Re: libc6 gcc wrapper
Hi, On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 12:40:54AM +0100, Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Er, I think you may have misunderstood... I have a wrapper around gcc > to ensure it is always called with my desired optimisation options > even if I'm compiling a package with ill-behaved makefiles that ignore > CFLAGS etc. Simply to compile a package does not of itself require a > wrapper. No, I was right. I am some kind of experienced Debian user, and ofcourse I compile with debuild only. Why I was requisting the wrapper is a simple fact, that it may help to enforce the same gcc flags for every *.c/*.cpp files > In particular, it doesn't sound like your problem can be solved by the > use of a wrapper. Off the top of my head I'd guess that perhaps your > gcc installation has been corrupted Well, it should not be a problem, as it's almost freshly installed system, and I can compile other big things like an universal kernel (everything are compiled as modules, with added patches like Orlov for ext3, grsecurity and the like). On an other test machine this kernel can boot up via initrd, and use two different scsi cards, two different network cards, and use ide for 60Gb LVM2 partitions. > That's little more than guessing > though. Yes, that's why I am lost. Previously I thought it was because I altered glibc, but it's the same with apt-get source glibc and debuild immediately without changing anything. > Can you compile other stuff OK? Yes, and it seems it's neither a memory problem, I run unstable on this machine with Gnome2.4, compile a lot of stuff, and this is the only problem I have. I think I should write about what I am trying to achieve: I would like to compile a _locale package only_, where the default locale is hu, and it's being generated with locale-gen. So the only thing I mess with libc6 is because they come from the same source: glibc. > What exactly segfaults? See the attached script. It's ugly, but may be better for our case than debootstrap. This script should install a chroot system from the testing packages, but as soon as one of the packages would like to use hostname, and it's not found at the stage, I get a segfault. If all I do is to put back the original libc6 and locales packages from the debian archive, then everything are fine. > (well actually I'm sending it to debian-user and BCCing you since I > can't find your email address on the list for the last few months and > don't want to risk inundating you with swen). Thanks for it, I do appreciate it! > Since you've asked for it, I'm attaching my wrapper... please note: Thanks! I hope I can try it soon. Cheers, GCS install.sh Description: Bourne shell script
Re: web server
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 01:25:53PM -0800, Gruessle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How about apache is it installed too? > How can I html in to my Debian with my win2000 PC > Is there a how-to for that? apt-get install apache or apache-ssl if you prefer encryption. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
deb files archive
I have seen an archive, where _all_ the deb files since Woody is stored. So it contains broken packages as well, but where can I find this? Googling does not show up any interesting. Thanks, GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: web server
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 01:56:13PM -0800, Gruessle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > From: GCS > > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 01:25:53PM -0800, Gruessle > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > How about apache is it installed too? > > > How can I html in to my Debian with my win2000 PC > > > Is there a how-to for that? > > apt-get install apache > > or apache-ssl if you prefer encryption. > > > OK what is next? A manual would be good. That's all. Debian takes care the base configuration, and starts the server. So after it, you can reach your server from your Win2K PC via http://server.ip.address/ If you would like to change the html files themselves, then they are located under /var/www/ Hope this helps, GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Need to know how to connect New Kodak DX6440 camera w/Easy Share Dock
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 07:47:30PM -0600, John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to know how to connect new Kodak DX6440 camera w/Easy Share > Dock. Just do it. I have the Easy Share dock as well, but with Kodak DX4530 camera. It just works with Debian Sarge and 2.6.0 kernel. You need to install gphoto2 and gtkam for GUI operations. So, connect the Easy Share dock to your computer, place the camera on it. Press the Kodak button, the green LED should flash now, and you get a message like 'new USB device on port ...'. Turn on your camera (does not matter which position, the green LED on the camera also flashes). Fire up gtkam and enjoy. Ofcourse first try it with root, and if it's ok, then set it up for the user(s): http://gphoto.org/doc/manual/permissions-usb.html > I just got this neat camera & I hate to have to resort to Windows > to use it as That would be the ONLY thing I would need Windows for. As mentioned above, it work under Linux: http://gphoto.org/proj/libgphoto2/support.php Hope this helps, GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: compiling kernel
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 01:57:38AM -0700, Lucas Albers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stable gcc for stable kernel, and testing gcc for testing kernel? ? There's no such relationship. > I've done 2.4.22 with gcc 3.2.3 (gcc testing) and it appeared to work > correctly. 3.2.3 is _not_ a test version of gcc. There's a newer one, fe I have 3.3.3 installed. Please be sure that you do not mix up the Debian testing distribution (Sarge) with test versions of software. Sarge is testing because the developers assembly the packages to work _together_, they have correct dependencies, configuration etc. Also mostly they package the _stable_ version of software. Anyway, I have many machines, three of them running with kernel 2.6.0, compiled with gcc 3.3; no problems. Cheers, GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mouseproblems
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 10:20:35AM +0100, Rob van den Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My mouse is not working in KDE > It's a PS/2 trackball from Primax. > In KDE the pointer (Arrow) goes to the right top corner. > When I'm lucky I can drag it to the "K" in the left down corner. > > I had the advise to stop /etc/init.d/gpm , but then nothing worked anymore. > Starting that PC with "Knoppix-CD" everything works perfect. It seems your mouse does not work at all, I mean bad configuration. > What to do? Switch to console (ctrl+alt+f1), be root, then issue gpmconfig. The default answers should be OK (your mouse is /dev/psaux etc), but you have to try out different protocols. Here is the list: ps2 autops2 imps2 With one of them your mouse should work on the console (test the configuration within gpmconfig) and it should work under Xwindow as well (switch back with ctrl+f7). Hope this helps, GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Proxy Setup Help Needed
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 01:15:33AM -0800, Scarletdown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That worked quite well. Have not looked into the links, but Squid is capable what you tried to do. I think others may misunderstood your question, maybe me. So you want a machine, which can act as a proxy, fetch web pages for users on the LAN. > They reference the following files, which don't seem to exist. Look a bit around. > /etc/rc.d/rc.local This should be /etc/rc.boot (does not exists, but you can create one with executable flags). > /etc/rc.d/init.d/ /etc/init.d/ > /etc/rc.d/rc.inet2 /etc/rc2.d/ Maybe wrong, I do not know /etc/rc.d/rc.inet2. Cheers, GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel 2.6.0-final oopsing when using e2fsck
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 11:18:04AM +0100, Matthias Hentges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm currently running a heavily patched 2.4.22 kernel on my P4 system. > Since upgrading to 2.4.23 would be a lot of work due to all the patches > required to get my hardware working, i thought i would give 2.6.0-final > a try (which doesn't need *any* additional patches). Do you really want to upgrade your kernel? 2.6.0 still has too much race-conditions that users can exploit. > Sadly, the kernel is reproducibly oopsing on me when i try to use e2fsck > on an ext3 encrypted cryptoloop file 2.6.0 has far too many issues with loopback. Thus you don't want this and loopback at the same time. If you really want to experience with this stuff, then go back to test11 and apply the -mm patchset, as that has fixes for this (also, check if it's upgraded to the final 2.6.0). > (i did *not* try to e2fsck an > unencrypted > file system It works on three of my machines (the others have 2.4.x) for months now (switched around 2.5.74?). > because 2.6.0-test11 managed to _corrupt_ [yes, > reproducibly] an encrypted one). Sure, but that's an encryted one. > I found that cryptoloop in 2.6.0 wouldn't mount the encrypted file at > all but 2.6.0-test11 did. However -test11 corrupted the file so maybe > the feature has been disabled? Don't know that. As someone wrote: check http://bugme.osdl.org/ > OS: Debian Woody (lots of upgrades) Any reason not upgrading into Sarge then? Sarge is pretty good, maybe even better than your Woody right now. My advise is: stuck with 2.4.22. If it's working, then all good, why doing risky upgrading? Cheers, GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Proxy Setup Help Needed
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 10:52:53AM -0800, Scarletdown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are two ways to load things in Slackware: > /etc/rc.d/rc.local or editing the /etc/rc.d/rc.inet2 file. The first > method is the easiest. All you have to do is add the line: [...] > I tried the first technique, since the instructions didn't bother saying > what to edit in the rc.inet2.file Ah, this is much easier in Debian IMHO. Just set up your rules, then say '/etc/init.d/iptables save active'. The iptables script will load your rules at every boot. If you do not like this approach, then you can move your rc.firewall-2.4 script into /etc/init.d/ and issue the following command: update-rc.d rc.firewall-2.4 start 40 2 3 4 5 > In /etc/rc.d, I created an rc.local file and put those two lines in it, > then did chmod 700 rc.local > > When I rebooted, /etc/rc.firewall-2.4 did not execute (I can start it > manually, but I want it to start automatically). Sorry then. It seems it runs only in single user mode, and not on other runlevels. Anyway, I hope your problem is solved by now. Cheers, GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel 2.6.0 and Debian
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 06:44:55PM -, Martin J Hooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But when I actually try and install it all it pops up a message > saying that the licence of the module will taint the kernel aborting > installation. It's the driver installation, and not module-init-tools installation right? > Am I better off installing a Debian packaged later 2.4 kernel source > and compiling that or what? What do you want? If you do not need 2.6.0 functionality, then stay at 2.4.23 or greater if any. 2.6.0 is working for most users, but it has serious problems at others. Also, it's not yet good in security. My advice is that one should switch to 2.6 at 2.6.4, but better at 2.6.10 or so. > I'm presuming theres something in the source code of the ATI kernel > driver that can be changed to make it work... IMHO the ATI driver says that it will taint the kernel. That's correct, you can't do anything with that. ATI provides a binary device driver, so all this means that kernel developers will refuse to help you debugging problems in the kernel as it contains non-free and non-checkable parts. > I'm thinking of completely re-installing and starting again > though I do not think it will be better. Cheers, GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: compiling kernel
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 10:52:26AM -0700, Lucas Albers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyway, I have many machines, three of them running with kernel 2.6.0, > > compiled with gcc 3.3; no problems. > What a man, I'm not touching 2.6.0 until it's in the 10 release. I agree with you. 2.6.0 still has too many problems, not suitable for multi user systems (security), and has other big problems as well. OK, I also lied (what's the past tense of lie? I always forget), as I have problems with 2.6.0: - one machine has boot problems with LVM2, I have to wait an extra ~30 secs, as it tries to open my cdrom (without any medium in it). It fails, wait, and retry about 20 times. If I put a cd into it, then it fails immediately and continue; - on my laptop I can not burn a cd if it exceeds ~400M. It burns for a while, and then just freeze the machine. Small cd burning is ok, and also ok if I reboot to 2.4.23. So I burn cd on an other computer. :-| But no other problem really. Anyway, I _do agree with you strongly_: 2.6.0 is not for widespread yet. I will switch at ~2.6.10 on my servers, depending the fixes get in by that time. Until then I use 2.4.23+grsecurity. Cheers, GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Filesystem Mounted On The Wrong Mount Points
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 06:56:48PM -, Martin J Hooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 21 Dec 2003 at 9:16, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: > > > If I drop out of X (how do you kill X once it is going?) > > CTRL-ALT-DELETE will get you back to a command prompt if you started > X by the startx command. Aiyeee, no! It's ctrl+alt+backspace on linux and ctrl+shift+break on HP Unix machines (if I remember right :-)). > If you logged in via kdm/gdm/xdm then goto another console, login as > root and do /etc/init.d/ stop It stops ?dm, but does not kill X. 'killall xinit' is and other story. Cheers, GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Proxy Setup Help Needed
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 11:38:08AM -0800, Scarletdown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Saving iptables ruleset: save "active" with > counters/etc/init.d/iptables: line 65: /var/lib/iptables/active: No such > file or directory Argh, I am going to bug the packager of iptables. Just create the dir: mkdir /var/lib/iptables/ Then execute the command again. Also, if you executed the other command (update-rc.d), then you should not do it, your firewall already set up. Cheers, GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Filesystem Mounted On The Wrong Mount Points
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 07:48:34PM -, Martin J Hooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It does actually as xdm or whatever is controlling X... xdm starts > up X and when you kill xdm it kills X > > Done it myself on my machine... ;) Then you should be right. :-) I just remember doing this does not kill your current X session. I am wrong then. Still, we do not know if he uses ?dm or not (then you have to insult xinit, or press ctrl+alt+backspace). Cheers, GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Filesystem Mounted On The Wrong Mount Points
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 11:48:44AM -0800, Scarletdown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>If I drop out of X (how do you kill X once it is going?) > >> > >>CTRL-ALT-DELETE will get you back to a command prompt if you started > >>X by the startx command. > > I've been using CTRL-ALT-F12 and then ALT-(F1 - F6). And to get back to > the desktop, ALT-F7 Sure, you can switch back and forth, but he asked about killing the X. Also, why don't you just directly switch to the terminal you want to? You can press ctrl+alt+f4 for X->tty4 switch for example. Cheers, GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dpkg -l output
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 02:56:10PM -0500, Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I do 'dpkg -l' now all I get back are installed packages. I used > to have to grep for an initial 'i' to get just those. How do I see *all* > available packages? Hmmm. It's not that easy, but you can check the *Packages files under /var/lib/apt/lists , for example security.debian.org_dists_stable_updates_main_binary-i386_Packages contains all the security updates available from security.debian.org But I think it's better if you search after you may want: apt-cache search foo-bar and check the results with: apt-cache show foo-bar > -- [...] If possible, please use shorter signatures, maximum three lines length. Thanks, GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Trouble installing on Thinkpad 701C
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 02:12:30PM -0600, Stuart Luppescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I made the testing boot, floppy and > net_drivers floppies, and plan to do the main install over the net. Does 'testing boot' mean that you are using the Sarge floppies? It would be better to install a minimal Woody first, and then upgrade to Sarge. Sorry if I misunderstand. > df tells me that shm > is 6.9M in size and has 4.6M free. /etc/mtab shows rootfs, but it > doesn't show up when I do df (?). You can issue 'mount', and check if /target is mounted right. > I cleared off 170 MB on the disk > before I started, so I don't think that's a problem. Err, does it mean that you want to install Debian over your previous RedHat? It's not a good idea. Anyway, 170Mb is not enough. At least Woody from CD uses debootstrap, which copies the basic package set into the target partition, and thus probably filling it up. Anyway, it would be better if you provide more information. Hope this helps, GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel 2.6.0 and Debian
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 08:45:35PM -, Martin J Hooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ahh right - I have actually got X running using kernel framebuffer > drivers... The only thing is that I don't have a mouse cursor! > > I can see when the mouse goes over a button on kdm and when I right > click in KDE to logout. Strange. Can you try an other WM than KDE? I think KDE uses some tricks with the pointer. Also, what kind of ATI card do you have? I have a simple Radeon, and FB works well, and with XFree86 4.3.0 I have OpenGL as well. I may help you with my config. Cheers, GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dpkg -l output
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 08:36:38PM +, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dpkg -l \* > > It's been like this ever since I started using Debian, IIRC. Uh-oh. I just have not know this. Good priest learn 'till death (hungarian sentence). I just bow in front of you Colin, you make an excellent work. Thanks for it! Is there any plan to upgrade your Subversion for Woody packages? OK, I realise newest svn needs db 4.2.50 at least, which does not exists even in Sid... Cheers, GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Proxy Setup Help Needed
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 08:42:32PM -0800, Scarletdown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyway, one of the responses mentioned apt-get install ipmasq > > So I tried it, rebooted, and was pleasantly surprised to find that it > worked. I was able to connect to the Internet just fine on my Win-98 > hardware testing station. Ah, you tried your setup from an other machine? So you have NAT/FORWARD/MASQ... It means your iptables save may works, but you have not enable ip_forwarding in /proc. To do so, edit /etc/network/options and change ip_forward to yes. IMHO you don't need ipmasq. Cheers, GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: compiling kernel
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 07:59:20PM -0700, Lucas Albers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I sure wish debian had a secure version of the kernel; a binary version of > grsecurity would add a huge amount of security. Anyone know why Debian does not have this in the main archive? At least a grsecurity patch for recent kernels? Thanks, GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xfree86 4.3 installing on unstable
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 08:45:31AM +0100, Lukas Ruf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is there any way to install xfree 4.3 on my Debian unstable box > without switching to experimental? 4.3.0 may go to sid, as far as I know. But don't hold your breath please. Anyway, you can't switch to experimental, as it's not a complete distribution, and also you don't have to install everything that there. Just install XFree86 packages. If you still do not want this, then just add deb-src lines for experimental and build them for unstable for yourself (you should not do it, as it takes too much time, and XFree86 from experimental is stable, at least I use it for months by now without problems). GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel 2.6.0-final oopsing when using e2fsck
On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 11:24:16AM +0100, Matthias Hentges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ugh. So loopback is known to have problems in 2.6.0. I didn't know that, > thanks for the info. NP. It knows to have a lot of problems. :-( > > Sure, but that's an encryted one. > > Well i didn't dare to mess with a valuable partition. I really would > *hate* it to reinstall because of that. I have of course backups of all > important files but not a complete image. I mean you may experience fsck over a loopback image, if it's not encrypted. > Yeah, well. I don't want to mess up a perfectly working system. Maybe my > next install will be testing or SID. OK, I just meant Sarge would be more or less the same, a good working system. > > My advise is: stuck with 2.4.22. If it's working, then all good, why > > doing risky upgrading? > > The main reason for me to upgrade to 2.6 is the local root bug in > 2.4.22. As i understand it, it can be used to crack a system after > remotely hacking, say SSH. Sorry, I meant 2.4.23, this bug is fixed there. Also, it's easy to 'backport' to earlier kernels, it adds two lines only... If you want, I can check where I put that fix only as a patch. > Also the increased performance of 2.6 is really nice. And of course > applying up to 6 (i think) patches to a vanilla 2.4 kernel to get my > hardware working is kinda annoying, too. I see. As -mm1 is available for 2.6.0 as well now, it would be good if you start with that. > Thanks for your reply and a happy new year :) Thanks! Merry Christmas first! :-) So I wish the same for you! Cheers, GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel 2.6.0 and Debian
On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 04:14:21PM -0500, Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Radeon 9800 Pro - Where did you get 4.3 from? Can you give me a > > sources.list entry? I have a feeling that using 4.3 might be a good > > idea... ;) Sure. At least as I know newer Radeon card supported only in 4.3.0. Anyway, here is my sources.list entry: deb http://ftp.no.debian.org/debian ../project/experimental main You have to specify '-t experimental', fe if you want to upgrade all your packages to ones are available in experimental execute this: apt-get -t exeperimental upgrade Ofcourse you are free to install only XFree86 packages only - and note experimental is not a complete distribution, but an experimental area before a package is settle a reasonably good state for going into unstable. Don't fear XFree86 4.3.0 is about to go into unstable somewhen sooner or later, and I use it for months by now without problems. Config: I can not help you I think as I have the old and simple Radeon. But here is some pointers: - compile kernel support for Radeon - try XFree86 -configure and test the output config file - if DRI does not work, try adding this to your XF86Config-4 file: Section "DRI" Mode0666 EndSection Happy haxing... > It's in experimental. If you can't figure out how to add the > experimental archive to your sources.list, you shouldn't be using it. > ;) Well, that was a bit rude. Merry Christmas to Everyone! Cheers, GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel 2.6.0 and Debian
On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 01:56:40PM -, Martin J Hooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Right finally got the module inserted and running! Kewl! > Used the ati supplied configurator - fed it my monitor horiz and vert > rates from the manual. When I do startx the monitor goes black with > the power light turning yellow. I did not use anything from ATI, but well, I have a different Radeon card. I just think the monitor can't handle the resolution, or [h|v]sync values, recheck that you have them correctly for the right modell of the monitor. > Config is here: > http://www.martinjh.myby.co.uk/XF86Config-4 Please check that your monitor really can use 1280x1024 resolution. Also, you may change the Display subsection to use more modes: Modes "1024x768" "1280x1024" "800x600" And even if you screen goes black, try ctrl+alt+'+' on the keypad and ctrl+alt+'-' to dynamically switch modes. Try the "ati" driver as well. Oh, are you English? Sorry for my poor writing then. :) > Any hints/tips on what I can do to get it actually working? Would it > be better to run dpkg-reconfigure on the xerver to get the required > setup or what? Yup. But even better is 'XFree86 -configure' (maybe with two dashes), and test that configuration. Cheers, GCS -- BorsodChem Joint-Stock Company Linux Support Center Software engineer Developer +36-48-511211/12-99 +36-20-4441745 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Default size for fonts in X?
On Thu, Dec 25, 2003 at 09:48:41AM +, Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Interesting suggestion; thanks, but it doesn't have any visible effect here. > Perhaps laptops are different? I'm wondering if xfs might help. Hmmm. Can't you just increase it in your WM? A lot of them support it imho, at least I think I could do it in Enlightenment, and in Gnome 2.4 it's 'Gnome foot'->Applications->Desktop preferences->Fonts. I am sure KDE has it as well, but I brrr by only hearing the word KDE. :-) Cheers, GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Strange error in syslog
On Thu, Dec 25, 2003 at 09:35:30AM -0500, Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I received this error in my syslog last night: > > Dec 24 21:35:15 localhost vmunix: MCE: The hardware reports a non fatal, > correctable incident occurred on CPU 0. > Dec 24 21:35:15 localhost syslogd: /dev/:0: No such file or directory > Dec 24 21:35:15 localhost vmunix: Bank 1: 94004152 > Dec 24 21:35:15 localhost syslogd: /dev/:0: No such file or directory > > I ran memtest86 and all tests passed with no errors. Is this something > that should worry me? Can be a type, at least I don't think a device name can start with a colon (as :0). Anyway, what kind of unix do you have? It does not seems to be Linux. Cheers, GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cannot find modules : xxxxxxx
On Thu, Dec 25, 2003 at 10:41:52PM +0800, Yuen Sum Ng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After that, I can use the new kernel to boot up, but the machine always tell me that > cannot find modules:x > cannot find modules:x > > How to deal with this problem? Can it be that the modules you mention is defined in /etc/modules ? Then it means you haven't compiled the same modules that you used and were in bf24. It does not mean bad, you probably compiled them into the kernel if your box works without problems. Cheers, GCS Ps:Which country has hk? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Strange error in syslog
On Thu, Dec 25, 2003 at 10:44:32PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sid with a 2.6.0-mm1 kernel. Ah, Google is your friend: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2003-May/005061.html Cheers, GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: chmod, apache and php
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 10:23:14PM +0100, Stephen Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > But, after some clearing up. My folders where a mess. So i moved the php > > > > > folder, to a new slot. Made sure that all the permissions where still > > > > > 775. But now apache is telling me, that i do not have permissions to go > > > > > to that folder. > > > > > > > > > > What is going on? > > > > > > > > Does apache have permission to read and execute every single directory > > > > below it, all the way down to /? > > > > > > Yes. All have been set to 775. But it still gives me the same message. Are you really sure that _directories_ has 775 as well? If Apache serves php files from say, /var/www/ but not from /var/www/new_folder/ , then that's the reason. Check with 'ls -ld /var/www/new_folder/' > Yes PHP is loaded. I have PHP and PHP3. Do you mean you have PHP4 and PHP3 on the same box? At least the Debian PHP3 package conflicts with PHP4, as they can't co-exists on the same httpd server. Cheers, GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: e100 or eepro100?
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 03:17:37AM -0500, lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > does it matter which of these network card drivers i use? Yup, at least until both are working for you. For a while, I thought eepro100 is a newer driver, until recently I had to help out a friend of mine with a Toshiba laptop. The e100 driver in Woody could not detect the network card, so I have upgraded the kernel to 2.4.23 on that machine. When I have loaded the e100 driver that seemed newer, also it seems Intel donated some code into it (?). GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: depmod -a yields: WARNING: Loop detected
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 03:16:14AM -0500, lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > WARNING: Loop detected: /ide-iops.ko needs ide.ko which needs > ide-iops.ko again! In the past I could ignore an error like this, but it might be because I don't needed that module in real. > WARNING: Module /usb-storage.ko ignored, due to loop > FATAL: Module usb_storage not found. > > ...which i suspect is related to the loop problem. Sure, compare the above two lines. > i've got module-init-tools version 3.0-pre2 Try to upgrade it, IMHO pre3 is also available by now. > any ideas?? Other: try 2.6.0-rc1, and 2.6.0-rc1-mm1 as well if the problem persists. Cheers, GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel Upgrade from 2.4.18-xfs to 2.4.23
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 02:31:30PM -0800, George App <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I successfully upgraded my kernel from version 2.4.18 to 2.4.23. I basically used > the kernel settings based upon my 2.4.18-xfs configuration. Did you touch any netfilter options? > Everything works ok except to the fact that I am not able to access any http or ftp > locations. I can however ping websites and look up host names. > Any ideas on what this issue might be? Strange things to say. Do you have a proxy server? What do you use for http and ftp access? Do you succeed with 'telnet some.http.server.ip 80' and typing 'GET /' and enter? Cheers, GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Configuration of Herbert Xu's kernel-image-2.6
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 05:21:06PM +0100, Mario Vukelic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > CONFIG_EMBEDDED=y Could be a mistake of 'make allyesconfig' or whatever. Please note that packaging the 2.6.0 version of kernels is probably not sane enough. Cheers, GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PHP > 4.1 package available?
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 08:32:03AM -0500, Russ Schneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just got my Debian machine online using Woody, and updated all the > packages and such, but I can't seem to find using dselect a PHP4 package > greater than PHP 4.1.2. That's correct. At the time when Woody released (more than two years ago AFAICR) that php4 package was stabilized in Debian. > That's a pretty old package. Isn't there anything more recent? There is, but not for Woody, at least not officialy. A quick search on www.apt-get.org revealed that there's a 4.3.4 version of php4 - unofficial ones ofcourse. The sources.list entry for this: deb http://debian.moolfreet.com ./ > I used apt-get upgrade and dselect's update and can't seem to find > anything. You need to switch for Sarge if you can do it - it's currently in 'testing' status, and works well for me; but you have to evaluate it for yourself. > Also, and this is VERY important: how do I turn off dselect's colors? In > my terminal, it makes it very hard to read. Try to change your TERM variable to something without colours, I think 'export TERM=vt100' (or your shell equailent(?) would do the trick). Hope this helps, GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nfs setup on woody
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 11:49:36AM +, Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On the woody system, I get this when nfs starts: >Exporting directories for NFS kernel daemon...machine.domain:/home\ > /richard:Function not implemented Can you show us the exact line for this share from the exports file? /GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nfs setup on woody
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 03:22:09PM +, Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > yes: >/home/richard/ 192.168.0.2(rw,sync) Thanks. Well, I haven't seen the 'sync' option yet, and it's not mentioned in the man page either - but I am not an NFS guru, it can be good. Anyway, it may worth a try to remove it, even if my Sarge box re-started the nfsd without any warnings with this option. > very much like some others that worked fine. Do you have more shares on this machine, or is this the only one in the exports file? Cheers, GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fetchmail: lock creation failed
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 10:49:55AM -0500, Thomas H. George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >cd /oldhome/tom >cp -Rp .* /home/tom ( Found by trial and error that .* > works) > > Almost everything works - e.g. mozilla previously undeleted mail - but > fetchmail which aborts with the "lock creation failed" message. > > How can I fix this? Depends. Are you sure that /home/tom/ and everything under that is owned by you? 'ls -ld /home/tom' and 'ls -la /home/tom' should show tom.tom on every file. Hope this helps, GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What is best hard drive for Linux?
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 11:06:05AM -0500, Thomas H. George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Operating Systems Supported > WARNING! > Using an operating system not listed below could result in data loss. > > followed by a list of Windows and Macintosh operating systems. > > If I had known this I would never have purchased the Western Digital > drive and, needless to say, I will never purchase another. I proceeded > to format it with ext2 partitions using my Debian CD's and have not > noticed any problems. Why would they say such a thing? All I can remember that some old win$ os-es (fe win$98) switched off too soon either the machine or the disk that it could not really write out data from it's (big) cache. Also, they may refer to the SMART capability of the drive, meaning one os which can not monitor it, may not warn you in time that the disk is going to be fault. No other idea beyond those. > What should I > buy next time? I have a lot of different IDE and SCSI dics under Linux: Quantum, Western Digital, Fujitsu, Seagate, IBM, Compay, you name it. Never had any problems with them... Cheers, GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nfs setup on woody
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 04:40:10PM +, Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Do you have more shares on this machine, or is this the only one in > > the exports file? > > It is the only one at the moment. Then I am almost sure that the kernel support is missing. Do you have the following modules loaded: nfs, lockd, sunrpc? It's also ok to have them compiled into the kernel: CONFIG_NFS_FS, CONFIG_NFSD, CONFIG_LOCKD, CONFIG_SUNRPC. BTW, what's your kernel version? > which is why I expected some 'nfs' and 'nlockmgr' lines rather than > those 'sgi_fam' lines. FAM stands for File Alternation Monitor, developed by SGI Inc (previously for their desktop applications since ~Irix 6.3). > I can't help thinking this is a problem of the > installation rather than the /etc/exports file. Check the kernel support mentioned above. > hosts.allow has my IP listed for > portmap, lockd, mountd, rquotad, statd, and rpc. It does not matter - yet! - as it needs for connecting to your machine, but you have problems right with starting NFS services. Cheers, GCS -- BorsodChem Joint-Stock Company Linux Support Center Software engineer Developer +36-48-511211/12-99 +36-20-4441745 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fetchmail: lock creation failed
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 04:45:26PM +, Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Depends. Are you sure that /home/tom/ and everything under that is > > owned by you? 'ls -ld /home/tom' and 'ls -la /home/tom' should show > > tom.tom on every file. > > If he has a tom.tom on every file, he can use them to send the messages, > together with a few smoke signals, and save bothering to set up email. Pardon? As not being a native english speaker, I can not understand what do you mean with that. Please clarify. > Or did I have too much to drink over new year? I am definitely not. :-) Cheers, GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xfree 4.3 in sid anytime soon?
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 12:05:56PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since it was released about 10 months ago, shouldn't this already be > known? Yup, you are right. Anyway, they did break it last time: I had a hard session on upgrading 4.3.0pre4 to pre5 without apt would remove half of my packages - as being graphical ones, they depend on sane xfree86 set of packages. /GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nfs setup on woody
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 05:34:46PM +, Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > So you are evidently right. Pity. The howto suggests anything over > 2.2.16 supports nfs. Yup, the kernel does support it, _if_ you choose to include it into the compilation. I think it just missed in that kernel. > I did recently apt-get kernel-image 2.4.18-1-k6 (actually via aptitude), > but it doesn't boot correctly, so I continue with the 2.2.20. What's was the problem? Have you set it up correctly (I mean initrd-tools is not enough, you have to specify the initrd.img in your bootloader configuration - probably in lilo.conf). > I suppose I could try dist-upgrade. I know that nfs works out of the > box in Sid, Just to be clear: dist-upgrade would give you Sarge on a Woody box, which is under testing. > Someone will probably tell > me to compile a kernel, but I've wasted days reading howtos and going > through configurations I understand about 10% of, only to get unusable > kernels, so I'm not inclined to go that route. It's not that hard, but you are right, it would be easier to install an image from deb than compile your one. Cheers, GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Setting system-wide ulimits (esp. # of open files)
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 08:04:02PM +0100, Holger Rauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any other ideas on what else I could try in order to increase the # > of open file descriptors to 32000 for all users and why the approach with > editing /etc/security/limits.conf didn't work (and what I could do to > get it to do what I want :-) )? Maybe put the relevant lines into /etc/profile? Someone really know a better solution, this one is ugly IMHO. Cheers, GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: devfs and Linux LVM
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 01:30:06PM -0800, ope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From what I can tell, it really won't matter much if I > get rid of devfs. I wanted to check with everyone > here to see if there were any issues with getting rid > of devfs. Is there anything I need to look out for or > check before I do this? I don't really know, but it should not be a big deal. Try it, as I think you can disable devfs with 'devfs=nomount' or something like that appending to your kernel boot line. > Does lvm2 fix this problem? I don't know this problem, but devfs is obsolated in 2.6, so it worth a try. As I dislike devfs, never used it, and running LVM1 for years (later I changed to LVM2 ofcourse). Please note that as soon as you upgrade your _metadata_, you can't go back to LVM1. It's not a problem to have only the LVM2 tools installed, they can read your LVM1 vg-s. Hope this helps, GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Jerky mouse movements with 2.6.0
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 08:31:24AM +1100, Sam Varghese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My problem: > > After compiling and running a 2.6.0 kernel with testing, I found that > the mouse pointer would suddenly wander off on its own when I use it. > This is a generic two-button wheel mouse. Do you mean that you point to somewhere, but as soon as you stop the movement, it jumps a bit? If yes, it has been fixed in 2.6.1-rc1. Cheers, GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cfdisk vs fdisk & speaking of Western Digital drives...
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 04:52:06PM -0500, Andy Firman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First, what is the difference between fdisk and cfdisk, > other cfdisk being curses based? Not much, you can achieve your needs in both. > Second, I have 2 Western Digital drives. > Both model WD400BB but they were manufactured about > 6 months apart. It may be an other revision, hdd controllers can have different chipset/'bios'. Also, they may have higher density plates, so less of them enough for the same capacity. > I partioned both disk's exactly the same using cfdisk > during the install. It seems that one drive has 4863 cylinders > and the other has 77545 cylinders. Can be a BIOS setting, check that both drives use the same addressing method (CHS, LBA, other). > Why would Western Digital > make the drives different? Or did I do something wrong > with partitioning/formatting? No, partitioning is ok IMHO. What you don't know that hdd size is calculated from a triplet: Cylinders, Headers, Sectors: >Disk Drive: /dev/hda > Size: 400 bytes >Heads: 255 Sectors per Track: 63 Cylinders: 4863 >Disk Drive: /dev/hdd > Size: 40020664320 bytes >Heads: 16 Sectors per Track: 63 Cylinders: 77545 If you do the math: C*H*S*512 => you should get the size in bytes. So hdd has more Cylinders because it has less Heads value (this is not the real value, but some kind of mapped one). > Do the physical drives and partitions have to be EXACTLY the > same for RAID 1 to work properly or will the following > layouts of my drives be sufficient? Hmm. Note sure this is ok, try to set the same CHS for both drives. > /dev/hda1 * 1 122979933+ 83 Linux Also, if I remember right, a plus sign after the size is indicating a warning that the partition does not on Cylinder boundary, which may be a problem as partitions may overlap a bit. Cheers, GCS Off-to-sleep... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2.4.24 fixes local root exploit in 2.4.23
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 07:27:17PM +0100, Martin Helas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Don't forget that 2.2 and 2.6 kernels are also affected. 2.6 patches > > are due shortly. > There is already a patch for 2.6 [1] published by Linus, but there is no > official patch yet. > [1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=107332139413041&w=2 There's an other fix in 2.4.24: : o /dev/rtc can leak parts of kernel memory to unpriviledged users As I haven't seen Linus' patch then, I forward ported the 2.4.24 patch: http://www.lsc.hu/2.6.0-security.patch This contains the RTC fixes, but the mremap check is not so strict - it's the original fix from 2.4.24. Cheers, GCS signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Kernel Patching: Updating the debian/changelog
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 11:09:09AM -0800, Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have notes of hand-editing the changelog before, but I can't see to > get the format correct. I know there's a tool to update the changelog, > but can't remember what that is. You should use 'dch -i' and add a changelog for your new kernel. > Anyway, the question is: how do I patch the kernel and correctly update > the debian/changelog so make-kpkg doesn't puke. I think the above will do if you upgrade the version in the changelog to 2.4.24-whatever. Cheers, GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-get http mirrors ?
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 01:13:29PM +0200, Marc Hultquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just wondering where I would be able to find a list of http deb mirrors for > my debian server ? Try 'apt-setup', you can choose your favour of access method and mirrors. /GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: can't boot 2.4.X kernel
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 06:10:07PM +0100, Ruben Porras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm lost and I would appreciate some hints to debug this. You should update your initrd-tools package (0.1.56 would be good). Cheers, GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CD Burning problem
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 11:05:33PM +0800, Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > cdrecord.mmap: Also make sure that you have loaded the sg driver and the > driver for > cdrecord.mmap: SCSI hardware, eg. ide-scsi if you run IDE/ATAPI drives over > cdrecord.mmap: ide-scsi emulation. Do you have ide-scsi either compiled in, or as a module? Do you pass the correct device setup to the kernel boot line (ie hdc=ide-scsi)? > For more information, install the > cdrtools-do c > cdrecord.mmap: package and read /usr/share/doc/cdrecord/README.ATAPI.setup As the above message states... > # locate README.ATAPI.setup /usr/share/doc/cdrecord/README.ATAPI.setup # dpkg -S /usr/share/doc/cdrecord/README.ATAPI.setup cdrtools-doc > 'cdrecord -scanbus' Have you tried it? Do not rest until it finds a cdw device (assuming you are using 2.4.x). Cheers, GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
looking for apt.conf reference
Hi. I am trying to fabricate a script, which runs as a _normal user_, checks my debs in a specified directory, and recursively download all of the dependencies. I can iterate on the packages and get the dependencies parsed from 'dpkg-deb -f package', but how can I download packages? I have thinking on something like: apt-get --download-only -o Dir::Cache::Archives=store install zsh But still, apt-get would like to place the lock in /var/lib/dpkg/, where I do not have write access. How can I change this? 'man 5 apt.conf' does not help what config option should I override, and I was unable to find a complete apt.conf reference. The best I have found is: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto But does not contains an apt.conf reference. Thanks for any pointers in advance, GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dma timeout
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 10:16:02PM +0900, Akira Kitada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (please tell me if you feel > this mail focus on off-topic subject. > and, if possible, appropriate place, too) Well, this is a good place I think even if a little off-topic. > I can use new hdd, Deskstar, with dma33 mode, > so I'm sure my cable and motherboard is fine. I don't know what's the reason, but at my workplace, I got a new machine. Everything seems to be ok, only rarely the dvd rom on the second ide cable disappear under win2k (it says I have removed it?). Also, sometimes I take my home hdd (which works ok here) to my workplace, and attach it instead of the dvd rom. Mostly I get the same errors you described. Sometime if I change the end of the cable, then it works, and occassionaly it boots ok anyway. I think it can be bios (very stupid one)/cable. Also my motherboard a bit strange, the first ide is ATA100, and the second is not! So try to exchange ide cables if you can do it. Hope this helps, GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ALSA and Kernel 2.6
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 09:23:19AM +, Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IN 2.6, these alsa modules where incorporated into the kernel - so there is > not need for the separate alsa-modules-2.xxx packages anymore. Yup, and 2.6.1-mm2 contains the latest - 1.0.1 version of ALSA! Cheers, GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: looking for apt.conf reference
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 12:50:02PM -0500, Travis Crump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have a look at /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/configure-index.gz . I think > you want -o Debug::NoLocking=on . Thanks, that did the trick! I still have a bug in my script, because some debian packages, fe subversion-tools depends on exim _and_ mail-transport-tools as well. As I have a list what to choose for meta packages like the mail-transport-tools (postfix), I do have conflicts like exim<->postfix can't be installed at the same time. Oh, well... Cheers, GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Nikon 2100 USB and Linux?
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 04:29:56PM -0500, Robert L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just picked up a Nikon "CoolPix" 2100 for my wife. It has a cute > little USB interface which oddly acts as a USB storage device. I'm > curious though if anyone know if Gphoto or any other other software can > interact with the camera directly See http://gphoto.org/proj/libgphoto2/support.php "Nikon Coolpix 2100 (PTP mode)" So, it is supported. > so I can take pics with it web cam > style etc? Digital photographers are not webcams. So, you can shoot pictures, connect it to the computer and transfer pictures there. But you can not make it shoot periodically. Cheers, GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
packages.debian.org lives again
Hi all, Just to share with everyone my happiness that packages.debian.org is functioning again. Thanks everyone involved! Cheers, GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: packages.debian.org lives again
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 02:00:20PM -0800, Nano Nano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know this sounds grumpy, but I'm really curious: what caused the > unusually long delay, relative to the other servers? Possibly: low-priority (there is several other ways to this functionality: apt-file, apt-cache), the new development needed time and testing comes to my mind. It is very kewl! I just love the new features! Cheers, GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
rapidsvn on debian
Hi! I was talking with Timothee, and he said it would be all right to take over the debian package if you nod on this. I am not a debian developer yet, but I would like to work on this package, as I have to use subversion more and more. What's your opinion? Thanks in advance, GCS -- BorsodChem Joint-Stock Company Linux Support Center Software engineer Developer +36-48-511211/12-99 +36-20-4441745 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CD Burning problem
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 02:11:30AM +0800, Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> # lsmod -l
Without the switch 'lsmod'.
> # modprobe sg
> # modprobe ide-scsi
> all no response
That's OK, Linux is noisy only on errors (well, mostly), so no output
means no problem.
> # cat /etc/lilo.conf
> append="hdc=ide-scsi"
Correct.
> # cdrecord dev=ATAPI -scanbus
> Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a24 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 J\x{FFFD}rg
> 0,0,0 0) 'SAMSUNG ' 'CD-R/RW SW-240B ' 'R403' Removable CD-ROM
Kewl, you have it.
> Blanking a CDRW
> # cdrecord dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 speed=4 blank=all -v -eject
Wrong IMHO. Either use 2.4.x and ide-scsi -> dev=0,0,0 or use 2.6.x and
_no_ ide-scsi, then dev=ATAPI:/dev/hdc as far as I can remember.
> Burning a CDRW
> # cdrecord dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 speed=4 -v -eject /path/to/folder_containing
> tarball
cdrecord needs an iso image! Either create it first by hand, or use a
GUI which automagically do it for you.
> Fixating time: 76.884s
> cdrecord.mmap: fifo had 235 puts and 235 gets.
> cdrecord.mmap: fifo was 0 times empty and 129 times full, min fill was 96%.
>
> Failed. Can't burn CDRW
NO. It was all right, cdrecord wrote out your data. It was your mistake
that you did not write out an iso9660 filesystem, instead of a tar
file. tar file!=filesystem. :-|
Cheers,
GCS
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Re: rapidsvn on debian
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Re: CD Burning problem
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 03:59:49PM +0800, Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: First, please see my answer from yesterday. > I have visited the above site, some of link already missing. Several things > have changed with cdrecord lately. The latest versions of cdrecord, however, > support writing to IDE/ATAPI cd writers directly using the ATAPI system. > 'man cdrecord' does not help much. The addressing is -dev=ATAPI:/dev/hdc (assuming your cdw drive is on the secondary cable as master). > Fixating time: 76.884s > cdrecord.mmap: fifo had 235 puts and 235 gets. > cdrecord.mmap: fifo was 0 times empty and 129 times full, min fill was 96%. > > Failed. Can't burn CDRW It was ok, see my prevoius mail. > # egrep -i "BLK_DEV_LOOP|BLK_DEV_RAM| > BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE" /usr/local/src/linux-2.4.22/.config | grep -v ^# > grep: /usr/local/src/linux-2.4.22/.config: No such file or directory Argh. Please sometimes think. I may sound mad, but try to think what the advice means, and if it does not work, what should you change. In the above example, the problem is that your kernel source located elsewhere than /usr/local/src/linux-2.4.22 . You may have an other version even. > # cat /proc/version > Linux version 2.4.22-1-386 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.2 20030908 > (Debian prerelease)) #9 Sat Oct 4 14:30:39 EST 2003 Kewl, you have the standard Debian kernel. Then, your .config files should be at /boot/config-2.4.22-1-386 or so (please check /boot/). > (Website suggests to run following command) > cd /usr/local/src/linux-2.4.22 ; make xconfig) Do you have your kernel sources installed? And even, it will be under /usr/src/linux-$(VERSION) IMHO. Anyway, you do _not_ have to mess with the kernel, the Debian favour contains everything you need. Hope you will be fine now, GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: linux-2.6.1 compile error on sarge
On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 11:32:31PM +0200, Alexandros Papadopoulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you for any help/insights! Please be sure that IDE is compiled in, 2.6.1 and modular IDE is a no go. In my readings, 2.6.1-mm5 addresses this issue. Cheers, GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel-image-2.6.3-1 (testing)
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 11:00:10AM -0500, Gordon Farquharson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have installed the Testing kernel package (kernel-image-2.6.3-1). With > this kernel, XFree86 is unable to find a core pointer (my PS/2 mouse). I > suspect this is because there isn't a handler associated for the mouse > device in /proc/bus/input/devices (see below). > > Does anybody else have this problem ? Should I submit a bug report ? Have you switched from 2.4? Tried to modprobe either psmouse serial etc, modules that may not be autoloaded this time? Cheers, GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 4.1 --> 4.2.1 (Woody)
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 10:20:53AM -0500, Kenneth Jacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Various correspondents state that 4.2.1 supports my board. Version > 4.3.0 and 4.4.0 are some of the "latest and greatest". But, I thought > I might just "get my feet wet" (since I have done *zero* backports) > with the 4.2.1 version. Suggestions? I do not know. AFAICR, I needed 4.2.1 only. I think 4.3.0 needed only for 9xxx cards. > One thing that concerns me, though, is the affect of upgrading the X > server. I assume I will have to "purge" all traces of the current > version. But won't that also remove components that depend on it > (e.g., kde, ...)? If true, what will be the best way to recover those > X11-dependent applications? You do not have to purge, as you are right, it would remove everything which depends on them (whole kde etc). Upgrading XFree86 to 4.2.1 was painless. Only be suree to save your configuration file if you tampered it. > Should they be my starting point? You should also check http://www.apt-get.org/ > I hope I'm not embarking on a long, long journey! ;-) If you try 4.3.0, then be sure to download them all first, there were too much trouble with them in Sid even. It was broken into smaller but more packages, and the upgrade path/dependencies were not clean. :( Also, I had postinst problems as well, as my /bin/sh was not bash. :( My advice: try 4.2.1 first, if it still does not support your board, then move on to 4.3.0. Note: 4.4.0 won't be packaged, at least not for a while. Hope this helps, GCS/Laszlo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sid Downloading; Error 404
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 06:13:10AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The first has an error 404 of 41 missing files, the second 52. Maybe the .jigdo file outdated? Please download a fresh one. > I don't know exactly what any of them are, as my friend didn't recognize the names. > He was given the option of retrying those files on another server, but the other one > he chose had the same errors. Select the master site. The hungarian mirror at least has the same problem for the login package and probably with others as well. > And will it affect my upgrade to Sid? I think jigdo does not complete the iso until you do not have all the files. Also, it will affect you only if you are going to use the missing packages. The chances are high, as the most used packages are on the first two iso's. Please press enter sometimes in your text, or you less likely to get an answer. Cheers, GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules (????huh)
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 11:18:37PM -0800, Roger Chrisman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When custom compiling kernel 2.6.3, I got all these depmod *** notices: > > depmod: *** Unresolved sybmols in /lib/modules/2.6.3.20040305-orca > /kernel/drivers/acpi/thermal.ko Are you sure you have module-init-tools installed, preferably from deb? > Did I do something wrong? Not, if you have m-i-t. > *worried* You should. You probably won't be able to use your modules with this problem. My advice is to save your .config, make mrprober, put back your .config, make oldconfig, make etc. Also be sure you have m-i-t. Cheers, GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Speeding apt by multiple connections
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 10:04:32AM +0200, Aryan Ameri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In this university that I am studying in, I have access to a pretty fast > internet connection. How wide is it? > However when I use a normal download manager like > a browser's download manager or apt-get, which use a single connection > to fetch the files, my download rates are pretty slow, at most 5 KBps. > But I usually use axel, and order it to use 30 to 40 connections to > fetch a file ( axel -n 30 ) and with this download > manager I am usualy able to speed up my downloads up to 100 or 150 > KBps. (Huge difference, you see). It is very strange as well. > Is it possible to make apt use multiple connections? Nope. > Or does anyone have > an alternative idea about how I might be able to speed-up my downloads > from apt-getable sources? google for apt-rsync, but the server must support it. Cheers, GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I know which version of GNOME I am using?
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 09:31:47PM -0500, Lei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do I know which version of GNOME I am using? For me, it's always displayed on the splash screen, when Gnome starts. Anyway, dpkg -l gnome-core or dpkg -l|grep gnome should give you a hint. > and if I am not using the 2.4 version, how do I get the latest version? Depends on your Debian version. Woody or Sarge+? You can get 2.4 for Woody (well, maybe) from http://www.apt-get.org/ An other way is to use garnome, jbuild etc, google for them. That's how I have 2.5, which is still a development version. Cheers, GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mozilla 1.6 shuts down in composer
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 08:58:36PM -0800, Roy Pluschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On March 8, 2004 07:26 pm, Ben Wehrspann wrote: > > Am using Mozilla 1.6-1.he-1. > The composer in Mozilla (1.6-1) in unstable works fine here, dselect does not > show the .he-1 version extension, so I'm not sure if it's the same version. I think he has a backport as he may use Woody. Try an other backport then. Cheers, GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ext3 journaling errors
On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 06:16:07AM +, Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Feb 14 00:23:12 herby kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device > Feb 14 00:23:12 herby kernel: hda4: rw=0, want=1940101904, limit=24418800 > Feb 14 00:23:12 herby kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device > Feb 14 00:23:12 herby kernel: hda4: rw=0, want=1667988256, limit=24418800 I got those for some time. Still has some problems with ext3 on my laptop, but it may be hw related as my notebook is a s**t. > However, when I shut the system down or unmount any of the partitions, > all modifications since the system was turned on are gone. That's odd. :( > If I run fsck > on the unmounted partitions, fsck says that there is journal data, but > the recovery flag is clear. It then asks if I want to clear the journal > and neither yes or no seem to do anything to change the output. Do you try it with the -f switch? Also, you may try to fsck the partitions as ext2. > Am I SOL, or is there a journaling bug of some sort in 2.6.2/Unstable > right now? I heard something that 2.6.2 is very buggy with ext3, but can't confirm on this. My desktop machine is all right, and my laptop has the same problems since 2.4.23 AFAIKR. > Also, is there a way to manually apply a journal file to a > partition? tune2fs -j /your/hdd /GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kernel security issue
Hi, Again a memory management problem, in mremap(). Affected 2.2.x, -2.4.24, -2.6.2. Original announcement: http://isec.pl/vulnerabilities/isec-0014-mremap-unmap.txt Marcelo Tosatti's note: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=107712055019478&w=2 Fix: http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.4/[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exploit for testing: http://www.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Securiteam/2004-02/0052.html Upgrade is recommended, GCS -- BorsodChem Joint-Stock Company Linux Support Center Software engineer Developer +36-48-511211/12-99 +36-20-4441745 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mutt
Hi, I am looking for a command line based program, which can grep the email address/domain from the 'From:' field of a mail message; and based on the invokation it can write the address into separate files like whitelist/greylist/blacklist. I would like to filter based on that file, so it should have one address per line format. Anyone knows one? Regards, Laszlo/GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
