Re: new boot disk?

2001-01-11 Thread ktb
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 12:08:55AM -0500, James W. Lindenschmidt wrote: > Greetings, everyone. > > I just migrated from RedHat over to Debian potato and I'm thrilled so > far. > > But, I think my boot disk is defective, since it takes 5-7 minutes for > the > > Loading Linux.. > > p

help: 2.4.0 kernel and /dev/shm

2001-01-11 Thread Bob Billson
I'm trying out the new 2.4 kernel on my Potato box. I upgrade modutils to the version currently in Woody (2.4.1). Works real nice except for a slight problem I ran into. I can't mount the System V IP shared memory on /dev/shm at bootup. I get this error message: shmem fs invalid option mount:

X Install no Mouse

2001-01-11 Thread hammack
Regrets:  apparently my ISP has been rejecting my alias "John_Hammack".  Please retrans to [EMAIL PROTECTED].   Sorry for the inconvience.    After initiating "startx" a window comes up with a menu.  I am not sure this is an X window or the window manager.  But the mouse cursor is not pre

Re: help: 2.4.0 kernel and /dev/shm

2001-01-11 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I'm trying out the new 2.4 kernel on my Potato box. I upgrade > modutils to the version currently in Woody (2.4.1). Works real nice > except for a slight problem I ran into. I can't mount

Re: OT Any Gimp lists?

2001-01-11 Thread Juha Erkkila
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 04:01:30PM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote: > Hi, > > I subscribed to the list recommended on the gimp home page and after a > day, not a single message. Are there any others out there? Gimpi might interest you, if you like to get image files (<100K) on email: http://www.egrou

Re: sockets

2001-01-11 Thread Leen Besselink
> well the problem is with an igmp c program i have, the strace shows: > > socket(PF_INET, SOCK_RAW, IPPROTO_IGMP) = -1 EPERM (Operation not permitted) > fstat(1, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0620, st_rdev=makedev(136, 7), ...}) = 0 > old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0

Re: kapm-idled eating up my CPU

2001-01-11 Thread Oki DZ
On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Nate Amsden wrote: > Oki DZ wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Recently I switched the kernel to the 2.4-test10 version, and I then I > > have the following: > > PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND > > 2 root 17 0 00 0 SW 0 26.8

Re: Debian Packaging System and libncurses5-dev

2001-01-11 Thread Colin Watson
Benjamin Pharr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I needed to install libncurses5-dev, but it wasn't on the CD and my NIC >still isn't working in Linux. (It's a NetGear FA311 if anyone has >experience with it.) I switched into Win98, downloaded it, and went back >into Linux. I copied the .deb file i

Re: popularity-contest results viewable?

2001-01-11 Thread Colin Watson
Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Is there any way to view the statistics turned in by the >popularity-contest package? Thanks. Yes, see: http://people.debian.org/~apenwarr/popcon/ -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

re100tx.c

2001-01-11 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I have just installed the 2.4.0 kernel and I have the re100tx.c to compile (it's the driver for Compex's ReadyLink card). Unfortunately, the compilation has problems on including the header files (I guess, some C sturctures have been changed on 2.4.0). I have looked around for the driver, incl

Re: System.map irritation

2001-01-11 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I have the same problem after upgrading my (system's) kernel to 2.4.0. I put the 2.4.0 source to /usr/src2/linux directory, and when top executed, the System.map looked up is the one in /usr/src/linux (in which I put the 2.2.13 source). BTW, I have removed the System.map's in /usr/src/lin

Apache 1.3.9-13.1 - ExecCGI problem?

2001-01-11 Thread Niall Young
I'm tearing out my hair. CGI scripts and Includes aren't executing, my logfile shows: [Thu Jan 11 17:35:06 2001] [error] [client xxx.xx.xxx.x] Options ExecCGI is off in this directory: /xxx I've setup both ExecCGI and Includes in each Virtualhost configuration in /etc/apache/httpd.conf and

Solid DBD driver

2001-01-11 Thread Teun Vink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, While moving some scripts from an old FreeBSD server to a new Debian box, I stumbled upon some problems with a script which connects to a Solid database: install_driver(Solid) failed: Can't locate DBD/Solid.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/pe

Re: System.map irritation

2001-01-11 Thread Liam Ward
A reboot usually solves this for me but maybe you've already tried that... Liam On 11 Jan 2001, at 16:30, Oki DZ wrote: > Hi, > > I have the same problem after upgrading my (system's) kernel to 2.4.0. > I put the 2.4.0 source to /usr/src2/linux directory, and when top > executed, the System.ma

KOrganizer: strange behaviour

2001-01-11 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
Hi guys, i hope someone can help and sorry if this might be OT or a stupid question but i was not able to find an answer in the documentation. I usually leave my pc on duty 24h/day but i noticed after a couple of reboots that some activities, that i recorded like appointment, are now reado

Re: logrotate bad count...

2001-01-11 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Gary, I did what you suggested and it worked! no more emails complaining about bad logrotate count! Thank you! On 08 Jan 2001 08:55:23 -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: >"Marcelo Chiapparini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Hi! >> >> Each time I boot my potato box I receive the following email: >> >>

Direct rendering stopped working (XFree86 4.0.2-1)

2001-01-11 Thread James Bursa
Hi, Until recently I had accelerated 3d graphics under X. I've now done an update and acceleration has stopped working, and I can't figure out why. I'm using unstable, kernel 2.4.0-test10. The graphics card is an ati rage128 and seems to be recognised by the kernel (r128 module) and X. /var/log/

YP doesn't push?

2001-01-11 Thread Edward Lee
Hi All I had install nis on my linux box. And set cron to exec make -C /var/yp every 5 mins. But I got a problem that user info did not auto change if I didn't modify user passwd throught the yppasswd or ypchfn. (sorry, I indeed need to modify the passwd file directly.) I can restart nis to activ

mutt - new key binding!?

2001-01-11 Thread Manuel Hendel
Hi all, is it possible to create a new key binding, e.g. "S". This "S" should pipe a complete mail to programm. How can i realise this? thanks, Manuel

Re: pctex for Debian?

2001-01-11 Thread Cory T. Echols
On 01/10, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hi! > > Does exist a Debian front end for LaTeX, like pctex for windows? Look at www.lyx.org. LyX has debian packages. I think they are in contrib because they depend on the non-free xforms libraries. -- Cory T. Echols [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Netscape -> mailcap file?

2001-01-11 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
On 11 Jan 2001, Brian May wrote: -|> "Christopher" == Christopher W Aiken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: -| -|Christopher> I just installed Netscape/Communicator 4.76 from my -|Christopher> Debian 2.2_r2 CD's. When I run netscape, I get this -|Christopher> error: -| -|Christopher

Re: new boot disk?

2001-01-11 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, James W. Lindenschmidt wrote: -|Greetings, everyone. -| -|I just migrated from RedHat over to Debian potato and I'm thrilled so -|far. -| -|But, I think my boot disk is defective, since it takes 5-7 minutes for -|the -| -|Loading Linux.. -| -|process to complete fr

Re: Modem errors

2001-01-11 Thread David Wright
Quoting kmself@ix.netcom.com (kmself@ix.netcom.com): > on Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 11:17:15AM +0100, Joerg Johannes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Hi there > > I cannot access my modem (Lasat safire 560). It is connected to > > /dev/ttyS1(=com2). > > How have you verified this? Try the following c

Re: System.map irritation

2001-01-11 Thread Rino Mardo
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 04:30:25PM +0700 or thereabouts, Oki DZ wrote: > Hi, > > I have the same problem after upgrading my (system's) kernel to 2.4.0. > I put the 2.4.0 source to /usr/src2/linux directory, and when top > executed, the System.map looked up is the one in /usr/src/linux (in > whic

Re: Getting out of X

2001-01-11 Thread ktb
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 01:36:48PM -0500, Jeff Binder wrote: > I tried switching ttys, but nothing happens (or if it does, I can't tell > because the screen is white. > Nothing seems to work. Unless there's some way to interrupt X while it's > starting up, I'll have to > re-install the whole syst

Re: java 2

2001-01-11 Thread Remco van 't Veer
Please visit www.blackdown.org. You can get a apt-get entry to get j2sdk-1.3 On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 10:30, Andreas Fromm wrote: > Hi, > > is there a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) which implements Sun's Java 2 > Standard Edition packed as .deb for potato? > > Please cc me any info about. > > Th

Re: LILO Problem

2001-01-11 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Dale Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # I'm having a problem with LILO. I have windows installed in the first # partition on my hd but somehow have wiped out the mbr. I've also tried to # compile the new 2.4 kernel, but am getting the following error: # cat bzImage > /vmlinuz # cp /usr/src/linu

Re: help: 2.4.0 kernel and /dev/shm

2001-01-11 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Phil Brutsche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # Don't worry about /var/shm vs /dev/shm - it's just a mountpoint and will # work fine either way. Just out of curiosity, what does a 'shm' filesystem accomplish? I peek through what kernel docs I'm familiar with didn't explain much :( I don't even know

Re: System.map irritation

2001-01-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 05:18:38PM +0400, Rino Mardo wrote: > On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 04:30:25PM +0700 or thereabouts, Oki DZ wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have the same problem after upgrading my (system's) kernel to 2.4.0. > > I put the 2.4.0 source to /usr/src2/linux directory, and when top > > exe

Re: mutt - new key binding!?

2001-01-11 Thread David Wright
Quoting Manuel Hendel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > is it possible to create a new key binding, e.g. "S". This "S" should > pipe a complete mail to programm. How can i realise this? At it's simplest, something like macro index S |cat>>freddie\n in your ~/.muttrc, where index means th

Re: Voodoo 3

2001-01-11 Thread Peter Gruber
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > On Wed 10 Jan 01, 11:30 AM, Peter Gruber said... > > > > The problem is: If I start test3dfx in a xterm from X ist works. > > great > > > If I start it from the console it doesn't. > > it's not supposed to work from a console > > > If I start q

Why do I get this error message?

2001-01-11 Thread Lance Simmons
I'm getting this error message a lot: kernel: keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present? Full disclosure: a few weeks ago I switched to one of those Microsoft ergonomic keyboards. (It's great!) So I assume that's the source of the error message (which I never got before). Does anyone know wha

Re: help: 2.4.0 kernel and /dev/shm

2001-01-11 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > To quote Phil Brutsche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > # Don't worry about /var/shm vs /dev/shm - it's just a mountpoint and > # will work fine either way. > > Just out of curiosity, what does a 'shm

dselect/firewall

2001-01-11 Thread techlists
At work, our internet access is from a proxyserver. Is there anyway I can set dselect on my Debian 2.2r2 laptop to access through the proxyserver, while I'm at work. Wayne

debian kernel: sr0: CDROM (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL REQUEST.

2001-01-11 Thread Michael Epting
Since I started using the release 2.4.0 kernel I am finding billions of the above error messages on the console from which X is started and in the syslog and kern.log. This happens whenever an app, such as Gnome CD player or Musicmatch Jukebox accesses an audio CD. Everything seems to work OK, bu

Re: X Install no Mouse

2001-01-11 Thread mike
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 10:17:39PM -0800, hammack wrote: > X manager = enlightenment > Problem: startx results with screen and no cursor. > - Blue/green screen appears with menu and a few horizontal lines. > - "enlightenment" scrawls and dissappeears. > - no cursor is present > - ctrl-alt-BS exi

boot disk problem

2001-01-11 Thread Nina Jansen
Greetings :-) I'm a new Debian user, and I have a problem with my boot floppy. I saw a post about a very similar problem in the latest digest: It takes extremely long time to boot. However, I do not suspect that there is something wrong with the disk because I have tried several different disks an

Re: Running fetchmail as daemon - mail goes to postmaster

2001-01-11 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Phillip Deackes wrote: > > I set up fetchmail to start as a daemon on boot, using a script Ross > Boylan sent to the list recently - it specifies /root/.fetchmailrc > > I have put the correct .fetchmailrc into /root, but when I now look at > /var/log/exim/mainlog I see this: > > 2001-01-11 00:16

Re: LILO Problem

2001-01-11 Thread Dale Morris
duh.. I forgot to attach the lilo.conf file. I'll try again. When I try to boot from the hard drive, all that happens is I get a screenfull of zeros. here's how my hd is partitioned: hdc1=windows hdc3=/ hdc5=/home hdc6=/usr hdc4=swap thanks for replying. David B. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: help: 2.4.0 kernel and /dev/shm

2001-01-11 Thread Bob Billson
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 12:47:21AM -0600, Phil Brutsche wrote: > Well my workstation says: > > shm /var/shmshm defaults0 0 > ^^^ OK, tried it. Sort of works. I am still getting "shmem fs invalid option" and mount is still complaining. Once the system boots if I do '

OpenSSH 'alternative' DSA key

2001-01-11 Thread Andy Roosen
Is anyone else having problems getting ssh 2.3.0 to use a DSA key other than the default ~/.ssh/id_dsa? Here's the testing procedure: I used ssh-keygen to create a DSA key in ~/.ssh/id_dsa (without passphrase for testing), and put the public part in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2. Then I use 'ssh -2 loca

Re: LILO Problem

2001-01-11 Thread Bob Billson
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 07:15:37AM -0800, Dale Morris wrote: > here's how my hd is partitioned: > hdc1=windows > hdc3=/ > hdc5=/home > hdc6=/usr > hdc4=swap Assuming you didn't make a typo and meant hdc not hda, what is on hda (master drive, primary controller)? My brother looking over my shoulde

Re: LILO Problem

2001-01-11 Thread Dale Morris
Hi Bob, When I change hdc to hda and run /sbin/lilo I get the following message: lymond:/# /sbin/lilo Fatal: open /dev/hda1: Device not configured I am not sure now why these are listed as hdc, this install comes from libranet 1.8.2 (althought I don't know why that would make any difference). I'm

inittab process ownership

2001-01-11 Thread Dahiroc, Patrick
is it possible to have processes brought up via inittab not to be owned by root? i would like some user processes automatically brought up on boot-up and automatically respawned, but i want the process to be owned by a non-root user. i'm aware that daemontools and the like can do this for me, but

Creating a bootable CD from online files!!

2001-01-11 Thread seg
Files I have gotten from the FTP site:    -base2_2.tgz  -loadlin.exe  -entire compact directory (drivers.tgz, install.bat, kernel-config and linux)  -entire doc directory     I am pretty sure I have all the files needed to create a bootable CD-ROM which will allow me to install the compact

Re: inittab process ownership

2001-01-11 Thread Rob VanFleet
Here is one possible way: su user -c "/path/to/command" where user is who you want the process to run as. -Rob On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 10:57:19AM -0500, Dahiroc, Patrick wrote: > is it possible to have processes brought up via inittab not to be owned by > root? i would like some user processes

Re: LILO Problem

2001-01-11 Thread Bob Billson
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 07:55:56AM -0800, Dale Morris wrote: Hi Dale... I forgot to ask how many drives are in your machine? > Partition check: >hdc: hdc1 hdc2 < hdc5 hdc6 > hdc3 hdc4 This it the only drive the kernel finds when booting? Seems like it. The kernel should report all

Re: Voodoo 3

2001-01-11 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
hate to say this, but don't use the quake from debian. the package sucks, and if the package manager is anything like many of the other package managers, he's unresponsive and doesn't care about his package anylonger. do yourself a favor, and download quakeforge. you'll be much happier. pete s

mysql-server

2001-01-11 Thread Hans Gubitz
Upgrading mysql-server stops with: dpkg: error processing mysql-server (--configure): Nebenprozess post-installation script gab den Fehlerwert 1 zurück Fehler traten auf beim Bearbeiten von: mysql-server E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) H

Re: new boot disk?

2001-01-11 Thread Scott Patterson
>Greetings, everyone. > >I just migrated from RedHat over to Debian potato and I'm thrilled so >far. > >But, I think my boot disk is defective, since it takes 5-7 minutes for >the > >Loading Linux.. > >process to complete from /dev/fd0 before Linux actually boots. I suspect >I have a

rep-gtk-gnome dependency problems

2001-01-11 Thread Timothy H. Keitt
Did anyone else run into dependency problems with rep-gtk-gnome? I can't tell if this is a problem with the Helix packages or a combination Helix/debian packages. After my last apt update, rep-gtk-gnome depends on rep-gtk-1, but the latest version is rep-gtk-helix1. Tim -- Timothy H. Keitt

arp problem

2001-01-11 Thread Barry Smoke
We have a proxy server running debian potato. i downloaded a program called iptraf to try and help me figure out why it takes so long to do things like an apt-get update, etc. from our internal network behind the proxy. using iptraf i noticed that when apt-get is just acting hung on the workstatio

Re: dselect/firewall

2001-01-11 Thread Moritz Schulte
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > At work, our internet access is from a proxyserver. Is there anyway > I can set dselect on my Debian 2.2r2 laptop to access through the > proxyserver, while I'm at work. $ export http_proxy="http://foobar/"; # or ftp_proxy? $ dselect I don't know, wether other dselec

lprng not working

2001-01-11 Thread Sebastiaan
Hello, my lpd is not working correctly. The init script is loaded at boottime, but no daemon is started. When I try to start it manually, the following happens: [EMAIL PROTECTED] # /etc/init.d/lprng start Starting printer spooler: [EMAIL PROTECTED] # and still nothing is started. Sometimes it st

Re: inittab process ownership

2001-01-11 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, can you not add a line with su, as in normal scripts? I do not remember how to do this correctly, but it is an idea. Greetz, Sebastiaan On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Dahiroc, Patrick wrote: > is it possible to have processes brought up via inittab not to be owned by > root? i would like some user

Re: Why do I get this error message?

2001-01-11 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 08:35:17AM -0600, Lance Simmons wrote: | I'm getting this error message a lot: | | kernel: keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present? | | Full disclosure: a few weeks ago I switched to one of those Microsoft Microsoft? Did they put a check in the keyboard to ensure t

Re: rep-gtk-gnome dependency problems

2001-01-11 Thread Timothy H. Keitt
Apparently this is a Helix gnome v. debian-packaged gnome problem. rep-gtk-gnome from unstable requires rep-gtk = 15-1, but I have 15-helix1. This is odd because I thought I was running a pure Helix gnome distribution. Its also odd that there doesn't seem to be a rep-gtk-gnome in the Helix g

Re: Why do I get this error message?

2001-01-11 Thread Xucaen
--- D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | ergonomic keyboards. (It's great!) So I > assume that's the source of the > | error message (which I never got before). > Does anyone know what's > | causing this message and how I can stop it? > | I do remember seeing a specific setting for a microsoft

Re: LILO Problem

2001-01-11 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 10:44:20AM -0500, Bob Billson wrote: | Linux maps drives like this: |MSDOSLinux |~~ | C: hda(master, primary controller) | D: hdb(secondary, primary controller) | E: hdc(master, secondary c

Re: USB and Potato 2.2.18pre21

2001-01-11 Thread Ray Percival
My Logitech trackball also works like a dream. THis was the doc that got me over the hump. http://www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide/x194.html -- Original Message -- From: Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 17:00:50 -0600 >On Wednesday 10 Janua

Re: LILO Problem

2001-01-11 Thread Robert Waldner
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 12:44:18 EST, D-Man writes: >C: hda1 >D: hda2 >E: hdb1 >F: hdb2 DOS values primary partitions higher than everything else, so that would be: C: hda1 D: hdb1 E: hda2 F: hdb2 eg when you have 3 partitions per drive: C: hda1 D: hdb1 E: hda2 F:

Re: LILO Problem

2001-01-11 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Dale Morris wrote: > I'm having a problem with LILO. I have windows installed in the first > partition on my hd but somehow have wiped out the mbr. I've also tried to > compile the new 2.4 kernel, but am getting the following error: > cat bzImage > /vmlinuz > cp /usr/src/linux/System.map / > if [

Re: Solid DBD driver

2001-01-11 Thread kmself
on Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 11:08:46AM +0100, Teun Vink ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > Hi, > > While moving some scripts from an old FreeBSD server to a new Debian box, > I stumbled upon some problems with a script which connects to a Solid > datab

Re: inittab process ownership

2001-01-11 Thread kmself
on Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 10:57:19AM -0500, Dahiroc, Patrick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > is it possible to have processes brought up via inittab not to be owned by > root? i would like some user processes automatically brought up on boot-up > and automatically respawned, but i want the process to

MUAs and timestamps, was Re: how to grep without changing timestamps?

2001-01-11 Thread David Wright
Quoting R. Ransbottom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > on Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 02:04:57PM -0500, Maciej Kalisiak ([EMAIL > > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Is it possible to grep a ton of files without modifying their > > > date/timestamps? Currently if I use grep, it changes the access time > > > of all file

Re: LILO Problem

2001-01-11 Thread Bob Billson
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 12:44:18PM -0500, D-Man wrote: > Close but not exactly. In MSDOS/Windows C:, D:, etc refer to > partitions. Right you are. I stand corrected. I was thinking of each physical MSDOS drive and forgot to consider partitions. [snip] > This is just to clear up a possible mi

What does it mean: Protocol-Reject for unsupported protocol

2001-01-11 Thread Francois Gouget
Hi, I get a lot of these messages in my ppp.log file (more than two dozens per day, no particular timing pattern): Jan 8 18:27:48 amboise pppd[712]: Protocol-Reject for unsupported protocol 0x2069 Jan 8 18:27:48 amboise pppd[712]: Protocol-Reject for unsupported protocol 0x2020 Jan 8

Installing Debian on PowerEdge 4300 with PERC 2 (Megaraid) controller

2001-01-11 Thread Bill Cooper
Hello, has anyone sucessfully installed Potato on a Dell PowerEdge 4300 with the PERC 2/SC controller? I have tried to install it a few times now, first with the Potato 2.2r2 standard rescue disk, but it pauses indefinitely after detecting the PERC 2 (AMI) controller. Next I tried using the

Trouble using traceroute.

2001-01-11 Thread sena
Hi. When using traceroute (as root), I get the following problem: decoy:~# traceroute 194.65.3.20 traceroute to 194.65.3.20 (194.65.3.20) from decoy, 30 hops max, 38 byte packets traceroute: sendto: Operation not permitted 1 traceroute: wrote 194.65.3.20 38 chars, ret=-1 *traceroute: sendto: Op

Linux 2.4.0 & root fs problem

2001-01-11 Thread Sven Burgener
Hello After having built and installed my custom linux-2.4.0-deb, I get the following when booting: [boot msgs] VFS: Cannot open root device "803" or 08:03 Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:03 After which booting halts. $ rdev /boot/vml

Re: "Choppy" sound - Woody, 2.4.0-test11 kernel, xmms & esd

2001-01-11 Thread Matthew Exley
Dietmar, Sorry for the delay in responding - a busy time of year to be tinkering with debian. Thanks for that "clue". For that and so many other reasons I went straight to 2.4.0 release, but that hasn't solved the problem - I still get "choppy" sound when using ESD from XMMS.

Re: LILO Problem

2001-01-11 Thread Bob Billson
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 01:10:41PM -0500, Bob Billson wrote: > Thanks. From the snip from Dale's dmesg it appears he only has only physical > drive. Sorry, I'm cixelsyd today. I meant to say "appears he only has one physical drive".

Re: Linux 2.4.0 & root fs problem

2001-01-11 Thread Sven Burgener
Just to clarify: On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 07:35:08PM +0100, Sven Burgener wrote: > $ rdev /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.18 > Root device /dev/sda3 (Booting with 2.2.18 works) > $ rdev /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.0 > Root device /dev/sda3 ... but not with 2.4.0. Thanks in advance! Sven

Re: LILO Problem

2001-01-11 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 06:54:58PM +0100, Robert Waldner wrote: | On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 12:44:18 EST, D-Man writes: | >C: hda1 | >D: hda2 | >E: hdb1 | >F: hdb2 | | DOS values primary partitions higher than everything else, so that | would be: | | C: hda1 | D: hdb1 | E: hda2 | F: h

hp laserjet4plus

2001-01-11 Thread paul taylor
I have a hp laserjet4plus. Setup seemed to recognize it but printcap only lists a generic printer. I need the printcap script for this printer or some way of getting back into setup or install to make this as my printer in debian. currently no lr or cr and if I use it to print from netscape the pri

Re: MUAs and timestamps, was Re: how to grep without changing timestamps?

2001-01-11 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 06:04:42PM +, David Wright wrote: | Quoting R. Ransbottom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): | | > > on Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 02:04:57PM -0500, Maciej Kalisiak ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | > > > Is it possible to grep a ton of files without modifying their | > > > date/timestamps? C

Re: hp laserjet4plus

2001-01-11 Thread Bill Bell
Quoting paul taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I have a hp laserjet4plus. Setup seemed to recognize it but printcap > only > lists a generic printer. I need the printcap script for this printer > or > some way of getting back into setup or install to make this as my > printer > in debian. > currently

Re: Linux 2.4.0 & root fs problem

2001-01-11 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Sven Burgener" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just to clarify: > > On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 07:35:08PM +0100, Sven Burgener wrote: > > $ rdev /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.18 > > Root device /dev/sda3 > > (Booting with 2.2.18 works) > > > $ rdev /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.0 > > Root device /dev/sda3 > > ... but not

Re: dselect/firewall

2001-01-11 Thread Robert Kerr
On 11 Jan 2001, Moritz Schulte wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > At work, our internet access is from a proxyserver. Is there anyway > > I can set dselect on my Debian 2.2r2 laptop to access through the > > proxyserver, while I'm at work. > > $ export http_proxy="http://foobar/"; # or ft

Xwrapper/new Xffree86 problemes

2001-01-11 Thread Brandeil
Hi ! I was wondering if you can help me with this issue. I have looked on the news groups and talked to others but the issue still has not been resoved. When I do a "upgrade" or install Gimp/Image magic the Xsetup changes and I loose my ability to startx X: cannot stat /etc/X11/X (no such fi

Re: Linux 2.4.0 & root fs problem

2001-01-11 Thread Bob Billson
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 07:35:08PM +0100, Sven Burgener wrote: > VFS: Cannot open root device "803" or 08:03 > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:03 Did you remember to say 'yes' *not* 'module' for ext2 support in the kernel (under Genera

xserver-rage128 error in unstable

2001-01-11 Thread Barry Smoke
I am trying to get the xserver-rage128 installed, and I'm getting this error... cpqlaptopbs:~# apt-get upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages have been kept back libpspell2 librep9 rep sawfish sawfish-gnome task-devel-common 0 packages upgra

Re: Linux 2.4.0 & root fs problem

2001-01-11 Thread Sven Burgener
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 12:07:00PM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: > "Sven Burgener" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Just to clarify: > > > $ rdev /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.18 > > > Root device /dev/sda3 > > > > (Booting with 2.2.18 works) > > > > > $ rdev /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.0 > > > Root device /dev/sda3 > >

(fwd) Re: Creating a bootable CD from online files!!

2001-01-11 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
seg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now, I have read all the possible instruction files from the debian Use the pseudo-image-kit (see http://cdimage.debian.org). I did use it successfully once. I have however heard that you need a very recent version of the utilities.

Re: Linux 2.4.0 & root fs problem

2001-01-11 Thread Sven Burgener
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 02:13:25PM -0500, Bob Billson wrote: > On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 07:35:08PM +0100, Sven Burgener wrote: > > VFS: Cannot open root device "803" or 08:03 > > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:03 > > Did you remember

Gcc, Objective-C

2001-01-11 Thread Francois Fayard
Hello, Sorry for this question that perhaps doesn't really suit to the debian-mailing list. But If someone has some advice, I would be great. I want to write a mathematical program (so no plateform dependencies) which used to be in Fortran 90. I want to switch to a real language. One of my choice

Progeny Linux Systems

2001-01-11 Thread Shel Johnson
Has anyone tried this distro from Progeny Linux Systems?.. I wonder how it is.. http://www.progeny.com/ Shel ICQ- 23454126 AIM- CacheMonet Trying to master Storm Linux 2000 http://www.stormix.com/ "Well, let's just say, 'if your VCR is still blinking 12:00, you don't want Linux'". - Bruce P

WOT: Hotmail mail servers

2001-01-11 Thread user list
I have just heard a rumor that the hoemail mail servers are not MS exchange servers but, rather, linux mail servers. Is this true? If so, is this well known? we are fighting a guerrilla action over this where I work. I'm on a unix server that never has problems while the rest of the institution

Printing to remote ps printer

2001-01-11 Thread Mark Leary
I'm having problems printing plain text to a remote postscript printer... Here is my printcap entry: myprinter|HP LaserJet 4000TN in room E52-242:\ :sh:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/myprinter:\ :rm=myprinter.mit.edu:\ :rp=raw: :if=/etc/magicfilter/psonly600-filter:\

Re: Printing to remote ps printer

2001-01-11 Thread Mark A. Bialik
I think you need to put a \ character after the :rp=raw: Mark Mark Leary wrote: > > I'm having problems printing plain text to a remote postscript > printer... Here is my printcap entry: > > myprinter|HP LaserJet 4000TN in room E52-242:\ > :sh:\ > :sd=/var/spool/lpd/myprinter:

Re: Linux 2.4.0 & root fs problem

2001-01-11 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Sven Burgener" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 02:13:25PM -0500, Bob Billson wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 07:35:08PM +0100, Sven Burgener wrote: > > > VFS: Cannot open root device "803" or 08:03 > > > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > > > Kernel panic: VFS:

Re: Printing to remote ps printer

2001-01-11 Thread Mark Leary
That fixed it... Don't know how I missed that one. Thanks :) On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Mark A. Bialik wrote: > I think you need to put a \ character after the :rp=raw: > > Mark > > > Mark Leary wrote: > > > > I'm having problems printing plain text to a remote postscript > > printer... Here is

Re: LILO Problem

2001-01-11 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 06:28:53PM +0100, Andrea Vettorello wrote: > Dale Morris wrote: > > > I'm having a problem with LILO. I have windows installed in the first > > partition on my hd but somehow have wiped out the mbr. I've also tried to > > compile the new 2.4 kernel, but am getting the follo

RE: dselect/firewall

2001-01-11 Thread Joris Lambrecht
if your pc is configured with DHCP and this server is set-up properly you should not enter any of these parameters, maybe the proxy in question is configured for Socks 5 authentication and thus you need to install (floppy's) a socks 5 proxy client of some sort. You are probably inside an NT domain(

Grub vs LILO

2001-01-11 Thread Tom Schuetz
Anybody know much about pros/cons of grub for a boot manager? Thanks! Tom Schuetz [EMAIL PROTECTED]

problem uploading files

2001-01-11 Thread Luis Gustavo Madrigal Salazar
I recently installed debian 2.2rev2 without any graphical stuff, but also I installed mason, junkbuster, and ipv6 just for testing. When I connect to my ISP, I can download files without any problem, but when I try to send a file bigger than 3kb(using ftp, or send a mail with an attachment) the con

Re: WOT: Hotmail mail servers

2001-01-11 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 01:07:51PM -0700, user list wrote: > I have just heard a rumor that the hoemail mail servers are not MS exchange > servers but, rather, linux mail servers. Is this true? If so, is this well > known? we are fighting a guerrilla action over this where I work. I'm on a > uni

Re: Creating a bootable CD from online files!!

2001-01-11 Thread mike
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 11:09:13AM -0500, seg wrote: > Files I have gotten from the FTP site: > > -base2_2.tgz > -loadlin.exe > -entire compact directory (drivers.tgz, install.bat, kernel-config and > linux) > -entire doc directory > > I am pretty sure I have all the files needed to crea

RE: LILO Problem

2001-01-11 Thread Joris Lambrecht
It is 'normal' that a windows after linux installation messes up your lilo bootloader state. Do fdisk /mbr on a windows command prompt and reboot to linux (using a rescue disk) after that configure your lilo.conf file to make lilo boot correctly and reinstall lilo Also make sur

Re: WOT: Hotmail mail servers

2001-01-11 Thread Robert Waldner
As far as I remember they run on *BSD-boxes mostly but are migrating their stuff to Win??(Enterforaprize|Dataloss)Server or whatever it´s called. Search on slashdot&friends along the last security-debacles there, that´s where I got it. cheers, &rw On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 13:07:51 MST, user list

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