dependency troubles in sid
Hi, I can't install or remove any packages with apt-get. Installing produces errors along the lines of the following: Reading changelogs... Done (Reading database ... 74553 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace gftp-gtk 2.0.13-1 (using .../gftp-gtk_2.0.14-1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement gftp-gtk ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/gftp-gtk_2.0.14-1_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/menu/gftp', which is also in package gftp-common dpkg: regarding .../gftp-common_2.0.14-1_i386.deb containing gftp-common: gftp-common conflicts with gftp-gtk (<< 2.0.14-1) gftp-gtk (version 2.0.13-1) is installed. dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/gftp-common_2.0.14-1_i386.deb (--unpack): conflicting packages - not installing gftp-common Preparing to replace xlibs 4.2.1-1 (using .../xlibs_4.2.1-4_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement xlibs ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_4.2.1-4_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults', which is also in package dialdcost Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/gftp-gtk_2.0.14-1_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/gftp-common_2.0.14-1_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_4.2.1-4_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Any ideas how to escape from this mess? Thanks, James msg25491/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Mozilla won't start
This is on a relatively fresh woody install. Running mozilla from the command line generates no output. I can see several instances of mozilla-bin in top, one of which tops out at around 80% cpu before just dying. I've tried running mozilla-bin directly, with the same results. Nothing shows up in any logs that I can find. I've tried removing and re-installing as well. No luck. James msg25566/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Mozilla won't start
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 05:19:41PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > James Hughes wrote: > > >This is on a relatively fresh woody install. Running mozilla from the > >command line generates no output. I can see several instances of > >mozilla-bin in top, one of which tops out at around 80% cpu before > >just dying. > > > >I've tried running mozilla-bin directly, with the same > >results. Nothing shows up in any logs that I can find. I've tried > >removing and re-installing as well. No luck. > > > >James > > > > > Move your ~/.mozilla directory out of the way, and try starting moz again. Tried that, no avail. Here's the contents of it, btw: jhughes@jpath:~$ ls .mozilla appreg default fonts pluginreg.dat plugins The version string that mozilla prints: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Debian/1.2.1-9, build 2002122616 -- James Hughes msg25718/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Lame,cdparanoia,AidioCD
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 03:51:41PM +0200, Sergey A. Ovchar wrote:
> Hi.
> How can I convert several *.wav to *.mp3, by the _one_ command, using lame. I'm
>interesting about batch mode.
lame file.wav file.mp3
Add the '--decode' option to go in the opposite direction. I have a
perl script that will do a directory at a time, like this:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use Getopt::Std;
getopts("d:");
if($opt_d) {
$dirname = $opt_d;
}
else {
$dirname = ".";
}
opendir(DIR, $dirname) or die "can't opendir $dirname: $!";
while (defined($file = readdir(DIR))) {
$newfile = $file . ".mp3";
$newfile =~ s/\.wav//;
`lame $dirname/$file $dirname/$newfile`;
}
closedir(DIR);
>
> And how can I redirect output trom "cdparanoia -B" to the lame ?
>
Use a pipe?
--
James Hughes
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Re: Mozilla won't start
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 07:17:36PM +0100, A. Ensle wrote: > James Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) schrieb: > > > This is on a relatively fresh woody install. Running mozilla from the > > command line generates no output. I can see several instances of > > mozilla-bin in top, one of which tops out at around 80% cpu before > > just dying. > > > > I've tried running mozilla-bin directly, with the same > > results. Nothing shows up in any logs that I can find. I've tried > > removing and re-installing as well. No luck. > > > > James > > > try compiling it on your own, or use older version of mozilla. > that problem seems to be a bug in newer version. > bye me bad, I should have looked at bug#171911 (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=171911) . The temporary workaround mentioned here has worked (uninstall galeon, reinstall mozilla-browser), thanks all -- James Hughes msg25970/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: alsa and saving mixer settings
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 03:06:43PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > I've had alsa installed without problems on a different computer, and > went to install it on this one due to some advice I'd read regarding my > soundcard. It works fine, but for some reason my mixer settings aren't > staying between boots. > [SNIP] > Anybody else experience this or know of a way around it? I've had similar troubles. I'm using the gnome mixer applet, as well as using gmix and sometimes alsamixer. I'm thinking maybe the applet is undoing the settings set with alsamixer? -- James Hughes msg27540/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
sudden sound troubles
Hello, In the last day I've been having trouble with xmms hanging, and I can't kill it, not with 'kill -9', nor even by restarting X. Then I tried ogg123, with similar results. There's the following in syslog: #sudo tail syslog Feb 5 12:26:31 jpath modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-1 Feb 5 12:26:31 jpath modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-1-0 #/sbin/lsmod snd-pcm-oss35040 2 (autoclean) snd-mixer-oss 9308 1 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss] prism2_cs 57008 1 p80211 12280 1 [prism2_cs] snd-card-maestro3 12404 3 snd-pcm49664 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-card-maestro3] snd-timer 10760 0 [snd-pcm] snd-ac97-codec 23120 0 [snd-card-maestro3] snd25612 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-card-maestro3 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-ac97-codec] soundcore 3620 3 [snd] ds 6632 2 [prism2_cs] i82365 22620 2 pcmcia_core41600 0 [prism2_cs ds i82365] .. which looks reasonable to me, and my sound card has been working flawlessly for months. I'm going to go back a bit further in syslog to see if I can isolate when those modprobe messages started appearing, but I was wondering if anybody out there might have some thoughts. Thanks! -- James Hughes msg28809/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: ogg to mp3 audio (also via 8233a question)
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 09:22:03AM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > Jack Pistachio wrote: > > > Well, I'm actually not sure I need to. I'm making a cd for > > my brother to use on his mp3 capable DVD player. I assumed > > that the player wouldn't be able to handle ogg encoded > > files. Perhaps I'm wrong? > > Most likely you're right. However, one thing you should be aware of is > that transcoding between different lossy encoders (both mp3 and vorbis > are lossy) tends to produce poor results. Lossy compression always > introduces some artifacts in the signal, and lossy encoders are not > designed to deal with artifacts introduced by another encoder. Because > of this, an mp3 file translated from vorbis, or a vorbis file translated > from mp3, will sound noticeably worse than if it had been encoded from > the original uncompressed source. This sort of transcoding is generally > not adviseable, though the result can be tolerable if you expect to be > listening to it in a situation where audio quality is poor anyway (such > as on a cheap stereo, or in a car, or on a walkman). Since you're talking about audio degradation issues, one thing I've always wondered is how much and what kind of loss is there (if any) when unencoding from [.ogg]|[.mp3] to .wav? -- James Hughes msg29046/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: sudden sound troubles
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 09:25:29PM -0600, Steve Johnson wrote: > What's your modules.conf look like? # ALSA portion alias char-major-116 snd # OSS/Free portion alias char-major-14 soundcore # ALSA portion alias snd-card-0 snd-card-maestro3 # OSS/Free portion alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss ### update-modules: end processing /etc/modutils/alsa > On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 11:36, James Hughes wrote: > > Hello, > > > > In the last day I've been having trouble with xmms hanging, and I > > can't kill it, not with 'kill -9', nor even by restarting X. Then I > > tried ogg123, with similar results. > > > > There's the following in syslog: > > > > #sudo tail syslog > > Feb 5 12:26:31 jpath modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module > > sound-slot-1 > > Feb 5 12:26:31 jpath modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module > > sound-service-1-0 > > > > > > #/sbin/lsmod > > snd-pcm-oss35040 2 (autoclean) > > snd-mixer-oss 9308 1 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss] > > prism2_cs 57008 1 > > p80211 12280 1 [prism2_cs] > > snd-card-maestro3 12404 3 > > snd-pcm49664 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-card-maestro3] > > snd-timer 10760 0 [snd-pcm] > > snd-ac97-codec 23120 0 [snd-card-maestro3] > > snd25612 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss > > snd-card-maestro3 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-ac97-codec] > > soundcore 3620 3 [snd] > > ds 6632 2 [prism2_cs] > > i82365 22620 2 > > pcmcia_core41600 0 [prism2_cs ds i82365] > > > > > > .. which looks reasonable to me, and my sound card has been working > > flawlessly for months. I'm going to go back a bit further in syslog to > > see if I can isolate when those modprobe messages started appearing, > > but I was wondering if anybody out there might have some thoughts. > > > > Thanks! > > > > -- > > James Hughes > > -- James Hughes msg29053/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: sndfile.pc ?
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 06:38:08PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 10:07:21PM -0500, stan wrote: > > Sigh, I'm still fighting the battle of trying to compile Ardour (why hasn't > > someone done a deb of this). > > > > In any case, I manged to get autogen.sh to run, only to have configure fail > > looking for a file called sndfile.pc. It seems to be searching for this > > with /usr/bin/pkg-config. > > > > Anyone habe any clues on this? Hi, I'm trying to build ardour as well on sid. I'm having some luck just doing 'apt-cache search' on all the stuff that configure barfs on, eg: apt-cache search sndfile libsndfile0 - Library for reading/writing audio files libsndfile0-dev - Library for reading/writing audio files libsndfile1 - Library for reading/writing audio files libsndfile1-dev - Library for reading/writing audio files sndfile-programs - Sample programs that use libsndfile libsndfile1-dev did the trick I think. However, that won't be the end of your problems. Currently configure is looking for a file named ladspa.h, which is in the ladspa-sdk package; however the package description says, 'Please build-depend on this package if you need ladspa.h' Can someone give me a quick run-down on how to do this? -- James Hughes msg29734/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Ardour debs?
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 08:13:28PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 07:22:23PM -0500, stan wrote: > > I discoverd Ardour today, courtesy of a Slashdot post. > > > > Looks like just what I need. > > > > Anyone have a line on debs for it? > > The general answer is apt-get.org, followed by google, but I think > ardour is a special case, where the developers asked for it not to be > packaged yet...I think... From the ardour FAQ, referring to the question "why no tarballs?", but I think you could apply it to debs as well: Why no tarballs? a) Because at this point in its development, I don't want to deal with bug reports from a version that's more than 3 hours old. I am not going to build and upload tarballs every 3 hours. Ardour sometimes changes dramatically internally several times in a day. CVS lets people easily, quickly, cheaply get the latest changes and build a completely up-to-date version. -- James Hughes msg29735/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: sndfile.pc ?
> > I'd be interested in hearing if you get this working. It appears that the > devloper of Ardour has suceded in upseting the Debian developers, and they > are'nt interested in doing anythign with this package. Too bad, as I have > lot's of LP's thta I wan't to read in, and this package would be a big > asset (along with gramofile), on doing this. I wisht these 2 projects could > get together. I've been having some success recording LP's with Audacity. It has a nifty 'remove noise profile' feature that I've found quite useful for getting rid of pops and scratches. Gramofile sounds interesting though, especially the feature that detects where tracks start and end and splits the .wav file accordingly. > Thanks for the info. np, thanks for the gramofile tip! -- James Hughes msg29758/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: sndfile.pc ?
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 06:57:49PM -0500, stan wrote: > On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 05:41:57PM -0500, James Hughes wrote: > > > > > > I'd be interested in hearing if you get this working. It appears that the > > > devloper of Ardour has suceded in upseting the Debian developers, and they > > > are'nt interested in doing anythign with this package. Too bad, as I have > > > lot's of LP's thta I wan't to read in, and this package would be a big > > > asset (along with gramofile), on doing this. I wisht these 2 projects could > > > get together. > > > > I've been having some success recording LP's with Audacity. It has a > > nifty 'remove noise profile' feature that I've found quite useful for > > getting rid of pops and scratches. Gramofile sounds interesting > > though, especially the feature that detects where tracks start and end > > and splits the .wav file accordingly. > > > > > Thanks for the info. > > np, thanks for the gramofile tip! > > If you are not using gramofile, I _strongly_ sugest you take a look at it. > It's wonderful. I'm not usually a person who needs a GUI, but for live > albums, which the automated tarck spliter cant handle, a nice GUI editor, > showing waveforms, and allowing you to makrk places for spliting, and play > short segments that you have marked would be ideal. Audacity is what you want. As I understand it, Ardour is a multitrack hard-disk recorder, and while it would work for what you describe above, it seems a bit overkill. I've been doing what you describe above with Audacity and it works very well. It can also export to .mp3 or .ogg. -- James Hughes msg29873/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: DWL-650 Wireless PCMCIA Card
On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 10:38:28AM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 11:54:09PM -0400, James Hughes wrote: > > > I have PCIC=i82365, which, again, works. Can you explain why > > yenta_socket is the better option? > > Based on your previously supplied output, it doesn't appear to be > working. I say this because the ds.o module fails to load claiming that > that is no socket driver loaded. If the i82365.o module was working for > you, I would no expect ds.o to fail to load. Sorry, I don't think I'm explaining this situation very well. Here is output from lsmod, immediately after logging in (before I run my hack script that gets the wireless card working): prism2_cs 57008 1 pcnet_cs 12704 1 83906384 0 [pcnet_cs] ds 6632 2 [prism2_cs pcnet_cs] i82365 22652 2 pcmcia_core41632 0 [prism2_cs pcnet_cs ds i82365] p80211 12312 1 [prism2_cs] As you can see, all the elements are there for things to work: prism2_cs, ds, etc.. The problem, I *think*, is that ifup is attempting to associate the wlan0 device with the ds driver, when it should be using prism2_cs (as can be seen from boot messages posted previously) . I have these lines in /etc/modules.conf: # Aliases to tell insmod/modprobe which module to use when bringing up the # wlan0 interface. alias wlan0 prism2_cs So, why is ifup so confused? James > > -- > Jamin W. Collins > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > msg07070/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: php not working
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 12:08:25PM +1000, Rob Weir wrote: > On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 03:52:00PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > > hey htere everyone, > > > > trying to get php4 installed on my woody server and don't seem to have > > it figured out right. I've downloaded a package (SPIP) that runs on > > php3; I have php4 installed; when I try to load page > > (http://pc09.hist.utoronto.ca/~matt/spip/ecrire/index.php3) in my > > browser, it always wants to download it, and if it opens the page, all > > I see is the sourcecode. Do I need to use php3 instead? > > I think you just need to edit your /etc/apache/httpd.conf file and > uncomment this line: > AddType application/x-httpd-php3 .php3 Also, maybe try uncommenting this line: LoadModule php4_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/libphp4.so > > -rob msg07342/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: DWL-650 Wireless PCMCIA Card
On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 07:10:16AM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > It may be that the system is trying to load the prism2_cs module to bring > up the interface, which in turn trys to load the ds module, prior to > pcmcia service being started. Do you have wlan0 in /etc/network/interfaces > configured as auto? If so, try removing the auto declaration. Well, that does stop it from trying to load wlan0 with ds, but it doesn't cause me to have a functioning wlan0 interface by the time we get to the login prompt. The above conjecture is incorrect anyway, because prism2_cs is successfully loaded *after* all the shenanigans with ds. Interestingly, running my trial-and-error script (pasted below if you need a snicker) after removing the auto declaration doesn't work. So, it only works after trying and failing to bring up wlan0 with ds. (Maybe some necessary routing stuff gets set up via the auto declaration, I don't know..) Here's the script that gets it going: (wish I could ditch it :) #!/bin/sh # # Set things up nice for wlan0. # sudo ifconfig eth0 down sudo cp /etc/network/interfaces.static /etc/network/interfaces sudo ifdown wlan0 >> /dev/null sleep 1 sudo ifup wlan0 >> /dev/null sudo cp /etc/network/interfaces.dhcp /etc/network/interfaces sudo ifdown wlan0 >> /dev/null sleep 1 sudo ifup wlan0 >> /dev/null msg07400/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: PHP Problem - /libraries/grab_globals.lib.php
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 11:09:55AM -0400, Chip Rose wrote: > > > However, nothing else with .php, .php4, .php3 works at all. They fail with > various errors, one of which is the following: > Fatal error: Failed opening required './libraries/grab_globals.lib.php' > (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear') in /var/www/index.php on line 8 Just a guess, maybe add /full/path/to/libraries to your include path in your php.ini? James msg07653/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: firewall options
> I've managed to find a very comprehensive write-up on how to > configure the Debian box as a dedicated firewall and router > (prints out at 74 pages) - I've no doubt I'll get stuck somewhere, > but as you say I've always the list to fall back on. > Sounds interesting. Care to post a link? ;) James msg07806/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Debian Gamers/Developers
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 11:46:49AM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 10:24:53 -0500 Gianfranco Berardi > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I agree. Debian and Linux in general sorely needs a decent Pacman game > > Yea... but can we do so without infringing on some copyright? *sigh* Having followed with interest the battle of Larry Lessig vs the copyright monsters (otherwise known as Eldred vs. Ashcroft -- see http://eldred.cc), it saddens me that this would be the first question asked at the start of what sounds like it could be an exciting, cool project. Basically, you can't copyright an idea, only the expression of an idea. So, any copyright on Pacman only applies to *that* game. It does not cover all games that feature some creature running around a maze eating up other creatures. Sadly, copyright holders in this day and age would love the general public to believe otherwise; and they're succeeding, if the comment above is any indication. James -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > msg08200/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Debian Gamers/Developers
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 11:55:52PM +0200, Nicos Gollan wrote: > > And now for some nice stuff that I once heard in a lecture. The prof. > said - and we asked rather specificaly - that you could even take > proprietary software like Windows, strip it of all "artistic" content > like image, text and sound resources, replace those resources by > selfmade ones and sell the resulting thing under another name. At least > in Germany. You cannot copyright algorithms, mathematical procedures > and so on, and any software that is stripped of any "artistic" content > is just a collection of well-known algorithms. ..and code. (Since it's from MS, it's in binary format, but still code.) And you would have to rewrite all that code yourself for this to work. Basically, you can't copyright the idea of "operating system"; just the code (and "artistic content" -- which covers the code if you ask me). James > Embedded Linux -- True multitasking! > TWO TOASTS AT THE SAME TIME! > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE9tHfxeOF0+zcVdv8RAvGEAJ9Gf42ezQlRKVmSSHTTmmwqsBLHvQCfX7aS > Y2dccc2Wn69o5yKgfpH3Va4= > =SiLW > -END PGP SIGNATURE- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > msg08472/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [OT] - Interesting politics and the GPL
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 01:29:13PM -0700, deFreese, Barry wrote: > Have you folks seen this "debate"? > > http://newsvac.newsforge.com/newsvac/02/10/23/1247236.shtml?tid=4 > Go to opensecrets.org. In the "Find a Politician:" search box, type "Smith". At Rep. Smith's page, click "Top Contributors". I'm not even going to tell you who the top contributor is, I'm sure you can guess. Has there ever been a wiser maxim than "Follow the money"? By the way, this contributor (ok, it starts with M and ends with 'soft') gave *more than twice* the amount of the next highest contributor to Rep. Davis. I highly recommend opensecrets.org to the yanks out there on this list (I'm Canadian). Whenever some particularly stinky piece of "legislation" comes down the pike (Berman/Coble, the Hollings Bill), you can be sure opensecrets will tell you who has paid for it. James > > > Barry deFreese > NTS Technology Services Manager > Nike Team Sports > (949)-616-4005 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "Technology doesn't make you less stupid; it just makes you stupid faster." > Jerry Gregoire - Former CIO at Dell > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > msg08926/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [OT] - Interesting politics and the GPL
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 01:29:13PM -0700, deFreese, Barry wrote: > Have you folks seen this "debate"? > > http://newsvac.newsforge.com/newsvac/02/10/23/1247236.shtml?tid=4 /. has covered this. To save you all some time, they point to stories here: http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/10/24/1739254&tid=19 and here: http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20021024S0001 James msg08928/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
galeon: infinite instances; mozilla: won't even start
Hi, On a fresh install of Woody, galeon worked once, but now just starts firing up new windows about 1/sec. Mozilla won't even start at all. I've tried ditching .galeon and starting over, to no avail. Any ideas what I might try? Thanks, James msg24832/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
cdrecord can't find scsi modules
Hi: cdrecord is not functioning. cdrecord -scanbus (as root) says the following: cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver. cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root cdrecord output via gcombust says (as root): /usr/bin/cdrecord: Bad file descriptor. Cannot open SCSI driver. However, /sbin/lsmod says: sr_mod 12560 0 (autoclean) (unused) sg 21408 0 (autoclean) (unused) ide-scsi8016 0 scsi_mod 55840 3 [sr_mod sg ide-scsi] dmesg |grep ATAPI says this: hdb: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-6402B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdc: SONY CD-RW CRX175A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdb: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache, (U)DMA hdc: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, DMA scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices And, following some instructions I found at http://linuxgazette.com/issue57/stoddard.html, I added alias scd0 srmod alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi options ide-cd ignore=hdc to /etc/modules.conf (using update-modules) and append="mem=127M hdc=ide-scsi" to /etc/lilo.conf. Oh yeah, I also tried removing and reinstalling cdrecord, which generated the following: Setting up cdrecord (1.8-3) ... Fixing /dev/scd* /sbin/MAKEDEV: major_usbacm%d=166: command not found The kicker is that I used this cdrw drive under a RH7.1 install to burn the Debian cd that I'm running now! I feel like I've read about every mailing list archive on the Internet trying to fix this, but nothing works. Now I am going to read the manpage for modprobe again, but in the meantime, if anyone out there can assist, I would *greatly* appreciate it. Thanks, James
Re: cdrecord can't find scsi modules
Sorry, should have hit "reply-all" Dave Price wrote: On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 10:34:37PM -0500, James Hughes wrote: However, /sbin/lsmod says: sr_mod 12560 0 (autoclean) (unused) sg 21408 0 (autoclean) (unused) ide-scsi8016 0 scsi_mod 55840 3 [sr_mod sg ide-scsi] dmesg |grep ATAPI says this: hdb: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-6402B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdc: SONY CD-RW CRX175A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdb: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache, (U)DMA hdc: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, DMA scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices I think you need to compile and load "generic SCSI support" - cdrecord needs this I use it as a module: CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG=m aloha (& hth), dave Hmmm...here is relevant section from /boot/config-2.4.3:(also, note the presence of "sg" in the lsmod output above) # # SCSI support # CONFIG_SCSI=m # # SCSI support type (disk, tape, CD-ROM) # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=m CONFIG_SD_EXTRA_DEVS=40 # CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST is not set # CONFIG_CHR_DEV_OSST is not set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=m # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR_VENDOR is not set CONFIG_SR_EXTRA_DEVS=2 CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG=m # # Some SCSI devices (e.g. CD jukebox) support multiple LUNs # CONFIG_SCSI_DEBUG_QUEUES=y CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN=y # CONFIG_SCSI_CONSTANTS is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_LOGGING is not set
Re: cdrecord can't find scsi modules
Eduard Bloch wrote: #include James Hughes wrote on Fri Feb 15, 2002 um 10:34:37PM: And, following some instructions I found at http://linuxgazette.com/issue57/stoddard.html, I added alias scd0 srmod alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi options ide-cd ignore=hdc If your kernel is precompiled with ide-cd driver built-in, this option won't help. Instead, you have to pass kernel arguments in lilo.conf. RTF README.ATAPI in cdrecord's docs, there is a simple Howto for Debian. Gruss/Regards, Eduard. Thanks for the tip, however I have tried different variations on the advice in this file to no avail. There seems to be some confusion on whether ide/atapi support can be built into the kernel at the same time as using the ide-scsi module. The general consensus seems to be that you can do this, but to provide something like append="hdc=ide-scsi" in lilo.conf, which I have done. I've also tried this for both hdb and hdc so that both drives run under scsi-emulation: no luck. (Also, dmesg reports this: Kernel command line: Shouldn't the value of append show up there? My next course of action, (and I'm running out of courses [:)] , is to recompile the kernel without IDE/ATAPI support. Any other ideas? Thanks, James
Re: cdrecord can't find scsi modules
Adam Majer wrote: On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 09:27:08PM -0500, James Hughes wrote: Kernel command line: Shouldn't the value of append show up there? My next course of action, (and I'm running out of courses [:)] , is to recompile the kernel without IDE/ATAPI support. Any other ideas? YEs, I have: Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=2.4.17 ro root=303 hdd=ide-scsi devfs=nomount Have you rerun lilo? Just making sure it's not a stupid mistake... - Adam Well, recompiling the kernel without ide/atapi support did the trick. And adding hdb=ide-scsi (as well as hdc=ide-sci) to the kernel command line. And moving the /dev/cdrom simlink to /dev/scd8. Also, linking /dev/cdrw to scd0 and adjusting fstab accordingly. I don't know if all these steps are strictly necessary but that's the way things landed when I finally got it working, so I ain't touching it... :) FWIW, my experience would seem to indicate that the information in README.ATAPI that states you can have both scsi emulation and ide/atapi support concurrently would appear to be erroneous. Thanks all, James
lilo wierdness
Hello: I have a system dual-booting win98(for kid's games) and debian. The debian install basically went over top of a Red Hat install, but something wierd happened with lilo. The prompt is truncated: LILboot: and no keyboard input is accepted (no "dos", no tab) although if I hold down the shift key I get a stream of boot: *Interrupted* on the screen. I know that win98 is still bootable, because I ran lilo with the option (forget what it is right now) that causes a specific OS to boot one time on the subsequent reboot. I guess I did something wrong when I installed lilo on the debian install (didn't uninstall the RedHat's lilo correctly or something) but I'm confused as to how to fix it. My idea was to run the dos MBR program (which clobbers the master boot record where lilo is installed, I think)boot debian from a floppy and rerun lilo. Am I on the right track? btw, lilo.conf has "prompt" and "delay=50". Here's the relevant entries: image=/boot/vmlinuz label=Linux alias=1 other=/dev/hda1 label=dos table=/dev/hda alias=2 Thanks, A lilo non-expert.
font troubles in sid
Hi, A while ago, after doing an upgrade, I noticed that fonts in galeon where displaying as rectangles. I managed to fix this through trial and error in the galeon preferences, and life went on, though I did notice that the same rectangles were being used to display the xmms playlist. I decided to ignore this as it wasn't seriously affecting my daily work. However, I just fired up the gimp, and noticed the same font problem with all the menus and dialog boxes, rendering the gimp pretty much unusable. Googling around, I found the "TrueType Fonts in Debian mini-HOWTO" and followed the instructions there to set my XF86Config to use xfs. (adding "unix/:7100" to the FontPath and restarting xfs). Still no menus in gimp. I'm running sid, and a modified XF86_Mach64 server that I've been lugging around with me due to a bug in the default server that draws a line down the middle of screen on my Dell Inspiron 3800 laptop, (if any of that is relevant, I don't know). Any help or pointers to more docs would be greatly appreciated, James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: font troubles in sid
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 05:04:06PM -0400, Hubert Chan wrote: > >>>>> "James" == James Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > James> Hi, A while ago, after doing an upgrade, I noticed that fonts in > James> galeon where displaying as rectangles. ... > > This is probably because gtk is trying to use the Unicode codepage. Try > changing it to another codepage, like iso8859-1. If you use GNOME, you > can do that in the GNOME control center, under themes. > Well, that was easy :]. Thanks to all. James pgp4f5Lt3t6L4.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Galeon submits empty forms
Hi, I was having this problem. The solution I found was to delete ~/.galeon/mozilla/galeon/prefs.js. Don't ask me why, I have no idea. It just worked. James On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 05:15:10PM +0200, Matthias Papesch wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running a woody system with galeon (and mozilla) pulled in from > unstable. So far I've been quite happy with this setup. However, > lately I noticed that galeon submits empty information on some > urls. This is driving me nuts. > > The url looks like > > For instance, galeon gives me > http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/checkstyle/checkstyle-src-2.2.tar.gz?= > > While mozilla displays it correctly: > http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/checkstyle/checkstyle-src-2.2.tar.gz?use_default=belnet > > Anybody else notice this? Anybody got a cure? > > Cheers, > Matthias > > PS: > It is > galeon Version: 1.2.1-2 and > mozilla Version: 2:1+rc2-3 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > pgpFvqcyiQCml.pgp Description: PGP signature
Real Player
Hello, My new favourite online radio station, WFMU, has their archives in real audio format. I know there is a debian package that converts an .rpm of rp8, but this particular file doesn't seem to be available anywhere at Real's site anymore. Any suggestions on how to run this on sid? James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
rescheduling updatedb?
Hi, Every morning around 7:30, a cron job kicks off that brings my computer to it's knees. (Yes, my computer has knees...:). I'm pretty sure it's updatedb updating the locate database. Unfortunately, 7:30 am is when I do work on this computer. I tried 'crontab -l' as root, but it says there's no crontab for root. Any ideas on how I can reschedule this job to the middle of the night so I'm not left staring at the screen and waiting every morning? Thanks, James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
