Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Intel processor microcode security update

[Carlo]

Hi Verde Denim, I like to think with free software, I saw that it is a
non-free, can we trust of it ? Or this isn't againt debian free software
guidelines? Why Intel doesn't give a free microcode???

thanks.

Carlo.


2013/9/4 Verde Denim 

> On 09/03/2013 08:42 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > On 2013-09-03 16:20:56 -0700, David Christensen wrote:
> >> On 09/03/13 05:05, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> >>> THIS ANNOUNCEMENT IS ONLY RELEVANT TO SYSTEMS THAT HAVE INTEL
> >>> MICROPROCESSORS.
> >> Please provide a URL to the intel.com web page that tells us about the
> >> microcode update.
> > "apt-get changelog intel-microcode" leads you to:
> >
> >   https://bugs.launchpad.net/intel/+bug/1212497
> >
> > which provides the URL to the intel.com web page:
> >
> >   https://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=23082
> >
> Not sure if this has been answered, but I think the prompt for the
> update may be here -
>
> http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2013/07/25/intel-overclocking-block/1
>
> A rather technical discussion on the topic was found here -
> http://inertiawar.com/microcode/
>
> The wheezy package is here -
> http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/intel-microcode
>
> The Jessie package is like wheezy (sub jessie for wheezy)
>
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Re: UI lag in 7.0 on Dell Precision T3500

[Carlo]

Hi, can you tell us the model of graphic card? And also have you
installed some programs before this problem or was there just at
beginning ?

thanks

2013/9/12 Michael P. Soulier :
> Hi,
>
> I just "saved" my workstation at work, from the evil clutches of Windows 7.
> Unfortunately, in X running nouveau on the platform mentioned in the subject,
> the UI was painfully slow. Moving anything with the mouse resulted in lag,
> like trying to move the windows through mud, along with some flicker.
>
> I tried the LinuxMint live CD and it works perfectly, so it's likely a
> configuration issue. Has anyone seen this problem before?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike


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Re: Problem with mouse

[Carlo]

Try to upgrade your software as first attempt:
su
apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade

then reboot the system.

After this take look to see if it works.

tell about your progress of the problem.

Carlo.

2013/9/16 pch0317 :
> Hi,
>
> My notebook have problem with mouse. When I started system everythink work
> correctly over few minutes and then right mouse don't work corectly or left
> don't work. But icon on desktop work corectly all time - I can launch it. It
> is problem with X or Xfce or with mouse?
> My notebook - Compaq 615
> http://www.notebookcheck.pl/Recenzja-Compaq-615.18363.0.html with Debian 7.1
> and Xfce4.
>
> Thanks
>
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Re: Is my unattended upgrades working?

[Carlo]

Hi, check if your method is similar as this tutorial.
http://www.oneopensource.it/10/08/2011/ubuntu-debian-installare-in-automatico-aggiornamenti-di-sicurezza/

Tell abour your next progress.

Carlo.

2013/10/27 Florian Lindner :
> Hello,
>
> on Debian Wheezy I try to use the included unattended upgrades script for
> security updates:
>
> root@astarte ~ # cat /etc/apt/apt.conf
> APT::Install-Recommends "0";
> APT::Install-Suggests "0";
>
> APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists "1";
> APT::Periodic::Verbose "2";
> APT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade "1";
>
>
> root@astarte ~ # ll /etc/cron.daily
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 14985 Jun  4 11:33 apt.dpkg-dist*
>
>
> but the last line in /var/log/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades.log is
> from 2013-10-25 when I executed apt.dpkg-dist manually.
>
> Why is it not working like it should?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Florian
>
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Re: Toshiba Satellite C50d/A00L laptop, can't install Debian - any version......

[Carlo]

Have you use NETINSTALL AMD64 DEBIAN STABLE? When you write a cd-r use
4x as speed. After this check in your BIOS that it is NOT Activated
UEFI.

Check again this configuration.

Tell us for your progress.

Carlo.

2013/11/19 Charlie :
>
>
> Trying to install Debian on this lappy and keep hitting a brick wall.
>
> The same message with the Jessie or Wheezy netinstall iso or the
> first Install DVD of Jessie or Wheezy:
>
> "No kernel modules were found. This probably is due to a mismatch
> between the kernel used by this version of the installer and the
> kernel version in the archive."
>
> Then I continue because this can be rectified once a mirror has been
> chosen and there is no Ethernet card found, and there is no wireless
> option when looking for network hardware?
>
> So that's the brick wall. I have the installer search a USB stick that
> has every kind of realtek and every other driver I can find, but no joy.
>
> I have tried it with different wireless dongles which aren't even
> recognised. Just no Ethernet, never wireless.
>
> I also get the error message:
>
> Loading amd64-microcode failed for unknown reasons. Aborting.
>
> The Ethernet device is RTL8101E/RTL8102E Fast Internet controller.
>
> The wireless device is Device 8179 9 (rev 01)
>
> I even rang Toshiba but they told me they didn't support Linux and
> couldn't point me to any drivers. Yet I read on the net during my
> drilling down looking for drivers, that someone had emailed Toshiba and
> they had emailed him drivers for his Ethernet card. No joy there for
> me. Can't even find their email address.
>
> Just on the off chance, has anyone had any success with installing
> Debian on this machine?
>
> Ubuntu 10 live runs on it but doesn't recognise the network cards
> either. [laughing]
>
> I recall reading a blog of a Debian developer/programmer some years ago
> writing that he wondered why he stayed with Linux, when it was all such
> a struggle, when in windows it all just works. I can identify with that
> at the moment.
>
> Though to be fair, In the past I have just bought a laptop, formatted
> the hard drive and install one or another flavour of current Debian of
> the time without any worries. :-)
>
> Maybe it's time I get accustomed to working with windows?
>
> At the moment it's all interesting, but that's been for the last 5
> days, it will soon wear off I think.
>
> Anyway, just in case anyone has one of these laptops working.
>
> TIA
> Charlie
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Re: Toshiba Satellite C50d/A00L laptop, can't install Debian - any version......

[Carlo]

first of all, I would try to check in your router configuration if
DCHP is ENABLED. Then I would try install again NETINSTALL CD AMD64,
but the THIS TESTING VERSION
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso,
using ethernet cable RJ45.

DOWNLOAD IT AND BURN A CD-R AT 4x (very slow) in DAO (disk at once
mode). NOT TRACK AT ONCE.


TRY TRY ;-)

GOOD LUCK

2013/11/20 Charlie :
> On Wed, 20 Nov 2013 13:18:07 +0100 Carlo sent:
>
>> Have you use NETINSTALL AMD64 DEBIAN STABLE? When you write a cd-r use
>> 4x as speed. After this check in your BIOS that it is NOT Activated
>> UEFI.
>>
>> Check again this configuration.
>>
>> Tell us for your progress.
>>
>> Carlo.
>
> Hello Carlo,
>
> Yes, tried netinstall AMD64 Jessie and Wheezy.
>
> Disabled fast boot and UEFI formatted my hard drive with Gparted and
> got it ready for the install, all partitions the sizes I wanted.
>
> Tried the netinstall of all the flavours AMD64, i386 etc., and each
> version, wheezy and jessie and they all choked at the network
> configuration. No matter if I bypassed the network hardware find. Set
> the clock also fails of course.
>
> I have put every driver I can find, trolling the net, for the realtek
> Ethernet card or any hardware on a USB stick and none work. The wireless
> card doesn't even show up.
>
> I have also inserted two wireless dongles that I have used in the past
> one atheros for which there is a driver on the USB stick, and the other
> I can't recall but should be on the USB stick with all the extra
> drivers.
>
> They don't even get detected, though now I come to think of it I'm not
> certain I tried that with the wheezy DVD install. Tomorrow I'll give
> that a larrup
>
> I haven't downloaded all the Wheezy DVD's but tried with DVD 1 [as
> above] which I did download. Same problem.
>
> I will have to download the latest Ubuntu I think and install that. I'm
> hoping it has drivers in that distro. Don't like it but needs must. I
> have to go to another place where the internet connection is much
> faster than this satellite joke broadband.
>
> I can't go back to windows though, I returned the hard drive back to
> what it was and tried the Toshiba recovery disks. No go. They don't do
> anything but lock up the machine.
>
> So in for a penny, in for a pound, it has to be a Linux system. I have
> been offered windows 7, but I like that less than Ubuntu.
>
> I emailed Realtek to see if they have a Linux driver for that network
> hardware, either Ethernet or wireless, but what do you think my chances
> are of them having one, or even interested in sending me one? Buckleys
> and none I would imagine. But you don't ask you don't get.
>
> So that's where I'm at just now.
>
> Be well,
> Charlie
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Re: Reboot After Systemd 215-5 Upgrade

[Carlo]

2014-09-28 15:04 GMT+02:00 David Baron :
> I am NOT complaining about systemd. Booted quickly as usual, and just fine.
>
> However: Very early on, their were two "FAILED" notices which I did were lost
> too quickly to read, The boot went out of the quiet mode and then proceeded
> just fine (with all the startup text).
>
> Dmesg shows nothing
> Jounalctl says "no files."

Try this command, you should see which units had problems during the boot:

systemctl --failed


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Re: Reboot After Systemd 215-5 Upgrade

[Carlo]

2014-09-28 16:45 GMT+02:00 David Baron :
> OK, here it is:~$ systemctl --failed
>   UNIT   LOAD   ACTIVE SUBDESCRIPTION
> ● systemd-remount-fs.service loaded failed failed Remount Root and Kernel File
> Systems
>
> LOAD   = Reflects whether the unit definition was properly loaded.
> ACTIVE = The high-level unit activation state, i.e. generalization of SUB.
> SUB= The low-level unit activation state, values depend on unit type.
>
> 1 loaded units listed. Pass --all to see loaded but inactive units, too.
> To show all installed unit files use 'systemctl list-unit-files'.
>
> Is this because it was a "soft" reboot? (Had seen something like this
> previously without the big red "FAILED.")
> Otherwise, what does it mean?

Post here the output of this command for further investigation:

systemctl status systemd-remount-fs.service


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Re: Reboot After Systemd 215-5 Upgrade

[Carlo]

2014-09-28 17:07 GMT+02:00 David Baron :
> ~$ systemctl status systemd-remount-fs.service
> ● systemd-remount-fs.service - Remount Root and Kernel File Systems
>Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/systemd-remount-fs.service; static)
>Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2014-09-28 15:45:45 UTC; 2h
> 21min ago
>  Docs: man:systemd-remount-fs.service(8)
>http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/APIFileSystems
>   Process: 257 ExecStart=/lib/systemd/systemd-remount-fs (code=exited,
> status=1/FAILURE)
>  Main PID: 257 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

I guess that probably there are some  invalid entries in your
/etc/fstab, but before to tell you how you can fix it, please post
here the output of this command:

cat /etc/fstab


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Re: Reboot After Systemd 215-5 Upgrade

[Carlo]

2014-09-28 20:31 GMT+02:00 David Baron :
> Here 'tis: ~$ cat /etc/fstab
> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
> #
> # Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
> # device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
> # that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
> #
> #
> # / was on /dev/sda1 during installation, now sda2
> UUID=fca39bca-d795-4664-8c6f-cac459fbd468 /   ext4
> errors=remount-ro 0   1
> # /home was on /dev/sda9 during installation
> UUID=2095d2ef-a14d-48ed-b3a5-aba40a27873e /home   ext4defaults
> 0   2
> # /tmp was on /dev/sda8 during installation
> UUID=dbe4a9c0-8c8a-450e-ad2a-480b419934e2 /tmpext4defaults
> 0   2
> # /usr was on /dev/sda5 during installation
> UUID=61df1af1-f443-4a9d-aa66-dd13abaa5f3b /usrext4defaults
> 0   2
> # /var was on /dev/sda6 during installation
> UUID=b8ad0d22-11c6-4840-8dca-6882459ce3ab /varext4defaults
> 0   2
> # swap was on /dev/sda7 during installation
> UUID=d73c4cba-9bc3-40a5-b5b3-35770b8d5b9c noneswapsw
> 0   0
> /dev/sr0/media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0   0
>
> This is as generated by the installation except I moved the root  partition to
> another disk. Refer to a current thread on the too-small partitions made by
> the installation. I changed the comment and the UUID. Everything else is by
> the installation.

I know that systemd-remount-fs.service is an early-boot service that
applies mount options listed in fstab.

I think there is a problem with this line ->
"UUID=fca39bca-d795-4664-8c6f-cac459fbd468 /   ext4
errors=remount-ro 0   1" because "errors=remount-ro" means
that / is in auto-mounting as READ ONLY.
while / should in READ-WRITE so you can replace the line with:

"UUID=fca39bca-d795-4664-8c6f-cac459fbd468 /   ext4
rw,noatime,discard 0 1"

after save the file /etc/fstab.

Then reboot the system and watch if there is the same problem.

This could be the reason which caused the systemd-remount-fs.service fail.

Please take care while you make this little change.

Good Luck.

Cheers.


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Re: debian update + systemd + broken

[Carlo]

2014-11-05 19:45 GMT+01:00 Bob :
> I like to share my horrible experience with debian (testing branch) update 
> done few hours back and the consequences.

I guess that it's always important to read  well the mailing list
dedicated before to update in testing
(https://lists.debian.org/debian-testing-changes/) and read each
report if it's about delicate programs.
Update with blind eyes it's very dangerous in testing! Otherwise there
is the stable version.

> I see I got a new systemd service. but this can't properly mount my LVM 
> partitions and always land me into the maintenance mode.  Though can mount 
> then the lvm partitions manually but no graphics, no virtual terminal. Then I 
> purged systemd which automatically installed sysvinit and rebooted... still 
> same result.

I have never seen any debian netinstall choose the systemd option as
default, I get the impression that perhaps you have decided to install
systemd manually.is it right ?

> Installed systemd again , no change, BUT WAIT. if I execute "exit" 
> command from maintenance, it put me into normal graphical mode.
> OK, now I got it few times... first it put me into maintenance after boot, 
> then exit command puts me into mode 2 with all LVM mounted properly.

You could try to restart again from netinstall cd and the next time
not install systemd until there will not an official comunication.
this is my advice trusted.

Sysv init is still alive and it works very well.

Cheers.
Carlo.


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Re: OT: Pepper Flash Crashes Everywhere

[Carlo]

Hi, Can you post here part "Graphics Feature Status" taken from the
output of this command on chrome: chrome://gpu/

If you have a good graphic card (better if with driver dedicated) you
could activate the Hardware accelerated so that PepperFlash could be
more fluid.

Tell us these two information and after we can talk again.


2014-09-18 3:14 GMT+02:00 Patrick Bartek :
> Anyone else experiencing this?  Haven't found any reports so far.
> Chrome & Pepper ran fine before update/upgrade a few days ago.  Figured
> I'd check before I started mucking about the system trying to fix it.
>
> Downloaded .deb directly from Google for the install which was about
> 18 months ago. System always kept up to date.
>
> Wheezy 7.6 (64-bit).  Openbox 3.5.0-7 WM Only.  No other gui
> environments installed.
> Chrome 37.0.2062.120 (64-bit)
> libpepflashplayer.so 15.0.0.152
>
> Thanks.
>
> B
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Re: dist-upgrade installs new package, lists it as autoremove candidate

[Carlo]

I would tell you a my tip:

- if you want go from stable to testing/unstable before you must
change your channel in repository's file located in
/etc/apt/sources.list.

- after this edit, these are the right sequence of command by terminal:

# apt-get update
# apt-get upgrade
# apt-get install apt dpkg aptitude
# aptitude safe-upgrade
# aptitude full-upgrade
# update-grub

In this way you shoudn't have some problems of conflicts or packages
removed in strange way.

I hope to give my little contribution, I don't know how functional as it can be.

Bye.

2014-04-26 12:00 GMT+02:00 Andrei POPESCU :
> On Vi, 25 apr 14, 13:22:03, The Wanderer wrote:
>>
>> This is obviously a bug somewhere (albeit probably not a severe one in
>> practice), but I'm not even sure what package the bug would be in.
>>
>> Any hints, or ideas what might be going on here?
>
> I suggest you post this to http://lists.debian.org/deity or report a bug
> against apt.
>
> Kind regards,
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support for multiple network cards?

[Carlo Robazza]

Hi everyone,

Can anyone tell me if there is a standard way that Debian handles
multiple network cards with respect to configuration files, network
scripts, etc.?

Thanks,

Carlo.

Installation problems...

[Carlo Contavalli]

Hi All!
 I'm trying to install debian on a dual Pentium machine with a SCSI 
controller, but after the prompt and after "Loading", without printing any 
dot, it stops and prints "Boot failed".

"Loading Boot failed".

The computer has two pentium 166, 36 Mb of Ram, an adaptec AHA1542b 
controller, two HD and a cdrom.


 I tryied giving the kernel some parameters at the boot prompt, but it 
doesn't boot anyway, and I don't think that's my problem.


Any idea of what I could try?

Thank you, for the help!
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I have spent en entire day (i really mean an entire day) searching for the answer in 
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Here I go: I installed certain packages on my Debian distribution using Kernel BF24.

"dpkg" can't configure a package that depends on this package "libc6_2.1.3-1.deb 
(i386)" but it seems to me it doesn't exist. I wasn't able to find it, umcompressed or 
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can you please tell me what to do because I can't continue. Debian is working find 
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Is there OCR for Linux ?

[Carlo Pecchia]

Hi all,
I have this (hard) problem:

ancient greek 
(on paper!) -->   ASCII --->   braille for blind people


Then my question:
There is an OCR software for Linux that recognize the old greek chars ?
Please help me!
Thanks.

testing... please ignore

[Carlo Robazza]

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Re: Re: [OT] Internet time (Biel Mean Time)

[Carlo DiCelico]

why not just use UNIX time?


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R: exim "Frozen" messages?

[Vicardi Carlo]

If you want to delete all frozen message in queue use this script:

#!/bin/sh
for i in `exim -bp | grep frozen | awk '{print $3}'` ; do
  exim -Mrm $i
done

exit 0

Carlo


> -Messaggio originale-
> Da: S.D.A. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Inviato: venerdì 5 marzo 2004 17.08
> A: Debian User List
> Cc: S.D.A.
> Oggetto: Re: exim "Frozen" messages?
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 10:56:46AM -0500 or thereabouts, Rick Pasotto
> wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 10:40:31AM -0500, S.D.A. wrote:
>
> > > Dman -- Is there a way to do this with all the que'ed messages at
> once?
> > >
> > > I just looked and I have almost 50 messages in the mailq. Very time
> > > consuming to do each one by one.
> >
> > The command is really
> >
> > exim -Mrm 
> >
> > Cut-n-paste (dbl-click on output of mailq then middle-click) works
> well
> > but I suppose you could write a script to parse the output of mailq.
>
> Well yah, I can do that (that's not what I'm asking tho, I do know how
> to do this, although I don't know why one would use a 'double click',
> simply higlighting the line, copies it). I guess a script is in order, I
> was hoping there was a command to do it all in one swoop (what's in the
> mailq).
>
> --
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Re: systemctl reboot fails (doesn't reboot)

[Gian Carlo]

Il 01/03/19 22:40, riveravaldez ha scritto:
> Hi, I'm on debian-testing (updated), and found this issue:
> 
> $ systemctl reboot
> Failed to set wall message, ignoring: The name
> org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 was not provided by any .service files
> Failed to reboot system via logind: The name
> org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 was not provided by any .service files
> Failed to start reboot.target: The name org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 was
> not provided by any .service files
> See system logs and 'systemctl status reboot.target' for details.
> 
> $ systemctl status reboot.target
> reboot.target - Reboot
> Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/reboot.target; disabled; vendor
> preset: enabled)
> Active: inactive (dead)
> Docs: man:systemd.special(7)
> 
> $ systemctl restart reboot.target
> Failed to restart reboot.target: The name org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1
> was not provided by any .service files
> See system logs and 'systemctl status reboot.target' for details.
> 
> But 'sudo reboot' worked.
> 
> Any idea?


> $ systemctl reboot
> $ systemctl status reboot.target
> $ systemctl restart reboot.target
You are NOT root

> But 'sudo reboot' worked.
After "sudo..." you are root

Bye,

gc

Re: Debian + Magic Jack

[Carlo Borelli]

Hello list.

>
> Is there an effective form to use intensively Magic Jack on Debian
> (stable, testing or sid)?
>
> I have just 1 box with Windows XP in my lan for this matter, and it is my
> wish to eliminate it.
>
> I tested virtualbox and family, but it does not work; because the key is
> not accepted by Microsoft, it only works on real hardware.
>
> Thanks for your attention.
>

AFAIK nobody produced software for linux, it use only MS proprietary from
MJ.
To obviate the problem I'd extract the MJ id code and used on a Asterisk
server, the only way...

Re: Bluetooth and Wifi interfering each other?

[Carlo Borelli]

2013/4/29 Beco 

>
>
>
> On 29 April 2013 02:01, Joel Wirāmu Pauling  wrote:
>
>> Yes Bluetooth kills wifi quite badly, this is a horrible fundemental
>> design flaw in the way bluetooth works by channel hopping all the time
>> with small cell fragments. It means the probability of collision with
>> wifi (which uses long fragments before hopping) is high.
>>
>> Bluetooth is idiotic by design unfortunately.
>>
>>
> That's bad news. But thanks, Joel, for your time.
>
> I'll probably substitute my bluetooth mouse with a RF in the near future.
>
> Better loose one USB than the wifi connection.
>
>
WiFi, BlueTooth and microwave owen are RF device systems all using the same
frequency range (2,4 GHz), to avoid interference you should choose a RF
mouse device outside that range or a wired one.


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Re: no network after jessie -> stretch

[Gian Carlo]

Il 21/06/2017 18:00, D. R. Evans ha scritto:
> I just completed an upgrade to stretch on an i386 machine.
> 
> There were no obvious showstopping errors during the install. I saw a few
> "unable to delete directory; directory not empty" errors fly by, but nothing
> that seemed dangerous, and the installation didn't complain about anything.
> 
> But when I tried the reboot following the upgrade, I lost all network
> connectivity. The boot screen said:
>   Failed to Start Network Manager Wait Online
It may be related to this:

https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames/

What is the output of "/sbin/ifconfig"?
Do you see "eth0" or something like "enXX"?

gc

Headless pulseaudio sound server

[Carlo Borelli]

Hello guys, latest updates on pulseaudio made me useless my headless sound
server based on pulseaudio.
This the message the server give me:

dbradders@Casa:~$ pulseaudio -D
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup failed.
dbradders@Casa:~$

/var/log/syslog:
Nov 13 06:55:26 Casa pulseaudio[12450]: [pulseaudio] server-lookup.c:
Unable to contact D-Bus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NotSupported: Unable to
autolaunch a dbus-daemon without a $DISPLAY for X11

so, now appear like we must use an xorg session to use it...
Any clues?

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Re: GNOME 3 extensions that mimic GNOME 2

[Carlo Borelli]

2011/11/13 Kevin Ross 

> I just found some extensions that give your desktop a GNOME 2 look and
> feel.  I guess it's kinda like fallback mode, but fallback mode is
> supposedly only temporary.
>
> All you need to do is extract the .tgz file into your home folder, log out
> and log back in.  Easy peasy.  It's a collection of 6 extensions.  They are
> all on by default, but you can use gnome-tweak-tool to disable the ones you
> don't want.
>
> http://intgat.tigress.co.uk/**rmy/extensions/index.html
>
>
I don't get it, frankly, why all those ppl has that resistance to changes...
Gnome 3 come and stay, so better explore it, keep it and see what has to
offer.
Why all those ppl wining and crying

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Re: wierd sane behavior!

[Carlo Borelli]

2011/11/19 Khosrow Hassani 

> Hi,
> I just installed Debian 6.0.3 (testing) on my Thinkpad x60 laptop. I also
> have a Canon Lide 100 scanner which was not supported by sane backends in
> Debian before, and I had to install the newest libraries from source. this
> time, however, I realized that it is supported. sane-find-scanner finds two
> usb scanners (don't know why 2! I only attache one), one of which is
> correctly recognized as Canon vendor=0x04a9 and product=0x1904.
> The problem is that when I run scanimage -L from console before starting
> X, everything is OK. even the scanimage -d test -T and scanimage -d genesys
> -T commands are all passed successfully. but, when I start X and run the
> same commands inside an xterm, I get the error that libusb:001:002 access
> has been denied or something like that!
> I don't really understand why running the same command from console and
> xterm are different!!
>

It's a group permission behavior, put your X user in /etc/group, scanner



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Re: New Base Install Squeeze - No Reboot cmd

[Carlo Borelli]

2011/11/29 Kurtis Brown 

> Hi there, I am new here so hope I do this right.
>
> I have just installed debian squeeze, I installed the
> base system and have install icewm and xorg and a few
> other random programs.
>
> My issue is I cannot seem to reboot. I have tried commands like
> restart,reboot,shutdown and they say command not found. So I can only
> presume I haven't installed a package that will let me do this. What
> package would this be.
>

dbradders@Home:~$ which reboot
dbradders@Home:~$ sudo which reboot
/sbin/reboot
dbradders@Home:~$ which halt
dbradders@Home:~$ sudo which halt
/sbin/halt
dbradders@Home:~$ which shutdown
dbradders@Home:~$ sudo which shutdown
/sbin/shutdown

A normal user w/o privileges can just open and end a user session, only the
superuser can halt o reboot the computer.

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Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

[Carlo Borelli]

2012/2/4 Nuno Magalhães 

> Hi,
>
> It is kinda off-topic (i'd OT it), and being picky it's GNU/Linux
> Debian, not GNU/Debian Linux. Being extra picky i'd ask where is
> Manhattan, :)
>

This topic is absolutely OT and need to be marked OT

BTW, Manhattan it isn't that little town next to Niagara Falls?

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Re: Broken System After Update

[Carlo Borelli]

>
> [...]
>


> Yes, I have /usr and /var on separate partitions and both were required to
> be mounted before the command worked. I tried your alternative solution as
> well but none fixed my problem. I am convinced that my problem is not a
> corrupt initrd. I am at a loss as to what to do next to get my computer to
> boot up. Any leads?
>
> Ogya
>

Last time I broke my Wheezy, I used the the rescue function of installation
netboot disk, and I found the boot partition completely empty.
So, I did:
grub-mkdevicemap
grub-install /dev/sda (obviously sda is my disk, duh!)
update-grub and here I'd an error while automagically grub was rebuilding
initrd
Then I deleted from the root the old link to vmlinuz, did again
update-grub, then boot directory was successfully populated, the root link
to vmlinuz too and a reboot gave me back the system like nothing was
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Re: Why did UDEV renumber my ethernet interface again?

[Carlo Borelli]

2012/2/27 Curt Howland 

> Dear Debianistas,
>
> I'm aware of _what_ UDEV is doing, that is, renumbering my ethernet
> ports to prevent conflicts. Yeah. There's only one, but it's getting
> renumbered "eth3".
>
> Trouble is, it wasn't renumbered yesterday. Just today. And a week ago.
>
> About a week ago, UDEV decided to let eth0 remain eth0, which was
> nice, but I had to change /etc/network/interfaces because it had
> previously decided that eth0 should be eth3, and had been doing that
> since I installed it two years ago.
>
> Yes, I'm running Unstable, so it's the UDEV updates that are doing
> this. That makes sense.
>
> What doesn't make sense is _why_. There is only one ethernet interface
> in this machine. Why is UDEV renumbering them _at_all_?
>
>
Sincerely dunno why, it appear a strange behaviour.
Do you tried to manually modify  /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
and restart udev and networks services?

debian - joomla accesso ai file

[Carlo Langaro]

Salve a tutti, sono nuovo di debian anche se da qualche anno lavoro con ubuntu.
Sto installando per una associazione no profit, di faccio parte, un sito con 
joomla.
L'associazione mi ha messo a disposizione un server dove ho installato debian
ho poi installato lamp e utilizzando il componente di restore kickstart 
ripristinando l sito che ho configurato sotto ubuntu.
Il sito gira senza problemi, ma quando vado a fare qualsiasi modifica mi da 
l'avviso che non può aprire il file configuration.php per la scrittura.
ho controllato i permessi del file da proprietà e sono ok ho anche aperto tutto 
dando 777 ma niente, non c'e verso di venirne a capo. 

Vi ringrazio fin d'ora per il prezioso aiuto che mi darete

grazie

carlo langaro
carlan...@gmail.com

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debconf and dpkg-reconfigure behavior

[Carlo U. Segre]

Hello:

I have just encountered a problem that I have never seen during the
installation of many, many Debian machines.  I am mysitified and perhaps
someone has a suggestion (probably some thing stupid, of course).

I have been asked to help out with a newly installed machine (Woody) and
when I added packages, I noticed that there were no debconf screens or
questions for any packages.

The command

# dpkg-recnfigure debconf
#

Just returns to the prompt with no other output.  From the debconf manual,
this should at least ask me the quetions using the Dialog method.

I have tried installing all the packages that exist on a working
installation and this has no effect.  I have tried manually editing the
/var/cache/debconf/config.dat file to set options the way I want them for
debconf but when I rerun the command above, debconf wipes out all the text
I had placed in the file for debconf.  The entries now look like:

Name: debconf/frontend
Template: debconf/frontend
Value:
Owners: debconf
Flags: seen

Name: debconf/priority
Template: debconf/priority
Value:
Owners: debconf
Flags: seen

This is quite mystifying and I really do not know how to get out of this
funny state.  I have tried to uninstall debconf (using --force-depends)
and then reinstalling it to no avail.

Help!

Carlo

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RE: debconf and dpkg-reconfigure behavior

[Carlo U. Segre]

done that, no difference.  The debconf manual states that when you run
dpkg-reconfigure debconf, it will always ask the questions.  This is
abnormal behavior...

Thanks

Carlo

On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Narins, Josh wrote:

> Sounds like your debconf priority got set to "critical" ?
>
> Try
> > dpkg-reconfigure --priority low debconf
>
> Actually, I am not in front of a debian box now, perhaps "low" should be in
> quotes.
>
> I believe there is also an environment variable you can set to do the same
> thing.
>
>
>
> hth,
> -Josh
>
>
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Carlo U. Segre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 7:26 PM
> > To: Debian Users List
> > Subject: debconf and dpkg-reconfigure behavior
> >
> >
> >
> > Hello:
> >
> > I have just encountered a problem that I have never seen during the
> > installation of many, many Debian machines.  I am mysitified
> > and perhaps
> > someone has a suggestion (probably some thing stupid, of course).
> >
> > I have been asked to help out with a newly installed machine
> > (Woody) and
> > when I added packages, I noticed that there were no debconf screens or
> > questions for any packages.
> >
> > The command
> >
> > # dpkg-recnfigure debconf
> > #
> >
> > Just returns to the prompt with no other output.  From the
> > debconf manual,
> > this should at least ask me the quetions using the Dialog method.
> >
> > I have tried installing all the packages that exist on a working
> > installation and this has no effect.  I have tried manually
> > editing the
> > /var/cache/debconf/config.dat file to set options the way I
> > want them for
> > debconf but when I rerun the command above, debconf wipes out
> > all the text
> > I had placed in the file for debconf.  The entries now look like:
> >
> > Name: debconf/frontend
> > Template: debconf/frontend
> > Value:
> > Owners: debconf
> > Flags: seen
> >
> > Name: debconf/priority
> > Template: debconf/priority
> > Value:
> > Owners: debconf
> > Flags: seen
> >
> > This is quite mystifying and I really do not know how to get
> > out of this
> > funny state.  I have tried to uninstall debconf (using
> > --force-depends)
> > and then reinstalling it to no avail.
> >
> > Help!
> >
> > Carlo
> >
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Re: debconf and dpkg-reconfigure behavior

[Carlo U. Segre]

Actually, no.  The regular whiptail and slang1 are installed.  However, I
removed whiptail and modconf and then reinstalled them and now the proper
behavior is present.

I am not sure what might have happened here except that in the
installation using a current woody CD, the user who initially set up the
system chose the "automatic" rather than the manual method for package
installation.  I find it hard to believe that this was the cause but so be
it.

Thanks for your time on this,

Carlo

On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Joey Hess wrote:

>Carlo U. Segre wrote:
>> whiptail: error while loading shared libraries: libslang.so.1-UTF8: cannot
>> open shared object file: No such file or directory
>>
>> Perhaps a dependency is wrong but I don't understand the "-UTF8" on my
>> other working machines there is no such library.
>
>Seems to me you may have the whiptail-utf8 package installed, which
>depends on slang1a-utf8. The regular whiptail package does not, and what
>is wrong with your utf-8 version of the slang library I do not know.
>
>

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Re: Problems installing with Promise Uttra33 (hde & hdg)

[Adam Di Carlo]

John Beimler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I switched over to the 2nd virtual console and noticed there are no
> devices for hde or hdg, so I am guessing this is the problem.  I am
> hoping someone has a quick fix for me.  I would like to leave the
> setup the way it is, the HD controller that is on the motherboard is
> really flaky.

Can't you just bring up the shell in tty2 and mknod these devices?

Sorry, I know this is just a workaround ... this is a bug in the
boot-floppies that we fixed in mid-April, however, we never made a
"post-2.1.9" release... Enrique?  Feel like burning a boot-floppies
2.1.11 for slink?

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problems with Cyrix MediaGX system

[Carlo U. Segre]

Hello All:

I am having a strange problem with a new motherboard.  The system is an
integrated Cyrix MediaGX CPU with on-board video and sound.  

I can get the system to boot properly with teh Rescue disk and I can go
all the way throught the base system installation but the problems begin
when I reboot.

1. The disk partitions are never properly unmounted and need to be
e2fsck'ed every time.

2. The boot stalls when the 'hwclock' program is invoked.

3. The system seems sluggish for the 233 MHz equivalent system and when I
look at the timin loop measured by bogomips, I see a value of about 78
whereas my pentium Pro 200 gives 200 for bogomips.

4. My ISA ethernet card is properly detected to be at io=220 but when I
see the result of ifconfig, the io is reported to be at 230 and thus the
network is completely inaccessible.

I am thoroughly confused.  

Carlo


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problems with X in hamm

[Carlo U. Segre]

I have been trying to install a new machine with the frozen hamm
distribution and I am running into 2 problems with X11.

1. No user outside root is allowed to start X11.  This may be a
configuration issue but I know that this did not happen in Debian 1.3

2. I use a S3 ViRGE video card and I am noticing that I have a corrupted
text console screen when I exit X (running it as root, of course).  This
happens both when I am using the SVGA server and the S3V server.

I am about to drop back to 1.3 out of frustration but wondered if these
problems are just my incompetence...

Cheers,

Carlo


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Re: problems with X in hamm

[Carlo U. Segre]

On Sat, 18 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> 
> I am not using hamm, but is the wrapper /usr/X11R6/bin/X suid root?

yes it is.

Carlo


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Re: problems with X in hamm

[Carlo U. Segre]

On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Michael B. Taylor wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 04:16:08PM -0500, Carlo U. Segre wrote:
> > 
> > I have been trying to install a new machine with the frozen hamm
> > distribution and I am running into 2 problems with X11.
> > 
> > 1. No user outside root is allowed to start X11.  This may be a
> > configuration issue but I know that this did not happen in Debian 1.3
> 
> Take a look at the config and Xserver files in /etc/X11.  There are some 
> short instructions there on how to edit these files to your liking.

These seem to be OK.  I have checked with 1.3 systems and the files are as
they should be.

Carlo

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Re: problems with X in hamm

[Carlo U. Segre]

On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Alexander wrote:

> Hi...
> 
> Perhaps you should try downgrading to an older version of the X
> servers/packages?
> 

Probably, I will do that but it will require installing 1.3 fresh since
a downgrade of just the X packages is not possible.

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xterm woes

[Carlo U. Segre]

Hello All:

I have been running the hamm distribution on one machine and Debian 1.3 on
another.  When I telnet over from the hamm to the 1.3 from a xterm window
and I try to run pine on the 1.3 machine, I get the message:

Terminal type "xterm-debian", is unknown.

And I am unable to run pine.  This same message shows up when I log into
an Irix system and a Solaris system but in the Irix case, pine will
continue to work and in the Solaris case, I am able to use the set term
command to fix the problem.

Is this a bug in the xterm setup?

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slashdot poll

[Adam Di Carlo]

Debian seems to be taking a beating on the recent /. poll
of distributions.  Have you all voted?

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Re: Newbie question on dselect

[Adam Di Carlo]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rick Tan) writes:

> I just successfully installed slink 2.1 on a sparc machine.  When I attempted
> to use "dselect" to install some other packages off the net, I ran into the
> following problem.
> 
> Get http://http.us.debian.org stable/contrib Packages
> Get http://http.non-us.debian.org stable/non-US Packages
> Error http://http.us.debian.org stable/contrib Packages
>  Couldn't lookup host http.us.debian.org
> Error http://http.non-us.debian.org stable/non-US Packages
>  Couldn't lookup host http.non-us.debian.org 

> I believe the errors in the above has to do with the fact that the machine
> is behind a firewall.  

Um, no, the errors are because it can't resolve the host names.  You
have to have a working DNS configuration (man resolv.conf).
Alternatively, try IP numbers but I'm not sure if that will work or
not.

> How do set the proxy server information in the
> system.  What program or tool is available for this?

Well, this depends on your backend.  I deduce you are using apt.  In
that case, set the 'http_proxy' variable.  I do:

export http_proxy=http://burrito:3128/
dselect

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kerneld setup

[Carlo U. Segre]

Hello All:

I am trying to find out how to activate kerneld.  I notice that in
/etc/init.d/kerneld, there is a test for /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe before
kerneld is loaded.  In my system, this is not present and thus kerneld
does not load.  How do I get this to be set on boot?

Thanks,

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Re: pkgsel

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With respect to pkgsel, I thought our ultimate idea (not really for
slink) was to provide actual empty 'metapackages', which are just
normal packages with a whole slew of dependancies and a little
README/Changelog/etc in /usr/doc/ .

Is this the plan?

I'll try to be sure and document how to exploit the existing pkgsel
stuff.  Anyone volunteering text snippets for the Installation Manual
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Re: pkgsel

[Adam Di Carlo]

"Brandon" == Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> With respect to pkgsel, I thought our ultimate idea (not really for
>> slink) was to provide actual empty 'metapackages', which are just
>> normal packages with a whole slew of dependancies and a little
>> README/Changelog/etc in /usr/doc/ .
>> 
>> Is this the plan?

> How about another thought on how to do it.  Do a dpkg
> --get-selections.  Then compare what is currently installed to the
> groups of packages that have been defined.  You then show the user
> if all, some, or none of the group is currently installed.  The user
> then has the choice to change the group to all or none.  Finally
> save the changes (will dpkg --set-selections remove things?), maybe
> even offer to run apt-get.

Um, if we adopt *my* metapackage scheme, we already *have* all these
benefit (i.e., in dselect) with no code needing to be written.
Furthermore, we can deliver updates to the metapackages in the
archive, just as we do any other package.

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Re: Debian goes big business?

[Adam Di Carlo]

On 19 Jan 1999 16:55:29 -0600, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Shawn writes:
>> I am all for a for-profit business forming as a value-added seller
>> of Debian products. Such a business could focus on
>> pre-installations, packaging and marketing, and user support.

> Exactly!  This is just the sort of company I would love to
> participate in.

> I have cross-posted this to debian-devel.

onShore, Inc., my company, (not yet listed on the consultants page --
too busy with work and Slink right now) sells bundled GNU/Debian
systems, including hardware and support.  We are resellers for most
major manufacturers.  We're basically a consulting company (business
to business), not an ISP or box pusher.  We also do a lot of
open-source development and the like.  FWIW, I'm actually starting a
push right now to offer bundled Debian/Sparc boxes, since we're also
Sun resellers, and since the Sparc architecture has a lower TCO and
scales better than x86.

We operate out of Chicago and NYC (312 850-5200 and 212 254-0063).

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RE: S3 Virge AGP supported by XFree86?

[Carlo U. Segre]

> Does anyone know if XFree86 supports the AGP versions of the S3 Virge
> cards?  I'm looking to cheaply replace a fried Mystique and am wondering
> if I should go AGP or PCI.  I have checked the hardware compatibility
> list and it makes no reference to PCI/AGP, so I don't know if it even
> cares.
> Thanks,
>  Michael
> 

I have had no luck in getting such cards to work with XFree86-3.3.2 as is
in Debian 2.0 and the slink distribution.  It may be that these cards will
be supported in XFree86-3.3.3 but I have decided to go back to the S3
Virge PCI (no AGP) cards which do work with both the  xserver-s3v and
xserver-svga packages (the latter will permit you to install Staroffice
5.0, the former will not).

Cheers,

Carlo

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Re: Booting problems!

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<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> thank you for reading this message. The first boot for installation of
> debian 2.1 fails.
> After 'Loading linux ..' nothing happens, the machine hangs.

Generally this means a bad floppy.

There are other boot methods also, such as CD-ROM or loadlin from a
DOS partition.  Soon, TFTP for i386 also.

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Re: How to do it? [Xserver]

[Adam Di Carlo]

I think your problem is that you need to 'chmod 0666 /dev/fb?'.  This
is a known bug in the slink Xsun X window system servers.

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Re: Booting problems!

[Adam Di Carlo]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

> Nathan Duehr wrote:

> > Make sure you try the Tecra disk images

> I've read it and tried it. But thats a 'no go'

> Any other suggestions.?

If I recall, your problem is that you cannot get past 'loading
root.bin' -- or was it 'loading linux'.

I would suggest checking the BIOS settings.  Make sure processor
cache, shadow ram, and all that jazz is turned off.  Try a few things.
Try removing unneccesary cards.  Read the install manual -- it talks
about this.

This is on a laptop, right?  Thinkpad 770?  Or was that someone else?

If none of that helps, could you fill out a complete report as a bug
report against boot-floppies?  Include full hardware info and what you
see on your screen and all the different stuff you tried.

Really sorry for the inconvenience!

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Re: A Problem with jadetex

[Adam Di Carlo]

>> There were quite a few problems with the slink packages of jadetex;
>> it might be easier to upgrade to the relevant potato package.


No, the slink version should work fine on a slink system.

Mario, can you give me some more details on your system?  Assuming you
are running standard slink tetex and slink jadetex, all should be well
(I use it a lot still).  The only reason I can think of for your
problems would be if you were using a potato tetex and a slink
jadetex, since in potato, tetex moved stuff from /usr/lib/texmf to
/usr/share/texmf.

After you install jadetex, you should be able to do
  kpsewhich jadetex.fmt
and get a valid response.  Can you?

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Re: Netscape strange errors

[Adam Di Carlo]

> Quoting Adam Di Carlo
>>  Do you have the motifnls package installed?
>> 
>> You may need to set your XNLSPATH environment variable to
>> "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/nls" in order for some Motif applications to
>> work.
>> 

>>>>> "Paulo" == Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Paulo>  Oh.  I dont have motifnls installed.  I dont know what to do
Paulo> now!!

Try installing the motifnls package.

If it's still a problem, try setting the XNLSPATH as indicated above.

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Re: Kernel patches needed for running Informix Dynamic Server Linux Edition

[Adam Di Carlo]

"F. Fernandez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'd like to know where can I find the patches to recompile the kernel
> 2.0.36 and/or 2.2.x so that the system supports more open files.
> 
> [...]They also say that the 2.2.5 that comes with
> RH6.0 already has been patched to work with Informix and Oracle.
> 
> Are those patches available in Debian? If not, anyone knows where
> to find them?

Pretty much any linux kernel works with Debian.  We provide images to
get people started but you don't have to run a stock Debian kernel
image to run Debian.  By no means.

In some cases, we provid kernel patch packages to solve problems,
generally, patches required for certain architectures.

I guess, basically, we just don't feel the need to provide this
functionality by default, since most people don't need it, and if you
do need it, tweaking the kernel and patching is so easy there's no
reason to provide a package.

I suggest you just

 . get the kernel-source package, or download sources from kernel.org
 or whereever you like to get kernel sources

 . ferret out the proper kernel patch for whatever kernel you are
running (I think it's just a tweak to an include file), then

 . use kernel-package to compile a new kernel

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using apt to upgrade from 1.3 to 2.0

[Carlo U. Segre]

Hello All:

I have a dozen or so debian boxes which I have been reluctant to upgrade
up to now.  I read in the apt README that it can be used to do a major
upgrade such as the 1.3 to 2.0.  I have been unsuccessful up to now but
maybe it is just my ignorance.  The problems I am encountering are that
the only version of apt that I can find 0.1.8 which requires libc6 in
order to work at all.  This means that I need to use the autoup script
before trying apt-get.  This is not what I understood from the README but
maybe it is the only way.

Any suggestions?

Carlo


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Re: web interface

[Carlo U. Segre]

On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Paul McDermott wrote:

> hello everybody, I was wondering if anyone new of a good web interface for
> the postgres database project.  It does not look like Debian has one.  Any
> one have any ideas.
> Paul

There is a commercial package that I have used for our departmental web
page (www.iit.edu/~bcps).  It is called Portable Publishing and it is
written by a company called Outlook Technologies (www.outlook.net).  I do
not know the current cost.

I looked at other options and did not find them too useful, one which has 
a Debian package is PHP.  

Cheers,

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Re: Lyx, StarOffice, & word [was Re: Win95 and Linux:

[Carlo U. Segre]

On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, Johann Spies wrote:

> It was with interest that I read Richard E. Hawkins Esq.'s comments about
> Lynx and StarOffice.
> 

.. cut ..

> 
> I was wandering whether anyone could use Lyx for anything serious.  Are
> there proper documentation somewhere?
> 
> Johann.
> 

Yes, I have been using it for about a year to write up regular documents
as well as solutions to homework problems for my Solid State Physics
Course.  I agree that it takes a bit of experimentation to figure out how
to use and there are some inconveniences to using it (too many clicks oc
the mouse sometimes).  Overall, however, I like it quite well.

Carlo



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Re: Compute Farm, Part II

[Carlo U. Segre]

On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Tim Sailer wrote:

> Craig Sanders wrote:
> > 
> > isn't this sort of thing precisely what cfengine is for? cfengine is 
> > available as a debian package.
> 
> Doh! I knew there was something out there to do this. That's why I asked
> the list. Looks like my brain is full.. when something new goes in, 
> something old leaks out.. :)
> 
> > rdist/rsync/ssh can also be useful for remote admin too...
> > 
> > 
> > BTW, what makes them think that RH can do this any easier than debian?
> 

I am not sure if this solves the problem of package installation, unless
you actually force a mirror of all files, not just the configuration files
in /etc.  

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Re: Jetdirect

[Carlo U. Segre]

On Sun, 22 Feb 1998, Asher Haig wrote:

> How do I go about setting up linux to print to a Jetdirect printer? The 
> HP page is useless. From what I see, it appears that I need to set it up 
> with lpd as a tcp/ip printer. Does that mean that I have to have an 
> additional IP address on my network for the printer (if so, is there any 
> way around that?)?

We have set up our Jetdirect this way.  The Jetdirect card needs an IP
address if it is on a TCP/IP network (which I presume your Linux box is on
too).  Once the IP address has been assigned, the Jetdirect acts like a
standalone lpd to whcih you can feed data from a Linux printqueue.  There
are a couple of tricks to making it work properly.  One is to make sure
that you have turned off the header page (I had to upgrade the Jetdirect
firmware to do this).  The other is to have the proper queue name in your
printcap.  I have enclosed mine below:

lj4m|ls178_hp4m|First Floor Department LaserJet:\
 :lp=/dev/null:\
 :rm=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:\
 :rp=text:\
 :sd=/var/spool/lpd/ls178_hp4m:\
 :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\
 :af=/var/log/lp-acct:\
 :lf=/var/log/lp-errs:

Once you have the queue established, you can serve it to any Windows95
machines on the network by using samba.

I am not aware of any way of getting around the requirement of having an
IP number for the Jetdirect.  You could always connect the preinter
directly to the parallel port of a Linux box and then set up a queue and
serve it to the rest of the network.  I have done this with a
non-Jetdirect HP LaserJet but I much prefer the jetdirect solution.

Good Luck,

Carlo

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Re: multi-volume backups with taper?

[Carlo U. Segre]

On Sun, 23 Mar 1997, Bob Billson wrote:

> Has anyone been successful using taper to backup to multiple tapes?  If so,
> what is the secret? :-)  I can't get passed the first tape.

I have had the same problem.  Apparently, taper does not see the
end-of-tape properly.  I got around this by specifying the length of the
tape in the options.  This forced taper to ask for a second tape.

Unfortunately, once you have written the multiple tapes, I have found a
much worse problem (at least on all of my machines which have the Colorado
Jumbo 250 tapes).  Taper correctly asks for the second tape but about
halfway through this second tape, it gets stuck.  The tape continues to
move repetitively back and forth but no data is extracted.  This can go on
forever and I have to abort the program.

The result is that I have been unable to use taper for multiple volume
backups at all!

Cheers,

Carlo


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AT1500 Ethernet card?

[Carlo U. Segre]

Hello All:

I have been helping a friend set his Debian Linux system and he has an
AT1500 (AMD LANCE) ISA ethernet card installed.  Apparently the driver for
this card is not possible to install as a module and it must be compiled
into the kernel.  I have done this but during boot, no indication that
this card is being autoprobed or located is given.  The networking is
obviously not functioning.

Does anyone have any experience with this kind of card?  Do I need to
append an "ether=" command to lilo.conf?  Is there some additional support
besides the standard networking support which must be compiled into the
kernel?

Help!

Cheers,

Carlo


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Re: problem with base disks

[Carlo U. Segre]

On Sat, 12 Apr 1997, Mart Klanberg wrote:

> 
> Or, if problem is unknown, how can I get the base system from another fs
> (the 'prev. mounted fs'), is it the bo/binary/base/* that it needs? (I
> tar'ed it to dos partition, and copied to /target/bleh/* ... giving him
> /target/bleh/ as the directory of base packets caused script to give some
> seg.faults or just to restart from beginning)
> 

The solution that I have used many times is to get the boot floppies from
the "stable" release and then just install the "unstable" tree from
dselect.  The base system mostly will need to be updated but this works.


Cheers

Carlo

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is the list still active?

[Carlo U. Segre]

Hello All:

I haven't been receiving any list mail for the last 2-3 days, is the list
server down or did I just get unsubscribed by accident?  A few days ago
our mailer was shut down due to a security problem and that is wehn the
mail stopped coming in.

If someone can reply to me directly, I will be happy to resubscribe if
need be.

Thanks,

Carlo


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Remote printer configuration

[Carlo U. Segre]

Hello All:

I have been settin up one of our Debian machines to serve as a
departmental printer server for Macs and Windows95 machines.  The problem
I am having is with an HP LaserJet 4m+ with JetDirect card.  The printer
has its own IP number and it is directly connected to the network.  I have
set up a printcap as follows on my Debian box:

ls178_hp4m|First Floor Department LaserJet:\
 :lp=/dev/null:\
 :rm=198.37.24.188:\
 :rp=text:\
 :sd=/var/spool/lpd/ls178_hp4m:\
 :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\
 :af=/var/log/lp-acct:\
 :lf=/var/log/lp-errs:

The rp=text is required to give the proper CRLF sequence when printing
text files from Linux.  The printer is set up to autoswitch to postscript
and PCL and this works fine.  The problem is that every job I print has a
trailer page with the information about where the print job came from.

Is this a feature of the Linux lpd?  I haven't been able to find anything
in the printer documents aobut this so I need to knowif anyone has heard
of this in Linux.  I looked in the Linux docs but no mention there either.

Help!  I really don't want to waste the extra sheet of paper each job.


Carlo

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Network mounting problems

[Carlo U. Segre]

Hello All:

I have been running into a vexing problem with a cluster of 8 Debian
machines I am using for a Course in Computational Physics.

All of the machines are running Debian 1.2 as installed in December 1996.
I have not wanted to do much upgrading during the course of the semester.
so students can log into any one of the machines and find their data
files. 

The problem is that if the systems are left to run for an extended period
of time (over a week usually but as little as a few days even!) the /home
directory becomes inaccessible at login even though the df command shows
it to be mounted.  This causes a great deal of problems and means that I
have to reboot the machines regularly.  It also means that if I am not
around people start to complain.  As a side note, the server is usually
quite stable and stays up for many weeks at a time. Just the other
machines need to be rebooted because of this problem. The kernel version
is 2.0.27.

Any help would be appreciated!

Carlo
 

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Re: Form Debian 1.2 to Debian 1.3, How?

[Carlo U. Segre]

On Mon, 26 May 1997, Fredrik Ax wrote:

> On Mon, 26 May 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> >   I have installed Debian 1.2, Linux kernel 2.0.27, in my home PC and I
> >   would like to migrate to Debian 1.3, I download the files from Internet .
> >   As I am not very skilled in this matter, Could anybody give the basics
> >   guidelines?. Many thanks in advance.
> >
> Basicly you just have to run dselect whith 1.3's filetree as base.
> Most (all?) packages asks you if you want to replace the original 
> config files, if you wish to overwrite them, a backup file is created,
> otherwise an "side file" with a new config file is created.
> 

This is correct except for 2 specific upgrades which will require manual
intervention.  I am not sure what the plan is for the final upgrade
instructions but this is what I had to do.

The first is the removal of the 'modules' package and the installation of
the replacement 'modutils' package.  In order to remove the old 'modules'
package, it will be necessary to recompile the kernel (get the source
package and the 'make-kpkg' package for this) WITHOUT module support.
This means that as you do the confuguration of the kernel, you will have
to compile in all the important drivers or else you will not have them.
Once the new kernel is installed, you can reboot and proceed to dselect.
NOTE:  I consider this a serious flaw in the upgrade process, since it
requires someone to know how to compile a kernel to do it.  It might be
bette to provide a kernel-image package just for this purpose and then
another for after the upgrade is finished.

The second is the replacement of TeX in the 1.2 version with the new teTeX
distribution.  The new distribution WILL not install unless you have
manually removed all of the packages pertaining to the old Tex
distribution.  Fortunately, the scripts tell you what to do and what must
be removed using the 'dpkg' command.  Unfortunately, I have encountered
cases where is is not trivial to force the removal of the old packages.  I
have had to go  in and modify the latex.prerm script.  This is again
something that an inexperienced installer would have difficulty figuring
out alone.  I do not know if this is because I had a relatively old
installation so I have not reported it as a bug.  I will be doing further
installations and upgrades soon so I will try to see if this is a
consistent problem.

Finally, a general suggestion.  If you are running X, don't do the
installation from an xterm.  Go to a text console (Ctrl-Alt-F1) and login
as root there.  The 1.3 upgrade may replace xbase, which requires shutting
down xdm and that will completely disconnect you from your xterm and
interrupt the upgrade process.  In general, it is best to run dselect only
from a text console.

Hope this helps and keep asking the list if you have difficulties, usually
the answers are quick and helpful.

Carlo

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Re: Kernel freeze during install

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On Mon, 26 May 1997, Brian Candler wrote:

> I am trying to install Debian-1.2.10 and the kernel freezes during bootup at
> the following point:
> 
> [my BusLogic KT445C host adaptor is detected successfully as scsi0]
> Ux4F0: address 0x330 in use, skipping probe.
> NCR53c406a: no available ports found
> qlogicisp : PCI bios not present
> eata_dma: No BIOS32 extensions present. This driver release still depends on 
> it
> o  Skipping scan for PCI HBAs
> 
> That's as far as it gets. This happens whether I just hit Enter at the boot:
> prompt, or if I type "linux ether=10,0x300,eth0". I have made two boot disks
> on brand new floppies and get the same behaviour.
> 
> Here is a summary of my hardware:
> * BioStar VLB motherboard, 486DX2/66, 16MB RAM
> * BusLogic KT445C VLB SCSI card (io=0x330, irq=11, dma=7); Ricoh CD-R drive
> * ET4000 VLB video
> * Promise VLB EIDE controller, Fujitsu 2.5GB IDE drive, fd0 is 1.44MB
> * Soundblaster-16 (io=0x220, irq=7, dma=1/5) with sbpcd CD-ROM (io=0x230)
> * 3com 3C509 (io=0x300, irq=10)
> 

I have encountered this problem a number of times with 486 motherboards.
The problem for me has been the ethernet card.  If I pulled it out the
boot continued properly.  In my case, I needed to have the ehternet card
in order to complete the NFS install so I had to workaround by compiling a
kernel with the ethernet drivers included rather than loaded as modules.
Then, I had to play around with the ethernet card I/O address in some
cases.  Anyway, since you have a CDROM version, I would suggest that you
remove the ethernet and sound cards and see if the installation can be
done.  Then you can build some custom kernels and try reinstalling the
cards to see if the hangups are avoided.

One other point that comes to mind looking at your list above.  Most
Soundblasters use 2 interrupts for the sound and perhaps another for the
CDROM.  You list only one and the others might be sitting at 10 and
preventing you from getting past the boot sequence.  Try removing the
sound card first.

Hope this helps,

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Re: HP JetDirect?

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On Tue, 27 May 1997, [ISO-8859-1] Mika Marjamäki wrote:

> 
> And does anyone have any experience on configuring Debian to use printers
> that are attached to a HP JetDirect EX Plus3? I think it can share the
> printers with lpd-protocol, but I didn't get it working..:(
> 

I have set up an HP JetDirect (I don't know if it isEX Plus3 but I think
not) lpr queue on a linux box.  It worked fine right away and I was able
to export it to Windows95 machines using samba.  

The printcap entry is below

ls178_hp4m|First Floor Department LaserJet:\
 :lp=/dev/null:\
 :rm=198.37.24.188:\
 :rp=text:\
 :sd=/var/spool/lpd/ls178_hp4m:\
 :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\
 :af=/var/log/lp-acct:\
 :lf=/var/log/lp-errs:

The printer is set to autoswitch and the 'text' queue on the JetDirect
works well for this.  It immediately recognizes postscript and PCL files
and switches the printer.

The only problem I had was with the banner page that the JetDirect puts
out.  I had no way of turning it off with the telnet protocol until I
upgraded to the latest version of the firmware.

Hope this helps,

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rcp with root?

[Carlo U. Segre]

Hello All:

I just finished upgrading our Debian cluster to the frozen distribution
and now the mechanism we used for synchronizing important system files is
no longer working.  With the previous setup we used the rcp command as
root to copy passwd files and system.fvwmrc files to all of the machines
in the cluster from the master.  The authentication was through the
.rhosts file in the /root directory.

The .rhosts file seems to be still there and OK.  I can still rlogin
between machines using my personal user account, but any attempt to use
rcp as root results in a response: 'permission denied'.  

Is this a new security feature?  Is it possible to switch it off?  

Thanks in advance,

Carlo



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Re: rcp with root?

[Carlo U. Segre]

Upon a more careful observation of the new man page for rshd (I can't
imagine how I failed to see it except that the option was buried in the
paragraph and not on the left margin where it is visible) I noticed that
using the -h option for rshd will re-enable the feature allowing rcp as
root.

Sorry for wasting bandwidth :)

Carlo


On Fri, 30 May 1997, Carlo U. Segre wrote:

> Hello All:
> 
> I just finished upgrading our Debian cluster to the frozen distribution
> and now the mechanism we used for synchronizing important system files is
> no longer working.  With the previous setup we used the rcp command as
> root to copy passwd files and system.fvwmrc files to all of the machines
> in the cluster from the master.  The authentication was through the
> .rhosts file in the /root directory.
> 
> The .rhosts file seems to be still there and OK.  I can still rlogin
> between machines using my personal user account, but any attempt to use
> rcp as root results in a response: 'permission denied'.  
> 
> Is this a new security feature?  Is it possible to switch it off?  
> 



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inetd.conf corruption

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Hello All:

I recently upgraded some systems from 1.2 to 1.3 and I noticed that the
inetd.conf entry for smbd was missing along with the comments at the top
of the file.  This has happened to all of the machines upgraded over the
last few days.

Could anyone pinpoint the package which is giving this problem?

Is there any way to recover the proper inetd.conf (I know that a number of
packages modify this file)?

Thanks

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PDF Writer

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Hello All:

Does anyone know of a program which writes PDF files under Linux?

Cheers,

Carlo


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Re: DHCP Server

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On Thu, 11 Sep 1997, Tony Koehn wrote:

> Does anyone know how I can setup a DHCP server?
> 
> I need a small crash course on how a DHCP server works
> 
> Heres what I need.   Will a DHCP server do this?
> 
> I have W95 computers on a networks.  These machines are accessable to the
> public.  I need all time logged from the time a person loggs on the machine
> to when they logg off.
> 
> Can I do this with Linux?  or Is there a W95 Software package out there
> that does this as well?
> 

This works very well both with Win95 and Mac machines.  There is a Debian
package which has this software and all the relevant documentation.  It is
called dhcpd.  If you need to connect Linux machines using DHCP, there is
also a DHCP Client package dhcpcd.

I set this package up in less than an hour and it works perfectly.

Cheers 

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Re: Advansys Scsi Adapters

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On Thu, 23 Oct 1997, butch wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I was wondering about the experience of users of these adapters with linux?
> it seems that adaptec has not really been that open to the linux community.
> 

I am using an Advansys ISA PnP adapter to connect my jaz drive and such
things.  It works fine.

Carlo

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Re: looking for programs

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On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, Jochen Solbrig wrote:

> I'm looking for two programs: First, I need a program to
> make foils (I tried LaTeX/foiltex but writing foils with
> LaTeX is very difficult and takes a lot of time). Second,
> I need a program to make scientific plots. Gnuplot doesn't 
> produce very nice graphs and formatting of minor ticks is 
> not possible. The tool should be a combination between a 
> spreadsheet and a plotting tool.
> 

xmgr is a good program for scientific graphs.  There is currently no
Debian package for it but the source and binaries for it are available at

http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Xmgr/

I am trying to figure out how to make Debian packages and then I will
probably make one for this program.

Cheers,

Carlo


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Is it possible to force the serial port IRQ's?

[Carlo U. Segre]

Hello All:

I have a PPro 200 system which I dual boot between Windows95 and
Debian Linux (most of the time!).  I also have an internal modem installed
on COM2 so I have used the BIOS to set the on-board serial port to COM4
with IRQ 11 (this is an option for my motherboard which I have not seen in
others).  Under Windows95, the COM4 is properly detected with the correct
IRQ, in Linux, however, both COM2 and COM4 are autoprobed as IRQ 3.  

I have noticed an analogous situation when I disabled the second COM port
in the BIOS but Linux finds it anyway.  It seems that Linux does not pay
attention to these BIOS settings.  Is there any way for me to force it to
pay attention?

Thanks,

Carlo


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Linux crash with insertion of Adaptec 1542CP card

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Hello All:

I have been having a nasty problem ever since I installed an Adaptec
AHA-1542CP SCSI ISA controller card in my Asus PPro 200 system.  My main
disks are on the EIDE controllers and the system was quite stable util I
installed the SCSI card.

After installation of the SCSI card, I have consistent crashes if I leave
the system on long enough or if I try to recompile the kernel.  The whole
system just freezes up and I have to hit the reset switch.

My complete system configuration includes the following:

1.  DecChip Tulip PCI ethernet card which is assigned IRQ 12 by the
PnP BIOS
2.  SoundBlaster 16 PnP with IDE controller which I do not load
drivers for under Linux but which uses IRQ 5 and 10 (IDE)
3.  Diamond Stealth 64 Graphics 2000 PCI video card which is assigned
IRQ 9 by the BIOS

I have tried many different configurations of the AHA-1542 card, I have
turned off the BIOS support in the SCSISoft Configuration menu, I have
turned off plug and play on the card and reserved the IRQ and DMA in the
PCI BIOS setup.

The frustrating thing is that this card had been working fine as the
single disk controller in an ISA 486 system for a long time.  Any insight
from users out there would be much appreciated...

Cheers,

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Re: Hamm directory tree structure

[Carlo U. Segre]

On Fri, 11 Jul 1997, Eloy A. Paris wrote:

> I was messing around with Hamm in ftp.debian.org and realized that the
> directory structure is different than in previous Debian releases. I see
> that under the unstable (hamm) directory there is another hamm directory
> and is under this directory where binary-i386 (an other binary directories)
> is located.
> 
> Any reason for this new approach or it just that ftp.debian.org is
> messed up?

I am not 100% certain, but I suspect that this is a new structure which
will permit the "contrib" and "non-free" to be in sync with a particular
distribution.  In the past, these two trees were always at the "unstable"
level, leading to some conflicts with the "stable" tree.  If you look at
the top "hamm" directory, you will note that it has a "non-free" and a
"contrib" of its own.

Cheers,

Carlo

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Re: 16 bit color for X

[Carlo U. Segre]

On Fri, 18 Jul 1997, jr wrote:

> I install Debian 1.3.1 today (i use Red Hat before) and when I start X
> whitn "startx" all its OK. But when I wnat more color depth, I use 
> 
> "startx -- -bpp 16"
> 
> but then my screen are flicking and the resolution down very much (much
> like EGA card)why? what can i do?
> 
> I have an S3 Trio64 and I don't have this problem in RedHat.
> 

I suspect that XFree thinks that the modes that need to be used for the
resolution you want are not supported by your monitor.  If you attach the
output from the startx command, it could help in diagnosing the problem.

One thing you could try is to check the XF86Config file you have in Redhat
and see where it differs from your current one, this will tell you how to
modify your current version to work with your system.  I suspect that you
might have the wrong frequencies for the monitor in the current file.

Cheers,

Carlo

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Removal of 'base' package

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Hello All:

I have noticed a lot of traffic recently on how the obsolete package
'base' can be removed.  This is a detailed description of what I did.  If
there are any flaws in this let me know, otherwise, this could be used as
a guide for those who want to remove the "offender".

Cheers,

Carlo


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How to remove the obsolete 'base' package:


The package has been rendered unneeded but not by another package
replacing it, rather by the placing of most of its files in the base
diskettes that the system is installed with from scratch.  This is why no
package goes to the trouble of removing the reference to base.

I have gotten past this by removing the relevant files by hand.  here is
what I have done:

0.  su to root or login as root
1.  go to /var/lib/dpkg/info and check what files are present
relating to 'base' by doing a 'ls base.*'.  You should get 
the following 3 files:
base.conffiles  base.list   base.postinst
2.  look at the contents of 'base.list' which contains the files 
which belong to the base package.  You should get:

/.
/usr
/usr/doc
/usr/doc/copyright
/usr/doc/copyright/base
/usr/doc/copyright/base/debian.README
/usr/doc/copyright/GPL
/usr/doc/copyright/LGPL
/usr/doc/copyright/Artistic
/usr/doc/base
/usr/doc/base/README.DEBIAN
/usr/doc/examples
/usr/src
/usr/bin
/usr/dict
/usr/games
/usr/info
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/locale
/usr/lib/locale/en_GB
/usr/sbin
/usr/local
/usr/local/bin
/usr/local/man
/usr/man
/usr/man/man8
/usr/man/man8/MAKEDEV.8
/etc
/etc/skel
/root
/dev
 . and here are all of the /dev/* devices
/sbin
/var
/var/tmp
/var/spool
/var/spool/mail
/var/run
/var/run/utmp
/var/lock
/var/log
/var/backups
/var/lib
/var/lib/dpkg
/var/local
/var/local/usr
/tmp
/tmp/base.postinst
/bin
/proc
/floppy
/boot
/lib
/mnt
/home
/cdrom

3.  Of these files, delete, by hand the following, which are not used
by any other package.  In fact, most have been replaced by other
packages without deleting these old ones.  All the others are 
clearly vital directories for the system.  I have noted the 
replacements in the right hand column.

DELETE REPLACEMENT
   /usr/doc/copyright/base  /usr/doc/base-files
   /usr/doc/copyright/base/debian.README/usr/doc/base-files/copyright

   /usr/doc/copyright/GPL   /usr/doc/copyright/GPL.gz
   /usr/doc/copyright/LGPL  /usr/doc/copyright/LGPL.gz
   /usr/doc/copyright/Artistic  /usr/doc/copyright/Artistic.gz

   /usr/doc/base/usr/doc/base-files
   /usr/doc/base/README.DEBIAN  /usr/doc/base-files/copyright

   /usr/lib/locale  /usr/share/locale
   /usr/lib/locale/en_GB/usr/share/locale/en_GB

4.  Now remove the 3 files listed above:

/var/lib/dpkg/info/base.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/base.conffiles
/var/lib/dpkg/info/base.postinst

5.  Finally, go to the /var/lib/dpkg directory and edit the 'status'
file to remove the following entry:

Package: base
Essential: yes
Status: ok installed
Priority: required
Section: base
Maintainer: Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Version: 1.1.0-14
Replaces: miscutils
Conffiles:
 /dev/MAKEDEV 9c600060928b03633f9682d014956cce
 /etc/adjtime b7920456f21d52fd516f7ff390112d1d
 /etc/group a56a7999fa189038d9744cb2e48d72d8  
 /etc/host.conf a61b9f6548d337c1cc1e5a4de39f7b7f
 /etc/issue 3488b71d436c67a12d80d5dea77bb0f2
 /etc/motd 03465202ebeafb7ea39663f4bf055309
 /etc/passwd 785647694522546dba95365b191cee98
 /root/.bash_profile f885bce730eac7717e6610468b52a500
 /root/.bas

Re: educational software on Debian

[Carlo U. Segre]

On Fri, 25 Jul 1997, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
>   I'm looking for educational software for Linux, specially
> for Debian, for children aging 8-14.
>   Does somebody know something?
>   The idea is to set a computer teaching linux lab for
> children. 
>   I would like to do this with linux. Does somebody have
> some experience with this? Any hints/points will be welcome!
> 

The only thing I can think of right now is the ucblogo package.  As I
recall, the logo interpreter was supposed to be good for introducing
children to programming.  I have no experience with this package, however,
so I cannot tell you how complete it might be.

Cheers,

Carlo


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Re: File impossible to delete

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I had a bunch of these bad files when I tried to install the picons
package.  The installation just froze up and when I tried to remove the
package, a number of files were left over.  In a color-ls they showed up
as yellow with the initial attribute as "c" and some "S" bits set as well.
Directories had the initial "b" attribute rather than "d".  The ownership
was set to odd numbers as has been reported on this thread.

The debugfs command worked, with the folloing results:


vacuum:/lost+found# ls
#118846
vacuum:/lost+found# debugfs -w -R "rm /lost+found/#118846" /dev/hda2
Kill file by inode 118846
Illegal block number passed to ext2fs_unmark_block_bitmap #744567416 for
block bitmap for /dev/hda2
Illegal block number passed to ext2fs_unmark_block_bitmap #926382128 for
block bitmap for /dev/hda2
Illegal block number passed to ext2fs_unmark_block_bitmap #813183020 for
block bitmap for /dev/hda2
Illegal block number passed to ext2fs_unmark_block_bitmap #537537587 for
block bitmap for /dev/hda2
Illegal block number passed to ext2fs_unmark_block_bitmap #811825200 for
block bitmap for /dev/hda2
Illegal block number passed to ext2fs_unmark_block_bitmap #863514668 for
block bitmap for /dev/hda2
Illegal block number passed to ext2fs_unmark_block_bitmap #2016423014 for
block bitmap for /dev/hda2
Illegal block number passed to ext2fs_unmark_block_bitmap #808214881 for
block bitmap for /dev/hda2
Illegal block number passed to ext2fs_unmark_block_bitmap #741685624 for
block bitmap for /dev/hda2
Illegal block number passed to ext2fs_unmark_block_bitmap #1684437040 for
block bitmap for /dev/hda2
Illegal block number passed to ext2fs_unmark_block_bitmap #813183020 for
block bitmap for /dev/hda2
Illegal block number passed to ext2fs_unmark_block_bitmap #2016422961 for
block bitmap for /dev/hda2
Illegal block number passed to ext2fs_unmark_block_bitmap #808202339 for
block bitmap for /dev/hda2
Illegal block number passed to ext2fs_unmark_block_bitmap #744842616 for
block bitmap for /dev/hda2
Illegal block number passed to ext2fs_unmark_block_bitmap #812021808 for
block bitmap for /dev/hda2
744567416 926382128 813183020 537537587 811825200 863514668 2016423014
808214881 741685624 1684437040 813183020 2016422961 808202339 744842616
812021808 
 
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At this point, the file was gone but the errors I recieved have made me
somewhat uneasy.  I think I will check the file system again thoroughly!

Just wanted to chime in with my experience with debugfs.

Cheers,

Carlo

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about bo-updates ...

[Carlo U. Segre]

Hello All:

I have been following the discussion of the past few days with some
interest.  One thing that strikes me about the change in the organization
of the stable tree is that I have seen no simple instructions on how to
make use of the updates in the bo-updates driectory since they are not
linked to a version of the stable tree.

There has been some mention of using dpkg-ftp but one still has to tell
dselect where to find the information about the packages and if they are
not in the stable tree, they will not be found.  The problem is the same
if one (as I do, with my own mirror) use the nfs method.

Could someone please explain the new methods?

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Re: integrate X-programms

[Carlo U. Segre]

On Sun, 31 Aug 1997, Volker Bauer wrote:

> finally I have now Debian installed after putting a simple "/" to the
> question were is my top level located. Now I wonder why the X-Server
> doesn't run (3D Virge) although I installed the particiular server, just
> it runs in vga16 mode. How can I configure X? (xconfig or make xconfig
> doesn't work)

xf86config is the name of the program which sets up the proper
configuration according to your hardware.  This  should have been run
automatically when you installed xbase and xserver-svga, which has the
VirGE support.  Make sure that you have all the technical specs for your
monitor handy when you run this.

> 
> As well how can I integrate all X-programms and games on the X-screen?
> There is currently just the desktop and a shell for input.
> 

Which window manager are you using?  The fvwm95 package sets up some
buttons which are useful and can be customized.  More importantly, the
menu package should be installed.  This provides menus for many of the
Debian window managers and many packages hook into it.  Once you have
installed it, look in the /usr/doc/menu and find out how to further
customize your desktop as you like it.  In the case of fvwm95, you can add
buttons and other things as the window manager starts up but you must be
careful not to edit the /etc/X11/fvwm95/system.fvwm295 file itself to make
the customizations since this file is rebuilt EVERY time the update-menus
program is run by you or a package just installed.  Rather you must make
all of your customizations in the /etc/X11/fvwm95/system.fvwm2rc95-menu
file and then run update-menus yourself to build the system.fvwm2rc95
file.  The next time you start fvwm95 the new changes will be visible.

Some programs do not hook into the menus so you can do it yourself.  What
you need to do is to put the appropriate file in the /etc/menu directory.
The documentation is in the /usr/doc/menu directory.

Hope this helps,

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Re: time problems (forwarded)

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On Tue, 8 Oct 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:

There was a problem with clock in the older util-linux package.  The 
version in the stable tree is OK as is the current version in the 
unstable tree (version 2.5.7).  I think that upgrading is all you need to do.

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Re: SMC cards

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On Tue, 15 Oct 1996, Ricardo Kleemann wrote:

> Which SMC PCI card is the one mostly used? (Is it the tulip model?) Which 
> model SMC, Etherpower, EtherEZ?
> 

The EtherPower is the PCI card, the EtherEZ is a 16-bit ISA card.  We use 
both with Linux and they work fine.  One note, however, the PCI 
EtherPower card will not (at least in all the machines I have tried) work 
as a loadable module.  If I compile it into the kernel it works fine, 
however.

Cheers,

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Re: Keyboard mess

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On Mon, 4 Nov 1996, Brian C. White wrote:

> > > Netscape runs _fine_ if you use the Debian installer package!  Actually,
> > > all you really need to do is point it to the existing XKeySymDB file.
> > >
> > > This probably the case for other Motif apps, too.
> > 
> > And how can we do this?
> 
> The netscape package is available under contrib.
> 
> To use the existing XKeysymDB file, either compile the app with the correct
> directory or set the env var:
> 
> csh:  setenv XKEYSYMDB /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB
> bash: set XKEYSYMDB="/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB"; export XKEYSYMDB
>  

This does not work for all applications, particularly those which are not 
available as source packages but only as compiled binaries.  I have 
solved this problem in the following way:

Run xkeycaps with its output redirected to a file called Xmodmap.new.  
Change the mapping of the BS key to mean 'Backspace' rather than 'Delete' 
and then write all of the keys out.  I then take this Xmodmap.new file 
and move it to /etc/X11/Xmodmap.  This works fine for all the 
applications I have tried so far but I am not really sure of the 
potential negative consequences.  

Cheers

Carlo

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Re: Will Caldera's WABI run on a Debian system?

[Carlo U. Segre]

On Sat, 23 Nov 1996, Mike Schmitz wrote:

> On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, Rick Macdonald wrote:
> 
> > Mike Schmitz wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Thu, 21 Nov 1996, Rick Macdonald wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Does anybody know if Caldera's WABI will run on a Debian system?
> > > > Caldera's web page kind of says "maybe".
> > > >
> > > > I'm tempted to pay the $200 just so I can run Quicken without
> > > > booting up DOS/Windows.
> > 
> > > Consider CBB. It will import quicken data and alerady runs under Linux
> > > natively. It lives at http://www2.me.umn.edu/~clolsen/cbb/cbb.html
> > 
> > The URL doesn't seem to exist. Please check and let me know what it is!
> > 
> > --
> > ...RickM...
> > 
> It comes up when I point my browser it's way. If you mean your nameserver
> doesn't have it, try http://134.84.197.48/~clolsen/cbb/cbb.html/


They BOTH work IF you spell the name right!  "clolson"

Cheers

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what is libdl1 ?

[Carlo U. Segre]

Hello All:

I am getting several packages in the frozen and contrib trees saying that 
they pre-depend on a 'libdl1' package which I cannot seem to find 
anywhere.  Can anyone help?

On a second note, the frozen/binary-all subtree is still messed up on my 
local mirror.  has it been fixed on the master ftp site?

Cheers

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Is frozen missing something?

[Carlo U. Segre]

Hello All:

I have just been checking on my local mirror and the ftp.debian.org sites 
and I notice that there are several packages missing from the frozen 
tree.  On my local mirror, these files are actually links to files in the 
frozen/binary-all/ part of the directory (which is completely empty) 
while on ftp.debian.org, the symbolic links are not even present!  Is 
this being checked out?  One consequence for me is that dselect refuses 
to run since it finds that all of these files are missing.

frozen/binary-i386/doc/emacs-lisp-intro_1.04-1.deb
frozen/binary-i386/graphics/glut-doc_3.1-3.deb
frozen/binary-i386/graphics/mesa-doc_2.0-2.deb
frozen/binary-i386/hamradio/p10cfgd_1.0-3.deb
frozen/binary-i386/mail/exmh_1.6.9-4.deb
frozen/binary-i386/mail/signify_1.01-1.deb
frozen/binary-i386/tex/xypic_3.2-4.deb: 
frozen/binary-i386/tex/texlib_1.0-5.deb: 
frozen/binary-i386/tex/babel_3.6-4.deb: 
frozen/binary-i386/tex/latex_2e-7.deb: 
frozen/binary-i386/tex/mflib_1.0-8.deb: 
frozen/binary-i386/tex/mfnfss_2.1g-2.deb
frozen/binary-i386/tex/ltxtool_1.0-4.deb
frozen/binary-i386/tex/latex2e-doc_1.6-1.deb
frozen/binary-i386/tex/hyperlatex_1.4pl2-1.deb
frozen/binary-i386/tex/mfbasfnt_1.0-7.deb
frozen/binary-i386/x11/xmanpages_3.2-1.deb


Cheers 

Carlo

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Re: tar misbahaving

[Carlo U. Segre]

On Mon, 2 Dec 1996, Marek Duszynski wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> A few days ago I noticed that my Debian 1.1 can not
> extract multivolume tar archives from floppies - each
> attempt ends up in segmentation fault.

I have had the same problem using taper and QIC80 tapes.  Even afio gives 
problems with any files which are split across tapes but then recovers.  
I really do not know the cause of this and it is causing me problems in 
getting the Debian distribution onto my home machines.  Any suggestions 
would be appreciated.

Cheers

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Re: Linux and 6x86

[Carlo U. Segre]

On Mon, 2 Dec 1996, GREENE KENNETH ADAM wrote:

>   I was wondering about Linux and the Cyrix/IBM 6x86 (specifically 
> P120).  Does Linux support it, I know some video games don't support 
> the chip (or the chip doesn't support them |->).  If it is supported, 
> does everything run OK.  thanxs in advance for any responses.
> 

I have successfully run linux on a Cyrix 6x86 P133+ (120MHz clock).  It 
works just fine!

Cheers

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Re: Mirroring a private account?

[Carlo U. Segre]

On Wed, 4 Dec 1996, Martin Schulze wrote:

> Good morning folks,
> 
> could anybody please help me with a particular problem.
> 
> I have important data on one machine I have an account on. It's the
> complete home directory. To provide better security and to be able to
> work from another machine I would like to mirror these data on another
> machine.
> 
> How can I tell mirror to use a personal account and not the anonymous
> one?
> 
> If I use
> 
>   remote_account=

use 'remote_user=.' instead.  It works fine for me and I am doing 
exactly this kind of mirroring on several machines I have accounts on.

The main problem I find is that the mirror program runs as root and 
therefore all the mirrored files are owned by root rather than me on 
the local machine.

Cheers, 

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XWindows Login Screen

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Hello All:

I just upgraded to XWindows 3.2 and now my xdm login screen does not show 
the familiar "Debian Linux (hostname)" in CadetBlue but just "X Window 
System" in unfriendly black!

I have been looking through the X configuration files in /etc/X11 and 
everything seems to be as it was before.  The Xresources files have the 
colors properly listed, etc.  I am stumped!

Can anyone out there point me in the right direction so I can look for 
the cause of this vexing behaviour?

Cheers,

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Re: XWindows Login Screen

[Carlo U. Segre]

On Fri, 6 Dec 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> > Hello All:
> > 
> > I just upgraded to XWindows 3.2 and now my xdm login screen does not show 
> > the familiar "Debian Linux (hostname)" in CadetBlue but just "X Window 
> > System" in unfriendly black!
> > 
> > I have been looking through the X configuration files in /etc/X11 and 
> > everything seems to be as it was before.  The Xresources files have the 
> > colors properly listed, etc.  I am stumped!
> > 
> > Can anyone out there point me in the right direction so I can look for 
> > the cause of this vexing behaviour?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Carlo
> > 
> 
> This information is in the file(s) Xresources and Xresources_0 in 
> /etc/X11/xdm. 
>  Check the resources 'greetColor' and 'greeting'.

Indeed, that is what I meant above by saying that the configuration files 
seem OK.  Both the Xresources files have valid entries in them for the 
'greetColor' (CadetBlue) and 'greeting' (Debian Linux (CLIENTHOST)).  
Clearly the configuration files are not the problem but  something else 
must be set improperly.

Cheers

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Re: XWindows Login Screen

[Carlo U. Segre]

On Thu, 12 Dec 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> On 12 Dec 1996, Rob Browning wrote:
> 
> > "Carlo U. Segre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > 
> > > Indeed, that is what I meant above by saying that the configuration files 
> > > seem OK.  Both the Xresources files have valid entries in them for the 
> > > 'greetColor' (CadetBlue) and 'greeting' (Debian Linux (CLIENTHOST)).  
> > > Clearly the configuration files are not the problem but  something else 
> > > must be set improperly.
> > 
> > I have the same problem here, so you're not alone. The files are fine,
> > but xdm appears to ignore them...
> > 
> 
> The problem is that xdm uses xrdb to read these configuration files
> in.  xrdb has been broken for a while.  It crashes if run with no
> options.  My solution was to mv xrdb to xrdb.bin and create a shell
> script named xrdb that run xrdb.bin with the -nocpp option.
> 

Unfortunately, this did not solve the problem for me.  Maybe I didn't
follow the instructions correctly.  The script file I put in xrdb is:

#! /bin/sh
/usr/X11R6/bin/xrdb.bin -nocpp

I still do not get the proper login screen.  Maybe a bug report is in
order?

Cheers,

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anyone using an AMD K5?

[Carlo U. Segre]

Hello All:

Sorry if this is slightly off-topic.  Feel free to reply to me directly
instead of on the list.

Just wondering if anyone out there is using an AMD K5 P100 or P133 with
Linux and if there are any problems with either chip.  I have heard that
the P100 might have some problems but I haven't been able to locate any
hard information. 

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Re: Debian and Windows95

[Carlo U. Segre]

On Fri, 27 Dec 1996, Buddha Buck wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> All of the Linux+Win95 documentation I have talks about adding Linux to 
> a working Win95 setup.  I'm interested in doing the reverse.  I have 
> heard that Win95 likes to play around with the MBR and partition tables 
> to make sure that it is the only or primary OS on the system.  How can I 
> make certain that I don't lose anything critical when installing it?
> 

I have installed about 1/2 dozen of the Debian Linux/Windows95 dual boot
machines.  The method I have found most reliable is to not use the master
boot record at all for LILO.  This is because occasionally, it is
necessary to do some reinstallation in W95 and it WILL take over the MBR
and wipe out anything that dares to be there.  My solution is to make 2
partitions in the first 1024 cylinders.  The first for Windows95 and the
the second for Linux.  I allow Windows 95 to install itself on the first
partition and make it bootable.  I then boot Linux from the boot floppy
and go into fdisk and make the second (Linux) partition bootable.  Since I
have set up Lilo to load from the boot sector of the second partition, the
system will now boot correctly.  If I ever need to do a serious
reinstallation of Windows95, I just change the first partition to be the
bootable one and do what I need to do, recovering the LILO in the same way
as before.

My lilo.conf has the line

boot=/dev/hda2

specifying the partition number will tell LILO to use the boot sector.
If you currently have used LILO with the MBR, you might have to clear it
out with the DOS fdisk /MBR command before you do this.

I will be happy to send you my full lilo.conf if you need it.  I don't
have access to it now, I happen to be in W95 :)

Cheers,

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Re: PEX? XIE?

[Carlo U. Segre]

On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Tim Sailer wrote:

> In your email to me, Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler, you wrote:
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> >  what are these PEX and XIE extensions that startx doesn't load?
> >  Which packages are they in?
> 
> It's actually not those extensions that keep X11 from starting.
> In /etc/ld.so.conf, add the line:
> 
> /usr/X11R6/lib
> 
> and then run 'ldconfig'.
> 

More importantly, some packages will not install unless the X11R6 is
placed in the ld database.  In particular xv has problems.

Cheers,

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