Re: Suspend on old MacBook with fresh Bullseye installation

2021-05-11 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Stefan, > > I also used hibernate as well as the LXDE controls or closing the lid - > > the result is always the same: > > > > 1. Black screen > > 2. Network disabled (ssh session freezes, no ping from other host) > > 3. Fan keeps on moving silently > > 4. Can't wake up to normal oper

Suspend on old MacBook with fresh Bullseye installation

2021-05-11 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I've got some MacBook from 2008 to install Debian on it and hand it over to some user who needs a decent office machine. I've installed Bullseye RC1 which worked nicely (except that I had to manually add WLAN driver broadcom-sta-dkms later). The only real flaw is that neither suspend nor hib

Yet another list statistics for debian-user

2009-01-17 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, as you can read in my lightning talk at DebConf http://people.debian.org/~tille/talks/200808_lightning/ I did some investigation on who is frequently posting on our mailing lists. I now created graphs until end of last year and write a short summary for those lists I regard worth a comme

Re: Bug#465608: "education" has made my debian mentally challenged

2008-02-20 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Tyler MacDonald wrote: No such luck :-( A (hopefully final) fix for the problem was tested yesterday by Fabrice Lorrain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> successfully. The packages versioned 0.826 just hit incoming and should be propagated to unstable soon. Sorry for the inconvience a

Re: [RFC] Suggestion for package ordering

1999-12-29 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote: > I dont think it would. This would only make stats of how often packages > are upgraded. If some package changes 5x more often than other it will > reach much better downloads-count, althru isnt used more often Hmmm, you are right. I was ignoring t

Re: [RFC] Suggestion for package ordering

1999-12-29 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, 25 Dec 1999, Nick Moffitt wrote: > Quoting Martijn van Oosterhout: > > First, there is a package popularity contest package. This needs to > > be improved to the point where normal people can install it. > > I don't get it. apt-get install popularity-contest and then > asnwering "

Wie Reply-To Tag in E-Mail einfuegen

1999-08-19 Thread Andreas Tille
Hallo, ich benutze Pine als Mail-Client und frage mich, wie ich ihm beibringen kann, daß er ein "Reply-To"-Tag einfügt. Da sich meine Mailadresse kürzlich geändert hat, möchte ich bei Mails, die ich noch von der alten Adresse schicke, dieses einfügen. Viele Grüße Andreas.

FreeCiv problem

1999-08-05 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, Now after the GTK+ client for FreeCiv 1.8.1 is available I managed to start the civclient successfully. The xaw client did only core dumps on my box at home. After reading quite a lot of documentation a fairly managed the first steps. The only (and I think very basic thing) I didn't foun

Re: bash manual/info lacks examples - addendum

1999-08-05 Thread Andreas Tille
Thank you very much Mirek. Yes, I wanted to express, that the use of documentation is limited if there are no examples in it. In the case of `let` it was only my personal problem (which I would be able to solve by searching for my own old example at home ... or by asking you over the list :) ). I

Re: bash manual/info lacks examples

1999-08-05 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Mirek Kwasniak wrote: > 1) For builtins bash has also help: > >$ help let | less > > 2) Usage of man (my pager is `less') > > > 3) Usage of info Please don't understand me wrong. I *found* the text where the description of let is documented. But what do I have to typ

bash manual/info lacks examples

1999-08-05 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, every time I read the bash manual to get help I'm missing examples for the basic usage of a builtin. For instance I managed to write a simple shell script with a loop which increased a variable i = 0; while [ $i -lt $MAX ] ; do echo $i let ... done But I havn't my small loop script h

Intellimouse

1999-08-03 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, sorry for posting to this list, but I have to know quickly, if it is possible to use the wheel of the MS-Intellimouse as third button to get the selections of gpm and X. Kind regards Andreas.

Re: UNEXPECTED_DATA_AFTER_ADDRESS@.SYNTAX-ERROR

1999-08-03 Thread Andreas Tille
On 3 Aug 1999, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > * "Andreas" == Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Andreas> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Check the original mail. Does it have a sparce Comma after the last > address in Cc? I also remember (long time I used pin

UNEXPECTED_DATA_AFTER_ADDRESS@.SYNTAX-ERROR

1999-08-03 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, I use pine and fetchmail both from the latest potato. If I want to Reply to all recipients? I get at first the addres from the original sender, and as first CC the list. But the But the next (last) entry in the CC-list is [EMAIL PROTECTED] What can I do to avoid this problem? Kind reg

Re: Matrox Millenium G200LE

1999-08-03 Thread Andreas Tille
On 3 Aug 1999, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > Andreas> is the Matrox Millenium G200LE supported by the current > Andreas> 1) XF86 drivers > Andreas> 2) SvgaTextmode > Andreas> 3) SvgaLib > > I have a G200 (don't know what the LE is suppose to be). So for the > above items: LE means somewhat "light"

Apt faster with FTP or HTTP?

1999-08-02 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, I'm sitting behind a quite slow modem. Coudl I gain a little more speed with http or ftp addresses if I have the choice. Kind regards Andreas.

Matrox Millenium G200LE

1999-08-02 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, is the Matrox Millenium G200LE supported by the current 1) XF86 drivers 2) SvgaTextmode 3) SvgaLib My company has brought some new boxes and I wonder if I should take one from the new boxes in favour of my good working one (with Matrox Millenium II). Kind regards Andreas.

How to access different trays of a printer

1999-08-02 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, I'm using magicfilter from potato. The target printer is a compaq Pagemarq 20. This printer has three different trays (loaded with two different kinds of A4 paper and the third with A3. There is no special driver contained in magicfilter (ghostscript). So I'm using hplj4m as postscript

smbfs vis ncpfs

1999-07-23 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, because I couldn't solve my ncpfs-problem to let users mount their Novell-drives at request themselves via an /etc/fstab-entry I wonder if this is possible with smbfs. Did I understand it right that it is possible with smbfs to mount Novell and Win drives. I didn't used Samba yet and I'm

Re: Proxy server with Apache

1999-07-22 Thread Andreas Tille
On 22 Jul 1999, Ramin Motakef wrote: > > % squidclient http://www.netscape.com/ > test > > > You have to set permissions in /etc/squid.conf. Look for something > like: > http_access allow "some acl" > To get started: "http_access allow all" as last entry. OK, this test seems to work so far

Re: FreeCiv

1999-07-22 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, I did further investigations, why freeciv diesn't work on my machine at home. I traced down the source and found the exact position in the code, where the problem occures. I appended a little patch which includes two "printf"-lines into xmain.c of FreeCiv-1.7.2. It is exactly the same pr

Re: Proxy server with Apache

1999-07-22 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Shao Zhang wrote: > apache is a really a web server. AFAIK, it has very limited features to > be a proxy server. > If you are using debian, make sure the module is installed. > > For a better proxy server, I suggest you to try out squid. There is a > debia

Re: ncpfs and /etc/fstab

1999-07-22 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Alex V. Toropov wrote: > >I played around something with ncpfs. I managed to get > >an entry in /etc/fstab so that root is able to mount a > >netware drive using mount. > > Can You explain what kind of entry You've use ? SERVER/N_user /home/L_user/novell ncp defaults,mode=

Re: 3Com 509B Ethernet card working in Windows but not in Linux

1999-07-22 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Evan Van Dyke wrote: > 1) insmoded the 3c509.o module -OR- compiled it hard into the kernel? > 2) if so, what does it say when the module is loaded/on boot up? I had used several network adapters before. Someone required to be compiled hard into the kernel and someone as m

Proxy server with Apache

1999-07-20 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, I want to set up my Apache seerver as Proxy host. I'm really unexperienced in this topic and at first I want to describe my environment: There are different departments in our institute. The main department has a fast internet connection and uses a firewall and a proxy server. I work in a

ncpfs and /etc/fstab

1999-07-20 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, I played around something with ncpfs. I managed to get an entry in /etc/fstab so that root is able to mount a netware drive using mount. Now I have some questions: 1) If I want to enable a user to mount a device I usually add the option "user" to the mount flag. Unfortunately this

Re: E2fs failures

1999-07-20 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999 egm2@jps.net wrote: > Which kernel version are you using. I understand that there has been a > file corruption problem in some of the newer kernel versions. In the last test I was using 2.2.3 but the first problems occured while using 2.0.34. Kind regards Andreas.

E2fs failures

1999-07-19 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, recently I detected problems with 2GB harddisk in an old 486 machine. The disk worked for two years very well. I tried several checks under DOS including a check routine from Quantum (it's a Quantum Bigfoot disk) and Calibrat (from Norton Utilities). No DOS check program detected any erro

Re: FreeCiv

1999-07-19 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 16 Jul 1999 12:52:31 +0200, Nils Rennebarth wrote: > > I tried several times to get freeciv working but failed each time > > because civclient stops with SIGSEGV. > Upgrade your xpm library and file a bug report against civclient to make > it > need xpm >= 3.4j ~> dpkg --status xpm4g Packag

FreeCiv

1999-07-16 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, I tried several times to get freeciv working but failed each time because civclient stops with SIGSEGV. Are there any known problems? I successfully started civserver and it seems to do reasonable things. But regardingless in which state the server is civclient breaks. If it is helpful

Re: [RfS] Request for Submissions: Upcoming Debian Logo

1999-02-19 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Steve Greenland wrote: > Question: does anybody else think that the "debian" with the line back > to the dot in the 'i' that Rob Malda did for Slashdot is best logo yet > done? Not me and so I wouldn't answer this posting, but please check your mail agent. I've got your mail

Re: [RfS] Request for Submissions: Upcoming Debian Logo

1999-02-19 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Oliver Elphick wrote: > No, no! Think of Mars. Everybody immediately recognises that word, in > that colour and typestyle: they think of chocolate -- not of a planet, a > Roman god or a piece of music. Written in ordinary type, it could be > any of the four, or maybe someth

Re: Debian Logo *Idea* Contest! (Delay for painting contest required)

1999-02-18 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Chris Waters wrote: > Actually, I tried to start with that. Look in the debian-devel archives > for a thread entitled "Mascot for Debian" (or something like that). I'm really happy to know, that my image of the Debian project is right and there are everytime people who think

Re: Debian Logo *Idea* Contest! (Delay for painting contest required)

1999-02-18 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, to support my idea of "Orca for Debian" I would like to point to some very nice pictures which can be found under http://members.aol.com/stejacorca/index.html (Disappointer: I do not have anything in common with the author but like this site since I was searching for "real" informatio

Re: [RfS] Request for Submissions: Upcoming Debian Logo

1999-02-18 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Chris Waters wrote: > Um, IBM's logo is just letters. Sun's logo is, well, just letters, > technically. I wouldn't rule out a logo based on letters, but it should > *be* a logo, which most of the entries in the GIMP contest aren't. The >>should *be* a logo<< question in my o

Debian Logo *Idea* Contest! (Delay for painting contest required)

1999-02-18 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello Debian deveolopers and friends, this day is the first I started thinking about the importance of a Debian logo. Someone will say it is to late for a maintainer who maintaines seven packages, but I concentraited my brain on other topics. Some alarming postings lead me to the right path now.

Re: [RfS] Request for Submissions: Upcoming Debian Logo

1999-02-18 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Martin Schulze wrote: > I'd like *everybody* think about a possible logo. Please notice the > following simple rules: > > . The logo must NOT be linux-centric. Thus a penguin in any form is >inacceptable. We have Debian GNU/Hurd and people are working on >someth

Re: Installation with BT-930

1997-09-29 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Jeff Noxon wrote: > > The last words were: > > > > Started kswapd v 1.4.2.2 > > FDC 0 is a post-1991 > > md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 > > > > It seems that after this the SCSI controller is to be initialized. > > I don't follow you here. The kernel actuall

Re: Installation with BT-930

1997-09-29 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 28 Sep 1997, Egon Schmid wrote: > Can you boot from CD-ROM? A WD-7000 isn't on your hardware list. Which > debian-version is it? Yes, as I said I insert the CD-ROM and the installation programm comes up without any problem -- so the controller works! No a WD-7000 isn't on my list becaus

Installation with BT-930

1997-09-28 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, first my configuration K6-200, BT-930, ASUS TX97-XE, Matrox-Millenium, IBM SCSI-DCAS 34330, Plextor SCSI-CDROM, IOMEGA-ZIP SCSI intern, 64MB SDRAM all new assembled. I tried to start with the Debian CD (German manufacturer J.F. Lehmanns) I seted up the Buslogic BIOS to boot from CD: it

Re: The Gimp?

1997-07-28 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Remco van de Meent wrote: > : I did so but without LinuxThreads installed. I hadn't any trouble so far. > > Maybe you installed pthreads instead? No. I only found oldmitpthreads but it is only to support gnats and I havn't installed both. > LinuxThreads provides an almost k

Re: The Gimp?

1997-07-28 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, 26 Jul 1997, Remco van de Meent wrote: > Another option is to get the .tar.gz file from the source distribution and > compile Gimp your self. I did, using just libc5 (with LinuxThreads > installed). I did so but without LinuxThreads installed. I hadn't any trouble so far. It is possible th

Re: FIC PA2011 Board (Was: Debian for PPC Macs)

1997-07-18 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote: > it looks like waiting for the hot 603 is worth it--if you can wait. What kind of board is this and how long I have to wait? Andreas. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EM

FIC PA2011 Board (Was: Debian for PPC Macs)

1997-07-17 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote: > I'm leaving in a few days for a workshop, so I'll buy second week of > august. If the "Hot 603" motherboard is out, and reasonably priced, What about this motherboard? I read a lot about board but never heard about it. > i'll try for one of those with

Re: Debian for PPC Macs

1997-07-16 Thread Andreas Tille
> The new PowerPC chips (the next generation, called "G3" or 740/750 or > Arthur or Mach V...) are, well, FAST. I haven't run any linux > benchmarks on them, but I intend to once the "Money-making OS" is > running on them officially. > > So, basically, the decision is similar to decing between Al

Debian for PPC Macs

1997-07-16 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, I want to buy a new box and wonder about some alternatives to the Intel (compatible ... I think of K6) architecture. I've got the following information from Johannes Ramm-Ericson: > I just came across the following information: > * > > This ann

ftape question

1997-07-03 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, I have a Iomega 250 floppy tape drive. I compiled ftape into the Kernel (2.0.30). But what to do to get a device /dev/ftape ??? According to the CDROM-HOWTO I have to create this entry via mknod. But what are the correct parameters. I didn't find any information neither in the HOWTO

Updatedb with Cron Daemon

1997-06-14 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, this is my /etc/updatedb.conf : # This file sets environment variables which are used by updatedb # filesystems which are pruned from updatedb database PRUNEFS="afs proc" export PRUNEFS # paths which are pruned from updatedb database PRUNEPATHS="/tmp /usr/tmp /var/tmp /m /home/e2od5/[NOQ]

Re: Re: InfoMagic's new LDR

1997-05-14 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 13 May 1997, Portuesi Simone wrote: > I'd like just to add one thing to it, it'll be confortable (at least for > me) that the mirroring can be done from another computer. I'll explain > better: you che the Packages file on a PC connected to internet, bring > it to a PC not connected to the

Re: Backspace in rxvt

1997-05-09 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 7 May 1997, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > > "Jens" == Jens B Jorgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Jens> If typing Backspace on the shell command line prints "^H" > Jens> rather than doing a backspace, type the command "stty erase > Jens> ^h" (make sure you type "^" and "h

Problem with svgalib

1997-05-07 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, I installed the tmview_96.05-1.deb package which I got from bo/binary/tex some days ago. At home it works fine at home but in the university it produces only a very strange vertical pattern. There aren't any error messages. The demos of svgalib work well. Does anybody have a clue Andrea

Backspace in rxvt

1997-05-07 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, I use rxvt instead of xterm because I read it is smaller and is able to do all things I want it to do. Additionally it has colors by default (nice to have a colored mc :-)). But what to do to make work as BackSpace and work as Delete??? In xterm this works as I want it to work, so the ge

Re: Help installing dosemu

1997-05-06 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 5 May 1997, Rick Jones wrote: > Have you looked in the /etc/dosemu directory? > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 May 1 15:13 conf -> > ../../usr/lib/dosemu/config.dist > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root4 Apr 16 17:32 users I had to `dpkg --purge dosemu' before installin

Re: Help installing dosemu

1997-05-05 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 5 May 1997, Rick Jones wrote: > I have 0.66.2-1 from frozen and it has the config files. dpkg -c dosemu_0.66.2-1.deb | grep etc drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 Apr 16 23:32 1997 etc/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 Apr 16 23:32 1997 etc/dosemu/ -rw-r--r-- root/root 4 Apr 16 23:32 199

Re: Help installing dosemu

1997-05-05 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 4 May 1997, Rick Jones wrote: > FreeDOS is the fdos package. It's in dselect under fdos. Incase you > aren't aware of it the package list in dselect is searchable (using a / > character). If I'm right in dosemu_64.0.deb was in /etc/dosemu a file fdos.conf which contained useful initialis

Error Message of kerneld?

1997-04-30 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, when starting my Debian box I get the following error message: Loadin modules /etc/init.d/kerneld: cd: /proc/sys: No such file or directory It is the same for different kernel versions (2.0.29 from HD or 2.0.25 from an old floppy). What consequences could happen? I get some warnings abo

Re: NFS and debian packaging system

1997-04-18 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, Portuesi Simone wrote: > The problem is that I would like to reduce workarounds as much as > possible as I'me not the only one to administrate it. Probably the best > solution is to un-mount the shared partitions when removing packages, > but: What parts do you want to share??

Re: Emacs keys differences between console and X

1997-04-18 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, David Pfitzner wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, Andreas Tille wrote: > > I had a problem like this, and I think the main thing I had to do > to get the behaviour I wanted was to uncomment "XkbDisable" > in my /etc/X11/XF86Config. > (I had g

Re: Do teTeX packages work well?

1997-04-17 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > Has anyone else tried NTeX at all? I have that installed here; I > chose it because it comes with more documentation than teTeX did. The > installer is Debian compatible; it even provides the right packages > for things that depend on them. > >

Re: Netscape/Lynx long startup time - why?

1997-04-17 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Geoff R Deasey wrote: > If you type ping -c 5 www.microsoft.com > how long does it take before you see the first > line ? > > This almost sounds like a DNS timeout. Here is the output: bridge:~ ! ping -c 5 www.microsoft.com PING www.microsoft.com (207.68.137.59): 56 data

Re: Emacs keys differences between console and X

1997-04-17 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Rick wrote: > Activating meta in X is in the XF86Config file. Here is an extract from my /etc/X11/XF86config: # To set the LeftAlt to Meta, RightAlt key to ModeShift, # RightCtl key to Compose, and ScrollLock key to ModeLock: LeftAlt Meta # this line was comm

Re: Do teTeX packages work well?

1997-04-17 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, Mark Phillips wrote: > I notice there are several teTeX packages available. Have many people > tried them? Are there any problems with the packages or are they > stable enough for me to install them and be confident things are > going to work properly? While installing it is

Emacs keys differences between console and X

1997-04-16 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, I use Emacs at the console (I have an 486/33 :-() and under X. I've done some key bindings in my .emacs (more detailed in an *.el file called from .emacs but this is not the point): (global-set-key [C-left] 'backward-word) (global-set-key [C-right] 'forward-word) (global-set-key

A question about TmView (dvisvga)

1997-04-16 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, I installed the tmview_96.05-1.deb package which I got from bo/binary/tex some days ago (it disapeared from there now, like some other TeXrelated packages??). At home it works fine at home (360 DPI fonts) but in the university it produces only a very strange vertical pattern. Behind t

Re: NFS and debian packaging system

1997-04-16 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Portuesi Simone wrote: > I've to install debian linux in 4 PCs here at the university (now they > have an old slackware). My idea was to have one of them to export users > and their directories plus a directory with apps not in the debian > distribution (a sort of non-local).

Re: Netscape/Lynx long startup time - why?

1997-04-16 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 14 Apr 1997, Brian C. White wrote: > > Why does it take so long for Netscape or Lynx to start? > > It takes forever because they both read the entire file and run every > single test condition they encounter. > > The latest mime-support (2.12) will work much better with lynx since > it

Install base system from frozen (bo)

1997-04-11 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, I tried to install the install disks from frozen/disks-i368/1997-03-16. I made this disks as described in the docs by dd. After mounting several local disks via the install program I selected the entry to install base system. I have chosen /dev/fd0 as install medium (NICE TO HAVE THE NEW

By default fvwm2 starts xterm -- why?

1997-04-03 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I wonder why fvwm2 starts a xterm when starting. I didn't found any call of xterm while browsing through the startup files in /etc/X11/fvwm2. What should I do if I want to avoid this or what should I do to if I prefer rxvt with a geometry different from the standard size? Thanks for advise

Unknown host (more)

1997-04-02 Thread Andreas Tille
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1997-04-02 Thread Andreas Tille
.2 1996-Jul-4 #2); Wed, 2 Apr 1997 09:41:07 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 09:41:07 +0200 (CEST) From: e2od5 (Andreas Tille) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: April Thanks for advise Andreas

Can't find unstable/binary/base/modutils_*.deb

1997-03-25 Thread Andreas Tille
There is no modutils_??.deb in /bo/binary-i386/base but modules_2.1.23-1.deb depends on it. Is my ftp server wrong or isn't this file existing? Andreas

Error while installing unstable/binary/base/at_3.0.deb

1997-03-25 Thread Andreas Tille
While doing dpkg -i at_3.0.deb I got the following errormessage. The at_2.9b??.deb in stable works. (Reading database ... 21163 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace at 3.0 (using at_3.0.deb) ... Unpacking replacement at ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/at.postrm: spool}: com

Re: A lot of errors while installing (dselecting) bo

1997-03-24 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, 22 Mar 1997, Rick wrote: > The files are dependant on order. To update properly you should put what > are expected to be the most recent files at the end of the list. > Otherwise you may not be shown newer files that exist in other tree's. > > [stable contrib non-free Debian1.2-up

Additional remarks to: A lot of errors while installing (dselecting) bo

1997-03-19 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 18 Mar 1997, I wrote: > Does anybody think that it is a problem of the unstable tree. But if this > would be the case anybody would have reported such serious errors before. I tried to verify the problem today by installing stable. --- It was the same ... :-(((. > Please help. I tried ve

A lot of errors while installing (dselecting) bo

1997-03-18 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I'm the one who frequently asks questions about installing :-(. I had have many trouble while installing Debian on a NFS-Server (see many many different postings in the past). Now I solved one problem and got two further problems :-(. For the guys who helped me solving my old problem: I moun

Re: dselect error (more)

1997-03-07 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Bob Clark wrote: > Two things. If I remember correctly (from your previuos posts) you have > your packages on an nfs-mounted partition; and a troublesome one on an > HP machine at that. There could be many things not related to deselect > or Linux that may be affecting your sy

Re: Non-existing packages in dselect

1997-03-07 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Heikki Vatiainen wrote: > Yes sir, that's it. I did associate the starnge behaviour with dselect even > though it's dpkg-ftp working under the hood. I forgot to check the bugs this > time but I'm not sure if I would have found it under dpkg-ftp. > > Thanks for clearing this

Re: dselect error (more)

1997-03-07 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Bob Clark wrote: > It is "leaving" packages that were *not* installed. Things like pakages > that were present before this instance of deselect. This is what I read on my screen, but to leave a package which wasn't installed should take 5-10 seconds?? That's the time it takes

Re: dselect error (more)

1997-03-06 Thread Andreas Tille
Under the subject: dselect error I posted some odd things. Now a further question: After the emergency stop caused by errors dselect asks, if I want to delete the installed stuff. I said yes and now I get messages of the type: leaving: stable/.../package.deb for each package. But it takes a terr

Re: dselect error (Was: Access to NFS-Server)

1997-03-06 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Ronald van Loon wrote: > Try adding the -P option to the df command in > /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/install: > > line 230: > > my $avsp = `df -P -k $::dldir| awk '/\\// { print \$4}'`; > > line 236: > > $avsp = `df -P -k $::dldir| awk '/\\// { print \$4}'`; This helps to *ge

dselect error (Was: Access to NFS-Server)

1997-03-06 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi once more after some conversation with Jeff Gunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from which I've got some new ideas I post some parts of this discussion to the list and add some new aspects of my problem. (The new aspects are the reason why not posting only to Jeff.) JG>Sounds like dselect is df-ing

Re: Access to NFS-server

1997-03-05 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Jeff Gunter wrote: > On Mar 5, 6:02am, Bob Clark wrote: > > > > cd > > rsh my.pc "cd /usr; tar cf - ." | tar xf - > > This may work to copy the /usr-tree after installing the base disks. But it won't solve the upcoming problem (see below). > > root=hostname[:hostname]..

Access to NFS-server

1997-03-05 Thread Andreas Tille
Hallo, because of a lack of diskspace I want to use another computer (HP-Workstation) as NFS-server. So I installed the base disks of debian and wanted to move /usr to the NFS server by tar -cf usr.tar /usr and tar -xf usr.tar in the approriate directory of the server mounted via NFS. B

Re: A NFS problem

1997-03-03 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, Martin Stromberg wrote: > Perhaps the server only can export the directories in the export file; > try mounting with "mount -t nfs 141.48.54.2:/usr/local/linux /mnt". > I really don't know a lot about nfs mounting, but trying won't hurt. I forgot to mention that I also tried t

Re: The Future of Debian's TeX system: tetex

1997-02-26 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Christian Schwarz wrote: > The new tetex packages will be included in Debian 1.3. There are now part > of the unstable distribution and will replace the old packages in about a > week. If you want to help you could download these new packages and test > them. In my opinion that

Re: debian-newbie list

1997-02-21 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 21 Feb 1997, Susan G. Kleinmann wrote: > Of course, we could break it up further. For example, we could have > --an FAQ on installation and booting, and > --an FAQ on using the Debian archives. > --an FAQ on other Debian utilities or Debian practices. > --an FAQ on printing and text u

Any help appreciated

1997-02-21 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, this is my 4-th try to solve my problem. If somebody is interested in my concrete problem I can post my further letters under the subjects "Installation failure", "Once more: Installation failure" and "Instalation problems, anyway" with private mail. I don't want to bother the readers of

Once more: Installation failure

1997-01-08 Thread Andreas Tille
Hallo, I posted this message last week. Because I didn't got any answer I try to give more details in the end of my posting. I have installed Debian 1.2 successfully at home :-). Now I wanted to install it also at the university. I tried to do this by the "ftp"-method but failed. The problem see

Installation failure

1997-01-02 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, I have installed Debian 1.2 successfully at home :-). Now I wanted to install it also at the university. I tried to do this by the "ftp"-method but failed. The problem seemed to be the following: I have a partition mounted on /var of about 80MB. To download the packages temporaryly they w