Konqueror's File Association
Hi there: I am trying to remaster a Knoppix CD. Using apt and dpkg, I removed all KDE 3.0 packages, and installed Ralph Nolden's KDE 3.1 packages on it. After this something wierd is happenning. When KDE's default language is set to some specific languages like Turkish, Finish, Farsi and Czech; konqueror is not able to open html pages. intead it opens the page in a text editor (kate I believe) and shows it's source code. While when KDE's default language is set to other languages like German, English or Polish, Konqueror handles html pages correctly. What may cause konqueror's file association to malfunction? What may force Konqueror to open html pages in a text editor? Any ideas? Cheers -- "Dismiss the weak and inferior, embrace the Evil and Possess your Box before the beast that has been unleashed upon" -UNDEAD EvilEntity Linux Aryan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which Tape Backup package, mt-st?, etc.
On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 01:20, Doug MacFarlane wrote: > > I have confirmed it's working (via tar, then a restore to a different location, > and a file-compare). > > What packages do you folks recommend for a single-system? There are about > a half-dozen listed - taper, amanda, afbackup, tapir, kbackup, star, and > tob. Although I use afbackup for my network, I seem to remember that kbackup was easier to configure and maybe for a single computer it's better. > > Also, should I install the mt-st package? yep, you must have this one to be able to control the tape. > > madmac > > > -- > Doug MacFarlane > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bye -- Haim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hard Disk Partition Recovery
Barry Pollock wrote: Keep in mind that dos 6.22 is only a 16 bit system and linux is 32 bit so if a 32 bit system writes to the partition table a 16 bit system may not be able to access the boot secter. keep in mind that dos can only read 2 partitions from the primary and linux can read 4 Ok, but... - In my case I didn't use DOS 6.22, I tried with Win95, Win98, WinXP - I had just one partition - On the new disk I created the new partition with linux (and the file system too) and after restoring the boot sector everything went ok, so Anyway for Jeetu problem: you didn't say with operating system is installed on the machine (or I missed that ;) I would try recovering the partition table before resorting to create a new partition and restoring backup. Massimiliano -- Massimiliano Ferrero Midhgard s.r.l. C/so Re Umberto 23 10128 - Torino tel. +39-0112301400 - fax +39-0112301422 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] sito web: http://www.midhgard.it -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CPU usage on debian (was: Re: Memory usage on debian)
On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 17:44, Pigeon wrote: > On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 01:19:14PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 07:37, Pigeon wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 03:03:10AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 21:42, Pigeon wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 12:20:56AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 10:21:12PM +, Pigeon wrote: > > > > [snip] [snip] > It would be useful to have a profiling tool that would monitor disk > access, and give information like time spent accessing each file, how > often it was accessed, what proportion of accesses came from data > cached in main memory, what proportion required an actual disk read, > what proportion found the data in the disk drive's cache, etc. etc. to > help figure out which directories go best on which drive. Any > recommendations? Seems like kernel support would be needed to export that data, say, to /proc. -- +---+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson | | | | "Fear the Penguin!!" | +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to determine why a package is "held back"?
On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 09:35, stan wrote: > I've got 2 differnt "testing' machines that should be set up in a very > similar fashion (mine which I tend to test things on first, and my wife's, > which I ry to keep _very_ stable). > > Latley when I do apt-gte update ; apt-get dist-upgrade, her machine has > been "holding back" gnome-common. > > How can I determine why this is os, and correct it? # apt-get -s -u install gnome-common Oh, and NEVER do "apt-gte update ; apt-get dist-upgrade". If the "apt-get upgrade" fails, the dist-upgrade will proceed anyway. You should do this: # apt-gte update && apt-get dist-upgrade -- +---+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson | | | | "Fear the Penguin!!" | +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Backup Consensus?
On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 15:32, Grant Bowman wrote: > Is there a place where a general consensus has been reached on exactly > what is necesary to backup a Debian system? I'm sure this has been > asked and answered many times before, so I am looking for URLs to where > this has been discussed in the past. > > I apologize in advance, but I'm not a subscriber of this list. Please > cc me on replies. You mean a package to do it, or which files to back up, or the h/w to use? -- +---+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson | | | | "Fear the Penguin!!" | +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hard Disk Partition Recovery
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 09:59:07PM -0500, Barry Pollock wrote:
> Keep in mind that dos 6.22 is only a 16 bit system and linux is 32 bit so
> if a 32 bit system writes to the partition table a 16 bit system may not
> be able to access the boot secter. keep in mind that dos can only read 2
> partitions from the primary and linux can read 4
Ehmm. You can do 32 bit math with a 16 bit processor, if required. Just
like you can do 64 bit math on a 32bit processor.
main (){long long t; t=1; t=t*t; printf ("%lld\n",t); }
Now I will agree that creating partition tables with Linux may make
them inaccessible to Windows. But this seems to be a simple consistency
check in Windows that somehow seems to trigger. Not a fundamental 16/32
bit issue.
Also it is not true that Windows can only use 2 out of 4 primary partitions.
It used to be the case that windows couldn't use more than ONE primary
partition. Just because microsoft decides "why for god's sake would
you need more than one partition"?
By the time they realized that this was wrong, they implemented ONLY
extended partitions.
Roger.
>
>
> On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Massimiliano Ferrero wrote:
>
> > > I can't figure out that how I can see everything fine under Linux but not
> > > under DOS.how do I get things working correctly?? Any ideas would be
> > > appreciated.
> >
> > Had a similar problem some times ago: after removing a boot loader
> > (system commander lite) I found my C: drive was not accessible anymore
> > from DOS or Windows.
> >
> > It was accessible using linux by booting from rescue disk or knoppix,
> > but it was not booting from HD, whichever boot loader I used (lilo,
> > grub, DOS, ...).
> >
> > After several hours I discovered that the boot sector of the inaccesible
> > partition was damaged: linux seems not to care about this, seems like he
> > just read the partition table before mounting the partition, but DOS or
> > Windows refused to mount it.
> >
> > I solved by copying everything on a second HD and then regenerating the
> > boot sector (FDISK /MBR).
> >
> > Maybe your problem is similar.
> >
> > Regards
> > Massimiliano
> >
> >
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Re: Fwd: getting postfix + sasl to work
also sprach Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.01.24.2244 +0100]: > /etc/postfix/sasl/smtpd.conf > pwcheck_method: PAM > > /etc/pam.d/smtp > # (take your pick and remove the rest) > # (how do you want it to find the user/pass matches?) > authrequiredpam_permit.so > authrequiredpam_pwdfile.so pwdfile /etc/postfix/dman/passwd > authrequiredpam_unix.so > authrequiredpam_ldap.so Okay, I tried this (without pam_ldap), creating a passwd file in /etc/postfix that I referenced in the pwdfile.so line similar to yours. I then restarted postfix. I now get the following errors: postfix/smtpd[18838]: warning: SASL authentication problem: unable to open Berkeley db /etc/sasldb2: No such file or directory postfix/smtpd[18838]: warning: SASL authentication problem: unable to open Berkeley db /etc/sasldb2: No such file or directory postfix/smtpd[18838]: warning: SASL authentication failure: no secret in database postfix/smtpd[18838]: warning: dclient217-162-113-106.hispeed.ch[217.162.113.106]: SASL CRAM-MD5 authentication failed this has got to be chroot related, since postfix's smtpd runs in a chroot in /var/spool/postfix on Debian. dman, what's your master.cf file look like in terms of the chroot column? wait, why are you using postfix anyway? aren't you the exim guru? is there anyone out there using postfix + saslauthd ? -- Please do not CC me! Mutt (www.mutt.org) can handle this automatically. .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system NOTE: The pgp.net keyservers and their mirrors are broken! Get my key here: http://people.debian.org/~madduck/gpg/330c4a75.asc msg26535/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Upgrade 3.0beta->3.0r0->3.0r1 with buggy behaviour ?
Many thanks for this tip >try apt-get install apt >and try anothere time apt-get dist-upgrade !!! ..so I tried and further I did the recommended apt-get -f install, but it doesn't work correctly: perl: error while loading shared libraries: /lib/libdb.so.3: file too short E: Write error - write (32 broken pipe) E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt Do you have an idea, what to do ? Many thanks, greetings Christoph Walther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mysterious disk activity
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 01:58:04AM +, Pigeon wrote: > Hi, > > I get these occasional very long bursts of disk activity, usually but > not always within an hour or so of booting up, during which the HD LED is > on continuously and the machine is very slow to respond. There were > cron jobs running global finds, which I knocked out; this helped, but Yes, that's for the locate command. You can use "locate filename", and it will quickly (i.e. within two seconds, if you have less than a couple of million files unlike us) show you where files live that have that name. > didn't stop it entirely. To make it more mysterious, ps ax during such > a burst shows nothing untoward: If the "knock them out" is by hand, then you will have let "find" run for a couple of seconds. A little later, your system will decide that "find" accessed a bunch of directories, and will write hte "last access" time on those directories back to disk. That would explain the disk IO burst. Note that "load" does not always correspond to CPU usage: The system will count processes waiting for disk IO towards the load as well. This represents the "slowness" that lots of disk IO causes you to feel. The updatedb (that find running for locate) will run from the dayly cron jobs. There might be a bunch of other things that are considered useful to run every day. Oh, most systems (I haven't checked debian) will move the "dayly" jobs to the middle of the night if you leave your system running Roger. -- ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** http://www.BitWizard.nl/ ** +31-15-2600998 ** *-- BitWizard writes Linux device drivers for any device you may have! --* * The Worlds Ecosystem is a stable system. Stable systems may experience * * excursions from the stable situation. We are currently in such an * * excursion: The stable situation does not include humans. *** -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to determine why a package is "held back"?
> You should do this: > # apt-gte update && apt-get dist-upgrade I prefer this: # apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade --no-remove That way if there's a package with broken dependencies, I can see it before it removes half my desktop. Xav -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kdevelop & htdig
Hi all, I have problems right at the end (I think) of Kdevelop Setup - it wants to use htdig to index all the docs (and I think that's a good idea), but complains about the lack of a htdig.conf file. >From googling, I've discovered that at least at one stage, a README file on this topic existed in /usr/share/doc/kdevelop (which it doesn't now), which said a custom version of htdig was required. An examples directory was also there, with the conf file. Does the fact that these things are missing from the package I've just installed mean that this issue has changed, and it should all work smoothly, or has the package just lost some docs along the way, and I should follow the archived docs I found on the web? Thanks, Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HP 8250i cd-writer
Hi, Did somebody already get an HP 8250i cd-writer working on Woody? I've never had any problems with an HP 8100i or so, but the 8250i seems to be problematic, although it would be supported. As usual, I've setup SCSI emulation and cdrecord -scanbus detects both the cdrom and the cd-writer. However, when trying to write a cdrom, it seems that cdrecord cannot start a new session: --- begin --- scsidev: '0,1,0' scsibus: 0 target: 1 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.1.22 Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling TOC Type: 0 = CD-DA Using libscg version 'schily-0.5' atapi: 1 Device type: Removable CD-ROM Version: 0 Response Format: 1 Vendor_info: 'IDE-CD ' Identifikation : 'R/RW 8x4x32 ' Revision : ' 2.0' Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : SWABAUDIO Drive buf size : 1572864 = 1536 KB FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB Track 01: audio 0 MB (00:00.42) no preemp pad padsize: 615 KB (00:03.57) Track 02: audio 24 MB (02:25.84) no preemp Track 03: audio 26 MB (02:39.16) no preemp Track 04: audio 25 MB (02:28.77) no preemp Track 05: audio 22 MB (02:12.40) no preemp Track 06: audio 23 MB (02:21.36) no preemp Track 07: audio 22 MB (02:15.57) no preemp Track 08: audio 24 MB (02:22.76) no preemp Track 09: audio 21 MB (02:07.66) no preemp Track 10: audio 27 MB (02:41.57) no preemp Track 11: audio 29 MB (02:54.96) no preemp Track 12: audio 23 MB (02:18.37) no preemp Track 13: audio 21 MB (02:08.36) no preemp Track 14: audio 27 MB (02:45.37) no preemp Track 15: audio 25 MB (02:28.89) no preemp Track 16: audio 23 MB (02:21.84) no preemp Track 17: audio 19 MB (01:55.02) no preemp Track 18: audio 26 MB (02:36.77) no preemp Track 19: audio 25 MB (02:34.22) no preemp Track 20: audio 30 MB (03:02.93) no preemp Track 21: audio 30 MB (03:02.70) no preemp Total size: 502 MB (49:48.57) = 224143 sectors Lout start: 503 MB (49:50/43) = 224143 sectors Current Secsize: 2048 ATIP info from disk: Indicated writing power: 4 Is not unrestricted Is not erasable Disk sub type: Medium Type A, high Beta category (A+) (3) ATIP start of lead in: -11849 (97:24/01) ATIP start of lead out: 336075 (74:43/00) Disk type:Long strategy type (Cyanine, AZO or similar) Manuf. index: 25 Manufacturer: Taiyo Yuden Company Limited Blocks total: 336075 Blocks current: 336075 Blocks remaining: 111932 RBlocks total: 346856 RBlocks current: 346856 RBlocks remaining: 122713 Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in dummy mode for single session. Last chance to quit, starting dummy write in 9 seconds.8 seconds.7 seconds.6 seconds.5 seconds.4 seconds.3 seconds.2 seconds.1 seconds.0 seconds. Operation starts. Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... cdrecord: Input/output error. mode select g1: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 55 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 3C 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 13 00 00 00 00 26 00 00 00 Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x26 Qual 0x00 (invalid field in parameter list) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 0.002s timeout 200s cdrecord: Warning: using default CD write parameter data. Mode Select Data 00 11 00 00 05 32 12 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 96 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 cdrecord: Cannot open new session. cdrecord: fifo had 64 puts and 0 gets. cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 100%. input buffer ready. --- end --- Also tried with cdrdao, which gives a similar error message: --- begin --- Cdrdao version 1.1.5 - (C) Andreas Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SCSI interface library - (C) Joerg Schilling L-EC encoding library - (C) Heiko Eissfeldt Paranoia DAE library - (C) Monty Check http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/drives.html#dt for current driver tables. Using libscg version 'schily-0.5' 0,1,0: IDE-CD R/RW 8x4x32Rev: 2.0 Using driver: Generic SCSI-3/MMC - Version 1.2 (options 0x) Starting write at speed 4... Pausing 10 seconds - hit CTRL-C to abort. Process can be aborted with QUIT signal (usually CTRL-\). ?: Input/output error. : scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 55 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 3C 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 13 00 00 00 00 26 00 00 00 Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x26 Qual 0x00 (invalid field in parameter list) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 0.002s timeout 180s ERROR: Cannot set write parameters mode page. ERROR: Writing failed. --- end --- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly." -- Henry Spencer msg26540/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: phoenix and java?
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 07:16:22PM +, Pigeon wrote: > On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 06:11:28PM +0100, Robert Land wrote: > > and couldn't find anything on the Phoenix web page > > mentioning system requirements. Would someone kindly > > jump in and provide some advice? > > You need the woody libc6 to run phoenix; apart from that it seems to > be pretty self-contained. > > If you don't want to upgrade to woody you can still use it in potato: > - Download the woody libc6 .deb and unpack its data.tar.gz into a new > directory, say called c225, then do (as root) > > chroot c225 /sbin/ldconfig Thanks for your assistance - could you help me in understanding the command above? I assume chroot is used here to limit ldconfig only to the c225 dir - would ldconfig otherwise mess up the previously scanned libs? > - Unpack the phoenix package into c225/bin > - Make a shell script containing > > cd /path/to/c225 > export >LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/c225/usr/local/lib:/path/to/c225/usr/lib:/path/to/c225/lib:/usr/local/lib:/usr/lib:/lib > exec /path/to/c225/lib/ld-linux.so.2 /path/to/c225/bin/phoenix-bin Just curiously grepped for LD_LIBRARY_PATH in some dirs and noticed that perl seems to use this environment variable too. Is there some source of standard env. variables? - I have read so many howto's but never came across this topic and it does interest me. Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
XPDF can't find fonts
Hello everybody, Sorry for double posting but it seems nobody has answered on this yet. When I try to read a pdf using xpdf it opens but it shows junk. I get these messages: Error: Couldn't create FreeType font from '/tmp/BvV0Wg' Error: Couldn't create FreeType font from '/tmp/E0vgYp' Error: Couldn't create FreeType font from '/tmp/SdqUZq' Error: Couldn't create FreeType font from '/tmp/eBh9br' Error: Couldn't create FreeType font from '/tmp/WTCNBu' What should I do to get xpdf to work ? Thanks in advance, Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to determine why a package is "held back"?
On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 03:07, Xavier Bestel wrote: > > You should do this: > > # apt-gte update && apt-get dist-upgrade > > I prefer this: > > # apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade --no-remove > > > That way if there's a package with broken dependencies, I can see it > before it removes half my desktop. Sounds like you put that in a cron script, and I don't like that idea. However, this is recommended method, I believe: In the cron script: # apt-get update && apt-get -d -u dist-upgrade Next morning, from a terminal window: # apt-get -u dist-upgrade That'll allow you to decide what you *really* want to do, especially regarding config files. -- +---+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson | | | | "Fear the Penguin!!" | +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: scsi HD install Problem
On Monday 27 January 2003 00:55, Mikkel wrote: > How do i install Debian on my scsi HD? Normally you do this the same way as if you'd be installing on an IDE disk. Do you experience any problems? What controller are you using? -- Got Backup? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bad Magic
On Monday 27 January 2003 02:31, Tom Allison wrote: > What does this mean? > > I'm failing at the beginning of a boot. You mean you get the message directly after LILO (or BRUB or whatever you're using as bootmanager) is done? It would be helpful if you could pinpoint that a little more precisely. "Bad magic" means that the identifying bytes at the beginning of some file are not what was expected, so the file is probably corrupt. -- Got Backup? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bad Magic
Nicos Gollan wrote: On Monday 27 January 2003 02:31, Tom Allison wrote: What does this mean? I'm failing at the beginning of a boot. You mean you get the message directly after LILO (or BRUB or whatever you're using as bootmanager) is done? It would be helpful if you could pinpoint that a little more precisely. "Bad magic" means that the identifying bytes at the beginning of some file are not what was expected, so the file is probably corrupt. I got this prior to the 'LILO' line. The problem was pretty simple but hard to recognize. 1) I cannot see the front of the PC tower 2) I use ext2 floppies and had one in the bay 3) Boot sequence is Floppy, CD-ROM, HDD I was attempting to boot from a data disk. However, I'm used to a different message... -- Al didn't smile for forty years. You've got to admire a man like that. -- from "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CD-ROM
Pigeon wrote: On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 09:18:15AM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: OK, I'm getting more than a little frustrated. I am constantly getting CD-Record errors when I try to create ANY kind of CD. Can someone please provide any suggestions on what to check/test/do. It worked very nicely for a long time when I was under stable. It's been many months since I've tried it and I honestly can't say what might have caused it to quit working. But this is getting stupid. I have an entire trashcan full of coasters. Configuration: I have a CD-R/RW (Ricoh MP7040A), a CD-ROM and a Parallel Port Zip 250 drive (another scsi-emulation device) Using speed=4? An attempt to avoid errors or an old CD writer? I've used an old Ricoh CD writer (7200 I think, 2-speed, SCSI) and it is CRAP. It keeps doing stuff like that for no apparent reason; wet-cleaning the lens with IPA helped a bit, but not much. The easiest way to burn a CD on the box concerned is to remove its lid and that of the adjacent box, unplug the SCSI cable and plug it into the other machine's CD writer. I was recently forced to get a new CD writer when my old one nuked itself (it appears to have corrupted its flash memory, to the point where reflashing software doesn't recognise it and so won't run). In the end, it would have been worth it even if the old one hadn't packed up. Going from speed=4 to speed=32 gives a DRAMATIC improvement. I duplicated a set of woody CDs for a friend, and instead of getting very bored, barely had time to write the labels out. And it only cost 35 quid - about half what the old one cost. So, I'd say get a new CD writer; you're unlikely to regret it and it won't take long to save the money back, judging by your trashcan full of coasters... Pigeon You have confirmed my nightmares! Ricoh may be, in at least the CD-R/W market, a sick joke. Google resulted in ONE response for this specific model and they never got it working either. IIRC this never really worked that well from Windows or Linux with Data or Audio 4x is the MAX_SPEED of this device. Changing to 1X only delays the inevitable. Considering the speed, performance, and costs I wonder if I can get a USB CD-burner so I can drag it around from machine to machine without opening cases all the time? I'll have to see if I remember how to convert Quid to $US :) -- Al didn't smile for forty years. You've got to admire a man like that. -- from "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Install problems: 3.0r1/i386 and Realtek 8319 network card
I want to install Debian over the network. I downloaded the 2 'vanilla' boot floppies, rescue.bin and root.bin, and booted with those. They have kernel 2.2.22, and they did not recognise my ethernet card. Then I decided to try the 2.4bf floppies, which have kernel 2.4.18. I see in the kernel config that the following 3 device drivers are compiled in: CONFIG_8139CP=y CONFIG_8139TOO=y CONFIG_8139TOO_8129=y When I boot with these, my ethernet card is recognised, and I can choose the network install method. However, the card actually fails to work, even though it has been recognised. If I switch to the console on ALT-F2, and ping the card's address, the ping works. However, I cannot ping any other host on the network, nor can I ping the router. So the network installation fails. I started the installation with "linux debug", and I do see some odd errors in the debug log: eth0: TX timeout I could try and do an installation from a CDROM, but I'm afraid that even then, my network card will either not be recognised (older 2.2 kernel) or not work with the newer 2.4 kernel. The card works just fine under RedHat 7.3 and 8.0 (where the kernel is usually patched with their own patches), and FreeBSD 4.7. Any clues as to how I can debug and/or solve this issue? -- Anand Buddhdev http://anand.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CD-ROM
Pigeon wrote: I've used an old Ricoh CD writer (7200 I think, 2-speed, SCSI) and it is CRAP. It keeps doing stuff like that for no apparent reason; wet-cleaning the lens with IPA helped a bit, but not much. The easiest way to burn a CD on the box concerned is to remove its lid and that of the adjacent box, unplug the SCSI cable and plug it into the other machine's CD writer. Could you have used NFS? -- Al didn't smile for forty years. You've got to admire a man like that. -- from "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-get
Travis Crump wrote: Barry Pollock wrote: You wil have to create a Packages file and a Release file and a Package file. You can simply download the package and do a dpkg -i p`fullpagagename' . The Release file and Package file are optional. A minimally functional Packages file can be created by running 'dpkg-scanpackages ./ /dev/null | gzip -c - > Packages.gz' in the directory with the debs and then you can add it to your sources by adding to your sources.list: deb file:///path/to/deb/directory ./ and running apt-get update or some variant thereof. That being said, dpkg -i is easier if there are no dependencies and as Emma pointed out most people who distribute debs bother to create a Packages.gz so that you can just add the http address to your source.list Instructions for this are in the HOWTO at http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-basico.en.html Cheers, -- Chris Lale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
aptitude is being too smart
i have the following packages being held at the indicated versions in
aptitude. the last column indicates the next available version:
libgtk2.0-0 2.0.9-1 2.2.0-2
libgtk2.0-common 2.0.6-3 2.2.0-2
libpango1.0-01.0.5-4 1.2.0-3
libpango1.0-common 1.0.4-2 1.2.0-3
I want to update them to the new version numbers.
When I select libgtk2.0-common and tell aptitude to upgrade to
2.2.0-2, the other three packages are also identified by aptitude as
upgrade candidates ('iu', and cyan coloured).
However, when I then press 'g', aptitude steps in and tries to be
smart:
Some packages were broken and have been fixed [OK]
It took me a while to figure out that this is because libgtk-common
2.2.0 has not been uploaded to unstable yet. Is there an easier way to
detect the actual reason of aptitude's absolutely useless message?
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Some package questions
Hello Debian Masters, I have just switched RedHat -> Debian, and so far I must say I am *very pleased* with the conversion, mostly due to the packaging, I never really got allong with RPM. However I still do have some (small ?) questions about packages: 1. Say (for instance) I want to remove kde completely from my box, if I then try for instance: bash% dpkg -P kdelibs3 there is no end to the failing dependencies, and not is removed. Is it possible to "turn this around", and say: "remove kdelibs3 *and* all the packages which will depend on this package"? That would be a very potent (and dangerous probably) way of removing things! 2. I have read that the debian packages do not contain version numbers from the packaged software. However for instance emacs exists as both emacs20 and emacs21 packages, does that imply that to debians packagesystem these two packages are *completely unrelated*, and as a corollary there is no (debian) ugrade route from the 20.xx versions of emacs to the 21.xx versions? Well, thanks for any comments. Joakim -- Joakim Hove Stabburveien 18 5231 Paradis 55 91 28 18 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thinkpad T30?
On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 04:43, arief_mulya wrote: > Dear all, > > > > I just got a T30 from the office. > Well, actually, I don't have it in hand yet, so I'm not sure > what's the exact specs. (the stuff comes tomorrow, but the > letter came to me today). > > Anyone has played with an IBM Thinkpad T30 before? > How's the story? > > I think it also has an internal modem, I don't know if it > was winmodem or not, but does anyone ever manage to setup > the modem? > > I have on my hand the 7-cd's of Woody ;-) > Have been installing debian on a few machines now (from > potato on a 100Mhz Dell, to a Toshiba Laptop to Desktop with > 256 MiB RAM and PIII). > > Which would be better? Woody or Sarge? > > To people on the debian-laptop, please cc'd also to me as I > was unsubscribing a while ago from the list. > > Thank you! > > > arief_mulya > -- > Happy Debian. Thinkpads *used to* use their sound system (MWave) for the modem (they are technically the same idea, just for different purposes) - not sure if that is still the case, but if it is, it is tremendously different from most any other winmodem. That said, I've heard people complain about trying to install *anything* on individual Thinkpads over the years - from IBM PC-DOS 6.1 and OS/2 through most Windows releases and the like - some have *very* non-standard hardware configurations. -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
mozilla plugins and download manager
Having downloaded a bunch of plugins for mozilla 1.2.1 from marillat.free.fr (stable) the flashplayer and acrobat plugins are happily recognised. I also downloaded openquicktime ran ./configure, make, make install then created symlinks for the .so files from /usr/lib/.mozilla/plugins (where all the other .so files appear to be) to the where make install had put them, but mozilla doesn't pick them up. Why? I also tried to download realplayer from marillat.free.fr, fetched the rpm as required but the setup does not appear complete - looks like I have to do some extra setup when I try and run the program but it 'froze' my system - not quite sure what was going on here, f3 etc., crtl+alt+del and more wouldn't do a thing and I had to resort to turning the machine off (ouch!). Anyone else had problems with this? The other thing I've been trying to do is to persuade mozilla to use prozilla as its download manager but can't any documentation on how to play around with the download manager setup. Help appreciated. Thanks.. Simon. = --- Simon Tod [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Converting Knoppix to Woody
Hal Vaughan wrote: I've tried a few different installs to get Debian working on my system. At one point I used the HD install script to install Knoppix on my harddrive. It worked, in basics. There seemed to be a few problems, such as menus in KDE (I would think this would be a problem in Gnome, too). If I re-install Knoppix (one benefit is it works w/ my video card -- Woody doesn't), what can I do to get the packages (and the KDE menus) in sync w/ Woody? Is that possible? I had trouble with adding some packages under Knoppix, but did not have the same trouble under a "regular" Debian install. Thanks. If you want to install Debian from a Knoppix CD look at http://www.linuxworld.com/site-stories/2002/1104.barr.html Cheers, -- Chris Lale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
`apt-get update` going "E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room"
Would it do that only on the "stable" box w/ only 32 MB RAM, I wouldn't wonder, but it's doing that also on a 256 MB "unstable" one. The error msg is exactly the same on both: .-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room E: Error occured while processing kscd (NewVersion1) E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_stable_updates_main_binary-i386_Packages E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room E: Error occured while processing kscd (NewVersion1) E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_stable_updates_main_binary-i386_Packages E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. .-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. Any hints? 6 other boxes (stable, testing and unstable ones) are not affected. cheers, &rw -- / Ing. Robert Waldner | Security Engineer | CoreTec IT-Security \ \ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | T +43 1 503 72 73 | F +43 1 503 72 73 x99 / signature.ng Description: PGP signature
Re: Some package questions
also sprach Joakim Hove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.01.27.1258 +0100]: > 1. Say (for instance) I want to remove kde completely from my box, if > I then try for instance: > > bash% dpkg -P kdelibs3 > > there is no end to the failing dependencies, and not is > removed. Is it possible to "turn this around", and say: "remove > kdelibs3 *and* all the packages which will depend on this > package"? That would be a very potent (and dangerous probably) way > of removing things! Of course there is. Either you should just use aptitude as a really cool graphical frontend with a very smooth learning curve, and with all possibilities, or you use apt-get: apt-get remove --purge kdelibs3 > 2. I have read that the debian packages do not contain version > numbers from the packaged software. However for instance emacs > exists as both emacs20 and emacs21 packages, does that imply that > to debians packagesystem these two packages are *completely > unrelated*, and as a corollary there is no (debian) ugrade route > from the 20.xx versions of emacs to the 21.xx versions? Correct. I don't know why. It always struck me as really ugly. Then again I never really cared for emacs anyway. -- Please do not CC me! Mutt (www.mutt.org) can handle this automatically. .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system NOTE: The pgp.net keyservers and their mirrors are broken! Get my key here: http://people.debian.org/~madduck/gpg/330c4a75.asc msg26557/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Install problems: 3.0r1/i386 and Realtek 8319 network card
On Monday 27 January 2003 05:47, Anand Buddhdev wrote: > I want to install Debian over the network. I downloaded the 2 'vanilla' > boot floppies, rescue.bin and root.bin, and booted with those. They > have kernel 2.2.22, and they did not recognise my ethernet card. Then > I decided to try the 2.4bf floppies, which have kernel 2.4.18. I see in > the kernel config that the following 3 device drivers are compiled in: > > CONFIG_8139CP=y > CONFIG_8139TOO=y > CONFIG_8139TOO_8129=y I run routers with US$7 8139s and US$800 wan cards. They both work pretty well for me. The price difference is striking, is it not? About a year ago I also had problems with rtl8139 drivers. After googling around I found that some people used an older driver compiled from source to solve the problems. It may be the case that the other distros you mention have the older driver included and that the more recent Debian distro has the newer driver. If you are interested in learning more about this possible fix, contact me off-list and I will send a tar file to you of the old and new driver source. The compile instructions are simple and included in the source (thank you Mr. Becker). Hmmm. You may need someone to compile the driver for you lest you have a chicken-egg problem. I have a Woody/vanilla i386 system. -- Mike M. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Which driver for a VIA AC97 Chip?
Hi, I have a new motherboard with a VIA AC97 chip for sound, I can't get the via82cxxx_audio driver to load for it. I've read around on the internet but they all seem to refer to PCI string 0x1106:3058 whereas (as you can see) lspci gives 0x1106:3059. The messages I get are: # modprobe via82cxxx_audio /lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/sound/via82cxxx_audio.o: init_module: No such device Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters. You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg /lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/sound/via82cxxx_audio.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/sound/via82cxxx_audio.o failed /lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/sound/via82cxxx_audio.o: insmod via82cxxx_audio failed pig:~# lsmod Module Size Used byNot tainted sound 54412 0 (unused) ac97_codec 10240 0 soundcore 3524 2 (autoclean) [sound] serial 43776 0 (autoclean) ide-scsi7712 0 pig:~# lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3116 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8633 [Apollo Pro266 AGP] 00:08.0 SCSI storage controller: Future Domain Corp. TMC-18C30 [36C70] 00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233 PCI to ISA Bridge 00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 00:11.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 1b) 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC97 Audio Controller (rev 30) 00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. Ethernet Controller (rev 70) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc.: Unknown device 8d04 pig:~# lspci -n 00:00.0 Class 0600: 1106:3116 00:01.0 Class 0604: 1106:b091 00:08.0 Class 0100: 1036: 00:11.0 Class 0601: 1106:3074 00:11.1 Class 0101: 1106:0571 (rev 06) 00:11.2 Class 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 1b) 00:11.5 Class 0401: 1106:3059 (rev 30) 00:12.0 Class 0200: 1106:3065 (rev 70) 01:00.0 Class 0300: 5333:8d04 pig:~# cat /proc/pci Bus 0, device 17, function 5: Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 48). IRQ 11. I/O at 0xe800 [0xe8ff]. So the question is what device driver do I use or where do I patch the kernel to try treating a 3059 as a 3058. Regards - Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: `apt-get update` going "E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room"
On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 12:29, Robert Waldner wrote: > Would it do that only on the "stable" box w/ only 32 MB RAM, I wouldn't wonder, > but it's doing that also on a 256 MB "unstable" one. > > The error msg is exactly the same on both:ed or opened. > E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room > Any hints? 6 other boxes (stable, testing and unstable ones) are not > affected. Put a line like this one in your /etc/apt/apt.conf Adjust the cache-limit if needed. APT::Cache-Limit 1024; -- Mark Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Saiko Internet Technologies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OpenOffice 1.0.1 CRASHES when exporting as html
Hello everybody, I've got the following problem: Open office crashes each time I try to save in html format. I installed the Debian open office version - but before that I had a open office version from the site (which I removed before installing the Debian one) What can I do to solve this? Thanks, Joris Huizer __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Backup Consensus?
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 08:32, Grant Bowman wrote: > Is there a place where a general consensus has been reached on exactly > what is necesary to backup a Debian system? I'm sure this has been > asked and answered many times before, so I am looking for URLs to where > this has been discussed in the past. > > I apologize in advance, but I'm not a subscriber of this list. Please > cc me on replies. > > Thank you very much, FWIW I first of all dump my postgres databases into $HOME, then make a list of my installed (debian) packages, also in $HOME. I then backup $HOME excluding browser cache files, /etc and /usr/local. My idea is that after a disaster I'd make a minimum debian install, restore $HOME, /usr/local. After that I'd reinstall my packages from the list I gathered and then selectively restore /etc to get my configs back the way I had them. I've never used this in anger and I'd welcome any suggestions from the wiser heads out there. Regards Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: `apt-get update` going "E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room"
Robert Waldner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Would it do that only on the "stable" box w/ only 32 MB RAM, I wouldn't wonder, > but it's doing that also on a 256 MB "unstable" one. > >The error msg is exactly the same on both: > >..-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. >E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room >E: Error occured while processing kscd (NewVersion1) >E: Problem with MergeList >/var/lib/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_stable_updates_main_binary-i386_Packages >E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. >E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room >E: Error occured while processing kscd (NewVersion1) >E: Problem with MergeList >/var/lib/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_stable_updates_main_binary-i386_Packages >E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. >..-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. > >Any hints? 6 other boxes (stable, testing and unstable ones) are not > affected. Search the debian mailing list archives. It's asked about every other day. write this APT::Cache-Limit 1000; into /etc/apt/apt.conf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to determine why a package is "held back"?
Le lun 27/01/2003 à 10:58, Ron Johnson a écrit : > On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 03:07, Xavier Bestel wrote: > > > You should do this: > > > # apt-gte update && apt-get dist-upgrade > > > > I prefer this: > > > > # apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade --no-remove > > > > > > That way if there's a package with broken dependencies, I can see it > > before it removes half my desktop. > > Sounds like you put that in a cron script, and I don't like that > idea. However, this is recommended method, I believe: > In the cron script: > # apt-get update && apt-get -d -u dist-upgrade > Next morning, from a terminal window: > # apt-get -u dist-upgrade No, I didn't put some auto-upgrade thing in a cron script. However I'll look at what your commands do, that seems interesting. Xav -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Backup Consensus?
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 08:32, Grant Bowman wrote: > Is there a place where a general consensus has been reached on exactly > what is necesary to backup a Debian system? I'm sure this has been > asked and answered many times before, so I am looking for URLs to where > this has been discussed in the past. > > I apologize in advance, but I'm not a subscriber of this list. Please > cc me on replies. > > Thank you very much, I use the Make CD Recovery program (http://mkcdrec.ota.be/). What it does is allow me to make a Multi-CD, bootable backup of my Debian filesystem. So, in the case of disaster recovery I can boot from disk one and reinstall the whole thing from the CDs. At my current fs size of 3Gb this fits on 5 CD's, at 20p a disk this costs me about 1 of your english quids per backup. I guess I could use CD-RW's but I ain't too bothered about it. Make CD Revovery _might_ do compression if you need it though to cut down on the number of disks - but I've never checked. Hope this is useful for you, anyone else use this system? Thoughts anyone? Cheers, Kevin The information contained in this e-mail is intended only for the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. It may contain privileged and confidential information and if you are not an intended recipient you must not copy, distribute or take any action in reliance on it. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify us immediately by telephone on +44 (0)1980 612100. Please also destroy or delete the message from your computer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Initrd diskless boot
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 09:52:16PM -0500, Jameson C. Burt wrote: > On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 03:30:32AM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: ... > > I never could really find the info whether that 15Watt power supply is > > part of the bricks or not and whether it needs any fan itself. > > Could you enlighten me? > The power supply is external, the size of a large eraser, > in the middle of a cord like ... > They mention 15 watts on their webpage [URL probably wrapped thru email], > http://www.disklessworkstations.com/cgi-bin/cat/info/jam125.html?Bpdb2RQX;;99 Thanks for the info. -- groetjes, carel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mount: RPC: Authentication error; why = Failed (unspecified error)
My ftp-server consists of a Redhat server with 4 nodes, two of which are debian based. After hard disk problems on one of the debian nodes which caused the load average on the main server to rise because of nfs-devices not being available I rebooted the Redhat server after uncommenting the problem devices in /etc/fstab. (I find it impossible to just umount such a problem device.) Now, after the hard disk problem has been corrected, I can not get the volumes on the two Debian (Woody on Sparc an Woody(2.2 kernel) on Intel (2.4.19 kernel)) to mount on the main server. The error in the subject line is the result of any effort to mount them. I have restarted the /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server on both nodes and /etc/init.d/nfs on the Redhat Server. Any idea on how to get this corrected? The system has worked without serious problems for about 18 months now. Regards. Johann -- Johann Spies Telefoon: 021-808 4036 Informasietegnologie, Universiteit van Stellenbosch "Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD; though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool." Isaiah 1:18 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thinkpad T30?
Dear all, I just got a T30 from the office. Well, actually, I don't have it in hand yet, so I'm not sure what's the exact specs. (the stuff comes tomorrow, but the letter came to me today). Anyone has played with an IBM Thinkpad T30 before? How's the story? I think it also has an internal modem, I don't know if it was winmodem or not, but does anyone ever manage to setup the modem? I have on my hand the 7-cd's of Woody ;-) Have been installing debian on a few machines now (from potato on a 100Mhz Dell, to a Toshiba Laptop to Desktop with 256 MiB RAM and PIII). Which would be better? Woody or Sarge? To people on the debian-laptop, please cc'd also to me as I was unsubscribing a while ago from the list. Thank you! arief_mulya -- Happy Debian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
error on root filesystem DEBIAN WON'T BOOT URGENT
Hello everybody I've got a big problem now: First, I had a weird warning about a change in memory while nothing should have changed - I did nothing special to cause such a thing... Anyway, then the probs go on: When I try to boot I get an error message when the check for the root system starts. These are the outputs: --- checking root system... fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) /dev/hdb1 contains a filesystem with errors, check forced. /dev/hdb1: ... unattached inode 917614 /dev/hdb1 UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY: RUN fsck MANUALLY (i.e., without -a or -p options) fsck failed. Please repair manually and reboot. Please note that the root file system is currently mounted read-only. To remount it read-write: # mount -n -o remount,rw / --- What should I do ? I don't know anything about inodes or the fsck program so I need any advice you can give Thanks in advance, Joris Huizer __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Some package questions
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 12:58:27PM +0100, Joakim Hove wrote: > 2. I have read that the debian packages do not contain version > numbers from the packaged software. However for instance emacs > exists as both emacs20 and emacs21 packages, does that imply that > to debians packagesystem these two packages are *completely > unrelated*, and as a corollary there is no (debian) ugrade route > from the 20.xx versions of emacs to the 21.xx versions? It's done this way so that you can install both at the same time. You can only have one version of any given package installed at once. This is not uncommon when users will find it a significant jump to go from one version to the next. I don't use emacs so can't speak for the upgrade route, but there's often some care taken in such cases to ensure that the upgrade is reasonably sane. After all, if you can install the two in parallel it can't be that bad. Doesn't most of your configuration go in .emacs anyway? Cheers, -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Solved: mount: RPC: Authentication error; why = Failed (unspecified error)
I discovered the problem. The /etc/hosts.deny did indeed change since the previous time that the volumes were mounted and I forgot about it. Sorry about the false alarm. Regards. Johann -- Johann Spies Telefoon: 021-808 4036 Informasietegnologie, Universiteit van Stellenbosch "Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD; though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool." Isaiah 1:18 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
error on root filesystem DEBIAN WON'T BOOT URGENT
Hello everybody I've got a big problem now: First, I had a weird warning about a change in memory while nothing should have changed - I did nothing special to cause such a thing... Anyway, then the probs go on: When I try to boot I get an error message when the check for the root system starts. These are the outputs: --- checking root system... fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) /dev/hdb1 contains a filesystem with errors, check forced. /dev/hdb1: ... unattached inode 917614 /dev/hdb1 UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY: RUN fsck MANUALLY (i.e., without -a or -p options) fsck failed. Please repair manually and reboot. Please note that the root file system is currently mounted read-only. To remount it read-write: # mount -n -o remount,rw / --- What should I do ? I don't know anything about inodes or the fsck program so I need any advice you can give Thanks in advance, Joris Huizer __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
error on root filesystem DEBIAN WON'T BOOT URGENT
Hello everybody I've got a big problem now: First, I had a weird warning about a change in memory while nothing should have changed - I did nothing special to cause such a thing... Anyway, then the probs go on: When I try to boot I get an error message when the check for the root system starts. These are the outputs: --- checking root system... fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) /dev/hdb1 contains a filesystem with errors, check forced. /dev/hdb1: ... unattached inode 917614 /dev/hdb1 UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY: RUN fsck MANUALLY (i.e., without -a or -p options) fsck failed. Please repair manually and reboot. Please note that the root file system is currently mounted read-only. To remount it read-write: # mount -n -o remount,rw / --- What should I do ? I don't know anything about inodes or the fsck program so I need any advice you can give Thanks in advance, Joris Huizer __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: scsi HD install Problem
I got a Adaptec 29160 , and my problem is that i can't see my scsi HD ( only my IDE HD). "Nicos Gollan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:20030127102009$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > On Monday 27 January 2003 00:55, Mikkel wrote: > > How do i install Debian on my scsi HD? > > Normally you do this the same way as if you'd be installing on an IDE disk. Do > you experience any problems? What controller are you using? > > -- > Got Backup? > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian-based UnitedLinux
Dear Debian Users, I'm planning to deploy a UnitedLinux version based on Debian. What does that mean? You get a distribution with your favourite package manager and installer that includes all the software (packages) (and not more) that is listed in the UnitedLinux standard. You will be able to download the ISO files from my server at Monday, 3rd of February. You will also be able to order CD's with this distribution. But because Debian is YOUR product please give this distribution a name. E-Mail your proposal to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . I will collect them until Friday,January 31, 12p.m. GMT and then post a page where you can vote for the best proposal. I will post the URL here at Saturday. Some more information: I am going to support this Debian-based UnitedLinux. I will open up the three branches of testing, unstable and stable for the packages included in this distribution. I am going to give web-based, free code camps about Debian and many more services. I write this to let you know that this is no joke. Thank you for reading this mail With best regards Gueven Bay -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: error on root filesystem DEBIAN WON'T BOOT URGENT
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 05:24:53AM -0800, Joris Huizer wrote: > /dev/hdb1 UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY: RUN fsck MANUALLY > (i.e., without -a or -p options) > > fsck failed. Please repair manually and reboot. Please > note that the root file system is currently mounted > read-only. To remount it read-write: > > # mount -n -o remount,rw / > > --- > > What should I do ? I don't know anything about inodes > or the fsck program so I need any advice you can give Just do what it says. 'mount -n -o remount,rw /', then 'fsck /dev/hdb1', and answer the questions. (Generally speaking there isn't much point answering anything other than 'y' to fsck's questions, unless you're a filesystem expert ...) -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
lm-sensors
Hi all, Sorry to post this message twice.. I'm unable to get lm-sensors working. MB asus P4T533-R with P4. Installed lm-sensors-source, compiled, patched the kernel and reinstalled the kernel (2.4.20) inclusif i2c. Setted-up the kernel with all in modules. Sensors-detect detect nothing. I2c-detect detect an i2c-0 device. Modprobed of cource all available mods.( *.dev/*.prog/*.isa/ etc...) Googled and found this info: chip ASB100 , driver AS99127F ??? Any help would be very appreciated. mess-mate -- Computers are like air conditioners, they are useless when you open Windows. msg26577/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: error on root filesystem DEBIAN WON'T BOOT URGENT
Joris Huizer wrote: Hello everybody I've got a big problem now: First, I had a weird warning about a change in memory while nothing should have changed - I did nothing special to cause such a thing... Anyway, then the probs go on: When I try to boot I get an error message when the check for the root system starts. These are the outputs: --- checking root system... fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) /dev/hdb1 contains a filesystem with errors, check forced. /dev/hdb1: ... unattached inode 917614 /dev/hdb1 UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY: RUN fsck MANUALLY (i.e., without -a or -p options) fsck failed. Please repair manually and reboot. Please note that the root file system is currently mounted read-only. To remount it read-write: # mount -n -o remount,rw / --- What should I do ? I don't know anything about inodes or the fsck program so I need any advice you can give Thanks in advance, Joris Huizer Boot into single-user mode if necessary. Run mount /-n -o remount,rw / which will remount the root directory in read-write mode. Then run fsck /dev/hdb1 Most likely, everything will sort itself out. Then just reboot with "reboot -r now" and you should be back in business. Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian-based UnitedLinux
I'm planning to deploy a UnitedLinux version based on Debian. What does that mean? You get a distribution with your favourite package manager and >installer that includes all the software (packages) (and not more) that is listed in the UnitedLinux standard. don't you have to apply to some standards body before you can claim this? But because Debian is YOUR product please give this distribution a >name. E-Mail your proposal to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . I'd like some more details about this distro first. regards Leo "It use to be said if your name's not on the list your not coming into the nightclub. I say I'm on the LIST so don't CC me" _ Stay in touch with MSN Messenger http://messenger.msn.co.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: `apt-get update` going 'E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room'
> > Robert Waldner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> >>Would it do that only on the "stable" box w/ only 32 MB RAM, I wouldn't >>wonder, >> but it's doing that also on a 256 MB "unstable" one. >> >>The error msg is exactly the same on both: >> >>..-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. >>E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room >>E: Error occured while processing kscd (NewVersion1) >>E: Problem with MergeList >>/var/lib/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_stable_updates_main_binary-i386_Packages>>E: > The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. E: >>Dynamic MMap ran out of room >>E: Error occured while processing kscd (NewVersion1) >>E: Problem with MergeList >>/var/lib/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_stable_updates_main_binary-i386_Packages>>E: > The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. >>..-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. >> >>Any hints? 6 other boxes (stable, testing and unstable ones) are not >> affected. > > Search the debian mailing list archives. It's asked about every other > day. write this APT::Cache-Limit 1000; into /etc/apt/apt.conf > Wouldn't it make sense to make this entry in apt.conf a default installation? Kind of like a WISH_LIST item... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
adding a printer on Open Office.
Hey guys, What I have to do to add a printer (hp 840 c) in Open Office? The kde text editor (Kate) recognizes the printer without any problem, but I couldn´t install it at OO. any help are welcome. []´s Iced Sun
Cdrecord and audio cd
A friend of mine gave me an audio cd which was burnt in a studio after some editing, etc. He wanted to make a couple of copies. I could not rip it using cdparanoia as linux refused to sense the cd. I suspected the studio which might have used some win s/w to write it, thus making it unreadable under linux. I was proved wrong when the same could be played on a regular cd player. I decided to burn the cd under linux using cdrecord which I thought would solve this problem. As I could not rip it, I played it on my cd player and recorded the output. The output file is as: $ file om_namo.wav om_namo.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 16 bit, stereo 44100 Hz Using cdrecord I burnt an audio cd from the wav files using the following command: cdrecord -v -speed=6 -dev=0,1,0 -audio -pad *.wav The resulting cd is not sensed under linux! Neither xmms nor gtcd sense the cd. I tried it under windows and it played there without any problems. I just popped the cd into my standalone cd player. It plays without any complaints. Is there something that I have missed while creating an audio cd? Why does not linux sense the audio cd, while both doze and regular cd players do? Have I missed some module/switch/incantaion that needs to be loaded/given/chanted? Regards, -- Sridhar M.A. New Year's Eve is the time of year when a man most feels his age, and his wife most often reminds him to act it. -- Webster's Unafraid Dictionary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PGP Signatures
Friends, forgive me for my ignorance, but I see a lot of emails on this list with PGP signatures. Exactly what purpose does it serve having PGP as part of your signature? They just look like a string of characters that could have been made up to me. It maybe because I receive most of the emails from this list in windows95 (I'm at work), that they have no significance. regards Leo "It use to be said if your not on the list you can't come into the nightclub. I say I'm on the LIST so don't CC me." _ Chat online in real time with MSN Messenger http://messenger.msn.co.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: scsi HD install Problem
Mikkel schrieb: I got a Adaptec 29160 , and my problem is that i can't see my scsi HD ( only my IDE HD). Have you tried to type "vanilla" at the boot parameter? Yuhanes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: `apt-get update` going 'E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room'
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 09:30:39AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Wouldn't it make sense to make this entry in apt.conf a default > installation? Kind of like a WISH_LIST item... It's already been filed, I think, but it would be much more sensible for apt to do the right thing and not need weird configuration items. (That, also, has been filed.) -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SOLVED :-) Re: error on root filesystem DEBIAN WON'T BOOT
--- Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joris Huizer wrote: > > >Hello everybody > > > >I've got a big problem now: > > > >First, I had a weird warning about a change in > memory > >while nothing should have changed - I did nothing > >special to cause such a thing... Anyway, then the > >probs go on: > > > >When I try to boot I get an error message when the > >check for the root system starts. > >These are the outputs: > > > >--- > > > >checking root system... > >fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) > >/dev/hdb1 contains a filesystem with errors, check > >forced. > >/dev/hdb1: ... > >unattached inode 917614 > > > >/dev/hdb1 UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY: RUN fsck > MANUALLY > >(i.e., without -a or -p options) > > > >fsck failed. Please repair manually and reboot. > Please > >note that the root file system is currently mounted > >read-only. To remount it read-write: > > > ># mount -n -o remount,rw / > > > >--- > > > >What should I do ? I don't know anything about > inodes > >or the fsck program so I need any advice you can > give > > > >Thanks in advance, > > > >Joris Huizer > > > > > > Boot into single-user mode if necessary. Run > mount /-n -o remount,rw / > which will remount the root directory in read-write > mode. > > Then run > fsck /dev/hdb1 > > Most likely, everything will sort itself out. Then > just reboot with > "reboot -r now" and you should be back in business. > > Kent > > > > Thank you Kent and Colin Watson (who just sent a reply too) I thought it'd probably be hard - but just saying yes to every question got everything working again. Can any of you tell what could have caused this prob ? regards, Joris Huizer PS: Sorry for the number of emails I really didn't want to fill the list like that, but it kind of looked like yahoo wasn't really responding well but in the end it send the message a couple of times. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: scsi HD install Problem
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 12:55:03AM +0100, Mikkel wrote: > Hi > > How do i install Debian on my scsi HD? It should be straightforward. The installation kernels seem to support most SCSI interface cards, so the installer will recognise your SCSI drive. When you get to "Partition a hard disk" you can choose /dev/sda for your first SCSI drive, /dev/sdb for the second... et voila. The fact that it's SCSI not IDE doesn't matter. If this doesn't work it probably means your SCSI card is not supported by the installation kernel, in which case come back to the list with the model of your SCSI card. If your BIOS can't boot from SCSI disks you'll need an IDE disk to boot from; it won't have to hold very much so any old IDE disk will do. Or you could boot from floppy, or even CD-ROM though I think that would be a pain. By and large Linux supports SCSI disks just as well as IDE, so you shouldn't have a problem. Pigeon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: `apt-get update` going "E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room"
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 13:13:26 +0100, "Benedict Verheyen" writes: >Search the debian mailing list archives. It's asked about every other day. >write this APT::Cache-Limit 1000; into /etc/apt/apt.conf Thanks all, now it works again. cheers, &rw -- / Ing. Robert Waldner | Security Engineer | CoreTec IT-Security \ \ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | T +43 1 503 72 73 | F +43 1 503 72 73 x99 / signature.ng Description: PGP signature
[newbie] kernel-2.4.18 module mis-install
My system is a PIII, with woody 3.0_r0. I am installing the nvidia kernel driver for a M64 card. It went like this: Installed the stock kernel-image-2.4.18-i686 debian package, with dselect. Installed and unpacked kernel-source-2.4.18, with dselect and tar. Downloaded and unpacked nvidia-kernel-source and nvidia-glx-source, with apt-get and tar. Built nvidia-kernel-source the Debian Way: (in /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18 ) make oldconfig kpkg-make modules cd .. dpkg -i really-long-name-for-nvidia-kernel.deb reboot. The module failed to load when X started. I troubleshot the problem, and discovered that the module was installed in /lib/modules/2.4.18 vice /lib/modules/2.4.18-i686. Therefore, the kernel module loader cannot find it. I've read a lot about hand-installing the modules, and hand editing the configuration files and scripts, but I would much rather fix this the Debian Way. My questions are: How can I safely move the module into my actual kernel modules directory, and how can I prevent this problem for future module installs? Thanks, Jonathan P.S. Please don't CC this address, just reply to the list. My outgoing smtp is not always the same as my list address, due to relay restrictions. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
device never checked
I recently added a (kind of big) partition on /dev/hdb3 (where /tmp lives) to the /etc/fstab file so it's mounted. But I think it's never checked for errors or anything. How can I make Debian check it like it does for other partitions -ofcourse the root on /dev/hdb1, and /home on /dev/hdb5 and /usr on /dev/hdb6 ? Thanks in advance, Joris Huizer __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PGP Signatures
On Monday 27 Jan 2003 2:51 pm, debian parisc wrote: > It maybe because I receive most of the emails from this list in windows95 > (I'm at work), that they have no significance. If you are using pgp you can verify the authenticity of the message - i.e. it comes from who the 'from' line says, rather than someone else. It also verifies that the message hasnt been altered during transmission. (This is a simplistic explanation, see www.gnupg.org for more). Tom msg26591/pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: PGP Signatures
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 02:51:39PM +, debian parisc wrote: > Friends, > > forgive me for my ignorance, but I see a lot of emails on this list with > PGP signatures. Exactly what purpose does it serve having PGP as part of > your signature? They just look like a string of characters that could have > been made up to me. > > It maybe because I receive most of the emails from this list in windows95 > (I'm at work), that they have no significance. That last sounds about right. Good mail clients can verify the signatures automatically. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Some package questions
On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 05:58, Joakim Hove wrote: > Hello Debian Masters, > > I have just switched RedHat -> Debian, and so far I must say I am *very > pleased* with the conversion, mostly due to the packaging, I never > really got allong with RPM. However I still do have some (small ?) > questions about packages: We all did, when first coming over from The Dark Side... [snip] > 2. I have read that the debian packages do not contain version > numbers from the packaged software. However for instance emacs > exists as both emacs20 and emacs21 packages, does that imply that > to debians packagesystem these two packages are *completely > unrelated*, and as a corollary there is no (debian) ugrade route > from the 20.xx versions of emacs to the 21.xx versions? Two big friends of yours: # apt-cache search # apt-cache show "apt-cache show" will show you info like Dependencies, Conflicts, and Suggests. -- +---+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson | | | | "Fear the Penguin!!" | +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mailman problems
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 09:03:58AM -0900, Andy wrote: | Can anyone else comment about Mailman working with an Exim MTA? mailman works well with any MTA, though, if you use the traditional approach of manually maintaining /etc/aliases. exim works very well and isn't hard to configure. In addition, as Stephen Gran posted, exim can be configured to automatically handle all the mailman lists on your system. The upshot of that is to create a new list, simply create the list in mailman. exim will find it automatically and deliver to it. That can actually be configured a bit shorter, if you read the exim README mailman provides. | I am about to install a Debian system for a customer to act as a file/print | server but also to run Mailman to blast out newsletters to a mailing list of | over 5,000 people. Sounds fine. | Does it matter which I use...Exim or Qmail? If you want to read a slightly dated, but well done, benchmark then check this out : http://www-dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de/~ma/postfix/vsqmail.html Postfix is designed for very high performance. Some of that comes through a good modular design and long-running services. exim follows a traditional monolithic design and must re-exec itself many times and each time it rereads the config file. That, and a couple of other features like duplicate address weeding, make it a bit slower. However, as some users recently noted on postfix-users, postfix has a greater (memory) overhead on a lightly loaded system. You'll have to simply try it to see whether or not a 5000 member list with your delivery requirements is too much for exim on your system. Some tips to make it faster : 1) configure the MTA to accept a large number of recipients, but only from mailman (your own machine) 2) configure mailman to use the same return address for all recipients 3) configure mailman with the same recipient limit as you configured the MTA 4) don't "personalize" the messages Those will allow the MTA to optimize the delivery as much as it can to reduce the number of TCP connections it makes and minimize the amount of actual data it must send out. Personally I am opposed to qmail, mainly for reasons outlined here : http://www-dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de/~ma/qmail-bugs.html http://cr.yp.to/qmail/dist.html however if you want to use it that is your choice^Wproblem <0.5 wink>. The second link gives the reason there is no debian package for qmail (only a source package). -D -- If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to. -- Old Irish Saying http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/ msg26594/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Which driver for a VIA AC97 Chip?
"Andrew M. Lindley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a new motherboard with a VIA AC97 chip for sound, I can't get the > via82cxxx_audio driver to load for it. I've read around on the internet > but they all seem to refer to PCI string 0x1106:3058 whereas (as you > can see) lspci gives 0x1106:3059. Right; there seem to be two different VIA audio chipsets, the 82C686 and the 8233. I'd bet the kernel via82cxxx_audio only works for the 82C686, but... > pig:~# lspci > 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3116 > 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8633 [Apollo Pro266 AGP] > 00:08.0 SCSI storage controller: Future Domain Corp. TMC-18C30 [36C70] > 00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233 PCI to ISA Bridge > 00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE (rev 06) > 00:11.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 1b) > 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC97 Audio > Controller (rev 30) > 00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. Ethernet Controller > (rev 70) > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc.: Unknown device 8d04 ...it looks like you probably have an 8233. ALSA (in unstable, at least) has support for both VIA chipsets using the snd-via82xx driver. If you're building your own kernel, this is straightforward: make sure you have "sound card support" enabled (probably as a module) in your kernel config, install the alsa-source package, unpack /usr/src/alsa-driver.tar.gz, and run 'make-kpkg modules-image' from the top of your kernel source tree. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
where is the cyrus2 imap backport for woody?
Hi, does anyone know what happend to the cyrus2 imap backports for woody? URL http://people.debian.org/~hmh/packages/woody is broken. Cheers, Marcus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
booting ,different configurations
Hi, I've got several services installed on my laptop that I don't always use (db+webserver for example). What would be the best way of configuring my system such that I can choose an option on my grub boot menu for which services I want started? I've tried looking at rc.d etc man pages, but find the documentation geared towards other problems. I also can't find any information on what arguments I'd have to make grub pass the kernel. Has anyone done this, or able to offer advice/point me to the right resource? thx, caoilte -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fwd: getting postfix + sasl to work
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > this has got to be chroot related, since postfix's smtpd runs in > a chroot in /var/spool/postfix on Debian. > > dman, what's your master.cf file look like in terms of the chroot > column? wait, why are you using postfix anyway? aren't you the exim > guru? It is nearly impossible to get sasl to work *correctly* in a chroot and even more difficult with PAM. I just run it outside of it's jail... Also, you cannot use anything but PLAIN auth (plaintext userid/passwd in a base64 string) if you use PAM. Probably not a good idea. If you use sasldb (or sasldb2) then you can use things like CRAM-MD5. > is there anyone out there using postfix + saslauthd ? Not I, though that is probably how you'd be able to run it in a chroot... -- -rupa -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thinkpad T30?
"Mark L. Kahnt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 04:43, arief_mulya wrote: >> Which would be better? Woody or Sarge? I ran woody on my Thinkpad T20 just fine, so I'd use the one that you're more comfortable with. It's possible, however, that the T30 requires drivers that aren't in woody since it's newer. > That said, I've heard people complain about trying to install *anything* > on individual Thinkpads over the years Couldn't use the Winmodem though. Otherwise, it rocked. Handled my Cisco wireless NIC out of the box. See http://www.linux-laptop.net/ibm.html for more (although the T30 isn't covered yet). I used http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/pub/faculty/mackinnon/thinkpad-t22.html, especially the hint for getting around the problem where StarOffice hung X... -- Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and MH-E. Vote Libertarian! If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SOLVED :-) Re: error on root filesystem DEBIAN WON'T BOOT
Joris Huizer wrote: First, I had a weird warning about a change in memory while nothing should have changed - I did nothing special to cause such a thing... Anyway, then the probs go on: When I try to boot I get an error message: checking root system... fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) /dev/hdb1 contains a filesystem with errors, check forced. /dev/hdb1: ... unattached inode 917614 /dev/hdb1 UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY: RUN fsck MANUALLY (i.e., without -a or -p options) fsck failed. Please repair manually and reboot. I thought it'd probably be hard - but just saying yes to every question got everything working again. Can any of you tell what could have caused this prob ? Not knowing more details about the "change in memory", it's impossible to say. There may be some details in one of your system logs (/var/log/ . . .). However, any number of things can cause a file to fail getting closed, or corrupted, etc, such as a power outage, or a program lockup, a bad spot on the drive, etc. You might be interested in converting your ext2 file systems to ext3, which is a journaling mode, and more resistant to file system corruption. It's a simple thing; just run "tune2fs -j /dev/hdb1" (for the hdb1 partition), and edit /etc/fstab, changing the hdb1 line from ext2 to ext3, and you're in business. Do this for all your ext2 filesystems, or just some, or none; it's your choice. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Memory usage on debian
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 05:05:22PM -0500, Jason McCarty wrote: > > This would make a negative number of memory usage shortly after > > starting the X server :) > > Doh! Wouldn't that be cool though :) ja :) Start many X Servers to get unlimited amounts of memory for free! > > > That doesn't mean X doesn't leak, of course ;-) The problem might > > > just be that resource leaks in X programs cause memory leaks in the > > > X server. > > > > Hm, they shouldn't do that ... > > Well, most of an X program's pixmaps and other GUI info is stored on the > X server. So if a program doesn't tell X when to discard them, X thinks > they're still in use, and doesn't free them. Maybe the server could check for how some data hasn't been used and decide to discard some stuff. In case it's needed again later, it must be reloaded ... GH -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PGP Signatures
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 02:51:39PM +, debian parisc wrote: > forgive me for my ignorance, but I see a lot of emails on this list with > PGP signatures. Exactly what purpose does it serve having PGP as part of > your signature? They just look like a string of characters that could have > been made up to me. > > It maybe because I receive most of the emails from this list in windows95 > (I'm at work), that they have no significance. The signatures are a way of verifying the sender and content of an email. The sender of a message has two keys, a private key, and a public key. The sender signs the message with the private key, and the signature can be verified with the sender's public key. If the contents of the message are changed, the signature does not match the message. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] msg26602/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
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Gimp Print Problem
Epson Stylus Color 860 on /dev/usblp0 installed with CUPS+GIMP-print_v4.2.2-pre2. Print Test Page prints a page with color hexagon but no test. From a command line escputil -s -u -r /dev/usblp0 returns printer status information. From a command line lp printtest results in request id is lp-81 but nothing is printed. From a command line lpr printtest prints nothing and the next command prompt is displayed. How do I get back to Band Camp? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fonts in tables
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 09:23:56PM +0100, Robert Land wrote: > Thank you very much for your assistance Emma. > I hoped not to use style sheets because the w3m > version I am using does not seem to support CSS - > so I tried something in between - and hoped > for the best. Better get used to style sheets, the only way to play around with fonts and font color in current HTML versions (XHTML 1.1) is with CSS. -- .''`. Baloo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than to fix a system msg26605/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: fluxbox settings get lost
On Sun, 26 Jan 2003 01:22:32 -0800 (PST), Joris Huizer wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > I've got a small question now: Each time I boot Debian > the settings of fluxbox are gone (the background style > is set to a gray one) > > Is this a bug or do I have to change something ? Just wondering: do you click on "Reconfigure"? Third item from the bottom, before "Exit" and "Restart". -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cdrecord and BIG DISKS - Might help someone
On Sat, 25 Jan 2003 21:28:16 -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 01:34:17AM +, Pigeon wrote: > > cdrecord -v -speed=32 dev=x,y,z -dao -isosize filename.raw > > The hitch was the instruction to cdrecord to write the disc in > DAO mode. Many many recorders cannot deal with the CUE sheet > they're sent in DAO mode unless they're told the total size of > the image. What works for me is option "-ignsize": echo "burn 800MB" ; cdrecord -v dev=lite8 -dao -ignsize cdrom.iso > Your original write blew up because the largest disc that can > be encoded in the ATIP is 700 mb. Anything larger is an > overburn, and you're right back to the CUE sheet problem again. > > I've got three recorders... one NEC, two LiteOn. The NEC won't > overburn no matter what you do, one of the LiteOn's doesn't > care and just does whatever you tell it, and the other LiteOn > has the CUE sheet thing. Frustrating. I can live with something that behaves predictably. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OpenOffice 1.0.2 font ugliness
Hi folks, just upgraded to OpenOffice 1.0.2, and the fonts are _exceedingly_ ugly, despite the fact that I installed the x-ttcidfont-conf as suggested by the openoffice package, and up dated the FontPath settings in the XServer. I remember having fixed this problem in the past somehow, but can't remember how I managed it. Can anyone point me to a solution? thanks, Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
freshly-upgraded kernel 2.4.20 -- went like a dream
X-uptime: 10:47:50 up 19:59, 1 user, load average: 0.08 what a delight it is to work under the debian umbrella. i'll get lulled into complacency if you folks keep this up. it was such a seamless upgrade i'm thinking of not waiting 180 days next time. :) after all, it's good to fsk those file systems more often than twice a year, right? -- I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0; Linux server 2.4.20-k6 #1 Mon Jan 13 23:49:14 EST 2003 i586 unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #88 from Jesse Goerz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Ever wondered WHAT DOCUMENTATION IS ON YOUR SYSTEM? And if there was an easy way to browse it? apt-get install dhelp dhelp or for those running the testing distribution, try doc-central as well. Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Returned mail... am i relaying? aaugh!
does this [see attachment] indicate that some spammer has found a way to get me to relay his mail? aaugh! this looks bad. i have serensoft.com running in my basement on a woody (and freshly-upgraded 2.4.20-k6 kernel) and i allow pop3 and smtp connections for my serensoft mail users. passwords are in-the-clear there, of course; but with restricted shells (/bin/false) there's not much danger, is there? still, if you look at the attached bounce, it looks like somehow a spammer is trying to use my exim (or worse, IS using my exim) to relay/forward his junk. i did `zgrep zimmerman /var/log/exim/mainlog*` and came up empty. and since it says it arrived on '26 Jan 2003 23:51:44' i also looked for ':51:44' (thinking maybe the time zone might affect the log entry, i looked for minutes:seconds) and found nothing. same for '211.144.100.21', the incoming ip address. paniclog and rejectlog are empty... where should i look? what should i look for? -- I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0; Linux server 2.4.20-k6 #1 Mon Jan 13 23:49:14 EST 2003 i586 unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #104 from Sean Quinlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Looking to CUSTOMIZE THE COLORS USED BY LS? I find its easier to run "dircolors -p >~/.dircolors" and then add "eval `dircolors -b ~/.dircolors`" to my .bashrc and then make all changes to ~/.dircolors (instead of the system-wide /etc/DIR_COLORS). Probably more pertinent on a multi user system, but good policy nevertheless. Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ... --- Begin Message --- The original message was received at Sun, 26 Jan 2003 23:51:44 -0500 (EST) from [211.144.100.21] - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (reason: 550 5.1.1 ... User unknown) (expanded from: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) - Transcript of session follows - ... while talking to [138.12.44.45]: >>> RCPT To: <<< 550 5.1.1 ... User unknown 550 5.1.1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... User unknown Reporting-MTA: dns; lexis-nexis.com Received-From-MTA: DNS; [211.144.100.21] Arrival-Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 23:51:44 -0500 (EST) Final-Recipient: RFC822; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Actual-Recipient: RFC822; william.zimmerman@[138.12.44.45] Action: failed Status: 5.1.1 Remote-MTA: DNS; [138.12.44.45] Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550 5.1.1 ... User unknown Last-Attempt-Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 23:51:49 -0500 (EST) --- Begin Message --- Title: Englis Classics 3000 Ó¢ÎÄÃûÖø 3000 ENGLISH CLASSICS Ó¢ÎÄÃûÖø FounderTop Tech Co., Ltd. ¡¡ ¾«×°±¾ RMB 98.00 Êղء¢ËÍÀñ¡¢Ó¢Óïѧϰ֮¼ÑÆ· ²ú Æ· ÌØ É«
Re: Problems running Gnome
On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 14:44, Riccardo Gusso wrote: > > I solved the problem related to the message error above installing > gnome-control-center package, but I still don't have the panel. I have > looked in the wen and asked in several mailing lists, but at the moment > I haven't found a solution yet. > Bye, > Riccardo > Following a suggestion that I received outside of this list I solved even this problem by installing the packages gnome-panel, gnome-panel-data and gnome-applets that were not anymore in the dependencies of gnome main packages. Bye, Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which driver for a VIA AC97 Chip?
-- Andrew M. Lindley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Monday, 27 January 2003, 11:41 AM +): > I have a new motherboard with a VIA AC97 chip for sound, I can't get the > via82cxxx_audio driver to load for it. I've read around on the internet > but they all seem to refer to PCI string 0x1106:3058 whereas (as you > can see) lspci gives 0x1106:3059. The messages I get are: > > Bus 0, device 17, function 5: > Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233 AC97 Audio > Controller (rev 48). > IRQ 11. > I/O at 0xe800 [0xe8ff]. > > > So the question is what device driver do I use or where do I patch the > kernel to try treating a 3059 as a 3058. I had (motherboard died, now) a mobo with the same audio controller, and the alsa packages worked fine for me. Unless you're rolling your own kernel, just grab the alsa-base package and the alsa-modules package that corresponds to the currently installed kernel. debconf even lets you select and setup the card, which makes it almost a no-brainer. -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian 3.0r_0 setup - lots of questions
Hi I setup Debian Woody 2 days back. I'll just detail my system: Celeron 633Mhz, Intel i810E motherboard with integrated AGP/sound, 384M RAM I installed the base system from the Debian 3.0r_0 CD and installed X-windows, and lots of other packages via apt-get from stable. Now, I am behind a http proxy and cannot access everything properly. My current problems are: 1. apt-spy does not run from behind the http proxy to setup a good sources.list. Right now, I am using mirrors.kernel.org, which is not very fast 2. I can access www via a browser like say mozilla/galeon using the http proxy config in teh Advanced tab...but can't browse using links, etc. How do i tunnel other apps through the http proxy? 3. How do i run an MTA like say postfix to deliver mail directly from behind the http proxy? Right now, am using Sylpheed 4. How do i get things like jabber/psi working? And play games on the network? and read nntp? So, mostly these doubts about accessing the internet. Also, is it a good idea to stick to "stable" and not use testing and unstable? "stable" has old versions of most packages that I use on a workstation, so what is the best way to use new versions of packages? And can someone please mail me a good sources.list offlist? Thanks Sonali _ // free anonymous email || forums \\ subZINE || anonymous browsing subDIMENSION -- http://www.subdimension.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: adding a printer on Open Office.
-- Gilberto Garcia Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Monday, 27 January 2003, 12:53 PM -0200): > Hey guys, > > What I have to do to add a printer (hp 840 c) in Open Office? The kde text > editor (Kate) recognizes the printer without any problem, but I couldn´t > install it at OO. As root, run the program /usr/lib/openoffice/program/spadmin.bin -- from there you can configure both fonts and printers. -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problem with AbiWord in Woody
I'm trying to make AbiWord work on my system. I am not attempting anything that is unusual, just install from the Debian web site using dselect. After I turn off the warning message about fonts, according to instruction, I see a warning message "Could not load the dictionary for the en-US language" I've looked for dictionary files in the Debian files on my CD set of Woody and found none. I've gone to the abisource site and found (and downloaded) a dictionary for abiword 1.04, but this does not fix the problem. (Woody uses abiword 1.02) I've checked spell checking and it is not working, so this is more than a cosmetic problem. Is the version difference important? Where can I find a en-US dictionary that matches Woody? Other suggestions? Please help. Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: diskspace error in /tmp
well, as everyone pointed out, df was the utility I needed. Thank you for helping me in my ignorance... in fact, I had stupidly placed a large directory full of mp3's on the root partition, hence the problem. sorry to be so stupid. andthanks as usual! matt On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 11:50:43PM +0100, David Dumortier wrote: > Hello > > > files in other places. Any hints? > > One !!! > Try anothere OS ... and die !! ;-)) > > > more info (cat of fstab, du of /tmp): > > /dev/hda1 / ext3errors=remount-ro 0 1 > > df is more usuable ! > > > du of /tmp: > > matt@anarres://$ sudo du /tmp > > 4 /tmp/.X11-unix > > 4 /tmp/.font-unix > > 4 /tmp/ssh-XXtzyXgi > > 456 /tmp/kde-matt > > 8 /tmp/ksocket-matt > > 4 /tmp/.ICE-unix > > 8 /tmp/mcop-matt > > 8 /tmp/orbit-root > > 8 /tmp/orbit-matt > > 4 /tmp/ksocket-root > > 740 /tmp > > df / is more usuable but think U need mor space on /tmp ! mzke a whole > patition for it (ext2 don't ned journal !) > > David Dumortier > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
moving Woody /usr partition
I've just bought a 40gig IDE hard drive which I want to put as /dev/hdb on a spare box, replacing a 4.3 gig drive there at the moment. I installed Woody whilst leaving Potato on this box and I've only now realised I did a sloppy job. /dev/hda contains all of Woody except /usr which I put on hdb (hdb8 - 1.2gig) as there was surplus space there. Nothing else on hdb needs to be retained. If possible I'd like to avoid reinstalling Woody onto the new drive (and it's no use waiting for it to crash as it never does). I can find a 3gig primary partition on hda which I could use in whole or part to take /usr. But how to transfer it there? I have partition magic and parted and have been looking at these, but am reluctant to 'have a go' - there seem a number of imponderables. Has anyone on the list had to do this? If so, I shall appreciate any guidance. Regards,John. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: tune2fs ext2 -> ext3 do I do it to swap ???
Ive converted my debian from ext2 to ext3 .. no problems. Do I need to do the same to my swap partition, is there any advantage ?? Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: External serial modem advice ?
On Sunday 26 January 2003 1:56 pm, Pigeon wrote: > On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 12:50:33AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 07:36:17AM +, Dave Selby wrote: > > > mmm coffee ... so you thing it does have a use ? > > > > Yup. Wedge it under a door and it'll keep the door open. > > Or, you can cut off most of the PCB, and connect the line sockets to a > spare disk drive power connector, via a wee regulator if necessary. > Then you can plug a suitable cable into them to supply power to your > external serial modem. > > If you have plasterboard walls, you can then use the cut-off PCB to > pretend to be a ninja, throwing it like a death star and watching it > embed itself in the wall. > > Pigeon No sorry I just cant agree, I used the winmodem as a door stop and jabbed my toe, I cut it up and threw it at the wall, it didnt stick Conclusion WINMODEMS ARE TOTALLY USELESS !!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
alsa driver configuration
hello all. I am trying to configure alsa drivers on an unstable box. I compiled them with make-kpkg without a problem and the deb installed. Following instructions on the web I added a file alsa to /etc/modutils... which debconf prompted and moved to /etc/alsa/modutils/0.9 and linked back. I do not get any errors until I try to run alsamixer, which causes a function snd_ctl_open failed for default: no such file or directory. I was wondering just how to set this default? Thank you in advance for any assistance. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XPDF can't find fonts
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 01:58:36AM -0800, Joris Huizer wrote: > Hello everybody, > > Sorry for double posting but it seems nobody has > answered on this yet. > > > When I try to read a pdf using xpdf it opens but it > shows junk. I get these messages: > > Error: Couldn't create FreeType font from > '/tmp/BvV0Wg' > Error: Couldn't create FreeType font from > '/tmp/E0vgYp' > Error: Couldn't create FreeType font from > '/tmp/SdqUZq' > Error: Couldn't create FreeType font from > '/tmp/eBh9br' > Error: Couldn't create FreeType font from > '/tmp/WTCNBu' > > What should I do to get xpdf to work ? Does this happen on all PDF's or just one in particular? Can you read it with GV? -- echo ">gra.fcw@2ztr< eryyvZ .T pveR" | rot13 | reverse -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel-2.4.18 module mis-install
"Jonathan Brandmeyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Installed the stock kernel-image-2.4.18-i686 debian package, with dselect. > Installed and unpacked kernel-source-2.4.18, with dselect and tar. > Downloaded and unpacked nvidia-kernel-source and nvidia-glx-source, with > apt-get and tar. > Built nvidia-kernel-source the Debian Way: > (in /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18 ) > make oldconfig > kpkg-make modules You need to make sure you get the .config file that goes with the kernel, which isn't going to be the default one in the kernel-source package. Try copying /boot/config-2.4.18-686 to .config, and then running 'make-kpkg modules-image' again. (The Righter Way to do this, from what I can tell, is even more of a pain; you can get the kernel-image-$KVERS-i386 source package, which build-depends on the kernel-source-$KVERS binary package; you need to emulate its behavior to build custom modules, though. Ick. You can also do things with kernel-build-* packages, but only in unstable, and again not terribly cleanly.) -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Good way to run Windows apps on Debian 3.0?
Is Wine a decent choice for executing scientific and tax-assistance windows application programs on Debian 3.0? If so, how does the winapp recognize ext2fs? I've read the relevant docs that come with Wine, but they are a bit ambiguous for my purposes. (I would prefer to run Windows applications within Linux rather than installing Windows and shifting between the OSs.) Any help with counsel or references will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, sam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fluxbox settings get lost
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, 26 Jan 2003 01:22:32 -0800 (PST), > Joris Huizer wrote: > > > > Hello everybody, > > > > I've got a small question now: Each time I boot > Debian > > the settings of fluxbox are gone (the background > style > > is set to a gray one) > > > > Is this a bug or do I have to change something ? > > Just wondering: do you click on "Reconfigure"? Third > item from > the bottom, before "Exit" and "Restart". > > It's weird, after the settings disappeard a couple of times they now seem to stay the same ( ?? weird) anyway I guess that solves my prob :-P Thanks for the advice, though Joris __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: devfs newbie questions about mounting
> On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 04:05:52PM +0100, Nicos Gollan wrote: > > On Sunday 26 January 2003 15:32, Dave W wrote: > > > What I _did_ try was > > > > > > mount /dev/scd0 /cdrom > > > > > > and that still fails. I still have scsi emulation and the > like setup so > > > I guess perhaps at least THAT little bit has changed. > Perhaps it's > > > using sr or sg or one of the other scsi alphabet soup assignments. > > > > Have a look at /dev/cdroms and I think you'll have a > pleasant surprise... > > Or /dev/sr0 Or try the alias you have set up in your .bash_profile flop='mount /dev/floppy /floppy' uflop='umount /dev/floppy' It makes sense to put them in your profile, since the hardware will unlikely move unless you change your hardware configuration. -- This message is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the designated recipient(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. This communication is for information purposes only and should not be regarded as an offer to sell or as a solicitation of an offer to buy any financial product, an official confirmation of any transaction, or as an official statement of Lehman Brothers. Email transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free. Therefore, we do not represent that this information is complete or accurate and it should not be relied upon as such. All information is subject to change without notice. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
partition table incorrect/ fdisk messed up?
Hi everyone,
in the course of fixing another problem (thanks for the help everyone)
I discovered something odd on my system.
My (currently oly) hard drive is an 80-gig maxtor. here's the
partition table:
sudo fdisk /dev/hda
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 9732.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 9732 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 373 2996091 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 374 871 4000185 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 872 1120 292+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 1121 5116 320978705 Extended
/dev/hda5 1121 1493 2996091 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 1494 1991 4000153+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 1992 2489 4000153+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda8 2490 2684 1566306 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda9 2685 3900 9767488+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda10 3901 5116 9767488+ 83 Linux
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and here's the output of df -h
matt@anarres:~$ df -h
FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 2.8G 1.7G 1.0G 63% /
/dev/hda2 3.8G 2.4G 1.2G 67% /usr
/dev/hda3 1.9G 804M 1021M 45% /usr/local
/dev/hda5 2.8G 1.2G 1.4G 44% /var
/dev/hda6 3.8G 74M 3.4G 3% /tehanu
/dev/hda7 3.8G 82M 3.4G 3% /tehanu/usr
/dev/hda9 19G 6.5G 11G 37% /moreaudio
/dev/hda109.2G 5.8G 2.9G 67% /home
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as I read these two tables, I should have just under half the disk
free, amounting to almost 40 gig. And yet when I try to add a
partition in fdisk ('n'), it tells me "No free sectors available".
What am I missing?
one last bit of information: in "expert" mode (obviously I don't
quali\fy!), fdisk prints the following alist of extended partitions:
Expert command (m for help): e
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 9732 cylinders
Nr AF Hd Sec Cyl Hd Sec CylStart Size ID
4 00 254 63 1023 254 63 1023 17992800 64195740 05
5 00 254 63 1023 254 63 1023 5992245 8000370 05
6 00 254 63 1023 254 63 1023 13992615 8000370 05
7 00 254 63 1023 254 63 1023 21992985 3132675 05
8 00 254 63 1023 254 63 1023 25125660 19535040 05
9 00 254 63 1023 254 63 1023 44660700 19535040 05
10 00 0 00 0 0000 00
does anyone know why hda10 (/home!) has only 0's in its listing?
thanks as usual!!!,
matt
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Re: booting ,different configurations
"Caoilte O'Connor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've got several services installed on my laptop that I don't always use > (db+webserver for example). > > What would be the best way of configuring my system such that I can > choose an option on my grub boot menu for which services I want > started? > > I've tried looking at rc.d etc man pages, but find the documentation geared > towards other problems. I also can't find any information on what arguments > I'd have to make grub pass the kernel. It sounds like you're on the right path. I'd frob the links in /etc/rc?.d; Debian's default runlevel is 2, and then 3, 4, and 5 are (again by default) configured identically[1]. Runlevels 0, 1, and 6 are reserved (for shutdown, single-user, and reboot, respectively). So you might set up runlevel 2 for no network, 3 for network with an sshd but nothing else, 4 for network with ssh, Apache, and PostgreSQL, probably by changing some of the S links in /etc/rc2.d and /etc/rc3.d to K links. Then you can pick which one to boot into by adding '2', '3', or '4' to the kernel command line, and change by running 'telinit 3' as root once you've booted. You could even change your GRUB menu.lst file to have title Debian GNU/Linux, all services root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 4 (where the "4" at the end is the magic bit). [1] ...except, bizarrely, that six console logins gets started in runlevels 2 and 3 but only one in 4 and 5. This is easy enough to change in /etc/inittab, though. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
