intel network adapter on debian 4.0
Dear All, I have an intel gigabit ethernet card. When I install it on windows with the coming windows drivers, I can click on network connections select the card and change stuff like jumbo frames, "Receive descriptors" and "Interupt Moderate Rate". Now I have also a linux machine with debian 4.0 and kernal 2.6. When I plug in the card it seems that there are debian drivers already that comes along with debian installation. I can then set it to jumbo frames by setting the mtu value. But I have no clue how I should set the "receive descriptors" and "Interupt Moderate Rate" value in linux. I have had a look at the intel site and saw some drivers there too. I am a bit confused actually. Does it mean that I need the intel drivers for linux in order to set all these special features ? Or does the driver that comes along with the debian installation CD includes these features. I am quite new in linux, so I have no clue what I am suppose to do. The only thing I know to do in linux is by using ifconfig. How can I check if I need to specifically install the intel drivers ? How do I check if I can set the "special" feature using the driver that comes along with debian. How do I chekc what driver is it used and what funcitonalities can be set ? Please help me out as I need to set those features. Thanks in advance for helping me out. cheers. - Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now.
Re: how to increase sound volume of a mp3 file
I use cooledit. But its a commercial program and probably you don't want a commercial program --- On Sun, 7/19/09, Long Wind wrote: From: Long Wind Subject: how to increase sound volume of a mp3 file To: "debian-user" Date: Sunday, July 19, 2009, 10:19 AM I have a mp3 file When I play it, the sound volume is too low even if I set highest volume in sound mixer Is there any utility that change mp3 file? I use sarge and etch Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
how to create an image of your debian computer hard drive for cloning
Dear All, I was wondering how I could make a clone or image of my computer hard disk that contains debian OS. I want to do this in order to make an exact copy to another clean pc with no os at all. What complete free software can I use for this ? Is there a manual some where on the net about this ? thanks
image problem
Hi all, I tried to put with clonezilla an image of debian on a target disk. I keep getting a gpt_read() failed error. Any idea what is wrong ? Thanks rr
system hangs when network shares down
Hello all, I have mounted some windows shares on my linux debian computer using smbfs. Everything works fine when the windows shares are available. However sometimes the windows samba server goes down and the windows shares are not available. On my /home/ directory I created a soft link to a mount point. When the windows share are down, simply typing "ls" in my "/home/" directory causes the system to have a very very slow response. Even the nautilus file manager that I use hangs up. I was wondering how I could solve this problem. The response because so slow that I can not work anymore in a convenient way on my computer. Anyone any suggestion on how to solve this problem ? Thanks RR
I broke apt and dpkg - need help
Help. I just did a major patition reshuffle and I've wiped out /var/lib/apt and also /var/cache/apt -- and now dpkg and apt are broken, Can't reinstall them either. Any suggestions or humorous comments welcome :( Does the net install disk offer some sort of rescue option? Any ideas? all the best, Robert_L -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I broke apt and dpkg - need help
On Friday 25 October 01:06, nate wrote: > Robert said: > > Help. I just did a major patition reshuffle and I've wiped out > > /var/lib/apt and also /var/cache/apt -- and now dpkg and apt are > > broken, Can't reinstall them either. Any suggestions or humorous > > comments welcome :( > > does not sound serious to me. the critical stuff is in /var/lib/dpkg. > > you should just be able to re-create the directory structure: > > drwxr-xr-x3 root root 4096 Oct 23 18:21 > /var/cache/apt drwxr-xr-x3 root root 8192 Oct 23 > 18:21 /var/cache/apt/archives drwxr-xr-x3 root root > 4096 Jun 25 10:52 /var/lib/apt drwxr-xr-x3 root root > 4096 Aug 24 16:44 /var/lib/apt/lists drwxr-xr-x2 root root > 4096 Oct 14 13:12 > /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/ > > and try running apt-get update see what happens > > nate Thanks for your reply. Sorry, should have been more explicit. /var/lib/dpkg is gone too. It was late at night and I forgot that I had made /var a symlink to a partition I was cleaning out. So, there is nothing left of apt or dpkg in /var, and only thought of it halfway throught he carnage. So now I guess apt knows nothing about the installed packages on my system. None of the apt commands will run without an error about missing files in /var/*. Reinstall the only solution? Or is another copy of this info kept elsewhere on the system? Unfortunately, I did not back up /var as part of a backup strategy. (good lesson I guess). all the best, Robert_L -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: Re: rms on debian : background noise
Ethics. how many of us have ethics? It's funny how people are so into killing our idols when they "betray us". interesting thread. happy birthday debian. I am free. >>He clearly states his principles, and as far as I know he lives by them. That's better than most people can say (including me). That's without even considering that he pretty much started the free/open source software movement all by himself. I'm not saying that he's responsible himself for everything that happened, but that without him leading the way (with prodigious programming as well as preaching) I don't believe there would be a Linux at all. IMO the reason RMS is so irritating is that he reminds us how we don't live up to our principles. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: 2.4.18 to 2.4.19/20 locks up
I am having a similar problem but I use the source downloaded from kernel.org and start from scratch. And it still locks up my computer. Any ideas on what could be causing this? I have a few images (they aren't very great quality, they were taken with a crappy digital cam) I tried 2.4.19, and 2.4.20-ac1. It works fine for about a day and it crashes, every now and again I can get it to go for about a week and then it does it. Lemme know what you come up with. WcktKlwn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Segmentation Fault" error during installation
Hi everyone. I am a very new Linux enthusiast, and I am trying to intall it for the first time in a modest second copmuter of mine. I downloaded the disk images of Debian Linux 2.0 and I am installing it from the floppy to my modest system (a test/2nd system: Intel 386-25, math coprocessor, herc mono video, 8MB RAM, 80 MB HD & 40 MB HD, both IDE). (I want to learn and experiment in this modest system before I install it on my pentium II). Problem: I am able to boot from the Rescue disk and start the start the intall process. when it gets to the "Partition a Hard Disk" menu and I select either dev/hda or dev/hdb, it doesnt do anything. it quickly displays "segmentation fault" and returns to the "Partition a Hard Disk" menu. What is going on? dev/hda is a IDE drive, MS dos formated, 1 partition dev/hdb is also IDE, not formated, and DOS Fdisk-ed into 2 partitions (1 for swap, the other for Linux). I appreciate any help regarding this problem, and any other sugestion you might have about me experimenting with Linux. Thank you. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ps: can I run Xfree86 in my modest system?
Re: Newbie story --install
If someone comes along and says that you can run a winmodem under wine it will hurt. I was planning on looking into that sometime. What I did was the Win/Dos install as laid out on the website under installation and got the base system installed. Then I did the minimum package from the initial selection and downloaded at 14.4 althoguh the following would have worked. I chose my packages on the deselct and +'d them out just like I was going to download then just wrote them down (damn winprinter too). Then I went to the website and using Gozilla I downloaded about 35 -40 meg of additional files that I wanted under windows. The package search at the site does good at linking the depends. I put the files in a folder on the c: drive c:/debian/opts Then under the deselect method used the install from hard disk and called it /hda1 then when it asks what filesystem MSDOS then where are the .deb files would be /debian/opts/ the the package question is none. Then run dselect step 2) update and it should find the files and then you double check the selections in dselect and then run the 3) install.. Thats it..funny how almost simple it was. I do get a lot of errors that have to be hand debugged but very minor considering the possiblilites of not even being able to download. Robert
RE: Debian hardware vendors
Check out www.linux.com Its VA research. Not sure what they have but they advertise that their website is powered bu Debian. They are a Linux Hardware vendor. Robert <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Re: ISPs
Dont forget your small neighborhood ISP's. The smaller they are the better the service and the more knowledgeable (most of the time?) the employees. Robert At 10:59 AM 6/1/99 -0700, George Bonser wrote: > >1. AOL is not an ISP. They are an "Online Content Provider" that also >allows their users some access to the internet. > >2. Any ISP that does not require proprietary software to connect should >work just fine with Linux. In other words, Mindspring, Concentric, Verio, >Netcom ... all work just fine. > > > >On Tue, 1 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Are there any nationwide ISPs around for Linux users? I'm using AOL, which >> doesn't support Linux, and there aren't any Linux ISPs in my area. It'd make >> it a lot easier on me for upgrading if I could get onto the internet. Does >> anyone know of anything like this? >> >> Colin Winters >> >> >> -- >> Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >> >> >> > >George Bonser > >Welcome to Wit's End > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
Re: pppd / pon problem
Is it a bug? Seems like the default for allowing a ppp dial out would be up to the admin and not users? Robert At 04:00 PM 6/1/99 -0500, John Hasler wrote: >Phillip Deackes writes: >> Just had the same problem. The ownership of /etc/ppp had been set as >> root.root > >Have you filed a bug report yet? >-- >John Hasler >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) >Dancing Horse Hill >Elmwood, WI > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Fwd: Re: question on Mozilla sources
On Thursday 29 August 01:12, Travis Crump wrote: > Michael D. Crawford wrote: > > Can anyone tell me whether the source files for Mozilla provided on > > ftp.mozilla.org contain the setup for building debian packages? > > > > How about slackware package building instructions? (I use both > > debian and slackware). > > > > I know I can just download them and look, but I'm on a 56k modem > > connection. > > > > Mike > > There is a build/package/debian directory which has what appears to > be the files needed to build a deb, but I have never actually tried > it. Yes, and its dated August all right too. (August 1999) all the best, Robert_L --- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fwd: Re: question on Mozilla sources
On Tuesday 03 September 01:14, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 09:06:33PM -0400, Robert wrote: > > On Thursday 29 August 01:12, Travis Crump wrote: > > > Michael D. Crawford wrote: > > > > Can anyone tell me whether the source files for Mozilla > > > > provided on ftp.mozilla.org contain the setup for building > > > > debian packages? > > > There is a build/package/debian directory which has what appears > > > to be the files needed to build a deb, but I have never actually > > > tried it. > > > > Yes, and its dated August all right too. > > (August 1999) > In general you can only expect the code for building Debian packages > to be up to date in the Debian archive itself. Look for .diff.gz > files in <ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/m/mozilla/>. Yes. The question I assumed was about the latest version (1.1) as there are debs already available for the others. Actually, I left off the smilee in my note as well. I had taken a quick look and thought "great !" when I saw the August dates on the debian directory, and actually tried to build it. Heh. I took another look afterwards and realized my mistake. ;) Anyway, a checkinstall deb worked out fine for the time being to satisfy my curiousity. all the best, Robert_L -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PPP ??? #@$#
I have encountered a strange problem with dialing out on PPP, and it is really
bugging me now.
I have got a slightly adnormal server running. This is what it looks like.
I have got a local network running on and arcnet card whos address is
192.168.0.1, This works I and doesn't seem to stop working. I also have a
hacked DNS server for my dial-up users which gets shut off when I go online.
The problem is I can connect to my server and everything looks 100% except for
the fact I can't do anything on the Internet.
When I have connected and type in ifconfig this is what I am given :
loLink encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1
RX packets:52 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
TX packets:52 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
arc0 Link encap:1.5Mbps ARCnet HWaddr 50
inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
IPX/Ethernet 802.3 addr:0123:0050
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:140 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
TX packets:218 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
Interrupt:5 Base address:0x260 Memory:d1000-d17ff
ppp0 Link encap:Point-Point Protocol
inet addr:196.25.198.23 P-t-P:196.25.198.2 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:11 errors:1 dropped:1 overruns:0
TX packets:37 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
This looks normal except for the ppp errors in which there is only one.
If I do a route -n this is what I am given :
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface
196.25.198.20.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH0 01 ppp0
192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 02 arc0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 04 lo
0.0.0.0 196.25.198.20.0.0.0 UG0 01 ppp0
This also looks right.
Now for some init files...
My /etc/init.d/network file :
#!/bin/sh
ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
route add -net 127.0.0.0
IPADDR=192.168.0.1
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=192.168.0.0
BROADCAST=192.168.0.255
GATEWAY=none
ifconfig arc0 ${IPADDR} netmask ${NETMASK} broadcast ${BROADCAST}
route add -net ${NETWORK}
route add default gw ${GATEWAY} metric 1
This as far as I can see is default unless something has changed without me
noticing.
My /etc/hosts file :
127.0.0.1 localhost
0.0.0.0 ptest
192.168.0.1 progtest.alt.za progtest
My /etc/networks file :
loopback127.0.0.1
localnet0.0.0.0
alt.za 192.168.0.0
If anyone can shead some light on this I would be very happy. This has been
bugging me for the past two months.
Thanks,
Robert.
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| Running well on Debian ver 1.2 Kernel 2.0.27 |
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Re: .gz ??? what, how?
>
> On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
>
> > > > This is not readable by an editor. Is there something special about the
> > > > .gz??
> > >
> <>
> > (Funny how an non-Debian specific question still generates so many
> > responses on this list!)
>
> Not really. What we have here is a real problem for the newbies.
Sure
>
> To access the documentation you really need to be able to access
> the documentation. Then you can determine what is (and isn't) a Debian
> specific issue. Having a system which can hold the newbies' hand till
> they can walk for themselves has probably never been a design goal for
> Debian, but I think that the user base is growing at such a rate that
> it could be time...
^ Should ... actually if you want to attract msdog ppl, a "must"!
>
> Perhaps there should be a quick intro to gzip, zless and zcat in the
> opening scripts (just after the first dselect run?).
Perhaps just a /usr/doc/intro/* section that may actually contain
this and other useful newbie tips
Ok, so let's take a previous response: use 'most' ...
$ most some_text_file.gz
... fine
$ most some_archive.tar.gz
... _not_ yet configured to display the 'listing' ... instead it gives
the 'contents' ... not very useful
Ok ... having used slip_slop_slackware I can't help comparing the
way 'less' is configured there ... not having even known of 'most'
and noticing how on the deb-1.2 system I manage that 'less' does not
have the same configured functionality as the 'less' on slackware,
I simply copied the configs over ...
in /etc/profile 3 things:
(1)
LESS="-M -I"
... and the switches mean
-i Causes searches to ignore case; that is, uppercase and
lowercase are considered identical. This option is
ignored if any uppercase letters appear in the search
pattern; in other words, if a pattern contains upper-
case letters, then that search does not ignore case.
-I Like -i, but searches ignore case even if the pattern
contains uppercase letters.
-M Causes less to prompt even more verbosely than more.
(2)
as well as the environment variable for the script that 'less'
uses to "pipe" :
export LESSOPEN="|lesspipe.sh %s"
(3)
export PAGER=less
Now, that script 'lesspipe.sh' I could not find on the debian system
at work, so I ripped it from the slackware one at home, which lives in
/usr/bin/lesspipe.sh
. And the script is :
- cut here ---
#!/bin/sh
# This is a preprocessor for 'less'. It is used when this environment
# variable is set: LESSOPEN="|lesspipe.sh %s"
lesspipe() {
case "$1" in
*.tar) tar tvvf $1 2>/dev/null ;; # View contents of .tar and .tgz files
*.tgz) tar tzvvf $1 2>/dev/null ;;
*.tar.gz) tar tzvvf $1 2>/dev/null ;;
*.tar.Z) tar tzvvf $1 2>/dev/null ;;
*.tar.z) tar tzvvf $1 2>/dev/null ;;
*.Z) gzip -dc $1 2>/dev/null ;; # View compressed files correctly
*.z) gzip -dc $1 2>/dev/null ;;
*.gz) gzip -dc $1 2>/dev/null ;;
*.zip) unzip -l $1 2>/dev/null ;;
*.1|*.2|*.3|*.4|*.5|*.6|*.7|*.8|*.9|*.n|*.man) FILE=`file -L $1` ; # groff src
FILE=`echo $FILE | cut -d ' ' -f 2`
if [ "$FILE" = "troff" ]; then
groff -s -p -t -e -Tascii -mandoc $1
fi ;;
# *) FILE=`file -L $1` ; # Check to see if binary, if so -- view with 'strings'
#FILE1=`echo $FILE | cut -d ' ' -f 2`
#FILE2=`echo $FILE | cut -d ' ' -f 3`
#if [ "$FILE1" = "Linux/i386" -o "$FILE2" = "Linux/i386" \
# -o "$FILE1" = "ELF" -o "$FILE2" = "ELF" ]; then
# strings $1
#fi ;;
esac
}
lesspipe $1
# eof
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'less', for me, still does 'more' than 'most' ;)
>
> John Foster
>
Rob -
ps: 1st posting here ... I must say documentation, packaging
and administration in debian appear to be more 'complete' than
in slackware ... unfortunately at this stage I have come
over to work with a rather misconfigured debian system ...
hoping to get good support here ...
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'date' >>>>>>>>>>>
Hi! [EMAIL PROTECTED]:ttyp1]:/usr/debian # date -d1year; date -d2years; date -d3years; date -d4years Mon Jul 6 13:30:51 EST 1998 Tue Jul 6 13:30:51 EST 1999 Thu Jan 1 13:59:59 EST 1970 Thu Jan 1 13:59:59 EST 1970 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:ttyp1]:/usr/debian # date --version date - GNU sh-utils 1.12 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:ttyp1]:/usr/debian This is on a debian-1.2 system. I get the same for a slackware-3.2 system with 'sh-utils 1.12' However I know that with 'sh-utils 1.16' from ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu I would be getting: # date --version date (GNU sh-utils) 1.16 # date -d1year; date -d2years; date -d3years; date -d4years Sun Jul 5 00:34:02 EDT 1998 Mon Jul 5 00:34:02 EDT 1999 Wed Jul 5 00:34:02 EDT 2000 Thu Jul 5 00:34:02 EDT 2001 # date -d40years date -d40years Sun Jul 5 00:35:37 EDT 2037 # date -d41years date -d41years date: invalid date `41years' which at least is a bit better ;) As I have just upgraded the slackware box ... I have a ls-lRa.gz of ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian and have ' zcat ftp.debian.org-pub.debian-ls-lRa.gz | grep sh-util ' but found no such package ... Any ideas how on debian do I upgrade the 'date' program ( and the rest of the sh-utils programs )is greatly appreciated. TIA, Rob - -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
safely downgrading from hamm >>>
Hi, I have the following problem: The system was installed with debian-1.2 and since then "someone" installed a 'hamm' "ld" package, namely: ldso_1.9.2-3.deb Why "someone" did this I have no idea as there are no traces of any system admin documentation on the system. I was trying to upgrade to the latest perl and when executing dpkg -i ldso_1.8.10-2.deb it output to console something about "downgrading" the package, "chucked a fit" and left the system hanging. This was just great! nothing would execute except for the alrady loaded shell stuff like 'echo' ... The system upon reboot would hang at the "VFS ... " line. So I had to ftp to debian from the web server box, where I found in the 'unstable' 'hamm' section the above mentioned ldso_1.9.2-3.deb, unpack it with "-x", tar it up, put it on a floppy along with 'tar', use a 'rescue' disk to boot the nameserver, mount the root partition somewhere and 'tar -cvf the hamm ld' then 'ldconfig -v', cross fingers, touch wood and reboot the box ... it came up. Now, I would very much like to first find out why does this system have the 'hamm' ld on it. Is there some means of querying the debian system to find out what program/lib is depending on this 'ld'? And if there is no program/lib that _has_ to have this 'hamm' 'ld' I would like to know what is the *safest* way to downgrade to the stable ldso_1.8.10-2.deb. Also, having this "hamm ld" is it going to interfere with un upgrade to 1.3.x ? I wanted to upgrade perl and I got Preparing to replace perl 5.003.07-2 (using perl_5.003.07-10.deb) ... Unpacking replacement perl ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of perl: perl depends on ldso (>= 1.8.0-0); however: Package ldso is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing perl (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: perl Any ideas greatly appreciated, ps: if replying feel free to CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] as I'm only getting the 'digest' for this group. Rob - -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Re: names good for marketing
>Alvin Smith writes: >> To put it bluntly, the issue is whether white people will accept a >> product with a Black African "sounding" name or not. >What a loony notion. >John Hasler Why loony? It hits the nail on the head. As I understand the original question was whether "Ubuntu" is a good marketing name. Most definitely it is not, if fact so bad that it had not even occured to me that they were trying to "sell" it until this topic came up. Mainstream marketing professionals are unashamedly racist in their appeals to the public. For example, we (in UK at least) are led to believe that Danes are racially superior when it comes to making lager, Italians at ice cream, Germans at car making, Swiss at clocks, Scanadanavians at furniture, Indians at spice, Japanese at consumer electronics, and Americans at software. Informed people know that any of this stuff could be made anywhere and often is (except for some agricultural products) - look at a can of that Danish-sounding lager and you will see it is really made in North London. Nevertheless, most of these advertising notions are based on some factual origin - clockmaking was indeed first perfected by the Swiss even if they no longer have the skill monopoly. However the idea of computer software emanating from Black Africa, as a marketing ploy implied by the name, will leave most members of the public baffled - probably even in Africa itself. I am not aware of any particular Black African tradition in this respect - nothing equivalent to the Swiss clock making for example. Probably the only connection between computing and Black Africa that will be made in most people's mind is the Nigerian 419 scams. Japanese cameras today are regarded as second to none, but Japan originally failed to break into the World camera market because they used their Japanese names. It was only when "Nippon Kogaku" rebranded to "Nikon" and "Asahi" to "Pentax" that they made the breakthrough. Similarly the promoters of Ubuntu are mistaken to have associated it in people's minds with a cultural niche. Nuke -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
IP Masquerade problem
Hi I have a problem with IP Masquerade on Debian 2.2 kernel 2.2.14 When Debian boot i have message IP Masquerade has not been enabled in the kernel. but i enable it.
Network problem.
Hi. I connect Debian to NIC in Novell server . Novell is a network "router" . I can ping from Novell server on Debian NIC and ping from Debian to Novell server. But when i ping to station i another subnetwork i have : ping 10.0.16.2 -v PING 10.0.16.2 (10.0.16.2) :56 data bytes ping: send to : Operation not permitted ping : wrote 10.0.16.2 54 chars, ret =-1 ping: packet too short (40 bytes) from 10.0.64.174 10.0.64.174 its a Novell NIC IP. And i don't now what i can do . I also have a Unix server in this network and that server work OK.
bad md5 checksum
hi! I downloaded a debian .iso image and the md5 checksums didn't match, then i mounted it (with -o loop) and checked the checksums of all individual files, finding 3 of them are corrupted. Have downloaded them and I wish to replace them, but i always recieve the error 'read-only filesystem' and cannot do anything. Please help. Robert
problems with SMC Ultra & diald at the same time
I have a strange dilemma. I'm upgrading to Debian 2.2R2 (potato) and either (1) SMC Ultra won't work (when using kernel-image-2.2.18pre21 or kernel-image-2.2.17) or (2) diald won't work (when using kernel-image-2.0.36). When trying kernel 2.2.x, all combinations of "io=" and "irq=" will not work when trying to "modprobe smc-ultra". This smc-ultra driver has worked for years in various incarnations of the kernel. (BTW, I did try the combination of "io=" and "irq=" that worked in the past, but it does not work.) When running kernel 2.0.36 on Debian 2.2R2, diald fails because "bind snoopfd: Bad file descriptor". That is, once the line is brought up due to an IP request, and then the line is brought down due to inactivity, the line will not come up again due to "sl0: xmit call when iface is down" (presumably due to the inability for the interface to be snooped by diald). Are these true bugs that should be reported? It's a real drag having to run "/etc/init.d/diald restart" every time I want to use the internet. Thanks.
mounting CD-ROM hangs/freezes entire system
When I % mount /cdrom the entire system hangs/freezes/crashes and I have to hit the reset button to reboot. When booting, the 2.2.18pre21 kernel identifies the CDROM drive as a "BCD E520C". It's a 40X ATAPI CDROM drive. Surprisingly, I can successfully mount /cdrom on the 2.0.36 version of the Linux kernel with no problems. (Annoyingly, I must reboot into 2.0.36 in order to install any packages from the CD-ROM.) Here's the relevant line in the /etc/fstab: /dev/cdrom/cdrom iso9660 ro,noauto,user,exec,nosuid 0 2 Below is my kernel configuration that I used to compile the 2.2.18pre21 kernel. Perhaps there's some unnecesary conflict which is causing the problem. Thanks for any help. --- # # Automatically generated make config: don't edit # # # Code maturity level options # CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y # # Processor type and features # CONFIG_M386=y # CONFIG_M486 is not set # CONFIG_M586 is not set # CONFIG_M586TSC is not set # CONFIG_M686 is not set # CONFIG_MICROCODE is not set # CONFIG_X86_MSR is not set # CONFIG_X86_CPUID is not set CONFIG_1GB=y # CONFIG_2GB is not set CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION=y # CONFIG_MTRR is not set # CONFIG_SMP is not set # # Loadable module support # CONFIG_MODULES=y # CONFIG_MODVERSIONS is not set CONFIG_KMOD=y # # General setup # CONFIG_NET=y CONFIG_PCI=y # CONFIG_PCI_GOBIOS is not set # CONFIG_PCI_GODIRECT is not set CONFIG_PCI_GOANY=y CONFIG_PCI_BIOS=y CONFIG_PCI_DIRECT=y CONFIG_PCI_QUIRKS=y # CONFIG_PCI_OPTIMIZE is not set CONFIG_PCI_OLD_PROC=y CONFIG_MCA=y # CONFIG_VISWS is not set CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y # CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT is not set CONFIG_SYSCTL=y CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=m CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC=y # CONFIG_BINFMT_JAVA is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT is not set # CONFIG_APM is not set # CONFIG_TOSHIBA is not set # # Plug and Play support # CONFIG_PNP=y # # Block devices # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y # # Please see Documentation/ide.txt for help/info on IDE drives # # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD_IDE is not set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDETAPE=m CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY=y # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI is not set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD640=y # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD640_ENHANCED is not set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RZ1000=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_OFFBOARD is not set CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO=y # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_OPTI621 is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ALI15X3 is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_TRM290 is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NS87415 is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VIA82C586 is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD646 is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CS5530 is not set # CONFIG_IDE_CHIPSETS is not set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PS2=y # # Additional Block Devices # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=m # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NBD is not set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD=y # CONFIG_MD_LINEAR is not set # CONFIG_MD_STRIPED is not set # CONFIG_MD_MIRRORING is not set # CONFIG_MD_RAID5 is not set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=m CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE=4096 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_XD=m # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DAC960 is not set CONFIG_PARIDE_PARPORT=y CONFIG_PARIDE=m # # Parallel IDE high-level drivers # CONFIG_PARIDE_PD=m CONFIG_PARIDE_PCD=m CONFIG_PARIDE_PF=m CONFIG_PARIDE_PT=m CONFIG_PARIDE_PG=m # # Parallel IDE protocol modules # CONFIG_PARIDE_ATEN=m CONFIG_PARIDE_BPCK=m CONFIG_PARIDE_COMM=m CONFIG_PARIDE_DSTR=m CONFIG_PARIDE_FIT2=m CONFIG_PARIDE_FIT3=m CONFIG_PARIDE_EPAT=m CONFIG_PARIDE_EPIA=m # CONFIG_PARIDE_FRIQ is not set CONFIG_PARIDE_FRPW=m CONFIG_PARIDE_KBIC=m CONFIG_PARIDE_KTTI=m CONFIG_PARIDE_ON20=m CONFIG_PARIDE_ON26=m # CONFIG_BLK_CPQ_DA is not set # CONFIG_BLK_CPQ_CISS_DA is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD is not set # # Networking options # CONFIG_PACKET=y CONFIG_NETLINK=y CONFIG_RTNETLINK=y CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV=y CONFIG_FIREWALL=y CONFIG_FILTER=y CONFIG_UNIX=y CONFIG_INET=y CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST=y CONFIG_IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER=y CONFIG_RTNETLINK=y CONFIG_NETLINK=y CONFIG_IP_MULTIPLE_TABLES=y CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH=y CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_TOS=y CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_VERBOSE=y CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_LARGE_TABLES=y CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_NAT=y CONFIG_IP_PNP=y CONFIG_IP_PNP_DHCP=y CONFIG_IP_PNP_BOOTP=y CONFIG_IP_PNP_RARP=y CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL=y CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL_NETLINK=y CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV=y CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_FWMARK=y CONFIG_IP_TRANSPARENT_PROXY=y CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE=y # # Protocol-specific masquerading support will be built as modules. # CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE_ICMP=y # # Protocol-specific masquerading support will be built as modules. # # CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE_MOD is not set # CONFIG_IP_ROUTER is not set CONFIG_NET_IPIP=m # CONFIG_NET_IPGRE is not set CONFIG_IP_MROUTE=y # CONFIG_IP_PIMSM_V1 is not set # CONFIG_IP_PIMSM_V2 is not set CONFIG_IP_ALIAS=y # CONFIG_ARPD is not set # CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES is not set # # (it is safe to leave these untouched) # CONFIG_INET_RARP=m CONFIG_SKB_LARGE=y # CONFIG_IPV6 is not set # # # CONFIG_IPX=m # CONFIG_IPX_INTERN is not set # CONFIG_SPX is not set CONFIG_ATALK=m # CONFIG_X25 is not set # CONFIG_LAPB is not set
unable to insert ftape module
When I try inserting the ftape module: % modprobe ftape it says: /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/misc/ftape.o: invalid parameter parm_ft_fdc_driver /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/misc/ftape.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/misc/ftape.o failed /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/misc/ftape.o: insmod ftape failed I have recompiled the 2.2.18pre21 kernel. I looked for FDC stuff in the kernel configuration and tried turning on everything that was relevant. Below is my the configuration I used when compiling the kernel. Perhaps I'm missing a configuration attribute. Thanks for any help. --- # # Automatically generated make config: don't edit # # # Code maturity level options # CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y # # Processor type and features # CONFIG_M386=y # CONFIG_M486 is not set # CONFIG_M586 is not set # CONFIG_M586TSC is not set # CONFIG_M686 is not set # CONFIG_MICROCODE is not set # CONFIG_X86_MSR is not set # CONFIG_X86_CPUID is not set CONFIG_1GB=y # CONFIG_2GB is not set CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION=y # CONFIG_MTRR is not set # CONFIG_SMP is not set # # Loadable module support # CONFIG_MODULES=y # CONFIG_MODVERSIONS is not set CONFIG_KMOD=y # # General setup # CONFIG_NET=y CONFIG_PCI=y # CONFIG_PCI_GOBIOS is not set # CONFIG_PCI_GODIRECT is not set CONFIG_PCI_GOANY=y CONFIG_PCI_BIOS=y CONFIG_PCI_DIRECT=y CONFIG_PCI_QUIRKS=y # CONFIG_PCI_OPTIMIZE is not set CONFIG_PCI_OLD_PROC=y CONFIG_MCA=y # CONFIG_VISWS is not set CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y # CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT is not set CONFIG_SYSCTL=y CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=m CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC=y # CONFIG_BINFMT_JAVA is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT is not set # CONFIG_APM is not set # CONFIG_TOSHIBA is not set # # Plug and Play support # CONFIG_PNP=y # # Block devices # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y # # Please see Documentation/ide.txt for help/info on IDE drives # # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD_IDE is not set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDETAPE=m CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY=y # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI is not set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD640=y # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD640_ENHANCED is not set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RZ1000=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_OFFBOARD is not set CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO=y # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_OPTI621 is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ALI15X3 is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_TRM290 is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NS87415 is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VIA82C586 is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD646 is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CS5530 is not set # CONFIG_IDE_CHIPSETS is not set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PS2=y # # Additional Block Devices # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=m # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NBD is not set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD=y # CONFIG_MD_LINEAR is not set # CONFIG_MD_STRIPED is not set # CONFIG_MD_MIRRORING is not set # CONFIG_MD_RAID5 is not set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=m CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE=4096 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_XD=m # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DAC960 is not set CONFIG_PARIDE_PARPORT=y CONFIG_PARIDE=m # # Parallel IDE high-level drivers # CONFIG_PARIDE_PD=m CONFIG_PARIDE_PCD=m CONFIG_PARIDE_PF=m CONFIG_PARIDE_PT=m CONFIG_PARIDE_PG=m # # Parallel IDE protocol modules # CONFIG_PARIDE_ATEN=m CONFIG_PARIDE_BPCK=m CONFIG_PARIDE_COMM=m CONFIG_PARIDE_DSTR=m CONFIG_PARIDE_FIT2=m CONFIG_PARIDE_FIT3=m CONFIG_PARIDE_EPAT=m CONFIG_PARIDE_EPIA=m # CONFIG_PARIDE_FRIQ is not set CONFIG_PARIDE_FRPW=m CONFIG_PARIDE_KBIC=m CONFIG_PARIDE_KTTI=m CONFIG_PARIDE_ON20=m CONFIG_PARIDE_ON26=m # CONFIG_BLK_CPQ_DA is not set # CONFIG_BLK_CPQ_CISS_DA is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD is not set # # Networking options # CONFIG_PACKET=y CONFIG_NETLINK=y CONFIG_RTNETLINK=y CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV=y CONFIG_FIREWALL=y CONFIG_FILTER=y CONFIG_UNIX=y CONFIG_INET=y CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST=y CONFIG_IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER=y CONFIG_RTNETLINK=y CONFIG_NETLINK=y CONFIG_IP_MULTIPLE_TABLES=y CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH=y CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_TOS=y CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_VERBOSE=y CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_LARGE_TABLES=y CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_NAT=y CONFIG_IP_PNP=y CONFIG_IP_PNP_DHCP=y CONFIG_IP_PNP_BOOTP=y CONFIG_IP_PNP_RARP=y CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL=y CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL_NETLINK=y CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV=y CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_FWMARK=y CONFIG_IP_TRANSPARENT_PROXY=y CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE=y # # Protocol-specific masquerading support will be built as modules. # CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE_ICMP=y # # Protocol-specific masquerading support will be built as modules. # # CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE_MOD is not set # CONFIG_IP_ROUTER is not set CONFIG_NET_IPIP=m # CONFIG_NET_IPGRE is not set CONFIG_IP_MROUTE=y # CONFIG_IP_PIMSM_V1 is not set # CONFIG_IP_PIMSM_V2 is not set CONFIG_IP_ALIAS=y # CONFIG_ARPD is not set # CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES is not set # # (it is safe to leave these untouched) # CONFIG_INET_RARP=m CONFIG_SKB_LARGE=y # CONFIG_IPV6 is not set # # # CONFIG_IPX=m # CONFIG_IPX_INTERN is not set # CONFIG_SPX is not set CONFIG_ATALK=m # CONFIG_X25 is not set # CONFIG_LAPB is not set # CONFIG_BRIDGE is not set # CONFIG_NET_DIVERT is not set # CONFIG_LLC is not set # CONFIG_ECONET is not set # CONFIG_WAN_ROUTER is not s
Re: unable to insert ftape module
Message has been automatically signed by PGPsendmail 1.4.4, available from ftp://ftp.atnf.csiro.au/pub/people/rgooch/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert) > Date: Sun Apr 15 14:22:11 EDT 2001 > > When I try inserting the ftape module: > > % modprobe ftape > > it says: > > /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/misc/ftape.o: invalid parameter parm_ft_fdc_driver > /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/misc/ftape.o: insmod > /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/misc/ftape.o failed > /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/misc/ftape.o: insmod ftape failed > > I have recompiled the 2.2.18pre21 kernel. I looked for FDC stuff in the > kernel configuration and tried turning on everything that was relevant. > > Below is my the configuration I used when compiling the kernel. Perhaps > I'm missing a configuration attribute. > > Thanks for any help. I fixed this. It turns out that the problem was in /etc/modutils/ftape-util. I had to comment out this line: options ftape ft_fdc_driver=ftape-internal,none,none,none -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBOuNnEhQBaLzqdNqVAQHyyQf9EEJ8MBb8wOdzhd5DqJFdF5NoCX4/euOC gH55djQbtW367D3M39VGQSnVQZAkBeGVEhzJBXZNhfGXXbvNhbRJ2rfqrCc3cg0O 7DiTyLdF1LMJLhUQKb6vla9VWfBS9BNI5XdNAuljpysEb6lIjcXIvMsI+11YIJG1 e1EuJvB+TKwkSK+Ph8XW3a1o5eitP3keN1x8MOXNgA6jRqah/3ekHv3YU9lhe/8C jY8917pYZh4eqqwKoLNt6VioKe7epFl3dkp6xVCnQvWPFdaReeAPqAx6wehABQ/p jw++t90w/ysVhWSYbH0ldwX5YtqcRePw1SXD2Orr67xQE5og6RBeoQ== =GStz -END PGP SIGNATURE-
ghostscript support for Epson 1290
Hello, I am using ghostscript to drive an Epson Stylus Photo 1290. Of all drivers I have tried, -sDEVICE=stcolor yields the best results, but the output looks more like 360 dpi than the 720 dpi the printer claims to support. When I try the option -r720 or -r720x720 the printer runns amok (text output instead of graphics). Does anybody know about a ghostscript driver that supports 720dpi for this printer or maybe another mailing list where these things are discussed? Please respond to my private address, as I have not subscribed to debian-user. Thanks in advance, Robert
Re: no sound on Sarge
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all. > > I have installed Sarge (2.6 kernel) on one of my machines and I get no > sound. The sound card is onboard, here is the line generated by the lspci > command > - :00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801AA AC'97 > Audio (rev 02) > > and I also did the lsmod to see if modules for sound are loaded > i810_audio 30228 0 > ac97_codec 16908 1 i810_audio > soundcore 9696 2 snd,i810_audio > > what could it be? > Thanks in advance Strange mine shows this: :00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02) It's working fine! Heres my lsmod output to compare: snd_intel8x0 33068 0 snd_ac97_codec 59268 1 snd_intel8x0 snd_pcm85412 2 snd_pcm_oss,snd_intel8x0 snd_timer 23172 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd_page_alloc 11144 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm gameport4736 1 snd_intel8x0 snd_mpu401_uart 7296 1 snd_intel8x0 snd_rawmidi23232 1 snd_mpu401_uart snd_seq_device 7944 3 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi snd50148 12 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss, snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart, snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device i810_audio 30356 1 ac97_codec 16908 1 i810_audio soundcore 9824 3 snd,i810_audio Slightly different! Are you using ALSA or ARTS for sound output? If it's ALSA the driver might be bugged check the alsa site for details on how to fix it. I remember that there is also one channel you have to disable in KMix to make it work. Had a similar problem with a mates box using Fedora Core II IIRC. I also think that channels are switched too you might have to increase the volume somewhere else than the volume channel. -- There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those that understand binary and those that don't. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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[00/05] Embedded with systemd
Hi This is my first post to a debian-* list even though I have been a (happy) user for many years, both on the desktop and on embedded devices. I am currently looking at the implications that running systemd on some of our products will have, and while many things seem like they will get simpler, other things seem harder, much harder. I am posting this not to bash systemd, but to try and learn from other users who have similar use cases. I am breaking this into a few different topics to keep the conversation a bit more focused. I am the first to admit that I don't have much experience with systemd and I have only installed a VM with it recently, so if I missed the easy answer in any of the next mails, I will take no offence at being told to RTFM. I am cross-posting to debian-user since I expect that there will be more experienced systemd users there. Thanks for your thoughts, Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5468f241.9000...@gmail.com
[01/05] Embedded with systemd: systemd and SIL
By choosing packages carefully, it is possible to use linux in applications that need to meet SIL1 or SIL2 criteria [1]. I personally don't have any applications that need to meet SIL2, but it is possible to meet SIL1 by taking a normal installation and removing a bunch of stuff (initramfs, udev and inetd amongst others) until the system is deterministic enough (see the methodology in [2]). /sbin/init functions OK with a few static devices in/dev Given the tight udev/systemd marriage and the undeterministic nature of socket activation, I suspect that systemd will never be suitable for SIL applications. Are there any other debian embedded developers that need to meet SIL criteria? How are you planning to manage the fact that there are very few non-systemd distros left, or do we have to resign ourselves to a life of OpenEmbedded and buildroot? [1] http://www.reliableembeddedsystems.com/pdfs/2010_03_04_rt_linux.pdf [2] http://www.hse.gov.uk/research/rrpdf/rr011.pdf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5468f252.50...@gmail.com
[02/05] Embedded with systemd: systemd and different modes
I have a use case where I have a logging unit with a few buttons that are available to the user. The buttons are read via the kernel GPIO methods. There is no display, no keyboard, only 802.11. Normally the unit starts a few daemons and starts the 802.11 in client (wpa_supplicant) mode. To help with field debugging I currently check the state of one of the buttons at startup and if it is pressed, the unit starts the 802.11 in host (hostapd) mode and starts sshd. This was trivial to configure with /sbin/init calling a shellscript that checks the GPIO and then chooses between two different runlevels. The runlevels are setup by making a few symlinks in rcx.d. Since it is not possible to make decisions in systemd unit files, this has become much harder. I have a solution for this, but it is smelly. How would you solve this? This is quite a common use case (at least in the world I live in), and I will post my solution later but I don't want to poison anybodies thinking right now. b.t.w I asked this question in #systemd a few nights ago and was told my use case was "bizarre" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5468f25d.90...@gmail.com
[03/05] Embedded with systemd: systemd and weird triggers
Sometimes you only want services to start based on a "weird" trigger. I have one use case where I only want a service to start once we have received a valid GPS lock. With /sbin/init it looked like this: #!/bin/bash while [ ]; do sleep 5; #wait for lock done; service & with systemd I have to have waitforgps.sh waitforgps.service (Exec=waitforgps.sh) service.service (After=waitforgps.service) Is this really the best way? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5468f267.3090...@gmail.com
[04/05] Embedded with systemd: systemd and kernel upgrades
This was recently posted on #systemd-devel: "To make this clear, we expect that systemd and kernels are updated in lockstep. We explicitly do not support really old kernels with really new systemd. So far we had the focus to support up to 2y old kernels (which means 3.4 right now), but even that should be taken with a grain of salt, as we already made clear that soon after kdbus is merged into the kernel we'll probably make a hard requirement on it from the systemd side." This is a very onerous requirement in the embedded world. There are many embedded platforms sold today that only have 2.6.X BSPs. While I agree that the BSP from vendors should be better (and it is getting better thanks to devicetree), it seems that we are doomed to run ancient userspace to match our ancient kernels. This change will probably hit me the hardest and for me it really cuts into what linux means. It used to be that I could run the same userspace on my tiny embedded device, my desktop or on the server --- the only difference being the kernel. It seems like the only solution here is to abandon debian and fall back to OpenEmbedded or buildroot. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5468f275.5020...@gmail.com
[05/05] Embedded with systemd: systemd and realtime
Given the existence of (http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime/), it seems that realtime and systemd is problematic. Has anyone tried the workarounds mentioned with a PREEMPT_RT kernel? How did it go? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5468f280.5000...@gmail.com
Embedded with systemd
Hi This is my first post to a debian-* list even though I have been a (happy) user for many years, both on the desktop and on embedded devices. I am currently looking at the implications that running systemd on some of our products will have, and while many things seem like they will get simpler, other things seem harder, much harder. I am posting this to try and learn from other users who have similar use cases. I am breaking this into a few different topics/questions to keep the conversation a bit more focused. I am the first to admit that I don't have much experience with systemd and I have only installed a VM with it recently, so if I missed the easy answer in any of the topics, I will take no offence at being told to RTFM. I am cross-posting to debian-user since I expect that there will be more experienced systemd users there. Thanks for your thoughts, Robert I originally had these as separate emails, but the listmaster has requested that I combine them --- they are included below --- Embedded with systemd: systemd and SIL By choosing packages carefully, it is possible to use linux in applications that need to meet SIL1 or SIL2 criteria [1]. I personally don't have any applications that need to meet SIL2, but it is possible to meet SIL1 by taking a normal installation and removing a bunch of stuff (initramfs, udev and inetd amongst others) until the system is deterministic enough (see the methodology in [2]). /sbin/init functions OK with a few static devices in/dev Given the tight udev/systemd marriage and the undeterministic nature of socket activation, I suspect that systemd will never be suitable for SIL applications. Are there any other debian embedded developers that need to meet SIL criteria? How are you planning to manage the fact that there are very few non-systemd distros left, or do we have to resign ourselves to a life of OpenEmbedded and buildroot? [1] http://www.reliableembeddedsystems.com/pdfs/2010_03_04_rt_linux.pdf [2] http://www.hse.gov.uk/research/rrpdf/rr011.pdf -- Embedded with systemd: systemd and different modes I have a use case where I have a logging unit with a few buttons that are available to the user. The buttons are read via the kernel GPIO methods. There is no display, no keyboard, only 802.11. Normally the unit starts a few daemons and starts the 802.11 in client (wpa_supplicant) mode. To help with field debugging I currently check the state of one of the buttons at startup and if it is pressed, the unit starts the 802.11 in host (hostapd) mode and starts sshd. This was trivial to configure with /sbin/init calling a shellscript that checks the GPIO and then chooses between two different runlevels. The runlevels are setup by making a few symlinks in rcx.d. Since it is not possible to make decisions in systemd unit files, this has become much harder. I have a solution for this, but it is smelly. How would you solve this? This is quite a common use case (at least in the world I live in), and I will post my solution later but I don't want to poison anybodies thinking right now. b.t.w I asked this question in #systemd a few nights ago and was told my use case was "bizarre" -- Embedded with systemd: systemd and weird triggers Sometimes you only want services to start based on a "weird" trigger. I have one use case where I only want a service to start once we have received a valid GPS lock. With /sbin/init it looked like this: #!/bin/bash while [ ]; do sleep 5; #wait for lock done; service & with systemd I have to have waitforgps.sh waitforgps.service (Exec=waitforgps.sh) service.service (After=waitforgps.service) Is this really the best way? -- Embedded with systemd: systemd and kernel upgrades This was recently posted on #systemd-devel: "To make this clear, we expect that systemd and kernels are updated in lockstep. We explicitly do not support really old kernels with really new systemd. So far we had the focus to support up to 2y old kernels (which means 3.4 right now), but even that should be taken with a grain of salt, as we already made clear that soon after kdbus is merged into the kernel we'll probably make a hard requirement on it from the systemd side." This is a very onerous requirement in the embedded world. There are many embedded platforms sold today that only have 2.6.X BSPs. While I agree that the BSP from vendors should be better (and it is getting better thanks to devicetree), it seems that we are doomed to run ancient userspace to match our ancient kernels. This change will probably hit me the hardest and for me it really cuts into what linux means. It used to be that I could run the same userspace on my tiny embedded device, my desktop or on the server --- the only difference being t
Re: [03/05] Embedded with systemd: systemd and weird triggers
On 17/11/2014 08:42, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> with systemd I have to have >> >> waitforgps.sh >> waitforgps.service (Exec=waitforgps.sh) >> service.service (After=waitforgps.service) >> >> Is this really the best way? > > Maybe ExecStartPre= would help? See systemd.service(5). Oh yes, this is much better. I am a bit embarrassed that I missed this the first time around. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/546a6781.50...@gmail.com
Re: [01/05] Embedded with systemd: systemd and SIL
On 17/11/2014 14:12, Jean-Christian de Rivaz wrote: > Why did you think that localhost sockets activation is not > deterministic ? When local process use localhost sockets, there is no > transmission media with risk of packet loss, alteration, random > latency, or reordering. I was thinking more in the case where a service starts slow because a packet on the network causes something else to start at the same time. As you say, this shouldn't be a problem on localhost, and it seems trivial to bind .socket units to localhost only. It also seems trivial to disable socket activation entirely, so it looks like my fears were unfounded. Regards, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/546a7ec9.2080...@gmail.com
Re: Embedded with systemd
On 17/11/2014 15:14, Paul H wrote: > My plan is that if I find myself depending on packages which no > longer work under sysvinit-core, I'll rebuild those packages for > myself as needed (and share the results, if that's helpful): I have > to do this already now anyway, for example to use build options which > make more sense for a given target, or to make my own -nox (headless) > versions of stuff that would otherwise drag in 200MiB+ of GTK/Qt > dependencies. I like this approach, and I think it is a good way to go. I guess the only downside is that you end with a bunch of debuild recipes that are functionally equivalent to a folder of full of .bb files :) I think that in practice the amount of packages that will actually depend on systemd being PID1 will stay relatively small. I have no illogical problem with pulling in libsystemd and its friends. >>> it seems that realtime and systemd is problematic. Has anyone >>> tried the workarounds mentioned with a PREEMPT_RT kernel? How did >>> it go? > > It is my intention to make the |ControlGroup=cpu:/| approach work; I > have been maintaining a systemd rootfs for one of my targets but > haven't quite found the time to investigate this fully. Let us know what you find. Thanks, Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/546a824f.5000...@gmail.com
Re: unable to upgrade kernel
El vie, 04-07-2014 a las 15:25 +0200, François Patte escribió: > Bonjour, > > I don't understand the following: > > # apt-get install linux-image-3.14-0.bpo.1-amd64 > linux-headers-3.14-0.bpo.1-amd64 > > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have > requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable > distribution that some required packages have not yet been created > or been moved out of Incoming. > The following information may help to resolve the situation: > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > linux-image-3.14-0.bpo.1-amd64 : Breaks: initramfs-tools (< 0.110~) > but 0.109.1 is to be installed > Breaks: initramfs-tools:i386 (< 0.110~) > E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. > > > What exactly is the problem about initramfs: > > # apt-cache show initramfs-tools > > Package: initramfs-tools > Version: 0.109.1 > > When you are going to install backport packages (bpo), you must explicitly indicate apt-get to do so, using the -t option to target backport repositories. The problem is that the release version of initramfs-tools is lower than the needed one in backports and it won't be installed if target is not set. If using Wheezy, you must use apt-get this way: apt-get -t=wheezy-backports install linux-image-3.14.0.bpo.1-amd64 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1404574294.15638.9.ca...@chaos.casa
Re: No udev event when i plug an HDMI cable
David Goodenough btconnect.com> writes: > > On Tuesday 04 Jun 2013, Sylvain Archenault wrote: > > Anybody having the same issue? > > > > On 05/18/2013 12:52 PM, Sylvain Archenault wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > When I plugged a HDMI cable in my laptop, the display used to > > > automatically detect my TV and expand to it. > > > > > > It stopped working a few days ago, I'm not sure what package upgrade > > > triggered this. > > > > > > When I run "udevadm monitor", there is no event generated. It used to > > > work. If I go in "Settings -> Monitor" the tv is detected. > > > > > > I'm running Sid, which is up to date. I don't see any output in the log. > > > I'm not sure where to look at. I tried with this 2 kernels: > > > > > > linux-image-3.6-trunk-amd64 - Linux 3.6 for 64-bit PCs > > > linux-image-3.8-1-amd64 - Linux 3.8 for 64-bit PCs > > > > > > Let me know if you need more details. > > > > > > Thanks > > > Sylvain > I have no idea if it is related, but there are currently a lot of problems > with HDMI being found with the 3.8 kernel on the BeagleBone Black. For some > reason users are having difficulty with the EDID processing. Now you are > reporting that this happens with 3.6, so it may be different, but it might > be. > > Part of the problem on the BeagleBone is related to the move to DTS (the > device tree support) which does not apply to amd64, but part of it is > related to a change that has happened at much the same time moving from > the old FrameBuffer to the new kernel display framework - again I do not > know if this is relevant to you with your display card. In short lots > changed between 3.2 and 3.8 which seems to be causing the BeagleBone > problems. > > David > > Hi Guys, I have exactly the same problem. My system deesn't produce any event when I plug or unplug my HDMI/DP cable. I've noticed that about a year ago after one of my Debian Wheezy (used to testing distro, now it's Debian stable) upgrade. I started to dig around this issue several days ago. I even flashed the bios of my server, tried to dump EDID information and force Xorg to use the monitor info, but I've found only solution for NVidia (change DP1 to correct interface) Option "ConnectedMonitor" "DP1" Option "CustomEDID" "DP1:/etc/X11/edid.bin" Option "IgnoreEDID" "false" Option "UseEDID" "true" But I don't have Nvidia card and use Intel driver for my HD 2000 module in Intel Core i7 Sandybridge processor. Anybody can help? Maybe you know kind of workaround. I've read some information about passing some parameters to gdm(?) module options drm_kms_helper edid_firmware=edid/1280x1024.bin But I haven't tried it yet. Any other ideas? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/loom.20130622t201459-...@post.gmane.org
Compatibility with Asus A42?
Hi guys, Just wondering if there are hardware drivers available for the Asus A42 laptop on the FreeBSD version of Debian? Kind regards, Robert Kochanski -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51fe1adb.3090...@uqconnect.edu.au
Re: compiling KDE3 - missing dcopidl
Thanks for your reply Craig. Bizarre as it may seem I had not installed QT3. Though I remember it as a requirement from when I compiled from CVS it totally slipped my mind this time round. Actually, it was tired eyes as well misreading the kde compiling requirements from kde.org- I was reading the QT requirements for 2.2.x ! Thanks for the reminder. All is installed and running well now. I ended up removing kde2.2.2 first for sanity. There seems to have been a problem with several headers from kdelibs not being copied over correctly to /opt/kde3/include/libkmid (ie. libkmid.h) , but I did it manually and the configure and make ran fine. craigw wrote: > If you install from source, the dcopidl should be in > kdelibs-3.0.tar.bz2. > > It is important to install in this order: > qt-3.0.3 , then arts-1.0.0, then kdelibs-3.0. > Are you setting all your env. vars? I ended up adding a script in /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions that set the enviornment variables before calling /opt/kde3/bin/startkde. Which works fine. all the best, Robert_L -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
IDE cd burner acting flakey w/cdrecord
First the most commonly asked for info: Linux timberwolf 2.4.18 #1 SMP Sun May 5 19:12:29 CDT 2002 i686 unknown (also used debian package: kernel-image-2.4.18-smp with same problems) Relevant modules loaded: sr_mod sd_mod ide-scsi sg scsi_mod Platform: dual-processor athalon (400Mhz) Debian distribution: testing cdrecord -scanbus output: Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling Linux sg driver version: 3.1.22 Using libscg version 'schily-0.5' scsibus0: cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page. 0,0,0 0) 'ATAPI-CD' 'ROM-DRIVE-50MAX ' '50LT' Removable CD-ROM 0,1,0 1) 'HP ' 'CD-Writer+ 7200 ' '3.01' Removable CD-ROM 0,2,0 2) * ...etc... First, is the warning relevant? I don't recall it being there, but I might have been overlooking it for quite a while. Second, the real problem is that for a long while now, I've not been able to burn CDs. I can't give examples of the exact error at the moment (not at home ATM), but sometimes (rarely) I can get it to do a dummy run. Most of the time, it never starts "writing", but instead just gives ... checksum? ... errors and fails out. Non-dummy runs work out the same, sometimes giving me coasters, sometmes not... Does anyone have any good starting points for tracking this issue down? I can't go back to the 2.2 series kernels, as I'm using too many 2.4 features that I just don't have the will to give up now. -- BOFH excuse #441: Hash table has woodworm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: KMail Crash - Please Help
On Monday 06 May 2002 11:40 pm, Addis Perez wrote: > I do not know if there is another way of verifying which packages > have been installed. Keep in mind, I am using kernel 2.4.17. Then let me enlighten you ;-) dpkg --get-selections | grep libqt will likely get most of them. There may be others with names that don't have "lib" and "qt" together, so you may have to play with the grep command. There are a few commands that should be burned into every debian admin's monitor. Among them are: apt-cache search-- find packages with somestring in description dpkg --get-selections -- show the state of all packages that have been installed (even subsequently removed ones). > On Monday 06 May 2002 12:36 pm, Jatin Golani wrote: > > Could you please tell me which qt library packages you > > have installed. I just recently saw packages like > > libqt2-mt (multi threaded version of qt)...do u have > > that installed? I'd appreciate if u could tell me all > > the qt library related packages you have installed. -- BOFH excuse #157: Incorrect time syncronization -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel compile with additional comments
On Tuesday 07 May 2002 06:58 pm, curtis wrote: > So, I'm still at a loss. > > I built the kernel for FreeS/WAN using make-kpkg. Everything in that regard > seem to go fine, as well as the dpkg -install. Now, I didn't add anything > to my kernel. I left it just the way it was, so maybe there was something I > should have included, but what? > > My lilo.conf reads pretty much like the one Paul sent, except, > initrd=/initrd.img is almost at the beginning of the file prior to the > default=Linux line. Perhaps I should move it? Yes, absolutely you should. Each initrd.img is unique to a kernel. If you are custom compiling kernels, and you statically compile in the options required for booting (root fs support for instance), you should not specify an initrd.img file for that kernel. I'm not quite sure if kernel-package can create a .deb that contains initrd files easily, but I haven't needed to do so yet... Some indenting (see below) should help you figure out what belongs to each image, but generally, the presence of an "image=" line ends the previous section... > > Something like this: > > > ## portion of lilo.conf > > default=Linux > > image=/vmlinuz > label=Linux > read-only > > > image=/vmlinuz.old > label=LinuxOLD > initrd=/initrd.img > read-only > optional > > ## end of lilo.conf > > Make sure image & initrd point to the required file locations, or > symlinks to the required locations. > Note that the "Linux" version is supposed to represent your custom-compiled kernel, where you aren't likely to have a corresponding initrd.img. -- Someone is speaking well of you. How unusual! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
UebiMiau Webmail
Hi folks! Just wanted to let everyone know that bufonline.dyndns.org is finally back up after an OS reinstall after I hosed my previous setup last night. Also in my ongoing quest to find the ultimate webmail client, I believe I have found one - UebiMiau. It's pretty cool :) URL: http://www.uebimiau.org/ -- Robert Wolfe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Message sent using UebiMiau 2.7.2 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mail server
Myself, I use ClamAV, Postfix and SpamAssassin here. Just use the defaults that apt-get install sets up and you are all set. apt-get install postfix apt-get install spamassassin apt-get install clamav Note that spamassassin may already be installed since I believe the Debian installer installs spamassassin by default. -- Robert Wolfe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - Original Message From: "askar k" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" Subject: mail server Date: 02/07/05 18:29 Hello. Is there step-by-step guide on building a mail server postfix+spamassassin+clamavd+etc... on the internet? thanks, askar Message sent using UebiMiau 2.7.2 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Best way to upgrade Kde 3.3 (Sarge)
Hey list, What is the best way to upgrade KDE 3.3 using Sarge (3.1) to KDE 3.4.x? Thanks webguy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
eximconfig
I have a question regarding exim:
running eximconfig I was asked the 'visible mail name', and entered
'solnet.ch' and everything seems to run ok, well, quite:
If I want to test my mail configuration sending a mail to myself, I cant:
mailq
0m 1.3K 18l4sB-D5-00 <> *** frozen ***
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('epprecht' is my public user name, there's no local user with this name)
ok,
this is no real problem, but how would I send a mail to my providers support
address, something like <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> now?
Robert Epprecht
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Re: X Windows has strange color scheme
>On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 04:17:22AM -0800, Phil Newcombe wrote: > >I can't seem to change color depths either. No matter what I do - use I know this is cheating, but what happens when you boot the machine with a Knoppix CD? - Robert Storey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to duplicate a CD?
On 20 Feb 2003 16:16:27 + Shri Shrikumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 03:41, stan wrote: > > I posted this a few months agoa, and got an answer involving cdparnoia, and > > cdrecord. But I sem to have lost the emails, and I can't seem to get the > > mailing list archive search engine to find it :-( > > > > So, how can I duplicat an audio CD? XCDroast is found on Debian and most every other distro, and works fine for audio CDs. This (and many other) CD burner programs are happiest when you run as root - running as a user is possible, but requires more configuration. If you're not able to access your CD burner and/or CDROM drive, make sure you have SCSI emulation set up. - Robert Storey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X Windows has strange color scheme
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, > Section "Screen" > Identifier "Screen0" > Device "Card0" > Monitor"Monitor0" > DefaultDepth 16 > #SubSection "Display" > #Depth 1 > #EndSubSection > #SubSection "Display" > #Depth 4 > #EndSubSection > SubSection "Display" > Depth 8 > Modes "800x600" "640x480" "1024x768" > EndSubSection > SubSection "Display" > Depth 15 > EndSubSection > SubSection "Display" > Depth 16 > Modes "800x600" "640x480" "1024x768" > EndSubSection > SubSection "Display" > Depth 24 > EndSubSection > EndSection It might be just a wild guess, but could it be that you hit CTRL-ALT-+ at some point and switched the color depth to 8? Then strange colors like this, which turn normal on clicking in the window would be explainable. just hit CTRL-ALT-+ 3 times to get into 16 bit color depth again. Regards Robert -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE+VVXiILH3kR/OabQRAisMAJ9zgqJoOZ24Nnb2MyBAHMrLFzuAYACgqZ9R q5Q5yt0JUuR0mFyo5a2SqIo= =HPRq -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: wine and IE
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> even with comlpiant browsers, valid html and valid css you can still get
> display difference between browsers!
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> #big {width : 100px; height :100px; background-color : red;}
> #small {width : 50px; height: 50px; background-color : blue;}
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> a small div containing
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> a big div
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> now there is nothing invalid about either the CSS or the HTML above
>
> But it is clearly bad coding - the big div can't fit inside the small
> one - and the browser has to either increase the size of the small div,
> decrease the big one, break the containment ...
This is clearly not logical, so why does the browser render it at all or tries
to guess what the designer really meant? That makes no sense to me. Why not
just saying bug in line 11, or something?
Robert
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Re: deinstall gdm
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Samstag, 22. Februar 2003 22:32 schrieb X-Debian: > Hi all, > ich probiere verzweifelt gdm zu deinstallieren um gdm2 zu installiere, und > bekomme folgende Fehlermeldung : > > Errors were encountered while processing: > gdm > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > > Hat jemand eine Idee ? > > > Gruß > Thomas Hi Thomas, Wahrscheinlich läuft noch ein andere dpkg Prozess. Den musst du erst beenden. Aber diese Mailingliste ist englischsprachig, probier doch mal [EMAIL PROTECTED] aus. Da antworten dir bestimmt mehr Leute auf deine Fragen. Grüsse Robert -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE+WRFYILH3kR/OabQRAq6sAJ90HpGQbRW3Yz652vBThe8cje/JoACg2UG7 vE7mbUZdPaZwg9oa4/lRD3g= =sRow -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Japanese input
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi list, How to enter japanes into kde application. I understand that qt applications have an xim option, but I have not found any documentation for that option, so I am a bit lost. Maybe someone here has some suggestions. Thanks Robert -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE+XI5sILH3kR/OabQRAhODAKCl1nh6Mxzi4VMfLGN0l+ygLmioDACg1VeU ZgNvh6uh3B8CXnn4i4dpiGA= =/8Mu -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
manglement-compatible comparison of SuSE vs. Debian
One of our customers runs his firewall on SuSE. This is, obvious to any Debian user, not what one wants to support. However, in order to be able to convince him that changing to Debian would be a Good(tm) idea, I need a management-compatible comparison, preferrably from a third party. If it features a lot of buzzwords like "TCO", "maintenance costs" etc, even better ;) So, if some kind soul round here has a fitting URL at hand, please toss it my way. google was not very helpful in that regard, as what I found is either way too far in the technical details, or aimed at the switching-from-windos desktop-focused audience. cheers+TIA, &rw -- / Ing. Robert Waldner | Security Engineer | CoreTec IT-Security \ \ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | T +43 1 503 72 73 | F +43 1 503 72 73 x99 / signature.ng Description: PGP signature
Chinese input
Inspired by the question on Japanese input, I'd like to know if anybody has a good solution for Chinese input? So far, the only way I've found is with Xemacs (using mule) but that doesn't help me when I need Chinese input in Mozilla. TIA, Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie administrator
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 15:13:59 -0500 (EST) Mike Dresser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Phil wrote: > > > >I think this should work, anyways :) > > > > > do I have to do this individually for each user? (all 120 of them) is > > there a way to do this in the skel directory in. the future > > Well, set it for one user, and see if others can get into the directory or > not. If not, you can do a > > chmod 700 * > > while in /home, and it will set all directories to drwx-- > permissions. Considering all the subdirectories in /home, it would probably be better to do this: chmod -R 700 /home/* - Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie administrator
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 17:42:43 -0800 (PST)
Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Robert Storey wrote:
>
> > Considering all the subdirectories in /home, it would probably be better to do
> > this:
> >
> > chmod -R 700 /home/*
>
> after you learn from your mistakes ... and have everybody mad at you...
> how do you recover ???
> - think you're in for a long list of mistakes ... :-)
> if the above chmod -R was a serious command to execute
>
> find /home -type d -exec chmod 700 {} \;
> find /home -type f -exec chmod 600 {} \;
> find /home -type l -exec chmod 777 {} \;
> -- i think you need to fix your symlinsk too
Dear All,
OK, thoroughly chastised. I deserve 40 lashes, plus the "Sysadmin Blunder of the Week"
trophy. But I'm probably the only English-speaking Linux user within 100 miles of
where I live, and I learn only from reading books (and getting flamed on mailing
lists) - so have mercy.
Thanks Alvin, your clever use of the find command works.
Now, one bash question I've been meaning to ask for a long time...
I keep seeing this...
{} \;
...on the end of lines in bash scripts. I don't have a good bash book, and I don't
know what this means, and obviously "man {} \;" isn't going to help. Can anyone reveal
for thick-headed "programmers" like me what that does?
After I receive an answer, I'll go join a convent and do three years of penance.
- Robert
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Re: Newbie administrator
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 17:42:43 -0800 (PST) Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > and if i was admining your box... i'd "chmod 750 /sbin /usr/sbin" > and hide/remove root passwds so that i can sleep late or wont be > paged because something broke Two questions: 1) OK, I understand why "chmod 750 /sbin /usr/sbin". Makes sense to keep users out of there, but it creates problems for users, such as this: /usr/bin/pon: /usr/sbin/pppd: Permission denied /usr/bin/pon: exec: /usr/sbin/pppd: cannot execute: Permission denied 2) "hide/remove root passwds" - you've lost me here. Obviously, I can't hide or remove /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow. Please give me some more details. regards, Robert > > flame suit on... > c ya > alvin > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: manglement-compatible comparison of SuSE vs. Debian
On 26 Feb 2003 18:10:30 GMT, Harvey Kelly writes: >But, and please forgive my newbie-ignorance :) why do you want him to >switch? Surely the fact that he's running SuSE and seems happy with it >should be enough? Debian and SuSE are both Linux after all - different >flavours of course, but not that far apart. SuSE is a PITA to keep up-to-date compared with the simplicity and beauty of having security.d.o in sources.list and a one-line cron-job. Besides, Debian doesn't crap my hand-crafted config-files, and, probably the most important point: I *know* Debian. >Now if he was running Mandrake, then I'd understand... I'm in the position to never have touched Mandrake, thanks $deity. cheers, &rw -- / Ing. Robert Waldner | Security Engineer | CoreTec IT-Security \ \ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | T +43 1 503 72 73 | F +43 1 503 72 73 x99 / signature.ng Description: PGP signature
apt-file question
apt-file search vga.h Can't locate object method "host" via package "URI::_foreign" (perhaps\ you forgot to load "URI::_foreign"?) at /usr/bin/apt-file line 225. Yes, I did not 'load "URI::_foreign"' How do I do that? Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: About to go all Deb
Shri Shrikumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > /tmp2gig > /tmp get used only during boot and such and like boot, doesnt usually > require a seperate partition. If you are going to provide a seperate > partition, it could be alot smaller. 512Mb should be enough If you burn CDRs (and almost everybody does these days), you'll probably want at least 1 GIG of space in /tmp since that's the logical place to put your temporary images files during the burning process. If you've got room to spare on your hard drive, then 2 GIGs in /tmp is reasonable. - Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Chinese input
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 21:11:30 +0800 Arne Goetje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > xcin. it works with rxvt and comes with a script which starts rxvt in > chinese mode. start your applications for which you want to have chinese > input from there and you are off... I use it all the time. :) > just start xcinterm-big5 or xcinterm-gb, depends if you want traditional or > simplefied chinese. Dear Arne, Thank you for your reply. I installed xcin (apt-get install xcin). Plus I have installed the deb package xfonts-intl-chinese, which is what gives me Chinese fonts in Xemacs. However, when I try to start xcin (from an xterm) I'm running into a locale problem, and maybe a font problem. Here's the output I'm getting: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xcinterm-big5 xcin: error: C locale "zh_TW.Big5" is not supported by your system. /usr/bin/crxvt -fm "taipei16" -fn "-sony-*-16-*-iso8859-1" -im "xcin" -bg black -fg white -geometry +0+0 -T "rxvt Chinese terminal (xcin, zh_TW.Big5)" [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /usr/bin/xcinterm-big5: /usr/bin/crxvt: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xcinterm-gb xcin: error: C locale "zh_CN.GB2312" is not supported by your system. /usr/bin/crxvt -fm "hanzigb16fs" -fn "-sony-*-16-*-iso8859-1" -im "xcin-zh_CN.GB2312" -bg black -fg white -geometry +0+0 -T "rxvt Chinese terminal (xcin, zh_CN.GB2312)" [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /usr/bin/xcinterm-gb: /usr/bin/crxvt: No such file or directory Not sure what else I need to do to get it working. I'd appreciate any insights you can give. TIA, Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
VCDs (was Newbie Functioning In Debian)
On 27 Feb 2003 11:05:05 -0500 "Mark L. Kahnt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > with my options to ./configure, I can sit back and watch my business and > news channels over the Internet 24/7, and check the vcds I'm burning of > my parents' home movies (they converted 8 mm film that had broken > numerous times to VHS, which the vcr then proceeded to eat. Since there > is no audio, each two hour vhs tape is comfortably fitting on a single > vcd.) Greetings Mark. You piqued my interest when you mentioned "burning VCDs." Under Linux, I have not been able to either copy or roll-my-own VCDs. Xcdroast, for example, seems to copy VCDs fine - but the copies won't play. Most any Windows burner program I've used can at least copy a VCD without a hiccup. What software are you using? Is there a FAQ you can point me to that gives some info on how to convert VHS tapes to VCDs? TIA, Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
backing up hidden files
I've been trying to find a clever way to back up or copy hidden files such as .emacs, .xinitrc, and so on, along with my other data files. The problem is that tar and cp ignore hidden files if you use * as a wildcard. And if you try something like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/temp$ tar -cvf target.tar * .?* tar will "walk upwards" to the root directory thanks to the dual function of "." (for hiding files, and for representing the current directory). I've found some Mickey Mouse solutions, but nothing very elegant, and I was wondering if anybody has a clever way to do this. - Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: APM
> On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Daymien wrote: > > > Hi > > > > i complete my instalation of debian linux. > > i will use my old celeron pc at server for all pc in the house. > > For remote control i use ssh if apm works i tray to install a x-server and > > controll the pc over vnc but at the moment if i shuting down the pc will > > stop at "you can push off butten" screen. how can i install apm ?? so that > > the pc will power off by himself ??? i use kernel 2.4 how can help my it's > > urgen, please. >From the Debian Reference Manual: For auto power-off: If apm is compiled as a module, as in Debian default 2.4 kernels, run `# modprobe apm power_off=1' after boot or set `/etc/modules' by: # echo "apm power_off=1" >>/etc/modules -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Chinese input
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 21:31:24 -0800 Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did you create locale from root? > > # dpkg-reconfigure locales Thanks Osamu, that solved the locale problem. The situation is improved now, but I'm still not quite out of the woods yet. This is what I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xcinterm-big5 XCIN (Chinese XIM server) version 2.5.3-pre2. (module ver: 20010918, syscin ver: 2210). (use "-h" option for help) xcin: locale "zh_TW.Big5" encoding "big5" zh_TW.Big5,zh_TW xcin: XIM server "xcin" transport "X/" xcin: inp_styles: Root OverTheSpot /usr/bin/crxvt -fm "taipei16" -fn "-sony-*-16-*-iso8859-1" -im "xcin" -bg black -fg white -geometry +0+0 -T "rxvt Chinese terminal (xcin, zh_TW.Big5)" [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /usr/bin/xcinterm-big5: /usr/bin/crxvt: No such file or directory If I understand the error message correctly, there should be a file named /usr/bin/crxvt, but there is no such file. I can't find any package in the Debian package list with a name like crxvt (which I assume means "Chinese rxvt"). Despite the error message, a box pops up on my screen with the Chinese characters "yinshu banxing", but I can't see any way to use it to input Chinese characters. I'm think I'm getting close, but hoping that somebody can supply the missing link. regards, Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-file question
"Narins, Josh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> apt-file search vga.h >> >> Can't locate object method "host" via package "URI::_foreign" >> (perhaps\ >> you forgot to load "URI::_foreign"?) at /usr/bin/apt-file line 225. > Robert, [ ... ] Maybe you should file a bug report against apt-file. I was suspecting this, but wasn't sure. > What you are seeing is a perl error message. You probably have not messed > with your perl installation, have you? no > Are you running a mixed system? no, just stable with security updates. Thank you for your help, Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Chinese input [95% SOLVED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache depends xcin > xcin > Depends: libc6 > Depends: libdb3 > Depends: libtabe2 > Depends: xlibs > Depends: locales > Suggests: libtabe-db > Suggests: xfonts-base > Suggests: xfonts-intl-chinese > Suggests: xbase-clients > Suggests: x-ttcidfont-conf > |Suggests: ttf-arphic-bsmi00lp > Suggests: ttf-arphic-bkai00mp > |Suggests: ttf-arphic-gbsn00lp > Suggests: ttf-arphic-gkai00mp > Suggests: xfonts-cmex-big5p > Recommends: rxvt-ml > > install all of them if you want to have a proper working chinese system. > rxvt-ml should solve your problem. Dear Arne, Great! I definitely owe you one. Xcin works well for me now on BIG5, which is what I use 95% of the time. The last 5% of my problem is GB. When I type "xcinterm-gb" it does indeed open up a Chinese xterm, but the input line (the box that says "yinshu banxing" in BIG5) is nowhere to be seen. If you can enlighten me as to what I'm doing wrong, I'd be eternally grateful. By the way, once I do get this working 100%, I will be happy to write up a HOW-TO and post it somewhere (maybe on the Debian site?) so that others will be informed about how to set up Xcin. TIA (hopefully for the last time), Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Chinese input [100% SOLVED!]
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 22:24:23 +0800 Arne Goetje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Attached is my xcinrc (/etc/), it has root-over-the-spot only by default. Dear Arne, Hi, after this post, we should probably take this discussion off-list because maybe the general Debian users might not be interested. If you're not using your real Email address on this list, please contact me. The problem is 100% solved, and I couldn't have done it without your help! The sample /etc/xcinrc provided me with the final clue, though I was not able to simply substitute your file for mine (indeed, that broke xcinterm-big5 as well). The problem was indeed with the /etc/xcinrc file, and I had to edit it by hand to fix it. Running xcinterm-gb from an xterm, I was getting (along with the standard output) this error message: xcin: error: /etc/xcinrc: IM section "array30": SETKEY: value not specified. After examining my /etc/xcinrc file and comparing it to yours, I noticed many differences, but the line that seemed relevant was this: (define [EMAIL PROTECTED] I changed this to read: (define [EMAIL PROTECTED] That's all. Everything worked fine after that. So all is well, except that I think I should file a bug report. This really seems like a bug to me, because I didn't do anything other than "apt-get install xcin" - I made no attempt to tweak the default settings. I'm not sure if this bug report should go to Debian or Xcin. Can you suggest where I should file it? My packages came from Debian stable 3.0r1, if that gives any clues. thank you again for all your help, regards, Robert Storey (in Taiwan) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: (Newbie) Knoppix.
Brian Durant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have tried the Knoppix CD to test out some SiS 900 driver and DHCP > problems on my daughter's computer. Even though it didn't work [...] I had SiS 900 problems too and found that one must use kernel 2.4.20 *without* ACPI for it to work (on my system here). Knoppix *does* work here, but only if you pass the boot parameter noacpi. Try that! Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: (Newbie) Knoppix.
Brian Durant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The reply from Knoppix was: "Could not find kernel image noacpi." I am > using KNOPPIX_V3.1-2003-01-20-EN.iso. This means that Knoppix believes you want to load a kernel named noapic, which is not what you want ;-) You want the knoppix default kernel and pass the boot parameter 'noapic' to it. If I recall correctly you have to say something like knoppix noapic at the boot prompt, but can't test it right now. I think you can press some key (I think it was F2) to see boot options. Knoppix tells you which key to press. Good luck, Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Libranet to Sarge
On Thu, 06 Mar 2003 17:35:56 -0500 Keith Winston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > By the way, is there some reason Debian can't adopt the Libranet > installer and tweak it for the Debain defaults intead of the Libranet > defaults? The installer is very nice. Libranet is a commercial distro (and a very good one too - it's what I use). Anyway, the installer and configuration utilities are the property of the owners, so Debian can't simply adopt it without permission. The free version 2.0 that you downloaded is free because the Libranet owners have generously chosen to make it so (presumably, to encourage you to eventually purchase the newer version 2.7, or the upcoming 2.8). However, just because 2.0 is available free doesn't mean that it was released under the GPL, as Debian is. Also, I would presume that Libranet hasn't released the source code for their installer, since they are not required to (under the GPL, you are obliged to release the source code). You can, of course, continue to upgrade your Libranet installation with apt-get. I'm not real sure what happens when you mix and match programs from gcc 2.95 with binaries that were compiled under gcc 3.2. Maybe someone else more technically astute can answer that. I understand that Debian will be adopting a new graphical installer in the future, but I don't know the details. - Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux enigma
On Thu, 06 Mar 2003 09:36:39 -0500 Phil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > remove. In the windows partition of this machine, I have a linux > directory where suse created a suse directory and a setup directory > therein (windows/linux/suse/setup - when viewed from the now > installed debian partition). Inside of the setup directory is an > entity called '/linux' that I have tried to delete with rm and rmdir > and get an error message: > > How does one deal with entities like this? You didn't say if your Windows partition was NTFS or FAT32. If I'm not mistaken, there has been much said about how NTFS is a Microsoft secret proprietary file system, and Linux support for it is still not 100%. For this reason, lot of distros only mount NTFS partitions as read-only. I don't know if this is your problem, but it's the first thing I'd look into if I were you. If it is an NTFS partition, you'd probably be safer dealing with it under Windows than from Linux. regards, Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help! partition table!
On Fri, 07 Mar 2003 23:34:43 + "Hugo Ideler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's ext3, but I must add that the formating of wasn't very far when I > hit the power-off. But I suppose this won't make much of a difference? This probably won't work, but you could boot with a rescue CD (Knoppix is kind of good for that, Slackware even better), then try mounting the partition you want to rescue. The trouble is that inodes have been overwritten - I'm not really sure what you'll find. > So i'd be happy enough if I could just recover my home directory. :) Though this won't help you in your current predicament, this is one more good reason for creating a separate partition for /home. That way, you can totally crash and burn your Linux installation and still recover /home without a hiccup. Sorry if this isn't a great answer. - Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bad CRC [was Debian freezes]
On Sat, 8 Mar 2003 06:49:50 -0500
Subba Rao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am clueless as to find why the X is freezing. Sometimes it uses 99%
> CPU while other times it simple freezes the system.
> Cntrl+Alt+Backspace will do nothing. I have to power down the system
> and in worst cases (when the system did not respond to the "power"
> button) I had to pull the power cord, to restart the system.
Sorry to hijack your thread, Subba, but this might be the source of your
problem...
I started experiencing freezing too, and at first I blamed my Debian
installation. I did a reinstall, but the problem continued, and indeed
seemed to grow gradually worse. I also have a (seldom-used) Windows
partition - I started using it just to see what would happen, and sure
enough, experienced the freezing there too.
I noticed during Debian's boot-up that an error message would flash by
(too fast to read). I explored his further, like this:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dmesg | grep error
hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
After doing some searching on Google, I found that a lot of people had
reported these errors. The consensus of opinion seemed to be that this
could be a fading hard disk or bad controller, but many people suggested
installing a new hard disk cable before trashing the hard disk itself. I
did install a new cable, and the freezing problem has gone away.
However, the "BadCRC" errors are still being reported during bootup.
There were suggestions to turn off dma with hdparm, like this:
# hdparm -d0 /dev/hda
I tried that but it didn't stop the error messages, so I've turned dma
back on again.
# hdparm -d1 /dev/hda
Another suggestion was to turn off dma by inserting this into GRUB's
menu.lst configuration file:
hda=nodma
This led to a "kernel panic" error. I removed the offending line from
menu.lst, and my system boots up again as normal, but the CRC error
messages remain. The machine is usable and no more freezes since I
replaced the cable. But I wonder if I'm taking a risk just doing nothing
- should I be prepared to deploy my hard disk for use as a paperweight,
or should I just muddle along and not worry about this? I'd be
interested to know what others who have encountered these error messages
and/or freezing problem have to say.
regards,
Robert
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Re: OK, I did my homework and red your answers carefuly
On Sun, 09 Mar 2003 12:54:00 + Glyn Millington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Teilhard Knight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > USB modem uses device ttySL0 as default and Win Modem uses ttyLT0. I > > just want to ask whether wvdial looks in those device entries, > > because it finds no modems in my system when I make it search for a > > modem. Thanks. > > No idea where wvdial looks by default. The manpage doesn't say. My /etc/wvdial.conf file has a line like this: [Dialer Defaults] Modem = /dev/ttyS1 You should be able to tweak that to whichever device you like. regards, Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: acard driver
On Sun, 9 Mar 2003 21:32:04 +0100 "George Stolk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a acard IDE controller card aec 6280 ant I have down load the > driver from the site of the manufacturer but debian wont recon ice the > driver what can I do to make it work. I would have thought the BIOS would recognize an IDE controller by itself. I happen to have an Acard SCSI controller, which uses the module driver atp870u.o. To get Debian to recognize it: modprobe atp870u That statement can be added to /etc/modules. Maybe the solution for your problem is similar. - Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie questions
On Sun, 9 Mar 2003 17:02:24 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Even better, use "most"; it supports color. I would have turned my > nose up at that, until read a few man pages. > > Kevin On Sun, 9 Mar 2003 15:45:02 -0500 Brian Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now would be a great to mention update-alternatives too. :-) > > update-alternatives(8) (when you get man working) > > (~)% update-alternatives --config pager I'm nominating Kevin and Brian jointly to share an award for "Debian's hot tip of the month." I unstalled "most," then used "update-alternatives" to config my pager, and my man pages now look spectacular. Now if only Debian had a tool to make me look this good. - Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How can I check which services are on or off.
> Well, as the subject say, I'm wondering how can I see which > services are on or off rcconf > and how can I stop them or make them run. Also "rcconf", but run it as root. Of course, you first need "rcconf" installed: apt-get install rcconf - Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SIS900 DCHP Problem
sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > do you have anything in your kernel logs that looks like: > > ... Error EERPOM read ... > > ? i remember a fellow on another list i'm on had a problem with > his sis900 card too, it was a bad eeprom that returned bogus values. I am not the guy you talk about, but with kernel 2.4.18 dmesg said: sis900.c: v1.08.02 11/30/2001 eth0: Error EERPOM read I was told, that the reason was the driver not able to read the mac address on the card. I had to update to kernel 2.4.20 and switch ACPI off to get sis900 running. (The ACPI stuff seems to be related to my motherboard). Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SIS900 DCHP Problem
sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 03:47:51PM +0100, Robert Epprecht wrote: >> with kernel 2.4.18 dmesg said: >> sis900.c: v1.08.02 11/30/2001 >> eth0: Error EERPOM read > yeah, that's the error i was talking about. you can tell because of the > typho (should be EEPROM, not EERPROM). do you still get that message? no > i wrote a patch for it that i believe works, but i don't have a card > to test it on :) I could try starting the old kernel which would probably give us back the error ;-) (Currently I'm on another machine, but I can try tomorrow) If I can help in testing your patch please tell me. Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kinda OT: Web Hosting
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 08:22:20 -0600 "Jeff Hahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Didn't someone here mention a favorite web hosting company recently?? > > I think it was 750 MB storage and 20 GB traffic for a very reasonable > price. > > Any favorites or companies to avoid??? > > Thanks, > > -Jeff I use 34sp.com which is based in London. They charge around US$21 per YEAR (not per month). Can't remember now just how much space & traffic usage that gets me (my needs are light), but I'm mostly interested in the 10 free Email accounts that it includes. Look on their web site for the current rates. It seems like quite a good deal, and I've been happy with the speed and customer service support. - Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mod_ssl dbm session cache
Hi, I use apache 1.3.27 with mod_ssl-2.8.12-1.3.27 (both from original source, not debian packages) with this in httpd.conf: SSLSessionCache dbm:/usr/local/apache/logs/ssl_scache and I get this error in ssl-engine-log for every https request: [14/Mar/2003 13:06:23 29826] [error] Cannot store SSL session to DBM file `/usr/local/apache/logs/ssl_scache' (System error follows) [14/Mar/2003 13:06:23 29826] [error] System: Invalid argument (errno: 22) The file /usr/local/apache/logs/ssl_scache isn't created, even when I create it by hand (`touch /usr/local/apache/logs/ssl_scache`), doesn't help either. My configuration is debian sid on i386, neither libssl.so or httpd link to any dbm library: # ldd apache/libexec/libssl.so libssl.so.0.9.6 => /usr/lib/i686/cmov/libssl.so.0.9.6 (0x40037000) libcrypto.so.0.9.6 => /usr/lib/i686/cmov/libcrypto.so.0.9.6 (0x40064000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4011c000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x4022c000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x8000) # ldd apache/bin/httpd libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x40017000) libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/libcrypt.so.1 (0x40039000) libexpat.so.1 => /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1 (0x40066000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x40084000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40087000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x4000) I have these dbm-related packages installed: *** Std libs libgdbmg11.7.3-27.1 1.7.3-27.1 *** Req base libdb2 2.7.7.0-8 2.7.7.0-8 *** Req libs libdb3 3.2.9-173.2.9-17 *** Req oldlibs libdb1-compa 2.1.3-7 2.1.3-7 *** Std libs libdb4.0 4.0.14-14.0.14-1 *** Opt devellibdb2-util 2.7.7.0-8 2.7.7.0-8 *** Opt devellibdb3-dev 3.2.9-173.2.9-17 *** Opt utilslibdb3-util 3.2.9-173.2.9-17 Similar configurations on other than debian systems work ok, so that's why I post this here. Please Cc: my address when replying as I am not subscribed. Thanks, Robert -- Robo Trebula [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
filesystem encryption
I've been considering creating a partition on my hard drive with an encrypted filesystem for storing my financial data. Looking through the literature on how to do this, it appears that there are several competing systems around. This is something I've never done before, so I'm a little perplexed about which system is best. Right now, the most up-to-date information I have comes from an article in LinuxFormat Magazine, December 2001 (pages 30-37). It was the cover story in that particular edition, and I think you can still download it as a PDF file from their web site (www.linuxformat.co.uk). Anyway, they seem to favor installing the cryptoapi modules at http://cryptoapi.sourceforge.net, plus the utilities at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux. It looks rather complicated, but I'm willing to try it. My question is whether or not this is the best way to go? The LinuxFormat article is more than a year out of date. I've looked through the Debian (stable) packages list, and it says nothing about cryptoapi, though a search on the word "crypt" reveals a number of other cryptographic packages such as cfs 1.4.1-7 which is also a cryptographic filesystem. Any pointers on this topic (and suggested online references) would be greatly appreciated. regards, Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
libtrash & anacron
I recently installed Libtrash (it creates a trash can for Linux!). For some reason, the deb package (version 0.8) in Woody is way out of date (current version is 2.0) and the deb package only seems to include the documentation rather than the usable program. So I downloaded the source tarball from here: http://www.m-arriaga.net/software/libtrash/libtrash-latest.tgz It installed fine. I'm pleased to have a trash can, but of course it keeps growing in size, wasting hard disk space. Fortunately, Libtrash comes with a Perl script called cleanTrash which deletes files from the trash can when the junk reaches a specified size. Although cleanTrash could be run manually, it's more convenient to run it as a cron job. And since my computer isn't on 24 hours a day, I figured anacron was better. So, actually, I have two questions: 1) Is the only thing I need to do to get cleanTrash to run (as a cron job) is to stick it in /etc/cron.daily? 2) I did "apt-get install anacron" - it installed fine, but do I need to do anything else to configure anacron? Or is it just pre-configured to take over from cron? I suspect it is, considering the contents of my /etc/crontab file: # m h dom mon dow user command 25 6* * * roottest -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily 47 6* * 7 roottest -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.weekly 52 61 * * roottest -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.monthly # regards, Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: tftpd
Jianbo Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi, > Hi, > > I cannot start tftpd. I try tftpd and atftpd, but they fail. > For tftpd, in syslog it said: > tftpd[701]: recvfrom: Socket operation on non-socket > For aftpd, in syslog it said: > tftpd[777]: atftpd: can't bind port. My /etc/inetd.conf is like: > tftpdgram udp waitnobody /usr/sbin/tcpd > /usr/sbin/in.tftpd --tftpd-timeout 300 --retry-timeout 5 --mcast_port > 1753 --mcast_addr 146.252.71.0-255 --maxthread 100 --verbose=5 /tftpboot > > In /etc/services > tftp69/udp > > Is it caused by disabled port 69? Nay clue? Thanks! I'm not sure but I think you need a ipv6 modul and sit0 interface. There is a error when a programm is with IPV6 compiled but kernel not. Pozdrawiam/Gruß/Regards Robert Rakowicz -- Robert Rakowicz E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:www.rjap.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Starting fetchmail as init script
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Hi yall,
I played around with my init scripts and of course I broke somthing
I have removed a few services from runlevel 2, which I don't want to start at
bootup, but now my /etc/init.d/fetchmail script fails on startup.
The message follows:
Starting mail retrieval agent: fetchmail/etc/init.d/fetchmail: line 178: 3674
Speicherzugriffsfehler start-stop-daemon ${START} "--command=${DAEMON}
${OPTIONS}" ${RUNUSER} 0>&- >/dev/null 2>&1
(failed!)
Fetchmail runs, if I
$# su fetchmail
and execute
$# fetchmail -f /etc/fetchmailrc
I don't really remember which links I have removed from /etc/rc2.d.
masqmail is my smtp server and runs.
I don't have any clue what could be wrong so any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Robert
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Centrino [OT]
A lot of people on this list are probably aware of this issue, but in case anybody missed it, those "cool new Centrino" laptops are something to avoid, unless you're content to run Windows XP only. The situation could change in the future, but for now it's like this: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/29840.html - Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: help with playing a midi file
On Sat, 2003-03-22 at 22:18, Paul Scott wrote: > My sound card works. I am using KDE on the 2.4.20-k6 kernel. I have a > number of midi players installed - kmid, rosegarden. They all look like > they are playing midi files but I get no sound. Silly as this might sound, before you go any further, run aumix and set volume and pcm to maximum, then see if you've got any sound. I encountered the same (embarassing) issue when I first installed Debian. regards, Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-get to unstable
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 11:55:43 CST, "Irish, Jon D BAE Systems" writes: >This is probably a silly question, but how do you add unstable to >apt-get? I went into //etc/apt/sources.list, and added: > >deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable unstable main non-free >contrib change that to deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib >deb http://security.debian.org/ unstable/updates main contrib non-free and forget about security.d.o for unstable. cheers, &rw -- / Ing. Robert Waldner | Security Engineer | CoreTec IT-Security \ \ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | T +43 1 503 72 73 | F +43 1 503 72 73 x99 / signature.ng Description: PGP signature
Automated installations
Does Debian have an application similar to RedHat's Kickstart? I want to be able to duplicate the same configuration on multiple machines, without configuring everything manually. Thanks in advance, Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems logging in
I'm running unstable, and about a month ago I noticed that after my machine had been up for a few days that I couldn't initiate a log in session or switch users. After the password is accepted, the log session just sits there and never returns a prompt. The system is just fine though. If I'm already logged in, I can run any program. Ctrl-Alt-Del does not work though. A few times, I've had the system recover after a long period of time. I update my packages every night hoping that an update will fix it, but as of yet it hasn't.Has anyone else seen this problem? Rob -- | LI NN N U U X X O [EMAIL PROTECTED]2002-03 | LI N NN U U X Aka Khyron the Backstabber | LLL I N N UUU X X O | Those who can, do. | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Lost Fonts again in unstable
I'm running unstable, and I haven't been able to log in the last few days because of a recent update. I was finally able to log in and found that most of my fonts are gone. Most notably was Helvetica. I checked my fonts.conf and it looked alright, so I tried to make sure the font still existed on my system. To my surprise, I found that it was gone. Anyone know of a recent change in included fonts? Rob -- | LI NN N U U X X O [EMAIL PROTECTED]2002-03 | LI N NN U U X Aka Khyron the Backstabber | LLL I N N UUU X X O | Those who can, do. | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Searching for an editor...
On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 22:24:11 -0400 Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 04:22, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > > > Not to start a flame war, but I don't think XEmacs is more > > > graphical than Emacs21 (Emacs20, yes, but not Emacs21). > > > > I don't think I have used emacs21 but I don't remeber, so I can't > > tell. I also don't know how their gui comapare. > > Do you know the differences (main ones)? As far as I can tell, the most visible difference is that Xemacs seems to do a better job with handling fonts. To be more specific, Xemacs has more beautiful fonts and lets you change default font size. But Emacs is also good, and of course has the advantage of working on the command line as well as in X. There's no reason why you can't install both, since the commands are almost identical. regards, Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
