How to run KDM on VNC but not on console
Howdy, I have a server on which I want to grant some users access via VNC. I the README.inetd file showed how to run KDM on VNC. It's pretty slick! But whenever I start kdm, it starts X and displays It's prompt on tty1. I don't want KDM to run on the console. This is a server, and I like the old fashioned text based login with no X. Is there a way I can limit KDM to only run on VNC sessions? I've looked through the files in /etc/kde2/kdm/ and tried a few things, but no luck. Any help is appreciated! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Permissions for a FAT partition
Howdy all, I want to change the default permissions of files in a FAT partition. I understand that FAT file systems have no concept of permission or ownership. When I mount the partition ownership is set to root and permissions are set to 755. This means that only root can write to it. I'd like it to be writable by ordinary users. I've tried fiddling the permissions of the mount point, and options to the mount command, but have had no luck. Anyone know how to make my FAT partition writable? thanks, Rich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Looking for a Web link checker that understands https/ssl
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Can't boot "Kernel panic: No init found"
All, I can no longer boot my Woody laptop. Here are the last few lines of boot up: VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel momory 208k freed kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. I use GRUB and have tried adding the kernel parameters 'init=/sbin/init' and 'init=/bin/bash'. No dice. Booting older kernels gives the same results. I've booted with my recovery CD and fsck'ed my file system. No problems found. I've confirmed that init exists and executes. I'm stumped. HELP Thanks, Rich B. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: Can't boot "Kernel panic: No init found" -- partially solved
After many hours of trial and error, and Googling, I finally discovered that I had somehow deleted my /lib directory. init wouldn't run, but didn't give any usefull error, so the kernel just reported that init was missing. I restored a 6 month old backup, booted with error messages, but couldn't log in due to missing pam libs. I found a three month old backup and restored it and can now Log in!!! Now, how can I use Apt and Dpkg to insure I have the newest/correct versions of everything? How can I force re-installation of all my packages since my 3 month old backup? Is that the best way to do it? I've got a log of most of the updates I've done. Thanks again, Rich B Original post: >> I can no longer boot my Sarge laptop. Here are the last few lines of >> boot up: >> >> VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly. >> Freeing unused kernel momory 208k freed >> kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. >> >> I use GRUB and have tried adding the kernel parameters >>'init=/sbin/init' >> and 'init=/bin/bash'. No dice. >>Booting older kernels gives the same results. >> >>I've booted with my recovery CD and fsck'ed my file system. No problems >>found. I've confirmed that init exists and executes. >> >>I'm stumped. HELP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can't boot "Kernel panic: No init found" -- partially solved -- MoreQuestions (APT)
After many hours of trial and error, and Googling, I finally discovered that I had somehow deleted my /lib directory. init wouldn't run, but didn't give any usefull error, so the kernel just reported that init was missing. I restored a 6 month old backup, booted with error messages, but couldn't log in due to missing pam libs. I found a three month old backup and restored it and can now Log in!!! Now, how can I use Apt and Dpkg to insure I have the newest/correct versions of everything? How can I force re-installation of all my packages since my 3 month old backup? Is that the best way to do it? I've got a log of most of the updates I've done. Thanks again, Rich B Original post: >> I can no longer boot my Sarge laptop. Here are the last few lines of >> boot up: >> >> VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly. >> Freeing unused kernel momory 208k freed >> kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. >> >> I use GRUB and have tried adding the kernel parameters >>'init=/sbin/init' >> and 'init=/bin/bash'. No dice. >>Booting older kernels gives the same results. >> >>I've booted with my recovery CD and fsck'ed my file system. No problems >>found. I've confirmed that init exists and executes. >> >>I'm stumped. HELP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
where is /usr/src.linux???
I am just now trying to compile my kernel for sound as per Marl Wagnon's recent suggestions, but lo and behold, no /usr/src/linux and on top of that, the only directory in my /usr/src directory is REDHAT?!?!?! What's up here? So I just tried to go to /usr/src and type "make xconfig" and I get the message "no rule to make target "xconfig". Stop" I am baffled - please help! ps - I am running slink, which I freshly installed after vetoing hamm Rich
A couple more strange "sound" probs...
First let me thank everybody that helped me to get my kernel recompiled and support for sound! I am now running 2.2.1 and everything seems to work a little more smoothly (maybe?)... anyway, I got my SB Awe64 Gold working for playing CDs - I added myself to the "audio" group and "disk" group. A couple of strange problems, however... xplaycd works fine BUT xmcd appears briefly, then disappears... Tkmixer and xmixer work fine as far as CDs go... gom says no mixer opened (even when I have one of the above mixers opened - I am missing something?) xwave will load a .wav file and appear to play it, but no sound... Any ideas? Thanks in advance! Rich
RE: A couple more strange "sound" probs...
> From: "Paulo J. da Silva e Silva" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Rich, > > Could you please send a copy of your /proc/sound in order to make us sure > everything is working. > > I have just compiled 2.2.1 to give my awe64 sound. Maybe I can remember > something... > > Paulo > rich writes: > > First let me thank everybody that helped me to get my kernel recompiled > and support for sound! I am now running 2.2.1 and everything seems to work a > little more smoothly (maybe?)... anyway, I got my SB Awe64 Gold working for > playing CDs - I added myself to the "audio" group and "disk" > > group. A couple of strange problems, however... > > xplaycd works fine > > BUT xmcd appears briefly, then disappears... > > Tkmixer and xmixer work fine as far as CDs go... > > gom says no mixer opened (even when I have one of the above mixers opened > - I am missing something?) > > xwave will load a .wav file and appear to play it, but no sound... Here's my proc/sound file... OSS/Free:3.8s2++-971130 Load type: Driver compiled into kernel Kernel: Linux monkeyhouse 2.2.1 #3 SMP Wed Feb 17 02:04:39 CST 1999 i586 Config options: 0 Installed drivers: Type 1: OPL-2/OPL-3 FM Type 26: MPU-401 (UART) Type 2: Sound Blaster Type 29: Sound Blaster PnP Type 7: SB MPU-401 Card config: Sound Blaster at 0x220 irq 5 drq 1,1 SB MPU-401 at 0x330 irq 5 drq 0 OPL-2/OPL-3 FM at 0x388 drq 0 Audio devices: 0: Sound Blaster 16 (4.16) Synth devices: 0: Yamaha OPL3 Midi devices: 0: Sound Blaster 16 Timers: 0: System clock Mixers: 0: Sound Blaster
Getting X-Windows to recognize Truetype fonts...
Howdy all, I'm having trouble getting Netscape and Wordperfect to recognize my TTFs... I've installed xfstt (it's loaded during boot-up), but when I do a "xlsfonts | grep ttf" I get nothing... I've also done "ln -s /dos_c/windows/fonts /usr/share/fonts/truetype/winfonts" as per xfstt documentation... I know that I'm probably supposed to add the line "xset fp+ unix/:7101&" to my xinitrc (?), but that doesn't do anything any ideas? Thanks in advance, Rich
size of kernel too big?
Hello everybody, I recently compiled kernel 2.2.1 (my 1st attempt), and everything seems to be going smoothly (except for playing .wav files, but that's another story...) Anyway, did not put anything into "modules" (is that bad?)... Now, when I look at my /var/log/messages, I see this... monkeyhouse kernel: Memory: 30616k/32768k available (1000k kernel code, 416k reserved, 629k data, 44k init)Feb25 Is that saying that my kernel ids 1MB? If it is, is that too big? Will I make it faster, leaner, smoother, etc bu sticking sound (+anything else?) into "modules"? Thanks, Rich
? Wordperfect use of TrueType fonts ?
Hello all, Thanks to everybody who helped me to get TrueType fonts going... Netscape is using them right now, and it looks MUCH better anyway, the fonts are not "seen" ny Wordperfect... is there a way to get WP to recognize / use my nice new Arial font? (does anyone else think that the fonts that came w/ WP are the _worst_?) Thanks in advance, Rich
Re: PLEASE HELP: Can't access my system....
>This is a good application for the rescue disk (of the >installation floppy >set). You can alt-F2 to get a console >screen, mount the root partition to >/mnt and edit >/mnt/etc/fstab with ae. > >Bob Thanks - that did it... although it took me a while to figure out that when the program mounts the FS it mounts it not under /mnt but under /target.... On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Rich Hartman wrote: > Hello, > > I was messing around w/ FSTAB, and apparently erased the "ro" from > the "defaults,errors=remount-ro" field of my root filesystem > entry Anyway, now I can't login even as root, and get all kinds > of boot-up errors > > I've tried "linux single" at LILO, and I can login, but I can't edit > my FSTAB file - it gives me a "read-only" error... > > So how do I fix my FSTAB if "linux single" won't let me do it? > > Thanks to everyone in advance! > > Rich
Statistics/graphing programs for scientists?
Hello all, I'm just about to get my doctorate in neuroscience, and I have have several large databases essential for my dissertation. For statistical analysis, I use Statistica for windows, and for graphing my data, I use SigmaPlot for windows. A call to all scientists out there - are there any native X-based programs that are as good as these? Although these programs are excellent, I would rather not trust my dissertation to the OS I have come to call Sir Crash-a-lot... My only other option is to use a windows emulator (like WINE)... Thanks in advance, Rich
does WINE work well enough?
Hello all, I have recently become interested in installing WINE to run some essential WIN-based programs... Anyway, I would like to be able to run them under linux instead of having to reboot to my ever-crashing Win95 system. Will the debian package of WINE work? The WINE webpage makes it sound like it works pretty well... Thanks in advance, Rich
Spreadsheet capable of opening CSV files?
Hello all, I would also like to be able to use a GUI-based spreadsheet that can import tab- or comma-delineated files (as far as I can tell, gnumeric canNOT?) like corel quattro or excel... Is there anything out there? Thanks, Rich
Re: Statistics/graphing programs for scientists?
>I don't know what kind of statistics you do, but try >Octave which is GNU >clone of MatLab. For graph, I use >Python to analyze the data, and PiCTeX to >plot and >typeset the graph. > >Yours truly, >William Park Actually, I looked at Octave and it doesn't seem to be what I'm looking for (or maybe it is and I just don't know it?)... I need a program that can handle statistical tests such as ANOVAs, ANCOVAs, MRC, t-tests, chi-square... that type of stuff (used mainly for determining statistical differences between groups of subjects)... Can Octave do that stuff? Someone mentioned that SPSS was ported to Linux - this would probably be appropriate (although I really can't stand that program) Thanks again, Rich
what exactly is a "segmentation fault"?
Howdy all, I have just tried my 1st attempt at installing a non-debian package (multitrack-2.2.tgz). I followed the instructions... - place file in /usr/local - tar xvfz multitrack-2.2.tgz - cd multitrack-2.2 - make install When I tried to run the program (by typing multitrack), I get a "segmentation fault" error... I have heard this phrase before, but do not know what it means... can anyone help, or at least point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance, Rich
Re: what exactly is a "segmentation fault"
>> When I tried to run the program (by typing multitrack), I get a >> "segmentation fault" error... I have heard this phrase before, but do >> not know what it means... can anyone help, or at least point me in the >> right direction? >A segmentation fault means that the program made an illegal memory >access. This can be done in many ways and it is now always the >author's fault, it could be a library problem. >First, run ldd /path/to/my program >Every item in the list should have a left and right side. Here is what that tells me - it seems like everything is okay? libvga.so.1 => /usr/lib/libvga.so.1 (0x4000c000) libvgagl.so.1 => /usr/lib/libvgagl.so.1 (0x40058000) libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libX11.so.6 (0x40067000) libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5 (0x40105000) libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x4010e000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x401cc000) libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x40271000) ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x4028a000) >Next, run strace -o output program. At the bottom of the file called >output you will see some cryptic function calls. They may offer a >clue. ... bunch of stuff followed by... geteuid() = 0 getuid()= 0 getgid()= 0 getegid() = 0 getpid()= 1201 --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) --- +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++ Does this tell me anything? This also seems similar to an error that I get when I try to run "emusic" - nothing happens until I ^C, then I get the next message... Gdk-Message: ** ERROR **: sigint caught All other sound stuff seems to work... Any clues? also >Another thing that caused multitrack to "segfault" me was a setting in the >preferences file ~/.multitrack/prefs >I changed this to read: >#= ># Audio buffers section >#= > >o_nr_buffers = 10 >i_nr_buffers = 10 I don't have this file - I guess because the program hasn't fully run yet? Thanks, Rich
Re: what exactly is a segmentation fault?
> ldd of "multitrack": > libvga.so.1 => /usr/lib/libvga.so.1 (0x4000c000) > libvgagl.so.1 => /usr/lib/libvgagl.so.1 (0x40058000) > libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libX11.so.6 (0x40067000) > libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5 (0x40105000) > libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x4010e000) > libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x401cc000) > libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x40271000) > ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x4028a000) > >I think depending both on libc5 and libc6 shouldn't be a healthy >situation. This one seems to be a libc5 program depending on svgalib, >but maybe you haven't installed the libc5-compatible svgalib libraries >(package 'svgalib1' in section 'oldlibs') so your program tries to use >the libc6 ones, resulting in this conflict. That was it! Thanks Rich
??? Mysterious recurring problem with X video...
Hey there everybody, I've decided to try and figure out a problem (with y'alls help!) that has bugged me since the days of Bo - setting up my X video. I've tried reading all of the documentation, but to no avail. Here's my situation: At 8 bpp, I have no problems (except the normal lame-looking color dithering)... At 16 bpp and higher, everything looks good EXCEPT for a thin (roughly 1/2") vertical stripe of the screen (about 3" from the left side, going from top to bottom) that kind of "shimmers" whenever letters or pictures are positioned immediately over it (it can't be seen against a "normal" background) Here is some crucial setup info: Sceptre P73 17" monitor from the manual: Horizontal: 30-70 Vertical: 50-120 Video bandwidth: 100MHz Max resolution: 1280x1024 I found a webpage with some info about this monitor... it says Horizontal of 24-66 - I put this in the config file and it seems to work a LITTLE better) it also says video bandwidth is 110MHz it also says max resolution is 1280x1024 @ 60Hz, and max flicker-free is 1024x768 @ 76 Hz >From the config file: Section "Monitor" HorizSync 24-66 VertRefresh 50-120 Modeline "1024x768" 85.00 1024 1032 1152 1360 768 784 787 823 Modeline "800x600" 69.65 800 864 928 1088 600 604 610 640 -hsync -vsync EndSection Section "Device" BoardName "ATI Pro Turbo+PC2TV, 3D Rage II+DVD" EndSection Section "Screen" Driver "Accel" DefaultColorDepth 16 SubSection "Display" Depth16 Modes"1024x768" "800x600" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth24 Modes"1024x768" "800x600" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth32 Modes"1024x768" "800x600" EndSubSection EndSection ATI 3d Rage II+DVD w/ 4MB video memory Info from Win'95 video (which runs fine): 1152x864 32bpp Horiz: 45.9 Vert: 47 refresh rate: 47 Hz THANKS IN ADVANCE! THIS IS THE LAST THING NEEDED TO HAVE MY SYSTEM RELATIVELY TROUBLE-FREE! Rich
* importing files into a Postgresql table *
Howdy all, I am in the process of trying to learn SQL and have installed Postgresql onto my system. Is it possible to import a spreadsheet file (in any number of formats: CSV, excel, quattro, whatever) into a Postgresql table? It would be a drag to have to re-enter everything by hand. I have not been able to find anything in the docs about this. Thanks in advance, Rich
What is xemacs-tty?
Hello, I just installed XEmacs, and in my Windowmaker menu there now appears: XEmacs20-nomule XEmacs20-tty-nomule What is the tty entry? Why do I have 2 installations of Xemacs when I only picked 1? Thanks. Rich
what are the "standard" programming tools available in Debian?
Howdy everyone, I was wondering: what are the tools available in Debian that one would consider part of the "standard" toolbox of a programmer? I have programmed for several years in BASIC, and dabbled Fortran and Pascal. Now I want to learn C, Perl, and (maybe) Java... mostly for relatively simple tasks around my lab such as coming up with programs to generate forms for random assignment of experimental groups, taking raw data and manipulating it in various ways into forms suitable for pasting into a statistics package and presentation, etc. In addition, I'm trying to design a lab web-page and would like to be able to have collaboraters post and retrieve data from an SQL-type system... My basic question is: for these languages and tasks, what tools would make my life easier? I know about Gdb, but haven't figured out how to use it yet... what else does Debian offer me? Thanks in advance, Rich
unused libraries reported by binstats
Hello all, I ran binstats, which reported that I had 79 "used" libraries, and 118 "unused" libraries... this is after having Debian running since Bo (1.3). Is there a way to find out which libraries are unused and purge them? Thanks, Rich
Re: what are the "standard" programming tools available in Debian?
Thanks Seth! It seems lately that many questions go unanswered, much less answered in such a thorough manner... I'm sure that your advice will help me... > > Howdy everyone, > > > > I was wondering: what are the tools available in Debian that one would > > consider part of the "standard" toolbox of a programmer? > > > Well, it all depends on the programmer, I suppose. :) You need a good text > editor. For me, that is vim. (As another debian-user reader pointed out, > "You can take my Vim when you pry it from my cold, dead hands." Same goes > for me, but it might be more difficult. :) For others, that might be elvis > or emacs or whatever else. In any case, you need a good one, one that you > know well. > > You should have the compiler for whatever language you want to play in. For > java, you need the jdk. (I think I have all four jdk* packages installed on > my system..) For C, you need gcc. > > One thing that I dabbled with over the summer is makefiles -- wonderfully > amazing things. With the right Makefile you can type :make in vim and it > will rebuild your source, and jump to the first line with errors, and let > you step through all the lines with errors. I am sure emacs offers the same > setup. > > If you want to do much C programming, and you have X window installed, then > check out ddd -- a GUI frontend to gdb (very much nicer to a newbie such as > myself) as well as some other debuggers (rumored to also include the java > debugger, though I haven't tested that.) > > If you want to do Perl programming, well, your Debian system should have > come with that preinstalled. If you don't know perl, then buy one of two > books: Learning Perl, by Randal L Swartz (I hope I got that right) or > Programming Perl, by Tom Christianson and Larry Wall. Which one you buy > depends on your programming experience. At some point you *will* want > Programming Perl, so you might as well buy that one, and if it goes over > your head (like it did mine my first trip through it) grab Learning Perl, > and then try again. :) > > as for other bits of the toolbox, you need to use manpages, (perldoc has > perl info, the C ones are harder to find; I don't think there is one manpage > that lists all the other C-based manpages..) grep, find, and maybe other > bits too. > > :)
Whay can't GDB or DDD find my source code?
I am compiling a C program like so gcc -o -g foo foo.c alternatively gcc -o -ggdb foo foo.c When I run gdb, I get "(no debugging symbols found)" When I run ddd, I get "GDB cannot find the source code of your program" I'm running everything from the same directory, and have tried gdb ./foo, etc. Am I just confused as to what these programs should be doing? At least they should be able to find the source code, right? Unless there are no errors, maybe? Baffled, Rich
Re: Why can't GDB or DDD find my source code?
That was it! Thanks a lot it's so nice when something turns out to be so simple! > Do you even have an executable file called 'foo' there? The -o option > should be immediately followed by the name (which, by your examples is > either -g or -ggdb). Try compiling with: > > $ gcc -g -o foo foo.c > > Matthew > Rich wrote: > > I am compiling a C program like so > > > > gcc -o -g foo foo.c > > > > alternatively > > > > gcc -o -ggdb foo foo.c > > > > When I run gdb, I get "(no debugging symbols found)" > > > > When I run ddd, I get "GDB cannot find the source code of your program"
Re: what are the "standard" programming tools available in Debian?
Thanks a lot for the great information - I was wondering about what I needed to give my cheesy little programs a GUI. ncurses will probably work just fine for me. As far as "make", that's pretty much not useful for a program using only a single source file, right? Also, what about LINT? I'm not all that familiar with it, but it sounds like a syntax checker, or some such thing for C programs? Any other .deb packages that can make programming easier for a relative newbie? Brad wrote: > > Also for C, you'll need the header files for any libraries you use. This > means you want to download the libc6-dev package, the stdc++??-dev > (??==2.10 for potato, i don't know for slink) if you program in C++. If > you do X programming, xlib6[g?]-dev is good, as well as the -dev package > for qt, gtk, or whatever you want. If you'd rather do a GUI in ncurses, > get that -dev package. And so on and so on and so on ;) > > If you can get them figured out, the GNU autoconf and automake tools are > wonderful for making a full-featured makefile. For a small, single source > file project these might be overkill though. > > For C manpages, check the manpages-dev package. Also, remember that the > 'manual' for some headers is in the header file itself. If worst comes to > worst, RTFS ;)
Re: spreadsheet (excel, WingzPro)
I remember reading today / yesterday that someone had problems with Wingz on a 48MB system... I just downloaded both Wingz and WingzPro, installed them in under 5 minutes and both run very smoothly and quickly on my 32MB 200Mhz Pentium I running Slink... The Excel and HTML import / export functions seem to work flawlessly... Gnumeric (at least the version packaged for Slink) has a LONG way to go before it comes close to this (excel compatiblity is very nice when your colleagues all work w/ macs or windows)... I too did not see a shareware request for $50 (but haven't poured over the docs yet - maybe it's hidden somewhere)... I also haven't really been able to tell the difference between the Wingz and the Pro versions Just my 2 cents on a seemingly pretty cool program (so far, anyway)
correct way to move /usr to a new partition...
Howdy all, I have decided that I need more room for my Slink system... my 1GB linux partition that stores my entire system is now over 80% full... I was thinking of using another empty 1GB partition (/dev/hdb1 - currently mounted as /linux2a) for /usr. My thinking is: 1. as root, cp -r -p /usr /linux2a 2. change fstab to mount /dev/hdb1 as /usr (with options set to "defaults, errors=remount -ro" ???) 3. rm /usr 4. mount -a My question is, will I get screwed somehow, or is this the "correct" way to do it? Thanks in advance, Rich
Re: Regex and memory gone.. was Re: spreadsheet (excel, WingzPro)
> >I remember reading today / yesterday that someone had problems with > >Wingz on a 48MB system... I just downloaded both Wingz and WingzPro, > >installed them in under 5 minutes and both run very smoothly and quickly > >on my 32MB 200Mhz Pentium I running Slink... The Excel and HTML import / > >export functions seem to work flawlessly... Gnumeric (at least the > [...] > > Ah, that was me. Perhaps I set it up wrong? Wingz complined about not > having libg++27 and libstdc++27. Was I wrong to soft-link and ldconfig the > libg++2.7.2 and libstdc++2.7.2 libs to these? > > The complaints then vanished and I then got the memory exhausted error from > Regex. I don't know if this will help, but here is the output from "ldd /usr/local/Wingz3/bin/LINUX/Wingz" on my system: libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5 (0x4000c000) libXpm.so.4 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXpm.so.4 (0x40015000) libXmu.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXmu.so.6 (0x40023000) libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXext.so.6 (0x40035000) libXt.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXt.so.6 (0x4004) libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libX11.so.6 (0x40082000) libdl.so.1 => /lib/libdl.so.1 (0x4012) libg++.so.27 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libg++.so.27 (0x40123000) libstdc++.so.27 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libstdc++.so.27 (0x4015b000) libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x4018c000) libSM.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libSM.so.6 (0x4024a000) libICE.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libICE.so.6 (0x40253000)
Re: correct way to move /usr to a new partition..
> > I have decided that I need more room for my Slink system... my 1GB linux > > partition that stores my entire system is now over 80% full... I was > > thinking of using another empty 1GB partition (/dev/hdb1 - currently > > mounted as /linux2a) for /usr. My thinking is: > > > > 1. as root, cp -r -p /usr /linux2a > > 2. change fstab to mount /dev/hdb1 as /usr (with options set to > > "defaults, errors=remount -ro" ???) > > 3. rm /usr > > I am more cautious -- I would rename /usr to /old_usr rather than delete it. > No need to paint yourself into a corner you can avoid.. delete it after a > few days of it running perfectly. :) That's a good suggestion - my question is: is there a linux utility to compare directories / files to see if they are the same? Seems like I've heard of one, but can't remember...
spreadsheet that can open CSV files?
Hello all, I would also like to be able to use a GUI-based spreadsheet that can import tab- or comma-delineated files (as far as I can tell, gnumeric canNOT?) like corel quattro or excel... Is there anything out there? Thanks, Rich
? using "make-kpkg" for modules ?
Hello all, I have compiled my kernel using 'make-kpkg' before and found it relatively painless - as long as I didn't use modules.. Today I tried to set up module support for my kernel and "modulize" a bunch of stuff, and I'm having some problems. First, from reading the /usr/doc/kernel-source-2.2.1/debian.README file, I thought that 'make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.5 kernel_image' was supposed to take care of the modules. So I did that, installed the .deb package, and rebooted. Now printing works (I'm pretty sure that lp should be a module now), pon works (same for ppp support) but sound does not. So I see elsewhere buried in the documentation that you're also supposed to do 'make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.5 module_image' I did that, and it spent a couple of minutes going through the routine, but no modules .deb package was created (that I could find...). Now if I try that command again, it goes through a very quick program listing and stops as if it's done... but still no .deb package... My kernel IS smaller by a couple hundred bytes now... Here is what my /proc/modules file says: ppp_deflate38516 0 (autoclean) sound 54484 0 (autoclean) (unused) soundlow 208 0 (autoclean) [sound] soundcore 2084 3 (autoclean) [sound] bsd_comp3468 0 ppp17712 2 [ppp_deflate bsd_comp] slhc4136 1 [ppp] lp 4268 0 (unused) What am I doing wrong here? Thanks in advance... Rich
? using "make-kpkg" for modules ?
> You need to do some tweaking to get sound support to work properly as > a module. If you don't do anything special, a read request on > /dev/audio tells the kernel to try to get sound support, so it loads > the 'sound' module. Since there's no module installed that can > provide actual audio data, the read fails. > > My /etc/modutils/sound contains: > > post-install soundcore modprobe -ks sb > post-install sb modprobe -ks adlib_card > options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330 > options adlib_card io=0x388 > > This has modprobe install the sb module when the kernel loads the > soundcore module, and then loads the adlib_card module after that. It > also specifies correct I/O, IRQ, and DMA information for the modules, > which is essential for them to work correctly. I don't have that file... will creating it do the trick as far as sound goes? More importantly, hpw do I know that my system is correctly using modules? Is there a way to check? And why didn't the make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.5 module_image command produce a .deb file to install? Was that even needed? I understand the idea of modules, but the implementation is far from clear, and I've spent a long time wading thru documentation. Perhaps I just haven't been looking in the right places? Finally, I have found that to do the steps required to compile the kernel, I need to be root the whole time. I was under the impression that I shouldn't have to be for every step, and that 'fakeroot' should be used for the steps that require root permissions. This didn't work... Although I have compiled several successful kernels (all w/o module support), I have had to do it all as root. Thanks again, Rich
Re: ? using "make-kpkg" for modules ?
Shaleh wrote: > > On 03-May-99 rich wrote: > >> You need to do some tweaking to get sound support to work properly as > >> a module. If you don't do anything special, a read request on > >> /dev/audio tells the kernel to try to get sound support, so it loads > >> the 'sound' module. Since there's no module installed that can > >> provide actual audio data, the read fails. > >> > >> My /etc/modutils/sound contains: > >> > >> post-install soundcore modprobe -ks sb > >> post-install sb modprobe -ks adlib_card > >> options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330 > >> options adlib_card io=0x388 > >> > >> This has modprobe install the sb module when the kernel loads the > >> soundcore module, and then loads the adlib_card module after that. It > >> also specifies correct I/O, IRQ, and DMA information for the modules, > >> which is essential for them to work correctly. > > > > > > Ok here goes, blow by blow: > > make menuconfig and setup as usual (if you do make xconfig that is fine too) > while in config, go into the sound section and enable the modules for the > sound > items needed > > do make-kpkg kernel_image (add --revision if desired) <-- this builds kernel > and modules > > install the kernel > > cd /etc/modutils and make the sound file as shown above then run > update-modules > (both as root) > > cd /etc and edit conf.modules, make sure auto is the uncommented > > reboot > > all should be well > > as to the make-kpkg as root thing, I simply run sudo make-kpkg and I never > become root. fakeroot has not worked for me here. Well, I just did all of that (there was no "auto" anywhere in the /etc/conf.modules) and now the boot process gives me messages such as "modprobe: can't find module sound" and hangs up when it tries to configure gom... any ideas? Surely there has to be an simpler way to deal w/ modules, since that is supposedly the "standard" way to set things up?
wierd boot message about cdrom...
Howdy all,
I was just browsing through my boot messages when I noticed this string
of text that I'm not sure I've seen before (right at the end of the boot
messages)...
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VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0)
hdc: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: command error: error=0x54
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 64
ATAPI device hdc:
Error: Illegal request -- (Sense key=0x05)
Illegal mode for this track or incompatible medium -- (asc=0x64,
ascq=0x00)
isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=16:00, iso_blknum=16, block=32
registered device ppp0
Does anyone know if this is bad, what it means, and/or how to fix it?
Thanks in advance,
Rich
???RealPlayer installation???
Howdy all, I'm trying to install RealPlayer 5.0 on slink (no .deb package, right?) - I downloaded the tarball from the RealPlayer site and installed it... trying to run it, I got: ./rvplayer: can't load library 'libg++.so.27 So I tried to install the libg++27 package, but got this message from dselect: Checking system integrity...ok The following NEW packages will be installed: libg++27 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0b/236k of archives. After unpacking 523k will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] (Reading database ... E: Sub-process returned an error code Some errors occurred while unpacking. I'm going to configure the packages that were installed. This may result in duplicate errors or errors caused by missing dependencies. This is OK, only the errors above this message are important. Please fix them and run [I]nstall again Press enter to continue. When I tried to re-install, I get the same message - any ideas? Thanks in advance Rich
/dev/lp0 quit after kernel "modulized"...
Howdy all, I've had everything working great on my system for a long time, BUT with EVERYTHING compiled into the kernel - I had trouble a while ago using make-kpkg... the kernel_image worked fine, but modules_image didn't do anything but echo back some script... Anyway, I finally used the 'make modules' 'make modules_install' method, recompiled my kernel with most stuff as a 'module', and now printing doesn't work: monkeyhouse:/home/rich# cat temp.txt > /dev/lp0 bash: /dev/lp0: Operation not supported by device However, the output of 'lsmod' shows that lp and parport are loaded any ideas? Module Size Used by lp 4280 0 (autoclean) (unused) parport 6444 0 (autoclean) [lp] Thanks in advance, Rich
my root filesystem is 21.6% non-contiguous...
Is that bad? most of my other filesystems are in the 1.5% range. This seems to have happened after I through my /usr directory onto its own partition... shortly thereafter, I noticed that it was 20.9%. I thought that it may have been because I just moved a large chunk of it, but after a couple of weeks, it has gotten larger instead of smaller... do I have anything to worry about? Thanks in advance, Rich
Re: /dev/lp0 quit after kernel "modulized"...
Mirek: > Hmm, it not a problem. Add alias: > >alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc > > and all is fine: I tried that (by adding that line to /etc/modutils/aliases - correct way?)... didn't change anything... Can the parallel port be used as a module for printing? > monkeyhouse:/home/rich# cat temp.txt > /dev/lp0 > > bash: /dev/lp0: Operation not supported by device > > > > However, the output of 'lsmod' shows that lp and parport are loaded > > any ideas? > > > > Module Size Used by > > lp 4280 0 (autoclean) (unused) > > parport 6444 0 (autoclean) [lp] >
Re: 96M RAM, but free only shows 64M!!!
if he's using lilo you've gotta add append MEM="96M" or whichever ammount of mem is installed on your computer. Be sure to add the correct amount or you're gonna get boot failures :P -Rich Perow -! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Sat, 14 Nov 1998, Mark Phillips wrote: > Hi, > > My friend's laptop has 96M of RAM installed. When it boots, it has a > message saying that 96M is installed and BIOS setup shows the same thing, > but when I run "free" under Debian it comes up with: > > # free > total used free sharedbuffers cached > Mem: 63384 61728 1656 25776 30420 16084 > -/+ buffers/cache: 15224 48160 > Swap:64508344 64164 > > > Why does it only think there is 64M? > > Thanks, > > Mark. > > _/\___/~~\ > /~~\_/~~\__/~~\__Mark_Phillips > /~~\_/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > /~~\HE___/~~\__/~~\APTAIN_ > /~~\__/~~\ > __ > "They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them!" > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
Re: 96M RAM, but free only shows 64M!!!
erf sorry, append="mem=96M", tis been a while -Rich Perow -! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Sat, 14 Nov 1998, Mark Phillips wrote: > Hi, > > My friend's laptop has 96M of RAM installed. When it boots, it has a > message saying that 96M is installed and BIOS setup shows the same thing, > but when I run "free" under Debian it comes up with: > > # free > total used free sharedbuffers cached > Mem: 63384 61728 1656 25776 30420 16084 > -/+ buffers/cache: 15224 48160 > Swap:64508344 64164 > > > Why does it only think there is 64M? > > Thanks, > > Mark. > > _/\___/~~\ > /~~\_/~~\__/~~\__Mark_Phillips > /~~\_/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > /~~\HE___/~~\__/~~\APTAIN_ > /~~\__/~~\ > __ > "They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them!" > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
Re: system hang on boot
ide0: reset: success. (or something to that effect) if that was the error you got, you've added too much memory to your append. -Rich Perow -! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Sat, 14 Nov 1998, Sibuyas Bombay wrote: > hi all ! > I 81Mb of RAM but had no idea that i was using only the 64Mb of it until > that > post by Mark Phillips. Anyway, i added the 'append' line to my /etc/lilo.conf > then run #lilo ... > When i tried restarting my box it would completely halt/hang at the part > where > Linux does partition checks on hda 1, 2 & 3 ... > Heres part of my lilo.conf. I'd really appreciate it if there's someone who > can tell me what i did wrong here ... > > #Start Linux bootable partition > image = /vmlinuz >root = /dev/hda3 >append = "mem=81M" #this is what i added >label = Linux >read-only > #End Linux bootable partition > > Sib > > - > A world of Information. The journey begins here. At Home. > Internet Cebu's web based mail. http://www.i-mailbox.net > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
question
question.. i must of done something a few weeks back and never relized it messed up. but as of now i can't make any local connections. All network unreachables. ifconfig shows lo and ppp0 both up and running. Any remote host can make a connection without a problem, as long as im not connecting/pinging localhost from localhost [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> su Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/home/legacy> ping localhost PING localhost (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes --- localhost ping statistics --- 2 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/home/legacy> telnet localhost Trying 127.0.0.1... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Network is unreachable [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/home/legacy> another thing.. if i made a local mistake would that explain verio sending me icmp_time_exceeded? Nov 13 22:37:22 plink icmpinfo: ICMP_Time_Exceeded < 207.21.100.33 [h3-paix1.ncal.verio.net] > 127.0.0.1 [localhost] sp=34308 dp=23 seq=0xb8f409aa sz=36(+20) Much apriciated if anyone can help. -Rich Perow -! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: 96M RAM, but free only shows 64M!!!
well, when i had 96 meg of ram, my bios was counting the extra to. so when i added the 98 that the bios showed me, i ran into a boot error which completly halts the system, this was on 1.3 btw :P ide0: reset: success. -Rich Perow -! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, C.J.LAWSON wrote: > On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, rich wrote: > > > if he's using lilo you've gotta add append MEM="96M" or whichever ammount > > of mem is installed on your computer. Be sure to add the correct amount or > > you're gonna get boot failures :P > If I remember correctly, it's not boot failures one is to be worried about > ... the machine will probably boot fine ... It will, on the other hand, > crash badly sooner or later > Not that I am spliting hairs > Regards > > > > > > > _/\___/~~\ > > > /~~\_/~~\__/~~\__Mark_Phillips > > > /~~\_/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > /~~\HE___/~~\__/~~\APTAIN_ > > > /~~\__/~~\ > > > __ > > > "They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them!" > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > > > > --- > Jonathan Lawson > Thermal Processes Unit > Department of Applied Energy and Optical Diagnostics > School of Mechanical Engineering, > Cranfield University, > Cranfield, Bedford. UK. > email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good > tidings, > that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, > that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, > Thy God reigneth! > > Isaiah > 52:7 > >
Re: 96M RAM, but free only shows 64M!!!
i cant exactly remember the damn numbers off the top of my head, this was almost 6 months ago, sue me already :P -Rich Perow -! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Evan Van Dyke wrote: > rich wrote: > > > > well, when i had 96 meg of ram, my bios was counting the extra to. so when > > i added the 98 that the bios showed me, i ran into a boot error which > > completly halts the system, this was on 1.3 btw :P > > Umm... NOTE HERE: > > 1KB == 2^10 bytes. that's 1,024. NOT 1,000. > 1MB == 2^10 Kbytes. that's 1,024^2 bytes or 1,048,576 bytes Not > 1,000,000 bytes > Therefore 96 MB = 96*1,048,576 or 98,304 KiloBytes, or 100,663,296 > Bytes. > So your bios told you correctly that you had 96 MegaBytes. :> > It's just that your definition of a MegaByte was off. > > --Evan > > -- > Evan Van Dyke E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Page: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 15442232 > DNRC's Minister of Lost Internet Packets. O- > Amateur Radio Call Sign: KB8PVE >"Quoth the Raven... 'Nevermore!'" --Edgar Allen Poe >"I'll bet that all you can do is watch the ball bounce around the > screen. > --Dilbert to Management >
Re: I forget my root password and all password
ah fun stuff. easy way: boot using rescue disk and mount your harddrive, you'll have to run 'passwd root' and set a new pass. -Rich Perow -! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Cest wrote: > Hallo, > Anybody can help me, i forget my root password and all user passord, i > use kernel debian 2.0.34, soo how i can have my root password back. > > Sorry my (bad) English. > > thanks you > > Cest > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
Clarification concerning security of testing on a laptop
Hi, I know these type of questions are asked a lot but there's a couple of things I don't get & I haven't been able to find an answer using google or searching the message archives. First up, I'm running testing on my laptop & want some clarification regarding how secure this is. I know it is not monitored in any way for security problems & as such security problems are not fixed on it - however stable is no good to me since my laptop won't boot any 2.4 kernels, and I like/need to use fairly up-to-date software. What I don't understand is why it is so horrendously insecure to run testing - as I understand it when a vulnerability is found, a new version of the program is normally released which fixes the problem. This new version is built by the debian team & put into unstable and then after a bit (do I remember reading somewhere that it used to take 10 days but is now more like 2?) migrates into testing. Surely that means the longest you're likely to be vulnerable is 10 days? I appreciate this is useless for a server, and you've no recourse if you then get hacked as a result of running vulnerable software, but I don't see that it is a matter of being totally vulnerable. Surely it's a matter of being vulerable for a few days longer than if you were running stable - something that I would be willing to live with if it let me run debian on my laptop with up-to-date software. Thanks for any clarification or thoughts! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can a particular network card be permenantly bound to an eth'x' number?
I have several network cards in my laptop - wired lan, wireless lan, loopback & firewire. After a recent update (I'm running testing) my interface numbers all jumped around so that instead of the wired lan being eth0, it's now eth1 & the firewire is eth0. What defines what eth'x' number is given to which network device? It's a pain having to change configuration each time they move numbers (as also happens depending on whether I boot with my wireless cardbus in the slot or not)! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to prevent modules loading?
How do I prevent a module loading at startup? I have a prism-based wireless card, but have configured it using ndiswrapper so that I can use WPA. Although ndiswrapper seems to run before prism (ndiswrapper is listed in /etc/modules) & therefore configure the card correctly, prism54 module is still loaded. How do I prevent this happenning? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can a particular network card be permenantly bound to an eth'x'number?
On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 19:26 -0900, Greg Madden wrote: > On Friday 07 January 2005 01:31 pm, Jim McCloskey wrote: > > rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > |> I have several network cards in my laptop - wired lan, wireless > > |> lan, loopback & firewire. After a recent update (I'm running > > |> testing) my interface numbers all jumped around so that instead of > > |> the wired lan being eth0, it's now eth1 & the firewire is eth0. > > |> What defines what eth'x' number is given to which network device? > > |> It's a pain having to change configuration each time they move > > |> numbers (as also happens depending on whether I boot with my > > |> wireless cardbus in the slot or not)! > > > > This is just what the ifrename package is for (part of wireless-tools > > but it's a separate package in Debian). > > > > It assigns a user-defined interface-name permanently on the basis of > > certain static criteria, usually the device's MAC address. > > > > I use it on my laptop to ensure that the built-in ethernet adapter > > is always `nic', one wireless card is always `wlan1', and the second > > wireless card is always `wlan2'. > > > > It's easy to set this up, but if you want a really good detailed > > account of this and related issues, try: > > > >http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/HOTPLUG.txt > > > > Jim > > Rant: > Yes ...but, what is up with giving , or trying, as is the default with > Sarge, to give an network interface to firewire ? Until I added the > IPW2100 Centrino driver the firewire driver was always loaded, which > prevents the onboard ethernet & PCMCIA from configuring correctly. I > would think that firewire would be the 'last' choice to configure as an > interface, I have never even seen a firewire nic, but thats just me. > > Thanks for the link though :) Thanks for all the info - it's been stored for future refernce :) In the end I went for the option of just specifying the modules in the order I wanted in /etc/modules. This seemed the simplest way to achieve what I wanted and everything is now fine. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems getting all buttons in intellimouse working using imwheel & xmodmap
I'm trying to get the side buttons working on my ms intellimouse under sarge. Previously under yoper, I had set XF86Config-4 to a 7 button mouse with ZAxisMapping to "6 7", run xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5" and then run imwheel to map the side buttons to something useful. However this isn't working under sarge. Here's where I'm at: I'm running on a laptop with a touchpad & a MS intellimouse attached by USB. The mouse section of XF86Config-4 looks like this: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Configured Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "CorePointer" Option "Device""/dev/psaux" Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "false" Option "Buttons" "7" Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "SendCoreEvents""true" Option "Device""/dev/input/mice" Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "false" Option "Buttons" "7" Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7" EndSection The odd thing is that the touchpad doesn't work atall, and the /dev/psaux device seems to be my USB intellimouse - since changing the original config of the /dev/psaux mouse from 5 to 7 buttons caused the scrollwheel on the intellimouse to stop working. So, question 1 is why does the USB mouse show up as /dev/psaux and can I change this? Could this be the cause of my problems (below)? With this setup xev shows the following button mappings: left mouse = button 1 click scrollwheel - button 2 right mouse = button 3 scroll down = button 7 scroll up = button 6 left side button = button 2 right side button = button 3 I then run xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5" Now, xev shows left, right & scrollwheel clicks to be the same. However the scrolling down now shows as button 7, then if I carry on scrolling button 5. Likewise scrolling up shows initally as button 6 then, if I carry on scrolling, button 4. The side buttons still act as buttons 2 & 3. Obviously running imwheel doesn't work because the button mappings are still messed up. As an experiment I tried changing the protocol to ExplorerPS/2. This time before the xmodmap line, the side buttons acted as buttons 4 and 5. However after running the xmodmap line, a single scroll up gives a press/release of both button 4 & 6. A single scroll down gives press/releases of buttons 5 and 7. The side buttons give the same events as a scroll up or down. So, why does the xmodmap line not work? And why does scrolling activate as 2 buttons? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Touchpad scrollwheel won't scroll under sarge
I'm running sarge on my laptop which has a touchpad & a USB mouse. The USB mouse works fine (all 7 buttons!) after using xmodmap. The touchpad works fine except for the fact that the sroll wheel doesn't scroll. Using xev, I see a down-scroll being seen as button 2, while an up-scroll is not detected at all (left/right clicks are seen as buttons 1 & 3). Here's the input section of XFree86-config-4: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "CorePointer" Option "Device""/dev/input/mice" Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "false" Option "Buttons" "7" Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Touchpad" Driver "mouse" Option "SendCoreEvents""true" Option "Device""/dev/psaux" Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "false" # Option "Buttons" "5" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection The protocol is auto-detected as explorerPS/2. I also had to manually modprobe the psmouse module - don't know if this is normal or will have effected anthing? How do I get the scroll to work? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Touchpad scrollwheel won't scroll under sarge
I see from some pages on the net that this is a problem with the driver. Users of synaptics touchpads have a synaptics driver to get them by, however I have an Alps touchpad. I see from the synaptics driver homepage that the driver ships with a patch to make it work with alps touchpads, however when I install & use the synaptics driver (using apt-get) in my XF86Config-4 file, the XFree log says that it can't detect any synaptics device. I know I can compile from source, but looking at the debian changelogs for this package (http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/x/xfree86-driver-synaptics/xfree86-driver-synaptics_0.13.6-2/changelog) it looks like detection of Alps devices was fixed way back in 0.13.2-1 (I'm using 0.13.6-2). So, does anyone know if 0.13.6-2 as found in sarge really does detect alps touchpads, or do I need to compile from source with the alps patch? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Eterm, /dev/null, and segfaults
Howdy all, I just installed Slink onto an HP pentium 166 from CD. I'm using Windowmaker... When I tried to use Eterm as root, it worked... when I tried to use it as a normal user, it said something about /dev/null and segfaulted... /dev/null is set up like so... crw-rw-rw- xterm, however, worked for both root and normal users. I then used apt to upgrade to Potato over ethernet Eterm still works for root, but now when I try to run Eterm OR xterm as normal user, absolutely nothing happens. No window, no disk-noises, nothing. However, if I switch to twm, I can get a cheesy-looking xterm. Strange? I last clue when I log out of Windowmaker, before switching to back to wdm, a screen of strange SVGA-looking chaotic graphics briefly flashes - it does NOT do this for root. Any clues? Thanks in advance, Rich
Eterm, /dev/null, and segfaults
Howdy all, I just installed Slink onto an HP pentium 166 from CD. I'm using Windowmaker... When I tried to use Eterm as root, it worked... when I tried to use it as a normal user, it said something about /dev/null and segfaulted... /dev/null is set up like so... crw-rw-rw- xterm, however, worked for both root and normal users. I then used apt to upgrade to Potato over ethernet Eterm still works for root, but now when I try to run Eterm OR xterm as normal user, absolutely nothing happens. No window, no disk-noises, nothing. However, if I switch to twm, I can get a cheesy-looking xterm. Strange? One last clue when I log out of Windowmaker, before switching to back to wdm, a screen of strange SVGA-looking chaotic graphics briefly flashes - it does NOT do this for root. Any clues? Thanks in advance, Rich
installing win98 after everthing else....
Howdy all, I've got a "tri-boot" box - linux, win95 and freebsd... I would like to install win98 and eventually erase win95. I have 2 hard drives configured as follows: master: /dev/hda1 win95 /dev/hda2 freebsd /dev/hda3 debian root /dev/hda4 debian swap slave: /dev/hdb1 extra ext2 primary /dev/hdb2 another ext2primary /dev/hdb3 vfatprimary /dev/hdb5 vfatlogical /dev/hdb6 vfatlogical /dev/hdb7 ext2(/usr) logical /dev/hdb8 vfatlogical /dev/hdb9 vfatlogical /dev/hdb10 vfatlogical What I want to do is change /dev/hdb1 to vfat, unplug my master, configure my slave as master temporarily, install Win98 on /dev/hdb1, then reassign original master / slave, put Win98 in Lilo and have a "quad boot" box for awhile whilst I get stuff tranferred from win95 to win98... my question is, will win98 allow itself to be installed on a partition of my choosing, or will it just erase everything and install itself wherever it wants? Thanks in advance, Rich
mozilla segfault...
Howdy all, I am running Windowmaker on a "pure" potato system. I just grabbed mozilla using apt, but this is what happens when I try to run it... > monkeyhouse:~/$ mozilla > Profile Manager : Profile Wizard and Manager activites : Begin > Profile Manager : Command Line Options : Begin > Profile Manager : Command Line Options : End > ProfileManager : GetProfileDir > ProfileManager : GetProfileDir > Profile Manager : Profile Wizard and Manager activites : End > Segmentation fault Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Rich
home network: will bo play with potato?
total network newbie here, I recently acquired a 486dx-33 with 1.4gb hard drive that i want to use as an x-terminal to connect to my pentium-200 (which runs potato). Is potato appropriate for a 486? I have an old cd of bo that I thought would work on the 486, but would I be able to connect to the potato pentium? BTW, is it really even feasible to use a 486 to run X programs like wordperfect and Netscape off of my pentium? Thanks in advance, Rich
can't load a library...
Howdy all, I'm trying to install a program that relies on libXt.so.6 and libX11.so.6. Whenever I try to run it I get the message, 'can't load libXt.so.6' I've done dpkg -S for both of these and see that xlib6g provides both. I've got this installed, so can anyone tell me what the problem could be? thanks in advance, rich
obsolete packages after potato upgrade...
Is it OK to remove all of the packages that dselect calls "obsolete" after potato upgrade?
/dev/mixer hosed by potato upgrade...
Howdy, After upgrading, I cannot turn on my audio mixer anymore: wmmixer : Unable to open mixer device '/dev/mixer'. wmmixer : Sorry, no supported channels found. I have also seen some messages about /dev/dsp being gone, and xwave says: cannot access audio device... Any ideas? Thanks in advance Rich
how to see which libraries are currently needed...
Is there a way to determine which libraries are no longer needed? I have tons listed by dselect, and I have a feeling that many are no longer being used... Rich
audio works, but only as root
Howdy all, I've got my soundblaster card working, with appropriate entries in /etc/modutils, but it will not autoload, and I have to do: su -c "modprobe sb" to get it to work. My /etc/group entry has: audio:x:29:rich so why can't I start sound as my (non-root) self? Thanks in advance
update-menus fails for normal user, but not for root
Howdy all, not too long ago, update-menus stopped working for me suddenly... now i just get a long string similar to the following message: rm: cannot unlink `/usr/share/applnk/Multimedia/Debian': Permission denied ln: creating symbolic link `/usr/share/applnk/Multimedia/Debian/Sound' to `/home/rich/.kde/share/applnk/Debian/Sound': Permission denied it still works when logged in as root, however. I have purged and re-installed menu, but it still does the same thing - any ideas? thanks in advance, rich
Re: Movie makers for Linux?
On Wednesday 17 October 2001 01:02, Eric G. Miller wrote: > ucbmpeg works (more or less). You have to write a control file and > it takes a bit of tweaking to get good results, but it's doable. It > likes pnm files (though I think it will use png directly as well). ucbmpeg uses mpeg_encode. it clashes with netpbm. netpbm uses ppmtompeg. Both of them take the same configuration file. There are examples in /usr/share/doc/ucb-mpeg/mpeg_encode/ I think. fame and its friends may be worth pulling if you don't need B frames. hth cheers, Rich
Newbie with apt-get problem
Hello. I'm a Debian newbie, although I've used it briefly in the past, and have used Linux for about seven years (mainly RedHat). I'm using a box that's running Woody and it looks like it's got a problem. I went to install a package and I'm getting some errors. When I run apt-get check, here's the output: attic:~# apt-get check Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these. Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: kdebase-libs: Depends: kdelibs3 (>= 4:2.2.1-11) but 4:2.1.2-3 is installed kdm: Depends: kdelibs3 (>= 4:2.2.1-11) but 4:2.1.2-3 is installed libkonq3: Depends: kdelibs3 (>= 4:2.2.1-11) but 4:2.1.2-3 is installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f. So, I tried following those instructions: attic:~# apt-get -f install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following extra packages will be installed: kdelibs3 3 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/6758kB of archives. After unpacking 5603kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y (Reading database ... 17959 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace kdelibs3 4:2.1.2-3 (using .../kdelibs3_4%3a2.2.1-14_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement kdelibs3 ... Replacing files in old package konqueror ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs3_4%3a2.2.1-14_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/devices/3floppy_mount.png', which is also in package kdebase dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs3_4%3a2.2.1-14_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Any clues? I'm not able to install anything at this point... Thanks, Rich
mame & quake obsolete?
I'm running woody - why have mame and quake both become obsolete? (i could do without quake, but mame is a must!) thanks in advance
adduser - X access?
Howdy all, This is probably a very simple mistake which I am overlooking but I cannot find any info - I've added the user"guest" to my home machine so that my in-laws can access the internet during the day whilst watching the grandkid I was going to set up their X Window session that the only icons visible were "pon/poff" and "konqueror" - however, I can't even get into X as guest... is this a "group" issue? WDM just flashes to the X-screen briefly and then back to WDM. Any other issues to make sure that all they can do is connect to the net and save files to their own home directory? thanks in advance, rich
Re: Not Resolving on new box
On Sunday 07 October 2001 17:17, Adahma Ashirah wrote: > I've just re-installed Debian unstable onto a new box. At first it worked > fine, but suddenly I cannot resolve anything. I can talk to the internal > network, as well as the internet by IP address, but nothing resolves. > I've been through all my files that I know to be involved in this process, > and can't find any problems. Can anyone give me a list of ANY file that > might effect this process? I've tried for 2 days now, and I'm at wits > end. Did you switch to kernel-2.4-9? I had odd problems using 2.4.9, because it enables ECN by default. Try echo "0" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn and see if that fixes it. cheers, Rich.
Re: How to run testing and stay sane?
On Sunday 07 October 2001 22:04, Richard Cobbe wrote: [snip] > Before I do the upgrade, though, I'd like to ask for advice on general > tactics people use for running testing or unstable and still maintaining a > mostly usable system. Testing seems to run pretty fine by itself. If you so much as suspect a problem, you just do apt-get install fred/stable and see if it goes away; if it does, you'll probably want to reportbug fred possibly after reinstalling fred/testing. > I know breakages will happen from time to time, I can only think of one app in some months that I *had* to do the above with. > but > I'd like to minimize their impact as much as reasonable. Basically, I > don't mind spending a little bit of time and energy dealing with issues, > but I'd prefer to use my computer primarily to get useful work done, rather > than constantly tweaking the OS and packaging system. > > So, what I already know: > > * Know the packaging tools. Besides just reading the man pages for apt, > dpkg, and dselect, are there any other places I should go for > information? > > * I know how to do the upgrade (edit /etc/apt/sources.list, then apt-get > update ; apt-get dist-upgrade); I'm mostly interested in methods for > maintaining the system after it's been upgraded. Leave the stable entries in sources.list, just copy them and substitute names. Then the downgrade trick will work. > > What I'm not clear on > > * If a particular package breaks, it would be useful to roll back to the > last working version of that package (where possible). Trick is, this > requires having the last working version of the package available for > install somewhere. Do the Debian download servers maintain old versions > of the package files, or would I have to keep copies of them all locally? They're in stable. Or, if you use a local apt-mirror with the delete setting set low, they're in there. [snip rest; I have no good answers] cheers, Rich.
program response sluggish compared to Win98
Howdy all, I've had a problem for a while in which my potato sytem seems to perform relatively sluggishly - most noticably on Wordperfect. Example: While WP8 under W98, I can hold the "page down" key for 5 seconds, and when I let go, the scroll immediately stops. Doing the same under linux, however, would result in a minute-long scroll through several dozen pages after the key was let go. Is there a keyboard buffer that I can adjust or something, or does the problem lie elsewhere, or is linux WP8 just not as well-designed? Thanks in advance, Rico
how to find a package that provides ____._____
Howdy all, I need libXt.so.6 and libX11.so.6 to run Wordperfect how do I find out which .deb package provides these? Thanks in advance, Rich
Re: How hard would this be?(Learning LaTex)
- Original Message - From: "richard lyons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2004 10:01 AM Subject: Re: How hard would this be?(Learning LaTex) > On Sunday 27 June 2004 05:21, cecil wrote: > > Someone told me today at lunch that what with my "wierd obsession", > > as he called it, to perhaps go without a gui(X), I should try "that > > latex thingie". My buddy is a real wordmaster. LOL. I did some > > reading up on it; it's interesting. I never knew that you could do > > all that with no window system. Does anyone here use it on a regular > > basis, and if so, how hard is it to use, setup, print, etc? I'm > > having thoughts of perhaps writing papers this semester in emacs and > > if this thing... Well, let's just say I'm trying to have an open mind > > about things. I'm trying not to summarily dismiss thing just because > > I don't know what they are, or, are not familiar with them. I used LaTeX way back in 1991 and found it pretty easy to learn and use. The results blew the pants off anything else at the time, and I suspect would still blow the pants off anything windoes could muster today. OK, it's not WYSIWYG but the results are very professional. Rich. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tasksel won't recognise second CD
Hi, If the following is familiar to you, I apologise for boring you but I'm reposting in plain text- thanks, Petter. I'm trying to install Sarge on an i-x86 box and everything is fine until I'm asked for the second CD. The CD isn't recognised, and the prompt to insert second disk simply reappears. The CD was Jigdo-d and burned on my Windoes box as a bootable image and appears to be OK and indeed disk one worked just fine. The disk is mountable and readable (I can see all the files on it) and the base install worked fine, but interestingly none of the MD-5 sums seem to check out as good. Is there a config file somewhere that apt-get (or is it tasksel) looks at to find the cd? Maybe it's looking in the wrong place? I realise maybe my disks aren't burned quite right, but I'd have thought that tasksel wouldn't have been quite so put off by that, or at least would have thrown up an informative error. Or maybe it has, but it's logged in a file I don't know about yet. I've RTFM but being a newbie, maybe I RT wrong FM, who knows. Any ideas gratefully received. Rich. P.S. my primary aim here as a would-like-to-be-ex-Windoes user is to get a GUI such as KDE up and running. It's been about 15 years since I worked from the command line and I feel a bit like a fish out of water. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tasksel won't recognise second CD
Hi, If the following is familiar to you, I apologise for boring you but I'm reposting in plain text- thanks, Petter. I'm trying to install Sarge on an i-x86 box and everything is fine until I'm asked for the second CD. The CD isn't recognised, and the prompt to insert second disk simply reappears. The CD was Jigdo-d and burned on my Windoes box as a bootable image and appears to be OK and indeed disk one worked just fine. The disk is mountable and readable (I can see all the files on it) and the base install worked fine, but interestingly none of the MD-5 sums seem to check out as good. Is there a config file somewhere that apt-get (or is it tasksel) looks at to find the cd? Maybe it's looking in the wrong place? I realise maybe my disks aren't burned quite right, but I'd have thought that tasksel wouldn't have been quite so put off by that, or at least would have thrown up an informative error. Or maybe it has, but it's logged in a file I don't know about yet. I've RTFM but being a newbie, maybe I RT wrong FM, who knows. Any ideas gratefully received. Rich. P.S. my primary aim here as a would-like-to-be-ex-Windoes user is to get a GUI such as KDE up and running. It's been about 15 years since I worked from the command line and I feel a bit like a fish out of water. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: systemwide umask definition?
I have a similar experience with umask in /etc/profile I have a line umask 0002 # to give owner and group rw access. in /etc/login.defs I have the same (why capitals?) # UMASK Default "umask" value. UMASK 0002 and nothing in .bash_profile, but it still comes up 0022 when I check it with #umask anyone help? thanks rich On Friday 16 July 2004 17:49, Trollcollect wrote: > Thanks to Jacob, i figured out that my statement/request was somewhat > unprecise. What i really do want to do is to set a umask for OpenOffice > w/kde, as well as all other kde applications. I noticed that if i open a > terminal session, check the umask, it will not be set according to what i > put in /etc/profile or /etc/login.defs. If, however, i su - into the same > user, i see th correct umask. That leads me to the guess that kde sets a > umask differently and independant of the login / standard umask. So the > precise question would be: Where can i define a system wide umask for kde > sessions? > > TIA, > Dan > > "Jacob S." <> wrote: > On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 16:53:46 +0200 (CEST) > > Trollcollect wrote: > > Hello List, > > > > please reply Cc: to me as i cant follow this list from > > work. > > > > My problem is that i cant find where to set the system > > wide umask for my sarge system. I've tried to do it in > > /etc/profile as well as /etc/login.defs, to no avail. > > So desperate that i even tried a reboot :( > > > > Any pointers? > > What syntax did you use? On my Sarge system it's in /etc/profile with a > simple "umask 022" line. Logging out and back in should be enough for > this setting to take affect. > > What did you do to believe that the umask setting wasn't working? > > Jacob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
how can other users use X?
I start my X session as one user, then from a terminal where I've su'ed to another (not root), I want to be able to use gvim, but it tells me it's not allowed to use the X server. How can I get this working? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how can other users use X?
thanks! that's it : ) rich On Tuesday 27 July 2004 16:45, Joost De Cock wrote: > On Tuesday 27 July 2004 17:35, rich hurled the following on the wire: > > I start my X session as one user, then from a terminal where I've su'ed > > to another (not root), I want to be able to use gvim, but it tells me > > it's not allowed to use the X server. > > > > How can I get this working? > > Give that user permission to connect to the X server. > Check out the xhost man page. > > joost > > > DISCLAIMER > This e-mail and any attached files are confidential and may be legally > privileged. If you are not the addressee, any disclosure, reproduction, > copying, distribution, or other dissemination or use of this communication > is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error > please notify A.S.T.R.I.D. nv/sa immediately and then delete this e-mail. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
authentication errors
I'm using sarge with Gnome and always get this GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed. when launching an X app from the terminal. The apps still work ok, I'd just like to know what the error is. I tried man gnome-smproxy but got confused. anyone else had this? thanks, rich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FAM causing "device or resource busy" errors when trying to smbumount
when I have an smb share mounted on a directory in my home directory, it refuses to unmount. This is new, it used to work without a problem. Perhaps something changed in the later releases of Sarge? (I apt-get dist-upgrade all the time) I used lsof and found the process that was holding the mount-point directory up, which was /usr/sbin/famd -T 0 I shut down fam with #/etc/init.d/fam stop and I could then umount the share cleanly. Can anyone shed any light on this? thanks, rich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
can a SSH server initiate a connection?
I have a (woody) box running sshd sitting behind a firewall. From outside the firewall, I want to be able to ssh in. I can see that I could get around the firewall if the connection was initiated from within the firewall, ie. if somehow the person could give a command on the server which somehow connects to the would-be client, and then allows the client to take over as a normal ssh session. any clues? ideas? thanks, Rich. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: can a SSH server initiate a connection?
> Do you control firewall? > If yes : use DNAT to redirect external connection to SSH server > (if firewall is NAT box) >or open port 22 and forward connectio to internal hosts There's a firewall I control (which allows port 22 so long as the SYN packet comes from inside), but that's behind a NAT router, so the only way to "find" my server on the internet is if IT initiates the connection. > > If no but still legally OK to connect from outside: > Does internal host accessible from other means >* can you recieve mail and mail is processed with procmail >* do you have dial-in modem connected to pc >--> use these to initiate process which > connects from inside to outside with SSH. If > needed using open port such as 80 or even DNS one and operate > special SSHD on the other side listning to that port. > Then set up port forwarding or so. >-->Connect through SSH tunnel backward from outside to inside. This last suggestion looks promising, how do I go about it? > > But why connect from outside of firewall if firewall prevent you to do > so. Maybe that is a bigger question :) I've set up a server for a small organisation which works in the offices of a bigger but entirely separate one. The bigger org. has a DSL connection which is shares with this small org. The firewall stops not just unwanted internet attacks on the small org, but also anything originating from the bigger org. thanks rich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
umask in X different to bash
Hi
There was a useful thread a while ago on umask and where it gets set (one of 4
places, two in /etc/ two in ~/)
So that's great, BUT I've noticed that saving OpenOffice.org documents uses
the wrong umask! As X is a different shell to bash (pls. don't start a big
debate on X being a shell - there's another thread on that already!) does it
have different places to set umask?
Or is that a {g,x,k}dm setting?
thanks
rich
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SSH: only listens on loopback
I have a server on 192.168.254.200 and a webserver on .19 I run # ssh -f -N -L 8080:192.168.254.19:80 [EMAIL PROTECTED] which sets it up so that # lynx localhost:8080 brings me the page from the webserver at .19 BUT, the 8080 port is only open to the local host, and I want it open for all. # lynx 192.168.254.200:8080 doesn't work. nmap localhost shows the port is open, but nmap 192.168.254.200 shows it's closed. I've set ListenAddress: 0.0.0.0 in sshd_config but that didn't seem to do anything. I've trawled the 'net but found very little help. thanks rich. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SSH: only listens on loopback
you STAR!! I can't believe I missed that! I really tried to not look like an idiot this time! thank you. rich On Wednesday 04 August 2004 15:51, Robert Vangel wrote: > You want to add a -g in there, so: > > # ssh -f -N -g -L 8080:192.168.254.19:80 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > From man ssh: > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SSH: only listens on loopback
2nd challenge Using -R instead of -L, I get the same problem on the server, and -g doesn't fix it. ie. with #ssh -f -N -g -L 8080:192.168.254.200:80 [EMAIL PROTECTED] I would expect the sshd running on .19 to start listening to port 8080, and forwarding it to the webserver on .200. It works locally, on the sshd server, but I can't get to http://192.168.254.200:8080 from another remote host. thanks. rich On Wednesday 04 August 2004 15:51, Robert Vangel wrote: > You want to add a -g in there, so: > > # ssh -f -N -g -L 8080:192.168.254.19:80 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > From man ssh: > > [..] > -g Allows remote hosts to connect to local forwarded ports. > [..] > > rich said: > > I have a server on 192.168.254.200 and a webserver on .19 > > > > I run # ssh -f -N -L 8080:192.168.254.19:80 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > which sets it up so that > > # lynx localhost:8080 > > brings me the page from the webserver at .19 > > > > BUT, the 8080 port is only open to the local host, and I want it open for > > all. > > > > # lynx 192.168.254.200:8080 > > doesn't work. > > > > nmap localhost shows the port is open, but nmap 192.168.254.200 shows > > it's closed. > > > > I've set > > ListenAddress: 0.0.0.0 > > in sshd_config but that didn't seem to do anything. > > > > I've trawled the 'net but found very little help. > > > > thanks > > > > rich. > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: umask in X different to bash
ok, here's how:
create the file ~/.gnomerc and put the desired command in there.
: )
rich
On Wednesday 04 August 2004 10:11, rich wrote:
> Hi
>
> There was a useful thread a while ago on umask and where it gets set (one
> of 4 places, two in /etc/ two in ~/)
>
> So that's great, BUT I've noticed that saving OpenOffice.org documents uses
> the wrong umask! As X is a different shell to bash (pls. don't start a big
> debate on X being a shell - there's another thread on that already!) does
> it have different places to set umask?
>
> Or is that a {g,x,k}dm setting?
>
> thanks
>
> rich
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Problems recognising second debian sarge CD
We've been having a go at installing Sarge. We have got the base system installed OK but have come up against a problem when trying to install the remaining packages. The installer (base-config) asks us to insert the second CD Debian GNU/Linux testing _Sarge_ - Official Snapshot 1386 Binary-2 (20040417) When I do so, it doesn't recognise it! The CD isn't damaged in any way, and nor is the image. We burned a new disk, same result. Do I need to actually title the disk 'Debian GNU/Linux testing _Sarge_ - Official Snapshot 1386 Binary-2 (20040417)' when I burn it? It's all I can think of, but nowhere did I see any instructions telling me to do so. (I downloaded the images using Jigdo from the official site and burned them as bootable ISOs) This one's kinda got me stumped. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Install won't recognise second CD
Hi, I'm trying to install Sarge and everything is fine until I'm asked for the second CD. The CD isn't recognised, and the prompt to insert second disk simply reappears. The CD was Jigdo-d and burned on my Windoes box as a bootable image and appears to be OK and indeed disk one worked just fine. Is there a config file somewhere that apt-get (or is it tasksel) looks at to find the cd? Maybe it's looking in the wrong place? I've RTFM but being a newbie, maybe I RT wrong FM, who knows. Any ideas gratefully received. Badly Overdrawn Boy.
Re: Install CD does not boot on LITE-ON model LTN-403
- Original Message - From: "Ketil Froyn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 6:29 PM Subject: Install CD does not boot on LITE-ON model LTN-403 > Hi, > > I have been trying to help a colleague install debian, but we ran into > some serious trouble booting the CD. None of the debian install CDs > worked (tried netinst beta 4, test candidate 1, and woody cd 1), > whereas redhat and all other CDs he has tried worked fine. The CD-ROM > drive in question was a LITE-ON model LTN-403. We changed it with > another CD-ROM drive, and then everything went smooth. > > I just wanted to share this experience for the archive, and perhaps > someone will find out why this happened and fix the debian bootable > CDs. :) Interesting- I've been trying to install Sarge in the same manner and can't get past the first CD. I'm using a Liteon model LTN-526D. I'd love the chance to get to grips with Debian, but so far I've just found the experience rather frustrating. Knoppix, on the other hand detects everything except my sound card. Cheers, Rich. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?
As far as I am aware, the fact that you can see the directory structure tells me that you've burned the CD as a bootable image. When I accidentally burned a non-bootable image, all I could see was one big .iso file. I wasn't using Roxio, but Nero 6. You can get free versions off the web, but they may expire after a time. Personally, I find it a nightmare to use when trying to burn bootables. As you seem to have found with Roxio, it's too easy to do it the wrong way. If you do decide to use it, I think the following sequence worked- Open Nero burning rom and from the 'new compilation' wizard, select 'CD-ROM (Boot)' On the 'boot' tab, select 'Image file' and browse for your .iso In the 'files of type:' section of the browser, select 'all files' to allow you to find the .iso image. Also, I used a CD-RW on an XP box and it worked, at least disk 1 of Sarge did, I'm having trouble with disk 2, but I think that's for different reasons. Lastly, when burning the CD, burn it at a slow speed. I'd recommend x8 or lower. Failing that, all I can suggest is trying a different CD-RW. Rich. - Original Message - From: "Steve Kleiser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 9:34 AM Subject: Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD? > Burning the CD as an image using Roxio Easy CD Creator 5 on my WindowsXP > machine results in a CD with a directory structure that looks like it > should, from Explorer (it's comparable to my purchased CD, which does boot). > Presumably, the image also provided any required system files. But can I > confirm that from within WindowsXP? Also, is it OK to use a CD-RW, or is > there some subtle difference? Does the CD need to formatted first, or would > that just impress "non-Linux-ness" onto it? > > Are there any freeware utilities to burn an ISO image to CD (e.g., > iso2CD.exe or something) that run under Windows? The CD burning applications > appear to contain numerous features I don't need for this particular > purpose, and which only serve as potential sources of error. > > - Original Message - > From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 6:10 PM > Subject: [debian] Re: [other] Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD? > > > > Steve Kleiser wrote: > > > > >So does that mean the official CD images are not bootable? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > No; they are bootable. But you have to burn them as an "image", not as > > files. How to do that will depend on the burner software you're using. > > > > -- > > Kent > > > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?
Thanks for the info, I'm (slightly) wiser than I was yesterday! Now, if only someone could answer my 'apt-get not recognising 2nd CD problem'... Cheers all, Rich. - Original Message - From: "Micha Feigin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2004 6:18 PM Subject: Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD? > On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 08:05:34PM +0100, Rich wrote: > > As far as I am aware, the fact that you can see the directory structure > > tells me that you've burned the CD as a bootable image. When I accidentally > > burned a non-bootable image, all I could see was one big .iso file. I wasn't > > No, if you saw an iso file it means that you burned it as data instead > of as image (you just burned the iso file instead of the data _inside_ > the iso file). > > > using Roxio, but Nero 6. You can get free versions off the web, but they may > > expire after a time. Personally, I find it a nightmare to use when trying to > > burn bootables. As you seem to have found with Roxio, it's too easy to do it > > the wrong way. > > > > If you do decide to use it, I think the following sequence worked- > > Open Nero burning rom and from the 'new compilation' wizard, select 'CD-ROM > > (Boot)' > > On the 'boot' tab, select 'Image file' and browse for your .iso > > In the 'files of type:' section of the browser, select 'all files' to allow > > you to find the .iso image. > > > > IIRC on the file menu there is an option burn image which is what you > want to burn an iso. > > > Also, I used a CD-RW on an XP box and it worked, at least disk 1 of Sarge > > did, I'm having trouble with disk 2, but I think that's for different > > reasons. > > > > Lastly, when burning the CD, burn it at a slow speed. I'd recommend x8 or > > lower. > > > > Failing that, all I can suggest is trying a different CD-RW. > > > > Rich. > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The strange case of sudo segfaulting on exit
Hi all, reportbug pointed me here because I wasn't sure where to file this bug. I'll start by summarizing the observed behavior, and then go into more detail below. If anyone can suggest further debugging steps to take (or where to direct a bug report), I'd be grateful. :) $ sudo -i # cp /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1.2.11 /tmp/ # cp /tmp/libz.so.1.2.11 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1.2.11 # exit logout Segmentation fault $ I first encountered this behavior on a Debian bullseye VM running in VirtualBox on a non-ECC (Intel Coffee Lake) host. I then created an entirely new Debian bullseye VM from install media [1] on another ECC-having (Intel Broadwell) host using KVM, and reproduced this behavior. So if it's a bug in virtualization software, it's not just one implementation. The segfault in question does not occur if a cp is not performed to one of a number of possible library files in /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ - it does not appear to be all of them, as I tested with libanl-2.31.so and it did not cause a segfault on exit, but I do not know what the requirements are. The behavior in question is not specific to libz.so.1.2.11 somehow, that was just a convenient example - I originally encountered this when I was iterating on development of a different library by cping the recompiled library over and wondering why my sudo cp [...] segfaulted after completion. (Said software I was working on has never been installed on the KVM VM, so I think it's safe to say that it's unrelated to the problem.) I also reproduced this behavior on a CentOS 8 VM running on the same aforementioned VirtualBox host, but not a Debian buster VM on same. The behavior persists across cold and warm power cycles of the VM. While experimenting with someone in #debian, I tried installing sudo from experimental, and it still died the same way. I quickly tried building sudo from buster on bullseye, and it still dies the same way as well. "debsums" reports nothing but "OK" on either bullseye VM. Curiously, "su - root -c 'cp [...]'" segfaults on the VirtualBox VM but not the KVM VM. Thanks, - Rich [1] - debian-bullseye-DI-alpha3-amd64-netinst.iso, if curious
Re: The strange case of sudo segfaulting on exit
Followup post: After further prodding and asking around, the answer turns out to be "for some strange reason, on some of my systems, sudo/su are mapping a bunch of additional libraries, including the application library you were originally playing with (libzfs), so the crashing on exit when you've overwritten one of the mapped libraries is expected behavior". While I still would like to know why, precisely, sudo and su are mapping apparently-unrelated libraries dynamically, this is no longer surprising behavior, given the discovery that it's mapping in superfluous libraries for fun. Thanks to anyone who read the above longwinded writeup, - Rich On Wed, May 5, 2021 at 12:37 AM Rich wrote: > > Hi all, > reportbug pointed me here because I wasn't sure where to file this > bug. I'll start by summarizing the observed behavior, and then go into > more detail below. > > If anyone can suggest further debugging steps to take (or where to > direct a bug report), I'd be grateful. :) > > $ sudo -i > # cp /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1.2.11 /tmp/ > # cp /tmp/libz.so.1.2.11 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1.2.11 > # exit > logout > Segmentation fault > $ > > I first encountered this behavior on a Debian bullseye VM running in > VirtualBox on a non-ECC (Intel Coffee Lake) host. I then created an > entirely new Debian bullseye VM from install media [1] on another > ECC-having (Intel Broadwell) host using KVM, and reproduced this > behavior. So if it's a bug in virtualization software, it's not just > one implementation. > > The segfault in question does not occur if a cp is not performed to > one of a number of possible library files in /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ - > it does not appear to be all of them, as I tested with libanl-2.31.so > and it did not cause a segfault on exit, but I do not know what the > requirements are. > > The behavior in question is not specific to libz.so.1.2.11 somehow, > that was just a convenient example - I originally encountered this > when I was iterating on development of a different library by cping > the recompiled library over and wondering why my sudo cp [...] > segfaulted after completion. (Said software I was working on has never > been installed on the KVM VM, so I think it's safe to say that it's > unrelated to the problem.) > > I also reproduced this behavior on a CentOS 8 VM running on the same > aforementioned VirtualBox host, but not a Debian buster VM on same. > > The behavior persists across cold and warm power cycles of the VM. > > While experimenting with someone in #debian, I tried installing sudo > from experimental, and it still died the same way. > > I quickly tried building sudo from buster on bullseye, and it still > dies the same way as well. > > "debsums" reports nothing but "OK" on either bullseye VM. > > Curiously, "su - root -c 'cp [...]'" segfaults on the VirtualBox VM > but not the KVM VM. > > Thanks, > - Rich > > [1] - debian-bullseye-DI-alpha3-amd64-netinst.iso, if curious
RAID1 arrays not starting when drive is missing
I have installed LVM-over-RAID1 on a debian-derived system. Kernel = 2.6.22 mdadm = 2.6.2 lvm2 = 2.02.26 I have two RAID1 devices -- /dev/md0 which is /boot (and does NOT use LVM) and is made up of /dev/sda2 and /dev/sdb2, and /dev/md1 which has LVM (and the rest of the system) over it and is made up of /dev/sda3 and /dev/sdb3. I've grub'd both /dev/sda and /dev/sdb, and as long as both drives are plugged in, I can boot from either drive and everything works and is happy. However... When I try to boot with a drive removed (for testing purposes), grub comes up fine and the system begins to boot, but it appears that the arrays will not start, which means there's no root filesystem available and everything grinds to a halt. This doesn't seem right. Given the nature of RAID1, the arrays darn well should start up even with a missing drive. The boot output when the drive is missing has: md: md0 stopped md: bind md: md1 stopped md: md0 stopped md: unbind md: export_rdev(sda2) md: bind md: md1 stopped md: bind and then everything grinds to a halt. When both drives are present, this section goes: md: md0 stopped. md: unbind md: export_rdev(sdb2) md: bind md: bind raid1: raid set md0 active with 2 out of 2 mirrors (etc.) One thing I've discovered is that if while the system is running in normal mode I do: mdadm /dev/md0 --fail /dev/sdb2 --remove /dev/sdb2 mdadm /dev/md1 --fail /dev/sdb3 --remove /dev/sdb3 and then shut down the machine and unplug the drive, then I can boot from the remaining drive, and I see a raid1: raid set md0 active with 1 out of 2 mirrors (etc.) So if the drive fails while the system is running, it can be punted from the array and the machine can boot off one drive. That's nice and all, but that doesn't help in the case where the drive fail event causes the machine to crash (say the drive dies and takes down the bus and the machine locks up). So what am I missing on why the arrays won't start up when I have a drive unplugged (it doesn't matter which drive)? -- Rich Carreiro -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RAID1 arrays not starting when drive is missing
One other thing that might be relevant... On my machine, when there is only one drive installed, it is seen by the bios, grub, *and the kernel* as /dev/sda no matter which SATA port/controller it is plugged into. So /dev/sda stays /dev/sda when the 2nd drive is removed, and /dev/sdb becomes /dev/sda when the first drive is removed. However, as noted previously, I have the array not starting problem regardless of which drive remains plugged in. -- Rich Carreiro -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RAID1 arrays not starting when drive is missing
On Nov 23, 5:10 am, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > also sprach Rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.11.22.1345 +]: > > > I have two RAID1 devices -- /dev/md0 which is /boot (and > > does NOT use LVM) and is made up of /dev/sda2 and /dev/sdb2, > > and /dev/md1 which has LVM (and the rest of the system) over it > > and is made up of /dev/sda3 and /dev/sdb3. > > Please show your mdadm.conf file. Here it is: # mdadm.conf # # Please refer to mdadm.conf(5) for information about this file. # # by default, scan all partitions (/proc/partitions) for MD superblocks. # alternatively, specify devices to scan, using wildcards if desired. DEVICE partitions # auto-create devices with Debian standard permissions CREATE owner=root group=disk mode=0660 auto=yes # automatically tag new arrays as belonging to the local system HOMEHOST # instruct the monitoring daemon where to send mail alerts MAILADDR root # definitions of existing MD arrays ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid1 num-devices=2 UUID=8c7280d3:5b4c9cd9:541ba3e9:02d46f81 ARRAY /dev/md1 level=raid1 num-devices=2 UUID=bc6c4e8c: 7310603a:e1e7e1f0:3c1631ca # This file was auto-generated on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 07:37:57 + # by mkconf $Id: mkconf 324 2007-05-05 18:49:44Z madduck $ -- Rich Carreiro -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
