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://[hostname]:[port number] before running dselect, but I still get the error: Err http://http.us.debian.org stable/main Packages Could not connect to [host] (IP address) ... The network works fine (I can ssh to the http proxy if I want). Is there something else I need to do first? Thanks, Jesse

Re: SMP, again

My understanding of this was that SMP was a logical flag which, when set to 1, would automatically handle any number of processors up to 16 or so. Perhaps 16 is going a bit far but it works fine with 2. J. Goldman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

scsi patch

Hi, Is there a patch out yet for the scsi driver for kernel 2.0.34? I've got an Adaptec with an AIC-786x chipset which had some problems last I checked. If such a patch exists, where can I find it? Jesse -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: new kernel-2.0.34 missing filesystems?

This may be a silly question but it's related vaguely to the above which has already been brought up. Has anyone had trouble with AIC7XXX support for 2.0.34? Apparently, there have been many changes since 2.0.33 and it doesn't seem to work properly for me anymore. J. Goldman -- To

video problems

Hi, I sent a note about this problem a week or so ago and got back some mailer daemon error messages so I'm not sure it made it. I apologize if this is a duplication. I'm having trouble with xdm. Every couple times the user exits the window manager, the machine hangs with a black screen and red

video problems

Hi, I'm having trouble with xdm. Every couple times the user exits the window manager, the machine hangs with a black screen and red and blue vertical lines. The only thing to do at this point is a hard reboot. This has happened with a range of kernels (now it's using 2.0.32) so it seems to me

Re: Recompiled Kernel, now vplay doesn't work

Hi, Did you check to make sure that vplay is still an executable and not an object (relocatable) file? Running file /usr/bin/vplay will give you this information. Only other thing I can think of is that vplay is an a.out binary and you didn't compile a.out support in when you moved to 2.0.31. The

* Formal call for the removal of Bruce Perens *

On 25-Oct-97 dc wrote: Enough is enough. I'd also like to take exception to the above statement. I don't think I've ever been involved in a non-technical discussion on this list but I think it's necessary, in this case, for those of us who subscribe and take an interest in the Debian project to

2 CPU machines

Hi, I've just put Debian 2.0.30 with version 6 of the deadlock patch on a new 2 CPU machine. The messages file tells me that the two CPUs were initialized OK and that the machine is running roughly at 400 MHz. If I run bogomips, however, I still get out 198 MHz. I'm guessing that bogomips is not

mouse

Hi, Anyone have any experience with the Logitech TrackMan mouse? I can't seem to get the thing to work right either with X or with gpm. Does it use the Logitech MouseMan protocal? Microsoft Protocal? Thanks, J. Goldman -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to

Logitech TrackMan

Hi, If anyone knows the answer to my previous question re: Logitech TrackMan mouse (ie, what support to compile in, what protocal is it? etc), could you reply in personal email as well as to the list? I'm going out of town for a few days so I'll have to temporarily unsubscribe. Thanks much... J.

Re: Problem with floppy install

Hi, I've seen this error once but I'm not sure exactly what caused it. The hard drive had been partitioned in the following way (roughly): /dev/sda1/boot(20MB) /dev/sda2/(~700MB) /dev/sda3swap (whatever was left) where the /boot directory was specifically

2 CPU servers

Hi, Our group is considering ordering some Debian servers running kernel 2.0.30 either with 2 Pentium Pro CPUs or 2 Pentium II CPUs. I've read somewhere, however, that, in the dual CPU configuration, lock-ups are occasionally experienced which may cut down on productivity. Does anyone have a

compilation problems

Hi, I apologize for the long message but I figure I'd better lay out all the errors. I'm having some unusual compilation problems on a new machine I'm setting up. When I try a make depend on some code, I often get one or more of the following errors: f77 -I./inc -cpp -g -C -c routine.F -o

more ncurses

Hi, I'll modify my previous question which had to do with make menuconfig not working. I've downgraded all my ncurses to 1.9.9e1-1. All libc5 is version 33-3. This is the same setup as on other machines where menuconfig works. The compile crashes as follows: rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln

Re: mke2fs problem

Hi, From what I hear, there's a serious problem with that version of e2fsprogs (at least fsck) which may be affecting your new file-system. Also, I believe that 2 Gigs is the limit on a Linux filesystem's size so perhaps that's causing you problems as well... J. Goldman -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: Any compilers in Debian?

I should add, in spite of previous (and often vehement) arguments against it on this list, that installing the packages f77reorder and f2c will allow debian to compile fortran77/fortran90 quite well. J. Goldman -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

alphas

Hi, Our group is considering buying some Alpha workstations and we'd like to put Debian on them. Does anyone have any experience running Debian on the Alpha platform? Is it similar too and as relatively trouble free as running on an Intel machine? Thanks J. Goldman -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: Help transfering data....

Hi, /proc (and things like /dev/audio and /dev/hda1) aren't regular files and so can't be copied using cp. To copy things like this successfully, you could use tar. Here's an example: Suppose you want to copy your / directory from one disk to another. I'm assuming the new disk is empty but has a

Re: Making Kernel

Hi, It looks like you forgot to remove or touch the stamp-configure and stamp-image files created by the make-kpkg script in /usr/src/linux. Once you do that, you should be able to recompile without a problem. Also, make-kpkg clean should do it. J. Goldman On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, Michael

Re: 3COM 3C905-TX PCI NIC

Hi, I was playing with this stuff a while back and it looks to me like the 3c900/3c905 series is an update/replacement for the 3c590/595 series. On Donald Becker's home page at cesdis: http://cesdis1.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/ there are a couple of different driver versions for the 3c900/905 series

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

Hi, 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. J. Goldman -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

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

Yeah, I checked a Solaris machine and I also checked an old DEC with the same results. In fact, on the DEC, there aren't even shell scripts, just a text file with an exit 0 or an exit 1 depending on whether you want true or false. Maybe it's an executable on an Alpha? J. Goldman -- TO

libc5

Hi, Someone just pointed out to me that the version of libc5 in stable is 5.4.33-3 while the version in unstable is 5.4.23-4. Does anyone know why this might be? Thanks... J. Goldman -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail

Re: XFree86 3.3 can't find fixed font

Hi, This happened to me too once. Try running mkfontdir in the affected directories. If it's the same problem I had, that will fix it. J. Goldman -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V97 #413

Hi, I just ran into this problem a bit ago. Actually, the menus package seems to require that you have libg++27 and libg++272 installed to work. Versions I have are: ii libg++272.7.2.1-9 The GNU C++ libraries (ELF version). ii libg++272 2.7.2.5-1 The GNU C++ libraries

menu package

Hi, I just did an upgrade from menu version 1.3-2 to 1.4-1 and I noticed that the program update-menus provided by the new package segmentation faults when the pre-removal and post-removal scripts execute it. This effects packages such as procps and xproc. Anyone seen this? Thanks... J. Goldman

Re: Installing Debian Linux

Hi, Sound as if you might have the wrong driver for your 3Com card. What model is the card and what driver are you using for it? J. Goldman -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

3c900 problems

Hi, The problem with my 3c900 card's been solved. For some reason, the driver I was using (1996-1997 version of 3c59x.c called 3c900.c) wasn't working properly. The 1995 version of 3c59x.c with 3c900 support seems to work fine. Strange. J. Goldman -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

ethernet problems

Hi, I've just put a 3c900 card in my linux machine and it's giving me problems. Kernel version is 2.0.30. From what I could ascertain, the new version of 3c59x.c is a plug-in replacement for the old one without 3c900 support. Accordingly, I replaced the old version with the new, ran make-kpkg and

Re: Is xdm required?

On 4 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've already got the damn thing installed. I just don't want to be forced to activate it. X works just fine without it. Sorry, I'm confused. What do you mean by the statement that you don't want to be forced to activate it? Do you mean you'd like for

root

Hi, Curious thing just happend on my machine. All of a sudden, I'm no longer allowed to su to root. An attempt results in You are not authorized to su root. Could this be related to the secure-su package? The suauth file is the standard one and doesn't forbid me from switching to root. On a

modules

Hiya, I've got a debian boot/root combo for a PC which has kernel version 2.0.28 and I've having trouble finding a drivers disk to match it. I made the disks myself a long time ago because there weren't then (and still don't seem to be) any boot floppies compatible with the Flashpoint LT Scsi

connections

Hi, This is another in a long list of problems I'm having getting a bunch of debian machines and SGI's to work together in a cluster. The trouble is that some of the debian machines will periodically refuse to connect to each other (I'll get a connection refused message if I try to telnet).

nfs error

Hi, One of the debian PC's in a cluster here is having some minor nfs problems which, while not catastrophic, tend to slow down the machine and occasionally hang it for ~2-3 minutes. When I look in the messages file, I see lots of things like: kernel: NFS server not responding, still trying

rescuing

Hi, I've run into a problem using a rescue disk that I haven't seen before. The boot disk finds all the devices (scsi, etc...) and then asks for the root disk. The ramdisk is found ok. Then, I get a screen telling me that the computer has relatively little memory and that I should activate swap.

binary problems

Hiya, I'm having a strange problem with some machines here. Both are pentiums running debian which have the same versions of all software on them. The kernel version is 2.0.30. Within the last couple hours, something's happened to cause them to have trouble executing binaries. One was an

Re: binary problems

Hi, Thanks for the suggestion, I hadn't heard of ldd before. Unfortunately, when I tried ldd linuxxdoom, it resulted in: ldd: Cannot execute linuxxdoom (Binary format error) or some such. I tried running ldconfig as well and that didn't seem to help. Maybe libc4 isn't work right... J. Goldman

Re: ctype.h

Hi, I'm not sure what causes this problem but I've run into it once or twice before. Possibly, your routine is looking for /usr/include/ctype.h and what it's getting is /usr/include/linux/ctype.h which is different. If your /usr/include/ctype.h file contains the #include_next ... line, it's

passwd

Hi, I'm having trouble finding the source for the package passwd on the ftp sites. The package itself is in binary-i386/base just like dselect says, but the source isn't in source/base. I'm having the same problem finding ncurses. What directory is this code kept in? Thanks J. Goldman -- TO

netstd_2.13-1

Hi, I just updated netstd from 2.12 to 2.13 which seems to prevent anyone from logging in remotely. Downgrading fixed the problem. Has anyone noticed this and/or figured out why this problem occurs? Thanks.. J. Goldman -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to

two problems

Hi, I'm trying to help someone put Debian on a Pentium 90 and we've run into the following problems with (1) ethernet card configuration and (2) trying to make a boot floppy. The ethernet card is an Intel Etherexpress 16 ISA card. It apparently has an IRQ of 11 and io address 0x300. The kernel

nis

run /etc/init.d/nis start manually. This second problem started to occur relatively recently (2 or 3 weeks ago) so, perhaps there's been a conflict with something I've installed within that time period but darned if I can figure out what it is. Any suggestions? Thanks much. Jesse Goldman

tetex

override this problem or get this install-fmt-base command? Thanks. Jesse Goldman

fdate

Hi, I've run into what appears to be a library problem with one of my debian systems. When I try to compile a fortran program one one of them, compilation chokes at the linking stage because a subroutine called fdate can't be found. This doesn't happen on any of the other machines but all of

yp service

it directly, it's as if the machine ignores the command, I get a prompt back but no ypbind process. Does anyone know what could be causing this or whether ypbind is actually the problem? Thanks much... Jesse Goldman

Re: yp service

Hi, Thanks for your note. Running domainname returns the proper name and there is a /var/yp/binding directory (which is empty). However, I *am* running libc5-5.4.23. I'll see if downgrading helps. Thanks again.. Jesse Goldman

Re: yp service

Hi again, I replaced the libraries with the stable version 20 and everything works fine now. Thanks once again. Jesse Goldman

ldso_1.8.10-1.deb

Hi, Thanks for your note but I'm still having problems. Most likely, I'm doing something really wrong but, when I look in master.debian.org's unstable directory, I still find ldso_1.8.9-1.deb. I also can't find libc5_5.4.23-1.deb. Have I forgotten something simple? Thanks, J. Goldman -- TO

Re: HELP! XDM locked me out of Linux!

Hi, I may have misunderstood your problem but, from you letter, I'm guessing that you get a standard xdm login/password box which then keeps resetting. If that's the case, did you try using an alternate virtual console? (ctrl-alt-F1 for example). This should get you to a text prompt from which

new packages

Hiya, Just curious. I've noticed a few letters making references to packages such as ldso_1.8.10-1_i386.deb and libc5 version 5.4.3 and yet, I'm unable to find these new packages in unstable. Where could I find them? Thanks, J. Goldman -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the

Re: package compilation

Hiya, Thanks for your note. I guess I was a bit misleading about patching. The patch I used was a buslogic flashpoint patch for my scsi controller. Not a kernel patch. I got the new 2.0.29 complete sources before I tried to compile. Sorry 'bout that... J. Goldman -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

dpkg architecture

to call the dpkg architecture command and not the system one. Thanks, Jesse Goldman -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xterm color

to make a global one so I went to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults, took the contents of XTerm-color and pasted it onto the end of XTerm. That seemed to work ok too Jesse Goldman -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL

cdrom

Hiya, I've just put debian 1.2 on my system and, while downloading and installing software, I've noticed that there are no devices for scsi cdroms in the /dev directory. In addition, the /proc fs doesn't contain any information about my devices, scsi or otherwise. Have I done the installation

boot disk for new PC

Hi, I'm trying to put debian on a new PC with a Buslogic Flashpoint LT SCSI card in it. This card wasn't supported by the boot floppies I had so I patched my kernel (2.0.27) and made a custom rescue disk with buslogic, ramdisk, and initrd support compiled in. The boot disk recognizes the card