Re: Galeon and java (was: Re: Anyone successful with Sun's Java 1.3.1_01?)

[Oki DZ]

On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, dman wrote:
> deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian sid/non-US main contrib non-free

Thanks a lot; it's just what I need.
BTW, what's  the magic behind it? There was no example on "sid/non-US".

Oki

errors installing libc6 -- HELP!

[Noah Coccaro]

I recently upgraded to the upgraded packages in debian stable (using dselect)

One newly updated package is the oh so important libc6, however, it
does not install.

I narrowed down it's install probelm due to a configuration problem:


(noahsark:/var/cache/apt/archives) sudo dpkg --configure libc6
Setting up libc6 (2.1.3-19) ...
dpkg: error processing libc6 (--configure):
 md5sum gave malformatted output `fc857c5ac5fb84d80720ed4d1c624f6e'
Errors were encountered while processing:
 libc6
(noahsark:/var/cache/apt/archives) 

I'm not sure why it's coming up with that error. I did some poking
around, and found the following, which means nothing to me, but might
further pinpoint the error: 

(noahsark:/var/lib/dpkg) sudo grep -i fc857c5ac5fb84d80720ed4d1c624f6e *
grep: alternatives: Is a directory
grep: info: Is a directory
grep: methods: Is a directory
status: /etc/default/devpts fc857c5ac5fb84d80720ed4d1c624f6e
status-old: /etc/default/devpts fc857c5ac5fb84d80720ed4d1c624f6e
status.yesterday.0: /etc/default/devpts fc857c5ac5fb84d80720ed4d1c624f6e
grep: updates: Is a directory

So, it seems to be objecting to the md5sum that is coming from
/etc/default/devpts  I don't know what it is supposed to be. 

So here's some more info:

(noahsark:/var/lib/dpkg) md5sum /etc/default/devpts
fc857c5ac5fb84d80720ed4d1c624f6e  /etc/default/devpts

And for completeness:

(noahsark:/var/lib/dpkg) md5sum /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.1.3-19_i386.deb 
 
6fe4da7d7c6d8602c245b678568dc1cf  
/var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.1.3-19_i386.deb


(which is supposedly what it's supposed to be.)

Should I report this as a bug?  in dpkg? in libc6? 

If this were any other package, I would uninstall it and reinstall,
but I suspect horrible things would happen if I remove
libc6. Suggestions? Anyone? 

Re: Arphic unifont Y2K

[Chun Kit Edwin Lau]

Hi

Hmmm, I am not a Linux expert, so I am not sure how to do it exactly,
yeah... and how do you come up with those name/spec in the hint file I
tried ftinfo those fonts, but it doesn't give all the proporties.  How
did you do it?

Edwin Lau


On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 09:47:14AM +0800, Anthony Fok wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 07:31:55PM -0500, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote:
> > I just bought unifont y2k from arphic and I want to install in
> > it.  The question is there is a installing script for Linux (for CLE),
> > and it just copy file to one directory and link it to another, and it
> > also create font.* files.  But I am using x-ttcidfont-conf and is it
> > better to use x-ttcidfont-conf?  I tried to figure out how it worked.
> > But no luck.  Is there a way I can find out how it worked or maybe
> > someone has some script that I can use to install it? thanx
> 
> See:
> 
>   /var/lib/dpkg/info/ttf-arphic-bsmi00lp.postinst
> and
>   /etc/defoma/hints/ttf-arphic-bsmi00lp.hints
> 
> I.e. create the hint file, and then run
> defoma-font reregister-all ?  Something like that.
> x-ttcidfont-conf's maintainer Yasuhiro Take has asked me a few days ago
> to provide hint files for proprietary font products.  If you have time to
> create the ones for the Arphic Unifont Y2K, that would be marvellous.  ;-)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Anthony
> 
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verifying the local files

[Patrick Hsieh]

Hello,

If I build my Debian box all from apt-get from official source hosts,
is there any way to verify the integrity, say, md5sum,  the files and
directories against the original official source media?

If I am not wrong, rpm -V can verify the integrity via network against
the official rpm package. What can we do in Debian?

Thanks.
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Re: errors installing libc6 -- HELP!

[Brian May]

> "Noah" == Noah Coccaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Noah> I recently upgraded to the upgraded packages in debian
Noah> stable (using dselect)

I assume you are upgrading a pre-potato system to stable? Or is this
just upgrading a potato system to the most recent version of potato?

Noah> Should I report this as a bug?  in dpkg? in libc6?

You forgot to mention what version of dpkg you are using...

(maybe if it is an old version it is too old?)
-- 
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Dual-boot failure with 2.4.8

[Dragos]

On Wednesday 05 December 2001 08:59 pm, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote:
> Hi:
>
>   I am running both NT4.0 and Linux (Debian Woody). I recently
>   installed the 2.4.8 kernel. Since it ran fine from a floppy,
>   I copied the bzImage to /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.8
>   Ran lilo
>   dd if=/dev/sda2 of=/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1
>   mcopy /bootsect.lnx a:
do you have boot=/dev/sda2 in lilo.conf?
>
>   Then under NT copied the bootsect.lnx to C:\
do you have the entry in boot.ini to point to bootsect.lnx?
>
>   and when I reboot and select linux
>
>   it starts up ok but hangs up after LI
it happened to me when I forgot to run lilo before dd, or lilo pointed to 
something else than the place I dd'ed from
>
>   This used to work with the earlier kernels. Am I doing something
>   wrong or is the procedure changed for the new kernels?
>
>   The processor is a Pentium III Xeon.
it is probably an oversight on your side...
>
>   In my home computer, (Pentium II) I did the same thing, but there
>   I was successful!
>
>   Right now I boot up from the floppy disk, but I'd like to
>   get away from that.
>
>   Thanks for any suggestions.

cheers, dragos

Re: DVD player

[Aaron Traas]

Peter Good wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 4 Dec 2001 17:15, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
> 
> > Video RAM is nearly irrelevant.  Anything with 2MB can do
> > 1024x768/16-bit which is what you want for DVD.  
>
> This might be a silly question, but why then, do they sell video cards > now, 
> with at least 8mb standard, with 32mb in a lot, and in my case 
> 64mb? Just wondering.
> 
> Peter.

The Linux kernel only requires like 4 MB of main memory, why do you
install more?

Like is said above, 2MB is required for 1024x768 @ 16bit color. Anything
more will require more RAM. The difference between 16 bit and 24 bit
color is very noticeable. On larger monitors, and higher end laptpops,
you want a res higher than 1024x768.

8MB is all that is needed for simple 2D stuff. If you want to do
anything fancy (dual-head display, 3D accelleration, etc.) you need more
memory. This is particularly useful in 3D accelleration as in order to
render a scene, all the textures must be loaded into video memory. Also,
more video RAM means effects in 2D like double and triple buffering can
work.

In short, the more RAM, the more stuff you can do.

--Aaron

Re: Upgrading to XFree 4.x

[Paolo Falcone]

=?iso-8859-1?Q?Am=E9rico_Rocha?= wrote:


>i realy want to know the best way to upgrade my debian 2.2 r4 (potato) to use 
>XFree 4.x.

Pardon me (I've yet to dist-upgrade to 2.2r4) - is Potato r4 using
XFree86 4.x? If not, I think there are unofficial XFree86 4.x debs
(once saw it listed in debianplanet). but it broke some of my
packages. Then again, the best way might be to upgrade to Woody (or
Sid for the more daring).

If it does, I'd better dist-upgrade my Potato r3 box...


Paolo Falcone

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unresolved symbols

[Gulácsi Sándor]

Dear Sirs,
I'd like to show you a nice error message which I met with when I tried to
install a new NVIDIA driver file under Debian 2.2.19 kernel:

rm -f nv.o os-interface.o os-registry.o  Module-linux nv_compiler.h NVdriver
gcc -c -Wall -Wno-unknown-pragmas -Wno-multichar -O -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE
-D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES -D_X86_=1 -Di386=1 -DUNIX -DLINUX -DNV4_HW -DNTRM
-DRM20 -D_GNU_SOURCE -DRM_HEAPMGR -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES
-DNV_MAJOR_VERSION=1 -DNV_MINOR_VERSION=0 -DNV_PATCHLEVEL=2313  -I.
-I/usr/src/linux/include nv.c
gcc -c -Wall -Wno-unknown-pragmas -Wno-multichar -O -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE
-D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES -D_X86_=1 -Di386=1 -DUNIX -DLINUX -DNV4_HW -DNTRM
-DRM20 -D_GNU_SOURCE -DRM_HEAPMGR -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES
-DNV_MAJOR_VERSION=1 -DNV_MINOR_VERSION=0 -DNV_PATCHLEVEL=2313  -I.
-I/usr/src/linux/include os-interface.c
gcc -c -Wall -Wno-unknown-pragmas -Wno-multichar -O -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE
-D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES -D_X86_=1 -Di386=1 -DUNIX -DLINUX -DNV4_HW -DNTRM
-DRM20 -D_GNU_SOURCE -DRM_HEAPMGR -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES
-DNV_MAJOR_VERSION=1 -DNV_MINOR_VERSION=0 -DNV_PATCHLEVEL=2313  -I.
-I/usr/src/linux/include os-registry.c
ld -r -o Module-linux nv.o os-interface.o os-registry.o 
ld -r -o NVdriver Module-linux Module-nvkernel
size NVdriver
   textdata bss dec hex filename
 659011   43968   52364  755343   b868f NVdriver
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.19/net/3c90x.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.19/video/NVdriver
/lib/modules/2.2.19/video/NVdriver: unresolved symbol
remove_proc_entry_Rfd85d31b
/lib/modules/2.2.19/video/NVdriver: unresolved symbol mem_map_Rada6f066
/lib/modules/2.2.19/video/NVdriver: unresolved symbol __wake_up_R488028a0
/lib/modules/2.2.19/video/NVdriver: unresolved symbol
create_proc_entry_Rc2e336b3
/lib/modules/2.2.19/video/NVdriver: unresolved symbol __pollwait_R08b1d5fb
/lib/modules/2.2.19/video/NVdriver: unresolved symbol
register_chrdev_R1fcff511
/lib/modules/2.2.19/video/NVdriver: unresolved symbol init_mm_R9059ec75
/lib/modules/2.2.19/video/NVdriver: unresolved symbol proc_root_R16eb05de
/lib/modules/2.2.19/video/NVdriver: insmod
/lib/modules/2.2.19/video/NVdriver failed
/lib/modules/2.2.19/video/NVdriver: insmod NVdriver failed
make: *** [package-install] Error 255


I'd be very glad if you could tell me the solution.

Thanks,
Thomas Gulacsi
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Re: Galeon and java (was: Re: Anyone successful with Sun's Java 1.3.1_01?)

[Oki DZ]

On 4 Dec 2001, Bill Wohler wrote:
>   That plugin provides application/x-java-applet and others. It does
>   not provide application/x-java-vm.

Same thing here; and I use Sun's JDK.

Oki

Re: Arphic unifont Y2K

[Chun Kit Edwin Lau]

I was trying to create the hint file, but have some questions.  Unifonts
2K have unicode encoding with various charsets, (big5/gb/etc) am I
right? so what does it mean?  I thought unicode is just a big charset.
I have this big confusion for a while.  Can someone help me?

and back to the hint file business.  If the unifonts 2k is unicode
encoded.  Charset entry should have ISO10646 and should also have a
UniCharset entry according to the defoma manual, but your bsmi00 hint
file doesn't have that.  Something wrong?

Sorry for too many question.  I wanna learn but just don't know where to
look for answers.

Edwin Lau

On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 09:47:14AM +0800, Anthony Fok wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 07:31:55PM -0500, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote:
> > I just bought unifont y2k from arphic and I want to install in
> > it.  The question is there is a installing script for Linux (for CLE),
> > and it just copy file to one directory and link it to another, and it
> > also create font.* files.  But I am using x-ttcidfont-conf and is it
> > better to use x-ttcidfont-conf?  I tried to figure out how it worked.
> > But no luck.  Is there a way I can find out how it worked or maybe
> > someone has some script that I can use to install it? thanx
> 
> See:
> 
>   /var/lib/dpkg/info/ttf-arphic-bsmi00lp.postinst
> and
>   /etc/defoma/hints/ttf-arphic-bsmi00lp.hints
> 
> I.e. create the hint file, and then run
> defoma-font reregister-all ?  Something like that.
> x-ttcidfont-conf's maintainer Yasuhiro Take has asked me a few days ago
> to provide hint files for proprietary font products.  If you have time to
> create the ones for the Arphic Unifont Y2K, that would be marvellous.  ;-)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Anthony
> 
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> 
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BIG xwindow apps

[Matt Chipman]

I use Debian for all my servers and have only recently decided to 
give it (Debian) a go for my desktop machines as well.

I seem to run into a problem where the OS installs fine and all the 
programs work but the GUI is very large.

I have tried both blackbox and window maker and when they load, they 
are in 16mill colors and at 800*600 but when i open a program such as 
irc or any other type app, the application is huge and sometimes goes 
off the screen so much so i cant reach the buttons on the top half or 
bottom half of the screen with the mouse.

I have seen some very nice desktops as png's on the web and they look 
nothing like what i have (as far as the app size goes)

is there a font size adjustment or something i am missing?  (other 
than the screen size which is correct)

cheers 

-Matt










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suck broken in testing

[Heinrich Rebehn]

Hi list,

Since my last apt-get upgrade yesterday, suck(1) does not work anymore:

$ suck
suck: relocation error: suck: undefined symbol: stat

Unfortunately, i cannot recall anymore which packages got upgraded during the 
apt-get upgrade. How can i find out, which lib contains (or should contain) the 
symbol stat?


$ ldd `which suck`
libsocks.so.4 => /usr/lib/libsocks.so.4 (0x4001a000)
libnsl.so.1 => /lib/libnsl.so.1 (0x40028000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4003d000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x4000)

How do i find out the date of those libs? According to 
ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/Contents-i386.gz it should be in 
libs/libsocks4 but i cannot find it there.


Can anyone help me?

-- Heinrich


Heinrich Rebehn

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Re: BIG xwindow apps

[nate]

> I have tried both blackbox and window maker and when they load,
> they  are in 16mill colors and at 800*600 but when i open a

in my 5 years of running X windows my experience is X is
unusable for the most part with anything below 1024x768.
800x600 is just too painful. i would reccomend using a virtual
desktop of 1024x768 or higher if your using 800x600. see
the X docs on how to do this, its not too hard. been
a while since i had to do it though.

nate

Re: BIG xwindow apps

[Craig Dickson]

nate wrote:

> in my 5 years of running X windows my experience is X is
> unusable for the most part with anything below 1024x768.
> 800x600 is just too painful. i would reccomend using a virtual
> desktop of 1024x768 or higher if your using 800x600. see
> the X docs on how to do this, its not too hard. been
> a while since i had to do it though.

I have never tried to use X on anything less than 1024x768, but why
should it be any worse than running MS Windows at the same resolution?
(Purely considered as a graphical display -- ignore the issue of MS
Windows crashing left and right.)

Craig

Re: verifying the local files

[nate]

> Hello,
>
> If I build my Debian box all from apt-get from official source
> hosts, is there any way to verify the integrity, say, md5sum,  the
> files and directories against the original official source media?
>
> If I am not wrong, rpm -V can verify the integrity via network
> against the official rpm package. What can we do in Debian?

if you use apt-get source -b it will verify it for you.
i know because ive tried to use that method to build modified
source packages and the [EMAIL PROTECTED](@T%# thing kept downloading
the original and overwriting my modifications. then i learned
about debian/rules binary and i stopped using apt-get source -b

nate

Re: chess program recommendations?

[Anthony Campbell]

On 05 Dec 2001, Kurt Lieber wrote:
> I'm looking for a good chess program for Debian.  I've done apt-cache search 
> chess, so I know the options out there.  I'm looking for recommendations from 
> people that have played some/all of them.
> 
> Something that has a reasonably intelligent AI so I can play the computer.  
> Also, I'd prefer a GUI-based program so I don't have to worry about knight 6, 
> king 8 and all that stuff.  And, though this may be far-fetched, a program 
> that supported 2-person games over the internet would be ideal.  
> 
> Any recommendations?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> --kurt
> 

Try Crafty. If you can beat it you're a better man than I am, Gunga
Din.

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Re: BIG xwindow apps

[Oki DZ]

On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Matt Chipman wrote:
> I use Debian for all my servers and have only recently decided to 
> give it (Debian) a go for my desktop machines as well.

Consider to install Gnome too.
 
> irc or any other type app, the application is huge and sometimes goes 
> off the screen so much so i cant reach the buttons on the top half or 
> bottom half of the screen with the mouse.

If you have Gnome installed, you can have the Desk Guide applet; and then
you could grab one of the window thumbnails there using the middle button
(both if your mouse emulates), and move it.

Oki

Aztech Sound

[noname noname]

Hi,

I have problems installing a non pnp isa sound card with azt 2316-s and
cs4231A chip. it is a Aztech MM Pro 16 ABI EP-U. 

I could not find any working drivers. Does anybody know how to install this
card??

Thanks
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Re: HELP horrible ssh upgrade

[Frederik Vanrenterghem]

On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, John Griffiths wrote:

> but if that doesn't work does anyone have any suggestions?

I upgraded ssh on a woody box, and it failed because of some incorrect
dpkg option. I solved it by installing ssh-nonfree. I should probably file
a bug report...

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Re: BIG xwindow apps

[Johnny Ernst Nielsen]

>I seem to run into a problem where the OS installs fine and all the 
>programs work but the GUI is very large.
>
>I have tried both blackbox and window maker and when they load, they 
>are in 16mill colors and at 800*600 but when i open a program such as 
>irc or any other type app, the application is huge and sometimes goes 
>off the screen so much so i cant reach the buttons on the top half or 
>bottom half of the screen with the mouse.

Since you sound like you are new to GUI Linux you probably fell in a common
newbie trap.

X control the basic graphical display on your system. X manage a physical
screen and a virtual screen.
If your virtual screen resolution is larger than your physical screen 
resolution,
then the effect will be exactly what you describe.

The solution is to tell X that you want your physical screen resolution and
your virtual screen resolution to be the same.

X is controlled by settings in the file /etc/X11/XF86Config

man XF86Config to see the huge amount of things in X that you can tweak.


To ease setup of X there are some different programs that makes it easy for
you.
Together with X comes xf86config which will ask a lot of questions and finally
write a suitable XF86Config.
One of the questions is whether you want a virtual screen that is different
from your physical screen.
This is where the GUI newbie are best off answering no.

Try running xf86config to configure your GUI, but remember first to make
a copy of your original XF86Config file since xf86config will overwrite it.


Did that help?

Best regards
Johnny :o)

viewing sgml documentation

[Matus \"fantomas\" Uhlar]

Hello,

many documents in debian are written in SGML.
What's the recommended way to read them?

-> "J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
-> > which is the easiest way to read formatted sgml docs in potato?
-> 
-> SGML is a language in which you can define the structure documents must
-> conform by writing DTDs == document type definitions. Well-known DTDs are
-> those for HTML and DocBook. 
-> 
-> "SGML docs" is therefore a very sloppy term, and there is not really such
-> thing as an "SGML viewer".
-> 
-> > I haven't found any simple sgml viewer, there are only formaters to other
-> > formats.
-> 
-> That's right. Writing documents using SGML DTDs is about _structure_, not
-> about _formatting_ (aka _layout_). Such documents can be formatted using an
-> additional specification of how particular structure elements are to be
-> rendered (in particular contexts); DSSSL and XSL are standards that deal
-> with this. The output of this rendering process can be just about every
-> presentation format; typical examples include PDF, PostScript and plain
-> text.

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Re: OT: perl Crypt::IDEA

[Pietro Cagnoni]

shock wrote:
> 
> Sorry for the OT, but I haven't found anything relating to my problem.
> I'm trying to install the Crypt::IDEA perl module.  I've tried it with
> both perl -MCPAN -e shell and downloading the .tar.gz file.  Both end
> with the following:
> 
> cc -c  -DDEBIAN -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include
> -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -O2   -DVERSION=\"1.01\"
> -DXS_VERSION=\"1.01\" -fPIC -I/usr/lib/perl/5.6.1/CORE  IDEA.c
> IDEA.xs: In function `XS_Crypt__IDEA_crypt':
> IDEA.xs:66: `sv_undef' undeclared (first use in this function)
> IDEA.xs:66: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> IDEA.xs:66: for each function it appears in.)
> make: *** [IDEA.o] Error 1
> 
> I have *no* idea what could be causing the problem (I'm quite
> unexperienced with Makefiles, etc.).  If anyone has any suggestions, I'd
> really appreciate it.
> 
> Thanks!

uhm, look in the module documentation and see if the module can work
with the perl version you have. the problem could be there.

however, after a quick grep trough the perl source, i think you can
replace 'sv_undef' with 'PL_sv_undef' to compile it.

hope it helps.

pietro.

Re: DVD rip (Was RE: DVD Player)

[Joachim Trinkwitz]

Romuald DELAVERGNE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> > "Christian Schoenebeck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > Really? What's the name? I haven't found one named trancsode or
> > similar.
> 
> You install this package with dpkg (It come from marillat packages)
> So 'apt-cache search transcode' can't find if you didn't install it before.
> 

Oops, I'm terribly sorry. Indeed, you can't find this package on the
Debian servers -- put the line

deb http://marillat.free.fr/ unstable main

in your sources list, then you can download the package.

Greetings,
joachim

Audigy Drivers

[David Wright]

Does anyone know the status of drivers for Creative's Audigy sound cards? I 
would like to buy one and use it with Debian.

Does Alsa 0.9.x support it? If so, how to I use the Alsa drivers on a Debian 
(Linux 2.4.x) system? If not, can someone point me to a development site/list?

Some advice to fix up my package database :-)

[Adam Warner]

Hi all,

I've been using alien for the first time today. Now I can't install any
package using apt-get (it might not be the alien packages but I thought
I should mention it).

Before I make a real mess I thought I'd get some advice on the error
message:

apt-get install ucbmpeg-play
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  ucbmpeg-play 
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 18  not
upgraded.
Need to get 0B/69.2kB of archives. After unpacking 177kB will be used.
(Reading database ... dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/ucbmpeg-play_2.3p-10.1_i386.deb (--unpack):
 files list file for package `libncurses5-dev' is missing final newline
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/ucbmpeg-play_2.3p-10.1_i386.deb
Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

The strange error message is:
files list file for package `libncurses5-dev' is missing final newline

This happens when trying to install any package.

I can't even do a dpkg --purge --force-all libncurses5-dev

I'm told "Processing was halted because there were too many errors" (the
same error message above).

Thanks,
Adam

Re: verifying the local files

[Colin Watson]

On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 12:48:27AM -0800, nate wrote:
> 
> > If I build my Debian box all from apt-get from official source
> > hosts, is there any way to verify the integrity, say, md5sum,  the
> > files and directories against the original official source media?
> >
> > If I am not wrong, rpm -V can verify the integrity via network
> > against the official rpm package. What can we do in Debian?
> 
> if you use apt-get source -b it will verify it for you.
> i know because ive tried to use that method to build modified
> source packages and the [EMAIL PROTECTED](@T%# thing kept downloading
> the original and overwriting my modifications.

Not really, it doesn't check the md5sums of individual files.

Many .debs come with md5sums these days (in /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.md5sums
if you want them on read-only media), and debsums will check those.

-- 
Colin Watson  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Question about bug-tracking

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 08:45:13PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote:
> Let's say I saw some behavior in one of programs, namely XMMS, and 
> wanted to file a bug.  Trying to not overload our hardworking maintainers, 
> I dutifully first checked with bugview xmms to see if someone had
> already filed a bug on this behavior.  It turns out that someone in
> fact has.  Great - now what I would like to do is append some input,
> so as to try and make their life easier.  Open a seperate bug, or tack
> it onto the existing one?  If, as I suspect, the latter, how?
> mailto:@bugs.debian.org, I'm guessing, but I turn humbly
> to the veterans of this list for guidance.

Add your extra information to the existing bug, by mailing
@bugs.debian.org.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Character-mode clock

[George Karaolides]

Yes, thanks David, 'watch -n1 date' worked fine for me.

George Karaolides   8, Costakis Pantelides St.,
tel:   +35 79 68 08 86   Strovolos,
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]   Nicosia CY 2057,
web:   www.karaolides.com  Republic  of Cyprus



On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, David Z Maze wrote:

> George Karaolides <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> GK> Is there a clock application that can be used to show system time in a
> GK> character-mode terminal?  There seem to be any number of them that can be
> GK> used under X, but I can't find any that can be used in character mode.
>
> For something quick, cheap, and easy, try 'watch -n1 date'.  My memory
> of using screen on a VT320 plugged into a serial port suggests that
> screen would also display the current time on the hardware modeline if
> it could be convinced that such existed, but this is kind of a fuzzy
> memory, and I'm not sure if you could (or would want to) emulate the
> modeline in an xterm/Linux virtual console.
>
> --
> David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED]  http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/
> "Theoretical politics is interesting.  Politicking should be illegal."
>   -- Abra Mitchell
>
>
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Re: Character-mode clock

[George Karaolides]

On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Alan Shutko wrote:

> George Karaolides <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Is there a clock application that can be used to show system time in a
> > character-mode terminal?
>
> M-x display-time.  You _are_ running everything in Emacs, right?  8^)

I'm actually trying to un-learn emacs and get used to vi... ;)  But
anyway, M-x display-time only shows minutes.  Could it be made to show
seconds?

> Unless you want a clock that will just take over the terminal?

A clock that would take over the terminal, like the 'watch -n1 date'
solution suggested by other posters, is OK.  Having the time display in a
modeline or other appropriate area while I'm using the xterm would be an
added bonus.

What I have is a lot of machines I'm administering via ssh, and what I
need is a way to check the system clocks that isn't a snapshot like
'date'.

George Karaolides   8, Costakis Pantelides St.,
tel:   +35 79 68 08 86   Strovolos,
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]   Nicosia CY 2057,
web:   www.karaolides.com  Republic  of Cyprus

Re: Movie players in certain Linuxes , O God !

[Adam Warner]

On Thu, 2001-12-06 at 04:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> There are certain movie players in certain Linuxes ,
> that are horrendously pathetic .
> It is something like this :
> You see two hands , you hear some sound , and after 
> 5 minutes you see Silvester Stalllone ?

Check out mplayer:
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/

It is able to play most of the file formats you may be used to playing
under Windows. Just beware of the licensing implications of using
Windows DLLs under Linux.

You have to compile the application yourself.

Regards,
Adam

Re: chess program recommendations?

[Karsten M. Self]

on Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 09:05:52PM -0800, Kurt Lieber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I'm looking for a good chess program for Debian.  I've done apt-cache search 
> chess, so I know the options out there.  I'm looking for recommendations from 
> people that have played some/all of them.
> 
> Something that has a reasonably intelligent AI so I can play the computer.  
> Also, I'd prefer a GUI-based program so I don't have to worry about knight 6, 
> king 8 and all that stuff.  And, though this may be far-fetched, a program 
> that supported 2-person games over the internet would be ideal.  
> 
> Any recommendations?

gnuchess & xboard.

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Re: Character-mode clock

[George Karaolides]

On Thu, 6 Dec 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Sounds like what you want is `vcstime`
> ...it's part of console-tools, so I'd be betting it's on your system already.
> Check in /etc/console-tools/config for the option to turn it on on system
> boot.

I think vcstime only runs in the console, not in a terminal like an xterm.
I need to see the clock when remotely logged in.

> If you want a copy of my `timescreen` script, let me know and I'll clean
> it up a bit and get a release out ;)

Depends on what it does.  If it can display the time while I'm logged in
remotely and using the terminal (doesn't take over the terminal completely
like 'watch -n1 time'), then OK.  Otherwise just running 'watch -n1 time'
does the job for me.

Thanks,

George Karaolides   8, Costakis Pantelides St.,
tel:   +35 79 68 08 86   Strovolos,
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]   Nicosia CY 2057,
web:   www.karaolides.com  Republic  of Cyprus

Re: Adaptec RAID 2100s new install of Debian - please help!

[David]

On Thursday 06 December 2001 00:40, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
> * Graham Williams ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
> ...
>
> > Eventually VFS Kernel Panic.  Cant mount root fs.  There's also a
> > message about block-major-8.
>
> It's trying to load the driver from /lib/modules on root fs. Oops.
>
> You have two options:
> 1. build a custom kernel with the driver compiled in.
> 2. put root fs on a separate disk.

I'm having the same sort of problem with a Mylex card.  It uses the dac960 
module.

Would putting / on an IDE drive sort this out?  I plan to use the SCSI array 
for /var and things of that nature.

Cheers,

David.

dac960 module

[David]

I'm trying to install on a box with 1 IDE hard drive, 1 IDE CDROM and a 3 
SCSI disc array controlled by a Mylex 960 controler card.

When I use a floppy to load the DAC960.o module it see the drives and I can 
partition them.  I also get an error message...

DAC960#0: Physical Device 1:5 Error Log: Sense Key = 2, ASC = 3A, ASCQ = 00
DAC960#0: Physical Device 1:5 Error Log: Information =  

this is repeated for Device 1:6 too.

Could someone tell me if this is bad news or just info please?

Cheers,

David

Re: Upgrading to XFree 4.x

[Sean Quinlan]

--- Américo Rocha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-12-05 23:38):
> i realy want to know the best way to upgrade my debian 2.2 r4 (potato)
> to use XFree 4.x.

There are unofficial debs here:

http://people.debian.org/~cpbotha/xf410_potato/READ.THIS

Cheers,
Sean

-- 
Sean Quinlan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: chess program recommendations?

[Tom Allison]

Karsten M. Self wrote:


on Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 09:05:52PM -0800, Kurt Lieber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

I'm looking for a good chess program for Debian.  I've done apt-cache search 
chess, so I know the options out there.  I'm looking for recommendations from 
people that have played some/all of them.


Something that has a reasonably intelligent AI so I can play the computer.  
Also, I'd prefer a GUI-based program so I don't have to worry about knight 6, 
king 8 and all that stuff.  And, though this may be far-fetched, a program 
that supported 2-person games over the internet would be ideal.  


Any recommendations?



gnuchess & xboard.




didn't work for me.  Configuration was hosed.
uninstalled it out of frustration.

Couldn't set it to play against the computer or network play.

What happened to compose?

[Johann Spies]

What happened to the compose key in debian?  It used to work without a
problem on my machine not so anymore.  I do a daily dist-upgrade.

I did a install-keymap of both the default keymaps in /usr/share/keymaps
and both of them makes provision for a compose key, but it does not
work.

It is a bit frustrating.  There was a time when my colleague with redhat
was having trouble to get the compose key going, now it is the other way
round: it works without a hitch on redhat and I can not get it going on
Debian.

Regards.

Johann
-- 
Johann Spies  Telefoon: 021-808 4036
Informasietegnologie, Universiteit van Stellenbosch

 "In my Father's house are many mansions; if it were not
  so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for
  you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will 
  come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I 
  am, there ye may be also."   John 14: 2,3 

Fwd: Gnome panel fonts replaced by rectangles.

[Adam Bogacki]

Any ideas on this one folks ?

Adam Bogacki,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

- Forwarded message from Adam Bogacki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -

Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 11:33:58 +1100
From: Adam Bogacki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: slug@slug.org.au
Subject: Gnome panel fonts replaced by rectangles.
Mail-Followup-To: Adam Bogacki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED],
slug@slug.org.au
X-Operating-System: 'uname -srm'
X-Message-Flag: Don't you wish you were using Free Software ? http://fsf.org

Matt,

I've found - just as I proposed demonstrating Debian to a friend
- that the lettering [fonts] on the Gnome panel and sub-menus and the
tool-tip Evolution menus have been replaced by rectangles.

I'm not sure what caused this but it might have something to do
with using 'apt-get install' on 'xfonts-75dpi', xfonts-100dpi',
'xfonts-base' and 'xfonts-scalable' ... I thought it would be a good
idea to have them on my system in case of need.

Is there a conflict here ? More to the point, is there an easy
fix ?

Adam Bogacki, Sydney.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

- End forwarded message -

Re: BIG xwindow apps

[Andrew Sione Taumoefolau]

On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 12:45:59AM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote:
> I have never tried to use X on anything less than 1024x768, but why
> should it be any worse than running MS Windows at the same resolution?
> (Purely considered as a graphical display -- ignore the issue of MS
> Windows crashing left and right.)

It often just feels like X app authors assume all users run at fairly
high resolutions, and Windows app authors don't. In terms of
cramped-ness, Windows at 800 by 600 feels about the same as X at 1024 by
768. This is of course completely subjective, and certainly dependant on
the kinds of apps you want to run (the Gnome desktop environment, in my
case), but yeah. There you go :).

-- 

Andrew Sione Taumoefolau
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.midspark.net/shazbot/

Re: Fwd: Gnome panel fonts replaced by rectangles.

[Adam Warner]

On Fri, 2001-12-07 at 00:40, Adam Bogacki wrote:
> Any ideas on this one folks ?

http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/debian-user-200109/msg01284.html

The solution in my case:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/debian-user-200109/msg01470.html

Regards,
Adam

Re: chess program recommendations?

[Johann Spies]

On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 06:34:55AM -0500, Tom Allison wrote:
> Karsten M. Self wrote:
> >
> >gnuchess & xboard.
> 
> didn't work for me.  Configuration was hosed.
> uninstalled it out of frustration.
> 

Did you try eboard and crafty?

Johann
-- 
Johann Spies  Telefoon: 021-808 4036
Informasietegnologie, Universiteit van Stellenbosch

 "In my Father's house are many mansions; if it were not
  so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for
  you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will 
  come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I 
  am, there ye may be also."   John 14: 2,3 

Re: chess program recommendations?

[Eric C. Cooper]

On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 09:05:52PM -0800, Kurt Lieber wrote:
> I'm looking for a good chess program for Debian.

I can recommend xboard + crafty.  Apt-get install both debs, then use
something like:
nice xboard -fcp crafty -size medium -highlight -xclock &
"Nice" is important, since crafty will try to consume all the CPU
thinking during your moves.

-- 
Eric C. Cooper  e c c @ c m u . e d u

MX Records ?

[shyamk]

I normally use Linux to receive mails  , not to send any .
And I use PINE/fetchmail on my Linux box.
  What I have done is I created a login ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) of the same name as 
my
account at my ISP([EMAIL PROTECTED])  , then configured
.fetchmailrc and PINE for this login.
  It fetches the mail properly.
But , when I try to send mails I get some errors ,
(indicated below my mail) , and also some advice -
kind of message :
"Your _ does not do resolution of email addresses.
Add MX records _"

I do nor remember the full thing .

My doubts are :
1) Does the whole thing mean that I have to add some "MX" records
to my /etc/resolv.conf ?
2)What is  MX ?
3) How do I add these records and where ?

Well , basically I can send mails from PINE on Linux
to myself ,
and then receive it
either
in Liux (fetchmail) or
on windoze (M$ Outlook) .

So , I gather , mainly the problem is with
the
with the Mailing-lists.


Please guide me on this .

Thanks in advance.
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Shyam

-ERRORS I GET UPON THE MAIL I HAD SENT -

--fB6C1Rk01373.1007640144/localhost.localdomain
Content-Type: message/delivery-status

Reporting-MTA: dns; localhost.localdomain
Arrival-Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 08:52:44 +0530

Final-Recipient: RFC822; linux-india-help@lists.sourceforge.net
Action: failed
Status: 5.1.1
Remote-MTA: DNS; mail.sourceforge.net
Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550 cannot route to sender address
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Last-Attempt-Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 17:32:23 +0530

--fB6C1Rk01373.1007640144/localhost.localdomain
Content-Type: message/rfc822

Return-Path: 
Received: (from [EMAIL PROTECTED])
 by localhost.localdomain (8.11.2/8.11.2) id fB63Mib00940;
 Thu, 6 Dec 2001 08:52:44 +0530
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 08:52:44 +0530
From: shyamk
Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: linux-india-help@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: /etc/inittab
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED];debian-user@lists.debian.org;

Starting console mouse services:   [  OK  ]
Starting crond:[  OK  ]
Starting anacron:  [  OK  ]
ATQ0V1H0

This is what I get on VC1 after making the following changes
to my /etc/inittab , and doing  a reboot :

1:2345:respawn:/usr/local/sbin/mgetty tty1
2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2


I just thought , I could try out mgetty , but things stay
stuck here !

I shall be grateful for all possible help

Warm Regards,
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Shyam


--fB6C1Rk01373.1007640144/localhost.localdomain--

djbdns and local network

[Jan Tammen]

I'm trying to setup djbdns (from daemontools-installer 0.70-25 and
djbdns-installer 1.05-4) for my small local network [1]. Installing 
the software was not a problem. According to the documentation on
http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html, I did the following steps:

On the linux-server (IP 10.0.0.1):
1: install daemontools and djbdns

2: Set up DNS server:
  - # tinydns-conf tinydns dnslog /etc/tinydns 10.0.0.1
  - # ln -s /etc/tinydns /service
  - /service/tinydns/root# ./add-ns example.net 10.0.0.1
  - /service/tinydns/root# ./add-ns 0.0.10.in-addr.arpa 10.0.0.1
  - /service/tinydns/root# make
  - add my local host:
- /service/tinydns/root# ./add-host server.example.net 10.0.0.1
- /service/tinydns/root# ./add-host winclient1.example.net 10.0.0.2
- /service/tinydns/root# ./add-host winclient2.example.net 10.0.0.3
- /service/tinydns/root# make
  - test lookup of local hostnames, e.g.:
- # dnsipq server.example.net
  # server.example.net 10.0.0.1 
=> seems to work
=> clients can lookup internal hosts, too

3: Set up external cache (to lookup external hosts):
  - # dnscache-conf dnscache dnslog /etc/dnscachex 10.0.0.1
  - # ln -s /etc/dnscachex /service
  - # touch /etc/dnscachex/root/ip/10
  - test lookup of external hostnames, e.g.:
- # dnsipq www.heise.de
  # www.heise.de 193.99.144.71
=> seems to work
=> clients can lookup external hosts, too
=> BUT: local hosts are not looked up correctly anymore:
   - # dnsipq server.example.net
 # server.example.net 11.22.33.44
 => as "example.net" is an 'existing' domainname,
 server.example.net is looked up externally and gives me the IP
 address of "example.net".
  - According to the docs, I created
/etc/dnscachex/root/servers/example.net with "10.0.0.1" in it. Now I
get a timeout when I try to lookup hosts in that domain.

Any hints about what I am missing? Thanks in advance!

[1] My network: 10.0.0.0/24, domain example.net
-- 
Haesslichst: http://tammen.net/jt/

Re: What happened to compose? - further information

[Johann Spies]

I have further information:  Typing in vim the compose key works, but
not in bash.  I can thus type ëê etc in vim, but not in bash.

Any ideas on how to solve it?

Johann
-- 
Johann Spies  Telefoon: 021-808 4036
Informasietegnologie, Universiteit van Stellenbosch

 "In my Father's house are many mansions; if it were not
  so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for
  you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will 
  come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I 
  am, there ye may be also."   John 14: 2,3 

Re: BIG xwindow apps

[Aaron Traas]

Craig Dickson wrote:
> 
> nate wrote:
> 
> > in my 5 years of running X windows my experience is X is
> > unusable for the most part with anything below 1024x768.
> > 800x600 is just too painful. i would reccomend using a virtual
> > desktop of 1024x768 or higher if your using 800x600. see
> > the X docs on how to do this, its not too hard. been
> > a while since i had to do it though.
> 
> I have never tried to use X on anything less than 1024x768, but why
> should it be any worse than running MS Windows at the same resolution?
> (Purely considered as a graphical display -- ignore the issue of MS
> Windows crashing left and right.)
> 

Windows apps, particularly older ones, were designed to be usable at
640x480. I believe X started on Solaris, or at least first caught on
there, and I believe the default then was 1152x864, because at 8BPP, it
fit in 1 MB of video RAM. The first Windows 3.x machines ran almost
exclusively at 640x480, as PC graphics cards really couldn't stand up to
workstation frame buffer devices back then.

X apps *are* generally bigger, and even those that are resizable do not
take into consideration the way the layout shrinks at really small
screen sizes. Most of the WM's use very thick titlebars, KDE and GNOME
by default have very thick panels at the bottom, etc. X at less than
1024x768 is extremely painful.

--Aaron

Cannot forward into files

[Steffan Baron]

Hi there,

I'm encountering a strange problem in the interaction of a Solaris
mail server and a file server running potato. Usually, my users can
forward their mail into a local file  by specifying its path in their
.forward. However, this doesn't work if the user home is stored on the
Linux file server. Although the user homes are exported with root
permissions,  mails don't get written into the specified
file. Instead, they're still queued (even after 14 days, and even
stranger, with no error message at all).

Does anybody know what the problem might be? Any help would be greatly
appreciated.

Gruss
Steffan


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This email was infected under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

many terminal windows appears after X start

[Yu]

When my x window starts,many terminal windows appears(about 6 or 7 )
I have changed .xinitrc and Xsession just for locale setting (export
LANG=zh_TW.Big5
export LC_ALL=zh_TW.Big5
export XMODIFIER="@im=xcin")
Did I change any X setting to make it so curious?
How should I do to make it normal(don't appear any terminal window when
X start)
Thanks
I use woody,gnome 1.4

*I'm sorry for my poor English  .

Errors compiling PHP4 on potato

[George Karaolides]

Hi,

I'm trying to compile PHP4 on Debian potato.  I'm using the Debian source
package php4_4.0.3pl1-0potato1.

I'm getting the following errors, which seem to be related to mysql.  This
is despite the fact that I've commented out the mysql configuration
options in debian/rules (I don't need mysql support).

Help, anyone?

--- begin errors ---

In file included from
/root/php/php4-4.0.3pl1/ext/mysql/libmysql/libmysql.c:14:
/root/php/php4-4.0.3pl1/ext/mysql/libmysql/m_string.h:165: parse error
before `__extension__'
/root/php/php4-4.0.3pl1/ext/mysql/libmysql/m_string.h:165: parse error
before `&&'
make[5]: *** [libmysql.lo] Error 1
make[5]: Leaving directory
`/root/php/php4-4.0.3pl1/apache-build/ext/mysql/libmysql'
make[4]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory
`/root/php/php4-4.0.3pl1/apache-build/ext/mysql/libmysql'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory
`/root/php/php4-4.0.3pl1/apache-build/ext/mysql'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/php/php4-4.0.3pl1/apache-build/ext'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/php/php4-4.0.3pl1/apache-build'
make: *** [build-apache-stamp] Error 2

--- end errors ---

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Re: djbdns and local network

[mark]

On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 02:27:30PM +0100, Jan Tammen wrote:
> I'm trying to setup djbdns (from daemontools-installer 0.70-25 and
> djbdns-installer 1.05-4) for my small local network [1]. Installing 
> the software was not a problem. According to the documentation on
> http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html, I did the following steps:
> 
(snip)
> 2: Set up DNS server:
>   - # tinydns-conf tinydns dnslog /etc/tinydns 10.0.0.1
> 
(snip)
> 3: Set up external cache (to lookup external hosts):
>   - # dnscache-conf dnscache dnslog /etc/dnscachex 10.0.0.1

tinydns and dnscache can't both listen to the same IP address. Set up
tinydns to listen on the loopback interface instead and it should
work. 

-- Mark

Uptime

[Andrew Pritchard]

>From the Man page:
   uptime  gives a one line display of the following informa­tion.
   The current time, how long the system has been run­ning, how 
   many users are currently logged on, and the sys­tem load 
   averages for the past 1, 5, and 15 minutes.

What exactly does the 'load averages' mean? Is it the CPU time?

Just for my own curiosity really

Cheers,

Andrew

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but I will defend to the death your right to say it." 
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Re: Movie players in certain Linuxes , O God !

[D.]

There is a .deb file for mplayer.  You need to add
libasound2 from unstable and also liblircclient0,
libmud0 and libsdl1.2debian from testing. Then add
this to your /etc/apt/sources.list do a apt-get update
apt-get install mplayer-686 mplayer-fonts
mplayer-docs.  And you have a nice GUI MPlayer.
Don
deb http://marillat.free.fr/ unstable main and do the
apt-get update
--- Adam Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2001-12-06 at 04:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > There are certain movie players in certain Linuxes
> ,
> > that are horrendously pathetic .
> > It is something like this :
> > You see two hands , you hear some sound , and
> after 
> > 5 minutes you see Silvester Stalllone ?
> 
> Check out mplayer:
> http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/
> 
> It is able to play most of the file formats you may
> be used to playing
> under Windows. Just beware of the licensing
> implications of using
> Windows DLLs under Linux.
> 
> You have to compile the application yourself.
> 
> Regards,
> Adam
> 
> 
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Re: Errors compiling PHP4 on potato

[Brian Clark]

* George Karaolides <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Dec 06. 2001 09:09]:

> I'm trying to compile PHP4 on Debian potato.  I'm using the Debian source
> package php4_4.0.3pl1-0potato1.

You should consider using a recent snapshot from snaps.php.net

> I'm getting the following errors, which seem to be related to mysql.  This
> is despite the fact that I've commented out the mysql configuration
> options in debian/rules (I don't need mysql support).

If you're positive you don't want mysql support, try configuring with:

--disable-mysql

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Re: video memory (was DVD player)

[Brandon N]

How can I determine how much video RAM my card has, I tend to buy used
parts, which usually means I have to find that stuff out for myself. 
If I remember right, I used to use a program called SuperProbe to find
it, but I can't seem to locate that.
For what it's worth, it's a Matrox G450 dual head card.

Thanks,
Brandon
--- Aaron Traas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Peter Good wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, 4 Dec 2001 17:15, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
> > 
> > > Video RAM is nearly irrelevant.  Anything with 2MB can do
> > > 1024x768/16-bit which is what you want for DVD.  
> >
> > This might be a silly question, but why then, do they sell video
> cards > now, with at least 8mb standard, with 32mb in a lot, and in
> my case 
> > 64mb? Just wondering.
> > 
> > Peter.
> 
> The Linux kernel only requires like 4 MB of main memory, why do you
> install more?
> 
> Like is said above, 2MB is required for 1024x768 @ 16bit color.
> Anything
> more will require more RAM. The difference between 16 bit and 24 bit
> color is very noticeable. On larger monitors, and higher end
> laptpops,
> you want a res higher than 1024x768.
> 
> 8MB is all that is needed for simple 2D stuff. If you want to do
> anything fancy (dual-head display, 3D accelleration, etc.) you need
> more
> memory. This is particularly useful in 3D accelleration as in order
> to
> render a scene, all the textures must be loaded into video memory.
> Also,
> more video RAM means effects in 2D like double and triple buffering
> can
> work.
> 
> In short, the more RAM, the more stuff you can do.
> 
> --Aaron
> 
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Re: BIG xwindow apps

[Hans Ekbrand]

On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 08:51:14AM -0500, Aaron Traas wrote:
> Windows apps, particularly older ones, were designed to be usable at
> 640x480. I believe X started on Solaris, or at least first caught on
> there, and I believe the default then was 1152x864, because at 8BPP, it
> fit in 1 MB of video RAM. The first Windows 3.x machines ran almost
> exclusively at 640x480, as PC graphics cards really couldn't stand up to
> workstation frame buffer devices back then.
> 
> X apps *are* generally bigger, and even those that are resizable do not
> take into consideration the way the layout shrinks at really small
> screen sizes. Most of the WM's use very thick titlebars, KDE and GNOME
> by default have very thick panels at the bottom, etc. X at less than
> 1024x768 is extremely painful.
>

Interesting history there. Though I regularly run X at 640x480 on old 
PCs, and its not at all painful. Some apps are problematic though, e.g. 
the preferences window in Netscape 4.7 and KDE 2.2 new configure-the-
desktop-guide.

Browsing with netscape in 640x480 with a good font on a 14" monitor is 
actually quite nice, IMHO.

/Hans Ekbrand

Re: Galeon and java (was: Re: Anyone successful with Sun's Java 1.3.1_01?)

[dman]

On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 01:11:24PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote:
| On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, dman wrote:
| > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian sid/non-US main contrib non-free
| 
| Thanks a lot; it's just what I need.
| BTW, what's  the magic behind it? There was no example on "sid/non-US".

I don't know.  It was in my sources.list.  I think it may have been
generated (or at least the pattern) when I installed.

-D

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Re: Mutt and filtering to multiple mailboxes

[dman]

On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 10:20:12PM -0500, Eric Brooks wrote:
| Hi.  I use Mutt as my mail client. I am trying to set it up so that 
| messages from the lists to which I subscribe get moved from my mail 
| spool file to a specific mailbox for storage after reading, filtered out
| from the general mail stream. Right now all my mail goes to 'mbox' -- I
| would like the debian-user mail to go to ~/.mutt/debian-user.

I suggest ~/Mail/debian-user instead.  dotfiles are usually used for
configuration, not general data storage.

| I set up mbox-hook records in my mutt environment as follows:
| 
| mbox-hook debian-user@lists.debian.org ~/.mutt/debian-user
| 
| I am not an Emacs user much, I use vi more, and I'm not that familiar
| with the 'hook' idea, so I am not sure I'm understanding the effect that
| I should expect from the mbox-hook record correctly. Should the
| mbox-hook command have the effect I describe above?  If so, is there

I don't know if that command is supposed to do what you want, but I
can describe the general concept of a "hook" (btw I'm a vim user too).

A "hook" is a way for you to specify some action to occur when a given
event occurs.  It allows for general customization rather than
specific customization.  There are "events" in mutt, such as 'mbox'
and 'folder', that allow to you hook an action into them with
'mbox-hook' or 'folder-hook'.

HTH,
-D

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Re: Mutt and filtering to multiple mailboxes

[Jeff]

Brian Clark, 2001-Dec-05 23:32 -0500:
> * Eric Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Dec 05. 2001 23:10]:
> 
> > I don't have anything against procmail. I am not familiar with it. I
> > will look it up.
> 
> This will help you a great deal then:
> 
> 

You can also use maildrop, if you're using maildirs.  The mail
filtering is quite powerful, but there's not as much information
on it compared to procmail.  The filtering works great for me.

jc

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Re: What happened to compose? - further information

[dman]

On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 03:31:30PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
| I have further information:  Typing in vim the compose key works, but
| not in bash.  I can thus type ëê etc in vim, but not in bash.
| 
| Any ideas on how to solve it?

Are you using version 6 of vim?  If so, what does
:set enc?
:lang

output?  How about 
echo $LANG
in bash?


BTW, what is the "compose" key (which button on my keyboard) and how
do I use it?  I've never had the need for it, but I'd like to learn
how that stuff works.

-D

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Re: BIG xwindow apps

[mallum]

on Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 07:11:29PM +1100, Matt Chipman wrote:
> 
> I have tried both blackbox and window maker and when they load, they 
> are in 16mill colors and at 800*600 but when i open a program such as 
> irc or any other type app, the application is huge and sometimes goes 
> off the screen so much so i cant reach the buttons on the top half or 
> bottom half of the screen with the mouse.
> 

My laptop is limited to 800x600, but I use X (4.1) all the time with no
problems what so ever. I use Blackbox with a smallish theme and lots of
workspaces - this combined with bbkeys makes it easy for me to quickly
flip between workspaces. 

I also use AA fonts where possible as they are much more readable at
smaller sizes, using this I can fit 4 80x25 xterms in a single
workspace and them still be just about readable.  

I've also hacked my ~/.gtkrc 'theme' to use a smaller fonts so all my
gtk and gnome apps fit much nicer. 

If an app does open too large, in blackbox ( and other wm's too I
think ) holding down ALT and click dragging the oversized window
allows you to drag it so you can reach the title bar buttons and
resize it something more conservative.

  -- mallum

Re: MX Records ?

[dman]

On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 06:49:12PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| I normally use Linux to receive mails  , not to send any .
| And I use PINE/fetchmail on my Linux box.
|   What I have done is I created a login ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) of the same name 
as my
| account at my ISP([EMAIL PROTECTED])  , then configured
| .fetchmailrc and PINE for this login.
|   It fetches the mail properly.
| But , when I try to send mails I get some errors ,
| (indicated below my mail) , and also some advice -
| kind of message :
| "Your _ does not do resolution of email addresses.
| Add MX records _"
| 
| I do nor remember the full thing .
| 
| My doubts are :
| 1) Does the whole thing mean that I have to add some "MX" records
| to my /etc/resolv.conf ?

no

| 2)What is  MX ?

Mail handler.  It is a type of DNS record.  There are "A" records and
"MX" records (and others I am sure).  It allows you to have a domain
name that has a certain IP for handling general requests (ping, http,
ssh, etc) and a different one for handling mail (SMTP).

| 3) How do I add these records and where ?

What you need to do is set your outgoing address to be the one from
your ISP.  When you are sending mail, pine hands of responsibility to
exim (via a pipe), right?  exim then tries to transfer (via SMTP) to
the host it is configured to send to.  Try adding your local username
(doesn't have to match your ISP, btw) and your ISP-given email address
to /etc/email-addresses.

| -ERRORS I GET UPON THE MAIL I HAD SENT -

(oh, I didn't notice this before I started writing above)

| --fB6C1Rk01373.1007640144/localhost.localdomain
| Content-Type: message/delivery-status
| 
| Reporting-MTA: dns; localhost.localdomain
| Arrival-Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 08:52:44 +0530
| 
| Final-Recipient: RFC822; linux-india-help@lists.sourceforge.net
| Action: failed
| Status: 5.1.1
| Remote-MTA: DNS; mail.sourceforge.net
| Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550 cannot route to sender address
| <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| Last-Attempt-Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 17:32:23 +0530
| 
| --fB6C1Rk01373.1007640144/localhost.localdomain
| Content-Type: message/rfc822
| 
| Return-Path: 
| Received: (from [EMAIL PROTECTED])
|  by localhost.localdomain (8.11.2/8.11.2) id fB63Mib00940;
|  Thu, 6 Dec 2001 08:52:44 +0530
| From: shyamk

Yeah, you are reporting yourself as "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" (note the
 Return-Path:, Received:, and Diagnostic-Code: lines) but the MTA on
the other machine rejects that because it is not a real address (that
it can route messages to).  It thinks you are a spammer spoofing your
return address.  Adding the line to /etc/email-addresses will rewrite
your information (I think just the envelope-sender part, not the From:
header) so that your "real" (publicly visible) address is given.

Also, in pine be sure and add your domain to the From: header!  If you
do this, you may not need to edit /etc/email-addresses, or if you do
edit that file you may not need to correct pine's setting.

HTH,
-D

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Re: Some advice to fix up my package database :-)

[Jeff]

Adam Warner, 2001-Dec-06 23:40 +1300:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've been using alien for the first time today. Now I can't install any
> package using apt-get (it might not be the alien packages but I thought
> I should mention it).
> 
> Before I make a real mess I thought I'd get some advice on the error
> message:
> 
> apt-get install ucbmpeg-play
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   ucbmpeg-play 
> 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 18  not
> upgraded.
> Need to get 0B/69.2kB of archives. After unpacking 177kB will be used.
> (Reading database ... dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/ucbmpeg-play_2.3p-10.1_i386.deb (--unpack):
>  files list file for package `libncurses5-dev' is missing final newline
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/ucbmpeg-play_2.3p-10.1_i386.deb
> Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 
> The strange error message is:
> files list file for package `libncurses5-dev' is missing final newline
> 
> This happens when trying to install any package.
> 
> I can't even do a dpkg --purge --force-all libncurses5-dev
> 
> I'm told "Processing was halted because there were too many errors" (the
> same error message above).
> 
> Thanks,
> Adam

See if this might work...

# dpkg -P --force-reinstreq

The package needs to be reinstalled.  I thought there was a dpkg
option to reinstall, but I can't seem to find info on that.

good luck,
jc

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Re: Cannot forward into files

[dman]

On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 03:00:32PM +0100, Steffan Baron wrote:
| 
| Hi there,
| 
| I'm encountering a strange problem in the interaction of a Solaris
| mail server and a file server running potato. Usually, my users can
| forward their mail into a local file  by specifying its path in their
| .forward. However, this doesn't work if the user home is stored on the
| Linux file server. Although the user homes are exported with root
| permissions,  mails don't get written into the specified
| file. Instead, they're still queued (even after 14 days, and even
| stranger, with no error message at all).
| 
| Does anybody know what the problem might be? Any help would be greatly
| appreciated.

If you log on to the Solaris machine, can you write to the intended
file?  (ie 'echo hello world > ')

Where is the MTA running?  On the Solaris box?  As long as the Solaris
system has the proper access to the fs there should be no problems.

Hmm, does the "mail" user (or whatever the MTA runs as) have the same
UID/GID on both systems?  This is a must for NFS sharing.

-D

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Re: Errors compiling PHP4 on potato

[George Karaolides]

Hi,

On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Brian Clark wrote:

> * George Karaolides <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Dec 06. 2001 09:09]:
>
> > I'm trying to compile PHP4 on Debian potato.  I'm using the Debian source
> > package php4_4.0.3pl1-0potato1.
>
> You should consider using a recent snapshot from snaps.php.net

OK, I'll try that next.

> > I'm getting the following errors, which seem to be related to mysql.  This
> > is despite the fact that I've commented out the mysql configuration
> > options in debian/rules (I don't need mysql support).
>
> If you're positive you don't want mysql support, try configuring with:
>
> --disable-mysql

No, that didn't work with the Debian source package...  :(

Thanks and best regards,

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Re: many terminal windows appears after X start

[Jeff]

Yu, 2001-Dec-06 21:54 +0800:
> When my x window starts,many terminal windows appears(about 6 or 7 )
> I have changed .xinitrc and Xsession just for locale setting (export
> LANG=zh_TW.Big5
> export LC_ALL=zh_TW.Big5
> export XMODIFIER="@im=xcin")
> Did I change any X setting to make it so curious?
> How should I do to make it normal(don't appear any terminal window when
> X start)
> Thanks
> I use woody,gnome 1.4

With Gnome, like other X managers, you can save an X session in a
manner that will resume the next time you start X.  So, you can
start the X apps, save the session, and then the next time you
start X, those same apps will automatically start.

What you need to do is get the desktop set the way you want it at
the start of X, and then save the session.  To save the session,
you should have the option as you log out, and there is also the
ability to do it from the program launcher menu's under Settings
or Utilities.  It's been awhile since I used Gnome, so I'm having
trouble remembering.

good luck,
jc


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Re: Uptime

[Gordon Fraser]

Andrew Pritchard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> >From the Man page:
>uptime  gives a one line display of the following informa­tion.
>The current time, how long the system has been run­ning, how 
>many users are currently logged on, and the sys­tem load 
>averages for the past 1, 5, and 15 minutes.
> 
> What exactly does the 'load averages' mean? Is it the CPU time?

It's the average number of processes ready to run in the last 1,5,15
minutes

Gordon

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Newbie comments & queries

[Ian Balchin]

Hi,

I received this email below.

Cannot find any Microcom modems on this page.  I tracked down the 
source of supply of this modem (my ISP in fact) and they are 
certain that it is a regular modem. Being external they are 
probably right.  Am calling on the ISP on my way home to collect a 
microcom book.

More later.

I must get to update the documentation as everything that I have 
is out of date.  Wonder if the Modem-HOWTO author is aware of 
this?

Ian

--- Forwarded message follows ---
Date sent:  Thu, 06 Dec 2001 08:42:20 -0600
From:   Rob Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject:Linux winmodem page
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Priority:   normal


I noticed your posts on Google/DejaNews.  My ISP sold the o2.net
domain in June.  The new address is
http://www.idir.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html

Rob Clark
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Key words, please [was: Newbie comments & queries]

[Wendell Cochran]

>Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 23:13:33 +0200
>From: "Ian Balchin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hello, all,
>I am, after all, still alive.


Please use a Subject line appropriate to the immediate problem.

`Newbie comments & queries' could apply to nearly every post to this
list; it's nearly as ineffectual as 'Please help!'

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Re: OT: perl Crypt::IDEA

[shock]

* Pietro Cagnoni ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
> shock wrote:
> > 
> > Sorry for the OT, but I haven't found anything relating to my problem.
> > I'm trying to install the Crypt::IDEA perl module.  I've tried it with
> > both perl -MCPAN -e shell and downloading the .tar.gz file.  Both end
> > with the following:
> > 
> 
> however, after a quick grep trough the perl source, i think you can
> replace 'sv_undef' with 'PL_sv_undef' to compile it.

yep, a perl monk pointed me to this shortly after I sent the message.  it
apparently has to do with Crypt being written for an older version of
perl.  another solution is to place ppport.h in the directory of the
source you're trying to compile.

thanks, Pietro!  i appreciate it.
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Re: Cannot forward into files

[Steffan Baron]

>
>If you log on to the Solaris machine, can you write to the intended
>file?  (ie 'echo hello world > ')

Yes, this works.

>Where is the MTA running?  On the Solaris box?  As long as the Solaris
>system has the proper access to the fs there should be no problems.

Yes, MTA (sendmail) is running on the Solaris host, and the directory
is exported properly.

>Hmm, does the "mail" user (or whatever the MTA runs as) have the same
>UID/GID on both systems?  This is a must for NFS sharing.

On Solaris the MTA is running as the daemon user which has the same
UID/GID on both systems, and on the Debian box there is no MTA (at
least none listening on port 25). Well at least "something" seems to
work: if I remove the mail folder of the user and send him "fresh"
email, the file gets created . but is still empty.

Gruss
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Re: errors installing libc6 -- HELP!

[Noah Coccaro]

> > "Noah" == Noah Coccaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> Noah> I recently upgraded to the upgraded packages in debian
> Noah> stable (using dselect)
> 
> I assume you are upgrading a pre-potato system to stable? Or is this
> just upgrading a potato system to the most recent version of potato?

The latter -- a formerly stable potato system to the most recent
stable potato system.

> 
> Noah> Should I report this as a bug?  in dpkg? in libc6?
> 
> You forgot to mention what version of dpkg you are using...

It should be the most recent stable. Let's see

(noahsark:~) sudo dpkg --version
Debian GNU/Linux `dpkg' package management program version 1.6.15 (i386).
This is free software; see the GNU General Public Licence version 2 or
later for copying conditions.  There is NO warranty.
See dpkg --licence for copyright and license details.



> 
> (maybe if it is an old version it is too old?)
> -- 
> Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

iptables firewall and MSN messanger

[Marek Cermak]

Hello everybody
Is it possible to use MSN messanger's voice call over iptables firewall ?

I haven't found any module (stg like ip_nat_ftp.o) for this purpose.

I use SNAT on 2.4.x kernel, Debian/woody.

Thank for your help.

Marek Cermak

Does connection in TIME_WAIT count?

[Jozef Skvarcek]

Hi,

When a client closes, say HTTP, connection to my server then the
connection continues to be listed on the server for some period of time
in the state `TIME_WAIT'. Does such a connection still counts as valid
one, ie does the web server see it?

Thank you,

Jozef 

Re: Adaptec RAID 2100s new install of Debian - please help!

[Dimitri Maziuk]

* David ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
> On Thursday 06 December 2001 00:40, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
> > * Graham Williams ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
> > ...
> >
> > > Eventually VFS Kernel Panic.  Cant mount root fs.  There's also a
> > > message about block-major-8.
> >
> > It's trying to load the driver from /lib/modules on root fs. Oops.
> >
> > You have two options:
> > 1. build a custom kernel with the driver compiled in.
> > 2. put root fs on a separate disk.
> 
> I'm having the same sort of problem with a Mylex card.  It uses the dac960 
> module.
> 
> Would putting / on an IDE drive sort this out?  I plan to use the SCSI array 
> for /var and things of that nature.

If you compile IDE driver as module, you'll have the same problem
with / on IDE drive. If you compile Mylex driver into the kernel,
it should work with / on the RAID. That's the theory, IRL there 
may be some gotchas with Mylex/whatever drivers I'm not aware of.

Dima

Re: Norton Ghost?

[Kent West]

On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 20:36, Nicole Zimmerman wrote:
> I have created a bootable CD of a current working machine. I then use the
> bootable CD to 'expand' or 'apply' the image to another machine
using Ghost.
> When
> rebooting the second machine, it gives the Lilo error. In order to get it
> to work, I boot with a boot floppy and re-run Lilo on the machine.
> 
> You know, I wonder if it's a problem with the lilo 'graphical' menu. I
> have not tried using the plain ol' LILO: prompt. 
> 
> -nicole
> 
Maybe. Another thing that crosses my mind; are you disk imaging or partition 
imaging. I can't imagine that you're doing partition imaging because I can't 
think of any way you could get as far as you have, but as I said, it's 
something that crossed my mind.

(Please forgive if this message comes out not wrapped or in HTML, etc;
I'm experimenting with a new setup and I haven't found all the
preferences yet.)

Kent

Re: Some advice to fix up my package database :-)

[J.A.Serralheiro]

Yes there is an option to reinstall.
I used it once to reinstall something I cant remember. Let me see...oh
It was with apt-get

do the following:

apt-get --reinstall install PACKAGE_NAME 

And you should be fine. I didnt test it thought.
According to apt-get manpage --reinstall reinstalls & upgrades the
package to the newest available.

Good luck

On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Jeff wrote:

> Adam Warner, 2001-Dec-06 23:40 +1300:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I've been using alien for the first time today. Now I can't install any
> > package using apt-get (it might not be the alien packages but I thought
> > I should mention it).
> > 
> > Before I make a real mess I thought I'd get some advice on the error
> > message:
> > 
> > apt-get install ucbmpeg-play
> > Reading Package Lists... Done
> > Building Dependency Tree... Done
> > The following NEW packages will be installed:
> >   ucbmpeg-play 
> > 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 18  not
> > upgraded.
> > Need to get 0B/69.2kB of archives. After unpacking 177kB will be used.
> > (Reading database ... dpkg: error processing
> > /var/cache/apt/archives/ucbmpeg-play_2.3p-10.1_i386.deb (--unpack):
> >  files list file for package `libncurses5-dev' is missing final newline
> > Errors were encountered while processing:
> >  /var/cache/apt/archives/ucbmpeg-play_2.3p-10.1_i386.deb
> > Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
> > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> > 
> > The strange error message is:
> > files list file for package `libncurses5-dev' is missing final newline
> > 
> > This happens when trying to install any package.
> > 
> > I can't even do a dpkg --purge --force-all libncurses5-dev
> > 
> > I'm told "Processing was halted because there were too many errors" (the
> > same error message above).
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Adam
> 
> See if this might work...
> 
> # dpkg -P --force-reinstreq
> 
> The package needs to be reinstalled.  I thought there was a dpkg
> option to reinstall, but I can't seem to find info on that.
> 
> good luck,
> jc
> 
> -- 
> Jeff Coppock  Systems Engineer
> Diggin' DebianAdmin and User
> 
> 
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HELPME

[esteban alcaraz]

hello mr.
I have a ncr system 3350 486 dx2 66 mhz, computer with, a hard disk of 212
megas, conner, cp 30200.
when i start it shows the next message:
NO SCSI DEVICE DETECTED SLOT 5.
i have already checked two jumpers from hard disk and  i also checked the
connectors for the  hard disk but i found nothing.
i changed the hard disk for a quantum lps 105s and  it shows the same
message before mentioned it.

i want that the computer recognizes the hard disk, how can i do?
thank you very much.
any information will be a great help for me.

atte:

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Re: HELPME

[J.A.Serralheiro]

surely you have some configuration that tells you computer 
that it should recognize an scsi drive. Run the computer BIOS set up, and
set it to see ide drives with the configuration of your conner HD.
If you have a board manual of that computer, read it too. 
SCSI drives are a diferent kind from ordinary IDE ( I assume your conner
is an IDE as they are the most popular and cheaper ones). Cables are
diferent too. You need special hardware to have SCSI drives ( SCSI
controler or something ).

regards J.A.Serralheiro

On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, esteban alcaraz wrote:

> hello mr.
> I have a ncr system 3350 486 dx2 66 mhz, computer with, a hard disk of 212
> megas, conner, cp 30200.
> when i start it shows the next message:
> NO SCSI DEVICE DETECTED SLOT 5.
> i have already checked two jumpers from hard disk and  i also checked the
> connectors for the  hard disk but i found nothing.
> i changed the hard disk for a quantum lps 105s and  it shows the same
> message before mentioned it.
> 
> i want that the computer recognizes the hard disk, how can i do?
> thank you very much.
> any information will be a great help for me.
> 
> atte:
> 
> andres
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> 

How to switch from X to console (ctrl+alt+Fn)

[Carlos Betancourt]

I have installed Potato in an old SparcStation IPC and everything works
fine. However I'm unable to switch back to the console, as is normal in
PC machines. I mean, I don't want to kill X; I want to use the
ctrl+alt+Fn functionality.
Is it possible to do it?

TIA

Carlos

Re: What happened to compose? - further information

[Joey Hess]

Package: libreadline4
Version: 4.2a-2

Johann Spies wrote:
> I have further information:  Typing in vim the compose key works, but
> not in bash.  I can thus type ëê etc in vim, but not in bash.
> 
> Any ideas on how to solve it?

I have the same problem, so it would seem that this is a problem
specific to bash, or to readline. Hmm, it's readline, the compose key 
fails in other programs that use readline as well, producing just a beep
no matter what character I try to input (I tried ¡, ä, á, ß, etc). It
works fine in zsh, vim, xchat (gtk), etc. This is in an xterm.

-- 
see shy jo

Re: What happened to compose? - further information

[Joey Hess]

dman wrote:
> BTW, what is the "compose" key (which button on my keyboard) and how
> do I use it?  I've never had the need for it, but I'd like to learn
> how that stuff works.

The compose key is probably not on your keyoard, but you can bind it to
something like the windows menu key:

keysym Menu = Multi_key

The compose key lets you "compose" together letters and punctuation,
producing accented letters and other symbols. For example, 

  <'> yeilds á
  <"> yeilds ä
   yeilds µ
  <^> yeilds ô
   yeilds ¿

There are tons more useful symbols you can get at with compose: ß © ½
etc.

-- 
see shy jô

Progeny Switch

[Montagne, Michael]

I've come to the point where I need to cut the cord with Progeny.  I've read
the how-tos about converting to Woody and they each seem frought with peril.
What is wrong with this scenario?  I change my sources.list to include the
debian sites, run dist-upgrade and call it good.  I'll leave the progeny
lines in, and as they get outdated, they will be replaced as I run
dist-upgrades.  That way I can leverage the proper setup that Progeny has
brought me and I won't have to run modconf or any other complication.

This seems all too simple.

-mjm 

Re: suck: relocation error: suck: undefined symbol: stat

[Tollef Fog Heen]

* Joey Hess 

| Is this a known problem with libc or the linker or something? I have the
| same problem.

(With suck or another package?)

I don't really know what has happened here, except that suddenly
people started turning bug reports about suck not working.  This was
since libsocks4 used to have the symbol stat, which it doesn't any
more.

Upgrading to the version in unstable or recompiling the woody version
fixes the problem.

Cc-ed debian-user, since the users might want to know of the solution
as well.  Please Cc me if your reply only goes to -user, since I don't
read that list.

-- 

Tollef Fog Heen
Axiom #1: You Can't Win

OT: supressing line noise

[Rich Rudnick]

I'm looking for some help with getting a clean 120v supply to my
computer. I'm on the same circuit as my washer/dryer (and no, changing
location is not an option). When either electrical motor is running, my
monitor flickers: noticably on 1024x768 at 85hz vert refresh, and very
annoyingly at 1152x864 at 75hz, which is what I want to use. Twenty
years ago I actually worked in the electrical field; I remember a bit,
misremember a lot, but what I do remember is that this is bad for
electronic components as well as my eyes and I need a line filter :)

I've looked around the internet, and think a brickyard model 2r15
http://www.brickwall.com/html_nav.asp?ObjectID=656 is the kind of thing
I'm looking for. I'm hoping for two kinds of responses: first, that I'm
going down the right path (and if not, pointers to the right one); and
second, a pointer to something that works well for less than $150.

rich 

-- 
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Re: Some advice to fix up my package database :-)

[Joey Hess]

Adam Warner wrote:
> I've been using alien for the first time today. Now I can't install any
> package using apt-get (it might not be the alien packages but I thought
> I should mention it).

No, nothing to do with alien.

>  files list file for package `libncurses5-dev' is missing final newline

It's posible that your /var/lib/dpkg/info/libncurses5-dev.list file is
corrupt. Or it could just be missing a final newline at the end of the
file. Like the other replies, I suggest trying to reinstall it. If dpkg
won't let you reinstall it, you might need to edit that file first, make
sure it has a final newline (and is not corrupt; it should just list the
files and directories that are part of the package, one per line), and
then reinstall it.

-- 
see shy jo

Manager for software in /usr/local

[George Karaolides]

Hi,

I recall recently someone on this list mentioning a software, maybe a
Debian package, that manages installation of software under the /usr/local
hierarchy.  I seem to recall that it was said that this manager installs
each piece of software in a separate subdirectory, and makes symlinks in
the appropriate places.

Does anyone remember what this was?

Best regards,

George Karaolides   8, Costakis Pantelides St.,
tel:   +35 79 68 08 86   Strovolos,
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]   Nicosia CY 2057,
web:   www.karaolides.com  Republic  of Cyprus

Re: Manager for software in /usr/local

[Alan Shutko]

George Karaolides <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I recall recently someone on this list mentioning a software, maybe a
> Debian package, that manages installation of software under the /usr/local
> hierarchy.  

stow, maybe?

-- 
Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors!
Money may buy friendship but money cannot buy love.

Re: Manager for software in /usr/local

[George Karaolides]

On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Alan Shutko wrote:

> George Karaolides <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I recall recently someone on this list mentioning a software, maybe a
> > Debian package, that manages installation of software under the /usr/local
> > hierarchy.
>
> stow, maybe?

Yes, that's the one, thanks!

Re: Manager for software in /usr/local

[John Hasler]

George Karaolides writes:
> Does anyone remember what this was?

stow
-- 
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin

Re: How to switch from X to console (ctrl+alt+Fn)

[Karsten M. Self]

on Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 06:14:25PM +0100, Carlos Betancourt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
wrote:
> I have installed Potato in an old SparcStation IPC and everything works
> fine. However I'm unable to switch back to the console, as is normal in
> PC machines. I mean, I don't want to kill X; I want to use the
> ctrl+alt+Fn functionality.
> Is it possible to do it?

Yes.

Have you remapped your Control key (intentionally or otherwise)?  Many
people find the  key superfluous (or at least annoying in its
usual PC/Mac location), and map it to a more useful key.  There's a
"swap ctrl-capslock" feature in at least the XF86v3 configuration file
(not sure if it's in XF86v4, I use xmodmap explicitly).

You can also generally get to a specific virtual console by running the
'chvt' command as root:

$ chvt 

...where terminal is typically 1-6 for text consoles, or 7 for the first
X session.

Peace.

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procmail recipe not working

[dman]

I've been getting a bunch of spam on a certain list.  The latest
message has the following From: line :

 From: "Lisa J." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

(some have a different name, but the same address)  I want to
automatically file these in the bit-bucket.  Should be
straightforward, right?  In my .procmailrc I have the following :

:0
* ^From:.*reply.pm0.net
/dev/null

:0
* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
/dev/null

:0
* ^From:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
/dev/null


However the messages keep getting past these recipes and to my
list-matching recipe.

Any clues?

TIA,
-D

-- 

A)bort, R)etry, B)ang it with a large hammer

power management & monitor

[Brian Clark]

Can anyone tell me why my monitor insists on going into standby mode
when left alone for a period of time? I've turned off all power
management stuff in the BIOS and apm appears to be disabled:

% dmesg | egrep apm
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x0b (Driver version 1.13)
apm: disabled on user request.

I've tried poking around in the usual places and I can't seem to find
anything.

-- 
 -Brian Clark

Re: power management & monitor

[Jeffrey W. Baker]

On Thu, 2001-12-06 at 12:27, Brian Clark wrote:
> Can anyone tell me why my monitor insists on going into standby mode
> when left alone for a period of time? I've turned off all power
> management stuff in the BIOS and apm appears to be disabled:
> 
> % dmesg | egrep apm
> apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x0b (Driver version 1.13)
> apm: disabled on user request.
> 
> I've tried poking around in the usual places and I can't seem to find
> anything.

xset -dpms

-jwb

Re: power management & monitor

[Rick Macdonald]

On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Brian Clark wrote:

> Can anyone tell me why my monitor insists on going into standby mode
> when left alone for a period of time? I've turned off all power
> management stuff in the BIOS and apm appears to be disabled:
> 
> % dmesg | egrep apm
> apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x0b (Driver version 1.13)
> apm: disabled on user request.
> 
> I've tried poking around in the usual places and I can't seem to find
> anything.

Try this to see if X is doing it:

timshel:~$ xset -q
...
DPMS (Energy Star):
  Standby: 60Suspend: 120Off: 180
  DPMS is Enabled
  Monitor is On
...

...RickM...

bzip2 is absolutly Amazing!

[Debian User]

Hi there!

I have just found out that bzip2 is _really_ _great_ for large files.
I have tar'ed a whole debian-installation (1.2 gigs).
This tar, compressed with gzip, has a size of ~390MB.
The same tar, compressed with bzip2 has a size of 110MB!!!

So for every body out there: If you have a large file to compress
(and enogh time resp. CPU-power) then check out bzip2.
It is much slower than gzip, but (at leas for sufficient large files) 
much better.

So long

Andreas Maresch

Re: power management & monitor

[Brian Clark]

* Jeffrey W. Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Dec 06. 2001 15:41]:

> > I've tried poking around in the usual places and I can't seem to find
> > anything.
> 
> xset -dpms

Super, thanks!

-- 
 -Brian Clark

Re: power management & monitor

[Brian Clark]

* Rick Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Dec 06. 2001 15:39]:

> Try this to see if X is doing it:
> 
> timshel:~$ xset -q

Yep, and I guess I also just figured out what I needed to know about my
repeat rate. 

Thanks..

-- 
 -Brian Clark

Re: procmail recipe not working

[Pollywog]

On 2001.12.06 20:23 dman wrote:


I've been getting a bunch of spam on a certain list.  The latest
message has the following From: line :

 From: "Lisa J." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

(some have a different name, but the same address)  I want to
automatically file these in the bit-bucket.  Should be
straightforward, right?  In my .procmailrc I have the following :

:0
* ^From:.*reply.pm0.net
/dev/null

:0
* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
/dev/null

:0
* ^From:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
/dev/null


However the messages keep getting past these recipes and to my
list-matching recipe.



Turn on verbose logging to see why they are getting past.  Maybe Procmail 
is in a different place than you set in your procmailrc.




--
Andrew