Re: glibc devel info pages
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 04:37:44PM +1100, Brian May wrote: > > "Ben" == Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ben> By default, __USE_GNU is defined. If you want to define it > > (perhaps you meant "...is undefined"???) > > Ben> explicitly, then use -D_GNU_SOURCE in your CFLAGS. > > It doesn't seem to be the case here: > > > gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../include-g -O2 -Wall -c -o main.o > > main.c > main.c: In function `xmlparse_file': > main.c:14: warning: implicit declaration of function `asprintf' > > > >gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../include-g -O2 -D_GNU_SOURCE -Wall > >-c -o main.o main.c > [no warnings] > > So it looks like I have to define _GNU_SOURCE explicitly in order to > get rid of the warning. No, __USE_GNU is defined, unless one of the other _XXX_SOURCE macros are also defined (like _SVID_SOURCE or _XOPEN_SOURCE, or similar). Most likely the program you are compiling is defining one of these aswell. In that case, yes, you do have to define _GNU_SOURCE explicitly. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: ISA SoundBlaster
Guilherme Ceschiatti wrote: > > Hi! > > I've used normaly my ISA SoundBlaster in Storm Linux, but when I tried to > move to Debian, it does not work anymore! I've tried everything, from copying > the isapnp.conf and modules.conf to even using the stormlinux kernel in my > Debian, but nothing works. Any ideas? Did you try recreating it? rm /etc/isapnp.* pnpdump -c > /etc/isapnp.conf reboot or tried a newer debian kernel like 2.2.18? - Dan White
Re: glibc devel info pages
> "Ben" == Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ben> No, __USE_GNU is defined, unless one of the other _XXX_SOURCE Ben> macros are also defined (like _SVID_SOURCE or _XOPEN_SOURCE, Ben> or similar). Most likely the program you are compiling is Ben> defining one of these aswell. In that case, yes, you do have Ben> to define _GNU_SOURCE explicitly. No - my code does not define any of these, unless it is defined in one of the standard include files. All I have is: #include #include #include #include #include #include The only constant defined, on the command line, is HAVE_CONFIG_H -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: glibc devel info pages
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 04:47:55PM +1100, Brian May wrote: > #include > #include > #include > #include > > but still get a warning: > > gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../include-g -O2 -Wall -c -o main.o > `test -f main.c || echo './'`main.c > main.c: In function `xmlparse_file': > main.c:15: warning: implicit declaration of function `asprintf' > > which according to the man page should exist in > > (of course this file uses asprintf not vasprintf, but I have had > similar problems for both functions). Maybe #define _GNU_SOURCE /* at the top of each relevant file */ I think they're both GNU extensions so you need to define the _GNU_SOURCE macro. I'm guessing that's generally true of many of these automatic memory allocating library functions that a similarly named to the C89, C9x or POSIX versions (sprintf/vsprintf/snprintf/etc...). Would be nice if the info documentation was more complete. I was surprised when I found libc contained all of the XDR functions of libnsl? This is only buried in one file (besides the library) in the Debian packages (/usr/doc/libc6/INTERFACE.gz). It is noted as not being documentated at the GNU website for the libc documentation... The funny thing is libc6-dev provides these functions in libc6 and the separate libnsl. Guess libnsl is there for hysterical raisans. Though, one can only guess if the implementations are different, or if one is "better" than the other. -- Eric G. Miller
Re: ISA SoundBlaster
Guilherme Ceschiatti wrote: > > Hi! > > I've used normaly my ISA SoundBlaster in Storm Linux, but when I tried to > move to Debian, it does not work anymore! I've tried everything, from copying > the isapnp.conf and modules.conf to even using the stormlinux kernel in my > Debian, but nothing works. Any ideas? Has the sb.o module been loaded? What's the output of lsmod?
Re: https:// sites don't work in Konqueror (KDE 2.1)
on Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 07:56:42PM -0500, Bart Szyszka ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > Are https:// sites still not supposed to work in Konqueror under Debian > unstable? Is there any way to turn on https:// support? I'm confused as to > why it has been this long and netscape does https:// without a problem and > other distros do https://, but not Debian. $ apt-get install kdebase-crypto -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ Evangelist, Zelerate, Inc. http://www.zelerate.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/http://www.kuro5hin.org pgpcxhIpmXWX4.pgp Description: PGP signature
quota woes
Hi! Yesterday I installed another disk in my private server, and now I thought it would be a good idea to also set quotas on it, of course to prevent the users filling the thing up... I added /dev/hdc to fstab, did `touch quota.user`, `edquota -u ` and `quotaon /home3` (where hdc is mounted). Now every process accessing the drive, including quotacheck, repquota, quotaoff, umount, touch etc, is hanging and won´t even be kill -9´ed. Any clue on what I did wrong (and, hopefully, what I can now do other than reboot ;-) )? Poking around in /proc at one of the hanging processes: ka:/proc# cat 14746/status Name: repquota State: D (disk sleep) Pid:14746 PPid: 1 Uid:0 0 0 0 Gid:0 0 0 0 VmSize: 1148 kB VmLck: 0 kB VmRSS: 520 kB VmData: 60 kB VmStk: 8 kB VmExe: 8 kB VmLib: 1036 kB SigPnd: 4102 SigBlk: SigIgn: SigCgt: an strace immediately hangs itself... TIA, &rw -- / Ing. Robert Waldner | Network Engineer | T: +43 1 89933 F: x533 \ \ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |KPNQwest/AT | Diefenbachg. 35, A-1150 /
Re: Box refusing connections after changing to static IP?
"Osamu" == Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If netowork admin told Dan to use fixed IP, ask him about available > IP which is not used by his DHCP server. If same IP as previous > DHCP assigned one is used without asking network admin, it sure > causes problem described by Dan. Actually, I was the one with the problem. The static IP I'm using is one assigned to me by the network admin, so that's not the problem (assuming he did his end correctly). > Also it will be nice if network admin will put your machine's new > fixed IP entry into DNS server for easy access by name. We don't actually have a DNS server, unfortunately. > Osamu >>> > + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D > + + Fingerprint: 814E BD64 3288 40E7 E88E 3D92 C3F8 EA94 D5DE 453D + > + === http://www.aokiconsulting.com === Cupertino, CA USA === + -- Albert ``Willy'' Lee, Emacs user, game programmer "They call me CRAZY - just because I DARE to DREAM of a RACE of SUPERHUMAN MONSTERS!"
Re: archive.debian.org
> Everybody a happy new year! Thanx. > I have a question.. ahhh, guestions..., my speciallity, but I'll try to answer one for a change. > I hope I am false but it seems to me that archive.debian.org is > down. Are there mirrorsite of this site? Seems it crached: nslookup archive.debian.org > 216.66.54.50 nslookup 216.66.54.50 > saens.debian.org http://db.debian.org/machines.cgi?host=seans Status: Crashed, hoping to recover. :(( I wish I could remember where I put those CD's ! As I have the same problem probably, Hope this helps, Lennie. - New things are always on the horizon.
Re: Helix gnome control center freezes
Salve Seung-woo Nam, > Has anyone had the same problem? me too :-( -- Paolo Pedaletti, Como, ITALYa www.fastflow.it/~paolop [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 4755831
Re: DNS & Mail
Debian GNU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have configured a DNS server using bind in Debian potato, Kernel >2.2.17. I have defined the hosts www.xxx.yyy.com, ftp.xxx.yyy.com, >mail.xxx.yyy.com etc. I can get the web page hosted at www.xxx.yyy.com >by typing the URL in browser window. How can I get the same by typing >just xxx.yyy.com, like yahoo.com and www.yahoo.com ? Add an A record for xxx.yyy.com. 'host yahoo.com' demonstrates. You may also need to add a virtual host for xxx.yyy.com in your web server configuration, if you're using virtual hosts. >How can I configure the linux machine to receive mail addressed to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? The mail server >configuration is done using sendmail. I would like to get the details >of the DNS portion only. Add an MX record for xxx.yyy.com, setting mail.xxx.yyy.com as the mail exchanger. The bind documentation should have more details. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
upgrading the kernel to 2.4
Howdy, I tried to compile a 2.4 kernel, however it turns out the /lib/modules directory has been restructured and now the system can't find any modules anymore. Is there any package that might resolve this or should I install modutils from scratch? Nico - "It has been said that there are only two businesses that refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry." - Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SDCE/NEE-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: new Kernel 2.4 missing "Old Tulip" module ?
The structure of the /lib/modules directory has been changed in the 2.4 kernels so I guess the modutils can't find the correct kernel module. (try lsmod, it should list all modules that are currently loaded) I don't know how to fix this however (see my previous mail :-) Nico On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 04:07:19AM -0800, Jack O Max wrote: > I have tried the "Generic DECchip & DIGITAL EtherWORKS > PCI/EISA" module and build it into the kernel. > > The Netgear FA310TX cannot brings up after reboot. > > Here is the part of the boot message: > Modprobe: modprobe : Can't locate module eth0 > Configuring network interfaces: SIOCSIFADDR: No such > device > Eth0: unknown interface: No such device > SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device > SIOCSIFBRDADDR: No such device > Eth0: unknown interface: No such device > Eth0: unknown interface: No such device > Done > . > . > > After login, the ifconfig appears lo (Local Loopback) > only. > > > Do you have any suggestion? > > Warm Regards, > Jack > > P.s. I have tried the "DECchip Tulip (dc21x4x) PCI > support' and it work ok with my Netgear card most of > the time, except it locks up the eth0, if there was a > few minutes of network outage. > > Example: The upstream network has outage for 10 > minutes and the Netgear will lock up eth0 even the > network backs on. I have to manually use ifdown eth0 > and ifup eth0 to brings it up. > > > > > > It is still in the kernel, look for the "Generic > > DECchip & DIGITAL > > EtherWORKS PCI/EISA" configuration option. > > > > > > Cheers, > > Remco. > > > --- Remco van de Meent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Jack O Max wrote: > > > I found that the new Kernel 2.4 does not have the > > > Old DECchip Tulip (dc21x4x) PCI support. > > > > > > My 1 year old Netgear FA310TX does not work > > properly > > > without this module. > > > > > > Any suggestion to solve this problem? > > > > __ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online! > http://photos.yahoo.com/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] - "It has been said that there are only two businesses that refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry." - Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SDCE/NEE-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hylafax problem
Hello!! I am using the Hylafax server on my linux, the 4.0.2-14 version, and I try to use it fron a windows machine with w2hfax 0.1.8, and when i try to add a new fax i get this error code: Runtime Error: '-2147467259 (80004005) Unexpected Python Error: Exceptions. ValueError:invalid literal for atoi():Lease login with USER and PASS What it it? A problen in my linux server? must I use other windows client?? Thank for all Angel
Printing Problem
Hello!! I am usind debian as a printing server. I have an deskject printer, and when I try tu use it from a windows machine, if I want to get a page print as if i have a postscript printer (using Sanba at Linux and a PS driver on windows) I get the page perfectly and an extre rubber page. ¿any idea? .. I want so save paper Angel
Re: DNS & Mail
hi ya... donno if this was answered or not... didnt read prev msgs.. yyy.com. IN A 1.2.3.4 www.yyy.com. IN A 2.3.4.5 --- same or different place xxx.yyy.com. IN A 3.4.5.6 than in httpd you need to config the same tree or different tree for each server.make yyy.com the default in and use virtualhosts for the rest of ummm ( www and xxx ) ... for Mail.pick a mail server...edit sendmail.cw - add all the domains its gonna hold mail for... for each serveredit sendmail.cf to point to Mail.yyy.com ( use MX records too - or not ) c ya alvin On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Colin Watson wrote: > Debian GNU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I have configured a DNS server using bind in Debian potato, Kernel > >2.2.17. I have defined the hosts www.xxx.yyy.com, ftp.xxx.yyy.com, > >mail.xxx.yyy.com etc. I can get the web page hosted at www.xxx.yyy.com > >by typing the URL in browser window. How can I get the same by typing > >just xxx.yyy.com, like yahoo.com and www.yahoo.com ? > > Add an A record for xxx.yyy.com. 'host yahoo.com' demonstrates. You may > also need to add a virtual host for xxx.yyy.com in your web server > configuration, if you're using virtual hosts. > > >How can I configure the linux machine to receive mail addressed to > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? The mail server > >configuration is done using sendmail. I would like to get the details > >of the DNS portion only. > > Add an MX record for xxx.yyy.com, setting mail.xxx.yyy.com as the mail > exchanger. The bind documentation should have more details. > > -- > Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
Re: Re: sound blaster live! 512
have you tried the ESD output plugin instead of the OSS one ? Begin Original Message From: Jerrud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 02:55:06 -0800 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: sound blaster live! 512 I followed your instructions and did this: alpha:/home/mechanical# chmod 777 /dev/dsp alpha:/home/mechanical# chmod 777 /dev/mixer This is what I got when I ran XMMS: ** WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/dsp): No such device Looks like I might have deeper problems than permissions... Have any ideas? Jerrud -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] End Original Message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Romain's Other Mail Agent on the InterNet Check out the Orange Cat! www.garfield.com Get your free customized E-mail from http://gmail.garfield.com !
Re: dist upgrade
On 3 Jan 2001, Moritz Schulte wrote: > Pann McCuaig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > You don't want dist-upgrade. You're not upgrading from one release to > > the next (potato to woody, for example), you're just making potato > > current. apt-get upgrade is what you want. > > See apt-get(8). > 'dist-upgrade' is just more intelligent when it comes to dependency > resolution than 'upgrade'. I think the rest of the line is worth mention: "...apt-get has a "smart" conflict resolution system, and it will attempt to upgrade the most important packages at the expense of less important ones if necessary" Another option is to do a "dselect-upgrade"; this will try to honor the changes made by dselect to the Status field of available packages. []s, Mario O.de Menezes"Many are the plans in a man's heart, but IPEN-CNEN/SP is the Lord's purpose that prevails" http://curiango.ipen.br/~mario Prov. 19.21
Re: upgrading the kernel to 2.4
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 10:45:39AM +0100, Nico De Ranter wrote: > > I tried to compile a 2.4 kernel, however it turns out the > /lib/modules directory has been restructured and now the system > can't find any modules anymore. Is there any package that might > resolve this or should I install modutils from scratch? > Get the latest modutils source from unstable, build and install. HTH P. -- P. Horton Software Engineer http://www.colonel-panic.com Linux 2.4.0-prerelease
Packages
Due problems accordant my lasts mail`s, I just win to install packages manualy: downloading from internet to my windows partition and installing it from my hard disk ( ! ). My problem is being to find the dependences packages. To install the the package "Afterstep", I need 7 dependes packages, but I don`t find three: libxpm4, libz1, xlib6g. Does anybody knows how find it ? Thanks Tom
Memory leakage
In a case of permanent memory loss (hard disk), w/o apparent reason, i.e., of about 1 gb, where to look for reasons and fixes? The only running program besides the kernel, and x11 was rsnyc.
Re: upgrading the kernel to 2.4
Nico De Ranter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I tried to compile a 2.4 kernel, however it turns out the > /lib/modules directory has been restructured and now the system > can't find any modules anymore. You simply need a newer version of modutils. You could fetch Unstable's (or, is it already in Testing?) modutils source package and compile it on your Potato system.. moritz -- Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Re: upgrading the kernel to 2.4
On 3 Jan 2001, Moritz Schulte wrote: > Nico De Ranter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I tried to compile a 2.4 kernel, however it turns out the > > /lib/modules directory has been restructured and now the system > > can't find any modules anymore. > > You simply need a newer version of modutils. > You could fetch Unstable's (or, is it already in Testing?) modutils > source package and compile it on your Potato system.. it didn't help me! version in unstable(testing) is still 2.3.11 and 2.4 kernels need at least 2.3.18 (from Changes). I have to load my modules manually up to now :-((( []s Mario O.de Menezes"Many are the plans in a man's heart, but IPEN-CNEN/SP is the Lord's purpose that prevails" http://curiango.ipen.br/~mario Prov. 19.21
Re: init dying with NFS root
I wrote: > I'm trying to set up a Beowulf cluster using NFS root for booting, > but I'm not having much success. [...] > This is all using 2.4.0-prerelease. (2.2.18 and 2.2.19pre3 both failed > before even getting to mounting root -- I'm not sure why yet.) The > kernel is loaded by LILO from an ext2 filesystem on a floppy or hard > disk. Well, I didn't find out what was causing the problem, but I found that booting from a kernel which was dd'd directly onto the floppy (as opposed to being loaded by lilo from a filesystem on the floppy) works. I was using lilo so I could use the kernel boot options, but I can get around that by using bootp instead. Now I just need to sort out all the other little problems... Tim. -- Tim Bell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - System Administrator & Programmer Trinity College, Royal Parade, Parkville, Victoria, 3052, Australia
Re: Memory leakage
on Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 06:34:09AM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > In a case of permanent memory loss (hard disk), w/o apparent reason, "Memory loss" and "hard disk" don't make sense. Are you talking about memory (RAM) issues, or have you lost data or partitions on you hard drive? > i.e., of about 1 gb, where to look for reasons and fixes? > The only running program besides the kernel, and x11 was rsnyc. Did you delete an open file? If you delete a file while another program is writing to it, the space is not reallocated until the writing process is terminated. In this case, you may be able to locate the open process with: - lsof - ps If lsof shows the process, you can kill it. Otherwise, switching to single user mode, or as a last resort, rebooting the system, may reset things. If none of the above work, something else is wrong. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ Evangelist, Zelerate, Inc. http://www.zelerate.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/http://www.kuro5hin.org pgpccraf1Tf2x.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: upgrading the kernel to 2.4
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 09:41:38AM -0200, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > > > > > I tried to compile a 2.4 kernel, however it turns out the > > > /lib/modules directory has been restructured and now the system > > > can't find any modules anymore. > > > > You simply need a newer version of modutils. > > You could fetch Unstable's (or, is it already in Testing?) modutils > > source package and compile it on your Potato system.. > > > it didn't help me! version in unstable(testing) is still 2.3.11 and 2.4 > kernels need at least 2.3.18 (from Changes). > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/m/modutils/modutils_2.3.23.orig.tar.gz ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/m/modutils/modutils_2.3.23-2.diff.gz P. -- P. Horton Software Engineer http://www.colonel-panic.com Linux 2.4.0-prerelease
Re: https:// sites don't work in Konqueror (KDE 2.1)
Along with kdebase-crypto, you'll need kdelibs-crypto. Thanks John > > From: kmself@ix.netcom.com > Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 22:30:30 -0800 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: https:// sites don't work in Konqueror (KDE 2.1) > > on Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 07:56:42PM -0500, Bart Szyszka ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Are https:// sites still not supposed to work in Konqueror under Debian > > unstable? Is there any way to turn on https:// support? I'm confused as to > > why it has been this long and netscape does https:// without a problem and > > other distros do https://, but not Debian. > > $ apt-get install kdebase-crypto > > -- > Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ > Evangelist, Zelerate, Inc. http://www.zelerate.org > What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal >http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/http://www.kuro5hin.org > > forward Description: PGP signature
Re: upgrading the kernel to 2.4
I found a mail from a few days ago (wasn't in the archives yet?) that solved my problem: make sure you have at least the following versions: > > o Gnu C 2.91.66 # gcc --version > > o Gnu make 3.77 # make --version > > o binutils 2.9.1.0.25 # ld -v > > o util-linux 2.10o# kbdrate -v > > o modutils 2.3.18 # insmod -V > > o e2fsprogs 1.19 # tune2fs --version if needed also: > > o pcmcia-cs 3.1.21 # cardmgr -V > > o PPP2.4.0# pppd --version > > o isdn4k-utils 3.1beta7 # isdnctrl 2>&1|grep version Most of them are available from woody (you don't have to do a full upgrade to woody, just upgrade the required parts). modutils 2.3.18 isn't available however but I found 2.3.23 somewhere in the pool directory and it installed without problems. Nico On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 09:41:38AM -0200, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > On 3 Jan 2001, Moritz Schulte wrote: > > > Nico De Ranter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > I tried to compile a 2.4 kernel, however it turns out the > > > /lib/modules directory has been restructured and now the system > > > can't find any modules anymore. > > > > You simply need a newer version of modutils. > > You could fetch Unstable's (or, is it already in Testing?) modutils > > source package and compile it on your Potato system.. > > > it didn't help me! version in unstable(testing) is still 2.3.11 and 2.4 > kernels need at least 2.3.18 (from Changes). > > I have to load my modules manually up to now :-((( > > []s > Mario O.de Menezes"Many are the plans in a man's heart, but > IPEN-CNEN/SP is the Lord's purpose that prevails" > http://curiango.ipen.br/~mario Prov. 19.21 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - "It has been said that there are only two businesses that refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry." - Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SDCE/NEE-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: https:// sites don't work in Konqueror (KDE 2.1)
Along with kdebase-crypto, you'll need kdelibs-crypto. Oops! -- You'll also need OpenSSL (apt-get install openssl)installed prior to the crypto modules. Thanks John > > From: kmself@ix.netcom.com > Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 22:30:30 -0800 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: https:// sites don't work in Konqueror (KDE 2.1) > > on Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 07:56:42PM -0500, Bart Szyszka ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Are https:// sites still not supposed to work in Konqueror under Debian > > unstable? Is there any way to turn on https:// support? I'm confused as to > > why it has been this long and netscape does https:// without a problem and > > other distros do https://, but not Debian. > > $ apt-get install kdebase-crypto > > -- > Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ > Evangelist, Zelerate, Inc. http://www.zelerate.org > What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal >http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/http://www.kuro5hin.org > >
Re: quota woes
On Wed, 03 Jan 2001 07:40:26 +0100, Robert Waldner writes: >I added /dev/hdc to fstab, did `touch quota.user`, `edquota -u ` >and `quotaon /home3` (where hdc is mounted). Now every process >accessing the drive, including quotacheck, repquota, quotaoff, umount, >touch etc, is hanging and won´t even be kill -9´ed. Well, I decided to reboot it, but even that wasn´t possible :/ a `shutdown -r -n -F now` only brought the box down to a point where it answered ICMP, but nothing else. So I did a hard reset and now it works... never mind, &rw -- / Ing. Robert Waldner | Network Engineer | T: +43 1 89933 F: x533 \ \ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |KPNQwest/AT | Diefenbachg. 35, A-1150 /
cdrom error
When I try to copy (or install) some deb file of my cdrom, it`s give-me the error message (without to acept CRTL X C, CRTL D , CRTL Z ) : ... sbpcd-0 [68] : abp_data : CDi_status loop expired sbpcd-0 [67] : abp_data : CDi_status timeout(time_out_data) sbpcd-0 [68] : abp_data : RESULT_READY where DATA_READY waited (FB). sbpcd-0 [69] : abp_data : DATA_READY timeout (FF). sbpcd-0 [70] : abp_data : read aborted by drive .. .. ..failed after three atempt... When I use the command `dmesg | grep -i cd`, it`s show the follow output: sbpcd-0 [1] : sbpcd.c v4.61 Eberhand Moenkeberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sbpcd-0 [2] : sbpcd.c Scanning 0x230 (Sound Blster) sbpcd-0 [3] : Drive 0 (ID=0) : CR 563 (0.75) at 0x230 (type 1) sbpcd-0 [4] : dat buffer size : 8 frames Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision : 3.11 Is it suficient to especific my problem ? If so, what is my problem ? Tom
When Will Python 2.0 be included in Stable?
When will Python 2.0 be included in a stable Debian distribution? Do we have to use 1.5.2 even when 1.6 and 2.0 is out? /--/ Daniel J. Mashao Electrical Engineering[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Cape Town http://www.eleceng.uct.ac.za/~daniel Rondebosch, 7700, S. Africa (w) 021-6502816 (c) 082-928-3692 /--/
gmenu crash
Hi All I know that there is a bug reported to gnome.org for gmenu Nº 29855. If you are root and try to add a new menu item the application crashes even when you only select the point where you can insert the new item. Though in my case in a previous instalation (but wihtout USB support for a 2.2.17 Kernel) the error did not occur. I don`t know if the problem is resolved by gnome.org but i want to know if there is a config file or somehing where i can modify manually the actual menu item for the desktop. thanks --- Jose Fernando Carvajal Vión SOLUZIONA Software Factory Servicios Profesionales de Unión Fenosa C/ Pedro Teixeira, 8 - 28020 Madrid Teléfono: +34 91 555 33 61 Fax: +34 91 597 05 62 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.uf-isf.es ---
Re: https:// sites don't work in Konqueror (KDE 2.1)
Hi jfclinux! On Wed, 03 Jan 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Along with kdebase-crypto, you'll need kdelibs-crypto. > > Oops! -- You'll also need OpenSSL (apt-get install openssl)installed prior to > the crypto modules. apt will handle this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache show kdebase-crypto Package: kdebase-crypto Depends: kdelibs3 (>= 4:2.1-20001218-0), libc6 (>= 2.1.97), libssl096, < libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2, kdelibs3-crypto (>= 4:2.1-20001218-0), < kdebase-libs (>= 4:2.1-20001218-0) yours, peter -- PGP signed and encrypted messages preferred. http://www.palfrader.org/
Re: https:// sites don't work in Konqueror (KDE 2.1)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Along with kdebase-crypto, you'll need kdelibs-crypto. > >Oops! -- You'll also need OpenSSL (apt-get install openssl)installed prior t >o the crypto modules. That seems to be kdelibs3-crypto, and apt-get install kdebase-crypto will install it automatically. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97 EA 1D 47 72 3F 28 47 6B 7E 39 CC 56 E4 C1 47 GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C "I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me."Proverbs 8:17
Re: unable to su
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 02:24:51PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > Possibly an abnormally exited system update? Try: > > $ dpkg --configure -a > > ...which, I think, will attempt to reconfigure any packages left > pending. > > I've had related issues with gpg, which flashes errors during system > updates as the SUID bit hasn't been set yet. some packages use suidregister to make thier binaries suid, shadow and gnupg are such packages. with suidregister enabled packages the binaries are not shipped suid in the archive itself, thus when they are unpacked they are not suid. in the package's postinst script suidregister's presence is tested and if it exists its used to register the suid binarys (and it takes care of chmoding them) otherwise the postinst chmods them itself. the idea is you can use suidregister to set custom permissions to say remove a suid bit (or restrict it to a group) and the next package upgrade will perserve your changes (since it asks suidregister to make it suid and it checks its config file for your overrides before doing so) its rather a kludge which is why its gone in woody, instead dpkg has statoverrides built in which will be much cleaner. (transition from suidregister to statoverrides is going to be the hard/messy part) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpR2KtwwFyWt.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: public_html directory requires chmod -R 755 constantly?
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 02:52:41PM -0700, Stefan Harris wrote: > Hello everyone! > > I'm new here, so be gentle. > > Whenever a change is made to anything in the public_html directory, I must > > chmod -R 755 public_html you don't need to use 755 as the mode for everything, what you need instead is: chmod -R a+rX which adds read permission to everything and execute permission only to directories or files which already have at least one x bit. there is no need to make .html files executable. > before those files can be accessed from the web. I am so new at this, but I > am sure there is a way to make this directory 755 permanently, isn't there? > Does it have to do with ownership? (chown?) > set your umask to 022 then files/directories are created world readable by default. also please wrap your lines to 72 char. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgps52oTM1HqA.pgp Description: PGP signature
kernel and SmartRaidV controller
Hi, this morning I have upgraded a computer from slink to potato, the process went very smooth and all seems to be fine. My problem is when I try to get the kernel (2.2.17) to detect the SmartRaidV controller. I've downdoaded some patches from adaptec's web site and followed the instructions but either they not apply cleanly, or make-kpkg dies or the computer gets unusable (load average over 6 and SCSI bus hanging). Currently I'm running the old 2.0.36 kernel with SmartRaidV support but I would like to upgrade the kernel too. Any one has experienced the same problems? any clue? Happy new year and TIA -- (@ @) ---oOO(_)OOo Los pecados de los tres mundos desapareceran conmigo. Alexis Roda - Universitat Rovira i Virgili - Reus, Tarragona (Spain)
Re: Packages
Antonio A. Lobato wrote: > > Due problems accordant my lasts mail`s, I just win to install > packages manualy: downloading from internet to my windows partition > and installing it from my hard disk ( ! ). My problem is being to > find the dependences packages. To install the the package > "Afterstep", I need 7 dependes packages, but I don`t find three: > libxpm4, libz1, xlib6g. > > Does anybody knows how find it ? If you have apt up-and-running on your box, you can look at its cache to find out what the dependencies are and where to find the corresponding packages. E.g. if you want to install afterstep, enter this command (the -s means that it will show you what it is going to do if you leave the -s out): # apt-get -s install afterstep Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: dpsclient imagemagick libbz2 libhdf4g libjpeg62 libmagick4g libtiff3g xpm4g [...] Now for each of these packages (maybe you'll have to install more extra packages in your specific situation, apt will tell you), you have to look up its location in apt's cache: # apt-cache show dpsclient | grep ^Filename | head -1 Filename: dists/potato/main/binary-i386/x11/dpsclient_0.5.9.1+000216-6.deb If you can't find the location this way, you'll have to use "apt-cache showpkg" to find out what package you really need (for example, libz1 is provided by zlib1g). Hence the locations of the packages you still need are: dists/potato/main/binary-i386/x11/xlib6g_3.3.6-11potato15.deb dists/potato/main/binary-i386/libs/zlib1g_1.1.3-5.deb dists/potato/main/binary-i386/x11/xpm4g_3.4k-5.deb So you go to a nearby Debian mirror and download those files. The path is relative to the root of the Debian tree on that server. HTH, Remco.
Re: upgrading the kernel to 2.4
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 01:13:47PM +0100, Nico De Ranter wrote: > > Most of them are available from woody (you don't have to do a full > upgrade to woody, just upgrade the required parts). modutils 2.3.18 > isn't available however but I found 2.3.23 somewhere in the pool directory > and it installed without problems. this is because woody is no longer unstable, it is testing. when you need absolute latest sources/packages use `sid' or `unstable' unstable is a symlink to sid now. sid is permanent unstable it will never be released, it will never be frozen. testing is now a symlink to woody. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpU3L3wdGh6F.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Where is libblacs-pvm.so ???
Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > I just installed Debian 2.2_r2 and chose some packages from the > "simple" setup. I got a lot of the same errors reported during the > package configuration step. "ldconfig" also reports the same error. > > The error indicates that /usr/lib/libblacs-pvm.so is not available. > Sure enough libblacs-pvm.so is a symb link to libblacs-pvm.so.1 and > libblacs-pvm.so.1 is not available. > > Does anyone know where libblacs-pvm.so is? What it is used for? It comes from the blacs1-pvm package: Package: blacs1-pvm Priority: extra Section: libs Installed-Size: 143 Maintainer: Philipp Frauenfelder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Source: blacs-pvm Version: 1.1-7 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.2) Filename: dists/potato/main/binary-i386/libs/blacs1-pvm_1.1-7.deb Size: 38952 MD5sum: 3ced9b690f02c3ce38d3e859582cdef0 Description: Basic Linear Algebra Communications Subprograms The BLACS project is an ongoing investigation whose purpose is to create a linear algebra oriented message passing interface that may be implemented efficiently and uniformly across a large range of distributed memory platforms. . This package provides the shared libraries. Cheers, Remco.
tekram dc-390/t SCSI adapter
I am trying to install Debian 2.2 on my hp c3010 harddrive using a tekram dc-390/t SCSI adapter. if I use the 1.44 boot disk images (linux 2.2.18) i allways get an error "invalid command interrupt... kernel panic no recovery". However i have discovered that ftp.tekram.com had boot disk images for me (rescue, driver) but these images are release 2.1 I have a 2.1 CD ROM but do not wish to go through the pain and agony of upgrading to 2.2r2 via a 28.8 ISP connection. How can i suppress the detection of the AM53C974 chip. (this driver gives the error). I want to use the TMSCSIM SCSI driver because this one is the one being used on the tekram rescue boot disk.
Re: sound blaster live! 512
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 08:46:03PM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote: > On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 02:55:06AM -0800, Jerrud wrote: > > > > > > I followed your instructions and did this: > > > > alpha:/home/mechanical# chmod 777 /dev/dsp > > alpha:/home/mechanical# chmod 777 /dev/mixer no no, chmod 660 /dev/dsp chmod 660 /dev/mixer adduser yourusername audio > > This is what I got when I ran XMMS: > > > > ** WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/dsp): No > > such device ^^^ > If your devices are mucked up, try (cd /dev ; ./MAKEDEV audio). look closer the message is No such device, NOT No such file or directory. he has the device nodes, but the kernel does not believe there is any hardware associated with them. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpRHL0sD79ha.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Helix gnome control center freezes
Seung-woo Nam wrote: > Since I upgraded my Debian system from 2.2_rev0 to 2.2_rev2, all the > Sawfish menus in Gnome control center wouldn't work (appearance, > focus behaviour, etc.). When I click on any of those the window just > freezes and doesn't show any contents of menus. I know Helix gnome is > not a part of official Debian dist but since it happened after the > upgrade, I was wandering ther's any conflict between Helix Gnome and > new Debian. Has anyone had the same problem? I can't provide a solution but I've had the same problem. Try running the control center using strace. You'll probably see that it tries to find all kind of librep/rep-gtk related things. You need to fiddle around with that a little, I'm afraid (put some extra symbolic links in or so). Cheers, Remco.
font-lock, xemacs, latex
At some point during upgrades, I have lost font-locking capability for LaTeX in xemacs, in trying to diagnose the problem, Auctex info sent me to "font-latex.el", then with locate, I get the following three files: /usr/share/emacs/20.7/site-lisp/auctex/font-latex.elc /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/font-latex.el /usr/share/xemacs21/packages/lisp/auctex/font-latex.elc then, the the following is from the top of the xemacs21/./././font-latex.elc file: ;;; compiled by [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri Aug 25 08:08:37 2000 ;;; from file /usr/src/cvs/xemacs-packages/wp/auctex/font-latex.el ;;; emacs version 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid. ;;; bytecomp version 2.25 XEmacs; 22-Mar-96. ;;; optimization is on. ;;; this file uses opcodes which do not exist in Emacs 19. (if (and (boundp 'emacs-version) (or (and (boundp 'epoch::version) epoch::version) (string-lessp emacs-version "20"))) (error "`font-latex.el' was compiled for Emacs 20")) I don't know whether this is the problem, but font-locking would be very helpful, so I will appreciate any advice. Thanks very much -- Giulio Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X-windows in startup
I had unsuccessfully configured X, set it aside for a day. Rebooted the machine, only to have X start automatically. Problem is, X isn't working beyond letting me enter username/password. C-ALT-D only gets me back to the initial GUI login! IS there a way to escape out of this during the boot process?
Re: how to grep without changing timestamps?
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 03:14:34AM -0500, will trillich wrote: > > Is it possible to grep a ton of files without modifying their > > date/timestamps? > > Currently if I use grep, it changes the access time of all files touched, > > which causes mutt to lose track of the folders which have new mail (I guess > > it > > looks at the timestamp last modified and last accessed to figure this out). > > Occasionally I do want to include the mail folders in my greps, so bypassing > > the "mail" directory is not a solution. > > whoa. isn't there a difference between MODIFIED and ACCESSED? > doing "pager < file" should modify the ACCESSED timestamp, > but not the MODIFIED timestamp, right? or am i in the wrong > universe? They are different. The way the quick mailcheck works I believe is that, among other things, you check whether modify time > access time. This is because when mail is appended to your spool file, the modify time stamp is updated, but not the access one. The access time stamp is then modified when you actually look at the spool file (with some sort of disk/file "read" operation). -- Maciej Kalisiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.dgp.toronto.edu/~mac
Re: X-windows in startup
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 07:07:28AM -0800, Tom Schuetz wrote: > I had unsuccessfully configured X, set it aside for a day. Rebooted the > machine, only to have X start automatically. Problem is, X isn't working > beyond letting me enter username/password. > > C-ALT-D only gets me back to the initial GUI login! IS there a way to escape > out of this during the boot process? C-ALT-F1 will switch you to the console on tty1. if X is so screwed as to not accept the keyboard boot with single to the lilo prompt. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpRq34wLvINd.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: upgrading the kernel to 2.4
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > it didn't help me! version in unstable(testing) is still 2.3.11 and 2.4 > kernels need at least 2.3.18 (from Changes). unstable != testing You need the modutils from unstable (sid). Keep in mind that that you can just plop the binary package in to a woody system - you'll need to compile your own .deb. I have a .deb of modutils 2.3.21 I've been using at http://tux.creighton.edu/~pbrutsch/modutils_2.3.21-1.1_i386.deb - -- - -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG fingerprint: 9BF9 D84C 37D0 4FA7 1F2D 7E5E FD94 D264 50DE 1CFC GPG key id: 50DE1CFC GPG public key: http://tux.creighton.edu/~pbrutsch/gpg-public-key.asc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6U0S7/ZTSZFDeHPwRAhxDAJ96vAxDm7REOC121EckIMGb0ntUFACfU7ud cHC4KOFDvy26ccdqxib3SPE= =KnwP -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: ISA SoundBlaster
You might find my document "Debian University" helpful. It gives a very good explanation of how modules work and talks about what you need to do to get OSS/Free sound working. http://www.xnet.com/~darogers/debian_university.txt Cheers, dar On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Guilherme Ceschiatti wrote: > Hi! > > I've used normaly my ISA SoundBlaster in Storm Linux, but when I tried to > move to Debian, it does not work anymore! I've tried everything, from copying > the isapnp.conf and modules.conf to even using the stormlinux kernel in my > Debian, but nothing works. Any ideas? > > []s > Guiga > > >
FW: X-windows in startup
after booting up press F1 to go into a console terminal. logon as root. cd /etc/rc2.d rm S??xdm # or just move it, if you dont want to delete it shutdown -r now worked for me this morning, anyway. david -Original Message- From: Tom Schuetz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 January 2001 15:11 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: X-windows in startup I had unsuccessfully configured X, set it aside for a day. Rebooted the machine, only to have X start automatically. Problem is, X isn't working beyond letting me enter username/password. C-ALT-D only gets me back to the initial GUI login! IS there a way to escape out of this during the boot process?
Re: pdflatex and dvips+ps2pdf
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 10:35:35AM -0500, Vicente wrote: > > I am starting to create an presentation based > on slides. I want to use PDF format for this work. > I will write the presentation with LaTeX. > > I have been testing pdflatex and dvips+ps2pdf, and get > that text quality of the presentation is better > with pdflatex than with dvips+ps2pdf. > I want to use pstricks , so I'd rather use dvips+ps2pdf. > > Can I make quality from both methods of generating > PDFs similar? Is it a problem with uninstalled fonts? Have a look at: http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/543e.htm Essentially you're getting bitmap fonts in the PDF, which is what makes it look so ugly. The above link discusses solutions. For more related links have a look at (at the bottom of the page): http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~mac/dgp/tex_to_pdf.html -- Maciej Kalisiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.dgp.toronto.edu/~mac
Re: fdisk program in MSDOS
are you using the linux fdisk or the msdos fdisk? you should be using the linux fdisk. --- Michael Light <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just recently bought a debian software > package and I've been reading the book > 'Learning Debian GNU/Linux'. I tried using the > fdisk utility on my hard drive. One of the > things I've noticed is that on my menu there is > no number 5. Change current fixed disk drive. > Is that necessary and what do I do if it is? > __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online! http://photos.yahoo.com/
Re: https:// sites don't work in Konqueror (KDE 2.1)
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 07:56:42PM -0500, Bart Szyszka wrote: > Hi, > > Are https:// sites still not supposed to work in Konqueror under Debian > unstable? Is there any way to turn on https:// support? I'm confused as to > why it has been this long and netscape does https:// without a problem and > other distros do https://, but not Debian. You need to have the kdelibs3-crypto and kdebase-crypto packages installed. Also, some https sites just look to see if you're running Netscape or IE instead of checking for strong encryption. You can get around this by going to the "User Agent" part of Konqueror's configuration and changing it; the "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)" option worked for me. -- Tom "One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is you end up being governed by your inferiors." -Plato
Re: X-windows in startup
Also, that is xdm doing the login stuff. Remove it from the init.d settings. Or remove the xdm from your install. Check http://packages.debian.org/stable/x11/xdm.html for more details on what xdm does. -Russell May I signed up for the debian-users list and all I got was this lousy .sig - Original Message - From: "Tom Schuetz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 8:07 AM Subject: X-windows in startup > I had unsuccessfully configured X, set it aside for a day. Rebooted the machine, only to have X start automatically. Problem is, X isn't working beyond letting me enter username/password. > > C-ALT-D only gets me back to the initial GUI login! IS there a way to escape out of this during the boot process? > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
Installing Debian trouble
Debian Warriors, I have purchased a book titled Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 Unleashed, it is about 1120 pages in length and in the back cover is a CD labeled Debain GNU/Linux 2.1 Unleashed. I have a clean Pentium 255 MHz machine that previously ran SuSE Linux with no problems. To make things as clean as possible I am trying to do a complete install saving nothing from past activities. I step through the installation taking the defaults, doing nothing out of the ordinary, when I get to the following the installation stops working: Next: Install the Base System I input Please select the medium you will use to install the system I arrow down to cdrom : CD-ROM drive Choose the type of your CD interfaceI arrow down to /dev/hdc : ATPI (IDE), first drive on the secondary controller I input Please place the Debian CD-ROM in the CD-ROM drive The CD that came with the book is already in the CD-ROM drive so I input Please choose the path inside the CD-ROM where the Debian archive resides the following is highlighted /debain I select Ok and system comes back with; Please select the directory containing a file base2_1.tgz that you will use to install the Base System The following is highlighted list: Choose from a list of all Archive paths "building a list of archive paths" Please select the directory that you will use to install the Base System from. only a single path is give and it is highlighted; /instmnt/debain/dists/slink/main/disks-i386/current The system then attempts to extract and then comes up with "File error!" There was a problem extracting the Base System from /instmnt/debian/dists/slink/main/disks-i386/current/base2_1.tgz Now has anyone out there used this Debian distribution? I am attempting to use the most basic installation with the CD that came in the back of the book but cannot make it work. I have read that Debian can be troublesome to install, but I am selecting the basic defaults and recording all of the steps I used to get where I am - have over two pages of hand written notes on the questions asked by the system along with my responses/answers, and then things stop working Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, John D. Holp
Re: Installing Debian trouble
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 10:54:19AM -0500, Holp, John Mr. wrote: > /instmnt/debain/dists/slink/main/disks-i386/current > > The system then attempts to extract and then comes up with "File > error!" Sounds like the CD in the book is damaged. I tried one as well that was, then I borrowed one from a friend. If you have a good network connection, you can try the boot floppies, get networking functioning, and then apt-get the rest. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX PGP Public Key: http://www.storm.ca/~msoulier/email.phtml pgpYAUGIPMfy9.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Helix gnome control center freezes
And Remco van de Meent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gave word to the following thoughts: > I can't provide a solution but I've had the same problem. Try running > the control center using strace. You'll probably see that it tries to > find all kind of librep/rep-gtk related things. You need to fiddle > around with that a little, I'm afraid (put some extra symbolic links in > or so). Dunno if is the same problem as you guys are having, but I experienced severe trouble after installing potato and HelixGnome and trying to run the GNOME with my 'old' user configuration, had the control center freezing several times, didn't display desktop icons even if the files were installed and things like this... Those days I just backed up and then removed all my .gnome* configuration stuff in my $HOME and allowed GNOME to build a new configuration, and then I re-installed some configuration files out of the backed-up directories. Seems it was working fine, after... :) HTH, have a nice evening... Kris -- Kristian Rink [EMAIL PROTECTED] icq: 48874445 (Krishna)
Re: Re: https:// sites don't work in Konqueror (KDE 2.1)
My bad. I was going from memory. I'm not in front of my debian box right now. Thanks for the clarification. I believe he'll still need OpenSSL installed though right? Thanks John > > From: Peter Palfrader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 13:25:27 +0100 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: https:// sites don't work in Konqueror (KDE 2.1) > > Hi jfclinux! > > On Wed, 03 Jan 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Along with kdebase-crypto, you'll need kdelibs-crypto. > > > > Oops! -- You'll also need OpenSSL (apt-get install openssl)installed prior > > to the crypto modules. > > apt will handle this: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache show kdebase-crypto > Package: kdebase-crypto > Depends: kdelibs3 (>= 4:2.1-20001218-0), > libc6 (>= 2.1.97), > libssl096, < > libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2, > kdelibs3-crypto (>= 4:2.1-20001218-0), < > kdebase-libs (>= 4:2.1-20001218-0) > > yours, > peter > > -- > PGP signed and encrypted messages preferred. > http://www.palfrader.org/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
Official Debian
Debian Warriors, Some time back I found a book listing titledOfficial Debian GNU/LInux 2.0 Linux 3 CD-ROM with new manual Does anyone know where I can purchase this book? I cannot find it today with any of the on-line book sellers. What I really need is a complete distribution of Debian on CD/s along with a book that takes the pain out of installing this distribution. The CD in the back of my book - Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 Unleashed appears to be bad and there is no point of contact to ask questions. Thanks, John D. Holp
RE: Official Debian
O'Reilly has a Debian book, I seem to recall it having a 2.1 cd in the jacket.
Re: upgrading the kernel to 2.4
Phil Brutsche wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > it didn't help me! version in unstable(testing) is still 2.3.11 and 2.4 > > kernels need at least 2.3.18 (from Changes). > > unstable != testing > > You need the modutils from unstable (sid). Keep in mind that that you can > just plop the binary package in to a woody system - you'll need to compile > your own .deb. This is probably pretty dangerous, but I keep a Potato box at home for when I feel like hand-rolling things, and I have the following entry in /etc/apt/sources.list: deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib That way, if there's already a deb or an updated deb in unstable, I can use something like apt-get source -b blackbox For instance, to build a copy of blackbox from the newer sources, but against my installed libraries. HTH -- -=|JP|=-"Why, oh, why didn't I take the blue pill?" Jon Pennington| Atipa Linux Solutions -o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.atipa.com/\\ Kansas City, MO, USA | 816-595-3000 x1550 _\_V 6D04 39E0 CAE9 9ADA 2CA3 2EBE 898A 6C37 CA1E A29C
Re: Installing Debian trouble
"Holp, John Mr." wrote: > > only a single path is give and it is highlighted; > > /instmnt/debain/dists/slink/main/disks-i386/current > > The system then attempts to extract and then comes up with "File > error!" > > There was a problem extracting the Base System from > /instmnt/debian/dists/slink/main/disks-i386/current/base2_1.tgz Sounds like a bad CD. If you have high-speed network access, I'd advise using http instead of CD, or getting a different CD. -- -=|JP|=-"Why, oh, why didn't I take the blue pill?" Jon Pennington| Atipa Linux Solutions -o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.atipa.com/\\ Kansas City, MO, USA | 816-595-3000 x1550 _\_V 6D04 39E0 CAE9 9ADA 2CA3 2EBE 898A 6C37 CA1E A29C
Re: Official Debian
"Holp, John Mr." wrote: > > Does anyone know where I can purchase this book? I cannot find it > today with any of the on-line book sellers. Don't get a book with Debian 2.0. 2.2 is the latest stable, and is at least 18 months newer than 2.0 (this is a conservitave guess). > What I really need is a complete distribution of Debian on CD/s > along with a book that takes the pain out of installing this distribution. > The CD in the back of my book - Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 Unleashed appears to be > bad and there is no point of contact to ask questions. Like Sean Perry said, try the O'Reilly book. You can get a complete set of Potato discs from http://www.linuxcentral.com/ for about $6US before shipping, and will probably run into all sorts of other useful stuff while you're browsing that site. Have a look. -- -=|JP|=-"Why, oh, why didn't I take the blue pill?" Jon Pennington| Atipa Linux Solutions -o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.atipa.com/\\ Kansas City, MO, USA | 816-595-3000 x1550 _\_V 6D04 39E0 CAE9 9ADA 2CA3 2EBE 898A 6C37 CA1E A29C
Some refreshing news
I thought that everyone could use to hear something a bit refreshing. I upgraded my motherboard and CPU last night (from a Pentium 75 to a Celeron 500). The system is a dual boot system (Debian Linux, and Windows 95). I have been unable to boot into Windows (lots of errors, graphics look horrible, and finally kills me with a fatal error), but I have had no problems with getting back into Linux! I will have to reinstall Windows to see if I can get it working again (if they had kids learning games for Linux I would get rid of Windows entirely, but until then I am stuck with it), and after which I will have to mess around with a few settings in Linux (sound, and modem). Just thought that everyone would be interested to hear a major success story for Linux. Chris Get your own FREE E-mail address at http://www.linuxfreemail.com Linux FREE Mail is 100% FREE, 100% Linux, and 100% yours!
Re: cut-and-paste
H. I don't seem to have a /dev/gmpdata. Can you give me an LS on it so I can do a mknod? I turned off GPM, set my laptop to use /dev/psaux and a ps2 type. I told it to use Emulate3Buttons, but when I try to hit both buttons so I can paste it treats it as a 3rd click of the first button. Thoughts? This is driving me crazy now. Robert Thus spake Henry House ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 05:55:02PM -0800, Nate Amsden wrote: > > gpm is for console mouse support. running it without having it > > properly configured can cause a communications conflict as > > either X or gpm can have control of the mouse, but not both. > > if gpm is configured right(i don't know how, i've never tried > > it myself) then you should be able to use it in both > > enviornments. > > Sometimes gpm and X11 can coexist, both using the mouse directly. This does > not work with some hardware. The workaround is to configure XFree86 to use > /dev/gpmdata as the mouse device and BusMouse as the mouse protocol. This > means that X11 gets its mouse data from gpm. > > -- > Henry House > OpenPGP key available from http://hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc :wq! --- Robert L. Harris| Micros~1 : Senior System Engineer |For when quality, reliability at RnD Consulting | and security just aren't \_ that important! DISCLAIMER: These are MY OPINIONS ALONE. I speak for no-one else. FYI: perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
Re: Official Debian
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Holp, John Mr. wrote: -|Debian Warriors, -| -| Some time back I found a book listing titledOfficial Debian -|GNU/LInux 2.0 -| Linux 3 CD-ROM with -|new manual -| -| Does anyone know where I can purchase this book? I cannot find it -|today with any of the on-line book sellers. -| -| What I really need is a complete distribution of Debian on CD/s -|along with a book that takes the pain out of installing this distribution. -|The CD in the back of my book - Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 Unleashed appears to be -|bad and there is no point of contact to ask questions. -| -|Thanks, -| -|John D. Holp -| Hi John I would keep the book that you already have. I don't believe that there are enough differences between Debian 2.1 and 2.2 (the current version) to warrant buying more books (at least for a newbie). You might go to: http://www.debian.org On the left side of the Debian home page there is a "Distribution" topic with "Debian on CD" and "Debian Books". These two links will point you to inexpensive CD's, and, if you want, some Debian books. Good Luck... -=[cwa]=- -- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian GNU/Linux 2.2_r2
X in startup
does this disable X? what if you still want to run X from the command line using startx? (i'm asking because I don't have X installed right now, but will in a few weeks..) thanks!! xucaen --- David Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > after booting up press F1 to go > into a console terminal. > > logon as root. > > cd /etc/rc2.d > > rm S??xdm # or just move it, if you dont want > to delete it > > shutdown -r now > > worked for me this morning, anyway. > > > > > david > > -Original Message- > From: Tom Schuetz > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 03 January 2001 15:11 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: X-windows in startup > > > I had unsuccessfully configured X, set it aside > for a day. Rebooted the > machine, only to have X start automatically. > Problem is, X isn't working > beyond letting me enter username/password. > > C-ALT-D only gets me back to the initial GUI > login! IS there a way to escape > out of this during the boot process? > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? > Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online! http://photos.yahoo.com/
Re: cut-and-paste
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 10:18:24AM -0700, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > > H. > > I don't seem to have a /dev/gmpdata. Can you give me an LS on it so I > can do a mknod? its a fifo, i thought gpm created it automatically but maybe not: mkfifo /dev/gpmdata chmod 644 /dev/gpmdata -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpujhpRMrIlh.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Official Debian
Hi. the latest stable release of Debian is 2.2r2 I ordered my CD's for $10.00 from https://www.justwebit.com/cgi-bin/e/eshopdb.cgi?9713 They download all the latest images from most of the major linux distros and burn their own CD's. the CD's are bootable. good hunting! xucaen --- "Holp, John Mr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Debian Warriors, > > Some time back I found a book listing titled > Official Debian > GNU/LInux 2.0 > Linux 3 CD-ROM with > new manual > > Does anyone know where I can purchase this > book? I cannot find it > today with any of the on-line book sellers. > > What I really need is a complete distribution > of Debian on CD/s > along with a book that takes the pain out of > installing this distribution. > The CD in the back of my book - Debian > GNU/Linux 2.1 Unleashed appears to be > bad and there is no point of contact to ask > questions. > > Thanks, > > John D. Holp > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? > Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online! http://photos.yahoo.com/
OT - Virus?
I know this is a little OT but this is about the only forum where I provide the email address that the message in question was received from. And besides, you gurus should be able to straighten this out :-). I just got an email (not at this address) warning of a GNU/Linux virus named LinX that is _supposedly_ going to destroy my shadow password file next month. It contained an executable that was supposed to scour your computer and determine if you were infected. But upon looking at it in an editor certain things just look bad. It looks like it starts a file with the contents of ls, then cats your passowrd files on, then tries to initiate a net connection and sendmail the file to an address at yahoo.com? Now I've been up for a *long* time, so maybe I'm just being paranoid. I know the files would be encypted anyway, just curious. So has anyone else heard of this would be virus? TIA, jt time to sleep... _ Debian GNU/Linux http://www.debian.org FreeBSDhttp://www.freebsd.org
RE: X in startup
nope doesnt disable X just prevents it from starting automatically as part of the INIT process of linux. read the article http://www.egroups.com/files/newbieDoc/runlevels-intro.html mentioned on this list earlier today for more info. so startx should work fine (if you have setup your config files properly) cheers, david ps i dont know why my last posting appeared twice... is this my fault or a problem with list server -Original Message- From: Xucaen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 January 2001 17:25 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: X in startup does this disable X? what if you still want to run X from the command line using startx? (i'm asking because I don't have X installed right now, but will in a few weeks..) thanks!! xucaen --- David Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > after booting up press F1 to go > into a console terminal. > > logon as root. > > cd /etc/rc2.d > > rm S??xdm # or just move it, if you dont want > to delete it > > shutdown -r now > > worked for me this morning, anyway. > > > > > david > > -Original Message- > From: Tom Schuetz > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 03 January 2001 15:11 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: X-windows in startup > > > I had unsuccessfully configured X, set it aside > for a day. Rebooted the > machine, only to have X start automatically. > Problem is, X isn't working > beyond letting me enter username/password. > > C-ALT-D only gets me back to the initial GUI > login! IS there a way to escape > out of this during the boot process? > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? > Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online! http://photos.yahoo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT - Virus?
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 11:39:10AM -0600, John Travis wrote: > I know this is a little OT but this is about the only forum where I > provide the email address that the message in question was received from. > And besides, you gurus should be able to straighten this out :-). I just > got an email (not at this address) warning of a GNU/Linux virus named LinX > that is _supposedly_ going to destroy my shadow password file next month. such a virus would have to be running as root to destroy your shadow file. so you would have had to already have installed a trojan as root. > It contained an executable that was supposed to scour your computer and > determine if you were infected. But upon looking at it in an editor yeah ill bet it did. im sure you must run it as root for it to function correctly right? sounds like a classic trojan to me. > certain things just look bad. It looks like it starts a file with the > contents of ls, then cats your passowrd files on, then tries to initiate a > net connection and sendmail the file to an address at yahoo.com? Now I've > been up for a *long* time, so maybe I'm just being paranoid. I know the > files would be encypted anyway, just curious. So has anyone else heard of > this would be virus? sounds to me like the virus is nothing more then a ruse to try and convince you to run this so called scanner, this scanner then either installs this so called virus itself or does some other evil (mailing your shadow file to someone for example, or adding extra root accounts, tampering with sshd, login, telnetd etc etc). if i haven't made myself clear i believe your `detector' *IS* the trojan. never ever run unknown/untrusted binaries for which you do not have the source. *especially* as root. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpPGYONJjXZN.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Official Debian
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 08:45:42AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > O'Reilly has a Debian book, I seem to recall it having a 2.1 cd in the jacket. It's not a great book, and it's not 2.1. It's a hybrid from VA Linux systems. I had endless networking problems with the kernel on that CD. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX PGP Public Key: http://www.storm.ca/~msoulier/email.phtml pgp5ZVydVfqUm.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: fdisk program in MSDOS
Better still, use cfdisk. It's more sophisticated and useful. Cam Xucaen wrote: > > are you using the linux fdisk or the msdos fdisk? > you should be using the linux fdisk. > > --- Michael Light <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just recently bought a debian software > > package and I've been reading the book > > 'Learning Debian GNU/Linux'. I tried using the > > fdisk utility on my hard drive. One of the > > things I've noticed is that on my menu there is > > no number 5. Change current fixed disk drive. > > Is that necessary and what do I do if it is? > >
Re: OT - Virus?
I second this. I mean, come on, if you can read the script, you can tell at least a little of what it does, and it doesn't sound too good. I guess this is one of the voluntary email viruses--you have to run it. Tell the guy who sent it to you that he has to do a better job of social engineering next time, and then don't talk to him any more. Ethan Benson wrote: > if i haven't made myself clear i believe your `detector' *IS* the > trojan. never ever run unknown/untrusted binaries for which you do > not have the source. *especially* as root. -- Organizing Linux users is like herding cats, only harder.
Re: gnome MIME types
At Wed, 3 Jan 2001 00:15:09 +0100, Philipp Schulte wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 12:00:30PM +, Gary Coady wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 01:16:49AM +0100, Philipp Schulte wrote: > > > I have Netscape 4.76 and Mozilla 0.6 installed on my potato system. I > > > wanted to change the MIME types in the Gnome Control-Center so that > > > html files are viewed with Mozilla by default. [...] > I don't know how viewing HTML files interacts with the MIME types, but you > > can at least get gnome-moz-remote to open mozilla instead by creating > > ~/.gnome/gnome-moz-remote > > and putting in the contents > > > > [Mozilla] > > filename=/path/to/mozilla/bin/mozilla > > Thanks, I thought of something like that but it's not a nice solution. > Phil That actually IS the nice solution. I am running milestone 18 on unstable and the only other way I could do it is to have Mozilla in the path (which it happens to be anyway) and to set the handler for text/html to 'mozilla -chrome 'file:%f''. If I try to give the full path to Mozilla (or any app I use as a handler), I get the same error that you experienced. Besides that, if I call Mozilla with the 'chrome' option, it comes up without toolbars and the popup menus are disabled. Somewhat like a kiosk setting. j
Re: OT - Virus?
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 10:08:24AM -0800, Michael Smith wrote: > I second this. I mean, come on, if you can read the script, you can tell at > least a little of what it does, and it doesn't sound too good. I guess this > is > one of the voluntary email viruses--you have to run it. NOTICE: you have just been infected with Cooperative UNIX Email Virus, to cooperate please run rm -rf / as root. Thank you for your cooperation. ;-) > Tell the guy who sent it to you that he has to do a better job of social > engineering next time, and then don't talk to him any more. or just laugh at him while dropping his address into the bottom of your killfile. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpbQYlM7fl6s.pgp Description: PGP signature
Surely someone must have a solution to my recording problem?
I have a SoundBlaster PCI 128 Live and I am running Debian 2.2 with kernel 2.2.17. Using the Emu modules everything works as expected except for sound recording. Sound recording creates a properly formated .Wav file except that the values are so low as to be inaudible! I am trying to record using input via the line input and this certainly gives audible sound via the speakers even when recording is supposed to be taking place. I haven't forgotten anything so silly as to un-mute the appropriate inputs unless there is a hidden mute somewhere that I don't know about. If I boot the machine into Windows and use the software supplied with the SoundBlaster I can create normal recordings, using signals from the line input, which will also play back under Debian. So I have ruled out hardware problems. I did contact the Emu people at Creative and I quote part of the reply below: === "I looked at the file, and as you suspected it is a properly-formatted WAV file with almost-null data in it. Quite telling is the fact that the data isn't actually null -- but the values are incredibly small and aren't audible. What this is telling me is that recording _is_ taking place, but on an input which is inactive (through software or hardware -- can't tell). I was not expecting these results. I was thinking that either the file would be formatted incorrectly or that it would have true null data. In either of those cases, the problem would have likely been with either faulty recording software or with the configuration of the Live. As it is, I'm stumped as to what the problem is." === I have tried recording using a number of different Linux applications (e.g. khdrec, kmedia, krecord, gramofile) for recording together with different mixers ( e.g. kmix, aumix ) and various versions of the Emu modules but all to no avail. So - a brief resume: 1. He's stumped. 2. I'm stumped. 3. Everybody else, so far, is stumped. Is there a genius in the house? Barry Samuels
Re: Helix gnome control center freezes
At Tue, 2 Jan 2001 21:08:57 -0500, Seung-woo Nam wrote: > > Hi everyone: > > Since I upgraded my Debian system from 2.2_rev0 to 2.2_rev2, all the Sawfish > menus in Gnome control center wouldn't work (appearance, focus behaviour, > etc.). When I click on any of those the window just freezes and doesn't show > any contents of menus. I know Helix gnome is not a part of official Debian > dist but since it happened after the upgrade, I was wandering ther's any > conflict between Helix Gnome and new Debian. > > Has anyone had the same problem? I had exactly the same problem. Running sawfish-capplet directly from a terminal ought to give you some insight in what is going wrong. In my case (a fresh install), rep was missing. 'apt-get install rep' solved my sawfish problems. HTH, j
Re: upgrading the kernel to 2.4
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 10:45:39AM +0100, Nico De Ranter wrote: > Howdy, > > I tried to compile a 2.4 kernel, however it turns out the > /lib/modules directory has been restructured and now the system > can't find any modules anymore. Is there any package that might > resolve this or should I install modutils from scratch? > Just install modutils from woody and that's all you need. If you are upgrading box with dialup connection you need propably ppp package from woody and if you compile ppp options as a modules, you will need such lines in some file in /etc/modutils dir (I've made file /etc/modutils/ppp for this): alias char-major-108ppp_generic alias /dev/ppp ppp_generic alias tty-ldisc-3 ppp_async alias tty-ldisc-14 ppp_synctty alias ppp-compress-21 bsd_comp alias ppp-compress-24 ppp_deflate alias ppp-compress-26 ppp_deflate Naturally after creating such file you need to run "update-modules" to put changes into /etc/modules.conf. That's all what I needed on my home box (standard Debian 2.2) to have 2.4 kernel working perfectly. -- o--o ___ |Leszek Gerwatowski|_/_|_\ o--o (o\__/o)=) "Don't fix it if it isn't broken"
Re: Packages
At Wed, 3 Jan 2001 09:07:39 -0200, Antonio A. Lobato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Due problems accordant my lasts mail`s, I just win to install packages > manualy: downloading from internet to my windows partition and installing > it from my hard disk ( ! ). > My problem is being to find the dependences packages. To install the the > package "Afterstep", I need 7 dependes packages, but I don`t find three: > libxpm4, libz1, xlib6g. > > Does anybody knows how find it ? [..] The usefulness of the Debian website simply cannot be overstated. Go to 'http://packages.debian.org/stable/x11/afterstep.html' and you will get a listing of all packages Afterstep depends on, as well as recommended and suggested packages. You even get links to the download pages for those packages. HTH, j
Recompiled potato kernel and
now I'm having problems with modules not being inserted. I have tried to insert them manually with no success. I ran linuxinfo and notice that my laptop speed which is 500MHz is now something in the low 100's. Can someone help. Badiane __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online! http://photos.yahoo.com/
Re: upgrading the kernel to 2.4
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Phil Brutsche wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > it didn't help me! version in unstable(testing) is still 2.3.11 and 2.4 > > kernels need at least 2.3.18 (from Changes). > > unstable != testing > even with this C expr, last time I checked unstable|testing there was no 2.3.X | X >= 18 as required by 2.4.whatever kernels. (last time == today morning) I had to grab it (2.3.23) from pool! BTW, modconf still doesn't work; at least I was able to configure my modules in /etc/modules and had them loaded at boot. []s, Mario O.de Menezes"Many are the plans in a man's heart, but IPEN-CNEN/SP is the Lord's purpose that prevails" http://curiango.ipen.br/~mario Prov. 19.21
Re: upgrading the kernel to 2.4
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Jon Pennington wrote: > Phil Brutsche wrote: > > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > > > it didn't help me! version in unstable(testing) is still 2.3.11 and 2.4 > > > kernels need at least 2.3.18 (from Changes). > > > > unstable != testing > > > > You need the modutils from unstable (sid). Keep in mind that that you can > > just plop the binary package in to a woody system - you'll need to compile > > your own .deb. > > This is probably pretty dangerous, but I keep a Potato box at home for > when I feel like hand-rolling things, and I have the following entry in > /etc/apt/sources.list: > > deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free > contrib I also have this line but it doesn't help at all if you don't have the right version in unstable as well > apt-get source -b blackbox Yes, I always do this. Thanks any way! []s, Mario O.de Menezes"Many are the plans in a man's heart, but IPEN-CNEN/SP is the Lord's purpose that prevails" http://curiango.ipen.br/~mario Prov. 19.21
Re: Installing Debian trouble
At Wed, 03 Jan 2001 10:48:17 -0600, Jon Pennington wrote: > > "Holp, John Mr." wrote: > > [...] > > The system then attempts to extract and then comes up with "File > > error!" > > > > There was a problem extracting the Base System from > > /instmnt/debian/dists/slink/main/disks-i386/current/base2_1.tgz > > Sounds like a bad CD. If you have high-speed network access, I'd advise > using http instead of CD, or getting a different CD. One little addition, if I may: You don't really want to install version 2.1 anyway, if you can help it(*). It is about 1.5 versions behind the current development. Besides installing Debian 2.2 is actually a bit easier than installing 2.1. If you can wait 3 to 4 days, a 3 CD set is about $6 at cheapbytes.com. j
Re: OT - Virus?
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001 09:26:20 -0900, you wrote: :On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 10:08:24AM -0800, Michael Smith wrote: :> I second this. I mean, come on, if you can read the script, you can tell at :> least a little of what it does, and it doesn't sound too good. I guess this is :> one of the voluntary email viruses--you have to run it. : :NOTICE: you have just been infected with Cooperative UNIX Email Virus, :to cooperate please run rm -rf / as root. Thank you for your :cooperation. : :;-) : :> Tell the guy who sent it to you that he has to do a better job of social :> engineering next time, and then don't talk to him any more. : :or just laugh at him while dropping his address into the bottom of :your killfile. I should have been a little more clear about a few things. Obviously I never had any intentions of running it. And second it was an elf binary, not a script. That was just what I could gather from the hex editor. Too bad his message headers don't seem too useful :-(. jt _ Debian GNU/Linux http://www.debian.org FreeBSDhttp://www.freebsd.org
Re: OT - Virus?
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 09:26:20AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > NOTICE: you have just been infected with Cooperative UNIX Email Virus, > to cooperate please run rm -rf / as root. Thank you for your > cooperation. > > ;-) > My brother got a similar e-mail from a friend of his once. It said "This virus works on the honor system. The subject said "This is a virus". Please send this to everyone you know, then delete all the files on your HD". :-) -D
Re: new Kernel 2.4 missing "Old Tulip" module ?
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 10:48:17AM +0100, Nico De Ranter wrote: > The structure of the /lib/modules directory has been changed in > the 2.4 kernels so I guess the modutils can't find the correct kernel module. > (try lsmod, it should list all modules that are currently loaded) > I don't know how to fix this however (see my previous mail :-) > Upgrade to modutils from woody. -- o--o ___ |Leszek Gerwatowski|_/_|_\ o--o (o\__/o)=) "Don't fix it if it isn't broken"
Source list
Hi ! I am very new to Debian. I have been trying to install some software using the apt-get, I have had little success with it though. netscape and ncftp are the only programs I have successfully installed. GIMP, MC, GTK and others i have not been able too, their is an attempt made and downloads occure, however the program is not installed, a message says to "udate" files to add missing files, I have done this several times but no success. Some files are NOT FOUND, I dont know how to add a link to the source list (the attempts that i have tried causes an error and does not run) Thank you for your help. Higher Source #5 1033 Braemar St. SE Med. Hat, Alberta T1A-0V9 "All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts," William Shakespeare
RE: Installing Debian trouble
Juerqen, Thanks, I have ordered the 6 CD set and feel much better about that approach. I am currently doing Red Hat 6.2 and SuSE 6.2 and was not well informed about Debian but this site seems really good. John -Original Message- From: Juergen Fiedler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 1:47 PM To: Jon Pennington Cc: Holp, John Mr.; 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' Subject: Re: Installing Debian trouble At Wed, 03 Jan 2001 10:48:17 -0600, Jon Pennington wrote: > > "Holp, John Mr." wrote: > > [...] > > The system then attempts to extract and then comes up with "File > > error!" > > > > There was a problem extracting the Base System from > > /instmnt/debian/dists/slink/main/disks-i386/current/base2_1.tgz > > Sounds like a bad CD. If you have high-speed network access, I'd advise > using http instead of CD, or getting a different CD. One little addition, if I may: You don't really want to install version 2.1 anyway, if you can help it(*). It is about 1.5 versions behind the current development. Besides installing Debian 2.2 is actually a bit easier than installing 2.1. If you can wait 3 to 4 days, a 3 CD set is about $6 at cheapbytes.com. j
Re: OT - Virus?
At Wed, 03 Jan 2001 11:39:10 -0600, John Travis wrote: > > I know this is a little OT but this is about the only forum where I > provide the email address that the message in question was received from. > And besides, you gurus should be able to straighten this out :-). I just > got an email (not at this address) warning of a GNU/Linux virus named LinX > that is _supposedly_ going to destroy my shadow password file next month. > It contained an executable that was supposed to scour your computer and > determine if you were infected. But upon looking at it in an editor > certain things just look bad. It looks like it starts a file with the > contents of ls, then cats your passowrd files on, then tries to initiate a > net connection and sendmail the file to an address at yahoo.com? Now I've > been up for a *long* time, so maybe I'm just being paranoid. I know the > files would be encypted anyway, just curious. So has anyone else heard of > this would be virus? > More accurately, you could call it a trojan horse. Sending your password file out by mail is never a good idea. Even though it is encrypted, having a copy of it would give a potential attacker all the time he or she needs to crack it with a brute force approach. Why can't the skr1p7k1dd13z (sp?) stay on Microsoft turf? > TIA, > > jt > > time to sleep... g'night, j
Re: upgrading the kernel to 2.4
Mario Olimpio de Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Phil Brutsche wrote: >> A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... >> > it didn't help me! version in unstable(testing) is still 2.3.11 and 2.4 >> > kernels need at least 2.3.18 (from Changes). >> >> unstable != testing > >even with this C expr, last time I checked unstable|testing there was no >2.3.X | X >= 18 as required by 2.4.whatever kernels. >(last time == today morning) > >I had to grab it (2.3.23) from pool! Correct. That's where new unstable and testing packages now go. See the debian-devel-announce archives. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Straight to woody after fresh potato install?
The first of two questions: Is it OK to specify woody as the apt source after a fresh potato installation (I just grabbed, as someone suggested, the 2.88mb floppy install image)? I want to have woody with the least number of downloaded packages. Second question: where is the best place to get the latest gnome packages? I'm planning to do some gtk compiling. Which gnome and what (virtual?) package do I specify to get a complete development environment. This query has been prompted by my inability to compile the lastest xcdroast (0.98?) under potato. TIA
Re: Official Debian
This is the only O'Reilly book I regret having bought but the full text is online and has helped me a couple of times. All in all though a copy of Running Linux and a 2.2r2 cd would be the ideal solution. -- Original Message -- From: "Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 13:04:20 -0500 >On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 08:45:42AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: >> O'Reilly has a Debian book, I seem to recall it having a 2.1 cd in the >> jacket. > >It's not a great book, and it's not 2.1. It's a hybrid from VA Linux >systems. I had endless networking problems with the kernel on that CD. > >Mike > >-- >Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >"...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount >of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX >PGP Public Key: http://www.storm.ca/~msoulier/email.phtml > >
Re: Surely someone must have a solution to my recording problem?
I had some problems with 2.2 and the emu10k1 module with volume but they went away when I went to the 2.2.18 kernel and just compilied it in. -- Original Message -- From: Barry Samuels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:32:44 + (GMT) >I have a SoundBlaster PCI 128 Live and I am running Debian 2.2 >with kernel 2.2.17. > >Using the Emu modules everything works as expected except for >sound recording. Sound recording creates a properly formated >.Wav file except that the values are so low as to be inaudible! >I am trying to record using input via the line input and this >certainly gives audible sound via the speakers even when >recording is supposed to be taking place. > >I haven't forgotten anything so silly as to un-mute the >appropriate inputs unless there is a hidden mute somewhere that I >don't know about. > >If I boot the machine into Windows and use the software supplied >with the SoundBlaster I can create normal recordings, using >signals from the line input, which will also play back under >Debian. So I have ruled out hardware problems. > >I did contact the Emu people at Creative and I quote part of the >reply below: > >=== >"I looked at the file, and as you suspected it is a >properly-formatted WAV file with almost-null data in it. Quite >telling is the fact that the data isn't actually null -- but the >values are incredibly small and aren't audible. What this is >telling me is that recording _is_ taking place, but on an input >which is inactive (through software or hardware -- can't tell). > >I was not expecting these results. I was thinking that either >the file would be formatted incorrectly or that it would have >true null data. In either of those cases, the problem would have >likely been with either faulty recording software or with the >configuration of the Live. As it is, I'm stumped as to >what the problem is." >=== > >I have tried recording using a number of different Linux >applications (e.g. khdrec, kmedia, krecord, gramofile) for >recording together with different mixers ( e.g. kmix, aumix ) and >various versions of the Emu modules but all to no avail. > >So - a brief resume: > >1. He's stumped. >2. I'm stumped. >3. Everybody else, so far, is stumped. > >Is there a genius in the house? > >Barry Samuels > > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
Re: Official Debian
Potato is the current stable (version is 2.2r2) but a large number of packages are out of date. Woody is 'testing' now (not unstable any more) so I expect that it is now quite reasonable and will be 'stable' soon. If you don't need to install right away, I would recommend waiting a while and getting Woody instead. (though I doubt you would find a book with woody bundled in it, an older book should work just fine ; also there's this list :-)) HTH, -D
Re: Official Debian
Me again, try www.cheapbytes.com for the cds they also have a book pack at the moment. Also for sure check out the online version of the O'Reilly Debian book but spend your money on Running Linux. -- Original Message -- From: "Holp, John Mr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 11:40:18 -0500 >Debian Warriors, > > Some time back I found a book listing titledOfficial Debian >GNU/LInux 2.0 > Linux 3 CD-ROM with >new manual > > Does anyone know where I can purchase this book? I cannot find it >today with any of the on-line book sellers. > > What I really need is a complete distribution of Debian on CD/s >along with a book that takes the pain out of installing this distribution. >The CD in the back of my book - Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 Unleashed appears to be >bad and there is no point of contact to ask questions. > >Thanks, > >John D. Holp > > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
Re: mkisofs
On Tuesday 02 January 2001 22:48, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 02:49:48PM +, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > >Can somebody indicate what excatly must the command line be to copy the > >contents of a cd to some file and store it as iso image? > >I tried different options to do it, but the md5sum didn't match > >afterwards. Something like the internal commandfor xcdroast perhaps, > >since it has worked in the same case? > > dd is your friend: > > dd if= of=filename.iso Not so if you're trying to duplicate a multitrack CD (correct me if I'm wrong). I'm been trying out "readcd", available in the the mkisofs/cdrecord package. So far I've been able to copy only the first and last track off a multitrack CD. Does anybody have any idea how to use readcd or some other tool to do a multitrack CD copy, say, by specifying a random track number (1, 2, 3, etc.)?
Re: Source list
> Some files are NOT FOUND, I dont know how to > add a link to the source list (the attempts that i > have tried causes an error and does not run) Run "apt-setup" to add source "locations" for software. Select "http" as your access method and then choose a mirror site (or the main Debian site, if you wish). Good luck Hall
