kernel panic
debs, in one of my dual-boot deskboxes, i have a kernel panic: unable to load NLS charset cp 437 kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 03:03 my potato on custom kernel 2.2.17 was functioning well until yesterday. i don't mind a re-install, but i'd really like to know what's going on, as this happens like every couple of months to one of my machines. (i know i have a line-wrap problem w/ vi. when i get some time to learn how to fix it, i'll be very happy. until then, my apologies.) anyway, when i use the rescue disk and mount a partition, i only get the choices of /dev/hda1 (wincrap) /dev/hda3 and /dev/hda4. i'm sure i had /dev/hda2 (linux) and /dev/hda5 (swap). and when i try to mount /dev/hda3-hda4, i get, "invalid argument." i think i'm screwed; but if anyone has suggestions, please cc me. ia, t. bentley taylor. //
Re: kernel panic
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 01:40:35PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > egads, man. don't reinstall an operating system! > > don't you have any spare kernels laying around? i always leave myself at > least 1 other old kernel. > > as for vim, try: > > echo "set textwidth=76" >> $HOME/.vimrc > > p > > On Mon 18 Dec 00, 2:07 PM, q said... > > debs, > > > > in one of my dual-boot deskboxes, i have a kernel panic: > > > > unable to load NLS charset cp 437 > > kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 03:03 > > > > my potato on custom kernel 2.2.17 was functioning well until yesterday. > > > > i don't mind a re-install, but i'd really like to know what's going on, as > > this happens like every couple of months to one of my machines. > > > > (i know i have a line-wrap problem w/ vi. when i get some time to learn > > how to fix it, i'll be very happy. until then, my apologies.) > > > > anyway, when i use the rescue disk and mount a partition, i only get the > > choices of /dev/hda1 (wincrap) /dev/hda3 and /dev/hda4. i'm sure i had > > /dev/hda2 (linux) and /dev/hda5 (swap). and when i try to mount > > /dev/hda3-hda4, i get, "invalid argument." > > > > i think i'm screwed; but if anyone has suggestions, please cc me. > > > > ia, t. > > > > bentley taylor. > > > > // > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > Just upgraded to Woody? Don't have permission to run X? linux > In Xwrapper.config, change allowed_users from root to console. - > --._. > To err is human, to forgive is divine. [EMAIL PROTECTED] /v\ > To moo is bovine, to meow is feline.http://www.dirac.org/p // \\ > -- ^^ ^^ > GPG Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D rules debs, i was booting with floppy, which will still boot one of my potato lapboxes. so, i basically have a hardware prob, right? ia, t. bentley taylor //
backingup /home/foo/.* files
debs, now that kernel panics effect of my mission-critical box about every 20th boot, i've become interested in backing up my /home/foo directory (by: tar cvzf .tar.gz *). i've noticed that such backup does not include my /home/foo/.* (hidden) files, like .muttrc aside from doing a separate backup tar for /home/foo/.* files, what can be done to include them in one tar of /home/foo? please cc me as my mission critical box is getting mission re-installed. ia, t. bentley taylor. //
Re: backingup /home/foo/.* files
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 11:17:06PM -0800, Brian Frederick Kimball wrote: > Please wrap your text. (my apologies...it's on my list of projects. i use vi. the posts i see for this issue seem to be for vim. (anyone know how to line wrap in _vi_?)) > > q wrote: > > > [...] i've become interested in backing up my /home/foo directory (by: > > tar cvzf .tar.gz *). > > > > i've noticed that such backup does not include my /home/foo/.* > > (hidden) files, like .muttrc > > $ man bash > [...] > When a pattern is used for pathname expansion, the character ``.'' at > the start of a name or immediately following a slash must be matched > explicitly, > [...] > > Try "echo *" to see this in action-- it won't list your . files. > > Try this to create a complete archive of your home directory: > > $ tar cvzf backup.tar.gz /home/foo ah, yes...works, like a charm. thx. > > Finally, if you're kernel is panic-ing a lot, try mounting all your > filesystems with the "sync" option to reduce the severity of the fs > corruption. > i'll get on this later today. thx, again for the info. bentley taylor. //
Re: backingup /home/foo/.* files
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 11:38:08AM -0800, Brian Frederick Kimball wrote: > Dave Sherohman wrote: > > > On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 04:35:03AM +, q wrote: > > > (my apologies...it's on my list of projects. i use vi. the posts i > > > see for this issue seem to be for vim. (anyone know how to line wrap > > > in _vi_?)) > > > > Don't know if this is the answer you keep getting, but, in elvis, ":set > > textwidth=NN" causes it to wrap at NN columns. > > If it's nvi (the default vi on Debian), you want "set wraplen=NN" in > your $HOME/.exrc. But nvi is pretty slim on features-- it doesn't even > have multi-level undo. Better to just install vim & vim-rt and put "set > textwidth=NN" in your $HOME/.vimrc. > > brian ...success! works great. thanks for helping me out w/ excellent info. bentley taylor. //>
keeping the screen on
debs, since i use rather nice background images for my potato boxes, i like to keep the screens on even though, i may not be using my computers for more than 15 minutes, after which the screens go black. which package controls the "black-out" feature? (xscreensaver is listed as, "pn" by "dpkg -l xscreensaver," so i don't believe it's that package.) please cc me. ia, t. bentley taylor. //
Re: keeping the screen on
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 09:16:14PM +, q wrote: > debs, > > since i use rather nice background images for my > potato boxes, i like to keep the screens on even though, > i may not be using my computers for more than 15 > minutes, after which the screens go black. > > which package controls the "black-out" feature? > (xscreensaver is listed as, "pn" by "dpkg -l > xscreensaver," so i don't believe it's that package.) > > please cc me. > > ia, t. > > bentley taylor. > > // rob and bob, thank you. bentley taylor. //>
potato boot hang
debs,
i think i've finished upgrading slink to potato.
now when i try to boot, i get a hang:
scsi0: scsi bus busy, waiting up to five seconds
scsi0: bus busy, attempting abort
{hang...}
my sony picturebook (vaio pcg-c1xs) doesn't have
any scsi devices.
is there anything to do other than a re-install?
ia, t.
bentley taylor
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(please cc to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mpg123/splay v winamp
debs, some mp3's won't play on mpg123 (illegal audio-mpgeg-header) or splay (floating point exception), but will play on winamp on windoze. are these mp3s bad or is there another player i should be using. please cc me. ia, t. bentley taylor. //
[Fwd: OT: Rant]
--- Begin Message --- On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 04:55:05PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > I know it's not appropriate to rant, especially off-topic, but I just gotta! > > I really miss WordPerfect! And I wish there were some open-source > software that did what it does. > > For example, Reveal Codes, and being able to find and remove that > offending font change, or table definition, etc. > > And being able to have Left Justified, Center Justified, and Right > Justified text all on the same line, so you don't have to throw in a > bunch of spaces to get everything to (maybe) line up. > > And the column and table functions. > > And the ability to have a caption on an image that doesn't insist on > including the text "Illustration 1". > > The power of WordPerfect is what a Linux-er wants, with the ease of > operation that an MS-er needs. (I was an MS-er; a three-year Linux-er > now, but still can't run Tex or even LyX, and the other stuff I've tried > just doesn't have the power/features.) > > Why oh why won't Corel release the old DOS version into the open source > world? > > (Yes, I could purchase the commercial version of Corel Office, but a > Wine-ified version just doesn't seem kosher, not to mention that this > would have to come out of my own pocket since the workplace doesn't > smile friendly yet on Linux, so for now I'm without WP.) > > Why won't Abiword and Star/Open Office import .wpd docs (actually, > Abiword seems to at least get the text, but not the formatting)? > > Why oh why don't I have the youth and time to learn to program and fix > these things myself? > > Argghg. > > Again, sorry for the ranting, and thank you for letting me vent. > > Kent > > // the more use linux, the more i've come to use vi for most of my word processing. (i still have the free version of wp8, but i just don't seem to use it unless i absolutely have to.) i think my being weaned from wp(8) (in this case) comes from wanting to have documents that are not left in propriatary "fugliness." true, one can save wp8's in ascii/dos text, but one loses the formatting, which, aside from big fonts for address lables, etc., is the only reason i'd use it. so, i trade the easy, beautiful formatting (of wp) for a format that doesn't leave me playing "codependent" games, which speaks to the bigger issue as to my choice of an os. (...well, "stability" has something to do with it, too, but i shan't get carried away) another benefit for me is that i'm not relying on wp8 for an easy "fix." it makes me focus more on _content_ rather than on "glitz," an attractive nuisance, like stinking meat to a dog. further, i've been seduced by, my "clean" (icon-less) desktop with sweet backgrounds and "see- through" consoles. i, therefore try not to use apps that "interfere" with such beauty. lastly, no one at work or through work has any prob with my vi "solution." "in-house" docs or appellate briefs are tendered with equal aplomb. (...so, i'm not a mathematician..., or i'd probably be espousing, um...latex?) i'm not saying wp(8) can't be the right "tool," but for me, i just don't need it as much as i used to, philosophically or otherwise.. b. // --- End Message ---
kernel compile
debs,
using the "debian way" of kernel compliation ("make
menuconfig; make-kpkg clean; make-kpkg
--revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image), i am only able to
complie a pristine kernel on my soney picturebook
(running kernel 2.4.4, currently).
on my other boxes, i cannot complie any kernels
(2.2.17, 2.2.18, 2.4.0, 2.4.2, 2.4.3, 2.4.4), as i get
the message, "...ran out of input data." (none of
these "other boxes" is a sony.)
all boxes run potato (2.2)
does anyone know what "...ran out of input data" means
in terms of kernel compliation?
should i be doing anything differently compiling the kernel?
other boxes:
dell dimension xps t600r (p600; 10gb hd);
emachine (laptop) (p400; 4gb hd).
ia, t.
bentley taylor.
//
Re: sound with a VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio
You need to load three modules. # modprobe soundcore # modprobe ac97_codec # modprobe via82cxxx_audio Good luck, Qian On Mon, 7 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 09:54:12 +0200 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: sound with a VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio > Resent-Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 02:45:39 -0500 (CDT) > Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hello! > > i am trying to get the sound working with a 2.4.18 kernel and the > onboard chip of my athlon board... > > there's not much of help in the docu so far, the kernelö docu about via > chipsets only says they can freeze the kernel, but don't bother to say > which module i should load for this t hing.. > > i tryed to load ac97, but this stays alone, doesn't even need > soundcore to be loaded so i am quite clueless about how to set this > up... > > i compiled oss and alsa as modules for my kernel, but both fail to > recognize and set up the sound... > > so any help welcome! > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dual boot win2k and debian
IMHO, the setup command should be grub> setup (hd0) Then the grub stage1 file is located in the MBR of your hard disk. (hd0,0) stands for the partition /dev/hda1, which is in your case the NTFS partition. The command setup (hd0,0) will install grub in the "MBR" of /dev/hda1, instead of /dev/hda. That's the reason why your W2K was destroyed. Fortunately, you have command fixboot and fixmbr. Good luck, Qian On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Shawn Lamson wrote: > Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 08:09:45 -0700 (PDT) > From: Shawn Lamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: dual boot win2k and debian > Resent-Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 10:09:50 -0500 (CDT) > Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I tried running from floppy grub prompt > grub> root (hd0,11) > grub> setup (hd0,0) > at which point it said it successfully updated the MBR and installed > the grub files... then i rebooted and could get to debian fine, but > rebooted again and when selecting the option for windows 2000 it just > came back to the grub menu.lst display... I tried the command line > option and several variations of the following: > grub> rootnoverify (hd0,0) > grub> makeactive > grub> chainloader (hd0,0)+1 > also tried it without the "makeactive", root (hd0,0) , root (hd0,11), > chainloader +1, chainloader = (hd0,0)+1, chainloader = +1... > (i don't think the "=" is necessary, it isnt necessary in grub options > statements)... > so it looks like the same thing happened as before, grub installed to > the MBR but changed the "filesystem type" or corrupted the Partition > Table or something, I cannot mount the ntfs partition from here > (Debian) whereas when windows2000 is working i can mount the > partition... i will have to run fixboot and fixmbr from the win2k CD to > get back to windows 2000. > > Shawn > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Spell check in vim
Hi, Is it possible to do spell check for a selected part of the content in vim? Thank you in advance. Qian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mounting Problem
Did you try mounting when the drive was cool? How about trying mount after a reboot? I encountered the same as you. I couldn't mount just after recording. Then switched to windows to verify the CD. It was OK. Then back to Linux. It became OK. I don't know the exact reason. Need more tests. Good luck, Qian PS: I use cdrdao. On 15 Oct 2002, Jerry Van Brimmer wrote: > I have a Que! USB CDRW drive connected to my machine. I wrote some files > on a CDRW disk in it with Gcombust. Now, I cannot mount that same disk > in the Que drive. But, if I move the disk to my Plextor IDE CDRW drive, > which is hdc in my machine, I can mount and view the disk. Below is the > xterm listing of what I get: > > > jerry@debian:~$ su > Password: > > debian:/home/jerry# mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /mnt/que > mount: block device /dev/scd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/scd0, >or too many mounted file systems > > debian:/home/jerry# mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom2 > mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only > debian:/home/jerry# > > Anybody know why this is? > > I am running Woody with the 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel > > Thanks > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Upgrade libc6 in mixed system?
Hi, Woody is running quite well. But I have a upgrading problem with a few packages from the unstable release, which are always be kept back because they depend on the higher version of libc6. Is it OK to upgrade libc6 to the new version? Does the package from unstable release supported by the security team? Thanks a lot in advance for any suggestions. Best regards, Qian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is it safe to upgrade libc6?
Hi, Is it safe to upgrade libc6 from woody to sid release version? My system is woody, but has a few packages from unstable, which can not be upgraded due to the dependency of newer libc6 version. Anyway, the system is fine. I am just curious. Qian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"sudo su" Permission denied
Hi, I am trying to use "sudo su -". But I always get "su: Permission denied". The purpose is to make su only available through sudo. Any ideas? Qian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: "sudo su" Permission denied
On Mon, 21 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What does this command output say for you? It lists the commands you > can run. Don't report anything to the list that reveals anything > sensitive about your site. Just read it yourself and make sure the > output makes sense. > > sudo -l In the output there is one line "(root) /bin/su". I can use "sudo su otheruser" to swith to other users, but not to root. One thing may be related. (root) # su su: Permission denied That perhaps means you are already super user. It makes no sense to swith to root. Is it right? If it is right, the command "sudo su" has the same problem. Qian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 'sudo su' Permission denied
On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, nate wrote: > Q. Gong said: > > > (root) # su > > su: Permission denied > > not sure what system your using but for me, debian 3.0, redhat 7.3, > suse 8.0, solaris 7 and freebsd 4.6.2 all work fine if I do su as > root it just gives me another shell(if i logout, I'm still root) > There are something interesting. I am using Debian 3.0 (Woody). It's almost a newly installed system. Qian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 'sudo su' Permission denied
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Q. Gong wrote: > On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, nate wrote: > > > Q. Gong said: > > > > > (root) # su > > > su: Permission denied > > > > not sure what system your using but for me, debian 3.0, redhat 7.3, > > suse 8.0, solaris 7 and freebsd 4.6.2 all work fine if I do su as > > root it just gives me another shell(if i logout, I'm still root) > > > > There are something interesting. I am using Debian 3.0 (Woody). It's > almost a newly installed system. > I maybe found the reason. This is due to PAM. I restricted that only users in group wheel can use su. But root is not in wheel. I will check it this evening and then feed back. Now I am on another machin running SuSe 7.0. Command su by root works. Thanks a lot for all replies. Qian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 'sudo su' Permission denied [Solved]
Hi, it's really due to pam_wheel for su. I added root to group wheel then "sudo su" works perfectly. I previously also used pam_rootok, which is however, beyond pam_wheel. The pam_wheel has requisite control flag. So pam_rootok will not be executed if root is not in the group wheel. Thank you. Qian On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 10:02:48AM +0200, Q. Gong wrote: > > I maybe found the reason. This is due to PAM. I restricted that only > > users in group wheel can use su. But root is not in wheel. > > You could use the pam_rootok module to allow root to su in spite of > that. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mkdosfs: strange?
Hi, all, There is a very strange thing about mkdosfs. I have a 80GB WD hard disk. At the end of this disk I created a Win95 FAT32 partition for Windos 98. I used mkdosfs -f 32 /dev/hdc6 to format it. Under both win98 and Linux I can read and write on hdc6. But for Linux, ls only list the files created under Linux. Under Win98, only files created under win98 are visible. It seems win98 and Linux uses different part on hdc6. Very strange. Any ideas? Thanks in advance. Qian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why does Root need passwords?
On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Andreas Eichner wrote: > > Hi there, > > after ca. 1 month uptime I had a bad system crash due to a hardware > failure. I encountered strange behaviors and after some reboots I set > "forcefsck". Several errors where found which my ext3 did not realize by > journalling (and now I know why Ext3 is still experimental). > > And since this day I need passwords when changing from root to another > user by doing "su " - not funny, since some init-scripts want > to change to lower privileged users (like distributed-net). > > How can I recover this situation? > Have a loot at /etc/pam.d/su. Is there an entry like auth sufficient pam_rootok.so Good luck, Qian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Easy way to compile loop.o?
Hi, Is it possible to only compile and add a module loop.o without recompiling the whole kernel? Thanks in advance. Qian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Easy way to compile loop.o?
On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Seneca wrote: > On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 05:29:23AM +0200, Q. Gong wrote: > > Is it possible to only compile and add a module loop.o without recompiling > > the whole kernel? Thanks in advance. > > Yes it is. The way that I've done it is (with appropriate permissions): > > 0) cd /usr/src/$KERNEL_SOURCE > 1) make clean > 2) make menuconfig > 3) set the appropriate option(s) to > 4) save and quit > 5) make dep > 6) make modules > 7) make modules_install > That's quite good. Thank you. Qian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dhcp problem after recompiling kernel
For most users dhclient works perfectly with kernel 2.4, IMHO. There seems to be something interesting in Auke's case. Qian On 27 Oct 2002, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > "Auke" == Auke Jilderda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Auke> Makes me wonder though: Why the heck does Woody default come > Auke> with dhclient if it doesn't even work with kernel 2.4? I'd > Auke> suspect this is a problem more people will run into. > > Uh? It dhclient works great for me with the default 2.4 kernel in > Woody. What makes you suggest this? Your problem was with a custom > kernel, right? > > Cheers! > Shyamal > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mail notifier
Hi, I am looking for a utility to check my email box on a imap server regularly. I want to specify a certain rule, e.g., email sender as *.debian.org. And the notifier only lists information (sender, subject) of the emails obeying the rule. I know knewmail is good for above requirement. Do you know any else? Thanks in advance. Qian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: log
Use Shift+PageUp to view all the messages. Qian On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Emanuele Boieri wrote: > I just install the a new kernel 2.4.19. But when I rebooted again I saw > some errors but I couldn't see well because it ran too fast. Is there a > log file where I can read what happened? > Thanks in advance > Emanuele > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tasksel: remove packages?
Hi, Is it possible to use tasksel to select a task and remove all the packages in the selected task? Thanks in advance. Qian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /etc/hosts.allow & /etc/hosts.deny question
On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > Hi, > > i have some problems setting up ssh connection (not the scope of this email though >not yet :-) and i came across the /etc/hosts.allow & /etc/hosts.deny files. > > Now, i saw in some documents about ssh that they add "sshd: all" to the > /etc/hosts.allow file. Am i correct that these 2 files are only used when you have >inetd enabled and that they otherwise serve no purpose? > So if i don't have inetd running, these 2 files are useless? > > I have disabled inetd on my server machine and run all programs as daemons. > Some programs are compiled with tcp-wrapper options, such as sshd. So for sshd you can restrict the connections by /etc/hosts.deny and /etc/hosts.allow. Qian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ./configure
Check the first line of file ./configure. Normally it's a path to a shell, for example, #!/bin/bash. If the path is not correct for your specific system, you can just modify it and then it will be OK. Qian On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, alex wrote: > I'm have a problem with ./configure in that I sometimes > get a response like this: > bash: ./configure: No such file or directory > > Here's my procedure prior to ./configure > > 1. Download the tar package to /home/downloads > 2. cd /home/downloads > 3. tar -vzxf tarpackage > 4. ls (to make sure the untarred package is in /home/downloads) > 5. cd package > 6. ./configure > > With some downloaded tar packages, the procdure works fine but > with some I get the response that there's no such file or > directory. > > What am I missing or doing wrong? I've read instructions that > say to download to a suitable directory? Is /home/downloads a > 'suitable directory'? > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Programming from scrath
Hi, I used to code c++ terminal programs by Kdevelop. But now I want to try a low level way -- constructing manually all the files such as configure, Makefile, source files, etc. Are there some guidelines for creating all these files as well as their structures, in order to get good portability? Thanks a lot in advance for any suggestions. Qian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Partition size mismatch
It seems that your file system is smaller than the partition. You can enlarge or shrink the ext2 file system by resize2fs. Qian On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Jason Bleazard wrote: > I'm trying to track down why my /var partition is only mounting as half > the size as reported by fdisk or parted. I'd appreciate any suggestions > or other information. > > df reports this (approx 2G): > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda7 1968588833836 1034752 45% /var > > parted reports this (approx 4G): > MinorStart End Type Filesystem Flags > 7 1231.576 5137.976 logical ext2cfdisk also reports the > partition as being 4G in size. > > This partition was previously ext3 before today. I converted it back to > ext2 using tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/hda7. > > I thought it was a 2G partition until I fired up Partition Magic to > increase it, and noticed that it was already 4G reported by Partition > Magic. That's when I booted back to Linux and discovered that parted and > cfdisk agree with Partition Magic. It's just the mounted size that > doesn't agree. > > I'd prefer not to mess around with the size of it if I can first figure > out why it's being mounted a different size than what the partition table > supposedly says. > > Thanks in advance, > Jason > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: driver for 3Com PCI 10/100?
Try module 3c59x. Qian On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Lars Jensen wrote: > I have a 3com PCI Twisted Pair network card that I can't seem to get > recognized after I installed the 2.4.18 kernel image. The card says > 3c905c when I look in windows, but I see no module of this name in > /lib/modules How do I get support for this card? > > Thanks, > Lars. > > %%% > Lars Jensen, Truckee Meadows Community College, Reno NV 89512-3999. > Tel: 775.673.7113 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: make menuconfig
On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Russell wrote: > Russell wrote: > > Hi, > > When i do: > > debpc:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18# make menuconfig > > then i get a screen without any submenus. I just get: > > --- > Load an alternate configuration file > Save configuration to an alternate file > > No amount of key-pressing brings any more options. > > Does it work on any other debian 3 system? > If you executed the command "rm -rf */pcmcia" before "make menuconfig", then the problem can be solved by skipping this command. Good luck, Qian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Package verification failed
Hi, Just tried to use the package verification to improve the security. However, I got the following error when I used apt-get to install a package. - # apt-get install apt-show-versions Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: apt-show-versions 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/10.1kB of archives. After unpacking 21.5kB will be used. Authenticating /var/cache/apt/archives/apt-show-versions_0.03_all.deb ... debsig: Origin Signature check failed. This deb might not be signed. dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/apt-show-versions_0.03_all.deb (--unpack): Verification on package /var/cache/apt/archives/apt-show-versions_0.03_all.deb failed! Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/apt-show-versions_0.03_all.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) -- Does it mean this package is not well prepared? If not, how to avoid this error and get it installed? Thanks in advance. Qian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel-panic
On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Russell wrote: > Hi, > > Why do i get: > > RAMDISK: cramfs filesystem found at block 0 > RAMDISK: Loading 892 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... done. > Freeing initrd memory: 892k freed > request_module[nls_437]: Root fs not mounted > Unable to load NLS charset 437 > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00 The problem is located in your lilo configuration. The kernel tried to mount root filesystem from 01:00 which stands ram0, not /dev/hda2. So you have to pass right root path to lilo. Qian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Samsung CDRW/DVD SM-308B lock up in writing
Hi,
I tried two days to solve the following problem but failed. The CDRW/DVD
(SM-308B) drive can read CDs very well after using the module IDE-SCSi and
passing "hdc=ide-scsi" to kernel. However, it alway locks up when I use
cdrecord to write a CD. The kernel outputted lines listed below without
stop.
Sep 6 09:27:34 hf87 kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid
446, scsi0, channel 0, id 0,
lun 0 Test Unit Ready 00 00 00 00 00
Sep 6 09:27:34 hf87 kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid
446, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Test Unit Ready 00 00 00 00 00
Sep 6 09:27:34 hf87 kernel: hdc: irq timeout: status=0x80 { Busy }
Sep 6 09:27:34 hf87 kernel: hdc: irq timeout: status=0x80 { Busy }
Sep 6 09:27:34 hf87 kernel: hdc: ATAPI reset complete
Sep 6 09:27:34 hf87 kernel: hdc: ATAPI reset complete
Sep 6 09:27:34 hf87 kernel: hdc: irq timeout: status=0x80 { Busy }
Sep 6 09:27:34 hf87 kernel: hdc: irq timeout: status=0x80 { Busy }
Sep 6 09:27:34 hf87 kernel: hdc: status timeout: status=0x80 { Busy }
Sep 6 09:27:34 hf87 kernel: hdc: status timeout: status=0x80 { Busy }
Sep 6 09:27:34 hf87 kernel: hdc: drive not ready for command
Sep 6 09:27:34 hf87 kernel: hdc: drive not ready for command
Sep 6 09:27:34 hf87 kernel: hdc: ATAPI reset complete
Sep 6 09:27:34 hf87 kernel: hdc: ATAPI reset complete
-
Disabling DMA could not help. I really don't want to reboot back to
Windows for cd-writng. Thanks a lot for any idea.
Qian
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Re: GRUB install disk, menu.1st
On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 15:03:37 -0400 > From: Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Debian Users <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: GRUB install disk, menu.1st > Resent-Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 14:00:37 -0500 (CDT) > Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > My grub boot floppy is working great. Since menu.1st is a simple text file I > can write it myself esily. The question is: where do I put it in the floppy? > The floppy was created following the instructions in the grub manual. I > haven't wanted to install grub in my hard disk, i am afraid of messing up my > mbr. > Thanks > First run command grub. Then run command install at the grup prompt. grub> install (hdx,x)/path/to/stage1 (fd0) (hdx,x)/path/to/stage2 p (fd0)/path/to/menu.lst You should make a file system on the floppy and create a file menu.lst. Good luck, Qian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: weird but working triple boot with lilo on Woody
On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > Hi, > > i have Debian Woody 3.0 running along Windows 98 en XP. > I had installed Win98 first, then woody. Now i installed XP and XP > detected Win98, made a menu to boot XP and Win98 and then overwrote > the MBR which was expected. > No problem since i had made a boot disk in woody so i went back into > linux, changed lilo.conf and ran lilo. > My system is as follows: > primary hd: > - 1 primary partition with Win98 (fat32) > - 1 extended partition that contains > - 1 extra partition (fat32) > - 4 linux exf2 partition > > secondary hd (on same id channel) > - 1 primary partition with WinXP (fat 32) > - 1 extended partition that contains > - 1 extra parition (fat32) > - half of the space of the hd is unassigned. this is needed to make > >a test debian linux in the near future :-) > > I put these lines in my lilo.conf > other=/dev/hda1 > label="Win98" > other=/dev/hdb1 > label="WinXp" > > I expected to be able to boot both win os's but it didn't work. When i > chose > WinXp it said that that partition wasn't bootable. When i choose Win98, > and this is the weird thing, i got the dual boot loader from WinXP that > showed a list of XP and Win98 that could be booted. > I probably could have avoided it by hiding my Win98 disk so that XP > wouldn't > touch the hda but install it's boot into hdb. ( is there a free tool > that allows > to hide a disk/parition) > > Anyway not that bad really as i can still boot all my os's and i > couldn't care > less if XP disappears since it was a new install. > Is there anyway i could solve this so i can all boot them from nice > 'labels' in > lilo? I wouldn't mind losing XP but i don't want to lose Debian and > Win98 > > Thanks for any advice > It seems that WinXP modified the boot sectors of Win98 and they use a unified group of boot sectors. You can hardly restore the boot sectors for Win98 in hda1 and for WinXP in hdb1. Perhaps it's possible to configure the WinXP/98 boot loader to boot Win98 directly without interruption. I think there is a config file somewhere. Then reinstall WinXP and tell it not to mess up with Win98. After that you will get a nice lilo menu. Good luck, Qian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GRUB install disk, menu.1st
On 8 Sep 2002, Scott Henson wrote: > Date: 08 Sep 2002 05:28:23 -0400 > From: Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Debian User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: GRUB install disk, menu.1st > Resent-Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2002 04:28:27 -0500 (CDT) > Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 17:50, Q. Gong wrote: > > On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > > > > Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 15:03:37 -0400 > > > From: Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: Debian Users <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Subject: GRUB install disk, menu.1st > > > Resent-Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 14:00:37 -0500 (CDT) > > > Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > My grub boot floppy is working great. Since menu.1st is a simple text file I > > > can write it myself esily. The question is: where do I put it in the floppy? > > > The floppy was created following the instructions in the grub manual. I > > > haven't wanted to install grub in my hard disk, i am afraid of messing up my > > > mbr. > > > Thanks > > > > > > > First run command grub. Then run command install at the grup prompt. > > > > grub> install (hdx,x)/path/to/stage1 (fd0) (hdx,x)/path/to/stage2 p > > (fd0)/path/to/menu.lst > > or maybe run grub> setup (fd0) Works for me every time. > But Antonio wants to put menu.lst on a floppy (in any directory), instead of /boot/grub/. Qian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CDRDAO -- can it record iso files?
Hi, Is it possible to use CDRDAO to record a directory from a hard disk to a CD-R? Of course, mkisofs can make a iso file for that directory. But I don't know if CDRDAO supports recording iso files. My Samsung CDRW/DVD SM-308B doesn't work with CDRECORD, but CDRDAO. So it's important to know the capability of CDRDAO. Thanks in advance. Qian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CDRDAO -- can it record iso files?
Thanks. But it's strange that cdrecord does not work for my CDRW/DVD SM-308B drive. CDRDAO works. So I am trying to get all jobs done by CDRDAO. BTW, bchunk can convert CD images from bin/cue to iso/cdr/wav. Is there a tool to do the opposite operation, i.e., converting CD images from iso to bin/cue? Qian On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Balazs Javor wrote: > Hi, > > CDRDAO is for recording bin/cue files. > Cdrecord id for burning iso files. > Use mkisofs + cdrecord to burn files from a directory, > and cdrdao mainly for downloded stuff... > > Here's my short rundown: > > mkisofs -r -U -J -f -o cd_image private_collection/ > cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=0,0,0 -data cd_image > > or > > cdrdao write --device 0,0,0 --driver generic-mmc --speed 24 --save > tocfile.cue > > regards, > Balazs > > On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 08:58:51PM +0200, Q. Gong wrote: > >Hi, > > > >Is it possible to use CDRDAO to record a directory from a hard disk to a > >CD-R? Of course, mkisofs can make a iso file for that directory. But I > >don't know if CDRDAO supports recording iso files. My Samsung CDRW/DVD > >SM-308B doesn't work with CDRECORD, but CDRDAO. So it's important to know > >the capability of CDRDAO. Thanks in advance. > > > >Qian > > > > > > > >-- > >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: merging two ps files
Try: cat 1.ps 2.ps > 3.ps ps2pdf 3.ps pdf2ps 3.pdf gv 3.ps Good luck, Qian On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, martin f krafft wrote: > hi, i am trying to print two separate 1-page ps files so that they > appear both at 50% side-by-side on one page. > > just concatenating the files doesn't work > cat file1.ps file2.ps | a2ps -o- | gv - > only displays the first page. the "insert 'false 0 startjob pop' > between the files in the concatenation" variation didn't work > either. > > psmerge from the psutils package, when invoked like so: > psmerge -o- file1.ps file2.ps | a2ps -o- | gv - > results in an empty page. > > the method at http://ktmatu.com/info/merge-pdf-files/ works, but > it's cumbersome[1]. > > any clues on how i can do this for a bulk operation? > > [1] actually, it's interesting because it links the original files, > rendering it into a general purpose program almost if you could > somehow pass the two parameters of the to-be-linked file in with the > command invocation. is this possible somehow? > > -- > martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) > \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; net@madduck > > "i have smoked pot. it is a stupid business, like masturbation." > -- thomas pynchon (v) > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Set a Realtek 8019AS network card to half duplex - HOW?
If you are using module for the NIC, it's perhaps possible to set the half duplex mode in the options passed to the module. Good luck, Qian On 12 Sep 2002, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: > Hi! > > I have a cheapo ISA Realtek8019AS card (worst Ethernet card ever built > etc.). Also, I have a cheap 10Mbit hub. The 8019AS sadly thinks that it > should operate at 10Mb Full-Duplex, featuring transfer rates around > 100kB per second... (with collision rates going over the top, of > course). > > Apparently, there's no MII interface, so I can't use mii-* tools (tells > me 'operation not supported') ne2k-diag can't be told to just set the > card to half duplex, so I'm a bit stuck now. > > Anybody knows how to set that card to half duplex mode? > > Thanks VERY MUCH if anybody reveals a solution > -- vbi > > details: > - > # ne2k-diag -aa > Checking the ethercard at 0x300. > Receive alignment error counter (0x30d) is 00 > Passed initial NE2000 probe, value 00. > Station Address PROM0: 00 00 00 00 b4 b4 36 36 8d 8d 92 92 20 20 20 20 > Station Address PROM 0x10: 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 57 57 57 57 > NE2000 found at 0x300, using start page 0x40 and end page 0x80. > The current MAC stations address is 00:00:B4:36:8D:92. > 8390 page 0: 20 00 50 7f 03 00 00 00 59 46 50 70 01 00 00 00. > 8390 page 1: 60 00 00 b4 36 8d 92 4c 00 00 00 80 00 00 00 00. > 8390 page 2: a0 4c 80 ff 46 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff cc e0 cd 80. > 8390 page 3: e0 30 00 28 b0 00 70 ff 00 fe ff 37 ff ff ff ff. > This is a RTL8019AS chip in jumpered mode. > The current settings are: IRQ 5 (enabled, I/O address 0x300, > The transceiver is set to 10baseT or coax, selected on 10baseT link beat, > The chip is set to full duplex. > The EEPROM settings are: IRQ 5, I/O address 0x3a0, non-PnP mode. > The transceiver is set to 10baseT or coax, selected on 10baseT link beat, > The chip is set to full duplex. > > # ne2k-diag -ee > Checking the ethercard at 0x300. > Receive alignment error counter (0x30d) is 00 > Passed initial NE2000 probe, value 00. > Station Address PROM0: 00 00 00 00 b4 b4 36 36 8d 8d 92 92 20 20 20 20 > Station Address PROM 0x10: 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 57 57 57 57 > NE2000 found at 0x300, using start page 0x40 and end page 0x80. > The current MAC stations address is 00:00:B4:36:8D:92. > This is a RTL8019AS chip in jumpered mode. > The current settings are: IRQ 5 (enabled, I/O address 0x300, > The transceiver is set to 10baseT or coax, selected on 10baseT link beat, > The chip is set to full duplex. > The EEPROM settings are: IRQ 5, I/O address 0x3a0, non-PnP mode. > The transceiver is set to 10baseT or coax, selected on 10baseT link beat, > The chip is set to full duplex. > EEPROM contents: > 00b5 ff70 36b4 928d 2020 2020 2020 > 2020 8914 1901 36b4 928d 0a74 1010 1a82 > 5000 554c 2047 2026 4c50 5941 4520 4854 > 5245 454e 2054 4143 4452 1600 8914 1901 > 0002 411c 80d0 47d6 4000 e002 2003 2320 > 9e38 7901 003c > > > The word-wide EEPROM checksum is 0x7cda. > > > > -- > secure email with gpg http://fortytwo.ch/gpg > > NOTICE: subkey signature! request key 92082481 from keyserver.kjsl.com > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Logical Volume Manager
I converted my root file system to LVM. A Linux partition (e.g. using ext2 file system) is needed for /boot, containing the kernel files which support LVM. I previously posted a message including all detailed steps. Good luck, Qian On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Alan Chandler wrote: > On Tuesday 24 September 2002 10:19 am, Tom Allison wrote: > > Can you implement LVM on an already installed system? > > I did, although I did not replace my root partition, I did with all the > others. The reason I didn't try and replace the root partition was that the > docs says you need to create an initrd image, and I am not sure how that will > work alongside the one that debian created for me (I think it uses to load > the ext3 module). > > > -- > Alan Chandler > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
initrd, vmlinuz and vmlinux
Hi, Under /boot, there are three files, such as vmlinuz-version, vmlinux-version, and initrd-version.img. What's the differences between them? Can initrd-version.img be used for both vmlinuz and vmlinux? Thanks a lot in advance. Qian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HELP! HW problems, no ablitiy to boot
regarding the lilo issue, I'd try install grub onto a floppy, it's a lot saner than lilo Patrick. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I had a rather odd problem. I have an all SCSI > system that includes 2 > disks, 1 burner, and 1 cd-rom. A few days ago, one > of my HDs stopped > working. It can't spin up, but is still identified > by the SCSI Bios > and by Linux. When I try to boot Linux, it tries to > spin up the drive > but since the drive can't spin up it waits forever. > I can boot to > windows however. When I remove the drive from the > chain, I can't boot > ANYTHING. I get the lilo prompt, and no matter what > OS i tell it to > boot, it basically hangs. I can ctrl-alt-del to > reboot, so it's not a > hard hand, and the drive light comes on and stays > on. I have tried > booting with a rescue disk and only one HD, but when > it does the > partition check on the HD, the SCSI bus continually > timesout and > resets. I booted with the install CD and am able to > mount the > partition, although it takes it an unsually long > time to do so. I can > see all my data. I tried to rerun lilo, but all > that happened was the > disk light on the chasis would come one. Is there > any reason why I > can't boot when the bad HD is removed? Does lilo > keep track of the HW > in the machine or something? I didn't think so > because I have removed > HDs before without problem. Can anyone help me > figure out what's > wrong so I can boot into Linux? Ideally, I'd like > to be able to > remove the bad drive from my machine, but at this > point I'll settle > for being able to boot Linux. The drive may be > going, although I > don't see much indication, and non of my data is > backed up. Go figure > this would happen a day or so before I was to do > that. Any help would > be GREATLY appreciated. TIA. > > Rob > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: wvdial doesn't connect
What kind of modem? Winmodems aren't supported. (In general). Patrick. --- Henning Otte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi there > > i recently installed debian potato on my pc, > everything works fine BUT > i cannot manage to connect to the internet, so i > still have to use > ms-windows for that purpose :( > > the problem is: > after dialing with wvdial i get an OK msg, but then > my (internal noname > PnP 56k) modem just keeps beeping, and it doesn't > stop until i hit > ctrl-c. i also tried stupid mode, but it makes no > difference. i checked > the wvdial sources, the prog seems to hang, because > the modem/server > doesn't return an "ppp" string. > > my wvdial.conf: > [Dialer Defaults] > Phone = P0,T3508877 > Username = > Password = > Stupid Mode = no > New PPPD = yes > Modem = /dev/ttyS1 > Baud = 115200 > Init1 = ATZ > Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 S11=55 +FCLASS=0 X3 > > someone's got an idea what might have gone wrong? > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: whoops -subject meant to be software RAID
--- John Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ># Would this be worthwhile? How hard is it to set > up a software raid? > >what do I do? does it matter that i want the whole > OS as well as the > >data storage mirrored? > > > >Fairly easy. Read the appropriate HOWTOs are > http://www.linuxdoc.org > > > >Dave > > > OK.. thanks for pointing me there. > > so on a debian potata box would i need to recompile > the kernel? or could i > > #apt-get install kernel-patch-2.2.10-raid > #apt-get install raidtools2 > > and then use the raidtools? > > www.debian.org package lists makes no use of RAID1 > which is the level i'd want to go for... > > -- you need raidtools2, and you need to patch the kernel for software raid. I had success with kernel 2.2.18 and the patches from http://www.linuxraid.org hth, Patrick. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online! http://photos.yahoo.com/
Re: Grub vs LILO
> Oh, cool. Do you know if grub can boot off > /dev/hdc2 if LILO can't? > (LILO can't because my BIOS is cheap, thus I use > loadlin even though I > [almost] never boot Windo~1 anymore) > > -D yes, it's very flexible, far more so than lilo IMHO patrick. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online! http://photos.yahoo.com/
Re: Hardware
--- Antonio Alberto Lobato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all ! > > Where do I find good and free downloads (or on line) of > books, manuals, tutorials or guides about hardware ? In English or > Portuguese. > I think it would help me in my linux learning. > install "The Hardware Book" http://packages.debian.org/stable/doc/hwb.html Patrick. __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: DSelect
--- Kevin Stokes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got a newbie problem with DSelect. When I choose 'Select' > browse > the packages, there are about 100 things selected to be installed > that are > not currently installed, and I don't want. When I try to press the > '-' key > to not select them, many of them give me crap about dependencies. It > would > take me hours to go through them all. My number one priority is to > not > screw up my system. How can I clear the whole list to the machine's > current install state so I can select only the one tiny package I > want? > > In the end I used apt-get to get what I wanted. But I won't be > able to > use DSelect until I figure this out. Any help would be appreciated. > > Kevin Stokes > Pie in the Sky Software > www.pieskysoft.com > If you are serious when you say "My number one priority is to not screw up my system", then you should do yourself a huge favour and track stable. Patrick. __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: Problem with fetchmail (was: I can't start with mutt) solved !
--- Glyn Millington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Krzysztof Mazurczyk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > There is a task. Boil water for tee having: a cattle, faucet with > water, > > matches and gas cooker. The answer: turn on faucet, fill the cattle > with > > water, turn the gas on, wait for boil. > > The question is: How will boil water an IT engineer having as in > the > > task > > but the cattle is already full of water. Of cause he/she'll pour > out > > water > > from the cattle. Then the task is reduced to the previous one. > > > > Regards > > Chris > > > Chris, > > Check out the two words "kettle" and "cattle" - filling cattle with > water > is probably not such a good idea, but pouring it out is even more > challenging! > > atb > > Glyn > -- > Hmm, keep the cattle I think, fill with hay to get the gas? patrick. __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
exim not sending mail
Hi, I'm trying to config exim|procmail|mutt with a DSL connection to the internet, single workstation. I've managed to setup so I can receive mail ok (to [EMAIL PROTECTED]), and send internally but can't send externally, exim just queues the mail and logs with error: 2001-08-09 12:08:02 [EMAIL PROTECTED] T=remote_smtp defer (-44): retry time not reached for any host I ran eximconfig choosing 'Smarthost' and the defaults. The only thing that I can think of is an authentication problem, I haven't entered username/password anywhere, and there is no /etc/exim/password file. I don't know how or where to enter this info anyway. I tried the exim manual but it's painfully apparent that I have no clue :-( I'd be really grateful for some advice! patrick. __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
Re: exim not sending mail
> > On 09 Aug 2001 10:46:58 -0700, patrick q wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to config exim|procmail|mutt with a DSL connection to > the > > internet, single workstation. > > > > I've managed to setup so I can receive mail ok (to > [EMAIL PROTECTED]), > > and send internally but can't send externally, exim just queues the > > > mail and logs with error: > > > > 2001-08-09 12:08:02 [EMAIL PROTECTED] T=remote_smtp defer (-44): retry > > time not reached for any host > > > > I ran eximconfig choosing 'Smarthost' and the defaults. The only > thing > > that I can think of is an authentication problem, I haven't entered > > username/password anywhere, and there is no /etc/exim/password > file. I > > don't know how or where to enter this info anyway. > > > > I tried the exim manual but it's painfully apparent that I have no > clue > > :-( > > > > I'd be really grateful for some advice! > > > > patrick. > > > > __ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! > Messenger > > http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ > > > > > > -- --- Michael Heldebrant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What happens if you telnet to your outgoing smtp server on port 25? > > --mike I'm not sure, this is all new to me. Do you mean: telnet localhost 25? which gives... Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to loopback. Escape character is '^]'. 220 gauss ESMTP Exim 3.22 #1 Thu, 09 Aug 2001 13:00:40 -0500 500 Unrecognized command thx, patrick. __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
Re: exim not sending mail
--- Michael Heldebrant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So I take it that you are both sending and receiving mail directly > from > your machine. Are you supposed to send your mail to another host as > per > your usual terms of service? For instance I send all my outgoing > mail > to netmail.home.com as my outgoing server. It seems like you as a > localhost aren't set up to send directly, and I'm not sure how to get > exim to do that off the top of my head or taking a quick peek through > the man page and my config files. > > --mike AFAIK, I'm just an ordinary dialup user and should be sending mail to my telco isp, pop.mts.net, to which I connect to retrieve mail, but which refuses telnet connections to port 25 patrick. > > On 09 Aug 2001 11:13:03 -0700, patrick q wrote: > > > > > > On 09 Aug 2001 10:46:58 -0700, patrick q wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I'm trying to config exim|procmail|mutt with a DSL connection > to > > > the > > > > internet, single workstation. > > > > > > > > I've managed to setup so I can receive mail ok (to > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]), > > > > and send internally but can't send externally, exim just queues > the > > > > > > > mail and logs with error: > > > > > > > > 2001-08-09 12:08:02 [EMAIL PROTECTED] T=remote_smtp defer (-44): > retry > > > > time not reached for any host > > > > > > > > I ran eximconfig choosing 'Smarthost' and the defaults. The > only > > > thing > > > > that I can think of is an authentication problem, I haven't > entered > > > > username/password anywhere, and there is no /etc/exim/password > > > file. I > > > > don't know how or where to enter this info anyway. > > > > > > > > I tried the exim manual but it's painfully apparent that I have > no > > > clue > > > > :-( > > > > > > > > I'd be really grateful for some advice! > > > > > > > > patrick. > > > > > > > > __ > > > > Do You Yahoo!? > > > > Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! > > > Messenger > > > > http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > --- Michael Heldebrant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What happens if you telnet to your outgoing smtp server on port > 25? > > > > > > --mike > > > > I'm not sure, this is all new to me. > > Do you mean: telnet localhost 25? which gives... > > Trying 127.0.0.1... > > Connected to loopback. > > Escape character is '^]'. > > 220 gauss ESMTP Exim 3.22 #1 Thu, 09 Aug 2001 13:00:40 -0500 > > > > 500 Unrecognized command > > > > thx, > > patrick. > > > > __ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! > Messenger > > http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
Re: exim not sending mail
SOLVED (sorta) I tweaked /usr/share/doc/exim/example.conf.gz to get a working configuration. I don't know what was wrong with the output from eximconfig but I did notice there was no setting for primary_hostname Cheers, patrick. --- patrick q <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to config exim|procmail|mutt with a DSL connection to the > internet, single workstation. > > I've managed to setup so I can receive mail ok (to [EMAIL PROTECTED]), > > and send internally but can't send externally, exim just queues the > mail and logs with error: > > 2001-08-09 12:08:02 [EMAIL PROTECTED] T=remote_smtp defer (-44): retry > time not reached for any host > > I ran eximconfig choosing 'Smarthost' and the defaults. The only > thing > that I can think of is an authentication problem, I haven't entered > username/password anywhere, and there is no /etc/exim/password file. > I > don't know how or where to enter this info anyway. > > I tried the exim manual but it's painfully apparent that I have no > clue > :-( > > I'd be really grateful for some advice! > > patrick. > > __ > Do You Yahoo!? > Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! > Messenger > http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
Re: exim not sending mail
--- Fredrik Jagenheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With most DSL connections you don't need a smarthost (that is, a > server that will accept your mail and forward it to the correct > server) and let you send your mail directly to the correct server. > Try to run eximconfig and set your server to alternative 1 (if my > memory serves me correctly), that is, 'my computer can send and > receive mails directly to the internet'. > > //Fredde yes, you are right, I tested and alternative 1 does work for me. Thanks to all who responded! patrick. __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
best practice for tar and gzip?
Hi, I have a lot of important archives, up to 10,000 files per ~10 Meg tar.gz tarball, that I like to keep as safe as possible. I test the archives when I create them, have backups, and off-site backups of backups, but I am worried about possible file corruption, ie propagating possibly corrupt files through the backup rotation. Would it not be better to compress the files individually first and then tar them into an archive instead of the normal tar.gz operation, to have the best chance of recovering as many files as possible? thx, patrick. __ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/
Re: apt-getting recommended/suggested packages?
--- "Avdi B. Grimm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > quick question: is there a simple way to tell apt-get to install a > package *plus* all of it's recommended and suggested packages? For > example, KDevelop can utilize a whole slew of optional packages if > they > are installed, but by default apt-get only fetches the necessary > dependencies, not the recommended/suggested packages. It would be > convenient if I could grab them all in one swell foop. > > -ABG > dselect is your friend here, prompts you with the list of suggested packages. hth, patrick. __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
cd reading tip (2.4.3 )
I was trying to read one of my cdrom archives on a 2.4.3 machine with a cheap-ass generic ide/ATAPI cdrom drive, but all it could read was the lost+found directory... I could read the cd with other drives, so it wasn't a coaster. On a whim, I tried loading the scsi emulation drivers scsi_mod.o, sg.o, ide-cd.o and mounted the drive as /dev/scd0 and could now read the disk just fine! So it looks like it is enough to just call an ide-drive a scsi drive to make it more reliable :-) patrick. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: switching kernels
--- omicron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello > How do i switch from a running kernel to another without having to > reboot the machine ? > > Thanks in advance > --omicron > try user-mode Linux, you can run a virtual machine with a different kernel as a process under your current kernel. I haven't tried it, but it sounds like fun. http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/ patrick. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: Stopping vim from auto-indenting
--- mdevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I use vim to edit a file, then copy and paste some text into > this > file, the text gets automatically indented more than it should. Take > the following example: > Edit an empty file with vim, then try an paste in the following text: > !## NETSCAPE > Netscape*drawingArea.translations: #replace\ > : ArmLink() \n\ > : ArmLink() \n\ > ~Shift: ActivateLink() \n\ > ~Shift: ActivateLink(new-window) \ > DisarmLink()\n\ > Shift:ActivateLink(save-only) \ > > And it ends up looking like: > !## NETSCAPE > Netscape*drawingArea.translations: #replace\ > : ArmLink() \n\ > : ArmLink() \n\ > ~Shift: ActivateLink() \n\ > ~Shift: > ActivateLink(new-window) \ > DisarmLink()\n\ > Shift: > ActivateLink(save-only) \ > > How do you stop this from happening? > :set noautoindent patrick. - Mary had a little lamb. With mint. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: booting 2.4.4
--- Daniel Faller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I was using kernel 2.4.3 without any problems, but kernel 2.4.4 > refuses to > boot. I do not think that my kernel Configuration is wrong. > > There was a Thread "trouble booting 2.4.4" some days ago, which > suggested to > put: > do_initrd = Yes in "/etc/kernel-img.conf" > and > initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.4 in "/etc/lilo.conf" > > My Custom made kernel.deb did not make a /boot/initrdxxx file, so I > did it > myshelf with: > mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd-2.4.4-686 /lib/modules/2.4.4 > > But no success, it refuses to boot and basically tells me that it can > not > find my /root partiton, but a "root=..." line is included in > lilo.conf. > > So what can I do in order to boot kernel 2.4.4 ? > And where can I find information about such dramatic changes > concerning the > boot process (In advance) ? > The (kernel) Changes file did not mention anything. > > Versions of packages (possibly) related to the problem: > > ||/ Name Version > +++-=== > ii kernel-package 7.40 > ii modutils 2.4.2-0.bunk > ii initrd-tools 0.1.7 > ii lilo 21.4.3-2 > > > Any help is appreciated. > > Daniel > > Check the name you have for initrd in lilo.conf mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd-2.4.4-686 /lib/modules/2.4.4 does not match below initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.4 in "/etc/lilo.conf" Patrick. - Mary had a little lamb. With mint. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: ttyS0: LSR safety check engaged!
--- Wilson Yau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My notebook - Dell Latitude CPi R400GT > My OS - Debian Potato w/ kernel 2.4.4 > > Problem: > > Keep getting the following messages: > > ttyS0: LSR safety check engaged! > > INIT: Id "7" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes > > > > Questions: > -- > > 1./ Why am I getting these messages? > 2./ What do they mean? > 3./ Anything wrong with my system? > 4./ How do I get rid of them? > > Many thanks for your advice and help! > > Wilson :-) > The LSR safety check engaged! is a UART problem, I think the kernel serial driver can't find the UART for your ttyS0 -- is it enabled in BIOS? You can control checking of ttys in /etc/setserial, if i recall correctly? Sorry, I don't know if its related to the respawing message or what that's about... hth Patrick. - Mary had a little lamb. With mint. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: Copying one hard drive to another
--- Bryan Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > > I am just curious :-) (No flames against cpio) > > > > On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:48:29PM -0500, Bryan Andersen wrote: > > > > > copy /dev/hda1 to /dev/hdb1? > > > > > > > > mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt > > > > cd > > > > find -xdev | cpio -padm /mnt > > > > > > This is the preferred method to copy partitions. Some files > don't > > > copy properly with cp or tar, and dd dosen't deal with different > > > partition sizes. In general dd is bad due to bad blocks. Many > > > new disks remap out bad blocks, but they still can develop over > > > time and not be mapped out by the HD's internal controller. > > > > Hi can you enlighten us who uses "tar". What files "tar" can not > but > > "cpio" can copy? Are those arguments true for GNU tar? > > > > pipe, softlink, hardlink, device nodes,... > > Named pipes and files with holes in their block allocation. > > -- > | Bryan Andersen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.nerdvest.com > | > | Buzzwords are like annoying little flies that deserve to be > swatted. | > | -Bryan Andersen > | > I get lazy and tend to use Midnight Commander (mc) to copy partitions. I havn't had any problems to date, but is this bad practice? How does mc do its copying anyway? Tks, Patrick. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: Binairies format
--- Gael Pegliasco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Following my previous message about 'packages compilation', (thanks > andrea for > your reply), I'm now wondering how it is possible to know for which > architecture > a program has been compiled for ? The canonical answer would be to check the makefiles in the corresponding source package for the ARCH option. I will _guess_ that unstable is i486 as I don't think kernel 2.4 supports i386 any longer. I wouldn't be surprised to be corrected though. Patrick. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: ppp connection
--- Arian Novruzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to configure my ppp in my new Debian 2.2 (well, I think > these > developers guys can make more easy the installation ;-) > My modem is a lucent one and I use the appropriate package to install > it. > I'm using the same script which worked perfectly in RH6.2. > Running "ppp-on" gives these messages: > > /usr/sbin/pppd: The remote system is required to authenticate itself > /usr/sbin/pppd: but I couldn't find any secret (password) for it to > use to > do so > /usr/sbin/pppd" (none of the avalaible passwords would let it use an > IP > address) > > Thanks for any suggestion how to establish my ppp connection. > Arian. > in Debian you want to use: /sbin/pppconfig, pon, poff __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Installation Trouble
hi, i just purchased the "Debian Linux Unleashed" by SAMS publishing, and it came with a copy of Debian GNU/Linux 2.2r2. it booted off the CD and was fine until i saw an error message that says "Keyboard = AT Keyboard not present?" something like that anyway. then more gibberish very quickly, and the screen changes to one with color and a DOS-like window talking abt the introduction to Debian. The word "Continue" is highlighted in the center of the window near the bottom. problem is, my keyboard and mouse doesn't seem to work. i couldn't hit enter to go on to the next screen, nor could i use the mouse to click on the "Continue" button. my keyboard is a PS/2 keyboard, and i've read the installation docs. it didn't talk abt the keyboard type at the boot prompt. the closest i read was "bootkbd=qwerty/us" which didn't work when i tried. Specs for my box are as follows: Processor: Intel Celeron 900MHz Motherboard: Asus TUA266 Memory: 256MB DDR Harddisk: 30GB HDD Graphics: Abit GeForce2 MX400 64MB Sound: Creative Soundblaster Live NIC: 3Com 3C905B-TX please help. jem _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Nvidia GeForce2 [was Re: woody]
--- synthespian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Em Qua, 2002-05-22 às 21:51, Jerome Acks Jr escreveu: > > On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 09:34:46PM +0200, Ferdinand Lachmann wrote: > > > I am a newby on debian woody 3.0. > > > Have a Nvidia GeForce2 DDR in my system. > > > Can,t get my xserver running,nor my usb logitech mouse. > > > > I assume you have installed X4.x. > > > > If not, run: apt-get install xserver-xfree86 > > > > > Then try running "XFree86 -configure" as root. This should give you > a > > working configuration file that gives you an ugly gray screen. You > can > > then tweak the config file into more usable setup. If this doesn't > > start the xserver, check /var/log/XFree86.0.log for error messages > > > > Or run: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 > > select the nv driver for your card. > > Hi- > > Having problems with the same card. > THis approach doesn't work (dpkg-reconfigure). I get the "No screens > found" error. What does it mean? > > > -- > > Jerome > > TIA, > Regs, > > Henry > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nvidia cards require their proprietary driver to work under X. I think I found source debs (unstable/non-free) which compiled and installed nicely. Patrick. -- __ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A installation question
Dear all, Just preparing to install Woody. I have a question concerning lilo. During installation, how to configure lilo to put the boot block on a floppy and leave the hard disk's MBR unchanged? Thank you very much in advance. After receiving your answer, I will start to upgrade my SuSe linux to Debian. Qian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: inserting carriage return characters
> What is a simple way to insert a carriage return character just before > each line feed (new line) character in a text file? > > Try command: "cat old.txt | recode ..pc > new.txt" Qian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: inserting carriage return characters
> What is recode ? recode is a filter converting various character sets. Have a look at: http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard/recode/HTML/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian book for complete newbie?
On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Johann Spies wrote: > > Search google for rute.pdf It is a book by Paul Sheer of about 700 > pages referring frequently to the debian way of doing things. > The website is http://rute.sourceforge.net. It looks nice. Qian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to stop console cursor blink?
On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Jan Groenewald wrote: > sort of similar, how does one turn the console error beep > off? > Use command: xset -b Qian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How many files can be put in one directory?
Hi, A general question: what's the maximum number of files located in one directory? Qian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
bad error
I recompiled my kernel, and must have turned off (or turned to modules) the required pieces to read my hard drive @ boot time. Both of the other heretofore bootable kernels on the machine (all 2.4.18) result in the same error during the boot process, and booting from A: results in a similar message. Because of some bad backups, I really need to recover the informaiton, if there is no software/command_line solution, what should I do? Debian 3.0 woody/stable, ATA HD Error for all three kernels NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. ds: no socket drivers loaded! request_module[ide_disk]: Root fs not mounted hda: driver not present VFS: Cannot open root device "301" or 03:01 Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:03 trying from a (2.2.x) boot floppy results in request_module[block-major-3]: root fs not mounted VFS: Cannot open root device "" or 03:03 Please append... Kernel Panic.. Meep! Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now
Re: bad error
Thank you Dennis, but... Dennis Stosberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Am 03.12.2002 um 13:29 schrieb J Q Private: >> Both of the other heretofore bootable kernels on the machine (all >> 2.4.18) result in the same error during the boot process, and >> booting from A: results in a similar message. > Take this as a lesson: Always keep a known good kernel image in your > boot manager. Two of them worked yesterday? lilo -v had reported no errors? Maybe I am missing something? > Alternatively, if your system does > not contain any problematic components, Do you think it might be a bad drive, instead? > you may simply copy a > working kernel from any other system onto a floppy disk and use this > disk to boot your system How would this be different than the four or five 2.2.(18|19|20) boot floppies I had lying around? They all fail, also. Howabout if I re-install Debian on a partition on the machine that doesn't contain any data I need? THX! __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /etc/fstab OR harddrive crash
--- Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 11:17:43AM -0500, Narins, > Josh wrote: > > Dear Debian folk, > > Important Question... If my hard drive crashed, > and my machine boots > > from the hard drive, how far in the boot process > would it get? > > How long is a piece of string? > > > If I just messed up /etc/fstab (1), how can I fix > it? > > I've got some rescue disks, but NONE for any of > my 2.4.x kernels. > > They were all too big to fit on a floppy. They are > for 2.2.x > > I recently managed to nuke my 2.4 system and booted > it just fine from > a 2.2 kernel floppy, made from the boot image on my > Debian CD. I just > ignore all the stuff about configuring the > installation and go > straight to "Execute a shell". I can then fsck > /dev/hda4, mount > /dev/hda4 /target and go into it and mess about. > (Adjust dev > appropriately for your system...) > > I can't, of course, use the boot floppy to make it > boot from the HD. > > The boot floppy incorporates an editor "ae" with > which you can fix > /etc/fstab. Well, that's the theory. The version of > "ae" on my boot > floppy locks the system up if you try and run it. > That's the slink > one, you probably have a newer one which probably > works. Try it out > BEFORE you mount the HD otherwise you'll have to > fsck it all over again. > > > After (IF?) this gets resolved, I'll have to > learn to make a > > bootable CD "rescue" disk. :) > > Even if you successfully resolve it without one? :-) > > > By the way, the boot goes for a while, obviously > some modules are > > being looked at, then I get a kernel panic, and > the suggestion I pass root= > > to tell it where to look for the hard drive. > > I don't think it's looking at any modules - how can > it see them if it can't > find the root? What messages does it give? > > > This happens with any of my kernels on the > machine, or any of my > > rescue disks. > > Is there a terminology confusion here? My "rescue > disk" is a floppy > made from resc1440.bin on my Debian CD. It boots - > even if there are no > hard drives in the machine at all - into a > single-user mode whence you > can either install Debian, or execute a shell in > which to mount the > hard drive and fix stuff. It doesn't try and look > for anything on the > hard drive while it's booting. > > > Thanks a ton, I'm really working hard to use > Debian always. I love > > the multiple-arches, > > I like viaducts too. Amazing to think they were all > built by hand. > > > I love apt-get and dselect, but it ALWAYS seems > like I > > am having one trouble or the other :) > > Whereas in Windoze, either you can't fix the > problems, or you can fix > them but you have to do so time and again because > the OS keeps > re-breaking them. > > > (1) trying to swtich from /cdrom to /cdrom0 and > /cdrom1, maybe I > > accidentally edited the wrong line, also? > > Could be... > > Pigeon > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bad error
> See the thread on /etc/fstab or HD crash. I noticed > you posted a reply > to that but all that was in it was one of my posts, > quoted. Were you > trying to ask this sort of question? No. that was me at work (i.e. lacking detail) I solved it in that thread, never previously realizing that the shell (I have some LSL install CD-ROM of 2.2.16) I needed was after you start the installation procedure. It's still odd to me, though. Please correct me if I'm wrong. I still have the two good kernels I compiled on the machine, but until I ran e2fsck all over, they wouldn't boot, either. I suppose attempting to boot the bad kernel (which didn't have support compiled in to read hard drives, donut!) actually hosed the hard drive, and thus prevented even the good kernels from working. Now I have a nice CD-R backup. It'd be slick to make my own 2.4.18 boot CD ciao for now - They're There! They're Poor! They Don't Want Any War! --- Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 02:26:40PM -0800, J Q > Private wrote: > > How would this be different than the four or five > > 2.2.(18|19|20) boot floppies I had lying around? > > > > They all fail, also. > > What exactly do you mean by a "boot floppy", and how > does it "fail"? > > My "boot floppy" is made from resc1440.bin on my > Debian CD. It boots, > slightly confusingly, into the installation > sequence. On the first > screen (select colour or monochrome) I select "Next" > straightaway, > then there's a screen of blurb which I hit return to > get rid of, then > I get to the installation menu. I scroll down this > until I get to the > "Execute a shell" option, which is off the bottom of > the menu until I > do scroll down. This gets me into a single-user root > shell, so I can > fsck my hard drive, mount it and poke around on it. > > See the thread on /etc/fstab or HD crash. I noticed > you posted a reply > to that but all that was in it was one of my posts, > quoted. Were you > trying to ask this sort of question? > > Pigeon > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian 2.0 - rcmd: Lost connection
Thanks for the reply... I believe that I am using the latest version of libc6, so I guess it is still broken. Here is the output from "dpkg --list": ii libc6 2.0.7r-5 The GNU C library version 2 ii libc6-dev 2.0.7r-5 The GNU C library version 2 These are the latest packages in the hamm release. I've been using the hamm distribution for about 3 months and have been continuously upgrading to all the latest packages. Thanks for any help on this matter, ---- Michael Q. Le Office: (530) 752-6347 Solid State Circuits Research Lab Fax:(530) 752-8428 Dept. of Electrical EngineeringUniversity of California, Davis http://junior.ece.ucdavis.edu Powered by Debian GNU/Linux! On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, J.H.M.Dassen wrote: > [Courtesy copy of Usenet posting] > Michael Q. Le <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I get the following error when I try to rlogin as root. The machine > >has a .rhosts file in the root directory to allow root login without > >a password. > > > >When I try to login from another Linux box, I get: > > hostm.ece.ucdavis.edu: Success > >But nothing happens...Terminal is still on the client machine. > > > >When I login from an HP machine, I get: > > rcmd: Lost connection > > This is caused by a bug in the version of libc6 that is installed on your > 2.0 beta machine. Please upgrade to the latest version avaible; it is > reported to be fixed there. > > Please consider using the debian-user@lists.debian.org mailing list for > Debian specific questions. > > HTH, > Ray > -- > Cyberspace, a final frontier. These are the voyages of my messages, > on a lightspeed mission to explore strange new systems and to boldly go > where no data has gone before. > -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
dependency on kernel 2.0.28
I just tried installing dosemu and ibcs from the unstable tree. It seems they require kernel 2.0.28 however we don't have that kernel package available yet even in the unstable tree. Thanks, -- Michael Q. Le Home: (916) 753-1456 Solid State Circuits Research Lab Office: (916) 752-6347 Dept. of Electrical EngineeringUniversity of California, Davis Powered_/_/ _/_| _/ _/_/ \_ _/ By _/_/ _/ _| _/ _/_/\_/ Debian _/_/ _/ _| _/ _/_/_/\_ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _|_/ _/_/_/_/ _/ \_ http://www.ece.ucdavis.edu/~lem
Problem with xlockmore
When I lock the screen with xlock and I continuously click the middle mouse button on my Logitech mouse to cycle through the different screensavers, xlock exits with the following error: X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) Major opcode of failed request: 78 (X_CreateColormap) Serial number of failed request: 20908 Current serial number in output stream: 20913 Sometimes, xlock also seems to mysteriously exit with this error without any keyboard or mouse input. I am using all of the packages from the frozen tree. Thanks for any help, -- Michael Q. Le Home: (916) 753-1456 Solid State Circuits Research Lab Office: (916) 752-6347 Dept. of Electrical EngineeringUniversity of California, Davis Powered_/_/ _/_| _/ _/_/ \_ _/ By _/_/ _/ _| _/ _/_/\_/ Debian _/_/ _/ _| _/ _/_/_/\_ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _|_/ _/_/_/_/ _/ \_ http://www.ece.ucdavis.edu/~lem -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
mailcap error
I get the following message when I install packages like xanim, imagemagic, etc: Error: '/etc/mailcap' is not in required format What is wrong? Thanks for the help. -- Michael Q. Le Home: (916) 753-1456 Solid State Circuits Research Lab Office: (916) 752-6347 Dept. of Electrical EngineeringUniversity of California, Davis Powered_/_/ _/_| _/ _/_/ \_ _/ By _/_/ _/ _| _/ _/_/\_/ Debian _/_/ _/ _| _/ _/_/_/\_ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _|_/ _/_/_/_/ _/ \_ http://www.ece.ucdavis.edu/~lem
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Re: Re: How to disable this PPP message
Hi Simo, Thanks for the pointer. I'm using Firestarter to configure IPTables. I will investigate Firestarter configuration options. Cheers, jec -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: How to disable this PPP message
Hi, Here is what I did. Please note: this is probably not appropriate for a professional/production/multi-user system. I run Debian as software development platform w/ Firestarter to manage IPTables. Firestarter causes IPTables to log messages related to various DoS attacks.attacks.attacks.attacks.attacks.attacks.. It then instructs IPTables to disable traffic from the associated IP address. So, it's not entirely appropriate to disable logging entirely. IPTables logging is controlled by Firestarter in the /etc/firestarter/configuration file. The shell variable "LOG_LEVEL" is transmitted to IPTables; which level is then used as the SYSLOG message level. -> LOG_LEVEL=debug Modify /etc/syslog.conf to log kern.debug messages to /dev/null on the theory that important messages shouldn't be written at debug level. If I really need to be seeing these messages, I'll probably be disconnected from the net. That's my theory and I'm sticking to it -> kern.debug -/dev/null However, I obviously do not want to discard /all/ kernel messages -> kern.info -/var/log/syslog I still think this is rather ham-handed. The difficulty (IMNSHO) stems from the lack of granularity below the facility level. In other words, I can't (AFAIK) specifically log kern.iptables to its own file. Cheers, jec -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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NFS breaks after switching to DNS
I just switched my private network from /etc/hosts to DNS, now NFS mounting doesn't work. Using /etc/hosts I see in syslog: Jan 31 18:06:52 playdough mountd[211]: NFS mount of / attempted from 192.168.1.1 Jan 31 18:06:52 playdough mountd[211]: / has been mounted by 192.168.1.1 and using DNS for the same mount I see: Jan 31 18:09:30 playdough mountd[211]: NFS mount of / attempted from 192.168.1.1 Jan 31 18:09:30 playdough mountd[211]: Unauthorized access by NFS client 192.168.1.1. Jan 31 18:09:30 playdough mountd[211]: Blocked attempt of 192.168.1.1 to mount / Is it possible mountd is completely ignoring DNS? How could I check?
where is `gc.h' needed for compiling gcc?
I'm trying to compile gcc on Potato with the pgcc patches. Patches applied cleanly, and I edited the debian/patches/ patches that didn't apply cleanly (just version changes between `gcc' and `pgcc') and ran debian/rules binary. Now in src/libobjc/gc.c, it can't find gc.h and gc_typed.h, which are not included with the gcc source. Where can I find them? -- Ferret no baka
SquidGuard without libdb2 in /usr/local?
I'm trying to build squidguard but am running into a little problem. It
depends on libdb2, but the congigure script fails on Debian's libdb2 and
libdb2-dev packages installed, saying the berkley DB package isn't
installed.
I'd like to build squidguard without having to have the packages under
/usr/local like it suggests, but I'm not sure how. Even specifying the
directories as configure options doesn't seem to be working.
This is what I do:
--->
./squidGuard-1.1.2# ./configure
--with-db-inc=/usr/include/db2/ --with-db-lib=/usr/lib/
loading cache ./config.cache
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checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking for bison... bison -y
checking for flex... flex
checking for yywrap in -lfl... yes
checking for lynx... /usr/bin/lynx
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
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** The Berkley DB library is required for squidGuard
to compile. Get it from http://www.sleepycat.com
use --with-db=DIR or --with-db-lib=DIR to specify
its location. (default is /usr/local/BerkeleyDB)
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The only thing I can see is it probably is looking for `libdb.a', which
is in libc6-dev, and it needs to use `libdb2.a' from libdb2-dev.
I'm looking through the configure scripts, but It's hard reading for me
and I'm not sure what or how to change. I'm hoping someone's
successfully built this program and can tell me what I need to tweak for
it. I've also looked at junkbuster. But I need a caching proxy more than
I need a redirector. And I need to be able to redirect sets of addresses
to sets of other addresses.
For example, something like:
http://*.domain.com/* --> http://otherdomain.com/foo
*://[ad|ads|spam].*/*/*.[gif|jpg|png] -> localhost/blocked/banner.png
etc..
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