OpenSSH tty problem

2000-01-23 Thread Michael G Schwern
The latest ssh package (1.2.1pre24-1) appears to have an odd problem: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ssh athens.arena.com You have no controlling tty. Cannot read passphrase. This problem occurs both in X (under xterm and Eterm) and on console. I recompiled openssh 1.2.1pre24 from the Debian sources and

Problems installing/removing console-data-1999.08.29

2000-01-23 Thread Michael G Schwern
I was attempting to install and later remove console-data on a powerpc platform when I got the following: Removing console-data ... grep: /proc/hardware: No such file or directory substr outside of string at /var/lib/dpkg/info/console-data.config line 354, chunk 4. Please report this bug: no key

Re: Linux and MacOS-9

2000-01-14 Thread Michael G Schwern
you have the version of the disk drivers which are causing the problem? (Color me stupid... how do you figure out what version of the drivers are currently installed?) PS I'm booting Linux with BootX 1.1.x and 1.2.x -- Michael G Schwern [E

Quik problems on a Wallstreet

1999-12-08 Thread Michael G Schwern
n = 1 timeout = 50 default = macos image = /boot/vmlinux partition=7 label = linux alias = l # This calls the "bye" command in Open Firmware, booting Mac OS. image = "$bye" label = macos alias = m Should I be setting /dev/hda as the roo

Re: slang1 (<< 1.3) weirdness

1999-12-07 Thread Michael G Schwern
form them of problems I run into so they can nail them eventually. Especially for the unstable distribution. That's part of the reason Debian has an unstable dist... to find bugs. Bug reports are a Good Thing. The bug that is never found is the

[jim@ic.uva.nl: Re: slang1 (<< 1.3) weirdness]

1999-12-07 Thread Michael G Schwern
This came from the slang1 maintainer. Apparently its simply a matter of rebuilding the packages that want slang1 << 1.3. - Forwarded message from Jim Mintha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 23:21:22 +0100 From: Jim Mintha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Michael

Re: slang1 (<< 1.3) weirdness

1999-12-06 Thread Michael G Schwern
Oh dear, I'm an idiot. I just realized that dselect was warning me -not- to upgrade slang because of the dependency problem with upgrading. Still, will I have to perpetually hold slang1 back? On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 05:09:31PM -0500, Michael G Schwern wrote: > This is an odd dependency

slang1 (<< 1.3) weirdness

1999-12-06 Thread Michael G Schwern
This is an odd dependency problem I've been seeing lately from slang1: lynx-ssl depends on slang1 (<< 1.3) bb depends on slang1 (<< 1.3) libggi-target-aa depends on slang1 (<< 1.3) urlview depends on slang1 (<< 1.3) gimp depends on slang1 (<< 1.3) dselect reports this as a dependency conflict eve

netstd, fingerd and the r* gang

1999-12-06 Thread Michael G Schwern
I'm having some trouble not installing fingerd, rwhod and the rest of the r* gang. Trouble is that netstd 3.07-10 depends on them and netbase 3.16-2 in turn recommends netstd. dselect won't let me get rid of netstd without dumping netbase, too (which, of course, I can't do). Is this a bug? A fe

Re: dmasound failure under 2.2.12 kernel

1999-10-08 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Fri, Oct 08, 1999 at 12:35:44PM +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Thu, Oct 7, 1999, Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I recently upgraded from my own 2.2.11 kernel to the new > >kernel-image-2.2.12-pmac and I've found that sound has cease

dmasound failure under 2.2.12 kernel

1999-10-07 Thread Michael G Schwern
dmasound.o: unresolved symbol machine_is_compatible I got the same problem when I compiled the kernel myself (gcc 2.95.1) from the kernel-source-2.2.12 and kernel-patches-2.2.12. I have yet to try compiling straight from the pure Linux source. -- Michael

Re: Which kernel are people using?

1999-09-28 Thread Michael G Schwern
3c810. I compiled 2.2.11 myself, works pretty good but I'm using an Apple G3 Powerbook, which is a different SCSI controller than yours, probably. I forget which compiler I used... probably egcs 1.1.2. -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dead end

1999-09-28 Thread Michael G Schwern
f your services will be started. -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern /(?:(?:(1)[.-]?)?\(?(\d{3})\)?[.-]?)?(\d{3})[.-]?(\d{4})(x\d+)?/i

Re: update-menus going higher and higher

1999-09-28 Thread Michael G Schwern
n old update-menu problem, fixed for about two weeks. > Are you using menu 2.1.3-1.1? Yep. Everything's up to date. -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern /(?:(?:(1)[.-]?)?\(?(\d{3})\)?[.-]?)?(\d{3})[.-]?(\d{4})(x\d+)?/i

Re: Anacron still hangs

1999-09-28 Thread Michael G Schwern
= 0x10015730 brk(0x100158d0) = 0x100158d0 brk(0) = 0x100158d0 brk(0x10016000) = 0x10016000 At this point it simply stops. -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern /(?:(?:(1)[.-]?)?\(?(\d{3})\)?[.-]?)?(\d{3})[.-]?(\d{4})(x\d+)?/i

Re: update-menus going higher and higher

1999-09-27 Thread Michael G Schwern
averages over 30. Lots of update-menus and dpkg processes running. Funny thing was, the CPU was 80% to 90% idle. I was using all 64 megs of RAM and anywhere from 50 to 95 megs of swap. I have a feeling that was the problem, I've noticed disk performance to be really bad. (This is on a WallS

/etc set o-r?

1999-09-27 Thread Michael G Schwern
otato. -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern /(?:(?:(1)[.-]?)?\(?(\d{3})\)?[.-]?)?(\d{3})[.-]?(\d{4})(x\d+)?/i

Re: Using X with a 1 button mouse?

1999-09-24 Thread Michael G Schwern
hough. Check the BootX docs, maybe. -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern /(?:(?:(1)[.-]?)?\(?(\d{3})\)?[.-]?)?(\d{3})[.-]?(\d{4})(x\d+)?/i

Softwore Suspend (Hibernating without APM)

1999-09-08 Thread Michael G Schwern
ing at it (this should be amusing). -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern /(?:(?:(1)[.-]?)?\(?(\d{3})\)?[.-]?)?(\d{3})[.-]?(\d{4})(x\d+)?/i

Re: package dependancies

1999-09-07 Thread Michael G Schwern
umask set). However, having no idea how to properly install Debian/ppc I bulled through getting the base system configured. Basically, I just downloaded whatever .debs were missing or out of date and installed them individually. I'm quite sure this is not correct, but it got me

Second button on the Kensington Orbit

1999-08-27 Thread Michael G Schwern
I can't seem to get gdm or X to recognize the existance of the second mouse button on my Kensington Orbit trackball (ADB). Do I have to set an adb_buttons kernel param? If so, what's the code? -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL

PMU_IOC_SLEEP not implemented

1999-08-19 Thread Michael G Schwern
I doubt it since I don't appear to have a /proc/apm. Its a good thing I have these little lights on the battery. :) I'm going to compile 2.3.14 so I can give swsup (software suspend) a shot. Wish me luck! -- Michael G Schwern

Re: powerpc

1999-08-17 Thread Michael G Schwern
Perhaps the question you should be asking yourself is not "how fast is this computer" but "does it do what I want?" I've seen people buy hideously overpowered machines and do nothing but write papers. So, what do you want to do with it

Re: Real Time Device and kernel 2.2.11

1999-08-17 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 06:14:12PM +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Mon, Aug 16, 1999, Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >-Shut off- RTC support in the kernel. It made mine panic on boot. > > That's probably not the solution neither

Re: Real Time Device and kernel 2.2.11

1999-08-16 Thread Michael G Schwern
in the modification myself... I'm not in Debian right now. Bother me until I post the patch. -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern /(?:(?:(1)[.-]?)?\(?(\d{3})\)?[.-]?)?(\d{3})[.-]?(\d{4})(x\d+)?/i

Re: mysterious reboot

1999-08-16 Thread Michael G Schwern
27;t > behave like this with LinuxPPC and MacOS. > > Oh BTW, I compiled 2.2.10 my self. You didn't happen to turn on the software watchdog, did you? -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwe

Xautoconfig

1999-08-15 Thread Michael G Schwern
I must have installed something wrong, I -still- find myself without any way to configure X. Could someone please do "dpkg -S Xautoconfig" and tell me what package you're getting it from? -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: netscape?

1999-08-15 Thread Michael G Schwern
ator helps somewhat. I usually just kill netsccape at least once a week. Consider maybe iCad. Oh, if there is a 4.61 Linux/PPC rpm available, remember you can still install it with alien. -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://

Successful 2.2.11 kernel compile

1999-08-14 Thread Michael G Schwern
, ++ungood. -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern /(?:(?:(1)[.-]?)?\(?(\d{3})\)?[.-]?)?(\d{3})[.-]?(\d{4})(x\d+)?/i

Re: netscape?

1999-08-14 Thread Michael G Schwern
s me it doesn't make a whole lot of difference. I wonder, does MySQL's "Its free unless you're using Windows" license fail the "License Must Not Contaminate Other Software"? -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]

FB Overflow

1999-08-13 Thread Michael G Schwern
et them if its relevant. (This is an Apple G3/266 Powerbook (WallStreet II)) -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern /(?:(?:(1)[.-]?)?\(?(\d{3})\)?[.-]?)?(\d{3})[.-]?(\d{4})(x\d+)?/i

Re: XF86_FBDev and gpm for a Lombard

1999-08-13 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Fri, Aug 13, 1999 at 08:46:17AM -0700, Chris Baker wrote: > Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The first thing I noticed... there's no way to configure X! > > XF86Config, XF86Setup, xf86config, XConfigurator... looked > > everywhere, installed ev

Re: XF86_FBDev and gpm for a Lombard

1999-08-13 Thread Michael G Schwern
ve an X configuration program. Trust me, it is. I would have -no- idea where to start writing XF86Config from scratch. So how 'bout it? Add an X config program plase? -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern /(?:(?:(1)[.-]?)?\(?(\d{3})\)?[.-]?)?(\d{3})[.-]?(\d{4})(x\d+)?/i