No panel under KDE
Relative newbie running Debian 2.2. I've removed and reinstalled KDE twice via dselect and consistently get the same situation: I do not get a panel under KDE. I only get a desktop with a couple of icons. I can manually run kselect, which lets me set the options on the panel but the panel doesn't show up. find tells me that I do not have a file named kpanel on my machine. dpkg tells me that kdebase and all the associated packages are installed and configured properly. Thanks in advance for any hints or suggestions.
KDE setup
Running Debian 2.2 w/ kernel 2.4.1 and XFree86 4.0.2. I've had a lot of trouble getting KDE installed and running. I now have it limping along but everything isn't quite kosher. First, XFree86 was loading into a default configuration rather than starting KDE. startx calls /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc, which is actually a link to /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc. That file simply calls /etc/X11/Xsession. Xsession is a maze of 'if' statements that should determine which windows manager to call. I commented out the final section, which exec's "$realstartup", and added a direct call to kdeinit. This works, in that I now get kde rather than a simple term when XFree86 starts, but it's an ugly hack at best. I'm running kdm (more on that in a minute), so the machine goes straight into XFree86. With this configuration, where SHOULD kde be started from? Should there be a /root/.xsession which calls kdeinit? The next problem is kdm. It displays a graphical representation of the machines users. However, in my case it also shows every directory immediately under the root: bin, dev, home, etc. as if they were users. I'm reasonably sure that this isn't correct behavior. I assume that kdm should be looking under the /home directory and listing all of the directories it finds there, and there's a misconfigured or missing configuration file which is causing it to look under / rather than /home. I found kdm.options and xdm-config under /etc/X11/kdm but neither seems to affect this. man kdm.options mentions nothing about users or the home directories and there doesn't seem to be a man page on xdm-config. Finally, once I get into kde, my fonts look like crap. Some web pages are all but unreadable. I've tried changing the fonts, which helps things a little bit but it's still quite horrible. Does this setup not support anti-aliasing or is there some problem with the fonts I have installed? I realize this isn't much info to go on, but I'm not sure what else to include. Thanks in advance for any assistance or hints on any of these problems.
Re: KDE setup
On Sun, 18 Feb 2001 20:08:46 -0500, Daniel Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Running Debian 2.2 w/ kernel 2.4.1 and XFree86 4.0.2. I've >had a lot of trouble getting KDE installed and running. I >now have it limping along but everything isn't quite kosher. > >The next problem is kdm. It displays a graphical >representation of the machines users. However, in my case >it also shows every directory immediately under the root: >bin, dev, home, etc. as if they were users. I'm reasonably >sure that this isn't correct behavior. I assume that kdm >should be looking under the /home directory and listing all >of the directories it finds there, and there's a >misconfigured or missing configuration file which is causing >it to look under / rather than /home. I found kdm.options >and xdm-config under /etc/X11/kdm but neither seems to >affect this. man kdm.options mentions nothing about users >or the home directories and there doesn't seem to be a man >page on xdm-config. And of course showing the root directory isn't what's happening. kdm is displaying all users, including the various system daemon users. There's a kdm configuration tool that's part of the control center in KDE. It allows you to select which users are displayed, but it isn't working. That is, I can select the proper users but the settings aren't saved. When I logout or restart the xserver, all users are back.
Re: SOLVED Re: Correction: CDROM device..
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001 03:29:37 +0100, William Leese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Monday 19 February 2001 03:19, Hall Stevenson wrote: >> > okay, this.. is stupid question.. being completely spoilt >> > by Redhats simplicity.. i'm unaware of which device >> > /dev/cdrom was linked to. ..can someone, give me a hint? >> >> Try >> >> ls -l /dev/cdrom >> >> How's that for simplicity ?? ;-) >> > >okay okay.. thank you for making me look like a moron ;) ..though that wasnt >quite the problem.. ..the link that i was used to when i used redhat wasnt >already present with debian.. so i needed to know which device it used to >point to (i dont have redhat on any machine here).. If I'm understanding you correctly, It depends upon what type of cdrom you have. If you have an IDE cdrom, it's simply the appropriate hd device. My cdrom is the first device on the second IDE port, so /dev/cdrom is linked to /dev/hdc. If you have a SCSI, it'll be /dev/scd?, where ? is the appropriate device number. If you have one of the old, proprietary models, I'm not sure off the top of my head. If you post back which sort of interface it is (Sony, Panasonic, etc.) somebody will probably know. Dan
Re: XFree86 broken.
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001 10:21:46 +0100, "Eivind Arnesen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi! > >I was just beginning to feel comfortable with Debian, when my >X configuration broke down. I tried to remove XFree and install it again, >but there is too many dependency problems. It looks like the package >database >is really screwed up. Just about whatever I try to do, I get some >complaints >about broken dependecies. I think maybe some of the dependent files, have >been upgraded >to newer versions (testing or unstable), but after several late hours >yesterday, I was not >able to fix it. Anybody have some usefull tips? Sorry, that I don't >include much usefull >information here (error messages, logs etc), but I'm using windows when I >write this mail. >(depressing...) > >Eivind What version of xf are you using? I had a similar problem and I downloaded the source to sf 4.01 and compiled it rather than trying to depend upon packages. It didn't fix everything but I was able to get xf limping along again in a usable state. Dan
checkpassword
This seems to be a common problem, as I found a number of complaints about it on the web, but no solutions which seem to work for me. I have a small home network with a dedicated server running Debain 2.2 w/ kernel 2.4.1. I have qmail installed and working on the server - I can send and recieve mail over the internet if I'm logged in locally to the server. I'm now trying to get POP3 working so I can access mail from my other systems. I can not get checkpassword to authenticate my login. I can telnet into localhost port 110 and get the POP3 prompt but it denies my password everytime. I have shadow passwords and PAM installed and am using checkpassword v0.90, which is supposed to work with shadow passwords and PAM. I found mention of setting options in the Makefile to enable this but as near as I can tell this referred to v0.8x and they no longer seem to be there in v0.90. Thanks in advance for any suggestions or hints on how to fix this.
MTA
I have a small home network. I'm in the process of configuring one box as a primary server. I have qmail installed and, I believe, fully operational on this box, including pop3. I can send and receive email from a local login on the server through pine. On a second box, my primary client, I can grab mail from my server via pop3 on kmail. I can't, however, send. Do I need to load an MTA on the client box in order to transfer outgoing mail to the server, or do I have to configure the server to accept mail via an SMTP client? Thanks in advance for any assistance. Dan
Re: How to install app from source code?
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 15:41:39 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I can start gnome-session, then mount CDROM #4 from 6 disk set, and then find >the .gz and .dsc files. But that's as far as I can get. Which debian >install untility will work with these packages? I could try to do it from >command line if that would help. If I click on a .tar.gz file the Olde M$h*t >way in the Gnome File Manager, the source code will display as text, but no >install program gets initiated. Most programs distributed this way are source. That means you have to compile them. TTBOMK, there is no "install program" which will do all of the work for you. make handles a lot of it, but you still have to walk through the process on the command line. You need to copy the .gz files to your hard drive. I usually use /usr/src but that's optional. Then, untar and unzip the source using tar -xzpvf myfile.tar.gz This will put the source into it's own subdirectory. Inside that subdirectory you will usually find a README or INSTALL file. Sometimes it will be in a /doc directory. This should tell you exactly what you need to do to install the compile and install the program. Sometimes, it's as simple as running make with no arguments. Sometimes, you have to run a series of "make" commands. For example, compiling a kernel involves something along the lines of: make mrproper (or make clean) make config (or menuconfig or xconfig) make dep make bzImage make modules make modules-install And, of course, all this assumes that you have make, a compiler and possibly various development packages installed. If not, you'll have to install those packages first but they should be available via get-apt/dpkg (or the dselect front end). You might want to check and see if the program you're trying to install is available as a deb package. Some programs, however, aren't and you either compile them or do without them. For better or worse, Debian isn't Windows and you have to get at least a little dirt on your hands.
Re: Hidden Partitions and musings NT + Linux ...
On Fri, 23 Feb 2001 18:50:18 -0800 (PST), "C. Schanck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >A few days ago I posted a question trying to understand why my >2nd windows partition kept getting rendered hidden and invisible >to NT, even though I could still use it from linux. > >Several folks were kind enough to respond, and the upshot is >pretty simple. If you want to run Linux + a MSoft OS, get your >hands on Partition Magic. Apparently each of the different >version of Windows has slightly differing views of how to define >a FAT, FAT 16, FAT32 etc. partition. For $35, Parititon Magic >made everything work nicely again. > >Thanks for the input, and I hope it helps someone else out down >the road. I use eXtended Operating System Loader (www.xosl.org) to boot Win2000, Win98SE, BeOS and Debian on this box without any problems. You can configure it to hide and unhide partitions based upon which OS you're booting. If you're going to be multi-booting, I strongly recommend you check it out. And unlike Partition Magic, it's open source.
ipchains
Can anyone shed any light on the situation with ipchains? It doesn't seem to be included in the stable distribution. It is in woody but it requires libc6_2.1.95-1, which does NOT seem to be in woody, despite the claims of the debian web site.
Re: ipchains - correction
On Sat, 24 Feb 2001 21:13:45 -0500, Daniel Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Can anyone shed any light on the situation with ipchains? > >It doesn't seem to be included in the stable distribution. >It is in woody but it requires libc6_2.1.95-1, which does >NOT seem to be in woody, despite the claims of the debian >web site. That should be iptables, not ipchains. Doh!
Re: KDE2 install
On Sun, 25 Feb 2001 14:50:31 -0800, John Mautz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have a woody system running xfree 4.0.2 and want to give KDE a try but >can't find the KDE package. > >I checked the archives and tried 'apt-get install task-kde' but I get >the following message: > >"Package task-kde has no available version, but exists in the database. >This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and >never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the >conntents >of sources.list." > >I figure I need to add the a location to sources.list but don't know >which site to add. (Currently apt-get is >looking in: > >ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing main non-free contrib >ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main non-free contrib > >Thanks in advance. >John. Add: ftp://kde.tdyc.com/pub/kde potato main crypto optional qt1apps or http://kde.tdyc.com potato main crypto optional qt1apps And, as has already been pointed out, get security.debian.org added as well.
Re: trying to *touch* makefile to fix the date stamp
On Sun, 2 Jan 2000 04:11:43 +, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>I think I have screwed up my date stamp since I get a complaining message from
>make. I need to make the date current on all the makefiles in my system. Using
>the command
>
>$find -name "[Mm]akefile" -exec touch \{\} \; doesn't seem to work...
>
>any one help me please...
>
>thanks
>
>joseph
Well, you might start by setting your system clock. If you
check the top of this message, you'll see:
On Sun, 2 Jan 2000 04:11:43 +, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Unless there's a SERIOUS delay in the system somewhere, your
system clock is wrong. And touching everything is simply
going to set their date to your current system date, which
seems to be 2 Jan as of when you sent that yesterday.
packages "kept back"
Running unstable. Executing "apt-get upgrade," I get: The following packages have been kept back ddd grace lib-xt-java libldap2 libxml-generator-perl python-numeric python-numeric-tutorial task-sgml task-tex wmaker 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 10 not upgraded. Why are those packages "kept back?" Is it because upgrading them would break something else or what? And is this normal or a sign of something misconfigured on my system? Thanks in advance, Dan
qmail smtp
Running qmail on Debian unstable. I had qmail and my server running properly. Then, I tore down my server, upgraded the processor and motherboard, upgraded various packages, etc. I have a file called S30qmail in /etc/rc2.d: /usr/local/bin/tcpserver 0 110 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup corwin.riddlemaster.org \ /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir & smtp stream tcp nowait qmaild /var/qmail/bin/tcp-env tcp-env /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd On bootup, I get the error: smtp : unknown command Is qmail supposed to supply an executable called smtp or what?
ls sort
I'm going to feel silly if this is as easy as it seems like it should be but after poring over the man pages I can't figure it out. Is it possible to have "ls" display contents with directories listed first, sorted alphabetically, then all other files, also sorted alphabetically? None of the sort options (cftuSUX) seem to include the ability to sort by whether or not the file is a directory.
beeps
Every so often, say once an hour or so, my Celeron 400 server runnng Debian unstable emits three short beeps. They sound quite similar to the error beeps that occur on system start-ups, although this system boots and seems to operate just fine. I'm not sure if this is a feature of software I'm running, peculiar to this particular hardware or what. If anyone has any ideas what it might be, I'd certainly appreciate your satisfying my curiosity.
KDM and dead keyboard
Running KDE 2.1.2 over Debian unstable with kdm. Upon boot-up, the machine comes up to the kdm login but the keyboard is nonfunctional. I see the keyboard lights flash on initial bootup and I can change the numlock status during the first stages of bootup. Shortly before the kdm screen appears, however, the lights on the keyboard go dark and the keyboard goes nonfunctional. Even CAD has no effect. The mouse still works, and if I select "Restart xserver," the keyboard comes back to life and works fine. It also works fine if I exit kdm and go to a command prompt, so it's not a problem with the keyboard itself. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
Re: KDM and dead keyboard
On Fri, 21 Sep 2001 17:27:47 +0800 (WST), Lindsay Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Daniel Jones wrote: >> Running KDE 2.1.2 over Debian unstable with kdm. Upon >> boot-up, the machine comes up to the kdm login but the >> keyboard is nonfunctional. I see the keyboard lights flash >> on initial bootup and I can change the numlock status during >> the first stages of bootup. Shortly before the kdm screen >> appears, however, the lights on the keyboard go dark and the >> keyboard goes nonfunctional. Even CAD has no effect. The >> mouse still works, and if I select "Restart xserver," the >> keyboard comes back to life and works fine. It also works >> fine if I exit kdm and go to a command prompt, so it's not a >> problem with the keyboard itself. Thanks in advance for any >> suggestions. > >Perhaps you have a PS/2 mouse defined in X but using a USB mouse? It's >almost certainly something along those lines. Thanks for your reply. I have a PS/2 mouse and keyboard. My XF86Config contains the following: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Keyboard" Driver "keyboard" Option "CoreKeyboard" Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" Option "XkbModel" "pc104" Option "XkbLayout" "us" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Configured Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "CorePointer" Option "Device""/dev/psaux" Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "false" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "SendCoreEvents""true" Option "Device""/dev/input/mice" Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "false" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection I'm not sure why there are sections for "Configured Mouse" and "Generic Mouse". Commenting out either section, however, prevents X from loading. If the problem is with my XF86Config, I don't see why restarting the xserver fixes the problem.
adduser
Two questions. First, does debian use a different version of adduser than other Unices/Linux distributions? I'm trying to set up samba as a PDC. The HOWTO at http://bioserve.latrobe.edu.au/samba/adding.html says to add a user for a machine using the following command: adduser g machines c NTMachine d /dev/null s /bin/false n bc-06$ adduser on my box does not support those switches. useradd seems to support most of them. Second, I added an account for the machine using useradd. The name is present in both /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. However, when I issue the command smbpasswd -a -m name I'm told that "User name does not exist in system password file ..." The name certainly does exist in both passwd and shadow.
Samba and 2k
I'm running Samba 2.2 under Debain unstable as a PDC. I have a Win98 machine logging into the PDC just fine. I can also see the Linux box in Network Neighborhood and access the shares. I have a second machine on the same network running Win2k. The Win2k machine does not see the Linux box in Network Neighborhood. Attempts to map a network drive by specifying a full path fail. So does trying to access //Name or //a.b.c.d in My Computer. Attempts to have 2k log into a domain fail with the error that the controller can not be found. I can, however, ping the Linux box from 2k, using either IP address or computer name. I can access it via ftp, ssh and VNC. I have the Linux IP entered as a WINS and DNS server on the 2k machine. Looking in log.nmbd, I see lots of messages with the 98 machine IP. The 2k machine IP does not appear at all. I'm running out of things to fiddle with and having no luck what so ever. 98 and Samba are cozy as can be. 2k and 98 talk just fine over NetBIOS. 2k and Linux talk fine over non-NetBIOS channels but 2k and Samba refuse to even look at each other. From my smb.conf file: [global] security = user status = yes encrypt passwords = yes guest account = nobody share modes = no os level = 65 keep alive = 30 kernel oplocks = false socket options = TCP_NODELAY map to guest = Bad User logon script = %U.bat logon path = \\%N\%U\profile ; workgroup = amber domain logons = yes domain admin group = admin domain master = yes preferred master = yes ; admin users = root map hidden = yes map archive = yes map system = yes ; browseable = yes write raw = yes read raw = yes oplocks = yes Ideas or suggestions, no matter how wild, gladly accepted.
