Re: Getting XFree 4.3?
* Russell Shaw > > dpkg --audit > or > dpkg --yet-to-unpack dpkg --audit The following packages are only half configured, probably due to problems configuring them the first time. The configuration should be retried using dpkg --configure or the configure menu option in dselect: console-common Basic infrastructure for text console configuration nbjhh1-laptop:/# dpkg --yet-to-unpack nbjhh1-laptop:/# > > Try: apt-get install -t testing --fix-broken console-common apt-get install -t testing --fix-broken console-common Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... Sorry, console-common is already the newest version. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 80 not upgraded. 1 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Setting up console-common (0.7.25) ... Looking for keymap to install: no dpkg: error processing console-common (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: console-common E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) (Tanks for your effort. I must be pretty hopeless..) -- Jon Haugsand Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo, Norway, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ifi.uio.no/~jonhaug/, Phone: +47 22 95 21 52 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NFS share: cannot write
* Joan Tur > Hallo! > > I've set up an NFS share (server runs Woody), and I can mount it from the > allowed computer, but I cannot write to it from the client 8-? What is the error message? Have you tried to mount it locally, that is, run the following on the server: mount -t nfs localhost:/Dades /mnt cd /mnt ... .. (You may need to insert localhost into /etc/exports.) -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IRC protocol blocked
* Karsten M. Self > Your best bet is to get access somewhere else. If you can and your site > allows ssh access to a remote shell account, you can run a text-mode IRC > client such as irssi from this. If you have ssh access, using X applications is trivial. Just turn on X tunnelling, and everything is plain sailing: ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] xapplication -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getting XFree 4.3?
* Russell Shaw > >>Also, put an official "testing" source into sources.list too. > For testing: >deb ftp://ftp.no.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free But I still cannot get XFree 4.3 into my Debian, look: X -version This is a pre-release version of XFree86, and is not supported in any way. Bugs may be reported to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and patches submitted to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Before reporting bugs in pre-release versions, please check the latest version in the XFree86 CVS repository (http://www.XFree86.Org/cvs) XFree86 Version 4.2.1.1 (Debian 4.2.1-6 20030225230350 [EMAIL PROTECTED]) / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600) Release Date: 18 October 2002 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (See http://www.XFree86.Org/) Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.20-586tsc i686 [ELF] Module Loader present -- Jon Haugsand Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo, Norway, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ifi.uio.no/~jonhaug/, Phone: +47 22 95 21 52 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
apt.conf? (was: Re: Getting XFree 4.3?)
* Russell Shaw > often). Some of these errors may go away if you put this in apt.conf: > > APT::Default-Release "testing"; > APT::Cache-Limit 1000; I do not seem to have any apt.conf, but I do have an /etc/apt/apt.conf.d directory. Should I make the file /etc/apt/apt.conf, or should I put the above two lines into a file in the given directory? (Which name?) -- Jon Haugsand Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo, Norway, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ifi.uio.no/~jonhaug/, Phone: +47 22 95 21 52 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sub-process gzip returned an error code
Everything has worked find up to now. But then: jonhaug:/etc/apt# apt-get update Get:1 http://ftp.no.debian.org stable/main Packages [202B] Hit http://ftp.no.debian.org stable/main Release gzip: stdin: not in gzip format Err http://ftp.no.debian.org stable/main Packages Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1) Get:2 http://ftp.no.debian.org stable/non-free Packages [202B] 9 .. and so on. -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cannot compile the kernel
Installed the kernel-source-2.4.18.tar.bz2. Tried 'make dep', but this is what happened: gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -o scripts/mkdep scripts/mkdep.c scripts/mkdep.c:33:19: ctype.h: No such file or directory scripts/mkdep.c:34:19: fcntl.h: No such file or directory In file included from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/3.3.1/include/syslimits.h:7, from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/3.3.1/include/limits.h:11, from scripts/mkdep.c:35: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/3.3.1/include/limits.h:122:75: limits.h: No such file or directory In file included from scripts/mkdep.c:36: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/3.3.1/include/stdio.h:37:23: features.h: No such file or directory In file included from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/3.3.1/include/stdio.h:43, from scripts/mkdep.c:36: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/3.3.1/include/stddef.h:213: error: syntax error before "typedef" Probably wrong packet or something? -- Jon Haugsand Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo, Norway, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ifi.uio.no/~jonhaug/, Phone: +47 22 95 21 52 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
startx fails: device dri/card0 missing
drmOpenDevice: minor is 0 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) drmOpenDevice: Open failed drmOpenDevice: minor is 0 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) drmOpenDevice: Open failed [drm] failed to load kernel module "i830" (II) I810(0): [drm] drmOpen failed The module itself seems to be there. -- Jon Haugsand Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo, Norway, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ifi.uio.no/~jonhaug/, Phone: +47 22 95 21 52 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cannot compile the kernel
* Andreas Janssen > Looks like you are missing some files. Did you install libc6-dev? Not that I can remember. Shouldn't this be taken care of by the package system? Anyway, I just saw another recommendation: apt-get install kernel-package However, I couldn't find anything residing on /usr/src, so this was obviously wrong. In Redhat and SuSE the kernel just is there. But in Debian it is nowhere. -- Jon Haugsand Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo, Norway, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ifi.uio.no/~jonhaug/, Phone: +47 22 95 21 52 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Still BIG problems with XFree on Dell C400
The Dell C400 is troublesome, in particular with Debian since its policy of conservative upgrades. Anyway, I have downloaded the following packages: XFree86 Version 4.3.0 (Debian 4.3.0-0ds2.0.0woody1 20030307145421 marcelo@) kernel-source-2.4.22 The kernel recompiled with settings as recommended. However, when issuing startx, the screens goes black, 30-60 seconds goes by, suddenly the screen looks X like with the X mouse pointer, but then I am back to console mode again. Looking into the /var/log/XFree86.0.log and grepping out (WW), (EE) and Warning, I get this: (WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/util". (WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/encodings". (WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such file or directory) (WW) I810(0): Bad V_BIOS checksum (WW) System lacks support for changing MTRRs (WW) I810(0): Extended BIOS function 0x5f11 not supported. (WW) I810(0): Bad V_BIOS checksum (WW) I810(0): Bad V_BIOS checksum (EE) I810(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit failed. Disabling DRI. (WW) I810(0): Option "UseModeLine" is not used Warning: font renderer for ".pcf" already registered at priority 0 Warning: font renderer for ".pcf.Z" already registered at priority 0 Warning: font renderer for ".pcf.gz" already registered at priority 0 Warning: font renderer for ".snf" already registered at priority 0 Warning: font renderer for ".snf.Z" already registered at priority 0 Warning: font renderer for ".snf.gz" already registered at priority 0 Warning: font renderer for ".bdf" already registered at priority 0 Warning: font renderer for ".bdf.Z" already registered at priority 0 Warning: font renderer for ".bdf.gz" already registered at priority 0 Warning: font renderer for ".pmf" already registered at priority 0 Any idea of what goes wrong? Or how to debug my situation? -- Jon Haugsand Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo, Norway, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ifi.uio.no/~jonhaug/, Phone: +47 22 95 21 52 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Still BIG problems with XFree on Dell C400
* Naitik Shah > What graphics card are you using? Nvidia or ATI? Did you install the > appropriate drivers? Did you change the driver setting in your > XF86Config ? There's a dell laptop users mailing list on yahoo groups > which is where I figured out how to get my inspiron to work. Go through > their archives and files section, its useful stuff. As a matter of fact, the RedHat Rawhide (aka version 9 beta) works very well. But I prefer Debian, and that is my problem. 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82830 CGC [Chipset Graphics Contr oller] (rev 04) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 00c8 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11 Memory at e000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M] Memory at f4f8 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K] Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 1 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corp. 82830 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller] Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 00c8 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 Memory at d800 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M] Memory at f4f0 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K] Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 1 I'll try the mailing list. -- Jon Haugsand Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo, Norway, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ifi.uio.no/~jonhaug/, Phone: +47 22 95 21 52 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Still BIG problems with XFree on Dell C400
* Matthias Hentges > There is nothing wrong to see here. Please post the complete log. > Or try starting X manually: > > $ X > $ export DISPLAY=:0 > $ xterm > > If you have a working X with a xterm running now, there is probably a > problem with your windowmanager (KDE, Gnome?) or Displaymanager (GDM, > XDM, KDM etc.) Aww. Thanks. It somewhat worked. Ok, then I am closer. No mouse, but the screen came up. No xterm was there, I just have to install one. Need a displaymanager and a windowmanager I guess. (Haven't got acquainted with Debian yet.) -- Jon Haugsand Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo, Norway, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ifi.uio.no/~jonhaug/, Phone: +47 22 95 21 52 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Still BIG problems with XFree on Dell C400
* Rohan Nicholls > Sorry, I missed the rest of this thread, but was wondering if I can > help, as I have a Dell C600 Latitude with X happily humming along. > > Can you send me the thread, or shorten it to what is and what is not > working? > > I have just reinstalled debian on my laptop, and had some problems > with installing the correct packages, so maybe I can shed some light > on what is going wrong. > > And don't worry other answers will be on list.;) Thanks. There was one year ago or something big problems with the Intel 810 chipset on the C400 Latitude. Problems solved on the RedHat 9, but as Debian is slow on official updates, I had big problems with installing debian on my notebook. Anyway, I downloaded kernel 2.4.20, and recompiled it, and after several tries, I still have some problems. E.g. the network is not found. (I used to recompile the kernel often in the old days, but I seem to have lost the touch.) I also downloaded XFree 4.3.0 and it looks like this worked somewhat. I am no able to start X by issuing the X command. But no mouse is found, from /var/log/XFree86.0.log: (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" So I think: 1. I haven't been able to include proper network configuration when recompiling the kernel. 2. I haven't been able to include proper mouse configuration when recompiling the kernel. 3. I miss xdm, gdm and kdm. Which one should I choose? -- Jon Haugsand Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo, Norway, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ifi.uio.no/~jonhaug/, Phone: +47 22 95 21 52 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dselect conflicts (was: Re: Still BIG problems with XFree on Dell C400)
* Matthias Hentges > > Check the following settings in make menuconfig: Thank you. I solved the problem by moving USB from modules to kernel. I guess I could tweak some settings in /etc/modules or something. > I personally prefer GDM, but KDM is nice,too. Thanks. My current problem took place when I entered dselect in order to REALLY configure my system. There was a LOT of conflicts. And I couldn't make head or tails out of these things. Maybe the problems manifasted themselves when I installed a new kernel and a new testing version of XFree 3.2. How should I figure out thise things? -- Jon Haugsand Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo, Norway, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ifi.uio.no/~jonhaug/, Phone: +47 22 95 21 52 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dselect conflicts
* Joachim Fahnenmueller > On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 10:13:51PM +0200, Jon Haugsand wrote: > > and a new testing version of XFree 3.2. > > 3.2 isn't _very_ new, is it? Did you install it as a deb package? Yes, but from some non official looking http address. The downloading process gave me a lot of trouble though, as apt-get complained a lot of double (or conflicting?) definitions in sources.lists. I had to disable some addresses when doing this. > I suggest to use aptitude instead. It can e. g. show you what a given package > depends on (press d) and which packages depend on it (r). Thanks. This was a lot better. -- Jon Haugsand Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo, Norway, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ifi.uio.no/~jonhaug/, Phone: +47 22 95 21 52 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Installing on a Dell Latitude C400
Trying (once more) to install on my Dell Latitude C400 I experienced an unusual problem. This machine is running RedHat rawhide (almost) painlessly. However, I think I prefer Debian and tried to install it on a free partition. Everything seems to install quite well, but during the installation and afterwards the screen was/is constantly flickering at it seems that the computer thinks the screen is larger than it really is. Basically it looks like debian is trying to do something wise with the video timings, but really doesn't have a clue. I have only installed a minimum base system, and of course no XFree yet. (The problem started almost immediately after I chose "install" on the first menu.) I never thought it was even possible to do something with the video timing in console mode, but now I find it is not true. Anyone know what is happening? -- Jon Haugsand Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo, Norway, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ifi.uio.no/~jonhaug/, Phone: +47 22 95 21 52 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Turn on the service
* Mike Mueller > On Friday 15 August 2003 13:31, Victory wrote: > >> How to install and turn on/off rsh, telnet and ftp server/service for >> Debian 3.0r1??? I am new to Debian > > any reason not to choose ssh and scp for remote access and file transfer? One reason is to enable lazy windowists to connect to the computer if they need. -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help me please with TAR
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hello, > > I am quite a new user of Debian, so my question would sound a little bit > stupid, but I've got a problem with TAR. I am using a testing version of > Debian. I have upgraded TAR to 1.13.25-5 version and as I try to unpack > tar.bz2 files with " tar xjf ... " I get such a message: > > tar (child): bzip2: Cannot exec: No such file or directory > tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting no > tar: Child returned status 2 > tar: Error exit delayed from previous error You need the bzip2 package. Try: apt-get install bzip2 -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing on a Dell Latitude C400
* nori heikkinen > no, but you might try passing the option 'video=vga16:off' to the > kernel at boot time ... so instead of just hitting enter to install, > type: > > linux video=vga16:off > > and see if that fixes it. shot in the dark, but it worked for me on > my dell inspiron 8000[1]. You're shooting pretty well. This made it! (You should do well in biathleton or something. :-) -- Jon Haugsand Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo, Norway, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ifi.uio.no/~jonhaug/, Phone: +47 22 95 21 52 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Getting XFree 4.3?
My Dell Latitude needs XFree 4.3, but I'm not sure how to get it for my Woody laptop. Trying: apt-get install x-window-system=4.3 Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... E: Version '4.3' for 'x-window-system' was not found This is my sources.list: deb http://ftp.no.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib deb-src http://ftp.no.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free deb http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/xfree86/i386/ ./ (And I did do an 'apt-get update'.) Any suggestions? -- Jon Haugsand Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo, Norway, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ifi.uio.no/~jonhaug/, Phone: +47 22 95 21 52 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getting XFree 4.3?
* Nick Hastings > apt-get install xserver-xfree86 Why did it work to write: apt-get install x-window-system -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getting XFree 4.3?
* Paul Johnson > On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 08:55:21AM +0200, Jon Haugsand wrote: >> My Dell Latitude needs XFree 4.3, but I'm not sure how to get it for >> my Woody laptop. Trying: > > Look for a backport on apt-get.org or upgrade to sid. That's what I did: deb http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/xfree86/i386/ ./ -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getting XFree 4.3?
* Colin Watson > On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 08:55:21AM +0200, Jon Haugsand wrote: >> My Dell Latitude needs XFree 4.3, but I'm not sure how to get it for >> my Woody laptop. Trying: >> >> apt-get install x-window-system=4.3 > > You can't make up version numbers like that, in general; you need to > look to see what version is available in the distribution you're looking > for. For instance, it'll usually have at least a Debian revision number > attached to it. > > Try http://packages.debian.org/x-window-system. Incidentally, I didn't make the number up, it's just the XFree gang who made it up. :-) But point taken and thanks. -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getting XFree 4.3?
* Russell Shaw ># XFree86 4.3: >deb http://people.debian.org/~nobse/debian/woody/experimental/ ./ > > (i have sources for "testing" distro too) > > apt-get update > apt-get install -t testing xfree86-common xbase-clients xserver-xfree86 xlibs > xserver-xfree86 xlibs Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: xbase-clients: Depends: cpp-3.2 but it is not installable Depends: libfontconfig1 (>= 2.2.0) but it is not installable Depends: libfreetype6 (>= 2.1.4-1) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libpng12-0 but it is not installable Depends: libxft2 (> 2.1.1) but it is not installable xfree86-common: Depends: debconf (>= 1.2.9) but 1.0.32 is to be installed xlibs: Depends: libfontconfig1 (>= 2.2.0) but it is not installable Depends: libfreetype6 (>= 2.1.4-1) but it is not going to be installed E: Sorry, broken packages -- Jon Haugsand Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo, Norway, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ifi.uio.no/~jonhaug/, Phone: +47 22 95 21 52 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getting XFree 4.3?
* Russell Shaw > >> E: Sorry, broken packages > > I think by setting up apt-get "pinning" or something, these > > dependancies > > can be downloaded and installed automatically. However, i haven't figured > > that out, so i resolve these problems manually (it doesn't happen very > > often). Some of these errors may go away if you put this in apt.conf: > > APT::Default-Release "testing"; > > APT::Cache-Limit 1000; > > Also, put an official "testing" source into sources.list too. How? -- Jon Haugsand Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo, Norway, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ifi.uio.no/~jonhaug/, Phone: +47 22 95 21 52 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getting XFree 4.3?
* Russell Shaw Hmm, I still have problems: apt-get install -t testing xfree86-common xbase-clients xserver-xfree86 xlibs Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... Sorry, xfree86-common is already the newest version. Sorry, xbase-clients is already the newest version. Sorry, xserver-xfree86 is already the newest version. Sorry, xlibs is already the newest version. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 80 not upgraded. 1 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Setting up console-common (0.7.25) ... Looking for keymap to install: no dpkg: error processing console-common (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: console-common E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) -- Jon Haugsand Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo, Norway, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ifi.uio.no/~jonhaug/, Phone: +47 22 95 21 52 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CVSROOT permissions
* Bill Moseley > I just tried updating (from a remote location) a file with CVS and I > got: > > cvs server: warning: cannot write to history file /var/lib/cvs/CVSROOT/history: > Permission denied > > And sure enough: > > $ ls -l /var/lib/cvs/CVSROOT/history > -rw-rw-r--1 root root0 2002-12-10 17:00 > /var/lib/cvs/CVSROOT/history > > On another machine I have all the files in CVSROOT are group "users", > and the history file is group rw. > > I guess I'm curious why my Debian installation has the history file not > writable by normal users (or if it should or shouldn't be). Well, what permission is set on the CVSROOT directory in the reposotory? I guess that the individual file permissions is not that important as the files are not updated, but new files are made. -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
apt-file update --> error
Searching around for information on packages and where a file might be and so on. Saw the apt-file, and I installed it 'apt-get install apt-file'. However, 'apt-file update' did not work out: apt-file update Error: http://security.debian.org//dists/stable/updates/Contents-i386.gz not found Error: http://ftp.freenet.de/pub/ftp.vpn-junkies.de/openoffice//dists/stable/Contents-i386.gz not found Error: http://ftp.sh.cvut.cz/MIRRORS/OpenOffice.deb//dists/stable/Contents-i386.gz not found But maybe I just can ignore these messages? -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ssh setup
* Jeff Elkins > Yep, X11Forwarding is set to yes in /etc/ssh_config for both the client and > the server. SSH seems to function normally in all other respects... On the server side, it is the file /etc/ssh/sshd_config. -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ssh or VPN
* Thomas Elsen > SSH is way of getting a prompt on a remote machine. It's the same as > telnet but encrypted. Although you can create encrypted tunnels between > two hosts with ssh, it's easier to do it with VPN. Well, actually, it is more. With X forwarding, you can open any application on remote host and all traffic is encrypted. -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Password discrepancies
* Brian Gonzales > 3. If I'm in Gnome, I do the same and I get a 'bad password' dialog box. Two wild guesses: (a) Gnome is using sudo. In this case, it is your own password that should be typed, and you should need the proper entries in /etc/sudo.conf. (b) There is a character encoding mismatch. This is a pain in the ... for all non-English setups in many situations. -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hot keys under fvwm
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi, > > I use fvwm as my window manager, and I define some hot keys to perform > some functions, like type CTRL-ALT-M to pop up a mutt window. Now my > question is when I use emacs, I want to screen out those hot keys, as > there are some conflicts between them and emacs's definition, how can I > make it? I don't think this is possible. Better to keep them apart, or use som tricks with num lock. But I have been wrong before... -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Xvidtune
* Marcelo Ramos > ModeLine "800x600" 49.50 800 816 896 1056 600 601 604 625 +hsync +vsync > > in the file /etc/X11/XF86Config ? > > If yes, did you put that line in the subsection "display" (Section > "Screen") corresponding to your default depth ? In my debian, the file is /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Why isn't there a cron.hourly?
RedHat has the directory /etc/cron.hourly, but this is not present in debian. Why is that? Should think that clock synchronization is needed. Especially since most computer clocks drift with at least 5 second every day. -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cdrecord: Cannot open SCSI driver
Trying to get my cd writer to run. After installing cdrecord, I tried: cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver. cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root. Well, maybe my kernel isn't configured for my cd writer, but how do I do just that? -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why isn't there a cron.hourly?
* Paul Johnson >> Should think that clock synchronization is needed. > > Of course. That's why the chrony package exists. Red Hat handles NTP > in the worst possible way I can imagine. This you probably know better than I, but to RedHat's defense, the task I included into cron.hourly was entirely my own. Chrony accesses the Internet, but I am confined behind a restrictive firewall. We have our own ntp server running somewhere. -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why isn't there a cron.hourly?
* christophe barbe >> Should think that clock synchronization is >> needed. Especially since most computer clocks drift with at least 5 >> second every day. > > I don't see how this is related to the hourly cron. Well, on my RedHat systems I found it simplest to run 'ntpdate -u SERVER; hwclock --systohw' every hour. > If you want to avoid computer clocks drift, you should consider proper > solution such as the one provided by ntp (see the ntp-simple package). Or 'chrony' as someone else told me. But thanks anyway. -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cdrecord: Cannot open SCSI driver
* Chris Metzler > This document, aimed at Debian users, should help you: > > http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/peripherals/cdrw.html Thanks, it did. I only needed to insert an append="hdd=ide-scsi max_scsi_luns=1" line in lilo.conf. I haven't tested it, but it is responding to 'cdrecord -scanbus'. There is a slight problem, though. Nothing happened after a reboot, I had to perform a 'modprobe ide-scsi' manually. Thus, I guess I need this to be performed at each boot, but where to put it? -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: i have 2 problems
* george roman > - i can't make anny users (i can create them, but i > can't grant access whith users other than root) they > exist in > /etc/passwd and in /home (in /home their directory is > empty) i can use the command "su username" but i can't > login with their name. How did you add users? If you used the debian tool adduser you get a list of questions including password. If you used the tool useradd, password will not be set until you insert one with 'passwd ' as root. > - when i want to turn off my computer i usally use the > comand "poweroff". most of the times it works but > sometimes my sistem crashes(the screen turns black and > i can't use my keyboard to enter in text mode with > C-A-F1 for example) > i've tried with "shutdown -h now" and it is the same > problem What do you mean: 'sistem crashes'? My screen also turns black during shutdown... -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nfs mount error
* Rodney D. Myers > I've re-installed debian, trying to get better hardware detection/setup. > > Everything installed okay, still requires some tinkering. > > My one glaring problem. I cannot get my /home directory nfs mounted to > this machine. Nfs is a pain in the ... > > I've edited the /etc/exports file, to match the previous settings, but > I'm getting this error message; > > mount: RPC: Program not registered > > I've rebooted both machines, after editing. I know about re-starting the > nfs process, but.. > > Any tips would be greatly appreciated. Do you have debian on both machines? The setup in /etc/init.d is slightly different on debian and redhat. Check portmap, rpc and nfs on both machines: ps aux | grep -E 'portmap|nfs|rpc' | grep -v grep -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NFS. [ Was: Re: nfs mount error ]
* Shaul Karl > Just wondering: have you considered a replacement? Maybe you dropped it > all together? For some reason I believe that the 2.5 kernel > configuration help are not suggesting CODA in the strong way that the > 2.4 used to. Does NFS v4 much better then v3? Haven't tried, really. Just using NFS v3 because it's there... But thanks for a reminder. My main problem with NFS is hanging mounted file systems which I cannot unmound. I cannot even use programs like ls, df, du, find because all file system calls hang when getting near the nfs file system. Reboot is the only way... (Perhaps not, because some tricks can still be applied, but it is annoying.) -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NFS. [ Was: Re: nfs mount error ]
* Alvin Oga > add soft to your mount options, so that the sytem can keep going > vs using hard mount which waits for the remotefs to come back online > - i rather use/risk soft mounts than to sit and wait > in a hung state ... the pc is useless in that state anyway > > - and over the years, i've not seen any corruptions of files > due to soft mounts ... lots of other problems though > that is way worst than soft vs hard mount issues > > - and i only do soft mounts for my data, where i know its all > saved and duplicated n-times elsewhere Thanks. Does this apply to smbfs too? -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: command for disk free ?
* David selby
> echo "$(df)" | grep '/dev/hdb1' | cut -c 53-54
Nitpicking
1. Why do you echo "$[df)"? It looks like digging a whole and filling
it afterwards. Just use 'df | grep ...'
2. I guess cut -c is ok, but consider a 100% filled disk... Furter,
we have to hope that df's output is stable for your script's life
time. A slightly more robust approach would be:
df | grep /dev/hdb1 | awk '{print $5}' | sed 's/%//'
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Re: bash: how to split a $var ?
* David selby
> In bash how can I split a string eg ...
>
> var1=0624todaysfile
>
> I want var2 to equal the first 4 digits, ie 0624
> My first instinct was cut but this is for files only, head & tail are
> of no use ...
Cut can be used, and it is instructive to see how you use filters like
cut to get what you want. You have to use echo in order to get the
filter streaming correctly:
echo $var1 | cut -c1-4
However, as long as you know that bash is in use, you have substring
function in bash:
echo ${var1:0:4}
These two works when you know that the variable is excactly like that,
i.e. the first four characters are to be taken. But regular
expressions can also be picked out:
echo ${var1%t*}
If you need a reasonable portal solution, sed is a choice:
echo $var1 | sed 's/[^0-9].*//'
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Re: sharp tif to jpg or png image conversion
* Levi Waldron > I am trying to convert a .tif scanned image of text to something readable by > web browsers, ie png or jpg. Have you tried convert? -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: need help with NFS setup
* Paul E. Condon > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mount /cmn > mount: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Unable to receive > > What does this mean? And how do I fix it? First, look into the nfs howto, you'll find it by searching for 'nfs' and 'howto' on the web. Then here is a few things to consider: Do you have firewall (iptables, ipchain, etc) between the computers? Is portmap running? (Try: 'ps aux | grep portmap' on both computers.) Try to mount an nfs partition locally. -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: why is the access time of dirs not chaged?
* Dan Jacobson > The following message is a courtesy copy of an article > that has been posted to comp.unix.shell as well. > > If I do "cat dir/file", why is the access time of dir not changed, as > seen with stat(1) or ls -ul? Only if we do "ls dir" will dir's access > time be changed. Maybe it is on purpose to avoid too much disk > access. In version 7 Unix did they do that too? Maybe because it isn't read as per policy. I mean, you can have access to the file with only access bit x set on the directory. -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bash question
* Stephan Sauerburger > This is a general shell-scripting question: > > In a for loop which runs through all files, as in: > > for file in `ls` > do > #stuff > done > > How do I have it make sure it iterates file-by-file? The following example, to play > all > mp3s in the current directory: > > for file in `ls` > do > mpg123 $file > done > > ...will do just a fine job, so long as none of the file names have any > spaces in them. If my directory contained: The simple and correct solution to just this question is not to use `ls`, but *: for file in * do mpg123 "$file" done Note also that you need to quote $file. However, you get anyway into all sorts of trouble if there are other files, not to say directories in your directory. A very failsafe variant is to use find: find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 mpg123 -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bash question
* Shawn Lamson > > for file in `ls` > do mpg123 "$file" > done Really? $ touch "aa aa" $ touch bb $ for file in `ls`; do echo "$file"; done aa aa bb -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kernel to a laptop?
Trying to install debian on my Dell Latitude C400, but without success. I have tried to follow the instructions on <http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-preparing.en.html#s-linux-upgrade> i.e: 1. Starting with RedHat Rawhide (at the time, the only distro installable as there is problem with chipset). 2. Free partition /dev/hda1 with around 600 MB 3. mke2fs -j /dev/hda1 4. mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/debinstall 5. /usr/sbin/debootstrap --arch i386 woody \ /mnt/debinst http://http.us.debian.org/debian 6. $ chroot /mnt/debinst /bin/bash 7. ... However, when I reboot, I get several errors (flashing off the screen) and then kernel panic. Is there some special kernel I have to choose for my laptop? -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: LaTeX vs. lout
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Thanks for the interesting answers. In the end I'm going to stick to LaTeX. I cannot find a single message discussion lout in the debian-user mailing list. -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: LaTeX vs. lout
* David Fokkema > Well, there has been some discussion, for sure. > > See: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200307/msg02025 Cannot find this one at all. (404 Not found). I may have had some email problems, so that I have lost the messages in question. -- Jon Haugsand, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norges-bank.no -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: startx VS xdm?
* Steve Lamb > Unless you are exceptionally tight on memory (which KDE suggests you're > not) I'd say just install kdm. It is based on xdm but you can configure it > nicely from within KDE itself. Can you also do this from, say, fvwm? -- Jon Haugsand Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo, Norway, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ifi.uio.no/~jonhaug/, Phone: +47 22 95 21 52 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
