Mouse Troubles....
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Greetings all, > > ok first thank you to everyone who helped me earlier with the basic hd > mounting stuff.after adding a few lines to the fstab and other file in > /etc i quickly had the win95 partition mounted.. > > OK...my next scenario. > > i have all the X .deb packages and have installed them.but when i ran > X...i get the error that no mouse was found. i performed the xf86config > and answered all the questions and tried various mice protocols but to no > avail. i have an MS mouse through a ps/2 porti did try to run X with > the option of starting up even if no mouse detected and did get that > awesome X background but nothing elseis there any ways of getting > around using the keyboard? and is there anyway of checking for my mouse > before starting X? Thanx in advance. Sounds like you are using one of those serial mouse to PS/2 port adapters. I don't know enough about the electrical specifications to know if that adapter should even work, but mine never did. I tried several mice, adapters, and settings and finally ended up buying a real PS/2 mouse. The new mouse works perfectly, all three buttons function, I freed up a serial port and there is less confusion about protocol, MS = Micro$ or MouseSystems. If I were you, I'd just buy a real 3 button PS/2 mouse. You'll be time and money ahead. Later Rob > > jd? > jesus duran > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
WebMasters Help Me!!!!!
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Motif and libc6
I heard from the lists there is a problem compiling a Motif program with libc6. I have contacted RedHat and they said that they may release their Motif development kit compatible with libc6 very later this year. Meanwhile, is it possible to install libc6 and still able to compile Motif program? Lawrence -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: extract only PART of an archive
Will Lowe writes: > >I need to extract JUST ONE of the files in a .deb > >I've searched through the dpkg info and man pages and haven't found any >way to do this (I might be blind, though). Is there anyway to do it with >out doing > >dpkg -R /tmp/ file.deb > >and then moving the one file and clearing /tmp? > > Will The only way I know is to use ar to pull the data.tar.gz from the .deb and then untar the file from that. ar -x .deb data.tar.gz tar zxvf data.tar.gz rm data.tar.gz There may be others? Brian -- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: extract only PART of an archive
Brian K Servis wrote: > The only way I know is to use ar to pull the data.tar.gz from the .deb > and then untar the file from that. > > ar -x .deb data.tar.gz > tar zxvf data.tar.gz > rm data.tar.gz > > There may be others? Well, this gets rid of the temp files: ar p file.deb data.tar.gz | tar zxf - filename -- see shy jo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Motif and libc6
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 27 Sep 1997, Lawrence wrote: > I heard from the lists there is a problem compiling a Motif program with > libc6. I have contacted RedHat and they said that they may release > their Motif development kit compatible with libc6 very later this year. > Meanwhile, is it possible to install libc6 and still able to compile > Motif program? Yes, but not by linking them to libc6. You will need to install the altgcc and libc5-altdev packages, as well as the various other '-altdev' packages for the libraries you need (xlib6-altdev, etc.). If you're planning on upgrading (or partially upgrading) to libc6, check out my Debian libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO which I post here about weekly and which can be found at http://www.gate.net/~storm/FAQ/ - -- |If you will practice being fictional for a while, Scott K. Ellis|you will understand that fictional [EMAIL PROTECTED]| characters are sometimes more real than |people with bodies and heartbeats. | -- Illusions -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBNCxj1KCk2fENdzpVAQHO0gP/dsFXfVWiuv7NvL1zo+bxtamz24J00ux1 s0PvRKcGaXh4ic1e6BeDBmMvSOYDzl9O1x6H/x2B9PLP97A0/ln+75fr/Ne1KmJE tjGNqkUUAXs0YbNwXCGCNEgXeilD56GXZLQICSRAb8kxc6y8rpCevZrttCc6J8ap /Bi7KSPNCkA= =muNp -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
dpkg & other assorted questions...
Howdy all, First off thanx for that mouse support, after using '/dev/psaux' as the device the mouse worked fine and x was up and running quickly.thanx now, i have a couple more questions.. i have some .deb packkages and cant seem to install them because i get the following error when i run dpkg -i filename.deb; dpkg: parse error, in file/'var/lib/dpkg/updates/0024' near line 1: newline in field name '#padding" i have no idea what this is...any clues on how to fix it??? all that file contains is a number of '#padding" each on one line like this ; #padding #padding #padding #padding #padding .. Also how do i make fvwm2 my default windows manager and how do i add programs to my menus.or where do i find documentation on how to customize X... one last thinghow do i force my machine to start up to the x windows login box..thanx in advanced. jd? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: IBM THINKPAD
"EL TUCK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i´m triying to install debian ver 1.3 on mi IBM 365 xd laptop for > the first time > > i have 8mb of ram, a 810 mb hard disk drive (cyl 788 , heads 32 , > sectors 63) , but the systems stops when booting from the rescue > disk , when i pressed F4 the table says something like [snip] Recent ThinkPads are more PC-compatible than older ones. For a first try, just type [Enter] at the boot: prompt. If everything works after that, you're in business (at least until you try to work out what kind of graphics it's got, for installing X). Otherwise, try typing "linux floppy=thinkpoint" then [Enter] as suggested by the text you quoted. -- Carey Evans <*> http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ gc kernel: Warning: possible SYN flooding. Sending cookies. kernel: validated probe(17f, 17f, 11557, 5010, -1645409555) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: dpkg & other assorted questions...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, jd? wrote: > Also how do i make fvwm2 my default windows manager and how do i add > programs to my menus.or where do i find documentation on how to > customize X... Default window managers are found in /etc/X11/window-manager. The first one found will be used. For menus, install the menu package and check out the documentation in /usr/doc/menu. Also check out the documentation in /usr/doc/fvwm2 (well /usr/doc/*). > one last thinghow do i force my machine to start up to the x windows > login box..thanx in advanced. For that you want the documentation in /usr/doc/xbase/debian.README. You want to start xdm on system startup. - -- |If you will practice being fictional for a while, Scott K. Ellis|you will understand that fictional [EMAIL PROTECTED]| characters are sometimes more real than |people with bodies and heartbeats. | -- Illusions -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBNCxlnaCk2fENdzpVAQGfDAQAnv2+mRDJxkfe6qGE7Vrs9SgjV339zAHA TYeOlRzK0pNNBCmrvCuo6s40Ui2m1EeguZjLGjZELOlJ33mq07h23ROwQcbPuc6c 74r/LHE0stzRw/030ZjG2Qpm9Wvci7r5TfjhGtTpWumn55UMekY1v7SVLb9F+8Wx oCuspomQiQc= =Rchh -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: extract only PART of an archive
Brian K Servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Will Lowe writes: > >I need to extract JUST ONE of the files in a .deb > > The only way I know is to use ar to pull the data.tar.gz from the .deb > and then untar the file from that. > > [...] > > There may be others? The 'official' way to do this is: dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile | tar xvf - It's basically the same as the method you listed, but makes fewer assumptions about the format of the .deb file. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: dpkg and dselect
Addressed to: Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian ** Reply to note from Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 13:19:49 -0400 (EDT) > > On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Lawrence Lucier wrote: > > > The Rescue/Base installation refuses to install LILO on my system. > > What steps did you take to get here? The installation should be nearly > complete at this point. You made partitions, installed and configured the > kernel and drivers, installed and configured the base system? I can totally complete the floppy base installation except for the part where the installation procedure is supposed to install LILO but refuses to do so. > So, what were the steps you followed to install LILO, Just worked my way through the floppy based installation procedure > and what error > messages, if any, did you recieve? sbin/dinstall: /target/sbin/lilo not found! > > The boot disk refuses to > > boot up because, AFAIK, LILO isn't installed on the harddrive. > > The boot disk does not depend on LILO or the hard drive to boot up the > kernel. You will need a "valid" root file system for the kernel to mount > before the boot up can complete. > > Changed > > the reference in > > SYSLINUX.CFG on the floppy boot disk to: > > > > APPEND root=/dev/fd0 ro > > > No root file system here ;-) No that's true but if the floppy drive is given as root, the boot floppy installation procedure will pause and ask you to insert a root floopy disk. >From the docs, I gathered the impression that the root disk generated from the root.bin file qualified as a valid root file system. Unfortunatly, a kernal warning is generated when using this method and so I can't even boot this way either. > > > from > > > > APPEND root=/dev/hda6 ro > > > If this is actually where you installed the base system, what are the > other partitions like? OS/2 Boot Manager, (primary)DOS, (extended)OS/2 HPFS, Linux and Linux swap. >(BTW, LILO will not install on an extended > partition AFAIK) HI looked through the docs for this kind of limitation but didn't see anything that pointed to this fact. Will be checking this out again though. > > > When prompted for the root floppy I used the file image floppy > generated by ROOT.BIN..still > > the system won't boot. > > > This is a compressed image and is typically uncompressed on a RAM disk, so > the arguments passed to the kernel are more complex than what you have > used. When using loadlin for this task the command line looks like: > > loadlin linux root=/dev/ram initrd=root.bin > > If you use APPEND and have used rawrite2.exe to put the root.bin image > onto a floppy, you probably want to change the initrd to =/dev/fd0. Ahhh...OK, thanks for the tip! :-) > > > OK, I thought did I, no problem, I will just do a LILO manual install > with the LILO_19-2.deb > > file I grabbed off the Debian site and tweak it from there. Read the > information on dpkg and > > dselect in the debian and install docs.booted the Rescue floppy > and went into the shell. > > So, you can boot the rescue floppy! The rescue disk is part of the floppy based install, along with the driver disk and the 4 1.44 base image disks. Booting with the rescue disk is no problemit's the boot disk that won't proceed past a certain point. It goes fine until just after the partition checkheres' the screen output from there on: Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. After these lines are displayed, the boot will proceed no further. > and look at and modify files on that > partition, but you don't have access > to any tools not available at > installation time. This means you can't run > dpkg/dselect from the rescue > disk. > Ahhh..OK thanks for clearing that up. :-) > Before we can do much more for you, we will need some details of the > installation as well as the failures you experienced. Basically it's just a matter of the installation procedure not installing LILO which then necessitates the utilization of the boot floppy (made by the installation procedure) as an alternative means of booting the system. Alas, even the boot floppy refuses to cooperate! Thanks for your reply and will ttyl...:-) "It's A Magical World, Hobbes, Ol' Buddy... ...Let's Go Exploring !" -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
LILO and dos partitions
I'm installing Debian over what was formerly a Slackware partition (It's been reformatted, thank goodness) and I'm stumped as to how I'm supposed to get LILO to work with my dos partition. Right now, my /etc/lilo.conf is: compact boot=/dev/hda1 vga=normal delay=20 image=/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda2 read-only other=/dev/hda1 label=dos table=/dev/hda loader=/boot/any_d.b I've tried chain.b for the dos partition, and chain.b with all the extra junk in the 0.20 documentation (Is anyone working on updating the lilo deb file to 0.20?). Whever I attempt to boot the dos partition, I get a screen filled with repetitions of "01 ". Linux boots fine, and, using an dos boot disk, I can find the dos file system. Linux cannot find it; it says that it can't find a valid MSDOS filesystem. On a related note, WTF is that "1FA:" thingy that I got when I tried to reboot Debian for the first time? It didn't want to do anything. I eventually rebooted and ran lilo, after which it worked fine unless I held down shift early in the boot sequence (in which case I got the "1FA:" thing for a moment, and then it went into LILO). -- Kyle R. Hofmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fight bulk email: http://www.cauce.org "There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed." -- Bill Gates -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
WU-FTPD setup
I having a little trouble setting up WU-FTPD and I'd appreciate it if someone could help me. Here's what I want to do: anonymous users: /pub /users users in 'web' group: /pub /users /users/username users in 'beta' group: /beta /source /incoming ..and of course, the /bin, /lib, etc directories are in every class Currently, I have my web users home directories in /home/web/initial/name. I would like to have the ftp directory linked to the 'public_html' directory under their home directory. Thanks in advance, -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
clock
I used to have a program called 'clock' which updated by CMOS clock to the system time every night, for some reason or another dselect removed it.. what package is this program in? -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: clock
On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Paul Miller wrote: > I used to have a program called 'clock' which updated by CMOS clock to the > system time every night, for some reason or another dselect removed it.. > what package is this program in? Seems to have been replaced by hwclock in from the util-linux package. -- Jean Pierre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Real Video Coverage of Individual Network Convention
A note of irony: I have realaudio 3.0 and wanted to listen to the conference, which I think starts in a few hours. It is offered in video, not audio; linux binaries are unavailable for the needed realplayer version. At least as far as I can tell. Alan Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: debian-user-digest Digest V97 #795
On [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maarten wrote:
>
> I tried installing communicator 4.03 using netscape4_4.0-4.deb, and got
> the following output:
>
> Installing Communicator files...
>
> Installing Communicator Java files...
> ./ns-install: line 278: 2389 Broken pipe tar -cf - ${i}
> 2390 Done| ( cd ${TARGET}/java/classes; tar -xf
> - )
> ./ns-install: line 278: 2397 Broken pipe tar -cf - ${i}
> 2398 Done| ( cd ${TARGET}/java/classes; tar -xf
> - )
>
> Installing additional component files...
> ./ns-install: line 305: 2408 Broken pipe ${GZIP} -dc ${pkg}
> 2409 Done| ( cd ${TARGET}; tar -x${v}f - )
>
I just discovered the same problem. Just untar all the *.nif-files with
the "tar zxvf file.nif"-command (and NOT with the "gzip -dc file | tar
-xf -" as written in the README.install) then do the registration as
shown in the README.install by hand. Thats all.
Btw. you should be in the target-directory (I guess
/usr/local/netscape).
Hope it helps, Gernot
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Re: Bruce on the internet
On Sep 26, Jim Pick wrote > > > Bruce Perens has just arrived at the convention in Aachen. > > His talk will be distributed over the net using RealVideo. > > If you have an RA player handy, switch to the URL as listed > > in the signature and watch Bruce on Saturday, 9/27/97. > > The talk will take place from 13.30 to 14.30 MET (german time) > > Cool! Lots of Linux guys + RMS too. About 20 Debian Developer. > That's 4:30 in the morning here (Pacific time) - after a Friday > night of partying. That's pretty brutal. "Live" 28.8 RealVideo feeds > from Europe can be pretty choppy at times. Do you know if they are > going to leave the "recorded" lectures on the web site after it's over? I'm not sure how we will manage this. At least we have recordings on both harddisk and video tape. Regards, Joey -- Individual Network e.V. _/ 27./28.9.97: Kongress des IN e.V. [EMAIL PROTECTED] _/http://www.individual.net/congress/ Tel: (0441) 98347-15 _/ Highlights: Richard Stallman, Bruce Perens -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Bruce on the internet
> About 20 Debian Developer. Wow. That's a pretty big crowd. No wonder the lists are quiet. :-) It took me about 15 minutes to get a connection (the server was probably swamped), but once I got it, it worked quite well (at 28.8k). I made some screen grabs: http://www.jimpick.com/debian/bruce/ (hey, if I'm gonna get up this early, might as well make it worthwhile) Cheers, - Jim pgpDUCLCzOkf3.pgp Description: PGP signature
I can't boot or install Linux
Hi, My computer has an Intel 486 dx4 100Mhz processor, 36MB RAM, 515MB hard disk, 3 1/2 '' floppy, CD-ROM 20x, HP Deskjet 540 printer, Logitech SoundManWave (sound card), Modem hayes compatible 33600 bps, mouse Logitech Standard, Scanner Logitech ScanMan Color Pro 2000, Windows 95. My computer can't boot from a CD, so I made the "rescue disk". Linux begins to boot from the floppy when I press enter after the "boot:" prompt, but it stops at the line: md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 When the line above appears the sistem stops booting, it does NOT read the disk, I must reset the computer. What can I do to boot and install Linux (it's Linux Debian 1.3.1 GNU)? Thank you, Alex. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Translation Table Syntax Errors?
Hello All, I keep getting error messages similar to the following when I run Mosaic and nedit: Warning: ... found while parsing '%s' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfDown Warning: translation table syntax error: %s Warning: ... found while parsing ':osfDown: IncrementDownOrRight(0)' Warning: ... found while parsing '%s' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfLeft Warning: translation table syntax error: %s Warning: ... found while parsing ':c osfLeft: PageUpOrLeft(1)' Warning: ... found while parsing '%s' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfLeft Warning: translation table syntax error: %s Warning: ... found while parsing ':osfLeft: IncrementUpOrLeft(1)' Warning: ... found while parsing '%s' Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfRight I'm running all the latest hamm/hamm stuff. What can I do to correct this problem? Regards, Victor -- -- Wildflower Hill, Head Waters, Virginia -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Translation Table Syntax Errors?
On Sat, 27 Sep 1997, Victor Torrico wrote: > Hello All, > > I keep getting error messages similar to the following when I run Mosaic and > nedit: > > Warning: ... found while parsing '%s' > Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfDown > Warning: translation table syntax error: %s [snip more errors] > I'm running all the latest hamm/hamm stuff. What can I do to correct this > problem? I have encountered the same problem. I have downgraded several packages and then re-upgraded them. I have tracked it down to be either xlib6_3.3-6 or xlib6g_3.3-6 that is causing this problem. Downgrading xlib6 to 3.3-4 and downgrading enough packages so that I could remove xlib6g (because it conflicts with xlib6_3.3-4) solved the problem. I have been using xlib6_3.3-5 and xlib6g_3.3-5 without this problem, but I couldn't find these packages anywhere. If anybody knows where I can download xlib6_3.3-5 and/or xlib6g_3.3-5, I could take an even more close look at it. Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: X problem after update from REX to BO (detailed error messages now)
On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Lawrence wrote: > Thank for your info. and yes the server compiled with a default font > paths. > > By the way, I can still run startx with the following FontPath, and > don't know you said your won't work? > FontPath "tcp/localhost:7100" > FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" > FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled" > FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled" > FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/" > FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/" > FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/" > FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/" You can use this FontPath. However if xfs is running it will provide all of the fonts to the server so only the "tcp/localhost:7100" line is really used. And if xfs is not running, the X server will crash when it tries to contact the nonexistant font server. So, in short: yes you can use it, but this FontPat has no advantage compared to the single line FontPath "tcp/localhost:7100" Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Basic Debian hd mounting...
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Lawrence wrote: : Carey Evans wrote: [Klippa, klapp, kluppit.] : > % ls -l /mnt/win95/autoexec.bat : > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 269 Sep 12 10:26 /mnt/win95/autoexec.bat : : well not all people can execute/erase files but still not good enough, : people can read all files in this partition. I'm sorry if I'm poking my nose into somewhere it doesn't belong but what is there on a windodows partition other shouldn't be able to read? Now if somebody only could answer or explain my question and problem about stat-ing nfs files while running suid. Right, MartinS -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: formatted floppy type??
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> lucier wrote: : Howdy Will...thanks for the reply. :-) Seems it's just the four 1.44 b= : ase install disks : that don't respond to either: : : mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt : : or : : mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt : : VFS gives an error message stating "Can't find MSDOS/ext2 filesyste= : m on dev 02:00". They are parts of a tar file. At least during the installation there's a very stripped tar called star. If you want to know more about this try the boot-floppies package. : BTW, would you happen to know what the 02:00 describes? Yes it is indeed the major:minor device numbers, as an earlier post said. However you should be aware of that the numbers you're asking about is in hexadecimal, and the numbers you'll see if you do an ls -al of /dev is in decimal. Hence 03:11 refers to hda17 and not to hda11. Right, MartinS -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: dpkg & other assorted questions...
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> jd? wrote: : i have some .deb packkages and cant seem to install them because i get the : following error when i run dpkg -i filename.deb; : : dpkg: parse error, in file/'var/lib/dpkg/updates/0024' near line 1: : newline in field name '#padding" : : i have no idea what this is...any clues on how to fix it??? : : all that file contains is a number of '#padding" each on one line like : this ; : : #padding : #padding : #padding : #padding : #padding Do "df" to check how much free space you have on on your hard disk(s). I have seen this happen when when you run out of hard disk space, you see. I'm not sure how to fix it the correct way, but making sure you have space on the hard drive and editing that file and removing all "#padding" entries in it fixed it for me. Or perhaps I simply removed that file? : Also how do i make fvwm2 my default windows manager and how do i add : programs to my menus.or where do i find documentation on how to : customize X... I don't know, but perhaps /etc/X11/window-managers is what you should edit? : one last thinghow do i force my machine to start up to the x windows : login box..thanx in advanced. I think you want to edit /etc/X11/config. Right, MartinS -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: LILO and dos partitions
> > I'm installing Debian over what was formerly a Slackware partition (It's > been reformatted, thank goodness) and I'm stumped as to how I'm supposed > to get LILO to work with my dos partition. Right now, my /etc/lilo.conf > is: > > compact > boot=/dev/hda1 > vga=normal > delay=20 > image=/vmlinuz > label=linux > root=/dev/hda2 > read-only > other=/dev/hda1 > label=dos > table=/dev/hda > loader=/boot/any_d.b > > I've tried chain.b for the dos partition, and chain.b with all the extra > junk in the 0.20 documentation (Is anyone working on updating the lilo deb > file to 0.20?). Whever I attempt to boot the dos partition, I get a > screen filled with repetitions of "01 ". Linux boots fine, and, using an > dos boot disk, I can find the dos file system. Linux cannot find it; it > says that it can't find a valid MSDOS filesystem. For what it's worth, my dos bit just looks like this: -- other=/dev/hda1 label=dos table=/dev/hda -- The repeating 01 01 01... guff is [from memory] a large/lba probem. Try changing your hd settings in bios to lba or large. [Obviously, whichever one it ISN'T at the moment...] See if that helps. You'll probably have to rerun lilo afterwards. > On a related note, WTF is that "1FA:" thingy that I got when I tried to > reboot Debian for the first time? It didn't want to do anything. I > eventually rebooted and ran lilo, after which it worked fine unless I held > down shift early in the boot sequence (in which case I got the "1FA:" > thing for a moment, and then it went into LILO). Same thing as above I think. [Emphasis on the "I think" part. It's late, I could well be wrong] So, give them a go, see what happens. If it doesn't work, I'm sure someone else will jump in with another possible solution. D. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Translation Table Syntax Errors?
On 97/09/27 at 16:38 PM +0200, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: > On Sat, 27 Sep 1997, Victor Torrico wrote: > > > Hello All, > > > > I keep getting error messages similar to the following when I run Mosaic and > > nedit: > > > > Warning: ... found while parsing '%s' > > Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfDown > > Warning: translation table syntax error: %s > > [snip more errors] > > > I'm running all the latest hamm/hamm stuff. What can I do to correct this > > problem? > > I have encountered the same problem. I have downgraded several packages > and then re-upgraded them. I have tracked it down to be either xlib6_3.3-6 > or xlib6g_3.3-6 that is causing this problem. Downgrading xlib6 to 3.3-4 > and downgrading enough packages so that I could remove xlib6g (because it > conflicts with xlib6_3.3-4) solved the problem. I have been using > xlib6_3.3-5 and xlib6g_3.3-5 without this problem, but I couldn't find > these packages anywhere. If anybody knows where I can download xlib6_3.3-5 > and/or xlib6g_3.3-5, I could take an even more close look at it. Sorry, but unfortunately, I don't have the -5 version of the libraries. Since I only have a couple of packages that I use which are affected I will wait. I can do without Mosaic and nedit temporarily until things are fixed. Thanks for your reply. Regards, Victor -- -- Wildflower Hill, Head Waters, Virginia -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
dlxsim etc.
Is anyone in this community using the DLX software as promulgated in Hennessy & Patterson's computer architecture book? If so, where might I find a version that works under linux? Regards, Richard -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: extract only PART of an archive
On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Will Lowe wrote:
> I need to extract JUST ONE of the files in a .deb
>
> I've searched through the dpkg info and man pages and haven't found any
> way to do this (I might be blind, though). Is there anyway to do it with
> out doing
>
> dpkg -R /tmp/ file.deb
>
> and then moving the one file and clearing /tmp?
>
I use Midnight Commander for this. It has a feature that lets you "dive"
into a .deb file (it may require a patch to mc.ext, see below) and "view"
the contents. You can also copy any file you see "out" to another
directory using Midnight Commander.
As I said, some of the latest version of mc don't have the following patch
applied. It is simply a matter of checking /etc/mc/mc.ext to see if it
contains the following:
directory/^.*$
View=%view{ascii,nroff} echo "_D_i_r_e_c_t_o_r_y"; echo %d/%p
Icon=plain_dir.xpm
+# deb
+regex/\.deb$
+ Open=%cd deb:%d/%p/
+ View=%view{ascii} dpkg-deb -c %f
+
# ls-lR
regex/^ls-?lR$
Open=%cd lslR:%d/%p/
View=%view{ascii}
I find this feature of mc to be very useful in "peeking" into a .deb file
to see just what is there. If you need to extract control files or the
other scripts that install the package use the -e or --control option on
dpkg. The -x or --extract option will extract the rest of the contents.
Luck,
Dwarf
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Re: Bruce on the internet
On Sep 27, Jim Pick wrote > > > About 20 Debian Developer. Thinking of the Debian Developer's Meeting 3 hours ago we must have about 50 developers here. Actually I believe there are about 30. > Wow. That's a pretty big crowd. No wonder the lists are quiet. :-) > > It took me about 15 minutes to get a connection (the server was > probably swamped), but once I got it, it worked quite well (at 28.8k). > > I made some screen grabs: > > http://www.jimpick.com/debian/bruce/ That's very nice. Thank you. > (hey, if I'm gonna get up this early, might as well make it worthwhile) The talk from Mr. GNU alias Richard Stallman was fun, too. Regards, Joey -- Individual Network e.V. _/ 27./28.9.97: Kongress des IN e.V. [EMAIL PROTECTED] _/http://www.individual.net/congress/ Tel: (0441) 98347-15 _/ Highlights: Richard Stallman, Bruce Perens -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: dpkg and dselect
Addressed to: Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian ** Reply to note from Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 13:19:49 -0400 (EDT) > > On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Lawrence Lucier wrote: > > > The Rescue/Base installation refuses to install LILO on my system. > > What steps did you take to get here? The installation should be nearly > complete at this point. You made partitions, installed and configured the > kernel and drivers, installed and configured the base system? I can totally complete the floppy base installation except for the part where the installation procedure is supposed to install LILO but refuses to do so. > So, what were the steps you followed to install LILO, Just worked my way through the floppy based installation procedure > and what error > messages, if any, did you recieve? sbin/dinstall: /target/sbin/lilo not found! > > The boot disk refuses to > > boot up because, AFAIK, LILO isn't installed on the harddrive. > > The boot disk does not depend on LILO or the hard drive to boot up the > kernel. You will need a "valid" root file system for the kernel to mount > before the boot up can complete. > > Changed > > the reference in > > SYSLINUX.CFG on the floppy boot disk to: > > > > APPEND root=/dev/fd0 ro > > > No root file system here ;-) No that's true but if the floppy drive is given as root, the boot floppy installation procedure will pause and ask you to insert a root floopy disk. >From the docs, I gathered the impression that the root disk generated from the root.bin file qualified as a valid root file system. Unfortunatly, a kernal warning is generated when using this method and so I can't even boot this way either. > > > from > > > > APPEND root=/dev/hda6 ro > > > If this is actually where you installed the base system, what are the > other partitions like? OS/2 Boot Manager, (primary)DOS, (extended)OS/2 HPFS, Linux and Linux swap. >(BTW, LILO will not install on an extended > partition AFAIK) HI looked through the docs for this kind of limitation but didn't see anything that pointed to this fact. Will be checking this out again though. > > > When prompted for the root floppy I used the file image floppy > generated by ROOT.BIN..still > > the system won't boot. > > > This is a compressed image and is typically uncompressed on a RAM disk, so > the arguments passed to the kernel are more complex than what you have > used. When using loadlin for this task the command line looks like: > > loadlin linux root=/dev/ram initrd=root.bin > > If you use APPEND and have used rawrite2.exe to put the root.bin image > onto a floppy, you probably want to change the initrd to =/dev/fd0. Ahhh...OK, thanks for the tip! :-) > > > OK, I thought did I, no problem, I will just do a LILO manual install > with the LILO_19-2.deb > > file I grabbed off the Debian site and tweak it from there. Read the > information on dpkg and > > dselect in the debian and install docs.booted the Rescue floppy > and went into the shell. > > So, you can boot the rescue floppy! The rescue disk is part of the floppy based install, along with the driver disk and the 4 1.44 base image disks. Booting with the rescue disk is no problemit's the boot disk that won't proceed past a certain point. It goes fine until just after the partition checkheres' the screen output from there on: Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. After these lines are displayed, the boot will proceed no further. > and look at and modify files on that > partition, but you don't have access > to any tools not available at > installation time. This means you can't run > dpkg/dselect from the rescue > disk. > Ahhh..OK thanks for clearing that up. :-) > Before we can do much more for you, we will need some details of the > installation as well as the failures you experienced. Basically it's just a matter of the installation procedure not installing LILO which then necessitates the utilization of the boot floppy (made by the installation procedure) as an alternative means of booting the system. Alas, even the boot floppy refuses to cooperate! Thanks for your reply and will ttyl...:-) "It's A Magical World, Hobbes, Ol' Buddy... ...Let's Go Exploring !" -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Finding and Installing LILO for Debian Linux
I am installing Debian Linux onto my second hard drive. I need LILO to allow me to boot either DOS from hard disk 1 or Linux from hard disk 2. I have the 7 CD monster distribution I purchased from Debian. However, I cannot find the lilo.config file I need, nor Debian-specific installation instructions. The installation program merely displayed an error message when I selected the "make the hard disk bootable" telling me to install LILO, but no particulars. Can anybody help? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
installing twin and other questions
I know someone asked about this recently. Sorry for not paying more attention. I got twin from the caldera archive. It does not seem to have compiled correctly. Can anyone tell me how they got it up and running? I am trying to install it to /twin because I have a lot of room on /. I know that it is hard to tell what the problem I am having is. Is it appropriate to attach a script file of the compile? If it is I can do that. I try to do almost everything except administration as user. I only proform administration such as installing all debian stuff as root. Is it safe to install/compile non-debian programs as root. I tried to install twin as both and neither worked well. Why is it that certain programs do not execute as root even though x permission is set. (xboard for example) I am not advocating playing chess as root I would just like to understand the mechanics involved. And lastly, like most all of you I love poking around my system. I have no objection to having to fiddle around a little in order to make things work. In fact I love it. This is one of the charms of linux and something will be lost when or if it becomes a fully polished product. However having said that, it really annoys me when I cannot try an application deselect says I have installed because I cannot figure out what the name of the executable is. Many new linux users are not coming with strong unix backrounds. And may in fact know little or nothing about the program they are trying out or learning. Please keep this in mind. At least let us know how to start the application. Anyway dselect says visual-tcl is installed, but where is it? Thank you for any help with these questions, and for all the previous help you all have given me. Tommy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Translation Table Syntax Errors?
On Sat, 27 Sep 1997 16:38:46 +0200 Remco Blaakmeer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, 27 Sep 1997, Victor Torrico wrote: > > > Hello All, > > > > I keep getting error messages similar to the following when I run Mosaic and > > nedit: > > > > Warning: ... found while parsing '%s' > > Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfDown > > Warning: translation table syntax error: %s > > [snip more errors] > > > I'm running all the latest hamm/hamm stuff. What can I do to correct this > > problem? # su # cd /usr/i486-linuxlibc1/lib/X11 # ln -s ../../../X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB ../../../X11R6/lib/X11/locale . # ^D $ Mosaic Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
NFS expert, please diagnose this
I've mailed to debian-user twice earlier about this but I haven't
gotten any responses at all.
If you know NFS, please try this an tell me if it works for you or
not.
As it doesn't work for me and I think it wont work for you, I suppose
I'd file a bug report but I don't know if it's the nfsd, libc, atd or
some other package that isn't doing what it should.
Appearently, stat-ing a file in a directory that is only readable for
root from a program that is setuid root, that is on a nfs mounted
partition fails.
Here are some version that might be relevant (please ask if you need
another package's version number):
base, 1.1.0-14
libc5, 5.4.33-3
at, 3.1.7-3
Of course, if you need more information, I'll gladly supply it.
Thanks,
MartinS
Here follows the major part of my last posting on this subject:
In the appended program, make sure that FILE_IN_LOCAL_UNREAD_AND_UNEXEC_DIR
points to a LOCAL file that is in a directory which is only readable
for root.
Likewise, make sure that FILE_IN_NFS_UNREAD_AND_UNEXEC_DIR points to a
file that is in a partition that is NFS MOUNTED that is in a directory
which is only readable for root (/var/spool/cron/atjobs/.SEQ is
perfect if you have it NFS mounted).
Compile the program ("gcc -o st st.c"), "chown daemon.daemon st" and
"chmod u+s st". Then run it as an ordinaty user.
At me it is like this (/boot is a local directory and /var is nfs
mounted):
kant# ls -al /boot/no
total 2
drwx-- 2 daemon daemon 1024 Sep 22 00:54 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Sep 22 00:52 ..
-rw--- 1 daemon daemon 0 Sep 22 00:54 a
kant# ls -la /var/spool/cron/atjobs/
total 6
drwx-- 2 daemon daemon 1024 Sep 22 00:58 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 1024 Feb 19 1997 ..
-rw--- 1 daemon daemon 6 Sep 22 00:42 .SEQ
[Some other files (jobs) removed.]
Running this program as an ordinary user (NOT root) I get:
kant:/var/tmp> ./st
stat("/boot/no/a" successful.
stat("/var/spool/cron/.SEQ" unsuccessful.
Now I hope somebody can test this and report if they have the same
problem.
Then there's the question: what's wrong? Is it a nfs problem? Can
anybody tell me?
- Start of st.c -
#include
#include
#include
#define FILE_IN_LOCAL_UNREAD_AND_UNEXEC_DIR "/boot/no/a"
#define FILE_IN_NFS_UNREAD_AND_UNEXEC_DIR "/var/spool/cron/.SEQ"
main(void)
{
struct stat statbuf;
if(stat(FILE_IN_LOCAL_UNREAD_AND_UNEXEC_DIR, &statbuf) == 0
)
{
fprintf(stderr, "stat(\"" FILE_IN_LOCAL_UNREAD_AND_UNEXEC_DIR "\"
successful.\n");
}
else
{
fprintf(stderr, "stat(\"" FILE_IN_LOCAL_UNREAD_AND_UNEXEC_DIR "\"
unsuccessful.\n");
}
if(stat(FILE_IN_NFS_UNREAD_AND_UNEXEC_DIR, &statbuf) == 0
)
{
fprintf(stderr, "stat(\"" FILE_IN_NFS_UNREAD_AND_UNEXEC_DIR "\"
successful.\n");
}
else
{
fprintf(stderr, "stat(\"" FILE_IN_NFS_UNREAD_AND_UNEXEC_DIR "\"
unsuccessful.\n");
}
return(0);
}
- End of st.c -
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>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri, 26 Sep 97 10:51:11 GMT Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 23:34:08 GMT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Onyskiw) Organization: home Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: Bcc: Subject: Disapearing /dev/tty0's X-Mailer: PCElm 1.10 Lines: 22 In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Chad D. Zimmerman" writes: > > I have had an interesting problem rear it's ugly head two times now .. my > /dev/tty0's get SNAFUed for some reason. > > This is what they look like normally: > tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16450 > tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A > tty03 at 0x02e8 (irq = 3) is a 16450 ^^^shared IRQs??? Try changing one of the ones using IRQ3 to another, unused IRQ - cat /proc/interrupts to see which ones you're currently using. Autodetect may work on boot, alternatively have a look at /etc/rc.boot/0setserial to manually set them up (ISTR that being the path, but I'm away from my Debian machine at the moment) -- Mike Onyskiw -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: dpkg and dselect
On Sat, 27 Sep 1997, Lawrence Lucier wrote: > >(BTW, LILO will not install on an extended > > partition AFAIK) > > HI looked through the docs for this kind of limitation but > didn't see anything that pointed to this fact. Will be checking this out > again though. Sure it will. From my fdisk: Device Boot BeginStart End Blocks Id System /dev/hda111 209 842656+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M /dev/hda2 * 215 215 215 4032a OS/2 Boot Manager /dev/hda3 210 210 21420160 16 Unknown /dev/hda4 216 216 620 16329605 Extended /dev/hda5 216 216 266 205600+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M /dev/hda6 267 267 610 1386976+ 83 Linux native /dev/hda7 611 611 62040288+ 82 Linux swap Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
