Lockups

1999-08-04 Thread Benjamin Suto
We recently upgraded to a mroe recent version of unstable, and we're getting errors on the console "lost mailbox lock", going up the screen. After a day or two, we get those messages coming really quickly, and the system is locked. These messages only show up on console, and not in any of the lo

Re: Upgraded Potato, now I can't telnet/ssh in

1999-03-14 Thread Benjamin Suto
Alec Smith wrote: > > I know on Slink I can't login as root because of the way login is > configured. Can you log in as a regular user and then use 'su'? That would > be my uneducated guess as to your problem. > No, I can log in locally as a user, then su to root, but when I try to telnet in, it

Upgraded Potato, now I can't telnet/ssh in

1999-03-14 Thread Benjamin Suto
I've been keeping up to date with the Potato release, and I've recently upgraded to the newest distribution sometime yesterday, March 12. Now, when I try to telnet/ssh in, I get an immediate disconnection, and the following message in my system logs. Mar 13 23:00:12 edgy inetd[27942]: getpwnam:

Apache will not authenticate anyone!

1999-02-18 Thread Benjamin Suto
I've been trying to set up mod_roaming, and I have had no luck. Apache will not authenticate anyone, but Netscape seems to find the server and it will try to log in. I've also tried to make a .htaccess and a .htpasswd file in my public_html directory, and it will not even authenticate a user I've

update-menus broken

1999-01-18 Thread Benjamin Suto
My update-menus binary seems to have broken. Whenever I try running it (or removing packages, or adding packages that add menu items), it immediately gives me the following error: edgy:/var/lib/dpkg/info# update-menus Aborted An strace shows something like this: open("/etc/menu-methods/menu.co

Re [Fwd: Installing debian with Win98]

1999-01-07 Thread Benjamin Suto
Ed C. Wrote: >Just in case you don't know: You can disable that Windows boot > logo with an > entry in msdos.sys (a text file now) of "Logo=0" in the Options section. > Works for W95. >Replacing it with a penguin is an entirely different matter, > though. :-) Well, this is prob

Problems installing yagirc

1998-12-26 Thread Benjamin Suto
Well, I had some problems with running yagirc because of missing shared libraries, so I decided to remove libgnome, libgtk, etc. and all programs related to that, and re-install it from scratch. I'm using the unstable tree. I have the following problems when trying to use apt-get or dselect to re

RESOLUTION on segfault on Wordperfect 8

1998-12-19 Thread Benjamin Suto
> > Hmm, I'm getting a segfault when I try executing xwp from Wordperfect > 8.0 using Debian slink... > > Here's what happens: > > $ ./xwp > Segmentation fault > $ ldd ./xwp > /usr/local/lib/libreginfo.so => /usr/local/lib/libreginfo.so > (0x4000e000) > libXt.so.6 => /lib/libXt.s

segfault on Wordperfect 8

1998-12-18 Thread Benjamin Suto
Hmm, I'm getting a segfault when I try executing xwp from Wordperfect 8.0 using Debian slink... Here's what happens: $ ./xwp Segmentation fault $ ldd ./xwp /usr/local/lib/libreginfo.so => /usr/local/lib/libreginfo.so (0x4000e000) libXt.so.6 => /lib/libXt.so.6 (0x4001)