Re: Lots of problems - help please

[Kevin Mark]

On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 12:27:57AM +0200, Daniel Klein wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm having a whole damn lot of problems here, pretty much all of a sudden.
> 
> Ever since a good friend helped me install debian (let's say he's a 
> little on the hectic side.. I didn't see everything he did), there was a 
> problem with getting X to like my mouse (IntelliMouse Explorer).. I had 
> to type startx twice to get X and KDE up and running, but then things 
> were fine. Now everything's come crumbling down.
> 
> First of all, I had the alt-tab bug for some time (see my other mails in 
> this list). That behaviour has stopped now. Alt-tab stopped working 
> altogether, I get the taskbox and NOTHING ELSE. I can close it with ESC. 
> Great. Next, my mouse has become sluggish like hell. We're talking maybe 
> 3 or 4 fps when I move the cursor around.
> 
> Also, I fail to remember what dpgk-reconfigure I have to run to do 
> anything to my X Server. It is absolutely foggy to me, why X runs KDE 
> (I've looked around the X config files and found no mention of KDE at 
> all). 

I'd install a display manage (kdm,gdm) I use wdm. This will allow you to
select your window manager (fvwm).

I wanted to try fvwm, just to see if that'd run bearably fast 
> (we're talking Athlon TB 1200 / 512 MB RAM / very fast 200 gigs hd / 
> Geforce 3). I have absolutely no clue how to do that in debian.
> 
> I love apt-get for the easiness of installing things, but do any of you 
> have any idea what a headache it is to find out what a certain package 
> is called? 

apt-cache search firewall

If there was a simple 'list everything that's installed' (and 
> I'm sure there is, I just can't find it) command, that would help

dpkg --get-selections 
dpkg -l

> already. There's xf86config, xf86cfg, dpkg-reconfigure 
> whateverIhavetotype here and the settings in KDE. This is a damn 
> headache, and I'd be infinitely grateful if someone could help me with this.
> 
> The alt-tab behaviour is totally unbearable right now. I want to solve 
> this somehow, but I have no idea what to do. I know this is the linux 
> mailinglist joker, but I'm seriously considering going back to Windows 
> for good, and that'd be after 3 years of using Linux and trying my best 
> to manage it. I had such high hopes for debian as well, it seemed perfect :/
> 
> Thanks for any help you can offer.
> 
> Daniel
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options - Re: ntp server

[Alvin Oga]

hi ya zenaan

On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Zenaan Harkness wrote:

> > >   authenticate no
> 
> On restarting the ntp server on my server, with the above line in
> ntp.conf, I get the following in /var/log/xntpd:
> 
> 24 Jun 16:09:08 ntpd[6593]: configure: keyword "authenticate" unknown,
> line ignored

congrats you found a (unknown options) bug in ntp-simple if it's
supposed to replace xntpd

guess one other questions should have been are you running xntpd or
some other clone :-0

> Replaces: xntp, xntp3, ntp (<= 1:4.1.0-2)

almost replaces :-)

>  /etc/cron.daily/ntp-server e51cbea9bc3637dd3fb829b0f862fc93
>  /etc/cron.weekly/ntp-server 4ab60269a1940b66e991941e344841b2
> 

things running out of cron seems to defeat xntp function/features
which is a standalone daemon ...

if you are gonna run time services from cron, you can do that
almost hundred different ways ( well couple dozen )
 
c ya
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Re: redirecting : fetchyahoo to thunderbird + colorful console

[richard lyons]

On Thursday 24 June 2004 00:34, Marco Paganini wrote:
[...]
> There is something very strange here. One of the main problems with
> yahoo mail is exactly that: They stopped offering POP access to the
> free accounts. I just checked my "Mail Options" and there's no option
> to activate POP (unless, of course, you pay them). Could anyone else
> here with a yahoo account confirm that?

Same here.  Three ways to get POP3 -- and they are all paid-for options, 
$2, $3, or $10 per month.

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Re: system hangs for kernel 2.6.6

[Paul Johnson]

Jules Dubois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 00:56:58 +0200, Riccardo Vestrini wrote:
>
>> [...] installed devfs (bad thing)
>
> devfs is a bad thing?

Yup, it's been unmaintained for a while now, it died with 2.4.  Just use
udev instead.

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bootcd hangs at boot time

[zorgh]

Hi

I somehow made my own bootcd from Debian.

System: CPU Athlon XP 1 Ghz, RAM 1024Mb, Debian (sid), kernel
2.6.5(with devfs enabled), bootcd 4.21

I burned a dvd+rw. When my computer boots from it, it stops in middle
of booting and hangs.


mount_devfs_fs(): unable to mount devfs, err: - 2


Somebody please tell me what I should do to fix these problems.

Thanks in advance!

Rub


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Re: moving to the 2.6 kernel?

[Johann Spies]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 06:39:28PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:

> echo psmouse >> /etc/modules
> 
> ugly, but it works...

Thanks.  That did the trick!

Regards
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Re: how stop the dns service?

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Felipe Martins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.06.23.2142 +0200]:
> in  RedRat there is command 'service' to start, restart, stop and verify 
> status of services.
> - which command in debian is equivalent?

invoke-rc.d service start|stop|status

> - how can i verify which services are running?

best: ps

> - is it possible to avoid a service being started during boot or
> machine initialization? 

add 'exit 0' to the top of the init.d script, make the script not
executable, or implement a policy-rc.d script that does exactly what
you want.

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Re: make xconfig in kernel 2.6.6. - how?

[Anthony Campbell]

On 23 Jun 2004, David Goodenough wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 June 2004 13:38, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > The 2.6 kernel requires the qt library for "make xconfig".
> >
> > Could somebody kindly tell me which of the many qt libraries listed in
> > Sid are needed here? I have libqt3c102 and libqt3c102-mt, which are
> > supposed to be the Trolltech libraries that are needed, but they don't
> > help.
> >
> > Anthony
> >
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> 

I tried installing all this stuff, but I stil could not make xconfig. I
then tried compiling the Trolltech qt libary in /usr/local, but with the
same result. In both cases "make xconfig" produces a whole lot of errors
and finally says:

scripts/kconfig/qconf.cc:782: confused by earlier errors, bailing out


I'm confused too. I don't think the new method in 2.6 is an improvement.
The only thing I can think of is that my kernel files (vanilla kernel,
not the deb package) is corrupt, but "make menuconfig" is OK and the
resultant kernel runs without problems. But perhaps I should fetch it
again and retry.

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Cron test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily

[Robbert Hamburg]

Hi List,

Today i found this error in my mail from one of our debian machines.

It puzzles me a little since i didnt change anything in the config, and it is 
a fresh install. The output in the mail was:

Subject: Cron  test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --
report /etc/cron.daily

> /etc/cron.daily/logrotate:
> grep: writing output: Broken pipe
> grep: writing output: Broken pipe
> grep: writing output: Broken pipe
> grep: writing output: Broken pipe
> grep: writing output: Broken pipe
> grep: writing output: Broken pipe
> grep: writing output: Broken pipe
> grep: writing output: Broken pipe
> grep: writing output: Broken pipe
> grep: writing output: Broken pipe
> grep: writing output: Broken pipe
> grep: writing output: Broken pipe


I digged somewhat in the archives, googled around somewhat but cant find an 
answer...

Someone able to shine some light on this please ??

Best Regards Robbert


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Re: Cron test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily

[Joost De Cock]

On Thursday 24 June 2004 10:18, Robbert Hamburg hurled the following on the 
wire:
> Hi List,
>
> Today i found this error in my mail from one of our debian machines.
>
> It puzzles me a little since i didnt change anything in the config, and it
> is a fresh install. The output in the mail was:
>
> Subject: Cron  test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --
> report /etc/cron.daily
>
> > /etc/cron.daily/logrotate:
> > grep: writing output: Broken pipe
[...]

Run the logratate script manually. (in /etc/cron.daily) 
See what happens.

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Re: redirecting : fetchyahoo to thunderbird + colorful console

[John Summerfield]

richard lyons wrote:
On Thursday 24 June 2004 00:34, Marco Paganini wrote:
[...]
 

There is something very strange here. One of the main problems with
yahoo mail is exactly that: They stopped offering POP access to the
free accounts. I just checked my "Mail Options" and there's no option
to activate POP (unless, of course, you pay them). Could anyone else
here with a yahoo account confirm that?
   

Same here.  Three ways to get POP3 -- and they are all paid-for options, 
$2, $3, or $10 per month.

 

Some other Yahoo domains may be free: try yahoo.co.uk etc.

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Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?

[Steve Kleiser]

  Burning the CD as an image using Roxio Easy CD Creator 5 on my WindowsXP
machine results in a CD with a directory structure that looks like it
should, from Explorer (it's comparable to my purchased CD, which does boot).
Presumably, the image also provided any required system files. But can I
confirm that from within WindowsXP? Also, is it OK to use a CD-RW, or is
there some subtle difference? Does the CD need to formatted first, or would
that just impress "non-Linux-ness" onto it?

  Are there any freeware utilities to burn an ISO image to CD (e.g.,
iso2CD.exe or something) that run under Windows? The CD burning applications
appear to contain numerous features I don't need for this particular
purpose, and which only serve as potential sources of error.

- Original Message - 
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To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 6:10 PM
Subject: [debian] Re: [other] Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?


> Steve Kleiser wrote:
>
> >So does that mean the official CD images are not bootable?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> No; they are bootable. But you have to burn them as an "image", not as
> files. How to do that will depend on the burner software you're using.
>
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Re: moving to the 2.6 kernel?

[Paul Scott]

Jules Dubois wrote:
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 01:39:16 -0500, Kent West wrote:
 

Jules Dubois wrote:
   

There's really nothing more to it than installing a kernel-image package
(and, in my case, updating initrd-tools)? 
 

If you're not already running an initrd kernel, you may have to add one
line to /etc/lilo.conf, but you're warned about it during the install.
   

I installed kernel-image-2.6.6-2-k7.  I get lots of error during boot;
they go by quickly, I don't seem to be able to stop them, and they're not
recorded in any log file.  If I interpret the situation correctly, every
attempt to load a module fails with a "/lib/modules: read-only filesystem"
error.
 

I have installed 2.6.6-2-386 (for k6-2?) and have the same problem.  
Moreover the error messages refer to /lib/modules/2.6.6-1-386/...

I don't want to spend the time to build a new kernel right now and I 
have spent quite a bit of time Googling, searching this list and reading 
kernel-docs. 

Is there a way to fix this with a stock kernel.  Is there a better 
choice than 386 for AMD K6-II?  Is there more information I can provide?

This is on sid.
TIA,
Paul Scott
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Re: gnome-panel-data 2.6.1-4 problems

[George Roman]

hi i have the same problem.
beside all this i can't see the icons in their normal shape. i only see
something like a paper

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> Just did the 'ol apt-get dist-upgrade on a sarge install and got the
> following.  Any ideas?
>
> Preparing to replace gnome-panel-data 2.6.1-4 (using
> .../gnome-panel-data_2.6.1-4_all.deb) ...
> WARNING: Failed to parse default value `??' for schema
> (/schemas/apps/clock_applet/prefs/hour_format)
> Unpacking replacement gnome-panel-data ...
> Setting up gnome-panel-data (2.6.1-4) ...
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Kernel Panic while booting from 2.6.3

[Ajitabh Pandey]

Hi,

I recently compiled 2.6.3 kernel. When I try to boot
from it, after lots of messages, I get the following
message and system gets into hung state. However, if I
choose the old 2.2.20 kernel of woody 3.0r2 it boots
fine. I followed the normal steps of compiling the
kernel.
make xconfig
make dep
make clean
make bzImage
make modules
make modules_install
make install

---
VFS: Cannot open root device "301" or
unknown-block(3,1)
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown
block(3,1)
---

Regards.
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Re: Kernel Panic while booting from 2.6.3

[George Roman]

i think that  in lilo (grub) you haven't specified the corect root
partition. to identify the root partition you cand use the "df" command
and search for the "/" partition. thet is the one you should use as root.

if you use lilo try to edit lilo.conf and add the folowing line under the
image you want to load
root=/dev/hdax

x means the number coresponding to / partition



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On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Ajitabh Pandey wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I recently compiled 2.6.3 kernel. When I try to boot
> from it, after lots of messages, I get the following
> message and system gets into hung state. However, if I
> choose the old 2.2.20 kernel of woody 3.0r2 it boots
> fine. I followed the normal steps of compiling the
> kernel.
> make xconfig
> make dep
> make clean
> make bzImage
> make modules
> make modules_install
> make install
>
> ---
> VFS: Cannot open root device "301" or
> unknown-block(3,1)
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown
> block(3,1)
> ---
>
> Regards.
> Ajitabh Pandey
>
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Re: can not compile kde, some xmkmf problem

[LeVA]

2004. június 24. 04:31,
Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
-> Debian-User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 11:54:05AM +0200, LeVA said
>
> Since XFree86 4.4.0 isn't in Debian, you must have installed it from
> a tarball or something.  You'll need to point the KDE configure
> script at the location you unpacked it to.  Or just install the
> Debian packaged X headers.
The /usr/X11R6 install path is standard, so the configure must find the 
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A bunch of questions

[deb_milist]

hi guys...yesterday i was
moaning about how to retrieve my yahoo! mail through thunderbird.
messing around with fecthmail is really not good idea for me since i
don't have a clue in
'how to' thing. ( even i've been using debian and linux in general for
almost 4 monts---it seems
that i'm still drowning in the dark world of stupidity  ;-) ).
so, i decided to make a new account from a regional yahoo! ... and THANK
GOD...there's still
fowarding feature left. 
Now, i can enjoy this new account to write a bunch of silly questions
to you, guys... :-D 
Talking about questionsnow i've got some :

1.   Someone told me about fetchmail and really wanna
dig about it. but googling around  <>
    didn't give me a good enough resource ( or i'm too lazy..). so if
you got some nice pdf one or     a link to go , it would be very nice...
2.  Is there one
of you guys have been experienced in making SUS ( Software Update
System ?? )         server for winblowz clients ? this debian server
will provide every updates of windblowz         updates and can be
access via browser by the clients just like the original one. ( i'm i
        asking too much here ?)
3.  and how about the colorful console that has been made me jelous to
those knoppix users ?

i guess that's all for now, hope i'm not boring you  ;-) .

thanks a lot,

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Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?

[Jon Dowland]

On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 03:34:19 -0500, Steve Kleiser
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>   Burning the CD as an image using Roxio Easy CD Creator 5 on my WindowsXP
> machine results in a CD with a directory structure that looks like it
> should, from Explorer (it's comparable to my purchased CD, which does boot).
> Presumably, the image also provided any required system files.

You cannot determine by examining the file structure whether or not a
CD is bootable.

>  But can I confirm that from within WindowsXP? 

The way bootable CDs work is to have a floppy image at the front of
the CD which is loaded by the BIOS into memory and assumed by the rest
of the computer to be a floppy disk from there on in. The scheme is
called (I think) el torito and is described in technical detail here:
http://www.phoenix.com/resources/specs-cdrom.pdf

I'm a bit stumped as to how you could confirm it from within windows
XP. If you a UNIX environment such as cygwin or mingw or a livecd like
knoppix you could inspect the cd outside of the filesystem by
operating on the cd-rom block device and using tools like dd.

> Also, is it OK to use a CD-RW, or is
> there some subtle difference? Does the CD need to formatted first, or would
> that just impress "non-Linux-ness" onto it?

I'd doubt it would make much difference, and I don't think formatting
would be necessary - but the boot block would need to be written as
above.

>   Are there any freeware utilities to burn an ISO image to CD (e.g.,
> iso2CD.exe or something) that run under Windows? The CD burning applications
> appear to contain numerous features I don't need for this particular
> purpose, and which only serve as potential sources of error.

Nero (www.ahead.de) is not free but available for a time-limited
trial; and I know from experience that it is relatively straight
forward to both write an existing  el torito ISO and to create new
ones.

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Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?

[Jon Dowland]

On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 03:34:19 -0500, Steve Kleiser
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>   Are there any freeware utilities to burn an ISO image to CD (e.g.,
> iso2CD.exe or something) that run under Windows? The CD burning applications
> appear to contain numerous features I don't need for this particular
> purpose, and which only serve as potential sources of error.

Oh I forgot to mention - jigdo is a free utility that can be used for
assembling bootable install CDROMs for Debian. So, somewhere in that
free tool set is a process of creating the boot block for an ISO.
http://atterer.net/jigdo/, http://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/.

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Re: A bunch of questions

[Jon Dowland]

I would suggest that you use a more informative subject line for
future postings as people are liable to skip over generic ones like 'A
bunch of questions' and focus their time on ones that they have a
better idea they could answer.

- Original Message -
From: deb_milist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 18:10:29 +0700
Subject: A bunch of questions
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

> 1.   Someone told me about fetchmail and really wanna
> dig about it. but googling around  <>
> didn't give me a good enough resource ( or i'm too lazy..). so if
> you got some nice pdf one or a link to go , it would be very nice...

The fetchmail homepage is at  http://catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/. The
manpage is very in-depth and explains everything; why not install
fetchmail and man fetchmail?

> 3.  and how about the colorful console that has been made me jelous to
> those knoppix users ?

Look at the file ~/.bashrc . Some lines in there needed to be enabled.

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Re: PHP With GIF Support

[Jon Dowland]

On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 08:19:27 +0200, Marvin Massih <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Oh :-(.
> Do you happen to know how well PNG is supported by web browsers?

http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/png-gif
in brief: the subset of PNG features in common with GIF work across the board.

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Re: Lots of problems - help please

[Jon Dowland]

On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 10:49:57 +1200, Simon Kitching
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Maybe you should just make a clean install of debian on a different
> partition of your machine. That will leave you with a working system
> with the least messing around with debian internals - and it's what
> Windows users typically do every couple of years to clean up cruft. Yes,
> I'm sure that it's possible to repair your existing system, but that
> could be more difficult..

I would strongly advise not going the new-install route. Thats
avoiding your problems rather than solving them. It may take more
effort to fix your problems as they stand but you'll get a lot more
out of it in the long-run.

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Re: Problem XF86Config

[Paal Marker]

Pigeon wrote:
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 01:58:42PM +0200, Paal Marker wrote:
 

I need to prevent a box from blanking out.
In redhat8 I could succesfully put this section in the end of 
/etc/X11/XF86Config

Section "Serverflags"
	Option  "BlankTime""0"   
	Option  "StandbyTime"  "0"
	Option  "SuspendTime"  "0"
	Option  "OffTime"  "0"
EndSection

The result of putting in this section is that the X server will not start
By googling I found that this syntax could also be used
Section "Serverflags"
	Option  "blank time""0"
	Option  "standby time"  "0"
	Option  "suspend time"  "0"
	Option  "off time"  "0"
EndSection

Same result, no X
startx gives error message: 

Option  "blank time""0"  server flags section keyword 
expected

I copied the serverflags section from redhat8's XF86Config, where it worked 
fine. 
What does debian demand of syntax here?
   

I've got "xset s off" in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc. Works fine.
 

No, does not help.  Could be because the system setup here is rather 
special, a kiosk mode. 

I tried to use the xset command when I ran redhat on these boxes, and I 
had the same problem. The solution then was the section serverflags in 
the XF86Config file as described. So I am quite sure I have to stick to 
it and get the syntax right in the section serverflags

From linux single start and the startx  I get the error message:
Config Error: /etc/X11/XF86Config:269 (wich is the line  where the 
first option in the section serverflags starts)

_Option_ "BlankTime"   "0" 
Server flags keyword expected

Remark here that it is the Option word that is underlined in the 
message,  the underlning is made by  ^^^ these characters. Does it 
tell me that 'Option' is  an invalid keyword in this section?

The Xserver used is xserver-s3

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Re: PHP With GIF Support

[Marvin Massih]

> http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/png-gif
> in brief: the subset of PNG features in common with GIF work across the board.

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Re: X fonts size

[Frédéric Dreier]

Eduardo Gargiulo wrote:
Hi all
Is there any debian tool to configure the font size of X applications? I can't
configure X resolution more than 800x600 and I would like to decrease the
application fonts size (ie mozilla menu fonts) because they are very big.
I'm using fvwm as window manager.
any help would be appreciated
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try adding this line to your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 (perhaps you will have to create it):
gtk-font-name = "Sans 8"
... and restart X. It should set the default font size... i think
regards,
dreier.
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Re: A bunch of questions

[Kent West]

deb_milist wrote:
3.  and how about the colorful console that has been made me jelous to 
those knoppix users ?
I assume you're talking about the boot-up process. That's a two-part thing.
The first part is having framebuffer enabled. As I understand it (and I 
_don't_ understand it), the framebuffer essentially turns your text 
console into a graphics-capable text console, sort of, in a way, kindda.

The second part is that Knoppix has customized tweaks in the boot-up 
scripts (/etc/rc*) that provide those colors. You can do the same thing 
with Debian, but it's not just a simple matter of editing a Yes/No 
question in some config file; it's a lot of customization. And the next 
time you upgrade your Debian box and those boot files get upgraded, 
boom, there go your customizations.  Since this is Debian, I'm sure you 
can code a work-around for that, but again, there's some 
customization/programming involved.

If you just want colors, like say in your prompt at the command line, 
you can tweak your PS1 variable in your login scripts (~/.bashrc, etc). 
I've done that, but I also introduced a bug in my prompt so that at the 
bottom of the terminal window scrolling doesn't quite work right on long 
command lines. I've never bothered to fix it. Here's what my current PS1 
line looks like as an example:

Thu Jun 24   07:16:54
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/westk> echo $PS1
\n\n\d 
\t\n-\n\[\033[1;34m\]\u\[\033[1;[EMAIL PROTECTED];32m\]\H\[\033[1;36m\]]:\]\033[1;31m\]$PWD\[\033[1;36m\]> 
\[\033[0m\]
The date, time, dotted lines are normal black; the first "westk" is in 
blue; the brackets are light blue; the @hostname in the brackets is 
green; the path is red; and the final greater-than is light blue.

This way, if I log in with another user (such as root), I know I'm not 
my normal user. Alternatively, I could have coded my root's prompt to 
flash red as a warning not to do something stupid while root.

(PS; separating your questions into separate emails, with more 
descriptive subject lines, is more likely to get you responses.)

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Re: X session

[Kent West]

Antony wrote:
When I log into X, my saved session comes back with Mozilla proper
instead of Firefox.  If it matters, I'm using windowmaker in unstable...
 

I don't know how X (KDE? Gnome?) records your saved session, but I'm 
guessing that instead of recording the browser and the URL, it's only 
recording the URL and using the default system browser.

You can change the default system browser with:
 update-alternatives --config x-www-browser
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Re: Apache and CGI

[Mark Par]

Greg Sidelinger wrote:
Ok I feel pretty stupid for even asking this but how do I make cgi scripts 
work with apache2 and unstable.  I did just the default install of apache2 
and tried to run the test-cgi script and all I got for output was the script 
itself.  I know I have had this same problem before on unstable but for the 
life of me I can't figure out what I did to fix it.  The scripts are all 755 
and nothing shows up in the error logs. I just got the script displaced which 
tells me that they are not being processed. 
The /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/default config file has ExecCGI and a 
scriptalias for the directory but for the life of me I can't get apache to 
process the cgi scripts.  I'm using the apache2-mpm-prefork package. The the 
current config is the default from the packages.  If anyone can point me in 
the correct direction so I can test some simple programs please let me know 
what I'm over looking.

Greg
 

The module for the cgi is not loaded to the server yet.
You need to say
   # a2enmod cgi
then
   # apache2ctl graceful
Now try
   $ lynx http://servername/cgi-bin/printenv
BTW: You should also install apache2-common.
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Re: Kernel Panic while booting from 2.6.3

[Ajitabh Pandey]

--- George Roman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i think that  in lilo (grub) you haven't specified
> the corect root
> partition. 

The older image is working fine as the lilo.conf has
this entry in a common area immediately after the
boot= entry. 

So without this entry it should also work. But
anyways, I had also tried by specifying root=/dev/hda1
under the image file name. Still doesn't work, same
message.

Regards.
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Re: Kernel Panic while booting from 2.6.3

[Stelian Iancu]

On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 05:21:13 -0700 (PDT), Ajitabh Pandey
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> --- George Roman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > i think that  in lilo (grub) you haven't specified
> > the corect root
> > partition.
> 
> The older image is working fine as the lilo.conf has
> this entry in a common area immediately after the
> boot= entry.
> 
> So without this entry it should also work. But
> anyways, I had also tried by specifying root=/dev/hda1
> under the image file name. Still doesn't work, same
> message.
> 
> Regards.
> Ajitabh Pandey
> 
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Check out that the fs that the root partition has is NOT build as a
module for the kernel, but in the kernel itself.

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Re: Creating MP3 for portable players

[Nicolau Leal Werneck]

> I'm told that the information squeezed out by ogg is not audible to humans.
> And that the information squeezed out by mp3 compression is different, and
> not audible to humans.
> But when you ogg an mp3, you get both squeezed out, and the result *is*
> audible.
> 
> But I haven't tried it out, and I'm part deaf so my personal experience
> wouldn't mean much anyway.

This is true. The fact is that both formats are lossy to a computer, but
not a priori audibly lossy to humans, and more: the encoders need not be
coherent.  I  mean,  It would not be strange if you take and mp3-encoded
sound, decode it, and re-encode it to mp3 *again*, and it sounded worse.

I've  been  told  that  this worsening of the signal happens to ac3 (MD)
encoding just after a lot of re-encodings... Like 30!... 

Of  course  if  you use the same encoder, this is less likely to happen.
Different mp3 encoders may have this effect strongly... mp3 to ogg would
be even worse, and then you go.

But I doubt that anyone would hear the effects on a bad amplifier system
like  the  ones  from pocket MP3-player. And more: It wold not matter if
you're  deconding  ogg  and  recoding  to  mp3  when you're lowering the
bitrate anyway, so you can fit more musics in you player.

Anyway,  test  it  and  be  happy.  I'm  just showing off because I'm an
electrical engineer :)

And  at  last:  personal experience is everything that really matters on
this subject!...

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Re: X session

[Antony]

On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 07:25:40AM -0500, Kent West wrote:
> Antony wrote:
> 
> >When I log into X, my saved session comes back with Mozilla proper
> >instead of Firefox.  If it matters, I'm using windowmaker in unstable...
> > 
> >
> I don't know how X (KDE? Gnome?) records your saved session, but I'm 
> guessing that instead of recording the browser and the URL, it's only 
> recording the URL and using the default system browser.
> 
> You can change the default system browser with:
>  update-alternatives --config x-www-browser

Nope, firefox is the default:

antgel $ sudo update-alternatives --config x-www-browser
Password:

There are 4 alternatives which provide `x-www-browser'.

  SelectionAlternative
---
  1/usr/bin/mozilla
* 2/usr/bin/mozilla-firefox
  3/usr/bin/epiphany
 +4/usr/bin/galeon

Any other ideas?

A


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Re: can not compile kde, some xmkmf problem

[LeVA]

> [...]
> checking for xmkmf... /usr/X11R6/bin/xmkmf
> checking various X settings... failed
> configure: error: /usr/X11R6/bin/xmkmf (imake) failed.
> Make sure you have all necessary X development packages installed.
> On some systems a missing /lib/cpp symlink is at fault.

Hi!

I figured out what is the problem, but I don't know how to fix it:
After the ./configure in the kdebase dir, I get this message:

checking for X... libraries /usr/X11/lib, headers .


So the configure script didn't find the header files. It is interesting, 
because I have the header files in my /usr/X11R6/include directory.

Anyone knows, what this configure script is looking for? What is it 
checking? Maybe it is a missing .h file, or something else?

Thanks for any help!

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Re: rick to burning a bootable Debian CD?

[Antony]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 11:19:51AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
> Install dfsbuild (in sid). dfs = debian from scratch

What a cool tool.  It amazed me how much useful stuff is out there that
I never hear of!

A

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Re: redirecting : fetchyahoo to thunderbird + colorful console

[S.D.A.]

On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 01:34:05AM -0400 or thereabouts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Marco Paganini wrote:
> 
> >There is something very strange here. One of the main problems with
> >yahoo mail is exactly that: They stopped offering POP access to the free
> >accounts. I just checked my "Mail Options" and there's no option to
> >activate POP (unless, of course, you pay them). Could anyone else here
> >with a yahoo account confirm that?
> >
> >Regards,
> >Paga
> 
> That meets my understanding of it. Yahoo used to allow free pop access, 
> but stopped when they introduced the extra storage options. 
> Interestingly enough, my storage stayed at 6MB (I've had this account 
> for awhile) instead of dropping to 3MB when they made the change. I 
> currently have a web hosting account, so I do have (and use) pop access, 
> though the storage still didn't change until just recently (to 100MB).

Strange, I received my notice last week of the increased storage amounts, but
nothing in it stated that they had removed POP or forwarding access. I just
checked and my options panel still shows that area. I'm on the .ca version of
Yahoo, not the .com. Perhaps that makes a difference?

I would imagine that if they started this, then one wouldn't be able to use
Yahoo groups in an e-mail context either. As far as I know, that hasn't been
removed either, as I receive several "Groups" like this as well.

Additionally this is the first I've heard of it. None of the other folks using
the same access, (on my Yahoo lists or other Yahoo subscribers, I know
personally) have noticed what you two are saying.  Can anyone point to
any official verbiage from Yahoo confirming that this has been implemented?

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Re: PHP + PostgreSQL

[Oliver Elphick]

On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 05:17, dodol garut wrote:
> I've techtables installed in my box but it doesn't
> wanna work. someone in this room told me that it
> because PHP doesn't compiled with PostgreSQL. Well, i
> wonder...As a trully stupid debian newbie, all i did
> when installing PHP4 to support PostgreSQl is just
> 'apt-get install php4-pgsql'. that's it.
> or should i compile php4 from source so it will
> support postgresql ??? if that so, why there's a
> debian package for it ? (what the ...)

That's good and necessary as a first step.

Now you need to find out whether PHP is attempting a connection to
PostgreSQL.  If it isn't, it's a PHP or Apache problem.  If it is, it
may be a PostgreSQL authentication problem.

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Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?

[John Summerfield]

Jon Dowland wrote:
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 03:34:19 -0500, Steve Kleiser
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 

 Are there any freeware utilities to burn an ISO image to CD (e.g.,
iso2CD.exe or something) that run under Windows? The CD burning applications
appear to contain numerous features I don't need for this particular
purpose, and which only serve as potential sources of error.
   

Oh I forgot to mention - jigdo is a free utility that can be used for
assembling bootable install CDROMs for Debian. So, somewhere in that
free tool set is a process of creating the boot block for an ISO.
http://atterer.net/jigdo/, http://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/.
 

There seems to be a certain amount of confusion here, so I'll leap right 
in and try to clarify.

On Linux, to create a bootable CD for peecees you first need a bootable 
floppy disk image. Its contents depend on what you want to do, it can 
contain the preliminary part of a Linux (or *BSD) installer, it can 
contain Freedos or even the first part of a Windows (or OS/2) installer.

The floppy image can be any valid size including 2.88 Mbytes. Mostly, I 
don't see a point to making a smaller one for a CD, but if you already 
have a smaller (like 1.44) on that's fine.

You then create an image (ISO) file containing  the bootable floppy and 
anything else you need. The commandline tool for this is mkisofs, and 
there are various wrappers for it incliding toast/roast in their names, 
and the brilliantly-named k3b. I don't know precisely the names of the 
others, I always use mkisofs.
man mkisofs for details.

If you want Winders to recognose long filenames, you will want the 
option for joliet (no, joilet has nothing to do with being bootable), 
and if  its a *x filesystem you will want rock-ridge extensions.

The debian folk have helpfully done everything up to here for you, and 
all you need to do is download the images and burn them to CD.

On *x we generally use cdrecord (which, I think can also be had for 
Winders), another commandline utility. Your favourite GUI wrapper will 
use it too. On Mac OSX (panther) you can use the Disk Utility or the 
commandline program hdiutil.

Rewritable CDs are fine, you don't need to preformat them but you do 
need to erase them. This can be done in the same run of cdrecord as you 
use for the burn. If cdrecord is configured properly, this command will 
do it with rewritables:
cdrecord -blank=fast -eject some.iso

"-eject" tells cdrecord to spit the CD out at the finish, quite a useful 
way to tell you it's finished.

On many/most Linux systems, it seems you need to turn on DMA first:
hdparm -d1 -u1 /dev/cdrom
otherwise the system can become somewhat erratic for a time. Reportedly 
though, some CD burners don't place nice with DMA.

Jigdo is a utility package that can split out CD images into a template 
containing pretty much erverything except the files. Another component 
takes the templates and fills in the blanks from one or more other sources.

There are some benefits to this:
1. You can get the  template from a remote site, it's not very big in 
comparison with the CD image
and
1a You can get the files (mostly deb packages in Debian) locally, even 
from an older release if you want. It's handy way to update 3.0r0 to 
3.0r2. If you don't have them all, no probs you can get the rest (and 
updates ) from your favourite mirror.

2. You can create official CD images even if your local mirror doesn't 
have them.

I don't know how you burn the CD images to CDs in Windows: check the CD 
ISO images and Jigdo page for details.

Note that in Woody, _all_ the x86 CD images are bootable. Read the 
installation manul for the details on their differences.


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Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?

[LeVA]

2004. június 24. 15:54,
John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
-> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> On many/most Linux systems, it seems you need to turn on DMA first:
> hdparm -d1 -u1 /dev/cdrom
What does that unmaskirq mean?

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Re: How does one get ssh to not wait?

[Rob Sims]

On Saturday 12 June 2004 07:22 pm, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> How does one get ssh to not wait?
> 
> ssh somewhere < touch file
> sleep 333 && rm file&
> !
> echo I want control to arrive at this line without waiting 333!

I know this has been solved other ways, but I'm thinking the generic 
syntax is useful too (in the case where a program doesn't have a 
background mode):

ssh -T somewhere <

Re: Apache and CGI

[Greg Sidelinger]

On Thursday 24 June 2004 08:43 am, Mark Par wrote:
> Greg Sidelinger wrote:
> >Ok I feel pretty stupid for even asking this but how do I make cgi scripts
> >work with apache2 and unstable.  I did just the default install of apache2
> >and tried to run the test-cgi script and all I got for output was the
> > script itself.  I know I have had this same problem before on unstable
> > but for the life of me I can't figure out what I did to fix it.  The
> > scripts are all 755 and nothing shows up in the error logs. I just got
> > the script displaced which tells me that they are not being processed.
> >The /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/default config file has ExecCGI and a
> >scriptalias for the directory but for the life of me I can't get apache to
> >process the cgi scripts.  I'm using the apache2-mpm-prefork package. The
> > the current config is the default from the packages.  If anyone can point
> > me in the correct direction so I can test some simple programs please let
> > me know what I'm over looking.
> >
> >Greg
>
> The module for the cgi is not loaded to the server yet.
> You need to say
>
> # a2enmod cgi
>
> then
>
> # apache2ctl graceful

Thank you for pointing me in the right direction.  I ended up just linking 
cgi.load from modules-available to modules-enabled and it all took off.

>
> Now try
> $ lynx http://servername/cgi-bin/printenv
>
> BTW: You should also install apache2-common.
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How to print the name and email from a signature file?

[LeVA]

Hi!

How can I print out the signer's name and email address from a signature 
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Re: redirecting : fetchyahoo to thunderbird + colorful console

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On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 09:34:14AM -0400, S.D.A. wrote:

> Strange, I received my notice last week of the increased storage amounts, but
> nothing in it stated that they had removed POP or forwarding access. I just
> checked and my options panel still shows that area. I'm on the .ca version of
> Yahoo, not the .com. Perhaps that makes a difference?

Ah! I think it makes all the difference. The .com version of yahoo will
not give you pop access for free. This happened quite a while ago (more
than I year, I think). Now, they offer 100MB, but still no free pop.

Regards,
Paga

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Re: A bunch of questions : THANKS

[deb_milist]

>Stelian Iancu wrote :
>Check out the fetchmail homepage: http://catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/ 
well...yap, i'd been there before. The information provided is pretty good, but actually i'm looking for something that can be download such as PDF document so I can read it anywhere I want to...but thanks

>Kent West wrote :
>(PS; separating your questions into separate emails, with more 
>descriptive subject lines, is more likely to get you responses.)

thanks Kent ...i was just too afraid this mailing list would full 
with my garbage  ;-) 

cheers,

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Re: virtual consoles unresponsive

[Greg Folkert]

On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 16:16, Greg Folkert wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 14:49, Carl D. Blake wrote:
> > So the problem
> > seems to be strictly with the display.
> > 
> > An interesting item is that after awhile (an hour or so) when I take
> > another look at the console, I'll press the shift key on the keyboard
> > and the kdm display will appear.  I can then log in to a normal kde
> > session.  Everything works.  But when I log out of the kde session the
> > console goes dark and I'm right back to where I started.
> 
> Ah... HA!
> 
> I have a hunch.
> 
> Try another monitor on it. Let us know.

Well How'd you fix it. Was it the Monitor? We'd like to know mainly
not to MOCK you, as we have all had those things, but for the knowledge
kept in the Debian List Archives.
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higher performance in knoppix

[Nathan]

Recently I was playing around with Knoppix 3.4, and I decided to check
out glxgears performance. After loading the nVidia driver, I got
1500-1700 frames per second. The interesting thing is that on the same
exact computer, with Debian unstable running, I only get around 800. 

I've looked at the XFree configs, and they're effectively the same. Does
anyone have any idea what would cause an approximately 100% increase in
performance?  

Thanks, 

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libc6-dev for stable

[Mark Copper]

Hi,

I am trying to build mod_perl from source on this machine:
 Linux 2.4.25-vs1.26 #2 Fri Feb 20 22:48:22 PST 2004 i686 unknown

My first problem was installing libc6-dev in stable.  This appears not
to work currently.  There is a related (broken) thread from April:
  http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/04/msg00691.html

My work-around was to install libc6 from testing and then libc6-dev
installed without complaint.  But when calling "perl Makefile.PL" on
mod_perl a la "Developer's Cookbook", I get this error:
   In file included from mod_rewrite.c:50:
   mod_rewrite.h:90: ndbm.h: No such file or directory
But "usr/include/db1/ndbm.h" belongs to libc6-dev.

Is libc6-dev my problem?  Has anyone worked around this?

Thanks,
Mark


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Unidentified subject!

[Harish Singh Bohara]

Hi
This is harish. I got ur is from net. I have some prob. And i 
was trying to load my module by "insmod ./test.o". But i am getting 
this prob. So could u help me. 

Thanks 
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Re: X session

[Chris]

On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 15:25, Antony wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 07:25:40AM -0500, Kent West wrote:
> > Antony wrote:
> > 
> > >When I log into X, my saved session comes back with Mozilla proper
> > >instead of Firefox.  If it matters, I'm using windowmaker in unstable...
> > > 
> > >
> > I don't know how X (KDE? Gnome?) records your saved session, but I'm 
> > guessing that instead of recording the browser and the URL, it's only 
> > recording the URL and using the default system browser.
> > 
> > You can change the default system browser with:
> >  update-alternatives --config x-www-browser
> 
> Nope, firefox is the default:
> 
> antgel $ sudo update-alternatives --config x-www-browser
> Password:
> 
> There are 4 alternatives which provide `x-www-browser'.
> 
>   SelectionAlternative
> ---
>   1/usr/bin/mozilla
> * 2/usr/bin/mozilla-firefox
>   3/usr/bin/epiphany
>  +4/usr/bin/galeon
> 
> Any other ideas?


Have you tried to close mozilla, start fire-fox, and then save the
session?
 
You can have a look at ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WMState.

chris



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Re: Firebird/Interbase DBD for Debian

[Douglas G. Phillips]

On 22 Jun, Daniel L. Miller wrote:
> I'm looking for a Firebird/Interbase DBD under Debian Unstable - I'm not
> finding a package.  Is there one?

I didn't see any packages for it, but in CPAN there is a DBD-Interbase
module you could probably look at.

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Re: aptitude wants to remove base-config

[Joey Hess]

William Ballard wrote:
> When I updated apt today, aptitude wants to remove base-config due to 
> unsatisified dependencies:
> 
> tasksel is going from 1.52 to 2.01, and
> tasksel conflicts with base-config (< 2.32)
> 
> I assume this is a bad thing, so I put tasksel on hold.  Correct?

Yes. I meant to upload base-confiug 2.23 also, but I didn't quite get
around to it. This will be resolved tomorrow.

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Cyrus 2.2 - imap

[Sarah Ryder]

Hello Debian users,

I'm looking for an update on Debian packages for Cyrus imapd 2.2

The last information on Cyrus was sent to this list in May and states
that there may be a test package before Debconf4 ends.

I am happy to help test the new packages on my mail servers running
testing.

Thanks,

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Re: libc6-dev for stable, correction

[Mark Copper]

Oops.  "usr/include/db1/ndbm.h" is not part of libc6-dev/stable, so at
least I know why mod_rewrite.h couldn't include it!  But what to do now?

On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 10:43:24AM -0400, Mark Copper wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to build mod_perl from source on this machine:
>  Linux 2.4.25-vs1.26 #2 Fri Feb 20 22:48:22 PST 2004 i686 unknown
> 
> My first problem was installing libc6-dev in stable.  This appears not
> to work currently.  There is a related (broken) thread from April:
>   http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/04/msg00691.html
> 
> My work-around was to install libc6 from testing and then libc6-dev
> installed without complaint.  But when calling "perl Makefile.PL" on
> mod_perl a la "Developer's Cookbook", I get this error:
>In file included from mod_rewrite.c:50:
>mod_rewrite.h:90: ndbm.h: No such file or directory
> But "usr/include/db1/ndbm.h" belongs to libc6-dev.
> 
> Is libc6-dev my problem?  Has anyone worked around this?
> 
> Thanks,
> Mark
> 
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Re: PHP + PostgreSQL

[deb_milist]

Oliver Elphick wrote:

  On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 05:17, dodol garut wrote:
  
  
I've techtables installed in my box but it doesn't
wanna work. someone in this room told me that it
because PHP doesn't compiled with PostgreSQL. Well, i
wonder...As a trully stupid debian newbie, all i did
when installing PHP4 to support PostgreSQl is just
'apt-get install php4-pgsql'. that's it.
or should i compile php4 from source so it will
support postgresql ??? if that so, why there's a
debian package for it ? (what the ...)

  
  
That's good and necessary as a first step.

Now you need to find out whether PHP is attempting a connection to
PostgreSQL.  If it isn't, it's a PHP or Apache problem.  If it is, it
may be a PostgreSQL authentication problem.

Oliver Elphick
  

wellI just found it out by
installing libapache-auth-pgsql  
:-) 
all i need to dig out now is postgre accessing security. since
techtables always show "Unable to connect to PostgreSQL server: could
not translate 
host name "127.0.0.1," to address: Name or service not known"
Simply said, the techtables can not access to postgre database because
he doesn't
know the host ( am i right or???)
I've looked at a file called global.inc which, I guess,  hold the
server configuration
cause it contains my database and username for the techtables and
hostname and
database port. the value is :   $host = "127.0.0.1";   ---> i made
it myself
    $port = "5432";
 > postgre port
my problem probably in pg_hba.conf, which untill now, i haven't figure
out how.
the script which is called to make connection to postgre is like this :

function opendb() {
    global $host, $username, $database, $password;
    $dbconn = pg_connect("host=$host, dbname=$database user=$username
password=$password") or die("Cannot connect");
    return $dbconn;
}
i'm no PHP expert so i dunno if it's just like i guess.
well.i guess, i still have a job to do   :-( 
attachment is my pg_hba.conf ( if somebody there put a mercy on me
helping me get through this )

cheers all,

   me


  


  



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# follows.
#
# This file controls: which hosts are allowed to connect, how clients
# are authenticated, which PostgreSQL user names they can use, which
# databases they can access.  Records take one of seven forms:
#
# local  DATABASE  USER  METHOD  [OPTION]
# host   DATABASE  USER  IP-ADDRESS  IP-MASK   METHOD  [OPTION]
# hostsslDATABASE  USER  IP-ADDRESS  IP-MASK   METHOD  [OPTION]
# hostnossl  DATABASE  USER  IP-ADDRESS  IP-MASK   METHOD  [OPTION]
# host   DATABASE  USER  IP-ADDRESS/CIDR-MASK  METHOD  [OPTION]
# hostsslDATABASE  USER  IP-ADDRESS/CIDR-MASK  METHOD  [OPTION]
# hostnossl  DATABASE  USER  IP-ADDRESS/CIDR-MASK  METHOD  [OPTION]
#
# (The uppercase quantities should be replaced by actual values.)
# The first field is the connection type: "local" is a Unix-domain socket,
# "host" is either a plain or SSL-encrypted TCP/IP socket, "hostssl" is an
# SSL-encrypted TCP/IP socket, and "hostnossl" is a plain TCP/IP socket.
# DATABASE can be "all", "sameuser", "samegroup", a database name (or
# a comma-separated list thereof), or a file name prefixed with "@".
# USER can be "all", an actual user name or a group name prefixed with
# "+", an include file prefixed with "@" or a list containing either.
# IP-ADDRESS and IP-MASK specify the se

In Praise of Apt-Spy

[Curt Howland]

I've used apt-spy before, but this time I put the resulting "closest" 
server at the top of the list in /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://mirrors.rcn.net/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main 
contrib non-free
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib

This seems to have made the difference. I like having more than one 
source, and http.us.debian.org as a last resort since it's likely to 
be kept updated even if all others fail, but I don't want to overuse 
the "primary".

The updates are coming in at about 375KB/s (cable), which is very nice 
indeed. 

"Information about 15030 package(s) was updated."

Holy Moly Puddin Pie! Thanks, Debian.

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limiting the speed of ramdisks

[Jonathan Dowland]

Hello,

I want to limit the speed of ramdisks so they are not running `as fast
as possible'.

This is so I can perform some experiments with parallel reads (e.g.
RAID-0) without involving hard disks, and be able to see speed
improvements.

Does anyone know if this is possible? I am using `old style' ramdisks
(/dev/ram*) currently. Failing that, does anyone know which procedures
should be augmented with delays to simulate slower drives? I may resort
to writing a patch myself.

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Re: X session

[deb_milist]

Chris wrote:

  On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 15:25, Antony wrote:
  
  
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 07:25:40AM -0500, Kent West wrote:


  Antony wrote:

  
  
When I log into X, my saved session comes back with Mozilla proper
instead of Firefox.  If it matters, I'm using windowmaker in unstable...



  
  I don't know how X (KDE? Gnome?) records your saved session, but I'm 
guessing that instead of recording the browser and the URL, it's only 
recording the URL and using the default system browser.

You can change the default system browser with:
 update-alternatives --config x-www-browser
  

Nope, firefox is the default:

antgel $ sudo update-alternatives --config x-www-browser
Password:

There are 4 alternatives which provide `x-www-browser'.

  SelectionAlternative
---
  1/usr/bin/mozilla
* 2/usr/bin/mozilla-firefox
  3/usr/bin/epiphany
 +4/usr/bin/galeon

Any other ideas?

  
  

Have you tried to close mozilla, start fire-fox, and then save the
session?
 
You can have a look at ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WMState.

chris

  

do you have "otomatically save session" option
checked ?
if that so clear it

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kernel install on a Cobalt Raq4

[Erwin van der Horst]

Hi, 

Anyone succeeded in installing a Debian Woody distribution on a Cobalt Raq
(4)? 
Pleasy help me out. Perhaps this is a more generic question, how to install a 
Debian kernel on an empty machine (only with debootstrap initialized), which 
is temporarly booted from the net with NFS. 

I followed the fine instructions on http://cobalt.iceblink.org/debian/debian- 
cobalt-howto.txt and succeeded for most steps. When I got at step 9, to 
download a debian kernel, me as newbie, don't know where start from here. 

I tried to downloaded the kernel-image-2.4.18-k6 package and all its 
dependencies from the debian site and installed them on the system (dpkg). 

The installation of some packages gave some errors which i did not know how 
to resolve. I was chrooted to the new and mounted filesystem root. 

The dpkg with sysvinit gave some timeout errors: 
 init: timeout opening/writing control channel /dev/initctl 

And dpkg with the kernel image gave: 
 Failed to create initrd image. 
  dpkg: error processing kernel-image-2.4.18-k6 (--install): 
  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 29 
  Errors were encountered while processing: 
   kernel-image-2.4.18-k6 

I bzip2'ed the vmlinuz-2.4.18-k6 to /boot/vmlinux.bz2 (according the install 
instructions) but the bootup failed with various error messages. 

Anyone can help me with this? 

Following are the bootup messages: 
Sun Cobalt - Smaller, Bluer, Better, and Free 
  Firmware version 2.10.3-ext3 

Current date: Jun 24 14:41:22 UTC 2004 
ROM build info: Thu Mar 11 08:51:36 MST 2004 . 
System serial number: invalid csum! 
System type: 3000 series system, Version 1 board 
Silicon serial number: 7807d7f59c01 
Monitor: 153536 bytes 
Memory: 256 MB 
CPU: 1 processor(s) detected 
 CPU 0: AuthenticAMD 448MHz (4.5 x 100MHz host bus) [BSP] 
Initializing flash: done 
 Flash Bank 0: AMD AM29F080B 1024KB (01:d5) 
 Flash Bank 1: not installed. 
Mounting ROM fs: done 
Initializing PCI: done 
Initializing ethernet: 2 controller(s) found 
Initializing IDE: found ALI M5229 at 00:78 
 scanning ide0: master 
 scanning ide1: master 
IDE: stabilizing spinup: 100% 
Checking Memory: done 

Press spacebar to enter ROM mode 
Booting default method - From disk 

First stage kernel (Linux): Decompressing - done 
ERROR: cannot relocate with filesize 0 
Second stage kernel: Decompressing -Error bunzip2ing kernel. Trying gunzip. 
- done 
Linux version 2.2.16C28_III ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 
1999 
0314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 Mon Jul 30 22:07:58 PDT 2001 
Ignoring bogus EBDA pointer 3FF000 
Detected 448220 kHz processor. 
Pending 0x00 
Calibrating delay loop... 894.57 BogoMIPS 
Memory: 257572k/262144k available (1244k kernel code, 416k reserved, 2848k 
data, 
64k init) 
Dentry hash table entries: 32768 (order 6, 256k) 
Buffer cache hash table entries: 262144 (order 8, 1024k) 
Page cache hash table entries: 65536 (order 6, 256k) 
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized 
CPU: L1 I Cache: 32K  L1 D Cache: 32K 
CPU: L2 Cache: 128K 
CPU: AMD AMD-K6(tm)-III Processor stepping 04 
Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting. 
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. 
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX 
PCI: Using configuration type 1 
PCI: Probing PCI hardware 
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2 
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0. 
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP 
TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 262144 bhash 65536) 
Initializing RT netlink socket 
Starting kswapd v 1.5 
Cobalt watchdog v1.4 enabled 
Cobalt I2C bus initialized 
Cobalt temperature sensor v1.3 enabled 
Serial driver version 4.27 with<4>keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not 
present? 
keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present? 
no serial options enabled 
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A 
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A 
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured 
Real Time Clock Driver v1.09 
lcd: Cobalt LCD Driver v3.12 
serialnumber: Version 1.9 initialized. Serial number=7807d7f59c01. 
Copyright (c)1994-2000 Axent Technologies, Inc. 
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.30 
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx 
ALI15X3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 78 
ALI15X3: chipset revision 193 
ALI15X3: 100% native mode on irq 14 
   ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfdd0-0xfdd7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA 
   ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfdd8-0xfddf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA 
hda: ST320410A, ATA DISK drive 
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx 
hdc: ST320410A, ATA DISK drive 
ide0 at 0xfdf8-0xfdff,0xfdf6 on irq 14 
ide1 at 0xfde8-0xfdef,0xfde6 on irq 15 
hda: ST320410A, 19092MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=38792/16/63, UDMA(33) 
hdc: ST320410A, 19092MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=38792/16/63, UDMA(33) 
md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MAX_REAL=12 
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Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?

[John Summerfield]

LeVA wrote:
2004. június 24. 15:54,
John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
-> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 

On many/most Linux systems, it seems you need to turn on DMA first:
hdparm -d1 -u1 /dev/cdrom
   

What does that unmaskirq mean?
 

On IA32 systems, interupts can be turned off (masked), potentially for 
long (by computer standards) periods. Typically this happens when an 
interrupt occurs  (it's part of the interrupt handling), and the 
interrupt handler turns them back on when it's finished saving the 
system state and generally sorted itself out. However, there has been 
some buggy hardware around and so the drivers take a more conservative 
approach, one that isn't good for performance but also doesn't crash 
those buggy systems.

"-u1" turns off that conservative approach.

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Re: higher performance in knoppix

[John Summerfield]

Nathan wrote:
Recently I was playing around with Knoppix 3.4, and I decided to check
out glxgears performance. After loading the nVidia driver, I got
1500-1700 frames per second. The interesting thing is that on the same
exact computer, with Debian unstable running, I only get around 800. 

I've looked at the XFree configs, and they're effectively the same. Does
anyone have any idea what would cause an approximately 100% increase in
performance?  

 

Why not copy the Knoppix config and see if being precisely the same make 
the difference?


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kernel install on a Cobalt Raq4

[Erwin van der Horst]

Hi,

Anyone succeeded in installing a Debian Woody distribution on a Cobalt Raq(4)?
Pleasy help me out. Perhaps this is a more generic question, how to install a 
Debian kernel on an empty machine (only with debootstrap initialized), which 
is temporarly booted from the net with NFS.

I followed the fine instructions on http://cobalt.iceblink.org/debian/debian-
cobalt-howto.txt and succeeded for most steps. When I got at step 9, to 
download a debian kernel, me as newbie, don't know where start from here.

I tried to downloaded the kernel-image-2.4.18-k6 package and all its 
dependencies from the debian site and installed them on the system (dpkg). 

The installation of some packages gave some errors which i did not know how 
to resolve. I was chrooted to the new and mounted filesystem root. 

The dpkg with sysvinit gave some timeout errors:
  init: timeout opening/writing control channel /dev/initctl 

And dpkg with the kernel image gave:
  Failed to create initrd image.
   dpkg: error processing kernel-image-2.4.18-k6 (--install):
   subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 29
   Errors were encountered while processing:
kernel-image-2.4.18-k6

I bzip2'ed the vmlinuz-2.4.18-k6 to /boot/vmlinux.bz2 (according the install 
instructions) but the bootup failed with various error messages.

Anyone can help me with this?

Following are the bootup messages:
 Sun Cobalt - Smaller, Bluer, Better, and Free
   Firmware version 2.10.3-ext3

Current date: Jun 24 14:41:22 UTC 2004
ROM build info: Thu Mar 11 08:51:36 MST 2004 .
System serial number: invalid csum!
System type: 3000 series system, Version 1 board
Silicon serial number: 7807d7f59c01
Monitor: 153536 bytes
Memory: 256 MB
CPU: 1 processor(s) detected
  CPU 0: AuthenticAMD 448MHz (4.5 x 100MHz host bus) [BSP]
Initializing flash: done
  Flash Bank 0: AMD AM29F080B 1024KB (01:d5)
  Flash Bank 1: not installed.
Mounting ROM fs: done
Initializing PCI: done
Initializing ethernet: 2 controller(s) found
Initializing IDE: found ALI M5229 at 00:78
  scanning ide0: master
  scanning ide1: master
IDE: stabilizing spinup: 100%
Checking Memory: done

Press spacebar to enter ROM mode
Booting default method - From disk

First stage kernel (Linux): Decompressing - done
ERROR: cannot relocate with filesize 0
Second stage kernel: Decompressing -Error bunzip2ing kernel. Trying gunzip.
- done
Linux version 2.2.16C28_III ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 
1999
0314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 Mon Jul 30 22:07:58 PDT 2001
Ignoring bogus EBDA pointer 3FF000
Detected 448220 kHz processor.
Pending 0x00
Calibrating delay loop... 894.57 BogoMIPS
Memory: 257572k/262144k available (1244k kernel code, 416k reserved, 2848k 
data,
 64k init)
Dentry hash table entries: 32768 (order 6, 256k)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 262144 (order 8, 1024k)
Page cache hash table entries: 65536 (order 6, 256k)
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
CPU: L1 I Cache: 32K  L1 D Cache: 32K
CPU: L2 Cache: 128K
CPU: AMD AMD-K6(tm)-III Processor stepping 04
Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 262144 bhash 65536)
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd v 1.5
Cobalt watchdog v1.4 enabled
Cobalt I2C bus initialized
Cobalt temperature sensor v1.3 enabled
Serial driver version 4.27 with<4>keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present?
keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present?
 no serial options enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
lcd: Cobalt LCD Driver v3.12
serialnumber: Version 1.9 initialized. Serial number=7807d7f59c01.
Copyright (c)1994-2000 Axent Technologies, Inc.
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.30
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ALI15X3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 78
ALI15X3: chipset revision 193
ALI15X3: 100% native mode on irq 14
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfdd0-0xfdd7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfdd8-0xfddf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
hda: ST320410A, ATA DISK drive
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
hdc: ST320410A, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0xfdf8-0xfdff,0xfdf6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0xfde8-0xfdef,0xfde6 on irq 15
hda: ST320410A, 19092MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=38792/16/63, UDMA(33)
hdc: ST320410A, 19092MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=38792/16/63, UDMA(33)
md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MAX_REAL=12
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Re: Gnome fonts and themes

[Norman Walsh]

/ David Mesler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say:
| It's not necessary to pass options to gnome-settings-daemon. I just run
| it as "gnome-settings-daemon &" and it works fine.

Bingo. Thank you.

Be seeing you,
  norm

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http://nwalsh.com/| errors, but not their absence.--E.
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Exim4 question

[David Baron]

Can I configure this to sit on external email accounts? If so, how?

If another program such a fetchmail is required, how would these be set up to 
work together?

(Documentation and a linux-administrator's howto were murky at best.)


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Gnome 2.6 volume control applet not seeing audio channels?

[Sridhar Srinivasan]

"Paul Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I recently updated my sid box to all the latest stuff for the first
> time
> in a month or two, which got me from Gnome 2.4 to 2.6.  Once I

> Except one thing: the volume control applet on the panel doesn't work.
> It
> won't find any of the channels; like it can't find the audio devices. 
> But, they're there!  I've tried removing it from the panel and
> re-adding
> it and it still doesn't work; if I try to open the volume control
> dialog
> it fails because there are no channels, and if I open the Preferences
> dialog there are no channels shown in the box (it's empty).


> Anyone have any ideas on where to look?

I had the same problem. Check out bug #250393 at
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=250393

The solution is to install one of gstreamer-alsa, gstreamer-oss or
gstreamer-esd.  

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gateway.] 


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Evolution Attachments icons problems

[Mariano Wahlmann]

After an apt-get upgrade my evolution stop working, because a libsoup
upgrade who make evolution crash every start, after i fix that
(downloading libsoup from ximian and linking), i start evolution and
find that attachments icons are not being show, and if a open new mail
window and try to attach, shows a blank attachment panel (but it attach
the file, because if i push send the attach is recibed). does any body
has the same problem, have anyone the solution?

I'm using Woody/testing.

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Re: Firebird/Interbase DBD for Debian

[Daniel Miller]

Douglas G. Phillips wrote:
On 22 Jun, Daniel L. Miller wrote:
 

I'm looking for a Firebird/Interbase DBD under Debian Unstable - I'm not
finding a package.  Is there one?
   

I didn't see any packages for it, but in CPAN there is a DBD-Interbase
module you could probably look at.
 

I was having difficulty compiling that module - that's why I wanted a 
pre-made .deb package.  I was also having problems installing Firebird 
(non-packaged version).  After some other suggestions, I deleted the 
check for the "ex" editor in the Firebird installation script and got 
version 1.5 to install.  After that, the CPAN module installed.  So I'm 
operational - just wishing I was using a fully packaged system.  Sigh.  
I guess I'll have to wait for some generous and willing soul to re-adopt 
Firebird for Debian - something I'm willing, but not qualified for.

Daniel
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Re: A bunch of questions : THANKS

[deb_milist]

valdyn wrote:
deb_milist wrote:
  
  
  
Stelian
Iancu wrote :
  
Check out the fetchmail homepage: http://catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/ 
well...yap, i'd been there before.
The information provided is pretty good, but actually i'm looking for
something that can be download such as PDF document so I can read it
anywhere I want to...but thanks



Kent West
wrote :
  
(PS; separating your questions into separate emails, with more
descriptive subject lines, is more likely to get you responses.)
  
  

thanks Kent ...i was just too afraid this mailing list would full with
my garbage  ;-) 


  
$ man fetchmail | lpr  <- Print Manpage directly
  
$ man man2html    <- A few filters.
  
$ man html2ps
  
$ man ps2pdf
  
  
flo.
  
  
  

[sniff..]   now i knowi should not
forget this pretty baby 'man'
thanks flo...


  
  



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Re: Alsa setup broken after upgrade

[Joris Huizer]

Jeff Bradberry wrote:
I have a mixed testing/unstable system running on a HP Omnibook 4150
laptop [sound chipset is cs4232].  Recently, I upgraded a number of
things, including gcc (2.95.4 -> 3.3.3), alsa (0.9.4 -> 1.0.5a), and
kernel-source (2.4.19 -> 2.4.26).  Before the upgrades, I had a
working Alsa setup, but now attempts to load the snd-cs4232 module
fail with the errors:
/lib/modules/2.4.26/alsa/snd-cs4231-lib.o: /lib/modules/2.4.26/alsa/snd-cs4231-lib.o: 
unresolved symbol snd_dma_pointer
/lib/modules/2.4.26/alsa/snd-cs4231-lib.o: /lib/modules/2.4.26/alsa/snd-cs4231-lib.o: 
unresolved symbol snd_dma_disable
/lib/modules/2.4.26/alsa/snd-cs4231-lib.o: /lib/modules/2.4.26/alsa/snd-cs4231-lib.o: 
unresolved symbol snd_dma_program
/lib/modules/2.4.26/alsa/snd-cs4231-lib.o: insmod 
/lib/modules/2.4.26/alsa/snd-cs4231-lib.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.26/alsa/snd-cs4231-lib.o: insmod snd-cs4232 failed
Executing "cat /proc/asound/cards" results in:
--- no soundcards ---
Also, alsaconf fails to find my hardware.
The output of lspci shows that the kernel still sees the sound hardware:
:01:00.1 Multimedia audio controller: Neomagic Corporation NM2200 [MagicMedia 
256AV Audio] (rev 12)
My kernels were custom built using make-kpkg.  Sound support was
staticly compiled into the kernel, and no OSS modules were selected.
Please note also that my previous version of Alsa was after the snd_
prefix was depreciated for module options, so I had already changed my
configuration to correct any problems caused by that.
ii  alsa-base  1.0.5a-1   ALSA sound driver common files
ii  alsa-modules-2 1.0.5a-1+hpomn Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (drivers)
ii  alsa-oss   1.0.5-1Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (OSS compa
ii  alsa-source1.0.5a-1   ALSA sound driver source
ii  alsa-utils 1.0.5-1Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (utilities
ii  libasound2 1.0.5-1Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (libraries
I would appreciate any help that people can give me with this problem.
I'm not subscribed to the mailing list, so please CC any replies to
me.  Thanks in advance.
Check `uname -r` and look in /lib/modules/`uname -r` for that alsa 
directory;
If you're running 2.4.26, you installed a new kernel, not a new kernel 
source; If not, than I couldn't explain why you'd get such errors;

(you could ofcourse make a symlink of /lib/modules/2.4.26/alsa to the 
real dir as a last solution)

HTH,
Joris
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Re: Unidentified subject!

[Ishwar Rattan]

On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Harish Singh Bohara wrote:

>
>
> Hi
>   This is harish. I got ur is from net. I have some prob. And i
> was trying to load my module by "insmod ./test.o". But i am getting
> this prob. So could u help me.
Not enough details to make even a wild guess!

-ishwar


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Re: virtual consoles unresponsive

[Carl D. Blake]

On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 07:24, Greg Folkert wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 16:16, Greg Folkert wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 14:49, Carl D. Blake wrote:
> > > So the problem
> > > seems to be strictly with the display.
> > > 
> > > An interesting item is that after awhile (an hour or so) when I take
> > > another look at the console, I'll press the shift key on the keyboard
> > > and the kdm display will appear.  I can then log in to a normal kde
> > > session.  Everything works.  But when I log out of the kde session the
> > > console goes dark and I'm right back to where I started.
> > 
> > Ah... HA!
> > 
> > I have a hunch.
> > 
> > Try another monitor on it. Let us know.
> 
> Well How'd you fix it. Was it the Monitor? We'd like to know mainly
> not to MOCK you, as we have all had those things, but for the knowledge
> kept in the Debian List Archives.

Sorry about the delay.  Had to deal with other emergencies (the urgent
vs. the important).  Haven't fixed it yet.  Another monitor made no
difference.

I did some more googling on resetting video cards and found some
references to people who have had their video cards stop working after X
crashed.  It seems that if X doesn't quit properly it can leave the
video card in an unusable state (at least for text mode).  The solution
is to use some scripts from svgalib called savetextmode and textmode. 
These scripts use the program restoretextmode to save the current state
of the video cards registers in some temporary files.  Later, if you
start having a problem with your video card, you can run textmode which
will restore the registers from the temporary files and, hopefully,
bring the video card back into working order.  Unfortunately, you have
to run savetextmode when the video is working correctly (e.g.
immediately after a reboot), so I haven't had a chance to try this yet. 
The system is working except for the video and I don't want to bring
everybody down just yet, so it'll be a day or so before I get around to
rebooting the system.

If you have any other ideas let me know.

Thanks.



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Evolution Attachments icons problems

[Mariano Wahlmann]

After an apt-get upgrade my evolution stop working, because a libsoup
upgrade who make evolution crash every start, after i fix that
(downloading libsoup from ximian and linking), i start evolution and
find that attachments icons are not being show, and if a open new mail
window and try to attach, shows a blank attachment panel (but it attach
the file, because if i push send the attach is recibed). does any body
has the same problem, have anyone the solution?

I'm using Woody/testing.

Bye



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Re: virtual consoles unresponsive

[Ricky Clarkson]

You could run savetextmode on a machine with as close a configuration
as possible, copy the files over and try it, but check the risks in
doing this, as it is a server that you don't want to reboot, let alone
crash.

On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 08:45:52 -0700, Carl D. Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I did some more googling on resetting video cards and found some
> references to people who have had their video cards stop working after X
> crashed.  It seems that if X doesn't quit properly it can leave the
> video card in an unusable state (at least for text mode).  The solution
> is to use some scripts from svgalib called savetextmode and textmode.
> These scripts use the program restoretextmode to save the current state
> of the video cards registers in some temporary files.  Later, if you
> start having a problem with your video card, you can run textmode which
> will restore the registers from the temporary files and, hopefully,
> bring the video card back into working order.  Unfortunately, you have
> to run savetextmode when the video is working correctly (e.g.
> immediately after a reboot), so I haven't had a chance to try this yet.
> The system is working except for the video and I don't want to bring
> everybody down just yet, so it'll be a day or so before I get around to
> rebooting the system.


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Re: Kernel Panic while booting from 2.6.3

[Ajitabh Pandey]

--- Stelian Iancu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Check out that the fs that the root partition has is
> NOT build as a
> module for the kernel, but in the kernel itself.

The root filesystem is the ext2 filesystem and it is
build in the kernel. I use xconfig to configure and I
clearly remembers that infront of EXT2 there was tick
sign instead of dot.

Regards.
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Migrating to Debian: questions

[linuxnand]

Hello All,

I am new to Debian but I have been using Linux since 1995. I enjoy the idea of Debian 
that offers total independence so I am willing very much to learn it well.

I have installed 3.0R2. It installed kernel 2.2 instead of 2.4. Now, how can I use apt 
to have the 2.4 installed?

Also, how can I change the sources.list to upgrade my system to the new packages like 
gnome 2.6, KDE 3.3, Mozilla 1.7, etc.

I have installed the base system and then did the X window installating followed by 
KDE. Everything works but KDE fonts are nasty. How can I fix the fonts? Download more 
fonts, or shall I say the appropriate fonts?

How can I setup the sound? Is there any howto? I have installed ALSA with apt-get but 
the system does not detect my hardware. Where shall I go for help?

In order to have Kernel 2.6, I guess I have to compile it manually myself, right? 
Well, that I have done before. Or can I do it with apt-get. 

Thanks in advance.


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Re: Exim4 question

[Monique Y. Mudama]

On 2004-06-24, David Baron penned:
> Can I configure this to sit on external email accounts? If so, how?

I don't understand the question ...

>
> If another program such a fetchmail is required, how would these be
> set up to work together?
>
> (Documentation and a linux-administrator's howto were murky at best.)
>
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AUTOFS to mount either via SMB or NFS, how?

[Brian]

Hi,
I am running a VDR box that mounts, via AUTOFS an MP3 directory on another 
PC. At the moment that PC is running Win98, so I mount via SMBFS, this works.
Now I want to sometimes run the remote PC as a Win98 box, and sometimes as a 
 Linux (Debian) box. So I am looking for the best way to mount via SMBFS 
when the remote is booted with Win98, but to mount via NFS when the remote 
is booted as Linux.

I tried two (almost identical) entries in the map dataset for autofs, but if 
the first one is not successfull, it doesnt even try the second entry.

I guess I am looking for the best strategy to do this, all I need is the 
MP3s to be mounted at the same place each time.

Cheers Brian
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how to set up debian from fedora core 2

[Stefan Seefeld]

hi there,
I'm following the instructions at 
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-preparing.en.html#s-linux-upgrade
to install a debian partition on my machine, i.e. I install debootstrap, then run
it to prepare a debian partition. Then I chroot into that to configure it.
Everything runs more or less smoothly (I'm unable to tell whether the occasional
errors I see in the output are benign or not).

However, when I run 'apt-cache search kernel-image' the first time, I get
a segmentation fault. Running it again outputs nothing. Can anybody help
me getting any further ? Did I miss something ?
Thanks,
Stefan
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Re: PHP + PostgreSQL

[deb_milist]

Oliver Elphick wrote:

  You seem to have an extra comma there.  It is doing a host look up of
"127.0.0.1," and of course it is not finding it.

The word "localhost" is quite acceptable.  Since you are accessing the
database from a program running on the same machine, you could also
leave the hostname completely blank, which would force the use of a Unix
socket instead of TCP/IP.
  

well...the php script which attempt to connect to PostgreSQL is this ( i guess ) :


function opendb() {
    global $host, $username, $database, $password;
    $dbconn = pg_connect("host=$host, dbname=$database user=$username
password=$password") or die("Cannot connect");
    return $dbconn;
}

I don't make any mistype ( by typing coma after host
value. the host value is store in a different file 
out this PHP script. 
as you can see in the script above, there's a coma
after $host which is this techtables is bring from its tar ball. 
If I delete it then web page again displaying error message says that
there's no such host called 
dbname=$database which is a variable after that coma. Which is meant
that the coma thing is needed.
I'm no PHP expert so I dunno how to fix it. ( the fact that there's no
any coma after $database and so on is quiet make
me confused ).
Before I throwed this question in this room, I have already made some
kind of experiment by changing the $host value
from 127.0.0.1, localhost, hostname, even my IP address. and still not
work.
To make everything more clear, I attach two files which i guess (
...again) hold the main rule of this techtables web apps.
The global.inc file contain a very secret information about database
connection use by techtables and the other file
functions.inc contain every scripts which techtables depend on it to be
run properly.
I also include its HOW TO..

thanks for your attentions,

    - me -


Novice Installation "How To"
(Thanks to Paul Woroshow for starting this HOWTO)

Current Version: April 21, 2003 version 1.11
History: See "History" at the end of this document

Index
1 - Introduction

2 - Preliminary Steps
2-1 - Apache
2.2 - PHP
2-3 - PostgreSQL
2-4 - Patches
2-5 - Start Services

3 - Install techtables
3-1 - Install the Files
3-2 - Create User and Database

4 - Adding Security
4-1 - Apache Web Server
4-2 - PostgreSQL
4-2.1 - PostgreSQL version 7.2.x
4-2.2 - PostgreSQL version 7.3.x

4-3 - Techtables Application

5 - Other Topics
5-1 - Upgrading from Red Hat 8.0 to 9.0

Appendices
Appendix A - Deleting Information
Appendix B - psql Utility
Appendix C - Reference Web Sites

History


1 - Introduction
This HOWTO is aimed primarily at people with minimal experience using postgreSQL and 
Linux.  The original idea being to share my experience and thereby assist other people 
in successfully getting techtables up and running on their server.

These notes are specific to the Red Hat versions 8.0 and 9.0 distributions.  There are 
differences between Red Hat versions 8.0 and 9.0 which are noted throughout the 
document.  Keep in mind that if you are using another version or a different 
distribution, the following will most likely need to be adjusted.  However, the basic 
steps will still apply.

It also assumes that you have root access to the server.  If not, then you will likely 
need to cajole your friendly system administrator in helping you or actually doing it 
for you.

2 - Preliminary Steps

This first section deals with making sure that the basic environment is in place on 
the Linux server.

2-1 - Apache

Run "rpm -qa | grep httpd" to see what rpms are already on your server.

My server has (RH v8.0/posgreSQL v7.2.x):
httpd-devel-2.0.40-11
httpd-2.0.40-11
httpd-manual-2.0.40-11
 
My server has (RH v9.0/posgreSQL v7.3.x):
httpd-2.0.40-21.1
httpd-manual-2.0.40-21.1

Optionally, make the postgreSQL documentation available via the web server.  This 
makes if very simple to look things up in the manual.  You can make it available by 
adding the following to /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:

# postgreSQL manual
Alias /pgsqldoc "/usr/share/doc/postgreSQL-7.2.3/html"


Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all


For RH v9.0/posgreSQL v7.3.x, change the directory above to 
"/usr/share/doc/postgreSQL-7.3.2/html".

Remember that you will have to adjust the file locations if the documentation is 
located in a different directory.

By adding the above and restarting your web server, you can then view the postgreSQL 
documentation via http:///pgsqldoc.  Of course, this change will 
not actually display the documentation until you install postgreSQL docs later in the 
following steps.

2.2 - PHP

Run "rpm -qa | grep php" to see what rpms are already on your server.

My server has (RH v8.0/posgreSQL v7.2.x):
php-4.2.2-8.0.7
php-manual-4.2.2-8.0.7
php-pgsql-4.2.2-8.0.7

My server has (RH v9.0/posgreSQL v7.3.x):
php-4.2.2-17
php-manual-4.2.2-17
php-pgsql-4.2.2-17

For any rpm missing from your system, obtain it from Re

Re: Migrating to Debian: questions

[Andreas Janssen]

Hello

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:

> I am new to Debian but I have been using Linux since 1995. I enjoy the
> idea of Debian that offers total independence so I am willing very
> much to learn it well.
> 
> I have installed 3.0R2. It installed kernel 2.2 instead of 2.4. Now,
> how can I use apt to have the 2.4 installed?

Make sure that security.debian.org is in your sources.list, and install
the package:

apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-1-686 
(or 386, or k7, or whatever architecture you have)
apt-cache search kernel-image
apt-cache show kernel-image-2.4.18-1.686
show you more information. And don't forget to tell lilo to use the
initrd that comes with the 2.4.18 kernel packages.

> Also, how can I change the sources.list to upgrade my system to the
> new packages like gnome 2.6, KDE 3.3, Mozilla 1.7, etc.

You can use backported packages (go to ).
However if you want to install many of them, it is possible that
conflicts arise. If you want to have an up to date system, think about
switching to testing or unstable. But keep in mind that only Woody
(3.0) is officially supported by the security team.

> I have installed the base system and then did the X window
> installating followed by KDE. Everything works but KDE fonts are
> nasty. How can I fix the fonts? Download more fonts, or shall I say
> the appropriate fonts?

There are some ttf fonts in non-free, as well as an installer for the
web core fonts that were formerly distributed by Microsoft (including
Arial and Verdana). Try

apt-get install msttcorefonts
apt-cache search font

> How can I setup the sound? Is there any howto? I have installed ALSA
> with apt-get but the system does not detect my hardware. Where shall I
> go for help?

Find out which driver you need.  can help you.
Add the driver to /etc/modules, and add yourself to the audio group. If
you want to use ALSA instead of the OSS drivers that come with the
precompiled kernel packages, you have to compile the drivers. I think
you can find helpful information here:



> In order to have Kernel 2.6, I guess I have to compile it manually
> myself, right? Well, that I have done before. Or can I do it with
> apt-get.

There are packages available on  that you can use
with apt-get. However you will need to upgrade or install a lot of
basic system software as well, including

e2fsprogs, module-init-tools, procps
util-linux (if you want to use the new cryptoapi)
cdrdao, cdrtools (if you want to write CDs without ide-scsi emulation)

By the way, I think all of your questions have been answered before on
this list. Please take a look at the archve (
or , Group linux.debian.user) first the next
time you have questions. You will probably get your answers quicker
that way.

best regards
Andreas Janssen

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Re: {Virus?} Delivery (asa@tipro.org)

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Re: Kernel Panic while booting from 2.6.3

[Urs Schroffeneger]

Check out that you have the right partition type enabled in Advanced 
partion types, it's a bit hidden in the options tree. (under xconfig 
filesystem->partition types->advanced partition types->pc bios)

For a pc type, it would be the
MSDOS_PARTITION
option. It's absolutely necessary for the kernel to recognize your root 
filesystem, and it's not enabled by default in the 2.6.* config file

I hope this helps
urs
Ajitabh Pandey wrote:
--- Stelian Iancu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 

Check out that the fs that the root partition has is
NOT build as a
module for the kernel, but in the kernel itself.
   

The root filesystem is the ext2 filesystem and it is
build in the kernel. I use xconfig to configure and I
clearly remembers that infront of EXT2 there was tick
sign instead of dot.
Regards.
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OT: Debian/Linux Stickers

[Chris Metcalf]

For years I've been searching for a good source of good Linux stickers
for my machines. Sure, we've got Thinkgeek or HackerStickers.com
(http://www.hackerstickers.com/products/sticker-debian-linux.shtml),
but other than that, the best I've been able to find is Tux case
badges.

Does anybody know of a good source of linux/geeky stickers? In
particular, I'm looking for a nice tasteful sticker of Tux on a clear
background around 3" in size, or maybe a nice small "Powered by Linux"
or Debian logo suitable to stick on my laptops in the space where the
"Designed for Windows" sticker used to be.

The other option is to look into getting them made. I've been thinking
about doing this for awhile. Larry Ewing's Tux graphic is public
domain, right? So I wouldn't have to worry about licensing issues. If
I could get enough people to commit, I could look into getting some
made. Pricing would probably be around $2 US per sticker for a lot of
100-200 stickers, so I'd probably price them at $3 + shipping to
wherever you're from, and donate all the profits to Software in the
Public Interest. Any extras I'll probably try and sell on eBay or sell
in bulk off to LUGs.

Let me know if you're interested...

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Re: Migrating to Debian: questions

[Ricky Clarkson]

On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 12:41:02 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I have installed 3.0R2. It installed kernel 2.2 instead of 2.4. Now, how can I use 
> apt to have the 2.4 installed?

If you haven't already, turn on bash_completion (smart tab completion)
by typing 'source /etc/bash_completion' or entering that into a
.bashrc or similar and restarting your bash.

Then do apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.

By  I mean press the tab key.  That should show you all the
kernel images available under woody (3.0R2).

> Also, how can I change the sources.list to upgrade my system to the new packages 
> like gnome 2.6, KDE 3.3, Mozilla 1.7, etc.

For that you need to either use backports, which I think are available
from apt-get.org, or upgrade to testing (sarge) or unstable (sid).  To
do this, edit /etc/apt/sources.list, changing all mentions of "woody"
or "stable" to "sarge".  Then type apt-get update and then apt-get
dist-upgrade.  Be aware that this might not be smooth and there are
currently problems with nautilus in testing and unstable.

> In order to have Kernel 2.6, I guess I have to compile it manually myself, right? 
> Well, that I have done before. Or can I do it with apt-get.

You can do it with apt-get, but I'm not sure whether that's only true
for unstable (sid).


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Re: kerenls: hand-rolled v. stock

[Nori Heikkinen]

on Thu, 24 Jun 2004 01:56:03AM +0200, Benedict Verheyen insinuated:
> >- Original Message -
> >From: "Nori Heikkinen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: "debian-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 6:29 PM
> >Subject: kerenls: hand-rolled v. stock
> >i'm looking into grabbing a new kernel (because the one i'm using
> >doesn't appear to have the "soundcore" option either compiled in or as
> >a module -- can i fix this without updating kernels?).  the one i have
> >right now, i hand-rolled froum the 2.4.20 source.  i don't feel like
> >doing anothert one myself right now if i don't have to.
> >
> >in general, is there much of an advantage to hand-rolling over
> >grabbing a stock kernel?  i feel like everything i probably want to
> >insert as a module (soundcore; usb; whatever) should be available in a
> >stock kernel.
> >
> >thanks,
> >
> >
> 
> If you don't need any specific patches for certain hardware drivers
> or if most modules you need are available, then rolling your own
> kernel isn't necessary.  I always role my own kernel (it's easy in
> debian) to get the pinguin on boot up 

:) cute.

> and to slim down the kernel.

what advantage does this have?  does it make everything run faster,
even if everything that's in there is compiled as a module and maybe
not loaded, as opposed to into the kernel proper?

> As for soundcore, i think it's in from the 2.4 kernels. 

i,m running 2.4.20, but apparently i started with the source and
rolled it myself.  as i said, it's been a while since i did this, so i
don't rememeber what i put in there and what i didn't -- but sound has
been working for me for the past year, so i'm really mystified as to
why this would be just coming up now.

> If you don't find the module on your system, then maybe it wasn't
> compiled in.  To look for sound related config options in the kernel
> config:
> 
> grep "SOUND" /boot/config-

right, this is what i was forgetting!  thanks!

it appears that the only ones i have in there are the following:

orange:~> grep "SOUND" /boot/config-`uname -r` | egrep -v "^#"
CONFIG_SOUND=y
CONFIG_SOUND_ES1371=m
CONFIG_SOUND_VIA82CXXX=y
CONFIG_SOUND_OSS=m
CONFIG_SOUND_CS4232=m
CONFIG_SOUND_SSCAPE=m
CONFIG_SOUND_SB=m

and I don't see any option for SOUND_CORE or anything like it --
grepping for "CORE" doesn't yield anything.

it may be time to slip in a knoppix CD and see what modules it sticks
in when i get home today ...

thanks for your help and suggestions, as usual.



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Re: kerenls: hand-rolled v. stock

[Nori Heikkinen]

on Wed, 23 Jun 2004 10:56:41AM -0600, Paul E Condon insinuated:
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 12:29:07PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
> > i'm looking into grabbing a new kernel (because the one i'm using
> > doesn't appear to have the "soundcore" option either compiled in or as
> > a module -- can i fix this without updating kernels?).  the one i have
> > right now, i hand-rolled froum the 2.4.20 source.  i don't feel like
> > doing anothert one myself right now if i don't have to.
> > 
> > in general, is there much of an advantage to hand-rolling over
> > grabbing a stock kernel?  i feel like everything i probably want to
> > insert as a module (soundcore; usb; whatever) should be available in a
> > stock kernel.
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> I'm not a kernel expert, but I offer some 'practical' advice:
> Choose a stock kernel that will boot on your hardware as a starting point.
> Use make-kpkg to create a duplicate of that stock kernel. (this tests
> your setup for creating kernels)
> Then modify the .config to get where you want to be.
> Take care to never loose an old .config file.

what you just described is, to me, equilavent to "rolling your own."
no?

> In the process you may discover that a stock kernel meets your needs.

how? by noticing that everything you want to turn on is already turned
on?

thanks,



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[OT] yahoo protocol switching

[Nori Heikkinen]

hey all,

noticed today that yahoo has again switched protocols, making it
impossible to connect from gaim.  the quick fix suggested on /. [1] --
switching to scs.yahoo.com from scs.msg.yahoo.com -- doesn't work for
me, as pointed out in the threads below, as i'm running Gaim, not
trillian.

i tried upgrading to the latest debian release of the yahoo messenger
off their website, but that doesn't work for me, either.

has anyone else been bitten by this, and found a workaround?

thanks,



[1]
http://slashdot.org/articles/04/06/24/128248.shtml?tid=126&tid=187&tid=95

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Re: Migrating to Debian: questions

[Ben Russo]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello All,
I am new to Debian but I have been using Linux since 1995. I enjoy the idea of Debian 
that offers total independence so I am willing very much to learn it well.
I have installed 3.0R2. It installed kernel 2.2 instead of 2.4. Now, how can I use apt 
to have the 2.4 installed?
Also, how can I change the sources.list to upgrade my system to the new packages like 
gnome 2.6, KDE 3.3, Mozilla 1.7, etc.
I am no Debian Expert, but I have been using Linux since 1995 and I have 
been a professional systems Admin for about that length of time as well.

You need to use the unstable/experimental branches of the apt 
repositories to get all the latest and greatest stuff.  I have a 
workstation running Debian that has been very stable for many months,
Down below you will see my /etc/apt/sources.list  file  (carefull of the 
line wraps!)  I am running 2.6, and KDE 3.x and Mozilla 1.7 and gnome 
2.6, without having to compile or package anything myself.

After you set up this sources.list file, I suggest you run the following 
commands:
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade
apt-get install synaptic
synaptic

Now you will have a very nice and powerfull utility for managing your 
software.

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/debian/ testing main
deb-src http://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/debian/ testing main
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
##
deb http://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
deb http://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/debian/ testing contrib non-free
deb http://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/debian/ testing contrib non-free
deb-src http://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
# non-US
deb ftp://ftp.ie.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib 
non-free
deb-src ftp://ftp.ie.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib 
non-free
deb ftp://ftp.ie.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib 
non-free
deb-src ftp://ftp.ie.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main 
contrib non-free

deb ftp://ftp.ie.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib 
non-free
deb-src ftp://ftp.ie.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main 
contrib non-free

# Experimental
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian ../project/experimental main contrib 
non-free
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian ../project/experimental main 
contrib non-free

# ***Do not edit above this line, ok to change sources below this line***
# Security updates
deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates contrib non-free
# java
deb ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian 
unstable main non-free

deb http://www.opengroupware.org/packages deb/
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Re: Evolution Attachments icons problems

[Ben Russo]

Mariano Wahlmann wrote:
After an apt-get upgrade my evolution stop working, because a libsoup
upgrade who make evolution crash every start, after i fix that
(downloading libsoup from ximian and linking), i start evolution and
find that attachments icons are not being show, and if a open new mail
window and try to attach, shows a blank attachment panel (but it attach
the file, because if i push send the attach is recibed). does any body
has the same problem, have anyone the solution?
I'm using Woody/testing.
Bye

I don't have a solution..
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]# dpkg -l | grep libsoup
ii  libsoup2.0-0   1.99.28-4  an HTTP library implementation in C -- 
Share
ii  libsoup2.0-dev 1.99.28-4  an HTTP library implementation in C -- 
Devel
ii  libsoup2.2-3   2.1.11-1   an HTTP library implementation in C -- 
Share
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]# dpkg -l | grep evolution
ii  evolution  1.4.6-3The groupware suite

Yes, I get the same issue.  Here are the errors that evolution outputs 
when I try to add an attachment to an e-mail.  The attachments are 
there.  The recipient of the message gets the attachment.  But when 
composing the e-mail you can't see any ICON's or filenames for the 
attachements.  After sending the mail I can switch to my "sent" folder 
and see the e-mail there, and the attachments are shown.

(evolution:2359): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: file gdk-pixbuf-io.c: line 769 
(gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file): assertion `filename != NULL' failed

(evolution:2359): GnomeUI-CRITICAL **: file gnome-icon-list.c: line 1219 
(gnome_icon_list_append_pixbuf): assertion `im != NULL' failed

(evolution:2359): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: file gdk-pixbuf-io.c: line 769 
(gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file): assertion `filename != NULL' failed

(evolution:2359): GnomeUI-CRITICAL **: file gnome-icon-list.c: line 1219 
(gnome_icon_list_append_pixbuf): assertion `im != NULL' failed

(evolution:2359): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: file gdk-pixbuf-io.c: line 769 
(gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file): assertion `filename != NULL' failed

(evolution:2359): GnomeUI-CRITICAL **: file gnome-icon-list.c: line 1219 
(gnome_icon_list_append_pixbuf): assertion `im != NULL' failed

(evolution:2359): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: file gdk-pixbuf-io.c: line 769 
(gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file): assertion `filename != NULL' failed

(evolution:2359): GnomeUI-CRITICAL **: file gnome-icon-list.c: line 1219 
(gnome_icon_list_append_pixbuf): assertion `im != NULL' failed

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Re: Alsa setup broken after upgrade

[Jeff Bradberry]

On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Joris Huizer wrote:
> Check `uname -r` and look in /lib/modules/`uname -r` for that alsa 
> directory;
> If you're running 2.4.26, you installed a new kernel, not a new kernel 
> source; If not, than I couldn't explain why you'd get such errors;

Sorry if I wasn't clear, but I meant that I had built a custom kernel from
the 2.4.26 kernel-source package and installed that.

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -r
2.4.26
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls /lib/modules/`uname -r`/alsa
snd-ainstr-fm.osnd-opl3-lib.osnd-seq-device.o  snd-seq.o
snd-cs4231-lib.o   snd-opl3-synth.o  snd-seq-instr.o   snd-timer.o
snd-cs4232.o   snd-page-alloc.o  snd-seq-midi-emul.o   snd.o
snd-hwdep.osnd-pcm-oss.o snd-seq-midi-event.o
snd-mixer-oss.osnd-pcm.o snd-seq-midi.o
snd-mpu401-uart.o  snd-rawmidi.o snd-seq-oss.o

I should also mention that snd, snd-hwdep, and some of the others insert
just fine.  It's snd-cs4231-lib that is the showstopper.


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Re: OT: Debian/Linux Stickers

[Alex Malinovich]

On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 12:32, Chris Metcalf wrote:
> For years I've been searching for a good source of good Linux stickers
> for my machines. Sure, we've got Thinkgeek or HackerStickers.com
> (http://www.hackerstickers.com/products/sticker-debian-linux.shtml),
> but other than that, the best I've been able to find is Tux case
> badges.
> 
> Does anybody know of a good source of linux/geeky stickers? In
> particular, I'm looking for a nice tasteful sticker of Tux on a clear
> background around 3" in size, or maybe a nice small "Powered by Linux"
> or Debian logo suitable to stick on my laptops in the space where the
> "Designed for Windows" sticker used to be.
> 
> The other option is to look into getting them made. I've been thinking
> about doing this for awhile. Larry Ewing's Tux graphic is public
> domain, right? So I wouldn't have to worry about licensing issues. If
> I could get enough people to commit, I could look into getting some
> made. Pricing would probably be around $2 US per sticker for a lot of
> 100-200 stickers, so I'd probably price them at $3 + shipping to
> wherever you're from, and donate all the profits to Software in the
> Public Interest. Any extras I'll probably try and sell on eBay or sell
> in bulk off to LUGs.
> 
> Let me know if you're interested...

I'd definitely be interested. If/when they're available put up a post
with some info and I'll be all over it. :)

What I would REALLY like to see though, is an actual replacement for the
"powered by Windows *" stickers. Something that's got the same metallic
feel, with either Tux or a gnu on the sticker saying "powered by linux"
or better yet "powered by Free Software". If you can get THOSE made I'll
buy a dozen and I might be able to convince my employers to buy a few
hundred. :)

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Re: Kernel Panic while booting from 2.6.3

[Ishwar Rattan]

I have seen this error when in-compatible/correct options
chosen during config. So, bite the bullet and redo the
kernel compliation from scratch!

-ishwar


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Re: How does one get ssh to not wait?

[Ben Russo]

Rob Sims wrote:
On Saturday 12 June 2004 07:22 pm, Dan Jacobson wrote:
How does one get ssh to not wait?
ssh somewhere <

sh -c "sleep 333 && rm -f file" &
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Re: OT: Debian/Linux Stickers

[Chris Metcalf]

I agree. If you look hard enough you can usually find Tux stickers on
eBay, so maybe I'll focus more on the metallic "Powered by..."
stickers.

I've got a few graphic designer friends I could probably convince into
designing something for me.

Can we get votes on what the "Powerd by..." line should be? 

Chris M.

On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 13:01:06 -0500, Alex Malinovich
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 12:32, Chris Metcalf wrote:
> > For years I've been searching for a good source of good Linux stickers
> > for my machines. Sure, we've got Thinkgeek or HackerStickers.com
> > (http://www.hackerstickers.com/products/sticker-debian-linux.shtml),
> > but other than that, the best I've been able to find is Tux case
> > badges.
> >
> > Does anybody know of a good source of linux/geeky stickers? In
> > particular, I'm looking for a nice tasteful sticker of Tux on a clear
> > background around 3" in size, or maybe a nice small "Powered by Linux"
> > or Debian logo suitable to stick on my laptops in the space where the
> > "Designed for Windows" sticker used to be.
> >
> > The other option is to look into getting them made. I've been thinking
> > about doing this for awhile. Larry Ewing's Tux graphic is public
> > domain, right? So I wouldn't have to worry about licensing issues. If
> > I could get enough people to commit, I could look into getting some
> > made. Pricing would probably be around $2 US per sticker for a lot of
> > 100-200 stickers, so I'd probably price them at $3 + shipping to
> > wherever you're from, and donate all the profits to Software in the
> > Public Interest. Any extras I'll probably try and sell on eBay or sell
> > in bulk off to LUGs.
> >
> > Let me know if you're interested...
> 
> I'd definitely be interested. If/when they're available put up a post
> with some info and I'll be all over it. :)
> 
> What I would REALLY like to see though, is an actual replacement for the
> "powered by Windows *" stickers. Something that's got the same metallic
> feel, with either Tux or a gnu on the sticker saying "powered by linux"
> or better yet "powered by Free Software". If you can get THOSE made I'll
> buy a dozen and I might be able to convince my employers to buy a few
> hundred. :)
> 
> --
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> Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY!
> Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the
> pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837
> 
> 
> 
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RE: Cron test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily

[R. Hamburg]

-Oorspronkelijk bericht-
Van: Joost De Cock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Verzonden: donderdag 24 juni 2004 10:36
Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Onderwerp: Re: Cron  test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report
/etc/cron.daily

On Thursday 24 June 2004 10:18, Robbert Hamburg hurled the following on the 
wire:
> Hi List,
>
> Today i found this error in my mail from one of our debian machines.
>
> It puzzles me a little since i didnt change anything in the config, and it
> is a fresh install. The output in the mail was:
>
> Subject: Cron  test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --
> report /etc/cron.daily
>
> > /etc/cron.daily/logrotate:
> > grep: writing output: Broken pipe
[...]

Run the logratate script manually. (in /etc/cron.daily) 
See what happens.

joost



I ran the logrotate entry no output

Seems like it is running when ran by hand.

Any clues ??

How do I check wheter cron has run at the specified time ??

Robbert. 


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Re: bash_completion, was :Migrating to Debian: questions

[Paul Scott]

Ricky Clarkson wrote:
If you haven't already, turn on bash_completion (smart tab completion)
by typing 'source /etc/bash_completion' or entering that into a
.bashrc or similar and restarting your bash.
Then do apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.
By  I mean press the tab key.  That should show you all the
kernel images available under woody (3.0R2).
 

Wow!!!  Where should I have learned about that one?  I've been using 
regular tab completion since I started using LInux but I hadn't known 
about that extension.  I didn't find a man page but I can find out what 
other sources are used by reading the script.

Of course with aptitude some of that is not as necessary but I will be 
trying tab in places where it didn't work before to see where else it works.

Thanks,
Paul Scott
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Re: system hangs for kernel 2.6.6

[Arthur H. Edwards]

To all:

Apparently I didn't cc the group. Thanks for all the messages. IN
desparation, I did a dist-upgrade. After that the kernel loaded without
incident. I hadn't upgraded for about two years (it's a node on a
cluster). 

Thanks again.

Art Edwards

On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 04:17:25PM -0600, Arthur H. Edwards wrote:
> My system hangs at the message
> 
> Setting up general console font...
> 
> Has anyone seen this? Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> 
> Art 
> 
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Re: OT: Debian/Linux Stickers

[Stephen Wuebker]

A couple of ideas...

1. Powered by: Swirlies!  (with the standard debian swirl logo)
2. Super Cow Powered  (with the apt-get cow)


Steve
http://duder.net/


On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 11:21:08 -0700, Chris Metcalf
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> I agree. If you look hard enough you can usually find Tux stickers on
> eBay, so maybe I'll focus more on the metallic "Powered by..."
> stickers.
> 
> I've got a few graphic designer friends I could probably convince into
> designing something for me.
> 
> Can we get votes on what the "Powerd by..." line should be?
> 
> Chris M.
> 
> 
> On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 13:01:06 -0500, Alex Malinovich
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 12:32, Chris Metcalf wrote:
> > > For years I've been searching for a good source of good Linux stickers
> > > for my machines. Sure, we've got Thinkgeek or HackerStickers.com
> > > (http://www.hackerstickers.com/products/sticker-debian-linux.shtml),
> > > but other than that, the best I've been able to find is Tux case
> > > badges.
> > >
> > > Does anybody know of a good source of linux/geeky stickers? In
> > > particular, I'm looking for a nice tasteful sticker of Tux on a clear
> > > background around 3" in size, or maybe a nice small "Powered by Linux"
> > > or Debian logo suitable to stick on my laptops in the space where the
> > > "Designed for Windows" sticker used to be.
> > >
> > > The other option is to look into getting them made. I've been thinking
> > > about doing this for awhile. Larry Ewing's Tux graphic is public
> > > domain, right? So I wouldn't have to worry about licensing issues. If
> > > I could get enough people to commit, I could look into getting some
> > > made. Pricing would probably be around $2 US per sticker for a lot of
> > > 100-200 stickers, so I'd probably price them at $3 + shipping to
> > > wherever you're from, and donate all the profits to Software in the
> > > Public Interest. Any extras I'll probably try and sell on eBay or sell
> > > in bulk off to LUGs.
> > >
> > > Let me know if you're interested...
> >
> > I'd definitely be interested. If/when they're available put up a post
> > with some info and I'll be all over it. :)
> >
> > What I would REALLY like to see though, is an actual replacement for the
> > "powered by Windows *" stickers. Something that's got the same metallic
> > feel, with either Tux or a gnu on the sticker saying "powered by linux"
> > or better yet "powered by Free Software". If you can get THOSE made I'll
> > buy a dozen and I might be able to convince my employers to buy a few
> > hundred. :)
> >
> > --
> > Alex Malinovich
> > Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY!
> > Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the
> > pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837
> >
> >
> > 
> > signature.asc - 1K
> 
> 
> >
> 
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Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?

[Rich]

As far as I am aware, the fact that you can see the directory structure
tells me that you've burned the CD as a bootable image. When I accidentally
burned a non-bootable image, all I could see was one big .iso file. I wasn't
using Roxio, but Nero 6. You can get free versions off the web, but they may
expire after a time. Personally, I find it a nightmare to use when trying to
burn bootables. As you seem to have found with Roxio, it's too easy to do it
the wrong way.

If you do decide to use it, I think the following sequence worked-
Open Nero burning rom and from the 'new compilation' wizard, select 'CD-ROM
(Boot)'
On the 'boot' tab, select 'Image file' and browse for your .iso
In the 'files of type:' section of the browser, select 'all files' to allow
you to find the .iso image.

Also, I used a CD-RW on an XP box and it worked, at least disk 1 of Sarge
did, I'm having trouble with disk 2, but I think that's for different
reasons.

Lastly, when burning the CD, burn it at a slow speed. I'd recommend x8 or
lower.

Failing that, all I can suggest is trying a different CD-RW.

Rich.

- Original Message -
From: "Steve Kleiser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 9:34 AM
Subject: Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?


>   Burning the CD as an image using Roxio Easy CD Creator 5 on my WindowsXP
> machine results in a CD with a directory structure that looks like it
> should, from Explorer (it's comparable to my purchased CD, which does
boot).
> Presumably, the image also provided any required system files. But can I
> confirm that from within WindowsXP? Also, is it OK to use a CD-RW, or is
> there some subtle difference? Does the CD need to formatted first, or
would
> that just impress "non-Linux-ness" onto it?
>
>   Are there any freeware utilities to burn an ISO image to CD (e.g.,
> iso2CD.exe or something) that run under Windows? The CD burning
applications
> appear to contain numerous features I don't need for this particular
> purpose, and which only serve as potential sources of error.
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 6:10 PM
> Subject: [debian] Re: [other] Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?
>
>
> > Steve Kleiser wrote:
> >
> > >So does that mean the official CD images are not bootable?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > No; they are bootable. But you have to burn them as an "image", not as
> > files. How to do that will depend on the burner software you're using.
> >
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> >
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Re: how to set up debian from fedora core 2

[Stefan Seefeld]

to follow up on my own mail, someone just pointed
out to me that I should set up the file '/etc/apt/sources.list'
followed by 'apt-get update' etc.
This seems to solve all issues, at least now I'm happily
continuing the installation.
To whomever it concerns: this should be added to the documentation at
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-preparing.en.html#s-linux-upgrade !
Regards,
Stefan
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