On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Gregory Guthrie wrote:
> I am running Debian 2.0, upgraded from ... (libc5), and trying to upgrade
> to 2.1.
>
> When I do an apt-get upgrade, it complains that:
> "Sorry, but the following packages are broken.."
>
> and halts. When I try to repair the problems using d
On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 05:42:13PM -0500, Brian Clark wrote:
> Ben Collins said:
>
> >> % su
> >> su: Authentication failure
> >> Sorry
> >> %
> >>
> >> When I _know_ I have given the right password. Caps Lock is off, I've
> tried
> >> typing it plain text so I know the input is correct, I
Hey,
I can't mount my syquest ezflyer zip-type drive. The kernel detects it,
but when I try to mount it, it gives me an error that says "wrong fs
type, bad superblock, or too many mounted filesystems." I trying to
mount it as vfat or msdos. The disk works fine in windows, and it spins
up in Lin
This isn't an Apache configuration issue, it's a DNS configuration issue.
You need an A record for the customer1.com domain with the IP address of the
server. This assumes, of course, that this is OK with your customer--they
may already have an A record in place for their domain. This also assumes
Ben Collins said:
>> % su
>> su: Authentication failure
>> Sorry
>> %
>>
>> When I _know_ I have given the right password. Caps Lock is off, I've
tried
>> typing it plain text so I know the input is correct, I've logged in as
root
>> and changed root's passwd and it still doesn't work when su-
Hi
All my usual suspects for sources.list entries capable of finding
KDE .debs are stale. Even the reliable rkrusty!! Has anybody got anything
current?
- Brian
Hi Matt
The following link:
http://linuxrouter.sourceforge.net/documentation/LRP-2.9.4/
has documentation on doing this, for the Debian-based Linux Router
Project. For various reasons, you might want to set a machine up with that
instead.
- Brian
> > Something blew away a program called parse-xf86config this weekend.
> > I suspect it was when I did my apt-get upgrade. This is a problem because
> > /etc/init.d/xdm won't run properly without it.
>
> According to the docs, you don't need that any more.
> Just remove the line 'check-local-xserv
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
(snipped)
>
> Your observation is probably sadly accurate -- people are coming to
> Linux with zero understanding of the command line or Unix philosophy.
> I'd prefer to see occasional ribbing a'la Oswald than a less featureful
> sig.
>
> On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 11:2
> % su
> su: Authentication failure
> Sorry
> %
>
> When I _know_ I have given the right password. Caps Lock is off, I've tried
> typing it plain text so I know the input is correct, I've logged in as root
> and changed root's passwd and it still doesn't work when su-ing from a
> normal user ac
Brian Clark said:
>Greetings,
>
>I'm running Potato, which was installed from base floppies.
>
>a).
>
>This has to have been asked a million times, but I can't find anything in
>the archives related to this topic: What packages do I need to fetch to be
>able to compile most software (i.e. Apache,
Greetings,
I'm running Potato, which was installed from base floppies.
a).
This has to have been asked a million times, but I can't find anything in
the archives related to this topic: What packages do I need to fetch to be
able to compile most software (i.e. Apache, X apps, etc.)?
b).
Al
Gregory Guthrie wrote:
>
[using Eudora for Windows: please turn off HTML output]
>I am running Debian 2.0, upgraded from ... (libc5), and trying to upgrade
>to 2.1.
>
>When I do an apt-get upgrade, it complains that:
> "Sorry, but the following packages are broken.."
>
>and h
I am running Debian 2.0,
upgraded from ... (libc5), and trying to upgrade to 2.1.
When I do an apt-get upgrade, it complains that:
"Sorry, but the following packages are
broken.."
and halts. When I try to repair the problems using dselect, I cannot seem
to get out of a circle which won't let
On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 01:40:50PM -0600, matt garman wrote:
>
> Hello:
>
> I'm getting a cable modem installation this weekend (AT&T @home). In
> order to not pay for multiple IPs, my three roommates and I are setting up
> a home network.
>
> I plan to run the cablemodem into my Linux box to u
The current sig is an executable shell command. If you want to
unsubscribe, you can copy the text to a shell (X cut and paste, editor
features, foo).
Your observation is probably sadly accurate -- people are coming to
Linux with zero understanding of the command line or Unix philosophy.
I'd prefe
Could you provide a more detailed description of just where in the
process this is occuring? If possible, save your output to a file and
attach the *relevant* portions of this to your mail.
It sounds as if dselect is failing in the install stage, and that one or
more packages may have successfull
Hello:
I'm getting a cable modem installation this weekend (AT&T @home). In
order to not pay for multiple IPs, my three roommates and I are setting up
a home network.
I plan to run the cablemodem into my Linux box to use it as the server. I
have two ethernet cards that are correctly recognized
> I'm looking for some troubleshooting help.
> Slink is working like a champ in all aspects but ppp connection speed.
> Actually, I connect at high speeds, but my sustained throughput runs from
> only 200-400 bps! When first downloading, I get a burst of speed, but in
> seconds all activity seems
I've subscribed & unsubscribed several times over the last 2 years
easily enough, but never could decipher the signature of this list.
Since more and more people from corel and storm distros are joining,
maybe a more decipherable sig could be written? Such as:
> > send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Vitux wrote:
>
> Please tell me I'm a complete moron:
> I can't find the above, neither in the us debian-mirror nor
> in the danish (closest).
> I need it for running Corel WordPerfect, and some folks here
> told me I could just install it, and all would be well. I
> believe so, now if I could onl
> I'm looking for some troubleshooting help.
> Slink is working like a champ in all aspects but ppp connection speed.
> Actually, I connect at high speeds, but my sustained throughput runs from
> only 200-400 bps! When first downloading, I get a burst of speed, but in
> seconds all activity seems
Vitux wrote:
>
> Please tell me I'm a complete moron:
> I can't find the above, neither in the us debian-mirror nor
> in the danish (closest).
> I need it for running Corel WordPerfect, and some folks here
> told me I could just install it, and all would be well. I
> believe so, now if I could onl
Please tell me I'm a complete moron:
I can't find the above, neither in the us debian-mirror nor
in the danish (closest).
I need it for running Corel WordPerfect, and some folks here
told me I could just install it, and all would be well. I
believe so, now if I could only find the damn thing
Re
So I did my very first kernel compile, and all appears to have gone
well -- except, I'm seeing a long list of messages during boot (that
don't seem to be logged anywhere and are gone from the screen before I
can copy 'em down), each line mentioning "unresolved symbol" and naming
a lib file.
The sy
Not sure, but it looks like a recent Potato update must've rewritten a
variable holding the location of Perl libraries -- at least, I've got a
little program running here, that can no longer locate a needed module.
Anybody know where to reach in and change the values Perl sees as
'@INC' ...?
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I have _no_ idea how this started happening, but recently, the two
>programs I type in the most (Eterm, emacs) have started treating my
>backspace key the same as my delete key. (others such as xterm and
>gnome-terminal work but gnu-cash doesn't).
>
>I've seen people strug
Brian Boonstra wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Something blew away a program called parse-xf86config this weekend.
> I suspect it was when I did my apt-get upgrade. This is a problem because
> /etc/init.d/xdm won't run properly without it.
>
> Any clues as to how I can get it back?
>
>
>
>
Hi there
Trying to roll my own kernel (first time!).
What I did is basically:
Install ncurses and bin86 packages.
Download source of 2.2.14 from kernel.org.
make menuconfig
enable SMP, FAT&msdos filesystems and sound, disable scsi.
The rest is left to the defaults.
make dep (took quite a while)
mak
Hi!
I am looking for a GUI FTP download software
with resume broken download fuction
(like Gozilla under MS Windows),
Does anybody know which and where?
Thanks!
Alex
The Colos list adds these tags, and the consequence is that
the fallback subject threading fails dismally, and most of the
contributors seem to use broken mailers that can't get their
references or in-reply-to headers right. If it wasn't fairly
quiet, I'd have to unsubscribe.
Quoting Oswald Budden
Martin Fluch wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Jeremy Gaddis wrote:
>
> > At 11:13 AM 3/28/00 +0300, Martin Fluch wrote:
> >
> > >short question, in which package was the OReileys Debian Book? - Thanx.
> >
> > It was in the package I got at Barnes & Noble, along with a slink
> > CD and a bumper st
Brian Boonstra wrote:
> Hi
>
> Something blew away a program called parse-xf86config this
weekend.
> I suspect it was when I did my apt-get upgrade. This is a problem because
> /etc/init.d/xdm won't run properly without it.
>
> Any clues as to how I can get it back?
>
>
>
>
Hi
Something blew away a program called parse-xf86config this weekend.
I suspect it was when I did my apt-get upgrade. This is a problem because
/etc/init.d/xdm won't run properly without it.
Any clues as to how I can get it back?
On Mar 29, Emilio Tejedor wrote:
> Try the 2.3 or 2.4-pre kernel which has USB support.
> I guess that the mouse will work but haven't tried it.
I'm pretty sure 2.2.14 supports it, and I think some earlier ones. I
haven't tried it myself, but my colleague discovered it by accident,
and I know he
Nice one Oswald!
Regards JohnG
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Hello there,
On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, John Anderson wrote:
> Did you configure the during the installation
> of
> Debian? If not that may explain the problem. I'm not very experienced with
> Linux, but I would say that the kernal would have to be redone or reinstalling
> Debian if it's easy enoug
As far as I know you can delete .004 now, I've installed potato with
potato boot disks and installed packages, I never installed perl-5.004
and there are no problems. You said the upgrade went smoothly, I remember
perl-5.004 and perl-5.005 conflicting with each other.
Ron
On Tue, 28 Mar 2000,
Gnome-libs configure says:
"modules disabled, and dynamic
linking not supported"
This comes right after "searching for dlopen". What this
means?
How can I enable the modules
and dynamic linking?
I've setup this in order to not to restart apache each time I enter a
new customer:
My problem is How To config that automatically *.customer1.com points
to www.customer1.com ?
I've setup on httpd.conf :
ServerNamecustomers.mydomain.com
CustomLog /var/cu
Hi.
Try the 2.3 or 2.4-pre kernel which has USB support.
I guess that the mouse will work but haven't tried it.
**
Emilio Tejedor Escobar
**
-Mensaje original-
De: Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Enviado el: miércoles 29 de marzo de 20
--- Here is what i get!
thanx
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I use "TERM=vt100" in such cases.
Regards.
tk
On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Shane wrote:
> Hi,
> Whenever I log remotely to my Debian system
> from a Sun xterm, the environment does not
> seem to be correct (I can not use "vi").
> Setting the "TERM=xterm" and "EDITOR=vi"
> does not help. What are th
Hi,
concerning a NeoMagic cards, I would like to share my own
observations. I own a Siemens Scenic Mobile 510 AGP
notebook, that is equipped with video+sound combo called
NeoMagic 256 AV. This card is not very well supported by the
Linux as of time because the manufacturer does not release
any spe
Hello
I have probem with Potato and modem. I had Slink and everything was great.
Then I made upgrade to Potato and my modem dont work. Problem is after connect.
Under minicom everything seems to be ok, I can send AT command and I have
response. But when I am tring to connect I reci
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
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
On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 11:29:25PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote:
>
> * kernel modules need to be built for the specific kernel they'll be run
> with, or they won't work properly
> * they won't work because they have the wrong memory addresses
> * The error messages I got are NOT the product of wrong
I have a few questions, partly for my own edification and partly because
I'm concerned something is not quite right. Let me start with the second.
If I follow what's going on, the kernel has been updated. In that case,
the update does not succeed because it doesn't update the kernel the syste
I think that isn't normal (normally on PC a good system with XWin etc.
uses something like 64 Mb of RAM).
You must see which apps use too much memory (I suggest you to see kernel
modules such like NFS).
Which system are you using?
On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Carlos Bustamante G. wrote:
> Hi, I'm a litl
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Lee wrote:
> I need help getting my USB mouse under linux working. I have completely no
> idea how to do this and how to add it into my linux system to get it running.
> An easier way would be to get a ps2 adapter, but i want to use it under USb.
> Ive updated my kernel to
Can't figure out that problem with your Debian box?
Take your mind off it for a bit and play Trade Wars 2002 at
http://franknputer.com It's fun. It's free.
We've got a host of them at the office -- ViewSonic VG150s. They're
reasonably good, though I prefer my 19" Princeton Ultra95 CRT for
overall image quality, resolution, and clarity.
The ViewSonics are well supported under Linux, console works out of the
box, and X config is generally pretty strai
I'm hoping someone can answer this :-) I just upgraded to potato using apt-get
and everything went smoothly ( was that easy or what? ) But I noticed that I
have both perl-5.004 and the newer perl-5.005 on my system. Do I need both of
them? /etc/alternatives/perl points to perl-5.005, are there some
On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 02:01:05PM +0200, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote:
> kmself@ix.netcom.com writes:
>
> > There have been several reports of similar problems, most of which
> > appear to be associated with anacron, an occasional jobs schedular
> > similar to cron.
> >
> > I had the problem myself o
Some problems take care of themselves:
after a reboot (not the first, though) the BIOS assigned another
IRQ to the network card, and, all of a sudden, everything worked fine.
I hadn´t remembered that I assign IRQ 7 to my sb16 via isapnp, so the BIOS
doesn´t know about it. Setting it to "used" act
On Tue, 28 Mar 2000 22:10:20 -, Jim Breton writes:
>On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 04:58:27PM +0200, Ron Rademaker wrote:
>> Does anybody here know how I can find out to what domain a given IP
>> belongs???
>
>Either do an nslookup on the IP, or use whois:
>
>(say the ip is 1.2.3.4)
>
>whois -h whois.
On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 09:39:19AM +1200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
> Hi
>
> I just found out that the reason why our PC's are unable to ftp to the
> outside (internet) is because they are behind a masquarading firewall. I
> have tried passive mode but that did not seem to work... so i guess the
>
I have three LP interfaces in my computer, but I only
want one of them to be attached to the lp driver. I
intend to write my own driver to hook the others to a
home brew prom burner and an 8051 ice.
Under slink I could add the parm lp0 io=0x3bc but
under frozen the driver still reports that three
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
>
> I have sysctl on my Debian box running potato. It is only available to root.
>
Thanks, I found it in the procps package in unstable,
compiled it on my slink system and it seems to work.
thanks,
--
tony mollica
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: kernel config question(s)
Date: Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 03:07:44PM -0800
In reply to:tjm
Quoting tjm([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>| After looking through much documentation, I'm
>| still not sure whether I have the info I need.
>| Going through the config stuff to build a new
>| 2.
> Buffers: 93712 kB
> Cached: 78060 kB
>
> 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?
Don't worry.. Thats perfectly normal.. The caches speed up the system, and
it frees mem there
This is normal, and done by kernel to keep memory full all the time, so
access time to binaries is less (so your machine works faster). This can
only be a problem on systems with low RAM (I remember having 48M, and
having it all full.going into swap even when I was just running X
alone). If you
Hi,
I'm looking for a port forwarder for Debian Sparc. I have tried, but I
couldn't get stone. I could, but it was for Intel. There is ipportfw, but
I think my SunClassic would be too slow for recompiling the kernel (and
it's already running Squid). Makes me wonder, why on earth there are some
pac
Hi,
I am setting up siag-3.3.2 to work on my 2.1 box with
2.2.14 kernel.
I have done ./configure, make, make install. When I
run the program siag, pw, or egon it complains about
error in loading shared libraries
libXawM.so.0:Can not open shared object file:No such
Lee give us a break and go into your mailer:
>X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200
and change the sending options to TEXT ONLY..It's a small thing but when I
try to open your message(s).. have to wait a few seconds which in itself is
also no big deal, but it's the little things that
Hi,
It would be nice if one can, while browsing packages at www.debian.org,
to have the url of the package in its description.
This way one can explore functionality and documentation without
installing the package.
JMO
Cheers.
--
__
Fe
Not really like that. Don't forget there are hosts out there which have
only one ip-address, so they must use name-based virtual hosting. For this
they must configure their only ip-address as NameVirtualHost. After this
the documentroot in srm.conf is ignored. All ip-names which the
server have,
Perl can't find the modul: RPC/PlClient.pm in the path @INC. If it is a
extended module, you need to include it in @INC.
Hope this is helpful
Daniel
-Original Message-
From: Evan Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Date: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 7:29 PM
Subject: perl
On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 02:47:57PM +0200, Christian Surchi wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 05:34:45PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > read the rest of my message! yes i am familier with it, its fine for
> > *nix users and for the paranoid on lessor OSes, but when it comes to
> > telling *users* of
>
> Also, the firewall configuration tool at
> http://linux-firewall-tools.com/linux/firewall/index.html
> generated a file with lines such as:
>
> # Enable always defragging Protection
> sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_always_defrag=1
>
> The utility states that the firewall will work on
> Redhat
Once upon a time, I heard Lee say
> I need help getting my USB mouse under linux working. I have completely no
> idea how to do this and how to add it into my linux system to get it running.
> An easier way would be to get a ps2 adapter, but i want to use it under USb.
> Ive updated my kernel to
> Lying to dpkg eventually causes huge problems and usually a
> re-install.
Uh-oh! :) Well, I'll probably do a clean install when potato is released as
stable anyway. I still don't have an awful lot riding on the current
installation. Maybe I'll even try installing apache/php/mysql/mod_ssl/open
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 typ
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 f
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
>
> Why do you think you need this? No box I have running 2.2.14 have I had to
> deal with this.
Just curious as to why the ip_always_defrag choice
was removed from configuration list and buried in
the sysctl stuff. What this means to me I'm not
quite sure. I picked
On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 05:57:27PM +, Esdras Beleza de Noronha wrote:
> > 1. what resolution are you running at? 1024x768 may be more efficient
> I'm running 800x600.
> > 2. did you use pnpdump to configure the card, or did you just use the
> I used pnpdump. The sound is perfect in console and
On 28-Mar-2000 pplaw wrote:
> debs,
>
> i have a neomagic videro "card." dpkg shows that i have
> xserver-neomagic 1.1.0-1-1, but i have no success with it. (if i
> use the svga xserver, i get really big fonts that don't fit my
> lapbox screen.)
>
the svga server has all that the neomagic had
Why do you think you need this? No box I have running 2.2.14 have I had to
deal with this.
On 27-Mar-2000 Mark Bathie wrote:
> Can anyone tell me what debian package font.c is contained in ? The
> Debian search page truncates before it prints what I want :(
>
font.c is VERY vague. What exactly are you looking for? a file named font.c
is probably in many many X based packages.
On 26-Mar-2000 Cameron Matheson wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I'm trying to use mknod, but I don't know what my minor device number
> is. My major device number is 45, so right now I'm using mknod like
> this: mknod -m 666 syquest 45 ?. But I don't know what I should use for
> my minor device number. dmes
On 26-Mar-2000 Mark Beverage wrote:
> Does Debian currently support or is there a way to import support for an
> Intel Pro/DSL 2100 internal modem for a PC.
>
in the kernel source there in the Documentation/ directory is a list of
supported hardware. If it is there, it works in Linux and thus D
On 25-Mar-2000 Roy Pluschke wrote:
> Has anybody managed to get this working under Debian?? I have tried
> everything in the included faq but still no luck!
>
having not looked at it I can only offer some ideas.
Debian's ppp is called via pon and poff. Other dists use ppp-on, pppon, and
variou
Lying to dpkg eventually causes huge problems and usually a re-install. If you
can not install the software from debs, please mail the maintainer or submit
bugs. It is very important to debian that all of our software work out of the
box for our users. You should never have to see source if you
On 28 Mar 2000, at 17:04, Jonathan Heaney wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > On 27 Mar 2000, at 11:15, Bill Caskey wrote:
> >
> > > 1. I'm running on a laptop with a 1.3 Gb hard drive and I want the system
> > > as lean as possible. By compiling, I can optimize for a pentium and
> > > elimi
On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 10:19:17PM +, Jim Breton wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 05:00:31PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
> > Then that answers it. The slink su does not even care about login.defs.
>
> K. I noticed.
>
> But, do you (or anyone else) have any clue as to why NO logging
> whatsoeve
Hey,
I got my Syquest EZFlyer 230a zip-drive working, but I can't mount it.
When I try to mount /dev/eza it says 'wrong fs type, or bad superblock'
(It's similar to that). I know the disks not bad, cause I've tried a
few, and none of them work (but they do work on windows). I've tried
mounting t
You can go to the American Registry of Internet Numbers (ARIN)(www.arin.net)
if the nslookup doesn't work (some people just don't like setting up reverse
look ups in their DNS/BIND, especially ISP's). They have a lookup facility
much like www.internic.net used to have.
> -Original Message--
I am trying to install debian on my system. I have
a dvd rom drive and I have a bootable cd rom. I have
the base files installed but when I open dselect and
try to install packages it quits with:
ISO9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
internal error- no filename
at -e line 12, chunk 13
I need help getting my USB mouse under linux
working. I have completely no idea how to do this and how to add it into my
linux system to get it running.
An easier way would be to get a ps2 adapter, but i
want to use it under USb.
Ive updated my kernel to 2.2.4, what ever the
lastest one is.
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