Re: Controlling swapping
Hi, What's your machine configuration? I've used Linux with Kernels 2.4.18 and 2.2.17 on a Pentium 133MHz machine with 48MB RAM (and before that 32MB) and 128MB Swap (and before that it had 64MB Swap) and I've used KDE and other WindowManagers and memory monsters such as StarOffice and multiple instances of Netscape and I've never noticed this problem. Apps such as StarOffice were slow to load, however they wouldn't take an absolute absurd time to come outta swap. It would help if you could give me your machine config along with the apps u typically use. Also if you could provide info on which apps seem to take longer getting outta swap and stuff like that it'll give a clue as to where the prob lies. Bye for now On Wednesday 19 Feb 2003 12:23 am, Roy Pluschke wrote: > On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 10:03:16 -0800 > > "Charlie Reiman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Is there a way to control the aggresiveness of swapping. My computer is > > > on all the time with most of my most commonly used applications left > > > open. If the computer is not used for a while it takes an annoying long > > > amount of time to reload the open applications from swap (I may as well > > > reload the program form scratch). Is there a way to tell the kernel not > > > to swap unless required? > > > > > > I'm using 2.4.20 on a much modified testing system. The box is only > > > used for desktop purposes. > > > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > R.J. Pluschke > > > > I'm no kernel expert here but I've never seen linx swap out things unless > > it needed to. I suspect you've got a periodic task that wakes up and > > demands memory. Likely culrpits are cron tasks or a screen saver. > > > > If you have enough memory, you can disable the swap file completely and > > run with just RAM. I've done this on my laptop and it works fine. As a > > bonus, this may force the culprit process to log an error when it cannot > > allocate enough memory. > > > > Good luck. > > > > Charlie. > > No unusual periodic tasks, don't use a screen saver (just blanking). It > appears to be a function of time, if an open program is not used for a > while it gets swapped to disk even if no other program is requesting > memory. I suppose the kernel is anticipating -- this process hasn't been > used for a while, swap it out, be ready for a new process. I would > try to run without swap but editing the odd large graphic file requires > it. The newer the kernel is the more I notice this. It didn't happen > with kernel 0.99 pl 14 :) > > Thanks > > R. Pluschke -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Good C/C++ IDE
On Thursday 13 Feb 2003 6:03 am, S Yuval wrote: > Hello, > Can anyone suggest a good C/C++ IDE? I've tried Anjuta, KDevelop, > KStudio and have been disappointed. The only somewhat useful IDE I could > find was QIDE, which is a trial product and only supports C. Hi there, I'd really like to know about the good C/C++ ide's too. I've been using KDevelop and find it reasonably cool except for the documentationwhat features do u think are lacking in KDevelop?? What features do you think you really want in a good ide? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Windows Server 2003
Hi ppl, I've been reading up on Windows Server 2003 and though I realize that most of what i'm reading is just wat MS wants me to read,anyways some of the features seem to be of good potential,Linux has been holding the upper hand in the Server segment so far, was wondering bout steps being taken to counter Windows and offer similar (or better) features in forthcoming Linux releases. If substantial and major features in Win 2003 are already there in Linux today I'd appreciate if you could point me to that too. I'd actually love to hear from ppl who've used Win 2000 Server (or better Win Server 2003 beta) and tell me if it actually measures up. A few ppl I know using Win 2000 Server on small networks are very very happy with improvements. Thanks guys -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help! partition table!
Hello, Again this may be way too trivial, but I recently did a mkswap on my root partition instead of the space set aside for swap. I noticed the prob just as you and switched off the machine and restarted with similar results as you. To recover I rebooted from my Debian CD and did a fsck /dev/hda? and it was able to recover my data. Have you tried that?? It may just work for u.keep me posted as to wat happ. Bye for now On Saturday 08 Mar 2003 3:33 pm, Greg Madden wrote: > On Friday 07 March 2003 02:34 pm, Hugo Ideler wrote: > > It's ext3, but I must add that the formating of wasn't very far when I > > hit the power-off. But I suppose this won't make much of a difference? > > > > But isn't it possible to recover files in the style that it is possible > > to recover files deleted (not shreded)? Deleted files after all don't > > have an entry in the FAT anymore? > > > > I also had some important data in my ~/Mail folder. Mail from my pop > > account, so it's not remotely stored. And I of course was stupid and lazy > > enough to not back things up. > > > > So i'd be happy enough if I could just recover my home directory. :) > > > > --Azaghal > > May be off base but what hapens if you create a new partition with the > exact same geometry , then mount the partiton without initializing it. The > program 'ntfsresize' does something similar to this and seems to work. > > -- > Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Memory leak - somewhere :)
Hello ppl, I have a Debian 3.0 installation on my P4 2.2 512MB with 256MB Swap system. I use KDE 3.1. For sometime, I've been feeling that there's a memory leak in one of the apps because after quite a few days of use KDE becomes slow. Apps I typically use are KMail,Konqueror,KMerlin,Konsole,K3B. I've noticed that memory seems to be consumed at an alarmingly huge rate. Sometimes about 300MB+ gets used up overnight inspite of no additional programs being run. For e.g. if with a clean boot into KDE I have 300MB of free Physical memory left (as displayed by free) and the whole swap free then the next morning I may see just 5MB of Physical memory free and the Swap used to a degree. I thought it could be KDE or artsd or some such component/app and I kept rebooting my system with one less program running each time i.e. i'd turn on KDE and not switch on KMail and see how it performs and next time wouldn't switch on KMail and K3b,etc.did this till i basically had a bare KDE session running but the memory usage issue continued. I therefore thought it may be X and I just put a # in the default-display-manager file in /etc/X11, therefore since there's no default manager I just get a message stating that at bootup and X doesn't come up. If I do a free in succession with just this much I notice that my memory is going down at a rate of 8KB each successive reduction.this is most of the time...although sometimes reductions can be of different sizes. I can't make much of it.is this normal?? doesn't look like it should.since I'm basically not turning on any programs...therefore something seems to be up...any help on either clarifying my understanding on the above or tracing the rogue program would be appreciatedhas neone else noticed something similar. Thanks Bye -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hex Editor
Hello, I'm looking for a Hex Editor, kinda along lines of Norton's NDiags (or better). Something that will give me access to the different segments of the Hard Disk and memory and preferably across different partitions. Would appreciate if you guys could tell me what's the best and where I could get it from. Thanks a lot in advance ppl. Bye -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hex Editor
Hello, I'm looking for a Hex Editor, kinda along lines of Norton's NDiags (or better). Something that will give me access to the different segments of the Hard Disk and memory and preferably across different partitions. Would appreciate if you guys could tell me what's the best and where I could get it from. Thanks a lot in advance ppl. Bye --- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hard Disk Partition Recovery
Hello guys, Someone I know recently got his partition table destroyed by misusing Norton's Rescue. Anyways, I was able to recreate his partition table using gpart and Fdisk and Debian's installable CD. The partitions are Win95 Fat32 (LBA) partitions. I've setup the Id's on the partitions to reflect these as Win95 Fat32 (LBA) partitions (extended where necessary) I can mount and access the data under Linux. I've even copied the data onto a backup hard disk. Now the mysterious thing is that I can't see these partitions under DOS :( I've used an MSDOS 6.22 disk to boot into the system since the boot loaders not running after fdisk wrote to the MBR and it can't see any of the partitions and pops up the message "Invalid drive specification". FDisk shows one of the partitions as Non-Dos and the partition sizes are in negatives. I can't figure out that how I can see everything fine under Linux but not under DOS.how do I get things working correctly?? Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hex Editor
Hi, Yup saw quite a few Hex Editors using apt-cache...hadn't tried that but just wanted to know what the general consensus as to the best around is :)will try one of them. Thanks a lot for your help Bye On Saturday 25 Jan 2003 10:47 am, Rob Weir wrote: > On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 09:05:24PM +0530, Jeetu Golani wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm looking for a Hex Editor, kinda along lines of Norton's NDiags (or > > better). > > The only one I've ever used is hexl-mode in emacs. Got the job done... > > > Something that will give me access to the different segments of the > > Hard Disk and memory and preferably across different partitions. > > Of course, any editor (even any program that can edit files) can do > this. Under Unix, devices appear as files: your first IDE hard drive is > /dev/hda, and the first partition is /dev/hda1...Go find yourself a good > Unix reference for more info, or google. > > > Would appreciate if you guys could tell me what's the best and where I > > could get it from. > > Um...Are you using Debian? apt-cache search "hex editor" produced a > bunch of results for me... > > -rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Upgrading to KDE 3.1
Hey ppl, I have KDE 3.0.4 running at the moment, had installed the debs of this. I wanna upgrade to KDE 3.1. I've read that an apt-get upgrade doesn't do the trick and causes problems. Would appreciate if someone here could tell me what's the right way to upgrade. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ext3 partition recovery (Again)
Hi there, Your fdisk doesn't show the last ext3 partition, therefore your partition table is messed up (nothing new in that). Gpart seems to think that there're two other partitions apart from the ones being detected by fdisk i.e. one partition more than what you suggested in your earlier mail where in you said My partition looks (used to...) like this: > > |-- 1. NTFS > > | > > |-- 2. ext2 > > | > > |-- 3. extended > > | > > | |-- 3.1 ext3 [ / ] > > | | > > | |-- 3.2 swap > > | | > > | |-- 3.3 ext3 [/home] Gpart thinks that beyond the last ext3 partition there's another Linux Partition?? Could you tell me the sizes of each partition as you remember them. Do you think there was another partition beyond the last /ext3 partition that you've mentioned above. Bye On Wednesday 29 Jan 2003 12:00 am, you wrote: > Ok, here goes the output of some useful commands. Hope it helps... > > fdisk -l /dev/hda: > -- > > Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2432 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes > >Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System > /dev/hda1 * 1 510 4096543+ 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/hda2 511 632979965b Win95 FAT32 > /dev/hda3 633 2432 144585005 Extended > /dev/hda5 633 1544 7325608+ 83 Linux > /dev/hda6 1545 1580289138+ 82 Linux swap > > gpart -v /dev/hda: > -- > > dev(/dev/hda) mss(512) chs(2432/255/63)(LBA) #s(39070080) size(19077mb) > Primary partition(1) >type: 007(0x07)(OS/2 HPFS, NTFS, QNX or Advanced UNIX) (BOOT) >size: 4000mb #s(8193087) s(63-8193149) >chs: (0/1/1)-(509/254/63)d (0/1/1)-(509/254/63)r >hex: 80 01 01 00 07 FE 7F FD 3F 00 00 00 3F 04 7D 00 > > Primary partition(2) >type: 011(0x0B)(DOS or Windows 95 with 32 bit FAT) >size: 956mb #s(1959930) s(8193150-10153079) >chs: (510/0/1)-(631/254/63)d (510/0/1)-(631/254/63)r >hex: 00 00 41 FE 0B FE BF 77 7E 04 7D 00 FA E7 1D 00 > > Primary partition(3) >type: 005(0x05)(Extended DOS) >size: 14119mb #s(28917000) s(10153080-39070079) >chs: (632/0/1)-(1023/254/63)d (632/0/1)-(2431/254/63)r >hex: 00 00 81 78 05 FE FF FF 78 EC 9A 00 08 3D B9 01 > >Logical partition > type: 131(0x83)(Linux ext2 filesystem) > size: 7153mb #s(14651217) s(10153143-24804359) > chs: (632/1/1)-(1023/254/63)d (632/1/1)-(1543/254/63)r > hex: 00 01 81 78 83 FE FF FF 3F 00 00 00 51 8F DF 00 > >Logical partition > type: 130(0x82)(Linux swap or Solaris/x86) > size: 282mb #s(578277) s(24804423-25382699) > chs: (1023/254/63)-(1023/254/63)d (1544/1/1)-(1579/254/63)r > hex: 00 FE FF FF 82 FE FF FF 3F 00 00 00 E5 D2 08 00 > > Primary partition(4) >type: 000(0x00)(unused) >size: 0mb #s(0) s(0-0) >chs: (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)d (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)r >hex: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 > > > Begin scan... > Possible partition(Windows NT/W2K FS), size(4000mb), offset(0mb) >type: 007(0x07)(OS/2 HPFS, NTFS, QNX or Advanced UNIX) >size: 4000mb #s(8193080) s(63-8193142) >chs: (0/1/1)-(509/254/56)d (0/1/1)-(509/254/56)r >hex: 00 01 01 00 07 FE 78 FD 3F 00 00 00 38 04 7D 00 > > Possible partition(DOS FAT), size(956mb), offset(4000mb) >type: 012(0x0C)(DOS or Windows 95 with 32 bit FAT, LBA) >size: 956mb #s(1959930) s(8193150-10153079) >chs: (510/0/1)-(631/254/63)d (510/0/1)-(631/254/63)r >hex: 00 00 41 FE 0C FE BF 77 7E 04 7D 00 FA E7 1D 00 > > Possible extended partition at offset(4957mb) >Possible partition(Linux ext2), size(7153mb), offset(4957mb) > type: 131(0x83)(Linux ext2 filesystem) > size: 7153mb #s(14651216) s(10153143-24804358) > chs: (632/1/1)-(1023/254/63)d (632/1/1)-(1543/254/62)r > hex: 00 01 81 78 83 FE FF FF B7 EC 9A 00 50 8F DF 00 > >Possible partition(Linux swap), size(282mb), offset(12111mb) > type: 130(0x82)(Linux swap or Solaris/x86) > size: 282mb #s(578272) s(24804423-25382694) > chs: (1023/254/63)-(1023/254/63)d (1544/1/1)-(1579/254/58)r > hex: 00 FE FF FF 82 FE FF FF 47 7C 7A 01 E0 D2 08 00 > > Possible extended partition at offset(12393mb) >Possible partition(Linux ext2), size(2055mb), offset(13656mb) > type: 131(0x83)(Linux ext2 filesystem) > size: 2055mb #s(4208960) s(27969228-32178187) > chs: (1023/254/63)-(1023/254/63)d (1741/1/1)-(2002/254/56)r > hex: 00 FE FF FF 83 FE FF FF CC C6 AA 01 40 39 40 00 > > Possible extended partition at offset(15712mb) >Possible partition(Linux ext2), size(3365mb), offset(15712mb) > type: 131(0x83)(Linux ext2 filesystem) > size: 3365mb #s(6891816) s(32178258-39070073) > chs: (1023/254/63)-(1023/254/63)d (2003/1/1)-(2431/254/57)r > hex: 00 FE FF FF 83 FE FF FF 52 00 EB 01 28 29 69 00 > > End scan. > > Checking partitions... > > * Warning: more than 3
Re: ext3 partition recovery (Again)
Hi, I feel strongly that this problem is recoverable, however you will have to construct a manual partition table using the Linux Fdisk. With a lil bit of guess work and a lil trial and error I think you should be able to recover the partitions and data within. I think you mentioned you used gpart, did you write the partition table after using gpart i.e. with the gpart -w option?? I don't think that will help but I want to know if after doing this were you still able to access the other partitions. Also mention the partition sizes for each of your partitions as you remember them and your total hard disk capacity. Bye for now On Wednesday 29 Jan 2003 4:06 pm, you wrote: > On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 10:41:51 +0530 > > Jeetu Golani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > Your fdisk doesn't show the last ext3 partition, therefore your > > partition table is messed up (nothing new in that). Gpart seems to > > think that there're two other partitions apart from the ones being > > detected by fdisk i.e. one partition more than what you suggested in > > your earlier mail where in you said > > > > My partition looks (used to...) like this: > > > > |-- 1. NTFS > > > > | > > > > |-- 2. ext2 > > > > | > > > > |-- 3. extended > > > > | > > > > | |-- 3.1 ext3 [ / ] > > > > | | > > > > | |-- 3.2 swap > > > > | | > > > > | |-- 3.3 ext3 [/home] > > > > Gpart thinks that beyond the last ext3 partition there's another Linux > > Partition?? Could you tell me the sizes of each partition as you > > remember them. Do you think there was another partition beyond the > > last /ext3 partition that you've mentioned above. > > No, there was not other partition at the end. Probably just some free > space at the end. The last partition (the lost one) was about 6.5G. > > I suppose I can get the old partition table information from the > /boot/boot.XXX file created by lilo. I am not using lilo at this moment > but that file is still there and I didn't changed the partitions since I > changed lilo by grub. How can I retrieve that information from the > boot.XXX file? > > Do you think this problem is recoverable? > > > Bye > > > > On Wednesday 29 Jan 2003 12:00 am, you wrote: > > > Ok, here goes the output of some useful commands. Hope it helps... > > > > > > fdisk -l /dev/hda: > > > -- > > > > > > Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2432 cylinders > > > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes > > > > > >Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System > > > /dev/hda1 * 1 510 4096543+ 7 HPFS/NTFS > > > /dev/hda2 511 632979965b Win95 FAT32 > > > /dev/hda3 633 2432 144585005 Extended > > > /dev/hda5 633 1544 7325608+ 83 Linux > > > /dev/hda6 1545 1580289138+ 82 Linux swap > > > > > > gpart -v /dev/hda: > > > -- > > > > > > dev(/dev/hda) mss(512) chs(2432/255/63)(LBA) #s(39070080) > > > size(19077mb) Primary partition(1) > > >type: 007(0x07)(OS/2 HPFS, NTFS, QNX or Advanced UNIX) (BOOT) > > >size: 4000mb #s(8193087) s(63-8193149) > > >chs: (0/1/1)-(509/254/63)d (0/1/1)-(509/254/63)r > > >hex: 80 01 01 00 07 FE 7F FD 3F 00 00 00 3F 04 7D 00 > > > > > > Primary partition(2) > > >type: 011(0x0B)(DOS or Windows 95 with 32 bit FAT) > > >size: 956mb #s(1959930) s(8193150-10153079) > > >chs: (510/0/1)-(631/254/63)d (510/0/1)-(631/254/63)r > > >hex: 00 00 41 FE 0B FE BF 77 7E 04 7D 00 FA E7 1D 00 > > > > > > Primary partition(3) > > >type: 005(0x05)(Extended DOS) > > >size: 14119mb #s(28917000) s(10153080-39070079) > > >chs: (632/0/1)-(1023/254/63)d (632/0/1)-(2431/254/63)r > > >hex: 00 00 81 78 05 FE FF FF 78 EC 9A 00 08 3D B9 01 > > > > > >Logical partition > > > type: 131(0x83)(Linux ext2 filesystem) > > > size: 7153mb #s(14651217) s(10153143-24804359) > > > chs: (632/1/1)-(1023/254/63)d (632/1/1)-(1543/254/63)r > > > hex: 00 01 81 78 83 FE FF FF 3F 00 00 00 51 8F DF 00 > > > > > >Logical partition > > > type: 130(0x82)(Linux swap or Solaris/x86) > > > size: 282mb #s(578277) s(24804423-25382699) > > > chs: (1023/254/63)-(10
Re: ext3 partition recovery (Again) - forgot this
Forgot to add this to my earlier mail, you mentioned you have the partition info when you used lilo. Please mail that info, you should be able to reconstruct your partition table with that info using fdisk. Bye On Wednesday 29 Jan 2003 4:06 pm, you wrote: > On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 10:41:51 +0530 > > Jeetu Golani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > Your fdisk doesn't show the last ext3 partition, therefore your > > partition table is messed up (nothing new in that). Gpart seems to > > think that there're two other partitions apart from the ones being > > detected by fdisk i.e. one partition more than what you suggested in > > your earlier mail where in you said > > > > My partition looks (used to...) like this: > > > > |-- 1. NTFS > > > > | > > > > |-- 2. ext2 > > > > | > > > > |-- 3. extended > > > > | > > > > | |-- 3.1 ext3 [ / ] > > > > | | > > > > | |-- 3.2 swap > > > > | | > > > > | |-- 3.3 ext3 [/home] > > > > Gpart thinks that beyond the last ext3 partition there's another Linux > > Partition?? Could you tell me the sizes of each partition as you > > remember them. Do you think there was another partition beyond the > > last /ext3 partition that you've mentioned above. > > No, there was not other partition at the end. Probably just some free > space at the end. The last partition (the lost one) was about 6.5G. > > I suppose I can get the old partition table information from the > /boot/boot.XXX file created by lilo. I am not using lilo at this moment > but that file is still there and I didn't changed the partitions since I > changed lilo by grub. How can I retrieve that information from the > boot.XXX file? > > Do you think this problem is recoverable? > > > Bye > > > > On Wednesday 29 Jan 2003 12:00 am, you wrote: > > > Ok, here goes the output of some useful commands. Hope it helps... > > > > > > fdisk -l /dev/hda: > > > -- > > > > > > Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2432 cylinders > > > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes > > > > > >Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System > > > /dev/hda1 * 1 510 4096543+ 7 HPFS/NTFS > > > /dev/hda2 511 632979965b Win95 FAT32 > > > /dev/hda3 633 2432 144585005 Extended > > > /dev/hda5 633 1544 7325608+ 83 Linux > > > /dev/hda6 1545 1580289138+ 82 Linux swap > > > > > > gpart -v /dev/hda: > > > -- > > > > > > dev(/dev/hda) mss(512) chs(2432/255/63)(LBA) #s(39070080) > > > size(19077mb) Primary partition(1) > > >type: 007(0x07)(OS/2 HPFS, NTFS, QNX or Advanced UNIX) (BOOT) > > >size: 4000mb #s(8193087) s(63-8193149) > > >chs: (0/1/1)-(509/254/63)d (0/1/1)-(509/254/63)r > > >hex: 80 01 01 00 07 FE 7F FD 3F 00 00 00 3F 04 7D 00 > > > > > > Primary partition(2) > > >type: 011(0x0B)(DOS or Windows 95 with 32 bit FAT) > > >size: 956mb #s(1959930) s(8193150-10153079) > > >chs: (510/0/1)-(631/254/63)d (510/0/1)-(631/254/63)r > > >hex: 00 00 41 FE 0B FE BF 77 7E 04 7D 00 FA E7 1D 00 > > > > > > Primary partition(3) > > >type: 005(0x05)(Extended DOS) > > >size: 14119mb #s(28917000) s(10153080-39070079) > > >chs: (632/0/1)-(1023/254/63)d (632/0/1)-(2431/254/63)r > > >hex: 00 00 81 78 05 FE FF FF 78 EC 9A 00 08 3D B9 01 > > > > > >Logical partition > > > type: 131(0x83)(Linux ext2 filesystem) > > > size: 7153mb #s(14651217) s(10153143-24804359) > > > chs: (632/1/1)-(1023/254/63)d (632/1/1)-(1543/254/63)r > > > hex: 00 01 81 78 83 FE FF FF 3F 00 00 00 51 8F DF 00 > > > > > >Logical partition > > > type: 130(0x82)(Linux swap or Solaris/x86) > > > size: 282mb #s(578277) s(24804423-25382699) > > > chs: (1023/254/63)-(1023/254/63)d (1544/1/1)-(1579/254/63)r > > > hex: 00 FE FF FF 82 FE FF FF 3F 00 00 00 E5 D2 08 00 > > > > > > Primary partition(4) > > >type: 000(0x00)(unused) > > >size: 0mb #s(0) s(0-0) > > >chs: (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)d (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)r > > >hex: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 > > > > > > > > > Begin scan... &
KDE 3.1 upgrade botched :( - Need help
Hey guys, I know someone on this list warned me to wait for sometime before upgrading to KDE 3.1 however...wat can I say.am an impatient fool :) Anyways, I removed my old version of KDE :(.and I then added the following to my apt sources.list file deb http://download.kde.org/pub/stable/3.1/Debian stable main An apt-get update followed with an apt-get install kdebase now says "404 Not found" for each of the required files. I've tried various other source lines for sources.list. I can see the files on these URL's through Konqueror and the apt-get update runs successfully however I get similar errors from every source line I've used. Consequently I can't use KDE anymore and am writing this mail from Windows.really need to get KDE up :(please help. Thanks
Re: ext3 partition recovery (Again) - forgot this
Hi, No don't run gpart, was asking you if you'd written the partition table recommended by gpart since you mentioned in your first mail that it couldn't help. I don't think it's guesses are too correct in this case, though it may give you info for some good guesses. Since you have the /boot/boot.xxx file, things should be easy. You can recover the partition table file from this file i.e. if your confident that the partition table information since the time this file was created is correct. First however backup your MBR to a file and note down the output of fdisk -l on a piece of paper. This will help you backtrack in case something goes wrong. Also make sure you have a bootable disk since this may leave your system in an unbootable state. You can backup your MBR to a file using the following : dd if=/dev/hda of=mbr bs=512 count=1 To restore the MBR from the /boot/boot.xxx file that you have type : dd if=/boot/boot.xxx of=/dev/hda bs=1 count=64 skip=446 seek=446 replace the xxx with the suffix of the file. This should get your partition table back to the way it was. If all goes well then things should be back to the way they were however you may not be able to boot into the system. Use the bootable disk to boot into the system and check if all partitions are accessible. You can then use Lilo to reinstall the bootloader back in your MBR. If the above doesn't work then you should still be in a position to reconstruct your partition table using fdisk, however don't reinstall your OS or do any significant writing to your disk since it may erase data and make things irrcoverable. Good luck. Bye - Original Message - From: "Miguel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 9:51 PM Subject: Re: ext3 partition recovery (Again) - forgot this > Yes, I have the /boot/boot.003 file but I don't know how to use it or > event to get that information (it is a binary file...). > > Do you really think I should try to use the gpart -w ? That is risky > because I can boot the system--the disk is in a laptop and I cannot > remove that disk or even add another one to repair any problem > caused with the gpart -w... > > You told something about "trial and error"... do you mean to: > - use, for example, the GNU parted to try to create a new partition in >the place I suppose it was before; > - try to reboot the system; > - try to mount the partition; > - delete the partition > - [ . . . ] > > until it works? > > On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 19:15:58 +0530 > Jeetu Golani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Forgot to add this to my earlier mail, you mentioned you have the > > partition info when you used lilo. Please mail that info, you should > > be able to reconstruct your partition table with that info using > > fdisk. > > > > Bye > > > > On Wednesday 29 Jan 2003 4:06 pm, you wrote: > > > On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 10:41:51 +0530 > > > > > > Jeetu Golani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi there, > > > > > > > > Your fdisk doesn't show the last ext3 partition, therefore your > > > > partition table is messed up (nothing new in that). Gpart seems to > > > > think that there're two other partitions apart from the ones being > > > > detected by fdisk i.e. one partition more than what you suggested > > > > in your earlier mail where in you said > > > > > > > > My partition looks (used to...) like this: > > > > > > |-- 1. NTFS > > > > > > | > > > > > > |-- 2. ext2 > > > > > > | > > > > > > |-- 3. extended > > > > > > | > > > > > > | |-- 3.1 ext3 [ / ] > > > > > > | | > > > > > > | |-- 3.2 swap > > > > > > | | > > > > > > | |-- 3.3 ext3 [/home] > > > > > > > > Gpart thinks that beyond the last ext3 partition there's another > > > > Linux Partition?? Could you tell me the sizes of each partition as > > > > you remember them. Do you think there was another partition beyond > > > > the last /ext3 partition that you've mentioned above. > > > > > > No, there was not other partition at the end. Probably just some > > > free space at the end. The last partition (the lost one) was about > > > 6.5G. > > > > > > I suppose I can get the old partition table information from the > > > /boot/boot.XXX file created by lilo. I am n
Re: ext3 partition recovery (Again) - forgot this
Hi there, If you've used a LILO MBR file which is older and before when u created the new partition then the new partition information is probably not there. I reconstructed my partition using guesses provided by gpart (in your case I think they're a lil off). If your partition sizes shown by fdisk -l match the partition sizes as you remember it then you can use this partition and just add another partition at the end covering the remainder of the space and give it the sys id as Linux ext2 and if all goes well then you should have access to your data. If on the other hand the partition sizes shown by fdisk -l i.e. ur current partition sizes, don't match what you think them to be, then you need to recalculate the blocks, see if the guesses provided by gpart -v are of any value (check the middle section i.e. after it says begin scan). Use only the Linux fdisk to reconstruct the partition. You can play around with values till you've guessed them right, so long as u don't do substantial writing to your disk your data should be intact. If you have any problems feel free to ask. Bye for now On Thursday 30 Jan 2003 4:05 pm, you wrote: > I tried this and didn't worked :( > > No problems in booting the system after restoring the old MBR but the > partitions table was not changed. However, I'm sure that the boot.XXX > file is old (from the time I was still using lilo--I'm using grub now). > > I think I am going to try the "trial and error" approach and, if not > succeeded, I'll need to create a new partition with the free > space--loosing all the information that was stored in the old /home/ > partition. I'm glade you helped me with this problem but since there is > no easy (and, aparently, no hard soluction either...) solution, I'll > need to solve the problem by any means. > > However, if anyone else as any good suggestion, I would like to know as > the problem may arise again. By now, I think I'll never use window$ to > do any critical operation (I would like not to use window$ in any > operation at all but I'm a computer sciences student and my school is > "microsofted" :))) > > Thanks everyone. > > On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 01:06:57 +0530 > > "Jeetu Golani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > No don't run gpart, was asking you if you'd written the partition > > table recommended by gpart since you mentioned in your first mail that > > it couldn't help. I don't think it's guesses are too correct in this > > case, though it may give you info for some good guesses. > > > > Since you have the /boot/boot.xxx file, things should be easy. You can > > recover the partition table file from this file i.e. if your confident > > that the partition table information since the time this file was > > created is correct. > > > > First however backup your MBR to a file and note down the output of > > fdisk -l on a piece of paper. This will help you backtrack in case > > something goes wrong. Also make sure you have a bootable disk since > > this may leave your system in an unbootable state. > > > > You can backup your MBR to a file using the following : > > > > dd if=/dev/hda of=mbr bs=512 count=1 > > > > To restore the MBR from the /boot/boot.xxx file that you have type : > > > > dd if=/boot/boot.xxx of=/dev/hda bs=1 count=64 skip=446 seek=446 > > > > replace the xxx with the suffix of the file. > > > > This should get your partition table back to the way it was. If all > > goes well then things should be back to the way they were however you > > may not be able to boot into the system. Use the bootable disk to boot > > into the system and check if all partitions are accessible. You can > > then use Lilo to reinstall the bootloader back in your MBR. > > > > If the above doesn't work then you should still be in a position to > > reconstruct your partition table using fdisk, however don't reinstall > > your OS or do any significant writing to your disk since it may erase > > data and make things irrcoverable. > > > > Good luck. > > > > Bye > > > > - Original Message - > > From: "Miguel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 9:51 PM > > Subject: Re: ext3 partition recovery (Again) - forgot this > > > > > Yes, I have the /boot/boot.003 file but I don't know how to use it > > > or event to get that information (it is a binary file...). >
Konqueror and tar.gz
Hello, Lemme first express condolences and grief with regards the tragic loss of the crew members aboard Columbia. I think they were a very courageous lot to undertake the risks for the advancement of mankind. Pray that God looks after them and their families. I've noticed a behaviour within Konqueror right from KDE 3.0.4,at first I thought it was a bug, but it's still there in KDE 3.1 therefore I think that maybe there is some kinda configuration that could set things right...something I have wrong. When I open up a .tar.gz file under Konqueror I see it's contents, if I copy this and paste it to another location (I hope this is the right method to unzip from Konqueror) then I've seen that the unzip happens much much much slower than using the tar command. It's slow enough for it to be quite unusable for huge files. Have other ppl noticed this in Konqueror? Since it was in 3.0.4 and 3.1 is it something that can be improved with some config or is it a bug?? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
KPilot and USB woes :(
Hi there, I have a Debian 3.0 with KDE 3.1 and am using KPilot to sync with my Palm m505 over the USB cradle. Have also installed the hotplug package. The USB interface and modules seem to be in order and lsmod shows everything expected. When I press the HotSync button the console shows the right msgs i.e. ttyUSB0 and ttyUSB1 are bound. When I try to use KPilot, it doesn't hotsync though :( shows the Device Link as ready and then that's it :( Can anyone guide me on howto config the system so I can Hotsync my Palm m505 over a USB cradle. Thanks a lot ppl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Detecting memory leaks
Hi ppl, I'm using Debian 3.0, kernel 2.4.18,KDE 3.1 on a P4 2.2 with 512MB RAM and 256 MB Swap. I've noticed that in a few days time or weeks the system slows down i.e screen refresh takes longer, apps may take longer to launch,etc. The apps I typically use are KDevelop,K3B,Kmail,KMerlin,Wine, Konqueror. I suspect Wine,Konqueror or some part of KDE 3.1 - maybe artsd or something to be causing the memory leak. I suspect Konqueror because each time I noticed the slowdown I had 5 or so instances of Konq running. Wine since it's still under development. Artsd since in the KDE System Guard I've noticed that artsd sometimes has a User % value of 35% or so. Consequently I'm right now trying not to use Konq or Wine. Basically a trial and error situation where I try not to use apps which I suspect till I figure out the one that's causing the error. I would however like if there was a better way to detect if an apps leaking memory. I don't have source codes of many of the apps so I can't run it in a typical debugger. I would appreciate any suggestions you guys could gimme about tools for this purpose or watever.also anyone else facing similar probs with KDE 3.1?? Thanks Bye for now -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel-2.6.0 says no /dev/dsp - no sound
Hi there, Just been fiddling with Kernel 2.6.0-test2 myself,trying to get sound to work on my Creative SB Live card. Finally got it to work by using the OSS modules instead of ALSA. Maybe that'll work for you too. Good luck. Bye for now On Tuesday 05 Aug 2003 6:01 pm, Anthony Campbell wrote: > Just trying out kernel 2.6.0-test2 (from source). > > Everything seems to work apart from sound; it loads my sound card > (Ensoniq 1371) but on trying to play sound files I get a message saying > that /dev/dsp is not found. It is there and the same card works with > kernel 2.4.21. > > Any suggestions for what is wrong here? > > AC > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]|| http://www.acampbell.org.uk > using Linux GNU/Debian || for book reviews, electronic > Windows-free zone || books and skeptical articles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /dev/dsp
Hi there, Please check if your sound drivers have loaded successfully. If you have root access then do a cat /dev/dsp from root. You should see a flow of weird chars. If it says device not found then your sound modules haven't loaded up. If it works fine as root then there's a permission problem probably. Hope this helps. Good luck Bye for now On Saturday 09 Aug 2003 7:47 am, Antony Gelberg wrote: > On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 08:52:39PM -0500, mustafa taha al-shawaf wrote: > > Hey group. > > > > I get an error when starting up kde that says that sound cannot be > > initialized because it cannot open /dev/dsp. I tried looking for a man > > page on dsp but there wasn't any. I assume that it has something to do > > with the file permissions on /dev/dsp and that all I have to do is to use > > chmod on the file, but I don't want to mess anything up. I have included > > an ls -l of /dev/dsp*. > > > > crw-rw1 root audio 14, 3 Mar 14 2002 dsp > > crw-rw1 root audio 14, 19 Mar 14 2002 dsp1 > > crw-rw1 root audio 14, 35 Mar 14 2002 dsp2 > > crw-rw1 root audio 14, 51 Mar 14 2002 dsp3 > > > > MA > > Is your username in the audio group? > > A -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: help!! my partition table is lost after a next reboot ...
Hello, Yup did that for a pal once i.e. recover the partition. So long as u don't play around too much, i.e. repartitioning or reinstalling, your data should be valid. Do you remember the approx sizes of all your partitions? Are the other partitions intact? Do you remember the partition scheme for all your partitions? their sizes? total size of your hard disk? Gpart only works on primary partitions at the moment. Do you remember if your partition was a primary one or logical? Even if it was logical we can still recover it by hand using fdisk. All said and done bottomline is that there will be some trial and error and work involved..if u have backup of data on the partition then it'll probably be better recovering from there.otherwise is the data worth recovering?? If you do wanna go ahead recovering then I'd recommend you make a copy of your MBR as it stands right now (so you can backtrack) and then try using gpart. If you need help then feel free to holler :) Bye On Thursday 03 Apr 2003 7:58 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > > --u3/rZRmxL6MmkK24 > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Content-Disposition: inline > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > > > I destroyed my partition table with parted. I tried the command mklabel > > > >:( .. damn... > > > > I tried the rescue command from parted, but can't rescue my complete > > partition table. Is there any other way out? I didn't rebooted yet and > > for now, i've nothing of my data lost. If there is no solution, i've to > > burn about 10 GB to cd-roms :((( > > > > Thanks,=20 > > > > Roman > > gpart is a program that can guess a partition table especially if it hasn't > been changed too much. There is another once called something like > rescuept. I can't find my links for those right now. I have this link for > some utility. Not sure what it was, but I had it along with the above > names. > > http://inet.uni2.dk/~svolaf/utilities.htm > > Anita -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How stupid can I be :(....please help pls pls pls
Hey ppl, I have a Debian 3.0 system with an ext3 partition. I recently installed Mandrake 9.0 on a different partition just to check it out and therefore had to change the partition structure on my drive, however Debs been my main workhorse. I recently noticed a performance degrade on my Deb and realized that the Swap wasn't being used at all. I checked fstab and thought I saw the right entry for swap. Then i thought from my ass that since I've been havin too many power outages maybe the Swap partit has gotten corrupted someway so decided to do a mkswap on hda6.didn't realize that after i changed my partition structure it's hda7 that's the swap..mkswap started spewing msgs saying something like EXT3.bad directory.a few secs into the operation i realized that something was wrong and i did a hard reboot. When I try to reboot into the system now I get a kernel panic. When booted into Mandrake the partition still shows up as Linux with a signature id of 83. Partition magic also still shows it as Linux. Trying to mount it gives me the msg that Bad fs type, bad fs superblock or too many mounted filesystems. I tried doing a swapon on the partition just to check if it complains and it didn't. I really reallly really need the data on this partition really bad :(since i shut down after just a few secs is there anyway to recover the balance data on the partit (I know i know I'm grabbing at straws and hoping without hope :( )..would something like gpart helphowever in this case the partition seems to exist however i need to get the data withinor hopefully recreate it :( I know it ain't fair for u guys to bear the brunt of trying to solve my stupidity :(but really guys if there's anyway to rebuild my partition i'd really really appreciate itwilling to experiment on anything right now :( Thanks ppl and Happy New Year :) Bye for now
Re: How stupid can i get :( - please help pls pls pls
Hi, Alan lemme thank you soo much :)...fsck did the trick :).i'm currently mailing u from within my Debian system and it's good as new :) I really owe you one dude...thanks. Thanks everyone on this list :) Bye for now On Sunday 29 Dec 2002 3:06 pm, Alan Chandler wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sunday 29 Dec 2002 8:25 am, Jatin Golani wrote: > ... > > > Now if I try to boot into Debian I get a kernel panic. > > When booted into Mandrake, fdisk still shows the > > partition as a Linux partition with id 83...if I > > try to mount this partition i get a bad fs, bad > > superblock or too many mounted filesystems msg. If i > > try doing a swapon /dev/hda6 (hda6 is or was my > > ext3)just to see if i can load it as swap, swapon > > doesn't complain :( Under Windows Partition Magic > > still shows the partition as Linux > > what happens in Mandrake if you do a fsck /dev/hda6 (possibly with the -N > option at first just to see what it will try and do). > > - -- > Alan Chandler > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE+DsIBuFHxcV2FFoIRAtq/AKCIrxrJfwg9L3L+OXgaO5GkYiSOnQCfb2jW > hLQXA+0y2UJcCHYe/5bTQhA= > =bTNQ > -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: k3b
Hello, I do have k3b 0.7.5 installed however I installed it from the source. The website recommends that to be the best way to install it. I know there are rpm's available that come with Suse and I think the website has rpms too, not sure of debs though. I would recommend you install from sources since the software is still under development. By the way, I love K3b :) Bye On Tuesday 07 Jan 2003 8:56 am, Trey Sizemore wrote: > Has anyone installed k3b 0.7.5? Can this be done via apt-get and, if > so, what is the required entry in sources.list? > > Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
System/KDE slowing over time :(
Hello, First lemme thank all u guys for all the help u've provided me over time thru this list. I'm using a P4 2.2 with 512MB RAM and 256 MB Swap space. OS is Debian 3.0 with KDE 3.0.4 I've got great uptime with my system lasting for weeks (a month usually) on end and mostly it's been me who's rebooted to go to Windows or something like that. The system has crashed though not too frequently. My system has now been up for about one week without a reboot and today I noticed that the system has been very slow i.e. Screen refresh has been very very slow. New programs coming up became slow. At that time the programs running on the comp were - 5 instances of Konqueror, 1 instance of Open Office, 1 instance of KGhostScript, K3B, Wine running Kazaa, Kmerlin,Kmail and Konsole. The SysGuard showed Artsd with the User% of typically 35% or so. I was playing music through K3B which I usually do. How's this so high?? Wat exactly is the User space i.e. the User% being referred to? I've heard a lot of ppl complaining about artsd being very tough on the. Shutting down every software other than KDE and then restarting just Kmail and Kmerlin, improved things a lil but not to the efficiency it was formerly, not even after leaving it on for quite a few hours that way (hoping that maybe any memory leaks would be cleared off by the kernel over time once the buggy process was shut down) It could be a memory leak problem with any one of the applications. Wine is still under development so maybe that's wat caused it. Funny thing is everything was working fine 12 hours earlier when I switched on the 5'th instance of Konqueror to load www.uml.org.any similar issues known to be caused with konqueror Restarting KDE got everything working just fine. Even if it is a memory related problem caused by a buggy application shouldn't the kernel be able to reclaim the memory once the buggy application is shut downor was it that KDE itself caused the memory leak and therefore when KDE was restarted all went fine...has anyone else noticed a similar slowing down of KDE over time?? Thanks for all your help in advance. Bye -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Boot Problem - Pls Help
Hi, I'm a novice to Linux and Unix in general. I've installed Debian on my system - a 133MHz Pentium with 32MB RAM and 2 Hard Disks with the Linux Swap partition being 8 MB and the core Linux Partition being 484MB.I dont have an idea as to the Debian version however at boot up the Linux version comes as 1.3.18. When I installed Linux it booted correctly and it doesn't have any Windowing system on it. It has very minimilistic software on it. I have Windows 95 and NT also on machine and therefore boot Linux through Loadlin. It used to boot correctly earlier and then for a prolonged period of time I hadn't booted into Linux, however when I tried to boot into it now it reaches the point where it says Loading Mouse Server: gpm, it then lets me type out anything without any effect i.e. no action on any coomand or any other sign of recognition of command, when I press Ctrl-Alt-Del it shuts down as it would normally and reboots. I'd appreciate some help in solving this please. Thanks in advance for all the help. Bye
Windows open up larger than screen in X+GNOME+Window Maker
Hey all,I'm using Deb 2.2, with GNOME and Window Maker. I've noticed that some =windows/dialog boxes seem to be larger than the screen causing you to =move the window to see it completely.this I find to be very =irritating and would prefer the Windows kind of approach wherein the =screen resolution is the maximum size your window can be. I'm using a =resolution of 800x600, I've tried editing the XF86Config and putting the =line "Virtual 800 600" under the appropriate section...this doesn't seem =to helpnot all windows open up like this though..I'd really =appreciate some help in this.Thanks
Shutdown process and Upgrade
Hello, I'm quite a newbie to Linux and emerge mainly from a MS background. I love Linux and use it as my primary OS though. I have a question with regards shutting down Linux. When I shutdown Linux I go into tty1 and press Ctrl-Alt-Del. Now this shuts everything down including X and it's applications, however what if I'm in the middle of say typing a document, I don't get a dialog box responding to a close event asking me if I want to save the document or not,etc. Does this mean that Linux applications are typically supposed to be designed so that they automatically save whatever was happening when they receive the TERM signal. However, the time between a TERM and KILL signal is low, therefore if there were applications that require a lotta time completing what they're doing, then they may be killed before they finish their task. Could someone explain the Shutdown process to me? Also I currently have Potato and I've been thinking of Upgrading to Woddy. How would I go about that? Could I just do a apt-get upgrade?? Would that upgrade me to Woody (Debian 2.4)what is Sid? Thanks for all the help
Missing Fonts :(
Hi there, First, Seasons Greeting and may all of you have an awesome New Year ahead of you. I'm using Sarge and KDE 3.1.4 and have just dist-upgraded my system. Though my system functions normally I don't have most of my fonts in KDE. The Helvetica font is one such font that I can't locate in the Font Selector list. Therefore I'm left with some very poor quality fonts. I do have xfonts-100dpi installed and the 75dpi variant. Thinking that the old xfs may be creating a problem I've installed xfs-xtt and removed xfs. Still I get the same result. Xlsfonts seems to show the font Helvetica and in Xfontsel I can select the font and it shows up, I think it looks ok. How do I turn this on in KDE? Any ideas would really be appreciated since I've spent quite a few days trying to sort this out myself. Thanks Jeetu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Library qt-mt not found in Debian Testing
Hello, I just upgraded my system to Testing and I can no longer compile QT based applications. ./configure reports lib qt-mt not found however I do have it on my system. I have libqt3-mt libqt3-mt-dev libqt3-headers however none of my QT based apps compile. These apps used to compile with Woody. I'd really appreciate if someone could tell me how I could resolve this. Thanks a lot for all your help Bye for now On Friday 18 Jul 2003 12:57 am, Hall Stevenson wrote: > At 08:11 PM 7/17/2003 +0100, john gennard wrote: > >(**) Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" > > > >(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" > >(EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice No such > > device. (EE) Generic Mouse: cannot open input device > >(EE) PreInit failed for input device "Generic Mouse" > > The "EE" lines are pointing to references to a mouse set up on a DEVFS > system. You may not be running that... Are your disk drives referred to > /dev/hdaX, where X is a number, or a longer, more informative designation > ?? > > Edit your XF86Config file and change the references to "\dev\input\mice" to > "\dev\psaux". > > Good luck > Hall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kernel 2.6.0-test2,Nvidia and The story of the missing X :)
Hi there, I have a NVidia GeForce2 MX 400 card and I'm trying to use kernel 2.6.0-test2 with it. The kernel compiles fine but I don't have X. I tried recompiling the driver I was using with kernel 2.4.18 but I get the message that the kernel doesn't support 2.6.x and newer kernels. I downloaded the latest driver but have similar issues with that. I'd appreciate if someone could guide me as to if there's a way i can use this card with kernel 2.6.0-test2. Barring this,I'd settle for any other driver which I could use. I just wanna test the kernel 2.6.0-test2 and need X. I think before I used the Nvidia driver,X used the nv driver and that worked fine (minus a few goodies the nvidia driver supports which i'm willing to live without to test this kernel),however just putting in the nv driver instead of nvidia in XF86Config-4 doesn't work. I would appreciate if someone could tell me what other modules,etc I'd need to have that working? Also, I have mouse support built-in to the kernel, however there isn't a /dev/psaux created. I also don't have /dev/ttyS0,etc. The files show up in the listing but trying to cat them doesn't work. I think this has something to do with me needing to mount devfs or something. If i try fiddling with the modules and getting the nv driver for X working, the next complaint i get is for my mouse, it needs device /dev/psaux. I'd really appreciate any help that could be provided for the above. Thank you in advance for everything. Bye for now On Tuesday 29 Jul 2003 11:00 pm, gerard wrote: > I am using openbox and I like to use konqueror for my file browser. > Generally it works very well but sometimes it will come up with an > error. The error is "Could not start process. Can't talk to klauncher" > Any ideas why this happens or how to fix it? > > -- > ~gerard > http://devslash.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel 2.6.0-test2,Nvidia and The story of the missing X :)
Hi there, Thanks a lot for your help. Have gotten the kernel to work with the nv driver for the moment, will try the patch for the Nvidia driver. > > about /dev/ttySX => I have the same problem ;) > You need to say Yes to Character/Serial Drivers/8250/16550 and compatible serial support. By default this is switched to No. Now all I need is Sound and the Scroll wheel on my mouse to work. Thanks once again. Bye On Wednesday 30 Jul 2003 8:59 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Le Mercredi 30 Juillet 2003 07:55, Jeetu Golani a écrit : > > Hi there, > > > > I have a NVidia GeForce2 MX 400 card and I'm trying to use kernel > > 2.6.0-test2 with it. The kernel compiles fine but I don't have X. I tried > > recompiling the driver I was using with kernel 2.4.18 but I get the > > message that the kernel doesn't support 2.6.x and newer kernels. I > > downloaded the latest driver but have similar issues with that. > > > > I'd appreciate if someone could guide me as to if there's a way i can use > > this card with kernel 2.6.0-test2. > > > > Barring this,I'd settle for any other driver which I could use. I just > > wanna test the kernel 2.6.0-test2 and need X. I think before I used the > > Nvidia driver,X used the nv driver and that worked fine (minus a few > > goodies the nvidia driver supports which i'm willing to live without to > > test this kernel),however just putting in the nv driver instead of nvidia > > in XF86Config-4 doesn't work. I would appreciate if someone could tell me > > what other modules,etc I'd need to have that working? > > > > Also, I have mouse support built-in to the kernel, however there isn't a > > /dev/psaux created. I also don't have /dev/ttyS0,etc. The files show up > > in the listing but trying to cat them doesn't work. I think this has > > something to do with me needing to mount devfs or something. If i try > > fiddling with the modules and getting the nv driver for X working, the > > next complaint i get is for my mouse, it needs device /dev/psaux. > > > > I'd really appreciate any help that could be provided for the above. > > Thank you in advance for everything. > > > > Bye for now > > hi > to make nvidia card working with kernel 2.6.0-testX, you need to patch the > nvidia driver source so, you need a patch corresponding on the version of > your driver : http://www.minion.de/nvidia.html > note that the last nvidia driver (4496) works well for me > step-by-step process : > download the nvidia driver and the patch, then run : > ./NVIDIA.run --extract-only > cd NVIDIA***/usr/src/nv > patch -p1 < ../../../../NVIDIA_kernel***-2.5.diff > make > > that-s all (I hope) > > > about /dev/ttySX => I have the same problem ;) > > about /dev/psaux => I had the same problem > to solve it, you need to reconfigure your kernel, and make sure you have > set the options : INPUT_MOUSEDEV > INPUT_MOUSEDEV_PSAUX > in the section "Input device support" > > > good luck > > - > NetCourrier, votre bureau virtuel sur Internet : Mail, Agenda, Clubs, > Toolbar... Web/Wap : www.netcourrier.com > Téléphone/Fax : 08 92 69 00 21 (0,34 TTC/min) > Minitel: 3615 NETCOURRIER (0,15 TTC/min) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What java plugins i needed to install?
Hi there, I had the same problem as you do. If you're using Mozilla 1.4, u need a java plugin compiled with gcc-3.2 You can get the latest blackdown java plugin from www.blackdown.org choose the gcc 3.2 variant there. Or download unofficial debs by adding the line deb http://jopa.studentenweb.org/debian ./ ..to your /etc/apt/sources.list. You then need to symlink the java plugin the directory to both the /usr/local/mozilla/plugins (or the plugins dir in the place where mozilla is installed) and /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins (this may already be done by the deb package install script) This should get things working. Good luck On Thursday 31 Jul 2003 10:02 pm, James Ng Yuen Sum wrote: > Hi, > > If i am using mozilla to view websites and encounter the following > problem, what java plugins i needed to install? > > "This page contains information of a type (application/x-java-vm) that > can only be viewed with the appropriate Plug-in." > > Regards, > James Ng -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian and VMWare
Hey Chris, Do you mean you're gonna be installing Terminal Services inside of the guest OS and other clients should be able to remote use from this? Am not sure how this will perform within a virtual environment since this uses a virtual graphics adapter. Would appreciate it if you could write back and let us know how this works (or you could write back to me directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED]) In general if you have sufficient RAM on your system and follow what Robin has posted you should get very decent performance. I've used XP on my P4 2.2GHz with 512MB RAM and been very happy with the performance. If you need help setting this up I'd be happy to help in any way. Bye for now :) On Wednesday 13 December 2006 16:38, Christian Christmann wrote: > Hi, > > I plan to set up a Windows terminal server. In order > to easily backup the entire Windows system, I plan to install > Debian Sarge as base system, then VMWare and in VMWare > the Windows OS. > > Will I get a decreased speed performance in the VMWare > Windows or will the Microsoft OS run approximately with > the same performance as when installed directly without Linux. > > May I run in other problems (or restrictions) with my > Windows system when run in VMWare? > > Thank you. > > Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Please help
Hi, I'm not sure I understand correctly. Etch (Debian 4.0) doesn't include gcc-4.3.0 (does it??...just did a cursory check on the packages at debian.org but can't see it). So it can't be in the repository. how're you trying to install it??.are you trying to compile gcc from source??? Bye for now On Thursday 15 May 2008, Egor sv wrote: > Hi! > > I am having problem installing "gcc-4.3.0" i get message: > > configure erro: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH > See config.log for more details > > but gcc is a c compiler so what can i do ? > _ > Explore the seven wonders of the world > http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=7+wonders+world&mkt=en-US&form=QBRE -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Compiz - Screen blanks out after switching terminal console
Hi, I'm using Compiz v0.2.2 and everything works fine - the window decorations et al. However when i move to a different terminal console - say vt0...when i return back to my X on vt7, sometimes i lose all window decorations and at other times I get a blank screen. The keyboard locks out and I can't do anything from that point of time but to reset my comp. I get the mouse cursor though and Linux itself doesn't seem to have crashed. I'm using Debian Testing with Compiz and Xorg pulled in from Unstable. My hardware constitutes a P4 2.2 on a 512MB RAM and the Nvidia MX400 graphics card. I'm using the Nvidia driver v9629, although I've been able to reproduce the problem using earlier versions of the driver too (including the beta release v9625) I'd appreciate any help on this. I've been upgrading Compiz as it comes into Testing thinking maybe it's a bug that'll be fixed, however I'm wondering if it's a configuration issue local to my machine since I haven't found any reference to something similarin all truth,I've looked but dunno if i've looked hard enough. Thankstruly appreciate all help. Bye for now -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: configuring gmail's SMTP server in kmail
Hi, I have gmail running on kmailhave been using it for quite sometime. Just checked my config and I have encryption set to SSL and Authentication method as Plain. The rest of your config seems alright. Hope it works out for you :) Bye for now On Monday 13 November 2006 22:57, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > Hi > Did any succeed in configuring gmail SMTP server with kmail? I am using > Etch/testing kmail 1.9.5 > > I did > Settings -> Configure Kmail -> Accounts -> Sending > > and used the following settings. > Host : smtp.gmail.com > Port : 465 > > However I am confused about the "security" tab where it asks encryption and > authentication methods. If I clicked on "Check what the server supports", > then it detects Encryption as TLS, Authentication method as Plain. But If I > send a test email (to myself) with these settings, then I am getting the > following error > > Sending failed: > Your SMTP server does not support PLAIN. > Choose a different authentication method. > The server responded: "5.7.1 Credentials Rejected 26sm7628218wrl" > The message will stay in the 'outbox' folder until you either fix the > problem (e.g. a broken address) or remove the message from the 'outbox' > folder. The following transport protocol was used: > smtp.gmail.com > > > Any other ideas as to what I should choose in the Security tab? > > thanks > raju > > -- > Kamaraju S Kusumanchi > http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ > http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Using old diskless machine as X terminal
Hey Ross, Haven't tried this however I believe the Network Boot Howto is what you're looking for http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/Network-boot-HOWTO.html Good luck :) Bye for now On Tuesday 23 Dec 2008, Ross Boylan wrote: > I have an old machine without a working hard disk that I'd like to use > to connect to my main machine and run X. > > I believe that I could boot off of knoppix, but is there something > easier I could do with the stuff already on my main machine--maybe > setting up an image and transmitting over the network at boot time? The > machine has a CD drive, but I'm not sure it's working. > > If I can use stuff I've already downloaded, it will go faster. > > Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
VLAN et iptables
Hi, I have a Debian system that I am trying to configure as a router for a MPLS VPN setup. I'm having trouble setting up the iptables rules to forward internet traffic from remote locations. Admittedly this isn't my forte therefore I would sincerely appreciate any help :) Network Description: At the head office, the ISP facing router has two physical NICs (eth0 and eth1). eth0 is connected to the head office "local" LAN 192.168.0.0/24. eth1 has two VLAN interfaces 105 and 689 (vlan105 and vlan689) connecting to the Service Provider's (SP) Network Termination Unit (NTU) vlan105 carries VPN traffic coming in from remote locations e.g two LANs subnets over MPLS VPN (a) 192.168.1.0/24 and (b) 172.16.0.0/16 vlan689 carries company <> INTERNET traffic Internet access for "remote" locations, all Internet traffic comes to above router over vlan105 sub interface and have it SNAT'd/Masquerade to the Internet over vlan689 interface. - The following is the iptables script I have tried however it doesn't work: INTIF1="eth0" # physical interface for local LAN INTIF2="vlan105" # VLAN iface for VPN traffic to remote location EXTIF="vlan689" # VLAN iface for INTERNET traffic EXTIP="x.x.x.x" #public IP for our CE router /sbin/depmod -a /sbin/modprobe ip_tables /sbin/modprobe ip_conntrack /sbin/modprobe ip_conntrack_ftp /sbin/modprobe ip_conntrack_irc /sbin/modprobe iptable_nat /sbin/modprobe ip_nat_ftp echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward #echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_dynaddr iptables -P INPUT ACCEPT iptables -F INPUT iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT iptables -F OUTPUT iptables -P FORWARD DROP iptables -F FORWARD iptables -t nat -F # for Matunga subnet 192.168.0.0/24 iptables -A FORWARD -i $EXTIF -o $INTIF1 -d 192.168.0.0/24 -m state -- state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT iptables -A FORWARD -i $INTIF1 -o $EXTIF -s 192.168.0.0/24 -m -j ACCEPT # for Silvassa subnet 172.16.0.0/16 iptables -A FORWARD -i $EXTIF -o $INTIF2 -d 172.16.0.0/16 -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT iptables -A FORWARD -i $INTIF2 -o $EXTIF -s 172.16.0.0/16 -m -j ACCEPT # for Colaba subnet 192.168.1.0/24 iptables -A FORWARD -i $EXTIF -o $INTIF2 -d 192.168.1.0/24 -m state -- state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT iptables -A FORWARD -i $INTIF2 -o $EXTIF -s 192.168.1.0/24 -m -j ACCEPT iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o $EXTIF -j MASQUERADE Would sincerely appreciate any help. Thanks Bye for now -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201004030017.21516.jeetu.gol...@gmail.com
