For a lng time now ive had a problem running "startx" as normal user
It runs fine as root though.
I log in as normal user, run startx and it will just sit there. ???
Interestingly hitting c ( usually twice ) seems to kick start it,
so i assume its hanging
on some sub process spawned by "star
Hi all,
Thanks to everyone who vented opinions. I fsck'ed the partition and
df and du -s now agree to within a couple of kilobytes (7 in case it
matters, with df reporting the larger value).
--
Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development
Wim Kerkhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This may sound silly... but what when the computer is shutdown at
> night, what time is being stored in the BIOS? It could be timezone
> thing... I don't know, just an idea
The BIOS uses UTC and, yes, I took that into account when setting the
daily
I pretty much got things working how I want them except for when I start
x-windows with blackbox, or any window manager for that matter, I get a
white box on the bottom right hand corner of the screen. If I close it in
blackbox it kicks me back out to the log in screen where it is also present.
An
> pattern to it, other than perhaps SMB activity within ten to fifteen
> minutes before shutdown.
>
See if "Wake on Lan" is enabled, and settings such as those.
Jonathan,
Thanks for your response. I checked my exim.conf again and did not find
anything wrong in it. I have included a few of the values below.
Assume:
my true IP address: 192.1.1.1
my true machine name: badhost.corp.com
/etc/exim.conf
===
qualify_domain = badhost.corp.com
local_dom
After I upgraded to kernel 2.2.14 from 2.0.38 my printer wouldn't work.
I had to:
cd /dev
rm lp*
MAKEDEV lp
to correct the problem. Unfortunately I don't remember what the old major
and minor device numbers were, however there were four of them
lp0, lp1, lp2, lp3. After reinstalling them I only
After yesterdays upgrade, strange things happen. First of all, apache cannot
start because it cannot resolve my virtual hosts. However, my nsmeserver is
working fine. Also, I canno login to mailman or listar using their web
interfaces, I dont get any errors.
Anybody has any ideas what would be
Sorry for the duplicate message. This one has a useful Subject.
Jonathan,
Thanks for your response. I checked my exim.conf again and did not find
anything wrong in it. I have included a few of the values below.
Assume:
my true IP address: 192.1.1.1
my true machine name: badhost.corp.c
Beavis wrote:
i
am trying to run a script call fp_install.shbut my slink box says run is
not a command, what do i try install?
Is it right that you are trying to install Frontpage Extensions??
The script replaces your apache binary.
My note to this: compile Apache from the Debian source packag
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 04:16:45PM +, David Wright wrote:
>
> /etc/X11/window-managers takes precedence because it comes first in
> /etc/X11/Xsession which contains:
> (refers to ~/.xsession which I hid)
> /
>
> if [ -e $startup ] && grep -q
Hello,
Trying to install python in Potato fails due to libdb1.85 "not
installable" (whatever that means). Any solutions?
Thank you,
--
Pedro
# apt-get install python-base
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that yo
dselect gives me the error message "device3dfx-module does not appear to
be available" when getting the voodoo3 stuff. I haven't seen anyone
address this problem in deselect specifically in the archives for 2.2
(potato). Does anyone know the workaround for this. I have created and
installed the
When I try to 'telnet localhost 25' I get the following error message:
"Telnet unable to connect to the local host.
connection refused."
I was wondering if anyone could help me get telnet working as I
suspect that this problem is preventing from downloading mail
using fetchmail.
TIA
Irvine
Well, we made a booboo:) My brother was attempting an
innocent apt-get upgrade, however, he accidently
missed an "unstable" line in his sources.list file.
The result is now that he has some WOODY files sitting
ont he computer and it's causing problems.
Is there anyway, other then removing the OS
How long do you think it'll be until one can find debs for xfree 4 in the
unstable branch? I never knew how much testing or whatever important
components must go through before they're added.
-harlan
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 11:01:54PM -0500, Harlan Crystal generated a stream of
1s and 0s:
> How long do you think it'll be until one can find debs for xfree 4 in the
> unstable branch? I never knew how much testing or whatever important
> components must go through before they're added.
>
> -har
> "Kelly" == Kelly Corbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> dselect gives me the error message "device3dfx-module does not
> appear to be available" when getting the voodoo3 stuff. I
> haven't seen anyone address this problem in deselect
> specifically in the archives for 2.2 (pot
How do I fix my console keymappings? I chose standard US keyboard during
install of potatoe but various keys are in different places.
run kbdconfig if you can manage to type it...
> "Kendall" == Kendall Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> How do I fix my console keymappings? I chose standard US
> keyboard during install of potatoe but various keys are in
> different places.
> -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubs
I'm trying to finish migrating from Slink to Potato. It's been mostly
successful, but after a 50mb download I am now getting odd errors from apt.
Here's what's been done so far:
1) Installed Slink from bootable CD-ROM up to the first reboot.
2) After the reboot, said "no" to choosing a group of p
On 10-Mar-2000 Marshal Wong wrote:
> run kbdconfig if you can manage to type it...
Is it possible I have the same problem? I discovered today that my numeric
keypad does not work correctly.
--
Andrew
On 9 Mar 2000, Marc wrote:
> Jaume Teixi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Xssesion: unable to start X session: no /user/.xsession found, no window
> > manager, and no terminal emulators found
>
> > why ?
> Hum, have you one of these installed ?
> Check /etc/alternatives for a x-window-manager file
Since doing a apt-get update / apt-get upgrade today I have noticed
that dselect has stopped working with the following error message:
dselect: failed to getch in main menu: Success
After selecting any menu option dselect shuts down with this message.
Anyone else notice this? have a temp work-aro
I got that same message, but I had thought it was due to me having
completly screwed my life by typing rm -r /etc/ instead of rm -r etc/.
I had a month old backup of /etc, and some things are broken now,
obviously. specifically, I see complaines about modules.conf, samba, and
lpd.conf. What shou
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 09:01:10PM -0800, Kendall Shaw wrote:
> How do I fix my console keymappings? I chose standard US keyboard during
> install of potatoe but various keys are in different places.
One of the more common alternate mappings is the "awertz" keymapping --
it's used somewhere in Eur
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Was total nightmare to install for me, since it simply didn't let me
> do
> what I wanted it to. I wanted to have my swap second or first
> partition,
> nope, can't do that... etc. I think it's easy to install for someone
> who
> doesn't need much flexibility/doesn't h
Hello,
I have problems with my keybord under X-Windows. My keybord is a normal german
one without the spezial MS-Windows keys. When I havent got started X
the keybord works corretly. Only the german spezial keys like "a, "o , ... dont
work. But under X the keys ~, § , `, ´, ^ and the german spezi
Often when people report bugs, they include something like this:
Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii libc6 2.1.3-7GNU C Library: Shared
libraries an
ii libncurses5 5.0-6 Shared libraries for terminal
hand
ii libstdc++2.10
> From: kmself@ix.netcom.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 10:45 PM
>
> On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 09:01:10PM -0800, Kendall Shaw wrote:
> > How do I fix my console keymappings? I chose standard US keyboard during
> > install of potatoe but various keys are in different pl
On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 12:50:12AM -0800, Eric Hanchrow wrote:
> Often when people report bugs, they include something like this:
>
> Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
> ii libc6 2.1.3-7GNU C Library: Shared
> libraries an
> ii libncurses5
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000 05:24:26 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>When I try to 'telnet localhost 25' I get the following error message:
>
>"Telnet unable to connect to the local host.
> connection refused."
>
>I was wondering if anyone could help me get telnet working as I
>suspect that this problem
I've installed Sotrm for someone as a workstation and my first impression
was that it is a good distribution, specially for
beginners... Installation is easy and creating dual boot (something of
what I think most beginners in Linux start with, linux and windows) was
really a piece of cake. No need
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aaron Solochek) wrote:
>I got that same message, but I had thought it was due to me having
>completly screwed my life by typing rm -r /etc/ instead of rm -r etc/.
>
>I had a month old backup of /etc, and some things are broken now,
>obviously. specifically, I see complaines abou
On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 12:59:50AM -0800, Kendall Shaw wrote:
> > From: kmself@ix.netcom.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 10:45 PM
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 09:01:10PM -0800, Kendall Shaw wrote:
> > > How do I fix my console keymappings? I chose standard US key
Hi,
since I read the mailinglist this morning with the high-speed option 'd'
and the mailing list archive isn't updated yet, I don't know if it has
allready been reported. Anyway, the preoblem described below got solved on
my woody box by a simple
rm -r ~/.mozilla
Martin
On Thu, 9 Mar 2000,
Hi all,
I am running several boxes with unstable(woody), and the sutdown process
on some of them hangs near the end. They are all NFS clients to other
Linux and Solaris machines. The ones that hang do it when trying to
access NFS (I think trying to umount the nfs mounts I have in /etc/fstab)
*
Any dselect menu crashes with that msg !!
please hlp :)
begin:vcard
n:Teixi;Jaume
tel;fax:972 46 31 14
tel;work:972 46 30 50
x-mozilla-html:TRUE
url:http://www.6tems.com
org:6TEMS;Ducform, SA
adr:;;Pla de l'Estany, s/n;CASSÀ DE LA SELVA;Girona;17244;Spain
version:2.1
email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTE
There is a problem with dpkg_1.6.10 which gives this error. Please
downgrade the dpkg file to dpkg_1.6.9.
I assume that you have just done an upgrade to the new package and this
broke dselect. dpkg itself still works, so you just need the file and
use:
dpkg -i packagename.deb
Then when dselect
Hi all,
since some time (on several machines with newest woody) I get an error
message when logged in as root (not as a normal user):
invalid character 32 in exportstr for export PATH
This happens with all commands where bash is involved. In my PATH are
the common directories, echo $PATH give
Hi,
when compiling a kernel version 2.2.14 my PS/2 mice won't work any
more, having the same kernel options as with 2.2.12.
The boot messages tell me that a PS/2 mouse port is found, but the
cursor doesn't follow the mouse at all.
Is there a trick, some other kernel options as in older kernels .
On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 02:53:52PM +0100, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> since some time (on several machines with newest woody) I get an error
> message when logged in as root (not as a normal user):
>
>invalid character 32 in exportstr for export PATH
>
> This happens with all comm
From: Joachim Trinkwitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> since some time (on several machines with newest woody) I get an error
> message when logged in as root (not as a normal user):
>
>invalid character 32 in exportstr for export PATH
>
> This happens with all commands where bash is involved. I
Hello,
Is there a chance that the standard netscape package will use the
glibc-version? i have to use it since i need the java1.2 plugin, and i would
like to use the packaged version instead of a locally installed one
--
ciao bboett
==
I've been trying to get my mutt to display iso-8859-1 characters for 5 days
now, and I'm not sure where to look anymore. It seems that the programs
don't like LC_CTYPE set to something else than C. The system is running mutt
1.0.1i on Debian Slink/i386
I read from some Mutt webpage that perl is p
Quoting Brad ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> This is no longer true; Xsession no longer checks
> /etc/X11/window-managers at all. You've either not updated
> xfree86-common to the latest version, or didn't overwrite
> /etc/X11/Xsession when you did. I believe this change occurred in
> 3.3.6-4, but i coul
On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Jason Christensen wrote:
> How handy are you with text processing scripting languages (i.e. Perl,
> awk, etc.)?
>
> My thought is that you could create a script that edits your .pinerc file
> prior to starting pine. The script could look at another file
This is "last resort"
Hi *,
is there anybody who could get the personal security
manager to work with M14? Is the debian version capable of
using it?
See http://www.mozillazine.org/ for more information ...
By
Töns
--
Linux. The dot in /.
Any odds we'll get XF-4.0 in Potato now that it's officially released?
is there a good way to get it installed, other than go compile source?
I like not hosing up my dependancies, etc.
Robert
:wq!
---
Robert L. Harris
Thanks for the reply.
I have infact installed exim and have configured /etc/exim.conf, though
whether it's configured properly is another matter.
Is it possible that something in the exim.conf is incorrectly configured
or that whatever program is responsible for strating exim is not being
load
OK I like Debian. So I have been enjoying Strom Linux because of it's
use of Debian. I know that I could go to Caldera and get what I want
but I want to use a distribution that I am familur with.
Does anyone know of a way to be a client on a NDS tree with Storm Linux
or Debian? I remember Novel
Quoting Dale Scheetz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> This is "last resort" as I don't want to have to restart pine every time
> the link changes.
> Switching back and forth between the two ISPs, while not difficult is a
> bit obnoxious. It would be much nicer to have pine track the right server.
>
> I
Jason Christensen wrote:
> The script could look at another file (/etc/resolv.conf maybe) for domain
> info that was set by your connection software. I know that dhcpcd sets
> the domain in my resolv.conf. I'm not sure what pppd does as it has been
> a couple of years since I have used it.
Pppconf
On 10 Mar, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> I have infact installed exim and have configured /etc/exim.conf, though
> whether it's configured properly is another matter.
>
> Is it possible that something in the exim.conf is incorrectly configured
> or that whatever program i
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000 16:53:06 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Is it possible that something in the exim.conf is incorrectly configured
>or that whatever program is responsible for strating exim is not being
>loaded.
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000 06:54:21 -1000 (HST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
>Do y
Double check /usr/src/linux/.config for
CONFIG_MOUSE=y
.
.
.
CONFIG_PSMOUSE=y
No problems with PS/2 mouse and 2.2.14 here.
On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 02:58:21PM +0100, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> when compiling a kernel version 2.2.14 my PS/2 mice won't work any
> more, having the same kern
Eric Hanchrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Often when people report bugs, they include something like this:
>
> Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
> ii libc6 2.1.3-7GNU C Library: Shared
> libraries an
> ii libncurses5 5.0-6
I just got to the point of first dselect on a fresh potato installation.
I get the following errors:
debconf: Perl may be unconfigured (It then lists files it can't find and
such)
E: Write error - write (32 Broken Pipe)
E: Failure running script dpkg-preconfigure --apt
Then it runs the standard
Oh... I manually dpkg'ed the perl debs and that fixed it. but worth
noting as a bug.
But, where can I get the older dpkg packaes so that I don't hit that wall?
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Aaron Solochek wrote:
> I just got to the point of first dselect on a fresh potato installation.
> I get the fo
Hi,
Looking for help with diald. Trying to set an old 486 up as a dial
on demand router for my home network. Using official slink with 2.0.36
kernel.
Problem. diald will not automatically connect. dctrl up-request or
"up" in diald.options works fine. But telnet/ftp/ping to an IP address
o
Do you know for a fact that the SMTP servers at both your ISPs are
configured to NOT relay mail. Perhaps one of the servers will work for
both connections.
It's not necessarily a good thing as it indicates that one or both of your
ISPs are not spam conscious, however it would save you a lot of tim
I have no problems with a PS/2 mouse & 2.2.14.
On 10 Mar 2000, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote:
> The boot messages tell me that a PS/2 mouse port is found, but the
> cursor doesn't follow the mouse at all.
Under what circumstances are you talking about, X or console? If you're
talking about the console
John Stevenson wrote:
>
> There is a problem with dpkg_1.6.10 which gives this error. Please
> downgrade the dpkg file to dpkg_1.6.9.
>
Could anyone send me the dpkg_1.6.9 package to downgrade with or
are they archived on the debian site somewhere ?
Roy Pluschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I'd like a copy of that too.
-Aaron Solochek
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Roy Pluschke wrote:
> John Stevenson wrote:
> >
> > There is a problem with dpkg_1.6.10 which gives this error. Please
> > downgrade the dpkg file to dpkg_1.6.9.
> >
>
> Could anyone send me the dpkg_1.6.9 package to downgrade
Hi,
I would like to install Linux on an old computer, just for being a
print-server for windows systems (SMB). What packages do I have
to install for min.?ll for min.?
You'll want to take a look at the Samba packages, and maybe Swat for a
web-based Samba configuration tool. I've been using Samba for several
years now and it works quite well. With Samba you'll be able to share your
Linux files and printers with Windows machines as if the Linux box was
running Wind
I have just built a new 2.0.36 kernel but, when I boot it, xdm
does not work.
I switch back to my standard kernel and everything is okay.
Am I forgetting to select something related to X or something?
Is there a web page detailing standard kernel things?
I am looking at
/usr/doc/HOWTO/Kernel-HO
Today, when doing "apt-get upgrade" on my "Potato" machine, apt-get exited
with the following messages:
Reading Package Lists... Done
Segmentation faulty Tree... 50%
The first I have seen before, but the second I have not. All aplications that
I use regularly seem to be working properly, and I
On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 03:41:55PM +0100, Bruno Boettcher wrote:
>
> Is there a chance that the standard netscape package will use the
> glibc-version? i have to use it since i need the java1.2 plugin, and i would
> like to use the packaged version instead of a locally installed one
The latest n
unsubscribe
On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 02:34:44PM -0500, paul generated a stream of 1s and 0s:
> Today, when doing "apt-get upgrade" on my "Potato" machine, apt-get exited
> with the following messages:
>
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Segmentation faulty Tree... 50%
>
This could mean several things. Segmen
Hi,
just got a new machine to play with at work for a while...
Intel L440GX+ w/ 4 550MHz Xeon processors, 4G RAM, 6 18G SCSI-disks on
an Amaquest CTL-95U2 RAID controller.
This controller is currently config'ed to show these disks as 2 normal
SCSI disks (~8G and ~78G) using RAID 5. Win2000 cam
On 10 March, 2000, I said:
> Today, when doing "apt-get upgrade" on my "Potato" machine, apt-get exited
> with the following messages:
>
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Segmentation faulty Tree... 50%
>
> The first I have seen before, but the second I have not. All aplications
> that
> I u
On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 07:38:11AM +, Phillip Deackes generated a stream of
1s and 0s:
> I cannot disagree more strongly!
>
> During install of Storm Linux you have the option to do a text isntall
> or a graphical install. Even if you choose the graphic install you have
> another option t
On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 08:13:53AM -0700, Robert L. Harris wrote:
>
>
> Any odds we'll get XF-4.0 in Potato now that it's officially released?
> is there a good way to get it installed, other than go compile source?
> I like not hosing up my dependancies, etc.
>
> Robert
My guess would be zero
Sorry to go off topic, but Aaaack!
http://www.buy.com/books/product.asp?sku=30576349
--
Matthew W. Roberts
Structural Engineering[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Texas A&M University
-
I currenlt use mandrake 7, but have heard raving
things about debian, so I was wondering does debian
2.1 support voodoo 3 video card?
_
Do You Yahoo!?
Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
No, but 2.2 (potato) does.
Sean
kasim kasmani wrote:
>
> I currenlt use mandrake 7, but have heard raving
> things about debian, so I was wondering does debian
> 2.1 support voodoo 3 video card?
Harlan Crystal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
HC> How long do you think it'll be until one can find debs for xfree 4 in the
HC> unstable branch? I never knew how much testing or whatever important
HC> components must go through before they're added.
I'd guess that the Debian XFree86 maintainer alrea
We are having a problem here with the deslect program on a frozen dist.
We changed from APT to FTP so we could select which packages to install
from the install line. We got a bunch of errors about how it could not
find the "archive" file. So I decided to manually update the
dpkg_1.6.10.deb pac
Robert L Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
RLH> Any odds we'll get XF-4.0 in Potato now that it's officially released?
IANADD, but I'd say "no". Debian officially went into a "no new
versions of things" freeze a month or two back, and XF86-3.3.6 to 4.0
is a major enough change that I'd be hesita
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, paul wrote:
> Today, when doing "apt-get upgrade" on my "Potato" machine, apt-get exited
> with the following messages:
Usually 'rm /var/cache/apt/*.bin' makes it go away, I dont understand how
it is possible to get into a state where that is required
Jason
Well, I finally am close to getting quake-3dfx to work with my machine.
When I try to run it, the splash screen comes up for 3dfx, and then
screen goes blank and nothing else happens. This locks everything up,
and I have to manually reboot (not good). Does anyone have any
suggestions? Thanks.
Well, I finally am close to getting quake-3dfx to work with my
machine.
When I try to run it, the splash screen comes up for 3dfx, and then
screen goes blank and nothing else happens. This locks everything
up,
and I have to manually reboot (not good). Does anyone have any
suggestions? Thanks.
I have the current jdk1.1.7 jre and jdk packages installed, with the
swing-1.1.1 jar file in the CLASSPATH and get the following error when
running a Swing GUI application. Is something wrong with the awt library
file as indicated below, or is it something else??
Using Potato, updated last 3/10/0
Hey,
I need to get my new USB port going in Linux, but I don't know how to
get it working. I'm using Debian slink with the 2.2.1 kernel (I ran
make config, but I didn't see anything about USB). How would I get
around to doing this?
Thanks,
Cameron Matheson
Try commenting out the smtp line in /etc/inetd.conf and then running exim as
a daemon (#/etc/init.d/exim start) and see if you get error messages?
glen
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, March 10, 2000 6:53 AM
To: Ralf G. R. Bergs
Cc: debia
On 10-Mar-2000 Matheson wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I need to get my new USB port going in Linux, but I don't know how to
> get it working. I'm using Debian slink with the 2.2.1 kernel (I ran
> make config, but I didn't see anything about USB). How would I get
> around to doing this?
see:
http://www.dy
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Aaron Solochek wrote:
> Oh... I manually dpkg'ed the perl debs and that fixed it. but worth
> noting as a bug.
has this bug been reported? it really sucks.
i've looked, and looked and can't find a related bug report
--
Aaron S. Hawley -> Aaron.Hawley @ uvm.edu -> http
Hello,
I installed the Debian 2.1. After, tryed install the lyx package, last
version. But this version need packages newer: libc (>=2.1) stdc++ (>=2.1)
... and installed this last pacakges .
But the latex apears unconfigurable ...
---
[EMAIL PRO
I found it... the link is below.
ftp://ftp.iteso.mx/.1/debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/base/dpkg_1.6.9.deb
-Aaron Solochek
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Aaron S. Hawley wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Aaron Solochek wrote:
>
> > Oh... I manually dpkg'ed the perl debs and that fixed it. but worth
>
On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 08:22:38AM -1000, Jason Christensen wrote:
> I have no problems with a PS/2 mouse & 2.2.14.
>
> On 10 Mar 2000, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote:
>
> > The boot messages tell me that a PS/2 mouse port is found, but the
> > cursor doesn't follow the mouse at all.
>
> Under what cir
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 10:07:41PM -0800, Roy Pluschke wrote:
> Since doing a apt-get update / apt-get upgrade today I have noticed
> that dselect has stopped working with the following error message:
>
> dselect: failed to getch in main menu: Success
>
> After selecting any menu option dselect s
I have always just killed gpm from the init scripts, because gpm and X
have never gotten along on my system. Also a ps/2. Its stupid, and
dselect loves to reinstall the scripts, so that my mouse will either die
as soon as dselect starts configuring stuff, or will go all crazy.
-Aaron Solochek
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Actually, in potato, you can get gpm to port the mice data to
/dev/gpmdata and then just get X to read that, thus removing the need
to kill gpm. It was broken for a while, but it works fine now.
> "Aaron" == Aaron Solochek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have always just killed gpm from
I configured my /etc/XF86Config with three modelines (640x480, 800x600 and
1024x768) and the rest like this...
Section "Screen"
Driver "SVGA"
Device "Primary Card"
Monitor "Primary Monitor"
DefaultColorDepth 16
BlankTime 0
SuspendTime 0
OffT
Hi Seth,
Thanks for the info, unfortunately nothing helps! ldconfig didn't help, jar
placement hasn't helped, and the xlib6g-dev package was already installed.
Also tried getting the original 117 package from Steve Byrne's site and it
does the same thing...
Anyone with success using Swing on De
I haven't looked into this as vigilantly as I should have, but today, I
allowed dselect to update things from the current frozen dist in
conjunction with installing a new package. After the install finished,
running dselect works to the menu, but fails on selecting any option
with the message:
ds
On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 09:20:18PM +, Paul J. Keenan wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 08:13:53AM -0700, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> >
> >
> > Any odds we'll get XF-4.0 in Potato now that it's officially released?
> > is there a good way to get it installed, other than go compile source?
> > I l
|> [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ~/Mest/Percep$ latex UserGuide.tex
|> This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.2)
|> I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'!
I assume you installed from a CD? There is an obscure date-related bug
in the TeTeX distribution, which means that initex cannot run to
produce the
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