kernel I was on 2.4.17, I believe. For the moment I've
turned off my swap, thinking that that should make hard disk errors
less likely to simply freeze up the system. I just won't run X in my
unstable chroot...
Any suggestions, advice or wisdom?
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just to be on the safe side.
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I've just tried one change with hdparm, disabling DMA, which had no
effect. That is, it didn't fix the problem. I've also now tried rebooting
with various old kernels, and seem to see the problem on pretty much all of
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wouldn't want it to, since to upgrade to a new kernel you'd have to
reboot... well I guess you can tell I'm used to workstation computers that
are always left on).
You want to install kernel-image-2.4.19-686 (or whichever processor you
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rather easier to set up that coda (which I think may be comparable to
afs). It is also much more closely related to nfs, in that it doesn't try
to do any offline availability or caching.
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Whether it is done at compile time or at runtime makes no difference.
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> that I want to allow. I believe the man pages are pretty
> good for explaining, as I recall.
Can't you use a file /etc/pam.d/halt, to set permissions for halting? This
may be a vestige left over from my previous linuxppc distribution,
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virtual terminals, but they are not under X.
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>
> The US has some draconion exporting laws. i.e. It's illegal to export
> encryption software from the US even if that software was originated
> outside the US.
More accurately, US used to have these draconian export laws. The laws
have changed, but debian still has its crypto stuff in non-US.
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Then you can hit 'c' and then space to rotate through the boxes with new
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as the build dependancies are satisfied (which you'd have to do anyways, if
you wanted to compile the package by hand).
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cute xf86cfg. When I execute xf86config and asks me for the dev entry
> for my mouse I do not know what to answer. And there is no /dev/mouse
> entry in /dev dir.
I would guess it would be /dev/input/mice.
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copy between one virtual console and the other. I could live without X
pretty easily, with gpm... just my $.02.
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I've had that problem out work. Our solution was to compile mutt without
the 'fctlock' option (or something like that). I don't remember offhand,
but you could just try ./configure --help, and should be able to figure it
out. This is good if you don'
difficult, I certainly don't know where you'll
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>
> apt-get will tell you why, if you force it to install it with
>
> apt-get install
Also, you could find out which packages were not upgraded if you had used
apt-get -u upgrade.
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Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> charlotte:/var/lib/dpkg# ll available
> -rw-r--r--1 root root0 Aug 29 15:08 available
It looks to me like apt-get update hasn't found anything new, and thus has
no reason to update the available file.
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is no wire plugged into the ethernet (or if the other end isn't
plugged in). I'm not sure where you would do the checking, though.
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ou want to acheive, but it seems like you
could avoid the symlink problem by simply exporting the / directory, and
then chrooting into it on the other computer (which would make the symlinks
work). Of course, then you'd be chrooted into it, which quite likely isn't
what you want...
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>
> Or is there some other icq client in debian that supports the new
> protocol?
I've been using licq without any problems.
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nt kernel (I'm not sure). Anyhow, my
guess would be that any USB drive you get will work.
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real scsi disk as well). But alas, I have no idea what else you could
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ke the potato deb.
>
> Hopefully there are automatic tools for the job and/or simpler
> solutions.
There is: pbuilder. It sets up a chroot build environment in which it
compiles a package.
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have to depend on trusted clients.
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around and select the
> desried mailbox file.
>
> How can I configure mutt to do something similar?
With mutt, using the default keybindings, I believe that hitting tab two or
three times instead of '=' should do the trick.
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boot? It seems that you could just insmod ext3 and
then `mount -o remount` the relevant partitions.
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makedev input/mouse$i c $major `math $i + 32` $mouse
makedev input/event$i c $major `math $i + 64` $mouse
makedev input/mice c $major 63 $mouse
Thus, MAKEDEV input.
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i boot .. i
> want to put its setting in this interface file which @
> this time only have entry for the loopback interface
> .. so anyone share how can i put setting of my eth0
> adapter ?
man interfaces
In short, you sound like you're missing a line
auto eth0
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> make just as much sense.
PAM can do a lot more than just interactive stuff. I would want to make it
so that shutdown can only be run by users on the console (or root,
perhaps). Is there some way to do this other than using pam?
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> *REALLY* annoying when I'm playing Unreal Tournament because all of a
> sudden I'm staring at a spinning ceiling :-)
Are you running gpm? If so I would try turning that off, as it can
sometimes cause the symptoms you describe.
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tries to assure me of this every time I fire it up. :-P
>
> Surely I'm not the only one seeing the above as a single line? Your
> messages aren't wrapped at 70 over here.
No, you're not crazy, I see it as a long line also!
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and out of the mode. You can specify the
> number of columns to wrap at or accept the default. I think the default
> is 72 columns, but help can tell you more. Or, you can look at the
> source.
Just so you know, you can also use M-q to rewrap a paragraph, or to wrap
one if you d
allow X forwarding, it overrides the ssh client
setting.
The relevant line (on the ppc computer) probably looks something like
X11Forwarding yes
or more likely
#X11Forwarding no
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requires work, but it's probably the easiest way to make the gui.
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On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 11:22:39AM -0600, Lance Heller wrote:
>
> What magic, if any, must be worked to have Bastille run on Debian?
apt-get install bastille
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anyone explain to me what is going on, and what to do. Thanks,
To see if /tmp is a separate partition (and its size, if it is) run
df -h (the -h gives you human readable units, which is handy)
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"done."
> ;;
>
> and it works good.
You might try guessnet, which can automatically determine your
environment.
> my question here is:
> 2) how can i use ifconfig to bring up eth0 with dhcp?
man interfaces
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new version depends on a package you don't have installed, and you are
doing a simple apt-get upgrade. If you do apt-get dist-upgrade, it will be
willing to install new packages. Alternatively, you could run apt-get
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> the latest libraries that are not in non-us?
I don't know, maybe.
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On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 03:04:38PM -0400, Stan Brown wrote:
>
> The machine has been up for a good while now, but ntptrace still says it's
> not synched.
>
> Any sugestions?
Did you run ntpdate? (which requires you to enter the IP address into yet
another config file)
-
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 10:42:24PM +0200, Reto wrote:
> When I startx the mouse jumps around wildly. It works for some seconds,
> then it hops around, also pressing buttons. This makes working impossible,
> of course :(
> I have Debian Sid, a Logitech cordless Desktop, so a PS/2 mouse, which is
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 04:15:18PM +0200, Christian Eckert wrote:
> for some reasons during the debian (potato) installation
> I had to leave out my Ne2000 compatible network-card.
> I plugged it in later and installed the module 'ne'.
> wonderful,no ioport-problems nor irq-problems.
> Now I want t
Hello all.
I've been trying to use bootcd to create a bootable cdrom for my laptop,
which has a USB cdrw drive (and no other removable drive), and I have been
running into trouble booting with it. I can burn it just fine, and put on
it a 2.4.12 kernel I compiled with USB mass storage compiled in.
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 10:43:33PM +0200, Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note wrote:
> Just to know, have you devfs compiled in the kernel and mounted at boot ?
> are you sure the entry /dev/scd0 exists at boot-time ?
> what is the error message ? (i guess it's can't mount root fs on device
> XX:XX ->
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 10:31:21PM +0200, Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note wrote:
> Well, i'm sorry i'm really not an expert, but maybe you should
> try a kernel with a initrd option.
> With a initrd, you'll get somewhat of a prompt and the ability
> to modprobe any module you like, it could help you
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 11:38:54AM +0200, Timo Blazko Boewing wrote:
>
> Has anyone of you an idea? When baking my last kernel (2.4.12), I
> somewhere activated "tmpfs", is it that what I may use?
That's what I'm doing. It's like a ram disk that can get swapped out.
It's not too hard to set is u
Hello. I've been having trouble with cdrecord on my Acer 4406eu usb cdrw
drive. Just as a check, I have verified that it works fine under windows
2k. In fact, for a day it worked fine under linux, and I haven't been able
to figure out what changed that made it no longer work. :(
It has no prob
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 01:54:58PM -0700, Gordon Paynter wrote:
> On Monday 15 October 2001 09:45, Christopher S. Swingley wrote:
> > I just moved from Mozilla 0.9.4 to 0.9.5 and noticed that it doesn't
> > seem to be respecting font sizes. For example,
>
> As an aside, does there exist an up-to-
fo and
> other old 2.2.18 stuff in /usr/share/doc and /usr/doc
>
> What else if necessary to create the necessary 2.4.12 *.deb file I need
> to proceed?
Read /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README.gz.
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> for adding it to the official kernel? (other than "soon," that is :-)
For what it's worth I've been running 2.4.13-ac4 (and using ext3) for a day
or two now with no problem.
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to X without passwords, which sounds like
precisely what you want.
As far as training your two dogs to turn on and off the computer, I think
you'd have to buy some special hardware with a large on/off button. Maybe
you could hack one of those apple USB mice, in which the whole mouse is one
large button? :)
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be that there is some other problem lurking
beneath the surface...
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anything useful, but kpresenter looks like it
may be nice (and I figure I try it out next time I have to give a talk).
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; or something similar, yet I don't have anything like that. Does
> anyone have any clues as to why I got this result, and what the best
> thing to do is, please?
Try apt-get install login, and see what it tells you. That should clarify
why they are being held back.
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dist-upgrade` (the latter you may need to run more than once).
Sid is more up-to-date, but changes quite often, sometimes for the worse.
Woody is a bit older in some of its programs, but doesn't change so often,
and is perhaps more seldom broken.
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t, it will automatically get their public
keys from the keyservers (I'm not sure which is responsible for this, gpg
or mutt). gpg will still complain, but only because you have no way of
knowing if those keys (from the keyservers) correspond to those people.
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could decrease the 101 to 99.
I am not entirely certain if this is the 'right' way to do it, but it seems
to work from me. If there are any problems with this, I'd love to hear
from someone who knows better.
Oh, and you'll need both
e an example
at http://civet.berkeley.edu/paratec/ (just the manual to a code that you
don't have access to...).
Probably if you don't want to typeset any math, though, you're better off
using docbook... but I can't vouch for that.
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ss that if you can boot off of a CDROM or
floppy (and have one available to boot off of) you can always do that in an
emergency, and therefore shouldn't need the sashroot account. On the other
hand, I am no expert on this, and just got what I know from when I
installed sash a few months ago.
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t; check the menus etc.
This sounds right. You might try (if you haven't configured fvwm yourself)
running an `apt-get --purge remove fvwm` followed by `apt-get install
fvwm`, to reinstall the default debian configuration of fvwm, which gives
rather nice menus. BTW I doubt that this is the right way to do this, I
just don't know a better way.
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ng main contrib
> deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib
>
> Is it just in unstable? Or somewhere else?
Well, only unstable has a reasonably recent mozilla...
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than my network connection.
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upgrade), and if it's going to upgrade a major package (X or libc for
example), then wait, and see what people are saying on this list before
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found that to get ppp to work we had
to bring down eth0 for some reason. It seems like you shouldn't have to,
but you could try that, if you still have your eth0 up.
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pull up the unstable library when there is a testing version available...
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fferent problem?
Well, the lines you show don't look like an error message to me, they look
like normal operation. I'd say the error occurred earlier perhaps?
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seems most likely that I just need to add my user to the right group
(although maybe I should make the xatitv program SGID or something), but am
at a loss as to which group could be relevant. Any help would be
appreciated.
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On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 02:01:38PM -0800, David Roundy wrote:
> I made an unfortunate discovery today that audio no longer works on my
> laptop (a Thinkpad X21, which is running testing). I had it working a
> month or two ago, but haven't used audio much since, so I don't kno
ma?
I'd try installing gatos and running xatitv (which may require running as
root). As I understand it, the ATI wonder cards aren't well supported by
the kernel, but gatos is designed specifically for them.
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On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 10:36:02AM -0600, hanasaki wrote:
> apt-cache search irc | grep client
apt-cache search irc | grep -i client
You missed a couple...
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have to start it manually.
>
> How does one ensure this (or any default wm) is
> started on login by default for all users? I
> thought there used to be a window-managers file or
> something, but I can find no such thing...
Are you starting using startx? If so, try
#update-alterna
but didn't actually do it, since it
would have confused things).
I've heard before that gnucash has problems when you import your monthly
statements, but never understood what that problem is. Can you explain
this for me? I'd rather know what I'm up against when I get m
_passive=no
to make mutt keep checking the imap server for changes.
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and gs has not been installed, that the ghostscript part of aladdin
> has not been completely removed. The problem is: How do I get it to
> instll gs-common so that it can then install gs ?
My guess is `apt-get remove ghostscript` will fix things up.
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lso what other choices do I have for doing this?
I recommend gphone.
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configured by default to work right with gpg, assuming gpg is set up to use
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>
> If I run galeon www.mobilestreams.com I get this in top as well as a
> frozen browser:
Do you by any chance have the macromedia flash plugin installed? If so, I'd
try simply uninstalling it. The website you mentioned had flash plugins,
so my guess is that flash is at fault here,
r.
>
> knuth:~# apt-get install testing
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> E: Couldn't find package testing
>
> Does anyone have the real instructions?
http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/
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itrix MetaFrame Linux Client.
>
> My question is: Is it possible to auto log in? If yes how? If no how
> could it be made possible :-)?
kdm has ways of doing this.
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> Doing a dpkg --configure won't work because the
> packages have already been configured.
dpkg-reconfigure
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go get one, to
> see if its the camera or the usb moudle, unless anyone has an idea of
> what I could be doing wrong.
2.4.18 has some problems with usb mass storage. You could try 2.4.19pre7,
which has some usb fixes it it. I don't know, but that might help.
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On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 10:23:07AM -0400, Quenten Griffith wrote:
>
> Is the source or even image file for that under Sid?
No. You can get the patch for it at kernel.org and apply that to your
2.4.18 source, though.
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Or apt-cache search keyword, apt-cache show packagename.
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> making an unstable mirror from a full fledged mirror.
>
> Thanking you all in advance.
Use the debmirror package. It allows you to choose how much you want to
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> 2.4.8 kernel. Are there issues with usb in 2.4? I read everything I
> could find about usb in /usr/src/linux/Documentation and poked around
> the archives a bit, but didn't find anything specific.
The 2.4.8 kernel dates from before I switched
ase kernels.
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is up? I was thinking
that perhaps I could run a redhat CD image in a chroot using user mode
linux, but since I've never used UML, it's a bit intimidating.
Any ideas or experiences related to setting up a foreign linux distro in a
chroot filesystem?
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