IDE/DMA problems?

2000-06-16 Thread Horacio MG
Hello, currently I'm entering the BIOS quite often for enabling/disabling the IDE/SCSI boot, so that I can boot from an IDE (UDMA) HD or a SCSI HD as needed. All of a sudden, I've started to see some message from the kernel. Here is the 'dmesg' relevant part: PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on

Re: IDE/DMA problems?

2000-06-21 Thread Horacio MG
estion would be to put the CDROM onto the other channel and > >>see if things are better. I certainly see myself buying an IDE card > >>for this reason. > >> > >>Cheers, Jason. > >> > >> > >>At 11:38 +0200 16/6/00, Horacio MG wrote: >

How to print? (Xerox DocuPrint C15)

2000-07-10 Thread Horacio MG
Hi, (please, Cc: the answer to me as I'm not on the list) just got this new brand printer, and I'm trying to get something printed with it, but never configured a printer before now. The printer is recognized, as advertised by the relevant parts of dmesg: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP,ECP

Printer using Cyan instead of Black

2000-07-18 Thread Horacio MG
I just set up a Xerox DocuPrint C15 printer with kind help from Björn Brill (thanks) and others. Now I can print plain text and postscript, but postscript keeps using cyan instead of black (whereas plain text files print ok). Details: - Xerox DocuPrint C15 colour printer - can emulate HP DeskJe

Help for printer and colour

2000-07-27 Thread Horacio MG
Hi, I sent this message on July 18, but I haven't seen any answer to it on the mailing list archives. I'm having a problem with a colour printer, which is the following (Please, send me a Cc: as I'm NOT subscribed to the mailing list): I just set up a Xerox DocuPrint C15 printer with kind help

Re: ssh an obsolete package?

2000-05-11 Thread Horacio MG
> On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 01:38:00PM -0500, Charles Lewis wrote: > > deselect shows: > > > > --- Obsolete/local Optional packages in section non-US > > --- *** Opt non-US libssl09 0.9.4-5 *** Opt > > non-US ssh 1.2.3-3 > > > > Is ssh imbedded in ano

Re: using power save and power down features

2000-02-18 Thread Horacio MG
> > 2) For X I have in the Section "Screen" of /etc/X11/XF86Config the lines > > > > StandbyTime 2 > > SuspendTime 3 > > OffTime 4 > > > > You might need other/more configuration if you are using a laptop. Just had a look at my /et

Re: Graphics tablet & pen + psaux mouse

2000-02-19 Thread Horacio MG
On monday, Jan 17, 2000, David Wright said: > Quoting J Horacio MG ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I acquired a graphics tablet and a ps/2 mouse. I wonder if it's > > possible to have them both working together, or whether there's another > > solution to it. > > &g

AGP S3 Trio 3D 8MB video card

2000-03-08 Thread Horacio MG
Hi, just installed this video card (AGP S3 Trio 3D 8MB) and tried to configure it for the X environment, but I can't find the proper sever for it. This is the output from SuperProbe: First video: Super-VGA Chipset: S3 (chipset unknown) (Port Probed) Signature data: e18a

Re: AGP S3 Trio 3D 8MB video card

2000-03-09 Thread Horacio MG
> Use 4MB. Theres a bug in the server. Use the SVGA server. So either use 4MB > or set the option for SW_CURSOR > > just installed this video card (AGP S3 Trio 3D 8MB) and tried to > configure it for the X environment, but I can't find the proper sever > for it. > Use 4MB. Theres a bug in the ser

Re: AGP S3 Trio 3D 8MB video card

2000-03-09 Thread Horacio MG
El mié, 08 de mar de 2000, a las 05:14:22 -0600, James Sasitorn dijo: > Use 4MB. Theres a bug in the server. Use the SVGA server. So either use 4MB > or set the option for SW_CURSOR what's that SW_CURSOR option and where can it be set? El mié, 08 de mar de 2000, a las 07:48:17 -0500, David Z. Maz

INIT PANIC

2000-03-20 Thread Horacio MG
Hi, I'm getting continuous filesystem checks lately, and some filesystem inconsistencies have generated, after running fsck, some files in the various lost+found/ directories, especially in /var, which has lots of these files (like #10062), which the system cannot remove. Just a while ago I boote

Re: INIT PANIC

2000-03-20 Thread Horacio MG
> > INIT: PANIC: segmentation violation! giving up.. > > > > and the booting procedure stopped there, forcing a manual reboot which > > was successful only after yet another fsck. > > > bad trouble is going on ... > make a surface-check of your hdd to see if it's a hardware failure. Hope not, t

Re: INIT PANIC

2000-03-20 Thread Horacio MG
> if it's new enough, it would be not that bad - you surely have warranty, > don't you? Yes, Seagate's 3 year warranty! > well - as now all seems to be normal, a hardware failure is a less > probable possibility. i would make a check anyway ... :) optimistical... problems never fade away without

Re: CTRL+ALT+DELETE

1999-06-05 Thread J Horacio MG
> Where and how can I modify which file so that every time I use the force > reboot key-combo, it actually send out the command "shutdown -r now"? /etc/inittab: # What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed. ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now Regards -- Horacio [EMAIL PROTECTED] Valen

SGML Help

1999-06-08 Thread J Horacio MG
Hi, I'm writing some docs on SGML, but I'm having some trouble when converting them with sgml-tools, and I too am a bit confused with it, is there any mailing list on the subject (ie. SGML)? Also, what's the difference between Debiandoc-SGML, Linuxdoc-SGML and Docbook? TIA -- Horacio [EMAIL PRO

SGML HELP!!!!! PLEASE?????

1999-06-09 Thread J Horacio MG
My apologies, I know I shouldn't try to call the attention with caps etc., but I've tried this question a couple of times and seem to get no response so far: {I'm writing some docs on SGML, but I'm having some trouble when converting them with sgml-tools, and I too am a bit confused with it, is th

Re: SGML HELP!!!!! PLEASE?????

1999-06-09 Thread J Horacio MG
Thanks Egon, but: Egon Schmid dixit: ~> ~> Anything you should know is here: ~> ~> www.oasis-open.org Been there, seen that, still confused (well, at least I subscribed to the sgml-tools list). ~> > h0rus:/tmp$ sgml2html debiandoc-sgml.sgml ~> > Processing file debiandoc-sgml.sgml ~> > p

FW: HD Partition

1999-06-10 Thread J Horacio MG
Make `df /usr', `df /home', `df /var',... in your current installation, and that will give you an idea of the percentage space you need for each one. For directories which include others, like "/", you can do `df' and substract the rest. The dir "/root" should remain in "/", no need to make a sep

Re: FW: HD Partition

1999-06-11 Thread J Horacio MG
Brad dixit: ~> On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, J Horacio MG wrote: ~> ~> > Make `df /usr', `df /home', `df /var',... in your current installation, ~> ~> Did you mean 'du -s' instead of 'df'? df will only tell you how much the ~> entire partition

V. basic script question

1999-06-20 Thread J Horacio MG
I'm on a dial on demand connection and I have this script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ for having the mail fetched from my ISP everytime I make a connection, and then sent locally: - start script - #!/bin/sh /usr/bin/fetchmail -f /etc/fetchmailrc -a -u a4608456 /usr/sbin/sendmail -q - end sc

Alt+ArrowUp (inittab kbrequest)

1999-06-20 Thread J Horacio MG
I have already pressed by mistake the Alt+ArrowUp key combo, resulting in a system shutdown (losing all work done!). In my /etc/inittab I've got the Ctrl+Alt+End key combo configured for shutdowns: kb:12345:kbrequest:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -h now and some kbrequest for the Alt+ArrowUp which reads

Re: Alt+ArrowUp (inittab kbrequest)

1999-06-21 Thread J Horacio MG
~> I think you need to archive your postings and their replies a ~> bit more efficiently. I was about to cut and paste a previous ~> reply on the subject when I noticed that the question was posed ~> by you! I can assure you they are efficiently enough archived. I asked why Alt+ArrowUp would shut

Re: V. basic script question

1999-06-21 Thread J Horacio MG
~> > I'm on a dial on demand connection and I have this script in ~> > /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ for having the mail fetched from my ISP everytime I ~> > make a connection, and then sent locally: ~> > ~> > - start script - ~> > #!/bin/sh ~> > ~> > /usr/bin/fetchmail -f /etc/fetchmailrc -a -u a460

FW: Cron run-parts --report /etc/cron.monthly

1999-07-01 Thread J Horacio MG
Cron sent me this error, what does it mean? ... all I can think of is that the machine has spent a few days being switched off before cron started running, so that may have caused havoc since in /etc/cron.monthly/acct there's the line: echo "Login accounting for the month ended `date`:" > /var/log

Re: mutt & pgp

1999-07-02 Thread J Horacio MG
Have a try to the key ^P (+p) Regards, -- Horacio [EMAIL PROTECTED] Valencia - ESPAÑA

JDK and HotJava

1999-07-10 Thread J Horacio MG
I installed the JDK (jdk_1.1.6-v5-glibc-x86.tar.gz) from http://www.blackdown.org/ like follows: # cd /opt # tar zxvf /tmp/jdk_1.1.6-v5-glibc-x86.tar.gz and added the following lines to my ~/.bash_profile: export JAVA_HOME=/opt/jdk116_v5 export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH export CLASSPATH=.:$JAVA_

[slrn] please, help whith slrnpull

1999-07-16 Thread J Horacio MG
Hi, I installed slrn and slrnpull. For a short while I tried "plain" slrn, but what I really need is to be able to download the news to read, reply, compose, etc. off line. So, I set up the slrnpull.conf like follows: - /etc/news/slrnpull.conf - default 0 0 group.news.one * * gr

Re: [slrn] please, help whith slrnpull

1999-07-16 Thread J Horacio MG
> slrn --spool I already tried that with the following configuration: --- ~/.slrnrc --- set spool_inn_root "~/News/slrnpull" set spool_root "~/News/slrnpull/news" set spool_nov_root "~/News/slrnpull/news" set read_active 1 set use_slrnpull 1 set server_object "spool" set spool_a

fsck: Duplicate blocks error

1999-07-19 Thread J Horacio MG
Hi, I just had this filesystem check error while booting: Duplicate blocks found ... invoking duplicate block passes ... File /lib/libungif.so.3.0.0 (inode #12302, mod time Wed Jul 8 02:36:34 1998) has 2 duplicate block(s), shared with 2 file(s): /bin/skill (inode #8284, mod time Fri O

Trouble with new user

1999-07-19 Thread J Horacio MG
In an attempt to create a new user, with useradd command, the new user's home directory was created, and so was the line in /etc/passwd: usermaria:x:1001:100::/home/usermaria:/bin/bash But if I try to log in as such user: login: usermaria Password: xxx Login incorrect What may I have done w

Re: Trouble with new user

1999-07-19 Thread J Horacio MG
Fine, I see you both (and others in various posts) advice on using adduser instead of useradd ... ??? But adduser is for adding an "existing" user to a group ... !!! or is it? Uh, well, I'll try it, but I guess I'll have to userdel before and make sure it deletes all traces of the newly created

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-07-23 Thread J Horacio MG
> > > Anyway, the problem is that Netscape is quite frequently crashing with > > > a "bus error." This usually happens when I close a Netscape window > > > (actually, it happens close to half the time when I close a Netscape > > > window), which is painful because I have to either live with an

Problems encrypting with GnuPG and decrypting with PGP

1999-07-27 Thread J Horacio MG
> Why does the following not work? If I don't get any reply from > debian-user, I will post to debian-devel, as I am reasonably certain I > got these packages from potato. I reported a bug a while ago about gpg-rsa2 and gpg-idea2, and the answer was: You need libc6 2.1.x - or you can grab the so

restricted shell

1999-08-20 Thread J Horacio MG
Hi, I know of the existance of a restricted shell, though I'm not sure whether this is what I'm after. In time, I'll be moving away to another country, and I intend to leave my home computer with the current users configured, ie. root (of course), my sister, and I. I'd also like to create a "gue

Re: restricted shell

1999-08-21 Thread J Horacio MG
> > On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Stephen Pitts wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 12:03:52PM +0200, J Horacio MG wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I know of the existance of a restricted shell, though I'm not sure > > > whether this is what I'm

compiling error: xauth not found

1999-08-21 Thread J Horacio MG
I'm trying to compile ssh1 and found the following error while running ./configure. I su'ed root and copied the tarball to /usr/local: $ su ... /usr/local/ssh-1.2.27# ./configure ... checking for xauth... no configure: error: configuring with X but xauth not found - aborting Since there's no xau

Re: compiling error: xauth not found

1999-08-21 Thread J Horacio MG
$ dpkg -l | less ii xbase-clients 3.3.2.3a-11miscellaneous X clients may be xauth is somewhere else? Jor-el dijo: > > 'xauth' is indeed present in Debian - you just havent installed > it. It is part of the package xbase-clients on Slink. > > On Sat,

system and bios time doubt (hwclock)

1999-08-21 Thread J Horacio MG
Hi, just reviewing a script I was given which I have in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ to set the system clock from a server, and then the HARDWARE CLOCK (bios clock?) SET FROM THE SYSTEM'S: -- #!/bin/sh # set the system clock from slug /usr/sbin/rdate -s slug.ctv.es # set the hardware clock from th

Exim: FW: Mail delivery failed...

1999-08-22 Thread J Horacio MG
is is a copy of the message, including all the headers. -- Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from horacio by h0rus with local (Exim 2.05 #1 (Debian)) id 11IVrE-8x-00; Sun, 22 Aug 1999 13:32:16 +0200 Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 13:32:16 +0200 From: J Horacio MG <[EMAIL P

syslogd kernel stack corruption

1999-09-06 Thread J Horacio MG
Help, please! Just a few secs ago I was reading my mail when mutt broke and all the stuff below appeared. Then it asked me if I wanted to leave mutt (obviously I did, it didn't look nice). Now it seems to be working fine ... well, the problem doesn't look as if it's got to do with mutt, rather

fetchmail bug ... or list bug?

1999-09-06 Thread J Horacio MG
I was fearing that either procmail or fetchmail were not delivering all mail every now and then, until now that I saw this message from fetchmail: fetchmail: SMTP< 354 Enter message, ending with "." on a line by itself #*.***.

Re: spreadsheet?

1999-09-16 Thread J Horacio MG
> Are there any good, free spreadsheet programs out there? Anywhere? I believe Lotus 1·2·3 might be released for Linux, can anyone confirm or deny this point? Regards, -- Horacio [EMAIL PROTECTED] Valencia - ESPAÑA

hda: irq timeout:

1999-09-21 Thread J Horacio MG
Hi, this just happened to me while while the daily cron was running, I tried a connection: h0rus:~$ pon provider hda: irq timeout: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete } h0rus:~$ and the connection request was resumed, and got back to the prompt. I recall this is just got to do with the system

Re: .bashrc doesn't work?

1999-09-22 Thread J Horacio MG
> Hello all, > > I am having a problem with users .bashrc, roots works fine AFAIK, but all the > user ones do nothing. No matter what I put > in them it doesn't work. For example in my .bashrc I have the line "l='ls > --color=auto -als'" but typing 'l' does > nothing... Also /etc/skel/.aliases a

Re: A GnuPG package for stable? [Rendering Security Insecure]

1999-09-23 Thread J Horacio MG
> Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 15:03:54 -0500 > From: "Eric Gillespie, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Bruce Z. Lysik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: A GnuPG package for stable? > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=a8Wt8u1KmwUX3Y2C

start X11 on bootup

1999-09-26 Thread J Horacio MG
Hi there, at some point I disable the X11 from opening at startup (default with slink installation). But I forgot how I did that (and I recall there were various ways of doing so), so now I can't reverse the changes. Among the bootup messages I always get the following one: Checking for valid X

libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install?

1999-05-10 Thread J Horacio MG
I have some packages which require version 2.1.1 from libc6 (which I expect it can be found in potato). My question is, do I have to expect any problems if I install it in slink, or is it just as straight forward as upgrading any other package? how about post installation problems? I mean, is it

RE: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install?

1999-05-11 Thread J Horacio MG
~> > I have some packages which require version 2.1.1 from libc6 (which I ~> > expect it can be found in potato). My question is, do I have to expect ~> > any problems if I install it in slink, or is it just as straight forward ~> > as upgrading any other package? ~> ~> If you upgrade a slink ins

kernel and modules compiling

1999-05-11 Thread J Horacio MG
I just recompiled kernel 2.0.36, and everything seems to work fine except for the following messages during boot up (same with modprobe). pon seems to be working ok so, what does all this mean? :~# modprobe ppp.o /lib/modules/2.0.36/net/ppp.o: unresolved symbol netif_rx_R88a5d1d7 /lib/modules/2.0.

Re: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install?

1999-05-12 Thread J Horacio MG
~> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: ~> ~> : On 10-May-99 J Horacio MG wrote: ~> :> I have some packages which require version 2.1.1 from libc6 (which I ~> :> expect it can be found in potato). My question is, do I have to expect ~> :> any problems if I i

Re: kernel and modules compiling

1999-05-12 Thread J Horacio MG
~> I also install the kernel using a small shellprogram provided (you will ~> need to switch that to executable using chmod +x) ~> ~> The last thing I do is that I run lilo. ~> ~> make bzImage ~> make modules ~> # rm -rf /lib/modules/2.2.5 # Only if you are very sure about this! I wondered whet

Re: kernel and modules compiling

1999-05-13 Thread J Horacio MG
Hi Alexander, excuse me for going over this again, but I fear something is going awfully wrong. Alexander Schwartz dixit: ~> On Wed, 12 May 1999, J Horacio MG wrote: ~> ~> > ~> I also install the kernel using a small shellprogram provided (you will ~> > ~> need to s

Where is libXpm.so.4?

1999-05-14 Thread J Horacio MG
I need that library for running WP8, but I haven't been able to find it in Slink. Where could I find it or what provides it, please? TIA Horacio

Re: Partitioning hard disk

1999-05-16 Thread J Horacio MG
~> This is how I plan to partitiion the disks: ~> /hda1 40MB ~> swap hda2 8MB ~> /usr hda3 68MB ~> swap hdb1 8MB ~> /usr hdb2 250MB ~> ~> where hda is the 116MB disk and hdb is the 258MB disk. ~> Will the above configuration work

running scripts (manual and auto)

1999-05-16 Thread J Horacio MG
I usually download mail from my ISP by running the following command as user horacio: $ fetchmail -v -a -u my_id and I just created a script with that line and named it /home/horacio/getmail: - start getmail - #!/bin/sh fetchmail -v -a -u my_id - end getmail - and gave it execu

Re: running scripts (manual and auto)

1999-05-16 Thread J Horacio MG
John Hasler dixit: ~> J Horacio MG writes: ~> > - start script - ~> > #/bin/sh ~> ~> > fetchmail -f /home/horacio/.fetchmailrc -a -u a4608456 ~> ~> > runq ~> > - end script - ~> ~> That first line should read #!/bin/sh . Sorry for

Groups: Howto and New?

1999-05-18 Thread J Horacio MG
I have a directory within /home (ok, probably not the right place for it) which I use to store several documents and other stuff; I'd like to be able to read and write to it just from my user and from root, so I thought of making a new group and changing that directory and files group permissions

Re: Protecting root security

1999-05-19 Thread J Horacio MG
~> From: Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ~> ~> Leaving it up to the install disk to secure the root partition is ~> impractical. That's like trusting the user with a [Yn] response on "Was ~> the password you entered correct?". The only way to secure a filesystem ~> from this type of access is to u

Re: Solaris 7 and Debian

1999-05-27 Thread J Horacio MG
~> On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 07:32:46PM +0100, richard newton wrote: ~> > Does anyone know if it's possible to dual boot Solaris 7 and Debian GNU/Linux? ~> > Any tips or suggestions would be helpful. ~> ~> I do it using the NT boot manager. I too have nt, solaris and debian, but can't boot solaris

Problem with mail delivery (Exim+Fetchmail)

1999-05-29 Thread J Horacio MG
Hi, With Exim as the MTA and Fetchmail as the POP agent, I'm having the following problem: $ fetchmail -v -a -u my_id seems to download correctly all mail stored in my ISP, but I always get to read (with Mutt) all messages EXCEPT FOR one. Since fetchmail downloads a number "x" of mail messages,

Help with SGML errors

1999-05-31 Thread J Horacio MG
First off, my apologies for the long output. If this is not the right place to ask this question, could you point me to the right list? I'm writing a SGML document and I'm getting some errors when converting to HTML, LATEX, LYX,... (same errors with all of them): /usr/bin/nsgmls:0:6:10:E: no sta

Missing gtk-config for building GnomePGP

1999-06-01 Thread J Horacio MG
I'm trying to build GnomePGP-0.3 in Slink. I run the ./configure script and get: checking for gtk-config... no checking for GTK - version >= 1.1.1... no *** The gtk-config script installed by GTK could not be found *** If GTK was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in *** your path, or s

Re: Missing gtk-config for building GnomePGP

1999-06-02 Thread J Horacio MG
~> install libgtk1.1.2-dev ~> ~> The package you have is for runtime only, this is the package if you ~> want to compile something. Thanks Martin, it's the first time ever I try to compile anything (apart from the kernel). Now the `configure' script works ok, but `make' gives me this error: -I/

Sun sparc: no media install? [Re: Sun classic]

1999-10-05 Thread J Horacio MG
> BTW, why would anyone install the Debian on Suns if the machines come > with > Solaris right out the boxes? The only reason I'm asking about Debian on > Sun is that I think it's an interesting alternative since the Classic > where I have an access to doesn't have Solaris on it (the CDs I mean).

eterm: mutt & slrn

1999-10-15 Thread J Horacio MG
I'm trying to have both mutt and slrn iconized and using eterm. I added the following lines in /GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/menu.hook: "mutt-e" EXEC Eterm -T "mutt-e" -e /usr/local/bin/mutt "slrn-e" EXEC Eterm -T "slrn-e" -e /usr/bin/slrn but if I change the icon for, say, mutt, it also changes

man not working?

1999-10-15 Thread J Horacio MG
I can't make the `man' command working: $ man man No existe entrada de manual para man (There is no man entry for man) I recently compiled and installed mutt and gnupg in /usr/local, and tried to compile/install QT as well; it's ever since then that `man' is not working. TIA, -- Horacio

Potato: dpkg errors??

1999-10-18 Thread J Horacio MG
Just yesterday I did the following potato upgrade: apt_0.3.13.deb gconv-modules_2.1.2-5.deb ldso_1.9.11-4.deb libc6-dev_2.1.2-5.deb libc6_2.1.2-5.deb libglib1.2_1.2.5-1.deb libstdc++2.10_2.95.2-0pre2.deb locales_2.1.2-5.deb Today, I upgrade the following from potato: libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1_2.91.6

Fetchmail: header

1999-10-22 Thread J Horacio MG
Hi, What's wrong with this? It's happened to me a few times, fetchmail refuses to download a message alleging the "header line is ridiculously overlong". Is this something I should fix in fetchmail somehow, o should I contact with the owner of the list where this message came from? Version: f

Re: Netscape 4.7 vs mozilla for a potato machine ?

1999-10-22 Thread J Horacio MG
> Now NS 4.7 is a different matter. Whether its any good, depends on who > you ask. :-) For some it has problems, including crashing, but for > others it works like a charm. Personally (Communicator 4.7), its never > crashed on me, and seems to be better than previous versions, but YMMV.

Help! Gimp 1.1.10 Upgrade (dependencies)

1999-10-23 Thread J Horacio MG
Hi, I'm about to upgrade to Gimp 1.1.10 (potato), and don't understand some of the dependencies: Well, the dependencies look fine, unless I want support for gifs, for which I downloaded giflib-bin_3.0-5.2 (and giftrans). But giflib-bin says it depends on: giflib3g (>=3.0-5.2) libungif3g (>=3.0-

HELP!: problems after potato upgrade

1999-10-24 Thread J Horacio MG
Hi, Please, bear with me for a while as it seems I'm in trouble. I recently upgraded the following from potato: apt_0.3.13.deb libstdc++2.10_2.95.2-0pre2.deb gconv-modules_2.1.2-5.deblibstdc++2.9_2.91.61-1.deb glibc-doc_2.1.2-5.deblocales_2.1.2-5

Re: Sun goes fully open source!

1999-10-26 Thread J Horacio MG
> On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Oki DZ wrote: > > > Ben Collins wrote: > > > Not being able to distribute your changes, is not free speech. It's crap > > > and they > > > are only hoping to capitalize on the hardwork of others without giving > > > them > > > anything truly worthwhile in return. > > >

HELP!! Re: HELP!: problems after POTATO upgrade

1999-10-26 Thread J Horacio MG
El dom, 24 de oct de 1999, a las 07:28:49 -0400, Greg Wooledge dijo: > J Horacio MG ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libBrokenLocale.so (No such file > > or directory), skipping > > ldconfig: warning: can't open /us

Re: Sun goes fully open source!

1999-10-27 Thread J Horacio MG
> John Foster wrote: > > Uh. It was already free, in the dollars and cents manner. They > > really gave back/up nothing. > > I think they give an impression: from now on, StarOffice is supported by > Sun. Yes, it's a world of marketing! Shame! > Unix community at large can take advantage

Netscape vs M$ IE (Re: Sun goes...)

1999-10-28 Thread J Horacio MG
> > > > > > We shouldnt cheat outselves. > > > M$IE is much better than NS and there are plenty of users which will > > > chose it if it only will came available on Linux. > > > Some day gzilla may came the best browser in the world but > > > if M$ make port of IE before this time it can make a l

glibc2.1 problems

1999-10-28 Thread J Horacio MG
Just recently upgraded glibc2.1 and others. Just now I tried to exit from tty1 and got the following: $ exit logout /sbin/getty: error in loading shared libraries: /lib/libc.so.6: symbol _dl_origin_patt(, version GLIBC_2.1.1 not defined in file ld-linux.so.2 with link time reference INI

Re: Netscape vs M$ IE (Re: Sun goes...)

1999-10-28 Thread J Horacio MG
El jue, 28 de oct de 1999, a las 07:40:49 -0700, aphro dijo: > > yeah, i find it quite common to see new bugs about IE4/5 in bugtraq / > securityfocus .. seems for every 4 to 5 IE security problems there is 1 NS > security problem. Besides, it seems that whenever M$ sends a bug/hole acknowledgeme

netscape navigator 4.5

1999-11-11 Thread J Horacio MG
Hi, I installed the following packages from slink: navigator-base-45_4.5-1.deb netscape-base-45_4.5-1.deb netscape-base-4_5.deb now I try to run netscape from X, but the only netscape executable around is `netscape-remote' ...? all I want is to have the navigator installed (no communicator), wh

mount (automount?) /etc/mtab problem

1999-11-11 Thread J Horacio MG
Hi, I had to reinstall all my slink system, and among others I installed two packages which I didn't have in my previous installation: autofs and mount. Now, if I edit /etc/mtab to have a partition mounted on a directory which I created, when I reboot the system, it doesn't mount it (that's /dev/

Re: apt-get

1999-11-12 Thread J Horacio MG
> I've updated slink to potato one month ago or so. In general apt-get did > its job very smothly, only a couple of packages (not more than 10) made > some configuration problems, and due to this sometimes the > dist-upgrade prcess got interupted, and had do be started again (after the > problem wa

Re: apt-get (attachment)

1999-11-12 Thread J Horacio MG
apologies, in my previous message I forgot to attach the list of upgrade-to-be packages. -- Horacio Anno MMDCCLII ad Urbe condita mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Spain ~Spanje ~ Spanien Key fingerprin

Re: apt-get

1999-11-12 Thread J Horacio MG
El vie, 12 de nov de 1999, a las 04:44:56 +0200, Martin Fluch dijo: > > On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, J Horacio MG wrote: > > > And just how does apt (or apt-get) work for upgrading from slink to > > potato? (I'm not trying to be lazy here, I do read the manual pages for > &g

apt-get, now what?

1999-11-13 Thread J Horacio MG
I just tried to upgrade via apt-get, and while it did download the files, it didn't install them. A first `apt-get install' attempt gave me the following: - Checking system integrity...ok Sorry, qt1g is already the newest version Sorry, giftrans is alre

Re: apt-get, now what?

1999-11-13 Thread J Horacio MG
El vie, 12 de nov de 1999, a las 09:23:05 -0500, Kevin Heath dijo: > > > I just tried to upgrade via apt-get, and while it did download the > > files, it didn't install them. A first `apt-get install' attempt gave > > me the following: > >[...] > > upgraded. > > Sorry, but the following package

QT1G (>= 1.42-2) MISSING from potato!!!

1999-11-13 Thread J Horacio MG
Hi, where can I find qt1g (>= 1.42-2)? I've been searching ftp.debian.org and www.debian.org, as well as various mirrors, and this library is missing (should be in non-free/binary-i386/libs/). Where can I get it? Regards, -- Horacio Anno MMDCCLII ad Urbe condi

Re: QT1G (>= 1.42-2) MISSING from potato!!!

1999-11-14 Thread J Horacio MG
El sáb, 13 de nov de 1999, a las 11:51:25 -, Pollywog dijo: > I don't know if you can get 1.42 but 1.44 is at: > > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/non-free/binary-i386/libs/qt1g_1.44- > 6.1.deb > > If you really need 1.42, I believe it comes on the Slink CD's but I am not > certain

Re: QT1G (>= 1.42-2) MISSING from potato!!!

1999-11-14 Thread J Horacio MG
El dom, 14 de nov de 1999, a las 01:03:58 +0200, Martin Fluch dijo: > > On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, J Horacio MG wrote: > > > [...] > > > > Well, as I said, it's not there: > > > > ncftp ...-free/binary-i386/libs > pwd > > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debia

Re: QT1G (>= 1.42-2) MISSING from potato!!!

1999-11-14 Thread J Horacio MG
El dom, 14 de nov de 1999, a las 05:28:44 +0200, Martin Fluch dijo: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Pollywog wrote: > > > There could be a problem with doing it that way, if you are a KDE user. > > I use KDE, so I installed two versions of QT, from source. That all

kernel compile and modules

1999-11-14 Thread J Horacio MG
Hi, I'm about to build a new kernel (2.2.10), and would like to go over the steps for compiling (not make kpkg) as I'm not sure about them: # make config (or menuconfig) here I have a doubt about the options which can be configured as loadable modules instead of compiling into the kernel. Say I

Re: kernel compile and modules

1999-11-15 Thread J Horacio MG
El dom, 14 de nov de 1999, a las 03:58:58 -0800, aphro dijo: > > the only real benefit i can see to compiling sutff as modules is: > > 1) if you think you may need to unload it at some point this is what I actually thought... you can have the kernel compiled with lots of loadable modules just in

Perl5 (Potato) ... [satan]

1999-11-17 Thread J Horacio MG
Hi, just to make sure I'll be doing the right thing to upgrade to Perl5, there's this package: Package: perl Version: 5.004.05-2 Priority: important Section: interpreters Maintainer: Darren Stalder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Depends: perl-5.004, perl-5.004-doc Conflicts: io Provides: io Replaces: io [..

ISO-8859-15 and Euro currency

1999-11-17 Thread J Horacio MG
Hi, I compiled the following native language support modules in the kernel (2.2.10): CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_850=y CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_1=y CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_15=y and the rest as modules. Then, in ~/.bash_profile I've got: LANGUAGE=es:en LC_ALL=es_ES LANG=spanish MM_CHARSET=ISO-8859-15 export LANGU

/tmp permissions changed!

1999-11-18 Thread J Horacio MG
Hi, all of a sudden I realized the /tmp permissions had changed to: 2 drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 2048 Nov 19 02:57 tmp/ so, I changed it back to sticky with: # chmod 777 /tmp # chmod a+t /tmp Now, it seems alright, but I'm not sure about the rest (most of all /var). Could anyone che

Re: Perl5 (Potato) ... [satan]

1999-11-18 Thread J Horacio MG
El jue, 18 de nov de 1999, a las 12:35:54 +0100, Klaus Drews dijo: > Hi, > > just a small hint : > somewhere there is a README in the docs, which says, that you have > to load and unload and convert things to work with 5.005. Look for it, > befor upgrading. I crashed my system some time ago becaus

Re: Easy way to migrate a Slackware system to debian?

1999-11-19 Thread J Horacio MG
> Bruno Boettcher wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I have a running slackware system on a computer which lacks a CD so > > since > > this is a running linux system i figure that it should be possible to > > migrate > > it towards debian is there somewhere a help about this? would it be >

HELP: PERL5 upgrade trouble

1999-11-22 Thread J Horacio MG
Hi, I'm sure I sent this message to the list, but it hasn't shown as yet: I tried to install perl5 from potato, but I couldn't (and now all the perl stuff is messed up). First, I tried to `dpkg -i perl-5.005_5.005.03-4.deb', but it requires perl-5.005-base_5.005.03-4.deb and conflicts with the

Re: staroffice, potato (patching the kernel)

1999-11-29 Thread J Horacio MG
aphro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I installed Star Office 5.1 in the /opt directory as root with the > setup option /net. > > Then I ran setup as normal user from the /opt/ > directory and the > setup program installed basic files in my home directory. > That's all, no problems under potato with 2.2.1

Re: Potato upgrade [PERL]

1999-11-29 Thread J Horacio MG
> After a long battle with an upgrade to potato from a very customized slink am > allmost happy. I just miss one thing: > I cannot start gdm due to some wierd problem. It complains about the user and > group for /var/gdm. Supposedly they should be nobody:deamon but that doesn't > work either. In S

Re: staroffice, potato (patching the kernel)

1999-11-30 Thread J Horacio MG
> Bernhard Rieder said: > > "Eric G . Miller" wrote: > > Well, I have potato with 2.2.13 and StarOffice working fine here. Any > > idea what the patch applies to? Perhaps I'm not using whatever it is > > that breaks it. > > Maybe this applies only to SO 5.1 (from StarDivision) and not to > SO 5.

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