Re: file not found - hardware, fs, or driver problem?
On Tuesday, 6 December 2005 at 1:11:32 +, Andrew Perrin wrote: > On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Richard Lyons wrote: > > > > >The problem is that installed software sometimes refuses to run, giving > >'file not found', in spite of the fact that the file in question will ls > >normally, permissions are ok, etc, and I can even cat the file. This > >happens only with certain files, for example two separate attempts to > >install qcad professional. Other software, loaded via normal Debian > >routes, runs apparently normally. > > > >Any suggestions to how to proceed? > > > Can you post the output from your attempt to run the software? Here is an example: $ qcad-2.1.0.0-rc1-1-prof.linux.lcpp5.x86$ ls bin doc examples fonts library patterns qcad qm README scripts $ ./qcad bash: ./qcad: No such file or directory showing that it even happens when in the same diectory. And, yes, the file qcad is world executable. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Machines and people
On Tuesday 06 December 2005 04:35, Mike McCarty wrote: > Kent West wrote: > > Mike McCarty wrote: > >>Kent West wrote: > > [that ASCII is 8 bits] ASCII *is* 7-bits. To quote from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascii "ASCII is, strictly, a seven-bit code, meaning that it uses the bit patterns representable with seven binary digits (a range of 0 to 127 decimal) to represent character information. At the time ASCII was introduced, many computers dealt with eight-bit groups (bytes or, more specifically, octets) as the smallest unit of information; the eighth bit was commonly used as a parity bit..." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Windows Domain Authentication
--- "Marcus Deluigi (intern)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What server OS? NT4? 2000? 2003? > > > > I have a debian X terminal server authenticating > from an NT domain. > > > > Do you have the default domain for winbind set in > smb.conf > > (iuse default domain) or are you remembering to > enter your > > username as domain\username...? > > The server OS is 2003. > I should be able to make a ssh-session and locale > console login with > just the Windows Domain user name. > At least, that was possible with my old setup. > I did not even have to change /etc/pam.d/ssh, since > it includes > common-auth, common-account and common-session. > I don't have an X-Server installed. > > My smb.conf looks like this: > --- > [global] > netbios name = bilinux2 > #workgroup = WICRESOFT > realm = WICRESOFT.COM > security = ads > password server = ws-dc-01 ws-dc-02 > encrypt passwords = yes > windind use default domain = yes *** Is this last line a typo? *** windind > winbind -- Matt ___ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http://uk.photos.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Strange hard lock
Hi, Hope you can help me with a rather serious failure on one my machines last night. When I went to access it this morning it was as dead as a door nail. No network activity, not even local keyboard or video - totally dead. I initially thought a kernel oops but having a look at the logs makes me think it might be an out of memory issue. Here's a snippet from the logs: ### LOG SNIPPET ### Dec 6 01:30:47 compost kernel: oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x1d2 Dec 6 01:30:47 compost kernel: DMA per-cpu: Dec 6 01:30:47 compost kernel: cpu 0 hot: low 2, high 6, batch 1 Dec 6 01:30:47 compost kernel: cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 2, batch 1 Dec 6 01:30:47 compost kernel: Normal per-cpu: Dec 6 01:30:47 compost kernel: cpu 0 hot: low 62, high 186, batch 31 Dec 6 01:30:47 compost kernel: cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 62, batch 31 Dec 6 01:30:47 compost kernel: HighMem per-cpu: empty Dec 6 01:30:48 compost kernel: Dec 6 01:30:48 compost kernel: Free pages:3688kB (0kB HighMem) Dec 6 01:30:48 compost kernel: Active:36614 inactive:36018 dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0 free:922 slab:3999 mapped:70710 pagetables:1086 Dec 6 01:30:48 compost kernel: DMA free:1328kB min:112kB low:140kB high:168kB active:5624kB inactive:5196kB present:16384kB pages_scanned:14375 all_unreclaimable? yes Dec 6 01:30:48 compost kernel: lowmem_reserve[]: 0 304 304 Dec 6 01:30:48 compost kernel: Normal free:2360kB min:2172kB low:2712kB high:3256kB active:140832kB inactive:138876kB present:311296kB pages_scanned:235254 all_unreclaimable? no Dec 6 01:30:48 compost kernel: lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 Dec 6 01:30:48 compost kernel: HighMem free:0kB min:128kB low:160kB high:192kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no Dec 6 01:30:48 compost kernel: lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 Dec 6 01:30:48 compost kernel: DMA: 0*4kB 2*8kB 0*16kB 1*32kB 2*64kB 1*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 1*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 1328kB Dec 6 01:30:48 compost kernel: Normal: 88*4kB 7*8kB 12*16kB 7*32kB 0*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB 1*512kB 1*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 2360kB Dec 6 01:30:48 compost kernel: HighMem: empty Dec 6 01:30:48 compost kernel: Swap cache: add 15070980, delete 15070823, find 13016180/15808735, race 8+53 Dec 6 01:30:48 compost kernel: Free swap = 0kB Dec 6 01:30:48 compost kernel: Total swap = 393584kB Dec 6 01:30:48 compost kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 15517 (postmaster). ### END LOG SNIPPET ### I've never seen anything like that before and there is a lot of it after about 1:30 (the snippet above is the first occurrence). It seems to have systematically killed off processes presumably to acquire more free memory until it killed some vital ones at which point the box keeled over an died. Any idea what has happened? Many thanks, Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: reply to list (mailing list) in thunderbird?
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 02:56:48PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > > Ok. But it wasn't a waste of time. Perhaps I shoud set up procmail. > Do you know how to use procmail with Thunderbird? > > Mike > > It appears that thunderbird doesn't handle local mail (mboxes and maildirs) very well. To set up procmail, you basicily need to have local mail. Then if you have a pop account, you do something like: fetchmail pop.example.com --mda procmail with a procmailrc including a bit like :0 c: ^(From|To|cc): debian-user formail -R "Reply-to: *" "Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]" That code doesn't work and needs fixing but should give you an idea about how to do it. You will have to find out how to get thunderbird to talk to a local mailbox to make such a idea work. Pete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Alternative to Microcal Origin?
Bruno Buys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any free software alternative to Origin, the chart plotting > software, with deb packages? I´m looking for suggestions, and trying to > figure which one people seem to like more. Depending on your needs there are plenty of options. Some feature a GUI but the most powerful programs usually don't. - R (http://www.r-project.org) - GNUplot (http://www.gnuplot.info) - kst (http://omega.astro.utoronto.ca/kst) - Scigraphica (http://scigraphica.sourceforge.net) - labplot (http://labplot.sourceforge.net) - Scilab (http://www.scilab.org) - Octave (http://www.octave.org) - ploticus (http://ploticus.sourceforge.net) - quickplot (http://quickplot.sourceforge.net) - rlplot (http://rlplot.sourceforge.net) There must be many more which I am not aware of. Personally, I use R -- it's a bit of a challenge to learn at first but it is incredibly powerfull and totally worth the effort! The following page gives a comprehensive overview for Debian: http://debianlinux.net/science.html#plotting cu Philipp -- Dr. Philipp Pagel Tel. +49-8161-71 2131 Dept. of Genome Oriented BioinformaticsFax. +49-8161-71 2186 Technical University of Munich http://mips.gsf.de/staff/pagel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: need a "Swiss Army Knife" rescue disk
A bit late, but this has to be mentioned: Am Sonntag, den 20.11.2005, 20:03 -0500 schrieb mikepolniak: > Now with these two CD's i have everything i need. I use "R.I.P." - "Recovery is possible". This thing is great. It contains stuff like "reiser4" since a long time, comes in different flavors (Linux, BSD, Netboot, CD), and, very important for me: It asks which keyboard to use at startup, giving me the opportunity to choose "german", where nearly every key is in a different place compared to the typical default(=us) and even the often used y (="yes") nneds that I press "z" here to get "y". RIP always asks for "1/n" and not for "y/n". Console only, grub, LVM on demand, very small download, never missed anything. Hm, OK, I sometimes missed manpages. It does not contain them, so I use the ones from the system I am repairing. Bye, Ratti -- -o) fontlinge | Fontmanagement for Linux | Schriftenverwaltung in Linux /\\ http://freshmeat.net/projects/fontlinge/ _\_V http://www.gesindel.de https://sourceforge.net/projects/fontlinge/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: need a "Swiss Army Knife" rescue disk
Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: A bit late, but this has to be mentioned: Am Sonntag, den 20.11.2005, 20:03 -0500 schrieb mikepolniak: Now with these two CD's i have everything i need. I use "R.I.P." - "Recovery is possible". http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/ This thing is great. It contains stuff like "reiser4" since a long time, comes in different flavors (Linux, BSD, Netboot, CD), and, very important for me: It asks which keyboard to use at startup, giving me the opportunity to choose "german", where nearly every key is in a different place compared to the typical default(=us) and even the often used y (="yes") nneds that I press "z" here to get "y". RIP always asks for "1/n" and not for "y/n". Console only, grub, LVM on demand, very small download, never missed anything. Hm, OK, I sometimes missed manpages. It does not contain them, so I use the ones from the system I am repairing. Bye, Ratti -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: file not found - hardware, fs, or driver problem?
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 08:41:46AM +, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Tuesday, 6 December 2005 at 1:11:32 +, Andrew Perrin wrote: > > On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Richard Lyons wrote: > > > > > > > >The problem is that installed software sometimes refuses to run, giving > > >'file not found', in spite of the fact that the file in question will ls > > >normally, permissions are ok, etc, and I can even cat the file. This > > >happens only with certain files, for example two separate attempts to > > >install qcad professional. Other software, loaded via normal Debian > > >routes, runs apparently normally. > > > > > >Any suggestions to how to proceed? > > > > > > Can you post the output from your attempt to run the software? > > Here is an example: > $ qcad-2.1.0.0-rc1-1-prof.linux.lcpp5.x86$ ls > bin doc examples fonts library patterns qcad qm README scripts > $ ./qcad > bash: ./qcad: No such file or directory > > showing that it even happens when in the same diectory. And, yes, the > file qcad is world executable. Maybe it's missing some vital library or somesuch [1]. Try ldd, or if that doesn't help, "strace -efile ..." to find out... Good luck, Almut [1] for example, during transition from libc5 to libc6, you sometimes did get similarly weird messages because the corresponding ld.so was no longer found (the path to ld-linux.so.1 or ld-linux.so.2 is hard-wired in the binary). I don't suppose this is your problem here, though, as qcad-2.1 seems to be somewhat more recent... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Strange hard lock
Graham Smith wrote: Hi, Hope you can help me with a rather serious failure on one my machines last night. When I went to access it this morning it was as dead as a door nail. No network activity, not even local keyboard or video - totally dead. I initially thought a kernel oops but having a look at the logs makes me think it might be an out of memory issue. Here's a snippet from the logs: ### LOG SNIPPET ### Dec 6 01:30:47 compost kernel: oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x1d2 Dec 6 01:30:47 compost kernel: DMA per-cpu: Dec 6 01:30:47 compost kernel: cpu 0 hot: low 2, high 6, batch 1 Dec 6 01:30:47 compost kernel: cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 2, batch 1 Dec 6 01:30:47 compost kernel: Normal per-cpu: Dec 6 01:30:47 compost kernel: cpu 0 hot: low 62, high 186, batch 31 Dec 6 01:30:47 compost kernel: cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 62, batch 31 Dec 6 01:30:47 compost kernel: HighMem per-cpu: empty Dec 6 01:30:48 compost kernel: Dec 6 01:30:48 compost kernel: Free pages:3688kB (0kB HighMem) Dec 6 01:30:48 compost kernel: Active:36614 inactive:36018 dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0 free:922 slab:3999 mapped:70710 pagetables:1086 Dec 6 01:30:48 compost kernel: DMA free:1328kB min:112kB low:140kB high:168kB active:5624kB inactive:5196kB present:16384kB pages_scanned:14375 all_unreclaimable? yes Dec 6 01:30:48 compost kernel: lowmem_reserve[]: 0 304 304 Dec 6 01:30:48 compost kernel: Normal free:2360kB min:2172kB low:2712kB high:3256kB active:140832kB inactive:138876kB present:311296kB pages_scanned:235254 all_unreclaimable? no Dec 6 01:30:48 compost kernel: lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 Dec 6 01:30:48 compost kernel: HighMem free:0kB min:128kB low:160kB high:192kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no Dec 6 01:30:48 compost kernel: lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 Dec 6 01:30:48 compost kernel: DMA: 0*4kB 2*8kB 0*16kB 1*32kB 2*64kB 1*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 1*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 1328kB Dec 6 01:30:48 compost kernel: Normal: 88*4kB 7*8kB 12*16kB 7*32kB 0*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB 1*512kB 1*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 2360kB Dec 6 01:30:48 compost kernel: HighMem: empty Dec 6 01:30:48 compost kernel: Swap cache: add 15070980, delete 15070823, find 13016180/15808735, race 8+53 Dec 6 01:30:48 compost kernel: Free swap = 0kB Dec 6 01:30:48 compost kernel: Total swap = 393584kB Dec 6 01:30:48 compost kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 15517 (postmaster). ### END LOG SNIPPET ### I've never seen anything like that before and there is a lot of it after about 1:30 (the snippet above is the first occurrence). It seems to have systematically killed off processes presumably to acquire more free memory until it killed some vital ones at which point the box keeled over an died. What kernel version? I had something similar and oom-killer was no help in identifying the culprit. This is no help. :-( H -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: file-max is only 4096 with 1 GB mem
> Maybe an obvious question, but have you checked to make sure Debian is > recognizing all of your ram properly? I have an AMD Athlon XP 2200+ > (32-bit) with 1GB of ram and /proc/sys/fs/file-max shows 102249. My only idea to check this is 'cat /proc/meminfo', which shows this, what seems okay for me: MemTotal: 904632 kB MemFree:481784 kB Buffers: 26868 kB Cached: 181948 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 298764 kB Inactive:78964 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree:0 kB LowTotal: 904632 kB LowFree:481784 kB SwapTotal: 995988 kB SwapFree: 995988 kB Dirty: 44 kB Writeback: 0 kB Mapped: 216152 kB Slab:25996 kB CommitLimit: 1448304 kB Committed_AS: 445784 kB PageTables: 1648 kB VmallocTotal: 122580 kB VmallocUsed: 44372 kB VmallocChunk:77520 kB Any idea for a better check? -- \___ \ __ \_ ___ __ \___ Dieter Faulbaum o_\ o/ \o\/_/_,\ o| \ <\ \ <\__,\ " \ <|\ "/\. \ "\, \ \ "/\. \ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
gnomemeeting logitech quickcam pro 3000
Title: gnomemeeting logitech quickcam pro 3000 Hi all. I have a logitech quickcam pro 3000 webcam which works fine with camorama. When I try to use gnomemeeting, I end up with a very distorted video feed. I can tell that it is working to some extent because as i move my hand in front of the lense, the image changes somewhat though its stays distorted with slightly off-horizontal lines. Has anyone else experienced this or have any advice? I'm running kernel 2.6.12-1-686 with pwc-modules-2.6.12-1-686. Jason
Re: apt and hplip
On Mon, 05 Dec 2005, blah wrote: > PyKota is not known to apt because it isn't part of Debian. And most DDs who thought of adding it to Debian refrained from doing it, on the express wishes of pykota's author. We are not *forced* to keep it out of Debian, we could make packages and upload them at any time -- the GPL and the law allows us to do so. But why should we go against the people who created and keep the software alive? If a very large organization would like to have pykota in Debian itself, they could talk to the pykota author, and maybe pay him a large enough fee per year to cover all possible subscriptions he would lose with widely available packages in Debian and Ubuntu... THEN contact us through debian-devel to inform us about it. Maybe Ubuntu itself would do such sponsorship :P -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Color Laser
It is for private use.Once we tried a HP laserjet 2550L, it works fine but the noise level every time it changes to a new color where not acceptable in my gf ears.So a single pass laser printer or something like that, I'm looking at the Lexmark C522n but it is price level is in the high end of that we where thinking of spending.Thanks in advance./Lars
Re: Strange hard lock
On Tuesday 06 December 2005 10:39, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: * snip * > > What kernel version? I had something similar and oom-killer was no help > in identifying the culprit. > > This is no help. :-( > > H It's running Linux compost 2.6.12-1-386 #1 Tue Sep 27 12:41:08 JST 2005 i586 GNU/Linux the machine had been up for 61 days (I checked a few hours before it failed) with no problems and is running Debian testing. Having a closer look at the logs I notice that the first time it killed postmaster but after that it just seemed to repeatedly kill the apache2 process. I see what oom-killer is trying to do but I can't believe for one minute that I was running low on memory (the machine is running quite a few processes but never thrashes the disk). A typical top looks like this: top - 11:14:29 up 2:19, 4 users, load average: 0.04, 0.11, 0.12 Tasks: 143 total, 1 running, 142 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 4.6% us, 1.3% sy, 0.0% ni, 93.7% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.3% si Mem:321792k total, 308852k used,12940k free,15320k buffers Swap: 393584k total, 8340k used, 385244k free,55168k cached Which is a little odd because I thought that machine had 768 MB of ram not the 300 odd that is being reported. Maybe I removed some :o) it's been so long since I opened that box I can't remember. Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
snd_usb_audio: Unknown symbol __compound_literal.180
Title: snd_usb_audio: Unknown symbol __compound_literal.180 After googling my subject line, I found references to bug #329989 and its reported closure after a fix to gcc. I'm still having this problem with kernel 2.6.12-1-686. I've updated and upgraded, re-run alsaconf, and even rebooted, but, I still have the same problem. Please let me know if I need to provide more information. Any advice would be appreciated. Jason
Raid 5 detects but doesn't start on boot
New sarge install. System is on hda under lvm, works fine. Created raid 5 device after system was built dmesg shows autodetect of the array Array doesn't start (nor lvm on top of it) during boot though. I've kludged it by adding a S49mdadm and S50lvm script to rc2.d but this is after fstab has been read, so I can't put any mounts in it and would have to write another script to mount all these (which are nfs and samba exports, nothing to the local system) It all seems rather kludgy to me ... what do I have to do to get the array and lvm to start during the normal boot sequence early enough such that mount points can be in fstab? Again ... it sees the array: md: md0 stopped. md: bind md: bind md: bind raid5: automatically using best checksumming function: pIII_sse pIII_sse : 5448.000 MB/sec raid5: using function: pIII_sse (5448.000 MB/sec) md: raid5 personality registered as nr 4 raid5: device sda1 operational as raid disk 0 raid5: device sdc1 operational as raid disk 2 raid5: device sdb1 operational as raid disk 1 raid5: allocated 3160kB for md0 raid5: raid level 5 set md0 active with 3 out of 3 devices, algorithm 2 RAID5 conf printout: --- rd:3 wd:3 fd:0 disk 0, o:1, dev:sda1 disk 1, o:1, dev:sdb1 disk 2, o:1, dev:sdc1 AND the base system is running under LVM ... TIA for any advice ... -- Hank Marquardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Id: 2BB5E60C Fingerprint: D807 61BC FD18 370A AC1D 3EDF 2BF9 8A2D 2BB5 E60C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: file-max is only 4096 with 1 GB mem
Dieter Faulbaum wrote: I have a small problem under Debian etch with a (vanilla) kernel 2.6.14.3 on a AMD 64 (32-bit) system with 1GB memory: often I see error messages about running out of file handles. 'cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max' shows: 4096 This seems very sparse for 1GB memory. Looking at Documentation/proc.txt I found this. ... The value in file-max denotes the maximum number of file handles that the Linux kernel will allocate. When you get a lot of error messages about running out of file handles, you might want to raise this limit. The default value is 10% of RAM in kilobytes. To change it, just write the new number into the file: ... # echo 8192 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max Okay this works, but I don't understand why this value is so small. Is anyone else here with such a problem and can explain why this value is so small? On another computer with etch (but an Intel Pentium 4 CPU) I get 89808, which is what I expect from the docu. Well, you're not getting any answers to solve this. This is what I would do in your case. I would run on 2.6.14-ck6 from: http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/ using the .config file you are using now. Then I would go to their very active mailing list and ask the question on why this happened. They are all kernel gurus. That will get you the answer. BTW I run Sarge on that kernel. I find it snappier that the others because of the scheduler work that has been done. H -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lynx
Paddy Hackett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I finally located Lynx. However I am havin diffiulty finding > information. I keep getting a lot of technical and other instructions. > However despite what I do there is no adequate response. The current version of lynx is 2.8.5 It's available at http://lynx.isc.org/lynx2.8.5/ 2.8.6 Development & patches: http://lynx.isc.org/current/index.html -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VIA/S3G UniChrome IGP: Can't get better than 800x600
Hi, I've had some problems too but with the right configure it will work. I run unstable and xorg. I use a kernel with via-module/driver enabled - I do not know if this is a requierment. Snipps from kernel config; -- CONFIG_DRM_VIA: Choose this option if you have a Via unichrome or compatible video chipset. If M is selected the module will be called via. Symbol: DRM_VIA [=y] Prompt: Via unichrome video cards Defined at drivers/char/drm/Kconfig:92 Depends on: DRM Location: -> Device Drivers -> Character devices -> Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI support) (DRM [=y]) -- Some snipps from my xorg.conf - partly modified. - Section "Device" Identifier "via" Driver "via" # DAAR 20051012 added Option "EnableAGPDMA" "true" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen 1" Device "via" Monitor"G400m" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 8 Modes"1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 16 Modes"1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Modes"1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection EndSection - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: centericq and sarge
I use centericq on unstable. I know MSN protocol has changed recently. And althogh I am online on MSN I see no MSN-contacts online - eve thogh I know they are online... :/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Strange hard lock
Graham Smith wrote: On Tuesday 06 December 2005 10:39, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: * snip * What kernel version? I had something similar and oom-killer was no help in identifying the culprit. This is no help. :-( H It's running Linux compost 2.6.12-1-386 #1 Tue Sep 27 12:41:08 JST 2005 i586 GNU/Linux the machine had been up for 61 days (I checked a few hours before it failed) with no problems and is running Debian testing. Having a closer look at the logs I notice that the first time it killed postmaster but after that it just seemed to repeatedly kill the apache2 process. I see what oom-killer is trying to do but I can't believe for one minute that I was running low on memory (the machine is running quite a few processes but never thrashes the disk). A typical top looks like this: top - 11:14:29 up 2:19, 4 users, load average: 0.04, 0.11, 0.12 Tasks: 143 total, 1 running, 142 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 4.6% us, 1.3% sy, 0.0% ni, 93.7% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.3% si Mem:321792k total, 308852k used,12940k free,15320k buffers Swap: 393584k total, 8340k used, 385244k free,55168k cached Which is a little odd because I thought that machine had 768 MB of ram not the 300 odd that is being reported. Maybe I removed some :o) it's been so long since I opened that box I can't remember. Well, again this is no help, but anyway: What does 'cat /proc/meminfo'show? In response to my oom-killer I started my sensor apps to show Free Memory. That doesn't get you any closer because that value floats from the high end to about 10-15MB on later kernels and 3MB on earlier kernels. Do you remember what BIOS shows on memory installed? H -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: file not found - hardware, fs, or driver problem?
On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Richard Lyons wrote: On Tuesday, 6 December 2005 at 1:11:32 +, Andrew Perrin wrote: On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Richard Lyons wrote: The problem is that installed software sometimes refuses to run, giving 'file not found', in spite of the fact that the file in question will ls normally, permissions are ok, etc, and I can even cat the file. This happens only with certain files, for example two separate attempts to install qcad professional. Other software, loaded via normal Debian routes, runs apparently normally. Any suggestions to how to proceed? Can you post the output from your attempt to run the software? Here is an example: $ qcad-2.1.0.0-rc1-1-prof.linux.lcpp5.x86$ ls bin doc examples fonts library patterns qcad qm README scripts $ ./qcad bash: ./qcad: No such file or directory showing that it even happens when in the same diectory. And, yes, the file qcad is world executable. What's the output of: ls -l qcad and: head -n3 qcad -- Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor, _Social Forces_ University of North Carolina - CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: playing DVDs from hard disk or CD
Thanks to everyone who told me where to find mplayer for Debian (I'd deleted the thread by mistake so have just found the replies in the archive). Thanks to being pointed to the link to Marillat's site I have now got mplayer, though at present I'm getting better results with DVDs using ogle. Anthony -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lynx
Thomas Dickey wrote: Paddy Hackett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I finally located Lynx. However I am havin diffiulty finding information. I keep getting a lot of technical and other instructions. However despite what I do there is no adequate response. The current version of lynx is 2.8.5 It's available at http://lynx.isc.org/lynx2.8.5/ 2.8.6 Development & patches: http://lynx.isc.org/current/index.html If you want to use a text based browser why don't you use "links" which can handle frames and background downloads. I like lynx, but it's a little bit limiting in terms of what websites one can access. cheers Duncan ___ Yahoo! Messenger - NEW crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide with voicemail http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lynx
On Tuesday 06 December 2005 23:17, Duncan Anderson wrote: > If you want to use a text based browser why don't you use "links" which > can handle frames and background downloads. I like lynx, but it's a > little bit limiting in terms of what websites one can access. > > cheers > Duncan lynx can do things links can't do, and visa-versa. I find that lynx is generally far more compatible than links, even if links can display things much nicer. Also, links has this annoying habit of rendering an ascii version of the website such that it's wider than the screen. As such, for administration, such as setting up cups, I much prefer lynx. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Strange hard lock
On Tuesday 06 December 2005 11:42, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Graham Smith wrote: > > On Tuesday 06 December 2005 10:39, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > * snip * > > > >>What kernel version? I had something similar and oom-killer was no help > >>in identifying the culprit. > >> > >>This is no help. :-( > >> > >>H > > > > It's running > > > > Linux compost 2.6.12-1-386 #1 Tue Sep 27 12:41:08 JST 2005 i586 GNU/Linux > > > > the machine had been up for 61 days (I checked a few hours before it > > failed) with no problems and is running Debian testing. > > > > Having a closer look at the logs I notice that the first time it killed > > postmaster but after that it just seemed to repeatedly kill the apache2 > > process. > > > > I see what oom-killer is trying to do but I can't believe for one minute > > that I was running low on memory (the machine is running quite a few > > processes but never thrashes the disk). A typical top looks like this: > > > > top - 11:14:29 up 2:19, 4 users, load average: 0.04, 0.11, 0.12 > > Tasks: 143 total, 1 running, 142 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie > > Cpu(s): 4.6% us, 1.3% sy, 0.0% ni, 93.7% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.3% > > si Mem:321792k total, 308852k used,12940k free,15320k > > buffers Swap: 393584k total, 8340k used, 385244k free,55168k > > cached > > > > Which is a little odd because I thought that machine had 768 MB of ram > > not the 300 odd that is being reported. Maybe I removed some :o) it's > > been so long since I opened that box I can't remember. > > Well, again this is no help, but anyway: > > What does 'cat /proc/meminfo'show? > > In response to my oom-killer I started my sensor apps to show Free > Memory. That doesn't get you any closer because that value floats from > the high end to about 10-15MB on later kernels and 3MB on earlier kernels. > > Do you remember what BIOS shows on memory installed? > > H I have a sneaky suspicion that I know what the problem is. I think there might be a memory leak in the Java JAI (Java Advanced Imaging) library. Yesterday was the first time I extensively used them on the server. I've got top monitoring the memory usage (M sorted) and so far no problems. What I did notice was that a few hours before going down apache seemed to be having problems serving up content. Randomly bits wouldn't appear like it had just given up. Result of 'cat /proc/meminfo' MemTotal: 321792 kB MemFree: 20804 kB Buffers: 23988 kB Cached: 62792 kB SwapCached: 1904 kB Active: 239588 kB Inactive:39356 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree:0 kB LowTotal: 321792 kB LowFree: 20804 kB SwapTotal: 393584 kB SwapFree: 375960 kB Dirty: 472 kB Writeback: 0 kB Mapped: 229540 kB Slab:15760 kB CommitLimit:554480 kB Committed_AS: 539200 kB PageTables: 2272 kB VmallocTotal: 712624 kB VmallocUsed: 2384 kB VmallocChunk: 709832 kB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Educational software...
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 11:12:23AM +0530, Frederick Noronha (FN) wrote: > Does anyone have specific pointers and URLs for useful Debian > educational software, specially for primary and pre-school children? > Many thanks, FN http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto pgpuDuB68musk.pgp Description: PGP signature
sent mail timing out
I'm running a Mac Quadra 610 using Debian Woody being upgraded to Sarge. I've mis-configured sendmail so that every outbound message from the linux system times out at the receiving end. Does anyone have suggestions on where I pooched? (I'm composing this at work on my ISP servers' webmail, successfully being accepted by murphy.debian.org will confirm my guess) Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Desktop Publishing
What software packages are available for Desktop Publishing on Linux? (similar to Pagemaker) Preferably FOSS, of course. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: One stage rsync
Olleg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all. > I am working on debian and debian-amd64 mirror. There are two > recommended mirror scripts. In both two stage rsync, first to download > packages, second to update index files after download. > I use one stage, here example: > rsync --verbose --recursive --links --hard-links --times --delete-after > --delay-updates > IMHO I achieve the same with only one rsync command, isn't it? With > this options rsync: > > 1. Download new files and modified, but modified don't replace old > files yet. > 2. Replace old files with new versions after download complete > (--delay-updates). > 3. Delete absent files (--delete-after) at the end. > > Benefit is obvious. May be change recommended mirror scripts? How new is the --delay-updates option? It probably was introduced after the mirror scripts were written. That said, what happens when e.g. the rsync stops halfway? Does it update the files it already has? Does it keep the files delayed and resume on the next run? Does it remove the updates and start fresh the next time? Apart from that question a single rsync run is certainly much better. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
aMule can't be installed because of unavailable libraries?
Hi, I'm trying to install the amule package on Unstable and there is an unsatisfied dependency, with a package name `libcrypto++5.2c2' . I have installed amule before, but I've recently reinstalled debian and now there is this dependency thing. I have searched aptitude for this libcrypto++, and there IS a package named `libcrypto++5.2c2a', which replaces libcrypto++5.2c2 and libcrypto++5.2 . Any idea what can be done in order to install amule?
Re: centericq and sarge
On 6 Dec 2005 03:32:01 -0800, David A. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use centericq on unstable. I also use it on unstable. If you use sarge, you could install the version that comes with unstable. > I know MSN protocol has changed recently. And althogh I am online on > MSN I see no MSN-contacts online - eve thogh I know they are online... > :/ When it happens, I delete the contact, add it again using gaim, and then I can see the contact online on centericq. Regards. -- Homepage : http://geocities.com/arhuaco The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool. -- Richard Feynman.
Re: Desktop Publishing
On (06/12/05 07:15), Michael Satterwhite wrote: > What software packages are available for Desktop Publishing on Linux? > (similar to Pagemaker) Preferably FOSS, of course. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache search desktop publishing cenon.app - Vector graphics tool for GNUstep kword - a word processor for the KDE Office Suite passepartout - XML-based Desktop Publishing Application scribus - Open Source Desktop Publishing Regards Clive -- www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... ...strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: file not found - hardware, fs, or driver problem?
On Tuesday, 6 December 2005 at 12:10:38 +, Andrew Perrin wrote: > On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Richard Lyons wrote: > > >On Tuesday, 6 December 2005 at 1:11:32 +, Andrew Perrin wrote: > >>On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Richard Lyons wrote: > >> > >>> > >>>The problem is that installed software sometimes refuses to run, giving > >>>'file not found', [...] > >> > >>Can you post the output from your attempt to run the software? [...] > > bash: ./qcad: No such file or directory > > [...] > What's the output of: > > ls -l qcad -rwxr-xr-x 1 timna users 12697696 2005-11-19 10:58 qcad > > > and: > > head -n3 qcad Half a screenful of garbage beginning #ELF ... ###lib/ld-linux.so.2### where I have put hashes in place of those squares that show unprintable characters, and the second extract is somewhere on the second line of output. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: file not found - hardware, fs, or driver problem?
On Tuesday, 6 December 2005 at 12:00:24 +0100, Almut Behrens wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 08:41:46AM +, Richard Lyons wrote:
[...]
> > $ ./qcad
> > bash: ./qcad: No such file or directory
[...]
>
> Maybe it's missing some vital library or somesuch [1]. Try ldd, or if
> that doesn't help, "strace -efile ..." to find out...
tiramisu:/opt/qcad-2.1.0.0-rc1-1-prof.linux.lcpp5.x86# ldd ./qcad
/usr/bin/ldd: line 171: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: No such file or directory
ldd: /lib/ld-linux.so.2 exited with unknown exit code (127)
and
tiramisu:/opt/qcad-2.1.x86# strace -efile ./qcad
strace: exec: No such file or directory
execve("./qcad", ["./qcad"], [/* 19 vars */]) = 0
Which tells me little. Am I right in thinking the latter indicates the
error is in fact occuring before the file qcad is even opened? If so, I
assume it is a system problem not a problem with this particular
executable. Or am I drawing unfounded conclusions?
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Re: file not found - hardware, fs, or driver problem?
On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Richard Lyons wrote: On Tuesday, 6 December 2005 at 12:00:24 +0100, Almut Behrens wrote: On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 08:41:46AM +, Richard Lyons wrote: [...] $ ./qcad bash: ./qcad: No such file or directory [...] Maybe it's missing some vital library or somesuch [1]. Try ldd, or if that doesn't help, "strace -efile ..." to find out... tiramisu:/opt/qcad-2.1.0.0-rc1-1-prof.linux.lcpp5.x86# ldd ./qcad /usr/bin/ldd: line 171: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: No such file or directory ldd: /lib/ld-linux.so.2 exited with unknown exit code (127) To me, this suggests a problem with the ld-linux.so.2 library. Does it exist? (i.e., ls -l /lib/ld-linux*) This is from my system: joehill:~# dpkg -S ld-linux.so.2 libc6: /lib/ld-linux.so.2 libc6: /lib/tls/ld-linux.so.2 ...which means that the package libc6 contains the file in question joehill:~# ls -l /lib/ld-linux.* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Nov 27 20:13 /lib/ld-linux.so.2 -> ld-2.3.5.so ...and it's a symbolic link to: joehill:~# ls -l /lib/ld-2.3.5.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 88168 Nov 12 20:23 /lib/ld-2.3.5.so -- Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor, _Social Forces_ University of North Carolina - CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: root's directory corrupted
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 04:03:58PM -0800, k l u r t wrote: > when i log into my desktop as root, i get the following message: No > directory, logging in with HOME=/ > > when i view the contents of / i see that root's directory is not > present with the exception of a file "root": > - -r-s-w--wt 57413 17916 2380551563 1970-01-01 04:41 root* Peculiar. Broken datestamp suggests some corruption; truly bizarre permissions sets alarm-bells ringing: have you been rooted? It appears to be a very big file. What does ls -ls think (the size on the left, compared to the size in column 7-8)? > i can not chmod, chgrp, or chown this "root" file; i get the > "Operation not permitted" message when trying to do so (i'm logged in > as root). The UID and GID fields appear to be invalid too, at least locally. Do you use NIS or anything similar? > does anyone know what the problem is? has anyone experienced this > problem? what can i do to fix this? You could create another dir, e.g. /root2 and change the /root entry in /etc/passwd to /root2 (always be careful when editing this file); although that isn't much of an improvement on the current situation: the warning will go but the file will remain. I've never seen anything like this but I think it looks fairly serious. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dvd recording, dvdcss, etc.
On 12/5/05, Gnu-Raiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11:23, Mon 05 Dec 05, Matt Price wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > I have made a copy of a dvd which is encrypted with libdvdcss. I'm > > pretty sure the copy (which is for research purposes) is legal under > > Canadian law, so please let's not get into that. I made the copy in > > the following way: > > > > dd if=/dev/hdd of=dvd_file.iso > > then > > dvdrecord dev=ATA:1,1,0 -dao dvd_file.iso > > > > I did md5sum checks on the original disk, the copy on my hd, and the > > copied disk. All come out the same. The .iso file on my computer > > plays fine under vlc, though I have some trouble with totem and > > mplayer.However, the copied dvd doesn't play back properly under > > any player. [...] > > You also might want to read up on the dvd backup process, > most of the time it involves ripping out the vob's off the > disk. Once you have the vobs, you should be able to do > whatever you need to them. Even if you make a bit copy of a > dvd, depending on the dvd, and the drm it might not work. > After all it copied all the drm over, and is bitwise correct > of the original which might or might not want you to watch > the dvd on your computer. THanks for the suggestions. Just for the archive, I hunted faround as per your advice & found the source of my problem: I recorded onto a dvd-r disc, which has a copy-protected ring att he beginning of the volume; since, apparently, dvdcss looks for css keys in these opening bits, it doesn't matter that the keys are contained in the backup image I burned; therefore, in order to make a backup, decryption is necessary. So dd won't work, and dvdbackup is necessary isntead. Thus I used this method, found here: http://www.johnvansickle.com/dvdbackup $ dvdbackup -v 2 -M -i/dev/hdd -o/outputdir $ growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/hdd -dvd-video /outputdir worked great on the first try -- since this was a dvd-5, there was no need to transcode or recompress the files, and the burn took less than half an hour on my cheap plextor 16x burner.
Re: Educational software...
On (06/12/05 11:12), Frederick Noronha (FN) wrote: > Does anyone have specific pointers and URLs for useful Debian > educational software, specially for primary and pre-school children? > Many thanks, FN You may want to check out: http://moodle.com/ http://www.edubuntu.org/ Regards Clive -- www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... ...strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
LogWatch + Postfix = TMI
Hello, I am running an almost pure sarge system with logwatch 5.2.2-5 and postfix 2.2.4-1.0.1. All is well, except for the fact that logwatch produces a bit too much output for my taste in the postfix section. Specifically, all the statistics that Anvil prints are added to the report as unmatched entries: > **Unmatched Entries** > > statistics: max connection rate 1/60s for (smtp:x.x.x.x) at Dec 5 > +00:04:02 > statistics: max connection count 1 for (smtp:x.x.x.x) at Dec 5 00:04:02 > statistics: max cache size 1 at Dec 5 00:04:02 [and so on for several pages] I tried to create /etc/logwatch/conf/ignore.conf with the following contents: > ".*max connection rate.*" > ".*max connection count.*" > ".*max cache size.*" No idea whether the location or the contents are correct - I found the documentation a tad light in that respect. Is there a way to suppress those log messages without having to modify the postfix filter? Would ignore.conf be the right approach? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks, Juergen signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Hard drive issue
Using a debian sarge system, with postfix and courier-imap. Yesterday morning I started having IMAP connectivity problems with this mail server. Going to the box itself I discovered that the following error was occurring repeatedly: kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 61870207 kernel: EXT3-fs error (device hdc1): ext3_find_entry: reading directory #3866625 offset 0 So, I was certain this meant my HD was giving out on me. After rebooting the system seemed fine for about 30 min. But then the same error starting occurring. Again I had to reboot. Right after rebooting I shut all mail services down, and unmounted the drive in question (mounted as /home). Whereas I had another drive by the same manufacturer and the exact same type (size, etc.) I then decided to copy all of the failing drive to the new one. (i.e.: dd if=/dev/hdc of=/dev/hdd) By all calculations (the drive was 80 G), this copy process should have taken no more than 50 min. Well over an hour and a half later I decided to stop the copying. I mounted the new drive just to look at it. It looked as though everything was there. But even a simple command as du on the file structure and size caused that process to hang. No matter what I tried I could not stop the process so I had to reboot. I set /dev/hdc back to /home in fstab and rebooted. As I expected everything worked. But I was expecting meltdown at any minute. Well, that was yesterday. The system has been running since without a single error. So, what am I supposed to make of this? Curtis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Hard drive issue
The drive may have re-mapped the bad sectors, a full surface scan & fsck would probably be a good idea. -Original Message- From: Curtis Vaughan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 10:12 AM To: Debian-User List Subject: Hard drive issue Using a debian sarge system, with postfix and courier-imap. Yesterday morning I started having IMAP connectivity problems with this mail server. Going to the box itself I discovered that the following error was occurring repeatedly: kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 61870207 kernel: EXT3-fs error (device hdc1): ext3_find_entry: reading directory #3866625 offset 0 So, I was certain this meant my HD was giving out on me. After rebooting the system seemed fine for about 30 min. But then the same error starting occurring. Again I had to reboot. Right after rebooting I shut all mail services down, and unmounted the drive in question (mounted as /home). Whereas I had another drive by the same manufacturer and the exact same type (size, etc.) I then decided to copy all of the failing drive to the new one. (i.e.: dd if=/dev/hdc of=/dev/hdd) By all calculations (the drive was 80 G), this copy process should have taken no more than 50 min. Well over an hour and a half later I decided to stop the copying. I mounted the new drive just to look at it. It looked as though everything was there. But even a simple command as du on the file structure and size caused that process to hang. No matter what I tried I could not stop the process so I had to reboot. I set /dev/hdc back to /home in fstab and rebooted. As I expected everything worked. But I was expecting meltdown at any minute. Well, that was yesterday. The system has been running since without a single error. So, what am I supposed to make of this? Curtis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problem with INN
Hi, I've recently started to see a problem with INN whereby the news.daily script doesn't successfully complete, and leaves the server reserved. Further investigation shows the following errors in the news.daily report: expire begin Tue Dec 6 13:47:03 GMT 2005: (-v1) expire: dbzsync: putcore failed expire: dbzinit: dbzinit already called once expire: can't dbzinit /var/lib/news/history Success expire: dbz: fseeko failure in putconf: Bad file descriptor /usr/lib/news/bin/news.daily: line 1: 32095 Segmentation fault expire +-v1 expire end Tue Dec 6 13:47:15 GMT 2005 I figured this might point to a corrupt history database, so I rebuilt it using the following command (with the server stopped) su news -c "/usr/lib/news/bin/makehistory -O -T /tmp" However, the '.hash' and '.index' files appear to be incredibly large given the size of the history file. Is this normal? gently:~# ls -l /var/lib/news/history* -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 833107 Dec 6 14:06 /var/lib/news/history -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 46 Dec 6 14:06 /var/lib/news/history.dir -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 6000 Dec 6 14:06 /var/lib/news/history.hash -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 4000 Dec 6 14:06 /var/lib/news/history.index Can anyone offer any suggestions? Thanks Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: reply to list (mailing list) in thunderbird?
On 12/06/2005 04:40 AM, Peter Nuttall wrote: > It appears that thunderbird doesn't handle local mail (mboxes and > maildirs) very well. > You will have to find out how to get thunderbird to > talk to a local mailbox to make such a idea work. Thunderbird uses mbox formats. In thunderbird: Edit -> Account Settings -> Add Account -> Movemail ... Detail and Screenshots: http://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Help_Documentation:Creating_an_Account I use thunderbird for all mail including system mail and mail from accounts on yahoo with fetchyahoo. Regards, Ralph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: file not found - hardware, fs, or driver problem?
On Tuesday, 6 December 2005 at 14:20:08 +, Andrew Perrin wrote: > On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Richard Lyons wrote: > > >tiramisu:/opt/qcad-2.1.0.0-rc1-1-prof.linux.lcpp5.x86# ldd ./qcad > >/usr/bin/ldd: line 171: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: No such file or directory > >ldd: /lib/ld-linux.so.2 exited with unknown exit code (127) > > > > To me, this suggests a problem with the ld-linux.so.2 library. Does it > exist? (i.e., ls -l /lib/ld-linux*) > > This is from my system: > > joehill:~# dpkg -S ld-linux.so.2 > libc6: /lib/ld-linux.so.2 > libc6: /lib/tls/ld-linux.so.2 > > ...which means that the package libc6 contains the file in question > > > joehill:~# ls -l /lib/ld-linux.* > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Nov 27 20:13 /lib/ld-linux.so.2 -> ld-2.3.5.so > > > ...and it's a symbolic link to: > > > joehill:~# ls -l /lib/ld-2.3.5.so > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 88168 Nov 12 20:23 /lib/ld-2.3.5.so Right. Thanks for your help. You are right, it did not exist. I had: # ls -l /lib/ld-linux* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 2005-11-26 09:24 /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 -> ld-2.3.5.so so I did: # ln -s /lib/ld-2.3.5.so /lib/ld-linux.so.2 after which # ./qcad bash: ./qcad: Accessing a corrupted shared library So what next? Just to recap., this is etch on an amd64 system, which may perhaps be the reason. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Fwd: RE: Hard drive issue]
Could someone elaborate on just how to do all this? I know how to use fsck, but how to re-map and do a full surface scan? The drive may have re-mapped the bad sectors, a full surface scan & fsck would probably be a good idea. -Original Message- From: Curtis Vaughan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 10:12 AM To: Debian-User List Subject: Hard drive issue Using a debian sarge system, with postfix and courier-imap. Yesterday morning I started having IMAP connectivity problems with this mail server. Going to the box itself I discovered that the following error was occurring repeatedly: kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 61870207 kernel: EXT3-fs error (device hdc1): ext3_find_entry: reading directory #3866625 offset 0 So, I was certain this meant my HD was giving out on me. After rebooting the system seemed fine for about 30 min. But then the same error starting occurring. Again I had to reboot. Right after rebooting I shut all mail services down, and unmounted the drive in question (mounted as /home). Whereas I had another drive by the same manufacturer and the exact same type (size, etc.) I then decided to copy all of the failing drive to the new one. (i.e.: dd if=/dev/hdc of=/dev/hdd) By all calculations (the drive was 80 G), this copy process should have taken no more than 50 min. Well over an hour and a half later I decided to stop the copying. I mounted the new drive just to look at it. It looked as though everything was there. But even a simple command as du on the file structure and size caused that process to hang. No matter what I tried I could not stop the process so I had to reboot. I set /dev/hdc back to /home in fstab and rebooted. As I expected everything worked. But I was expecting meltdown at any minute. Well, that was yesterday. The system has been running since without a single error. So, what am I supposed to make of this? Curtis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: WIFI Card DWL-G510 (Atheros chipset) installation problems
Yes, I'm running stable However, I just issued Apt-get -u dist-upgrade install testing And I am in the process of "upgrading" to testing. I did this because I needed to upgrade libc6 to 2.5.8 for madwifi-tools and because I got confused by the hand rolling of madwifi using tarballs. Once it's back up and running, if I haven't broken my system, I hope to be able to get my DWL-G510 working using the debian packages. Will the Debian packages from testing work or does anyone have suspicion that I'll still need to get the madwifi snapshots and roll my own? Thanks, Ed -Original Message- From: Andrew M.A. Cater [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 12:00 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: WIFI Card DWL-G510 (Atheros chipset) installation problems On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 11:12:50PM -0200, Marcello Di Marino Azevedo wrote: > Andy, are you using testing or unstable right? > Sorry, should have said. This is using unstable - which in this instance Just Works. if you use module assistant Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?
On 12/5/05, Oliver Lupton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 13:09:59 +0200 > Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > audio editor: > > * audacity (7) > > * audacious, gnusound, xfmedia > > Just a little correction, audacious is an audio player, not an editor. It was > forked from beep-media-player :) Eish! sorry man... such mistakes. I checked to see and noticed that I put that in the wrong category. By the way, there was some stuff I couldn't find from simple, lazy searching and I decided to remain ignorant...
NFS mount
I have set up an NFS mount point using this as a reference. http://www.netapp.com/library/tr/3183.pdf The server running nfs-kernel-server has sarge (upgraded from woody) and a 2.6 kernel. My problem is that after a couple of days the server stops responding completely. No ssh, no ping, no nuttin. I can find nothing in the logs in /var/log on either the server or client. The client shows nothing mounted. If I restart the NFS server I can remount it without issue and it will last for another couple of days. Any help in troubleshooting, fixing or getting something in a log would be greatly appreciated Tony Heal Pace Systems Group, Inc. 800-624-5999 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Upgraded to testing, broke X, can't open /dev/input/mice
My upgrade to testing broke X. It seems that the mouse device can't be found Here's the transcribed error from /var/log/XFree86.0.log: (EE) XF86OpenSerial: cannot open device /dev/input/mice no such file or directory (E) Preinit failed for input device "Configured mouse" Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap No core pointer Fatal server error: failed to initialize core devices If I can figure out how to email the entire log file from a terminal I'll provide it if it will help. I tried: Cat /var/log/XFree86.0.log | mail -s"error" [EMAIL PROTECTED] This never made it for some reason even though I seem to be online. Ed -Original Message- From: David A. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 4:30 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: VIA/S3G UniChrome IGP: Can't get better than 800x600 Hi, I've had some problems too but with the right configure it will work. I run unstable and xorg. I use a kernel with via-module/driver enabled - I do not know if this is a requierment. Snipps from kernel config; -- CONFIG_DRM_VIA: Choose this option if you have a Via unichrome or compatible video chipset. If M is selected the module will be called via. Symbol: DRM_VIA [=y] Prompt: Via unichrome video cards Defined at drivers/char/drm/Kconfig:92 Depends on: DRM Location: -> Device Drivers -> Character devices -> Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI support) (DRM [=y]) -- Some snipps from my xorg.conf - partly modified. - Section "Device" Identifier "via" Driver "via" # DAAR 20051012 added Option "EnableAGPDMA" "true" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen 1" Device "via" Monitor"G400m" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 8 Modes"1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 16 Modes"1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Modes"1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection EndSection - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: reply to list (mailing list) in thunderbird?
Peter Nuttall wrote:
[snip]
with a procmailrc including a bit like
:0 c:
^(From|To|cc): debian-user
formail -R "Reply-to: *" "Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"
That code doesn't work and needs fixing but should give you an idea
about how to do it. You will have to find out how to get thunderbird to
talk to a local mailbox to make such a idea work.
Ok, thanks.
Mike
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Re: reply to list (mailing list) in thunderbird?
Ralph Katz wrote:
Thunderbird uses mbox formats.
In thunderbird:
Edit -> Account Settings -> Add Account -> Movemail ...
Detail and Screenshots:
http://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Help_Documentation:Creating_an_Account
I use thunderbird for all mail including system mail and mail from
accounts on yahoo with fetchyahoo.
Thanks!
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Re: One stage rsync
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: That said, what happens when e.g. the rsync stops halfway? I make experiment, kill rsync server on transfer. Does it update the files it already has? No Does it keep the files delayed and resume on the next run? Does it remove the updates and start fresh the next time? Keep files delayed in .~tmp~ subdir by default, don't remove it on error. (IMHO this is bug of rsync.) But on rsync next time don't use it, simple rewrite. -- Olleg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can't install VOMIT on unstable
Hello friends,
I am having problem when trying to install VOMIT (Voice Over Missconfigured Interent Telephones)
I took the source from vomit.xtdnet.nl .when I try to run
./configure
I get this error message
"configure: error: dnet-config not found"
and the confugration process stops
even when I issue
./configure --without-libdnet
I get this error message:
"configure: error: Please specify directory containing dnet-config when using --with-libdnet"
I believe that there is an error in the configuration script*.
My problem that I not familiur with bash script. that I can't change it.
Unfortionaltly there was a Debian package on the link
http://kalug.linux.org.tw/~chihchun/debian
but not accessable any more
Any hint is highly appreciated, and thanks in advance.
In peace,
Mohammad
*the suspected script is :
###
# Check whether --with-libdnet or --without-libdnet was given.
if test "${with_libdnet+set}" = set; then
withval="$with_libdnet"
case "$withval" in
yes|no)
{ { echo "$as_me:2162: error: Please specify
directory containing dnet-config when using --with-libdnet" >&5
echo "$as_me: error: Please specify directory containing dnet-config when using --with-libdnet" >&2;}
{ (exit 1); exit 1; }; }
;;
*)
echo "$as_me:2167: checking for libdnet" >&5
echo $ECHO_N "checking for libdnet... $ECHO_C" >&6
echo "$as_me:2169: result: $withval" >&5
echo "${ECHO_T}$withval" >&6
if test -f $withval/src/libdnet.a; then
DNETINC="-I$withval/include"
DNETLIB="-L$withval/src -ldnet `$withval/dnet-config --libs`"
elif test -x $withval/bin/dnet-config; then
DNETINC="`$withval/bin/dnet-config --cflags`"
DNETLIB="`$withval/bin/dnet-config --libs`"
else
echo "$as_me:2178: result: no" >&5
echo "${ECHO_T}no" >&6
{ { echo "$as_me:2180: error: dnet-config not found in $withval/bin" >&5
echo "$as_me: error: dnet-config not found in $withval/bin" >&2;}
{ (exit 1); exit 1; }; }
fi
;;
esac
echo "$as_me:2186: result: yes" >&5
echo "${ECHO_T}yes" >&6
else
# Extract the first word of "dnet-config", so it can be a program name with args.
set dummy dnet-config; ac_word=$2
echo "$as_me:2191: checking for $ac_word" >&5
echo $ECHO_N "checking for $ac_word... $ECHO_C" >&6
if test "${ac_cv_path_dnetconfig+set}" = set; then
echo $ECHO_N "(cached) $ECHO_C" >&6
else
case $dnetconfig in
[\\/]* | ?:[\\/]*)
ac_cv_path_dnetconfig="$dnetconfig" # Let the user override the test with a path.
;;
*)
ac_save_IFS=$IFS; IFS=$ac_path_separator
ac_dummy="$PATH"
for ac_dir in $ac_dummy; do
IFS=$ac_save_IFS
test -z "$ac_dir" && ac_dir=.
if $as_executable_p "$ac_dir/$ac_word"; then
ac_cv_path_dnetconfig="$ac_dir/$ac_word"
echo "$as_me:2208: found $ac_dir/$ac_word" >&5
break
fi
done
Re: file not found - hardware, fs, or driver problem?
Try reinstalling libc6 and see if that works. -- Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor, _Social Forces_ University of North Carolina - CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Richard Lyons wrote: On Tuesday, 6 December 2005 at 14:20:08 +, Andrew Perrin wrote: On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Richard Lyons wrote: tiramisu:/opt/qcad-2.1.0.0-rc1-1-prof.linux.lcpp5.x86# ldd ./qcad /usr/bin/ldd: line 171: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: No such file or directory ldd: /lib/ld-linux.so.2 exited with unknown exit code (127) To me, this suggests a problem with the ld-linux.so.2 library. Does it exist? (i.e., ls -l /lib/ld-linux*) This is from my system: joehill:~# dpkg -S ld-linux.so.2 libc6: /lib/ld-linux.so.2 libc6: /lib/tls/ld-linux.so.2 ...which means that the package libc6 contains the file in question joehill:~# ls -l /lib/ld-linux.* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Nov 27 20:13 /lib/ld-linux.so.2 -> ld-2.3.5.so ...and it's a symbolic link to: joehill:~# ls -l /lib/ld-2.3.5.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 88168 Nov 12 20:23 /lib/ld-2.3.5.so Right. Thanks for your help. You are right, it did not exist. I had: # ls -l /lib/ld-linux* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 2005-11-26 09:24 /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 -> ld-2.3.5.so so I did: # ln -s /lib/ld-2.3.5.so /lib/ld-linux.so.2 after which # ./qcad bash: ./qcad: Accessing a corrupted shared library So what next? Just to recap., this is etch on an amd64 system, which may perhaps be the reason. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Machines and people
Arafangion wrote:
On Tuesday 06 December 2005 04:35, Mike McCarty wrote:
Kent West wrote:
Mike McCarty wrote:
Kent West wrote:
[that ASCII is 8 bits]
ASCII *is* 7-bits.
[snip]
Precisely what I said. Watch your attributes. Also, read the
reply Kent wrote, in which he acknowledged the mistake.
Mike
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Re: file not found - hardware, fs, or driver problem?
On Tuesday, 6 December 2005 at 17:42:35 +, Andrew Perrin wrote: > Try reinstalling libc6 and see if that works. > I did apt-get --reinstall install libc6, which should achieve that. But no change to the results. Perhaps if I compile qcad from source the problem will disappear. (If I manage to compile it, that is) -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [root user] How to disable root account?
Am 2005-11-30 16:04:22, schrieb Dick Davies: > On 30/11/05, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > grep -vE "^root:" /etc/passwd >/etc/passwd.tmp > > mv /etc/passwd.tmp /etc/passwd > > > > grep -vE "^root:" /etc/shadow >/etc/shadow.tmp > > mv /etc/shadow.tmp /etc/shadow > > > > grep -vE "^0:" /etc/group >/etc/group.tmp > > mv /etc/group.tmp /etc/group > > > > grep -vE "^0:" /etc/gshadow >/etc/gshadow.tmp > > mv /etc/gshadow.tmp /etc/gshadow > > That's a joke, isnt' it? :-) Yes, but it deactivate "root" very successful! Greetings Michelle -- Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ # Debian GNU/Linux Consultant # Michelle Konzack Apt. 917 ICQ #328449886 50, rue de Soultz MSM LinuxMichi 0033/3/8845235667100 Strasbourg/France IRC #Debian (irc.icq.com) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Shell Script (If and Else) problem
Am 2005-12-01 15:23:32, schrieb Louie Miranda: > if [ "$CAT_XML_CHECK" -gt "0" ] here you need a "then" > echo "more than zero" > > fi > > if [ -d "$XML_NETWORK_SHARE" ] > then > cp $XMLPARSEDFILES/*.xml $XML_FOR_TRANSFER > cp $XMLPARSEDFILES/*.xml $XML_COPY > mv $XMLPARSEDFILES/*.xml $XML_NETWORK_SHARE > else > mv $XMLPARSEDFILES/*.xml $XML_FOR_TRANSFER > echo "no network share, not generating XML files" > mail -s "BCARD V2, no network share - error on XML > FEED" [EMAIL PROTECTED] < email_noshare > fi Greetings Michelle -- Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ # Debian GNU/Linux Consultant # Michelle Konzack Apt. 917 ICQ #328449886 50, rue de Soultz MSM LinuxMichi 0033/3/8845235667100 Strasbourg/France IRC #Debian (irc.icq.com) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: my email vanished
Hello Hendrik, Am 2005-12-01 10:55:10, schrieb Hendrik Boom: > Last nighe all my email in /var/spool/mail/hendrik vanished > without a trace. Some new mail has appeared since the vanishing. > Everyone else's email in intact. > > I read my mail with mutt. Hehe... Do you have a Directory $HOME/mail or something similar? I think, 'mutt' has moved the Mails from /var/mail/$USER to /home/$USER/Mail/ 'mutt' does this by default. Greetings Michelle -- Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ # Debian GNU/Linux Consultant # Michelle Konzack Apt. 917 ICQ #328449886 50, rue de Soultz MSM LinuxMichi 0033/3/8845235667100 Strasbourg/France IRC #Debian (irc.icq.com) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How should this procmail-rule be to work?
Am 2005-12-02 08:56:33, schrieb Søren Christensen: > Hi, > :0: > * ^FROM_netavis > nyheder :0: * ^From:.*netavis@ nyheder but better is :0: * ^Sender:[EMAIL PROTECTED] nyheder because viruses and spamers my send you Messages with forged From:. Greetings Michelle -- Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ # Debian GNU/Linux Consultant # Michelle Konzack Apt. 917 ICQ #328449886 50, rue de Soultz MSM LinuxMichi 0033/3/8845235667100 Strasbourg/France IRC #Debian (irc.icq.com) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
postfix + osCommerce problem
I am creating an osCommerce-based webshop and am having probems with postfix. the mail below gets returned by the mailer. (things in square brackets were left because they are unimportant and/or to protect my and other's privacy. [EMAIL ADDRESS] signifies a proper and existant email address) I do not understand this problem because the recieptent *is* specified. [HEADER ETC] This is the Postfix program at host localhost.localdomain. I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not be be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below. For further assistance, please send mail to If you do so, please include this problem report. You can delete your own text from the attached returned message. The Postfix program : No recipients specified --4632943DF.1133890478/localhost.localdomain Content-Description: Delivery report Content-Type: message/delivery-status Reporting-MTA: dns; localhost.localdomain X-Postfix-Queue-ID: 4632943DF X-Postfix-Sender: rfc822; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Arrival-Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 18:34:38 +0100 (CET) Final-Recipient: rfc822; unknown Action: failed Status: 5.0.0 Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; No recipients specified --4632943DF.1133890478/localhost.localdomain Content-Description: Undelivered Message Content-Type: message/rfc822 Received: by localhost.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 33) id 4632943DF; Tue, 6 Dec 2005 18:34:38 +0100 (CET) To: [EMAIL ADDRESS] Subject: Bestellung From: "[OWNER NAME]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "[CUSTOMER NAME]" <[EMAIL ADDRESS]> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: osCommerce Mailer Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 18:34:38 +0100 (CET) [MESSAGE ETC] Thomas Jollans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: file not found - hardware, fs, or driver problem?
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 03:26:36PM +, Richard Lyons wrote: > # ls -l /lib/ld-linux* > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 2005-11-26 09:24 /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 -> > ld-2.3.5.so > > so I did: > > # ln -s /lib/ld-2.3.5.so /lib/ld-linux.so.2 > > after which > > # ./qcad > bash: ./qcad: Accessing a corrupted shared library > > So what next? Just to recap., this is etch on an amd64 system, which may > perhaps > be the reason. Sorry, didn't read your original post, so I wasn't aware of that important background info... Anyway, you probably want to install ia32-libs. This should provide the 32-bit compatibility libraries, and the correct link /lib/ld-linux.so.2 -> /emul/ia32-linux/lib/ld-2.3.2.so (better first remove the one you set yourself... not sure whether that would be done automatically) This doesn't necessarily guarantee a life free of trouble and pain (there might still remain problems with other dependent libs), but it's at least worth a try. Alternatively, create a 32-bit chroot environment: https://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30192/21/debian-amd64-howto.html#id271960 If both approaches fail to work, try bugging whoever you paid for the license to supply a true 64-bit version. Or, if you don't need the "professional" features, you could try building the community version from source... Cheers, Almut -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: Problem running Corel WP
I am using Corel WP Office 2002 Last week I started having a problem. When I sent something from WP to the printer - I received a Printer Error Message b80769ec. Turn printer off and turn back on. Which I did several time. I thought it was my printer. I have a HP OfficeJet G55. Checked out the printer and it would print EMail, MWord and I could even make a card. But WP is the one I want. I do not like MWord. When I dried to unistall the WP software and went into where it tells you to unistall or install, it was not listed at all. So I reloaded the software and still no luck. It will not communicate with the printer and I don't know how to tell George (my computer) to be friends with the printer. Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated. If I need to buy new software I will. I just don't want to buy it and that isn't the reason for my problem. Thank you in advance Liz Nonnemacher
Re: Re: Problem running Corel WP
Good morning! I am using Corel WP Office 2002 But WP is the one I want. I do not like MWord. It will not communicate with the printer and I don't know how to tell George (my computer) to be friends with the printer. Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated. If I need to buy new software I will. Maybe George would be happier with OpenOffice (free)? Current version says that it can import Word Perfect files. Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem running Corel WP
Hodgins Family wrote: Good morning! I am using Corel WP Office 2002 But WP is the one I want. I do not like MWord. It will not communicate with the printer and I don't know how to tell George (my computer) to be friends with the printer. Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated. If I need to buy new software I will. Maybe George would be happier with OpenOffice (free)? Current version says that it can import Word Perfect files. I was hesitant to reply to this, as it might be a spam-bot, etc. But in the case it's real: Liz: 1) This is not a list for Windows support. 2) Generally, when weird things happen like what you describe, the quickest, most efficient fix is just to bite the bullet and reinstall a clean version of Windows. (It's this kind of brain-deadness in Windows that drove many of us from Windows to the much saner Debian operating system.) -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
rsync: SRC=/, include a few directories and exclude everything else
Hi, I am currently backing up a few Linux boxes, and a Windows XP box, using rsync (through a cron job). Regarding the Windows box ( Windows XP (running Cygwin) <--> Debian Testing), so far I specify a few directories as sources in the rsync command line. I then use an excludes file to include certain directories and exclude others. I was wondering, can I just specify / as the source and specify the dirs that I want to include and leave everything out? (This would simplify my command line of rsync.) I have tried this as the excludes file (with source / in rsync command line): ### + */ + Documents and Setting/WinUser/My Documents + Documents and Setting/WinUser/Start Menu/ + Documents and Setting/WinUser/Recent/ + Documents and Setting/WinUser/Application Data/Mozilla/ + Documents and Setting/WinUser/Application Data/Thunderbird/ - * ### The idea is to backup only the directories mentioned above, and leave everything else out. But given these rules, nothing is backed up. I know this is a newbee questions, but I am trying this example based on the man page of rsync and seem to hitting this wall. All help is appreciated, ->HS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Machines and people
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Re: Alternative to Microcal Origin?
Philipp Pagel wrote: Bruno Buys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there any free software alternative to Origin, the chart plotting software, with deb packages? I´m looking for suggestions, and trying to figure which one people seem to like more. Depending on your needs there are plenty of options. Some feature a GUI but the most powerful programs usually don't. - R (http://www.r-project.org) - GNUplot (http://www.gnuplot.info) - kst (http://omega.astro.utoronto.ca/kst) - Scigraphica (http://scigraphica.sourceforge.net) - labplot (http://labplot.sourceforge.net) - Scilab (http://www.scilab.org) - Octave (http://www.octave.org) - ploticus (http://ploticus.sourceforge.net) - quickplot (http://quickplot.sourceforge.net) - rlplot (http://rlplot.sourceforge.net) There must be many more which I am not aware of. Personally, I use R -- it's a bit of a challenge to learn at first but it is incredibly powerfull and totally worth the effort! The following page gives a comprehensive overview for Debian: http://debianlinux.net/science.html#plotting cu Philipp Thanks Philipp! That was thorough. I'll check those. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
thunderbird as mailto in mozilla
Hi, We have the other side of the coin now. I managed to open mozilla tabs from thunderbird. But how to use thunderbird for the mailto links in *mozilla*, not firefox. The two seem to do it differently. Googling found holgermetzger's tips http://www.holgermetzger.de/etips6.html but that doesn't seem to do it. Found: http://www.crazysquirrel.com/computing/debian/firefox-mailto.jspx But that's for firefox. Does not seem to work for Mozilla. Any mozilla and thunderbird users out there? I'll switch to Firefox if it will use my splash xpms. ;-) Thanks! H -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
alien and --patch
Hello all, I'm creating .debs of the oracle-xe rpm. Currently I'm able to create a .deb package by asking alien to generate (--generate) the package directory, modifying the oracle scripts to work with debian, and then running debian/rules binary within the alien generated directory. This all works fine, but I was hoping the --patch option to alien would allow me to generate a patch so in the future I can do something like this: alien --to-deb --patch mypatchfile.patch --test --scripts oracle-xe.rpm This way I can create my patch file and send the patch to friends if they ever need to generate a working .deb of the oracle-xe rpm. Problem is I can't find any documentation explaining how this patch should be generated. So my question is this: How do I generate a patch file that will work with alien's --patch option? Thanks much for any help //andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bash and variable holding directories with spaces
On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 12:11:22AM +0100, Almut Behrens wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 05:58:28PM -0500, H.S. wrote:
>
> > $ DIRS="'file\ 1 file\ 2'"; ls -ln "$DIRS"
> > ls: 'file\ 1 file\ 2': No such file or directory
>
> in this case you probably want
>
> $ DIRS='file\ 1 file\ 2'; eval ls -ln $DIRS
I'm not sure quite what the requirements are here, but although this
works it would probably be more natural either to use perl or to use an
array. For a shell script, this would be more appropriate, being both
portable and straightforward:
set "file 1" "file 2"
ls -ln "$@"
Of course, this clobbers the "$@" array. Better shell script style is
to arrange your code to allow something like:
ls_ln() { ls -ln "$@"; }
ls_ln "file 1" "file 2"
You could use a non-portable bash array:
DIRS=("file 1" "file 2")
ls -ln "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Seriously though, shell scripting sucks. Perl! It's on every debian
system with debconf.
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Re: thunderbird as mailto in mozilla
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, We have the other side of the coin now. I managed to open mozilla tabs from thunderbird. But how to use thunderbird for the mailto links in *mozilla*, not firefox. The two seem to do it differently. Googling found holgermetzger's tips http://www.holgermetzger.de/etips6.html but that doesn't seem to do it. Found: http://www.crazysquirrel.com/computing/debian/firefox-mailto.jspx But that's for firefox. Does not seem to work for Mozilla. Any mozilla and thunderbird users out there? I'll switch to Firefox if it will use my splash xpms. ;-) Found it: 1. google for mozex. 2. Install that. 3. Read its FAQ and install the script and its invocation parameter. Can I change the splash in Firefox? H -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Error message when stopping /etc/init.d/dcc-client
I get this message when I try to stop the dccifd daemon: # /etc/init.d/dcc-client stop Stopping DCC program interface daemon: dccifdstart-stop-daemon: warning: failed to kill 5645: No such process . Despite this, "ps ax" reveals the dccifd daemon is running (prior to running the stop script). Any ideas? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: alien and --patch
Andrew Nelson wrote: > How do I generate a patch file that will work with alien's --patch option? /usr/share/doc/alien/gendiff.txt -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Massive load average, can't log in
Hi there, This morning I noticed that my Etch box wouldn't let me start up a web browser window. Odd I thought, so I took a look at the load average, which was sitting at 210! Some processes such as vi or firefox can no longer launch, but some simpler ones such as ps or top can still be run from a regular user terminal. A ps uaxw reveals dozens of crond processes in the all too familiar 'D' state, each one having a similarly stalled mrtg process. I've never even used mrtg on that machine save just doing an apt-get install mrtg. If I try to su - to kill some processes, that particular terminal goes into an interruptible sleep and I have to switch to another one. I get something similar when I try to log in remotely - it never gets to a password prompt. CPU is at 0%, memory usage is below 50% and there is no disk activity. So in light of this I have two questions: 1. Why would the mrtg cron job be stalling? Is there a known problem with this program or is it looking for some non-existent nfs share? 2. Why can't I log in or start any new large processes? Is there some load average threshold in Debian above which no one is allowed to log in? A high load average does not suggest high disk/cpu/memory usage, just stalled processes so there is plenty of computing power available. Perhaps the load average calculation needs to be updated to ignore processes that have stalled for a period? thanks, Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
scanner device ?
Hi, I have an HP 2200C USB scanner. I am running "unstable" I installed sane and xsane. When I turn the scanner on, sane-find-scanner finds it when launched as root. The problem is when I launch xsane as root, I find the scanner and may scan, but when doing it as a simple user no device is found. I guess it's a matter of permission. I tried to find what was the device but did not find it. So: What is the scanner device? There is no /dev/usb/scanner*, or no /dev/*scanner*... (the scanner is power supplied) -- A powerfull GroupWare, CMS, CRM, ECM: CPS (Open Source & GPL). Opengroupware, SPIP, Plone, PhpBB, JetSpeed... are good: CPS is better. http://www.cps-project.org for downloads & documentation. Free hosting of CPS groupware: http://www.objectis.org. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: scanner device ?
On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: Hi, I have an HP 2200C USB scanner. I am running "unstable" I installed sane and xsane. When I turn the scanner on, sane-find-scanner finds it when launched as root. The problem is when I launch xsane as root, I find the scanner and may scan, but when doing it as a simple user no device is found. I guess it's a matter of permission. I tried to find what was the device but did not find it. So: What is the scanner device? There is no /dev/usb/scanner*, or no /dev/*scanner*... (the scanner is power supplied) -- A powerfull GroupWare, CMS, CRM, ECM: CPS (Open Source & GPL). Opengroupware, SPIP, Plone, PhpBB, JetSpeed... are good: CPS is better. http://www.cps-project.org for downloads & documentation. Free hosting of CPS groupware: http://www.objectis.org. Assuming it's using libusb, check the output of sane-find-scanner; for example: found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x010a [Perfection1640]) at libusb:001:004 means it can be found at: /proc/bus/usb/001/004 -- Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor, _Social Forces_ University of North Carolina - CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
/etc/resolv.conf replaced!
During the past two days I've had power flickers and outages from snow. I have not yet been able to attach a new system to a UPS (too many things to move), and it's lost power a few times. When it reboots, it cannot communicate with the network. I checked, and /etc/resolv.conf is no longer there. It has been replaced by a link to /etc/resolvconf/run/resolv.conf, and /etc/resolvconf/run is linked to /dev/shm/resolvconf. There is no corresponding file in /dev/shm/resolvconf to work with. I've found references to the other files on Google, but nothing clear telling what is going on. There are references that make me think some program *thinks* it is supposed to do this (so I doubt it's a virus), but I need to find out what is going on so I can either stop it or make sure it does it right. So how can I stop this from happening at reboot? What is doing it? Is it a boot thing, or a re-configure thing? Any help is appreciated. Hal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: file not found - hardware, fs, or driver problem?
On Tuesday, 6 December 2005 at 19:41:04 +0100, Almut Behrens wrote: > On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 03:26:36PM +, Richard Lyons wrote: [...] > > bash: ./qcad: Accessing a corrupted shared library > > > > So what next? Just to recap., this is etch on an amd64 system, which may > > perhaps > > be the reason. > > Sorry, didn't read your original post, so I wasn't aware of that > important background info... > > Anyway, you probably want to install ia32-libs. This should provide > the 32-bit compatibility libraries, and the correct link > > /lib/ld-linux.so.2 -> /emul/ia32-linux/lib/ld-2.3.2.so > > (better first remove the one you set yourself... not sure whether that > would be done automatically) I'll give that a try. > > This doesn't necessarily guarantee a life free of trouble and pain > (there might still remain problems with other dependent libs), but it's > at least worth a try. Alternatively, create a 32-bit chroot environment: > https://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30192/21/debian-amd64-howto.html#id271960 And I'll look at that too. > If both approaches fail to work, try bugging whoever you paid for the > license to supply a true 64-bit version. Or, if you don't need the > "professional" features, you could try building the community version > from source... Why wouldn't the professional version build? -- I assume I can get the source from Andrew. Thanks for your very informative reply. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Purging mailboxes in mutt
Gidday, I'm running a Sarge server with Postfix/Procmail/Dovecot and Maildir style mailboxes. I have a number of users that want to use a local text-based mail reader from time to time. Pine is no longer an option, so I've shifted to Mutt. I almost have it working, but can't figure out one thing: If I have an IMAP client somewhere that moves/deletes messages from the INBOX, they're flagged as Deleted and appear in Mutt as such. However when I go to quit Mutt and it prompts me to purge the deleted messages, if I answer 'no', then it will always un-mark any messages I have deleted in that session, and there seems to be a 50/50 chance it will also un-mark messages deleted by other sessions. One workaround appears to be to set maildir_trash=yes in /etc/Muttrc. This purges the mailbox on program exit, but that can be dangerous if someone accidentally deletes a message and quits Mutt. any ideas? thanks, Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /etc/resolv.conf replaced!
Hal Vaughan writes: > So how can I stop this from happening at reboot? Remove the resolvconf package. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /etc/resolv.conf replaced!
On 17:25 Tue 06 Dec , Hal Vaughan wrote: > During the past two days I've had power flickers and outages from snow. I > have not yet been able to attach a new system to a UPS (too many things to > move), and it's lost power a few times. When it reboots, it cannot > communicate with the network. I checked, and /etc/resolv.conf is no longer > there. It has been replaced by a link to /etc/resolvconf/run/resolv.conf, > and /etc/resolvconf/run is linked to /dev/shm/resolvconf. There is no > corresponding file in /dev/shm/resolvconf to work with. > > I've found references to the other files on Google, but nothing clear telling > what is going on. There are references that make me think some program > *thinks* it is supposed to do this (so I doubt it's a virus), but I need to > find out what is going on so I can either stop it or make sure it does it > right. > > So how can I stop this from happening at reboot? What is doing it? Is it a > boot thing, or a re-configure thing? dpkg -l resolvconf will show you now have resolvconf installed. This is actually a good thing as it will dynamically create a new /etc/resolv.conf file if the nameserver info is updated by some server program like dhcp-client. You proably need to edit /etc/network/interfaces and set the dns-* lines. Then run /etc/init.d/resolvconf reload. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /etc/resolv.conf replaced!
Hal Vaughan wrote: During the past two days I've had power flickers and outages from snow. I have not yet been able to attach a new system to a UPS (too many things to move), and it's lost power a few times. When it reboots, it cannot communicate with the network. I checked, and /etc/resolv.conf is no longer there. It has been replaced by a link to /etc/resolvconf/run/resolv.conf, and /etc/resolvconf/run is linked to /dev/shm/resolvconf. There is no corresponding file in /dev/shm/resolvconf to work with. I've found references to the other files on Google, but nothing clear telling what is going on. There are references that make me think some program *thinks* it is supposed to do this (so I doubt it's a virus), but I need to find out what is going on so I can either stop it or make sure it does it right. # aptitude purge resolvconf fixed it for me. The resolvconf command rewrites /etc/resolv.conf when you reboot. Maybe that does some bad things to your system, but things have been working better for me since I get rid of resolvconf. Comments from others?? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: scanner device ?
On 23:12 Tue 06 Dec , Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: > Hi, > > I have an HP 2200C USB scanner. > I am running "unstable" > I installed sane and xsane. > When I turn the scanner on, sane-find-scanner finds it when launched as > root. > The problem is when I launch xsane as root, I find the scanner and may > scan, but when doing it as a simple user no device is found. You need to add the user to the scanner and saned groups. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: scanner device ?
On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 22:22 +, Andrew Perrin wrote: > means it can be found at: > /proc/bus/usb/001/004 Does that mean that changing the ownership of this device will be definitive? I would like to know how to do so. -- A powerfull GroupWare, CMS, CRM, ECM: CPS (Open Source & GPL). Opengroupware, SPIP, Plone, PhpBB, JetSpeed... are good: CPS is better. http://www.cps-project.org for downloads & documentation. Free hosting of CPS groupware: http://www.objectis.org. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question: Maximum number of directories?
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gerorge Reece-Howe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> "Jochen Schulz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>You can see that / and /srv are ext3 and /var and /home are xfs. I >>chose xfs for these because they contain directories with a lot of >>files (the already mentioned Maildirs and a news spool). So far, I had >>no problems with xfs. > >I'll see how I go with ext3 for now, but I'll keep that in mind. Ext2 and ext3 get really slow when you have lots of files (or subdirectories) in one directory. However that was fixed some time ago. If you're running 2.6 you can enable the dir_index on an ext3 filesystem. See man mkfs.ext3: -O feature[,...] Create filesystem with given features (filesystem options) dir_index Use hashed b-trees to speed up lookups in large directories. You can enable this on existing filesystems using tune2fs. See man tune2fs(8) for more information. Mike. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bash and variable holding directories with spaces
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 04:07:02PM -0500, Andrew Cady wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 12:11:22AM +0100, Almut Behrens wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 05:58:28PM -0500, H.S. wrote:
> >
> > > $ DIRS="'file\ 1 file\ 2'"; ls -ln "$DIRS"
> > > ls: 'file\ 1 file\ 2': No such file or directory
> >
> > in this case you probably want
> >
> > $ DIRS='file\ 1 file\ 2'; eval ls -ln $DIRS
>
> I'm not sure quite what the requirements are here, but although this
> works it would probably be more natural either to use perl or to use an
> array. For a shell script, this would be more appropriate, being both
> portable and straightforward:
>
> set "file 1" "file 2"
> ls -ln "$@"
>
> Of course, this clobbers the "$@" array. Better shell script style is
> to arrange your code to allow something like:
>
> ls_ln() { ls -ln "$@"; }
> ls_ln "file 1" "file 2"
>
> You could use a non-portable bash array:
>
> DIRS=("file 1" "file 2")
> ls -ln "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
>
> Seriously though, shell scripting sucks. Perl! It's on every debian
> system with debconf.
I absolutely agree with you here. I love perl myself. OTOH, I'm
trying to resist the urge to go telling people to use it as the "golden
hammer" for each and every scripting problem they come up with.
I'm kinda feeling that might be perceived as inappropriate -- unless
they explicitly seem to be wanting advice on such matters, of course.
But maybe that's just me... Anyway.
All I was trying to point out is that it's good to remember there's
"eval" when you find yourself wondering why some scripted shell command
containing interpolated variables doesn't behave as expected, i.e. as
if you had typed the same (expanded) string of letters on the
interactive commandline. That's all.
Of course, as always, TIMTOWTDI, YMMV, and all that :)
Almut
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Re: file not found - hardware, fs, or driver problem?
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 10:59:50PM +, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Tuesday, 6 December 2005 at 19:41:04 +0100, Almut Behrens wrote: > > If both approaches fail to work, try bugging whoever you paid for the > > license to supply a true 64-bit version. Or, if you don't need the > > "professional" features, you could try building the community version > > from source... > > Why wouldn't the professional version build? -- I assume I can get the > source from Andrew. I was under the impression there's a reason they require you to purchase a license for the professional version, but I may be wrong on that. If you manage to get the sources from him, sure they should build... > > Thanks for your very informative reply. You're welcome. Hope you'll have it all working in the end! Almut -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /etc/resolv.conf replaced!
On Tuesday 06 December 2005 06:23 pm, mikepolniak wrote: > On 17:25 Tue 06 Dec , Hal Vaughan wrote: > > During the past two days I've had power flickers and outages from snow. > > I have not yet been able to attach a new system to a UPS (too many things > > to move), and it's lost power a few times. When it reboots, it cannot > > communicate with the network. I checked, and /etc/resolv.conf is no > > longer there. It has been replaced by a link to > > /etc/resolvconf/run/resolv.conf, and /etc/resolvconf/run is linked to > > /dev/shm/resolvconf. There is no corresponding file in > > /dev/shm/resolvconf to work with. > > > > I've found references to the other files on Google, but nothing clear > > telling what is going on. There are references that make me think some > > program *thinks* it is supposed to do this (so I doubt it's a virus), but > > I need to find out what is going on so I can either stop it or make sure > > it does it right. > > > > So how can I stop this from happening at reboot? What is doing it? Is > > it a boot thing, or a re-configure thing? > > dpkg -l resolvconf will show you now have resolvconf installed. This is > actually a good thing as it will dynamically create a new > /etc/resolv.conf file if the nameserver info is updated by some server > program like dhcp-client. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ dpkg -l resolvconf Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) So it doesn't seem to be installed. I'm going to purge it just in case. > You proably need to edit /etc/network/interfaces and set the dns-* lines. > Then run /etc/init.d/resolvconf reload. I'll check on that, too. Thanks! Hal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /etc/resolv.conf replaced!
On Tuesday 06 December 2005 06:06 pm, John Hasler wrote: > Hal Vaughan writes: > > So how can I stop this from happening at reboot? > > Remove the resolvconf package. > -- > John Hasler It's not installed! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /etc/resolv.conf replaced!
On Tuesday 06 December 2005 06:19 pm, Robert S wrote: > Hal Vaughan wrote: > > During the past two days I've had power flickers and outages from snow. > > I have not yet been able to attach a new system to a UPS (too many things > > to move), and it's lost power a few times. When it reboots, it cannot > > communicate with the network. I checked, and /etc/resolv.conf is no > > longer there. It has been replaced by a link to > > /etc/resolvconf/run/resolv.conf, and /etc/resolvconf/run is linked to > > /dev/shm/resolvconf. There is no corresponding file in > > /dev/shm/resolvconf to work with. > > > > I've found references to the other files on Google, but nothing clear > > telling what is going on. There are references that make me think some > > program *thinks* it is supposed to do this (so I doubt it's a virus), but > > I need to find out what is going on so I can either stop it or make sure > > it does it right. > > # aptitude purge resolvconf > > fixed it for me. The resolvconf command rewrites /etc/resolv.conf when > you reboot. Maybe that does some bad things to your system, but things > have been working better for me since I get rid of resolvconf. Comments > from others?? I'm going to try that. There's a few other suggestions. When I set this system up, I did it with the Sarge Net Install disc, and did NOT add any other packages in the install. Since then, there were no networking packages installed. Both aptitude and dpkg say resolvconf is not in my system, but I'll try purging it anyway. There's no dhcp or anything that would need changing info. I have one DNS on this LAN, and each system uses that and the 2 outside DNS servers that Comcast recommends I use. Hal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dumb DNS
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 03:14:25PM +0200, Ben Sagal wrote: > else is allowed) via a transparent proxy. Does anyone know of a light > DNS server that could be set up that whatever request is made, the Dnsmasq is simple to use. You aim it at your "outside" dns servers, use a "hosts" file, and it can serve local info based on dhcpd lease info. Be well, rir -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Purging mailboxes in mutt
On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 12:15:23PM +1300, Greg Trounson wrote: > However when I go to quit Mutt and it prompts me to purge the deleted > messages, if I answer 'no', then it will always un-mark any messages I > have deleted in that session, and there seems to be a 50/50 chance it > will also un-mark messages deleted by other sessions. Set up mutt to do everything via IMAP. Be well, rir -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
BOOST program options and libstdc++5
I got the following problem with libboost-program-options1.32.0 on my system: /usr/bin/ld: warning: libstdc++.so.5, needed by /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.0.3/../../../../lib/libboost_program_options.so, may conflict with libstdc++.so.6 And indeed, it segfaults when trying to run the program (gdb): Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread -1212495648 (LWP 22704)] 0xb7e72540 in std::string::compare () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 Is this a bug of libboost-program-options1.32.0, that should be rebuilt against libstdc++6, as it seems that GCC 4.0 is the current standard compiler? Doubtfully, Nowhere man -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP 0xD9D50D8A signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: my email vanished
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 07:17:23PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Hello Hendrik, > > Am 2005-12-01 10:55:10, schrieb Hendrik Boom: > > Last nighe all my email in /var/spool/mail/hendrik vanished > > without a trace. Some new mail has appeared since the vanishing. > > Everyone else's email in intact. > > > > I read my mail with mutt. > > Hehe... > > Do you have a Directory $HOME/mail or something similar? > I think, 'mutt' has moved the Mails from > > /var/mail/$USER > to > /home/$USER/Mail/ > > 'mutt' does this by default. Do you have the right name for this file? If so, it hasn't helped -- details follow. If not, there is still hope if I can find the right name. When I exit mutt, it asks me if it should move the mail I've read to mbox. If I say 'y', all the mail I've read ends up in mbox, as it's supposed to. I can't find any file /home/hendrik/mail. Therre is a directory /home/hendrik/Mail, but it doesn't contain the missing mail. It just contains files containing messages I've explicitly saved using mutt's 's' command. > > Greetings > Michelle > > -- > Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ > # Debian GNU/Linux Consultant # > Michelle Konzack Apt. 917 ICQ #328449886 >50, rue de Soultz MSM LinuxMichi > 0033/3/8845235667100 Strasbourg/France IRC #Debian (irc.icq.com) > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: scanner device ?
On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 22:22 +, Andrew Perrin wrote: means it can be found at: /proc/bus/usb/001/004 Does that mean that changing the ownership of this device will be definitive? I would like to know how to do so. Yes, changing ownership or permissions will do it, but upon reboot or removal and reinstallation of the USB device the permissions will be restored. The better method is to add relevant users to the scanner and/or saned groups. -- Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor, _Social Forces_ University of North Carolina - CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question: Maximum number of directories?
On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 23:46 +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Gerorge Reece-Howe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> "Jochen Schulz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >>You can see that / and /srv are ext3 and /var and /home are xfs. I > >>chose xfs for these because they contain directories with a lot of > >>files (the already mentioned Maildirs and a news spool). So far, I had > >>no problems with xfs. > > > >I'll see how I go with ext3 for now, but I'll keep that in mind. > > Ext2 and ext3 get really slow when you have lots of files (or > subdirectories) in one directory. > > However that was fixed some time ago. If you're running 2.6 you > can enable the dir_index on an ext3 filesystem. See man mkfs.ext3: > >-O feature[,...] > Create filesystem with given features (filesystem options) > >dir_index > Use hashed b-trees to speed up lookups in large > directories. > > > You can enable this on existing filesystems using tune2fs. See man > tune2fs(8) for more information. Hey, thanks! -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA "I went home with a waitress the way I always do. How was I to know she was with the Russians, too?" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Slightly OT: Comments, ideas, or suggestions for improving websites
Hey all, Currently I am the lead admin/webmaster of DebCentral.org. I really would like to take a few minutes out of your life to gather some inputs on an idea I have. I know the general advice from this list and other Debian-* lists has generally consistent through the years I have followed them. The advice to those wanting to start a new Debian-centric website has been to support and work with an existing one. Well, in the recent weeks/months there seems to have been a significant increase in third-party web sites and communities springing up around the globe; ours included. This very subject was the basis of an article written by a colleague of mine, Christian, webmaster of Debian-News [1]. After that article, he and I began discussing ways we could cooperate between our two sites. Since then we have discussed this potential cooperation with several other website owners/administrators, with mixed results thus far. I'm hopeful that we can convince others to join us in trying to increase the quality of these sites, and possibly thereby also decreasing the quantity. There seem to be two main issues to making this happen. First is getting the cooperative spirit going; many people are unwilling to totally put aside their own creations to begin working on a group effort, or want the group effort to somehow benefit not only the new project/group but to also benefit back to the existing websites. The second issue is a lack of ideas or suggestions as to what actual project(s) can and should be undertaken so as to allow each website to be treated fairly and equally, while focusing on the maximum benefit to the community. Basically, we're stumped as to what and how to make this come about. [2] I'm looking to the community to maybe help us figure out the best way to handle this. Any ideas or suggestions for what we all could do to better work with and for the Debian community would be greatly appreciated. I'm open for any suggestions, and am hoping some of you can provide a fresh perspective on this and some fresh ideas on what to do and how to implement some form of cooperation. One idea I had was to concentrate our efforts into one mega-site. This would allow everyone involved to focus their time and effort into the areas that best fit their talent and skills. It would be a totally new endeavor, and dedicated solely to providing a service to the community at large without regard for what may be best for an existing site. However, I think my vision in this may be a bit overreaching in light of the realities from the above paragraph. Or it just plain may be a silly and bad idea. The poll [2] on DebCentral hopefully will provide some further insight to this idea of cooperative web sites. If you have any ideas, comments, or suggestions, please share them with us. I know we'd love to have some inputs from everyone on this. Also, if you are a member or administrator of a Debian focused (or close derivate distro focused) website or community and would be interested in this idea, please reply on here or off-list to my email or josh AT DebCentral.org.org If you're not affiliated with any current website or would just like to help out and get involved with any future works and/or existing sites, again please contact me so we can get you involved and up to speed on things as they sit at that moment. Thanks and I look forward to hearing your comments, even if you think the whole idea just plain sucks. 1. http://debian-news.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=354 2. http://debcentral.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=141 -- http://debcentral.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
