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debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2005 : Issue 428
Today's Topics:
Re: testing, mysql-server-4.1 and ca [ Russell Steicke <russells@adelie.cx ]
Re: kernel upgrade goof [ Gayle Lee Fairless <fairless@HiWAAY ]
swapping vts remotely [ John covici <covici@ccs.covici.com> ]
Re: WLAN Cardbus Adapters [ Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net> ]
Re: Run Levels [ David Clymer <david@zettazebra.com> ]
Re: America's Army server behind fir [ Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net> ]
Re: fdisk [ Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net> ]
Re: k3b simply stalls; nothing happe [ Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net> ]
Re: WLAN Cardbus Adapters [ Paolo Alexis Falcone <pfalcone@gmai ]
Re: using debian sarge installation [ David Clymer <david@zettazebra.com> ]
Re: pdflatex fehlenden fonts [ Martin Lorenz <martin@lorenz.eu.org ]
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Subject:
Re: testing, mysql-server-4.1 and cacti
From:
Russell Steicke <russells@adelie.cx>
Date:
Tue, 15 Feb 2005 13:20:05 +0800
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On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 08:27:54PM -0700, Mike wrote:
Mike wrote:
I can't seem to update to mysql 4.1 without cacti getting removed.
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# apt-get install mysql-server-4.1
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libmysqlclient14 mysql-client-4.1 mysql-common-4.1
Suggested packages:
mysql-doc-4.1
Recommended packages:
libmysqlclient14-dev
The following packages will be REMOVED:
cacti mysql-client mysql-common mysql-server
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libmysqlclient14 mysql-client-4.1 mysql-common-4.1 mysql-server-4.1
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 4 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 16.8MB of archives.
After unpacking 23.6MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
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I would sort of prefer to keep cacti, but I want to use sub queries.
Is there a reason for this or what would I do?
apt-cache showpkg cacti
says, in part:
Dependencies: ... mysql-client (4 3.23.3)
So cacti is being removed because mysql-client is being removed and
replaced with mysql-client-4.1, which doesn't satisfy that dependency.
You have at least two options.
- Install cacti from source after it's removed
- Or "apt-get source cacti", edit its debian/control file so that it
depends on mysql-client-4.1 and libmysqlclient14-dev instead of
mysql-client >>3.23.3 and libmysqlclient-dev, and hope that
dpkg-buildpackage doesn't complain when you build it.
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Subject:
Re: kernel upgrade goof
From:
Gayle Lee Fairless <fairless@HiWAAY.net>
Date:
Mon, 14 Feb 2005 23:34:29 -0600
To:
debuser <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
To:
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Subject:
Re: kernel upgrade goof
From:
Jason Edson <jedson@oceighty.net> <mailto:jedson@oceighty.net>
Date:
Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:04:47 -0800
To:
debian-user@lists.debian.org <mailto:debian-user@lists.debian.org>
With my experiances what you did is ok. I dont think that it matters
what sources you got the kernel from. Now i might be wrong seeing how
im kinds of new to debian but Im pretty sure its just like
downloading your own kernel and installing it. So dont worry to much
and also wait for other replies =)
James Scott wrote:
I recently installed some software on my Debian server that required
me to add the unstable packages to my apt sources.list file, and then
I forgot to remove it. Later I decided to upgrade my kernel-image,
and ended up going to 2.6.10-1. Now that I have removed the unstable
sources, I see that 2.6.10 is no longer an option. Did I just update
to the unstable version of the kernel?
Maybe, however, 2.6.10 might yet make it into sarge before it goes stable.
If so, have I goofed up big
time? (I am running this on a server.)
Probably not, since you didn't report any big crashes, you may as well
keep the latest.
Finally, can I go back to an
earlier version of the kernel, and if so, do I need to?
Even though you can go back, I wouldn't bother if none of your
critical packages require it.
Thanks.
J.Scott
IIRC, someone in an earlier posting last year said that Debian
separated their kernel upgrades and distro upgrades by design. I
doubt that you need to go back to an earlier version of the kernel
which probably has all the latest fixes.
--
(Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless, registered Linux user number 365760,
http://counter.li.org/
Linux Gcomm 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 unknown
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Subject:
swapping vts remotely
From:
John covici <covici@ccs.covici.com>
Date:
Tue, 15 Feb 2005 00:41:25 -0500
To:
Blake Swadling <bswadling@newton.com.au>
To:
Blake Swadling <bswadling@newton.com.au>
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You could try chvt followed by the number of the console you want --
you have to be root to do this, however.
on Tuesday 02/15/2005 Blake Swadling(bswadling@newton.com.au) wrote
> hi folks
>
> Consider the following scenario ...
>
> 2 X11 sessions running on a machine in the other room. One of the X
> sessions is killed remotely (killall gnome-session). the display in the
> other room drops to the console.
>
> Is there any way to switch from the console to the other X session over
> an ssh connection without physically walking in there and hitting
> ctrl-alt-f7
>
> Cheers
> Blake
>
> --
> Blake Swadling
> Senior Software Engineer
> Newton Pty Ltd
>
> Telephone: +61 2 6247 3544
> Fax: +61 2 6247 3533
> Mobile: +61 407 026277
> Web: http://www.newton.com.au
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN">
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> <BODY>
> hi folks<BR>
> <BR>
> Consider the following scenario ...<BR>
> <BR>
> 2 X11 sessions running on a machine in the other room. One of the X sessions is killed remotely (killall gnome-session). the display in the other room drops to the console.<BR>
> <BR>
> Is there any way to switch from the console to the other X session over an ssh connection without physically walking in there and hitting ctrl-alt-f7<BR>
> <BR>
> Cheers<BR>
> Blake<BR>
> <BR>
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> <PRE>
> --
> Blake Swadling
> Senior Software Engineer
> Newton Pty Ltd
>
> Telephone: +61 2 6247 3544
> Fax: +61 2 6247 3533
> Mobile: +61 407 026277
> Web: <A HREF="http://www.newton.com.au";>http://www.newton.com.au</A>
> </PRE>
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Subject:
Re: WLAN Cardbus Adapters
From:
Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net>
Date:
Mon, 14 Feb 2005 23:44:09 -0600
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Ben Hill wrote:
I'm looking for a pcmcia wifi adapter for my laptop, and wondered what
cards people used with Debian. Specifically, I'm looking at the Linksys
Wireless-G 2.4Ghz 802.11g Notebook Adapter.
What cardbus adapters do people use, and anyone know if the Linksys
adapter I mentioned is compatible with Debian?
Take a look here:
http://www.linux-wlan.org/
Also check this link:
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Wireless.html
I have an ACX100 card that works but is less than ideal for Linux.
I've heard that PRISM chipsets are best for Linux since they have
vendor support for Linux.
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Subject:
Re: Run Levels
From:
David Clymer <david@zettazebra.com>
Date:
Tue, 15 Feb 2005 01:09:33 -0500
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Debian-User <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
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On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 20:36 +0000, Chris Robinson wrote:
Hi
Can anyone tell me how to get sarge to load to a shell prompt, and I
enter startx if I want to run X windows?
On redhat I used inittab run level 3 for shell and run level 5 for X
windows.
If you're like me, and prefer to avoid mucking with /etc/rc[0-9].d
stuff, You could stick something like this at the top of your [xgk]dm
script:
[ $(runlevel |awk '{print $2}') -eq 2 ] && exit 0
if you _do_ like messing with that stuff, check out the update-rc.d utility. It's similar to
RedHat's chkconfig tool.
-davidc
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Subject:
Re: America's Army server behind firewall
From:
Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net>
Date:
Mon, 14 Feb 2005 23:51:49 -0600
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Daniel L. Miller wrote:
Has anyone setup an America's Army server behind an iptables
firewall? I've got it almost there . . . but not quite.
'Fraid I haven't, but have you tried using Firestarter? It makes it
pretty easy to set up in/out rules.
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Subject:
Re: fdisk
From:
Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net>
Date:
Mon, 14 Feb 2005 23:52:55 -0600
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Michael Satterwhite wrote:
A friend of mine is trying to repartition a hard drive that has Lindows
on it to make it dual boot, Windows / Debian. He's using the Dos fdisk
program to try to delete the Lindows partition, and he's getting a
memory allocation error. He wants to install Windows first so as not to
have Windows destroy the link to Linux
I have no problem believing that the dos fdisk is choking on deleting
the Linux partition. He's going to set up a Fat32 partition and a Reiser
partition (he wants Debian to have full access to the Windows partition
- doesn't care if Windows can access the Linux partition).
What utility(s) are best for this? He's going to need to run it from a
floppy; what should he put on the floppy so he will be able to boot /
run the utility?
tia
---Michael
Try booting Knoppix and using QTParted. It also has fdisk, and likely
cfdisk as well.
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Subject:
Re: k3b simply stalls; nothing happens
From:
Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net>
Date:
Mon, 14 Feb 2005 23:55:27 -0600
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Ric Otte wrote:
I looked on Google, but there weren't a lot of helpful suggestions.
I didn't install all of kde; I just wanted k3b.
Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.
My *guess* would be that since you didn't install KDE itself, k3b
can't find things it needs. Did you install all the dependencies that
k3b requires?
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Subject:
Re: WLAN Cardbus Adapters
From:
Paolo Alexis Falcone <pfalcone@gmail.com>
Date:
Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:18:36 +0800
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On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 22:15:55 +0000, Ben Hill <ben@serosoft.com> wrote:
I'm looking for a pcmcia wifi adapter for my laptop, and wondered what
cards people used with Debian. Specifically, I'm looking at the Linksys
Wireless-G 2.4Ghz 802.11g Notebook Adapter.
What cardbus adapters do people use, and anyone know if the Linksys
adapter I mentioned is compatible with Debian?
I'm using a Netgear WG511 with the prism54 chipset. The latest
firmware isn't really as stable as the one that preceded it, but at
the very least it's supported in vanilla kernels.
Another kit I'm using for wardriving purposes is the Senao 2511 (using
the prism2 chipset) - it's only 802.11b, but it's quite high powered
at 200mW, and thus can cover way farther than the average wireless
card. It's also Linux compatible.
Other cards you may want to check out: Senao 3045 (802.11b/g) and 5354
(802.11a/b/g) - both which use the Atheros chipset ( you can get this
running on Linux using the madwifi open source drivers), SMC 2835W
(also uses prism54 chipset), and the venerable Orinoco Gold using the
prism2 chipset.
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Subject:
Re: using debian sarge installation cd as a rescue disk
From:
David Clymer <david@zettazebra.com>
Date:
Tue, 15 Feb 2005 01:28:19 -0500
To:
Debian-User <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
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On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 13:42 -0500, Frederico Rodrigues Abraham wrote:
Hi. I've recently installed windows on a partition and lost GRUB on my mbr.
Is there any way to use the debian sarge cd as a rescue disk so i
can run grub-install ?
Thanks
If you're not using any exotic filesystems or hardware, you could use
the woody install CD instead. It's much better suited for rescue use, I
think.
I think you should be able to use the sarge CD as well, if that's all
you've got but its not quite as handy (or I just dont know how to use
it). I think there are 2 ways of doing it:
1. specify pass root=<devicenamehere> at the CD boot prompt. The catch
is that I think it has to be a devfs device name (i've not got it to
work, because i can never remember what the devicename should be), so if
you're not familiar with devfs, you may want to try option #2.
2. start up the installer in expert mode, and execute a shell when you
get a chance. then mount your root partition and chroot to it. you still
have to use devfs device names, but now you can look through /dev to
figure out which is the correct one.
hope that helps,
-davidc
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Subject:
Re: pdflatex fehlenden fonts
From:
Martin Lorenz <martin@lorenz.eu.org>
Date:
Tue, 15 Feb 2005 08:47:56 +0100
To:
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On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 06:41:59PM +0100, Jan Lühr wrote:
Greetings,...
Am Montag, 14. Februar 2005 08:31 schrieb Martin Lorenz:
On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 03:15:58PM +0100, Jan Lühr wrote:
ja hallo erstmal,...
ich versuche gerade ein pdf aus einem tex file auf stable zu bauen.
Leider fehlen fonts. (Die Dateien sind da..) und ich weiß nicht, wo sie
stecken.
I had a similar problem these days and found out, that I should have set
the appropriate variable in debconf such that update-updmap can
regenerate some font cache.
might be a hint to try and run update-updmap as root and see weather it
says something like 'Not running on user request'.
This program doesn't exist and apt-cache search udpmap doesn't find anything.
--------------------------------------------------^^^
upd
$ dpkg -S update-updmap
tetex-bin: /usr/share/man/man8/update-updmap.8.gz
tetex-bin: /usr/sbin/update-updmap
greets
mlo
than do a dpkg-reconfigure tetex-bin and say yes to all the
auto-configure options.
this _might_ fix it.
at least it did for me :-)
But not for me...
Keep smiling
yanosz