Very few packages selected during install
Hello, I have observed the following behavior with debian woody (3.0) installs: - if you say "no" to tasksel, a very very minimal set of packages are installed. - if you say "yes" to tasksel, but don't select any packages, a bunch more packages are installed than the above. my question is, how can I select the packages which the second option installed, and where can I read more about why this is happening (ie, what policy is this following?) thanks, jason pepas [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
memory leaks, and the proper way to interpret memory usage
Hi, I am tired of memory leaks, and the first step in solving them is figuring out what is causing them. today is a typical example. My box has been up for 5 days, running a single gdm gnome/nautilus session the entire time. mozilla has been running pretty much the entire time, with lots of windows being opened and closed. Over the course of 5 days, I notice my swap file slowly grow, but the number of apps/windows open stays the same. When the swapfile gets near full, I usually start closing applications until I have nothing open anymore, and then cycle my swapfile off and on to flush it out. However, today, as is usually the case, swapoff -a fails because it cannot allocate enough memory. Mind you, I have 512MB ram and a 256MB swap file. The only applicatios open are a gnome2 gdm session (with nautilus, no windows open), and a single window of slashdot in mozilla. Certainly, nothing which should even fill my RAM, let alone my swapfile. But top begs to differ: 19:38:02 up 5 days, 21:02, 5 users, load average: 0.09, 0.24, 0.24 103 processes: 100 sleeping, 2 running, 1 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 0.3% user, 1.9% system, 0.0% nice, 97.8% idle Mem:515388K total, 509860K used, 5528K free,8K buffers Swap: 262136K total,84496K used, 177640K free, 145820K cached PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 1525 jason 17 0 177M 176M 10148 S 0.0 35.0 69:04 mozilla-bin 1529 jason 17 0 177M 176M 10148 S 0.0 35.0 0:00 mozilla-bin 1530 jason 17 0 177M 176M 10148 S 0.0 35.0 0:10 mozilla-bin 1531 jason 17 0 177M 176M 10148 S 0.0 35.0 0:00 mozilla-bin 1532 jason 17 0 177M 176M 10148 S 0.0 35.0 0:23 mozilla-bin 6014 jason 17 0 177M 176M 10148 S 0.0 35.0 0:00 mozilla-bin 1345 root 7 -10 359M 91M 1744 S < 0.0 18.1 234:15 XFree86 1421 jason 17 0 80368 37M 4784 S 0.0 7.5 0:49 nautilus 1426 jason 17 0 80368 37M 4784 S 0.0 7.5 0:00 nautilus 1427 jason 17 0 80368 37M 4784 S 0.0 7.5 0:00 nautilus 1428 jason 17 0 80368 37M 4784 S 0.0 7.5 0:01 nautilus 1429 jason 18 0 80368 37M 4784 S 0.0 7.5 0:00 nautilus 1432 jason 18 0 80368 37M 4784 S 0.0 7.5 0:00 nautilus 1433 jason 17 0 80368 37M 4784 S 0.0 7.5 0:01 nautilus 1434 jason 17 0 80368 37M 4784 S 0.0 7.5 0:01 nautilus 31728 jason 17 0 22304 21M 15276 S 0.0 4.3 0:06 kmail 31738 jason 17 0 13744 13M 12424 S 0.0 2.6 0:00 kdeinit 31736 jason 17 0 11320 11M 10944 S 0.0 2.1 0:00 kdeinit 31733 jason 17 0 10904 10M 10596 S 0.0 2.1 0:00 kdeinit 31730 jason 17 0 10704 10M 10428 S 0.0 2.0 0:00 kdeinit 1419 jason 17 0 8152 8096 2164 S 0.0 1.5 2:26 gnome-panel 31711 jason 17 0 3408 3408 2480 S 0.0 0.6 0:00 irssi 1413 jason 17 0 3320 3316 824 S 0.0 0.6 2:38 sawfish 31704 jason 17 0 3208 3208 2132 S 0.0 0.6 0:00 xterm WTF?!? I would really appreciate it if someone could tell me what is going on here. The noteable details about my system which have remained constant while this problem has been going on are: I have always been running either the testing or unstable version of X, Gnome, and Mozilla, I have always been running the proprietary Nvidia X driver. I am currently using an older one, as the newest version manages to somehow get borked everytime i reboot, forcing me to "make install" it again. nice. Sorry for the ranty tone of this email, its just that having 512M of RAM and constantly running out of it is getting really old. Despite my bitchy attitude, I really am in search of enlightenment regarding memory allocation, ie, exactly how does one interpret all the different memory statistics, how does one nail down the source of a memory leak, etc. thanks, jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
nfs mount during debian install
Hi, Is using an nfs mount for / during the debian insall supported in any way? or plan to be supported? -jason pepas [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cdrom read errors.
hi all, investigating cdrom read errors. - error only occurs at the very end of the disc - error occurs wether using dd or cat - error occurs wether using hdparm or not - error occurs wether media is mounted or not - resulting iso seems just fine. - error seems to occur randomly among discs, but consistently for a single disc. (pts/8)jason@marsala:/tmp$ sdd if=/dev/cdrom of=foo.iso sdd: Input/output error. Error reading '/dev/cdrom'. sdd: Read 1116528 records + 0 bytes (total of 571662336 bytes = 558264.00k). sdd: Wrote 1116528 records + 0 bytes (total of 571662336 bytes = 558264.00k). (pts/8)jason@marsala:/tmp$ cat /dev/cdrom > foo2.iso cat: /dev/cdrom: Input/output error (pts/8)jason@marsala:/tmp$ mount /mnt/cdrom/ (pts/8)jason@marsala:/tmp$ cat /dev/cdrom > foo3.iso cat: /dev/cdrom: Input/output error after the error: (pts/8)root@marsala:~$ /sbin/hdparm /dev/cdrom /dev/cdrom: HDIO_GET_MULTCOUNT failed: Invalid argument I/O support = 0 (default 16-bit) unmaskirq= 0 (off) using_dma= 0 (off) keepsettings = 0 (off) HDIO_GET_NOWERR failed: Invalid argument readonly = 1 (on) readahead= 8 (on) HDIO_GETGEO failed: Invalid argument busstate = 1 (on) after running hdparm.sh: (pts/8)root@marsala:~$ /sbin/hdparm /dev/cdrom /dev/cdrom: HDIO_GET_MULTCOUNT failed: Invalid argument I/O support = 0 (default 16-bit) unmaskirq= 1 (on) using_dma= 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) HDIO_GET_NOWERR failed: Invalid argument readonly = 1 (on) readahead= 8 (on) HDIO_GETGEO failed: Invalid argument busstate = 1 (on) hdparm.sh: (/dev/cdrom is /dev/hdc) (pts/8)root@marsala:~$ cat /etc/init.d/hdparm.sh #! /bin/sh # hdparm script PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin MAXTOR=/dev/hda WD=/dev/hdb DVD=/dev/hdc BURNER=/dev/hdd case "$1" in start) echo -n "Adjusting drive parameters using hdparm... " # d1 = dma on # c3 = 32bit io w/sync # m16 = read upto 16 sectors at a time # u1 = unmask other interrupts while processing disk interrupt if [ `hostname` == "marsala" ] then hdparm -d1 -c3 -m16 -u1 $MAXTOR hdparm -d1 -c3 -m16 -u1 $WD hdparm -d1 -u1 $DVD # hdparm -d1 -u1 $BURNER fi echo "done." ;; stop) ;; restart|force-reload) ;; *) ;; esac exit 0 anyone have any ideas what is causing this? my only guess is that the cdrom is trying to read past the end of the media? thanks, jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
perl-doc package bug?
hello, I think there might be a bug with the perl-doc package in the testing branch. (pts/4)root@marsala:/var/cache/apt/archives$ apt-get install perl-doc Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: perl-doc 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 233 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/3886kB of archives. After unpacking 7516kB will be used. (Reading database ... 111847 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking perl-doc (from .../perl-doc_5.6.1-7_all.deb) ... Leaving `diversion of /usr/bin/perldoc to /usr/bin/perldoc.stub by perl-doc' dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/perl-doc_5.6.1-7_all.deb (--unpac k): trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/xsubpp.1.gz', which is also in package perl dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/perl-doc_5.6.1-7_all.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) (pts/4)root@marsala:/var/cache/apt/archives$ dpkg -i --force-overwrite perl-doc_ 5.6.1-7_all.deb (Reading database ... 111847 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking perl-doc (from perl-doc_5.6.1-7_all.deb) ... Leaving `diversion of /usr/bin/perldoc to /usr/bin/perldoc.stub by perl-doc' dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled: trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/xsubpp.1.gz', which is also in package perl Setting up perl-doc (5.6.1-7) ... (pts/4)root@marsala:/var/cache/apt/archives$ dpkg -l | grep perl ii libft-perl 1.2-13.1 Perl module for the FreeType library ii libperl5.6 5.6.1-7Shared Perl library. ii libperl5.8 5.8.0-14 Shared Perl library. ii libsgmls-perl 1.03ii-23 Perl modules for processing SGML parser outp ii perl 5.8.0-15 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Report ii perl-base 5.8.0-15 The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister. ii perl-doc 5.6.1-7Perl documentation. ii perl-modules 5.8.0-15 Core Perl modules. ii perl-tk800.024-1.1Perl module providing the Tk graphics librar -jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
perldoc bug?
hmm... (pts/4)jason@marsala:~$ perldoc -f sin No documentation found for "perlfunc". hrmm... (pts/4)jason@marsala:~$ dpkg -l | grep perl ii libft-perl 1.2-13.1 Perl module for the FreeType library ii libperl5.6 5.6.1-7Shared Perl library. ii libperl5.8 5.8.0-14 Shared Perl library. ii libsgmls-perl 1.03ii-23 Perl modules for processing SGML parser outp ii perl 5.8.0-15 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Report ii perl-base 5.8.0-15 The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister. ii perl-doc 5.6.1-7Perl documentation. ii perl-modules 5.8.0-15 Core Perl modules. ii perl-tk800.024-1.1Perl module providing the Tk graphics librar -jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: perldoc bug?
> Upgrade and try again. If it persists, file a bug. yup, that fixed it. perl 5.8 doesn't play nicely with perl-doc 5.6 -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: find a command i have recently used in bash
On Wednesday 29 January 2003 08:21 am, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > hello all > > i am sure there must be a way of doing it. i am not getting it though. > > let us say, i have done ls -l , etc etc > then i have done a few more commands at the prompt. > > now, i want to use that ls command again. is there a way inwhich i can > reach it quickly? for instance, i type ls and some other key and bash > completes from history? > > -- > regards, > sandip p deshmukh > --*** > BOFH excuse #40: > > not enough memory, go get system upgrade you can use the up arrow to reach previous commands. or you can grep your .bash_history, like grep ls ~/.bash_history -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Howto redirect output from a terminal
On Wednesday 29 January 2003 10:48 am, Michael Kahle wrote: > I am not sure how to ask for what I want here. But, here goes. I was > using dump to make a backup of a directory on my computer. This was > started from a terminal in X. As it was running I could see in the > terminal window all the status output from the program. Good. This backup > job took a long time to complete and so I went home while the backup was > still running. When at home I ssh'd into the box to see if the dump > process was still running, it was. Then I got to thinking, how can I see > the output of this program in my current ssh session? Is there a program > that exists to allow me to redirect the output of a program running in a > terminal to another terminal? I hope I am explaining this clearly. > > Thanks, > > Michael two options. the option I think you want is screen. while in an xterm, start screen. Now start executing commands like normal. When you are ready to log out, type CTRL+A, CTRL+D to detach the screen session. Later, when you ssh back into your machine, type "screen -r" to re-attach that session, just as it was. the second option is to use script. If you just want to capture the output of a program, start script, execute stuff, and then type exit to stop script. All screen ouput was logged to a file in the current directory. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cdrecord exit status 254
cdrecord appears to exit with status 254, which works fine from console, and burns good cd's, but causes make to think it failed, when it actually didn't. ideas? man page turns up nothing, google returns 2 other people asking my question with no answer (one in spanish). -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cdrecord exit status 254
> You know that without knowing anything about your cdrecord (pts/8)jason@marsala:~$ dpkg -l | grep cdrecord ii cdrecord 1.10+11a34-1 A command line CD/DVD writing tool > or Debian version (pts/8)jason@marsala:~$ cat /etc/debian_version testing/unstable > without knowing what you are trying to do as mentioned previously, I am trying to use cdrecord from a makefile. > and what cdrecord actually does as mentioned previously, it burns cd's correctly, but exits with status 254, causing make to beleive it failed when it acutally didn't. In this case I did not give a bunch of specifics, because I beleive everything is working correctly. That is, my question is a general one, not a question regarding my specific install. That question is, why would cdrecord exit 254 when it exits successfully? Since the cd's are fine, I assume cdrecord is working correctly, but has an odd policy of exit status? thanks for your reply, jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: find a command i have recently used in bash
> The .bash_history is only written when bash is exiting, so it won't > include commands you recently typed within the same session. That is to > say, it won't have anything since you most recently logged in. It's > also prone to missing some commands from previous sessions as well, in > cases in which you had multiple sessions running concurrently. This is > because bash reads ~/.bash_history when starting up, works with the > history in memory, then writes ~/.bash_history when exiting. thanks. I had noticed odd behavior regarding bash_history before, now I know why. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Automounting
On Wednesday 29 January 2003 01:41 pm, Johan Svedberg wrote: > Hi, everybody! > > I'm having some problems automounting Windows shares from my Debian > GNU/Linux system running unstable. However, mounting it manually with: 2 things: 1: From what you posted it appears you are trying to automount the C: drive, ie, most likely a hard drive. Is there a reason you don't simply have it mount automatically at bootup via fstab? (ie, no need for automounter) 2: if this is something other than a hard drive, you might look into supermount. supermount makes mounting essentially the same as it is on windows. discs are mounted when insterted, and unmounted when you hit the eject button. Supermount is a kernel patch: http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~quintela/supermount/ -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 384mb RAM installed but 57mb recognized at bootup..........huh ?
On Thursday 30 January 2003 08:47 am, Courtney Thomas wrote: > Greetings ! > > The motherboard specs say that pc100 ram should be used and I've > installed pc133. Is this a problem ? > > Else, how can this be remedied ? using PC133 is normally not a problem. However, take the RAM DIMM out and look at it. If it only has chips along one side of the PCB, this might be causing the problem. This "single sided RAM" usually shows up as only half capacity in older systems (though in this case, "older" could be as recent as 2 years or so). -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cdrecord exit status 254
> UTSL. It looks to me like cdrecord exits with -2 (which is 254 as an > unsigned char IIRC) when there are non-fatal errors. UTSL - good idea. why didn't I think of that? :) (pts/8)root@marsala:/tmp/cdrtools-2.0/cdrecord$ grep -i return * | grep "\-2" (pts/8)root@marsala:/tmp/cdrtools-2.0/cdrecord$ grep -i exit * | grep "\-2" cdrecord.c: comexit(errs?-2:0); you are right. looks like cdrecord exits witch -2 whenever errs is non-zero. there are 6 cases when errs++ occurs. cdrecord.c line number: 940 1077 1083 1094 1106 1134 This is the first time I have actually used apt-get source. For some reason I always expected browsing through the code to be a lot harder than this. Now I see the advantage in having the source readily available. Thanks for the pointer. > make will not throw a fit over non-zero exit status if you prefix the > command with a '-'; thus "-rm -f *~ *.o" will work even if no files > existed to be deleted. 'info make' for all the details. cool. thanks again. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Backup Consensus?
On Sunday 26 January 2003 03:32 pm, Grant Bowman wrote:
> Is there a place where a general consensus has been reached on exactly
> what is necesary to backup a Debian system? I'm sure this has been
> asked and answered many times before, so I am looking for URLs to where
> this has been discussed in the past.
for what it's worth, here's what I use to backup.
--- cut backup.marsala.sh ---
#!/bin/sh
# jason pepas's backup script - see http://jason.pepas.com
# shell script tutorials:
# http://www.freeos.com/guides/lsst/
# http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/programming/introbashscript.html
# --
# set variables:
# --
directoryname=`date +%Y-%m-%d`"_"`hostname`"_backup"
current="current_"`hostname`
fullbackuplabel="Full Backup of "`hostname`" on "`date '+%B %e, %Y'`
fullbackupname=`date +%Y-%m-%d`"_full.tar.gz"
fullbackuplogname=`date +%Y-%m-%d`"_full.log"
incrementalbackuplabel="Incremental Backup of "`hostname`" on "`date '+%B %e,
%Y'`
incrementalbackupname=`date +%Y-%m-%d`"_incremental"`date +%H%M`".tar.gz"
incrementalbackuplogname=`date +%Y-%m-%d`"_incremental"`date +%H%M`".log"
# --
# functions:
# --
fullbackup()
{
# create backup directory
if test ! -e /backup/$directoryname; then
echo "Creating /backup/$directoryname directory"
mkdir /backup/$directoryname
fi
# create (or update) a shortcut called current to this directory
echo "Updating /backup/$current pointer"
rm /backup/$current
ln -s /backup/$directoryname /backup/$current
# keep track of creation date of full backup (used with incremental
backups)
echo "Updating /backup/$current/lastfullbackupdate"
date>/backup/$current/lastfullbackupdate
# create backup
echo "Running tar..."
tar --create --label "$fullbackuplabel" --files-from
/root/scripts/whattobackup --exclude-from /root/scripts/whatnottobackup
--ignore-failed-read --absolute-names --verbose --gzip --file
/backup/$current/$fullbackupname > /backup/$current/$fullbackuplogname 2>&1
gzip /backup/$current/$fullbackuplogname
echo "Done. Created /backup/$current/$fullbackupname"
echo "To view the log, type:"
echo " zcat /backup/$current/$fullbackuplogname"
}
incrementalbackup()
{
# create variable with date of last full backup
lastfullbackupdatevar=`cat /backup/$current/lastfullbackupdate`
# check for existence of incremental backup
if test -e "/backup/$current/$incrementalbackupname"; then
echo "Your last incremental backup was less than 60 seconds ago."
echo "Wait a minute and try again."
else
# create incremental backup
echo "Running tar..."
tar --create --label "$incrementalbackuplabel" --files-from
/root/scripts/whattobackup --exclude-from /root/scripts/whatnottobackup
--ignore-failed-read --after-date "$lastfullbackupdatevar" --absolute-names
--verbose --gzip --file /backup/$current/$incrementalbackupname >
/backup/$current/$incrementalbackuplogname 2>&1
gzip /backup/$current/$incrementalbackuplogname
echo "Done. Created /backup/$current/$incrementalbackupname"
echo "To view the log, type:"
echo " zcat /backup/$current/$incrementalbackuplogname"
fi
}
# --
# main routine:
# --
# first get a list of all packages installed.
dpkg --get-selections > /etc/apt/selections
# clear out apt's packages
#apt-get clean
# now perform the backup.
echo "-- Backup Script Running... --"
if test `date +%A` = "Sunday" && ! -e "/backup/$directoryname"; then
# if it is sunday and you havent yet done a full backup, do so
echo "Performing Weekly Full Backup..."
fullbackup;
elif test ! -e /backup/$current/*full.tar.gz; then
# if there is no current fullbackup, make one
echo "No Current Full Backup - Performing Full Backup Now..."
fullbackup;
else
# otherwise, do an incremental backup
echo "Performing Incremental Backup..."
incrementalbackup;
fi # end if statement
echo "-- Backup Script Done --"
--- cut ---
(pts/6)jason@marsala:/root/sbin-scripts$ cat whattobackup.marsala
/boot
/etc
/home
/root
/temp
/usr/local
/var
(pts/6)jason@marsala:/root/sbin-scripts$ cat whatnottobackup.marsala
*.mp3
*.mpg
*.avi
*.wav
*.mov
*.asf
*.rm
*.iso
*.flac
*.zip
*.exe
data.bin
/usr/local/fonts
/usr/local/games
/usr/local/j2re
/usr/local/j2re1.4.0
/usr/local/winbackup
/var/cache/apt/archives
-jason pepas
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Re: Backup Consensus?
> a bootable cd collection as a backup. now that's *cool*. you might check out mondo as well. apt-cache show mondo -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Download installed .debs??
> apt-get install --reinstall > (It'll use the cached .deb's in /var/cache/apt/archives when it finds > it, though) > > If you really want to _download_ new, rm that deb from the directory > and run the above command. you might try this in combination with -d (download only). -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OT: lhd, where have you gone?
does anyone know what happened to the linux hardware database (lhd.zdnet.com)? -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: list delay
On Thursday 30 January 2003 06:15 pm, Michael Wardle wrote: > Hi > > I've only recently subscribed to debian-user, and I notice that I > receive messages sent to the list 4 or 5 hours after they have been > sent. Among other things, this typically results in several identical > responses to a question, as subscribers are unaware that somebody has > already responded. I do not notice this on any other mailing lists. > > I suspect this issue has been raised previously, but I can't find any > mention of it in a FAQ or in recent list posting. > > Is this a known problem, and is there anything that can be done to > improve the speed of the Debian mailing lists? > > Thanks > > -- > Michael Wardle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Adacel Technologies I have been experiencing this too, though it only seems recently (within the past few months), which corresponded to changing ISP's, but perhaps that wasn't my problem after all. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
inteligently downgrade packages?
I recently wanted to install perlmagick, which depends on an older version of perl-api than the one currently on my system. This can be remedied by specifying which branch of perl I want (ie, perl/testing), however, this causes all the packages which depend on my current version of perl-spi to be removed. My question is, does there exist a way to tell apt to downgrade a package, and attempt to downgrade dependant packages instead of removing them? here are the specifics of my situation: (pts/12)root@marsala:~$ apt-get install perlmagick Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: perlmagick: Depends: perlapi-5.6.1 (pts/12)root@marsala:~$ apt-get -f install perlmagick (same thing...) (pts/12)root@marsala:~$ apt-get install perl/testing Selected version 5.6.1-7 (Debian:testing, Debian:3.0r1a/stable) for perl Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: perl: Depends: perl-base (= 5.6.1-7) but 5.8.0-15 is to be installed (pts/12)root@marsala:~$ apt-get install -t testing perl Sorry, perl is already the newest version. This is what finally worked: (pts/12)root@marsala:~$ apt-get install perl/testing perl-base/testing perl-modu les/testing perl-doc/testing docbook-utils/testing jadetex/testing tetex-extra/t esting fttools/testing libft-perl/testing libjcode-pm-perl/testing perl-tk/testi ng Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Selected version 5.6.1-7 (Debian:testing, Debian:3.0r1a/stable) for perl Selected version 5.6.1-7 (Debian:testing, Debian:3.0r1a/stable) for perl-base Selected version 5.6.1-7 (Debian:testing, Debian:3.0r1a/stable) for perl-modules Selected version 5.6.1-7 (Debian:testing, Debian:3.0r1a/stable) for perl-doc Selected version 0.6.12-3 (Debian:unstable) for docbook-utils Selected version 3.12-2 (Debian:unstable, Debian:3.0r1a/stable) for jadetex Sorry, jadetex is already the newest version. Selected version 1.0.2+20011202-3 (Debian:testing) for tetex-extra Selected version 1.2-13 (Debian:testing, Debian:3.0r1a/stable) for fttools Selected version 1.2-13 (Debian:testing, Debian:3.0r1a/stable) for libft-perl Selected version 0.73-1 (Debian:testing, Debian:3.0r1a/stable) for libjcode-pm-p erl Selected version 1:800.024-1 (Debian:testing, Debian:3.0r1a/stable) for perl-tk The following packages will be DOWNGRADED fttools libft-perl libjcode-pm-perl perl perl-base perl-doc perl-modules perl-tk tetex-extra 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 9 downgraded, 0 to remove and 300 not u pgraded. Need to get 15.4MB/19.3MB of archives. After unpacking 15.2MB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mc not in color by default
hello, when I start mc from an xterm, it is not in color by default. That is, I have to use "mc -c" to force use of color. $TERM is set to "xterm-debian". is this a bug or a feature? thanks, jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mc not in color by default
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 01:52 pm, Jason Pepas wrote: > hello, > > when I start mc from an xterm, it is not in color by default. That is, I > have to use "mc -c" to force use of color. > > $TERM is set to "xterm-debian". > > is this a bug or a feature? > > thanks, > jason pepas it gets wierder. if I start an xterm, mc is not in color. but if I start an aterm or rxvt from that xterm, and then start an xterm from there, it is in color! could xterm not be setting up the environment correctly? -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Any way to play Canon movie files?
> Is there any way of playing these files in Linux? I have the same camera. I haven't tried this myself yet, but Ben Edgington has apparently figured out how to do it: http://www.edginet.org/techie/linux/ -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
pbuilder failing
hello, I am not sure what list to report this to, so I'll start here. pbuilder for ppc is failing when trying to create a sid base.tgz. specifically, it can't download libpcap: (pts/0)root@phaeton:/mnt/nfs/pbuilder$ pbuilder create --distribution sid --buildplace /mnt/nfs/pbuilder/tmp/ --buildresult /mnt/nfs/pbuilder/sid/ W: /root/.pbuilderrc does not exist Distribution is sid. -> cleaning the build env Building the build environment -> running debootstrap I: Retrieving http://www.jp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/Release I: Validating /mnt/nfs/pbuilder/tmp/./var/lib/apt/lists/debootstrap.invalid_dists_sid_Release I: Retrieving http://www.jp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/binary-powerpc/Packages I: Validating /mnt/nfs/pbuilder/tmp/./var/lib/apt/lists/debootstrap.invalid_dists_sid_main_binary-powerpc_Packages ... I: Retrieving http://www.jp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/pam/libpam-runtime_0.76-9_all.deb I: Validating /mnt/nfs/pbuilder/tmp/./var/cache/apt/archives/libpam-runtime_0.76-9_all.deb I: Retrieving http://www.jp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/pam/libpam0g_0.76-9_powerpc.deb I: Validating /mnt/nfs/pbuilder/tmp/./var/cache/apt/archives/libpam0g_0.76-9_powerpc.deb E: Couldn't download libpcap0 pbuilder: debootstrap failed -> cleaning the build env -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pbuilder failing
> > (pts/0)root@phaeton:/mnt/nfs/pbuilder$ pbuilder create --distribution sid > > --buildplace /mnt/nfs/pbuilder/tmp/ --buildresult /mnt/nfs/pbuilder/sid/ > > > > E: Couldn't download libpcap0 > > > > pbuilder: debootstrap failed > > Looks like your debootstrap is severely out of date. From the debootstrap > changelog entry for 0.1.17.7 (Wed, 21 Aug 2002): > * Forked "sid" target from "sarge" target, changed "libcap0" to the now > current "libpcap0.7" and verified that the result works with pbuilder. > (Closes: #156574) (pts/1)jason@phaeton:~$ dpkg -l debootstrap Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name VersionDescription +++-==-==- ii debootstrap0.1.17 Bootstrap a basic Debian system this is debootstrap from stable (woody). does this mean pbuilder is incapable of building a sid base.tgz from a woody system? -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Not a speed reader.
> Note, though, that neither of those shows you messages output by init > scripts. are there any tricks for obtaining this? -jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ide-scsi grabs devices against my wishes
hello, ide-scsi appears to be grabbing devices which I don't wish to be scsi. I am using the 2.4bf kernel with xfs support. In one computer, I have an ide burner and an ide zip disk. I have an 'append="hdc=scsi"' line in lilo.conf to take care of the burner, but I don't wish the zip drive to be scsi (ide-scsi grabs it anyway). In another comp, I have an ide dvd rom, and don't wish it to be scsi (again, it is anyway). how can I make ide-scsi only grab the devices I tell it to? thanks, jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: the apt-get cache, backing up and using to install debain on another machine
On Sunday 06 October 2002 13:20, Jim Hribar wrote: > I used apt-get to install the packages I wanted on my Debian machine > after a "network install". I know that apt-get caches downloads so you > don't have to download the packages more than once. > > How could I backup these "cached" packages? Where are they? I intend > just to move them to another machine using ftp. /var/cache/apt/archives you can just add pacakges there, and apt automatically sees them (ie, you don't need to run any commands to get apt to find them). In other words, if you did "apt-get install foo", and apt said "need to download 500kb", and then you immediately hit conrtol C to kill it, move the foo deb into the cache directory, and issue the apt-get command again, it would now say "need to download 0kb/500kb". > Additionally, I want to install Debian on another machine (I have no > CDs, just the network-install disks). Could I somehow install Debian > (fresh) by pointing the install to my current machine and/or package > cache? on old machine: dpkg --get-selections > selections.txt on new machine: cat selections.txt | dpkg --set-selections apt-get install if I understand things correctly, after doing that and copying over your /etc directory, you should have an install almost identical to your previous one. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kbdrate set by normal users
hello, I would like to change the default keyboard repeat rate. I have tried writting a /etc/ini.d/kbdrate.sh script, but it does not seem to change things globally. any ideas? thanks, jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kbdrate set by normal users
> I'm not sure I know what you mean by "globally". Do you mean for all > users? Does it work at all? when I say globally, I mean it actually didn't work at all. I have noticed that if I change kbdrate in an xterm, and then switch to tty2, the kbdrate is back to default, and when I switch back to the xterm, it too is now back to default. So I was assuming it changed the kbdrate for tty1 (I assume that is the tty which the script ran attached to?) and then kbdrate got changed back to default when gdm started. I have no idea if that is what actually happened. have you experienced anything similar to this? thanks, jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
channel bonding
hello, I am having some trouble getting channel bonding to work. I have tried several different setups, as I am not clear how exactly you are supposed to do this. bonding module is loaded at startup (added with modconf) the two pairs of NICs are connected directly using crossover cables. eth0 in both machines is an rtl8139. eth1 in both machines is an fealnx. I am aware of the issue with rtl8139 MAC addresses, but since it is the first card, it doesn't matter (ie, the other card copies its MAC address). setup 1: eth0 is configured to be 192.168.0.1/255.255.255.0 in /etc/network/interfaces eth1 is configured to be 192.168.1.1/255.255.255.0 in /etc/network/interfaces ifup eth0 ifup eth1 ifconfig bond0 192.168.2.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 ifenslave bond0 eth0 ifenslave bond0 eth1 similar setup on other machine. ping 192.168.2.2 returns nothing. setup 2: eth0 is configured to be 192.168.0.1/255.255.255.0 in /etc/network/interfaces eth1 is configured to be 192.168.1.1/255.255.255.0 in /etc/network/interfaces ifup eth0 ifup eth1 ifenslave eth0 eth1 this setup works fine, but eth1 is never used at all. setup 3: eth0 and eth1 are not configured. ifconfig bond0 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 ifenslave -E bond0 eth0 ifenslave -E bond0 eth1 ping 192.168.0.2 drops 2 out of every three packets. --- I have not been able to find any step by step guides for this, or documentation which is detailed enough such that I actually understand how this is "supposed" to work. If anyone knows of any decent links on how to get this going, please let me know. thanks, jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: desktop
> First, make sure you've installed the X Window system and appropriate X > server (I /believe/ that doing an 'apt-get install x-window-system' will you might also need to apt-get install xserver-xfree86. oh wait, scratch that, you are using debian 2.2, so you might need to install an xserver specific to your graphics card. Try "apt-cache search xserver-". If that stumps you, try "apt-get install xserver-svga" I believe. > do this for you). Next, you'll need to install a desktop environment -- > since you're new to this, I'd suggest either KDE or GNOME (do an > 'apt-cache search ^kde' or 'apt-cache search ^gnome' to get a list of > packages). Then, once these are installed, choose to either have debian > boot into the command-line, or to have it boot into a session manager > such as gdm, xdm, or kdm. If you do the former, you will /always/ boot > into a desktop environment; if you do the latter, you'll need to type > 'startx' from the command line to start your desktop environment. while it is perfectly clear to the initiated what he meant by that, what he actually meant to say was that the former needs startx, and the later will start the desktop automatically. -jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Terminal type
> Where is the bash shell started? there is more to it that this, but for starters have a look at /etc/inittab. The "getty" lines are what create the tty's, and when a user logs in, whatever shell is specified for that user in /etc/passwd is started for them. -jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
init.d script for folding at home client
hey guys,
I decided to donate my spare cpu cycles with the folding at home linux client.
So, I wanted to try and to this the "proper way", ie, with a init.d script. I
started from /etc/init.d/skeleton and came up with this (see below).
I put the client in /usr/local/folding, and made the entire dir chown nobody,
then update-rc.d folding.sh defaults.
It works fine, but can anyone give me some criticism on this, specifically
security aspects? This is my first time to do this kind of thing.
here is /etc/init.d/folding.sh: (the line wraps are a little fubared)
--- cut here ---
#! /bin/sh
# folding at home init.d script for debian, based off of /etc/init.d/skeleton.
# by jason pepas.
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/folding
DAEMON=/usr/local/folding/FAH3Console-Linux.exe
NAME=FAH3Console-Linux.exe
DESC="Folding at Home client"
USER=nobody
test -x $DAEMON || exit 0
set -e
up ()
{
echo -n "Starting $DESC: $NAME"
start-stop-daemon --start --chuid $USER --quiet --background --nicelevel 19
--make-pidfile --pidfile /usr/local/folding/$NAME.pid \
--exec $DAEMON
echo "."
}
down ()
{
echo -n "Stopping $DESC: $NAME"
start-stop-daemon --stop --chuid $USER --quiet --pidfile
/usr/local/folding/$NAME.pid \
--exec $DAEMON
echo "."
rm -f /usr/local/folding/$NAME.pid
}
case "$1" in
start)
up
;;
stop)
down
;;
reload)
down
sleep 1
up
;;
restart|force-reload)
down
sleep 1
up
;;
*)
N=/etc/init.d/$NAME
# echo "Usage: $N {start|stop|restart|reload|force-reload}" >&2
echo "Usage: $N {start|stop|restart|force-reload}" >&2
exit 1
;;
esac
exit 0
--- cut here ---
-jason pepas
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Re: Cable connection !!!
On Friday 11 October 2002 05:06 am, Cuno Sonnemans wrote: > Does anybody know how i can get my cable connection to work with debian 3.0 this may or may not apply to you, but I could only get my cable modem to work with a 100mbit NIC. I tried it with 2 different 10mbit NICs and it would only get an IP address about 10% of the time, and even then it would drop the connection within an hour. Then by chance I tried a 100mbit NIC and it has worked flawlessly since. go figure. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
gnome2 wallpaper changer
hey all, was tooling around and figured out a way to automatically change the gnome2 wallpaper. gconftool-2 -t string -s /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename "foo.jpg" one could write up a small script and have this happen regularly with cron. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I start a X session on another machine
On Saturday 12 October 2002 04:10 pm, Andrew Lindley wrote: > I have 2 machines running Woody and not enough desk space for both > screens and keyboards. I'd like to be able to run X sessions on both > machines from only one of the machines. When I ran SuSE I could use > xhost + to allow remote (or even other local users) access to > the display. This doesn't work on Debian. Could someone tell me what the > correct incantation is? Secondly I'd like to be able to run the host > chooser on one of my vt's from gdm, ideas please. > > Andrew Do you want two completely independant desktops, like having a KVM? Or do you want apps from both machines running on one desktop? If you want the former (the KVM situation), things should be easy. After you have already started a local X session, get to a tty and run "X :1 -query hostname" where hostname is the second machine. Make sure "Enable=true" is set in the XDMCP section of /etc/gdm/gdm.conf. You should be presented with the gdm login for your second machine. To switch between them, just CTRL+ALT+F7, and CTRL+ALT+F8. Instant KVM. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
data recovery
hey guys, a friend of mine somehow borked his windows partition when installing linux. I don't have many details, because he is a linux newbie. Here is the situation: - cfdisk reports the partition as "Linux", not as "Linux ext2" (like his working linux partition. - mount will not mount the partition at all (requires a type argument, and none of them work), and he assures me it is not an NTFS partition. This leads me to believe that the partition was deleted fromt he partition table, but a new filesystem was not initialized on the partition, and thus the data should still be there. If any of you can recommend what I should do next, or point me to any tools for data recovery, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What services are using these ports?
I wrote up some notes on how to disable inetd stuff. You might find them useful. how to disable inetd services on a debian box: first, figure out which services are running. to do this, you will need nmap: # apt-get install nmap and now: $ nmap localhost Starting nmap V. 3.00 ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) Interesting ports on seele (127.0.0.1): (The 1593 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed) Port State Service 37/tcp opentime now figure out what they do: search google for "time port 37 rfc", and decide if you need it. if you don't need it: # update-inetd --disable time run nmap again to verify it is disabled. if you need it again later: # update-inetd --enable time if you forgot which services you have disabled: $ cat /etc/inetd.conf | grep \ but what if you have "unknown" services? $ nmap localhost Starting nmap V. 3.00 ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) Interesting ports on seele (127.0.0.1): (The 1594 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed) Port State Service 842/tcpopenunknown services reported as "unknown" are not controlled by inetd, that is, they are standalone server. you can use netstat to figure out what server is associated with that port: (if you don't have netstat, try apt-get install net-tools) $ netstat -lp --inet Active Internet connections (only servers) Proto Local Address State PID/Program name tcp *:842 LISTEN 236/rpc.statd so we see that tcp port 842 belongs to rpc.statd. note how it lists its PID (236), which means it is a standalone server. to lock down standalone servers, either disable the server (ie, cd /etc/init.d; update-rc.d -f nfs-kernel-server remove), or use a firewall to block certain connections (like ipchains or iptables). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lite On 40x Burner
On Tuesday 15 October 2002 04:58 pm, Steven Isaacson wrote: > Has anyone had success using a Lite On 40/12/48(LTR40125S) burner with > cdrecord and debian? I was looking around and couldn't find any definative > answer. > > The drive is $40 cheaper then the 40x Plextor. I really don't care to > waste my money. > > -steve http://www.storagereview.com/ check them out - very in depth review of hard drives and optical drives. They previously had a Lite-On drive recommended on their leader board, but I don't think it was the 40x. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nvidia drivers
> OT: What is up with NVidia's drivers? They seem to enjoy bringing my > machine down every few hours, especially if I actually make use of the > hardware accleration. Not only do they lock up my machine, but they > also seem to cause spontaneous reboots! I've spent ages trying to find > what exactly was causing the problem, but no luck so far... hmm, that almost sounds like a power supply problem to me. What are the details of your setup? -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
disabling ide-scsi
hi, I need to know how to disable ide-scsi emulation. The 2.4bf-xfs kernel appears to have ide-scsi emulation built into the kernel, and its behavior is to grab all cdrom and zip drive IDE devices by default, rather than the old behavior of only grabbing the ones which you specify using the append option of lilo. In one machine I have only an IDE dvd-rom, so I don't need ide-scsi at all. In another machine, I have an IDE burner, and an IDE zip drive, and I want only the burner to be ide-scsi (currently it automatically grabs both). The "ignore=hdX" option appears to do the exact opposite of what I need (it tells ide-cd to not grab a cdrom). The cd-writing howto addresses this question, but does not give an answer (see http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.28 ). any ideas? -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: disabling ide-scsi
> Are you sure? - I discovered that ide-scsi was getting loaded when the > package "discover" was installed and when /etc/init.d/discover is run via > its symlink in /etc/rcS.d It is this which is loading the module > (incorrectly in my view - so I have filed a bug report against it). I just > removed this package (the modules I wanted loaded were manually entered > anyway). nope, discover isn't installed, and lsmod doesn't report ide-scsi, yet I have devices a-plenty when I cdrecord -scanbus. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fwd: Re: disabling ide-scsi
sorry, forgot to send this to the list. -jason pepas -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: disabling ide-scsi Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 13:32:57 -0500 From: Jason Pepas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Why? ide-scsi is an almost perfect replacement for ide-cd driver. What is > > the reason for wanting to get rid of it? > > Because if you have a dvd rom drive, then mplayer will not work if ide-scsi > is loaded. actually, mplayer does work for me, but my machine is a celeron 566, which makes it just barely fast enough to play dvd's without dropping frames. however, ide-scsi creates enough cpu overhead to start dropping frames. I just can't understand why the developers made this choice. It was set up such that you had to explicitly specify which drives to perform scsi emulation on, and it would leave the rest alone. Now it just grabs up all of them, and leaves you no option to disable them individually. The way they had it was the appropriate solution, and this seems like a regression. -jason pepas --- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: disabling ide-scsi
> > nope, discover isn't installed, and lsmod doesn't report ide-scsi, yet I > > have devices a-plenty when I cdrecord -scanbus. > > That's because cdrecord -scanbus loads the modules (unless you have > everything compiled into the kernel, of course). > if lsmod is run a second time after cdrecord -scanbus, "sg" is the only module newly loaded. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cups wont print
hello, I recently setup an epson 740 printer using cupsys from unstable. I can send jobs just fine, and cups shows them as "completed", and /var/log/cups/error_log doesn't show any problems. But nothing comes out of the printer... Cups is under the impression that everything printed just fine, but nothing actually happens. I have tried both the foomatic driver and the gimp-print driver, same problem. If I reboot into windows, everything prints fine, so no hardware problems. History: I had printing working on this machine a long time ago, but recently tried to print only to find "error 22" problems, so I purged cups and installed from unstable, and how I have my current situation. is this a known issue? someone else on #debian is having the exact same problem, and is also using unstable. thanks, jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: P4 with 1GB RAM, swap required?
On Monday 28 October 2002 03:24 am, Lukas Ruf wrote: > Dear all, > > is there any sense in putting a swap partition on a P4 with 1GB RAM? > > What would be the advantage if using swapd? > > Or can I do without swap partitions at all? > > Thanks for any opinions, > > Lukas > PS: I have debian unstable running... Swaps are good eevn if you have gobs of RAM, because sometimes programs have memory leaks. If you have a swap, this isn't a problem, because the leaked memory will eventually get pushed into swap, and it doesn't cause a performance penalty because it will never be brought back in from swap. To create a swap file (64MB in this example), instead of a partition, dd if=/dev/zero of=/swap bs=1M count=64 mkswap /swap edit /etc/fstab: /swap noneswapsw 0 0 swapon -a cat /proc/swaps -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Tools to maintain my own set of homebrewed deb's?
> What I'm trying to do now is automate the process of generating the > Packages.gz file automatically from the "control" files contained within > the individual packages. In other words, I want to be able to upload some > new or updated deb's to my web server, then run some command that > automatically updates Packages.gz. > > Anybody know, offhand, what does that? > > - Joe dpkg-scanpackages ./ /dev/null > Packages gzip Packages you could set up a cronjob to make a new Packages.gz file each night is that what you were asking? -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: P4 with 1GB RAM, swap required?
> Thanks for this hint! This is really great! > > wbr, I generally try to write this stuff down as i figure it out. You might enjoy http://jason.pepas.com/linux/notes/ -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cmpci audio skipping
Hello, I have a crystal media based sound card (hercules gamesurround muse xl, using the CMI8738 chip) which uses the cmpci driver. I have noticed that the audio sometimes "skips", by that I mean it jumps ahead by skipping over a second or two of audio. I does this about 2 or 3 times in a given 5 minutes song. Currently the problem occurs and is reproducable when using xmms, playing mp3's mounted over an nfs share. I have not yet ruled out the possibility that the problem is specific to xmms or to nfs mounted mp3's (I am in the process of eliminating these possibilities). But I thought I would shoot a mail out to the list in the mean time and see if anyone else is experiencing this. here is the lhd entry: http://lhd.zdnet.com/db/dispproduct.php3?DISP?3228 (their database seemed to be down last time I checked). -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gnome2 applets
> specifically, netleds and wavelan. I would highly recommend netmon-applet as a replacement for netleds. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is my Xserver useing too much memory?
On Friday 01 November 2002 06:47 pm, Mike Fedyk wrote: > Hi, > > About a year ago I had a machine (since dismantled) that would reliably > have an Xserver (XF4.x) consume all available memory and cause the system > to be in an OOM state. > > Now in another machine I have a [1]Xserver using a lot of memory again. > Earlier today, the SIZE of the process was about 64MB, and now it's up to > 80MB. Is this normal? My system has been up for 7 days. > > Mike > > [1] > PID USER PRI NI PAGEIN SIZE SWAP RSS SHARE D LC %CPU %MEM TIME > COMMAND 709 root 15 -10 28607 81876 63M 16M 8520 3K 0 8.2 13.1 > 384:33 XFree86 You only need to worry if it continues to grow without bound over several weeks, which I would guess means you have a memory leak in part of the xserver specific to your video card. If you have a swap file/partition, this becomes not as important, as the leaked memory will eventually get pushed out into swap, and will never be called back in from swap. I have had leaky X video drivers before, but it would take months for that alone to fill up a large swap space. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gnome2 applets
On Saturday 02 November 2002 06:51 am, iain d broadfoot wrote: > Jason Pepas wrote: > >>specifically, netleds and wavelan. > > > > I would highly recommend netmon-applet as a replacement for netleds. > > > > -jason pepas > > $apt-cache search netmon-applet > $ > > where do i find it? > > iain well now this is interesting, I have netmon-applet installed, and I installed it with apt-get, yet it has mysteriously vanished from testing, unstable, and experimental. Does anyone know if there is a way reverse create a deb from files you have installed, in the case where you installed a deb but it was removed from the directory? thanks, jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gnome2 applets
On Saturday 02 November 2002 06:51 am, iain d broadfoot wrote: > Jason Pepas wrote: > >>specifically, netleds and wavelan. > > > > I would highly recommend netmon-applet as a replacement for netleds. > > > > -jason pepas > > $apt-cache search netmon-applet > $ > > where do i find it? > > iain I repacked it (thanks Colin) and put it in my repository. Just add this to your sources.list: deb http://debian.pepas.com ./ then apt-cache search netmon-applet should show it. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: deleting directory
> It seems to me that I've seem this recently (I don't know who to credit),
> but is it not written that there are two types of *nix users?
>
> Type 1: Those who have executed rm -rf /
> Type 2: Those who haven't yet
>
> :)
>
> Brooks
You know I used to think all those warnings about rm -rf while root were
nonsense meant to scare small children, until I didn't realize what directory
I was in and lost several hundred megabytes of mp3's one day...
("hmm, why is the rm command taking so long... OH NO!")
-jason pepas
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each debain cd has a different kernel
this is both a tip and a question. I just found out from http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#bootable that you can install debian from any of the cd's, and each has a different kernel. It states the first is a multiboot kernel, which allows you to choose which kernel to boot. How exactly does one select which kernel to use with the multiboot cd? I have performed numerous installs and I don't recall seeing this option. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: which half are you in?
> displayed in the prompt. Another way is to do the delete > from midnight commander where you can see everything. This was actually the source of my incident. There are certain instances in midnight commander, where if you do a CTRL-O to drop back to a command line, it sometimes puts you in the wrong path (I think the problem was it put you in the path from which you start mc, not the path of your current file browsing window, but I can't remember exactly). That's how I lost several hundred megabytes of mp3's. From inside mc I thought I was one place, and when I CTRL-O'ed I was in another place. I haven't noticed this bug lately, so it may have been fixed. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] literate programming
On Sunday 20 October 2002 02:13 pm, Carlos A P Gomes wrote: > I've been looking for a way to improve the quality of my code, making it > more readable and understandable and easier to mantain embeding in it > some documentation. I think the answer is literate programming and I'd > like to know if anybody uses it in gnu environment to produce source > and documentation following the gnu standards. It seems that there is no > web software (cweb, noweb) that produces texinfo or docbook output. Is > there a way to accomplish this task? not sure if this is what you want, but you might try doxygen you can see an example here: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/markj/RoboWars3/Doxygen/classDisplay.html Package: doxygen Priority: optional Section: devel Installed-Size: 2996 Maintainer: Luca Filipozzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Version: 1.2.15-2 Replaces: doxygen (<< 1.2.14) Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4), libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 (>= 1:2.95.4-0.010810) Recommends: doxygen-docs Suggests: doxygen-gui, graphviz Filename: pool/main/d/doxygen/doxygen_1.2.15-2_i386.deb Size: 1035192 MD5sum: 654dabdee62b49e207c407bae5cce7a4 Description: Documentation system for C, C++ and IDL. Doxygen is a documentation system for C, C++ and IDL. It can generate an on-line class browser (in HTML) and/or an off-line reference manual (in LaTeX) from a set of documented source files. There is also support for generating man pages and for converting the generated output into Postscript, hyperlinked PDF or compressed HTML. The documentation is extracted directly from the sources. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: removing lines from a file
On Saturday 02 November 2002 02:19 pm, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > I know this has come up before but what is the best > way to remove lines 5-10 and lines 16-20 from > a file using the console and a batch file? > > Lance you could use wc to get the total number of lines, and then use head and tail to grab the sections you want (try piping them into each other to get subsections) -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: removing lines from a file
On Saturday 02 November 2002 02:29 pm, Jason Pepas wrote: > On Saturday 02 November 2002 02:19 pm, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > > I know this has come up before but what is the best > > way to remove lines 5-10 and lines 16-20 from > > a file using the console and a batch file? > > > > Lance > > you could use wc to get the total number of lines, and then use head and > tail to grab the sections you want (try piping them into each other to get > subsections) > > -jason pepas specifically, this should do it: #!/bin/sh head -n 4 $1 cat $1 | head -n 15 | tail -n 5 lines=`wc -l $1 | cut -d ' ' -f 6` tail -n `expr $lines - 20` $1 use it like this: ./chop.sh in.txt > out.txt -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mozilla Anti-Aliasing
> > I'm trying to get anti-aliasing to work in Mozilla, but for some reason > > my anti-aliased fonts just won't show up. I selected to use freetype in > > the mozilla-browser dpkg configure, but still nothing. Any tips would > > be highly appreciated! see here: http://fontconfig.org/mozilla/ unfortunately, it looks like the fontconfig stuff won't be in X until 4.3, so it will be a while before we have debs available. However, I tried downloading those prebuilt mozilla tarballs, grabbing the needed fontconfig stuff from some rpm's, and was able to get mozilla running with antialiased fonts. However, it could only "see" two fonts, both of them monospaced. I assume this is because I did not properly install fontconfig. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: macintosh hardware
On Sunday 03 November 2002 08:41 pm, Jason Stechschulte wrote: > There is a computer show in my area in a couple of weeks, and I'm > thinking about getting a used Macintosh since I haven't played with one > for ages. I don't want to bother getting one though unless I can > dual-boot it and Debian GNU/Linux. I'm not new to dual-booting systems, > I just don't really know anything about Macs. How well does Linux run > on Macs? Is there a certain model I should look for to get the best > results? Pointing me to some good reading on the subject is sufficient > help. Some macs (the nubus machines) are not officially supported by debian. specifically, * Power Macintosh 6100, 7100, 8100 * Performa 5200, 6200, 6300 * Powerbook 1400, 2300, and 5300 * Workgroup Server 6150, 8150, 9150 see here: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/ch-hardware-req.en.html#s-hardware-supported and here: http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-powerpc/current/powermac/install.txt However, looks like if you dual boot, and limit yourself to using the MkLinux mach kernel, you might be able to run debian on a nubus mac: http://nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net./ http://www.symsys.com/~ingram/hardware/powermac/potato-install.html -jason pepas ps - glad to see they have improved the install manual with 3.0. In the past, the exact models which were and weren't supported weren't listed in the manual, and you had to hunt down the above ftp link to find exactly which machines were supported, which was always a pain in the ass. Now the info is where it should be - where everyone should be looking for it. Thanks guys - this is one of those things I always meant to file a complaint about, but never got around to it, so it is good to see it fixed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: encrypting a single file
On Monday 04 November 2002 03:57 pm, Levi Waldron wrote: > Is there a simple way to encrypt a single text file on my system, so that > it can only be viewed if you know the password? I want to securely store > my online username/passwords, bank card PINs, etc that I'm always > forgetting. > > -Levi from http://jason.pepas.com/linux/notes/password-protect-files.txt howto password protect (encrypt) files using gpg: lets say you want to encrypt passwords.txt. gpg --symmetric passwords.txt enter your password when prompted. to decrypt it: gpg --decrypt passwords.txt.gpg > passwords.txt -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: parted boot CD
> I know for a fact that parted can resize a ro-mounted partition, because > I did it once to shrink the root partition. (To make room for a swap > partition.) did you know you that linux supports swap files as well as swap partitions? -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: tftpboot.img
> Is there a boot image that's around 64k? > netBSD has a two stage system where a 64k boot image is > loaded. This image then loads the kernel/rootfs over > NFS. > > Is there such a thing for debian? > > If anyone could help, i'd really appreciate it. > > ~Aaron Vose > [EMAIL PROTECTED] sounds like you are looking for etherboot or netboot. here is an excerpt from http://jason.pepas.com/linux/notes/diskless.txt --- Diskless Node Bootdisk: --- If using netboot: On the nfs server, run apt-get install netboot makerom This will make image.flo and image.rom. Image.flo is for floppies and image.rom is for burning to a bootrom. Write image.flo to a floppy with dd if=image.flo of=/dev/fd0 If using Etherboot: go to http://etherboot.sourceforge.net/distribution.html and grab the latest production release, and the documentation if you like. then: tar xzvf etherboot-x.x.x.tar.gz cd src make bin32/card.dsk where card is the name of your card, ie, rtl8139.dsk. grep the Makefile for card names. your floppy image will be in src/bin32, named card.dsk. Write it to floppy: cat card.dsk > /dev/fd0 -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: choice of software
> I've had problems running console-based music programs -- starting new > programs and processes tends to interrupt music output, which I find > annoying. If you're using a graphical environment, I highly recommend > xmms -- it's fairly lightweight, there are a number of different panel > applets that can control it (as well as CLI commands!), and can play > just about anything. I wouldn't exactly call it lightweight... I have both xmms and cplay open right now, and gtop shows xmms at 28MB, and mpg123 (via cplay) at less than 3MB... For me this is not a concern, but for someone with, say, 128MB of RAM, if they are running a desktop environment, an email client, and a few mozilla windows, 28MB of RAM is suddenly a scarce resource. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VCD creation
On Sunday 03 November 2002 08:18 pm, Gerald V. Livingston II wrote: > Is it possible to create a VCD from a '.mpg' or '.avi' with some > program(s) available as Debian packages? I'm running sid here. I've > figured out how to BURN VCD's that come in bin/cue format, but I don't > know how to turn a straight mpeg into a bin/cue that can be burned as > vcd/svcd. > > G as far as re-encoding from other filetypes is concerned, anything which can be played with mplayer can transcoded with mencoder, and one of its output codecs is mpeg1video. However, it uses avi as the file format (avi is really just a "wrapper" format), so you would need something pull the mpeg1 stream out of that avi file and format it as an mpg file. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: tftpboot.img
> etherboot is for creating floppies... etherboot can also make bootroms. check out http://www.rom-o-matic.net/ if your sun has a bootrom slot, and the controller is supported by etherboot, and you can find someone with an eeprom burner, you should be good to go. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: allowing remote x connections?
On Wednesday 06 November 2002 07:06 am, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > Hello! > > i read this some time ago, but can't find the pointer to that docu > anymore, and its not in the debian FAQ... :( > > i want to allow some local machines to send their displays to the > desktop machine i know there's something to tweak with the server, > but i don't know what > > other point does someone have allready some iptble roules to reject the > X protocol stuff coming from outside the local net? if you use gdm, edit /etc/gdm/gdm.conf [Xdmcp] Enable=true /etc/init.d/gdm restart X -query foo.bar.com -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kbdrate problems
hello, I am currently using a script, /etc/init.d/kbdrate.sh, to set my keyboard repeat rate to something reasonable (like 30). However, on one of my boxes, if you switch to a tty (ctrl-alt-f1), the rate is still 30, but upon switching back to X, the rate has reverted to the boot time default. switching back to the tty reveals it is now back to the default there too. this problem only occurs on one of my machines. On the other one, the tty's and X are able to maintain different repeat rates. is there a better way to set this? a boot parameter perhaps? what sets it to the default anyway, and is there a way to set that? thanks, jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: can't cp files from dvd
On Sunday 24 November 2002 07:45 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Out of curiosity I thought I'd try to copy files from a movie DVD to my > hard drive. When I tried to copy some of the .vob files, I got a > message that said something like input/output error, and nothing would > copy. This isn't real important to me, and I'm mostly simply curious, > but is it possible to copy files using cp from a mounted dvd? I had > thought they should be able to be copied, but now wonder if there is > some sort of hardware block that prevents this (my dvd reader is old) or > if there was some trick I didn't know. Thanks, > > Ric if you just need to get the video streams, and not neccessarily the vob files themselves, mencoder can copy the streams into an avi file: mencoder -dvd 1 -oac copy -ovc copy -o foo.avi this will also decrypt them. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
debian filesystem inside a file
hello, i was wondering if it is possible to install debian, using a file as a partition. Sort of like how BeOS will install inside windows, creating its filesystem in a file. I think this has been done with umsdos, but what about under NTFS? Is there any hope of that? thanks, jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: can't cp files from dvd
On Sunday 24 November 2002 10:56 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 2002-11-24 at 20:44, Jason Pepas wrote: > > On Sunday 24 November 2002 07:45 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [snip] > > > if you just need to get the video streams, and not neccessarily the vob > > files themselves, mencoder can copy the streams into an avi file: > > > > mencoder -dvd 1 -oac copy -ovc copy -o foo.avi > > Is this part of Debian? http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages > doesn't show it in the lists of files. not yet. but the source has a debian directory, so you just run debuild and viola, instant debs. -jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: can't cp files from dvd
On Sunday 24 November 2002 11:25 pm, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 10:50:38PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Just now, when I tried to cp the *.VOB files from a movie disk > > mounted udf onto /dvd-rw, I got the same "Input/output error". > > Believe it or not, this is a function of the fact that the DVDs are > encrypted. I don't remember what the heck it is that you have to do to > actually get enough of a handle on the data to be able to use something > like DeCSS on it. I saw an interesting talk entitled "Decrypting DVD" > at MIT a couple of years ago, and this is the first I've thought of it > since then. Hell, I probably couldn't tell you how to do it, even if I > did remember, without the MPAA sending the FBI after me for a DMCA > violation. 8^( > > But whatever the case, you will not be able to copy .vob files from a > DVD using normal tools like cp. > > noah last night I was able to copy vob files from the dvd with no problem. This was after using mplayer to play a dvd. Perhaps dvd playing programs somehow unlock the dvd rom and leave it in that state? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ide-scsi grabs everything
hello, I have both ide-cd and ide-scsi compiled as modules. When I modprobe ide-scsi, it grabs all non-hard drive ide devices (the burner and the zip drive). Is there a way to make it just grab the burner? also, before I modprobe ide-scsi, the burner should still be /dev/hdc, but I cannot mount it (mount reports not valid block device). Any ideas? thanks, jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ide-scsi grabs everything
thanks for the responses guys, looks like I should be able to get it sorted out with your help. -jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How insecure are cable connections, versus dialup?
> some folks like to sniff passwds... those are some of the ones you > should worry about... ( there are ssh based pwd sniffers too ) ssh based password sniffers? can you provide us with any evidence of this? -jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
minimal boot loader?
hello, I have been reading through a bunch of howto's on creating floppy based linux systems. The process of creating the floppy images strikes me as being way too complicated. In short, is there a program which behaves like this? mkbootdisk --append="" kernel.img rootfs.img I haven't been able to find anything which takes a kernel image, a root filesystem image, and a boot paramter string, and creates a 1 or 2 floppy set, all in one command. This seems like it would be such a nice thing to have, I just can't beleive no one has done this yet, so I though I'd ask here before I go off and write a script which accomplishes the same thing. thanks, jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mkisofs oddity
hello, perhaps I am using it incorrectly, but it seems mkisofs behaves oddly with respect to directories. lets say I have a filesystem: /foo /bar f1 f2 /bork that is, our filesystem is composed of /foo/bar/f1 /foo/bar/f2 /foo/bork/ Now, if I simply want to make an iso of the bar directory, such that my cd would contain /bar/f1 /bar/f2 the obvious thing to do would be mkisofs bar however, this instead creates the following filesystem: /f1 /f2 but if I wanted that, the obvious thing to do would be this: mkisofs bar/* is this considered correct behavior? is there no way to simply make an image of a directory without resorting to graft-points? thanks, jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Unidentified subject!
I don't know what to file a bugreport against, checkinstall, man, groff or lp? (pts/3)jason@marsala:~$ zcat /usr/share/man/man1/checkinstall.1.gz | groff -mand :106: warning: `spec' not defined (probable missing space after gv displays nothing (pts/3)jason@marsala:~$ zcat /usr/share/man/man1/checkinstall.1.gz | groff -mand :106: warning: `spec' not defined (probable missing space after (pts/3)jason@marsala:~$ gv /tmp/foo.ps gv displays the page correctly (pts/3)jason@marsala:~$ zcat /usr/share/man/man1/checkinstall.1.gz | groff -mand :106: warning: `spec' not defined (probable missing space after request id is epson-197 (1 file(s)) (pts/3)jason@marsala:~$ man -t checkinstall | lp /tmp/zman8FWIIT:106: warning: `spec' not defined (probable missing space after ` request id is epson-199 (1 file(s)) these both print the man page, but appear to start from the second page. (pts/3)jason@marsala:~$ man checkinstall | lp Reformatting checkinstall(1), please wait... /tmp/zmanySH7Iv:106: warning: `spec' not defined (probable missing space after ` request id is epson-198 (1 file(s)) this also prints the man page, and also starts on the second page, but starts from a different spot. your opinions are welcome. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unidentified subject!
> What's -mand? Perhaps you mean -mandoc. hmm, looks like I didn't copy / paste that correctly. lets try that again: (pts/3)jason@marsala:~$ zcat /usr/share/man/man1/checkinstall.1.gz | groff -mandoc - | gv :106: warning: `spec' not defined (probable missing space after `sp') gv displays nothing (pts/3)jason@marsala:~$ zcat /usr/share/man/man1/checkinstall.1.gz | groff -mandoc - > /tmp/foo.ps :106: warning: `spec' not defined (probable missing space after `sp') (pts/3)jason@marsala:~$ gv /tmp/foo.ps gv displays the page correctly (pts/3)jason@marsala:~$ zcat /usr/share/man/man1/checkinstall.1.gz | groff -mandoc - | lp :106: warning: `spec' not defined (probable missing space after `sp') request id is epson-197 (1 file(s)) (pts/3)jason@marsala:~$ man -t checkinstall | lp /tmp/zman8FWIIT:106: warning: `spec' not defined (probable missing space after `sp') request id is epson-199 (1 file(s)) these both print the man page, but appear to start from the second page. (pts/3)jason@marsala:~$ man checkinstall | lp Reformatting checkinstall(1), please wait... /tmp/zmanySH7Iv:106: warning: `spec' not defined (probable missing space after `sp') request id is epson-198 (1 file(s)) this also prints the man page, and also starts on the second page, but starts from a different spot. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
irssi-text not working
irssi-text doesn't seem to be working for me. issuing the command irssi from the command line simply does nothing. ii irssi-text 0.8.5-2text-mode version of the irssi IRC client any ideas? perhaps some sort of perl module dependency problem? -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: irssi-text not working
On Thursday 02 January 2003 03:28 pm, Jason Pepas wrote: > irssi-text doesn't seem to be working for me. > > issuing the command irssi from the command line simply does nothing. > > ii irssi-text 0.8.5-2text-mode version of the irssi IRC client > > any ideas? perhaps some sort of perl module dependency problem? > > -jason pepas hmm, looks like a bug was files 83 days ago, and hasn't been fixed... http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=164369 -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: irssi-text not working
On Thursday 02 January 2003 03:28 pm, Jason Pepas wrote: > irssi-text doesn't seem to be working for me. > > issuing the command irssi from the command line simply does nothing. > > ii irssi-text 0.8.5-2text-mode version of the irssi IRC client > > any ideas? perhaps some sort of perl module dependency problem? > > -jason pepas well, the unstable version seems to be working. at least that's a workaround. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pdf2ps Segmentation fault
On Thursday 02 January 2003 01:37 pm, Sven Heinicke wrote:
> On some pdf files pdf2ps Segmentation faults on stable Debian. While on
> Red Hat 8.0 the don't. I see that the testing version has a closer
> version to that of Red Hat. Anybody have luck with running testing
> gs-common and/or gs debs on stable?
>
> Sven
this does not directly answer your question, but provides an alternate
solution.
you can use adobe's acroread to perform the same function.
apt-get install acroread
then create a script to make it work like pdf2ps:
--- cut --- pdf2ps.sh ---
#!/bin/sh
# script to use adobe's acroread to convert pdf documents to postscript.
# see the advanced bash scripting howto: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/
if [ ! -n "$1" ]
then
echo "Usage: `basename $0` file1.pdf file2.pdf..."
exit 1
fi
acroread -toPostScript $@
--- cut ---
-jason pepas
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Re: CMI 9738 sound driver
On Thursday 02 January 2003 10:33 pm, Davor Balder wrote: > Hi All, > > I am trying to configure (onboard) CMI 9738 sound chip on SiS650/961 board > supporting PIV. I am still configuring the rest of the stuff such as PPP > etc. CMI 9738 appears not to be supported by 2.4.18 kernel. Any idea if > this driver is under development and if there is any other way at all to > get this beast working. > > I tried CMI 8738 driver with no success. The chip is AC97 compatible. > Googling revealed, however, that CMI9738 uses only a fraction of AC97 > functions and is a budget codec. > > Does anyone else have this sound chip? Or am I ahead of time in terms of > driver development ? :-) > > Thanks in advance. Apologies for using Outlook Express, this machine has > just been constructed and a lot is under work... > > > take care, > > Davor don't know if this applies to your chipset, but you might for the module i810_audio or i810_codec or something like that. This supports several AC97 compatible chipsets (I am using the sis7... something or other and it works, but only at 48khz). -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel recompile
On Thursday 02 January 2003 11:41 pm, Robert Storey wrote: > In the continuing saga of my kernel recompile, I did this: > > make xconfig > make-kpkg clean > make-kpkg kernel_image > dpkg -i kernel-image-2.4.18_10.00.Custom_i386.deb > > Everything seemed to go well. There were no error messages, and I found > myself with a newly compiled kernel named vmlinuz-2.4.18 in my /boot > directory. But on attempting to boot, the kernel would instantly crash > and reboot again, and again, etc, ad nauseum. I could only recover by > editing GRUB to point back to the old kernel. > > Can't see what I did wrong, other than possibly that my settings somehow > conflicted. I actually changed very little - I used the stock kernel, > and just added support for sound, parport, scsi, and my ethernet card. > > Has anyone else had this experience? Can I just use my old kernel and > somehow get these other things to work by loading modules? > > thanks in advance, > regards, > Robert Storey try setting the cpu type to 386. rebooting before the kernel even starts doing anything usually means the wrong cpu type was selected. hmm, but if the kernel name has i386 in it, this might not be the problem... -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: starting X
On Thursday 02 January 2003 06:40 pm, sean finney wrote: > hey nori, > > hope your computer has thawed off a bit :) > > anyways, iirc this is provided by xserver-xfree86. the easy way to > make sure you have everything installed that you need for x is to > run tasksel and check the box for x windows. > currently, tasksel seems to just install x-window-system. I assume by your methodology that you are more interested in initally going with a minimal install, so try apt-cache show x-window-system apt-cache show x-window-system-core then pick one and apt-get install it. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Audio Video digital capture / playback
On Thursday 02 January 2003 01:40 pm, Hanasaki JiJi wrote: > Any recommendations on Audio Video digital capture / playback hardware > and software woking on Woody / Sarge? mplayer / mencoder seem to be the most flexible (most codecs, most input/output methods, etc) tools available. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: irssi-text not working
hmm, I sent this 5 hours ago and it still has not appeared. here it is again: On Thursday 02 January 2003 03:28 pm, Jason Pepas wrote: > irssi-text doesn't seem to be working for me. > > issuing the command irssi from the command line simply does nothing. > > ii irssi-text 0.8.5-2text-mode version of the irssi IRC client > > any ideas? perhaps some sort of perl module dependency problem? > > -jason pepas well, the unstable version seems to be working. at least that's a workaround. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
checkinstall man page [was Re: Unidentified subject!]
On Thursday 02 January 2003 10:47 pm, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 02:03:53PM -0600, Jason Pepas wrote: > > > What's -mand? Perhaps you mean -mandoc. > > > > hmm, looks like I didn't copy / paste that correctly. lets try that > > again: > > > > (pts/3)jason@marsala:~$ zcat /usr/share/man/man1/checkinstall.1.gz | > > groff -mandoc - | gv > > :106: warning: `spec' not defined (probable missing space > > after `sp') > > Fine; I'd still like to know what's on and around line 106 of that man > page. (pts/2)jason@marsala:/tmp$ zcat /usr/share/man/man1/checkinstall.1.gz > foo.zcat (pts/2)jason@marsala:/tmp$ zcat /usr/share/man/man1/checkinstall.1.gz | groff -mandoc - > foo.groff :106: warning: `spec' not defined (probable missing space after `sp') so it appears the problem in the stream is the output of zcat, so probably a problem in the manpage itself (pts/2)jason@marsala:/tmp$ cat -n foo.zcat | grep -a3 106 103 .IP "\fB--dpkgflags=[flags]\fP " 10 104 Pass these flags to the dpkg (.deb) installer 105 .IP "\fB--spec=[path]\fP " 10 106 .spec file location 107 .IP "\fB--nodoc\fP " 10 108 Do not include documentacion files 109 .IP "\fB-d[0,1,2]\fP " 10 from looking at the rest of the document, ".SH" appears to be some kind of formatting keyword, so I guess it is problem with the man page itself. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cannot open dislpay: debian:0.0
On Wednesday 01 January 2003 01:35 am, Kevin wrote: > Please can you help with this error? > Below is the log, env and .bashrc > > DISPLAY=debian:0.0;export DISPLAY try this: export DISPLAY=:0.0 export XAUTHORITY=/home/user/.Xauthority -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Windows Telnet
> I've actually had a little bit of a bad experience trying to do this. > I have Deep XResources Magic that causes fonts to come up at the > reported resolution of the display and to prefer scalable fonts, > rather than using fixed 75 or 100dpi fonts. My normal xterm font is > 11pt Courier; trying 'xterm -fa Courier -fs 11' comes out looking > noticably different (notably, with more leading). *tries xterm -fa "Lucida Console" -fs 14* *jaw hits the floor loudly* *hand smacks forehead for not realizing he could have simply used xterm all along...* Now, before I bother to figure this out myself, I should ask if anyone else has bothered to figure out exactly how to make the xterm colors *exactly* the same as the linux tty colors? I have gotten this as a starting point: edit /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color: *VT100*color0: black *VT100*color1: red *VT100*color2: green *VT100*color3: yellow *VT100*color4: blue *VT100*color5: magenta *VT100*color6: cyan *VT100*color7: white *VT100*color8: black *VT100*color9: red *VT100*color10: green *VT100*color11: yellow *VT100*color12: blue *VT100*color13: magenta *VT100*color14: cyan *VT100*color15: white *VT100*colorUL: yellow *VT100*colorBD: white I don't really know anything about xresources, so the *VT100... part might be non-ideal. Also, these colors are just a starting point. anyone? -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Anti-aliasing
On Tuesday 31 December 2002 05:16 am, Rus Foster wrote: > Hi All, > I've just managed to get anti aliasing working with qt apps. > However I would also like to get xterms,window maker and gtk based apps > working. For the gtk apps would I be correct in thinking that I will have > to upgrade to the unstable (i.e. gtk 2+) for things such as gimp to do > antialiasing? > > For windowmaker (and I guess in turn xterms) though I'm at a bit of a > loss. Can anyone point me in the right direction? > > Cheers > > Rus yeah, what you need are XFree 4.2.x (I think...) and gtk2 I just discovered from the windows telnet thread that the following: xterm -fa "Lucida Console" -fs 14 starts an xterm with a gloriously antialiased truetype font. by the way, I seem to remember there being some sort of environment variable you have to set to get gtk2 to use AA fonts, like GDK_USE_XFT=1 or somesuch... I'll have to look through my notes for that. ... yes, I edited /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/Gnome and added: # make AA work export GDK_USE_XFT=1 of course, that only helps you if you use gdm. -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
high load average
the other day I was moving several gigs of files from one ide drive to another on the same ide chain (the secondary channel is broken) and my load average went up to around 7 (no, not 0.07). The machine would become unresponsive for several seconds at a time. This is a uniprocessor machine, both drives are ext2 filesystems. Is this normal? I don't seem to remember having ide performance issues like this before (this is a new install). -jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OT: how to make kmail open links in mozilla
not really a debian question, but does anyone know how to make kmail open a link in an email in mozilla instead of konqueror? I have looked in the kde configurator thing and didn't see any sort of option for that. -jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: how to make kmail open links in mozilla
> To be honest, I didn't know the answer at first sight, but a look at the > code did it: you have to change the _global_ Browser in KControl (or > Konqueror itself), section "File Associations". I think it was under File > Manager until KDE 3.0. There, go to text/html, press Add, choose Mozilla > and move it to the top of the list. You can do this with any mime type you > want (although I can't understand, why one would want that ;). you can't understand why one would wish to use mozilla instead of konqueror? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: how to make kmail open links in mozilla
On Thursday 26 September 2002 04:31, Michael Brade wrote: > On Thursday 26 September 2002 10:20, martin f krafft wrote: > > also sprach Jason Pepas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.09.26.0940 +0200]: > > > not really a debian question, but does anyone know how to make kmail > > > open a link in an email in mozilla instead of konqueror? I have looked > > > in the kde configurator thing and didn't see any sort of option for > > > that. > > > > The same applies to other k* apps, like knewsticker. It looks like KDE > > doesn't allow users to change middleware. heck, even windoze allows > > that ;^> > > > > this is CCed to a friend who's a KDE developer. let's see what comes > > back... > > heh :) > > To be honest, I didn't know the answer at first sight, but a look at the > code did it: you have to change the _global_ Browser in KControl (or > Konqueror itself), section "File Associations". I think it was under File > Manager until KDE 3.0. There, go to text/html, press Add, choose Mozilla > and move it to the top of the list. You can do this with any mime type you > want (although I can't understand, why one would want that ;). > > Good luck, thanks by the way, worked like a charm :) -jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
festival plugin for mozilla?
is there such a thing as a festival (text to speech) plugin for mozilla (like the one for konqueror? -jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
