setting xterm title with -T doesn't work
Hi, When starting xterm I would like to set the title with -T "string" option, but it has no effect. Instead appears the title with the hostname and current path. Why does xterm ignore the -T option?
Re: xserver-xorg fatal configuration
On Sun, 5 Mar 2006 23:44:01 +0100 Tore Ericsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would much appreciate any idea (else than complete system > reinstallation) how to correct this fatal error. > > Background > == > Unfortunately I have made a grave mistake after an interrupted > Synaptic update of xserver-xorg by running "dpkg-reconfigure -a" instead of > "dpkg --configure -a" (as adviced; yes, by now I know, I'm learning much > though still a newbie). > > Effect > == > My Debian GNU/Linux 2.6.12-1-686 i686 (testing) is virtually impossible to > upgrade any more since some of the system scripts that should take part > seem to be corrupted or replaced with something unexpected and useless. The > nearly complete xserver-xorg configuration may not be modified in any > normal way (e.g. neither dpkg nor aptitude), and the sytem status > effectively prevents ANY installation/upgrading of any software with any > Debian tool. The only exception I know is package removal and reinstallation > using dpkg, where the configuration (I suppose) will be reused (in spite of > error messages, like those seen in the documentation below). > > System functionality > > Fortunately, the system functions OK so far and runs KDE, virtually without > any malfunction. This is true even after a lot of attempts to modify > xserver-xorg and related packages. The only thing that had to be done was > reinstalltion of the Nvidia display driver, which is carried out by other > means. > > Documentation > = > See output from "dpkg -i" in Appendix 1 below. It says a lot (to begin > with, the serious warning concerning linux-image-2.6.15-1-686 may probably > be taken as a separate problem since nothing is installed and should be > possible to resolve after upgrading has been made possible). The > significant information is probably what's concerning xserver-xorg (except > the "not updating /etc/X11/xorg.conf" since it has really been modified by > me much earlier. > > The recommendation to run "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" is not fruitful, > since such a reconfiguration is not possible: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cache/apt/archives# dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg > /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: xserver-xorg is broken or not fully installed > DESTROY created new reference to dead object ' Qt::VBoxLayout' during > global destruction. > /usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.4: undefined > symbol: _ZN18QMetaObjectCleanUpD1Ev > > Another anomaly is that virtually any use of dpkg-reconfigure is > impossible. This example is "dpkg-reconfigure am-utils": > (1) from a console: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# dpkg-reconfigure am-utils > dpkg-reconfigure: cannot connect to X server # no dialog, nothing done > (2) from gui terminal: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# dpkg-reconfigure am-utils # normal configuration dialog > Stopping automounter: amd . done. > Starting automounter: amd. > /usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.4: undefined > symbol: _ZN18QMetaObjectCleanUpD1Ev > > The "cannot connect to X server" shows up regularly. Any attempt to > remove and/or reinstall xserver-xorg (after pre-removal of > x-window-system-core due to dependency) ends up like(1). I haven't dared to > try it in gui mode. > > Appendix 1 > == > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cache/apt/archives# dpkg -i > xserver-xorg_6.9.0.dfsg.1-4_i386.deb > (Reading database ... > dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package > `linux-image-2.6.15-1-686' missing, assuming package has no files currently > installed. > 124552 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to replace xserver-xorg 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 (using > xserver-xorg_6.9.0.dfsg.1-4_i386.deb) ... > /usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.4: undefined > symbol: _ZN18QMetaObjectCleanUpD1Ev > dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 127 > dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... > /usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.4: undefined > symbol: _ZN18QMetaObjectCleanUpD1Ev > dpkg: error processing xserver-xorg_6.9.0.dfsg.1-4_i386.deb (--install): > subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 127 > Use of uninitialized value in join or string at > /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/Stack.pm line 104, line 13. > xserver-xorg postinst warning: not updating /etc/X11/X; no default X server >configured; run "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" to correct this > xserver-xorg postinst warning: not updating /etc/X11/xorg.conf; file has >been customized > System startup links for /etc/init.d/xserver-xorg already exist. > Use of uninitialized value in substitution (s///) at > /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Format/822.pm line 83, line 1. > Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at > /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Format/822.pm line 84, line 1. > /usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.4: undefined > symbol: _ZN18QMetaObjectCleanUpD1Ev >
poff script problem
If a user account is added to the dip group that user on reboot can use pon dsl-provider. That same user though cannot use poff dsl-provider, it has to be used by root. I just found this out so those using roaring penguin with dsl connections may want to take notice. Probably a good workaround for this would be to add the same user to /etc/shutdown.allow. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: poff script problem
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 04:12:25AM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > If a user account is added to the dip group that user on reboot can use > pon dsl-provider. That same user though cannot use poff dsl-provider, it > has to be used by root. I just found this out so those using roaring > penguin with dsl connections may want to take notice. Probably a good > workaround for this would be to add the same user to /etc/shutdown.allow. Hi Jude, I use pon and poff for my dialup(not dsl). I do not need root permission for either. From what I read in /usr/bin/poff, it finds the ppp process and 'kill's it. Not sure where the problem maybe. Cheers, Kev -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | debian.home.pipeline.com | | `. `' Operating System| go to counter.li.org and | | `-http://www.debian.org/ |be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: pgp.mit.edu | my NPO: cfsg.org | signature.asc Description: Digital signature
php4-ftp / ftp.so
Hi guys, I just migrated a bunch of websites from an old SLES9 server to a new Debian Sarge server, and I ran into a problem. Sarge doesn't have the php4-ftp module - I searched for it on the debian site too - it's not in sid or experimental either. How do I make the ftp functions work in apache2/php4 on Sarge? Currently I'm getting the following error when running an "testftp" script that the dev gave me: Warning: ftp_chdir(): /home/www/web3/web/: No such file or directory in /home/www/web3/web/testftp.php on line 24 Warning: ftp_mkdir(): mynewdirectory: Permission denied in /home/www/web3/web/testftp.php on line 25 Thanks Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: php4-ftp / ftp.so
Hi Hans, I looks like that you have change the directory structure during the migration. A plain "no such file or directory" notice says enough. Make sure that /home/www/web3/web/ is realy there, and with a little luck the mkdir error will vanish in to thin air aswell. ,Mark Hans du Plooy wrote: Hi guys, I just migrated a bunch of websites from an old SLES9 server to a new Debian Sarge server, and I ran into a problem. Sarge doesn't have the php4-ftp module - I searched for it on the debian site too - it's not in sid or experimental either. How do I make the ftp functions work in apache2/php4 on Sarge? Currently I'm getting the following error when running an "testftp" script that the dev gave me: Warning: ftp_chdir(): /home/www/web3/web/: No such file or directory in /home/www/web3/web/testftp.php on line 24 Warning: ftp_mkdir(): mynewdirectory: Permission denied in /home/www/web3/web/testftp.php on line 25 Thanks Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: User And Group create failures - sarge
Ok guys, Found the problem to this behaviour... The Debian::AdduserCommon module (from adduser-3.63) uses "nscd -i group" to invalidate the group name service cache when a new group is added. Well, it should. Unfortunately, it expects a file /var/run/nscd.pid to exist: my $nscdpid = "/var/run/nscd.pid"; # this function replaces startnscd and stopnscd (closes: #54726) if(defined($nscd) && -f $nscdpid) system ($nscd, "-i", "group"); This code is broken because nscd's pidfile is called /var/run/nscd, as least with nscd-2.3.5-13. So the group invalidation doesn't happen, and so if you add a user with adduser immediately after adding a group with addgroup, adduser may fail (and continue to fail when retried) for a small period of time. Consider using pidof(8) to identify running nscd processes. This is what the nscd startup script does. Regards Marlon Van der Linde -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: system hangs after 10 minutes
Title: Meddelande Thanks for replying! In the meantime (since november) I had re-installed SUSE-Linux which ran without showing the hanging-behaviour. After reinstalling Debian and trying with a different monitor the problem showed up again. What log-files should I have a look on? How should I run a trace, I dont know how to do that? /Hans-Jörg
Re: NVIDIA Freeze
Keats wrote: hello, i ve tried all i can do but whatever i do, if i use the driver "nvidia" it freeze my computer. i m tired of doing hard reboots after tests thanx if there is any suggestion (WW) Open ACPI failed (/proc/acpi/event) (Device or resource busy) (II) No APM support in BIOS or kernel I once had this exact same problem, and solved it by not loading the APM module until after I had exited X (i.e. when I was about to halt the system). The nVidia drivers and apm don't seem to be able to be loaded at the same time without freezing the system, I'm afraid. I reported it here when I discovered it, but I haven't followed up to see if any fixes were made to either program. Hope this helps. -- Best regards, Peter Hugosson-Miller -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
resolution:1440x900
Hi, I had a dual-boot system on my laptop( XP and SUSE 10). Last week I deinstalled SUSE, and installed Debian.For 3 days I have not been able to set the resolution to 1440x900. I`am very disappointed. Can you help me? Regards, Jozsef Miert fizetsz az internetert? Korlatlan, ingyenes internet hozzaferes a FreeStarttol Probald ki most! http://www.freestart.hu
Re: php4-ftp / ftp.so
On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 10:53 +0100, Mark Lijftogt wrote: > Hi Hans, > > I looks like that you have change the directory structure during the > migration. A plain > "no such file or directory" notice says enough. > > Make sure that /home/www/web3/web/ is realy there, and with a little > luck the mkdir > error will vanish in to thin air aswell. > > ,Mark Thanks, Mark, after I installed everything that starts with php4- ftp is now enabled (better cover my behind for future problems). I realised that ftp chroots the user to their home directory, so the path is wrong. I'm still getting one error: Warning: ftp_close() expects parameter 1 to be resource, null given in /home/www/web3/web/testftp.php on line 33 I am not a php programmer, so I'm not sure if this is a code problem or a problem on my (administrator) side. I'll include the code for reference sake. Thanks Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: User And Group create failures - sarge
Ok guys, Found the problem to this behaviour... The Debian::AdduserCommon module (from adduser-3.63) uses "nscd -i group" to invalidate the group name service cache when a new group is added. Well, it should. Unfortunately, it expects a file /var/run/nscd.pid to exist: my $nscdpid = "/var/run/nscd.pid"; # this function replaces startnscd and stopnscd (closes: #54726) if(defined($nscd) && -f $nscdpid) system ($nscd, "-i", "group"); This code is broken because nscd's pidfile is called /var/run/nscd, as least with nscd-2.3.5-13. So the group invalidation doesn't happen, and so if you add a user with adduser immediately after adding a group with addgroup, adduser may fail (and continue to fail when retried) for a small period of time. Consider using pidof(8) to identify running nscd processes. This is what the nscd startup script does. Regards Marlon Van der Linde -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gnome desktop environment removed on Upgrading using synaptic
Hi all, I have Debina Unstable running on my system. I tried to upgrade the system using synaptic from an official debian mirror. When I looked at the list of packages to be removed/installed/upgraded, I found that gnome-desktop-environment was to be removed. I thought the new version might have a replacement for this, so I went ahead with the updates. But, now my system has no desktop environment, and when I try to install gnome-desktop-environment, it says that it can't install since gnomemeeting is uninstallable. When I tried to install gnomemeeting, it says that it can't install because it depends on libopenh323-1.18.0 which is uninstallable. When I tried to look for the package libopen323 version 1.18.0, it is nowhere to be found. The current version available for this package is 1.15.6. Can anybody give me some idea how should I go about installing gnome-desktop-environment. Also, why are there dependcies of packages that have not yet been put into the repository. Thanks in advance Abhishek Verma -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xserver-xorg fatal configuration
Try purging the package and then reinstalling it, removing does just like you say, it doesnt delete the configuration files but purging does, try dpkg --purge xserver-xorg Or you can allso try out apt-get -f ... the -f switch is --fix-broken (it is usually used to fix broken dependencies but just perhaps it can help you here). Oli Þann 2006-03-05, 23:44:01 (+0100) skrifaði Tore Ericsson: > I would much appreciate any idea (else than complete system > reinstallation) how to correct this fatal error. > > Background > == > Unfortunately I have made a grave mistake after an interrupted > Synaptic update of xserver-xorg by running "dpkg-reconfigure -a" instead of > "dpkg --configure -a" (as adviced; yes, by now I know, I'm learning much > though still a newbie). > > Effect > == > My Debian GNU/Linux 2.6.12-1-686 i686 (testing) is virtually impossible to > upgrade any more since some of the system scripts that should take part > seem to be corrupted or replaced with something unexpected and useless. The > nearly complete xserver-xorg configuration may not be modified in any > normal way (e.g. neither dpkg nor aptitude), and the sytem status > effectively prevents ANY installation/upgrading of any software with any > Debian tool. The only exception I know is package removal and reinstallation > using dpkg, where the configuration (I suppose) will be reused (in spite of > error messages, like those seen in the documentation below). > > System functionality > > Fortunately, the system functions OK so far and runs KDE, virtually without > any malfunction. This is true even after a lot of attempts to modify > xserver-xorg and related packages. The only thing that had to be done was > reinstalltion of the Nvidia display driver, which is carried out by other > means. > > Documentation > = > See output from "dpkg -i" in Appendix 1 below. It says a lot (to begin > with, the serious warning concerning linux-image-2.6.15-1-686 may probably > be taken as a separate problem since nothing is installed and should be > possible to resolve after upgrading has been made possible). The > significant information is probably what's concerning xserver-xorg (except > the "not updating /etc/X11/xorg.conf" since it has really been modified by > me much earlier. > > The recommendation to run "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" is not fruitful, > since such a reconfiguration is not possible: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cache/apt/archives# dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg > /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: xserver-xorg is broken or not fully installed > DESTROY created new reference to dead object ' Qt::VBoxLayout' during > global destruction. > /usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.4: undefined > symbol: _ZN18QMetaObjectCleanUpD1Ev > > Another anomaly is that virtually any use of dpkg-reconfigure is > impossible. This example is "dpkg-reconfigure am-utils": > (1) from a console: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# dpkg-reconfigure am-utils > dpkg-reconfigure: cannot connect to X server # no dialog, nothing done > (2) from gui terminal: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# dpkg-reconfigure am-utils # normal configuration dialog > Stopping automounter: amd . done. > Starting automounter: amd. > /usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.4: undefined > symbol: _ZN18QMetaObjectCleanUpD1Ev > > The "cannot connect to X server" shows up regularly. Any attempt to > remove and/or reinstall xserver-xorg (after pre-removal of > x-window-system-core due to dependency) ends up like(1). I haven't dared to > try it in gui mode. > > Appendix 1 > == > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cache/apt/archives# dpkg -i > xserver-xorg_6.9.0.dfsg.1-4_i386.deb > (Reading database ... > dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package > `linux-image-2.6.15-1-686' missing, assuming package has no files currently > installed. > 124552 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to replace xserver-xorg 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 (using > xserver-xorg_6.9.0.dfsg.1-4_i386.deb) ... > /usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.4: undefined > symbol: _ZN18QMetaObjectCleanUpD1Ev > dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 127 > dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... > /usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.4: undefined > symbol: _ZN18QMetaObjectCleanUpD1Ev > dpkg: error processing xserver-xorg_6.9.0.dfsg.1-4_i386.deb (--install): > subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 127 > Use of uninitialized value in join or string at > /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/Stack.pm line 104, line 13. > xserver-xorg postinst warning: not updating /etc/X11/X; no default X server >configured; run "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" to correct this > xserver-xorg postinst warning: not updating /etc/X11/xorg.conf; file has >been customized > System startup links for /etc/init.d/xserver-xorg already exist. > Use of uninitialized value i
Re: ERP & accounting software
On (02/03/06 18:47), Bernard Fay wrote: > I need suggestion for ERP and accounting softwares running on Linux and > if it could be package for Debian it would be a plus. It would be for a > small to medium business. You may want to check out: http://www.jazzerp.org/ http://tinyerp.com/ The latter is packaged for debian Regards Clive -- www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... ...strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gnome desktop environment removed on Upgrading using synaptic
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 03:38:19PM +0530, Abhishek Verma wrote: > Hi all, > > I have Debina Unstable running on my system. I tried to upgrade the > system using synaptic from an official debian mirror. When I looked at > the list of packages to be removed/installed/upgraded, I found that > gnome-desktop-environment was to be removed. I thought the new version > might have a replacement for this, so I went ahead with the updates. > > But, now my system has no desktop environment, and when I try to install > gnome-desktop-environment, it says that it can't install since > gnomemeeting is uninstallable. When I tried to install gnomemeeting, it > says that it can't install because it depends on libopenh323-1.18.0 > which is uninstallable. When I tried to look for the package libopen323 > version 1.18.0, it is nowhere to be found. The current version available > for this package is 1.15.6. > > Can anybody give me some idea how should I go about installing > gnome-desktop-environment. Also, why are there dependcies of packages > that have not yet been put into the repository. Hi Abhishek, from time to time, all the required packages for (in this case) gnome are not avaiable when you last did a 'apt-get update'. This should be remidieded in the near future, this is just expected behavior for the unstable branch of Debian. So, wait a few days and 'apt-get update' and try again. For more immediate and up-to-date info, try installing irrsi-text or some other irc client and chat in #debian. Cheers, Kev -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | debian.home.pipeline.com | | `. `' Operating System| go to counter.li.org and | | `-http://www.debian.org/ |be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: pgp.mit.edu | my NPO: cfsg.org | signature.asc Description: Digital signature
nautilus able to access windows machines
Hi, Yet another issue. Now that I have upgraded nautilus, I am unable to access windows machines using the smb protocol. It flashes an error saying invalid location even though the location exists and can be accessed from other machines. Also, I am able to ping that machine. Could someone please point out the problem. Thanks Abhishek Verma -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sudo doesn't set HOME
Tadeusz Bak wrote: On Sun, 5 Mar 2006, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: On Sarge since sudo 1.6.8p7-1.3 it is. Hugo, I am sorry, but I am not sure what do you mean. Does sudo 1.6.8p7-1.3 set the HOME variable on your system, or it doesn't and this is intentional? If the later is the case what is the reason for this? Did I open some security hole by resetting the environment variables in sudo? Thanks, Tad Tad, 1.6.8p7-1.3 does not set some ENV variables because it was deemed this was a security risk. As a result it functions differently than previous versions and you have to fiddle with sudoers to get it to behave as it did before. H -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ERP & accounting software
just check here http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/tools.htmClive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On (02/03/06 18:47), Bernard Fay wrote:> I need suggestion for ERP and accounting softwares running on Linux and> if it could be package for Debian it would be a plus. It would be for a> small to medium business.You may want to check out:http://www.jazzerp.org/http://tinyerp.com/The latter is packaged for debianRegardsClive-- www.clivemenzies.co.uk ..strategies for business-- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Messenger NEW - crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide with voicemail
Re: Sudden sound performance problem
Adam Porter wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've been running Debian full-time on my desktop for over a year now, with a combination of testing and unstable (mostly testing). At the moment I'm running 2.6.15, compiled with Debian's default config except for turning on a couple of things so I could use the atop monitor. I've used ALSA from the very beginning with my two SB Live! Value cards, and it works perfectly. Well, it has, but in just the past week I've noticed very strange audio performance problems. If CPU usage spikes for a few seconds, the audio tends to skip (when I'm listening to XMMS, for example). This has *never* happened before. Another thing that happens is that if I'm watching a video, and the video player app freezes (which hasn't happened like this until now, either), the audio will loop over about a quarter-second's data until either it gets more audio to play, or the app that was playing it is killed. It sounds like the same kind of thing that happens if you're listening to something and the whole computer freezes, except the rest of the system is not frozen, and it can be stopped by killing the app. Right. When you use the kernel from here: http://kernel.kolivas.org/ those problems go away. My test is running a mondo backup that does 100% CPU *and* a clock with a second tick *and* XMMS and the sound should never skip, and it does not. H -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: php4-ftp / ftp.so
Hans du Plooy wrote: I'm still getting one error: Warning: ftp_close() expects parameter 1 to be resource, null given in /home/www/web3/web/testftp.php on line 33 Ah.. debugging.. not so much fun for us non-coders. The error msg says enough though. ftp_close() should contain the connection.. and in this script is refers a $conn_id . Now, I can't find the $conn_id anywhere, so null IS expected. A quick look suggests that you should change the $conn_id in $connection, as $connection contains the ftp_connect + info for the connection it self. I could just as well be off base here, I can't say I'm a coder aswell. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
XML parser
Hi all, are there any XML parser library packages for C and C++? thx! Deephay
Random crashs under debian testing
AS: Really sorry if you get this message twice. I first posted it 04.03.2006 10:53, but saw that that my original message had not been distributed over usenet outside of my provider. So I post it again hoping for better luck. Hi, Since a few weeks (looks like to me latest KDE upgrade, but could be unrelated), I experience crashed of my Debian testing machine. About one per week, if not more. Sorry for the length of this message, but I wanted to give you as much information as I could. SOME GENERIC REMARKS - CRASH NEVER OCCURS WHEN THE MACHINE IS UNATTENDED (mine is up 24/24) or in remote text access (I do remote backups, have a CVS server on it, and such: never crashed during that kind of operations). - IT USUALLY CRASH WHEN OR JUST AFTER I SWITCH X SESSION - MODIFICATION IN XSESSION HANDLING DUE TO KDM UPGRADE A few weeks ago, I had an Xsession file as follow (I use kdm): # cat /etc/kde3/kdm/Xservers [ removing comment lines] :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg :0 vt7 -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp :1 local /usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg :1 vt8 -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp :2 local /usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg :2 vt9 -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp :3 local /usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg :3 vt10 -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp -config /etc/X11/xorg-video.conf When latest kdm version arrived, this didn't worked any more, and I added in /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc: StaticServers=:0,:1,:2 (I don't know yet how to specify a different config file for the server). -> Crashes never occurred before that change (of course I cant swear that the cause is related to this). SYMPTOMS BEFORE CRASHES === - Text consoles becomes unreadable. Either the screen is black, only cursor shown, or strange graphics in black/gray/white filling the screen. In both case, except of the display, the terminal seems to be functionals. - Pixmap under X11 are sometimes filled with random data found in memory. Eg. the KDE bar is filled with what looks like to be some Firefox page displayed some time ago. - When switching session (by alt-ctrl-fn) a temporary black screen appears (not unusual) but there is blue-green dotted cursor as wide as the screen that can be moved with the mouse. Sometimes the crash occurs on that screen. -> Those symptoms can last pretty long before a crash occurs: as I'm writing this message, the text console are black again. LOGS TRACES LEFT AFTER REBOOT = I didn't had much in the logs on previous crashes, but last one let good traces, I cant interpret them, but maybe some can. - From /var/log/messages: Mar 4 09:18:04 patois kernel: [ cut here ] Mar 4 09:18:04 patois kernel: Modules linked in: binfmt_misc lp thermal fan button processor ac battery ipt_TOS ipt_MASQUERADE ipt_REJECT ipt_LOG ip6table_filter ip6_tables ipt_state ipt_pkttype iptable_raw ipt_CLASSIFY ipt_CONNMARK ipt_connmark ipt_owner ipt_recent ipt_iprange ipt_physdev ipt_multiport ipt_conntrack iptable_mangle ip_nat_irc ip_nat_ftp iptable_nat ip_nat ip_conntrack_irc ip_conntrack_ftp ip_conntrack nfnetlink rsrc_nonstatic pcmcia_core ipt_TCPMSS ipt_tcpmss iptable_filter ip_tables pppoe pppox ipv6 ppp_generic slhc dm_mod w83627hf hwmon_vid eeprom i2c_isa snd_seq_dummy snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq usbkbd ide_generic usblp snd_mpu401 snd_mpu401_uart snd_rawmidi snd_seq_device joydev irtty_sir ns558 snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97_codec snd_ac97_bus analog snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss sir_dev psmouse i2c_sis96x snd_pcm snd_timer snd irda gameport serio_raw pcspkr floppy i2c_core rtc sis_agp ide_cd cdrom agpgart crc_ccitt ohci_hcd ehci_hcd shpchp pci_hotplug sis900 mii parport_pc parp Mar 4 09:18:04 patois kernel: rt usbcore ne2k_pci 8390 soundcore snd_page_alloc ext3 jbd mbcache ide_disk generic sis5513 ide_core evdev mousedev Mar 4 09:18:04 patois kernel: CPU:0 Mar 4 09:18:04 patois kernel: EIP:0060:[unmap_page_range+43/227] Not tainted VLI Mar 4 09:18:04 patois kernel: EFLAGS: 00010206 (2.6.15-1-k7) Mar 4 09:18:04 patois kernel: EIP is at unmap_page_range+0x2b/0xe3 Mar 4 09:18:04 patois kernel: eax: db457e64 ebx: b8e7efe8 ecx: 0001 edx: Mar 4 09:18:04 patois kernel: esi: c39f88b4 edi: b7fa1000 ebp: db457e98 esp: db457e2c Mar 4 09:18:04 patois kernel: ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Mar 4 09:18:04 patois kernel: Process bash (pid: 20920, threadinfo=db456000 task=c4824030) Mar 4 09:18:04 patois kernel: Stack: db457e64 b8e7efe8 c39f88b4 b7fa1000 db457e98 c013b79f c032443c c39f88b4 Mar 4 09:18:04 patois kernel:b8e7efe8 b7fa1000 db457e64 0001 0040 db457e98 Mar 4 09:18:04 patois kernel:d9649a14 d01bc2a0 0001 c013f0a7 db457e98 d9649a14 Mar 4 09:18:04 patois kernel: Call Trace: Mar 4 09:18:04 patois kernel: [unmap_vmas+167/339] unmap_vmas+0xa7/0x153 Mar 4 09:18:04 patois kernel: [exit_mmap+79/179] exit_mmap+0x4f/0xb3 Mar 4 09:
Using setenv DISPLAY
I'm running sarge, logged in as user using text log in and then startx. For no apparent reason, I could no longer use sudo to start gtk apps without "cannot open display error". I start by checking what my DISPLAY value is, but encountered an anomaly: $ echo $DISPLAY :0.0 $ sudo echo $DISPLAY :0.0 That seemed OK, but when I did: $ env | grep DISPLAY. DISPLAY=:0.0 $ sudo env | grep DISPLAY [nothing returned] Why do I get inconsistent results? In the first case, the value of DISPLAY is known, but in the second when I use env, it is not found in the environment accessed by sudo. At least something is wrong, so I set out to do (teufel is the host name): # sudo setenv DISPLAY teufel:0 but I get the error, "command not found". Shouldn't it be accessible from a bash prompt when using sudo? I suppose I could also do: $ sudo export DISPLAY=`teufel`:0.0 but wanted to clear up the previous questions first. Am I correct to assume that the host name is optional when using either setenv or export? Is it true that setenv command should not be supplied the screen number "0", but that export must have it, as in my examples above? -- Haines Brown KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nautilus able to access windows machines
Abhishek Verma wrote: Hi, Yet another issue. Now that I have upgraded nautilus, I am unable to access windows machines using the smb protocol. It flashes an error saying invalid location even though the location exists and can be accessed from other machines. Also, I am able to ping that machine. Try dropping to a command prompt and running "smbclient -L "; do you see the shares on that Windows box? -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: php4-ftp / ftp.so [solved]
On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 13:28 +0100, Mark Lijftogt wrote: > Hans du Plooy wrote: > >Warning: ftp_close() expects parameter 1 to be resource, null given > >in /home/www/web3/web/testftp.php on line 33 > > > > > > > Ah.. debugging.. not so much fun for us non-coders. > The error msg says enough though. ftp_close() should contain the > connection.. and in this > script is refers a $conn_id . You're more or less confirming what I suspected - I also couldn't see @conn_id being declared or assigned a value anywhere. Anyways, thanks for the help! Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Using setenv DISPLAY
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 08:08:35AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > $ echo $DISPLAY > :0.0 > > $ sudo echo $DISPLAY > :0.0 > That seemed OK, but when I did: > $ sudo env | grep DISPLAY > [nothing returned] > Why do I get inconsistent results? In the first case, the > value of DISPLAY is known, but in the second when I use > env, it is not found in the environment accessed by sudo. In the first case, the shell expands $DISPLAY on the command-line before sudo is executed. sudo no longer lets DISPLAY through without you telling it to first: actually, sudo has changed from a blacklist to a whitelist model for environment variables. see http://bugs.debian.org/349729 for instructions on workarounds (and there's quite a few similar/related bugs filed against sudo at the moment, too) -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sudo doesn't set HOME
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 04:21:05AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > 1.6.8p7-1.3 does not set some ENV variables because it was > deemed this was a security risk. As a result it functions > differently than previous versions and you have to fiddle > with sudoers to get it to behave as it did before. More precicely, 1.6.8p7-1.3 moves from a blacklist model (where known-dangerous environment variables were stripped) to a whitelist model (where you have to explicitly name the environment variables to retain in the sudoers file). -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: setting xterm title with -T doesn't work
At 1141639478, Andras Lorincz wrote: > Hi, > > When starting xterm I would like to set the title with -T "string" > option, but it has no effect. Instead appears the title with the > hostname and current path. Why does xterm ignore the -T option? What window manager are you using? Are you 100% sure xterm is the terminal being used? How are you starting xterm? -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: poff script problem
Kevin Mark writes: > I use pon and poff for my dialup(not dsl). I do not need root permission > for either. From what I read in /usr/bin/poff, it finds the ppp process > and 'kill's it. Not sure where the problem maybe. Unfortunately, Poff _does_ need root permission when you are running PPPOE. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NVIDIA Freeze + not an nvidia problem ?
hello i ve tried to do a : dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg it ask me few questions but after the "dri" question, it freezes it's not due to my answer, i ve tried "yes" and "no" and it's doing the same... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: setting xterm title with -T doesn't work
> Hi,>> When starting xterm I would like to set the title with -T "string" > option, but it has no effect. Instead appears the title with the> hostname and current path. Why does xterm ignore the -T option?What window manager are you using?Are you 100% sure xterm is the terminal being used? How are you starting xterm?I usually use Fvwm but I tryied also in KDE. I'm starting with the xterm command: xterm -T "something"
Re: NVIDIA Freeze + not an nvidia problem ?
hello i ve tried to do a : dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg it ask me few questions but after the "dri" question, it freezes it's not due to my answer, i ve tried "yes" and "no" and it's doing the same... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: setting xterm title with -T doesn't work
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 10:04:38AM +0200, Andras Lorincz wrote: > When starting xterm I would like to set the title with -T "string" option, > but it has no effect. Instead appears the title with the hostname and > current path. Why does xterm ignore the -T option? It doesn't. Your shell prompt is setting the title to what you see after xterm sets it to whatever you're putting in with '-T'. -- Marc Wilson | Most people have a mind that's open by appointment [EMAIL PROTECTED] | only. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Festival MIF-SCIENCES Havana
Title: Dear Colleagues/Estimados colegas: Dear Colleagues/Estimados colegas: We are pleased to send you the Web Site of the Movie and Scientific Video Festival MIF-SCIENCES in HAVANA, to be held in the Comodoro Hotel, Havana City, Cuba, from june 6 to 11 of 2006./Nos complace enviarles el sitio web del Festival de Cine y Video Científico MIF-SCIENCES en La HABANA, a celebrarse en el Hotel Comodoro, Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba, del 6 al 11 de junio de 2006. http://www.cnic.edu.cu/mif-sciences/mif-sciences.htm (Spanish Version) http://www.cnic.edu.cu/mif-sciences/mif-sciences-eng.htm (English Version) We hope to see you in Havana./Nos vemos en La Habana Kind Regards, Clara del Carmen Llanes Sánchez. President of the Organizing Committee. National Center for Scientific Research. Havana, Cuba. http://www.cnic.edu.cu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Michel Alloul. President of the Scientific Committee. http://www.mif-sciences.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
USB 802.11g wireless adapter for Debian
Can anyone recommend an 802.11g USB wireless adapter which is supported by the Linux kernel? I am running the latest Debian testing on i386. Currently I use a device supported by ndiswrapper & the windows driver but this situation isn't ideal. For example I have to reinstate the kernel module every time I upgrade the kernel. And the windows drivers are non-free. And its all a bit delicate in terms of stability. I've spent quite a lot of time on a search engine (google) reading up on linux wireless support and reviewing the archives of mailing lists. I've uncovered some hardware compatibility lists & discussions but up-to-date recommendations seem to be rare. Information from 2004 is clearly not going to help me with chipsets changing as quickly as they do! If it makes any difference to the availability of hardware Im in the UK but happy to order online anything that would work. Any help much appreciated. Cheers, Andrew. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What IRC is the easy to set up on Debian?
Hi, I have a small group of friends and we are wanting to set up an irc server for us, I am wanting to know what irc is the easy to set up and has dcc working by default. Also what does it take to get jabber working. Thanks, Chuck -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XML parser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Deephay wrote: > Hi all, > > are there any XML parser library packages for C and C++? thx! libxml2 and libxml2-dev are probably what you need. The C library is fully functional, and there is another project underway to get them up and running with C++ Related site is http://www.xmlsoft.org To search for packages in future try using "apt-cache search package_keyword". For example to find an xml library type "apt-cache search xml | grep library" - -- Niall Donegan niall\at\moybella\dot\net Public-Key: http://moybella.net/~niall/public.gpg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEDFBktYqd1KeuQA8RArw8AJ9tUswYKJujpxoU2RqlN0NLsYqXGQCcCVdN PS0uYxE4kSutkhIhK9BBl04= =wpe9 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-proxy-import help
#include * Johan Daine [Sat, Mar 04 2006, 08:18:47AM]: > Hi everyone, > > I am making some tests with apt-proxy. > apt-proxy is working perfectly. I have been purging gpm, removing the > 2006/03/04 08:16 CET [-] [apt_pkg] No Packages files available for > security backend > 2006/03/04 08:16 CET [-] [apt_pkg] No Packages files available for > debian-non-US backend > 2006/03/04 08:16 CET [-] [import] libconfigfile-perl_1.2.1_all.deb > skipped - no suitable backend found > > and so on... > Any clue to solve this problem? > Thanks in advance. apt-proxy is poorly documented WRT error messages. I guess this happens because it needs Packages files from the backend directories to get the paths of that files. No packages files -> no path data -> no clue where to store the files (to have correct url) -> apt-proxy confusion. Solution: update the Packages files by running "apt-get update" on clients, so apt-proxy would need to download them at least once. (self-add...) I am maintainer of apt-cacher and the current version will let you import anything, but may deliver wrong files later. The next version will track the files in a similar way that apt-proxy does. Eduard. -- Emperor Cartagia: [to Londo Mollari] The trouble with being infallible is that you have to deal with everyone else making mistakes. -- Quotes from Babylon 5 -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Generate thumbnails
Hey; What is any easy to use program to generate thumbnails from a 'full sized' image? I have tried many programs found using apt-cache search BUT either I am to stoopid to figure them out or they really don't do what I want. Fore xample: convert image.JPG -resize 10% images.jpg complains. THANKS RbtBotL Craig - ><> oBU SysAdmin /|\ 607 777 6827 ^ Tot Ziens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gnome desktop environment removed on Upgrading using synaptic
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 05:29:08AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: >On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 03:38:19PM +0530, Abhishek Verma wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I have Debina Unstable running on my system. I tried to upgrade the >> system using synaptic from an official debian mirror. When I looked at >> the list of packages to be removed/installed/upgraded, I found that >> gnome-desktop-environment was to be removed. I thought the new version >> might have a replacement for this, so I went ahead with the updates. >> >> But, now my system has no desktop environment, and when I try to install >> gnome-desktop-environment, it says that it can't install since >> gnomemeeting is uninstallable. When I tried to install gnomemeeting, it >> says that it can't install because it depends on libopenh323-1.18.0 >> which is uninstallable. When I tried to look for the package libopen323 >> version 1.18.0, it is nowhere to be found. The current version available >> for this package is 1.15.6. >> >> Can anybody give me some idea how should I go about installing >> gnome-desktop-environment. Also, why are there dependcies of packages >> that have not yet been put into the repository. >Hi Abhishek, >from time to time, all the required packages for (in this case) gnome >are not avaiable when you last did a 'apt-get update'. This should be >remidieded in the near future, this is just expected behavior for the >unstable branch of Debian. So, wait a few days and 'apt-get update' and >try again. For more immediate and up-to-date info, try installing >irrsi-text or some other irc client and chat in #debian. This particular problem seems to be related to gnomemetting requireing a package that isn't available anymore. It's been like this for well over a week already. Bug #353844. I did the same thing as the original poster but I managed to get parts back by selectively downgrading a few packages to testing. /M -- Magnus Therning(OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://therning.org/magnus Software is not manufactured, it is something you write and publish. Keep Europe free from software patents, we do not want censorship by patent law on written works. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. -- Albert Einstein pgpJqowE2V3dz.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Generate thumbnails
On 3/6/06, Craig M. Houck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What is any easy to use program to generate thumbnails from a 'full sized'
> image?
convert or mogrify is probably the easiest.
> I have tried many programs found using apt-cache search BUT either I am to
> stoopid to figure them out or they really don't do what I want.
>
> Fore xample:
> convert image.JPG -resize 10% images.jpg complains.
It complains for two reasons:
1) The options are supposed to come before the input file (though it
might be smart enough to figure this out; and
2) Your -resize option is under-specified.
Try
convert -resize 10x10% image.JPG images.jpg
or
cp image.JPG images.jpg
mogrify -scale 10x10% images.jpg
I have a perl script that generates web pages for digital photos that
includes the snippet:
foreach $a (@files)
{
`cp $a small/`;
`mogrify -scale 30x30% small/$a`;
`cp $a thumbnail/`;
`mogrify -scale 4x4% thumbnail/$a`;
...
}
That's for 5Mpx images, which is why the thumbnail size is only 4%.
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Re: Installing fonts
On 3/5/06, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > L.V.Gandhi wrote: > > > > > You put the fonts in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/win98 for all users if > > you have root access or put it in ~/.fonts and then do > > dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig. > > Doesn't "dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig" also need root access to run? yes. -- L.V.Gandhi http://lvgandhi.tripod.com/ linux user No.205042
Re: Generate thumbnails
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 10:22:50AM -0500, Craig M. Houck wrote: >Hey; > >What is any easy to use program to generate thumbnails from a 'full sized' >image? > >I have tried many programs found using apt-cache search BUT either I am to >stoopid to figure them out or they really don't do what I want. > >Fore xample: >convert image.JPG -resize 10% images.jpg complains. How does it complain? I just ran that on a JPEG here and it worked beautifully. /M -- Magnus Therning(OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://therning.org/magnus Software is not manufactured, it is something you write and publish. Keep Europe free from software patents, we do not want censorship by patent law on written works. You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered. -- Lyndon Johnson pgpkOdHMGn4sm.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Generate thumbnails
Stii having problems ...
convert -resize 10x10% DSCF0134.JPG DSCF0134.jpg
convert: no decode delegate for this image format `DSCF0134.JPG'.
cp DSCF0134.jpg dscf0134.jpg
mogrify -scale 10x10% dscf0134.jpg
mogrify: no decode delegate for this image format `dscf0134.jpg'.
On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 10:37 -0500, Michael Marsh wrote:
> On 3/6/06, Craig M. Houck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > What is any easy to use program to generate thumbnails from a 'full sized'
> > image?
>
> convert or mogrify is probably the easiest.
>
> > I have tried many programs found using apt-cache search BUT either I am to
> > stoopid to figure them out or they really don't do what I want.
> >
> > Fore xample:
> > convert image.JPG -resize 10% images.jpg complains.
>
> It complains for two reasons:
> 1) The options are supposed to come before the input file (though it
> might be smart enough to figure this out; and
> 2) Your -resize option is under-specified.
>
> Try
>
> convert -resize 10x10% image.JPG images.jpg
>
> or
>
> cp image.JPG images.jpg
> mogrify -scale 10x10% images.jpg
>
> I have a perl script that generates web pages for digital photos that
> includes the snippet:
> foreach $a (@files)
> {
> `cp $a small/`;
> `mogrify -scale 30x30% small/$a`;
> `cp $a thumbnail/`;
> `mogrify -scale 4x4% thumbnail/$a`;
> ...
> }
>
> That's for 5Mpx images, which is why the thumbnail size is only 4%.
>
> --
> Michael A. Marsh
> http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh
> http://mamarsh.blogspot.com
>
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Re: Generate thumbnails
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 10:37:30AM -0500, Michael Marsh wrote: On 3/6/06, Craig M. Houck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What is any easy to use program to generate thumbnails from a 'full sized' image? convert or mogrify is probably the easiest. I have tried many programs found using apt-cache search BUT either I am to stoopid to figure them out or they really don't do what I want. Fore xample: convert image.JPG -resize 10% images.jpg complains. It complains for two reasons: 1) The options are supposed to come before the input file (though it might be smart enough to figure this out; and 2) Your -resize option is under-specified. The options are most definitely NOT supposed to come before the input file. This changed in version 6.x to make the ImageMagick syntax more consistent. The old behavior still works in certain situations, but there are no guarantees. -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://steveblock.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What IRC is the easy to set up on Debian?
On Monday, 06.03.2006 at 09:59 -0500, Chuck Payne wrote: > I have a small group of friends and we are wanting to set up an irc > server for us, I am wanting to know what irc is the easy to set up and > has dcc working by default. Also what does it take to get jabber working. apt-get install dancer-ircd apt-get install jabber should do it :-) Be sure to check the docs for both. Minimal changes to /etc/ files will be required. Do you really need both? Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10 6769 CD28 DA92 signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Generate thumbnails
On 3/6/06, Steve Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The options are most definitely NOT supposed to come before the input > file. This changed in version 6.x to make the ImageMagick syntax more > consistent. The old behavior still works in certain situations, but > there are no guarantees. Thanks for the correction. I was working from the man page on my RHEL box at work, which is for version 5.5.6. I guess that means my scripts are now broken. -- Michael A. Marsh http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh http://mamarsh.blogspot.com
Re: Generate thumbnails
On 3/6/06, chouck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stii having problems ... > > convert -resize 10x10% DSCF0134.JPG DSCF0134.jpg > convert: no decode delegate for this image format `DSCF0134.JPG'. > > cp DSCF0134.jpg dscf0134.jpg > mogrify -scale 10x10% dscf0134.jpg > mogrify: no decode delegate for this image format `dscf0134.jpg'. Have you tried googling for this error message? I get a lot of results, but without knowing your particular configuration, I couldn't say whether any of them is relevant. -- Michael A. Marsh http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh http://mamarsh.blogspot.com
Re: Generate thumbnails
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 11:03:26AM -0500, Michael Marsh wrote: On 3/6/06, Steve Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The options are most definitely NOT supposed to come before the input file. This changed in version 6.x to make the ImageMagick syntax more consistent. The old behavior still works in certain situations, but there are no guarantees. Thanks for the correction. I was working from the man page on my RHEL box at work, which is for version 5.5.6. I guess that means my scripts are now broken. That happened to me when I switched from a Mac OS X host with 5.somethingoranother from Fink to my current Debian host with 6.0.6.2.something. I had to rebuild several scripts that had 'mysteriously' stopped working. The old syntax does something work, but not always, and my scripts all broke because of the change. -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://steveblock.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What IRC is the easy to set up on Debian?
Dave Ewart wrote: On Monday, 06.03.2006 at 09:59 -0500, Chuck Payne wrote: I have a small group of friends and we are wanting to set up an irc server for us, I am wanting to know what irc is the easy to set up and has dcc working by default. Also what does it take to get jabber working. apt-get install dancer-ircd apt-get install jabber should do it :-) Be sure to check the docs for both. Minimal changes to /etc/ files will be required. Do you really need both? Dave. No, I rather use jabber because then I can get everyone (Linux, Mac, Windoze users) to use Gaim so we can host rooms, we are looking for something to replace winmx. Thanks. Chuck -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What IRC is the easy to set up on Debian?
On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 09:59 -0500, Chuck Payne wrote: > I have a small group of friends and we are wanting to set up an irc > server for us, I am wanting to know what irc is the easy to set up and > has dcc working by default. Also what does it take to get jabber working. I tried a few different ones and ngircd seems to be the easiest. DCC appears to be working, and I know I haven't touched any settings related to it. bma -- Benjamin A'Lee http://benalee.co.uk/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Installing fonts
Apparently, _L.V.Gandhi_, on 03/06/2006 10:42 AM,typed: On 3/5/06, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: L.V.Gandhi wrote: You put the fonts in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/win98 for all users if you have root access or put it in ~/.fonts and then do dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig. Doesn't "dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig" also need root access to run? yes. Right ... just wanted to verify. For a per user basis, here is what I do at my school where I have installed fonts in my ~/.fonts directory: 1. Copy the ttf fonts in ~/.fonts 2. run fc-cache -fv ~/.fonts and I can then see the fonts. For system wide fonts, I guess you put all the fonts in /usr/local/share/fonts/ and tell the X system that this directory contains the fonts and then run fc-cache -fv. How to tell the system where to look for fonts? I suggest one should search google (I am not sure, and don't want to guess). GL, ->HS -- (Remove all underscores,if any, from my email address to get the correct one. Apologies for the inconvenience but this is to reduce spam.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sudo doesn't set HOME
Jon Dowland wrote: > On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 04:21:05AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom > wrote: > > 1.6.8p7-1.3 does not set some ENV variables because it was > > deemed this was a security risk. As a result it functions > > differently than previous versions and you have to fiddle > > with sudoers to get it to behave as it did before. > > More precicely, 1.6.8p7-1.3 moves from a blacklist model > (where known-dangerous environment variables were stripped) > to a whitelist model (where you have to explicitly name the > environment variables to retain in the sudoers file). > hi; having a Debian 3.1r1 installed and doing; $ sudo -V Sudo version 1.6.8p7 I see I have 1.6.8p7 .. but am I to presume that no -1.3 (or any minor version or revision?) is not displayed because it's non-existant on my system and there's no need to display -0.0, where -1.3 resides at end of version ?. IOW - I don't have the latest version?... and my minor version could be considered 1.6.8p7-0.0 ?? I'm new to linux and just curious and trying to understand the inner workings. Thanks __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Improperly Configured Screen ?
I have just installed Debian, but my system does not boot properly under Linux. The following error message box appears when booting: Failed to start X server (your graphical interface). It is likely not set up properly. Would you like to view the X Server output to diagnose the problem? Just before this message appears, the last line scrolled on the booting screen is : Testing instable MonNomDePc tty1 Unfortunately the system does not react to any keyboard key. I cannot view the log for diagnostic and I have to turn off the system completely. I am a new user of Debian/Linus. Is there some command I should type to solve this problem? If so, which one and how? A new user of Debian/Linux SPEL
Re: setting xterm title with -T doesn't work
>On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 10:04:38AM +0200, Andras Lorincz wrote: >> When starting xterm I would like to set the title with -T >>"string" option, >> but it has no effect. Instead appears the title with the hostname >>and >> current path. Why does xterm ignore the -T option? > >It doesn't. Your shell prompt is setting the title to what you see >after >xterm sets it to whatever you're putting in with '-T'. > >-- >Marc Wilson | Most people have a mind that's open by >appointment >[EMAIL PROTECTED] | only. This has been a known problem, I believe it is in some bug reports. I believe that most modern windows managers have this problem, I know gnome, fluxbox, and kde don't work with the -T option. You can some what get a work around this by using the -e option. It is not the best solution, as you will loose the terminal if you close the program. But I do it with top, and a dnetc client all the time as these are always up. I always use them with the background option of & so I have the current terminal window I start it with useable. Gnu_Raiz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Generate thumbnails
On Mon, 06 Mar 2006 10:22:50 -0500 "Craig M. Houck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey; > > What is any easy to use program to generate thumbnails from a 'full > sized' image? > > I have tried many programs found using apt-cache search BUT either I > am to stoopid to figure them out or they really don't do what I want. > > Fore xample: > convert image.JPG -resize 10% images.jpg complains. > Gqview will do it automagically. All you must do is open the program and view a directory. The setup config allows a choice in thumbnail size and the thumbnails will be located in /home//.gqview/thumbnails or /home//.gqview_thmb Cybe R. Wizard -- When Windows are opened the bugs come in. Winduhs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Improperly Configured Screen ?
SPELYA wrote: I have just installed Debian, but my system does not boot properly under Linux. The following error message box appears when booting: Failed to start X server (your graphical interface). It is likely not set up properly. Would you like to view the X Server output to diagnose the problem? Just before this message appears, the last line scrolled on the booting screen is : Testing instable MonNomDePc tty1 Unfortunately the system does not react to any keyboard key. I cannot view the log for diagnostic and I have to turn off the system completely. I am a new user of Debian/Linus. Is there some command I should type to solve this problem? If so, which one and how? First thing is to stop X from attempting to start. Reboot, and at the grub/lilo screen, choose the "Safe" option. If you're using lilo, you'll want to enter "linux single". After you get logged in as root, disable any display manager you have starting up; there are dozens of ways to do this; what I would do is to edit /etc/init.d/[xgkw]dm (each of these that exist) and put "exit 0" as the first executable line in the script. Then "exit" out of "safe" mode, and you should boot up normally to a text-based prompt. Let us know if this works to this point, or if things go wrong before this point. Then we can go from there. -- Kent
Re: setting xterm title with -T doesn't work
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 10:41:43AM -0600, Gnu-Raiz wrote: > >On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 10:04:38AM +0200, Andras Lorincz wrote: > >> When starting xterm I would like to set the title with -T > >>"string" option, > >> but it has no effect. Instead appears the title with the hostname > >> and current path. Why does xterm ignore the -T option? > > > >It doesn't. Your shell prompt is setting the title to what you see > >after xterm sets it to whatever you're putting in with '-T'. > > > >-- > >Marc Wilson | Most people have a mind that's open by > >appointment > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] | only. > > This has been a known problem, I believe it is in some bug reports. > I believe that most modern windows managers have this problem, I > know gnome, fluxbox, and kde don't work with the -T option. I believe no modern window managers at all have this problem... it not being a window manager issue in any way. Gnome, Fluxbox, and KDE have no control over or issue with the '-T' option. Most distributions, if not all, configure their default shell (usually bash) to step on the title of xterm windows. By the way... you really need to set your MUA up to quote properly. I think even KMail can do *that*. -- Marc Wilson | When I was 16, I thought there was no hope for [EMAIL PROTECTED] | my father. By the time I was 20, he had made great | improvement. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB 802.11g wireless adapter for Debian
> "Andrew Archibald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribbled once on a fine day: >Can anyone recommend an 802.11g USB wireless adapter which is >supported by the Linux kernel? We had this talk about pci cards a little while ago, it should apply to USB also as the main difference is the way its connected, one is USB the other is pci card. You will find that most cards in the G vein will not have kernel support. Now if your talking about gpl support, and having company support their products under Gnu\Linux you might want to search this list. http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Linux.Wireless.drivers.802.11ag.html I know some people like the ralink cards such as the rt2750 which should be offered by many vendors. As far as it working as advertised I really do not know your wireless needs. I do feel that this is one of the most open cards supported under the gpl, I personally hate any card that uses ndiswrapper, or any binary windows driver. I have used the rt61 based pci cards under Debian and I have some reservations. But giving the state of wireless drivers under Linux you will be very limited to what you can do. Gnu_Raiz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: aptitude --target target sarge xxx doesn't limit to sarge
Paul E Condon wrote: Think OP was trying to use "sarge", not "stable". Right. > I think apt does not recognize "sarge" or "woody" or "etch" etc. Does anyone know why? (Is it a bug in APT tools? Something wrong in my local mirror? Something else?) Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
IPS HLBR 1.0 released (off-topic)
IPS HLBR - Version 1.0 can detect malicious traffic using regular expressions Version 1.0 of Hogwash Light BR, released march 5th 2006, brings two interesting new features. The first one is the ability of using regular expressions to detect intrusion attempts and e-mails with virus or phishing. The second is the use of lists with banned words. HLBR is an IPS (Intrusion Prevention System) that reads network traffic in the layer 2 of the OSI model. Since it works like a bridge, it stays in-line in the network topology and doesn't need an IP address. So, HLBR is invisible to attackers. Traffic filtering (including the packets contents) can be done with simple rules. Version 1.0 can use regular expressions to filter the packets. Below is an example of rule with regular expressions: (please see http://hlbr.sourceforge.net/hlbr-rule-1.gif) In short, all TCP traffic destined to port 25 of the e-mail server will be filtered. If the text: filename="anything_different_of_line_breaks.s__c__r" (please ignore underlines in s__c__r) is found inside the packet, that means there are an attachment .scr in the e-mail (virus). So this packet will suffer the action named 'virus'. This action logs the event, dumps the malicious traffic in tcpdump format and drops the packet. Below is an example of rule against a type of buffer overflow attempt against DNS servers: (please see http://hlbr.sourceforge.net/hlbr-rule-2.gif) In this case, due to the use of pipe characters (|), HLBR will check the traffic for the hexadecimal sequence given as an attack signature. HLBR lets you use rules for blocking attacks against network servers. In order to fully understand it please read our documentation at http://hlbr.sourceforge.net/ips-en.html - explanations about the IPS concept including charts. HLBR site is at http://hlbr.sourceforge.net. (Translated from Portuguese by André Bertelli - andre (a) bertelli.name) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: setting xterm title with -T doesn't work
On 3/6/06, Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Gnome, Fluxbox, and KDE have no control over or issue with the '-T' option.Most distributions, if not all, configure their default shell (usuallybash) to step on the title of xterm windows.
I don't have the problem, presumably because the following appears in /etc/bash.bashrc:
# Commented out, don't overwrite xterm -T "title" -n "icontitle" by default.
# If this is an xterm set the title to [EMAIL PROTECTED]:dir
#case "$TERM" in
#xterm*|rxvt*)
# PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;[EMAIL PROTECTED]: ${PWD}\007"'
# ;;
#*)
# ;;
#esac
Perhaps something similar would take care of the OP's problem.
Patrick
Re: getting apt-zip to work
On Sunday 05 March 2006 12:20 pm, Magnus Therning wrote: > On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 07:56:21AM -0500, The Quibbler wrote: > >I'm getting an empty list. The info file doesn't seem very clear on how > >to use it. The fetch script is only 850 bytes. When I run it I get an > >empty tar file. > > > >I tried running with various options, all resulting in no files to fetch. > >apt-zip-list -m /floppy -a upgrade -o tar > >apt-zip-list -m /home/me/dummy -a upgrade -o tar --skip-mount > > Just to eliminate the "obvious", you are running `apt-get update` before > using apt-zip, right? (You still need up-to-date package lists.) > > /M That appears to be the trouble. I'm not hooked to the internet. What's the point of apt-zip if you have to be connected to the net in order to use it? Maybe that's the wrong question. What tool do I need to get an updated package list onto a non-networked machine? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Generate thumbnails
Craig M. Houck wrote: Hey; What is any easy to use program to generate thumbnails from a 'full sized' image? I have tried many programs found using apt-cache search BUT either I am to stoopid to figure them out or they really don't do what I want. Fore xample: convert image.JPG -resize 10% images.jpg complains. To create thumbnails use the -thumbnail option of convert. This option preserves the aspect ratio of the picture. So you need to specify just the width or height of your thumbnail. Sample commands look like convert -thumbnail 160 original.jpg thumbnail.jpg convert -thumbnail x160 original.jpg thumbnail.jpg The first one creates the thumbnail whose width is 160 pixels. The second one creates a thumbnail whose height is 160 pixels. Ref :- Linux Multimedia Hacks - Tips & Tools for taming images, audio, and video by Kyle Rankin hth raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrading from slink on 486 w/ 32 Mb ram and 3c509tp NIC
Good morning! > > The sarge hardware probe doesn't find the nic though. Debian site > > doesn't seem to have the old version iso's for a gradual upgrade > > process. Anyone able to advise? Sorry, got into this list late and lost the original post! Old version iso's "for a gradual upgrade" can be found here: http://public.www.planetmirror.com/pub/debian-cd/images/ You might find this link useful as well: http://linuxmafia.com/debian/tips Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xserver-xorg fatal configuration
Andrei, > You could try getting the .deb for xserver-xorg and linux-image... and > install them manually with dpkg -i > > Just a thought > Andrei > If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough: Yes, that is probably true regarding my situation. I try my best. Further, I believe dpkg -i is what I have tried already as documented in my Appendix 1, with the packages present in /var/cache/apt/archives/. So, is there another way, maybe removing packages from a more basic level? Where a larger part of the "X/xserver/gui system" (maybe including even KDE and all depenting on that), before reinstallation of everything. Should be substantially (enormously!) less work than beginning from schratch, since I would like to preserve most configurations (well, is there maybe a risk that the same error is preserved?). My knowledge doesn't include any idea of how to proceed Tore -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Improperly Configured Screen ?
SPELYA wrote: I identified that I am using GRUB and X Windows System Version 6.9.0 Now, with my limited knowledge of Linux/Unix, here is what I've done: * I switched to the /etc/init.d/ directory using the "cd" command * I listed the files using the "ls" command * There I found that only gcm exists, no [xkw]dm From the clue below, I assume you mean "gdm", not "gcm". What is the command of program I should use to edit the gdm file? Something like "nano gdm". BTW, I'm putting this back on-list; it's considered improper on this list to take threads off-list unless they veer off-topic. By keeping the discussion on-list, everything gets archived so that the issue becomes part of the documentation for Debian, and others who might have better input can add their two cents. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: postgresql-common 42 fails to upgrade
Andrew Cady wrote: On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 04:10:07PM -0600, Michael Schurter wrote: I have a Debian Etch machine that I keep up to date. [...] Setting up postgresql-common (42) ... dpkg: error processing postgresql-common (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 [...] Any ideas why postgresql-common is failing to upgrade? You should find out, and report a bug. Diagnosing this problem will no doubt be very useful to the postgresql maintainer. I submitted it, and now postgresql-common 43 installed beautifully! Thanks for your help, Michael Schurter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installing Debian on an oldworld Mac
On 6-mrt-2006, at 20:13, petereasthope wrote: I've just read ten recent messages about support for boot floppies and conclude that I should not expect them to work soon. Currently, is there any way to install Debian on an oldworld Mac, other than by CD? You could use bootx to start an installer kernel copied from the net install cd to a harddrive with OS9 on it. It's somewhere in the debian install documentation... If I recall correctly, the docs refer to old installer files though, some weeks ago someone mailed the correct installer filenames in this list, should be in the archive. If you keep the OS9 & bootx install intact while installing debian (on a separate partition or disk) it can be very convenient if you need to do a reinstall in the future. Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xserver-xorg fatal configuration
Olafur, When I try to remove xserver-xorg the Debian system tells that I have to reinstall it first. If I try to reinstall it, I am told to first remove it (see earlier posting). In both cases the reason is the ugly inconsistent configuration. Two examples of this are the results of your proposals (see below). To be complete, I did include all output, but don't read the lines marked "not important" since they are secondary and of secondary interest as regards THE problem and should so far be ignored: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# dpkg --purge xserver-xorg dpkg: error processing xserver-xorg (--purge): Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal. Errors were encountered while processing: xserver-xorg [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-get --fix-broken --purge remove xserver-xorg Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: # not important linux-image-2.6.15-1-686 # not important Suggested packages: # not important linux-doc-2.6.15 linux-source-2.6.15 lilo # not important Recommended packages: # not important libc6-i686# not important The following packages will be REMOVED xserver-xorg* The following packages will be upgraded:# not important linux-image-2.6.15-1-686 # not important 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 120 not upgraded. 2 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/15,8MB of archives. After unpacking 31,5MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!# not important linux-image-2.6.15-1-686 # not important Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y DESTROY created new reference to dead object ' Qt::VBoxLayout', <> line 1 during global destruction. /usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.4: undefined symbol: _ZN18QMetaObjectCleanUpD1Ev Preconfiguring packages ... /usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.4: undefined symbol: _ZN18QMetaObjectCleanUpD1Ev dpkg: error processing xserver-xorg (--purge): Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal. terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::logic_error' what(): basic_string::_S_construct NULL not valid Aborted [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# Errors were encountered while processing: xserver-xorg Is there any hope? Tore måndag 6 mars 2006 11:14 skrev Olafur Jens Sigurdsson: > Try purging the package and then reinstalling it, removing does just > like you say, it doesnt delete the configuration files but purging > does, try dpkg --purge xserver-xorg > > Or you can allso try out apt-get -f ... the -f switch is --fix-broken > (it is usually used to fix broken dependencies but just perhaps it can > help you here).
Courier
Hi, I have a mail server with qmail and squirrelmail using courier-imap (version 4.0.6). When I erase one message, my file maildirsize is updated, but if I erase many messages at the same time, the file maildirsize is not updated. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Courier
Hi, I have a mail server with qmail and squirrelmail using courier-imap (version 4.0.6). When I erase one message, my file maildirsize is updated, but if I erase many messages at the same time, the file maildirsize is not updated. How can I resolve this??? PS: Sorry, for the first message, I sent incomplete. Gilberto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems with new testing kernel package
After installing kernel 2.6.15 on my laptop, my laptop suddenly won't boot from that kernel. It doesn't even get to init. It seems to not be able to find the gzip module on startup. I wrote down the errors since all I get is BusyBox when I boot: ... some hardware detection stuff here ... Begin: Mounting root file system ... Begin: Running /scripts/local-top ... Done. Begin: Running /scripts/local-premount Attempting manual resume Done. FATAL: Module gzip not found mount: Mounting /dev/hda3 on /root failed: No such device After that it can't find /sys or /proc, and in the end says there's no /sbin/init. And here's the weird thing: I can mount the root filesystem by hand and simply chroot over, and run the scripts in init.d to get things running. So what's going on? What do I need the gzip module for anyway? At first I thought it was something wrong with initramfs-tools because if I install/reinstall a previous kernel like 2.6.12, that kernel becomes unbootable as well. But honestly, I'm not really that savvy about initramfs-tools and initrd-tools, and what the differences are. The other weird thing is that I don't have this problem at all on my desktop. I don't know if this is related, but I noticed that there are no more -386 kernels, only -486 in the repository. Can anyone give me a clue as to what the problem is? I'm holding onto an old kernel for dear life now, but I know I can't do this forever. Angelo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
932c
My deskjet has a flashing cartridge indicator. I have removed them, and cleaned them up, yet nothing I do will get rid of the indicator. The print queue says the print file is in error. Any help will be appreciated. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Environment Variables for sudo
Hi All, am having a bit of a problem with setting environment variables on my web server. I need to set the following, for all users, including root. i have added the following to /etc/profile, /etc/bash.bashrc, / root/.profile and /root/.bashrc: export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/java/j2sdk/bin export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/java/j2sdk export CATALINA_HOME=/usr/local/java/apache-tomcat this works fine for normal users (and for root when using su, which i had disabled), but apparently not for root (via sudo). the output from a 'sudo env' is this: TERM=vt100 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/ usr/X11R6/bin LOGNAME=root USER=root SUDO_COMMAND=/usr/bin/env SUDO_USER=tim SUDO_UID=1000 SUDO_GID=1000 could anyone enlighten me on where sudo gets its environment variables from, as it apparently is not in /root, as i expected! any ideas what i might be doing wrong / overlooking? many thanks, Tim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: aptitude --target target sarge xxx doesn't limit to sarge
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 12:47:45PM -0500, Daniel B. wrote: > Paul E Condon wrote: > >Think OP was trying to use "sarge", not "stable". > > Right. > > > I think apt does not recognize "sarge" or "woody" or "etch" etc. > > Does anyone know why? (Is it a bug in APT tools? Something wrong in my > local mirror? Something else?) > I think it is a design flaw, more than an implementation bug. Speaking from the outside of Debian, it seems that the 'design' of apt grew over time. Whether 'stable' is an alias for 'sarge' or 'sarge' is an alias for 'stable' is a big deal in a 'well designed' system, but this issue seems not to have been resolved as apt was implemented. Now to 'fix' it would involve major rewrite of stuff that 'works quite nicely, thankyou'. IMHO, its not going to happen. And I really do thank all the developers for the existence of apt and the packages that are available on it! -- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Generate thumbnails
Steve Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The options are most definitely NOT supposed to come before the input > file. This changed in version 6.x to make the ImageMagick syntax more > consistent. Consistent with what? Not many tools are expecting non-option arguments before options (I can't think of one). How about changing cp, mv etc.? It's a bad decision to change behavior like that. Matthias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Environment Variables for sudo
Timothy Cowlishaw wrote: Hi All, am having a bit of a problem with setting environment variables on my web server. I need to set the following, for all users, including root. this works fine for normal users (and for root when using su, which i had disabled), but apparently not for root (via sudo). the output from a 'sudo env' is this: TERM=vt100 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/ usr/X11R6/bin LOGNAME=root USER=root SUDO_COMMAND=/usr/bin/env SUDO_USER=tim SUDO_UID=1000 SUDO_GID=1000 could anyone enlighten me on where sudo gets its environment variables from, as it apparently is not in /root, as i expected! any ideas what i might be doing wrong / overlooking? (First, is that as typo? (spurious space in PATH)) I would assume that sudo merely executes the program, and does not start a new shell (unless you ask it to), thus my assumption is that it's your env, merely executed with root's privilages. As for su, from the man page: OPTIONS - make this a login shell So, if you want to be root, AND have settings associated with root's login, use: su - As opposed to just: su Hope that helps. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xserver-xorg fatal configuration
I don't see the origin of your problem (just signed up) but it might be the same I had. I have just signed up to day and are not familiar with debian, neither can I tell you what to do, but only tell what I had to do. Installed the «testing» on my hp laptop very easylie and are working, therefore I tried the same on my desktop (asus a8v-x, 754 amd64-xp3000, radeon 9600), but x server or gdm wouldn't start. Base system seemed to be working, but some error with apt (apt-setup) Couldn't get it to start no matter what, tried: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-org installing kde and kdm If it's something wrong with the kernel-2.6.15, xserver-org or gdm i wouldn't now. What I did: 1 Downloaded each beta 1 from 11 November 2005 ( http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/etch_di_beta1/i386/iso-cd/ ) Installed it and 2 updated the sources list with #apt-setup noprobe had problems with gpg-key missing / GPG error 3 wget http://ftp-master.debian.org/ziyi_key_2006.asc -O - | apt-key add - I have now upgraded everything, and are running kde desktop on the 2.6.12 kernel, system seems to be stable. Tore Ericsson wrote: Olafur, When I try to remove xserver-xorg the Debian system tells that I have to reinstall it first. If I try to reinstall it, I am told to first remove it (see earlier posting). In both cases the reason is the ugly inconsistent configuration. Two examples of this are the results of your proposals (see below). To be complete, I did include all output, but don't read the lines marked "not important" since they are secondary and of secondary interest as regards THE problem and should so far be ignored: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# dpkg --purge xserver-xorg dpkg: error processing xserver-xorg (--purge): Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal. Errors were encountered while processing: xserver-xorg [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-get --fix-broken --purge remove xserver-xorg Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: # not important linux-image-2.6.15-1-686 # not important Suggested packages: # not important linux-doc-2.6.15 linux-source-2.6.15 lilo # not important Recommended packages: # not important libc6-i686 # not important The following packages will be REMOVED xserver-xorg* The following packages will be upgraded:# not important linux-image-2.6.15-1-686 # not important 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 120 not upgraded. 2 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/15,8MB of archives. After unpacking 31,5MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!# not important linux-image-2.6.15-1-686 # not important Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y DESTROY created new reference to dead object ' Qt::VBoxLayout', <> line 1 during global destruction. /usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.4: undefined symbol: _ZN18QMetaObjectCleanUpD1Ev Preconfiguring packages ... /usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.4: undefined symbol: _ZN18QMetaObjectCleanUpD1Ev dpkg: error processing xserver-xorg (--purge): Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal. terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::logic_error' what(): basic_string::_S_construct NULL not valid Aborted [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# Errors were encountered while processing: xserver-xorg Is there any hope? Tore måndag 6 mars 2006 11:14 skrev Olafur Jens Sigurdsson: Try purging the package and then reinstalling it, removing does just like you say, it doesnt delete the configuration files but purging does, try dpkg --purge xserver-xorg Or you can allso try out apt-get -f ... the -f switch is --fix-broken (it is usually used to fix broken dependencies but just perhaps it can help you here). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gnome desktop environment removed on Upgrading using synaptic
On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 15:38 +0530, Abhishek Verma wrote: > But, now my system has no desktop environment, and when I try to install > gnome-desktop-environment, it says that it can't install since > gnomemeeting is uninstallable. When I tried to install gnomemeeting, it > says that it can't install because it depends on libopenh323-1.18.0 > which is uninstallable. When I tried to look for the package libopen323 > version 1.18.0, it is nowhere to be found. The current version available > for this package is 1.15.6. Install this missing file using "dpkg -i " and all will be installable again: http://people.debian.org/~kilian/pkg-voip/libopenh323-1.18.0_1.17.4-1_i386.deb And here is how I fished for this information: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=353844 And here is the status of the above package in the ftpmaster's queue: http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html -- Jason Clinton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Environment Variables for sudo
On 6 Mar 2006, at 22:02, Star King of the Grape Trees wrote:
(First, is that as typo? (spurious space in PATH))
I would assume that sudo merely executes the program, and does not
start a new shell (unless you ask it to), thus my assumption is
that it's your env, merely executed with root's privilages.
Hmm... a fair assumption, but 'env' from my user account gives this,
including the variables missing from 'sudo env':
TERM=vt100
SHELL=/bin/bash
CATALINA_HOME=/usr/local/java/apache-tomcat
SSH_CLIENT=81.158.253.147 38636 22
SSH_TTY=/dev/pts/1
USER=tim
LS_COLORS=no=00:fi=00:di=01;34:ln=01;36:pi=40;33:so=01;35:do=01;35:bd=40
;
33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=40;31;01:ex=01;32:*.tar=01;31:*.tgz=01;31:*.arj=01;
31:*.taz=01;31:*.lzh=01;31:*.zip=01;31:*.z=01;31:*.Z=01;31:*.gz=01;31:*.
bz2=01;31:*.deb=01;31:*.rpm=01;31:*.jar=01;31:*.jpg=01;35:*.jpeg=01;35:*
.gif=01;35:*.bmp=01;35:*.pbm=01;35:*.pgm=01;35:*.ppm=01;35:*.tga=01;35:*
.xbm=01;35:*.xpm=01;35:*.tif=01;35:*.tiff=01;35:*.png=01;35:*.mov=01;35:
*.mpg=01;35:*.mpeg=01;35:*.avi=01;35:*.fli=01;35:*.gl=01;35:*.dl=01;35:*
.xcf=01;35:*.xwd=01;35:*.ogg=01;35:*.mp3=01;35:*.wav=01;35:
MAIL=/var/mail/tim
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games:usr/local/:/
usr/local/java/j2sdk/bin
PWD=/etc/pam.d
JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/java/j2sdk
PS1=${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w\$
SHLVL=1
HOME=/home/tim
LOGNAME=tim
SSH_CONNECTION=81.158.253.147 38636 87.117.194.123 22
_=/usr/bin/env
OLDPWD=/home/tim
As for su, from the man page:
OPTIONS
- make this a login shell
So, if you want to be root, AND have settings associated with
root's login, use:
su -
As opposed to just:
su
su already takes the environment variables just fine, although i had
disabled in in the PAM configuration (switched it back on only to
test this) as would rather use sudo, really. This should also negate
the typo theory, as it isn't a problem with the root accout, but
rather with sudo itself.
thanks all the same!
tim
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Compilation problems with libxalan
Hi, I am trying to build AnyMeal (http://anymeal.sourceforge.net). When running make I get following error: , | In file included from /usr/include/xalanc/XPath/XPathProcessorImpl.hpp:39, | from xmlDocument.cpp:27: | ../xalanc/PlatformSupport/XalanMessageLoader.hpp:29:29: error: LocalMsgIndex.hpp: No such file or directory ` Asking Google about LocalMsgIndex.hpp did not yield any usefull answers. Now I am wondering whether this is a bug in my setup (on 2 machines), AnyMeal, Debian, Xalan-C ... Any clues? Matthias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Built-in Network Port not detected in Debian
On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 12:58:50PM +0300, Salman wrote: > I am trying to install debian on my wife's computer. It already has > Windows XP installed and running on the first partition and used to have > Mandrake 10 on another partition. Both Windows XP and Mandrake 10 > recognized all hardware components including the built in network chipset. > I tried different debian CDs including Sarge testing net-install and > Etch testing net-install and finally Sarge Stable DVD from Linux Format > Magazine Cover CD. All these CDs have the same problem.. network is not > work-ing :-) > I then tested the network chipset by using Knoppix Live 4.0 DVD and it > was detected and automatically configured properly. > Here are some information I gathered so far. I will post Debian's > Stable (Sarge), Testing (Etch) and Knoppix's data each in a separate > post in reply to this to make it easy for others to read: Hi Salman, without going into the _very_detailed_ (good thing) listing of your hard/software, have you tried something like modprobe eepro or modprobe eepro100 I have this :00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 05) according to lspci... and it migth just be a typo, but below /etc/resolve.conf really is /etc/resolv.conf. Hth Andreas > > -- > Computer: > Acer ASPIRE 6634 (A), PIII 866MHz > Built-in Network Chipset: > Intel(R) PRO/100 VE (not wireless) > -- > Windows Settings: > Location: PCI Slot 4 (PCI bus 1, device 8, function 0) > Memory Usage: 8012-80120FFF > I/O Range: 70C0-70FF > IRQ: 10 > IP: 10.0.0.2 > Netmask: 255.255.255.0 > Broadcast: 10.0.0.255 > Gateway: 10.0.0.138 > DNS: 10.0.0.138 > -- > I noticed the following: > 1) Debian Sarge is using an older kernel with an older e100 driver while > Debian Etch is using kernel 2.6.12, same as Knoppix 4.0 but only > Knoppix 4.0 works > 2) I also noticed that Debian Stable and Testing for a strange reason > disable IRQ10 and assign IRQ11 to network port, while Windows and > Knoppix work with IRQ10. > I checked the BIOS and in the Onboard Peripherals it list only these: > * Serial Port 1 and 2 > * Parallal Port > * Floppy, IDE, PS/2, USB Host Controllers > * Audio Chip > and none is using IRQ 10 or 11. > -- > > attached are some data files from several test systems: > + Knoppix_4.0: Data boot of Knoppix 4.0 Live DVD where the network post > is detected and working fine. > + Debian_Sarge: Data from an install of Sarge where the network port is > not detected. > + Debian_Sarge: Data from an install of Etch where the network port is > not detected. > + Knoppix_dmesg_full: I thought this may help detecting the problem. > + Etch_dmesg_full: ditto. > + Debian_Etch_PCI: Data from an install of Etch with a working PCI > network card from another PC runing Etch as well, still not working here. > -- > All help is greatly appreciated > -- > > -- > http://www.mishkah.org > > Knoppix 4.0 Live DVD works fine and automatically detects and configures the > built-in ethernet port which I can use to connect to the router and the > internet without a problem. > /-- > /uname -a/ > Linux Knoppix 2.6.12 #2 SMP Tue Aug 9 23:20:52 CEST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux > -- > //etc/resolve.conf/ > search lan > nameserver 10.0.0.138 > -- > //etc/network/interfaces/ > # /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8) > > # The loopback interface > # automatically added when upgrading > auto lo > iface lo inet loopback > -- > /ping -c 3 10.0.0.138/ > PING 10.0.0.138 (10.0.0.138): 56 data bytes > 64 bytes from 10.0.0.138: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.4 ms > 64 bytes from 10.0.0.138: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.4 ms > 64 bytes from 10.0.0.138: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.4 ms > > --- 10.0.0.138 ping statistics --- > 3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss > round-trip min/avg/max = 0.4/0.4/0.4 ms > -- > /ifconfig/ > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:E2:4E:AC:F1 > inet addr:10.0.0.4 Bcast:10.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:11 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:7 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 > RX bytes:1549 (1.5 KiB) TX bytes:1772 (1.7 KiB) > > lo Link encap:Local Loopback > inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 > UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 > RX packets:14 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:14 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 > RX bytes:700 (700.0 b) TX bytes:700 (700.0 b) > -- > /lspci/ > :00:00.0 Host bri
Re: Generate thumbnails
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 04:55:41PM -0500, Matthias Julius wrote:
Steve Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
The options are most definitely NOT supposed to come before the input
file. This changed in version 6.x to make the ImageMagick syntax more
consistent.
Consistent with what? Not many tools are expecting non-option
arguments before options (I can't think of one). How about changing
cp, mv etc.? It's a bad decision to change behavior like that.
Internally consistent. If you look at the 6.x documentation they treat
the whole thing as a stream operation, i.e. load an image, do this, do
that, maybe load a second image and so something with that, composite
the two images, load a third, resize it, change some colors, add a
border, and then write output. If you look over the documentation it
starts making a lot of sense.
This is especially useful when using other interfaces such as the Perl
module, PHP module, or C++ API.
For example, from one of my perl scripts:
my $image = Image::Magick->new;
# Read the image into the object, print any errors that occur
my $rc = $image->Read("$file");
warn "$rc" if "$rc";
# Create the thumbnail using ImageMagick commands
# Feel free to set the sequence to anything you like for
# thumbnail creation
#
# For more info, see
# http://www.imagemagick.org/script/perl-magick.php
$image->Set(quality=>'85');
$image->Set(density=>'72x72');
$image->Set(interlace=>'Line');
$image->Resize(geometry=>'300');
$image->UnsharpMask(radius=>1.3, sigma=>1.1, amount=>40, threshold=>0.05);
$image->Crop(geometry=>'125x125+20+20');
$image->Set(bordercolor=>'white');
$image->Border(geometry=>'1x1');
$image->Write($sqfile);
The command line program convert would follow the same sequence of
opration:
convert file.jpg -quality 85 -density 72x72 -interlace Line -resize 300
-unsharp 1.3x1.1+40+.05 -crop 125x125+20+20 -bordercolor white -border
1x1 out.jpg
There is a pretty good explaination of why these options changed at
http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/graphics/imagick6/basics/
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Re: xserver-xorg fatal configuration
Monday 6 March 2006 23:03 Kai Sandsengen wrote: > I don't see the origin of your problem (just signed up) but it might be > the same I had. Kai, In the ultimate sense, we may have the "same" problem, that is, such a problem that may be resolved by a complete Debian reinstallation. Now since my installation has become quite "mature" I am looking for some means of avoiding reinstallation from scratch, since this will give me more hours (days) of work than I am prepared for. Something must be done, however, quite soon, since I am virtually excluded from running ANY Debian update tool. My hope is that some experienced Debian user may see the key issue (http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/03/msg00604.html) and understand how to correct the malconfiguration that came about after my fatal mistake, and I promise honestly to take all measures to avoid repeating it... (http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/03/msg00501.html). Tore -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Improperly Configured Screen ?
SPELYA wrote: Kent, As recommanded I added "exit 0" at the beginning of the gdm file using the command "nano gdm" from root, and it did work. Now I can boot not using the recover option, and I get a prompt line ending with $ (user environment, I guess) instead of a prompt line with # (root environment). I can enter a regular user ID and password. What do I do from here? Maybe some additionnal information could help. Another Debian-er had suggested that I browse the log using the command less /var/log/Xorg.0.log Her are some general information and the warning or error messages I found (I will try no to make too many typo error): -- General info: X windows System Version 6.9.0 release 21 dec 2005 X Protocol Version 11, rev 0, rel. 6.9 Build OS : Linux 2.6.15-1-686 i686[ELF] Current OS: Linxu MyPC 2.4.27-2-686 #1 OS Kernel: Linux Version 2.4.27-2-686 Warning and error messages: -- ATI (0): 8192 kb of SDRAM (1:1) detected (using 8191 kb) WW ATI (0): Cannot shadow an accelerated frame buffer II Module i2C: Vendor = "X.org Foundation" compiled 6.9.0 .. WW ATI (0): i2C bus Mach64 initialisation failure II ATI (0): i2C bus "Mach64" removed ** Configured mouse; Core Pointer ** Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" EE xf860OpenSerial : Cannot open "/dev/input/mice" EE PreInit failed for input device "Configured mouse" II Unloaded Module : "mouse" WW No core pointer registered II XINPUT : Adding extended input device "Generic Keyboard" (type: KEYBOARD) No core pointer Fatal Server error: failed to initalize cor devices Ah; there's a problem. X can't find your mouse. X believes you have a mouse on /dev/input/mice, but apparently you do not. Do you have a ps/2 mouse, a serial mouse, or a USB mouse (or something entirely different)? If USB, /dev/input/mice should work; if serial or ps/2, I'm not surprised it doesn't work. In that case, reconfigure X with "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" and specify /dev/psaux as the location of your ps/2 mouse, or /dev/ttyS[0-3] for your serial mouse (probably). Then try starting X manually with "startx &". Does the system work? (If not, you might can semi-gracefully shutdown X with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace; or you might can get back to VT1 with Ctrl-Alt-F1, at which point you can kill X with some other magic commands we'll go into if need be.) Also, at the console prompt (non-X), you can get a feel for your mouse working on /dev/input/mice by entering "cat /dev/input/mice" and moving your mouse around; if your mouse is working, you should see a bunch of garbage appear on your screen. Ctrl-C will stop this process (and you might need to blindly enter "reset" if your display now produces garbage in response to your typing). BTW, I'm [again] putting this back on-list; it's considered improper on this list to take threads off-list unless they veer off-topic. By keeping the discussion on-list, everything gets archived so that the issue becomes part of the documentation for Debian, and others who might have better input can add their two cents. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Improperly Configured Screen ?
SPELYA wrote: Here is what I just found on X.Org Foundation Website. Look at the caption : "I keep getting the message: "failed to initialize core devices" on their Website But does it mean I have to start over the whole installer process via Internet (a few hours), and if so how can I tweak pricesely the keyboard and/or mouse configuration? No; you should have another response from me that should get you going in the correct direction. From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> BTW, I'm putting this back on-list; it's considered improper on this list to take threads off-list unless they veer off-topic. By keeping the discussion on-list, everything gets archived so that the issue becomes part of the documentation for Debian, and others who might have better input can add their two cents. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB 802.11g wireless adapter for Debian
Andrew Archibald wrote: Can anyone recommend an 802.11g USB wireless adapter which is supported by the Linux kernel? I am running the latest Debian testing on i386. Currently I use a device supported by ndiswrapper & the windows driver but this situation isn't ideal. For example I have to reinstate the kernel module every time I upgrade the kernel. And the windows drivers are non-free. And it’s all a bit delicate in terms of stability. I've spent quite a lot of time on a search engine (google) reading up on linux wireless support and reviewing the archives of mailing lists. I've uncovered some hardware compatibility lists & discussions but up-to-date recommendations seem to be rare. Information from 2004 is clearly not going to help me with chipsets changing as quickly as they do! If it makes any difference to the availability of hardware I’m in the UK but happy to order online anything that would work. Any help much appreciated. Cheers, Andrew. http://uk.asus.com/products4.aspx?l1=12&l2=42&l3=0&model=57&modelmenu=1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xserver-xorg fatal configuration
Tore Ericsson wrote: My hope is that some experienced Debian user may see the key issue (http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/03/msg00604.html) and understand how to correct the malconfiguration that came about after my fatal mistake, It's a stab-in-the-dark, but I'd try using aptitude rather than apt-get to remove/reinstall X; perhaps that'll get you a little farther along. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Improperly Configured Screen ?
SPELYA wrote: Kent, As recommanded I added "exit 0" at the beginning of the gdm file using the command "nano gdm" from root, and it did work. Now I can boot not using the recover option, and I get a prompt line ending with $ (user environment, I guess) instead of a prompt line with # (root environment). I can enter a regular user ID and password. What do I do from here? Maybe some additionnal information could help. Another Debian-er had suggested that I browse the log using the command less /var/log/Xorg.0.log Her are some general information and the warning or error messages I found (I will try no to make too many typo error): -- General info: X windows System Version 6.9.0 release 21 dec 2005 X Protocol Version 11, rev 0, rel. 6.9 Build OS : Linux 2.6.15-1-686 i686[ELF] Current OS: Linxu MyPC 2.4.27-2-686 #1 OS Kernel: Linux Version 2.4.27-2-686 Warning and error messages: -- ATI (0): 8192 kb of SDRAM (1:1) detected (using 8191 kb) WW ATI (0): Cannot shadow an accelerated frame buffer II Module i2C: Vendor = "X.org Foundation" compiled 6.9.0 .. WW ATI (0): i2C bus Mach64 initialisation failure II ATI (0): i2C bus "Mach64" removed ** Configured mouse; Core Pointer ** Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" EE xf860OpenSerial : Cannot open "/dev/input/mice" EE PreInit failed for input device "Configured mouse" II Unloaded Module : "mouse" WW No core pointer registered II XINPUT : Adding extended input device "Generic Keyboard" (type: KEYBOARD) No core pointer Fatal Server error: failed to initalize cor devices Ah; there's a problem. X can't find your mouse. X believes you have a mouse on /dev/input/mice, but apparently you do not. Do you have a ps/2 mouse, a serial mouse, or a USB mouse (or something entirely different)? If USB, /dev/input/mice should work; if serial or ps/2, I'm not surprised it doesn't work. In that case, reconfigure X with "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" and specify /dev/psaux as the location of your ps/2 mouse, or /dev/ttyS[0-3] for your serial mouse (probably). Then try starting X manually with "startx &". Does the system work? (If not, you might can semi-gracefully shutdown X with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace; or you might can get back to VT1 with Ctrl-Alt-F1, at which point you can kill X with some other magic commands we'll go into if need be.) Also, at the console prompt (non-X), you can get a feel for your mouse working on /dev/input/mice by entering "cat /dev/input/mice" and moving your mouse around; if your mouse is working, you should see a bunch of garbage appear on your screen. Ctrl-C will stop this process (and you might need to blindly enter "reset" if your display now produces garbage in response to your typing). BTW, I'm [again] putting this back on-list; it's considered improper on this list to take threads off-list unless they veer off-topic. By keeping the discussion on-list, everything gets archived so that the issue becomes part of the documentation for Debian, and others who might have better input can add their two cents. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xserver-xorg fatal configuration
Tuesday 7 March 2006 00:05 skrev Kent West: > Tore Ericsson wrote: > >My hope is that some experienced Debian user may see the key issue > >(http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/03/msg00604.html) and understand > >how to correct the malconfiguration that came about after my fatal > > mistake, > > It's a stab-in-the-dark, but I'd try using aptitude rather than apt-get > to remove/reinstall X; perhaps that'll get you a little farther along. Synaptic, aptitude, dselect, dpkg, apt, all the same problem, just served on different plates! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: aptitude --target target sarge xxx doesn't limit to sarge
Paul E Condon wrote: On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 12:47:45PM -0500, Daniel B. wrote: Paul E Condon wrote: ... I think apt does not recognize "sarge" or "woody" or "etch" etc. ... why? ... ... I think it is a design flaw, more than an implementation bug. Why does it seem to be a design flaw? (What makes it seem to be bigger, or harder to fix, than just an implementation bug?) > Speaking from the outside of Debian, it seems that the 'design' of apt grew over time. Whether 'stable' is an alias for 'sarge' or 'sarge' is an alias for 'stable' is a big deal in a 'well designed' system, but this issue seems not to have been resolved as apt was implemented. Now to 'fix' it would involve major rewrite ... What about APT suggests that the rewrite would be major? Thanks, Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xserver-xorg fatal configuration
Tore Ericsson wrote: Tuesday 7 March 2006 00:05 skrev Kent West: Tore Ericsson wrote: My hope is that some experienced Debian user may see the key issue (http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/03/msg00604.html) and understand how to correct the malconfiguration that came about after my fatal mistake, It's a stab-in-the-dark, but I'd try using aptitude rather than apt-get to remove/reinstall X; perhaps that'll get you a little farther along. Synaptic, aptitude, dselect, dpkg, apt, all the same problem, just served on different plates! The only two suggestions I'd have then is to try reinstalling whatever package contains libkdecore.so.4, or upgrading to Sid. I tend to run Sid, because although breakage occurs more frequently than with Testing, that breakage tends to get fixed more quickly than it does in Testing. (I'm assuming something's broken with X in Testing.) -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Compilation problems with libxalan
Matthias Julius wrote: Hi, I am trying to build AnyMeal (http://anymeal.sourceforge.net). When running make I get following error: You probably have AnyMeal related problem so the better idea is to use anymeal mailing list or forums. Most probably you are using different version of Xalan-C then the AnyMeal's authors. , | In file included from /usr/include/xalanc/XPath/XPathProcessorImpl.hpp:39, | from xmlDocument.cpp:27: | ../xalanc/PlatformSupport/XalanMessageLoader.hpp:29:29: error: LocalMsgIndex.hpp: No such file or directory ` Asking Google about LocalMsgIndex.hpp did not yield any usefull answers. Now I am wondering whether this is a bug in my setup (on 2 machines), AnyMeal, Debian, Xalan-C ... Any clues? Matthias -- Mladen Adamovic http://home.blic.net/adamm http://www.shortopedia.com http://www.froola.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XML parser
Deephay wrote: are there any XML parser library packages for C and C++? thx! Both Sax and Dom parser's are available for C/C++. Google it. -- Mladen Adamovic http://home.blic.net/adamm http://www.shortopedia.com http://www.froola.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xserver-xorg fatal configuration
> The only two suggestions I'd have then is to try reinstalling whatever and I have no means of 'reinstalling whatever' except the netinstall CD, I'd appreciate other suggestions than what seems impossible, thanks for bothering anyhow :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: key bind paste from ?
On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 01:23:11AM -0500, Andrew Cady wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 05:31:12PM -0500, Brian Clark wrote: > > What I decided to look for, without success, is a way to press a > > key sequence and it have it paste a password at the current cursor > > position in my aterm when connected to a remote host. > > Is there something that will do this? > You may want to look into the package 'screen'. OTOH, it may be > overkill. I'm familiar with screen; are you talking about binding keys? In that case wouldn't the password have to reside on the remote host instead of here locally? -- Brian Clark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: key bind paste from ?
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 06:42:04PM -0500, Brian Clark wrote: > On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 01:23:11AM -0500, Andrew Cady wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 05:31:12PM -0500, Brian Clark wrote: > > > > What I decided to look for, without success, is a way to press a > > > key sequence and it have it paste a password at the current cursor > > > position in my aterm when connected to a remote host. > > > > Is there something that will do this? > > > You may want to look into the package 'screen'. OTOH, it may be > > overkill. > > I'm familiar with screen; are you talking about binding keys? In > that case wouldn't the password have to reside on the remote host > instead of here locally? The password would be wherever you chose to run screen. Run screen locally, connect to remote host within screen, and you're good. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xserver-xorg fatal configuration
Tore Ericsson wrote: Olafur, When I try to remove xserver-xorg the Debian system tells that I have to reinstall it first. If I try to reinstall it, I am told to first remove it (see earlier posting). In both cases the reason is the ugly inconsistent configuration. Two examples of this are the results of your proposals (see below). To be complete, I did include all output, but don't read the lines marked "not important" since they are secondary and of secondary interest as regards THE problem and should so far be ignored: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# dpkg --purge xserver-xorg dpkg: error processing xserver-xorg (--purge): Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal. Errors were encountered while processing: xserver-xorg You may have to try the "--force all" option. I often found it necessary during the years when I used testing, and I never got burned, but maybe I was just lucky. This was one of the reasons I stopped using testing. Speaking of testing, in another posting you mentioned that you were a newbie. I admire your pluck and daring. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
