Re: Install potato & woody from floppy disk

2001-10-27 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Liu Tao wrote on Sat Oct 27, 2001 um 01:37:39PM: > ask me insert root disk, when I insert the root disk and > press enter, a kernel panic occured: > Kernel panic: VFS: can't mount root fs on 00:20 Try another floppy disk. Many of them get errors after few weeks of use. If it does not hel

Help with pipe command

2001-10-27 Thread Hall Stevenson
I think this should be simple... I want to run a command (traceroute) and have the date/time listed before the trace output. I'll do this multiple times and want to keep appending to the same file. The results will ideally look something like this: 'date/time' (trace results) 'date/time

Japanese fonts in X

2001-10-27 Thread Jörg Johannes
Hello List I have installed a potato box for a friend. She would like to use japanese fonts in GNOME, so I have installed the xfonts-intl-japanese and xfonts-intl-japanese-big packages, selected "japanese" on gdm login, but all I get is useless crap-symbols (þþæßþþµµ¢ß?...). I have also gene

video card detection (follow up)

2001-10-27 Thread Cary Cherng
My pc has a diamond v770 tnt2 and my laptop has some kind of ATI mobility rage 128. I can't possibly see my tnt2 as being too "new". Anyway, I need to do some manual configuration right? Where can I find info on this?

Re: apt-get sources.list question

2001-10-27 Thread csj
On Saturday 27 October 2001 03:17, Karsten M. Self wrote: [...[ > Once you've updated your sources lists from online and switched to > Woody, you're likely going to find none of the packages on CD are > considered up to date.  This is among the reason few seasoned Debian > users install from CD --

www-data sends email to itself (bad interpreter)

2001-10-27 Thread Erik Steffl
I have just found out that www-data sends emails to www-data. What's the point of that? nobody logs in as www-data and the emails are invisible. here's what the email says: /bin/sh: /usr/sbin/awstats-update: bad interpreter: Permission denied the bug was already filed for this problem but

Test

2001-10-27 Thread Roland Hinkley
Apologies but not sure if I am receiving the list today. -- Roland Hinkley

Re: Mozilla package (was Re: Mozilla 0.9.5, font sizes)

2001-10-27 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 01:54:58PM -0700, Gordon Paynter wrote: > As an aside, does there exist an up-to-date Mozilla debian package? > The one I can currently apt-get is the milestone 18 (!) release, so > I've been installing the recent builds by hand. Is there a better way > to do this? H

Re: Mozilla package (was Re: Mozilla 0.9.5, font sizes)

2001-10-27 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 13:54:58 -0700, Gordon Paynter wrote: > As an aside, does there exist an up-to-date Mozilla debian package? Yes, in "unstable". See http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/update_excuses.html for why it's not in "testing" yet. HTH, Ray -- POPULATION EXPLOSION Unique in huma

something wrong with the RealPlayer

2001-10-27 Thread Philipp Bliedung
Hi, There is something weird happening with my RealPlayer. Everthing worked fine in the past but when I started RealPlayer 7 today there are no letters or numbers anymore. There are dotted rectangulars instead of letters and numbers. I thoght that might be a problm of RealPlayer 7 (although it

Re: Mozilla package (was Re: Mozilla 0.9.5, font sizes)

2001-10-27 Thread David Roundy
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 01:54:58PM -0700, Gordon Paynter wrote: > On Monday 15 October 2001 09:45, Christopher S. Swingley wrote: > > I just moved from Mozilla 0.9.4 to 0.9.5 and noticed that it doesn't > > seem to be respecting font sizes. For example, > > As an aside, does there exist an up-to-

Re: Mozilla package (was Re: Mozilla 0.9.5, font sizes)

2001-10-27 Thread DvB
Gordon Paynter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Monday 15 October 2001 09:45, Christopher S. Swingley wrote: > > I just moved from Mozilla 0.9.4 to 0.9.5 and noticed that it doesn't > > seem to be respecting font sizes. For example, > > As an aside, does there exist an up-to-date Mozilla debian

OT: Bootdisk that hands over to boot from CD?

2001-10-27 Thread Ingo Hohmann
Hi all, my system _should_ be able to boot from CD, but right now it doesn't, so I wondered if someone knows about an image of a diskette, that just hands the bootprocess over to the CD, when booted into. (I'd just use it as a boot image for grub, that should work ;-) kind regards, Ingo

mouse doesn't work with xdm

2001-10-27 Thread Ingo Hohmann
Hi all, I've got a little problem with my mouse: Microsoft Intellimouse PS/2 Debian Woody with XFree86 4.1.0 When booting into the console, and using startx, my mouse works (/dev/gpmdata as mousedevice, Protocol Intellimouse). At least I get 3 Buttons, the wheel doesn't work, though. Now when I

Re: Q: dns /exim / inetd (?) slow startup (2)

2001-10-27 Thread Ingo Hohmann
Hi all, Once upon a time Ingo Hohmann spoketh thus: > Hi to all, > > I'm still trying to find out what may make name resolution > and exim startup to slow down to a crawl ... > > (smrgol is my local host, ip: 10.1.1.1) > > If I do a > > ping smrgol > > I get an instant answer, but if I >

Re: Mozilla package (was Re: Mozilla 0.9.5, font sizes)

2001-10-27 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Gordon Paynter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011027 12:32]: > > As an aside, does there exist an up-to-date Mozilla debian package? > The one I can currently apt-get is the milestone 18 (!) release, so > I've been installing the recent builds by hand. Is there a better way > to do this? Unstable has 0.9.

Re: libc6 dlopen problem

2001-10-27 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 03:37:40PM -0400, Andy Wingo wrote: > Greetings, > > I've been having a number of issues this afternoon with the dlopen() facility > on > my debian unstable system. I didn't want to submit a bug report until I was > sure, so here it is: > > $ cat test-dlopen.c > #include

Re: Aliasing a NIC

2001-10-27 Thread Igor Mozetic
> it on a Debian woody box running a 2.4.10 kernel. I need to know what files > to edit and what the format of the configuration. I run potato and 2.4.x kernels. You don't need anything special in the kernel anymore, just CONFIG_INET. Have a look at linux-source/Documentation/networking/alias.txt

qmail -- supervise: fatal: unable to obtain lock

2001-10-27 Thread Ben Hartshorne
Hi everyone, I am experiencing a problem mentioned many many times on various mailing lists (a google search turned up several), but I have not been able to find a resolution anywhere. I followed the instructions in the qmail HOWTO v2 (posted many places, one of which is http://www.flounder.net/

Re: Remote Installation

2001-10-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 07:34:22AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > Has anyone every tried to figure out how to set up a remote installation > that can be automated? 'fai' reportedly does this job quite nicely. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

trouble with acer usb cdrw drive and cdrecord

2001-10-27 Thread David Roundy
Hello. I've been having trouble with cdrecord on my Acer 4406eu usb cdrw drive. Just as a check, I have verified that it works fine under windows 2k. In fact, for a day it worked fine under linux, and I haven't been able to figure out what changed that made it no longer work. :( It has no prob

Install Debian into a Windows partition report

2001-10-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
Instrall Debian into Windows partition report: loopback approach: stopped at mount :-( UMSDOS approach: I did not VFAT approach: copyied everything to disk. I stopped short of running lilo but may likely to work. :-) YMMV See below for details: On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 08:48:36AM -0400, Alan Shu

Re: video card detection

2001-10-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 11:26:11PM -0700, Cary Cherng ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > These are my first attempt at installing Debian. Both my laptop and pc > seem to have video cards that cannot be identified. Is this normal or > am I missing something? Install lspci: $ apt-get install lspci R

Re: video card detection

2001-10-27 Thread Ian Patrick Thomas
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 11:26:11PM -0700, Cary Cherng wrote: > These are my first attempt at installing Debian. Both my laptop and pc seem > to have video cards that cannot be identified. Is this normal or am I missing > something? > > It's not abnormal. If you're using potato then you'

Re: security for woody

2001-10-27 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 03:13:43PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: > Thus spake shock: > > pardons for asking this, but i can't remember or locate the answer. > > what entry should i use in sources.list for security updates to > > woody? > > > > thanks. > I have http://security.debian.org/debian-non-US

Re: Keyboard loss

2001-10-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 12:26:52PM -0400, Mark Carroll ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hmmm - strangely, although my laptop works fine normally, if I start gpm > or xdm then the keyboard becomes inoperative. If I log in remotely and > kill them, it works again. > > Any clues as to what's going wrong

Re: File corruption

2001-10-27 Thread Steven Mooij
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001 23:12:29 Russell Coker wrote: > [...] > BTS. It's either a kernel issue or a hardware issue. It turns out to be a hardware issue. One corrupt bit in 256 MB. Thank you for your response, Steven. -- Steven Mooij Kavezet Automatisering

Re: xchat font problems

2001-10-27 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 23:41:45 -0500, shock wrote: > i'm running xchat on a woody installation. the problem is that when xchat > starts, instead of letters, all i see is square boxes. See http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2001/23/ under "Fonts missing after upgrade" and http://bugs.debian.org/1

Re: funny ps output

2001-10-27 Thread Jonathan B. Leffert
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 03:23:11PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: > The only thing I can think of is to look at the timestamps of System.map > and your kernel - are they the same? I've gotten this error after > copiling a new kernel but then forgetting to copy over the new > System.map to /boot. > Go

Re: X can't init font path elements?

2001-10-27 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 03:47:40PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > yes.just edit the file in XF86Config-4 and add the fixed font in your > fontpath lists. actually, > xf86 always falls back to the default font 'fixed' if it's having problems > rendering your fonts Well, instead of this workaraou

Telnet

2001-10-27 Thread Richardson, Martin
G'Day all, I would like to set up ssh and to disable telnet for security reasons. Is this just a matter of installing the ssh components, and to disable telnetd? in inetd.conf? TIA, Martin :-)

Test

2001-10-27 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Test

dpkg -rfakeroot

2001-10-27 Thread Rafał Zawadzki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am making deb pack using manual at: http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ Atfer dpkg -rfakeroot apache is isntalled in /usr/local/apache, not in deb pack. What can i do ? - -- Z pozdrowieniami Rafał Zawadzki Linux registered user #232814

Re: Woody and kernel 2.4.13 ide cmd erros on shutdown

2001-10-27 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Hanasaki JiJi: > I wish it was harmless fsck runs for all the filesystems, becuase > they were not unmounted cleanly, on reboot. The bad news is that there > are quite a few errors that show up. Never happend in Potato with the > stock kernel. > > Thoughts? Comment out the h

Re: (OT) I am offended by the wording

2001-10-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 03:15:43PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear Osamu, > I was offended by several of your usages like : > "Judging from your question... Not for you." , etc. > I have done OS - installations before (including dual-boots) . > I also know that there is a very high probabi

Microsoft bullies again

2001-10-27 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Thought may be interesting for the debian community: NEW YORK (October 26, 2001 4:29 p.m. EDT) - Microsoft's premiere Web portal, MSN.com, denied access to millions of people who use alternative browser software such as Opera and told them to get Microsoft's products instead. http://www.nandotimes.

Re: Acroread broken?

2001-10-27 Thread Larry Fletcher
On Oct 26, 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 11:23:57AM +0800, Arne Goetje ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > ok... I will use gv, I think... > > Then I don't need acroread... > > I'd drop acroread based on Adobe's prosecution of Dmitry Sklyarov under > the DMCA. > > I use bot

pipe help

2001-10-27 Thread Hall Stevenson
I think this should be simple... I want to run a command (traceroute) and have the date/time listed before the trace output. I'll do this multiple times and want to keep appending to the same file. The results will ideally look something like this: 'date/time' (trace results) 'date/time' (trace

Re: Lost Debian Unstable Package Archive

2001-10-27 Thread nate
Craig Dickson said: > site down or scale it back somehow. (Can Apache be told to limit > its total bandwidth usage?) closest you can come is probably mod_limit. im not sure if it can limit total bandwidth but i believe it can limit realtime bandwidth. never tried it myself..i believe it was in po

Re: variable ramdisk greater than 4megs

2001-10-27 Thread David Roundy
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 11:38:54AM +0200, Timo Blazko Boewing wrote: > > Has anyone of you an idea? When baking my last kernel (2.4.12), I > somewhere activated "tmpfs", is it that what I may use? That's what I'm doing. It's like a ram disk that can get swapped out. It's not too hard to set is u

nvidia tnt2

2001-10-27 Thread C. Cherng
My diamond v770 tnt2 for some reason doesn't get detected and obviously this is a problem when X configuration happens. Is there some device module I need or something?

test

2001-10-27 Thread Paul McHale
Just checking email problem didn't bomb me out of list. -- Paul McHale Work: 937-320-5495 Double E Solutions Mobile: 937-371-2828 1435 Edenwood Dr Fax:413-215-3232 Beavercreek, Ohio 45434 --

unstable and libexpat.so.0 and db2 problems!!!!!

2001-10-27 Thread Teunis Peters
in a fresh debian-unstable, it seems as though a lot of packages depend on libexpat.so.0. these include: libapache-mod-perl php4 and possibly lots of others I have lost track of. libexpat.so.0 isn't delivered by any current package AFAIK. So I've been recompiling these things.

Re: wine build error: specmaker?!?

2001-10-27 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Peter Jay Salzman: > just downloaded wine tonight, and got a build error: > > # apt-get -b source wine >(snip) >make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/wine-0.20011026.033955/programs/winver' >make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/wine-0.20011026.033955/programs' >dh_testdir >

OT: Firewall question

2001-10-27 Thread Tarjei Huse
Hi, I'm getting tonns, and tonns of messages like this from my iptables script. I'm suspectiong that this isn't nust evil trafic, but other trafic beeing stopped for unknown reasons. Has anyone experienced things like this? from the log: kernel: ipt_unclean: TCP flags bad: 4 MAC=00:40:33:d2:41:3

"Daddy, something's wrong with the filesystem..."

2001-10-27 Thread Joanne Hunter
(Herein is an apparent problem with free space reporting. Presented in "Rambling Story" format for the author's and possibly even your entertainment.) So I woke up this morning, looked outside and found that the winds were sufficent enough to do the raking for me, and decided, let's go for some so

Re: ldso part 2

2001-10-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 11:49:13AM -0700, Greg Wiley wrote: > As suggested by orphaner, I gave removing > ldso a shot on a non-critical testing machine. > No adverse affects as far as I could tell. > > Today's upgrade put ldso right back on. > > Now orphaner says, again, that nothing > depends on

Re: Getting Grub to Recognize Kernel Update to 2.4.12

2001-10-27 Thread eDoc
> the make-kpkg and dpkg -i "The result Package" commands add all the > needed for boot with the new kernel. > Best regards. Jose Luis. "make-kpkg" causes error: "su: make-kpkg: command not found" Now what, please? Thanks! Doc

how to switch drives around with LILO

2001-10-27 Thread Ross Boylan
I am trying to isolate some disk problems, which may be in the disks or the motherboard. It would be helpful if I switched cables so the disks connected to the IDE 0 connector on the motherboard go into #1, and vice versa. The problem is that this completely throws off my drive mappings for LILO,

Re: Re: gnucash dependencies in unstable

2001-10-27 Thread sg_brown
Hi All, :Erik Steffl wrote: > Jose Juan Iglesias wrote: > > > I've been trying to install gnucash package from ustable, version 1.6.1-4. > > dselect says that gnucash depends on libgal9 (>= 0.10) and on libgtkhtml14 > > (>= 0.11.1). And none seems to be available. > > looks like that's fixed (y

sid + potato + ext3 problem

2001-10-27 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Hello. I have a box with both potato and sid installed. Instead of rebooting to get the other system, I did this: I have a script in the sid box does: #!/bin/sh sudo chroot /potato su - -c"/root/init" And in potato's /root/init, there's: #!/bin/sh umount /proc mount -t proc proc

Re: Proposed Updates for "Potato"

2001-10-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 12:02:06PM +0200, Holger Rauch wrote: > This is a repost of the message I sent on Oct 22. It obviously didn't get > through. In case it did, and I was overlooking it, I apologize for any > inconvenience. > > I got a few questions concerning proposed updates: > > 1. Are the

WinBook soundcard now works

2001-10-27 Thread Mark Carroll
I'd like to share how I got my WinBook XL's Yamaha OPL3-SAx soundcard going under Linux with kernel 2.4.9. I couldn't find specific and helpful enough documentation online, so hopefully this message might help the next guy. I included CONFIG_SOUND_ADLIB=y, CONFIG_SOUND_YM3812=y and CONFIG_SOUND_OP

Install potato & woody from floppy disk

2001-10-27 Thread Liu Tao
I want to install woody from floppy, so I downloaded rescue.bin and root.bin. After booting up computer using rescue disk, installer ask me insert root disk, when I insert the root disk and press enter, a kernel panic occured: Kernel panic: VFS: can't mount root fs on 00:20 I tried potato, and got

Mozilla package (was Re: Mozilla 0.9.5, font sizes)

2001-10-27 Thread Gordon Paynter
On Monday 15 October 2001 09:45, Christopher S. Swingley wrote: > I just moved from Mozilla 0.9.4 to 0.9.5 and noticed that it doesn't > seem to be respecting font sizes. For example, As an aside, does there exist an up-to-date Mozilla debian package? The one I can currently apt-get is the milest

video card detection

2001-10-27 Thread Cary Cherng
These are my first attempt at installing Debian. Both my laptop and pc seem to have video cards that cannot be identified. Is this normal or am I missing something?

problems with tnt2

2001-10-27 Thread Cary Cherng
My diamond v770 tnt2 does not get detected. am i missing something