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Newbie: dcopserver error with user

I just installed my first copy of sarge from a netinstall CD from the site, everything went well in installation.
But the normal user I created "freeballer" cannot log into kde, but root works fine.

Could someone help me out I would appreciate it
here is the error log created:

/etc/gdm/PreSession//Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp
/etc/gdm/PreSession//Default: running: sessreg -a -w /var/log/wtmp -u /var/run/utmp -x "/var/lib/gdm/:0.Xservers" -h "" -l :0 root
stdin: is not a tty
+ WM=kde3
+ cp /dev/null /root/.kde3-errors
+ chmod 600 /root/.kde3-errors
+ exec
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debian-user-digest Digest				Volume 2003 : Issue 3659

Today's Topics:
  Re: Intel f90 compiler for Debian.    [ Paul William <maillist@bestworldweb ]
  Setting up debian package server for  [ "Vikas B N" <vikas_bn@infosys.com> ]
  Re: dip group for pon/poff (was: eje  [ "H. S." <greatexcalibur@yahoo.com> ]
  Re: eject command for normal users a  [ kmark+debian-user@pipeline.com ]
  Re: newbie boot log question          [ kmark+debian-user@pipeline.com ]
  Re: Integrated Broadcom nic on Dell   [ "Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom ]
  iptables and adsl modem at boot time  [ "H. S." <greatexcalibur@yahoo.com> ]
  Re: How to get away with small /var   [ "H. S." <greatexcalibur@yahoo.com> ]
  Re: No mouse in gpm: Resolved-Sort O  [ "Mark Healey" <deblist@healeyonline ]
  How to get away with small /var part  [ Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> ]
  Re: Experiment: Neophyte versus Wind  [ "Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom ]
  Re: Setting up debian package server  [ Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk> ]
  Re: How to get away with small /var   [ "Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom ]
  Re: Setting up debian package server  [ Raghavendra Bhat <ragu@asianetonlin ]

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have u tried using alien?
# alien apackage.rpm

Alien must be run as root or fakeroot.

Alien will produce a debian package that can be install using 
#dpkg -i apackage.deb

You may find that there are some library issues ie.
A package look for abc.so.1 while in debian there is abc.so. To fix this
simply create a symlink of abc.so called abc.so.1

Cheers

Paul



On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 04:02, alberto wrote:
> Hi all, 
> 
> Intel has a powerful f90 compiler, the only one freely available on 
> the market, as far as I know, which runs under Linux. It is an 
> extremely important tool for those who run numerical simulations for 
> scientific purposes. 
> http://www.intel.com/software/products/compilers/downloads/forlin.htm
> 
> Unfortunately for Debian users, Intel distribute the compiler as an 
> rpm archive, and the install script is accordingly written. 
> 
> I have succesfully and easily installed the compiler on my Debian 
> Woody in a kind of a dirty way and I've put a brief HOWTO on my web 
> site: 
> http://www.nordita.dk/~bigazzi/varie/Intel_F90_on_a_Debian_GNU_system.html
> 
> I'm sure, though, that the install script, wich you find on the same 
> page of mine, can be just adapted to Debian and made available to 
> Intel for them to include Debian as a supported platform for their 
> compiler. 
> 
> Notice that, in the scientific community, the availability of such a 
> compiler for Debian,  will greatly benefit our favorite distro. 
> 
> Does anyone want to take the task of rewriting the script for Debian? 
> 
> alberto. 
> http://www.nordita.dk/~bigazzi
> -- 
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Hello All,

 A couple of colleagues and I are planning
 to set up an ftp/http server which hosts
 the debian packages, so that people can
 install Debian on their machines over the
 office intranet.

 What is the best way to go about this? 
 
 Things that we are planning are, 

 1.the users should be able to do an 
   "apt-get update" and the packages 
   should be fetched/updated from this 
   server on the intranet.

 2.users who are migrating from windows
   must be able to install Debian on their
   machines. (with the use of boot floppy, etc.)

 Also, what is the best way to keep this
 server up-to-date? Guess, what I'm asking
 for is like a mirror of the Debian packages...

 Thanks in advance,

-vikas

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kmark+debian-user@pipeline.com wrote:

On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 11:59:30PM -0500, H. S. wrote:

<SNIP>

Here is what I get now:

{tmp}> pon dsl-provider
/usr/sbin/pppd: Can't open options file /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider: Permission denied 
{tmp}> ls -l /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider
-rw------- 1 root root 1813 Nov 14 01:12 /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider 

Am I supposed to change thepermission fo the above file manually?

->HS



Not sure about manually but on my system these files are set to
root/dip with perms of 640.
so as root do:
chown root:dip /etc/ppp/peers/*
chmod 640 /etc/ppp/peers/*
Thats my suggestion.
-Kev
Yes, this seems to be working fine. I had a couple of other files which had different permissions: 
~# ls -l /etc/ppp/peers/
total 8
-rw-------    1 root     root         1813 Nov 14 01:12 dsl-provider
-rw------- 1 root root 2141 Sep 16 15:13 dsl-provider.dpkg-dist 
-rw-------    1 root     dip          1782 Nov  9 21:51 dsl-provider_bk
-rw-r-----    1 root     dip           579 Nov  9 16:03 provider


and I did the following to change as you had suggested:
~# chown root:dip /etc/ppp/peers/*
~# chmod 640 /etc/ppp/peers/*
~# ls -l /etc/ppp/peers/
total 8
-rw-r-----    1 root     dip          1813 Nov 14 01:12 dsl-provider
-rw-r----- 1 root dip 2141 Sep 16 15:13 dsl-provider.dpkg-dist 
-rw-r-----    1 root     dip          1782 Nov  9 21:51 dsl-provider_bk
-rw-r-----    1 root     dip           579 Nov  9 16:03 provider

Thanks a ton,
->HS

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On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 11:59:30PM -0500, H. S. wrote:
> Andreas Janssen wrote:
> >Hello
> >
> >H S (<h55am@linuxmail.org>) wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Okay, I am going to take this step by step because I have many issues
> >>unresolved. I am connected to the internet through an ADSL modem (use
> >>"pon dsl-provider" to get online). But how do I make a normal user
> >>able to connect using dsl-provide? At present, only root can do that.
> >
> >
> >Does adding your user account to the dip group help?
> >
> 
> 
> Nope, it didn't :(
> 
> Now I am a member of the these groups also: cdrom audio dip
> 
> Here is what I get now:
> 
> {tmp}> pon dsl-provider
> /usr/sbin/pppd: Can't open options file /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider: 
> Permission denied
> {tmp}> ls -l /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider
> -rw-------    1 root     root         1813 Nov 14 01:12 
> /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider
> 
> Am I supposed to change thepermission fo the above file manually?
> 
> ->HS
> 
Not sure about manually but on my system these files are set to
root/dip with perms of 640.
so as root do:
chown root:dip /etc/ppp/peers/*
chmod 640 /etc/ppp/peers/*
Thats my suggestion.
-Kev

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On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 04:45:53AM +0100, Christian Schnobrich wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 19:08, bstil@yahoo.com wrote:
> > Hello, I want to review the lines and lines of text
> > that printout during startup, but they quickly scroll
> > off the screen.
> 
> just type 'dmesg'. Once done, you maybe want to type 'dmesg | less' :)
> 
> HTH,
> Schnobs
> 
> 
Hi,
yes dmesg will show what happends from boot to init.
to see what happends after, look at /var/log/messages
it show what happens from init to shutdown.
The difference is that dmesg is reset after each reboot but 
/var/log/messages is kept and eventually has its log rotated.
Also try
tail -f /var/log/messages
and then insert something (a usb device, a pcmcia card....)
and what the result.
(do ctrl - c to break out of the tail)
-kev

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on Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 05:17:22PM -0600, Kent West (westk@acu.edu) wrote:
> I have a new Dell Dimension 2400 with an integrated Broadcom BCM4401 
> 100Base-T nic.

Last I played with one of these was November, 2002.  No support except
in experimental at the time.  Broadcom's somewhat poor about providing
specs and/or support, and is among the NIC vendors who've had
comprehension difficulties regarding obligations attending use of GPL'd
software (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/35103).


Peace.

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Hi,
Continuing my progress towards a nice stable working system with everything as I want it to be. Now I am tacking the dsl modem on/off at boot time and iptables script.
1) How do I set up the default iptables script that comes with Debian to a 'safe' mode. I want this so that if the dsl modem is turned ON at boot time, my system still remains secure for the short time before my iptables script takes effect. Which brings me to the next point. 2) Currently, I have this iptables firewall script that I manually start, as root, once I am logged in. In Fedora, I have put this script in /etc/init.d and it is executed at boot time (there also, the default iptables drops everything before bringing up ppp0 till my script resets the rules).
Any other suggestions on how to set up my own firewall script so that it takes effect *before* ppp0 is brough up are also apprecaited. BTW, the script does not rely on my IP address that ppp0 obtains at up-time. IN google, I have read suggestion which mainly say to put it in init.d and have a soft link in /etc/rcS.d (?) Can somebody attest to this? 

thanks for yoru patience and help,
->HS

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Walter Dnes wrote:

  I've been lurking for a couple of weeks here.  I started switching
over to Debian in September because Redhat was dropping RH7.3 (their
best distro ever, and it was damn good) and replacing it with bloatware
and coming up with "version-du-jour" on a pace to beat Microsoft.  I
want to *USE* my computer, not be constantly upgrading upgrading
upgrading.  (Yes, I *LIKE* "rusty" and "stale" <g> ).  Anyhow, on to my
question.


Nice to know that, I am in exactly the same boat :)




  My understanding is that Debian loads a whole slew of packages in /var
during the main install and I need to have at least a gig of space.  Is
that correct ?  Which directory ?  Is it possible to symlink that
directory elsewhere ?
Yes, I have posted about this (within the last 7 days). I think you can get away with sym linking to /var/apt/cache (I think, but please confirm the exact path -- may see my earlier posts) to some place where you do have space (maybe a bigger partition, or even maybe in your /home somewhere). 

HTH,
->HS


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On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 20:26:03 -0600, Kent West wrote:

>Mark Healey wrote:
>
>>In an earlier attempt to get X running I was told to
>>
>>If so, run "gpmconfig" and specify:
>>mouse location: /dev/psaux
>>mouse type: ps/2
>>repeat type: raw
>>
>>For my generic ps2 type mouse.
>>
>>I've done that and still no cursor.  I booted knoppix and it detected
>>the generic ps2 mouse at /dev/psaux and it worked correctly.
>>
>>What do I check next?
>>
>>
>>
>>----------------------------------------
>>Please leave this.  It is a filter term.
>>ferulebezel
>>----------------------------------------
>>
>>
>
>Just to verify; you are looking for a cursor in the _console_? Not a
>terminal window within X?
>
>Try "cat /dev/psaux" and move the mouse around; you should get a bunch
>of garbage on the screen (ctrl-c to quit - your screen may freeze and/or
>the text become unreadable; if so, try blindly typing "reset"). This
>verifies that the mouse is on /dev/psaux. Also, when you run
>"gpmconfig", you should get an option to test your settings; answer
>"Yes" and move the mouse around; you should see a cursor (ctrl-d to quit
>the test).
>
>Is this a stock kernel, or did you roll your own? If you rolled your
>own, I suspect you're missing psaux mouse support.

After trying several different values in gpm.conf, on a wile hair, I
decided to try bypassing my KVM switch.  That fixed it.

This problem doesn't exist in Knoppix.

It kind of sucks having an extra mouse on the table but I can live
with that for a while.

It looks like something determines that there is no mouse attached
when it goes through the KVM.  Is anything I can do to fix this.

-----------------------------------------
Please leave this.  It is a filter term.
ferulebezel
-----------------------------------------
Mark Healey
deblist@healeyonline.com
Don't bothor CCing or emailing this address.  Since spammers seem to be harvesting this
list anything that doesn't come from the list server is assumed to be spam and deleted.
ASUS A87V8X mobo w AMD Athalon
	Broadcom 4401 onboard nic
	with static IP Address
ATI All-In-Wonder 9700 Video card.
	Sampo Alphascan 17mx monitor

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  I've been lurking for a couple of weeks here.  I started switching
over to Debian in September because Redhat was dropping RH7.3 (their
best distro ever, and it was damn good) and replacing it with bloatware
and coming up with "version-du-jour" on a pace to beat Microsoft.  I
want to *USE* my computer, not be constantly upgrading upgrading
upgrading.  (Yes, I *LIKE* "rusty" and "stale" <g> ).  Anyhow, on to my
question.

  When I install the latest Debian on my "B" machine (450mhz, 128 megs
RAM), I want to be able to use a small /var partition.  With Redhat, I
used...

1 => /  (3 gigs)
2 => extended partition (the rest of the harddrive)
5 => swap   (256 megs)
6 => /var   (256 megs)
7 => /misc  (the rest of the harddrive)

  After a virgin install, I log on as root and...

mv /home /misc/home
ln -s /misc/home /home

  What's nice is that when I go to a newer version, I can reformat the
1st partition and install the new version.  Then I log on as root and...

rm -r /home
ln -s /misc/home /home

  And I'm back in business.  And since I'm running my machine only for
me, mutt and slrnpull spool directly to my user dir.

  My understanding is that Debian loads a whole slew of packages in /var
during the main install and I need to have at least a gig of space.  Is
that correct ?  Which directory ?  Is it possible to symlink that
directory elsewhere ?

-- 
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on Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 03:27:55PM -0800, Erik Steffl (steffl@bigfoot.com) wrote:
> Edward Murrell wrote:
> >On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 12:23, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> >
> >>>I haven't come across packages that install into /opt. For source
> >>>packages, I use ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/stow/packagename
> >>>and have "stow" handle the symlinking to /usr/local/bin, etc.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>The OpenOffice.org binary tarball defaults to /opt (at least it did
> >>in version 1.0)
> >
> >
> >I've never understood the need for /opt/. Or more precisely, I've never
> >understood the need for /opt/ when you have /usr/local/, and in my
> >travels have yet to find any solid reasoning beyond what seems to be
> >that the first person to create /opt/ didn't know about /usr/local/.
> >
> >(I'm almost certainly wrong of course, but I still haven't been able to
> >find anything that tells me so with any decent authority.)
> 
> http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/
> 
> /opt : Add-on application software packages
> /usr/local : Local hierarchy
> 
>   the way I understand it: if I install some non-debian package (from 
> tarball etc.) it should go into /opt/package-version (or something like 
> that)
> 
>   the /usr/local is for my own (=admin) stuff, no software that I 
> download someplace else should touch it (unless I ask it to).
> 
>   I usually install extra software in /opt/package-version and use stow 
> to create links in /usr/local, but I guess installing it somewhere under 
> /usr/local works as well (I just don't think packages should default to 
> that).

And you can in practice symlink the two in some way, if you want to keep
all your local installation(s) under a single tree:


    # mkdir /usr/local/opt
    # ln -s /usr/local/opt /opt

...which gives a subdirectory under /usr/local for opt.

Or:

    # ln /usr/local /opt

...which puts all your /opt installs in /usr/local.

Personally I prefer thet first.


Peace.

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On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 07:33, Vikas B N wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
>  A couple of colleagues and I are planning
>  to set up an ftp/http server which hosts
>  the debian packages, so that people can
>  install Debian on their machines over the
>  office intranet.
> 
>  What is the best way to go about this? 
>  
>  Things that we are planning are, 
> 
>  1.the users should be able to do an 
>    "apt-get update" and the packages 
>    should be fetched/updated from this 
>    server on the intranet.
> 
>  2.users who are migrating from windows
>    must be able to install Debian on their
>    machines. (with the use of boot floppy, etc.)

If you want to use http, set up your local repository to be served by
apache (or boa if you don't need a full-fledged server)

Or you can mount the repository through NFS and let apt treat it as
local:

   deb file:/home/debian unstable main contrib non-free


>  Also, what is the best way to keep this
>  server up-to-date? Guess, what I'm asking
>  for is like a mirror of the Debian packages...

I use apt-move (the mirror option)

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on Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 02:43:10AM -0500, Walter Dnes (waltdnes@waltdnes.org) wrote:
> I've been lurking for a couple of weeks here.  I started switching
> over to Debian in September because Redhat was dropping RH7.3 (their
> best distro ever, and it was damn good) and replacing it with
> bloatware and coming up with "version-du-jour" on a pace to beat
> Microsoft.  I want to *USE* my computer, not be constantly upgrading
> upgrading upgrading.  (Yes, I *LIKE* "rusty" and "stale" <g> ).
> Anyhow, on to my question.
> 
> When I install the latest Debian on my "B" machine (450mhz, 128 megs
> RAM), I want to be able to use a small /var partition.  With Redhat, I
> used...

The one thing you *don't* say is how much space you've got on the disk.

> 1 => /  (3 gigs)

I'd split that as:

   /:       150 MiB
   /tmp:    150-250 MiB.
   /usr:    3 GiB


> 2 => extended partition (the rest of the harddrive)
> 5 => swap   (256 megs)
> 6 => /var   (256 megs)
> 7 => /misc  (the rest of the harddrive)

I'd dump /misc and make it /home.  For a workstation.

>   After a virgin install, I log on as root and...
> 
> mv /home /misc/home
> ln -s /misc/home /home
> 
>   What's nice is that when I go to a newer version, I can reformat the
> 1st partition and install the new version.  Then I log on as root and...
> 
> rm -r /home
> ln -s /misc/home /home
> 
>   And I'm back in business.  And since I'm running my machine only for
> me, mutt and slrnpull spool directly to my user dir.
> 
>   My understanding is that Debian loads a whole slew of packages in /var
> during the main install and I need to have at least a gig of space.  Is
> that correct ?  Which directory ?  Is it possible to symlink that
> directory elsewhere ?

Mostly:  your apt cache archive, in /var/cache/apt/archives.

    # df -h 
    Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
    /dev/hda2              99M   80M   15M  85% /
    /dev/hda1              38M   11M   26M  30% /boot
    /dev/hda9             259M   49M  211M  19% /tmp
    /dev/hda10           1004M  450M  555M  45% /var
    /dev/hda11            3.0G  2.4G  624M  80% /usr
    /dev/hda12           1004M  220M  785M  22% /usr/local
    /dev/hda13             12G  3.9G  7.4G  35% /home

    # cd /var
    # du -s * | sort -nr
    201435  cache
    141533  lib
    51029   tmp
    29073   log
    17465   account
    5641    www
    4757    backups
    1732    spool
    282     run
    26      games
    17      mail
    5       lock
    1       opt
    1       local
    1       autofs

...that's with a recently cleaned out package cache.  More often I'm
running ~75-85% utilized in /var, and a major update can suck up more.

You *can* get by with a smaller cache, most of the time, if you use the
"--no-download" option after you run out of space in /var, then flush
cache with "apt-get clean".  You can also use a remote archive mounted
via NFS, or an apt-proxy cache, in some cases.

Alternatively, symlink this directory to a larger partition.  If you've
got relatively little space, I'd allocate 3-4 GiB to /usr and symlink
/var to /usr/var (which doesn't exist otherwise).

Or you could just give yourself One Big Partition and deal with the
attendant problems.


There's a short FAQ on GNU/Linux system partitioning you may find
useful, at:

    http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/partition.html


Peace.

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Vikas posts :

>> are  planning to set  up an  ftp/http server  which hosts  the debian
>> packages, so  that people can  install Debian on their  machines over
>> the office intranet.

Welcome move indeed!  Please read the link and you may find it helpful

http://www.telenovela-world.com/~spade/linux/howto/Network-Install-HOWTO-8.html

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