Re: Getting apt-get to explain things
On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 12:16:34AM +0100, peter karlsson wrote: > How can I get apt-get to explain *why* it wants to remove a package? > > I can't find any reasoning why it want to remove one of the packages I have > installed, especially since it is not in the main distribution, and does not > depend on any package from it. I would like apt-get to explain to me > somehow, how the package ended up on the remove list when doing a "apt-get > dist-upgrade". One or more of the new packages either conflicts with or replaces the package that apt-get wants to remove. If you tell us what the package is that your concerned about, perhaps we could make some guesses as to the likely culprit. You could also first try an "upgrade" before "dist-upgrade", since according to the man page "under no circumstances are currently installed packages removed" with that option. At least it will narrow down the list of packages that could be causing the problem. You are right though--it would be nice if apt could be more verbose about explaining it's decisions. -Kevin
Re: debconf frontend error
> > I realize I made a mistake choosing Gtk, what I would like to know is how to > > set the default Frontend to something else. > > dpkg-reconfigure debconf I thought this fixed the problem (although it does not reprompt me for a frontend unless I first 'rm /var/lib/debconf/debconf.db') However, now debconf seems to be horribly broken. After choosing Text as my front end, I am now getting the following errors on apt-get upgrade: stty: standard input: Invalid argument stty: standard input: Invalid argument Cannot find termcap: Can't find a valid termcap file at /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/Term/ReadLine.pm line 305 Use of uninitialized value at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/FrontEnd/Text.pm line 87, chunk 3. Use of uninitialized value at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/FrontEnd/Text.pm line 87, chunk 3. Use of uninitialized value at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/FrontEnd/Text.pm line 87, chunk 3. ... ... Out of memory! Out of memory! E: Sub-process dpkg-preconfig --apt recieved a segmentation fault. E: Failure running script dpkg-preconfig --apt I went throught the same process again, and chose dialog this time. Then apt-get upgrade shows: stty: standard input: Invalid argument stty: standard input: Invalid argument ... Use of uninitialized value at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm line 177, chunk 23. Use of uninitialized value at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm line 177, chunk 23. This shouldn't happen at /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/Text/Wrap.pm line 45, chunk 23. E: Sub-process dpkg-preconfig --apt returned an error code (255) E: Failure running script dpkg-preconfig --apt What can I do? === Charles Lewis, Director of Administrative Computing Southwestern Adventist University, Keene, TX (817)556-4720 [EMAIL PROTECTED] FAX (360)397-7952 ===
Re: Install from plip
Yep, that's how I did it. I found the best way was to setup anonymous ftp on the desktop and point apt at it on the portable (after the plip link has been setup of course). Install the base system on the portable using floppies, plip can be setup from there. If your desktop has only one cdrom you may have some problems since I don't think you can really use apt in a multi-cd kind of way. My desktop has 2 cdroms (a read only and a writer) so I mounted both disks under the ~ftp tree and used 2 apt entries in the sources.list on my laptop. You might have to consider copying files from the cd to your desktop's hard drive. HTH Matthew Brian Schramm wrote: > > Has anyone had good luck with installing Debian from a plip conection to a > desktop with a cd in it? I have a portable that has no cd and I would > like to tie it to my desktop with a cd so I can install it that way. > > Thanks > > Brian Schramm > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.linuxexpert.org > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Postilion and uuencoded attachments
Does anyone have postilion set up to handle uuencoded attachments? Mutt decodes them properly, but postilion cannot.
Re: Where is my CD-ROM drive?
Linux is not recognizing your SCSI CD. type dmesg. Is there any mention of your CD? Did you insert the SCSI and SCSI-CD modules? Doesn't sound like it. Bryan On 11-Nov-99 Robert Kasunic wrote: > >Hello alone ;) > > Hi Frenchman, :-) > > >Instead of always typing a long sentence, make an entry in your /etc/fstab: > >/dev/scd0 /cdrom iso9660 noauto,user,ro 04 > > I've already got an entry in my /etc/fstab and so I'm able to mount a CD > typing just mount /cdrom. > > >Try to compile only the SCSI driver not as a module. > > I've tried that to no avail. > Thanks for the hints. > > Robert > > At 11:41 11.11.99 +0100, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: >>On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 09:51:28PM +0100, Robert Kasunic wrote: >> > Hello all, >> >>Hello alone ;) >> >> > I have got a problem. Today I compiled a new kernel. Now I'm not able to >> > get my CD drive to work anymore. >> > When I try to mount the device (/dev/scd0) the system says: >> > "mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/scd0 as a block device (maybe >> > 'insmod driver'?)" >> >>Instead of always typing a long sentence, make an entry in your /etc/fstab: >>/dev/scd0 /cdrom iso9660 noauto,user,ro 04 >> >>Then to mount a CD, just type: "mount /cdrom" >> >> > In fact I compiled the SCSI controller (DAWI 2975U) and the CD-ROM driver >> >>In general, it is much better to compile all sensible devices drivers *not* >>as modules (especially block devices as CDROM, or OS access). >> >> > as a module into the kernel. I have tried to compile it normally into the >> > kernel as well. Without success. >> >>Try to compile only the SCSI driver not as a module. >> >>If it is not possible, you'll have first to load the SCSI module, before >>the crdom driver (use insmod, or modprobe for the SCSI, if you're not >>sure about the parms you supplied) >> >>JY >>-- >>Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> A CONS is an object which cares. >> -- Bernie Greenberg. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null
Re: Cron jobs
On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 11:41:19AM -0500, Brian Schramm wrote > OK I have looked at the cron and crontabs man pages to no avail. I would > like to have a script that runs every 15 minutes only send me an email if > it errors. The script exits out if certain conditions are good. I have > it exiting with an exit command in a if statement. > > What I want is it to email me if it does not exit out prematurely. That > way I can tell when I had to run the script so I can get a feal as to how > often I end up with a problem. > > Any ideas? > > Brian Schramm > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.linuxexpert.org > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > */15 * * * *myscript || mail -s 'myscript failed' < canned_text me -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Oh - I - you know - my job is to fear everything." - Bill Gates in Denmark
named (bind)
nobody has compiled and released the new named for slink bug free? If yes, where is it available? thanks marco -- -- +-+-+-+-+-+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ |m|a|r|c|o| |g|i|a|r|d|i|n|i| +-+-+-+-+-+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ TecnoGi spa http://www.tecnogi.com Key fingerprint = A1 51 D2 26 96 02 20 B9 78 B9 04 87 53 10 65 7C
Re: Problems printing from one box to another
On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 12:48:47PM +0100, Cecile Hebert wrote > On 5 Nov 1999, Alec Smith wrote: > > > In the past I've been able to print from one Debian 2.1 box to another > > Debian 2.1 box without difficulty. However I recently reinstalled > > Debian 2.1 on the server machine, and can't do any printing from > > remote machines unless I'm using Samba. I'd like to know what's going on > > so I can get back to a "normal" configuration involving just lpr/lpd. > > I've exactly the same problem and I am quite deseperated. > > Only users who have an account on the debian machine hosting the printer > can print on it. I've checked that the host wanting to print are > correctly listed in /etc/hosts.equiv and /etc/hosts.lpd > > Those files should only contains a list of all hosts wanting to print, > one oht per line, isn't it ??? > If you are using the "lprng" package you should also look at /etc/lpd.perms, which allows many access control options, including requiring users to have accounts on the print server. man 5 lpd.perms for details. John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Oh - I - you know - my job is to fear everything." - Bill Gates in Denmark
Re: mounting macintosh floppy?
On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 12:35:12PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote > > On 10-Nov-99 T.V.Gnanasekaran wrote: > > how do i mount a mac format floppy? > > just like any other floppy. If you compiled your own kernel, make sure you > enabled Mac support. > > Then do: > > mount -t hfs /dev/fd0 /floppy > > as root. > As an alternative, the hfsutils-tcltk package provides an "AFE"-like utility that allows you to copy from & to Mac floppies without requiring kernel support. John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Oh - I - you know - my job is to fear everything." - Bill Gates in Denmark
Re: null-modem PPP connection from Windows
On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 04:30:22PM -0500, Peter S Galbraith wrote > > A friend want to connect his Debian laptop and a Windows box > through a null-modem cable; we thought a PPP link would be most > flexible in terms of usability (http, ftp, telnet, etc). > > He uncommented the `getty -L ttyS1 19200 vt100' line in > /etc/inittab and added the serail port to /etc/securetty. > In the Windows log files, he can see that the "Debian GNU/Linux 2.1" > login prompt appear. > You are probably best off using the "mgetty" package rather than getty. It provides an "auto_PPP" feature (configurable on a port-by-port basis, in /etc/mgetty/login.config) that will automatically start pppd (ideally, with PAP authentication) if it sees a pppd (e.g., Win95) on the other end. You will have to configure it not to expect a modem. John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Oh - I - you know - my job is to fear everything." - Bill Gates in Denmark
Re: don't make it a black box please
On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 04:13:03PM -0600, Fethi Okyar wrote: > to move to kde I needed to upgrade my X system. (I was using one > that came with hamm) > [...] > > Only thing mentioned is "use apt-get". Ok, I used "apt-get" to get > the "xbase" package which is supposed to include all what is > neseccary for the upgrade of X or at least thats whats being > claimed. Cause it didnt work!!! > [...] I believe that xbase is now an empty package--read what /usr/doc/xbase has to say about it. If you add the following line: deb http://kde.tdyc.com/ slink kde to your /etc/apt/sources.list, and then "apt-get install kdebase", all the X and library dependencies should be resolved automatically. > "apt-get" isn't a genius I suppose so, developers shouldn't expect > miracles from it, instead they can give more documentation about > installation procedures. Actually, apt-get is extremely smart--I think the problem you had was not trusting it to be smart enough, along with a perhaps counter-intuitive reorganization of the X package names. > Will anybody hear this outcry out there? The reason I moved to > Debian is cause I was thinking I would get more control as to what I > would be installing on my machine and all the other configuration > issues. I don't want SUPERCLEVER installation engines, I just want > to know what is going on!! Well, you could still manually "dpkg --install abc.deb"'ing every package you need, resolving all the dependencies and "dpkg --remove xyz"'ing all the conflicts and such, but for systems as huge and complex as X and KDE, this would mean *allot* of work. If you haven't already, you might want to check out the Debian FAQ at http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ and the tutorial: http://www.debian.org/~hp/tutorial/debian-tutorial.html/index.html HTH, -Kevin
Re: null-modem PPP connection from Windows
Peter S Galbraith wrote: ... > The question is now to get pppd started automatically instead of > a shell login. Is that done using the `-l login_program' getty > option? I did that by putting "exec pppd" in a script (/usr/local/bin/ppplogin) and "/usr/local/bin/ppplogin" in /etc/password as the replacement for the "/bin/bash" of the username that I had set up for connecting via PPP. Oki
Re: Debian CDs
Shaul Karl wrote: > Since an executable for one architecture can not, in general, be executed on > another you must have 2 separate sets of binaries. Of course. But I don't think that all 4 Debian CDs (for an architecture) are full of the binaries. I believe that the space is used up by the sources. So I think it would be nice if you could just have one binaries CD for each architecture and then have the rest of the CDs for the sources. And I think that one CD would be enough to put the binaries for an architecture. (Even if you put everything -- useful daemons & apps -- they wouldn't eat up all the 600+ MB space; of course, I stand to be corrected). > If you insist on having only one set of CDs Then the only solution I see is > to make by yourself the packages for the architecture you have not got CDs > for. This can be done by using the debianized sources from the CDs that you > do have. This would be too much for me... :-) Oki
@Home Cable Modem
I just recently got hookoed up with the AT&T @Home cable modem service. It's great, finally able to play fast games and stuff :) Unfortunatnly it's only setup with Windows 95 right now. Has anyone had any experience with getting this to work with linux or can anyone give me some advice on what I can do? Thanks jon = "God, Root. What is the difference?" Pitr, User Friendly __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
Re: Remote printing
hi bon Asumming your printer is hooked up to WinNT parallel port /dev/lp0 ( LPT1 ) /etc/printcap lp0|hp5si|HP LaserJet 5si:\ :lp=:\ :rp=lp0:\ :rm=hp5si.your_domain.com:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp0/:\ :lf=/var/spool/lpd/lp0/log:\ :mx#0:\ :sh: filtering (:if:..) locally for a remote printer ( :rm:... ) does not do anything... ( do it on the command line ) linux# kill -HUP `pidof lpd` linux# ping hp5si linux# lpr -Plp0 /etc/printcap linux# cat /etc/printcap | stair_step_filter | lpr -Plp0 linux# /usr/bin/nenscript -p- /etc/printcap | lpr -Plp0 linux# lpr -Pcolor_printer /usr/local/share/ghostscript/5.10/examples/tiger.ps linux# lpc status - should list your printers linux# lpq -Plp0 linux# lprm -Plp0 - your filters should take care of stairstepping between linux and WinNT - watch out for files/directories not owned by lp when it is needed to be... have fun alvin > I just want to ask how to use a remote windows printer with magicfilter > and lprng on my computer. And I am not subscribed, so if you have a > solution mail me! I prefer a solution that involves printcap. > thanks! > > Bon > > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: @Home Cable Modem
Jon Hughes wrote: > I just recently got hookoed up with the AT&T @Home > cable modem service. It's great, finally able to play > fast games and stuff :) Unfortunatnly it's only setup > with Windows 95 right now. Has anyone had any > experience with getting this to work with linux or can > anyone give me some advice on what I can do? Thanks > > Jon, take a look at the cable modem HOW-TO http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Cable-Modem.html -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= dyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Re: apt-get update
Salman Ahmed wrote: > > "RK" == Robert Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > RK> have to change the line in /etc/apt/sources.list to point to the > RK> new dist? Nobody every mentions that. > > Really ?? No one *EVER* mentions it ?? I seem to recall people > mentioning changing /etc/apt/sources.list. Anyways, what's so hard about > changing the line(s) in /etc/apt/sources.list. Its as easy: Yes, it's not that hard. But some people are having difficulties in using vi or emacs :-) Oki
Re: Debian CDs
On 12-Nov-1999, Oki DZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Shaul Karl wrote: > > Since an executable for one architecture can not, in general, be executed > > on another you must have 2 separate sets of binaries. > > Of course. But I don't think that all 4 Debian CDs (for an architecture) > are full of the binaries. I believe that the space is used up by the > sources. So I think it would be nice if you could just have one binaries > CD for each architecture and then have the rest of the CDs for the > sources. And I think that one CD would be enough to put the binaries for > an architecture. (Even if you put everything -- useful daemons & apps -- > they wouldn't eat up all the 600+ MB space; of course, I stand to be > corrected). > 2 CDs contain binaries and 2 CDs contain source
lastlog question.
Hi there. I've noticed a /var/log/lastlog file sitting happily in my log dir. I initially thought that this is what i viewed when i used "last", however i've learnt that "last" uses /var/log/wtmp instead. What is lastlog good for? As far as I can see.. you need to use "lastlog" to view the lastlog file. Is this file really necessary? Or can I get rid of it and simply use my wtmp file? Regards, Marc-Adrian Napoli Connect Infobahn Australia +61 2 92811750
Upgrade error to potato
I was trying to upgrade from slilnk to potato and I got this error and do not seem to be able to go beyond this: Preparding to replace hostname 2.04 ( using /hostname_2.05_i386.deb) .. Unpacking replacement hostname dpkg: error processing ?var/.../hostname... ( --unpack): trying to overwirte '/bin/domainname', which is also in package nis Errors were encountered while processing ... E: Subprocess returned an error code (1) and the program returns to the command line. How do I proceed from here? Appreciate any suggestions. Sebastian Canagaratna Department of Chemistry Ohio Northern University Ada, OH 45810
Re: apt-get
On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 11:07:17PM +0200, Martin Fluch wrote: > > My question is, when using apt-get to update the system, does it > > download all the files to local disk, then attempt to install them (not > > enough space on most home systems like mine) or does it work with one > > file at a time? > > first it downloads all files to /var/cache/apt/archives and then installs > from there. It doesn't remove the downloaded files automaticaly, therefore > an apt-get clean is needed. OK, so I guess I have to bite the bullet. How is the general opinion on potato at the moment? Generally, I don't like going bleeding edge, but if it is overall stable as it stands, then I might go for it. I'm not quite familiar with how Debian progresses in its development > - -- > Linux, because I'd like to *get there* today :) -- William Burrow -- New Brunswick, Canada Your education begins where what is called your education is over.
Re: /etc/passwd in potato
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, David Rocher wrote: > it's because other packages aren't allowed to change /etc/passwd > (provide by base-passwd) cf Debian Policy Manual. but you are free > to remove then! The Debian Policy Manual says that packages may add users to the system using 'adduser --system'. The only ids globally allocated by base-passwd are those where the program needs a specific uid or gid compiled into the binary. Interestingly, the manual says that the range 0-99 is for packages that need a single id, while 6-64999 is for packages that need multiple ids. But qmail has uids 70-76... As a side note, be careful when changing users' shells to /bin/false--some packages depend on the shell being /bin/sh and you'll get minor breakage if you change them. - -- finger for PGP public key. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBOCuCJ77M/9WKZLW5AQHn2wQApbMI9jaJxByFv9zwyYsSCW4VsqCGHohA ccYiPLgUAOlslSTkixg4NGeLYdTZOSM9VyJ/ifXkDi21JRkRVesOkmfB6Eyq51/R iYEniZlFxJxcE8s0kmipriIV5skMPu96izhdQHBH3TADk80NzicyslUld1KQzwZH fOPL3tt/ruw= =ijJy -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: /etc/passwd in potato
On 11/11/99 Brad wrote: As a side note, be careful when changing users' shells to /bin/false--some packages depend on the shell being /bin/sh and you'll get minor breakage if you change them. yes I know which i why I wish that they were set properly in the first place (I know for sure that qmail's are supposed to be /bin/true or false) Ethan Benson OpenPGP encrypted mail accepted. To obtain my PGP key: http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/pgp/ Key FingerPrint: 371A 7416 5D39 CF2D 9366 8AF6 0139 54F5 3EBD 0FE6 RSA Key FingerPrint: DE8B 74D0 79F1 6176 9AF5 120F 47AD 9B0A
Re: sound card
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 11 Nov 1999, Eberhard Burr wrote: > Phil Brutsche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > i had installed a PINE Schubert 3D 16 Bit ISA PnP sound card, which has > > > a CS4235 chip, i am using a 2.2.1 kernel > > If you have more than 16MB of main memory, you cannot use modules as > driver for ISA sound cards. Try compiling it into the kernel and say > yes to persistent DMA buffers in the config. Wrong. i have 64MB RAM, and my sound card has always worked fine as a module. In fact, the sound support MUST be compiled as a module if you need to use isapnptools to initalize the card. - -- finger for PGP public key. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBOCuEVr7M/9WKZLW5AQGx6QP8DmBemGjZTEH8Fa9iqbz1oZyYpBaGatFy 5FstMvyrf/E5yNdtafepy7vpVReuIGcayCB0moaNdkcfWILh2BxaNSqe3/4Y3sMD a0SO831jJTRTK6Xm+bSHlbF4wK83fWcmXiZwymTjTYUV5a04GTaLuO1O9AKxerwP P8542jgrubA= =MAAI -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: @Home Cable Modem
On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Jon Hughes wrote: > > I just recently got hookoed up with the AT&T @Home > cable modem service. It's great, finally able to play > fast games and stuff :) Unfortunatnly it's only setup > with Windows 95 right now. Has anyone had any > experience with getting this to work with linux or can > anyone give me some advice on what I can do? Thanks Don't know about your particular area, but at least in the Pittsburgh, PA area they'll give you a fixed IP address if you ask for it. We got the service there last month, and the installer guys even stayed around until we got up and running. As far was we were concerned it was just a regular ethernet connection, no dhcp or anything to worry about. -- Ferret no baka
un-useful error from apt-get dist-upgrade
(this is off the unstable tree) # apt-get -y dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: lesstifg libasound0 The following NEW packages will be installed: alsa-base bootpc cfingerd finger fping icmpinfo lesstif1 libasound0.4 libssl09 lockfile-progs patch rdate rsh-client ruptime rusers rwall rwho rwhod tftp traceroute vflib2 The following packages have been kept back fvwm guile1.3 libmime-base64-perl mixviews netstd perl-tk 174 packages upgraded, 21 newly installed, 2 to remove and 6 not upgraded. 17 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/112MB of archives. After unpacking 15.9MB will be used. E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuraton That is by far the most useless error I've ever gotten from apt-get. I'm having my doubts about this new curses based interface thing. What do I do with this ? __ PGP fingerprint = 03 5B 9B A0 16 33 91 2F A5 77 BC EE 43 71 98 D4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://www.op.net/~darxus Find the next largest prime, be famous: http://www.mersenne.org/prime.htm
Re: un-useful error from apt-get dist-upgrade
On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Darxus wrote: > Need to get 0B/112MB of archives. After unpacking 15.9MB will be used. > E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuraton > > That is by far the most useless error I've ever gotten from apt-get. I'm > having my doubts about this new curses based interface thing. Yeah, you need the new APT (0.3.14) or you can run dpkg --configure -a Jason
Really weird (and cool) WP8 bug, try it
I have Corel WordPerfect 8 (free, as in beer, version) for Linux, and it has the weirdest bug in the world: You start it up and type: There's 10 of us. and boom! it segfaults. Something to do with the proofreading grammar checker (which has to be on). What's neat is, you can start some pretty nasty FUD, because the following will also crash: Microsoft Office is bug-ridden, but you know what? There's 100% of those bugs in Corel WordPerfect too! and it segfaults. Ouch! Try it and post the results. More details: There's 10 of us. - Grammar "As-You-Go" proofreading must be on. - Uses the free (beer), downloadable version of Corel WP8 for Linux. - must have a space or nothing before and after the sentence; enclosing it in quotes doesn't cause the crash. - expanding the "There's" to "There is" doesn't cause the crash - Other words, such as "them", "those", "these", "their", can replace "us" and still cause the crash. - "10" can be replaced by a number (literal or spelled-out) that is two characters or more long. (not 0 1 2 3..., but 11 150 ten twelve fifty-six etc.) - Reinstalling WordPerfect did not fix it. This crash occurs on two Debian systems, an i686 and an i586, both running 2.2 kernels (2.2.11-ac3, and 2.2.13) Again, try it and post the results. -- "I already have all the latest software." -- Laura Winslow, "Family Matters" Dwayne C. Litzenberger - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists. Advertising Policy: http://DLitzPower.tripod.com/spamoff.htm GnuPG Public Key: http://DLitzPower.tripod.com/gpgkey.asc Fingerprint: 0535 F7CF FF5F 8547 E5A5 695E 4456 FB6C BC39 A4B0 pgp1gGLH6UO8d.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: debconf frontend error
Charles Lewis wrote: > I thought this fixed the problem (although it does not reprompt me for a > frontend unless I first 'rm /var/lib/debconf/debconf.db') Hm, that shouldn't be. dpkg-reconfigure should always re-prompt you. > debconf seems to be horribly broken. After choosing Text as my front end, I > am now getting the following errors on apt-get upgrade: > > stty: standard input: Invalid argument > stty: standard input: Invalid argument Install the new version of debconf that is now in unstable. (Any version after 0.2.22 will do). -- see shy jo
Re: Debian vs Red Hat for updates
On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 04:58:41PM -0800, Howard Mann wrote: > > This is obviously very frustrating. Is the upgrade > process in Debian - using apt-get I presume - > generally easier ? Holy moly, yes. > > I'll move to Debian if accomplishing updates/ > upgrades is simpler and more reliable. > > I'd appreciate any general comments. > Welcome. Rob -- boy, n: A noise with dirt on it.
Re: libdf.so.4.0 or libdf.so.4 or something else ?
What package are those in? I've been trying to find them. On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 12:54:43AM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: > [00:49:48 /tmp]$ html2ps -h > Can't load '/usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux/auto/Image/Magick/Magick.so' for > module Image::Magick: libdf.so.4.0: cannot open shared object file: No such > file or directory at /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux/DynaLoader.pm line 169. > > at /usr/bin/html2ps line 453 > [00:50:32 /tmp]$ ls -l /usr/lib/libdf* > lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 14 Oct 21 15:20 /usr/lib/libdf.so.4 > -> > libdf.so.4.1r3 > -rw-r--r--1 root root 460812 Oct 19 21:06 > /usr/lib/libdf.so.4.1r3 > > > Is the problem that libdf.so.4 should be called libdf.so.4.0 (or vice versa) > or is it something else ? > > > -- "I already have all the latest software." -- Laura Winslow, "Family Matters" Dwayne C. Litzenberger - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists. Advertising Policy: http://DLitzPower.tripod.com/spamoff.htm GnuPG Public Key: http://DLitzPower.tripod.com/gpgkey.asc Fingerprint: 0535 F7CF FF5F 8547 E5A5 695E 4456 FB6C BC39 A4B0 pgpIi7BTk5Gqe.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: full duplex sound
I have a soundblaster 16, and /dev/dsp isn't full-duplex with OSS/Linux.
But ALSA does it (at CPU cost, though, Quake gets choppy)
On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 03:41:34PM +0100, Nils-Erik Svangård wrote:
> I think the ALSA drivers use full duplex, and OSS only use full duplex on
> Sound Blaster 16.
> This is unconfirmed, but I think I have read this somewhere in the resent
> past.
> /nisse
> On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Pere Camps wrote:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > I'm trying to find out if the /dev/dsp interface for
> > playing/recording sound is full duplex if the Sound Card is.
> >
> > Can anybody confim it and/or give me some references on where to
> > find the specifications of the /dev/{dsp,mixer,etc} devices?
> >
> > TIA!
> >
> > please email replies to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as this is for a friend of
> > mine.
> >
> > -- p.
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Re: Applying kernel patch
On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 09:56:11AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'm not sure how or where to find information about applying a kernel > patch. Can someone point me in the right direction? I have the kernel > sources, and the appropriate kernel patch deb, but do I apply the > patch before configuring and recompiling the kernel, or after? Guess > I'm not sure what the patch actually does. > Check out the Kernel HOWTO, that has a section on kernel patches, using the patch program, and things to be aware of when using patches. Also check out the debian-user archives on debian.org, there are quite a few threads stored there relating to kernel patches. -- [ Matthew Gregan ] [ GPG ID: B63A1E95 ] [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ GPG fingerprint: FB83 2911 F170 B31C 9E4A E382 CA8A A2F6 B63A 1E95 ] pgpqoGnreclqS.pgp Description: PGP signature
Slink + some Potato = What?
I have Slink, but have spent some time over the last few days updating essentially all the required base and standard packages from Potato. So, when I look at packages "for Slink" or "for Potato," which one am I supposed to choose? For instance, the October Gnome. Should I avoid the Slink version? Thanks. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies and coincidences." -- John Allen Paulos, mathematics professor at Temple University
Re: HELP: apt = E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuraton ...
Same thing happened here. apt quit because some script broke (which is semi-normal). I fixed the problem, but then apt-get -y -f dselect-upgrade, which always used to work, gives that precise error. The package that broke was yiff-server, if that matters (probably doesn't). Anyone? On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 02:36:22PM +0100, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > hello, > > long back since the last big problem with potato... :( > > tryed an update today, and after lots of errors got now into this state, apt > reports back : > Need to get 0B/10.3MB of archives. After unpacking 340kB will be freed. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] > E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuraton > > and nothing more > i downloaded the latest potato apt, tryed to install, but: > yoda:/usr/local/archives# dpkg -i apt_0.3.13.deb > (Reading database ... 78970 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to replace apt 0.3.13 (using apt_0.3.13.deb) ... > Unpacking replacement apt ... > dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute old post-removal script: No such file or > directory > dpkg: warning - old post-removal script returned error exit status 2 > dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... > dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute new post-removal script: No such file or > directory > dpkg: error processing apt_0.3.13.deb (--install): > subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 2 > dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute new post-removal script: No such file or > directory > dpkg: error while cleaning up: > subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 2 > Errors were encountered while processing: > apt_0.3.13.deb > > what can i do to de-vloc this situation? removing of actual apt is not > possible, the tool wants the conflicitng packages removed first sort of > cat biting its tail > -- "I already have all the latest software." -- Laura Winslow, "Family Matters" Dwayne C. Litzenberger - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists. Advertising Policy: http://DLitzPower.tripod.com/spamoff.htm GnuPG Public Key: http://DLitzPower.tripod.com/gpgkey.asc Fingerprint: 0535 F7CF FF5F 8547 E5A5 695E 4456 FB6C BC39 A4B0 pgpLpCNiYgQu3.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Seperate DEB package for pico
Doesn't the license forbid that? Isn't that why it isn't an official Debian package (not even non-free) anyway? I'll be quiet now. On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 12:31:24PM -0500, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > > On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Bart Szyszka wrote: > > > I could have sworn that a few weeks back someone posted about > > a DEB package for just pico (the text editor that comes with pine) > > that was separate from pine, but I can't find that post in the archives. > > Am I imagining things? > > You remember correctly. I am mirroring the debs at > http://members.mint.net/frodo/pine/ > > noah > > > -- "I already have all the latest software." -- Laura Winslow, "Family Matters" Dwayne C. Litzenberger - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists. Advertising Policy: http://DLitzPower.tripod.com/spamoff.htm GnuPG Public Key: http://DLitzPower.tripod.com/gpgkey.asc Fingerprint: 0535 F7CF FF5F 8547 E5A5 695E 4456 FB6C BC39 A4B0 pgpRLDaxyCfA9.pgp Description: PGP signature
many packets between NAT and other?
Greetings once again. I have a question I hope some networking fellow can help with. I have a NAT box (sarnold) and a single box hidden behind it (amidala) -- and they won't stop talking to each other. Here is a typical tcpdump output: 21:40:25.447332 sarnold.25682 > amidala.6000: P 65829:65857(28) ack 0 win 8192 (DF) 21:40:25.448015 sarnold.25682 > amidala.6000: P 65857:65969(112) ack 0 win 8192 (DF) 21:40:25.448037 sarnold.25682 > amidala.6000: P 65969:65997(28) ack 0 win 8192 (DF) 21:40:25.448077 sarnold.25682 > amidala.6000: P 65997:66025(28) ack 0 win 8192 (DF) 21:40:25.448798 sarnold.25626 > amidala.6000: P 5293:5377(84) ack 0 win 8192 (DF) 21:40:25.448833 sarnold.25626 > amidala.6000: P 5377:5405(28) ack 0 win 8192 (DF) 21:40:25.449165 sarnold.25626 > amidala.6000: P 5405:5433(28) ack 0 win 8192 (DF) 21:40:25.449207 sarnold.25626 > amidala.6000: P 5433:5461(28) ack 0 win 8192 (DF) 21:40:25.449242 sarnold.25626 > amidala.6000: P 5461:5489(28) ack 0 win 8192 (DF) 21:40:25.458153 amidala.6000 > sarnold.25682: . ack 66025 win 32120 (DF) 21:40:25.468147 amidala.6000 > sarnold.25626: . ack 5489 win 32120 (DF) Does anyone have any clue what is going on? I have two small little programs, that don't update that often, ssh2 displayed on amidala, running on sarnold -- is this level of traffic normal? (the programs are wmifs, one for each ethernet device..) Should I be worried about this level of traffic? It seems high.. thanks. :) -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
Re: Slink + some Potato = What?
Hi, On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 11:04:11PM -0600, David J. Kanter was heard to state: > I have Slink, but have spent some time over the last few days updating > essentially all the required base and standard packages from Potato. So, > when I look at packages "for Slink" or "for Potato," which one am I supposed > to choose? For instance, the October Gnome. Should I avoid the Slink version? This is exactly what I have done. I pointed apt at the unstable branch, downloaded glibc2.1, and then have downloaded additional things from there. Not everything works perfectly every time - I haven't got gdm working since I installed it earlier today, but generally most things work fine. I'm working on a slow migration path to potato, so I'm slowly upgrading stuff to potato as I want it. Unless you plan on re-installing from scratch again once potato become stable, I'd recomend sticking to potato and hoping that nothing breaks (too badly). It also has the advantage that you get to update stuff as the maintainer updates them. I doubt they will be doing much to October Gnome for slink (seeing it's now November!), but the Gnome stuff in Potato does seem to be updated occasionally, with new stuff added frequently. Of course, this is all IMHO, but it's what I'm doing. Cheers, damon -- Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) / It's not a sense of humor. * Criminologist / It's a sense of irony * Webmeister / disguised as one. * Linux Geek / - Bruce Sterling
ls doesn't work on my Anonymous FTP!
I have set up an anonymous FTP according to the guidelines in the ftpd man page. Everything seems to work fine, except ls. When I do ls, I get no information. pwd gives me the correct path. I have tried to give full permission to everything in ~/ftp, but ls still does not give anything. Any ideas what can be wrong?
Re: HELP: apt = E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuraton ...
On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: > Same thing happened here. apt quit because some script broke (which is > semi-normal). I fixed the problem, but then apt-get -y -f > dselect-upgrade, which always used to work, gives that precise error. The > package that broke was yiff-server, if that matters (probably doesn't). The 'Internal error' bit is a fixed APT bug, dpkg --configure -a will clear it, the weird dpkg output is something totally different and unrelated. Jason
I have a few miscellaneous questions
I am a new Debian user and have a few problems to clear up. Any help is appreciated. Please reply to me directly since I have not yet got myself on the User mailing list. Thanks Question #1 - Have a problem with Quake2 getting CD audio, error is "sr0: CDROM (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL REQUEST" Anyone have any thoughts? I am running kernel 2.2.12 using SCSI emulation. Note my cd drives are IDE but the kernel is emulating them as SCSI, could this be causing the problem? Is the problem kernel related or with the Quake2 binary? Also Quake2 will not recognize my mouse, though it is set up in vgalib.conf. There are no messages output regarding my mouse and sometimes it seems to work for a half second or so and then quits. Can't figure out why. Any thoughts? Question #2 - Does anyone know what .deb package the program 'db2html' is in? Is there even a .deb package that contains this program? Question #3 - Whenever I boot up I must do an 'ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0' to get my ethernet card working. Is there a config file or something that I can edit so that these parameters are set automatically on bootup. Question #4 - What is the equivalent of rc.local in Debian? Thanks James Carscadden [EMAIL PROTECTED] begin:vcard n:Carscadden;James tel;home:416-424-4623 x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:University of Waterloo;Math - Computer Science adr:;;35 Annesley Ave.;Toronto;Ontario;M4G 2T5;Canada version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Student x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:James Carscadden end:vcard
Re: gnomeicu w/out the rest of gnome?
use gnomeicu -a instead... Ron Farrer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello all; > > Is there a way to use gnomeicu without the gnome panel and stuff opening > too? I don't need a panel/start menu. WindowMaker works fine without. > Every time I try and run gnomeicu the gnome panel opens too. Also, when > gnomeicu opens I can't see any text except for 'ok' and 'cancel' on the > bottons at the bottom of the window and they are not centered on the > buttons! This may have to do with the fact I'm running slink with only a > few packages from potato... > > > > TIA, > > Ron > -- > = > = Ronald Burnett Farrer = > = > --- > - "mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]" - > - "http://www.farrer.net"; - > --- > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |___/ _
pgp confusion
Hi, Is pgp5 backward compatible with pgp2? I have an email which is encrypted using pgp5 with my pubring generated by pgp2, but I could not seem to open it using pgp2. If I upgrade to pgp5, do I need to generate another keyring? If I do, should I use RSA or DSS for signing and encrypting email? If I don't need to generate another keyring, then I am having trouble to retrieve the keyring info using pgpk -l. Also, is gpg compatable with the both? Which one should I use? Thanks. Shao. -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |___/ _
Re:X screen resolutions.
>On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 12:50:34PM +0100, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 08:11:47AM +, Jens K. Olsen wrote: >>> I am sure my machine was displaying 1280x1024 when I was using Windows, >>> but in X I can't get it to work. Can anyone please help me. >> >> Hi, >> >> are you sure this resolution was 'plain' and not compresses, like on >> LCD for projectors? If so, I don't think this specific mode is supported >> by xfree. > > X supports that resolution just fine. Although, without a big monitor, > text might be a little hard to read. The poster needs to find out how > much RAM his video card really has, and might want to consider a more > sane resolution (unless 19' monitor or better). But I do have a big monitor! I we used to run Pro/ENGINEER on this machine! As I wrote in the first e-mail. SuperProbe reports 512kB. Is there a way I can verify if this is correct or not? Attached is my /var/log/xdm.log if that helps anything. XFree86 Version 3.3.2.3 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300) Release Date: July 15 1998 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (see http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ) Operating System: Linux 2.0.36 i686 [ELF] Configured drivers: SVGA: server for SVGA graphics adaptors (Patchlevel 0): NV1, STG2000, RIVA128, ET4000, ET4000W32, ET4000W32i, ET4000W32i_rev_b, ET4000W32i_rev_c, ET4000W32p, ET4000W32p_rev_a, ET4000W32p_rev_b, ET4000W32p_rev_c, ET4000W32p_rev_d, ET6000, ET6100, et3000, pvga1, wd90c00, wd90c10, wd90c30, wd90c24, wd90c31, wd90c33, gvga, ati, sis86c201, sis86c202, sis86c205, tvga8200lx, tvga8800cs, tvga8900b, tvga8900c, tvga8900cl, tvga8900d, tvga9000, tvga9000i, tvga9100b, tvga9200cxr, tgui9400cxi, tgui9420, tgui9420dgi, tgui9430dgi, tgui9440agi, cyber9320, tgui9660, tgui9680, tgui9682, tgui9685, cyber9382, cyber9385, cyber9388, cyber9397, cyber9520, 3dimage975, 3dimage985, clgd5420, clgd5422, clgd5424, clgd5426, clgd5428, clgd5429, clgd5430, clgd5434, clgd5436, clgd5446, clgd5480, clgd5462, clgd5464, clgd5465, clgd6205, clgd6215, clgd6225, clgd6235, clgd7541, clgd7542, clgd7543, clgd7548, clgd7555, ncr77c22, ncr77c22e, cpq_avga, mga2064w, mga1064sg, mga2164w, mga2164w AGP, oti067, oti077, oti087, oti037c, al2101, ali2228, ali2301, ali2302, ali2308, ali2401, cl6410, cl6412, cl6420, cl6440, video7, ark1000vl, ark1000pv, ark2000pv, ark2000mt, mx, realtek, AP6422, AT24, AT3D, s3_virge, s3_svga, ct65520, ct65525, ct65530, ct65535, ct65540, ct65545, ct65546, ct65548, ct65550, ct65554, ct6, ct68554, ct64200, ct64300, generic (using VT number 7) XF86Config: /etc/X11/XF86Config (**) stands for supplied, (--) stands for probed/default values (**) XKB: rules: "xfree86" (**) XKB: model: "jp106" (**) XKB: layout: "jp" (**) Mouse: type: PS/2, device: /dev/psaux, buttons: 3 (**) SVGA: Graphics device ID: "Cirrus Logic GD543x" (**) SVGA: Monitor ID: "My Monitor" (--) SVGA: Mode "1280x1024" needs hsync freq of 91.15 kHz. Deleted. (--) SVGA: Mode "1280x1024" needs hsync freq of 107.16 kHz. Deleted. (**) FontPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75 dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts /Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X1 1R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/" (--) SVGA: PCI: Cirrus Logic GD5430 rev 71, Memory @ 0xfc00 (--) SVGA: chipset: clgd5430 (--) SVGA: videoram: 512k (--) SVGA: clocks: 25.23 28.32 41.16 36.08 31.50 39.99 45.08 49.87 (--) SVGA: clocks: 64.98 72.16 75.00 80.01 85.23 (**) SVGA: Option "linear" (**) SVGA: Using 8 bpp, Depth 8, Color weight: 666 (--) SVGA: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 85.500 MHz (**) SVGA: Mode "800x600": mode clock = 40.000, clock used = 39.991 (**) SVGA: Mode "1280x1024": mode clock = 80.000, clock used = 80.012 (--) SVGA: Insufficient video memory for all resolutions (--) SVGA: Removing mode "1280x1024" from list of valid modes. (--) SVGA: Virtual resolution set to 800x600 (--) SVGA: SpeedUp code selection modified because virtualX != 1024 (--) SVGA: clgd5430: Internal memory clock register is 0x1c (Standard RAS) (**) SVGA: clgd5430: Approximate DRAM bandwidth for drawing: 10 of 50 MB/s (--) SVGA: clgd5430: Using linear framebuffer at 0xfc00 (4032MB) (--) SVGA: clgd5430: 44288 bytes off-screen memory available (--) SVGA: clgd5430: Using hardware cursor (--) SVGA: clgd5430: Using accelerator functions (--) SVGA: clgd5430: Using BitBLT engine (**) SVGA: clgd5430: Using memory-mapped I/O (--) SVGA: Using XAA (XFree86 Acceleration Architecture) (--) SVGA: XAA: Solid filled rectangles (--) SVGA: XAA: Screen-to-screen copy (--) SVGA: XAA: Using 6
Re: Netscape 4.05 tarball?
Try the following site for earlier netscape versions: ftp://archive:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/archive/index.html -- tony mollica [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: quicktime4 player for linux?
Jens, Good point! Something which I feel a lot of people miss. The format is only good if it has users... those users are **not** the people who play the movies... they are the people that make the movies! The only reason they make them (barring management nonsense, which is definitly not unheard of :) is so that people will watch them... if there is no viewerbase, there is no userbase... tell *that* to the people who are producing the movies as well as apple... cc'ing a few parties on such matters tends to move things along swiftly (READ: Lights fire under their a**). Ken Jens Guenther wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 06, 1999 at 03:05:14PM -0700, James Pullman wrote: > > Apple has steadfastly refused. So bug Apple some more. > > It might be worth bugging those, who produce QT movies. Usually they > want people to watch them; certainly if they produce them for advertising. > > It would be in their interest, to make their movies widely viewable, so they > might be prompted to either ask Apple to make their product avalilable or > use another format. > Jens > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Luftfahrtingenieure tun es mit dem Schub von einem Saturn fünf.
Help wanted on Sendmail
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Re: HELP: apt = E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuraton ...
> The 'Internal error' bit is a fixed APT bug, dpkg --configure -a will > clear it, the weird dpkg output is something totally different and > unrelated. ok, and any suggestion on how to get rid of it? Now the installation stalls at : localhost:~# apt-get upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages have been kept back cron gs guile1.3 netstd pingus proftpd pvm pvm-dev ssh 182 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 9 not upgraded. 1 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/77.6MB of archives. After unpacking 2663kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 100% [Scanning packages] Configuring packages ... /tmp/fileIQpGZk: /usr/share/debconf/confmodule: No such file or directory E: Sub-process dpkg-preconfig --apt returned an error code (1) E: Failure running script dpkg-preconfig --apt better, but still preventing any update... -- ciao bboett == [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://inforezo.u-strasbg.fr/~bboett http://erm1.u-strasbg.fr/~bboett === the total amount of intelligence on earth is constant. human population is growing
Re: vrml
Micha Feigin hat gesagt: // Micha Feigin wrote: > I need a good program for vrml, both a viewer for netscape and an editor. > any sujestions? freewrl is quite a good viewer. Editors? Well, maybe VIM ;) -- ____ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\
Re: HELP: apt = E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuraton ...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > 100% [Scanning packages] > Configuring packages ... > /tmp/fileIQpGZk: /usr/share/debconf/confmodule: No such file or directory > E: Sub-process dpkg-preconfig --apt returned an error code (1) > E: Failure running script dpkg-preconfig --apt Itshould work to manualy install debconf. Do this by dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/debconf* (I'm not sure about the end of the filename). After that a apt-get upgrade should work. Martin - -- Linux, because I'd like to *get there* today For public PGP-key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBOCvdhbCGSMW7I2etAQGsewP9GbEC1cK0lnzg/uYtabAL7+/98rSDpzes fV0hwDW2dEnBLowmgDadHCmDiCztEb+XFWEQ+g2TIWXj5flIULMihmYxBV9oUgYn XsQbQwqVmEWTfuyX9OYjkECDR5jRV0nHq8PQi68z3npRIyTh7rtGSFjt3H5tTAFC Hnk71TspZVQ= =TrKS -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: apt-get
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, William Burrow wrote: > OK, so I guess I have to bite the bullet. How is the general opinion on > potato at the moment? Generally, I don't like going bleeding edge, but > if it is overall stable as it stands, then I might go for it. I'm not > quite familiar with how Debian progresses in its development I've updated slink to potato one month ago or so. In general apt-get did its job very smothly, only a couple of packages (not more than 10) made some configuration problems, and due to this sometimes the dist-upgrade prcess got interupted, and had do be started again (after the problem was solved). But got through it without any big problem. After upgrading to potato the system runs as stable as slink did. The dayly upgrades I do go mostly smoth, too. Martin - -- If Windows is the answer, can we please have the problem back? For public PGP-key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBOCvgELCGSMW7I2etAQGXcAP/dnO+SA+kzR+MJ8UOAGwXTg/6TjlOGLyV 8WCqd7wP5QNWJsVARfeNPtTI+IRhFi39YiDAnLANVhFUi0MdE2d5EA5pUjd48M/p snxsa8wE78oWQCKmStZ3c7LmZHvRgj5Eg8Yox0pKGasXe65UgnHzowRIjIvDQhDp ZQDSnLKDL4U= =Agln -END PGP SIGNATURE-
IP Alias and Slink - ARGH!
Hi Folks, I posted this a week or so ago, and although I got a couple of suggestions, nothing seemed to help. I've looked around the net, and not seen anything else like it anywhere. I have a pretty vanilla slink install, with the update for netbase recommended for 2.2 kernels. I'm using a 2.2.12 kernal at the moment, but I have also tried 2.0.38, and get exactly the same problem. Same thing if I just use the standard slink netbase, with either 2.2.12 or 2.0.38. Has *anyone* managed to get IP aliasing working on Slink? Surely someone has. The problem is, if I install an IP alias on this system, I am able to ping the aliased IP (eth0:0) on the same box, but not from any other box on the network. I am able to ping, and connect to, the primary (eth0) IP with no problems from any machine. The NIC is an Intel 10/100, running on a 10M hub. callisto:~# ifconfig eth0:0 203.20.80.111 up callisto:~# ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:C9:98:E2:91 inet addr:203.20.80.42 Bcast:203.20.80.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:4259 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:3939 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:16 txqueuelen:100 Interrupt:10 Base address:0xe000 eth0:0Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:C9:98:E2:91 inet addr:203.20.80.111 Bcast:203.20.80.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 Interrupt:10 Base address:0xe000 loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1 RX packets:201 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:201 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 callisto:~# ping 203.20.80.111 PING 203.20.80.111 (203.20.80.111): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 203.20.80.111: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.9 ms 64 bytes from 203.20.80.111: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.6 ms --- 203.20.80.111 ping statistics --- 2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max = 0.6/0.7/0.9 ms As you can see from the above, I can add the alias, it shows up, and I can ping it on the same machine. When I move onto another machine from the network, and I try and ping the alias I have created, it doesn't respond (the other machine is running RedHat 5.2, updated to kernel 2.2.10): [EMAIL PROTECTED] damon]# ping 203.20.80.111 PING 203.20.80.111 (203.20.80.111): 56 data bytes --- 203.20.80.111 ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss [EMAIL PROTECTED] damon]# But when I ping the eth0 IP from the same remote machine, it works fine: [EMAIL PROTECTED] damon]# ping 203.20.80.42 PING 203.20.80.42 (203.20.80.42): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 203.20.80.42: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=2.4 ms 64 bytes from 203.20.80.42: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=1.8 ms 64 bytes from 203.20.80.42: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=1.0 ms 64 bytes from 203.20.80.42: icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=1.0 ms --- 203.20.80.42 ping statistics --- 4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max = 1.0/1.5/2.4 ms [EMAIL PROTECTED] damon]# I have tried everything I can think of: recopiling kernels, using different kernels, using different netbase packages, removing spoofprotect from /etc/init.d/netbase. I am competely out of options, and about to start damaging some hardware! I hope I have posed enough information here for someone to help me diagnose the problem. If there is anything more I can post, let me know and I will. Someone please save me! damon -- Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Systems Administrator EmpireNET Melbourne, Australia
Re: ls doesn't work on my Anonymous FTP!
On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 07:18:17AM +, Jens K. Olsen wrote: > I have set up an anonymous FTP according to the guidelines in the ftpd > man page. Everything seems to work fine, except ls. When I do ls, I get > no information. pwd gives me the correct path. I have tried to give full > permission to everything in ~/ftp, but ls still does not give anything. > > Any ideas what can be wrong? Did you tryied to put your ftp client in passive mode ? JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix is the worst operating system; except for all others. -- Berry Kercheval
Re:X screen resolutions.
On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Jens K. Olsen wrote: > >On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 12:50:34PM +0100, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 08:11:47AM +, Jens K. Olsen wrote: > >>> I am sure my machine was displaying 1280x1024 when I was using Windows, > >>> but in X I can't get it to work. Can anyone please help me. > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> are you sure this resolution was 'plain' and not compresses, like on > >> LCD for projectors? If so, I don't think this specific mode is supported > >> by xfree. > > > > X supports that resolution just fine. Although, without a big monitor, > > text might be a little hard to read. The poster needs to find out how > > much RAM his video card really has, and might want to consider a more > > sane resolution (unless 19' monitor or better). > > But I do have a big monitor! I we used to run Pro/ENGINEER on this > machine! > > As I wrote in the first e-mail. SuperProbe reports 512kB. Is there a way > I can verify if this is correct or not? > > Attached is my /var/log/xdm.log if that helps anything. > > > > XFree86 Version 3.3.2.3 / X Window System > (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300) > Release Date: July 15 1998 > If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is > newer > than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting > problems. (see http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ) > Operating System: Linux 2.0.36 i686 [ELF] > Configured drivers: > SVGA: server for SVGA graphics adaptors (Patchlevel 0): > NV1, STG2000, RIVA128, ET4000, ET4000W32, ET4000W32i, > ET4000W32i_rev_b, ET4000W32i_rev_c, ET4000W32p, ET4000W32p_rev_a, > ET4000W32p_rev_b, ET4000W32p_rev_c, ET4000W32p_rev_d, ET6000, > ET6100, > et3000, pvga1, wd90c00, wd90c10, wd90c30, wd90c24, wd90c31, > wd90c33, > gvga, ati, sis86c201, sis86c202, sis86c205, tvga8200lx, > tvga8800cs, > tvga8900b, tvga8900c, tvga8900cl, tvga8900d, tvga9000, tvga9000i, > tvga9100b, tvga9200cxr, tgui9400cxi, tgui9420, tgui9420dgi, > tgui9430dgi, tgui9440agi, cyber9320, tgui9660, tgui9680, tgui9682, > tgui9685, cyber9382, cyber9385, cyber9388, cyber9397, cyber9520, > 3dimage975, 3dimage985, clgd5420, clgd5422, clgd5424, clgd5426, > clgd5428, clgd5429, clgd5430, clgd5434, clgd5436, clgd5446, > clgd5480, > clgd5462, clgd5464, clgd5465, clgd6205, clgd6215, clgd6225, > clgd6235, > clgd7541, clgd7542, clgd7543, clgd7548, clgd7555, ncr77c22, > ncr77c22e, > cpq_avga, mga2064w, mga1064sg, mga2164w, mga2164w AGP, oti067, > oti077, > oti087, oti037c, al2101, ali2228, ali2301, ali2302, ali2308, > ali2401, > cl6410, cl6412, cl6420, cl6440, video7, ark1000vl, ark1000pv, > ark2000pv, ark2000mt, mx, realtek, AP6422, AT24, AT3D, s3_virge, > s3_svga, ct65520, ct65525, ct65530, ct65535, ct65540, ct65545, > ct65546, ct65548, ct65550, ct65554, ct6, ct68554, ct64200, > ct64300, generic > (using VT number 7) > > XF86Config: /etc/X11/XF86Config > (**) stands for supplied, (--) stands for probed/default values > (**) XKB: rules: "xfree86" > (**) XKB: model: "jp106" > (**) XKB: layout: "jp" > (**) Mouse: type: PS/2, device: /dev/psaux, buttons: 3 > (**) SVGA: Graphics device ID: "Cirrus Logic GD543x" > (**) SVGA: Monitor ID: "My Monitor" > (--) SVGA: Mode "1280x1024" needs hsync freq of 91.15 kHz. Deleted. > (--) SVGA: Mode "1280x1024" needs hsync freq of 107.16 kHz. Deleted. > (**) FontPath set to > "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75 > dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts > /Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X1 > 1R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/" > (--) SVGA: PCI: Cirrus Logic GD5430 rev 71, Memory @ 0xfc00 > (--) SVGA: chipset: clgd5430 > (--) SVGA: videoram: 512k > (--) SVGA: clocks: 25.23 28.32 41.16 36.08 31.50 39.99 45.08 > 49.87 > (--) SVGA: clocks: 64.98 72.16 75.00 80.01 85.23 > (**) SVGA: Option "linear" > (**) SVGA: Using 8 bpp, Depth 8, Color weight: 666 > (--) SVGA: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 85.500 MHz > (**) SVGA: Mode "800x600": mode clock = 40.000, clock used = 39.991 > (**) SVGA: Mode "1280x1024": mode clock = 80.000, clock used = 80.012 > (--) SVGA: Insufficient video memory for all resolutions > (--) SVGA: Removing mode "1280x1024" from list of valid modes. I think, her is the catch: 512k videoram = 512*1024*8 = 4,194,304 bit!! resolution 1280 * 1024 = 1,310,720 pixel so are there 4,194,304/1,310,720 = 3,2 bit/pixel That's just enough for monochrom (but 3 images). Find out, how much RAM the videocard really has and set it in XF86Config as described in man XF86Config by hand: VideoRam mem Matth
Re: HELP: apt = E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuraton ...
> dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/debconf* > > (I'm not sure about the end of the filename). After that a apt-get upgrade > should work. thanks a lot, the systems are unpacking and configuring! -- ciao bboett == [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://inforezo.u-strasbg.fr/~bboett http://erm1.u-strasbg.fr/~bboett === the total amount of intelligence on earth is constant. human population is growing
Re: Debian vs Red Hat for updates
"Keith G. Murphy" wrote: > > Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > > Howard Mann wrote: > > > > [cut] > > > When I installed Python 1.5, a number of existent > > > apps broke that required Python 1.4 and associated > > > apps like "TLinker." > > > > > > This is obviously very frustrating. Is the upgrade > > > process in Debian - using apt-get I presume - > > > generally easier ? > > > > [cut] > > > [cut] > > The situation with python is handled as well. An attempt by you to > > upgrade python from 1.4 to 1.5, would trigger an error. In dselect, a > > screen would pop up and tell you what packages still depend on py 1.4 > > (a dependency against "1.4 and above" would be ok), and would warn you > > to upgrade now would likely break these packages. > > > Shouldn't rpm have refused the python upgrade as well? I'm pretty sure > it understands dependencies and versions. Don't know anything about RPM. > > Perhaps this just confirms what I've noted before: the debs are > generally of better quality than the rpms. Maybe having an experienced > Debian maintainer for each package helps a lot. I'd imagine not all of them are "experienced" (depending on how you use the word), although the major Debian people clearly are. I'd say they do tend to be more dedicated since being a Debian maintainer is a bit more work than someone packaging something as an RPM. However, the most important thing, I think, is the fact the distribution is kept together at ftp.debian.org. Conflicts between packages and broken packages are found very quickly by those folks who update against the unstable branch. > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Ed C.
Re: X screen resolutions.
On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 05:07:35AM -0500, matthschulz wrote: > > But I do have a big monitor! I we used to run Pro/ENGINEER on this > > machine! > > > > As I wrote in the first e-mail. SuperProbe reports 512kB. Is there a way > > I can verify if this is correct or not? > > Like I said, you need to find out how much video RAM you *really* have. SuperProbe said the same thing with my Millenium G200 8MB card. Try to find the spec somewhere so you can get both the correct video RAM and the correct dot-clock. Also, knowing the frequency ranges of your monitor (if multisync) is handy. I'm not sure on the translations between bits-per-pixel, resolution, video memory and max dot clock, but at 8bpp I'd think you could get that resolution with 2MB of video RAM. So, perhaps a low max dot-clock or your monitor sync ranges are causing X to bail at that resolution. -- ++ | Eric G. Milleregm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | ++
PERL-Terminal
Hi, all
I'm trying to do a terminal-like application in perl5.
There is a serial-coupled box, which i try to handle.
I used minicom, works fine, but i have to set some filters and controls for in-
and output. So i tried following:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use English;
my ($kidpid, $lines, $liner, $port, $oldh);
unless (@ARGV == 1) { die "usage: $0 ttySx" }
($port) = @ARGV;
open(BOX, "+>/dev/$port") or die "can't connect to >/dev/$port $!";
$OUTPUT_AUTOFLUSH = 1;
# split the program into two processes, identical twins
die "can't fork: $!" unless defined($kidpid = fork());
# the if{} block runs only in the parent process
if ($kidpid) {
# print STDERR "[pa Child#: $kidpid Parent#: $$]\n";#debug only
# copy standard input to the BOX
while (defined ($lines = )) {
print "**s** $lines"; #deb: line sent
print BOX $lines;
if ($lines eq "exit\n") {
kill("TERM",$kidpid); # send SIGTERM to child
close(BOX);
exit 0;
}
}
}
# the else{} block runs only in the child process
else {
# print STDERR "[ch Child#: $kidpid Parent#: $$]\n";#debug only
# copy BOX to standard output
while (1){
$liner = ;
print STDOUT "**r** $liner";# deb: line received
}
}
There seems to be some confusion between input- and outputbuffer.
I get
ati0
**s** ati0
**r** ati0
**r**
**r**
**r** Xircom CreditCard Modem CM-56T (Revision 2.08)
**r**
**r**
**r**
**r** OK
**r**
**r** ati0
**r**
**r**
**r** Xircom CreditCard Modem CM-56T (Revision 2.08)
**r**
**r**
**r**
**r** OK
**r**
...
Does somebody know, what i'm doing wrong?
Is somewhere a perl-list?
Matth
E: Sub-process dpkg-preconfig --apt returned an error code (100)
Thanks for your help, i could deblock 2 machines, now i am stuck with the last one, which is in really bad shape. trying the following: yoda:/var/cache/apt/archives# apt-get -f install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following extra packages will be installed: bc binutils blas1 bsdutils bug console-data console-tools console-tools-libs debconf The following packages will be REMOVED: apt-find communicator-nethelp-46 communicator-spellchk-46 9 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 219 not upgraded. 57 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 482kB/10.1MB of archives. After unpacking 1034kB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Get:1 ftp://tux.u-strasbg.fr potato/main apt 0.3.14 [482kB] Fetched 482kB in 3s (126kB/s) E: Sub-process dpkg-preconfig --apt returned an error code (100) E: Failure running script dpkg-preconfig --apt i tryed to remove all traces of apt to reinstall it, but somehwere i seem to have missed some. BTW where else as in /var/lib/dpkg/status does dpkg store the installed packages? (i removed all directories of apt, all binaries, set it in /var/lib/dpkg/status to no installed but dpkg reported an syntax error in /var/lib/dpkg/status, despite i copyed the status from another non installed package) dpkg --configure -a has enourmous problems, since lots of packages are not configured and make problems any hint on what i could try? -- ciao bboett == [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://inforezo.u-strasbg.fr/~bboett http://erm1.u-strasbg.fr/~bboett === the total amount of intelligence on earth is constant. human population is growing
Re: Problems printing from one box to another
Well, I've partially solved my problem: It seems there is a bug in the lpr/lpd 0.33.3 of the slink distribution (I checked the bug page on the debian.org site) I downloaded the lpr_0.46-1-0slink1_i386.deb package, extracted manually and installed (after boackup of the old files /usr/sbin/ lpd lpc lpf pac and /usr/bin/ lpr lprm as good as //etc/init.d/lpd Now remote users can print. But local users cannot (only root can) and get following message : miraculix 106> echo ertfdsqfd | a2ps [stdin (plain): 1 page on 1 sheet] lpr: connect: Permission denied jobs queued, but cannot start daemon. What shall I do now ??? Thank you for any help ! Cecile Cécile Hébert Souche http://cybele.mssmat.ecp.fr/whoswho/perso/CSouche/CSouche.html
Re: apt-get
> I've updated slink to potato one month ago or so. In general apt-get did > its job very smothly, only a couple of packages (not more than 10) made > some configuration problems, and due to this sometimes the > dist-upgrade prcess got interupted, and had do be started again (after the > problem was solved). But got through it without any big problem. After > upgrading to potato the system runs as stable as slink did. The dayly > upgrades I do go mostly smoth, too. And just how does apt (or apt-get) work for upgrading from slink to potato? (I'm not trying to be lazy here, I do read the manual pages for apt-get and sources.list, but I'd like to get some help from someone who has already experienced it ... BTW, should there be an apt command and an apt manpage? I just have apt-get and apt-cache). Recently I did a manual upgrade (ftp download + dpkg upgrade), but my machine broke; I started to get glibc related errors and others, but what finally broke was my motherboard. I changed the m'board and processor (pentium 120 to AMD K6-2), and tried to restore the system, but too many bits and pieces seemed to be missing, broken or corrupted. I had to reinstall Slink. Dependencies, pre-dependencies, and interdependencies are just a bit too hard to deal with for a major upgrade, so I'd like to give apt a try, at least for a partial upgrade (a total upgrade is just too expensive except for USers). I attach a file with the packages I want to upgrade (based on my previous attempt); could anyone tell me how to do this with apt or apt-get? TIA -- Horacio Anno MMDCCLII ad Urbe condita mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Spain ~Spanje ~ Spanien Key fingerprint = F4EE AE5E 2F01 0DB3 62F2 A9F4 AD31 7093 4233 7AE6
Re: apt-get (attachment)
apologies, in my previous message I forgot to attach the list of upgrade-to-be packages. -- Horacio Anno MMDCCLII ad Urbe condita mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Spain ~Spanje ~ Spanien Key fingerprint = F4EE AE5E 2F01 0DB3 62F2 A9F4 AD31 7093 4233 7AE6 Slink libraries and dependencies: apt_0.3.13.deb bash_2.02.1-1.8.deb binutils_2.9.5.0.16-1.deb cpp_2.95.2-1.deb g++_2.95.2-1.deb gcc_2.95.2-1.deb gconv-modules_2.1.2-5.deb glibc-doc_2.1.2-5.deb ldso_1.9.11-4.deb libc6-dev_2.1.2-5.deb libc6_2.1.2-5.deb libglib1.2_1.2.5-1.deb libncurses4-dev_4.2-3.4.deb libncurses4_4.2-3.4.deb libreadlineg2_2.1-13.6.deb libstdc++2.10-dev_2.95.2-1.deb libstdc++2.10_2.95.2-0pre2.deb libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1_2.91.66-2.deb libstdc++2.9_2.91.61-1.deb locales_2.1.2-5.deb qt1g_1.44-6.1.deb xlib6g_3.3.5-1.deb Slink graphics software and dependencies: aalib1_1.2-20.deb freefont_0.10-8.deb giflib-bin_3.0-5.2.deb giflib3g_3.0-5.2.deb giftrans_1.12.2-4.deb gimp-data-extras_1.0.0-1.deb gimp1.1-nonfree_1.1.10-1.deb gimp1.1_1.1.10-1.deb libgimp1.1.10_1.1.10-1.deb freefont_0.10-8.deb giflib-bin_3.0-5.2.deb giflib3g_3.0-5.2.deb giftrans_1.12.2-4.deb gimp-data-extras_1.0.0-1.deb gimp1.1-nonfree_1.1.10-1.deb gimp1.1_1.1.10-1.deb libgimp1.1.10_1.1.10-1.deb libgtk1.2_1.2.6-1.deb libjpeg62_6b-1.2.deb libpng2_1.0.3-1.deb libtiff3g_3.4beta037-8.deb libungif3g_3.0-2.1.deb sharefont_0.10-7.deb zlib1g_1.1.3-4.deb
IP Alias and Slink - ARGH!
Look your routing table. # man route -- __ Felipe Alvarez Harnecker. QlSoftware. Tel. 09.874.60.17 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Potenciado por Ql/Linux http://www.qlsoft.cl __
Re: ls doesn't work on my Anonymous FTP!
Your ls binary must be staticaly linked against its libraries, or you have to put those under ~/ftp/lib Cheers. -- __ Felipe Alvarez Harnecker. QlSoftware. Tel. 09.874.60.17 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Potenciado por Ql/Linux http://www.qlsoft.cl __
fsck errors
hi, today i had a fsck run and for it looks like every socket type file fsck reported: set file type on entry `whatever' in /what/ever (inode) to 6 or something to that effect, I reran fsck again and it reported the same errors again, I even tared the /var/ filesystem (most of these files are postfix sockets) and did a mke2fs on that partition and restored the files. fsck still reports these errors. is there something really wrong or is this just a bug in fsck? system is potato e2fsprogs/libs 1.17-2 kernel 2.2.13 Best Regards, Ethan Benson To obtain my PGP key: http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/pgp/
Re: pgp confusion
On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 06:36:31PM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote: > Is pgp5 backward compatible with pgp2? I have an email which is > encrypted using pgp5 with my pubring generated by pgp2, but I > could not seem to open it using pgp2. > > If I upgrade to pgp5, do I need to generate another keyring? If > I do, should I use RSA or DSS for signing and encrypting email? > If I don't need to generate another keyring, then I am having > trouble to retrieve the keyring info using pgpk -l. > > Also, is gpg compatable with the both? Which one should I use? FWIW I'm running PGP 2.6.3i and GPG. GPG is compatible with PGP 5 and can be hacked to support PGP 2 AFAIK, but there are patent issues with that. PGP 2 will not support PGP5 emails - PGP5 changes the encryption method and v2 doesn't support this. J. -- Trust me, you wouldn't like us when we're angry. This .sig was brought to you by the letter G and the numbers 5 & 20 Product of the Republic of HuggieTag
re: killed my monitor
>Yes its true! My ADI MicroScan 6P 19" monitor just >died on me last >night. It had been making a lot of clicking/cracking >noises over the >past couple of weeks each accompanied by a slight >flicker/bounce/warp >in >the image. But last night it was just too much and >there was a really, >really loud click/crack noise and the picture went >blank. The ADI is at >a repair shop right now (authorized ADI repair center) >and luckily I >was >able to get a loaner from them. >I am just wondering if this happened because of me >misconfiguring >XF86. My video card is a Matrox Millennium G200 8MB. >The ADI's hsync is >30-94 KHz, and its vsync is 48-160 Hz. In the >XF86config program, I >selected the monitor type as: > 8 31.5 - 64.3; Monitor that can do 1280x1024 @ 60 >Hz >and I entered its vsync as 50-100 since it falls >within the ADI's >specs. >I am attaching to this email the XF86Config file that >I have used with >this ADI monitor under Debian-2.1 since early >September. I'd like >someone to tell me if I entered/selected some >incorrect configuration >value for XF86 that might have possibly contributed to >my monitor >getting toasted. I am pretty sure that I selected my >monitor as "31.5 - >64.3; Monitor that can do 1280x1024 @ 60 Hz" but I >can't remember!! I think it is unlikely that you could damage a monitor with digital controls. Most mulit-sync monitors with digital controls these days are designed to operate safely over a wide range of hor/vert and will not over heat. It is more likely that the power company set a surge your way. Also in many cases the clicking/poping noises you hear are due to arc-over in the high voltage circuits. While not normal, many monitors are designed to absorb excessive hv using 'spark gap' capacitors which are sort of like 'lightning arrestors'. My 19" Digital Research monitor pops like that once in a great while and the picture jumps. This will happen more often in a dusty or humid environment. The legend of blowing out monitors with improper X settings (it CAN happen) is due to people trying to run xvga on svga monitors with rotary sync controls. With a digital control monitor, if you can get a stable picture without any foldover, you are probably operating within the safe envelope. = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
Re: suidmanager
* Martin Fluch said: > On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Hans Gubitz wrote: > > > Is suid.conf the right place to change permissions for files (here: > > xcdroast)? Which scripts change suid.conf? Where can I read about > > suidmanager? > > The suid.conf file is used to track programs with special permissions, so > that is easy to see, if they are changeing. Speaking of suidregister... I find it annoying that it resets the settings I have modified by hand - for example I want the screen utility to be available only for the group 'screen', the tracertoute, fping, nmap and more to be available only to the 'adm' group. The suid.conf file is a great way to do such modifications, but not when they are reset everytime the package in question re-registers itself. To get around it, I have just prepended to the packages' names a letter M and every time suid.conf is modified by the postinst script, I just move the M packages block to the end of the file and run suidregister by hand. While it works, it is really annoying. What do you think about slightly modifying the suidregister procedure NOT to modify already existent entries? Or perhaps, as an alternative, provide a means to localize the settings by including suid-local.conf file AFTER processing of the suid.conf file? marek pgpfdteg8vgxs.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: where to buy Debian (R3)
At 09:52 PM 11/10/99 -0500, Jonathan Markevich wrote: On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 08:42:37AM -0800, aphro wrote: > BC895 >I am looking for i place to buy reliable Debian CDs which are NOT CD-Rs. > BC895 >CheapBytes seems popular, but they sell R2...where can i get R3 while not > BC895 >being ripped off? > > again. www.linuxmall.com on the other hand has real cheap slink 2.1r3 cds OK, you got my attention. What's R3? Is there a revision? As in, hopes of getting a Slink that's more up-to-date than some others?? Youre right, revision. Regards, Onno
Re: What Port Does Ping Use?
At 10:23 AM 11/11/99 -0600, Lyno Sullivan wrote: At 08:44 AM 11/10/99 -0800, aphro wrote: >On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Art Lemasters wrote: > >alemas >Which port number does ping use in Debian Linux? > >I do not believe ICMP uses ports, there are TYPES of ICMP though, the >'ping' command uses ICMP type 8. at least thats what i have blocked in my >firewall, it refuses pings but accepts traceroutes. According to "Building Internet Firewalls" ICMP,8 for incoming and outgoing ping requests ICMP,0 for responses to ping request I think the "Building Internet Firewalls" is wrong. ICMP uses -types-, in other words the host sends an ICMP packet with type 'n' or recieves an ICMP packet with type 'n'. ICMP type 8 is an echo-request (ping). ICMP type 0 is an echo-reply (pong). The "incoming and outgoing" remark doesn't apply. Same with other types. tracert uses: UDP ports >32768 (usually) for incming and outgoing probe ICMP,11 for incoming and outgoing "TTL exceeded' ICMP,3 for incoming and outgoing "servive unavailable" Regards, Onno
SOLVED - Re: IP Alias and Slink - ARGH!
Hi folks, Thanks to those who responded promptly to my pathetic cries for help with an IP aliasing problem. I have finally found the culprit. The ipmasq package obviously sets up some ipchains rules that prevent any connections to IP aliases. I'd installed the package (not sure why), and of course it runs the ipmasq script in /etc/rcS.d, every time the system boots. I'm not an ipchains expert, so I couldn't work out where these DENY rules were coming from. Anyway, I used update-rc.d to remove the links, rebooted (anyone know of a way to clear all the ipchains rules without rebooting?), and now it all seems to work (fingers crossed!). Thanks again, damon -- Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Systems Administrator EmpireNET Melbourne, Australia
RE: SOLVED - Re: IP Alias and Slink - ARGH!
On 12-Nov-1999 Damon Muller wrote: > Hi folks, > > Thanks to those who responded promptly to my pathetic cries for help with an > IP aliasing problem. I have finally found the culprit. > > The ipmasq package obviously sets up some ipchains rules that prevent any > connections to IP aliases. I'd installed the package (not sure why), and of > course it runs the ipmasq script in /etc/rcS.d, every time the system boots. > I'm not an ipchains expert, so I couldn't work out where these DENY rules > were coming from. > > Anyway, I used update-rc.d to remove the links, rebooted (anyone know of a > way to clear all the ipchains rules without rebooting?), and now it all > seems to work (fingers crossed!). ipchains -Fwill do it. -- Andrew
X window!!!
Hi guys, this is my second mail on this particular subject because I didn't get any response in my first mail. Maybe because the people that had encountered a similiar problem didn't have a chance to read this mail yet, but anyway I giving this a second try so if you get two copies, I am sorry. OK, here it is. I configured Xfree yesterday and I have entered in all the valid information for my monitor, video card and so forth. But afterward, I run "startx" and it gave me this error message: System: '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp -w l -R/user/X11R6/lib/X11.xkb -xkm -m us -eml "The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:"-emp"> " -eml "Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the xserver" keymap/xfree86 /var/tmp/xfree86.xkm wait for X server to shut down. -- Do you guys know what this message means? Thanks so much, Tam
Re: suidmanager
On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Marek Habersack wrote: > * Martin Fluch said: > > On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Hans Gubitz wrote: > > > > > Is suid.conf the right place to change permissions for files (here: > > > xcdroast)? Which scripts change suid.conf? Where can I read about > > > suidmanager? > > > > The suid.conf file is used to track programs with special permissions, so > > that is easy to see, if they are changeing. > Speaking of suidregister... I find it annoying that it resets the settings I > have modified by hand - for example I want the screen utility to be > available only for the group 'screen', the tracertoute, fping, nmap and more > to be available only to the 'adm' group. The suid.conf file is a great way > to do such modifications, but not when they are reset everytime the package > in question re-registers itself. To get around it, I have just prepended to > the packages' names a letter M and every time suid.conf is modified by the > postinst script, I just move the M packages block to the end of the file and > run suidregister by hand. While it works, it is really annoying. > What do you think about slightly modifying the suidregister procedure NOT to > modify already existent entries? Or perhaps, as an alternative, provide a > means to localize the settings by including suid-local.conf file AFTER > processing of the suid.conf file? > > marek Report it as a bug (wishlist items) ... Martin -- If Windows is the answer, can we please have the problem back? For public PGP-key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: suidmanager
On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 04:34:22PM +0200, Martin Fluch wrote: > On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Marek Habersack wrote: > > Speaking of suidregister... I find it annoying that it resets the settings I > > have modified by hand - for example I want the screen utility to be > > Report it as a bug (wishlist items) ... > No, it can already handle this. When you edit an entry by hand be sure to change the first field to "local" instead of the package name. This let's suidregister know that you are overriding the package's default. Ben
Re: suidmanager
On 12-Nov-1999 Martin Fluch wrote: > Report it as a bug (wishlist items) ... I just keep a backup copy of suid.conf and overwrite the new version after I have done a Debian upgrade. That was the easiest way to deal with it without editing the file after every upgrade. -- Andrew
Re: apt-get
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, J Horacio MG wrote: > And just how does apt (or apt-get) work for upgrading from slink to > potato? (I'm not trying to be lazy here, I do read the manual pages for > apt-get and sources.list, but I'd like to get some help from someone who > has already experienced it ... BTW, should there be an apt command and > an apt manpage? I just have apt-get and apt-cache). To the later question: the most recent apt package under potato contains the following binaries manpages: /usr/bin/apt-cache /usr/bin/apt-cdrom /usr/bin/apt-config /usr/bin/apt-get /usr/share/man/man8/apt-get.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/apt-cdrom.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/apt-config.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/apt.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/apt-cache.8.gz /usr/share/man/man5/apt.conf.5.gz /usr/share/man/man5/sources.list.5.gz To the first part of the question: Change stable to unstable or potato in the /etc/apt/sources.list, which makes apt-get aware of the newer packages... > [...] > > Dependencies, pre-dependencies, and interdependencies are just a bit too > hard to deal with for a major upgrade, so I'd like to give apt a try, at > least for a partial upgrade (a total upgrade is just too expensive > except for USers). I attach a file with the packages I want to upgrade > (based on my previous attempt); could anyone tell me how to do this > with apt or apt-get? The following should work: apt-get update apt-get install package1 package2 package3 ... apt-get should only upgrade the packages needed to install package1, package2 and so on and keep the other back. Martin - -- If Windows is the answer, can we please have the problem back? For public PGP-key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBOCwoDLCGSMW7I2etAQHGuQP9G8uNEBPB7NN+TRWacFsSf64mkG3+xmzH Pu7xlwqssMhn8g9h2HWTK+gnHelGy9xbDDkueQsghisrzx7H4ERSYHrT8CIv7e6d oMEFgVZ0pP8s1X5jLksFH9tD5KMSzYeYVJp+GkfCVzG163Q3LCX/FxT8hbjhBS/G bOP1aYpT7Lw= =KJTp -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Small observation [FYI]
Hello all: I recently attempted to upgrade from 2.1 to potato and observed the following: When using deselect for upgrade purposes the symbolic link between /bin/bash and /bin/sh was removed following the upgrade of bash. Following the loss of this sym-link all upgrade attempts failed with the error dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute post-installation script: No such file or directory Following the resoration of this sym-link all ran fine. Peter begin:vcard n:Iannarelli;Peter tel;fax:+1 416 929 1056 tel;work:+1 416 929 1885 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.GenXl.com org:GenX Internet Labs adr:;;238a Gerrard St. East;Toronto;ON;M5A 2E8;CA version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Senior Engineer fn:Peter Iannarelli end:vcard
Re: Remote printing
On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 05:51:35PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi bon > > Asumming your printer is hooked up to WinNT parallel port /dev/lp0 ( LPT1 ) > > > /etc/printcap >lp0|hp5si|HP LaserJet 5si:\ > :lp=:\ > :rp=lp0:\ > :rm=hp5si.your_domain.com:\ > :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp0/:\ > :lf=/var/spool/lpd/lp0/log:\ > :mx#0:\ > :sh: > > filtering (:if:..) locally for a remote printer ( :rm:... ) does not do > anything... > ( do it on the command line ) Hi, all lprng can filter locally for a remote printer (see "bounce queues" in man page). One of my working princap entries is like this: hp4|hplj4|HP Laserjet 4:\ :[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\ :[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/hplj4:\ :sh:pw#80:pl#72:px#1440:mx#0:\ :if=/etc/magicfilter/ljet4-filter:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs: Mirek
printcap for JetDirect printer
Can someone help mewith the proper printcap entries for a HP 4000TN (ps) hooked up with JetDirect? It will be my only printer. Thanks. -- Brian J. Stults Doctoral Candidate University at Albany - SUNY Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936 Web: www.albany.edu/~bs7452
Re: Netscape 4.05 tarball?
On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, J C Lawrence wrote: claw > claw >Does anybody have a copy of the original netscape 4.05 tarball? ftp3.netscape.com /pub/communicator/4.05 nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By:http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMPhttp://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 7:07am up 84 days, 18:38, 1 user, load average: 1.96, 1.89, 1.78
Re: named (bind)
On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Marco Giardini wrote: marco > nobody has compiled and released the new named for slink bug free? marco >If yes, where is it available? marco >thanks setup a chroot'd enviornment for bind (named -t i believe) and you won't have to worry too much about the NXT bug .. i also run bind as user/group named. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By:http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMPhttp://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 7:07am up 84 days, 18:38, 1 user, load average: 1.96, 1.89, 1.78
Re: Seperate DEB package for pico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Here's how I understand the license. It forbids distribution of binaries made from modified sources unless permission is given by the University of Washington. That makes it ineligible for inclusion in non-free because Debian won't distribute things that are only available because of special cases like that. But everybody that's ever asked for permission to distribute a modified binary patch has gotten it. I don't know if the guy who actually put the packages together asked for permission, but there have been UW approved unofficial Pine packages in the past. So, I think the license forbids its inclusion in non-free simply because of Debian's political stance. I guess there's not much we can do about it. The Debian policy makes sense, and is probably legally necessary in order to allow people to re-distribute Debian. The UW license doesn't make sense to us, but it doesn't look like UW will change it. So, I'm sure the unofficial Debian packages that I'm mirroring are fine and will not get us (me) into trouble. 8^) noah On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: > Doesn't the license forbid that? Isn't that why it isn't an official > Debian package (not even non-free) anyway? > > I'll be quiet now. > > On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 12:31:24PM -0500, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > > > > On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Bart Szyszka wrote: > > > > > I could have sworn that a few weeks back someone posted about > > > a DEB package for just pico (the text editor that comes with pine) > > > that was separate from pine, but I can't find that post in the archives. > > > Am I imagining things? > > > > You remember correctly. I am mirroring the debs at > > http://members.mint.net/frodo/pine/ > > > > noah > > > > > > > > -- > "I already have all the latest software." > -- Laura Winslow, "Family Matters" > > Dwayne C. Litzenberger - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists. > > Advertising Policy: http://DLitzPower.tripod.com/spamoff.htm > GnuPG Public Key: http://DLitzPower.tripod.com/gpgkey.asc > Fingerprint: 0535 F7CF FF5F 8547 E5A5 695E 4456 FB6C BC39 A4B0 > PGP Public Key available at http://www.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html or by `finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBOCwua4dCcpBjGWoFAQHknAP/To57Z0rfOdOiGSW4zhS5zt4+DrOy1Giv FpkrRZmRMVQHsVlmDADsBFk0mYVCFMTuDlXf9jCeJHopjtsfYYn/mhD1jtUlqNYD bHBvqFrnH+nnNvHHstz/T2WviF10CATQg0BRlhbnBIjQuDzkfkMWSEnERFWDwxrF hQmS/dYRpdI= =QG8c -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: I killed my monitor!!
On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote: ssahme >I am just wondering if this happened because of me misconfiguring ssahme >XF86. My video card is a Matrox Millennium G200 8MB. The ADI's hsync is ssahme >30-94 KHz, and its vsync is 48-160 Hz. In the XF86config program, I ssahme >selected the monitor type as: ssahme > ssahme > 8 31.5 - 64.3; Monitor that can do 1280x1024 @ 60 Hz what resolution where u running at ? id expect a monitor like that to have onscreen controls (my 15" Princeton can tell me the refresh) and i'd also expect a monitor like yours to prevent itself from blowing up by shutting down if a refresh/resolution is not supported(mine does this too). I blew up anotoher 15" with similar results as yours by running 800x600 @ 85hz when it only supported 75 or 80hz. ssahme >Anyways, I'd appreciate any information on this. it happens to everyone once :) ssahme >big attachment!! i thionk the mailing list filtered your attachment out. not that it matters much, cuz what is important is what resolution/refresh you were running at not what was defined in XF86Config (i have 6 modelines defined in XF86Config) ...even tho it can help. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By:http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMPhttp://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 7:07am up 84 days, 18:38, 1 user, load average: 1.96, 1.89, 1.78
Re: X window!!!
*- On 12 Nov, Tam Ma wrote about "X window!!!" > I configured Xfree yesterday and I have entered in all the valid > information for my monitor, video card and so forth. But afterward, I run > "startx" and it gave me this error message: > > > System: '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp -w l -R/user/X11R6/lib/X11.xkb > -xkm -m us -eml "The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:"-emp"> " > -eml "Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the xserver" keymap/xfree86 > /var/tmp/xfree86.xkm As the text says the xkbcomp error is not fatal to the server so something else is either erroring out or you do not have something set up right. I get the same thing. > > wait for X server to shut down. > -- > > Do you guys know what this message means? This is just the normal exit message. Usually when your window manager terminates. Do you have a .xinitrc or .xsession file with your window manager of choice as the last command? If so it must not be started in the background like everything else. -- Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Icons not in color in Netscape 4.6 and 4.7
I'm having a problem with netscape and I've tried both versions 4.6 and 4.7 with the same results - all the icons on the buttons and elsewhere are in black and white, not color. This is a fresh install of potato I'm running on. All the shared libraries netscape needs are present. What am I missing here? Mike Roberts
Re: Icons not in color in Netscape 4.6 and 4.7
*- On 11 Nov, Michael Roberts wrote about "Icons not in color in Netscape 4.6 and 4.7" > I'm having a problem with netscape and I've tried both versions 4.6 and > 4.7 with the same results - all the icons on the buttons and elsewhere > are in black and white, not color. This is a fresh install of potato > I'm running on. All the shared libraries netscape needs are present. > What am I missing here? > This is a well known bug in netscape that causes this when you are running X in 24bit mode. You need to run in any mode other than 24bit. -- Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: I killed my monitor!!
On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote: ssahme > ssahme >[oops! I forgot to attach the XF86Config file in question.] from your config .. # 1280x1024 @ 87 Hz interlaced, 51 kHz hsync Modeline "1280x1024" 801280 1296 1512 1568 1024 1025 1037 1165 Interlaced appears to be the only modeline you were using. according to your monitor specs it looks within specs as far as resolution/refresh go. but you were running it in interlaced mode which very well could damage a monitor if it doesnt support it(I believe). Interlaced modelines are usually for real shit monitors or monitors that are at the absolute limit of their support. see http://www.adiusa.com/product_6p.html Resolution Maximum: 1600X1200 @ 75Hz(PC) Recommended: 1280X1024 @ 85Hz (PC) only potential prob i see is the interlaced part nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By:http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMPhttp://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 7:31am up 84 days, 19:03, 1 user, load average: 1.91, 1.87, 1.77
Re: Getting apt-get to explain things
* peter karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How can I get apt-get to explain *why* it wants to remove a package? man 5 apt.conf | Debug Options |Most of the options in the debug section are not interest |ing to the normal user, however Debug::pkgProblemResolver |shows interesting output about the decisions dist-upgrade |makes. Debug::NoLocking disables file locking so apt can -- | Re: Kernel size is 666K! I kid you not! | 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 /.]
Re: IP Alias and Slink - ARGH!
On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Damon Muller wrote: dm-deb >Has *anyone* managed to get IP aliasing working on Slink? Surely someone dm-deb >has. i have, no problem on both 2.0 and 2.2 kernels, make sure the route is added for the aliased ips. I got about 50 aliased ips on this machine for web hosting. dm-deb >network. I am able to ping, and connect to, the primary (eth0) IP with no dm-deb >problems from any machine. The NIC is an Intel 10/100, running on a 10M hub. dm-deb >3 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss check firewall rules too .. dm-deb >I have tried everything I can think of: recopiling kernels, using different dm-deb >kernels, using different netbase packages, removing spoofprotect from dm-deb >/etc/init.d/netbase. show us output of route -n for me .. this is just 1 of my aliases: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:05:30:FF:19 inet addr:208.222.179.31 Bcast:208.222.179.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:58529532 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:57602701 errors:6 dropped:0 overruns:2 carrier:4 Collisions:0 Interrupt:12 Base address:0xd000 eth0:1Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:05:30:FF:19 inet addr:208.222.179.33 Bcast:208.222.179.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 Collisions:0 and some of my routes .. Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 208.222.179.162 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 eth0:48 208.222.179.163 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 eth0:49 208.222.179.33 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 eth0:1 208.222.179.35 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 eth0:42 208.222.179.38 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 eth0:57 208.222.179.44 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 eth0:39 one more thing to try bind apache to that other IP and try to access it from www nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By:http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMPhttp://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 7:36am up 84 days, 19:07, 1 user, load average: 2.67, 2.10, 1.87
debian sources
How do I use dselect to compile and build debian source files? Is there any way to upgrade like i would usually, but all packages compiled from source? james
Re: IP Alias and Slink - ARGH!
Damon Muller wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > I posted this a week or so ago, and although I got a couple of suggestions, > nothing seemed to help. I've looked around the net, and not seen anything > else like it anywhere. > > I have a pretty vanilla slink install, with the update for netbase > recommended for 2.2 kernels. I'm using a 2.2.12 kernal at the moment, but I > have also tried 2.0.38, and get exactly the same problem. Same thing if I > just use the standard slink netbase, with either 2.2.12 or 2.0.38. > > Has *anyone* managed to get IP aliasing working on Slink? Surely someone > has. Did you set up a route for the new ip? for example: /sbin/ifconfig eth0:0 192.168.1.31 up netmask 255.255.255.0 /sbin/route add -host 192.168.1.31 dev eth0:0 jpb -- Joe Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CREOL System Administrator Social graces are the packet headers of everyday life.
Re: apt-get
El vie, 12 de nov de 1999, a las 04:44:56 +0200, Martin Fluch dijo: > > On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, J Horacio MG wrote: > > > And just how does apt (or apt-get) work for upgrading from slink to > > potato? (I'm not trying to be lazy here, I do read the manual pages for > > apt-get and sources.list, but I'd like to get some help from someone who > > has already experienced it ... BTW, should there be an apt command and > > an apt manpage? I just have apt-get and apt-cache). > > To the later question: the most recent apt package under potato contains > the following binaries manpages: > > /usr/bin/apt-cache > /usr/bin/apt-cdrom > /usr/bin/apt-config > /usr/bin/apt-get > /usr/share/man/man8/apt-get.8.gz > /usr/share/man/man8/apt-cdrom.8.gz > /usr/share/man/man8/apt-config.8.gz > /usr/share/man/man8/apt.8.gz > /usr/share/man/man8/apt-cache.8.gz > /usr/share/man/man5/apt.conf.5.gz > /usr/share/man/man5/sources.list.5.gz Well, that may be only in potato since I only have binaries and manpages for both apt-get and apt-cache (+ source.list manpage) > To the first part of the question: > > Change stable to unstable or potato in the /etc/apt/sources.list, which > makes apt-get aware of the newer packages... Right, I guess `potato' makes more sense as `unstable' will be one of these days "very unstable" (sid?). > > Dependencies, pre-dependencies, and interdependencies are just a bit too > > hard to deal with for a major upgrade, so I'd like to give apt a try, at > > least for a partial upgrade (a total upgrade is just too expensive > > except for USers). I attach a file with the packages I want to upgrade > > (based on my previous attempt); could anyone tell me how to do this > > with apt or apt-get? > > The following should work: > > apt-get update > apt-get install package1 package2 package3 ... > > apt-get should only upgrade the packages needed to install package1, > package2 and so on and keep the other back. Does the order matter? In the list of packages I have, many are there because others depend on it. I mean, I could be listing one program as package1 (which may depend on glibc2.1), and then somewhere along the line list glibc2.1 as well... I hope it won't reinstall or something (well, since dpkg doesn't install unless it's an upgrade...) I hope this time will work. Thanks Martin! -- Horacio Anno MMDCCLII ad Urbe condita mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Spain ~Spanje ~ Spanien Key fingerprint = F4EE AE5E 2F01 0DB3 62F2 A9F4 AD31 7093 4233 7AE6
Re: apt-get
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, J Horacio MG wrote: > > To the first part of the question: > > > > Change stable to unstable or potato in the /etc/apt/sources.list, which > > makes apt-get aware of the newer packages... > > Right, I guess `potato' makes more sense as `unstable' will be one of > these days "very unstable" (sid?). potato and unstable are right now still the same, but when potato is released (e.g. becomes the new stable), the symbolic link unstable in the debian archives will point to the new unstable, what ever this will be (I heard some rumors about woody or so). > > The following should work: > > > > apt-get update > > apt-get install package1 package2 package3 ... > > > > apt-get should only upgrade the packages needed to install package1, > > package2 and so on and keep the other back. > > Does the order matter? In the list of packages I have, many are there > because others depend on it. I mean, I could be listing one program as > package1 (which may depend on glibc2.1), and then somewhere along the > line list glibc2.1 as well... I hope it won't reinstall or something > (well, since dpkg doesn't install unless it's an upgrade...) AFAIK order doesn't mater... Martin - -- If Windows is the answer, can we please have the problem back? For public PGP-key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBOCw7o7CGSMW7I2etAQE4+AP/Zp0I9XUCX6Zstz8zGaoPVMZ4Ha3Y5UlB jjes4CrRPGdbXE91vB59wKy0IK+CH8zWe0yf39eXY6n+yP/QktC76PfZAi7lUEur jMS5mXZaTvKdUSMSwc3P25v3zRjtHFAuJ+BJezBNPoJZ1cXVJQvkeybV9PRm45WM kdGiCxg2Suo= =ogOq -END PGP SIGNATURE-
RE: printcap for JetDirect printer
> Can someone help mewith the proper printcap entries for a HP 4000TN (ps) > hooked up with JetDirect? It will be my only printer. > Here is my lprng printcap entry for an hp 8000 dn lp1|tnp015|rm164_hp|Remote printer entry :lp= :rm=tnp015 :rp=raw :sd=/var/spool/lpd/tnp015 :mx#0 :sf :sh The rm entry can be an ip address. At our site, all the printers have entries in dns... jim > Thanks. > -- > > Brian J. Stults > Doctoral Candidate > University at Albany - SUNY > Phone: (518) 442-4652 > Fax: (518) 442-4936 > Web: www.albany.edu/~bs7452 > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null >
Debian Linux on AST Ascentia 910N
I'm trying to install Debian Linux on an AST Ascentia 910N laptop computer. Booting the rescue disk with no boot parameters causes the machine to lock up while loading root.bin. Windows is currently installed on the machine, and that boots up just fine. I found a success story involving Slackware and the 910N at the "Linux on Laptops" site (http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/ linux-laptop/), so I don't think there's anything too exotic under the hood. It has 24MB RAM, which should be sufficient. The Debian install pages lead me to the FTP site: ftp://kalle.csb.ki.se/pub/ where I found an alternate image called "resc1440.bin-non-eata-dma," but no explanation as to its use. Does anybody know anything about this? Has anybody successfully installed Debian Linux on this model? Thanks for your help. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 -- "It's such a fine line between clever and stupid." -- David St. Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel of "Spinal Tap"
Re: Small observation [FYI]
Peter Iannarelli wrote: > Hello all: > > I recently attempted to upgrade from 2.1 to potato and observed the > following: > > When using deselect for upgrade purposes the symbolic link between > /bin/bash and /bin/sh was removed following the upgrade of bash. > > Following the loss of this sym-link all upgrade attempts failed with > the error > > dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute post-installation script: No such > file or directory Indeed. I recommend the following upgrade procedure: * edit /etc/apt/sources.list changing stable to potato or unstable, and changing non-us.debian.org "stable non-US" to "potato/non-US main contrib non-free". * apt-get update * apt-get install apt * apt-get install bash * dselect This is what I have been using to upgrade new machines. Does it make sense? Any of it unnecessary? But yes, this should probably be fixed. Thanks, -Adam P.
Preventing parameters to lilo
Hi We have a few labs here whith dual-boot. Windows is protected with Fortress. Some students with a bit more of knowledge enter linux with the init parameter passed to lilo and then remove fortress from windows so they can install anything they want. Is there a way to prevent lilo from getting parameters ? Thanks -- Mario Filipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://neptuno.sc.uevora.pt/~mjnf
Re: Preventing parameters to lilo
On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe wrote: > We have a few labs here whith dual-boot. Windows is protected with > Fortress. Some students with a bit more of knowledge enter linux with > the init parameter passed to lilo and then remove fortress from windows > so they can install anything they want. > > Is there a way to prevent lilo from getting parameters ? You need the following two lilo.conf options: password= restricted In this case if someone enters additional parameters to lilo, it will ask for the password. Make sure you have lilo.conf mode 0600 -- Madarasz Gergely [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's practically impossible to look at a penguin and feel angry. Egy pingvinre gyakorlatilag lehetetlen haragosan nezni. HuLUG: http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/
Re: What Port Does Ping Use?
On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Onno wrote:
> At 10:23 AM 11/11/99 -0600, Lyno Sullivan wrote:
> >At 08:44 AM 11/10/99 -0800, aphro wrote:
> > >On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Art Lemasters wrote:
> > >
> > >alemas >Which port number does ping use in Debian Linux?
> > >
> > >I do not believe ICMP uses ports, there are TYPES of ICMP though, the
> > >'ping' command uses ICMP type 8. at least thats what i have blocked in my
> > >firewall, it refuses pings but accepts traceroutes.
> >
> >According to "Building Internet Firewalls"
> >
> >ICMP,8 for incoming and outgoing ping requests
> >ICMP,0 for responses to ping request
>
> I think the "Building Internet Firewalls" is wrong.
> ICMP uses -types-, in other words the host sends
> an ICMP packet with type 'n' or recieves an ICMP
> packet with type 'n'.
> ICMP type 8 is an echo-request (ping).
> ICMP type 0 is an echo-reply (pong).
>
> The "incoming and outgoing" remark doesn't apply.
> Same with other types.
>
> >tracert uses:
> >UDP ports >32768 (usually) for incming and outgoing probe
> >ICMP,11 for incoming and outgoing "TTL exceeded'
> >ICMP,3 for incoming and outgoing "servive unavailable"
>
I'll try to straighten out the confusion here, and hope I don't sound too
pendantic doing it.
'ping' uses ICMP, specifically ICMP echo request and ICMP echo reply
packets. There is no 'port' associated with ICMP. Ports are associated
with the two IP transport layer protocols, TCP and UDP. ICMP packets are
identified by the 'protocol' field in the IP datagram header. ICMP does
not use either UDP or TCP communications services, it uses raw IP
communications services. This means that the ICMP message is carried
directly in an IP datagram data field. ('raw' comes from how this is
implemented in software, to create and send an ICMP message, one opens a
'raw' socket, builds a buffer containing the ICMP message, and then writes
the buffer containing the message to the raw socket.) The IP protocol
value for ICMP is 1. (The protocol field is part of the IP header and
identifies what is in the data portion of the IP datagram.)
The ICMP protocol has many different uses and capabilities. The ICMP
message (contained in the IP datagram data field) has a 'type' field and a
'code' field to identify the different ICMP messages. For example, an ICMP
echo request message has type = 8 and code = 0 -- an ICMP echo reply has
type = 0 and code = 0. There are other fields according to the type of
ICMP message.
For further information see:
RFC792 Internet Control Message Protocol - explanation of ICMP
RFC1700 Assigned Numbers - defines the values for all
header fields in just about
all protocols.
Hope this helps a little...
