Anton Emmerfors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello,
>
> I have a problem:
>
> Since a few days something is sending out IGMP packages to 224.0.0.1
When my family added an iMac to our internal network I started getting
a few IGMP packets each time the iMac powers up; don't remember the
dest. ad
"James Sasitorn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> How do I use dselect to compile and build debian source files? Is there any
> way to upgrade like i would usually, but all packages compiled from source?
There's no automatic way to do that, but recent versions of apt-get
include a "source" option,
Bryan Scaringe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Could you tell me where you found this information? I spent
> a few hours looking for this stuff on the web and came up
> empty-handed. I'd like to read that entire section of the GNU
> docs.
What I quoted is from the 'gnus' package docs. gnus is an
Bryan Scaringe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'd like to create a new mailbox folder. My MUA, XFmail,
> supports both MH and MBOX style mailboxes. Which is
> better? Or rather, what are the pros and cons of each?
> I would like to start using Mohogany, once its a little
> more stable. Will my
Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 01:11:52AM -, Pollywog wrote:
> > dpkg-repack: Errors were encountered in processing.
> > dpkg-repack: The package may not unpack correctly.
> >
> > Is this a bug? It certainly is not a feature.
> I assume you are doing this
Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 14-Oct-99 David Coe wrote:
> > Any time you're going to upgrade a wine package (or any other package
> > that's either alpha status (like wine) or extremely critical to the
> > continued operation of your system), I re
Any time you're going to upgrade a wine package (or any other package
that's either alpha status (like wine) or extremely critical to the
continued operation of your system), I recommend you use dpkg-repack
first,, to save a copy of the currently-installed version.
Then, after you find out that th
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Removing mgetty-fax ...
> Stopping Fax Queue Daemon: dpkg: error processing mgetty-fax (--remove):
> subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
> Fax Queue Daemon not yet configured. Edit /etc/mgetty/faxrunqd.config to
> fix.
> Errors were encountered
Shao Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Now, when I add an additional interface, eth0:7 which isn't used
> before, the routing tables change to the following:
>
> 100.100.100.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0
> eth0:7
> 100.100.100.0 *
"Salman Ahmed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is a Debian package (stable or unstable) available for portsentry ? I
> haven't been able to find one as yet.
Someone is packaging it (for potato); check the debian-devel archive
if you want to know who that is (I don't remember); I've been using
port
Ron Farrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> wu-ftpd 2.5.0-4
> proftpd 1.2.0pre7-3
> ftpd 0.11-4
>
> Which one of them is better? I don't want something that is going to puke
> on large files. Something that has lots of features to play with would be
> nice. User and anonymous ftp access is required.
"David J. Kanter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is there any way to wipe the slate clean and get rid of this mystery cache
> list?
The mystery cache list is /var/lib/dpkg/status -- you don't want to
remove it, but you may want to edit it. Be careful, and keep a
backup.
John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [...] unless there is some way to
> make dselect & apt recognize that the required packages are installed,
> though not where debian expects them. [...]
Take a look at the debian package equivs -- it was made for that;
you must be careful with the depen
"Charles Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> After banging my head on this problem and becoming quite intimate with the
> different options of dpkg and apt-get, I discovered what the problem was. In
> order to disable apache, squid ,etc, one of my coworkers had added the line
> 'exit 1' at
Art Lemasters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Can't return outside a subroutine at
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/kernel-image-2.2.9.postrm line 111
Post that subroutine here, I'll bet someone can tell you
how to change it to make it work, especially since all
you want to do is remove the package.
Ron Farrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Okay, I sent in a bug report. I followed the instructions at
> bugs.debian.org, so I hope I did it right... The bug report number is
> 47105.
Looks good to me; but you should, technically, have included the
versions of the packages that xserver-svga depend
Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 10 Oct 1999, David Coe wrote:
> > See also bug #47054, which suggests a one-line additon to the...
> I got it to work by changing line 759 to the following...
Thanks!
Sergio Brandano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> ... I can not use the system in any way. How do I boot
> in single user mode from lilo?
boot: linux single
See also bug #47054, which suggests a one-line additon to the
kernel-package script that's probably a better fix to this problem
(though I haven't tested it).
thing like this:
//=== cut here =
kernel-image (2.2.13pre14-moe.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
* first 2.2 compile for moe
-- David Coe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun, 10 Oct 1999 13:27:35 +
\\=== cut here =
You may or may not have to put
Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I get n error with several programs under linux (mostly xemacs21
> recently) sayying that it can't convert string to type fontstruct. for
> example:
> Warning: Cannot convert string "-ttf-web hebrew
> monospace-medium-r-normal-regular-*-160-75-75-m-*-iso8
Ron Farrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> David Coe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> > Still getting that "X: undefined symbol: __syscall" ?
>
> Yep.
>
> >
> > Hmmm, let's see what packages you have on hold --- just a shot in the
> >
Ron Farrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I ran "apt-get update;apt-get -f dist-upgrade" last night. It only took 12
> hours at 26.4K... Anyway, I've attached an updated listing of installed
> x11 packages. Ohh, and it still doesn't work...
Still getting that "X: undefined symbol: __syscall" ?
Hm
Art Lemasters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> ...not sure, because I began running xdm for potato, but
> did you copy and config an .xinitrc to the user home directory
> X is running in? You might check the X docs on this.
Art,
Actually, xinit doesn't need an .xinitrc; it defaults to using
Ron Farrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> Okay, I logged in as root and typed 'xinit' and it went to vt7 and just
> sits there with a blank screen. Switching back to the vt that I started
> with, it has the error I previously posted about connection broken.
OK, that error,
X: error in loa
Ron Farrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> David Coe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
[...]
> > And, if you really feel like it, try manually performing each
> > piece of startx at the bash prompt ('which startx' will tell you
> > where startx is), and see if you
Ron Farrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> > in your user directory:
> > .xinitrc
> > .xserverrc
> > .xsession
>
> I could not find any of these files in my users home or /root!?! Is this
> part of the problem?
No! They could be contributing to the problem if they were there,
but thei
Ron Farrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've attached a file named "log_x11.txt" which is the output of the
> command you gave me (it was too long to try and type).
OK, I'm going to digest that for a while... to see if there are
any obvious problems (missing pieces, bad versions).
Meanwhile, pl
Ron Farrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> The only thing in '/root/.xsession-errors' is:
> X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
[...]
> # dpkg --print-avail xserver*
> Package 'xserver' is not available.
>
> WTF? Did I do something wrong in the command?
Yeah th
David Coe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> is there anything in .xsession.errors?
I meant:
is there anything in .xsession-errors?
Ron Farrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> After upgrading to potato X dies with this error:
>
> X: error in loading shared libraries: X: undefined symbol: __syscall
> X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
>
> Any ideas on how to fix this?
are you starting X with 'startx
Hwei Sheng TEOH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hmmm, only one combination seems to work though... installing procps first
> will cause dpkg to complain when bsdutils is being installed. For some reason,
> installing procps on top of bsdutils seem to simply overwrite /bin/kill with
> no warning. I'
"Stephen R. Gore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I found the problem. I happened to log in as a normal user on another vt,
> and had a stack of mail from cron complaining about /bin/sh not existing.
> Created the symlink to /bin/bash, and everything worked fine.
>
> How did this happen? (CCing th
"Stephen R. Gore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm trying to upgrade a fresh slink base-install to potato. I've upgraded
> apt (0.3.7slink0), edited sources.list, did apt-get update, and apt-get
> dist-upgrade. (I've done all this from scratch 3 times - it's repeatable).
>
> I get the following
Hwei Sheng TEOH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/bsdutils_1%3a2.9w-3.1_i386.deb
> (--unpack):
> trying to overwrite `/bin/kill', which is also in package procps
[...]
> However, I was just wondering, is it really the case that both bsdutils and
>
esl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Can someone please help me. I would like to install potato. I started
> with resc1440.bin found under potato subtree.
Last I kenw, you shouldn't use those unless you want to help develop
them; they're really not ready yet. Join the debian-boot mailing list
if y
Matthias Hertel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to configure Gnus to make reading debian-users somewhat
> newsgroup-like, ie. all messages that are read (as opposed to unread,
> ticked, or dormant) should be deleted from my disk after three days.
This is a common concern and sour
Ari Heitner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
This is an already-reported and recently-fixed bug in the new
(potato/unstable) "debconf" utility. Try installing the latest
debconf first and see if that makes the rest of it work.
The latest as of today is: debconf (0.1.53) unstable; the bug you
encounte
Marshal Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I really don't know where I should post this, but I guess here would
> be as good as any. The latest procps package is overlapping with
> bsdutils. Namely /bin/kill is overlapping.
Yes, the new bsdutils (not yet on the mirrors) has removed /bin/kill,
s
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 11:06:16PM +0200, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 09:46:22PM +0200, Bruno Boettcher wrote:
> >
> > Instead of traditionnal compilation, use 'make-kpkg', which will build
> > a package from your new kernel; install this packa
Yifang Dai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I hit this strange problem today, on my potato machine:
>
> /boot# dd if=bzImage-2.2.12 of=/dev/fd0
> dd: /dev/fd0: Read-only file system
do you have it mounted? try umount /dev/fd0 and see if
that lets it work.
Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "A. M. Varon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Could we have a potato mailing lists?
>
> That's part of what debian-devel *is* for. Why would we want another
> list for it?
Ben answered on _debian-devel_, but not on _debian-user_; I hope he
doesn't min
> "Adam" == Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Adam> I just did an upgrade. The menu pkg ate memory like no
Adam> tomorrow.
[...]
Adam> Cease and desist at all costs.
Adam> I have just been informed on irc that a fixed menu is in
Adam> incoming. So, it should all b
peter karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What do you think about this? I downloaded the Debian ispell sources and
> applied the patches, and they work like a charm here. Would be nice to have
> in the official package, if possible!
Thanks, I'll see what I can do -- this looks promising.
egm2@jps.net wrote:
>
> On 22 Jul, Carl Fink wrote:
> | > apt-get --install icewm
> | >
> | > should be all you need to do.
> |
> | No, actually it isn't, since that would install the version in
> | *stable*. That's what I have installed now. What I'd like to do is
> | instal
Take a look at the popularity-contest package:
DEBIAN PACKAGE POPULARITY CONTEST - Avery Pennarun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
=
This package contains a script, /usr/sbin/popularity-contest, which
generates a list of the packages installed on your system, in order of
most-r
"David H. Silber" wrote:
>
> > "David H. Silber" wrote:
> > > Has anyone out there successfully installed Keystone on a Debian system?
>
> On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 09:35:29PM +, David Coe wrote:
> > Yes, many versions of it. If you use apach
Yes, many versions of it. If you use apache, php3-mysql and php3 from
slink, it's pretty straightforward. If you run into problems, write.
"David H. Silber" wrote:
>
> Has anyone out there successfully installed Keystone on a Debian system?
>
Take a look at the vncserver and xvncviewer packages -- they tell you
where to get Windows versions of the same stuff. Very nice, you can run
vncserver on linux and vncviewer under windows and have access to a
complete linux/x desktop from windows, and you can run vncserver(or
something).exe on wi
Near the bottom of /etc/pcmcia/network.opts you'll see a couple of almost-empty
shell functions, start_fn() and stop_fn().
I believe they're installed originally as:
# Extra stuff to do after setting up the interface
start_fn () { return; }
# Extra stuff to do before shutting down th
I suggest you also look at mailman (packaged for slink and potato).
Colin Marquardt wrote:
>
> * Jens K Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Could someone please advise how to set up a mailing list like the
> > debian-user?
> > I assume all the software is available in debian, but which pack
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Home with the school computer for summer... I wanted to redo my drive layout
> due to very limited space, squeezing out OS/2 and Windows for Linux. I've
> lost my Linux drives, though. I am hoping someone could point out where I
> screwed up, and suggest a way to avo
Doug Thistlethwaite wrote:
>
> Dan Willard wrote:
>
> > You are correct that your ISP is clueless. Going by the numbers that you
> > sent, your home network and theirs are one network with the same network
> > number and broadcast number. And why your router calls out whenever a
> > broadcast
For me, the panel's error messages go to .xsession-errors; they
probably do for you too.
I have the same problem, and see this when I click 'Lock screen':
sh: xscreensaver-command: command not found
I guess that's why it recommends xscreensaver.
Personally I prefer xtrlock, so I just added a
Does gnome-terminal have a "secure keyboard" option like xterm? (I
can't find it, but haven't checked the source yet.) If not, anybody
know why not?
ing-policy: GPL
End
"Jens B. Jorgensen" wrote:
>
> Yes, if you have the exact partition geometries you can just add them back as
> long as
> you haven't created anything else on top of them since.
>
> David Coe wrote:
>
> > Help! I inadvertently delet
Help! I inadvertently deleted (using fdisk) two ext2 partitions that are
in an Extended primary partition (i.e. they were /dev/hda7 and /dev/hda8).
I've done nothing since then but a lot of reading.
Can I safely add them back using fdisk or sfdisk (or cfdisk or
something else? I know their phy
t connecting to an X client and want to connect to
> one, just to see if I can and judge for myself how much better X is the
> win95 :-)
>
> yours,
> frankie
>
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; you could try them both and make
your own decision (and, as I said, there may be others as well).
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rectory of both
> systems. Apart from the network numbers, the files were identical. So I am
> afraid the problem is more subtle (and I still don't have any clue).
>
> Bye,
>
> -- Benno
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when mouse goes over
> it, without a click?
>
> Thanx !
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et the system clock based on EST? I could add it to my
> ip-up script and the computer would never fall far behind.
>
> (I plan to upgrade in January, so this would be a temporary fix.)
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didn't have to worry about the 'start' and 'stop'
> stuff, I could prolly use the one I already have...
>
> Any suggestions greatly appreciated!
>
> damon
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&
nd what distributions they mirror. This isn't all that
> different from how the CDDB database system works... and I think that it
> really works slick.
>
> I'd be willing to code this... provided whoever maintains dselect would be
> open to the idea of including it.
>
&
but it's outputting to the
> screen instead of /dev/audio.
>
> I managed to get it working with xanim via:
>
> NewMailExecute "xanim +Ze +Av100 /home/glhenni/lib/sounds/ugotmail.au"
>
> but I don't like xanim popping up on my screen every time I get new
&g
in your case,
because at that time there isn't anything else
running.
Have you tried recreating the floppy? Maybe
you got a bad image. If that doesn't help,
I'm afraid your problem is beyond my knowledge;
but let us know what happens, hopefully someone
here will have a good id
egs of the hard drive
> are used as an MSDOS partition. The installation goes through detecting items
> on the system and then says the following and freezes:
>
> RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
>
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blem. I just don't know how to avoid
> it. Hope someone can figure it our for me. Thanks very much for
> your kind help.
>
> On Thu, Dec 03, 1998 at 10:31:47PM +, David Coe wrote:
> > H, please post the exact command and the
> > messages you get from dpkg -- s
H, please post the exact command and the
messages you get from dpkg -- someone here will
be able to figure it out if I can't.
Cheng Tang wrote:
>
> I tried this. But it still doesn't work. :(
>
> -cheng
>
> On Thu, Dec 03, 1998 at 10:14:51PM +, David Coe wro
help me
> out? Thanks a lot.
>
> -cheng
>
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Joe Emenaker wrote:
>
> In fact, it has just occurred to me that we could have named them "alpha",
> "beta", and "release" instead of "unstable", "frozen", and "stable".
>
Please don't. "Alpha" (unfortunat
You can do what you suggest.
When you register a domain name (xyz.org), you
just tell the InterNic (or whomever) the primary
and secondary name servers (provided by your
ISP, usually) for names in that domain. The
name servers answer the specific host address
for each such host (you have to tell
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