Re: OOo2 from backports questions

[Marc Shapiro]

Anthony Simonelli wrote:


Marc,

Your original problem is the very reason I just sent
my email today entitled "OpenOffice.org 2.0 users
beware!".  This explains that the libfreetype6
security upgrade causes the saving problem and that
you must downgrade to the previous version and hold
that package using aptitude.  Download the older
version here:

http://ftp.debian.org/pool/main/f/freetype/

select your arch and download version 2.1.7-2.4.  Then
install using dpgk -i.
 

I just decided that it was probably easier to uninstall the upstream 
version and install the backports version.  That way, all of the 
dependancies actually show up.  (In a previous thread I had noted that, 
in trying to eliminate the last of KDE from my system -- by uninstalling 
libarts1 -- that one package, openoffice.org-core04u, was to be 
uninstalled, but that it would leave the rest, in a probably unusable 
state.  We all know that RPMs leave one in dependancy hell, and when 
they are converted to .debs it does not seem to improve any.)  If I had 
found this information about libfreetype6 before I converted I would 
probably have just downgraded the package and kept the rest of my system 
as it was.  I'm not going to change it all back, now that I have the 
backports version working, however.  Besides, now I can probably get rid 
of those last vestiges of KDE.


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Re: tiger reports `-' listening on socket

[Bill Jones]

On 6/23/06, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

clearly there is something going on here that I don't understand.


Set a cron for the 'root' user:

1 * * * * lsof -i

Unless the culprit is dying randomly that should catch something
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Re: Can not use Gnome in Debian Sid

[Liam O'Toole]

On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 23:44:01 -0400
Sridhar Srinivasan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Richard van der Veen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [06/06/23 11:56]
> typed :
> > ... when i open a menu in the top -bar the last two (places &
> > System) are opening OK, but when i open the application menu it
> > starts flickering and i can not click any item in it. Did anybody
> > recognize this and maybe knows what is wrong? ... Do i just need to
> > wait for new updates? ...
> 
> I run Gnome on Sid and I face the exact problem. I don't recall when
> it appeared but I have been experiencing this for at least a couple of
> months now.
> 
> For me, gnome starts up normally. When I click on the application
> menu, the menu starts flickering. Running top shows that the
> gnome-panel is consuming almost all the CPU. Killing it (causing the
> panel to restart) fixes the CPU consumption problem.
> 
> I have been updating anything that I can find related to gnome panel
> but as I said earlier, the problem has persisted for a while. It
> doesn't bother me too much as I have learned to use Alt-F2 to start my
> applications.
> 
> I tried moving my .gnome* files out of the way as suggested in another
> response, but the problem is still there.
> 
> sridhar

Make sure that all of the following packages are installed:

gnome-menus
libgnome-menu2
menu
menu-xdg

That should fix it.

menu-xdg is recommended by gnome-panel. The dependency should be
stronger.


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Re: mounting USB mass storage devices

[Matej Kosik]

Hi,

Willie Wonka wrote:
> Got a  /etc/fstab entry like this?
> 
> dev/sda  /media/usbkey   autorw,user,noauto  0   0

Not only mounting does not work but also more fundamental things.

shire:/home/kosik# cat /dev/sda
cat: /dev/sda: No such device or address

shire:/home/kosik# fdisk /dev/sda
Unable to open /dev/sda

so something with the /dev/sda is wrong. Not the mount point (I could
create it and update /etc/fstab, but if the device does not work, I will
not have luck).

I have tried booting Knoppix (3.6) Live CD I had around for testing
purposes. I have chosen it because it is plug-and-play distribution just
to see if the /dev/sda device works there. No --- it does not. Maybe the
hardware stopped working but that is suspicious (after reinstalling the
system). I give up. Thank you for your help.
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Re: mounting USB mass storage devices

[gustavo halperin]

This solution is not always work. For example if you want mount another 
usbkey obviously the device will be other than /dev/sda, more over if 
this device hangs before for some reason again you will need another device.
 I don't know how work the mount automatically, but this is not the way 
and taken in mind that not always is just /dev/sdx, sometimes is 
/dev/sdxn, for 'n' be a number and 'x' a letter 'a', 'b', 'c', etc, the 
answer below is not exactly right.
 My way is take a look to the kernel messages (using 'dmesg') and the 
using a simple script like:

//--
#|/bin/sh
# This script will mount a usb mass storage in the directory /mnt/usbkey
mount -t vfat -o umask=000 /dev/sd$1 /mnt/usbkey
//--

 For example if I mount a usbkey that support USB2.0 and run 'dmesg' I 
see the next messg:

   scsi6 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
   usb-storage: device found at 2
   usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
 Vendor: Generic   Model: USB SD Reader Rev: 2.00
 Type:   Direct-Access  ANSI SCSI revision: 00
   SCSI device sda: 1984000 512-byte hdwr sectors (1016 MB)
   sda: Write Protect is off
   sda: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
   sda: assuming drive cache: write through
   SCSI device sda: 1984000 512-byte hdwr sectors (1016 MB)
   sda: Write Protect is off
   sda: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
   sda: assuming drive cache: write through
sda: sda1
   sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda
   sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
   usb-storage: device scan complete

I will run the script in the next form:
 > script_mount_usbkey a1

 Good luck,
  Gustavo Halperin


Willie Wonka wrote:


Got a  /etc/fstab entry like this?

dev/sda  /media/usbkey   autorw,user,noauto  0   0

and have you issued this command from a console, to create it's 'mount'
point, as defined in fstab, as shown above?

$ sudo mkdir -p /media/usbkey

A quick search through the archives yields; 



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Re: xdm source .bash_profile[SOLVED]

[Pavlos Parissis]

All,
I followed the Derek's suggestion and now my $PATH is set inside X.

Cheers,
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Re: 31r2 DVD Download Problem

[Bas Zoetekouw]

Hi joedi!

You wrote:

> I have tried downloading the R2 package from both iinet in australia and
> your swiss site as well, both times i get a file size of 384MB total to be
> downloaded yet it says 4.4GB next to the file name

This is a common problem that occurs if your current operating system
doesn't support large file (>2GB).  Please either use another os to
download the dvd image, or try the network install cd [1] instead.

Bas Zoetekouw.

PS: please follow up to the debian-user mailing list.

[1] http://www.us.debian.org/CD/netinst/

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Re: how to restore a hidden partition

[formless void]

For some reason, I did not receive the following
message and I found it out from Google search.

To be hornest, I'm hesitate to be instered in this
one.  The reasons are:

1. The program is pretty new and unlik Knoppix there
is no official review for that yet.

2. The release date is a bit controversial at

http://distrowatch.com/index.php?distribution=gparted

If the product is decent enough from a decent
manufacturer, why is there so many released versions
within a short period?

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Try the Gparted live cd, I believe it's only a 3MB or
so download, in
any case much smaller than a full Knoppix.

http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=gparted

Kind Regards,
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Re: how to restore a hidden partition

[formless void]

For some reason, I did not receive the following
message and I found it out from Google search.

To be hornest, I'm hesitate to be instered in this
one.  The reasons are:

1. The program is pretty new and unlik Knoppix there
is no official review for that yet.

2. The release date is a bit controversial at

http://distrowatch.com/index.php?distribution=gparted

http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=gparted


If the product is decent enough from a decent
manufacturer, why is there so many released versions
within a short period?

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Try the Gparted live cd, I believe it's only a 3MB or
so download, in
any case much smaller than a full Knoppix.

http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=gparted


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Re: Can not use Gnome in Debian Sid

[Richard van der Veen]

On Saturday 24 June 2006 16:25, Liam O'Toole wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 23:44:01 -0400
>
> Sridhar Srinivasan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Richard van der Veen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [06/06/23 11:56]
> >
> > typed :
> > > ... when i open a menu in the top -bar the last two (places &
> > > System) are opening OK, but when i open the application menu it
> > > starts flickering and i can not click any item in it. Did anybody
> > > recognize this and maybe knows what is wrong? ... Do i just need to
> > > wait for new updates? ...
> >
> > I run Gnome on Sid and I face the exact problem. I don't recall when
> > it appeared but I have been experiencing this for at least a couple of
> > months now.
> >
> > For me, gnome starts up normally. When I click on the application
> > menu, the menu starts flickering. Running top shows that the
> > gnome-panel is consuming almost all the CPU. Killing it (causing the
> > panel to restart) fixes the CPU consumption problem.
> >
> > I have been updating anything that I can find related to gnome panel
> > but as I said earlier, the problem has persisted for a while. It
> > doesn't bother me too much as I have learned to use Alt-F2 to start my
> > applications.
> >
> > I tried moving my .gnome* files out of the way as suggested in another
> > response, but the problem is still there.
> >
> > sridhar
>
> Make sure that all of the following packages are installed:
>
> gnome-menus
> libgnome-menu2
> menu
> menu-xdg
>
> That should fix it.

Wow ... Thanks a lot. I only had the package "menu" not installed and 
installing that indeed did fix the problem. Very strange in my opinion. It 
was with me also the same as Sridhar described. Although i did not try 
the "killall gnome-panel" option. 

Thanks a lot

> menu-xdg is recommended by gnome-panel. The dependency should be
> stronger.
>
>
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Re: Debian package of the day

[Steve Kemp]

On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 07:13:24PM -0700, Aaron Maxwell wrote:

> I read a  post once in which someone bemoaned the passing of dselect, 
> because it highlighted newly-minted packages.  With apt*, he rarely knew 
> of that new software, unless he just stumbled across it.  I thought that
> was a pretty good point.  

  For this I follow the RSS feed of new packages added to sid:

http://packages.debian.org/unstable/newpkg_main

  Quite nice to read every couple of days or so.

Steve
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Re: Replying to list

[Ron Johnson]

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>> On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 01:30:49PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
>>> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>>> 
> 
>> yes. bring on the brick-bats!
>> 
> Hear, here.
> 
> I've used Mutt/Getmail/Exim/Procmail for a long time.  Tried
> T-bird about two months ago,  freaked out and scurried back to
> Mutt.  T-bird just wouldn't do what I wanted it to do.  To each
> his own, I guess...

I use fetchmail/postfix/SA/imap/maildrop and Tbird.  Used to use
Evo, and will use mutt when Sid borks X (IMAP lets me easily switch
between MUAs).

What problem do you see with Tbird?

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Re: Question not addressed in FAQ.

[Alexander Sack]

On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 03:34:37AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote:
> Hi Lynn,
> could you post your /etc/apt/sources.list
> here hoping you will soon be using Sarge and maybe you can try to document 
> your
> fun path from woody to ssarge on the debian wiki (http://wiki.debian.org)!
> cheers,

even better ... your fun part from loadlin -> potato -> woody -> sarge :)

 - Alexander

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New IRC-Channel located Bremen/Germany

[Mark Walter]

Hi @all,

there's a new Open-Source-Linux channel at irc.freenode.rog.

#lug-bremen

It's concerning a local linux-user-group located in Bremen/Germany.

Cu l8r!

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lilo refuses

[hendrik]

Weird message from lilo -t -v:

Warning: LBA addressing assumed
Reading boot sector from /dev/fd0
Fatal: Trying to map files from unnamed device 0x000c (NFS/RAID mirror down?)

OK.  My RAID, a software RAID, is not down, and contains /home and /usr 
as LVM volumes.  Can lilo not use it?

/deb/fd0 has a floppy disk in it.
/boot is on /dev/hda1, which is not a raid.


Are lilo's private files on /usr, and is it unable to read from a 
software RAID?  Do I somehow need to move lilo's private files from /usr 
to /hda1?  And which ones are they?  And how can I tell it the 
files have moved?  Or has lilo become a hopeless case?

-- hendrik

Here's the complete output from lilo -t -v

LILO version 22.6.1 (test mode), Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger
Development beyond version 21 Copyright (C) 1999-2004 John Coffman
Released 17-Nov-2004, and compiled at 23:17:54 on Mar 30 2006
Debian GNU/Linux

Warning: LBA32 addressing assumed
Reading boot sector from /dev/fd0
Fatal: Trying to map files from unnamed device 0x000c (NFS/RAID mirror down ?)


And here;s lilo.conf:

# /etc/lilo.conf - See: `lilo(8)' and `lilo.conf(5)',
# ---   `install-mbr(8)', `/usr/share/doc/lilo/',
#   and `/usr/share/doc/mbr/'.

# +---+
# |!! Reminder !! |
# |   |
# | Don't forget to run `lilo' after you make changes to this |
# | conffile, `/boot/bootmess.txt' (if you have created it), or   |
# | install a new kernel.  The computer will most likely fail to  |
# | boot if a kernel-image post-install script or you don't   |
# | remember to run `lilo'.   |
# |   |
# +---+

# Specifies the boot device.  This is where Lilo installs its boot
# block.  It can be either a partition, or the raw device, in which
# case it installs in the MBR, and will overwrite the current MBR.
#
boot=/dev/fd0

# Specifies the device that should be mounted as root. (`/')
#
root=/dev/hda1

# This option may be needed for some software RAID installs.
#
# raid-extra-boot=mbr-only

# Enable map compaction:
# Tries to merge read requests for adjacent sectors into a single
# read request. This drastically reduces load time and keeps the
# map smaller.  Using `compact' is especially recommended when
# booting from a floppy disk.  It is disabled here by default
# because it doesn't always work.
#
# compact

# Installs the specified file as the new boot sector
# You have the choice between: text, bmp, and menu
# Look in lilo.conf(5) manpage for details
#
#install=menu

# Specifies the location of the map file
#
map=/boot/map

# You can set a password here, and uncomment the `restricted' lines
# in the image definitions below to make it so that a password must
# be typed to boot anything but a default configuration.  If a
# command line is given, other than one specified by an `append'
# statement in `lilo.conf', the password will be required, but a
# standard default boot will not require one.
#
# This will, for instance, prevent anyone with access to the
# console from booting with something like `Linux init=/bin/sh',
# and thus becoming `root' without proper authorization.
#
# Note that if you really need this type of security, you will
# likely also want to use `install-mbr' to reconfigure the MBR
# program, as well as set up your BIOS to disallow booting from
# removable disk or CD-ROM, then put a password on getting into the
# BIOS configuration as well.  Please RTFM `install-mbr(8)'.
#
# password=tatercounter2000

# Specifies the number of deciseconds (0.1 seconds) LILO should
# wait before booting the first image.
#
delay=20

# You can put a customized boot message up if you like.  If you use
# `prompt', and this computer may need to reboot unattended, you
# must specify a `timeout', or it will sit there forever waiting
# for a keypress.  `single-key' goes with the `alias' lines in the
# `image' configurations below.  eg: You can press `1' to boot
# `Linux', `2' to boot `LinuxOLD', if you uncomment the `alias'.
#
# message=/boot/bootmess.txt
#   prompt
#   delay=100
#   timeout=100

# Specifies the VGA text mode at boot time. (normal, extended, ask, )
#
# vga=ask
# vga=9
#


# Kernel command line options that apply to all installed images go
# here.  See: The `boot-prompt-HOWTO' and `kernel-parameters.txt' in
# the Linux kernel `Documentation' directory.
#
# append=""
 
# If you used a serial console to install Debian, this option should be
# enabled by default.
# serial=

#
# Boot up Linux by default.
#
default=Linux

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-1-amd64-generic
label=Linux
read-only
#   restricted
#   alias=1
init

Re: mounting USB mass storage devices

[Willie Wonka]

Matej Kosik wrote:
>   shire:/home/kosik# cat /dev/sda
>   cat: /dev/sda: No such device or address

Now why would you do that ?
It'll make your pager ('cat', in this instance) go bonkers!
CTRL+C to stop it 

>   shire:/home/kosik# fdisk /dev/sda
>   Unable to open /dev/sda

As a typical $User, you won't have permissions

$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda
(try these also; replace 'sda' with 'sdb' or 'sdc' -- and try
'/dev/sda1', 'sdb1' etc (no quotes))

> so something with the /dev/sda is wrong. Not the mount point (I could
> create it and update /etc/fstab, but if the device does not work, I
will
> not have luck).

Yep

> I have tried booting Knoppix (3.6) Live CD I had around for testing
> purposes. I have chosen it because it is plug-and-play distribution
just
> to see if the /dev/sda device works there. 

Good choice - smart...have you tried the boot option 'Linux26' at the
Boot: prompt for Knoppix 3.6? The default is the 2.4 kernel on version
3.6, which has diff support than 2.6 for USB.
Try a newer Knoppix version, though it does sound like either it's the
fault of the actual USB device, or the Mobo/BIOS settings are wrong, or
the hardware's fried...(hopefully not ;-))

> No --- it does not. 

boohoo - I'm at a loss

> Maybe the
> hardware stopped working but that is suspicious (after reinstalling
the
> system). I give up. Thank you for your help.

* Did you make sure ANY usb device can/does work ?
* Did you alter your BIOS settings, such that you Disabled the USB
ports?
* Check that you didn't knock off (loosen) any internal USB header
wires (inside the case) from the moboand/or their corresponding
case connectors.
* How many USB ports do you have? 
* Tried them all ?


Check your various /var/log/ files
$ less /var/log/messages

As another suggests;
Check your dmesg output
$ dmesg | grep -i usb
$ dmesg | grep -i sd
$ dmesg | grep -i scsi
$ dmesg | grep -i hd

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Re: iptables log target logs everything to tty*. Why?

[Erik Persson]

Derek Martin wrote:

On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 12:58:42AM +0200, Erik Persson wrote:
I tried with klogd -c 0 but the messages just kept on coming. It seems 
that the minimal allowed log level for kernel messages was set to 4 on 
the router and klogd -c 0 thus didn't change the kernel log level as I 
thought. This solves the problem since I now know what caused it. I will 
probably change the iptables log level to debug to get rid of the messages.


Did you restart klogd?  I don't believe it will change unless you stop
the old running klogd and restart it.  If you didn't stop the
previously running one, the new one you started won't do anything,
except exit with an error message, "Already running."


I killed klogd, and afterwards a checked if it was running, and it was not.
(the messages kept on coming even after I killed klogd but I guess it is 
the kernel that prints the messages).
I didn't see any error messages when restarting klogd wiht -c 0 but it 
could have been because I restarted klgod with "/etc/init.d/klogd start" 
(after editingas to start it with -c 0).


Anyway, doing all from the command line shows were the probable problem 
lies:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ps axu | grep klogd
root 10539  0.0  0.1  4148 1980 ?Ss   Jun22   0:05 /sbin/klogd
root 26387  0.0  0.0  2984  612 pts/0S+   12:38   0:00 grep klogd

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# cat /proc/sys/kernel/printk
7   4   1   7

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# kill 10539
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ps axu | grep klogd

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# klogd -c 0
klogd: Invalid console logging level <0> specified.

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ps axu | grep klogd

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# klogd -c 3

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ps axu | grep klogd
root 26401  1.5  0.1  4148 1976 ?Ss   12:40   0:00 klogd -c 3

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# cat /proc/sys/kernel/printk
3   4   1   7

man proc reveals that the 1 is the lowest value that console log level 
may be set to. Thats the reson, I guess, that klogd -c 0 did fail.




There might be a slightly easier way...  


The dmesg command, in addition to dumping the kernel's message buffer
to the screen, can set the maximum priority (number) of messages which
get logged to the console.  For example:

  dmesg -n 1


This would do the same thing as klogd -c 1 I guess.



This will log only panic messages to the console.  IIRC the default
level of iptables messages is 5 (warn), so this will prevent the
messages from being printed to the console.  You can add it to your
init scripts somewhere, or your script for starting your iptables
rules...


As I didn't know there was a minimum allowed log level everything just 
seemed strange at first and I didn't get why the messages just kept on 
coming even though I killed of syslogd, klogd and restarted klogd with 
klogd -c 0. I thought that there was an other process or system 
responsible for printing the messages to the console, but I couldn't 
find any.


But know I know the reason, so the problem is solved. I know what caused 
the problem and I know some possible ways to get rid of them.

The best way seems to be to change the log level of the iptables logs!



If you want to receive kernel messages on the console for priorities
higher than warn, you should be able to use up to dmesg -n 4 and still
eliminate the messages from being printed.  In practice, I find that
having the messages logged to syslog is enough, so logging only
critical messages works out fine.



Thanks for the help!

/ep


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Apt-get exit error status 10

[Don]

I have seen lots of 
posts about this exit error but nothing specific on how to fix this.  Any 
ideas.  I was trying to install the acidbase package to get base-1.2.5 and 
it continually fails.
 
I tried to reinstall 
xserver-xorg based on one reading I did and it installed with no issues.  
But zilch for acidbase.
 
Any ideas or 
comments?  Is this a package problem or a problem in what I have on my 
system (Debian test)?
 
Don

kdewallet : how to add application into access control ?

[Bruno Costacurta]

Hello,

I installed kdewallet but every time I started application using it (ie. 
kmail) I have to re-enter its password. 
How to add kmail into allowed access control to avoid this cumbersome 
procedure ? kdewallet manager propose an Access Control menu but it seems 
impossible to add an application.

Thanks.
Bye,
Bruno


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Re: Xorg Configuration in Etch

[Charles Hallenbeck]

On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 06:53:58PM -0700, Willie Wonka wrote:
> 
> Willie Wonka wrote:

> and this too;
> 
> 
> so 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg' should do the trick - there's a way
> (through the Priority option to make it also even ask for the most
> low-priority settings)...something like adding a '-plow' option
> appended to command before the .
> 
> Ex: 
> 'dpkg-reconfigure -plow xserver-xorg'
> 
> see man(8) 'dpkg-reconfigure'  ...and man(7) 'debconf' for the
> "priority" options
> 

I have a related problem. When I use dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg, 
everything apparently goes well, except the results of the 
reconfiguration never get written anywhere. There is no warning or error 
produced, but no xorg.conf file anywhere on the system. When I do startx 
after reconfiguring and examine the log file, it tells me no 
configuration file was found, and falls back to built-in defaults.

I have read the man pages and much else, but cannot get a handle on this 
one. Any suggestions much appreciated.

Chuck


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>  as it was.  I'm not going to change it all back, now that I have the 
>  backports version working, however.  Besides, now I can probably get rid 
>  of those last vestiges of KDE.

Hmm ...  We need some new virtual packages: nuke_*, as in nuke_kde,
nuke_gnome, nuke_cups, ...


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Troubleshooting NIS

[Phil]

I'm trying to setup some servers at school.  I'm using NIS because I've use it 
before an it was easy.  

ypserv and ypbind come up as running on their respective machines, but the 
client machine - at first seemed to authenticate and then give "can';t write 
to /home folder" messages and now seems not to authenticate at all.

NFS is up and running.  I can see and access the server's home folders from 
the client machine.

Where does one start to trouble shoot?

Re: iptables log target logs everything to tty*. Why?

[Derek Martin]

On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 01:51:38PM +0200, Erik Persson wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# cat /proc/sys/kernel/printk
> 3   4   1   7

Cool, I didn't realize this file existed in the /proc filesystem.
Time to review the documentation... ;-)

> man proc reveals that the 1 is the lowest value that console log level 
> may be set to. Thats the reson, I guess, that klogd -c 0 did fail.

Yup, it's based on the loglevels for syslog.  There is no level 0...

> >There might be a slightly easier way...  
> >
> >The dmesg command, in addition to dumping the kernel's message buffer
> >to the screen, can set the maximum priority (number) of messages which
> >get logged to the console.  For example:
> >
> >  dmesg -n 1
> 
> This would do the same thing as klogd -c 1 I guess.

The main difference is that this method lets you change the level on
the fly...  you don't need to restart klogd for this to take effect.
If klogd is not running, do the kernel messages get saved in the
kernel buffer?  With normal syslog messages, of course, you would lose
them...

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Re: Xorg Configuration in Etch

[Bill Jones]

On 6/24/06, Charles Hallenbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


I have a related problem. When I use dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg,
everything apparently goes well, except the results of the
reconfiguration never get written anywhere. There is no warning or error
produced, but no xorg.conf file anywhere on the system. When I do startx
after reconfiguring and examine the log file, it tells me no
configuration file was found, and falls back to built-in defaults.

I have read the man pages and much else, but cannot get a handle on this
one. Any suggestions much appreciated.


Well, if you *are* using xorg for X (ls -l /etc/X11/x would show where
the link is pointing) you can use the generic file from
http://ccsh.us/xorg.conf.tgz

If you are realy using x-server you dont need the xotg.conf file --
just run the dpkg--reconfigure xerver-xorg command then use Ctrl-AltF7
to switch to where the GUI is supposed to be then hit Ctrol-Backspace
to restart the X-Server

Works this weird way for me on FC5 and Debian Etch.

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Re: Xorg Configuration in Etch

[Florian Kulzer]

On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 09:34:38 -0400, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:

[...]

> I have a related problem. When I use dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg, 
> everything apparently goes well, except the results of the 
> reconfiguration never get written anywhere. There is no warning or error 
> produced, but no xorg.conf file anywhere on the system. When I do startx 
> after reconfiguring and examine the log file, it tells me no 
> configuration file was found, and falls back to built-in defaults.
> 
> I have read the man pages and much else, but cannot get a handle on this 
> one. Any suggestions much appreciated.

So, if I understand you correctly, you don't have an /etc/X11/xorg.conf
file at all, and "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" refuses to generate
one? (Usually people have trouble with an existing customized xorg.conf
which dpkg-reconfigure refuses to update.)

Do you have the file /var/lib/x11/xorg.conf.md5sum? Maybe that is
confusing the configuration script. (I think that a non-existing file
can never match any md5sum.)

What version of xserver-xorg are you using? Is it a fresh install or an
upgrade from an older Xorg/XFree86?

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automount of usb devices at the OK/Daemon/Kernel not in kde / gnome

[hanasaki]

Gnome seems to automount usb drives when inserted.  Is there a way to 
get this functionality outside of the GUI?Like when not running any 
gui just text vterminals?



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Re: kdewallet : how to add application into access control ?

[Florian Kulzer]

On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 15:22:39 +0200, Bruno Costacurta wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I installed kdewallet but every time I started application using it (ie. 
> kmail) I have to re-enter its password. 
> How to add kmail into allowed access control to avoid this cumbersome 
> procedure ? kdewallet manager propose an Access Control menu but it seems 
> impossible to add an application.

The applications get added to this menu automatically if you select
"always allow" (or similar, I am paraphrasing from memory) when the
dialog pops up which informs you that an application tries to access an
open wallet.

Your problem sounds like you have set very "paranoid" wallet preferences
so that the wallet gets closed quickly all the time. This is a security
measure to make it less likely that an attacker can come across your
computer when the wallet is open. Check your "close when unused for xx
min.", "close when screensaver starts" and "close when last application
stops using it" settings. What you put there depends on how much
security you want; more security always means less convenience, i.e.
having to type your password more often.

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Re: Xorg Configuration in Etch

[Charles Hallenbeck]

On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 04:47:06PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 09:34:38 -0400, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
> 
> So, if I understand you correctly, you don't have an /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> file at all, and "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" refuses to generate
> one? (Usually people have trouble with an existing customized xorg.conf
> which dpkg-reconfigure refuses to update.)

That's right. Except that Bill Jones just told me where I can download a 
default copy. I did so, repeated my attempt to reconfigure after copying 
the new xorg.conf to /etc/X11, and I get the same behavior. The 
reconfigure dialog seems normal, but the new file is not update. The 
modification time matches when I copied it there, not when I 
reconfigured, and a diff between it and the downloaded copy show no 
differences.

> Do you have the file /var/lib/x11/xorg.conf.md5sum? Maybe that is
> confusing the configuration script. (I think that a non-existing file
> can never match any md5sum.)

No, I do not have such a file.

> What version of xserver-xorg are you using? Is it a fresh install or an
> upgrade from an older Xorg/XFree86?

It is a fresh install. Never had Xfree 86 on the system, although some 
console apps I have been using had brought in some x libraries. 
pdftotext for instance is part of the xpdf package. But I have never 
done a full install of any x-window-system until I did the xorg install.

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marillat

[Francesco Pietra]

Is

deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ etch main

broken? From about ten days it could not be accessed

thanks
francesco pietra


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Re: marillat

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> deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ etch main
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It's changed to
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main

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Re: marillat

[Rick Friedman]

Francesco Pietra wrote:
> Is
> 
> deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ etch main
> 
> broken? From about ten days it could not be accessed
> 
> thanks
> francesco pietra
> 
> 
The URL has changed. Change your sources.list line to the following:

deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ etch main

Should work fine after that.

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Re: Can not use Gnome in Debian Sid

[Sridhar Srinivasan]

Liam O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [06/06/24 04:26] typed :
> 
> Make sure that all of the following packages are installed:
> 
> gnome-menus
> libgnome-menu2
> menu
> menu-xdg
> 
> That should fix it.

Thanks!!! I didn't have menu installed. It works fine now.

> 
> menu-xdg is recommended by gnome-panel. The dependency should be
> stronger.

The funny thing is that I had menu-xdg installed. Should menu also be
a dependency?

thanks again,
sridhar
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dual promise card problems

[Neko-Chan Wilson]

I'm currently running 2 Ultra 133 TX2 Promise controller cards, I cannot seem to get both of them to work at the same time under debian, they were confirmed working under gentoo so I know they "should" work ^^.  So far I have tested the cables, the pci slots, the cards and the bios on the cards, the hdd's and they all come out fine.  In all cases the first card detected will let me access the hdd's but the second one detected will not.  The drives do show up under /dev and in dmesg but are totally unaccesable.
this is from my logs :Jan  1 00:02:22 localhost kernel: SIS5513: IDE controller at PCI slot :00:00.1Jan  1 00:02:22 localhost kernel: SIS5513: chipset revision 208Jan  1 00:02:22 localhost kernel: SIS5513: not 100%% native mode: will probe irqs later
Jan  1 00:02:22 localhost kernel: SIS5513: SiS530 ATA 66 controllerJan  1 00:02:22 localhost kernel: ide0: BM-DMA at 0x4000-0x4007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMAJan  1 00:02:22 localhost kernel: ide1: BM-DMA at 0x4008-0x400f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
Jan  1 00:02:22 localhost kernel: hdb: QUANTUM FIREBALL CX10.0A, ATA DISK driveJan  1 00:02:22 localhost kernel: Using anticipatory io schedulerJan  1 00:02:22 localhost kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Jan  1 00:02:22 localhost kernel: hdb: max request size: 128KiBJan  1 00:02:22 localhost kernel: hdb: 19541088 sectors (10005 MB) w/418KiB Cache, CHS=19386/16/63, UDMA(33)Jan  1 00:02:22 localhost kernel:  /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0: p1 p2 < p5 >
Jan  1 00:02:22 localhost kernel: PDC20269: IDE controller at PCI slot :00:09.0Jan  1 00:02:22 localhost kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device :00:09.0Jan  1 00:02:22 localhost kernel: PDC20269: chipset revision 2
Jan  1 00:02:22 localhost kernel: PDC20269: ROM enabled at 0xe400Jan  1 00:02:22 localhost kernel: PDC20269: 100%% native mode on irq 11Jan  1 00:02:22 localhost kernel: ide2: BM-DMA at 0xc000-0xc007, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
Jan  1 00:02:22 localhost kernel: ide3: BM-DMA at 0xc008-0xc00f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pioJan  1 00:02:22 localhost kernel: hde: WDC WD2500JB-50FUA0, ATA DISK driveJan  1 00:02:22 localhost kernel: hdf: WDC WD1000BB-32CAA0, ATA DISK drive
Jan  1 00:02:22 localhost kernel: ide2 at 0xb000-0xb007,0xb402 on irq 11Jan  1 00:02:22 localhost kernel: hde: max request size: 1024KiBJan  1 00:02:22 localhost kernel: hde: 488397168 sectors (250059 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=30401/255/63, UDMA(100)
Jan  1 00:02:22 localhost kernel:  /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0: p1Jan  1 00:02:22 localhost kernel: hdf: max request size: 128KiBJan  1 00:02:22 localhost kernel: hdf: 195371568 sectors (100030 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100)
Jan  1 00:02:22 localhost kernel:  /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target1/lun0: p1Jan  1 00:02:22 localhost kernel: PDC20269: IDE controller at PCI slot :00:0d.0Jan  1 00:02:22 localhost kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device :00:
0d.0Jan  1 00:02:22 localhost kernel: PDC20269: chipset revision 2Jan  1 00:02:22 localhost kernel: PDC20269: ROM enabled at 0xe500Jan  1 00:02:22 localhost kernel: PDC20269: 100%% native mode on irq 5
Jan  1 00:02:22 localhost kernel: ide4: BM-DMA at 0xd800-0xd807, BIOS settings: hdi:pio, hdj:pioJan  1 00:02:22 localhost kernel: ide5: BM-DMA at 0xd808-0xd80f, BIOS settings: hdk:pio, hdl:pioJan  1 00:02:22 localhost kernel: hdi: Maxtor 6L250R0, ATA DISK drive
Jan  1 00:02:22 localhost kernel: hdj: WDC WD2500JB-50FUA0, ATA DISK driveJan  1 00:02:22 localhost kernel: ide4 at 0xc800-0xc807,0xcc02 on irq 5Jan  1 00:02:22 localhost kernel: hdi: max request size: 1024KiB
Jan  1 00:02:22 localhost kernel: hdi: 490234752 sectors (251000 MB) w/16384KiB Cache, CHS=30515/255/63, UDMA(133)Jan  1 00:02:22 localhost kernel:  /dev/ide/host4/bus0/target0/lun0: p1Jan  1 00:02:22 localhost kernel: hdj: max request size: 1024KiB
Jan  1 00:02:22 localhost kernel: hdj: 488397168 sectors (250059 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=30401/255/63, UDMA(100)Jan  1 00:02:22 localhost kernel:  /dev/ide/host4/bus0/target1/lun0: p1Jan  1 00:02:22 localhost kernel: hdk: Maxtor 4A250J0, ATA DISK drive
Jan  1 00:02:22 localhost kernel: hdl: WDC WD600BB-32BSA0, ATA DISK driveJan  1 00:02:22 localhost kernel: ide5 at 0xd000-0xd007,0xd402 on irq 5Jan  1 00:02:22 localhost kernel: hdk: max request size: 1024KiB
Jan  1 00:02:22 localhost kernel: hdk: 490234752 sectors (251000 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=30515/255/63, UDMA(133)Jan  1 00:02:22 localhost kernel:  /dev/ide/host4/bus1/target0/lun0: p1Jan  1 00:02:22 localhost kernel: hdl: max request size: 128KiB
Jan  1 00:02:22 localhost kernel: hdl: 117231408 sectors (60022 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100)I am currrently running  the debian kernel 2.6.8-3-386the errors I get from the drives when trying ot access them are
datagod:/var/log# fdisk /dev/hdiUnable to open /dev/hdiand when I try to mount themdatagod:/home/anime/anime# mount /dev/hdi animeImount: you must specify the filesystem type
but like 

Re: Can not use Gnome in Debian Sid

[Liam O'Toole]

On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 11:58:13 -0400
Sridhar Srinivasan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Liam O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [06/06/24 04:26] typed :
> > 
> > Make sure that all of the following packages are installed:
> > 
> > gnome-menus
> > libgnome-menu2
> > menu
> > menu-xdg
> > 
> > That should fix it.
> 
> Thanks!!! I didn't have menu installed. It works fine now.
> 
> > 
> > menu-xdg is recommended by gnome-panel. The dependency should be
> > stronger.
> 
> The funny thing is that I had menu-xdg installed. Should menu also be
> a dependency?

That would make sense for GNOME purposes.

> 
> thanks again,
> sridhar

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Re: Xorg Configuration in Etch

[Bill Jones]

On 6/24/06, Charles Hallenbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> which dpkg-reconfigure refuses to update.)

That's right. Except that Bill Jones just told me where I can download a
default copy. I did so, repeated my attempt to reconfigure after copying
the new xorg.conf to /etc/X11, and I get the same behavior. The


Is this an ATI or nVidia video card?  I do not use an xorg.conf file
on my ATI systems; however for nVidia systems the file I pointed you
to will work unless your xorg system is broken in some unknown way.

Did you simply try installing the /etc/X11/xorg.conf.Dell270_Master
file as /etc/X11/xorg.conf ?

Then Ctrl-Alt F7 and Ctrl-Backspace to see if the X Server starts up?

Also, if this is a brand new install did you try updating the drivers?
apt-get update; apt-get upgrade; apt-get dist-upgrade

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Re: marillat

[Marty]

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Is

deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ etch main

broken? From about ten days it could not be accessed


It's changed to
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main


Has anyone gotten demirror to work with it?  I am using the following command:

  debmirror -d sarge -a i386 -e http \
  --ignore-release-gpg --ignore-missing-release --ignore-small-errors \
  -h www.debian-multimedia.org /mirror/debian-multimedia/

I get a bunch of errors like:

Ignoring missing Release file for dists/sarge/main/source/Sources.gz
dists/sarge/main/source/Sources.gz needs fetch
Getting: dists/sarge/main/source/Sources.gz... 
dists/sarge/main/source/Sources.gz failed 404 Not Found

dists/sarge/main/source/Sources.gz failed md5sum check, removing

It eventually fails with no files downloaded.


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Re: Xorg Configuration in Etch

[Florian Kulzer]

On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 11:47:53 -0400, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 04:47:06PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 09:34:38 -0400, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
> > 
> > So, if I understand you correctly, you don't have an /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> > file at all, and "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" refuses to generate
> > one? (Usually people have trouble with an existing customized xorg.conf
> > which dpkg-reconfigure refuses to update.)
> 
> That's right. Except that Bill Jones just told me where I can download a 
> default copy. I did so, repeated my attempt to reconfigure after copying 
> the new xorg.conf to /etc/X11, and I get the same behavior. The 
> reconfigure dialog seems normal, but the new file is not update. The 
> modification time matches when I copied it there, not when I 
> reconfigured, and a diff between it and the downloaded copy show no 
> differences.
> 
> > Do you have the file /var/lib/x11/xorg.conf.md5sum? Maybe that is
> > confusing the configuration script. (I think that a non-existing file
> > can never match any md5sum.)
> 
> No, I do not have such a file.
> 
> > What version of xserver-xorg are you using? Is it a fresh install or an
> > upgrade from an older Xorg/XFree86?
> 
> It is a fresh install. Never had Xfree 86 on the system, although some 
> console apps I have been using had brought in some x libraries. 
> pdftotext for instance is part of the xpdf package. But I have never 
> done a full install of any x-window-system until I did the xorg install.

A fresh install not generating the xorg.conf file sounds like a serious
bug to me. It would be interesting to know if running

md5sum /etc/X11/xorg.conf > /var/lib/x11/xorg.conf.md5sum

makes the configuration file modifiable by dpkg-reconfigure.

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Re: Xorg Configuration in Etch

[Thomas H. George]

Try dexconf.  A couple of weeks ago I had trouble configuring xorg.conf
to work with my Wacom tablet.  When my manual edits of xorg.conf caused
problems, dexconf wiped out the file and replaced it with a pure vanilla
version.  Eventually I found successful manual edits to make the Wacom
tablet work.  After each edit it is necessary to stop and restart gdm
or xdm or kdm - whichever you are using.

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Re: Xorg Configuration in Etch

[Charles Hallenbeck]

On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 12:54:28PM -0400, Bill Jones wrote:
> 
> Is this an ATI or nVidia video card?  I do not use an xorg.conf file
> on my ATI systems; however for nVidia systems the file I pointed you
> to will work unless your xorg system is broken in some unknown way.

Hi Bill,

My video system is nVidea and configuring the xserver-xorg lets me 
choose the nv driver, and correctly names the video system to match what 
lspci shows.

> 
> Did you simply try installing the /etc/X11/xorg.conf.Dell270_Master
> file as /etc/X11/xorg.conf ?

No. What I first did was unpack the tgz package into a dummy directory, 
then copy xorg.conf to /etc/X11. After getting your current email, I 
tried two other things:

1. copying xorg.conf.Dell270-Master to /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Running 
startx told me "no devices found" so next, I did:

2. I unpacked the tgz package into /etc/X11 instead of into its own 
dummy directory. Running startx now seems to work. 

> 
> Then Ctrl-Alt F7 and Ctrl-Backspace to see if the X Server starts up?

ctrl-alt-F7 shows me the startx output in text mode, but ctrl-backspace 
does not restart the server. I normally terminate an X session with 
ctrl-alt-backspace, but this did not work either. Ctrl-C terminated the 
session and returned me to text mode with the last couple of lines from 
startx finishing the screen and a text mode prompt.



> 
> Also, if this is a brand new install did you try updating the drivers?
> apt-get update; apt-get upgrade; apt-get dist-upgrade
> 

Many times. Once I even tried apt-get install --reinstall xserver-xorg 
to no avail.

Finally, I just tried dpkg-reconfigure again and it still does not 
rewrite xorg.conf. The log file tells me it is using /etc/X11/xorg.conf 
but I can't seem to get any changes into it unless I add them manually.

BTW, I am running a Sid system, not Etch, kernel 2.6.16.

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Re: Xorg Configuration in Etch

[Willie Wonka]

Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 04:47:06PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 09:34:38 -0400, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
> > 
> > So, if I understand you correctly, you don't have an /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> > file at all, and "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" refuses to generate
> > one? (Usually people have trouble with an existing customized xorg.conf
> > which dpkg-reconfigure refuses to update.)
> 
> That's right. Except that Bill Jones just told me where I can download a 
> default copy. I did so, repeated my attempt to reconfigure after copying 
> the new xorg.conf to /etc/X11, and I get the same behavior. The 
> reconfigure dialog seems normal, but the new file is not update. The 
> modification time matches when I copied it there, not when I 
> reconfigured, and a diff between it and the downloaded copy show no 
> differences.

WAG;
Perhaps you're missing other critical X components?
I have no idea which of these below (if any) you will need to use *Xorg* -- I
use XFree86 still.

~$ apt-cache search xserver
[...]
xfree86-common - X Window System (XFree86) infrastructure
xserver-common - files and utilities common to all X servers
xserver-xfree86 - the XFree86 X server
xserver-xfree86-dbg - the XFree86 X server (static version with debugging
symbols)

~$ apt-cache search x-window-system
x-window-system - X Window System
x-window-system-core - X Window System core components
x-window-system-dev - X Window System development components
xfree86-common - X Window System (XFree86) infrastructure

FWIW - I notice there are a heck of a lot of Font pkgs too that get
installed...

> > Do you have the file /var/lib/x11/xorg.conf.md5sum? Maybe that is
> > confusing the configuration script. (I think that a non-existing file
> > can never match any md5sum.)
> 
> No, I do not have such a file.

For clarity - I too (using Xfree86) do not have that DIR;
~$ cd /var/lib/x11
bash: cd: /var/lib/x11: No such file or directory

HOWEVER;
I *do* have;
~$ /var/lib/xfree86
which contains these files
~$ cd /var/lib/xfree86
:/var/lib/xfree86$ ls -al
total 32
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 4096 2006-05-01 04:55 .
drwxr-xr-x  37 root root 4096 2006-06-20 17:19 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   56 2006-05-01 05:19 XF86Config-4.md5sum
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   16 2006-05-01 04:55 XF86Config-4.roster
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   36 2006-05-01 04:55 X.md5sum
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   16 2006-05-01 04:55 X.roster
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   59 2006-05-01 04:55 Xwrapper.config.md5sum
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   15 2006-05-01 04:55 Xwrapper.config.roster

Note; 
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4 is the older *XFree86* config file - hence the .md5sum
related file above. I don't have any Xorg files at all because I use XFree86
still...;

~$ uname -a
Linux $Host 2.6.8-2-386 #1 Tue Aug 16 12:46:35 UTC 2005 i686 GNU/Linux

Whatcha' got?

> > What version of xserver-xorg are you using? Is it a fresh install or an
> > upgrade from an older Xorg/XFree86?
> 
> It is a fresh install. 

Of what ?

> Never had Xfree 86 on the system, although some 
> console apps I have been using had brought in some x libraries. 
> pdftotext for instance is part of the xpdf package. But I have never 
> done a full install of any x-window-system until I did the xorg install.

The only thing that comes to mind is that you're missing some *critical* X
components/pkgs..

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Re: Xorg Configuration in Etch

[Charles Hallenbeck]

On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 07:30:23PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> It would be interesting to know if running
> 
> md5sum /etc/X11/xorg.conf > /var/lib/x11/xorg.conf.md5sum

Nope. I generated the md5sum as you suggested, ran dpkg-reconfigure 
again, the dialogue looked good again, but the file remained unchanged 
with the same modification date.

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customizing scripts /etc/init.d

[cga2000]

Is there a "Debian way" to modify startup scripts?  Changes might
include: deactivating automatic startup of a given daemon.. changing the
daemon's running options.. adding a new script.. etc.

Additionally, is the debian bootup process documented anywhere?

Thanks,

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Re: customizing scripts /etc/init.d

[Lists]

cga2000 wrote:
> Is there a "Debian way" to modify startup scripts?  Changes might
> include: deactivating automatic startup of a given daemon.. changing the
> daemon's running options.. adding a new script.. etc.
> 
> Additionally, is the debian bootup process documented anywhere?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> cga
> 
> 

cga,
I thin you're looking for something like rcconf[1].

Regards,
Fabian

[1]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache show rcconf
Package: rcconf
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 112
Maintainer: Atsushi KAMOSHIDA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Architecture: all
Version: 1.12
Depends: whiptail | whiptail-provider | dialog, sysv-rc, perl, perl-modules
Conflicts: file-rc
Filename: pool/main/r/rcconf/rcconf_1.12_all.deb
Size: 17460
MD5sum: 04ca4de26f8462a85bd11b01ccf7b4d5
Description: Debian Runlevel configuration tool
 This tool configures system services in connection with system
 runlevels.  It turns on/off services using the scripts in
 /etc/init.d/.  Rcconf works with System-V style runlevel configuration.
 It is a TUI(Text User Interface) frontend to the update-rc.d command.


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Problems mirroring debian-multimedia

[Marty]

I am repeating this issue to give it it's own subject line and thread.

Since the change from marillat to debian-multimedia I have not yet found a 
satisfactory way of mirroring debian-multimedia. The site does not seem to offer 
anonymous rsync or ftp, and wget and debmirror don't work as I expect them to.


With debmirror:

  debmirror --root=/ -d sarge -a i386 -e http \
  --ignore-release-gpg \--ignore-missing-release --ignore-small-errors \
  -p -v --debug --getcontents -h www.debian-multimedia.org  \
  /mirror

The results include the following:
Ignoring missing Release file for dists/main/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
dists/main/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz needs fetch
http://www.debian-multimedia.org///dists/main/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz => 
Getting: dists/main/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz... 404 Not Found

dists/main/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz failed 404 Not Found
dists/main/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz failed md5sum check, removing

Some directories are created but no files are downloaded.

With wget:

  wget -mirror www.debian-multimedia.org -nH -P /mirror

This fails to download the pool directory, which contains all the packages.
In addition, I haven't found a way to exclude non-i386 files, or automatically 
delete files not in the archive.  In this sense, wget's mirror option seems like

a misnomer.

I also have a pre-existing issue in that I have not found a way to validate the 
files, since the archive has no indices file, and the last time I checked sarge 
did not support gpg validation.


Thanks for any suggestions.


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[solved] Re: no key strokes from remote console when no keyboard attached

[Frank Hempel]

just for completeness:

to have the keyboard driver enabled regardless whether a keyboard is 
attached or not, one solution is to return Zero in the atkbd_probe() 
function of the atkbd input module if the atkbd->connect() function was 
called for the serio Kbd port.



so far, frank.


Frank Hempel schrieb:

Hello,

I'm facing the problem that when I have booted my server with no 
keyboard attached and debian is up and running, the OS does not 
recognize any key stroke I send through a remote service facility.


Important to note: the installed remote service card snoops the vga 
information and puts keyboard/mouse events on the bus as it would do a 
real keybord/mouse. So for the Bootloader and OS it's no difference that 
events came from the remote service card or the real keyboard. But 
unfortunatly the remote service card is not recognized as keyboard when 
the linux keyboard driver checks for one. So if no real keyboard was 
attached, the keyboard driver doesn't seem to be activate (it is comiled 
in the kernel).


Plugging a keyboard lets the kernel print
"Input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0"
to the console and from now on the OS recognizes key strokes from both 
keyboard and remote service card. When I detach the keyboard now the 
keyboard driver seems to stay active because key strokes from the remote 
service card get still recognized (what is what I want).


So my question is: How can I "trigger" the keyboard driver to be active 
from the start even when no real keyboard was found?


I'm running a Debian Sarge with kernel 2.6.8. The following gives the 
kernel configuration of probably relevant switches.


Thanks for your hints and pointers!

Ciao, Frank.

#
# Input I/O drivers
#
# CONFIG_GAMEPORT is not set
CONFIG_SOUND_GAMEPORT=y
CONFIG_SERIO=y
CONFIG_SERIO_I8042=y
# CONFIG_SERIO_SERPORT is not set
# CONFIG_SERIO_CT82C710 is not set
CONFIG_SERIO_PCIPS2=y

#
# Input Device Drivers
#
CONFIG_INPUT_KEYBOARD=y
CONFIG_KEYBOARD_ATKBD=y
# CONFIG_KEYBOARD_SUNKBD is not set
# CONFIG_KEYBOARD_LKKBD is not set
# CONFIG_KEYBOARD_XTKBD is not set
# CONFIG_KEYBOARD_NEWTON is not set
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSE=y
CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2=y
# CONFIG_MOUSE_SERIAL is not set
# CONFIG_MOUSE_VSXXXAA is not set
# CONFIG_INPUT_JOYSTICK is not set
# CONFIG_INPUT_TOUCHSCREEN is not set
# CONFIG_INPUT_MISC is not set





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Re: Replying to list

[David E. Fox]

On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 09:36:15 +
"Lynn Kilroy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I use MSN Hotmail.  Seems MSN Hotmail doesn't work quite the same way your 
> cludgy e-mail clients {oft mentioned in your article} do.

I've never liked web-based email. Enough said. :) 

> Furthermore, most common users {people who use MSN Hotmail} don't bottom 
> post because MSN Hotmail {and Yahoo! for that matter} both are setup for top 
> posting - like this one.

Imagine my confusion, having used nearly nothing but 'elm' and then
having to use Microsoft Mail (outlook) at work - I was of course firmly
used to bottom-post, or intervening quotes and text, since my email
experiences up until then were usenet & email (uucp at first). Of
course, one can include RIME and similar exchanges in DOSland, but we
didn't top-post there either. 

But at this job, everything was top post. The emailer pretty much
forced you to edit that way - I recall spending time tryiing to
reformat the emails to look like what I'm used to, but eventually gave
up. After all, it's a different environment, and just maybe top-posting
is appropriate there. But I won't get into a big debate over it :).

> Last time I looked, WordPerfect went down the toilet.

Mostly. It kinda half survives in Corel - but maybe that's dead too.

WP (used it heavily in DOS days) was a fine product and at that time -
mid 80's - may have had the best tech support of any product. Sure it
seemed cumbersome to work, and the 'fancy programming languge" may have
been arcane, but people used it. 1-2-3 macros were so heavily used back
then too - but they resemble something looking like APL instead of a
"real" programming language :).

I think WP died out not because of these reasons but because their
Windows product was a dog compared to the DOS version.

Ease of use is one thing - and probably a very important thing, even if
it means dumbing down the product. After all, many of the advanced
features of Microsoft Word never get used much. And you could say (and
be right) that doing this in (la)TeX gives you ul;timate power over the
printed page. Hell, you could make it print every other lnie upside
down if you wanted it to. ;) But I doubt that it would be prominent if
sold as a "commercial word processor".


> Lynn Erika Kilroy


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Re: kdewallet : how to add application into access control ?

[Bruno Costacurta]

On Saturday 24 June 2006 17:05, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 15:22:39 +0200, Bruno Costacurta wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I installed kdewallet but every time I started application using it (ie.
> > kmail) I have to re-enter its password.
> > How to add kmail into allowed access control to avoid this cumbersome
> > procedure ? kdewallet manager propose an Access Control menu but it seems
> > impossible to add an application.
>
> The applications get added to this menu automatically if you select
> "always allow" (or similar, I am paraphrasing from memory) when the
> dialog pops up which informs you that an application tries to access an
> open wallet.
>
> Your problem sounds like you have set very "paranoid" wallet preferences
> so that the wallet gets closed quickly all the time. This is a security
> measure to make it less likely that an attacker can come across your
> computer when the wallet is open. Check your "close when unused for xx
> min.", "close when screensaver starts" and "close when last application
> stops using it" settings. What you put there depends on how much
> security you want; more security always means less convenience, i.e.
> having to type your password more often.
>
> --
> Regards,
>   Florian

Indeed after playing with the mentionned options it looks much better now.
Once the kdewallet is open no further requests are sent.
Cheers Florian.

Bye
Bruno


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Re: marillat

[Francesco Pietra]

It worked fine. However, why  it complains of not being able to open source 
packages for debian-multimedia when I did not ask for them (no src)?

deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ etch main

francesco Pietra

On Saturday 24 June 2006 18:12, Rick Friedman wrote:
> Francesco Pietra wrote:
> > Is
> >
> > deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ etch main
> >
> > broken? From about ten days it could not be accessed
> >
> > thanks
> > francesco pietra
>
> The URL has changed. Change your sources.list line to the following:
>
> deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ etch main
>
> Should work fine after that.
>
> Rick


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Re: customizing scripts /etc/init.d

[Mumia W.]

cga2000 wrote:

Is there a "Debian way" to modify startup scripts?  [...]


Install quick-reference-en and read § 3.4.4 "Reconfigure Installed 
Packages."




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Re: customizing scripts /etc/init.d

[Willie Wonka]

cga2000 wrote:
> Is there a "Debian way" to modify startup scripts?  Changes might
> include: deactivating automatic startup of a given daemon.. changing the
> daemon's running options.. adding a new script.. etc.

I too would like to know more about this myself;
As a start -- Found this info;


> Additionally, is the debian bootup process documented anywhere?

I can tell you to look at /etc/inittab - and then all the various Shell scripts
in /etc/init.d -- and then there are the runlevels[0-6];


See this as well;
"From Power Up To Bash Prompt"
 

> Thanks,
> 
> cga


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cron and kmessage

[Kamaraju Kusumanchi]

My actual problem is that I want to display a message at specific times (every 
0th, 30th minute of hour) on the user's screen. I thought I can do this with 
cron and kmessage.

I edited the crontab entry as

0,30 * * * *kdialog --msgbox "test message"

But then it does not display the dialog on the screen. Instead it sends an 
email to the user's address with the following message

kdialog: cannot connect to X server

How can I solve this problem? 

I also had a look at korganizer, but it can only repeat tasks on a day-by-day 
basis, not on a minute-by-minute basis. Is there any other way?

Using Debian, Sid.

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Re: cron and kmessage

[Olafur Jens Sigurdsson]

Þann 2006-06-24, 19:51:58 (-0400) skrifaði Kamaraju Kusumanchi:
> My actual problem is that I want to display a message at specific times 
> (every 
> 0th, 30th minute of hour) on the user's screen. I thought I can do this with 
> cron and kmessage.
> 
> I edited the crontab entry as
> 
> 0,30 * * * *kdialog --msgbox "test message"
> 
> But then it does not display the dialog on the screen. Instead it sends an 
> email to the user's address with the following message
> 
> kdialog: cannot connect to X server
> 
> How can I solve this problem? 

This is a typical X permission problem. The same as if you su in an
xterm and try to run a graphical program and cant because you dont
have permissions to do so.
I am not sure about how to solve this but I would search for two
things. First try to run the kdialog command as the use who you want
the message to be sent to, I dont know if cron can do this. Second you
can try to give cron permission to connect to your X session by
somehow using .Xauthority of the user who is running X.

> I also had a look at korganizer, but it can only repeat tasks on a day-by-day 
> basis, not on a minute-by-minute basis. Is there any other way?

Have you tried out the at command?

HTH

Oli


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Re: Problem with kernel-package

[Kit Peters]

I have solved my problem.  I installed fakeroot, then modified ~/.kernel-pkg.conf to use it (1).  Kernel compiles successfully, and .debs are generated in the parent directory ("~/src" in my case.)  I installed the linux-image .deb on the target machine successfully as well.
(1) I added a line: "root_cmd := fakeroot" to ~/.kernel-pkg.conf.KPOn 6/22/06, James Westby <
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> >It is oft recommended to use fakeroot rather that a real root command> >for compiling.> Hm. I've never used fakeroot for anything.  How would I compile a kernel in
> fakeroot?aptitude install fakeroots/sudo/fakeroot/ in your command.That should be it. You then don't have to enter your password, and thereis less chance of something going catastrophically wrong.
> >http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=359832> No, I'm using kernel-package 10.047.It might be a re-occurence of a similar bug.
I am using the same version and compiled the debian 2.6.17.rc3 packagesa couple of days ago. Perhaps it could be the vanilla source that iscausing it. (Though I doubt it).> Well, I'll try the make-kpkg clean, but I'm not sanguine about the outcome.
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pulling my hair: doodle 0.6.5-3 update / doodled unstoppable

[Eike Lantzsch]

running sid on i386

What's up here? I can't get doodle to be updated.

"/etc/init.d/doodled stop" does not stop doodle!
I cannot even kill it.

with aptitude:

:~# ps aux |grep doodle
root  4601  0.1  0.3   3808  1600 ?Ssl  20:07   
0:00 /usr/bin/doodled -d /var/lib/doodle/doodle.db -L /var/log/doodled.log /home
root  4615  0.0  0.5  15260  3076 ?S20:07   
0:00 /usr/bin/doodled -d /var/lib/doodle/doodle.db -L /var/log/doodled.log /home
root  5135  0.0  0.0   1668   500 pts/0R+   20:09   0:00 grep doodle

lxcl01:~# aptitude
Reading package fields... Done
Reading package status... Done
Retrieving bug reports... Done
Reading changelogs... Done
(Reading database ... 431687 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace doodled 0.6.5-1 (using .../doodled_0.6.5-3_i386.deb) ...
Stopping doodle daemon: invoke-rc.d: initscript doodled, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
Stopping doodle daemon: invoke-rc.d: initscript doodled, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/doodled_0.6.5-3_i386.deb 
(--unpack):
 subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Starting doodle daemon: doodled.
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/doodled_0.6.5-3_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
Press return to continue.

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Re: Replying to list

[Dave Patterson]

* Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-24 05:00:28 -0500]:

 
> What problem do you see with Tbird?

Nothing, really, for quick basic setup, it's terrific, and using imap mailboxes
does indeed let you switch between mua's at will..

Tbird out of the box, though, does not let me sort mailboxes the way I want
them sorted (emphasis on the 'I' here), and I'm enough of an individual to
demand my own idiosyncratic way of doing things.  Hence 'to each his own'.

There are certain things I do in Mutt with the keyboard that I simply did
not want to relearn with Tbird (I must be getting old).  Mutt is much
faster for me.

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Re: X Windows not installed

[Dr Bean]

On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, Thibaut Paumard wrote:

> Le jeudi 22 juin 2006 ? 20:03 +0800, Dr Bean a ?crit :
> > I don't think I have X Windows installed. How do I now install
> > it?
> [...]
> > I have now a perfectly good console-based linux system, but exec
> > startx doesn't give me X Windows.

This is a late answer. Sorry. 

I think there was some user error ;-) involved. Now I reinstalled
sarge, and I have X. Everything is OK. I think I may have
confused sid and sarge.  They're easy to confuse.

> But you do have startx? Do you get a "command not found" error, or a
> hole bunch of lines?

I think I got a number of lines.

> If it's the latter, then X is there but not
> configured properly. Please post the error message you get when issuing
> startx.

The error was ... I've forgotten.

> Also give some details about your system (video hardware).

Where would I get that. dmesg says just:
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25

> > I used apt-get to install
> > gnome, which may explain a few X11 libs I have and some X docs in
> > /usr/share. [...]

> If you installed gnome, then I'd say it's impossible you didn't install
> X as well.

Floria Kulzer said that this is not so, because someone might be
running X from another machine, and so not want it on the X
client, the machine which has gnome.

The lesson I learned from this experience was, 
1. debian users are very helpful.
2. debian is different than fedora
3. be careful about what you are doing

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proper ifconfig start

[Jude DaShiell]

How would one adjust debian so when ifconfig runs to bring up a network 
interface card it does so only in nonpromiscuous mode?  This is not a 
Linux default and as such offers would-be packet sniffer installers an 
open invitation to install their tools on systems of this type.




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Re: enable 1024 x 768 display resolution?.

[Default User]

On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 13:10 -0700, Sergio Basurto Juarez wrote:
> 
> 
> Default User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
> Hello! 
> 
> Is there an easy way to add display resolution 1024 x 768 to
> the
> selectable choices from the screen resolution gui in Gnome? 
> 
> When installing, I chose 800 x 600 as the maximum and default
> resolution. This causes problems with some programs such as
> k3b and
> kstars, which expect 1024 x 768 display resolution to use some
> of their
> configuration screens. At 800 x 600, the bottom of said screen
> is not
> displayed, including buttons like save/apply/cancel. Fun! 
> 
> I suppose I could row through base-config to try to add it
> there, but I
> I'd hate to trash something else in the process. 
> 
> I am using Debian stable, Gnome desktop.
> Hello,
>  
> There are two ways:
>  
> # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
> and choose your resolution when it ask for
>  
> or under 
> /etc/X11/
>  
> edit 
> XF86Config-4
>  
> to support the resolution.
>  
>  
> I hope this help.
>  
> Regards
>  
>  
>  
> 
>  
> 
> 
> -- 
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replying "to list"

[Default User]

Gee, I almst hate to ask, but:

I use the defult Evolution email client in Debian stable.  When I choose
"reply to list" when replying to a post on debian-user@lists.debian.org
instead of putting that in the to: field, it puts the word 

Debian

underlined in the to: field instead.  How can I change that so when I
reply to the list it automatically puts 

debian-user@lists.debian.org

in the to: field as I would expect.

Thanks.


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[testing] HELP - lost X

[David E. Fox]

OK

Please help before I install Ubuntu or something

I should have really read the wiki (now I've managed to lose that page) 
to upgrade xorg to 7.0. It started to grab all the needed packages and 
then there are total conflicts between packages that depend on 
xserver-common (6.9, latest version in testing. The install is 
completely broken and I'm missing X. 

during the install, it prints up some directories. It removes 
xserver-common, and then trying to bring that back (maybe by mistake?) 
started to remove bits of kde, so I hit the ^C key as soon as possible. 
I'll still have to go back and manually add those things in.


x11-common postinst warning: /usr/include/X11 symbolic link does not exist
Analyzing /usr/include/X11:
/usr/include/X11: nonexistent; directory contents of /usr/include/:
Searching for overlapping packages...
dpkg: error processing x11-common (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 x11-common

Seems that I must create a symbolik link to X11's include files. The
symbolic link for X11R6 seems to be in place:

Script started on Sat 24 Jun 2006 07:23:13 PM PDT
m206-157:/usr/include# ls -l /usr/bin/X11
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2006-06-24 19:05 /usr/bin/X11 -> ../X11R6/bin
m206-157:/usr/include# exit

Script done on Sat 24 Jun 2006 07:23:24 PM PDT

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Re: Troubleshooting NIS

[Gerard Sharpe]

Phil wrote:
I'm trying to setup some servers at school.  I'm using NIS because I've use it 
before an it was easy.  

ypserv and ypbind come up as running on their respective machines, but the 
client machine - at first seemed to authenticate and then give "can';t write 
to /home folder" messages and now seems not to authenticate at all.


NFS is up and running.  I can see and access the server's home folders from 
the client machine.


Where does one start to trouble shoot?

  

Hi Phil,

Check that the portmap daemon is running on the NFS server:
---
$ ps auxw | grep portmap
daemon 126  0.0  0.0  1380  432 ?Ss   May30   0:00 /sbin/portmap
---

Check the server is responding by using rpcinfo on the client:
---
/usr/bin/rpcinfo  -p  
---

What do you have in your /etc/exports file?
What logging in messages/syslog do you get when you startup ypbind/ypserv?


R
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Re: Troubleshooting NIS

[Default User]

-
THIS IS JUST A TEST. PLEASE DISREGARD THIS REPLY!
-



On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 12:38 +1000, Gerard Sharpe wrote:
> Phil wrote:
> > I'm trying to setup some servers at school.  I'm using NIS because I've use 
> > it 
> > before an it was easy.  
> >
> > ypserv and ypbind come up as running on their respective machines, but the 
> > client machine - at first seemed to authenticate and then give "can';t 
> > write 
> > to /home folder" messages and now seems not to authenticate at all.
> >
> > NFS is up and running.  I can see and access the server's home folders from 
> > the client machine.
> >
> > Where does one start to trouble shoot?
> >
> >   
> Hi Phil,
> 
> Check that the portmap daemon is running on the NFS server:
> ---
> $ ps auxw | grep portmap
> daemon 126  0.0  0.0  1380  432 ?Ss   May30   0:00 /sbin/portmap
> ---
> 
> Check the server is responding by using rpcinfo on the client:
> ---
> /usr/bin/rpcinfo  -p  
> ---
> 
> What do you have in your /etc/exports file?
> What logging in messages/syslog do you get when you startup ypbind/ypserv?
> 
> 
> R
> Gerard
> 
> 

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spell check problem in Evolution

[Default User]

Evolution won't spell check. 

:-(

The settings/spell-check window has "enable" greyed out, and the box
listing language dictionaries installed is empty. But ...

I have ispell, iamerican, and wamerican, wamerican-large and even
wamerican-small all installed (at least according to Synaptic). 

Any ideas?




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update loses prism54 firmware

[Rick Reynolds]

I did an upgrade of my testing install today and everything went 
basically smoothly (a goof up on my part caused the xorg upgrade to fail 
a couple of times, but I figured it out).


One thing that wasn't expected was that my wireless card stopped 
working.  /var/log/syslog was complaining that the firmware wasn't 
getting loaded, and sure enough the upgrade seems to have removed the 
firmware file.


I was able to download a new copy and placed it in 
/usr/lib/hotplug/firmware and everything is working again.  But is this 
the right spot, now that I'm running udev instead of hotplug?  I'd like 
to get this into the "right" spot so that a future upgrade doesn't toss 
the file again.


Thanks,
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SOLVED (was Re: Problems mirroring debian-multimedia)

[Marty]

Marty wrote:
Since the change from marillat to debian-multimedia I have not yet found a 
satisfactory way of mirroring debian-multimedia. The site does not seem to offer 
anonymous rsync or ftp, and wget and debmirror don't work as I expect them to.


Replying to my own posting, I have found what appears to be a suitable method
using lftp, which can do http transfers.  I still don't know why it only works 
when I mirror the pool and dist subdirectories separately:



  lftp -c 'open http://www.debian-multimedia.org/pool; mirror -x .*-powerpc.*\
  -x .*-mips.* -x .*-arm.* -x .*m68k.* -x .*sparc.* -x .*amd64.* -x .*ia64.* \
  -x .*-alpha.* -x .*_alpha.* -x .*hppa.*  --verbose=3 --delete . \
  /mirror/debian-multimedia/pool'

  lftp -c 'open http://www.debian-multimedia.org/dists; mirror -x .*-powerpc.*\
  -x .*-mips.* -x .*-arm.* -x .*m68k.* -x .*sparc.* -x .*amd64.* -x .*ia64.* \
  -x .*-alpha.* -x .*_alpha.* -x .*hppa.*  --verbose=3 --delete . \
  /mirror/debian-multimedia/dists'


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Re: how to restore a hidden partition

[formless void]

Today I have tried QTParted in Knoppix Live CD on the
drive which was used as a USB mass storage device in
the past.  Unfortunately, it gives me a error message
saying "Critical error during ped_disk_new!"  Could
anyone explain to me what's wrong with the disk?

The disk was mounted by Knoppix as /UNONFS/dev/hda 


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Re: [testing] HELP - lost X

[Kent West]

David E. Fox wrote:
> OK
>
> Please help before I install Ubuntu or something
>
> I should have really read the wiki (now I've managed to lose that page) 
> to upgrade xorg to 7.0. It started to grab all the needed packages and 
> then there are total conflicts between packages that depend on 
> xserver-common (6.9, latest version in testing. The install is 
> completely broken and I'm missing X. 
>
> during the install, it prints up some directories. It removes 
> xserver-common, and then trying to bring that back (maybe by mistake?) 
> started to remove bits of kde, so I hit the ^C key as soon as possible. 
> I'll still have to go back and manually add those things in.
>   
I think I'd just let aptitude do what it wants, and then clean up afterward:

aptitude update
aptitude dist-upgrade

and see what happens.

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Re: Xorg Configuration in Etch

[hendrik]

On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 01:18:44PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
> 
> Try dexconf.  A couple of weeks ago I had trouble configuring xorg.conf
> to work with my Wacom tablet.  When my manual edits of xorg.conf caused
> problems, dexconf wiped out the file and replaced it with a pure vanilla
> version.  Eventually I found successful manual edits to make the Wacom
> tablet work.

Could you post the *.conf that finaly got the Wacom to work?  I have a 
friend with one and it stopped working properly with etch.

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Re: Debian package of the day

[Nate Duehr]

Steve Kemp wrote:

On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 07:13:24PM -0700, Aaron Maxwell wrote:

I read a  post once in which someone bemoaned the passing of dselect, 
because it highlighted newly-minted packages.  With apt*, he rarely knew 
of that new software, unless he just stumbled across it.  I thought that
was a pretty good point.  


  For this I follow the RSS feed of new packages added to sid:

http://packages.debian.org/unstable/newpkg_main

  Quite nice to read every couple of days or so.


Thanks for sharing that Steve, I didn't know it was available.

Sigh, something else to waste time on.  ;-)

Nate


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Re: customizing scripts /etc/init.d

[cga2000]

On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 02:23:32PM EDT, cga2000 wrote:
> Is there a "Debian way" to modify startup scripts?  Changes might
> include: deactivating automatic startup of a given daemon.. changing the
> daemon's running options.. adding a new script.. etc.
> 
> Additionally, is the debian bootup process documented anywhere?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> cga
> 
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Re: [testing] HELP - lost X

[David E. Fox]

On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 11:14:03PM -0500, Kent West wrote:

> I think I'd just let aptitude do what it wants, and then clean up afterward:
> 
> aptitude update
> aptitude dist-upgrade
> 
> and see what happens.

I might do that - in fact I went ahead and "did" it - but aborted at the 
end, saved the session in a typescript so I can tell what it's planning 
on doing. Seems to me though it is removing too many packages, and I 
have the line "busy" handing a FC6 bittorrent -just to see what it's 
like, dunno if I'll really go Fedora - kind of doubt it, but what the 
hell.

But maybe I'll rerun aptitude dist-upgrade and see what happens, like 
you said. It seems, though, that I'll still have to reconfigure or 
reinstall x11-common and other X11R7-related packages. 

AFAICT, dpkg --configure -a complains that it can't get to the X include 
files -- that they're pointing to the right place. The X11R6 'bin' 
directory was relatively clean - the only "non-X" package that I had in 
there was opera. So, ATM, /usr/X11 points to ../X11R6/bin, but where 
should the X11 includes go? Offhand, I'd think /usr/include/X11 
->../X11R6/include/X11, and sure enough, a 'cd X11' from /usr/include 
puts me in the directory where X includes are already; and oddly enough, 
the file dates are recent (april 2006) so that's probably X11R7.

> Kent


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Re: replying "to list"

[Thibaut Paumard]

Le samedi 24 juin 2006 à 21:18 -0500, Default User a écrit :
> Gee, I almst hate to ask, but:
> 
> I use the defult Evolution email client in Debian stable.  When I choose
> "reply to list" when replying to a post on debian-user@lists.debian.org
> instead of putting that in the to: field, it puts the word 
> 
> Debian
> 
> underlined in the to: field instead.  How can I change that so when I
> reply to the list it automatically puts 
> 
> debian-user@lists.debian.org
> 
> in the to: field as I would expect.

That's a feature, not a bug. Presumably you have an entry in your
addressbook for the list named "Debian". When evolution finds the e-mail
address in the To: field, it replaces it by 
 Debian 
and displays only _Debian_ . You can check which e-mail address is used
by right-clicking this word. If you don't want it to happen, I don't
know any other solution than removing the entry from your addressbook.

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Re: spell check problem in Evolution

[Thibaut Paumard]

Le samedi 24 juin 2006 à 22:32 -0500, Default User a écrit :
> Evolution won't spell check. 
> 
> :-(
> 
> The settings/spell-check window has "enable" greyed out, and the box
> listing language dictionaries installed is empty. But ...
> 
> I have ispell, iamerican, and wamerican, wamerican-large and even
> wamerican-small all installed (at least according to Synaptic). 
> 
> Any ideas?

Look at the "Suggests:" for evolution: they include "gnome-spell",
that's the package you need. By having a quick look at the "Depends:" of
gnome-spell, you'll notice that it's engine is aspell, not ispell, so
you need to install the aspell dictionaries for the languages you use
(an English dictionary will be installed by default).

Regards, T.


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Re: X Windows not installed

[Thibaut Paumard]

Le dimanche 25 juin 2006 à 09:28 +0800, Dr Bean a écrit :
> On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, Thibaut Paumard wrote:
> 
> > Le jeudi 22 juin 2006 ? 20:03 +0800, Dr Bean a ?crit :
> > > I don't think I have X Windows installed. How do I now install
> > > it?
> > [...]
> > > I have now a perfectly good console-based linux system, but exec
> > > startx doesn't give me X Windows.
> 
> This is a late answer. Sorry. 

No problem.

> [...]
> > Also give some details about your system (video hardware).
> 
> Where would I get that. dmesg says just:
> Console: colour VGA+ 80x25

The sources of information for that would be:
 - the manual for your computer;
 - the website of the manufacturer if you can determine a brand and
   model for the beast;
 - lspci;
 - open the box and look at the labels on the card;
 - if you also have Windows (or any other OS) on the same machine, have
   a look at the other OS's configuration.

Regards, T.


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