[SOLVED] (argh) "Could not perform immediate configuration"

2011-12-10 Thread Jeff Gordon
On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 07:11:40PM -0500, Jeff Gordon wrote: > Hi, Folks -- > > I decided to go ahead and try upgrading to Wheezy on this laptop (Acer Aspire > 5250, gift for my sister) to see if any of the three previously mentioned > problems might clear. Now I'm stuck at "Could not perform imm

Re: (argh) "Could not perform immediate configuration"

2011-12-08 Thread Jeff Gordon
Hi, Stephen -- Thanks. :-) Half those hits appear to be my own message -- sometimes I think Google must be watching over our shoulders. :-) Others don't seem to have a solution, but it looks like this is a prematurely closed Bug, known about back in October -- #645713. -- Jeff -- On Wed, Dec

Re: (argh) "Could not perform immediate configuration"

2011-12-07 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 07:11:40PM -0500, Jeff Gordon wrote: > Hi, Folks -- > > I decided to go ahead and try upgrading to Wheezy on this laptop (Acer Aspire > 5250, gift for my sister) to see if any of the three previously mentioned > problems might clear. Now I'm stuck at "Could not perform imm

(argh) "Could not perform immediate configuration"

2011-12-07 Thread Jeff Gordon
Hi, Folks -- I decided to go ahead and try upgrading to Wheezy on this laptop (Acer Aspire 5250, gift for my sister) to see if any of the three previously mentioned problems might clear. Now I'm stuck at "Could not perform immediate configuation on 'libgstreamer0.10-0'." I've gone through the ma

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-11-19 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> Am 2006-11-10 10:35:58, schrieb Matus UHLAR - fantomas: > > and if this helps, you should probably install udev (and hotplug) to have > > such things done automatically whenever you try to access floppy disk. On 19.11.06 03:47, Michelle Konzack wrote: > While you are talking about... > > HOW do

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-11-19 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-11-10 10:35:58, schrieb Matus UHLAR - fantomas: > and if this helps, you should probably install udev (and hotplug) to have > such things done automatically whenever you try to access floppy disk. While you are talking about... HOW do you prevent discover, hotplug and udev to load 107 Mod

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-11-10 Thread Kent West
Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2006-10-28 17:47:55, schrieb Kent West: > > >> I have just 30 minutes ago tried to use three 3.5" floppies on two >> different machines, and can't get anywhere with them. I decided to put >> it on the back burner and read my email when I came across your post. >> >>

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-11-10 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> Am 2006-10-28 17:47:55, schrieb Kent West: > > I have just 30 minutes ago tried to use three 3.5" floppies on two > > different machines, and can't get anywhere with them. I decided to put > > it on the back burner and read my email when I came across your post. > > > > I've tried cfdisk and fdi

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-11-09 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-10-28 17:47:55, schrieb Kent West: > I have just 30 minutes ago tried to use three 3.5" floppies on two > different machines, and can't get anywhere with them. I decided to put > it on the back burner and read my email when I came across your post. > > I've tried cfdisk and fdisk to look

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-11-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 07:34:14AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Also, everything I was able to find via Google and a specific > instruction on this list mentioned using "fdformat -n ...fd0u1440" or > "...fd0H1440". Whereas the man page for fdformat does indeed mention > using setfdprm, it says it in t

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-11-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
Kent West wrote: > That's nuts! I made this change also, and now superformat worked without > complaining, and the one floppy I've tried (which previously I could not > format to save my life) seems to be working fine. Even though I was > telling some of the utilities I was trying to use what file

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-11-02 Thread Mark Grieveson
Hi Doug. I just noticed your answer in the Debian forum archives to my question about floppies on the mailing list (I must have missed the response in email). Anyway, thanks, that's helpful. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-11-01 Thread Hugh Lawson
Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This thread got me to wondering about my own floppies, which I have > not checked in some time. I tried to access several floppies, all > unsuccessfully. I OTOH just mounted successfully some floppies that were made about fifteen years ago. -- Hugh La

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-11-01 Thread Mike McCarty
Zbigniew Wiech wrote: " * * * but instead are given the following lecture: "mount: i could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified". The answer, of course, is, "it's a floppy, you stupid machine. "Floppy" is not the name of a file system, and more than one file system ha

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-31 Thread Kent West
Mark Grieveson wrote: >> >> Thanks, that seems to help. Perhaps having it on "auto" sets up a > >> Catch-22, wherein a floppy that needs to be formatted cannot be due >> to > the requirement of the program having to determine the file >> system first > (which requires that it be formatted). Or ma

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-31 Thread Mark Grieveson
Thanks, that seems to help. Perhaps having it on "auto" sets up a > Catch-22, wherein a floppy that needs to be formatted cannot be due to > the requirement of the program having to determine the file system first > (which requires that it be formatted). Or maybe not. Anyway, I've had > be

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-31 Thread hendrik
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 07:43:24PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 10/31/06 19:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 04:01:54PM -0500, Mark Grieveson wrote: > [snip] > > You shouldn't have to mount a floppy if you're going to fo

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-31 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/31/06 19:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 04:01:54PM -0500, Mark Grieveson wrote: [snip] > You shouldn't have to mount a floppy if you're going to format it. In fact, you *can't* mkfs a mounted partition, can you? - -- Ron

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-31 Thread hendrik
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 04:01:54PM -0500, Mark Grieveson wrote: > >* * * but instead are given the following lecture: "mount: i could > >not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified". The > >answer, of course, is, > >"it's a floppy, you stupid machine. > >Mark > >" > > > >Change f

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-31 Thread Marc Shapiro
Mark Grieveson wrote: * * * but instead are given the following lecture: "mount: i could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified". The answer, of course, is, "it's a floppy, you stupid machine. Mark " Change file type of "/dev/fd0" line in /etc/fstab from "auto" to "vfat"

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-31 Thread Marc Shapiro
Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: But the best advice is just avoid floppy disks if you possibly can. Fry's has a 1 GB USB flash drive for US$15 after the rebate. That's 700 floppies' worth and it fits on your keyring. They had a 128 MB drive for three bucks. Floppies are obsolete. I saw one Fry's

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-31 Thread Mark Grieveson
* * * but instead are given the following lecture: "mount: i could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified". The answer, of course, is, "it's a floppy, you stupid machine. Mark " Change file type of "/dev/fd0" line in /etc/fstab from "auto" to "vfat" I had the same problem

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-31 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/31/06 01:31, Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: > [This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mark Grieveson wrote: [snip] > But the best advice is just avoid floppy disks if you > possibly can. Fry's has a

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-31 Thread Zbigniew Wiech
" * * *  but instead are given the following lecture:  "mount: i could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified".  The answer, of course, is, "it's a floppy, you stupid machine. Mark " Change file type of "/dev/fd0" line in /etc/fstab from "auto" to "vfat" I had the same problem

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-31 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 30.10.06 11:45, Mark Grieveson wrote: > I've been following this thread with interest, since I was the one who > initially expressed his exasperation over Linux coughing up floppies > like so much sour milk. > > Anyway, I finally did find a floppy that was actually mounted by my > system (of

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-30 Thread Cameron L. Spitzer
[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mark Grieveson wrote: >> I did try to use superformat. It seemed to do the low level format >> OK, but then it got to running mformat and the drive just made a whole >> lot of noise and eventually gave me t

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-30 Thread Mark Grieveson
I did try to use superformat. It seemed to do the low level format OK, but then it got to running mformat and the drive just made a whole lot of noise and eventually gave me the following error: This is exactly what happens with me as well. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-30 Thread Marc Shapiro
Marc Wilson wrote: On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 07:08:53PM -0600, Kent West wrote: sudo fdformat -n /dev/.static/dev/fd0u1440 I have to wonder how you came up with that, vs reading the man page for fdformat(8). That tells you to use setfdprm(8) to set the parameters of the generic device

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-30 Thread Mark Grieveson
I've been following this thread with interest, since I was the one who initially expressed his exasperation over Linux coughing up floppies like so much sour milk. Anyway, I finally did find a floppy that was actually mounted by my system (of course, later, my computer rejected it as not worth

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-30 Thread Kent West
Marc Wilson wrote: > Further, why wouldn't you just use superformat(1)? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/westk> sudo superformat /dev/fd0 hd Password: Measuring drive 0's raw capacity In order to avoid this time consuming measurement in the future, add the following line to /etc/driveprm: drive0: deviation=

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-30 Thread Kent West
Marc Wilson wrote: > On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 07:08:53PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > >> sudo fdformat -n /dev/.static/dev/fd0u1440 >> > > I have to wonder how you came up with that, vs reading the man page for > fdformat(8). Because the man page for fdformat only mentions the /dev/fd* paths,

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-29 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 07:08:53PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > sudo fdformat -n /dev/.static/dev/fd0u1440 I have to wonder how you came up with that, vs reading the man page for fdformat(8). That tells you to use setfdprm(8) to set the parameters of the generic device before trying to use it. Furt

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-29 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 07:39:07PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Kent West wrote: > So I'm leaning toward two bad floppy drives in two machines within my > house. I'll know more when I can try these floppies in a third and maybe > fourth Debian box at work tomorrow. It could be just dirty heads. Yo

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-29 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: > Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: > >> Try scraping the mold off with a couple of >> fdformat -n /dev/fd0u1440 >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/westk> sudo fdformat -n /dev/fd0u1440 > /dev/fd0u1440: No such file or directory > > > Hmm; apparently udev makes this command slightly

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-29 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: > Kent West wrote: > >> I'm going to try another couple of >> floppies, and via Knoppix. >> >> > > I just tried yet another floppy, and although it looked like it > formatted properly, and I was able to copy a few files to it and read > those files from it, I then did th

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-29 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: > I'm going to try another couple of > floppies, and via Knoppix. > I just tried yet another floppy, and although it looked like it formatted properly, and I was able to copy a few files to it and read those files from it, I then did the verify thing again: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-29 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 06:42:33PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > > /dev/fd0/floppyautouser,noauto00 > > Its the 'auto' that's the problem. > > Try mounting it manually to determine what types to put > > here. > > You mean like: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/westk> sudo mount -t vf

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-29 Thread Kent West
Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: > Could be the media. > > Try scraping the mold off with a couple of > fdformat -n /dev/fd0u1440 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/westk> sudo fdformat -n /dev/fd0u1440 /dev/fd0u1440: No such file or directory Hmm; apparently udev makes this command slightly obsolete now

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-29 Thread Kent West
Douglas Tutty wrote: > If you look in your /etc/fstab for the entry under floppy, you'll > probably see something like: > > /dev/fd0/floppyautouser,noauto00 > > Its the 'auto' that's the problem. > > Try mounting it manually to determine what types to put > here. > You

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-29 Thread Cameron L. Spitzer
[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kent West wrote: > I have just 30 minutes ago tried to use three 3.5" floppies on two > different machines, and can't get anywhere with them. I decided to put > it on the back burner and read my email when I c

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-29 Thread David Baron
OK. I just put floppies in my drive, doubleclicked the desktop icon, had them mount and display their contents. No problems at all. I have never had any problems with them. These were formatted in Windows or DOS a while back. One is a Win98 boot floppy which I used very well in Qemu to install

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-29 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 12:17:45AM -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: > > > >Mark Grieveson wrote: > > > Has anyone else noticed how awful Linux has become for dealing with > floppies (aka A-drive)? Years ago it was not bad, but now, even > mtoolsfm doesn't seem to work. . . > Mar

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-28 Thread Mark Grieveson
Mark Grieveson wrote: >> Has anyone else noticed how awful Linux has become for dealing with >> floppies (aka A-drive)? Years ago it was not bad, but now, even >> mtoolsfm doesn't seem to work. . . >> Mark >> >> > I have just 30 minutes ago tried to use three 3.5" floppies on two > d

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-28 Thread Kent West
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 10/28/06 17:47, Kent West wrote: > >> Mark Grieveson wrote: > >>> Has anyone else noticed how awful Linux has become for dealing with > >>> floppies (aka A-drive)? > >>> > >>> > >> I have just 30 minutes ago tried to use three 3.5" floppies on two > >> different machines, an

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-28 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/28/06 17:47, Kent West wrote: > Mark Grieveson wrote: >> Has anyone else noticed how awful Linux has become for dealing with >> floppies (aka A-drive)? Years ago it was not bad, but now, even >> mtoolsfm doesn't seem to work. All of these flopp

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-28 Thread Kent West
Mark Grieveson wrote: > Has anyone else noticed how awful Linux has become for dealing with > floppies (aka A-drive)? Years ago it was not bad, but now, even > mtoolsfm doesn't seem to work. All of these floppies work in Windows > and/or dos drives. I find this to be the case on various differen

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-28 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/28/06 13:29, Mark Grieveson wrote: > Has anyone else noticed how awful Linux has become for dealing with > floppies (aka A-drive)? Years ago it was not bad, but now, even > mtoolsfm doesn't seem to work. All of these floppies work in Windows >

argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-28 Thread Mark Grieveson
Has anyone else noticed how awful Linux has become for dealing with floppies (aka A-drive)? Years ago it was not bad, but now, even mtoolsfm doesn't seem to work. All of these floppies work in Windows and/or dos drives. I find this to be the case on various different computers that are runni

Re: ARGH, weird SCSI I/O errors on second/third drive on Debian/PPC

2002-12-28 Thread nate
Jessica Blank said: > The problem seems to happen whenever I'm working (reading/writing) on the > second or third drive. I get I/O errors, and kernelspam like this: luckily, according to the logs you posted this does not appear to be a SCSI issue, or a hardware issue. it looks to be a filesystem

ARGH, weird SCSI I/O errors on second/third drive on Debian/PPC

2002-12-27 Thread Jessica Blank
I am having some weird, weird SCSI I/O errors. I'm running Debian/PowerPC on an "Old World" (beige) Mac-- namely, a Power Mac 7300/180 (the 7300s were sold overseas, and are uncommon in the USA; they are roughly on par with the 7500s, I believe.. if not a bit higher-end) with a G3/220 CPU upgra

Re: argh! aptitude/dselect/apt-get dieing????

2002-11-15 Thread Brian Nelson
Rich Rudnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Me, I keep a minimal woody on another partition :) Yeah, it's always good to have a backup woody in case your primary one breaks. After all, you always want to minimize your woody's downtime. -- People said I was dumb, but I proved them! msg13145/p

Re: argh! aptitude/dselect/apt-get dieing????

2002-11-14 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 10:22, Craig Dickson wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > > You explain to the common man not to use unstable. :) > > > > It *certainly* shouldn't have broken in the first place, but accidents > > happen. If one doesn't have enough system administration experience to > > cope wi

Re: argh! aptitude/dselect/apt-get dieing????

2002-11-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 01:45:19PM -0600, Mark A. Bialik wrote: > Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > > The alternative would be to run a different distribution or compile from > > > source, and we wouldn't want that, would we? :) > > > > No that is not correct if you understand basics of Debian. > > Sarca

Re: argh! aptitude/dselect/apt-get dieing????

2002-11-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 04:17:33PM -0500, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > > Very nice writeup. > > Question, what if you want foo from unstable and it requires a version > of bar in unstable but your existing bar is from testing? What if bar > isn't installed at all and the requirement is going to

Re: argh! aptitude/dselect/apt-get dieing????

2002-11-14 Thread Robert L. Harris
han E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 15:13:58 -0600 > From: Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: argh! aptitude/dselect/apt-get dieing > X-Mailing-List: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archive/latest/245342 > > On

Re: argh! aptitude/dselect/apt-get dieing????

2002-11-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 11:54:51AM -0600, Mark A. Bialik wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > > This may sound callous, but those "some people" - or at least those > > people who *can* fix it, perhaps not trivially easily - are the only > > people who should be using unstable. > > ... and there are s

Re: argh! aptitude/dselect/apt-get dieing????

2002-11-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 11:22:30AM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > I know Brian who complained this in -devel list was rightfully pissed at > the care taken by the uploader and he can deal with this situation > without problem. Most interesting part of Colin's comment is > > This may sound callous, bu

Re: argh! aptitude/dselect/apt-get dieing????

2002-11-14 Thread Mark A. Bialik
Osamu Aoki wrote: > > The alternative would be to run a different distribution or compile from > > source, and we wouldn't want that, would we? :) > > No that is not correct if you understand basics of Debian. Sarcasm, my man, Sarcasm. :) Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: argh! aptitude/dselect/apt-get dieing????

2002-11-14 Thread Mark A. Bialik
Craig Dickson wrote: > What's wrong with compiling from source? If you download the Debian > source package, it should have everything you need to build a proper > deb package, so what's the problem? Even if you don't build a deb, you > just install to /usr/local, and as long as you don't break an

Re: argh! aptitude/dselect/apt-get dieing????

2002-11-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 11:54:51AM -0600, Mark A. Bialik wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > > This may sound callous, but those "some people" - or at least those > > people who *can* fix it, perhaps not trivially easily - are the only > > people who should be using unstable. > > ... and there a

Re: argh! aptitude/dselect/apt-get dieing????

2002-11-14 Thread Craig Dickson
Mark A. Bialik wrote: > ... and there are some people who run unstable because certain packages > and/or versions of packages they need are only in unstable. > > The alternative would be to run a different distribution or compile from > source, and we wouldn't want that, would we? :) What's wro

Re: argh! aptitude/dselect/apt-get dieing????

2002-11-14 Thread nate
Colin Watson said: > This may sound callous, but those "some people" - or at least those people > who *can* fix it, perhaps not trivially easily - are the only people who > should be using unstable. speak for yourself :) I suggested a fix to someone who had this problem and they said it worked f

Re: argh! aptitude/dselect/apt-get dieing????

2002-11-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 11:26:10AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > This may sound callous, but those "some people" - or at least those > people who *can* fix it, perhaps not trivially easily - are the only > people who should be using unstable. Exatly :-) Where is chroot. I think it is lack of sim

Re: argh! aptitude/dselect/apt-get dieing????

2002-11-14 Thread Craig Dickson
Colin Watson wrote: > You explain to the common man not to use unstable. :) > > It *certainly* shouldn't have broken in the first place, but accidents > happen. If one doesn't have enough system administration experience to > cope with this kind of thing (after all, it was "just" everything > wri

Re: argh! aptitude/dselect/apt-get dieing????

2002-11-14 Thread Mark A. Bialik
Colin Watson wrote: > This may sound callous, but those "some people" - or at least those > people who *can* fix it, perhaps not trivially easily - are the only > people who should be using unstable. ... and there are some people who run unstable because certain packages and/or versions of pack

Re: argh! aptitude/dselect/apt-get dieing????

2002-11-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 02:22:25AM -0600, Mark A. Bialik wrote: > Brian Nelson wrote: > > The problem is simply that the library file was misnamed to > > libstdc++libc6.2-2.so.3. > > This may be easy enough for some people to fix, but how exactly do > explain to the common man how to fix it when t

Re: argh! aptitude/dselect/apt-get dieing????

2002-11-14 Thread Mark A. Bialik
Brian Nelson wrote: > The problem is simply that the library file was misnamed to > libstdc++libc6.2-2.so.3. This may be easy enough for some people to fix, but how exactly do explain to the common man how to fix it when the basic tools (dselect and apt-get) no longer work? At least on my system

Re: argh! aptitude/dselect/apt-get dieing????

2002-11-13 Thread Brian Nelson
iain d broadfoot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > apt-get: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3: > cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory > > same thing for dselect and aptitude. And for every other C++ program you have... > any thoughts?? Beat maintain

Re: argh! aptitude/dselect/apt-get dieing????

2002-11-13 Thread iain d broadfoot
nate wrote: iain d broadfoot said: apt-get: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory same thing for dselect and aptitude. / any thoughts?? find the package that has that fil

Re: argh! aptitude/dselect/apt-get dieing????

2002-11-13 Thread nate
iain d broadfoot said: > apt-get: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3: > cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory > > same thing for dselect and aptitude. > > / > > any thoughts?? find the package that has that file(us

argh! aptitude/dselect/apt-get dieing????

2002-11-13 Thread iain d broadfoot
apt-get: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory same thing for dselect and aptitude. / any thoughts?? i'm scared to reboot in case it doesn't come back at all. (shivers horri

Re: ifup eth0 -- but no connection! argh...

2002-02-21 Thread will trillich
i feel like a newbie. (probably look the part, too. not that there's anything wrong with that.) my 3c509 connection won't cooperate. it'll respond only to self-pings; no other traffic seems to get in or out. On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 05:26:10AM -0200, Michel Loos wrote: > missing the > netstat -rn

Re: ifup eth0 -- but no connection! argh...

2002-02-18 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 09:49:03PM -0800, ben wrote: > On Saturday 16 February 2002 02:59 pm, will trillich wrote: ... > > on my potato server at home, it doesn't seem to. should it? > > > i guess not, if your system works without it. i had the impression that auto > lo was a necessary first entry

Re: ifup eth0 -- but no connection! argh...

2002-02-16 Thread ben
On Saturday 16 February 2002 02:59 pm, will trillich wrote: > On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 11:59:03PM -0800, ben wrote: > > On Friday 15 February 2002 11:43 pm, will trillich wrote: > > > 1) /etc/network/interfaces looks a lot like this: > > > > > > # The loopback interface > > > iface lo inet loopb

Re: ifup eth0 -- but no connection! argh...

2002-02-16 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 04:59:45PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 11:59:03PM -0800, ben wrote: ... > > don't you need an > > > > auto lo > > > > preceding the rest of the loopback interface? > > on my potato server at home, it doesn't seem to. should it? not on potato,

Re: ifup eth0 -- but no connection! argh...

2002-02-16 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 11:59:03PM -0800, ben wrote: > On Friday 15 February 2002 11:43 pm, will trillich wrote: > > 1) /etc/network/interfaces looks a lot like this: > > > > # The loopback interface > > iface lo inet loopback > > don't you need an > > auto lo > > preceding the rest of

Re: ifup eth0 -- but no connection! argh...

2002-02-16 Thread ben
On Friday 15 February 2002 11:43 pm, will trillich wrote: > On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 05:26:10AM -0200, Michel Loos wrote: > > Em Sáb, 2002-02-16 às 04:49, will trillich escreveu: > > > 1) /etc/network/interfaces looks a lot like this: > > > > > > # The loopback interface > > > iface lo inet loop

Re: ifup eth0 -- but no connection! argh...

2002-02-16 Thread will trillich
On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 05:26:10AM -0200, Michel Loos wrote: > Em Sáb, 2002-02-16 às 04:49, will trillich escreveu: > > 1) /etc/network/interfaces looks a lot like this: > > > > # The loopback interface > > iface lo inet loopback > > > > # small sub-net (mask 248) > > iface eth0 i

Re: ifup eth0 -- but no connection! argh...

2002-02-16 Thread Michel Loos
Em Sáb, 2002-02-16 às 04:49, will trillich escreveu: > On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 08:02:29PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > > also sprach will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > 3c509 won't connect -- how do i poke and prod to > > > find out what's needed? > > > have you configured routing correctl

Re: ifup eth0 -- but no connection! argh...

2002-02-16 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya usually... if ifconfig and route is correct... and if you cannot get "ping so.me.bo.dy" to work... than its time to download the latest driver from becker's site and recompile the kernel... bet it works than c ya alvin in the info below...you left out the important "route -nv" info

Re: ifup eth0 -- but no connection! argh...

2002-02-16 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 08:02:29PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 3c509 won't connect -- how do i poke and prod to > > find out what's needed? > have you configured routing correctly? is there a packet filter? do > you have a default gateway? dns

Re: ifup eth0 -- but no connection! argh...

2002-02-08 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.02.08.0533 +0100]: > 3c509 won't connect -- how do i poke and prod to find out what's > needed? get a networking essentials book and tcp/ip from o'reilly. have you configured routing correctly? is there a packet filter? do you have a default gat

Re: ifup eth0 -- but no connection! argh...

2002-02-08 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 12:12:37AM -0600, Adam Majer wrote: > Alternatively, grab the 3c5x9 package from stable (it's only in stable :( So what? nictools-nopci in testing also contains "3c5x9setup". "apt-cache search" is your friend. -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is bett

Re: ifup eth0 -- but no connection! argh...

2002-02-08 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Fri, 2002-02-08 at 12:33, will trillich wrote: > and how do i find out what irq/io parameters would be > appropriate anyhow? Have you tried switching PnP off in your BIOS settings. Crispin

Re: ifup eth0 -- but no connection! argh...

2002-02-08 Thread Adam Majer
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 10:33:36PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > i try "ping aa.b.cc.dd" and get 100% packet loss. ifconfig says > the connection is up. (ifup at first reports rx on 1 address; > if i ifdown and then ifup again, it reports rx on 0, rx on 1. > what's up with that?) > > yes, the 10ba

ifup eth0 -- but no connection! argh...

2002-02-07 Thread will trillich
3c509 won't connect -- how do i poke and prod to find out what's needed? okay, i inherited this skanky acer (amd k6) and i've got a 3c509 ethernet card in there -- plus a network everywhere card as well (nc100?). booted under windows, i can get to the 'net through the network everywhere card; rest

Re: ** ARGH **

2002-01-23 Thread dman
On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 08:37:22PM -0500, Timothy C. Fanelli wrote: | ok - for the record -- I AM STILL ON THIS LIST Ok, it's not fun when the unsubscription mechanisms don't work; but in the meantime file all list mail to the bit-bucket! -D -- Religion that God our Father accepts as pure

** ARGH **

2002-01-23 Thread Timothy C. Fanelli
ok - for the record -- I AM STILL ON THIS LIST

Re: ARGH!! Now It's WORSE :-(

2001-12-05 Thread Oki DZ
On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Stan Brown wrote: > Somehow I have installed something on the machine at work that spits out an > erro meesgae about every 5 minutes about an I/O error on the floppy (which > I NEVER use). Do you have "floppy" get mentioned in /etc/fstab? Oki

Re: ARGH!! Now It's WORSE :-(

2001-12-05 Thread Stan Brown
On Wed Dec 5 13:45:00 2001 Shri Shrikumar wrote... > >On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 18:19, Stan Brown wrote: >> Somehow I have installed something on the machine at work that spits out an >> erro meesgae about every 5 minutes about an I/O error on the floppy (which >> I NEVER use). > >Find out if your fl

Re: ARGH!! Now It's WORSE :-(

2001-12-05 Thread Jor-el
On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Stan Brown wrote: > I'm runing potato + Progeny + 2,4 kernel on 2 machines one at home, and one > at work. > > Somehow I have installed something on the machine at work that spits out an > erro meesgae about every 5 minutes about an I/O error on the floppy (which > I NEVER use

Re: ARGH!! Now It's WORSE :-(

2001-12-05 Thread Shri Shrikumar
On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 18:19, Stan Brown wrote: > Somehow I have installed something on the machine at work that spits out an > erro meesgae about every 5 minutes about an I/O error on the floppy (which > I NEVER use). Find out if your floppy drive is mounted by using just mount or df df woul

ARGH!! Now It's WORSE :-(

2001-12-05 Thread Stan Brown
I'm runing potato + Progeny + 2,4 kernel on 2 machines one at home, and one at work. Somehow I have installed something on the machine at work that spits out an erro meesgae about every 5 minutes about an I/O error on the floppy (which I NEVER use). I've posted about this twice in the last week

Re: Microsoft Reader... argh!

2001-07-09 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Greets, I bit my tongue with this original post.. I just registered for school and sat down with my wonderful councillor to finger out my schedule for the next four+ years of courses. I don't plan to do computers for profit, just kicks (needed for financial aid). As she started quoting of

Re: Microsoft Reader... argh!

2001-07-09 Thread Andrew Perrin
Well, as far as I can tell from the web, the MS Reader format is a *compiled* binary form of the OEB (www.openebook.org) specification. Specifically, MS Reader reads ".lit" files, which can be generated, according to the web site, only by a couple of proprietary products, all predicably enough runn

Re: Microsoft Reader... argh!

2001-07-09 Thread Joris Lambrecht
On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 10:26:34AM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: > Greetings folks- > Hello Andy, Just read your mail below. IMHO the Microsoft Reader format has been licensed from Adobe and is thus very likely to be read-able by Acrobat Reader or any of it's clones. Since they're talking about

Re: Microsoft Reader... argh!

2001-07-08 Thread Mark Wagnon
On 07/08/01 10:26:34 -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: > I'd like to assign a book for a class this fall that is published only in > hardcover and in something called "Microsoft Reader" format. The MS > Reader format is about 1/2 the price, which matters (I don't like to make > students pay more than nec

Re: Microsoft Reader... argh!

2001-07-08 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 10:26:34AM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: > According to Amazon, the MS Reader is available only for Windows. Have you tested it under WINE? That would let Linux and certain other Unix-derivative users run it, although MacPeople would presumably still be out of luck. There

Microsoft Reader... argh!

2001-07-08 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings folks- I'd like to assign a book for a class this fall that is published only in hardcover and in something called "Microsoft Reader" format. The MS Reader format is about 1/2 the price, which matters (I don't like to make students pay more than necessary, particularly at a public school

Re: Off Topic: Mesa, opengl, glide, argh what is this jibberish!

2000-10-09 Thread Lee Maguire
[2000-10-08] William Jensen wrote: > I'll confess right from the start I'm ignorant about this topic. Not an online reference I'm afraid, but there was an article in last month's Linux Journal[1] covering the basics of this "The Puzzle of 3-D Graphics on Linux" by John Matthews and Daryll Strauss

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