Re: Mount ftp fs

[rolf]

On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Christoph Simon wrote:

> On Mon, 04 Dec 2000 17:26:53 +0100
> Robert Waldner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > On 04 Dec 2000 11:17:20 EST, mikpolniak writes:
> > >On Mon, 4 Dec 2000 16:50:07 +0100 (CET), Mats Eriksson said:
> > >>  Does anyone know a way to mount a remote file systems
> > >>  over ftp ?
> > >>  
> > >   What about ftp>! escape to shell and then telnet in to mount,
> > >and then exit back to ftp> ?
> > 
> > I think Mats meant something like
> >  mount -t ftp ftp://x.y /mnt/ftp 
> > ;-)
> > 
> > And _that_ would be something I?d like to know about also...
> 
> I think the midnight commander can simulate something like that.
If you are only after cmd line browsing then lftp might be an option. It
gives you the feel of being directly on that ftp via a bash (incl. tab
completion, pager, ...).
It is available as a debian package.
hth, Rolf
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apt-get upgrade confusion.

[Rolf]

Hello
Just when I thought I had my head around the apt-get mechanism when dealing 
with a mixing of stable and testing (and unstable) packages, this problem 
turns up.

Sources list contains stable and testing and unstable references. 
/etc/apt/preferences contains 3 pins:

Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian,a=stable
Pin-Priority: 900
Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian,a=testing
Pin-Priority: 400
Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian,a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 50
if I do an apt-get update everything goes smoothly, if then an apt-get 
upgrade, a miscellaneous bunch of packages want to get upgraded to the 
testing version.

The only logical answer is that some package install I have done requires 
these updated versions and so it is wanting to it.

But the system is working fine, the only packages I've recently added work 
fine, apt-get check reports no problems. apt-cache policy package-name says 
sensible things.

If it is the case that these package versions are required due to some 
other dependency or relationship, how do I find out what that is?

If not (a) how can I find out why it wants to do this and (b) how do I stop 
it, unless it is recommended that I let it do it?

Many thanks.

rolf.

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suidperl

[rolf]

Help!

I just upgraded a few things on an i386 box that is mixed stable/testing but
pinned to stable. After the upgrades openwebmail stopped working and I was
able to figure out that it is because suidperl is broken now.

Attempting to run suidperl from the commandline gives the error "suidperl
needs fd script" which is the same error that appears in the apache logs.

I have trawled the net and cannot find an explanation for this, does anyone
know what or where fd script is?

Help

Rolf


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Attack?

[Rolf Schatzmann]

Title: Message



Hi,
 
One of my debian 
servers (stable) has been locking up over the last few days, prior to this it 
has been rock solid for over a year. I had suspected that there might be a 
hardware failure somever however the last error in Syslog before it locks up is 
shown below, is this a buffer overun exploit or something?
 
Jun 11 01:24:35 mail 
rpc.statd[269]: gethostbyname error for 
^X÷ÿ¿^X÷ÿ¿^Z÷ÿ¿^Z÷ÿ¿%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%62716x%hn%51859x%hn\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220Jun 
11 02:42:25 mail kernel: 62.81.124.205 sent an invalid ICMP error to a 
broadcast.
 
That was the last 
entry in the log.
 
 
Rolf 

Hardware support in Debian ?

[Rolf Edlund]

Hi, all you Linux users out there!

I'm wondering, is there any info of what hardware support there is in
Debian (like thare are for SuSE) ?

/R

Hardware support

[Rolf Edlund]

Hi, all you Linux users out there!

I'm wondering, is there any info of what hardware support there is in
Debian (like thare are for SuSE) ?

/R

Re: password protecting lilo

[Rolf Edlund]

On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Pollywog wrote:

>  should I then chmod 600 lilo.conf?

Yes.

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Remove funny files

[Rolf Edlund]

Hi!

I was playing around with Tar, and done a verry foolish thing.. :-)

  tar -cvf --exclude=files.txt allfiles.tar * 

That gives me a '--exclude=files.txt' file. Trying to remove it as 'rm -i
--exclude=files.txt' was unpossible. But when I go upp one directory, then
it was easy to remove the file.

  rm -i Backupfiles/--exclude=files.txt

..but maby you allready know about this. :-)

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Re: Remove funny files

[Rolf Edlund]

On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Martin Bialasinski wrote:

> That is, rm -i -- --exclude=files.txt would have removed the file.

One of the wonderful thing about Linux, is that there are several ways to
fix things. :-) 

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Enter mail, end with a single ".".

[Rolf Edlund]

Hi!

Sometimes when trying to send mail, I get these message (sendmail -q -v):

 354 Enter mail, end with a single ".".
 >>> .

And it just sits there, doing nothing ?

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Re: Remove funny files

[Rolf Edlund]

On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Michael Merten wrote:

> Umm... wouldn't a simple
> 
>rm '--excude=files.txt'
> 
> work??

That was one thing I tryed, but it din't work.

rm: unrecognized option `--excude=files.txt'
Try `rm --help' for more information.

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Re: Enter mail, end with a single ".".

[Rolf Edlund]

On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Rolf Edlund wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> Sometimes when trying to send mail, I get these message (sendmail -q -v):
> 
>  354 Enter mail, end with a single ".".
>  >>> .
> 
> And it just sits there, doing nothing ?

After trying to send the mail for several days, the problem is now over.
Don't know what fixed is..

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Re: Enter mail, end with a single ".".

[Rolf Edlund]

On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Rolf Edlund wrote:

Have now found out, that my problem has something to do with mail size. 

  250 SIZE 2097152
  >>> MAIL From:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SIZE=6697
  250 2.5.0 Address and options OK.
  >>> RCPT To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
  250 2.1.5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] OK.
  >>> DATA
  354 Enter mail, end with a single ".".
  >>> .

That mail won't send. But a small mail (like this), will be sent without
any problem ? 

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Re: Enter mail, end with a single ".".

[Rolf Edlund]

On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Ben Cranston wrote:

> > Have now found out, that my problem has something to do with mail size.
> >   >>> MAIL From:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SIZE=6697
> > That mail won't send. But a small mail (like this), will be sent without
> > any problem ?
> 
> This is a real shot-in-the-dark, but I've seen size problems like
> this on two occasions, one on a web server I wrote and another when
> I was doing the SMTP email for our campus mainframe back in 1984.
> 
> It is buffer size related.  For short data streams, a buffer never gets
> filled, so when the first buffer gets sent, all the data goes.  For
> longer data streams, the first buffer fills and goes, but the second (or
> last?) buffer just sits there because nobody did a flush or set the
> "push flag" (never mind, you gotta be a real TCP/IP weenie to know what
> the push flag is all about). 
> 
> If you have the source code to the program "writing" the mail message
> could you check to see if the output is getting flushed or closed?

My sendmail.cf (looking for "Size")
===
  # maximum message size
  #O MaxMessageSize=100
 
  # open connection cache size
  O ConnectionCacheSize=2

  # how many jobs can you process in the queue?
  #O MaxQueueRunSize=1

Can my problem have something to do with this ?

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Debian 1.3.1 instal on a 386/40

[Rolf Edlund]

Hi, I'm new at this list.

Thinking on install 1.3.1 on a old AMD386DX/40 with 20Mb ram, a Mitsumi
LU005S cd-rom (non-ide), an ET4000 graphic chip and no 387 processor.

Any problem ?

Btw.. do anyone knew the scanning frequency (H & V) on a Victor color
monitor BV243490 ?

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Re: Debian 1.3.1 instal on a 386/40

[Rolf Edlund]

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 08/26/98 
   at 01:06 AM, Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

>> Thinking on install 1.3.1 on a old AMD386DX/40 with 20Mb ram, a Mitsumi
>> LU005S cd-rom (non-ide), an ET4000 graphic chip and no FPU.

>Looks like my ftp/irc server.  However it crashed after 250 days of
>uptime. :(

>> Any problem ?

>No.  Only little bit slow... but perfect for a router, ftpserver, irc
>server etc.

I'm now running OS/2 v3, on this 386dx/40. :-).

Saving mony, som I can get me a Mereced 1Ghz. :-)

>We also have a 386sx20 in our network acting as web and ftp
>server. Yeah, I love these machines.  It's much more fun to revive them
>than new regular boxes with lots of power.

Exaktly my point to. And besides that, we can get them at no cost at all.
:-)


But I'm still wondering, is Debian supporting non-ide cd-roms ? And what
about FPU emulation in kernel 2.0.30 ? Have tryed to look for info on
that, but have not found any.

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Re: Problems mounting CD-ROM

[Rolf Schillinger]

On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, Jens K. Olsen wrote:

> I am trying to mount my internal CD-ROM.
> 
> When I use dmesg I get the following:
> 
> hdc: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-5702B, ATAPI CDROM drive
> 
> when I do a mount -t iso9660 -r /dev/cdrom /cdrom where /dev/cdrom is a
> symbolic link to /dev/hdc, and /cdrom is an empty directory, I get the
> following:
> 
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom,
>or too many mounted file systems
You have to check that you got the appropriate filesystem modules loaded.
Or compiled the filesystem support into the kernel.
I don`t know what cd you are trying to mount but perhaps it is one from
the microsoft world where you could be needing vfat/joliet support.
Check out the available filesytem types in the kernel config.

regards, rolf

Re: Network Internet Access

[Rolf Schillinger]

On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, Neil D. Roberts wrote:

> Hi Everyone. . .
> 
>   I think it's best to start off with the right question. I
> have a network of about 25 computers, all on the same class C
> (192.168.1.*). I have a Linux box, which is 192.168.1.1, and this
> Linux box is going to be the default gateway of every other 
> machine in this network. So, this Linux box, has to give access 
> from inside to outside, as in web, ftp or mail requests, and the
> linux box has to reply them. I don't know what software I am
> supposed to use for this. Someone recommended me IPMasq, but I
> think I have a completely wrong concept of ipmasq. UmmmHelp?

You want to use a software that can do NetworkAdressTranslation & Port 
forwarding.
That basically meansAll traffic coming from your lan goes to your linux 
gateway. There the ip-adress is rewritten as beeing 192.168.1.1 and the 
datagrams are sent out to the net. Say the packets then go to a web 
server, the webserver in return sends some packets to your internet gateway.
Now comes the tricky part. Your gateway must know to what ip on your 
local net the packets must go. It does this based on the ports the 
request from your client in the lan came from.
ipmasq was in older kernels the software that did this.
Now it is called ipchains.
There is some quite good documentation out there now including various 
howtos and tutorials on that topic.
Cheers, Rolf

Re: ALSA problems

[Rolf Schillinger]

On Fri, 26 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Trying the current ALSA packages in Potato with kernel 2.2.13 and a
> Trident/Jaton 4DWAVE card. Compile seemed to go ok once I symlinked
> the usr/local/src with the kernel files to the usr/src directory that
> ALSA package seems to expect.
> Compile and dpkg install seems fine but "insmod snd-trident" gives a
> long string of "unresolved symbols" beginning with "snd". 
> Help appreciated!!
Why are you using insmod. Try a depmod -a to recalculate the module 
dependencies and then a modprobe snd-trident.
Then you can be sure that all modules you need will be loaded.
regard, Rolf

Re: File permissions

[Rolf Schillinger]

On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:

> While checking some files with ls -l, I have found some permission
> settings such as:
> drwx--S---
> drwxr-sr-x
> 
> I have not seen anywhere documentation on settings other than r,w,x. Can
> you tell where I can find their meaning? Would be great if in the little
> docs we could see everything possible at once. For a non-UNIX former
> user this is hard.
> Thanks,
> Antonio.
this is the suid bit. For a good description see:
http://www.nic.com/~dave/SecurityAdminGuide/SecurityAdminGuide-8.html
regards, Rolf

Re: Images in LaTeX (urgently needed for xmas cards!)

[Rolf Obrecht]

On 16 Dec 1997, Brian Mays wrote:

> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> 
> > Failing that, how do you convert gifs etc. into eps? The book tells me how
> > to deal with that format (= encapsulated postscript?)
> 
> See the netpbm package.  For example, you can do the following:
> 
>   giftopnm some.gif | pnmtops > some.eps

You could also use "xv" or the "convert" program from the ImageMagick
Package to convert gifs to eps.

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Re: Anybody ever set up /etc/printcap with an HP LaserJet II on a network?

[Rolf Obrecht]

On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, debian mailing list wrote:

> 
>   Has anybody here setup an HP LaserJet II on a network?  I've been
> able to wrangle my /etc/printcap to dump out a banner sheet but that's it.
> I don't get any output.  I've not been able to find anything (in English
> anyhow) that explains how to setup an HP LaserJet II connected directly to
> the network.
If it has a JetDirect card, you can access the print engine at port 9100.
I prefer the lprng-package wich allows the following entry:

mylaser:\
lp=laserjet%9100:\
sd=.
if=
(etc)
where laserjet is the hostname of the network card. Note that the lpr,
lpc, lpq, lprm, lpd binaries must be suid root to access privileged
originating ports, which are required by the JetDirect Cards.

The above printcap entry is doing well for a LaserJet IVSiMX and a
LaserJet III, both equipped with JetDirect's.


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Re: Using obsolete Laser printers with Debian

[Rolf Obrecht]

On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, Howard S. Ostrowsky wrote:

> The first one is an HP LaserJet Plus (500K memory) with serial and 
> parallel interfaces.  It works well (parallel) under DOS and windows. 
> In Linux I can print ascii text, but not post-script.  I am using
> Magicfilter and Aladdin-Ghostscript, but when I send a postscript
> document to the printer it justs hangs.  A log file says "25% done...50%

Hi,

I had a similar problem (using gs and magicfilter). I found that
ghostscript crashed while converting the PS-file to PCL. The effect was
that lpq said "all xxx bytes printed" but the printer remained silent and
no errormessages were generated. You might try to call the gs-commandline
for magicfilter from shell to see if gs hangs and fiddle with the drivers
or additional gs-switches to get it working.

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Q: How stable is "hamm" ?

[Rolf Obrecht]

Hi,
is the "hamm" tree of the debian distrib stable enough for use in a
production system?

There are many new nice packages in hamm which I would like to install and
use, but not at the cost of possible system crashes (Oh yes, it is _MY_
phone that doesn't stop ringing in such cases...)

Yours
Rolf

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Re: Jetdirect

[Rolf Obrecht]

On Sun, 22 Feb 1998, Asher Haig wrote:

> How do I go about setting up linux to print to a Jetdirect printer? The 

Hi,
I'd recommend the lprng package.

1) Install lprng
2) assign an ip-address/name to the jet-direct device
   (e.g. netprint.my.domain/192.168.1.100) and add it to /etc/hosts or
your nameservice database (remember to restart named ;)
3) Configure your jetdirect printserver according to its docs, or:
Look up its MAC-Address in the documentation,
do an "arp -s netprint "
telnet to netprint and configure it
3) put an entry in your /etc/printcap
netprint:\
:lp=netprint.my.domain%9100:\
:other-options-e.g.-input-filters/spool-dirs-et-cetera:
4) start/restart lprng

The JetDirect cards listen to tcp port 9100, and you can access the
printing engine by just forwarding the printing stuff to this port
(for example netcat can be used to do this together with stock bsd lpd,
but lprng supports the port argument directly as shown above and has a
number of additional nice features that bsd lpr lacks).

Regards
Rolf

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Re: xdm-screen 16 bit?

[Rolf Obrecht]

On Tue, 13 May 1997, Gernot Bauer wrote:

> Hi, 
> 
> what do I have to change if I want the xdm-login and all further 
> screens to be at least 16 bit (when I dont use xdm I get the right 
> screen depth with "xinit -- -bpp 16" but how does this work with xdm)?
> 
Change the entry in your /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers file to

:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -bpp 16

Regards
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ssh or ssl-telnet?

[Rolf Obrecht]

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Hello,

is ssh or ssl-telnet better in securing remote sessions (password
encryption etc)? I've no clue. Which one should I prefer?
Where are the differences?

Thanks in advance


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net-acct problem

[Rolf Obrecht]

Hello,
I use the package net-acct on one of our debian-machines. 
Works ok if it runs, but nacctd sometimes dies, and I get the following
messages in kern.log:

Oct 22 11:30:12 iem01 kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference 
at virtual address c040 
Oct 22 11:30:12 iem01 kernel: current->tss.cr3 = 00ef4000, ^_r3 = 00ef4000 
Oct 22 11:30:12 iem01 kernel: *pde = 00102067 
Oct 22 11:30:12 iem01 kernel: *pte = 0027 
Oct 22 11:30:12 iem01 kernel: Oops:  
Oct 22 11:30:12 iem01 kernel: CPU:0 
Oct 22 11:30:12 iem01 kernel: EIP:0010:[packet_recvmsg+237/320] 
Oct 22 11:30:12 iem01 kernel: EFLAGS: 00010206 
Oct 22 11:30:12 iem01 kernel: eax:    ebx: 00dab1e8   ecx:    
edx:  
Oct 22 11:30:12 iem01 kernel: esi: 00afcdf4   edi: 007f   ebp: 00c21ed8   
esp: 00c21e60 
Oct 22 11:30:12 iem01 kernel: ds: 0018   es: 0018   fs: 002b   gs: 002b   ss: 
0018 
Oct 22 11:30:12 iem01 kernel: Process nacctd (pid: 27226, process nr: 36, 
stackpage=00c21000) 
Oct 22 11:30:12 iem01 kernel: Stack: 00afcc0c 00c21ed8   
00c21ee4 007f 007a4ccc 00150f86  
Oct 22 11:30:12 iem01 kernel:00afcc0c 00c21f64 007f  
 00c21ed8 007f 007a4ccc  
Oct 22 11:30:12 iem01 kernel:0076dc40 00c21ee4 00137a77 007a4d58 
00c21f64 007f    
Oct 22 11:30:12 iem01 kernel: Call Trace: [inet_recvmsg+118/144] 
[sys_recvfrom+327/400] [net_bh+240/288] [timer_bh+193/864] 
[sys_sigreturn+423/464] [sys_socketcall+643/848] [system_call+85/128]  
Oct 22 11:30:12 iem01 kernel: Code: 66 8b 52 40 8b 7c 24 10 66 89 17 8b 53 20 
8b 6c 24 10 83 c5  

Oct 25 22:36:47 iem01 kernel: general protection:  
Oct 25 22:36:47 iem01 kernel: CPU:0 
Oct 25 22:36:47 iem01 kernel: EIP:0010:[memcpy_toiovec+82/144] 
Oct 25 22:36:47 iem01 kernel: EFLAGS: 00010213 
Oct 25 22:36:47 iem01 kernel: eax: 007f   ebx: 007f   ecx: 001f   
edx: b5a0 
Oct 25 22:36:47 iem01 kernel: esi: 53f000ff   edi: b5a0   ebp: 00d54edc   
esp: 00d54e30 
Oct 25 22:36:47 iem01 kernel: ds: 0018   es: 002b   fs: 002b   gs: 002b   ss: 
0018 
Oct 25 22:36:47 iem01 kernel: Process nacctd (pid: 7220, process nr: 34, 
stackpage=00d54000) 
Oct 25 22:36:47 iem01 kernel: Stack: 00760018 0001 007f 007f 
00d54ed8 007f 0014014b 00d54edc  
Oct 25 22:36:47 iem01 kernel:53f000ff 007f 007f 6ff000ef 
00a78018 00d54ed8    
Oct 25 22:36:47 iem01 kernel:00d54ee4 007f 00de31f8 00150f86 
00a78018 00d54f64 007f   
Oct 25 22:36:47 iem01 kernel: Call Trace: [packet_recvmsg+203/320] 
[inet_recvmsg+118/144] [sys_recvfrom+327/400] [ultra_block_input+158/192] 
[ei_receive+562/720] [sys_sigreturn+423/464] [sys_socketcall+643/848]  
Oct 25 22:36:47 iem01 kernel:[system_call+85/128]  
Oct 25 22:36:47 iem01 kernel: Code: f3 a5 83 e3 03 89 d9 f3 a4 07 8b 5c 24 10 
01 5c 24 1c 29 5c  

No clue what this means. Is there anybody out on the list who is willing
to explain these messages??

Thanks in advance

Rolf Obrecht
Institut fuer Elektrische Maschinen
RWTH Aachen
Schinkelstrasse 4
D-52056 Aachen

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Fax  +49 241 270

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Re: net-acct problem

[Rolf Obrecht]

On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Thomas Baetzler wrote:

> Rolf Obrecht wrote:
> :messages in kern.log:
> 
> Maybe you could provide more info on the
> hardware configuration you're running (i.e. memory, CPU, network  adapters).
> 
It is a 486DX2/66 with 16MB and two SMC Ultra ethernet cards, running
nothing but some daemons (like nacctd), no X, no user accounts

> causes could be
> - a buggy network adapter driver;
> - low memory situations where a buffer doesn't get allocated;
> - race conditions due to CPU overload where the buffer gets purged due to
>   a queue overflow.
> 
We had some trouble on the LAN; a hub filled all of the bandwidth with
silly messages, so that ping from/to machines within the LAN produced 70%
packet loss. Could this be an explanation for a buffer overflow with
causes nacctd to die?

> problem like an overclocked/faked CPU, or a defective cache. Those can be
GCC works fine (several kernels compiled w/o err's)

Thanks!

Rolf Obrecht
Institut fuer Elektrische Maschinen
RWTH Aachen
Schinkelstrasse 4
D-52056 Aachen

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Fax  +49 241 270

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Help please: /dev/printer disappeared

[Rolf Obrecht]

Hello,

Due to my impatience, I purged the old "base"-package after upgrading to
1.3 (it was listed as "obsolete" in dselect) without looking at it's
contents first :-(

Unfortunately, it contained all(?) device files in /dev; as a result,
the machine didn't boot anymore since it was "unable to open an initial
console". Booting from rescue disk, mounting the harddrive to /target and
extracting the previously (on a different machine) generated tar file
containing the device-files solved the problem, but: /dev/printer still
doesn't exist.

Calling "MAKEDEV printer" only gives me "MAKEDEV: out of space for
devices".

HOW can I re-create this socket?? (I would like to be able to print
some urgent and important files, but without /dev/printer.)

Any help appreciated

Rolf Obrecht
Institut fuer Elektrische Maschinen
RWTH Aachen
Germany





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AGAIN: Help please: /dev/printer disappeared

[Rolf Obrecht]

Hello,

Due to my impatience, I purged the old "base"-package after upgrading to
1.3 (it was listed as "obsolete" in dselect) without looking at it's
contents first :-(

Unfortunately, it contained all(?) device files in /dev; as a result,
the machine didn't boot anymore since it was "unable to open an initial
console". Booting from rescue disk, mounting the harddrive to /target and
extracting the previously (on a different machine) generated tar file
containing the device-files solved the problem, but: /dev/printer still
doesn't exist.

Calling "MAKEDEV printer" only gives me "MAKEDEV: out of space for
devices".

HOW can I re-create this socket?? (I would like to be able to print
some urgent and important files, but without /dev/printer.)

Any help appreciated (REALLY!!!)

Rolf Obrecht
Institut fuer Elektrische Maschinen
RWTH Aachen
Germany






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Re: AGAIN: Help please: /dev/printer disappeared

[Rolf Obrecht]

On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
 
>   cd /dev
>   ln -s lp0 printer
> 
> I think that MAKEDEV complaint is an internal-array-full in MAKEDEV problem,
> not a full disk. I don't know why that happens in this case. Do look in
> /dev for large files with the names of devices - sometimes something goes
> to write a device that isn't there and creates a file instead.



Thanks to all who replied, but I'm still unable to print.
Linking /dev/lp0 to /dev/printer didn't solve the problem.
MAKEDEV is working now, but "MAKEDEV printer" doesn't generate
/dev/printer (as I believed), but /dev/lp[0-3].

On a clean Debian machine, I get the following:

otherhost> ll /dev/log /dev/printer /dev/lp*

srw-rw-rw-   1 root root0 Jun 27 11:54 /dev/log
crw-rw   1 root lp 6,   0 Jan  3  1997 /dev/lp0
crw-rw   1 root lp 6,   1 Jan  3  1997 /dev/lp1
crw-rw   1 root lp 6,   2 Jan  3  1997 /dev/lp2
crw-rw   1 root lp 6,   3 Jan  3  1997 /dev/lp3
srwxrwxrwx   1 root root0 Jun 27 11:54 /dev/printer
^
So /dev/printer is a socket like /dev/log, not a link. tar'ing
/dev/printer and extracting it converts it to a FIFO (permissions
prwxrwxrwx). I can't figure out why :-(
^
My machine, with dev/lp0 linked to /dev/printer, shows the following
behaviour:

myhost> lpc stat

lp:
queuing is enabled
printing is enabled
1 entry in spool area
no daemon present

myhost> lpc start all
lp:
printing enabled
lpc: connect: No such file or directory
couldn't start daemon

myhost> ps -aux | grep lpd

root   155  0.0  0.3   840   120  ?  SJun 27   0:01 /usr/sbin/lpd 

I think lpc produces the connect error because the SOCKET /dev/printer
is missing.

Does anybody have any idea how to create this socket? I've looked around
on my system, but could'nt find anything like "mksocket" or similar.
mknod only supports FIFO's, Character and block devices. I'm stuck :-(

Thanks
Rolf



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Re: AGAIN: Help please: /dev/printer disappeared

[Rolf Obrecht]

Ufff, problem solved !!!

Thanks to Allan Black I now understand the whole thing a bit better
(hopefully). 

Restarting lpd didn't help; but rebooting the machine re-created my lost
socket :)

The only problem I still have to deal with is to cool down those users
who got logged out without warning; but that is my private thing...

Again, thanks to all who helped!
Rolf


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Re: AGAIN: Help please: /dev/printer disappeared

[Rolf Obrecht]

On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Allan Black wrote:

> Correct. /dev/printer is created by lpd, when it starts up.
> 
> The only way to create it is to restart lpd. Try:
> 
> kill lpd
> remove /dev/printer
> start lpd
> 
> lpd should then create /dev/printer.
> 

Hi Allan,
first of all many thanks for your excellent explanation. 
Unfortunately, removing /dev/printer and killing /restarting lpd does not
create a printer socket. Would a reboot be more helpful? Then I'd have to
wait until Saturday, because the machine acts as an application server for
our HP-UNIX-machines :-(

Or should I re-install the lpd-package? What do you think?

Thanks a lot
Rolf





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Re: Where is /usr/sbin/in.pop3d

[Rolf Obrecht]

On Mon, 1 Sep 1997, Oz Dror wrote:

> Where is in.pop3d?
> 
Look at /stable/binary/mail/qpopper_2.2-x.deb

Rolf


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Re: How do I have serveral computers and have only one data?

[Rolf Obrecht]

Look at .../stable/binary/net/nfsroot-x.deb
This package allows you to have one master machine and slave machines who
boot over the network. The slave machines must have a kernel which
supports booting NFS and mounting the root filesystem over NFS (custom
kernel, recompile necessary.)

Regards
Rolf

On Wed, 3 Sep 1997, Jack Chung wrote:

> Well, I have several computers ( 3 maybe ). I want them to run Debian Linux
> as WWW server. But, is there anyway I can maintain them just on one 
> computer, and the others will follows? But of course their hostnames are 
> different. I think there is something called NFS or NIS can do this. But 
> I don't know where to get some more instructions.
> 
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Re: Oleo - Any docs?

[Rolf Obrecht]

On Wed, 20 Nov 1996, Ed Down wrote:

> 
> I've used a few spreadsheets in my time, but the Oleo docs do not give me
> enough info to use the program. Anyone know of any user-friendly Oleo
> docs, or maybe an easier to use X spreadsheet program?
> 
> Ed
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Sorry, I have no pointer to oleo doc's; I also dont't use oloe because of
the lack of documentation; but perhaps you should give "xspread" a try.
It's based on the terminal driven "sc" spreadsheet and has IMHO sufficient
docs.

Regards
Rolf

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Re: xdm cannot read Xresources via /lib/cpp

[Rolf Obrecht]

On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, Steffen Neumann wrote:
 
> What goes wrong:
>   xdm can't read its Xresources (which is too bad, since I want 
>   to do more than just colors with them, but whereas at home
>   everything works, here I have started with a plain installation 
>   and not even begun editing the Xresource files)
> 
I see the same problem. At the office, I upgraded from 1.1 to 1.2.1 and
Xdm cant read its Xresources, complains about the "cpp" and starts
xconsole in non-iconic mode; at home, I did a fresh installation of 1.2.1
and there is the same problem (even worse: xdm doesn't start xconsole at
all).

I have no idea how to fix this. Help greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Rolf




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Re: StarOffice under Debian

[Rolf Obrecht]

On Mon, 19 Aug 1996, Shaya Potter wrote:

> 
> 
> On 17 Aug 1996, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> 
> > Is anyone running StarOffice under Debian?
> > 
> > If so how and where did you get the Motif Libraries?
> > 
> I haven't got it running yet,(I have heard that right now it is very buggy) 
> but supposdly they include a large set of Motif2.0 in one of the shared 
> libraries they include in the program, so all you have to do is install 
> it (w/ the StarInst script, I have it if anyone needs it)  and then copy 

Look at http://www.stardiv.de/download/sites/README.staroffice !

It tells you that StarOffice needs Motif2.0 Libs, which are _NOT_
included. You have to buy them for real money.

The guys at StarDivision are considering making a version with statically
linked Motif :) but "...cannot promise any release date for these 
versions..." :-(

Hope that helps
Rolf

Re: truss

[Rolf Schillinger]

Hi John,
the mount & mtools thing is good to copy but if you are trying to copy
some ascii file and get into trouble with the different line break schemes
on unix/dos there is a tool out there called dos2unix and unix2dox
respectively. You can do that with tr as well but I dunno the syntax out
of my mind.
bis bald, Rolf

On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, John Gosling (GOSLIJA @ GBNUHO) wrote:

>  Date: 22-06-2000 11:11:35 AM
>  Telephone: 680982
>  Subject:  truss
> 
>  Hi, Thanks for info about strace.  Here's another query.  I need to
>  transfer some text files via floppy from a linux box to Windows NT.  Is
>  there a utility under linux which will write a dos format file.
> 
>  Regards
> 
>  John
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Re: Unresolved Symbol?

[Rolf Schillinger]

Are you running on IDE? IF yes: SHUTDOWN AND PRAY immediately :)
Maybe the information hasnt so wide spread yet but test2 is bound to
corrupt your filesystems.
take care, Rolf

On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Thorsten Clever wrote:

> 
> Heyja!
> 
> I just build a 2.4.0-test2 kernel by doing the usual 
> make dep ; make clean ; make bzImage ; make modules ; make
> modules_install,
> then i copied the image and the System.map file to /boot an reran lilo.
> While rebooting with the new kernel i got a lot of 'unresolved symbol' 
> error on pretty much all modules. depmod -a gives me the same errors.
> I'm unsing debian/woody on a Athlon 
> It would be cool if someone could help me with this. :)
> 
> thanks, Thorsten
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Iplanet directory server on potato

[Rolf Cronberg]

Hi

I have problems installing iplanet directoryserver on potato. According to 
iplanets website they support redhat 6.0 with glibc 2.1. When I try to run the
installprogram I encounter an segmentaion fault.

I have installed glibc 2.1.1 but it wont run. Has anyone succeded with 
installation of iplanets server and if so how did you do it.

with best regards 

Rolf Cronberg

Re: hosts for rdate?

[Rolf Schillinger]

that is one thing. The other is that every nfs server can be used too.
bis bald, Rolf

On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, tjm wrote:

> Look here:
> 
> 
>   http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/servers.html
> 
> 
> 
> Bruno Boettcher wrote:
> > 
> > hello,
> > i am searching for some hosts for time updating of my hosts
> > where can i find the listings of hosts offering this service?
> > i am in France BTW, so any host network-near Strasbourg would be fine...
> > 
> > --
> > ciao bboett
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Re: Screen full of ?'s

[Rolf Schillinger]

Hi,
could it be that you did 'cat' or 'more' a file with strange control
chars? Maybe a binary? If that is the case you simply type 'reset' on that
console. That should fix that problem.
hth, Rolf

On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Abyss wrote:

> One of the Debian 2.1 console windows has lost it's normal font and is 
> displaying characters as black on white question marks and other assorted 
> graphical characters.
> 
> This does not change if one logs out then back in again.  It does not 
> change if X is started.  It does not change if "setfont" is used.  The only 
> solution so far is to reboot Linux.
> 
> It only happens occasionally and I would prefer not rebooting when it happens.
> 
> Anyone encountered this before?
> Thanks in advance.
> 
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Re: What are the most common causes of linux system hangs?

[Rolf Schillinger]

Hi,
if you suspect the mem to be faulty try compiling a kernel. This is a very
memory intensive process and if the memory is faulty chances are you get
the dreaded sig11.
hth, Rolf

On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Joe Emenaker wrote:

> Aka... "why is my system so well hung?" :)
> 
> Every now and then, I'll have a Debian box that starts having fits of hard
> system hangs. Sometimes, it goes away when I turn off a daemon. Other times,
> it goes away when I put the hard drives in an entirely different computer.
> 
> Currently, I'm having this problem with one. Just... out of the blue, it
> will hang dead in its tracks. The keyboard doesn't even wake the screen so I
> can see if there are any kernel panic messages or anything. Ctrl-Alt-Del
> doesn't do anything. I have to hit the rest button.
> 
> It doesn't seem to matter what's running becuase I've tried turning almost
> all of the daemons (except cron and a couple of others) off, and it still
> hung. It's happening more and more frequently, too. It used to be able to go
> for a week or two. Now, it barely makes it more than 4 hours or so.
> 
> Now, I'm pretty certain that it's some hardware problem. But, I'd like to
> avoid moving the whole system to a brand-new machine, find that the problem
> has gone away, and conclude that there's just *something* bad about the old
> server and that I need to chuck the whole thing.
> 
> So, I'd like to isolate the problem, if I could.
> 
> With that in mind, does anyone have any personal experience concerning what
> the problem usually is in these cases? Motherboard? RAM? Has it ever helped
> anyone to *under*clock the CPU?
> 
> I'm anxious for any ideas
> 
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alt-gr key not working in woody

[Rolf Schillinger]

Hi,
I recently did a dist-upgrade potato->woody.
Since then I am not able to use my alt-gr(right alt) key anymore.
I checked with xkeycaps read docs and all.
My alt-gr now produces:
state 0x0, keycode 113 (keysym 0xff7e, Mode_switch),
but on my german keyboard I cannot get any of @| and so on.
I had to switch to U.S.
Anyone knows of a cure?
tia, Rolf

Re: _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111

[Rolf Schillinger]

Hi Andrew,
the etc. etc. is the interesting part ;)
bis bald, Rolf

On Thu, 11 May 2000, Andrew McRobert wrote:

> hi
> 
> when I run XF86Setup and then test my settings I get the following error:
> 
> _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
> etc. etc.
> 
> 
> any ideas?
> 
> thanks
> 
> Andrew
> 
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Re: lp.o module will not load

[Rolf Schillinger]

Hi,
you seem to not have compiled the parport module. You can find it under
General Setup in menuconfig.
hth, Rolf

On Tue, 23 May 2000, Pollywog wrote:

> I recompiled my 2.2.15 kernel with printer support as a module and this is 
> what I get when I insmod the module.   What could be wrong, and is it a 
> problem with this kernel?
> 
> 
> 
> #insmod /lib/modules/2.2.15/misc/lp.o 
> /lib/modules/2.2.15/misc/lp.o: unresolved symbol 
> parport_claim_or_block_R7098ea8a
> /lib/modules/2.2.15/misc/lp.o: unresolved symbol register_chrdev_Rc8dc8350
> /lib/modules/2.2.15/misc/lp.o: unresolved symbol parport_enumerate_R00173fa6
> /lib/modules/2.2.15/misc/lp.o: unresolved symbol 
> parport_unregister_device_Rf190b30a
> /lib/modules/2.2.15/misc/lp.o: unresolved symbol 
> interruptible_sleep_on_timeout_R25a057d5
> /lib/modules/2.2.15/misc/lp.o: unresolved symbol __wake_up_R7a24c808
> /lib/modules/2.2.15/misc/lp.o: unresolved symbol 
> parport_register_device_Rc0a47fb4
> /lib/modules/2.2.15/misc/lp.o: unresolved symbol parport_release_R4941ccbd
> /lib/modules/2.2.15/misc/lp.o: unresolved symbol 
> parport_ieee1284_nibble_mode_ok_R6b2e03ae
> /lib/modules/2.2.15/misc/lp.o: unresolved symbol 
> parport_wait_peripheral_R444ff5e9
> 
> 
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Re: ISDN

[Rolf Schillinger]

Hi Michael,
the question is what cards are supported by the kernel.
Check out /usr/src/linux/Documentation/isdn
I must say I had to do with all sorts of AVM cards except the B1 and they
are supported well nowadays. I didnt have any problems.
hth, rolf

On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Michael Meskes wrote:

> Since I want to get myself an ISDN connection I wonder which cards do work
> with Linux. Is there a list available? Also I wonder if external equipment
> works. They usually refer to CAPI 2.0 or something like that, but does Linux
> know how to address this?
> 
> Michael
> 
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Re: Bar Code Scanner in Linux

[Rolf Schillinger]

Hi,
It depends on what bar code scanner you are trying to use.
There are barcode scanners that get inserted beetween the keyboard and the
computer. You can configure these type of scanners usually through reading
in config instructions in form of barcode supplied by the manufacturer.
They then simply send the barcode translated to characters to the computer
just as if you had entered it with the keyboard. So if you use such
scanners you are not going to have any troubles.
bis bald, Rolf

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>   Hi all,
>   anyone knows how to get a bar code scanner to work in Linux?
>   Thanks
> 
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Re: e-commerce solution needed

[Rolf Schillinger]

Have a look at www.minivend.com and see if it could fit your needs.
If it does you get a good software :)
bis bald, Rolf

On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Felipe Alvarez Harnecker wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> It's there any decent e-commerce package that runs on debian??
> I don't care if it is commercial.
> 
> I know intershop runs on Suse but never succeded to install it under debian.
> 
> any pointer would be great.
> 
> Thanks.
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Re: perl dbi problems

[Rolf Schillinger]

Hi,
you don't wanna look for a debian package when you are missing a *.pm
(perl module).
Simply goto cpan.org insted. That is the perl package repository.
hth, Rolf

On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Evan Moore wrote:

> i have tried running a script out of the Perl DBI book (O'Riely) and it
> keeps failing. It is barfing and giving the message:
> 
> install_driver(Proxy) failed: Can't locate RPC/PlClient.pm in @ INC ...
> 
> so I did a search for PlClient.pm and it doesn't exist, and there doesn't
> seem to be a deb package for PlClient.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks very much
> 
> 
> Evan Moore
> 
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Re: Memory (RAM) problems?

[Rolf Schillinger]

I think this is totally normal.
Thats why linux is fast. And if you need more memory for applications it
gets freed from cache or buffers. No need to worry.
hth, Rolf

On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Carlos Bustamante G. wrote:

> Hi, I'm a litlle worry about the memory (RAM) used by my machine. 
> I'm using slink ( recompiled kernel 2.0.36) and recently I realized that
> I have my memory full very frecuently, even when running only a few
> programs. Actually, the buffer and the cache use a lot of memory. 
> I have 256 Mb, and a typical (not the most terrible) output of 'cat
> /proc/meminfo ' looks like :
> 
> 
> total:used:free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
> Mem:  263127040 221241344 41885696 47808512 95961088 79933440
> Swap: 133885952   286720 133599232
> MemTotal:256960 kB
> MemFree:  40904 kB
> MemShared:46688 kB
> Buffers:  93712 kB
> Cached:   78060 kB
> SwapTotal:   130748 kB
> SwapFree:130468 kB
> 
> 
> Sometimes, there are a release of memory (e.g. when I run a heavy
> process) , but the cache an buffer slowly increase  
> their memory usage.
> Is it normal, or I have a serious problem? Maybe a not well tuned
> kernel? Is there a way to release the memory used by the buffer and/or
> cache? 
> 
> thanks
> carlosb
> 
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Re: Gnome's popt.h ?

[Rolf Schillinger]

Hi Josh,
you'd have to install the popt package for your include to work. It seems
like the gnome-popt you used does basically the same otherwise it wouldn't
have compiled ;)
bis bald, Rolf

On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Josh Berdine wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Should
> 
> #include 
> 
> work in potato?  I had to replace it with
> 
> #include 
> 
> to get a program to compile from (non-Debian) source.  I'm just
> wondering if this is a bug in my installation, potato, or the upstream
> source before I tell the upstream author about it.
> 
> Cheers,  Josh
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Re: gunzip: ae_962.orig.tar.gz: not in gzip format

[Rolf Schillinger]

Hi,

On 27 Jul 2001, Mario Vukelic wrote:

> On 26 Jul 2001 17:40:21 -0400, Andrew Dixon wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > I just downloaded the source to ae from the Debian home page and when I
> > try to untar it I get the following error:
> > 
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ tar -zxvf ae_962.orig.tar.gz 
> > 
> > gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
> > tar: Child returned status 1
> > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ 
> > 
> > I also tried to just gunzip it but I'm having no luck there either:
> > 
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gunzip ae_962.orig.tar.gz 
> > 
> > gunzip: ae_962.orig.tar.gz: not in gzip format
> Did you download it with mozilla? There was a time around 0.9.1 (I
> believe it's supposed to be fixed in 0.9.2, but IIRC my 0.9.2 did too)
> when moz due to a bug in the linux version ungzipped the file but left
> the extension or something like that
that explains much... I think I already saw that happen too on 0.9.2.
Anyway, use file ae_962.orig.tar.gz to get a definite answer on what
filetype it is.
bis bald, Rolf

Frage zu Linux

[Rolf Friedel]

Hallo
gibt es bei Debian eine art Exchange-Server für Linux ??
wenn ja wo ?

Gruß

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Re: *EASY* mail question

[Rolf Kutz]

*Matheson Cameron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

> exim doesn't even ask me what my POP and STMP servers
> are.  Please help.

exim doesn't do pop. fetchmail does pop. Run
eximconfig with option "(2) Internet site using
smarthost" or "(3) Satellite system" to use a
smarthost smtp-server,

- Rolf

Re: DVD movie hardware requirements

[Rolf Schillinger]

Hi,
you could have chances to get dvds working ok if you use a different
software. I currently have PIII-450 w/256Mb and xine is ready to play dvds
just perfect since quite some time. My gfx card is a G400 with 32Mb video
ram tho. Anyway checkout xine.sourceforgge.net and
xine.cjb.net. Installation is quite painless and it works *very*
good. Important performance factors are the X version (X4 here) and Xv
too. Also using raw devices gives some performance gain. All that tuning
measures are provided on those websites and you can use the "Wiki Wiki
Web" on www.linuxvideo.org as well for some tuning tips. After applying
all these tuning steps my CPU is now at ~ 60% load while playing dvds
seamlessly.
hth, Rolf 

On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, Thomas Halahan wrote:

> 
> dear deb-user
> 
> i recently purchased a dvd player and tried to play a dvd movie using 
> videolan.  whilst the dvd did play the results were juddery, which i 
> assume comes down to insufficient hardware to decode the dvd in real 
> time.  during play my cpu and ram were flat out.
> 
> after reading the dvd howto i still didn't get a feel for what 
> hardware i would need to get perfect replay.  if anyone knows the 
> minimum requirements (if this is definable) i would be very 
> interested.
> 
> currently i have 2.2.17, 4MB video card, 128MB RAM and 400MHz K6-2.
> 
> regards tom 
> 
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Install problems with D-Link DFE-530TX+ ethernet card

[Rolf Brudeseth]

I just tried installing a D-Link DFE-530TX+ 
ethernet card but I am having no luck. I am using Debian 2.2.
 
First attempt was with the driver that comes 
with Debian.
 
otto:/lib/modules/2.2.17-ide/net# lspci 
-v
~snip
00:14.0 Ethernet controller: D-Link System Inc: 
Unknown device 1300 (rev 10)    
Subsystem: D-Link System Inc: Unknown device 
1301    Flags: bus master, medium 
devsel, latency 32, IRQ 12    I/O 
ports at 6900    Memory at e4044000 
(32-bit, non-prefetchable)    
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
 
otto:/lib/modules/2.2.17-ide/net# insmod 
rtl8139.ortl8139.o: init_module: Device or resource busyHint: this error 
can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or 
IRQ parameters
 
otto:/lib/modules/2.2.17-ide/net# insmod rtl8139.o 
io=0x6900 irq=12rtl8139.o: invalid parameter parm_io
 
 
Next I tried compiling the driver that came with 
the card to see whether I will work better. However, it will not 
compile.
 
otto:/eth# gcc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -O6 -c 
rtl8139.cIn file included from 
/usr/include/linux/sched.h:13, 
from rtl8139.c:79:/usr/include/linux/times.h:5: parse error before 
`clock_t'/usr/include/linux/times.h:5: warning: no semicolon at end of 
struct or union/usr/include/linux/times.h:6: warning: data definition has no 
type or storage class/usr/include/linux/times.h:7: parse error before 
`tms_cutime'/usr/include/linux/times.h:7: warning: data definition has no 
type or storage class/usr/include/linux/times.h:8: parse error before 
`tms_cstime'/usr/include/linux/times.h:8: warning: data definition has no 
type or storage class
~snip
 
Any ideas?
 
Rolf Brudeseth
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SiS 630 nighmare (Gericom Webboy)

[Rolf Schillinger]

Hi,
anyone of you can supply any success reports on getting a SiS 630 to work
apart from Framebuffer?
I tried everything I could find out on the web to no avail. I even patched
a X 4.0 with the SiS driver. Best I can get is a bit of twm output in the
lower 3rd of the screen. Furthermore I now totally destroyed my
XF86Config. The screen stays black when I start xdm altough there are no
errors in the X logs :(
any help appreciating, Rolf

Re: apache doubt

[Rolf Schillinger]

Hi,
it depends on what you are trying to do. This message normally means that
the directory you wanna access (if you just do http://localhost/ it is the
DocumentRoot in httpd.conf) doesn`t have a index.html or whatever type is
configured in DirectoryIndexes in httpd.conf and additionally the Option
Indexes directive is not set for that directory. If this is set for the
dir in question apache will return a directory listing.
hth, Rolf

On Sat, 19 May 2001, V.Suresh wrote:

>  Just wanted to try apache. Installed it. When I try to access 
>  my server thru lynx localhost, it says " you dont have permissions
>  to access  in this server". How do I enable permissions?
>  Note that I have no experience in running servers. Just  experimenting.
> 
>   
>   
>   
>   -V.Suresh.  Sureshvuserssourceforgenet
>Http://www16.brinkster.com/vsuresh
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Re: ((a-b)^2)'

[Rolf Kleinknecht]

Vergiß Dein sog. "totale Differential", zur Analysis mehrerer
Veränderlicher braucht es wirklich Kenntnisse.

Im konkreten Fall geht's aber auch "zu Fuß":

Es ist f(a, b) = (a-b)^2 zusammensetzbar als

(0) f(a, b) = square( diff( a, b) )

vermöge 
square : IR -> IR
square( x) := x^2

diff: IR x IR -> IR
diff( a, b) := a - b

Sei I = [c, d] das Intervall der zulässigen Werte für a, b. 
( Im Konkreten: c = 1, d = 1024)

Zeige nacheinander für die Bildmengen der auf bestimmte Intervalle
eingeschränkten Funktionen:

(1) Im( diff|[c,d]x[c,d]) = [c - d, d - c]
( wieso?)
(2) Im( square|[e, f] ) = max( e^2, f^2) für beliebige e <= f aus IR
( Beachte den Verlauf der Quadratfunktion!)
(3) Im( square|[-e,e] ) = [0, e^2] für e >= 0
( Sonderfall (2) )
(4) Im( f|[c,d]x[c,d]) 
= Im( square(diff([c,d], [c,d]))nach (0)
= Im( square([c - d, d - c])nach (1)
= Im( square([-(d-c),(d-c)])nach (3)
= [0, (d-c)^2]

Damit ist (d-c)^2 = (4096-1)^2 tatsächlich der maximale Funktionswert.

Weiters sieht man: Jeder nichtnegative Wert <= dem Maximum ist im Bild.
Welches Paar z.B. wird von f auf y abgebildet?

Übrigens: Bei nur ganzzahligem Definitionsbereichen ( IZ statt IR)
ändert sich nichts, außer daß nun nurmehr alle nichtnegativen
Quadratzahlen <= dem Maximum im Bild sind. Welches Paar z.B. wird von f
auf y abgebildet?

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PS: Ich hoffe, Du bist jetzt im Bilde.

Re: mounting a local directory over another directory

[Rolf Leggewie]

Micha Feigin wrote:
Sorry for what probably sounds like a wierd question.
just guessing but google for "overlay file system" might be what you 
want.  I know there are others apart from lufs.sf.net.

HTH
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installing a bootable Debian without grup touching other drives in PC

[Rolf Blum]

hallo,

after trying to install a dual boot system grub destroyed two times my 
bootdisk. I have a lmdb-4 on a bootable usb-stick. The Live version runs 
just fine on my PC. My goal is to have a drive which will boot Debian 
when I select it in the win-boot-menue. What have I todo to prevent grub 
from touching any other drive and just install on the drive reserved for 
Debian? I am not experience with Linux, please help.


Kind regards

Re: Ubuntu vs Debian forums (was recompiling the kernel with a different version name)

[Rolf Kutz]

On 11/04/10 07:56 +0100, Lisi wrote:


Recently I was trying to show my 15 year old granddaughter, who runs Open SuSU 
11 on her laptop, how to do some small admin job.  She said that she didn't 
want to know.  When I queried this, she said:


"When I am at school, the IT department does it for me.  When I am at home 
here, you do it for me.  When I am in Japan, Daddy does it for me.  Why do I 
need to know how to do it?"


I really think this would be the right approach
for many, even windows and macos users. If your
car needs maintenance most people ask a mechanic
or at least somebody who knows what (s)he is
doing.

have a nice day
Rolf

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Keyspan USA-19QW USB-to-serial dongle

[Rolf Brudeseth]

I successfully used my Keyspan USA-19QW USB-to-serial dongle back in 
2007 running Ubuntu.


After several OS reinstalls, I am now on Debian Squeeze, but I am having 
some problems getting it to work.


Is there some user error involved here or should I open a bug?

- After I plug in the USB-to-serial dongle (dmesg):

[ 2615.044105] usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and 
address 3

[ 2615.189670] usb 3-1: New USB device found, idVendor=06cd, idProduct=0118
[ 2615.189678] usb 3-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, 
SerialNumber=0

[ 2615.189868] usb 3-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 2615.192764] keyspan 3-1:1.0: Keyspan - (without firmware) converter 
detected

[ 2615.192776] usb 3-1: firmware: requesting keyspan/usa19qw.fw
[ 2615.200679] usb 3-1: Required keyspan firmware image 
(keyspan/usa19qw.fw) unavailable.



- No device file (/dev/ttyUSB0) is created:
$ ls -l /dev|grep -i usb
$

- According to:
http://wiki.debian.org/Firmware
keyspan/usa19qw.fw 
 is in keyspan.ko


$ /sbin/modprobe -l|grep -i keyspan
kernel/drivers/usb/serial/keyspan.ko
kernel/drivers/usb/serial/keyspan_pda.ko
kernel/drivers/input/misc/keyspan_remote.ko

$ lsmod |grep keyspan
keyspan23066  0
usbserial  22100  1 keyspan
usbcore98733  7 
btusb,keyspan,usbserial,uvcvideo,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd


$ lsmod|grep -i usb
btusb   8077  2
bluetooth  36319  9 sco,bnep,rfcomm,l2cap,btusb
usbcore98733  5 btusb,uvcvideo,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd
nls_base4541  1 usbcore

$ uname -r
2.6.32-5-686

$ aptitude search firmware|grep ^i
i   firmware-iwlwifi- Binary firmware for Intel Wireless 
3945, 4
i   firmware-linux  - Binary firmware for various 
drivers in the
i   firmware-linux-free - Binary firmware for various 
drivers in the
i   firmware-linux-nonfree  - Binary firmware for various 
drivers in the


$ aptitude search usb|grep ^i
i   libusb-0.1-4- userspace USB programming library
i A libusb-1.0-0- userspace USB programming library
i A libusbmuxd1 - USB multiplexor daemon for iPhone 
and iPod
i A usb-modeswitch  - mode switching tool for 
controlling "flip
i A usb-modeswitch-data - mode switching data for 
usb-modeswitch
i A usbmuxd - USB multiplexor daemon for iPhone 
and iPod

i   usbutils- Linux USB utilities
i A xserver-xorg-video-sisusb   - X.Org X server -- SiS USB display 
driver

Re: Keyspan USA-19QW USB-to-serial dongle

[Rolf Brudeseth]

From what I can tell it looks like keyspan.fw is missing from the 
Squeeze repository, so I assume that warrants a defect.



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Missing keyspan.fw (was: Keyspan USA-19QW USB-to-serial dongle)

[Rolf Brudeseth]

> From what I can tell it looks like keyspan.fw is missing from the 
Squeeze repository, so I assume that warrants a defect.


... warrants a bug.


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Re: Missing keyspan.fw

[Rolf Brudeseth]

Chris,

Maybe you could suggest the "correct" way to request the firmware be 
added to the appropriate package?


Rolf

On 04/10/2011 03:11 PM, chris wrote:


Non free firmware being missing isn't a bug

On Apr 10, 2011 4:03 PM, "Rolf Brudeseth" <mailto:m...@brudeseth.name>> wrote:


> From what I can tell it looks like keyspan.fw is missing from the 
Squeeze repository, so I assume that warrants a defect.


... warrants a bug.


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dvgrab/firewire - partial video & no second download

[Rolf Brudeseth]

I am running into two problems with dvgrab.

Camcorder: Canon Elura 100 (miniDV)

- dvgrab will intermittently not download the entire image (~1 hour video):

$ dvgrab -timestamp -size 0 -format raw
Found AV/C device with GUID 0x85000110863c
Waiting for DV...
Capture Started
send oops
~ snip, deleted a whole bunch of 'send oops'
send oops

The size of the file varies each time I download from the Camcorder.

$ dmesg|grep firewire
[2.495874] firewire_ohci :02:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 19 (level, 
low) -> IRQ 19

[2.495879] firewire_ohci :02:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[2.572029] firewire_ohci: Added fw-ohci device :02:00.0, OHCI 
version 1.10
[3.072420] firewire_core: created device fw0: GUID 001fc602998f, 
S400

[ 1829.024061] firewire_core: giving up on config rom for node id ffc1
[ 1832.187027] firewire_core: BM lock failed, making local node (ffc0) root.
[ 1832.187036] firewire_core: phy config: card 0, new root=ffc0, gap_count=5
[ 1832.189002] firewire_ohci: isochronous cycle inconsistent
[ 1832.709485] firewire_core: created device fw1: GUID 85000110863c, 
S100


# tail -n 6 /var/log/messages
Apr 11 11:59:25 maiden kernel: [ 1829.024061] firewire_core: giving up 
on config rom for node id ffc1
Apr 11 11:59:28 maiden kernel: [ 1832.187027] firewire_core: BM lock 
failed, making local node (ffc0) root.
Apr 11 11:59:28 maiden kernel: [ 1832.187036] firewire_core: phy config: 
card 0, new root=ffc0, gap_count=5
Apr 11 11:59:28 maiden kernel: [ 1832.189002] firewire_ohci: isochronous 
cycle inconsistent
Apr 11 11:59:28 maiden kernel: [ 1832.709485] firewire_core: created 
device fw1: GUID 85000110863c, S100
Apr 11 13:14:55 maiden kernel: [ 6359.637894] dvgrab[2882]: segfault at 
2a100b0 ip 02a100b0 sp 7fff3d11f328 error 15


# lspci -vs 02:00.0
02:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): JMicron Technology Corp. IEEE 1394 Host 
Controller (prog-if 10 [OHCI])

Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 8313
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
Memory at feaff800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
Memory at feaff400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128]
Memory at feaff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128]
Memory at feafec00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [80] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [94] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
Kernel driver in use: firewire_ohci

- dvgrab will consistently not allow me to download a second video 
without a reboot


$ dvgrab -timestamp -size 0 -format raw
rom1394_0 warning: read failed: 0xf414
error reading config rom directory for node 0
rom1394_1 warning: read failed: 0xf414
error reading config rom directory for node 1
Error: no camera exists

Anybody got an idea what may be going on?

Rolf


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Re: dvgrab/firewire - partial video

[Rolf Brudeseth]

Ops, I forgot the kernel version:

$ uname -r
2.6.32-5-amd64


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Backports to the rescue (was: dvgrab/firewire - partial video & no second download)

[Rolf Brudeseth]

On 04/12/2011 02:07 AM, Кабиольский Евгений wrote:

Rolf Brudeseth wrote:

I am running into two problems with dvgrab.

Camcorder: Canon Elura 100 (miniDV)

- dvgrab will intermittently not download the entire image (~1 hour 
video):


$ dvgrab -timestamp -size 0 -format raw
Found AV/C device with GUID 0x85000110863c
Waiting for DV...
Capture Started
send oops
~ snip, deleted a whole bunch of 'send oops'
send oops

The size of the file varies each time I download from the Camcorder.

$ dmesg|grep firewire
[2.495874] firewire_ohci :02:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 19 
(level, low) -> IRQ 19

[2.495879] firewire_ohci :02:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[2.572029] firewire_ohci: Added fw-ohci device :02:00.0, OHCI 
version 1.10
[3.072420] firewire_core: created device fw0: GUID 
001fc602998f, S400

[ 1829.024061] firewire_core: giving up on config rom for node id ffc1
[ 1832.187027] firewire_core: BM lock failed, making local node 
(ffc0) root.
[ 1832.187036] firewire_core: phy config: card 0, new root=ffc0, 
gap_count=5

[ 1832.189002] firewire_ohci: isochronous cycle inconsistent
[ 1832.709485] firewire_core: created device fw1: GUID 
85000110863c, S100


# tail -n 6 /var/log/messages
Apr 11 11:59:25 maiden kernel: [ 1829.024061] firewire_core: giving 
up on config rom for node id ffc1
Apr 11 11:59:28 maiden kernel: [ 1832.187027] firewire_core: BM lock 
failed, making local node (ffc0) root.
Apr 11 11:59:28 maiden kernel: [ 1832.187036] firewire_core: phy 
config: card 0, new root=ffc0, gap_count=5
Apr 11 11:59:28 maiden kernel: [ 1832.189002] firewire_ohci: 
isochronous cycle inconsistent
Apr 11 11:59:28 maiden kernel: [ 1832.709485] firewire_core: created 
device fw1: GUID 85000110863c, S100
Apr 11 13:14:55 maiden kernel: [ 6359.637894] dvgrab[2882]: segfault 
at 2a100b0 ip 02a100b0 sp 7fff3d11f328 error 15


# lspci -vs 02:00.0
02:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): JMicron Technology Corp. IEEE 1394 Host 
Controller (prog-if 10 [OHCI])

Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 8313
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
Memory at feaff800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
Memory at feaff400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128]
Memory at feaff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128]
Memory at feafec00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [80] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [94] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
Kernel driver in use: firewire_ohci

- dvgrab will consistently not allow me to download a second video 
without a reboot


$ dvgrab -timestamp -size 0 -format raw
rom1394_0 warning: read failed: 0xf414
error reading config rom directory for node 0
rom1394_1 warning: read failed: 0xf414
error reading config rom directory for node 1
Error: no camera exists

Anybody got an idea what may be going on?

Rolf


First, try using legacy ieee1394 drivers. I think that you had no 
problems using lenny =))). I had same problems using MyBook Studio II 
external drive box. System suddenly loose my drive, until reboot. I 
got kernel source, compiled it with legacy ieee1394 drivers and 
blacklisted new firewire stack. I'm happy.


For those that have encountered the same problem, here was the clue to 
resolving it:

https://ieee1394.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Release_Notes

I successfully transferred the content of 30 minidv tapes after I 
upgraded to the following backports kernel:

$ uname -r
2.6.38-bpo.2-amd64

Rolf


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Re: Work environment

[Rolf Blum]

In order to expound on the contribution of Karl Vogel:
It gives me two big monitors (I regret that there is no space for a 
third one)

a ergonomic mouse and a trackball
and my keyboard(G19) I think is roughly 10 years old, one of the best 
investments into computer gear ever.


A normal size notebook or even a netbook is very good if you have to 
aktually carry it a lot which you would not like to do with a 17" 
monitor notebook.


Rolf Blum

REeLooking for a good "default" font (small 'L' vs. capital 'i' problem)

[Rolf Blum]

Have a look at: https://github.com/IBM/plex
it is very readable.
Rolf

ide-scsi problem on woody

[[loonyx | rolf joho]]

hi there

even though i load the ide-scsi module at boottime, i can not mount my 
ide-dvd-writer. since i was perfectly able to do that on earlier 
installations, i am asking for hints.

through /etc/modules i successfully load this:
sr_mod
ide-scsi
my complete lsmod can be found at the end of the message.
my bootloader (grub) has this entry (which worked on older setups):
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-smp-woody-xas-1.0-i686 video=matrox:vesa:440 ro 
root=/dev/sda6 idebus=66 hdc=ide-scsi

when i try to mount a cdrom i get this (even as root):
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:rolf]# mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/scd0 /cdrom
mount: /dev/scd0 is not a valid block device
i tried other devices like scd1... sg0... no success.

any ideas?

rolf

lsmod-output:
Module  Size  Used byNot tainted
nls_iso8859-1   2880   0  (autoclean)
ide-cd 26176   0  (autoclean)
ide-probe-mod   8016   0  (autoclean)
isofs  24480   0  (autoclean)
sg 24292   0  (autoclean)
parport_pc 26056   1  (autoclean)
lp  6112   0  (autoclean)
parport26016   1  (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
nfsd   65632   8  (autoclean)
lockd  47168   1  (autoclean) [nfsd]
sunrpc 63860   1  (autoclean) [nfsd lockd]
loop8368   0  (autoclean)
8139too13664   0  (unused)
pcnet3213312   1
mii 1152   0  [8139too pcnet32]
af_packet  12872   0  (unused)
opl3   10920   0  (unused)
ad1816  9312   1
sound  54572   1  [opl3 ad1816]
soundcore   3844   4  [sound]
isa-pnp28168   0  [ad1816]
mga98448   0  (unused)
agpgart16384   1
autofs4 8548   6
lvm-mod44480   5
ide-scsi7488   0
ide-mod63432   0  [ide-cd ide-probe-mod ide-scsi]
sr_mod 11448   0  (unused)
cdrom  27136   0  [ide-cd sr_mod]
keybdev 1696   0  (unused)
input   3488   0  [keybdev]
usb-uhci   21924   0  (unused)
usbcore50304   0  [usb-uhci]
sd_mod  9852  16  (autoclean)
ext3   58848   7  (autoclean)
jbd38072   7  (autoclean) [ext3]
sym53c8xx  56004   0  (autoclean)
aic7xxx   104672   8  (autoclean)
scsi_mod   81448   6  (autoclean) [sg ide-scsi sr_mod sd_mod 
sym53c8xx aic7xxx]



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Re: ide-scsi problem on woody

[[loonyx | rolf joho]]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hi Rolf,
does /dev/scd0, /dev/sr0 and /dev/sg0  exist?
any info from dmesg or from /var/log/messages?
-Kev

yes they do exist:
brw-rw1 root cdrom 11,   0 Mar 14  2002 /dev/scd0
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root4 Aug 22 11:08 /dev/sr0 -> scd0
crwSrwS---1 root scanner   21,   0 Mar 14  2002 /dev/sg0
dmesg gives me that:
Oct 22 23:37:05 looney kernel: hdc: Hewlett-Packard DVD Writer 300, 
ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
Oct 22 23:37:05 looney kernel: ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Oct 22 23:37:05 looney kernel: hdc: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 
2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Oct 22 23:37:05 looney kernel: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12

what i did not mention on the initial posting is that this is a scsi 
system (don't know if this has any relevance on this):
scsibus0:
	0,0,0	  0) 'QUANTUM ' 'ATLAS IV 9 WLS  ' '0707' Disk
	0,1,0	  1) 'SEAGATE ' 'ST39140W' '1444' Disk
	0,2,0	  2) 'SEAGATE ' 'ST39140W' '1444' Disk
scsibus1: not used.
scsibus2:
	2,4,0	204) 'iomega  ' 'jaz 2GB ' 'E.17' Removable Disk
	2,6,0	206) 'HP  ' 'C1750A  ' '3125' Processor

rolf



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Re: ide-scsi problem on woody

[[loonyx | rolf joho]]

Alvin Oga wrote:
hi ya loonyx

if your dvd writer is on /dev/hdc
try using /dev/hdc instead of /dev/scd0
if it works .. link /dev/sg0 to  /dev/hdc and fix fstab 

also stick a boot (real) cdrom into the dvd drive, and see if it boots the
cdrom to eliminate any hardware/bios/cable issues
c ya
alvin

symlinking did not work (actually sg0 is my scanner so i tried this with 
scd0). booting from cd works well.

rolf



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Re: ide-scsi problem on woody

[[loonyx | rolf joho]]

Andreas Janssen wrote:
Hello

[loonyx | rolf joho] (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:


even though i load the ide-scsi module at boottime, i can not mount my
ide-dvd-writer. since i was perfectly able to do that on earlier
installations, i am asking for hints.
through /etc/modules i successfully load this:
sr_mod
ide-scsi
my complete lsmod can be found at the end of the message.
my bootloader (grub) has this entry (which worked on older setups):
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-smp-woody-xas-1.0-i686 video=matrox:vesa:440 ro
root=/dev/sda6 idebus=66 hdc=ide-scsi
when i try to mount a cdrom i get this (even as root):
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:rolf]# mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/scd0 /cdrom
mount: /dev/scd0 is not a valid block device
i tried other devices like scd1... sg0... no success.


What do /proc/scsi/scsi and dmesg say about your drive?

best regards
Andreas Janssen
actually nothing (the last entry is my scanner and scs1 is not used):
Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
  Vendor: QUANTUM  Model: ATLAS IV 9 WLS   Rev: 0707
  Type:   Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 03
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00
  Vendor: SEAGATE  Model: ST39140W Rev: 1444
  Type:   Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 02 Lun: 00
  Vendor: SEAGATE  Model: ST39140W Rev: 1444
  Type:   Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi2 Channel: 00 Id: 04 Lun: 00
  Vendor: iomega   Model: jaz 2GB  Rev: E.17
  Type:   Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi2 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 00
  Vendor: HP   Model: C1750A   Rev: 3125
  Type:   ProcessorANSI SCSI revision: 01
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Re: ide-scsi problem on woody

[[loonyx | rolf joho]]

Alexei Chetroi wrote:
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 09:28:56AM +0300, Alexei Chetroi wrote:

From: Alexei Chetroi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 > lsmod-output:

Module  Size  Used byNot tainted
nls_iso8859-1   2880   0  (autoclean)
ide-cd 26176   0  (autoclean)
Have you tried to add ignore=hdc option to ide-cd module. I have it in
my /etc/modutils/0keep like
options ide-cd  ignore=hdc
Don't forget to run update-rc.d after changing this file.
  ^^^ I mean update-modules :) 


well, it did not work. but what is this entry/this file good for anyway? 
there are lots of more or less esoteric files like this around under 
/etc/modutils but there is quite few dokumentation around.

thanks
rolf


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Re: ide-scsi problem on woody

[[loonyx | rolf joho]]

i bet that this works  ( assuming the kernel has been told by grub/lilo
the hdc=ide-scsi option )
	mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom

and if it does ...  make a link
cd /dev ; ln -s ./hdc cdrom ( for reading cd's )
cd /dev ; ln -s ./hdc cdrw  ( for writing )
c ya
alvin
well, i could at any time easily mount the cd/dvd in the drive using 
/dev/hdc.
the boot-loader is configured properly (hdc=ide-scsi).
the /dev/cdrom link is already there, /dev/cdrw did not bring me much 
further:
what i am still missing is the appearance of the drive in the ouput of 
#cdrecord -scanbus. so i can not access it for writing cds.

thanks anyway
rolf


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Re: make-kpkg: need clues

[[loonyx | rolf joho]]

Robert William Hutton wrote:
When you copy a config file from elsewhere, it's a good idea to do a 
"make oldconfig".  oldconfig asks you about any drivers/options that 
didn't exist in the previous version.

while i know that this is the way to go when upgrading to newer 
kernel-versions, is also suitable for downgrading (eg. 2.4.22 to 2.4.28)?

rolf



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Re: ide-scsi problem on woody

[[loonyx | rolf joho]]

Alexei Chetroi wrote:
 If you can do that, then I think your dvd drive is using ide-cd module.
Please, make sure your /etc/modules.conf contain line like
options ide-cd  ignore=hdc
 In this case, ide-cd won't probe any drives on /dev/hdc
whyle trying this, i could no longer mount the drive as hdc (of course), 
but the ide-scsi stuff did not work either.

since i am booting my system through an initrd, i am just wondering if i 
need to explicitely include ide-scsi on that initrd - early during boot, 
a message like 'ide-scsi.o not found...' appears - eventhough the 
ide-scsi module is there an is finally loaded.
unfortunatly, non of the logs has any entries regarding this.

maybe i just build a new kernel...

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Re: hdparm script

[[loonyx | rolf joho]]

Alfredo Valles wrote:
Is there a template or guideline to follow in debian for making init scripts?

debian has a package called 'debian-policy' which provides useful 
information on how to do things 'debianish', eg. writing init-scripts 
and such, so i recommend installing that.



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Re: ide-scsi problem on woody

[[loonyx | rolf joho]]

[loonyx | rolf joho] wrote:
hi there

even though i load the ide-scsi module at boottime, i can not mount my 
ide-dvd-writer. since i was perfectly able to do that on earlier 
installations, i am asking for hints.

problem solved.

apparently one has to compile ide and ide-mod statically into the 
kernel. again i have become a victim of my everything_is_a_module-obsession.

thanks for the many replies anyway

rolf



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can not start X as non-root user

[[loonyx | rolf joho]]

hi there
i just set up a new woody-box with xfree 4.1 and gnome 1.4*.
gdm runs fine and i can login there or running startx X as root. 
however, if i try to log in through gdm or running startx as a normal 
user, i can not run X and fall back to gdm or to the console respectively.
if i have a look at my /var/log/XF there are entries like those:

(EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice
No such device.
(EE) Generic Mouse: cannot open input device
(EE) PreInit filed for input device "Generic Mouse"
but, if there is really something wrong with my mouse-setup, why can i 
login fine as root?

thanks for help

rolf

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Re: can not start X as non-root user

[[loonyx | rolf joho]]

Kent West wrote:
[loonyx | rolf joho] wrote:

i just set up a new woody-box with xfree 4.1 and gnome 1.4*.
gdm runs fine and i can login there or running startx X as root. 
however, if i try to log in through gdm or running startx as a normal 
user, i can not run X and fall back to gdm or to the console 
Try running "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-common", and when asked who has 
permission to run X, select Console Users (or something similar to that).

Alternatively, edit /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config so the following line reads 
thusly:

allowed_users=console

thanks for your help, didn't even know about that type of 
access-control. however, this did not work for me.

what i did so far:
- checked the permission of the users homedirs/dotfiles (ok)
- added a new (non-root) user with an empty home-directory (no X)
- set Xwrappers access to console-users
any idea what's going wrong?



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Re: can not start X as non-root user

[[loonyx | rolf joho]]

Kent West wrote:

Check the output of "startx 2> error.log" for hints.

I suspect you don't have a default wm configured properly for non-root 
users. Create a ".xinitrc" file in a normal user's home dir with the 
single line "icewm" (and make sure icewm is installed) and give it a go 
and let us know the results.

thanks, i finally figured out that i had wrong permissions set on my 
/tmp directory. no idea how this could happen but well, it is running 
fine now.

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weak perfomance on woody

[[loonyx | rolf joho]]

hi there

on my new woody-box i experience some major performance problems. thez 
appeared a day a go and i can not link this to any of my activities...

>>> what i observe:
* there is constantly a hell lot of disk-activity.
* starting X/gdm at boot takes around 2 minutes (restarting goes much 
faster).
* applications sometimes take ages to start, eventhough right now things 
run quite well.
* multiple instances of sendmail (currently 3) are continiously running.
* there might be a problem in delivering root-mail although i have set 
up an alias to myself. /var/mail is empty (no mailboxes there) - the 
mailqueue is empty right now.
* memory- swap- and disk-usage are in the usual range, hardware seems to 
be fine.

>>> what i've done so far:
* i did some monitoring using top and ps (see output below) but their 
output seemed pretty 'standard' to me.
* installed exim instead of sendmail but went back as this did not have 
any effect.

>>> what i would like to know:
* has anyone any idea how to effectively track those performance-problems?
* how do i monitor disk-activity at all (there is not even a disk-led on 
my box)?
* any idea why there are no mailbox-files in /var/mail ?

i know these are a lot of questions and i am not even sure if there is 
any relationsship between them. below is the output of top and ps.
thanks for any advice

rolf



### TOP-OUTPUT:
 11:07:30 up 35 min,  5 users,  load average: 3.01, 3.04, 2.58
108 processes: 104 sleeping, 4 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:  40.8% user,  16.0% system,   1.0% nice,  42.2% idle
Mem:448512K total,   443224K used, 5288K free,39840K buffers
Swap:   525288K total,  340K used,   524948K free,   250796K cached
  PID USER PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
 3993 smmsp 19   0  2476 2472  1864 S12.9  0.5   0:00 sendmail
 7566 root   9   0   988  988   748 S 7.3  0.2   0:20 top
 3995 root  16   0  2700 2696  2420 R 7.3  0.6   0:00 sendmail
 3980 rolf  16   0   980  980   748 R 6.4  0.2   0:00 top
  976 identd 9   0   716  716   580 S 1.8  0.1   0:12 identd
  977 identd10   0   716  716   580 S 1.8  0.1   0:12 identd
 3992 root  10   0  1068 1068   884 S 1.8  0.2   0:00 mail
  218 root   9   0  2408 2408  1820 S 0.9  0.5   0:06 named
  443 root  12   0  2512 2508  2288 S 0.9  0.5   0:04 sendmail
 3986 root   9   0  1000 1000   956 S 0.9  0.2   0:00 sh
 3987 root   7   0  1016 1016   972 S 0.9  0.2   0:00 sh
1 root   0   0   484  484   424 S 0.0  0.1   0:06 init
2 root   9   0 00 0 SW0.0  0.0   0:00 keventd
3 root  19  19 00 0 RWN   0.0  0.0   0:00 
ksoftirqd_CPU0
4 root   9   0 00 0 SW0.0  0.0   0:00 kswapd



### PS-OUTPUT:
  PID TTY  TIME CMD
1 ?00:00:06 init
2 ?00:00:00 keventd
3 ?00:00:00 ksoftirqd_CPU0
4 ?00:00:00 kswapd
5 ?00:00:00 bdflush
6 ?00:00:00 kupdated
7 ?00:00:00 i2oevtd
   10 ?00:00:00 scsi_eh_0
   11 ?00:00:00 scsi_eh_1
   12 ?00:00:00 kjournald
   56 ?00:00:00 khubd
  113 ?00:00:00 kjournald
  114 ?00:00:00 kjournald
  115 ?00:00:17 kjournald
  116 ?00:00:00 kjournald
  117 ?00:00:00 kjournald
  118 ?00:00:00 kjournald
  145 ?00:00:00 portmap
  209 ?00:00:25 syslogd
  212 ?00:00:00 klogd
  216 ?00:00:00 named
  217 ?00:00:00 named
  218 ?00:00:11 named
  219 ?00:00:00 named
  220 ?00:00:02 named
  223 ?00:00:00 lwresd
  224 ?00:00:00 lwresd
  225 ?00:00:00 lwresd
  226 ?00:00:00 lwresd
  227 ?00:00:00 lwresd
  232 ?00:00:00 rpc.statd
  259 ?00:00:00 automount
  294 ?00:00:00 automount
  312 ?00:00:00 automount
  320 ?00:00:00 automount
  333 ?00:00:00 automount
  343 ?00:00:00 lpd
  350 ?00:00:00 nfsd
  351 ?00:00:00 nfsd
  352 ?00:00:00 nfsd
  353 ?00:00:00 nfsd
  354 ?00:00:00 lockd
  355 ?00:00:00 rpciod
  356 ?00:00:00 nfsd
  357 ?00:00:00 nfsd
  358 ?00:00:00 nfsd
  359 ?00:00:00 nfsd
  362 ?00:00:00 rpc.mountd
  443 ?00:00:08 sendmail
  461 ?00:00:00 sshd
  466 ?00:00:00 xfs
  474 ?00:00:00 cron
  477 ?00:00:03 xinetd
  521 ?00:00:00 gdm
  528 tty1 00:00:00 getty
  529 tty2 00:00:00 getty
  530 tty3 00:00:00 bash
  531 tty4 00:00:00 bash
  532 tty5 00:00:00 getty
  533 tty6 00:00:00 getty
  974 ?00:00:00 identd
  975 ?00:00:00 identd
  976 ?00:00:19 identd
  977 ?00:00:20 identd
  978 ?00:00:20 identd
  979 ?00:00:20 identd
  980 ?00:00:00

Re: change $PATH system-wide?

[[loonyx | rolf joho]]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 13 Sep 2003, David Morse wrote:


I would like to add /usr/yokel/bin to my PATH system-wide.  I can't find
what config file to use.  /etc/profile doesn't do it.


As far as I know /etc/profile is read by all Bourne Shell derivatives if
you start up a login shell. Did you verify this by logging in from the
console? Or do you login through [xkgw]dm? If you do you might use the
initialization file of your display-manager.
Grx HdV


since you are most likely using bash try this file:

/etc/bash.bashrc

what i would like to know myself is where debian sets its own default 
PATH which i have before touching any dotfiles...

rolf



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kernel compilation error

[[loonyx | rolf joho]]

hi there

i'm trying to compile a custom 2.4.18 kernel on my woody-desktop using 
make-kpkg. after some minutes it exits and throws some lines at me as 
quoted at the end of this message. no kernel.deb is made. going through 
the docs did not bring me much further.

### what i did:
cd kernel-source-dir
cp old-2.4.18-config-file .config
# this cleans the config file so it matches the current kernel, right?
make oldconfig
make xconfig
# it used to work this way on older installs:
fakeroot make-kpkg --append_to_version -i686 --initrd --revision=rev.01 
kernel_image modules_image

any ideas?

 last words from make-kpkg:
find kernel -path '*/pcmcia/*' -name '*.o' | xargs -i -r ln -sf ../{} pcmcia
if [ -r System.map ]; then /sbin/depmod -ae -F System.map -b 
/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18/debia
n/tmp-image -r 2.4.18-up-xas-1.0-i686; fi
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in 
/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18/debian/tmp-image/lib/modules/2.4
.18-up-xas-1.0-i686/kernel/drivers/char/drm/sis.o
depmod: 	sis_malloc_Ra3329ed5
depmod: 	sis_free_Rced25333
make[2]: *** [_modinst_post] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18'
make[1]: *** [real_stamp_image] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18'
for module in  ; do\
  if test -d  $module; then\
(cd $module;   \
  if ./debian/rules KVERS="2.4.18-up-xas-1.0-i686" 
KSRC="/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.
18" \
 KMAINT="Unknown Kernel Package Maintainer" 
KEMAIL="[EMAIL PROTECTED]
ured.in.etc.kernel-pkg.conf"  \
 KDREV="rev.01" kdist_image; then\
  echo "Module $module processed fine";\
  else  \
   echo "Module $module failed.";  \
   echo "Hit return to Continue";   \
	   read ans;\
  fi;   \
 ); \
  fi;   \
done
[1]+  Donemake xconfig



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Re: weak perfomance on woody

[[loonyx | rolf joho]]

Rich Puhek wrote:
What are the continuous instances doing? `ps awux | grep sendmail` will 
provide much more info than just ps. I would guess that you have one 
daemon on port 25, one MSP daemon, and possibly a queue runner hanging 
around...

so it is.

Turn off the other stuff you don't need (do you really need named 
running? lwresd? gdm? lpt? XFree86? oafd?) You're running a lot of stuff 
on this box, some of which may be contending for resources.
the machine used to run properly on earlier woody-installations with the
debian-default stuff enabled, however, good idea to turn off things like 
lwresd.

Looks like you're running SCSI... what's your partitioning scheme look 
like? What are you mounting remotely via NFS? what are you exporting via 
NFS?
FilesystemSize  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6 497M   33M  438M   7% /
/dev/sda1  63M  6.1M   53M  11% /boot
/dev/sda7 3.7G  168M  3.3G   5% /usr
/dev/sda8 2.0G  105M  1.7G   6% /var
/dev/sda9 1.6G   33M  1.5G   3% /opt
/dev/vg00/export   12G   33M   11G   1% /export
/dev/vg00/tmp 4.9G   33M  4.5G   1% /tmp
Run `ps awux | grep D` a couple of times, look for processes that are 
getting blocked during disk accesses.

What kernel are you running?

2.4.18

What SCSI controller?

Adaptec 39160 (disks attached here)
Symbios Logic 53C8X
What processor are you running?
2 * P II 350 MHZ (currently under an up-kernel)

your input has been very valuable. thanks a lot. i am still working 
through it with increasing success, the problem seemed to be related
to some cron-stuff running all at once.
X/gdm still starts extremly slow (1-2 min) after boot, but runs fine 
except from that.

rolf



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apt/preferences docs

[[loonyx | rolf joho]]

i am running woody and i am looking for decent documentation for the 
debian package management system.

so far i went through the manpages and the debian-handbook. what i am 
still missing is a more in-depth description of how to get complete 
control from where apt pulls its packages.

lets say i want to run stable but have (very) few packages from 
non-debian locations (eg. videolan.org).

is this mainly a /etc/apt/preferences issue...? i think i learned how to 
handle stable/testing/unstable, but how to tell apt to get a back-ported 
package x from repository y? What do i have to write instead of eg. 
'o=Debian' if it is a 3rd party repository? -> (my preferences file can 
be found at the end of this message).

however any links to examples and docs regarding this topic would be 
highly welcome. maybe there is a good book out there too?

thanks for any help

rolf

# my /etc/apt/preferences-file:
Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian,a=stable,v=3.0*
Pin-Priority: 900
Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian,a=testing
Pin-Priority: 400
Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian,a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 300


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Re: Switching from RH 7.3 to Debian 3.0r1

[[loonyx | rolf joho]]

Curtis wrote:
I've downloaded the debian isos, burning them afterwards, but before I 
take the plunge into switching, is there anything to prepare? This is my 
first time switching distros on a computer.  Any pitfalls to avoid. By 
the way, I wanted to do a netinstall, so I only have to use the first cd.
-Naota.

take you enough time for this step!
backing up your entire rh-/etc directory is a very good idea.
then become familiar whith the package-management-system (apt/dpkg), i 
was a long time rh73 user myself but i blew up my new debian several 
time using apt and dpkg incompetently.
do not expect everything to work already today/this week - do not switch 
all your machines at once or if, there is only one computer, dualboot 
between debian and rh. your will most likely install debina several times.
especially installing debian on a desktop can be a great pain.
imho the switch is definitely worth doing in the long run.

cheers
rolf
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login-delay after boot

[[loonyx | rolf joho]]

my woody-box drives me mad:

after boot, wen the login-prompt appears, i can enter a username, but
then i have to wait ~4 MINUTES!!! until i can enter my password.
it's not that my machine was so superslow ( it worked right on earlier
setups). also subsequent logins behave as one woud expect...
i have no idea where to look for a solution, so any hint would be great.
thanks
rolf


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Re: login-delay after boot

[[loonyx | rolf joho]]

[loonyx | rolf joho] wrote:
my woody-box drives me mad:

after boot, wen the login-prompt appears, i can enter a username, but
then i have to wait ~4 MINUTES!!! until i can enter my password.
it's not that my machine was so superslow ( it worked right on earlier
setups). also subsequent logins behave as one woud expect...
i have no idea where to look for a solution, so any hint would be great.
I have to add that, after i logged in, X starts veeery slow if started 
for the first time. again subsequen X-restarts do well...

rolf



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Re: login-delay after boot

[[loonyx | rolf joho]]

Damien Solley wrote:
This sounds a bit like problems I had when logging in with a
misconfigured localhost line in my /etc/hosts file. What does the line
beginning with "127.0.0.1" read in yours? For example, mine reads:
127.0.0.1   localhost localhost.localdomain serenity
If this is configured correctly, then maybe you could try a different
login manager, ie:
apt-get install gdm
Hope this helps,
Damien
thanks for your answer - however:

my hosts file is pretty ok:
127.0.0.1   localhost
172.16.1.101looney.looneynet.ch looney
actually i do not use a login manager right now (plain console). before 
i used gdm but it was pretty much the same annoying behaviour.
i am also not able to login through ssh at boot- and firstlogin time, 
albeit i start ssh at an earlier stage as in debian-default (and 
therefore it is rather difficult to monitor what is happening at exactly 
this time...).

some more ideas out there?

rolf



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3c920 in 2.4.20; "network unreachable"

[Rolf Erling Robberstad]

I installed woody over the internet, configured by the
local DHCP-server.  I then downloaded (from debian)
kernel 2.4.20 from http://www.kernel.org and compiled
it to get X working (as part of a i810/i815 howto).

The 3c59x-driver was compiled directly into the
kernel along with the other needed support.

The problem is that the network does no longer work.
After  searching on google i found a post on a mailing
list which described a similar problem after switching
to the 2.4.*-kernel with the very same driver.

I can now no longer find that post.

I've tried several possible solutions, found at these
lists or google, however none of them have worked.

During the boot I get no clues, only a few error
messages that relate to another problem.

A few lines from my console:
# ping -c 1 192.168.0.1 ((my gateway))
> PING 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1): 56 data bytes
> ping sendto: Network is unreachable
> ping wrote 192.168.0.1 64 chars, ret=-1

# ping -c 1 127.0.0.1
> PING 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.0ms

# ifconfig eth0
> eth0 \tLink encap: Ethernet HWaddr 00:B0:E2:93:18
> \tUP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> \tRX packets: 4 errors: 0 dropped: 0 overruns: 0 frame: 0
> \tTX packets: 5 errors: 0 dropped: 0 overruns: 0 carrier: 0
> \tcollisions: 0 txqueuelen: 100
> \tRX bytes: 1380 (1,3KiB) TX bytes: 550 (550.0 b)
> \t Interrupt: 11 Base address: 0xec80

# ifup eth0
> ifup: interface eth0 already configured
# ifdown eth0
> cat: /var/run/dhclient.pid: No such file or directory
# ifup eth0
(pause)
(still no working network)

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Re: 3c920 in 2.4.20; "network unreachable"

[Rolf Erling Robberstad]

It did work before I got the new kernel (downloaded
the kernel as an ordinary user).

# dhclient eth0
-didn't help (it is, however present on the machine)


Rolf E. Robberstad

- Original Message -
From: Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 14:21:35 -0400 (EDT)
To: Rolf Erling Robberstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3c920 in 2.4.20; "network unreachable"

> AFAIK, compiling it into the kernel isn't enough - you need a user-space
> client to do the actual work. What happens when you do:
> 
> dhclient eth0
> 
> or:
> 
> pump -i eth0
> 
> as root?
> 
> ap
> 
> --
> Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
> Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu
> 
> 
> On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Rolf Erling Robberstad wrote:
> 
> > DHCP support compiled into the kernel, however I believe
> > i chose not to install BOOTP and one other client.
> >
> > I'm quite sure I /did/ have connection before I recompiled.
> > (I have this memory of downloading the kernel from lynx as
> > a user, as I did not have X operating yet)
> >
> > - Original Message -
> > From: Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 13:54:34 -0400 (EDT)
> > To: Rolf Erling Robberstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: Re: 3c920 in 2.4.20; "network unreachable"
> >
> > > On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Rolf Erling Robberstad wrote:
> > >
> > > > I installed woody over the internet, configured by the
> > > > local DHCP-server.  I then downloaded (from debian)
> > > > kernel 2.4.20 from http://www.kernel.org and compiled
> > > > it to get X working (as part of a i810/i815 howto).
> > > >
> > > > The 3c59x-driver was compiled directly into the
> > > > kernel along with the other needed support.
> > >
> > > I've never had luck with compiling network drivers into the kernel - each
> > > time I've tried, I've ended up reverting to a module.
> > >
> > > ...
> > >
> > > > # ifdown eth0
> > > > > cat: /var/run/dhclient.pid: No such file or directory
> > > > # ifup eth0
> > > > (pause)
> > > > (still no working network)
> > >
> > > Did you install dhclient? It looks like what's happening is there's no
> > > dhcp client to fetch the address information.
> > >
> > >
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> > > Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > mvh
> > Rolf E.
> >
> >
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RE: 3c920 in 2.4.20; "network unreachable"

[Rolf Erling Robberstad]

> If you do have dhclient installed, I would check your
> /etc/network/interfaces file to see if the card is configured to get an IP
> address through DHCP.  It should look something like this:
> 
> auto eth0
> iface eth0 inet dhcp

I'm afraid that's the way it looked...

> If that isn't the problem, let me know and I'll see if I can figure out what
> I originally did.

Hope the solution is there...

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Re: 3c920 in 2.4.20; "network unreachable"

[Rolf Erling Robberstad]

> > # dhclient eth0
> > -didn't help (it is, however present on the machine)
> 
> What did it do? Generally dhclient has output.


A blank line for about a second while the computer
was working, then back to an ordinary line:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] dhclient eth0
(small pause)
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Tryed to give the command: {# dhclient -e eth0} without
that changing anything


mvh
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