>> Did I forget to set "thip crinkle and spoit" to "no"? :)
>>
>>
>>Nope, it is a bug in the Debian package setup.  If you wait to reboot
>>longer than your GMT offset then you won't get the warning, =).
>>See the bug report at http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/53/53247.html.
>>
> Thanks for the tip.  I tried renaming S50hwclock.sh to S20hwclock.sh
> and that seemed to work.  Is this safe?

 I don't see why not.  hwclock lives in the /sbin directory so it will
be on the root partition along with /lib, so it should be able to run
before the rest of the filesystem is mounted in the S35mountall.sh
script.  

But for some reason I feel like I am missing something as to why it is
setup the way it is.  Anybody else care to add a comment on this?

Brian Servis
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Purdue University   |  have walked a mile in their shoes,
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http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis   |  mile away and have their shoes.

Alsa on CS4236

[Jonathan Markevich]

I have the above card, and I know it works.  For the life of me I can't get
it to accept the values.  I had it working before, and my drive went
kablooie so I forgot how I set it up.

Does anyone have this card with some tips?  Should I post my isapnp.conf and
my /etc/modules/alsa file for inspection?  I hate rebooting to play MP3s,
it's just so WRONG.

-- 
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"No matter where you go, there you are..."
-- Buckaroo Banzai

Re: can someone please explain to me error in execution path?

[Jor-el]

On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Joseph de los Santos wrote:

> I installed enlightenment but when I try to run a program I get the error
> 
> "There was an error running the program:
> eeyes
> THis program could not be executed.
> this is most  probably because this program is not in the path for your 
> shell which is /bin/bash. I suggest you read the manual page for that shell 
> and read up how to change or add to your execution path."
> 
> I tried adding the default hidden directory of /.enlightenment to the path 
> of my /bin/bash but it would not let me...I even made permission to 
> enlightenment directory read/write to all. maybe I'm doing it all wrong? can 
> sompebody please lend a helping hand. Thank you.
> 
Joseph,

You shouldnt have to add the .enlightenment directory to your
path. From the error message, it just seems that you havent installed the
eeyes package from the 'graphics' section. Try installing it and let us
know.

Regards,
Jor-el 

Carmel, New York, has an ordinance forbidding men to wear coats and
trousers that don't match.

Re: Y2K problem with slrn?

[Colin Marquardt]

> Sounds good, but it won't install.  Seems that debhelper has to be
> upgraded as well and 'that' seems to require the perl upgrade.
> Depbelper fails with

> DH_VERSION=10 perl -MTest::Harness -e 'runtests grep { ! /CVS/ }
[...]

I had this problem as well, but the answer I got from the -devel-List
was embarassingly obvious: none of the dependencies of debhelper require
newer stuff than included with Slink, so you can just take the .deb file
as is, without the need to build it yourself.

The `build' dependencies is obviously there, but it doesn't matter
when taking the built debhelper. Got lm_sensors from Potato running
nicely with it.

Cheers,
  Colin

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| by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 26, @08:50AM 
| I came home from a Barry Manilow concert once and had 666 burned into
| my forehead! I shit you not![Kernel 2.2.0 is announced on /.]

Can login through telnet but not at local machine?

[Harlan Crystal]

Greetings:

I installed slink on a friend's machine a little while back.  I recently got
a email from him saying that he moved to potato and now he can log in
through telnet but not at his own keyboard.  He was asking me how to fix it,
and if he couldn't log in at all I would have some suggestions, but given
that he can get in through telnet but not onscreen, I'm stumped.  The only
difference I can cite is that when he logs on screen he says he's using "a
graphical login" (I assume XDM...)  and it won't let him in.  He said that
he can "alt-F2" to a console and try to log in but that gives him the same
result.

I myself moved from slink to potato without glitches like this numerous
times without major problems.  I haven't personally seen his machine since
the problem but I will be soon.  Does anyone have any idea what I can look
at when I go there to try to fix it?


thank you,

 - Harlan



--
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AIM: 'Harlan Crystal'   www: http://sdf.lonestar.org/~harlan/

Re: can someone please explain to me error in execution path?

[Ethan Benson]

On 3/1/2000 Joseph de los Santos wrote:


I installed enlightenment but when I try to run a program I get the error

"There was an error running the program:
eeyes
THis program could not be executed.
this is most  probably because this program is not in the path for 
your shell which is /bin/bash. I suggest you read the manual page 
for that shell and read up how to change or add to your execution 
path."


I tried adding the default hidden directory of /.enlightenment to 
the path of my /bin/bash but it would not let me...I even made 
permission to enlightenment directory read/write to all. maybe I'm 
doing it all wrong? can sompebody please lend a helping hand. Thank 
you.


ack don't do that.

check to see if you can execute the program manually from a terminal 
window (xterm rxvt whatever) if that works then something in 
enlightenment may be broken, if not (ie command not found appears) 
then your PATH variable needs to be fixed (or the program is 
missing), check .bash_profile for that.


as long as the program is in a standard place (/bin, /usr/bin, 
/usr/bin/X11) then your PATH should be ok.


one thing i have found is that xdm, wdm whateverdm seem to be broken 
about loading the environment correctly, I have fixed this by 
changing the first line in /etc/X11/Xsession from #!/bin/sh  to 
#!/bin/bash --login, this will cause the full environment to be 
loaded (ie load /etc/profile and ~/.bash_profile) which are normally 
ignored.  note that some versions of bash 2 are broken in that 
--login does not work inside scripts, the latest version from potato 
is fine.  if your bash is broken and you cannot upgrade it right now 
then add:


source /etc/profile
source ~/.bash_profile

to your ~/.xsession

the above is more over necessary if you want to have your personal 
~/bin in your PATH.



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Re: pointer trails in X?

[Roland Mas]

Brian Servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Is it possible via some configuration to get the mouse to have a trail
> in X?  It makes it nice to spot the cursor after your eyes have lost
> focus of it.

xeyes is good for you.  I used to have a crontab line reading

0 3 * * * xeyes [arguments I forgot]

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Re: .emacs file please

[Patrick Kirk]

Thanks...but obviously I don't want the defaults but I also don't want to write 
the whole thing from scratch...mainly interested in pruning headers in rmail.

I'll post to the emacs newsgroup you suggested.

Regards,

Patrick

can someone please explain to me error in execution path?

[Joseph de los Santos]

I installed enlightenment but when I try to run a program I get the error

"There was an error running the program:
eeyes
THis program could not be executed.
this is most  probably because this program is not in the path for your 
shell which is /bin/bash. I suggest you read the manual page for that shell 
and read up how to change or add to your execution path."


I tried adding the default hidden directory of /.enlightenment to the path 
of my /bin/bash but it would not let me...I even made permission to 
enlightenment directory read/write to all. maybe I'm doing it all wrong? can 
sompebody please lend a helping hand. Thank you.



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Re: kernel compiling error

[Eric G . Miller]

It's no consolation, but I got framebuffer support to work fine in
2.2.13.  Did you read the framebuffer documentation included with the
sources?  Perhaps something missing in the configuration?
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kernel compiling error

[matt garman]

Hello:

I'm trying to recompile Linux kernel 2.2.13 to remove the stuff I don't
need and include frame buffer support (it's a waste to use 80x24 on a
big monitor!).

Anyway, I untar'ed the archive in /usr/src, did my configuration, then
from /usr/src/linux did "make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.1 kernel_image"
and the compilation dies with the following:

drivers/video/video.a(vga16fb.o): In function vga16fb_set_disp':
vga16fb.o(.text+0x1ed): undefined reference to fbcon_vga_planes'
vga16fb.o(.text+0x1fa): undefined reference to fbcon_ega_planes'

Any ideas on this?

Thanks,
Matt

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Re: Heads up to users of my unofficial pine package.

[Noah L. Meyerhans]

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On Sun, 2 Jan 2000, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:

> If you do a apt-get upgrade, you may find that the mlock package is held
> back.  This is a new package that libc-client depends upon.  Pine in turn
> depends on libc-client.  Do *not* upgrade mlock at this time.  If you do,
> pine might get removed.  Today I will be sending an updated pine package
> to Nate to put on the web page.  Btw. this will be pine 4.21 the latest
> version which many of you have been requesting.

I'm mirroring the pine packages at members.mint.net/frodo/pine.  Could you
send the new packages to me, too (or, even better, make them available for
FTP)?

Thanks,
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can't connect to ISP!

[Li Wei]

Thanks to all those who reply!
(Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The email address in the From field is
false!)

Although I can use Win95 to connect to the ISP, I can't use PAP to connect
to ISP in Debian 2.0. I remember i connected to ISP in Debian 1.2. I'sure
that ISP's PPP is working.
 
Below is output of plog, using PAP:

Jan  2 03:47:09 debian pppd[196]: Using interface ppp0
Jan  2 03:47:09 debian pppd[196]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS2
Jan  2 03:47:09 debian pppd[196]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 
  ]
Jan  2 03:47:36 debian last message repeated 9 times
Jan  2 03:47:39 debian pppd[196]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
Jan  2 03:47:39 debian pppd[196]: Connection terminated.
Jan  2 03:47:39 debian pppd[196]: Receive serial link is not 8-bit clean:
Jan  2 03:47:39 debian pppd[196]: Problem: all had bit 7 set to 0
Jan  2 03:47:57 debian pppd[196]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
Jan  2 03:47:58 debian pppd[196]: Exit.

Below is ppp.log, using chatscript:

Jan  1 05:30:26 debian chat[497]: abort on (NO ANSWER)
Jan  1 05:30:26 debian chat[497]: send (ATZ^M)
Jan  1 05:30:26 debian chat[497]: expect (OK)
Jan  1 05:30:44 debian chat[497]: ATZ^M^M
Jan  1 05:30:44 debian chat[497]: OK
Jan  1 05:30:44 debian chat[497]:  -- got it
Jan  1 05:30:44 debian chat[497]: send (ATDT169^M)
Jan  1 05:30:44 debian chat[497]: expect (CONNECT)
Jan  1 05:30:44 debian chat[497]: ^M
Jan  1 05:31:24 debian chat[497]: ATDT169^M
Jan  1 05:31:24 debian chat[497]: CONNECT
Jan  1 05:31:24 debian chat[497]:  -- got it
Jan  1 05:31:24 debian chat[497]: send (^M)
Jan  1 05:31:24 debian chat[497]: expect (name:)
Jan  1 05:31:34 debian chat[497]:  38400^M^M
Jan  1 05:31:34 debian chat[497]: ^M
Jan  1 05:31:34 debian chat[497]:  ^M
Jan  1 05:31:54 debian chat[497]: Welcome to Shanghai 169-7-1 S17^M
Jan  1 05:31:54 debian chat[497]: ^M
Jan  1 05:32:09 debian chat[497]: alarm
Jan  1 05:32:09 debian chat[497]: send (^M)
Jan  1 05:32:09 debian chat[497]: expect (name:)
Jan  1 05:32:24 debian chat[497]: as username and password^M
Jan  1 05:32:44 debian chat[497]: To enter Shanghai 169 Services^M
Jan  1 05:32:44 debian chat[497]: ^M
Jan  1 05:32:54 debian last message repeated 2 times
Jan  1 05:32:54 debian chat[497]: username:
Jan  1 05:32:54 debian chat[497]:  -- got it
Jan  1 05:32:54 debian chat[497]: send (??)
Jan  1 05:32:55 debian chat[497]: expect (word:)
Jan  1 05:32:55 debian chat[497]: ^M
Jan  1 05:33:04 debian chat[497]: username:^M
Jan  1 05:33:14 debian chat[497]: username:169^M
Jan  1 05:33:24 debian chat[497]: Password:
Jan  1 05:33:24 debian chat[497]:  -- got it
Jan  1 05:33:24 debian chat[497]: send (??)
Jan  1 05:33:24 debian chat[497]: send (\d)
Jan  1 05:33:25 debian pppd[496]: Serial connection established.
Jan  1 05:33:34 debian pppd[496]: Using interface ppp0
Jan  1 05:33:34 debian pppd[496]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS2
Jan  1 05:33:34 debian pppd[496]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 
  ]
Jan  1 05:34:01 debian last message repeated 9 times
Jan  1 05:34:04 debian pppd[496]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
Jan  1 05:34:04 debian pppd[496]: Connection terminated.
Jan  1 05:34:04 debian pppd[496]: Receive serial link is not 8-bit clean:
Jan  1 05:34:04 debian pppd[496]: Problem: all had bit 7 set to 0
Jan  1 05:34:13 debian pppd[496]: Terminating on signal 15.
Jan  1 05:34:14 debian pppd[496]: Hangup (SIGHUP)


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Re: Wrong timestamp on modules.dep

[John Dalbec]

>*- On  2 Jan, John Dalbec wrote about "Wrong timestamp on modules.dep"
>> My Hardware Clock is set to local time to keep another OS happy.
>> /etc/rcS.d has
>> S20modutils
>> S50hwclock.sh
>> (among others)
>> so modules.dep is timestamped as though the Hardware Clock were set to GMT.
>> I have kernel 2.2.13 and "RTC stores time in GMT" set to "no" under APM.
>> Did I forget to set "thip crinkle and spoit" to "no"? :)
>
>
>Nope, it is a bug in the Debian package setup.  If you wait to reboot
>longer than your GMT offset then you won't get the warning, =).
>See the bug report at http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/53/53247.html.
>
Thanks for the tip.  I tried renaming S50hwclock.sh to S20hwclock.sh
and that seemed to work.  Is this safe?
>Brian Servis
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Re: ugly block cursor in emacs after dist-upgrade

[Ethan Benson]

setterm -reset



Didn't work, as I mentioned its confined to emacs, the rest of the 
console is fine...


Ethan

Heads up to users of my unofficial pine package.

[Jaldhar H. Vyas]

If you do a apt-get upgrade, you may find that the mlock package is held
back.  This is a new package that libc-client depends upon.  Pine in turn
depends on libc-client.  Do *not* upgrade mlock at this time.  If you do,
pine might get removed.  Today I will be sending an updated pine package
to Nate to put on the web page.  Btw. this will be pine 4.21 the latest
version which many of you have been requesting.

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Re: ugly block cursor in emacs after dist-upgrade

[Dwayne C . Litzenberger]

On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 05:57:18PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
> hi,
> 
> after running a dist-upgrade on my potato system today emacs (in 
> console) started displaying a big fat ugly blinking block cursor 
> instead of the regular `_' that the rest of the console has..
> 
> what caused this and how do I fix it?  the rest of the console is as 
> it always was. I thought it might have been something fiddling with 
> svgatextmode but on another potato box i just upgraded does not have 
> that package installed at all and exhibits the same new ugly block 
> cursor.
> 
> 

Try:

setterm -reset
 
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Re: Y2K problem with slrn?

[Pann McCuaig]

On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 22:09, Colin Watson wrote:
> Pann McCuaig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Here is my $HOME/.jnewsrc.time:
> >
> >NEWGROUPS 1000102 173956 GMT
> >
> >Looks like there's a 100 where a 2000 ought to be.
> 
> See:
> 
>   http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=53811

Thanks. Looking at the bug report it's probably been fixed upstream but
they'll have to release a newer upstream version for slink.

> I imagine there'll be a new release of slrn out soon that solves this
> problem.

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ugly block cursor in emacs after dist-upgrade

[Ethan Benson]

hi,

after running a dist-upgrade on my potato system today emacs (in 
console) started displaying a big fat ugly blinking block cursor 
instead of the regular `_' that the rest of the console has..


what caused this and how do I fix it?  the rest of the console is as 
it always was. I thought it might have been something fiddling with 
svgatextmode but on another potato box i just upgraded does not have 
that package installed at all and exhibits the same new ugly block 
cursor.



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Re: Urgent: can't hookup to ISP

[Howard Mann]

Li Wei wrote:
> 
> I have Debian 2.0. I made a connection by pppconfig but can't hookup to ISP
> by pon. Below is part of /var/log/ppp.log:
> 
> ...
> Jan  1 05:33:25 debian pppd[496]: Serial connection established.
> Jan  1 05:33:34 debian pppd[496]: Using interface ppp0
> Jan  1 05:33:34 debian pppd[496]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS2
> Jan  1 05:33:34 debian pppd[496]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 
>]
> Jan  1 05:34:01 debian last message repeated 9 times
> Jan  1 05:34:04 debian pppd[496]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
> Jan  1 05:34:04 debian pppd[496]: Connection terminated.
> Jan  1 05:34:04 debian pppd[496]: Receive serial link is not 8-bit clean:
> Jan  1 05:34:04 debian pppd[496]: Problem: all had bit 7 set to 0
> Jan  1 05:34:13 debian pppd[496]: Terminating on signal 15.
> Jan  1 05:34:14 debian pppd[496]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
> Jan  1 05:34:14 debian pppd[496]: Exit.


This generally means you have not started the ppp server at your
ISP.There are other possibilities.

Peruse :  http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/PPP-HOWTO-18.html#ss18.3

Cheers,


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apt-get: upgrade vs dist-upgrade

[Mark Wagnon]

I can't remember where I read it, but I read that, in reference to
potato, to keep an installation up-to-date one should run apt-get
with the upgrade option and with the dist-upgrade option. Is this
true? I ran apt-get dist-upgrade when I moved from slink to potato,
but since, I've just used the upgrade option to apt-get. Am I doing
it wrong? Oh, I remember now, it was on the svlug list. I'l check to
see if I can find the original post.

TIA for any clarification.
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Example config for lprng?

[Robert L. Harris]

I need to get my printer online pretty quick.  I just installed lprng
and magicfilter.  I have an HP882c on /dev/lp0.

Can anyone send me an example printcap and any config files I need?
If I use my existing printcap and do an "lpq" it just hangs.  Printing
does the same.

Robert

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Re: Y2K problem with slrn?

[Wayne Topa]

Subject: Re: Y2K problem with slrn?
Date: Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 05:49:36PM -0500

In reply to:Brian Servis

Quoting Brian Servis([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>| *- On  2 Jan, Colin Watson wrote about "Re: Y2K problem with slrn?"
>| > Pann McCuaig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>| >>Here is my $HOME/.jnewsrc.time:
>| >>
>| >>NEWGROUPS 1000102 173956 GMT
>| >>
>| >>Looks like there's a 100 where a 2000 ought to be.
>| > 
>| > See:
>| > 
>| >   http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=53811
>| > 
>| > I imagine there'll be a new release of slrn out soon that solves this
>| > problem.
>| > 
>| 
>| Actually the one in potato contains the fix but apparently this wasn't
>| caught for the y2k slink release(2.1r4).  The current pilot-manager
>| package has the same type of bug in it as well.  You could always build
>| the potato source package on your slink system.

Sounds good, but it won't install.  Seems that debhelper has to be
upgraded as well and 'that' seems to require the perl upgrade.
Depbelper fails with

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

Nice try tho Brian.  Thanks anyway.

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pointer trails in X?

[Brian Servis]

Is it possible via some configuration to get the mouse to have a trail
in X?  It makes it nice to spot the cursor after your eyes have lost
focus of it.

Thanks,

Brian Servis
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SMC EzCard 10/100

[Nate Duehr]

Anyone had any luck getting the SMC EzCard 10/100 to work under potato?

I have two of them here (one's still new in the box) that I'd like to
use for various things, but my initial attempts at getting it running
under slink were poor.  That's why one of them is still in the box! :)
The actual model number of the card is the SMC 1211TX.

I've got a ton of things going on right now, but if someone says they
have it up and working, it would be a nudge in the right direction
for me to take the time to set them up and get them in the boxes
that need them.  

My original reason for going with them is that Donald Becker's SMC
drivers for the EtherEZ and other 10BaseT cards are just wonderful.
I made the poor assumption that the drivers for newer SMC cards
would be as nice, but it appears that these cards are made by
whoever bought out SMC, and they're not as easy to write drivers
for as the old SMC stuff.

In particular, when trying to get the card running on a 2.0.38
kernel, they continually had interrupt problems (it's a PCI card)
and they wouldn't autonegotiate to 10BaseT speeds correctly.

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Re: Acer machines

[aphro]

yes it would see the new CPU, i have read nightmare tales about people
having to reinstall NT after adding a second cpu if they were not using
compaq hardware, with linux its as simple as recompiling the kernel to get
the 2nd cpu working. some distributions already come with SMP kernels and
work fine in UP mode.i have had good luck with 2.2.10 on the 2.2.x side
and 2.0.36 on the 2.0.x side for SMP.

nate

On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Oki DZ wrote:

litban >
litban >
litban >On 31 Dec 1999, Scott Henry wrote:
litban >> Not those specific machines.
litban >
litban >SGI?
litban >> 
litban >> There are separate kernels for one CPU and multiple CPUs (aka SMP). 
litban >> You need a whole new kernel, since the changes are intrusive and
litban >> wide-spread. But it's done with a single sleection in `make
litban >> menuconfig`, the first step in compiling your own kernel. Note that
litban >> all modules need to be recompiled as well.
litban >
litban >I'm quite familiar with recompiling Linux kernel.
litban > 
litban >> A standard uniprocessor kernel runs on a multi-processor system, so
litban >> installation, etc, works.
litban >
litban >Problem is, the machine is currently running on a single-processor, and
litban >I'd like to know whether if I add a new processor card on the machine, 
the
litban >kernel would recognize the added CPU (after recompiling the kernel, of
litban >course).
litban >
litban >Oki
litban >
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Re: Acer machines

[Scott Henry]

> "O" == Oki DZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

O> On 31 Dec 1999, Scott Henry wrote:
>> Not those specific machines.

O> SGI?

Yes, I work for SGI, but not speaking for SGI...


O> Problem is, the machine is currently running on a single-processor, and
O> I'd like to know whether if I add a new processor card on the machine, the
O> kernel would recognize the added CPU (after recompiling the kernel, of
O> course).

If it is a supported MP motherboard, then an SMP kernel should
recognize and use the second processor, as long as it is compatible
with the first one. I don't know all the ins-and-outs, but many MBs
need the CPUs to be of the same speed and "stepping" (specific
production version). The contents of /proc/cpuinfo for the 2
processors needs to be compatible in a way defined by the MB and
BIOS.

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Re: rdate fails Y2K

[Brian Servis]

*- On  2 Jan, George Bonser wrote about "Re: rdate fails Y2K"
> On Sun, 2 Jan 2000, Nate Duehr wrote:
> 
>> That's pretty funny, if you think about it.  The National Institute of
>> Standards is either breaking a standard themselves, or isn't Y2K compliant.
>> 
>> HA!  That's great!
>> 
> 
> Someone else reported someplace else seeing a time update of Jan 01, 19100
> right after the rollover. I am wondering if this is the same source of the
> problem.  
> 
> 

The 19100 problem is the result of sloppy programming.  There is a c
library call that returns the year as the number of years from 1900,
also used in perl's Time::Local.  Authors were using that as the two
digit year or just appending it to 19(not adding), so you are either 
seeing dates like 1/1/100 or years of 19100. I highly doubt if the 
NIST folks were doing that. But you never know!

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Re: icewm

[Nate Duehr]

Here I use gdm which has options at login for using gnome-session, the 
"standard" Debian startup, .xsession and something else.  Makes it easy to 
tinker with them.  Just pick "xsession" as your startup method and voila.

On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 09:08:58AM -0500, Rick Knebel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have been using gnome-session to run gnome and enlightenment.
> I wanted to try icewm-gnome.
> How can i switch to this jsut for one specific user and not make it global.
> I tried copying the Xsession file to my home directory and renaming it
> .Xsession but it seems to ignore this.
> 
> I am using xdm.
> 
> Thanks
> Rick
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Re: Unrecognized option: --helpRe: email grabbed by RMAIL emacs

[David Teague]

On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Patrick Kirk wrote:

> Thanks!  But this is what I got when I tried the script:
> $ chmod +x mail-to-mail
> $ mail-to-mail RMAIL Archives
> bash: mail-to-mail: command not found
> 
> Did I do something wrong?
> PS - do you know a URL on how to use rmail?

Hi Patrick

I think your current directory is not in your path, this is done to
prevent some trojan horses thatyou might be tricked into executing
by the miscreant renaming some evil bit of code ls or cd. 

To exectute mail-to-mail, at your command prompt, type

./mail-to-mail RMAIL

You also may have trouble if you actually have spaces in your
archive name.  If your RMAIL archive is indeed named RMAIL Archive,
then you must escape the space (since the shell (the command
interpreter)  will see the space as a separator) you would type

./mail-to-mail RMAIL\ Archive

where I have excaped the space in the n ame with a back-slash, \

Tutorial on rmail? I know no URL. Anybody?
Howevber,  you are running Emacs the self documenting editor
among many other things. You should use info emacs (on my sytem
I don't have emacs, only xemacs, so I say info xemacs)

then I used control-s rmail to search for rmail, I found it
right away. Let me know how you do in using info. It responds
to the same sorts of commands that emacs does. 

YOu also have info inside emacs, use control-h i to get to info,
the read the tutorial. Please read the emacs faq as well.

Luck to you!

David



--David
David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: permanently turning on gcc Pentium optimization

[Paul J. Keenan]

"Dwayne C . Litzenberger" wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Jan 01, 2000 at 03:45:30AM +, Paul J. Keenan wrote:
> > To permanently turn on pentium optimizations, change
> > your /usr/lib/gcc-lib/2.92.2/specs (or similar) from
> >
> > *cc1:
> > %(cc1_cpu) %{profile:-p}
> >
> > *cc1:
> > %(cc1_cpu) %{profile:-p} -march=i586
> >
> > As others have pointed out, the gains may be limited
> > with respect to the amount of work you do recompiling,
> > but I'm of the opinion that even of you get a 1% gain
> > then it (shouldn't) do any harm, so why not ?
> >
> 
> Well don't do it if you're a package maintainer.  On many CPUs the
> "optimisations" actually slow things down, and nobody wants that.
> 
> Sorry, though, I don't know the answer to your question.
> 
> --
> "If you continue running Windows, your system may become unstable."
>  -- Windows 95 BSOD
> 
> Dwayne C. Litzenberger - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists.

Yeah - I wasn't actually advocating this to anyone, I was just saying
that that's how you would do it if you had weighed up the pros and
cons and decided to do it.  I believe the -march=i586 could make the
code non-runnable on 3/486s, so it's certainly not one for the
package maintainers ...

Personally, I use the 386-compiled standard debian packages, and they
do me just fine !

-- 
Regards,
Paul

Re: Acer machines

[Oki DZ]

On 31 Dec 1999, Scott Henry wrote:
> Not those specific machines.

SGI?
> 
> There are separate kernels for one CPU and multiple CPUs (aka SMP). 
> You need a whole new kernel, since the changes are intrusive and
> wide-spread. But it's done with a single sleection in `make
> menuconfig`, the first step in compiling your own kernel. Note that
> all modules need to be recompiled as well.

I'm quite familiar with recompiling Linux kernel.
 
> A standard uniprocessor kernel runs on a multi-processor system, so
> installation, etc, works.

Problem is, the machine is currently running on a single-processor, and
I'd like to know whether if I add a new processor card on the machine, the
kernel would recognize the added CPU (after recompiling the kernel, of
course).

Oki

Urgent: can't hookup to ISP

[Li Wei]

I have Debian 2.0. I made a connection by pppconfig but can't hookup to ISP
by pon. Below is part of /var/log/ppp.log:

...
Jan  1 05:33:25 debian pppd[496]: Serial connection established.
Jan  1 05:33:34 debian pppd[496]: Using interface ppp0
Jan  1 05:33:34 debian pppd[496]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS2
Jan  1 05:33:34 debian pppd[496]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 
   ]
Jan  1 05:34:01 debian last message repeated 9 times
Jan  1 05:34:04 debian pppd[496]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
Jan  1 05:34:04 debian pppd[496]: Connection terminated.
Jan  1 05:34:04 debian pppd[496]: Receive serial link is not 8-bit clean:
Jan  1 05:34:04 debian pppd[496]: Problem: all had bit 7 set to 0
Jan  1 05:34:13 debian pppd[496]: Terminating on signal 15.
Jan  1 05:34:14 debian pppd[496]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
Jan  1 05:34:14 debian pppd[496]: Exit.

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