Re: Thinkpad X61s/x301 hotkeys

2009-05-11 Thread Alex Romosan
Bruno Voigt bruno.vo...@ic3s.de writes: Alex Romosan wrote: I have the same problem with a Thinkpad X301, the Suspend2Ram/Suspend2Disk buttons ceased to work with some update in the last two weeks. on my thinkpad t61p i managed to get the suspend to ram button to work by editing /etc

Re: Thinkpad X61s/x301 hotkeys

2009-05-09 Thread Alex Romosan
Bruno Voigt writes: I have the same problem with a Thinkpad X301, the Suspend2Ram/Suspend2Disk buttons ceased to work with some update in the last two weeks. on my thinkpad t61p i managed to get the suspend to ram button to work by editing /etc/acpi/events/sleepbtn and changing

Re: How to compile kernel 2.0.36 on Potato

2000-08-20 Thread Alex Romosan
Pedro I. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I need to compile the old kernel 2.0.36 on a Potato machine (gcc 2.95.2-14). I know that gcc versions 2.8 and up won't compile these old kernels unless a patch is applied to them. install the gcc272 package and change the makefile to use gcc272

Re: So, what's up with the XFree86 4.0 .debs?

2000-03-13 Thread Alex Romosan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 01:16:55PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: [snip] [1] The makedepend program gets stuck in an infinite loop when attempting to generate dependencies in xc/programs/xterm. One of Tom Dickey's patches, #130 or #131, is probably the culprit

Re: Weird Console Stuff

2000-01-25 Thread Alex Romosan
^chewie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've been experiencing a very strange console problem. My keyboard seems to have the wrong keys bound. In X Windows, no problems. In console, 'cwalstrom' types out as 'czqlstro,'. Obviously, I cannot log on in console mode because I cannot predict which

Re: ALSA sound

1999-08-15 Thread Alex Romosan
Eric G . Miller egm2@jps.net writes: On Sun, Aug 15, 1999 at 05:56:48PM +0200, Nils-Erik Svangård wrote: Yes, but the modules do not compile :-(! -- unfortunately you need a newer version of alsa in order to be able to compile with gcc 2.95 (bugs in the alsa code). 0.4.0 was released

Re: potato NIS

1999-08-01 Thread Alex Romosan
Marcin Kurc [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have upgraded to potato with NIS 3.4-1. Everything worked fine with slink NIS package but now I cannot connect to NIS master. For example, ypcat passwd output: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc]# ypcat passwd yp_all: clnt_call: RPC: Timed out No such map

Re: XFree86 with Neomagic

1999-03-26 Thread Alex Romosan
Ian Lynagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Debian 2.1 has the neomagic driver. If you MUST have the 3.3.1 version, install Debian's X like usual, then go to master.debian.org/~vincent/ and grab the temporary 3.3.1 debs. or you can simply place xfree86.orgs xserver binary in /usr/local/bin and

Re: Bus error

1999-03-07 Thread Alex Romosan
Tommy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If programs crash with a bus error is that entirely a hardware issue? I believe it is, but I just want to be sure. Thanks no it's not. most of the time it is actually a software issue. it just means the program was trying to access some garbage in memory

Re: motif debian

1998-10-14 Thread Alex Romosan
which motif do you have? i converted metrolink motif 2.1 into a deb package. i converted the rpm to deb using alien -d -g -c -g creates a directory to unpack the rpm, -c tries to convert the installation scripts. i then moved the files around to have them conform as much as possible with the

Re: can ya believe M$ netshow run on linux

1998-04-27 Thread Alex Romosan
x86 Linux ELF netshow_linux -i dont think it will be popular it might not be popular, but for a while audionet switched to broadcasting hockey games in netshow format only. i had to use netshow. now they are doing the broadcast in both netshow and realaudio, so i am back to using

Re: A funny little mistake

1998-04-27 Thread Alex Romosan
This is the best thing to try first - although I have seen some things that even this won't work on. Chris Such as what? WHOA! This is my chnace to present my most stupid mistake: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp# cat /dev/null -i [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp# rm -i rm: too few arguments Try `rm

Re: Upgrading to hamm

1998-04-15 Thread Alex Romosan
And some 2.0.33 systems (mine at least) are quite stable with hamm. Bob Quite possible if it only runs a few hours/day or is lightly loaded. I would consider it a ticking timebomb, though. One particular system of we have quite a few systems running 2.0.33 up 24/7 with plenty of people

Re: Emacs

1998-04-13 Thread Alex Romosan
i use font-lock to accomplish this. look at /usr/share/emacs/20.2/lisp/font-lock.el for more info on how to enable it. --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active | | advance of the mind, it will be possible (simultaneously with | | automatism and other

Re: Laptop Sound

1998-04-06 Thread Alex Romosan
linux? I'm on a Dell Latitude 166M with an ESS SB16Compatible sound card. what kind of soundchip does it have? i set up a Gateway Solo 2300 LS with a Yamaha YM715 soundchip and it works fine for me. --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active | | advance of

Re: -- MARK --

1998-04-06 Thread Alex Romosan
read the manual page. man sysklogd: -m interval The syslogd logs a mark timestamp regularly. The default interval between two -- MARK -- lines is 20 minutes. This can be changed with this option. --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand

Re: xmgr statically linked against motif?

1998-04-03 Thread Alex Romosan
stable and it's buggy i think. So is it possible to make such packages statically linked against motif (like ddd-static). I would recompile it, but i do not have motif. Thanks, Jens i've made the xmotif-static package. you can get it by anonymous ftp from caliban.lbl.gov in /pub/debian. i don't

Re: xmgr statically linked against motif?

1998-04-03 Thread Alex Romosan
i've made the xmotif-static package. you can get it by anonymous ftp ^^ sorry to follow up on my own post. what i meant to say is that i made the xmgr-smotif package. and one more thing, it depends on libc6, as i have a hamm system. i just saw that the message was posted to

Re: mozilla.deb, get it while its hot

1998-04-02 Thread Alex Romosan
You might want to tell everyone that it comes _without_ the news and mail readers. look at this as an added bonus. no more unreadable html mail from clueless newbies (or seasoned morons). --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active | | advance

Re: mozilla.deb, get it while its hot

1998-04-02 Thread Alex Romosan
Hey, I don't like html mail either, but that was too hard. Dont you think so? Alex Y. not really. i usually delete such mail right away without even reading it. and i don't care where it comes from: my boss or from somebody off the net i don't even know. sorry. --alex-- -- | I believe the

Re: Netscape 4 not working

1998-03-30 Thread Alex Romosan
Yet I get Bus Error, when i start netscape. do you have the latest awe-netscape installed? i had to remove it to get netscape to work again. --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active | | advance of the mind, it will be possible (simultaneously with | |

laptop soundconf

1998-03-30 Thread Alex Romosan
this is the soundconf file for a Gateway Solo 2300 LS with a Yamaha YM715 sound chipset. i am running kernel 2.0.33. btw, the card is not configured as a soundblaster. i had the same experience as you did, namely if i booted into windows and then linux the sound card will work. unfortunately the

Re: netscape -- hamm ---- shared libs?

1998-03-27 Thread Alex Romosan
if you have xlib6 3.3.2-1 from hamm, then this is a well known bug which has been discussed to death on debian-devel and it is now fixed in release 3.3.2-2. so get that out of unstable. and one more thing. if you are going to use the unstable distribution, do us a favour and read debian-devel. or

Re: Yet another hamm 'oops' (netscape problem)

1998-03-26 Thread Alex Romosan
until the problem is fixed you can get xlib6 built against libc5 by anonymous ftp from caliban.lbl.gov in /pub/debian/xlib. the package name is xlib6_3.3.2-0_i386.deb. you will have to use dpkg to install it by hand. --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active

Re: Yet another hamm 'oops' (netscape problem)

1998-03-26 Thread Alex Romosan
I have been using hamm for months now, and its supposed to be unstable, however this is the first time I've seen a big problem like this.. one more thing, if use the unstable distribution you better subscribe to debian-devel. --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac

Re: Yet another hamm 'oops' (netscape problem)

1998-03-26 Thread Alex Romosan
this is the blurb about the list: debian-devel This is the main discussion list for development topics. All developers should be subscribed to this list. As it is open to the public anyone can join the discussion. Moderated: No Subscription: Open so go ahead, subscribe

Re: Bizarre unsatisfied link...

1998-03-26 Thread Alex Romosan
okay, if you insist. there was a bug in the new xlib6 package version 1. it was accidentally linked against libc6. there is a new version which fixes the problem, it's already in the distribution but the package file hasn't been updated yet. go to your favourite mirror and ftp it by hand for

Re: sound

1998-03-24 Thread Alex Romosan
i got it to work, but unfortunately i don't have the laptop right here. i'll try to get my friend to email me sound.conf file and i'll forward that to you as soon as i get it. --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active | | advance of the mind, it will be

Re: Programming hints.

1998-03-21 Thread Alex Romosan
look at the function signal. from the man page: DESCRIPTION The signal system call installs a new signal handler for the signal with number signum. The signal handler is set to handler which may be a user specified function, or one of the following: if you need

Re: is this the end of debian?

1998-03-20 Thread Alex Romosan
No it certainly is not. We have over 300 developers. The loss of Bruce, though not necessarily a good thing, will not destroy us. ^^^ who is us? The developers who

xlib6

1998-03-20 Thread Alex Romosan
to the people who are using the copy of the xlib6 package from caliban.lbl.gov. if you have any problems with it, please check to make sure that /usr/i486-linuxlibc1/lib/X11/locale and /usr/i486-linuxlibc1/lib/X11/app-defaults are linked to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/ and

Re: is this the end of debian?

1998-03-20 Thread Alex Romosan
Alex of course it is the developers. as some of them made it quite Alex clear in their messages they couldn't care less about the Alex users. too bad. That was uncalled for. Debian has always tried to be friendly to the users (though repsonses like this do make me wonder why) my

Re: xlib6

1998-03-20 Thread Alex Romosan
i just finished building xlib 3.3.2-0 (as i like to call it). it's basically the old package, with some of the bugs fixed (not all) + the patches to take it from revision 3.3.1 to 3.3.2. maybe i can help with building the official version? --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by

Re: Bye Bruce

1998-03-20 Thread Alex Romosan
manoj wrote: Hmm. Elitism is not really a strong motivating force for me. Sharing with what I percive to be my community is. People asking questions is good: for people who ask questions shall one day be contributors to the community. Developers did not spring to this earth tapping code

Re: Hello

1998-03-20 Thread Alex Romosan
i've been running debian on an intel pentium pro 200 for the last year or so, without any problems. it's time to upgrade though. --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active | | advance of the mind, it will be possible (simultaneously with | | automatism and

Re: netscape: locale 'C' not supported

1998-03-20 Thread Alex Romosan
can you try making a symlink from /usr/i486-linuxlibc1/lib/X11/locale to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/, i.e. do ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/ locale in the /usr/i486-linuxlibc1/lib/X11 directory. same goes for app-defaults (instead of locale). let me know if this fixes the problem. --alex-- --

Re: netscape: locale 'C' not supported

1998-03-20 Thread Alex Romosan
this is actually a bug against the xlib6 package. the files were simply never included in the package. for this reason the xlib6 package got thrown out of the distribution (but it is making its way back, form what i hear). anyway, i am almost ready with my version of 3.3.2 (and then i need to go

Re: xlib6 missing from hamm?

1998-03-19 Thread Alex Romosan
i've made a copy of xlib6 (using dpkg-repack) so i hope it works. you can get it by anonymous ftp from caliban.lbl.gov in /pub/debian. there are some more goodies in there, including versions of ddd, xmcd, and xmmix linked against motif 2.1 (libc6). hope this helps. btw, i've been watching with

Re: xlib6 missing from hamm?

1998-03-19 Thread Alex Romosan
Well, it was not the best time to install hamm... It was just frozen and many packages having serious bugs were (temporarily) removed from the archive. Hopefully, xlib6 maintainer will fix that soon... so what are we going to do if the xlib6 maintainer doesn't fix this soon? are we going to

Re: xlib6 missing from hamm?

1998-03-19 Thread Alex Romosan
can get it by anonymous ftp from caliban.lbl.gov in /pub/debian. there are some more goodies in there, including versions of ddd, xmcd, and xmmix linked against motif 2.1 (libc6). hope this helps. i forgot to mention that the packages depend on motif2g. on my system i made a debian package out of

Re: xlib6 missing from hamm?

1998-03-19 Thread Alex Romosan
so what are we going to do if the xlib6 maintainer doesn't fix this soon? are we going to release a distribution without essential packages? who is going to use that? I don't think it will happen. i wouldn't really bet on it. some people these days seem really determined to make a point.

Re: fvwm question: can I make transients take focus?

1998-03-19 Thread Alex Romosan
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 think i am not answering exactly what are you asking, but did you try putting Style * ClickToFocus in

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-03-19 Thread Alex Romosan
i am in the process of making one right now (+ trying to close some of the bugs present in 3.3.1). if i am successful i will announce it to the list tomorrow. --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active | | advance of the mind, it will be possible

Re: Netscape bus error :(

1998-03-19 Thread Alex Romosan
i had to remove the awe-netscape package to get it to work. netscape kept core dumping once i updated it to version 0.4.2c-2. --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active | | advance of the mind, it will be possible (simultaneously with | | automatism and

Re: lpr remote printing

1998-02-21 Thread Alex Romosan
the problem is the missing link to /var/spool from /usr/spool. since there are no references to /usr/spool/lpd in lpd, this most certainly comes from the /etc/printcap file. it certainly does on my system (the printcap is generated automatically by the distributed printing people). which brings up

Re: Setting X default color depth

1998-02-21 Thread Alex Romosan
anywhere I could specify the color depth elsewhere? I looked for somewhere I could append a ` -- -bpp 16' to in the xdm and other X configuration files, but I'm not having much luck. put something like this in /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X vt7 -bpp 16 --alex-- -- | I

Re: lpr wants /usr/spool???

1998-02-21 Thread Alex Romosan
check your /etc/printcap file. --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active | | advance of the mind, it will be possible (simultaneously with | | automatism and other passive states) to systematize confusion | | and thus to help to discredit completely the

Re: lpr wants /usr/spool???

1998-02-21 Thread Alex Romosan
it worked probably because there used to be a symlink from /usr/spool to /var/spool. this link has disappeared in the new base-files package (1.6), so you either create the symlink by hand (like i did) or edit the printcap file. --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac

Re: paths and su

1998-01-02 Thread Alex Romosan
however when I su to root I get a path like this... /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin I am not modifying the path in any environment files such as ...bash_profile -- what is resetting my path?? i had the same problem on some of the machines here

Re: gateway 2000 laptop pcmcia cards

1997-12-17 Thread Alex Romosan
just add the following to /etc/pcmcia/config: card Gateway 2000 Telepath Combo Card version GATEWAY2000,XJEM3336,Telepath Combo Card bind smc91c92_cs,serial_cs works fine here with pcmcia-cs version 2.9.12 (also it worked with 10 and 11). --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand

Re: wu-ftpd

1997-12-16 Thread Alex Romosan
i have a wu-ftpd compiled for libc6 on caliban.lbl.gov in pub/debian (deb package + source and diffs). i've been using it on my system for quite a while. --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active | | advance of the mind, it will be possible (simultaneously

Re: Netscape Communicator

1997-11-24 Thread Alex Romosan
hi randy,no there is no .deb package to install communicator. what you do [...] ah, but there is one (if you look in unstable): Package: netscape4 Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: contrib/web Installed-Size: 33 Maintainer: Brian White [EMAIL PROTECTED] Version: 4.0-6

Re: Imagemagick doesn't release shared memory

1997-11-23 Thread Alex Romosan
i see the same problem running the latest from unstable + kernel 2.0.32. --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active | | advance of the mind, it will be possible (simultaneously with | | automatism and other passive states) to systematize confusion | | and

Re: My neverending unstable xlib6 / xcontrib saga

1997-11-21 Thread Alex Romosan
(the latest of which being 3.3.1-2), and even though Motif apps work fine with the newer ones, pretty much every xcontrib client can't find its app-defaults file and thus looks really bizarre and is mostly or totally non-functional. I can sort of solve the problem by copying the you need to

Re: problem with dselect (ftp method)

1997-10-17 Thread Alex Romosan
i had the same problem earlier today, so i fixed by just reinstalling a bunch of packages (dpkg and the gang, perl, libc6). i think the one that did was libc6. or maybe it was just a coincidence. --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active | | advance of the

Re: Using the X with ATI Pro Turbo

1997-09-14 Thread Alex Romosan
i think i am using exactly the same configuration as you, i.e. an ATI Graphics Pro Turbo with a 21 ViewSonic P810 monitor. right now i am running 1600x1200 at 16bpp with no problems. i am using the mach64 driver. this is my XF86Config file: # XF86Config auto-generated by XF86Setup # # Copyright

Re: Backgrounding process

1997-07-31 Thread Alex Romosan
I know that I can background a process the but how do I keep the process running after I logoff? A good example would be compiling a kernel nohup program do a man nohup for more information. --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active | | advance of the

Re: Swap Space

1997-07-28 Thread Alex Romosan
I haven't had any problem with the 4 gig Barracuda I've been using in my Linux box, except for getting bitten by the glibc/fsck bug. What bug is that? Just curious, as I'm running glibc on a 4G barracuda, and 2 2G Quantum Atlases. (With a large striped partition.) if you have any partitions

Re: Need Mirror of Master /debian/Incoming

1997-07-24 Thread Alex Romosan
ftp.cdrom.com mirrors master's Incoming. --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active | | advance of the mind, it will be possible (simultaneously with | | automatism and other passive states) to systematize confusion | | and thus to help to discredit

fsck problems

1997-07-22 Thread Alex Romosan
this is a warning to everybody running e2fsprogs version 1.10-4. there is something really wrong with it, i've lost my second file system in the past few days. i downgraded to e2fsprogs version 1.10-2 which seems to be a bit more stable but i still can't recover from the damage done by version 4.

Re: just how bad is Fortran?

1997-07-22 Thread Alex Romosan
we are using a combination of f2c and a package called f77reorder (available from http://www-hermes.desy.de/ww/f77prob.html) to compile fortran programs initially written on sgi's without problems. you can get both these packages in debian format by anonymous ftp from my computer, caliban.lbl.gov

Re: First Mars Pictures

1997-07-08 Thread Alex Romosan
: Anyone watching NASA Select TV for the first pictures of Mars? : : The desktop they're using looks hauntingly familiar... : : fvwm2 is there, and xv too... Yes, I saw it. I wish it was a Debian machine. The screen looks great with all those windows. it was actually an sgi. they said that at

Re: Security hole in Debian's /bin/false?

1997-07-08 Thread Alex Romosan
I don't know about other Unices but at least IRIX has it's /bin/true and /bin/false set to shell scripts as well. It seems that Debian's no worse off than SGIs and other Linux distributions at least. If there exists at least ONE really insecure Unix, it is called IRIX. There's nothing in the

Re: WARNING: g77_0.5.20-1 buggy

1997-06-27 Thread Alex Romosan
And indeed, going back to g77_0.5.19.1-1.deb and gcc_2.7.2.1-4.deb from Debian-1.2.18 seems to solve the problem. can the g77 maintainer make a g77_0.5.19 package that works with gcc 2.7.2.2? i tried to make it myself but i wasn't able to make a debian package out of it. for some reason or

Re: 100 Mbit Ethernet

1997-06-21 Thread Alex Romosan
there is a bug in the tulip driver version 0.76 which won't let other cards in the system be recognized. the following unofficial patch was posted on the linux-tulip-bug mailing list: --- tulip.c-076 Mon May 19 22:12:25 1997 +++ tulip.c-076aMon May 26 11:47:17 1997 @@ -496,7 +496,7 @@

Re: xfree86 3.3

1997-06-11 Thread Alex Romosan
i don't really know what the problem was. i downgraded back to 3.2-6 and today i reinstalled 3.3-1 and everything worked fine. right now i am upgrading a couple of other systems, so it will be interesting to see if the problem reoccurs. btw, i did try to update the font directories by hand

xfree86 3.3

1997-06-09 Thread Alex Romosan
i've just installed the new xfree86 version 3.3 packages from Incoming, but now i am having problems restarting the x server. if i try to restart it using startx, i get the following error: Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' When reporting a problem related to a server

Re: sysklogd dumps core

1997-05-09 Thread Alex Romosan
i think the problem is with the latest dpkg packages (1.4.0.14). i've downgraded to 1.4.0.8 from unstable and it works fine. it seemed to have worked fine up until 1.4.0.13 but i could be wrong. --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active | | advance of the

Re: depmod error reading ELF header

1997-04-29 Thread Alex Romosan
i just tried to make the modules by hand and then install them with 'make modules_install' (instead of using make-kpkg) and none of the *_MODULES files were copied to /lib/modules/2.x.x. make-kpkg explicitly copies these files to that directory (look in /usr/lib/kernel-package/rules). i suspect

Re: hamm: modutils and fvwm2

1997-04-28 Thread Alex Romosan
1. I can see that module paths have changed in /etc/conf.modules (modutils-2.1.34) but what am I supposed to do to make depmod work? I ran into this too... are you getting an empty modules.dep after running depmod -a? The fix is to edit conf.modules like this: [rest deleted] i don't even

apache 1.1.3-6

1997-04-28 Thread Alex Romosan
i've noticed our web server has been behaving rather strangely recently. if you try to access a document in a user directory (http://server/~username) the first time you do it you get an error, but the second time it works. looking at the log files i found this error: access to /webhome/~username

Re: ftpd rejects all users !

1997-04-21 Thread Alex Romosan
make sure that whatever shell your users use is listed in /etc/shells. for some strange reason /bin/tcsh is not there by default. --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active | | advance of the mind, it will be possible (simultaneously with | | automatism and

Re: netstd_2.13-1

1997-04-20 Thread Alex Romosan
/etc/inetd.conf gets wiped out by some package, but i still haven't figured it out which one is the culprit. this means that none of your daemons (telnet, ftp) get started, so you can't log in remotely. i don't think netstd is the problem, but i could be wrong. --alex-- -- | I believe the

Re: portmapper problems

1997-04-14 Thread Alex Romosan
i am replying to my own message but i finally found out what the problem is. /etc/inetd.conf got wiped out, probably because of the upgrade to either netbase 2.11 or 2.12. i'll check to see which one is the culprit and i will file it as a bug against it (2.12 that is, 2.11 seems to have been

portmapper problems

1997-04-13 Thread Alex Romosan
i just realized that i cannot telnet/ftp into my machine although i can go out with no problems. i've checked to make sure the portmapper and inetd are running (they are). at the time i realized this is happening i was running netbase 2.12-1 but in the mean time i downgraded to 2.10-1 hoping this

g77 0.5.20-1

1997-03-19 Thread Alex Romosan
when i try to compile the following program program andx integer a,b data a/11/ b/10/ print *, and(a,b) stop end using g77 version 0.5.20-1 i get: No AND implementation. f/com.c:4884: failed assertion `unimplemented intrinsic == NULL' gcc: Internal

Re: allowing FTP access???

1997-03-17 Thread Alex Romosan
make sure the shell you are using is listed in /etc/shells. for some strange reason /etc/shells doesn't include /bin/tcsh. as for root, remote root access is disabled by default. --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active | | advance of the mind, it will be

awe problems

1997-03-17 Thread Alex Romosan
i just upgraded to the latest awe-* packages from unstable, and now when i tried to play a midi file i got: AWE32 Sound Driver v0.3.3d (DRAM 0k) general protection: CPU:0 EIP:0010:[0282e0be] EFLAGS: 00010206 eax: 05d0 ebx: 766f6d09 ecx: 62652525 esi: 0285e5d0

Re: problem with linking ishft (fortran)

1997-03-16 Thread Alex Romosan
you are probably using an old version of libf2c (at least the standard debian f2c is pretty old). try upgrading to the latest libf2c and the problems will go away (at least i don't see them compiling against the cern libraries). i have a debian version of the latest f2c. you can get it by

nis and libc 5.4.23

1997-03-06 Thread Alex Romosan
the nis package doesn't work any more with libc 5.4.23. ypbind dies right away. i tried to compile a new version and i had to make some modifications to the nis source files to even get it to compile (some of the yp fields in the libc header files were changed from version 5.4.20 to 5.4.23). i

dpkg-1.4.0.6

1997-01-17 Thread Alex Romosan
i am really puzzled by the behaviour of the latest dpkg. why did dselect automatically upgrade mailx from 8.5.5-1 to 8.1.1-2 as per example: Preparing to replace mailx 8.5.5-1 (using .../mail/mailx_8.1.1-2.deb) ... Unpacking replacement mailx ... isn't version 8.5.5 higher than 8.1.1? the only

Re: Somethings Serious Amiss with JDK?

1997-01-10 Thread Alex Romosan
I get that same error about java was not found in /usr/lib/jdk/i586/bin/java. i've solved the problems on my machines by linking /usr/lib/jdk/i586/bin/java to /usr/lib/jdk/i586/bin/java-jdk. don't know if this is the approved solution. --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a

xrdb under xfree86 3.2

1996-11-16 Thread Alex Romosan
xrdb doesn't seem to work on a 486 which i recently upgraded to xfree86 3.2. when i run it i get this: /usr/X11R6/bin/xrdb: cannot run '/lib/cpp -traditional -Dlinux -D__i386__ -D_POS IX_SOURCE -D_BSD_SOURCE -D_SVID_SOURCE -DX_LOCALE -DHOST=rosalind -DSERVERHOST=r osalind -DSRVR_rosalind

Re: g77 f2c serious problems

1996-11-07 Thread Alex Romosan
which version of f2c are you using? the last debian version 960717-0 is kind of old, and there is at least one bug in the 960717-0 version which makes ishft fail miserably when dealing with signed integers. this kind of messed up our random number generators big time. the f2c maintainer was very

Re: does libc5.4.7 compatible with netscape 3.0

1996-10-26 Thread Alex Romosan
running netscape with libc 5.4.7-1 causes a core dump. just tried it with 5.4.7.-2 with the same results. the problem is with java, i have no problem viewing our home page which is blissfully ignorant of java. if i disable java the problem goes away. don't know the fix though. --alex-- -- | I

bug in apache-1.1.1-[56]

1996-10-07 Thread Alex Romosan
i think i found a bug in apache 1.1.1-[56]. when upgrading from 1.0.5 to 1.1.1 /usr/lib/httpd is created with the wrong owner: drwxr-x--- 4 root root 1024 Oct 5 18:10 httpd/ as a consequence the httpd server cannot read any of the subdirectories (cgi-bin, icons). shouldn't

dpkg-1.4.0.1

1996-09-26 Thread Alex Romosan
i upgraded dpkg on one of the machines here to 1.4.0.1 and i've found that dpkg-name is gone. was it intentional, or did it accidentally get left out of the package? --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active | | advance of the mind, it will be possible

Re: dpkg-1.4.0.1

1996-09-26 Thread Alex Romosan
thanks for everybody who responded regarding dpkg-name. when i upgraded dpkg to 1.4.0.1 i forgot to also upgrade dpkg-dev. now everything is back to normal. thanks. --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active | | advance of the mind, it will be possible

apache-1.1.1

1996-09-20 Thread Alex Romosan
i tried using apache_1.1.1-2 and 3 from the Incoming directory and we started having problems viewing gzipped postscript files with both netscape and mosaic. i don't know if this is a bug in the apache server itself or just in the debian distribution. also /usr/lib/apache/modules/mod_proxy.so

nfs daemon

1996-09-16 Thread Alex Romosan
would any one care to enlighten me why the nfs daemons are commented out of /etc/init.d/netstd_nfs. i needed to mount a disk off another linux machine and i couldn't do it until i turned on the daemons by hand. are there any security issues associated with this? the same daemons are also commented

dpkg-ftp 1.4.3

1996-09-12 Thread Alex Romosan
i've updated dpkg-ftp to 1.4.3 and now i can't seem to download any more files. this is a typical output of what i get (tried it with a few different packages): Processing Package files... unstable... contrib... non-free... Constructing list of files to get... want:

Re: dpkg-ftp 1.4.3

1996-09-12 Thread Alex Romosan
i've updated dpkg-ftp to 1.4.3 and now i can't seem to download any more files. this is a typical output of what i get (tried it with a few different packages): i hate to answer my own questions, but after comparing the files in 1.4.2 to 1.4.3 i've discovered that 1.4.3 will let you set the

Re: eepro.c + question of my own

1996-09-07 Thread Alex Romosan
if you run eepro as a module try adding: options eepro io=0x230 in /etc/conf.modules. if you have it compiled in the kernel (as i do) add: append=ether=0,0x230,eth0 in /etc/lilo.conf. i've tried it both ways and it works fine for me (set at 0x210). now if i can only convince the card to show

writing to /dev/stderr

1996-08-30 Thread Alex Romosan
hello, i am trying to print to /dev/stderr from within gawk (print $0 /dev/stderr) but i get the following error: gawk: cmd. line:30: (FILENAME=- FNR=1) fatal: can't redirect to `/dev/stderr' (Permission denied) i know there is something wrong with the permission, i can redirect if i do it as

Re: writing to /dev/stderr

1996-08-30 Thread Alex Romosan
That should work, for example gawk '{print $0 /dev/stderr;}' copies its input to stderr. It's not a permissions problem; /dev/std{in,out,err} and /dev/fd/n are implemented internally by gawk. They're not really files on the system. Well, actually /dev/fd/n really is a symlink into the

Re: writing to /dev/stderr

1996-08-30 Thread Alex Romosan
Check that /dev/fd is a symbolic link to /proc/self/fd. Check that /proc is mounted. The permissions to /proc are determined by the kernel, so there's really no way that they could be wrong. Guy the links were okay, the problem is elsewhere. if i telnet into the machine and log in as alex