Re: initrd and booting SCSI
Gareth wrote: > > G'day Just a quick point me in the right direction question. > > I am trying to get my system to boot from the SCSI disk and pass some > parameters to the kernel (mem=128M is one of them) > however I cannot get it to boot from the SCSI disk! (it hangs at LI) > > I have checked and double checked the LILO stuff and disk partions. > > I have been told I shoud use a 2 stage bootup with initrd to load SCSI > stuff to boot from the SCSI disk. (I am currently using a bootfloppy) > > Is this correct and if so is there a HOWTO or some more advice on > this. I have read the initrd HOWTO but found it confusing more than > helpful to this situation. Do you have IDE and scsi? If you do, you should have your bios set for booting scsi and you must tell LILO about it. Edit you lilo.conf and add the lines so it realizes your disk order. Brendon
nfsd shutdown problems
When I reboot my system (typing reboot), it hangs right when NFS starts to shutdown. The message where it hangs is below. "Unexporting directories for NFS kernel daemon" My kern.log file has: Sep 13 17:20:28 viper kernel: nfsd: terminating on signal 2 Sep 13 17:20:28 viper last message repeated 7 times Sep 13 17:22:08 viper kernel: portmap: server localhost not responding, timed out Sep 13 17:22:08 viper kernel: rpciod: active tasks at shutdown?! Sep 13 17:23:30 viper kernel: Kernel logging (proc) stopped. Sep 13 17:23:30 viper kernel: Kernel log daemon terminating. I'm running version: nfs-kernel-server .2-1 nfs-common .2-1 Anyone run into this or have a clue? Thanks, Brendon
running xconfig
when opening an xterminal in kde2 and attempting to run make xconfig in /usr/src/kernel-source-x.y.z/ i get the following error: Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server Application initialization failed: couldn't connect to display ":0" i've received the same error when trying to run apps that use x by issuing the command using an xterminal. Another oddity: i only have one getty terminal (only one is running). Anyone have any clue? William Leese
Re: missing consoles
> > Hi all, > > > > for some reason i can only use one console. when i 2> i > > get a blank screen with a blinking cursor. > > > > only one getty is started (checked process') after boot (init 5). anyone > > know a solution? > > Do you have some lines similar to this in your /etc/inittab file? If > not, I think that may be the problem. But then, I'm no expert. > > 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1 > 2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2 > 3:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty3 > 4:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty4 > 5:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty5 > 6:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty6 up to the letter. i believe the problem started when i changed the default runlevel from id:2:initdefault: to id:5:initdefault: which would mean that theres a prob with /etc/rc5.d. (i'm new to debian so i'm just guessing) that would make sense considering i've disabled 2 services. /etc/rc5.d/ls gives: S10sysklogdS20exim S20logoutd S20ssh S89cron S99rmnologin S12kerneld S20gpmS20lpd S20xfs S98hwtools _S25nfs-server S19nfs-common S20inetd S20makedev S89atd S99kdm _S99xdm William Leese
Re: missing consoles
On Sunday 14 January 2001 23:31, Kent West wrote: > Brendon wrote: > >>> Hi all, > >>> > >>> for some reason i can only use one console. when i 2> > >>> i get a blank screen with a blinking cursor. > >>> > >>> only one getty is started (checked process') after boot (init 5). > >>> anyone know a solution? > >> > >> Do you have some lines similar to this in your /etc/inittab file? If > >> not, I think that may be the problem. But then, I'm no expert. > >> > >> 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1 > >> 2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2 > >> 3:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty3 > >> 4:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty4 > >> 5:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty5 > >> 6:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty6 > > > > up to the letter. i believe the problem started when i changed the > > default runlevel from > > > > id:2:initdefault: > > > > to > > > > id:5:initdefault: > > > > which would mean that theres a prob with /etc/rc5.d. (i'm new to debian > > so i'm just guessing) that would make sense considering i've disabled 2 > > services. /etc/rc5.d/ls gives: > > > > S10sysklogdS20exim S20logoutd S20ssh S89cron S99rmnologin > > S12kerneld S20gpmS20lpd S20xfs S98hwtools _S25nfs-server > > S19nfs-common S20inetd S20makedev S89atd S99kdm _S99xdm > > > > > > William Leese > > I wonder if something is dying during the running of these start-up > scripts and S99rmnologin is never being reached. You might try running > this script manually and see if that gives you your ttys. ah, thanx Philippe..
Re: Burning ISO-Image in Windows?
> > I´ve downloaded the ISO-Image from the Debian- > > Homepage, but I can´t find a way to burn it. Nero > > doesn´t work with the options told in the faq. > > Fireburner also doesn´t work. Can anyone provide > > me a freely available program that is able to burn > > the ISO? > > I don't recall if I used Nero or Adaptec'd Easy CD Creator to burn my > images, but whichever it was, it worked fine. I used *default* settings, > whatever they were... > > I think with Nero, you may run into differences because of the language > translation. Can you just try it with the default settings for creating > an image or ISO file ?? I understand it may not be the case with you and > where you live, but here in the States, blank CDs are approx $0.50 each. > If I make a coaster, it's no big deal. > ..though not really efficient you could also use winimage (www.winimage.com) to unpack the files and then burn it your usual way.. William Leese
gcc: "cannot create executables"
when attempting to compile a program i receive the following error message: checking whether the C++ compiler (c++ ) works... no configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C++ compiler cannot create executables. when doing a ./configure on licq in /usr/local/src/licq- after su-ing to root. does anyone know what the problem could be? William
Ignore: gcc: "cannot create executables"
ignore the previous mail, for some reason gcc wasnt even installed...
gcc: "cannot create executables" (confused now)
>when attempting to compile a program i receive the following error message:
>
>checking whether the C++ compiler (c++ ) works... no
>configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C++ compiler cannot
>create executables.
>
>when doing a ./configure on licq in /usr/local/src/licq- after su-ing to
>root.
just did an apt-get install on gcc & g++ so i presumed they weren't installed
however it seems they were ("unpacking replacement.") urgh!
so i still have a prob, even after installing the latest versions of the two
i receive the same error message.
Re: gcc: "cannot create executables" (confused now)
On Thursday 18 January 2001 00:28, D-Man wrote:
> (BTW, I'm assuming you don't know how to program)
>
> Try pasting the following into a file (call it foo.c) and then run
> the command:
>
> $ gcc foo.c
> $ ./a.out
>
>
> /* this is the text to put in a file */
> #include
>
> int
> main( int argc , char** argv )
> {
> printf( "Hello World.\n" ) ;
> return 0 ;
> }
> ~
>
> If that works (doesn't give any errors, prints Hello World), then your
> C compiler is working. Try the command
>
> $ rm a.out
> $ g++ foo.c++
> $ ./a.out
>
>
> with the following in the file "foo.c++"
> ~~~
> // include this text in foo.c++
>
> #include
>
> int
> main( int argc , char** argv )
> {
> cout << "Hello World from C++." << endl ;
> return 0 ;
> }
> ~~~
>
> If that works (again, no errors, prints Hello World from C++), then
> your C++ compiler is working.
>
>
> If either of those don't work, report the file contents (in case a
> typo was made) and the error messages (with the shell commands, of
> course) to the list.
>
> HTH,
> -D
>
>
> PS. Say, do you have write permission on the directory you are
> running configure in? Is the disk full?
just now i unpacked the source to my home dir (after first unpacking it to
/usr/local/src) so i dont think the permissions are the prob (i've also run
chown -R currentuser * on the dir, eventhough that should be set-up properly
when it gets unpacked no?). checked diskspace, a few hundred MBs should be
sufficient for a few MBs of source code.
i compiled foo.c++ with gcc, no probs, no error messages, a.out gave the
right output (Hello World).
I doubt its a prob with the source code (licq snapshot) because i've had a
problem with another app i wanted to compile earlier today.
attaining IO port info for an ISA networkcard
short question, the subject says it all really. how do you find out which io port your ISA networkcard is using? Brendon
Re: attaining IO port info for an ISA networkcard
On Friday 22 June 2001 20:21, Duane Powers wrote:
> Brendon wrote:
> > short question, the subject says it all really. how do you find out which
> > io port your ISA networkcard is using?
>
> cat /proc/ioports
which gives:
000-001f dma1
0020-003f pic1
0040-005f timer
0060-006f keyboard
0070-007f rtc
0080-008f dma page reg
00a0-00bf pic2
00c0-00df dma2
00f0-00ff fpu
01f0-01f7 ide0
02f8-02ff serial(set)
03c0-03df vga+
03f6-03f6 ide0
03f8-03ff serial(set)
none of which i recognise as the networkcard. the networkcard is a
realtek8019 isa card. i need the io port to install the module with modconf
("ISA cards explicitly require an "io=0xNNN value"). though the card is
properly inserted judging by a light up led i didnt see it mentioned on
startup or in /proc/interrupts.
IP Maquerading: no connection to external network
Hello debian users, I've just set up a machine for ip masquerading which will allow all the other machines connected to it access the net, 'least.. theoretically. the current setup: Gateway: external ip 195.38.200.201 internal ip 192.162.0.1 Laptop: internal ip 192.162.0.2 desktop:.. the gateway is able to access the net and the laptop. the laptop is able to ping the gateway on both it's external and internal ip but cannot access (ping) external sites by either their ip or name. I've been using the Maquerading HOWTO and have done everything mentioned, without luck. Any ideas what could be going wrong?
Re: IP Masquerading: no connection to external network
On Saturday 23 June 2001 00:35, you wrote: > On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 11:56:52PM +0200, Brendon wrote: > > Gateway: external ip 195.38.200.201 internal ip 192.162.0.1 > > Laptop: internal ip 192.162.0.2 > > desktop:.. > > > > the gateway is able to access the net and the laptop. > > the laptop is able to ping the gateway on both it's external and internal > > ip but cannot access (ping) external sites by either their ip or name. > > The laptop has no default route set, is my bet. If that is the problem, > then you can fix it on the laptop by doing: > > /sbin/route add default gw 192.162.0.1 'fraid it had no affect. the syslogs on both machines show nothing out of the ordinary either
Re: IP Masquerading: no connection to external network
On Saturday 23 June 2001 01:11, Joost Kooij wrote: > On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 12:45:18AM +0200, Brendon wrote: > > 'fraid it had no affect. the syslogs on both machines show nothing out of > > the ordinary either > > How did you setup masquerading, did you install ipmasq.deb or did > you try everything by hand? I used the mini howto on www.linuxnewbie.org next to the Masquerading HOWTO. the iptables rules were setup by gShield. when i found that did not work i used the rc.firewall script given by the HOWTO. rc.firewall (several comments removed to keep the size down. btw, the gateway and other machines use static ip#s): -- #!/bin/sh # # Load all required IP MASQ modules # # NOTE: Only load the IP MASQ modules you need. All current IP MASQ # modules are shown below but are commented out from loading. echo -e "\n\nIPMASQ *TEST* rc.firewall ruleset - v0.50\n" # The location of the 'iptables' program #IPTABLES=/sbin/iptables IPTABLES=/sbin/iptables # Need to verify that all modules have all required dependencies # echo " - Verifying that all kernel modules are ok" /sbin/depmod -a #Loads the OUTGOING FTP NAT functionality into the core IPTABLES code # # Disabled by default -- remove the "#" on the next line to activate #/sbin/insmod ip_nat_ftp #Load the INCOMING FTP tracking mechanism for the connection tracking #code # # Disabled by default -- remove the "#" on the next line to activate #/sbin/insmod ip_conntrack_ftp #CRITICAL: Enable IP forwarding since it is disabled by default since echo " - Enabling packet forwarding in the kernel" echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward # Dynamic IP users: # # echo " - Enabling dynamic addressing measures" # echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_dynaddr # Enable simple IP forwarding and Masquerading # # NOTE: In IPTABLES speak, IP Masquerading is a form of SourceNAT or SNAT. # # NOTE #2: The following is an example for an internal LAN address in the #192.168.0.x network with a 255.255.255.0 or a "24" bit subnet mask #connecting to the Internet on external interface "eth0". This #example will MASQ internal traffic out to the Internet not not #allow non-initiated traffic into your internal network. # # ** Please change the above network numbers, subnet mask, and your # *** Internet connection interface name to match your setup # echo " - Setting the default FORWARD policy to 'DROP'" echo " - Enabling SNAT (IPMASQ) functionality on eth0" $IPTABLES -P FORWARD DROP $IPTABLES -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE echo -e "\nDone.\n" -- output when run: IPMASQ *TEST* rc.firewall ruleset - v0.50 - Verifying that all kernel modules are ok depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.5/kernel/net/bridge/bridge.o - Enabling packet forwarding in the kernel - Setting the default FORWARD policy to 'DROP' - Enabling SNAT (IPMASQ) functionality on eth0 Done.
Re: IP Masquerading: no connection to external network
On Saturday 23 June 2001 01:37, you wrote: > On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 01:22:37AM +0200, Brendon wrote: > > On Saturday 23 June 2001 01:11, Joost Kooij wrote: > > > How did you setup masquerading, did you install ipmasq.deb or did > > > you try everything by hand? > > > > I used the mini howto on www.linuxnewbie.org next to the Masquerading > > HOWTO. the iptables rules were setup by gShield. when i found that did > > not work i used the rc.firewall script given by the HOWTO. > > My advice: try it first with ipmasq.deb, it is a really nice package. > It lets you easily set up a basic nat gateway. Once you get it working > with ipmasq, you can always change to your homebrew setup. And if > it doesn't work with ipmasq either, well, submit a bug against ipmasq > (after you had rtfm that comes with the package of course). all in debian style, it worked automagically.. scary :) cheers, i wasn't familar with the package. Brendon
Re: attaining IO port info for an ISA networkcard
On Saturday 23 June 2001 02:05, Donald R. Spoon wrote: > > short question, the subject says it all really. how do you find out which > > io port your ISA networkcard is using? > > Short question, but a long answer . The answer lies in understanding > how the kernel handles the ISA bus during bootup AND how your particular > NIC works. [snip] > Another way of finding out the io/irq values to use in modconf(or with > loadable modules) is just to insert the card into a Winders (Win 95, 98, > ME, etc) machine and see what it detects, then use the same values for > your modconf options. In any case, I would review the copious amount of > info available on your particular NIC at the site mentioned above. The > various ISA NIC's setup will vary somewhat according to the chipset > used. ah, thank you kindly.. another problem of many solved :) Brendon
and we won't stop..
a last question before i retire for the day. for some reason i'm only able to use one machine to access (ping) the gateway. to be a little less vague: 2 comps connected to a hub which gets it's 'uplink' from the gateway. one of these computers can ping the gateway (both external ip and internal) and the net. while the other can only ping the other none gateway computer but neither the internal or external ip of the gateway. the gateway can only ping the fully connected machine, no response from the other. when switching the sockets (i.e. 'red' went in 'tp1' so now 'tp2' and 'blue' from 'tp2' to 'tp1') to which the rj-45 plugs are connected to the hub results in a switch of roles between the fully operational computer and the less functional one. this obviously suggests something is wrong with the hub.. but there's not exactly much that can be done to make things go wrong... it's a tp-link 10BASE-T hp8m ethernet hub. can someone explain this behavior, any hunches.. etc? Brendon
Re: and we won't stop..
On Saturday 23 June 2001 03:52, you wrote: > On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 03:25:07AM +0200, Brendon wrote: > > 2 comps connected to a hub which gets it's 'uplink' from the gateway. one > > of these computers can ping the gateway (both external ip and internal) > > and the net. while the other can only ping the other none gateway > > computer but neither the internal or external ip of the gateway. > > Try it with the gateway plugged into an ordinary socket. Leave the > "uplink" port unused. and voila, the newbie's troubles end. I'd ask why.. but i'm too tired to be curious. time to sleep. cheers Joost, Brendon
Re: IP Maquerading: no connection to external network
On Saturday 23 June 2001 08:27, Sebastiaan wrote: > On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Brendon wrote: > > Hello debian users, > > > > I've just set up a machine for ip masquerading which will allow all the > > other machines connected to it access the net, 'least.. theoretically. > > > > the current setup: > > > > Gateway: external ip 195.38.200.201 internal ip 192.162.0.1 > > Laptop: internal ip 192.162.0.2 > > desktop:.. > > > > the gateway is able to access the net and the laptop. > > the laptop is able to ping the gateway on both it's external and internal > > ip but cannot access (ping) external sites by either their ip or name. > > What are you using: ipchains or iptable? Haven't you forgotten to > echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward iptables, and nope.. it's already fixed, thanks anyway :) Brendon
OT: C++ Newbie and KDE/QT
This summer holiday I took on the task of learning C++ with (shamefully :) the help of C++ For Dummies. Having tried to learn C++ in the past I'm now reasonably familar with it's synax so i thought i'd also try learning QT/KDE programming at the same time. But the tutorials I've been through on the doc.trolltech.com site have left me a little disappointed. Does anyone know of a good site where QT/KDE programming is explained? And what did you start with when learning C++? any suggestions are appreciated. Brendon -- "if we live by an "eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth"...before long, the whole world will be blind and toothless." --Tevye, Fiddler on the Roof
compiling from CVS: gtkmozembed.h not found
posted this awhile ago on the galeon list. i'm sure some people here have compiled galeon and have run into this problem so i'm posting here also. --- I've install mozilla in /usr/local/mozilla and the mozilla source in /usr/local/mozilla-source , both nightly snapshots. i receive the error message after issuing.. ./configure --with-mozilla-includes=/usr/local/mozilla/include --with-mozilla-libs=/usr/local/mozilla completes without errors and finally.. make which gives the error message of the missing file. any help would be greatly appreciated. Brendon
Re: OT: C++ Newbie and KDE/QT
On Tuesday 26 June 2001 19:14, D-Man wrote: > On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 12:06:50PM +0200, Brendon wrote: > | Does anyone know of a good site where QT/KDE programming is explained? > | And what did you start with when learning C++? > > I don't use KDE and I don't like Qt's LnF so I don't know about that > part. As for learning C++ -- it is big and complicated and the little > details will get you. I would recommend starting out with an easier > language to get the basics of programming down first. Then move into > C++ once you understand how to program. I highly recommend Python as > an easy, powerful, and clean language to learn. It also allows you to > choose the most appropriate paradigm -- you can start out procedurally > (simpler) and move into OO (class-based) when you are ready for it. > Alan Gauld has an excellent tutorial for beginners at > http://www.crosswinds.net/~agauld. Python also has bindings to Qt > (PyQt) so you can do Qt/KDE programming using Python and forget about > the headaches that C++ can give you. If you decide to try python, > check out the tutor mailing list, it is very helpful > (tutor@python.org, http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor). i'll check it out. just another question, what advantages and disadvantages does python have over C++? Also, is C++ really that complicated to learn? In the learning process i haven't run into any problems (except understanding pointers.. kept on getting confused because of the different uses of * ). Though when looking at the source of Konverse, i was a little overwhelmed. But I presumed this was because i didnt know how to work with QT. > You may also want to try Java. It is basically C++ with pointers, > manual memory management, and freestanding functions removed. Also > the class definition conicides with the declaration (not in 2 separate > files). Its syntax is nearly identical, yet it simplifies quite a few > things. IMO Python is much better designed, much easier to use, and > more powerful (and flexible) than Java. But also awfully slow was it not? I suppose Python -> Java -> C++ would be the right order to learn, considering the apparent ease of python, demand for java and complexity of C++. Any comments? Brendon
Re: OT: C++ Newbie and KDE/QT
On Tuesday 26 June 2001 20:16, you wrote: > On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Brendon wrote: > > This summer holiday I took on the task of learning C++ with (shamefully > > :) the help of C++ For Dummies. > > > > Having tried to learn C++ in the past I'm now reasonably familar with > > it's synax so i thought i'd also try learning QT/KDE programming at the > > same time. But the tutorials I've been through on the doc.trolltech.com > > site have left me a little disappointed. > > > > Does anyone know of a good site where QT/KDE programming is explained? > > And what did you start with when learning C++? > > Have you installed the kdevelop package. iirc, it comes with a > tutorial and some other KDE programming material, their site should > also have some good stuff. I've tried it. but the tutorial is based on the QT one, basically only giving the KDE specific info.
Re: V = I * R and the rest (Re: OT: C++ Newbie and KDE/QT)
On Friday 29 June 2001 00:57, you wrote: > On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 12:06:50PM +0200, Brendon wrote: > > what did you start with when learning C++? > > > > any suggestions are appreciated. > > No suggestions, but you get a free ticket to a gratuitous rant: woohoo! ;) > Start with a soldering iron and develop a practical feeling for > electronics. The basics are very simple, really. It is necessary > groundwork and also an excellent way to learn how simple things can work > or not work, and how to work with that. i wouldn't have any fingers left to type if i tried to use a soldering iron. > Then learn assembly, read Tanenbaum and a few architecture reference > manuals, too. Debug assemly code, in your head and maybe also with > a tool. Make it work in reality, repeatably. Dig up a cbm-64 from > a landfill, because they're still great for this purpose. Or install > vice, a complete cbm-64 emulator for linux. i always loved my amstrad 464.. shame i chucked it out years ago. it'd make a good learning tool. > Then learn C, the unix api and libc basics. Read some classics. K&R, > Stevens, McKusick et al. spring to mind. The glibc docs are freely > installable on your debian system, as is the documentation in the linux > kernel source. You don't have to know every detail, but these concepts > are precious knowledge. Watch the McKusick video too, if you can, > because it is very entertaining. > > Then learn how to effectively use the standard userland tools: > sh, sed, awk and friends. Learn how to prototype an arbitrary > to-be-written-in- program in these tools, it's good > for creativity and your for your understanding of the difference between > "job" and "tool". Then go out and learn to program intricate C code > that does these things much faster and more bug prone. > > Read lots of freely available source code. Such beautiful children were > born from the marriage of free software and the internet. Read mailing > lists, faqs, howtos, manpages, drink freely from this fire hose. When you > have done all of that, go ahead and read Soustrup's book and maybe some > others (but don't get lost in highly academic stuff). > > When you have mastered all of the above, only then learn to use C++ > and Java. It should be very simple by now, because you already know most > of the syntax and semantics, because you know their roots. And because > you first learnt C and then read Soustrup, you know what the concept > was about. And because you have a bit of hands-on experience, you > are familiar with the tradeoffs between design elegance and conceptual > overhead. > > Working your way through all of the above shouldn't take more that > 20 years, if you're eager and quick to learn maybe even 10, but you > would still be weak on the experience side. I went through some of the > above points in a suboptimal order, and I guess that I'm not even about > halfway now. Maybe not even a tenth of the way. only 10 you say? hmm, then we still have to learn all about firewalls, routers, new internet protocalls.. i was also planning on learning a third language.. > Other people will say that I'm violently wrong and that you should first > learn pascal, logo or some flavour of paradigm-quiche. But I think that > computers just don't work that way and that you should not hide this. > Maybe these people should first figure out how people really work and > then try to match that to how computers work before they conceptualize > away into nowhere land. > > Maybe all this will be different in 50 or maybe a 100 years from now. > > Maybe a lot of it will have turned out to be clumsy and arcane, and > be succeeded by more elegant insights and methods. Who knows what > "computers" look like, by then. Maybe all devices will run object-forth > natively (just kidding). > > Maybe only a few will know, because after the big gpl-trial, microsoft > will own all the copyrights to all software still available on the > microsoft inter.net, and besides that, also all the patents to any > ideas conceived since 2004, granted to them by the global corporation > in exchange for access to some of microsoft's property -- your documents > and emails (just kidding, I hope). > > But the learning curve will surely only steepen more and more, as long > as more sophisticated machinery is created primarily for more features, > instead of less. true, but isn't that the whole point of this push behind the computer industry? no one can know everything about one single computer these days, and that won't change in the future. > Because the ar^Hct of automation is a fundamental activity, unlike most
test
compiling from cvs
Lately i've been compiling more and more things from cvs to get the most up to date versions, but not being familar with the compiling process i sometimes have no clue what to do. i'm trying to compile konverse from cvs, how would i usually go about this when there's no configure script, and are there any documents/guides/howtos to compiling from cvs? Brendon
Re: compiling from cvs
> B> Lately i've been compiling more and more things from cvs to get the > B> most up to date versions, but not being familar with the compiling > B> process i sometimes have no clue what to do. > > This is probably a bad idea, then. Developers tend to use CVS as a > place to store the absolutely-most-recent working copy of their code, > along with every version before it. This means that there's no > guarantee that the code in CVS works properly, much less even > compiles. perhaps, but i don't mind learning the hard way. > B> i'm trying to compile konverse from cvs, how would i usually go about > this B> when there's no configure script, > > Yup. Storing generated files (like configure) in CVS is generally a > poor idea, since they can vary greatly between build machines and > versions of unrelated software. thank you for being completely unhelpful ;) Brendon
[slightly OT] 486 50mhz 16ram 258mb HD
I was wondering if i should even try to do something with this machine. currently i have one desktop computer and one laptop, which i plan on putting in a network so i can use internet (via a cablemodem) on both machines. should i even bother trying to put such a low end machine to use as a gateway, firewall or webserver? if so would debian run on it, or should i look for a single floppy solution (and if so which one, where do i look)? Brendon
Re: [slightly OT] 486 50mhz 16ram 258mb HD
> > should i even bother trying to put such a low end machine to use as a > > gateway, firewall or webserver? if so would debian run on it, or should i > > look for a single floppy solution (and if so which one, where do i look)? > you will be surprised to see what an old machine is capable of. I have a > 486DX2 with 12MB configured as a gateway (ip masquerade) for ADSL, > firewall, smtp server, DNS server, pop3. So for internet sharing the > computer is fast enough, I can even read my mail on it with acceptable > speed. I do not know if it is fast enough for a webserver. Depends on your > cable modem line. ah, that's good to hear. one question though: how large should the swap partition be.. ? i usually use one that is slightly larger than my RAM but with only 16 to begin with i'd think i'd need about 50mb swap. Brendon
Re: [slightly OT] 486 50mhz 16ram 258mb HD - Kernel Panic
after inserting the rootdisk i receive the following error message: [MS-DOS FS Rel. 12, FAT 16,check=n,conv=b,uid=0,gid=0,umask=022,bmap] [me=0xa6,sc=340,#f=194,fs=44860,fl=101811,ds=19927266,de=61894,data=19931136,se= 52701,ts=-1458993024,ls=2013,rc=0,fc=4294967295] Transaction block size = 512 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 02:00 can't say i've ever seen the first part, the second i've always blamed on the presence of FAT32 partitions (that is, when i removed them i didnt get a kernel panic).. but this is on a HD without partitions. a problem with a BIOS setting perhaps? has anyone seen this before? Brendon
Re: NETSCAPE 6 PROBLEM!
On Saturday 16 June 2001 19:43, Angel Parra wrote: > The question is, > Were are my plugins??? > > I Have install the tar.gz version of netscape 6 on my debian 2.2, the tar.gz version? If you're trying to install netscape 6.0x then i *strongly* urge you to download 6.1 instead, it's far, far more useable than 6.0. currently i dont believe there is a tarball for the entire installation of netscape, only the installer. > but if > I look for plugins (about:plugins) it didn' t recognize anyone. I > supouse that it's an enviroment problem, but I need help if you are install netsape 6.1 install it in your home directory (not the default /usr/local/bin), i've heard quite a few people having trouble with plugins when they installed netscape in other directories than their home dirs. Brendon
Re: [slightly OT] 486 50mhz 16ram 258mb HD - Kernel Panic
On Sunday 17 June 2001 10:29, you wrote: > On Sat, 16 Jun 2001, Brendon wrote: > > after inserting the rootdisk i receive the following error message: > > > > [MS-DOS FS Rel. 12, FAT 16,check=n,conv=b,uid=0,gid=0,umask=022,bmap] > > [me=0xa6,sc=340,#f=194,fs=44860,fl=101811,ds=19927266,de=61894,data=19931 > >136,se= 52701,ts=-1458993024,ls=2013,rc=0,fc=4294967295] > > Transaction block size = 512 > > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 02:00 > > > > can't say i've ever seen the first part, the second i've always blamed on > > the presence of FAT32 partitions (that is, when i removed them i didnt > > get a kernel panic).. but this is on a HD without partitions. > > > > a problem with a BIOS setting perhaps? has anyone seen this before? > > Strange. The kernel boots up ok, right? Perhaps you should try to write > the image on a different floppy. different rescue and boot floppies solved the problem. i now have debian running on the machine and i'll be setting it up for ip masq tomorrow :) thanks for the help (but stick around, i'm bound to run into to trouble ;) groetjes/regards, Brendon
RE: apt-get configuration for multi cd set
Point it to the second CD. It contains the first and the second. I believe the installation instructions discuss this. I first installed without reading instructions, and I didn't figure this out till later. It would be nice if you could install without ever having to read the installation instructions. Brendon -Original Message- From: Frank Petzold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 04, 1999 5:23 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: apt-get configuration for multi cd set How should I configure apt-get to use 1) my 2 CD binary distribution 2) ftp.debian.org in this order? specifying file:/cd for the CD set seems inappropriate, because there are 2 CDs, and it should tell me which one to insert, just like dselect does, or go to ftp. Is this possible at all? Please reply by personal email, because I am not subscribed to this list. -- Frank Petzold, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Säumerstrasse 4, CH-8803 Rüschlikon/Switzerland, Tel. +41-1-724-84-42 Fax. +41-1-724-89-56 Business email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Private email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The opinions expressed here are mine and not necessarily those of IBM. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Alsa and sb16. No go.
Here is the error ... viper:~# /etc/init.d/alsa start Starting sound driver: snd-sb16 /lib/modules/2.2.9/sound/isapnp.o: init_module: Device or resource busy snd-sb-dsp: No such file or directory failed. viper:~# The file /lib/modules/2.2.9/sound/isapnp.o exists. I compiled the kernel with module sound support and thats all. No card or anything selected. I also compiled and isntalled the alsa modules. I ran alsaconfig. I'm not getting anywhere though. I'm not even sure where to look. Anyone have a good idea? Brendon
RE: [comp.os.linux.misc] I am not impressed with Debian so far.
I mostly agree with his point about not knowing to put the second CD in while installing debian. I missed that also the first try. I didn't experience his problem with makeing the symlink, and i'm not sure how obvious modconf is to a new user. I don't remeber it being mentioned during install, but i could be wrong. Well, I hope his luck improves. I agree it is dificult for someone to jump right into debian even if they have used other distributions. I spent a whole day playing with it the fist time I set it up, and still had problems for awhile. Actually, i'm still having problems to this day, but I'm use to Debian, so i firgure most of them out quickly... well, except for ALSA that is =) ... Brendon > -Original Message- > From: Paul Seelig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, June 07, 1999 8:34 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: [comp.os.linux.misc] I am not impressed with Debian so far. > > << Message: I am not impressed with Debian so far. >>
RE: Random partitioning questions
There is a Howto on this. Searhc LDP for it. It goes into great detail. Maybe it was one of their admin docs. Not sure. For me, I make partitions of: / /usr /home swap I sometimes get more creative depending on the purpose of the system. If its a news server or high traffic mail server, i would make a /var also. You could seperate /usr and /usr/local also, but that starts to get more extreme. Its up to you. Brendon -Original Message- From: Brad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 07, 1999 10:04 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Random partitioning questions Yes, i realize this is something a lot of people disagree on. Which is why i hope to get a lot of opinions! Right now, i have my entire Linux on one 4G HD (minus some data files and things for Wine to play with on a FAT32 partion on a second drive). One partition for swap, one for everything else. From what i've heard, not a very good arangement if anything goes wrong. So, i'm thinking of backing up everything and making some more partitions. 1. If i understand things correctly, /, /boot, /lib, /bin, /sbin, /dev, parts of /etc, and maybe /root should be on one partition below the 1024th cyl for hysterical reasons, which do apply in my case. Do i understand correctly? 2. If i were partitioning a new HD, what would be a good size for the partition containing just those directories, that wouldn't waste too much space. Right now on my system, du -c reports 18M for that list, so i'm thinking 50M would allow plenty of room for expansion? 3. How about sizes for other partitions? /home i'm thinking 750M (personal workstation, 6 users that are just different mailing addresses for me), 1G for /var (with /tmp -> /var/tmp, is that a bad idea?), 2.1G for /usr. 4. hda1 should be /, but how about the rest? home var swap usr as 2 3 4 5? 5. What am i missing, that i think i fit everything (including 64M of swap) onto a 4G HD? ;) Just trying to learn here. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
RE: can bind keep best routes ?
Ummm ...what does bind have to do with routing? -Original Message- From: Jean-Yves F. Barbier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 07, 1999 6:07 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: can bind keep best routes ? Hi all, I think bind is able to keep the best routes in a file. Is it really possible? And how can I set it up? I'd like to keep all the routes used to access certain web servers. -- Jean-Yves Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Membre fondateur du CGE "La justice immanente est rarement imminente." P. DAC Boycott Intel, watch: http://www.bigbrotherinside.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
RE: xfstt
Thanks to this thread, I "FINALLY" got xfstt to work. I found out that once you have xset +fs set for your port, you can't restart xfstt without restarting the whole X system. Anyhow, took me awhile to get it working. I have one question though. I could have sworn the outlook 2000 ttf worked once in netscape and it looked great. Now whenever i select the outlook font (which i got from win), it just displays a mess. It does this with one or two others. Is this normal? Brendon -Original Message- From: Alisdair McDiarmid [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 10, 1999 3:18 PM To: Arcady Genkin Subject: Re: xfstt On Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 06:07:41PM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote: > Alisdair McDiarmid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 04:56:14PM -0400, Yifang Dai wrote: > > > Have you added unix/:7101 to your XF86Config file? > > > > Where in my XF86Config file, though? I can't see a fonts section. > > Here's an example: [snip] Thanks Arcady, and thanks also to Allan Wind. The problem is now solved and both xdm and Netscape are back to their old selves :) Thanks again, -- alisdair mcdiarmid [i won't tear again i won't breathe in the shards of what is left] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
RE: xfstt
Do you have an exaple for setting up xfs and replacing all the X fontpath config lines? Seems I can't get it working properly. BB -Original Message- From: Arcady Genkin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 10, 1999 3:08 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: xfstt Alisdair McDiarmid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 04:56:14PM -0400, Yifang Dai wrote: > > Have you added unix/:7101 to your XF86Config file? > > Where in my XF86Config file, though? I can't see a fonts section. Here's an example: Section "Files" RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" FontPath "unix/:7101" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/" EndSection -- Arcady Genkin "... without money one gets nothing in this world, not even a certificate of eternal blessedness in the other world..." (S. Kierkegaard) -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
RE: dependencies
I now notice that apt-get is stuck at 99.2% CPU usage when its stuck. There are no pending packages to be configured. Aptget -f install hit the "Correcting dependencies" message ..and got stuck. bb -Original Message- From: Mark Wagnon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 26, 1999 3:05 PM To: Brendon Baumgartner Subject: Re: dependencies Brendon Baumgartner wrote: > > I don't get any error messages. When i'm using dselect and it does "checking > dependencies" it gets stuck. It just sits there and does nothing. I did an > upgrade to my potato system using apt-get dist-upgrade. Nothing fancy. Real > odd if anything. Is there a way to rebuild the dependency database or > whatever it uses? I'm stuck for now. I don't know about re-building the dependency database. When I run apt-get update, it connects with each server, then tells me that it's reading the Package Lists and Building the Dependency Tree. You might try apt-get -f update. Also, if any packages are giving you problems, you can type dpkg --configure --pending. That will configure anything that's not already configure. If it encounters errors, it'll diplay them and suggest what packages may fix them. Try this and see what happens. If you're still having problems, then I suggest you post to the list. There are people there who are a million times more knowledgeable than I am. hth -- __ _ Mark Wagnon Debian GNU/ -o) / / (_)__ __ __ Chula Vista, CA /\\/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] _\_v/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ http://www.debian.org
apt-get errors
anyone know how I can fix this mess? Seems like the scripts are broken or something... viper:/var/cache/apt/archives# apt-get -f install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: xfig 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 14 not upgraded. 1 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/443kB of archives. After unpacking 2048B will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Selecting previously deselected package xfig. (Reading database ... 48281 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace xfig 1:3.2.2-10 (using .../xfig_1%3a3.2.2-11_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement xfig ... syntax error at /usr/lib/xaw-wrappers//XawWrapper.pm line 42, near ");" syntax error at /usr/lib/xaw-wrappers//XawWrapper.pm line 57, near ");" BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/update-xaw-wrappers line 98. dpkg: warning - old post-removal script returned error exit status 2 dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... syntax error at /usr/lib/xaw-wrappers//XawWrapper.pm line 42, near ");" syntax error at /usr/lib/xaw-wrappers//XawWrapper.pm line 57, near ");" BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/update-xaw-wrappers line 98. dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xfig_1%3a3.2.2-11_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 2 syntax error at /usr/lib/xaw-wrappers//XawWrapper.pm line 42, near ");" syntax error at /usr/lib/xaw-wrappers//XawWrapper.pm line 57, near ");" BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/update-xaw-wrappers line 98. dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/xfig_1%3a3.2.2-11_i386.deb E: Sub-process returned an error code (1) viper:/var/cache/apt/archives#
gnome session-panel & X problems
I installed gnome and e. The session panel doesn't seem to load up. All i can do is right click and middle click. Also, another problem i'm having with X: When I Log out, the window manager closes, (the borders and such disapear) but the system doesn't return to gdm. It sits in X till i press ctrl-alt-bkspc. Anyone know why this might be? I can't figure it out. I'm running the latest potato. Brendon
telnet terminal gets garbled
I don't know why this happens, but when I telnet to my machine and I use dselect, emacs, or whatever. The text gets messed up. I use CRT for telneting. I have it set to vt100 and have the ansi box checked in the settings. I telnet to slackware boxes with the same settings and they work fine. It seems that Debian doesn't interpret what I type properly. Is there a way to fix this? bb
RE: gnome session-panel & X problems
I don't have an .xsession file, or mabye I dleted it in trying to clense the problem. I deleted all the X related hidden stuff. .gnome* and such. I tried to get it to revert to defaults to see if that would help, but it doesn't. Seems like gnome doesn't understand i want to exit!! Well, I thought the problem was sound (trying to play a sound on exit and getting stuck) ..but i got sound working and thats not the case. I've removed and reinstalled gnome too.Hmm ..to be continued. Anyone else see this problem? bb -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 03, 1999 8:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: gnome session-panel & X problems In a message dated 7/3/99 8:02:36 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << I installed gnome and e. The session panel doesn't seem to load up. All i can do is right click and middle click.> What does your .xsession file say? You might not have panel listed as booting up. < Also, another problem i'm having with X: When I Log out, the window manager closes, (the borders and such disapear) but the system doesn't return to gdm. It sits in X till i press ctrl-alt-bkspc. Anyone know why this might be? I can't figure it out. >> Why not just start an xterm and use the shutdown command? There's not really anything you can't do in X that you can in console. Hope this helps. Colin Winters
RE: gnome session-panel & X problems
I just went through my logs and I have the same errors in my .gnome-errors file. My .gnome-errors is 14k! Thats from one start of gnome, but it looks like they are mostly errors with sound. I'll try and fix that now and see what else happens. Brendon -Original Message- From: Didi Damian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 03, 1999 9:36 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: gnome session-panel & X problems Brendon Baumgartner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I installed gnome and e. The session panel doesn't seem to load up. All i > can do is right click and middle click. I have the same problem. Whenever I try to start the gnome panel and/or gmc they fail with this error: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/.enlightenment/cached/pager/ > panel ** WARNING **: Could not get name service! ** ERROR **: file goad.c: line 606 (real_goad_server_activate): assertion failed: (name_service != CORBA_OBJECT_NIL) aborting... Aborted If I issue the command a second time they start normal. This has the implications that I can't start either when I start X. If I 'exec gnome-session' in .xsession, I don't get the panel. If I specify to load the panel explicitely it just hangs for a moment and then it barfs out. I had this problem from the beginning,, with gnome 1.06 and yesterday I upgraded to 1.07 but it didn't solve it. Does anybody know what's wrong and how can I fix it ? TIA -- D.Damian -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
How to disable prompt "erase downloaded debs"
Is it possible to stop dselect from asking "Do you want to erase the downloaded .deb files (y/n)?" prompt? There is an option in apt-get for this already. I'd rather have it default to no! I keep pressing enter and nuking hundreds of megs! what can i do?? bb
more about garbled terminal
Okay, I seem to have found a work around, but how can I fix it properly? When I telnet into Debian w/CRT and I type: set | grep TERM, i get: TERM=linux. If I do: export TERM=vt100, emacs and dselect work fine. Without doing this, emacs and dselect get garbled after using them for a bit and don't display things in the correct places. How can I get it to work properly automatically? I've never had this problem with other distributions. I thought this might be a problem with /etc/termcap, but it doesn't exist on my Debian box. After that I was a little confused, but there must be something I don't know =) Brendon
RE: more about garbled terminal
As far as my understanding goes. All of this should be auto configured and setup my the interaction btw the terminal and telnet daemon. bb -Original Message- From: Dan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 05, 1999 6:12 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: more about garbled terminal How is this not proper? I mean, if you are using vt100, then setting the environment variable to vt100 should be the proper way. Am I missing something? >From: Brendon Baumgartner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Debian-user >Subject: more about garbled terminal >Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 17:29:22 -0700 > >Okay, I seem to have found a work around, but how can I fix it properly? > >When I telnet into Debian w/CRT and I type: set | grep TERM, i get: >TERM=linux. > >If I do: export TERM=vt100, emacs and dselect work fine. Without doing >this, >emacs and dselect get garbled after using them for a bit and don't display >things in the correct places. How can I get it to work properly >automatically? I've never had this problem with other distributions. > >I thought this might be a problem with /etc/termcap, but it doesn't exist >on >my Debian box. After that I was a little confused, but there must be >something I don't know =) > >Brendon > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < >/dev/null > ___ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
RE: more about garbled terminal
Sorry for being dense maybe, but I don't understand the solution. What does screen have to do with garbled stuff? The problem I face is TERM=linux when I login via CRT. Nothing to do with screen. brendon -Original Message- From: Dan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 05, 1999 10:06 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: more about garbled terminal Good news! I installed the `screen' package and it works like a charm... I set my configuration to ansi and used grep to make sure and this is what I got: TERM=ansi _=TERM Then I shut down the telnet session, started a new one, logged in using vt100 and this is what I got after using grep: TERM=vt100 If that isn't enough, I tested it further by setting the terminal type in my client to dec-whatever the hell. This is my responce from grep: TERM=dec-vt100 So in conclusion, this is the answer to all of the problems. Let me know if it works for you. >From: Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: more about garbled terminal >Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 04:25:40 GMT > >Hey, I found something. Go to dselect and look under All Packages and >Opt_misc there is a package there called `screen', it says it emulates >different screens on virtual terminals its worth a check out... > >>From: Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >>Subject: Re: more about garbled terminal >>Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 03:40:50 GMT >> >>I see your point if you use the real terminal (monitor hooked to linux >>box) >>and if you use a telnet. I just hooked up my monitor to my server after I >>set the env var to vt100 to satisfy my telnet. The real terminal was >>skrewed >>up, so I had to set it back to ansi. I suppose it is the telnet daemons >>responsibility. I'll have to look into it. >> >> >>>From: Brendon Baumgartner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-user@lists.debian.org >>>Subject: RE: more about garbled terminal >>>Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 20:20:03 -0700 >>> >>>As far as my understanding goes. All of this should be auto configured >>>and >>>setup my the interaction btw the terminal and telnet daemon. >>> >>>bb >>> >>>-Original Message- >>>From: Dan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>Sent: Monday, July 05, 1999 6:12 PM >>>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >>>Subject: Re: more about garbled terminal >>> >>> >>>How is this not proper? I mean, if you are using vt100, then setting the >>>environment variable to vt100 should be the proper way. Am I missing >>>something? >>> >>> >From: Brendon Baumgartner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> >To: Debian-user >>> >Subject: more about garbled terminal >>> >Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 17:29:22 -0700 >>> > >>> >Okay, I seem to have found a work around, but how can I fix it >>>properly? >>> > >>> >When I telnet into Debian w/CRT and I type: set | grep TERM, i get: >>> >TERM=linux. >>> > >>> >If I do: export TERM=vt100, emacs and dselect work fine. Without doing >>> >this, >>> >emacs and dselect get garbled after using them for a bit and don't >>>display >>> >things in the correct places. How can I get it to work properly >>> >automatically? I've never had this problem with other distributions. >>> > >>> >I thought this might be a problem with /etc/termcap, but it doesn't >>>exist >>> >on >>> >my Debian box. After that I was a little confused, but there must be >>> >something I don't know =) >>> > >>> >Brendon >>> > >>> > >>> >-- >>> >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>< >>> >/dev/null >>> > >>> >>> >>>___ >>>Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com >>> >>> >>>-- >>>Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < >>>/dev/null >>> >>> >>>-- >>>Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < >>>/dev/null >>> >>> >> >> >>___ >>Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com >> >> >>-- >>Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < >>/dev/null >> >> > > >___ >Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < >/dev/null > ___ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
RE: more about garbled terminal
Awesome. Well, at least for some reason your message here embarked me on a new idea. My problem has something to do with something I run in my .profile. I think i'll have some new questions now =) . Aite folks, I copied someone's .profile and it has some weird prompt stuff ..that for some reason sets TERM=linux ...whew. ..all fixed. bb -Original Message- From: Dan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 05, 1999 10:06 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: more about garbled terminal Good news! I installed the `screen' package and it works like a charm... I set my configuration to ansi and used grep to make sure and this is what I got: TERM=ansi _=TERM Then I shut down the telnet session, started a new one, logged in using vt100 and this is what I got after using grep: TERM=vt100 If that isn't enough, I tested it further by setting the terminal type in my client to dec-whatever the hell. This is my responce from grep: TERM=dec-vt100 So in conclusion, this is the answer to all of the problems. Let me know if it works for you. >From: Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: more about garbled terminal >Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 04:25:40 GMT > >Hey, I found something. Go to dselect and look under All Packages and >Opt_misc there is a package there called `screen', it says it emulates >different screens on virtual terminals its worth a check out... > >>From: Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >>Subject: Re: more about garbled terminal >>Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 03:40:50 GMT >> >>I see your point if you use the real terminal (monitor hooked to linux >>box) >>and if you use a telnet. I just hooked up my monitor to my server after I >>set the env var to vt100 to satisfy my telnet. The real terminal was >>skrewed >>up, so I had to set it back to ansi. I suppose it is the telnet daemons >>responsibility. I'll have to look into it. >> >> >>>From: Brendon Baumgartner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-user@lists.debian.org >>>Subject: RE: more about garbled terminal >>>Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 20:20:03 -0700 >>> >>>As far as my understanding goes. All of this should be auto configured >>>and >>>setup my the interaction btw the terminal and telnet daemon. >>> >>>bb >>> >>>-Original Message- >>>From: Dan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>Sent: Monday, July 05, 1999 6:12 PM >>>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >>>Subject: Re: more about garbled terminal >>> >>> >>>How is this not proper? I mean, if you are using vt100, then setting the >>>environment variable to vt100 should be the proper way. Am I missing >>>something? >>> >>> >From: Brendon Baumgartner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> >To: Debian-user >>> >Subject: more about garbled terminal >>> >Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 17:29:22 -0700 >>> > >>> >Okay, I seem to have found a work around, but how can I fix it >>>properly? >>> > >>> >When I telnet into Debian w/CRT and I type: set | grep TERM, i get: >>> >TERM=linux. >>> > >>> >If I do: export TERM=vt100, emacs and dselect work fine. Without doing >>> >this, >>> >emacs and dselect get garbled after using them for a bit and don't >>>display >>> >things in the correct places. How can I get it to work properly >>> >automatically? I've never had this problem with other distributions. >>> > >>> >I thought this might be a problem with /etc/termcap, but it doesn't >>>exist >>> >on >>> >my Debian box. After that I was a little confused, but there must be >>> >something I don't know =) >>> > >>> >Brendon >>> > >>> > >>> >-- >>> >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>< >>> >/dev/null >>> > >>> >>> >>>___ >>>Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com >>> >>> >>>-- >>>Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < >>>/dev/null >>> >>> >>>-- >>>Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < >>>/dev/null >>> >>> >> >> >>___ >>Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com >> >> >>-- >>Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < >>/dev/null >> >> > > >___ >Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < >/dev/null > ___ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
RE: Sound - ALSA or kernel?
Hmm, you'll have to use isapnp for it. I know there is a awe howto out there also. Another thing is to check the kernel docs. There is some awe stuff in there. Good luck. From my soundcard experiences, using oss in the kernel is much easier. I hear alsa is better, but if you don't need its "betterness" ... go the easy way till alsa is mroe integrated and improved. bb -Original Message- From: Carley, Jason (Australia) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 05, 1999 10:46 PM To: 'debian-user list' Subject: Sound - ALSA or kernel? I was after ideas on the best way to get my Awe 64 running under slink. Should I use the ALSA drivers or the kernel modules. Under SuSE I had great difficulty with isapnp issues and the kernel modules. Thoughts? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
RE: other news questions
So an ISP uses inn, but do they use nntpcache? What does it do exactly? I
understand it caches, but how, what rules, etc? Well, I'll be setting up
some kind of news system, not sure what yet
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Subject: other news questions
I have been following the thread about news, inn, nntpcache, etc.
I would also like to set up a news server. I currently have installed
but have not configured inn and nntpcache. I would like to have
my setup mirror they way an isp would setup a news server.
What is the best way of going about doing this.
I know there is a huge O'Reilly book on news so this is probably not
a simple matter. Is there some good documentation or an online primer
I can look at? Thanks.
O ya, what is a newsfeed?
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RE: windowmaker and gnome
It should already be loading, you might find a bunch of errors in your .xsession. it appears there is some bug in loading gnome-panel when you load it the first time. Other times seem to work. bb -Original Message- From: Aaron Solochek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 1999 9:59 PM To: debian- user Subject: windowmaker and gnome Ok, I think gnome is running fine however I want the panel and midnight commander to start when I startx. Putting these in ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/autostart causes windowmakeer to freeze just as it loads. So how can I get the panel to autoload? Also, on a more general note, is there someway to get autoloading apps to be autoplaced, eventhough I have manual placement turned on? I am basically trying to avoid having to click the mouse to place my eterm when X starts. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Squid + modroamin
How can I get squid + junkbuster + modroaming to work? I think the problem is that I have my browser setup for proxing to junkbuster which goes to squid. Modroaming doesn't appear to work through the proxy. If I don't proxy, it works fine. Is there a way around this? I'm using potato (latest) and Netscape 4.6. (windows) Thanks. Brendon
Q: pts? vs ttyp?
I had a problem recently with running out of available ports on a server. I switched to UNIX98 in trying to resolve the problem. So far, I haven't had a problem, but now I notice that some people who access the server connect as pts/? And some connect as ttyp?. All pts connections are made with telnet and ssh1. ttyp connections are listed when someone connects with ssh2 or if I enable ttysnoop. Should I be concerned about this? What is the difference? Any further help would be great. This is puzzling. Brendon
bashrc file gone! Where is it?
I can't seem to find the .bashrc file. I checked all over for it. According to the debian package search on their website, its suppose to be in the bash package, but I installed that again, and its not there! What can I do to find it?? Thanks. Brendon
dselect wants to remove everything! Stop!
Anyone know why, everything in dselect is set to uninstall? How do i reset the damn thing? I think debs are great, but having to use dsleect is just a nightmare. Thanks for any help! Brendon
Confused package database
I somewhat screwed up my package database and had to revert to an old one. Now it thinks I have some stuff that is installed which isn't and some that it thinks is installed and is not. WHen I run install in dselect, I get a lot of these. I guess i'm saying, how do I reinitialize the package database? dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `wdiff' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed. dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `cftp' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed. THanks, Brendon
RE: Newbie Questions
First of all, upgrading from slink to potato is quite a lot of changes. The system is going to update about every package on your machine. I beleive E 16 requires a lot of things in potato, so no getting around upgrading. What error is apt giving you? For sound, I would check the How-tos or the archive. It can get involved... Bb -Original Message- From: Brian Neal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 7:16 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Newbie Questions Hi all, I am new to Debian and Linux in general. I managed to get an install working, then got X going. I am currently using the slink versions of gnome and enlightenment. Last night I got brave and figured out apt-get and ran out and downloaded the latest gnome. Question 1) The new gnome looks good but the help icon doesn't work. When I look at it's properties I see "gnome-help-browser" however this doesn't seem to be installed anywhere on my machine. Where do I get this? Question 2) I decided to try and apt-get the latest enlightenment. I added unstable to my sources.list file and did apt-get update apt-get install enlightenment It went out and downloaded a ton of stuff, some of it looks suspiciously unnecessary (like g++, gcc, gnat) as well as an enlightenment *.deb file. But several errors occurred during the install and it suggested I do a apt-get update to fix. This didn't seem to work either. Any tips for getting the latest enlightenment? Question 3) How do I get sound working? I found a generic Linux FAQ in /usr/doc that talked about recompiling the kernel. This sounds scary but I could try it. But first, is there a specific Debian method that I don't know about that I could try first? Thanks very much!!! Brian -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
NIS over Internet
>From what I understand NIS isn't encrypted. NIS+ is, but NIS+ doesn't work out of the box and requires a bunch of extra shit to make work. Is there a way to ssh yp or something to get it working? I'd like to use it, but all my servers are spread apart. Thanks. bb
RE: kerneld won't go away!
I added a line "noauto" in /etc/modules file -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stuart Ballard Sent: Saturday, November 20, 1999 1:57 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: kerneld won't go away! Why is it that, even after religiously running update-rc.d -f kerneld remove and /etc/init.d/kerneld stop, kerneld keeps coming back every time the modutils package is upgraded? I get a warning that I almost certainly shouldn't be running it, and then it starts it back up and installs it back into rc.d. How do I make kerneld go away? Thanks, Stuart. PS does *anyone* know what's up with mozilla? Will debian ever get M11? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
RE: ipchains
>From my understanding, all the rules should be in /etc/ipmasq/rules -Original Message- From: Colin Marquardt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 21, 1999 1:54 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: ipchains * Sven Esbjerg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Nov 20, 1999 at 11:54:39AM -0500, Rick Knebel wrote: >> In RedHat I put my ipchain rules in rc.local so they start up at bootime. >> Where in debian can I put these. > The correct place for bootscripts in Debian is /etc/rcS.d . Normally you would > put the actual script in /etc/init.d and a symlink to it from /etc/rcS.d . ...and these symlinks can be set up with /usr/sbin/update-rc.d (mentioning this before you do this by hand). -- | Re: Kernel size is 666K! I kid you not! | by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 26, @08:50AM | I came home from a Barry Manilow concert once and had 666 burned into | my forehead! I shit you not![Kernel 2.2.0 is announced on /.] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Lock file & Debs over NFS
I can't get access to my debs on my desktop over the network. This lock file is getting in my way! Okay my laptop hostname is debian (just installed) and my desktop is viper. For some reason when I do apt-get dist-upgrade, a lock file is created and it won't delete it and complete the command. Also, my archive cache directory has been changed to /mnt/debs on both machines. It works fine on my desktop, but the laptop which accesses the debs via nfs doesn't like it. Any ideas? debian:/mnt/debs# rm lock debian:/mnt/debs# apt-get dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: perl-base 39 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. E: Could not get lock /mnt/debs/lock - open (13 Permission denied) E: Unable to lock the download directory debian:/mnt/debs# mount /dev/hda3 on / type ext2 (rw,errors=remount-ro,errors=remount-ro) proc on /proc type proc (rw) viper:/mnt/debs on /mnt/debs type nfs (rw,addr=10.0.0.1) debian:/mnt/debs# Export file on viper: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt# cat /etc/exports # /etc/exports: the access control list for filesystems which may be exported # to NFS clients. See exports(5). /mnt/aptdebian(rw,no_root_squash) /mnt/apt/archives debian(rw,no_root_squash) /mnt/debs debian(rw,no_root_squash) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt#
Re: ftp.au.debian.org mirror
Stef VK5HSX wrote (Tuesday 30 November 2004 11:05 pm): > Anyone else having problems accessing the ftp.au.debian.org mirror for > downloads and updates? I noticed the same thing. www.planetmirror.com, the mob that hosts this mirror, had on their webpage at the time a note explaining they knew it was down. It's been back up the past few days. Currently the problem is mentioned as being solved on their homepage. Peace, Brendon pgpEfhvhVBF7K.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: changing the mountpoint for CD-ROM|RW , Related Question
Paul E Condon wrote (Monday 03 January 2005 3:31 am): > Now I wonder what is the rational for this change? Where can I find a > Debian policy doc. that explains this? and suggestions as to how to > benefit from it? This is not a complaint, just a few questions. And what about those of us who aren't planning to reinstall their system via sarge? I've been running sid since potato. Is there any benefit in changing the mount points manually? Or might this be done automatically in the future? Also TIA. Brendon pgpKMgzdZQ0Qk.pgp Description: PGP signature
nfsd shutdown problems
When I reboot my system (typing reboot), it hangs right when NFS starts to shutdown. The message where it hangs is below. "Unexporting directories for NFS kernel daemon" My kern.log file has: Sep 13 17:20:28 viper kernel: nfsd: terminating on signal 2 Sep 13 17:20:28 viper last message repeated 7 times Sep 13 17:22:08 viper kernel: portmap: server localhost not responding, timed out Sep 13 17:22:08 viper kernel: rpciod: active tasks at shutdown?! Sep 13 17:23:30 viper kernel: Kernel logging (proc) stopped. Sep 13 17:23:30 viper kernel: Kernel log daemon terminating. I'm running version: nfs-kernel-server .2-1 nfs-common .2-1 Anyone run into this or have a clue? Thanks, Brendon
xfs-xtt - cannot establish any listening sockets
I'm trying to setup xfs-xtt, and when starting the process as user nobody "xfs-xtt -user nobody" I can a fatal error to the effect it can't establish any listening sockets. When I just run it as root without the -user param. it loads fine. So the question How can it run as nobody and not get the error? (get access to listening sockets) Tks Brendon
RE: sound question
What about modconf in kernel 2.4? It doesn't seem to work because of the directories the modules are put in. brendon -Original Message- From: Allan F. Caetano [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 5:23 AM To: Adam C Powell IV Cc: Daniel Pittman; Andrew Dixon; debian-user@lists.debian.org; debian-laptop@lists.debian.org Subject:Re: sound question >>>>> "Adam" == Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Adam> Daniel Pittman wrote: >> Andrew Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > >> > Hi All, I just recompiled my kernel so that my sound now works. The >> > only problem is that I have to enter: >> > >> > modprobe nm256 >> > >> > in order to get the module to load into the kernel. Any body know how >> > I can automate this or get it to run at startup. >> >> Add the name of any modules you want loaded at startup to the file >> '/etc/modules'. Adam> The "right way" to do this is to add it using modconf. But AFAIK this just adds Adam> it to /etc/modules (along with any arguments the module might need). Actually, modconf(8) also modifies /etc/modules.conf, where the arguments to the modules are defined. But, you're right, using modconf is the "right way" to go about it. cheers, -- Allan F. Caetano Universo On Line - EngProd - F: (11) 224 4418 ComVc: 479966 ICQ: 68214944 "Who is this peer that keeps resetting my connection? I have a broken pipe I wanna hit him with!" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: 2.2.10-14 i686 SMP: IDE RAID-5 array hangs on mount
Okay, what about md v.90 in kernel >= 2.3.40 or 2.4? I checked 2.3.40 and the old raid is in it. Where can i get a kernel that has new raid that is at least 2.2.14 or better? bb -Original Message- From: Peter Samuelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 3:31 AM To: Adam C Powell IV Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: 2.2.10-14 i686 SMP: IDE RAID-5 array hangs on mount [Adam Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] > Okay, but the current RAID in 2.2.14 doesn't work now (for SMP), and > doesn't work right (if it's being replaced). I guess one could ask, > how did this happen? IIRC, Ingo was rewriting RAID during the Linux 2.1 cycle. Somehow it didn't make it into the main tree before Linus declared the (first) feature freeze. The new-style RAID is better than the old in all respects, *but* it requires a new userspace toolset, so it is *not* in any way a drop-in replacement. After 2.2 came out (or maybe shortly before), some people started pushing hard to get RAID 0.90 into the mainstream kernel. But by then it was too late. You see, as bad as it looks to have old, broken RAID in the kernel and new 'n' improved RAID in a patch somewhere, it looks just as bad (from some people's perspective anyway) to force people to upgrade their userspace tools when moving from (say) kernel 2.2.3 to 2.2.4. Similar with knfsd and ISDN. When 2.2.0 shipped, much-improved versions of both knfsd and ISDN were out there, but the diffs were too large to drop them into a kernel that was supposed to be near-stable. Happily, Alan decided that for 2.2.14, since the new knfsd does not require userspace tool upgrades, he could put the new one in. New ISDN didn't get merged until mid-2.3, and that will *not* go in 2.2. It's a release management thing. You just *can't* break your userspace in the middle of a stable kernel, no matter how much it seems to make sense, unless there's a reason as important as, say, security. > -bool 'Multiple devices driver support' CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD > +bool 'Unmaintained multiple devices driver support' CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD Looks good to me. (Not that my opinion is worth anything in this context.) Peter -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: MUAs that compare with Outlook (your chance to show how much better Linux is than MS!!)
s it OE.exe? been too long). If you're lucky, it might work. If not you could try fiddling around with configuration options. Be sure to install both wine and winesetuptk. However I must agree with the previous post, if you don't want to, or don't have the time to learn GNU/Linux and it's applications then you shouldn't bother. If Windows and Outlook serve you well, why switch to Linux. Evolution and Aethera come close to Outlook in looks, however as someone else mentioned they are both in heavy development and might not contain the features you require. Evolution is currently more complete than Aethera. Personally I like KMail. Cheers, Brendon Leese
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Re: kernel compiling problem
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 09:17:21AM -0300, GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI wrote: > Hi all. > > I'd performed a clean woody installation from CDs and added > kernel-package to compile 2.4.4 kernel. I'd followed the steps from > kernel-package documentation and after make-kpkg without errors, there > was not any .deb file!!??? Which could be my error? How can I solve it? > > --ejg:wq! If there were no errors, then kernel-package creates a .deb under /usr/src. -- Brendon Colby Systems Administrator Midcontinent Communications pgputPgHSUj0K.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Mozilla on win2k :-(
On Tuesday 07 August 2001 22:06, you wrote: > The /unix/ in the URL makes me wonder if its really a win2k resource. > Besides, it seems to involve getting into the code. No thanks - still > strugging with Python. er, well.. it works with all platforms i believe. atleast quite a few of the preferences. Also, it has nothing to do with coding. yes, the preferences are basically just lines of javascript.. but all you have to do is copy and paste the wanted preferences to a certain file mentioned on the page. William Leese
Apache / PHP / SNMP
Greetings, I'm using (Debian Potato): apache-ssl 1.3.9.13-3 php44.0.3pl1-0potato2 php4-snmp 4.0.3pl1-0potato2 When I call the snmpget() function, the Apache-ssl error log shows: [Tue Feb 26 11:33:31 2002] [notice] child pid 2708 exit signal Segmentation fault (11) [Tue Feb 26 11:33:32 2002] [notice] child pid 2709 exit signal Segmentation fault (11) Is this a known bug with PHP? Apache-ssl? The SNMP libs? Is there a fix? Thanks. -- Brendon Colby Systems Administrator Midcontinent Communications
OT: Compaq Armada 1700
sorry for the OT post, and yes, i know they're ancient.. ;) does anyone know where the memory modules can be installed in this thing?
Re: OT: Compaq Armada 1700
On Friday 31 August 2001 19:18, you wrote: > sorry for the OT post, and yes, i know they're ancient.. ;) > > does anyone know where the memory modules can be installed in this > thing? ooh, nevermind.. underneath the keyboard, apparently :/ ..ah well. why is it you can spend hours trying to figure something out, giveup and scream for help.. then suddenly realise what you're doing wrong?.. bah. sorry for the spam.
Re: Free Matlab equivalent
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Is there a Debian -- or free -- equivalent of MATLAB. Have a look for "octave". (apt-get install octave) It's pretty similar. Peace, Brendon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Where is Alsa mixer?
Björn Johansson wrote: > I'm searching for Alsa mixer, where can I find it? I think the alsa-utils package has the alsamixer program. Peace, Brendon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question about using dpkg-deb:
Stefan O'Rear wrote: > There might be a similar directory for aptitude, but it's more likely > aptitude uses the apt cache. This is correct. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: (Sid) Net broken - Sending streams stall
Me again, same problem quoted below. Doesn't anyone have any ideas about this? Any logs I could look at, configs I could tweak or variables I could alter? I'm really perplexed by this one, and I'd hate to fix it using the Windows method (ie reinstalling). I'm desperate for some ideas! Is this really that weird a problem? Thanks, Brendon > The past week I've been experiencing some weird problems trying to upload data to various sites and send emails. It > seems FTP always stalls after 16384 bytes, and CVS seems to behave similarly, stalling after only a few sent packets > and waiting several minutes before its connection times out. Also having similar problems with emails, the difference > being they are much less than 16K, but the problem seems the same. I'm guessing that only TCP streams are > affected as UDP packets seem to make it out just fine (extensive testing in Enemy Territory confirms this). Individual > streams seem to behave independently, and downloads are unaffected by this problem and are working fine. I'm not > running a firewall (at least, I'm pretty sure I'm not). I have no clue what's causing this, but it appears to be something > specific to Sid since it doesn't happen in my Win98 partition (it's for games, sue me ;-) ), and it only started > happening within the past week or two. > > I'm at a loss how to continue to diagnose this. Any ideas or tips would be greatly appreciated. I'm not on the list, > please CC me. > > Running kernel 2.6.8 compiled from deb source package, connecting through 56k modem. If you think any other > system info might help I'd be glad to share it. > > Thanks, > Brendon Higgins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: (Sid) Net broken - Sending streams stall
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Looks like the TCP window scaling bug on subclass routing equipment bug to > me. > > Find the tcp_window_scale (or something similar) option under /proc/sys/net > and set it to zero as a workaround. Thanks for the post. I found /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_window_scaling and did an echo 0 to that. Alas, the problem remains. Either the workaround doesn't work around, or that isn't the problem. Any other ideas, anyone? Thanks, Brendon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: (Sid) Net broken - Sending streams stall
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Please verify if you don't have ECN enabled, but it really doesn't look > like an ECN problem at all. Uh, ECN? *puzzled* If I had changed anything about "ECN" on purpose I think I'd remember, but I don't remember doing anything regarding that particular acronym. At least, not manually. > If your computer can talk to a machine very near you (i.e. there is only > switching equipment between the two, no routers or firewalls) without > trouble, then you have a misconfigured router or firewall in the way. Well, my computer can talk to any other, to a degree. For some reason larger outgoing TCP streams being sent from my computer stall. My computer receives data just fine, but seems to have trouble sending it. Mind you, this only happens to individual streams, and it does not happen in Win98, which is why I suspect something in my Debian install is broken. Does the Linux TCP/IP implementation really differ that much from Windows that a problem like this is possible to exist in one but not the other? > I'd try to locate all of those using traceroute (won't flag > packet-filtering bridges, though), and request help from the local network > engineers to track it down. Oh dear, sounds like this is going from bad to worse... ;-) Thanks, Brendon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: (Sid) Net broken - Sending streams stall
Executive summary: KPPP is to blame, pon does not have the behaviour I described. Details: I knew older Debian's used to work, so I got out my old Potato CDs to see if this really was a problem with bad hardware disliking the Linux IP stack. My theory was that if it was bad hardware Potato would do the same weird things with file uploads. I always used KPPP to dialup. I like to have the docked icon and throughput graph available. Of-course, my Potato CDs didn't come with KDE, so I went the way of the console, using pppconfig/pon/poff and cftp. They worked fine and all test uploads went smoothly, just as you would expect. No weird stalling of uploads that I had experienced, or that you would expect if there was bad hardware in the way. That made me wonder what was different. It was KPPP. So I boot up Sid and try dialling by pon. Sure enough, uploads now worked flawlessly. (And I was able to commit a whole bunch of stuff that had been waiting for a month.) I hangup and try again in KPPP, and lo and behold uploads stall at 40K, just as it had been doing before. So there you go - something is very wrong with my KPPP config (or KPPP itself). I'm not in a hurry to fix it now that I have a workaround, but any ideas are welcome. I'll post config files on demand. ;-) Peace, Brendon PS: I'm subscribed, no more CC for me. You wrote: > On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Brendon Higgins wrote: > > I'd remember, but I don't remember doing anything regarding that > > particular acronym. At least, not manually. > > A new kernel could have it enabled by default, or something... > > > Well, my computer can talk to any other, to a degree. For some reason > > larger > > I mean through a router. It certainly is having trouble. > > > data just fine, but seems to have trouble sending it. Mind you, this only > > happens to individual streams, and it does not happen in Win98, which is > > why I suspect something in my Debian install is broken. Does the Linux > > TCP/IP implementation really differ that much from Windows that a problem > > like this is possible to exist in one but not the other? > > Yes. Linux TCP/IP is to Win98 TCP/IP what a P4 is to an original 80386SX. > > And there are a huge lot of completely buggy TCP/IP routers and firewalls > out there, that fail to work right as soon as something that was not being > done before is used. Never mind TCP/IP is forward-compatible, when > implemented correctly. > > Usually, it is Linux and the BSDs that hit those buggy routers first, since > the Windows TCP/IP stack is something of the stone age that can barely talk > to others. When you only use the 5 most common words in a language, it > gets difficult to find others that won't understand you... But don't ask > it to do anything too dificult. pgpkfYiYUsCgj.pgp Description: PGP signature
ALSA bug? Laptop headphone output depending on speaker channel setting
Seasonal greetings, Debian users!
I was wondering if anyone has pointers for an audio configuration issue. I have
Debian Testing running on a Dell laptop (Latitude E6320, audio chipset
detected as HDA Intel PCH, 92HD90BXX). The speaker output works fine. When I
plug in headphones, the system seems to detect that okay: it mutes the
speakers ("Speaker+LO" channel in alsamixer) and unmutes the headphones
("Headphone" channel).
The problem is that no sound comes out of my headphones.
I've noticed that I have to also unmute and restore volume of the Speaker+LO
channel to hear anything in the headphones (meanwhile, with headphones
connected, the laptop speakers are silent as you would expect). The Headphone
volume setting doesn't seem to matter at all, although muting that does also
cause the headphones to mute.
It all used to work fine, but probably a couple of years ago it started having
this behaviour. I suspect it was a kernel update, or maybe ALSA library - I
can't be certain - and put it off hoping the bug might just get fixed...
Any suggestions? I looked at the hdajackretask app, but no idea where I would
even start there.
Thanks in advance,
Brendon
Re: Re: ALSA bug? Laptop headphone output depending on speaker channel setting
Joel Roth wrote: > Do you have pulseaudio running on your system? > > It is a layer above ALSA, and could be related to your > issue. I do have PulseAudio typically running, but when I run pasuspender alsamixer the behaviour appears the same as before. I can also run pasuspender aplay -D hw:CARD=PCH,DEV=0 wavfile.wav (have to specify the output device because pulse remains the default, otherwise) and find no change. Even if I go as far as using systemctl --user stop on pulseaudio.socket and pulseaudio.service, the problem persists: headphones won't sound unless the speaker channel is not muted and has volume, even though no sound will actually be produced by the laptop's speakers while the headphones are connected. So I believe the problem is below PulseAudio. Thanks, Brendon
Re: ALSA bug? Laptop headphone output depending on speaker channel setting
On Saturday, December 26, 2020 3:48:15 A.M. EST Jan Girke wrote: > Remove the hdd/ssd from the laptop and use a spare to downgrade until > you find the version it worked and then compare the two states. I did more-or-less this, but instead using Debian live-CD images on a USB stick, and after some tedium I eventually realized that even the weekly live- CD of Testing (built yesterday) worked just fine. After some more searching I figured out what the difference was: the "Loopback Mixing" setting in alsamixer. It's apparently disabled by default, but for some reason mine had migrated to enabled. Enabling it seems to dictate that headphone levels are controlled through the "Speaker+LO" channel instead of the "Headphone" channel. Setting it back to disabled, and things are now back to normal. Mystery solved! Best, Brendon
Konqueror access keys (de)activate when running xine
Hi, I've got a weird one here. When I run xine in a "keep above others" window over a konqueror window, but with the konqueror window active, konqueror activates and deactivates access keys (the little yellow boxes with letters in them you get when you press CTRL) every ten seconds. I'm not sure where to start with this one. I hypothesise that xine is causing a CTRL keypress event, possibly to prevent screensaver, but I have no idea of the code in either xine or konqueror, so I could well be talking rubbish. Where do I take this? Who should I submit a bug to? I'm not sure if it's a konqueror bug or a xine bug. Not on the list, please CC me. Peace, Brendon pgpqYJWWger4u.pgp Description: PGP signature
Linux causing failing wake-on-RTC function on an ASUS A8N-SLI motherboard
Hi list, I have an ASUS A8N-SLI nForce4-based motherboard, running Debian testing. A few months back the wake-on-RTC function stopped working. It turns out that something about Linux is causing this. When I boot Linux, whether I shutdown properly or hit the power-button, wake-on-RTC won't work - the machine won't boot at a given time like I tell it to in the BIOS. However, if after setting the time to boot in the BIOS I switch the machine off before it gets a chance to boot, wake-on-RTC works just fine, and also, when booted into WinXP and shutdown properly. Interestingly, when booted to WinXP and powered-off manually (improperly), wake-on-RTC doesn't work. So I'm pretty perplexed. It's like there's something about the wake-on-RTC the motherboard forgets upon booting an OS, possibly from loading a driver, and WinXP, but not Linux, remembers to set it back when shutting down. Or something. I have a feeling it might've started around when the kernel went from 2.6.16 to 2.6.17, but I'm not sure. Anyone have any ideas where I should look? Who I should ask? Peace, Brendon pgpkb0f1CFRPc.pgp Description: PGP signature
How do I debug kernel panic that occurs while running X?
Hi list, For the better part of a year, now, something has been causing my machine to freeze. The mouse stops moving on the screen, pressing any key (including keys that should toggle lights) does nothing. The freezes are intermittent, without warning, and I've been unable to determine if there is any particular cause. I think the kernel is panicking, but I can't tell for sure. I don't think it caused by my hardware, either, because a Windows 7 install (Wintendo) seems to operate fine. The problem has never happened while I've been using the console, mostly because I'm there very rarely and I do the vast majority of my work in X. It's a desktop machine, after all. If it weren't for the fact of X being in the way when this happens, I might be far closer to finding the root cause of the problem I'm seeing. But the fact that I am unable to get any information at all from the kernel when the freeze occurs means I haven't been able to get anywhere with it in all this time. And yet it happens about once every few days. It's terrifically frustrating. I tried to get kdump working. I got as far as getting kexec running, and kdump claims to successfully load its kernel, but when I either manually cause a test panic or the bug happens, the kernel fails to start new, and so kdump never gets a chance to do its thing. kexec works fine to perform a regular restart the machine, though - which is irritating, actually, because it gets in the way when I wish to reboot into Wintendo. This issue is actually beginning to cause me some distress. There must be a way to extract panic info when X is running - how would the graphics driver writers debug things, otherwise? So does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can make some progress on diagnosing this? I'd appreciate being CC'd on replies, as I'm not sub'd to the list. Thanks! Peace, Brendon -- 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/201203012323.50867.blhigg...@gmail.com
Re: How do I debug kernel panic that occurs while running X?
Hi again, Charles Krinke wrote (Thu March 1, 2012): > On the next boot, /var/log/messages shoild contain the last printk's from > the kernel which would include any panic. Thanks. I'd already checked there, though, and no dice. The log just skips from the last innocuous kernel message to messages about the next boot. Nothing about what caused the reboot to be necessary. Jason Heeris wrote (Fri March 2, 2012): > I've had problems with write caching causing the last few messages to > be lost after a panic*, so if you don't see anything suspicious, maybe > turn off write caching with 'hdparm -W 0 /dev/whatever' for long > enough to reproduce the crash. Just in case. Thanks for the tip. I gave that a try using the manual invocation of a kernel panic (i.e., echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger) but I still get nothing in /var/log/messages about this event. So, I'm doubtful this'll work when a real panic strikes, unfortunately. FWIW, at the moment I'm running the kernel in testing, but this has been a problem since back about 2.6.38 or 39. (I even tried doing a git bisection at one point, but being an intermittent problem it's difficult to determine when a particular commit doesn't exhibit it - I think I screwed it up at some point.) Any more ideas? As I said, I tried getting kdump working but have been having trouble getting it to behave. Peace, Brendon -- 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/201203031228.44898.blhigg...@gmail.com
Re: How do I debug kernel panic that occurs while running X?
Hi, Jason Heeris wrote (Sun March 4, 2012): > The most watertight way I know of to capture kernel > output is a serial port and another computer. If, by any chance, you > have one on your machine Not really an option (at least, not an easy one), I'm afraid. I only have two machines, and neither of them have serial ports. Rendered obsolete, indeed. Sven Joachim wrote (Sun March 4, 2012): > Either log in via ssh if that is still possible, The computer has gone well beyond the point of responding to anything coming in over the network by the time it has frozen. > or use netconsole to capture kernel messages. Thanks for the links. This looked promising, but I cannot get it to function. I can get the problem machine connected to a netbook successfully (I can talk between them over UDP using netcat). However, netconsole refuses to transmit any messages. I install the module just as the article you linked to suggests, and it appears to be correct when I see it logged in dmesg: [103337.293616] netconsole: local port 6665 [103337.293626] netconsole: local IP 0.0.0.0 [103337.293632] netconsole: interface 'eth0' [103337.293637] netconsole: remote port [103337.293642] netconsole: remote IP 192.168.0.1 [103337.293646] netconsole: remote ethernet address ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff [103337.293654] netconsole: local IP 192.168.0.2 [103337.293754] console [netcon0] enabled [103337.293762] netconsole: network logging started But this doesn't seem to work - there's just nothing transmitted. I can't even get it to send messages to a netcat listener on the same machine. Have you (or anyone) found this approach works? Is there something I'm missing? Thanks for your help so far. Peace, Brendon -- 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/201203041717.11587.blhigg...@gmail.com
Re: Move from i386 to ia64?
Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote (Thursday 26 May 2005 4:47 pm): > > Are there any special steps to take to upgrade it? > > There's no such thing as an upgrade from 32-bit to native 64-bit. > You'd need to reinstall the OS. > > > Can I upgrade the kernel without upgrading the userspace apps? > > If you'd run in 64 bit mode - No. While I'm sure this is true, my understanding is that amd64 can run in either 32bit mode, which would require no reinstall or anything special, or 64bit more, which would require a reinstall. So, really, he wouldn't necessarily need to take special steps to upgrade it, it's just that in that case he wouldn't be taking much advantage of his new hardware. And then there is the thorny issue of running 32bit apps while in 64bit mode. I've been lead to the conclusion that it is possible, though I don't know nearly enough about it. Peace, Brendon pgpjUUueX6zLB.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: CDROM was confusing the drive: copy protection
I'm afraid I can't really help, but... H. S. wrote (Wednesday 22 June 2005 5:12 pm): > player to obtain it's lossless wma version of the tracks. Do I have to ... isn't "lossless wma" a contradiction in terms? Peace, Brendon pgpU7PySfTzFb.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: cdda2wav giving more than 700 MB of wav files
H. S. wrote (Friday 24 June 2005 8:23 am): > While making a backup a music CD, I noticed that I am getting around > 728MB of wav files from the original. If I understand the process correctly, this is entirely normal. You see, a given CD can either have up to 700MB of data or up to 80mins of audio. But 80mins of audio equates to 807.5MB of data! The reason for this is that in data mode a whole bunch of error-checking data is interspersed with the real data on the CD, and naturally the error-checking data takes up space. In audio mode this error-checking data is considered unnecessary and is not used, freeing space for more audio. If you were to add in the same error-checking to an audio CD you'd lose more than 10 minutes of available audio time. The quality flag of cdda2wav probably has no relation to the file size. WAV is a raw, uncompressed file type, so the size of a wav file for a given duration of audio is exactly predictable, (44100 samples/sec, 2 channels, 2 bytes/channel/sample. The size in bytes is then 44100 * 2 * 2 * duration in seconds.) If you want something smaller you'll have to look into some sort of compressed format. If for your purposes a lossy format is adequate, I'd suggest Ogg Vorbis. Otherwise, FLAC might be good (though it is larger than Vorbis, they're both smaller than WAV). Hope that helps, Brendon pgpHt7rPacEBu.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Having crashes with Wolfet that take the whole system down!
Mika Rastas wrote (Tuesday 28 June 2005 5:33 am): > Hi > > First of all, I have done some searching for wolfet bug reporting place > but did not find one. (Sorry) If you know the place to send this tell. The original creators of enemy territory (et, or wolfet) can be found at www.splashdamage.com . The makers of etpro can be found at etpro.anime.net . They probably have a much better clue about this than the nice folks here. I suggest you have a look in their forums. Good luck. Peace, Brendon pgpgMPWhMjUgl.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: KDE 3.4 in unstable
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote (Monday 18 July 2005 12:27 am): > Roby wrote: > >Hamster wrote: > >deb http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/kde-3.4.1 ./ > > Whenever someone suggests a third party repository, please add a note > saying that it is not official Debian and there might be problems > installing/using it. Perhaps the OP might know about it. But people > reading the archives on google might not. It'd probably be reasonably accurate to call it a"semi-official" repository. After all, it is maintained by the actual KDE Debian packagers. Peace, Brendon pgp5fk0UMQFfR.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: completely inane AOL questions
Nicos Gollan wrote (Monday 18 July 2005 9:20 pm): > would mean implementing a complete understanding of the language ...And any other language anyone might wish to swear in. Peace, Brendon pgpEVunjxDuvo.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Numlock at startup?
Ron Johnson wrote (Thursday 21 July 2005 9:57 pm): > For next time OP has a question like this: > $ apt-cache search numlock > gkrellm-leds - Keyboard LED monitor for GKrellM > numlockx - enable NumLock in X11 sessions > shermans-aquarium - Sherman's aquarium applet for GNOME 2 For the record, those using KDE can change the startup status of the keyboard numlock in the Keyboard tab, under Peripherals, in Control Centre. Peace, Brendon pgpvYTbWauB3q.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: apt problems
Sebastian Luque wrote (Wednesday 27 July 2005 7:12 am): > > I don't know what's going on in the mirror system. I had some weirdness > > over the last 3 or 4 days where I wasn't showing any new upgrades. > > One or two days I don't think anything of it, when it stretches to 3 or > > 4 I start to wonder. Looking at the obsoleted packages in synaptic > > displayed the xorg packages as obsolete and checking the available > > versions showed that an earlier set of packages was listed as the > > current unstable release. ??? > > Same here, I began worrying about this yesterday, after about 6 days > without updates showing up. I don't know about xorg packages, as I'm not > using them, but the lack of updates for so long is very unusual. I've been wondering about this too. I suspect that it might have something to do with ftp-master being taken down and moved the last few days, but I don't know nearly enough about the whole repository process to know if this hunch is correct or not. Anyone want to fill us in? Peace, Brendon pgpxZBnC12cex.pgp Description: PGP signature
