Dear ALUG, I've recently installed Debian "testing" on my laptop over the Internet. Its all very shinny and nice (with kernel 2.6, KDE 3.1.5 etc.) and I've almost got everything I want working. There are one or two things that I hope someone might be able to help with though: 1) When the system boots it attempts to connect to the network through eth0. This is fine when I'm on campus and plugged into the network, but when I'm at home it adds about a minute onto the bootup time and achieves nothing (I've not network at home). Is there a way of making this optional at bootup? 2) One of the packages didn't configure properly at installation time: noflushd. I tried # dpkg-reconfigure noflushd and got this: debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Kde debconf: (Can't locate Qt.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.3 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.3 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Kde/Wizard.pm line 7.) debconf: falling back to frontend: Dialog /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: noflushd is broken or not fully installed Any ideas what might be wrong? Or if it matters? (I'm not even sure what its for; $ apt-cache search noflushd gives: "allow idle hard disks to spin down"). 3) The last distro I was using was MDK9.2. My new Debian system seems to be quite short of fonts in comparison; particularly ones that work well as KDE fonts (for menus, buttons etc.). Where do linux fonts come from and how do they work? Are there any sources of free fonts? Thanks in advance, Richard
1) When the system boots it attempts to connect to the network through eth0. This is fine when I'm on campus and plugged into the network, but when I'm at home it adds about a minute onto the bootup time and achieves nothing (I've not network at home). Is there a way of making this optional at bootup?
I have actually done this but for the life of me I cannot remember how you do it. So all I can say is that it is definitely possible lots of help I know
2) One of the packages didn't configure properly at installation time: noflushd. I tried # dpkg-reconfigure noflushd and got this:
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Kde debconf: (Can't locate Qt.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.3 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.3 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Kde/Wizard.pm line 7.) debconf: falling back to frontend: Dialog /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: noflushd is broken or not fully installed
The error message suggests that your perl is missing Qt modules. First I'd run your prefered debian apt front end and see if there are any perl Qt packages to install. I used to use dselect but on X there are nicer ones. If you cannot find any you should be able to use CPAN to install the Qt module into perl. Something along these lines: As root do: # perl -MCPAN -e shell cpan> install Qt ..... ..... cpan>quit Then you can try running the reconfigure again. It is best if you can install it as a debian package as there may be library dependancies that the CPAN install may fail to observe or fail on. Best of luck
On Monday 19 April 2004 11:41, Charles Garcia-Tobin wrote:
2) One of the packages didn't configure properly at installation time: noflushd. I tried # dpkg-reconfigure noflushd and got this:
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Kde debconf: (Can't locate Qt.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.3 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.3 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Kde/Wizard.pm line 7.) debconf: falling back to frontend: Dialog /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: noflushd is broken or not fully installed
The error message suggests that your perl is missing Qt modules. First I'd run your prefered debian apt front end and see if there are any perl Qt packages to install. OK, I've just installed libperl-qt.
Then you can try running the reconfigure again. But now when I issue # dpkg-reconfigure noflushd I get this:
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified dpkg-reconfigure: cannot connect to X server :0.0 I've also seen this kind of thing when trying to run X programs from a console in which I've su'ed to root. Any ideas what might be going on here? Cheers, Richard
On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 12:16:09PM +0100, Richard Lewis wrote:
On Monday 19 April 2004 11:41, Charles Garcia-Tobin wrote: But now when I issue # dpkg-reconfigure noflushd I get this:
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified
dpkg-reconfigure: cannot connect to X server :0.0
I've also seen this kind of thing when trying to run X programs from a console in which I've su'ed to root. Any ideas what might be going on here?
It sounds like you chose the KDE frontend to debconf, so it /is/ trying to connect to your Xserver as root. export XAUTHORITY=~youruser/.Xauthority in the root session usually does the trick. J. -- /------------------------------------\ | No thanks, I'm already having one. | | http://www.blackcatnetworks.co.uk/ | \------------------------------------/
On Sunday 18 April 2004 16:07, Richard Lewis wrote:
Dear ALUG,
I've recently installed Debian "testing" on my laptop over the Internet.
(snip)
3) The last distro I was using was MDK9.2. My new Debian system seems to be quite short of fonts in comparison; particularly ones that work well as KDE fonts (for menus, buttons etc.). Where do linux fonts come from and how do they work? Are there any sources of free fonts?
Thanks in advance, Richard
I copied all the TTF fonts from a Windows installation into usr/X11R6/lib/X11/ fonts/truetype, from where they seem to be available to all applications that need them. I'm not sure how legal that is, but since I paid for Windows I won't lose any sleep over it. Replacing KDE standards with Arial etc makes the system look a whole lot nicer; Apple and Microsoft did a good job. -- GT
3) The last distro I was using was MDK9.2. My new Debian system seems to be quite short of fonts in comparison; particularly ones that work well as KDE fonts (for menus, buttons etc.). Where do linux fonts come from and how do they work? Are there any sources of free fonts?
Like Graham, I have installed a selection of fonts from the windows installation (mandrake of course has a simple tool in the Control Centre to do this) but mainly use the Bitstream Vera font sets which are Free and free and look very good. Syd
On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 05:28, Syd Hancock wrote:
3) The last distro I was using was MDK9.2. My new Debian system seems to be quite short of fonts in comparison; particularly ones that work well as KDE fonts (for menus, buttons etc.). Where do linux fonts come from and how do they work? Are there any sources of free fonts?
Like Graham, I have installed a selection of fonts from the windows installation (mandrake of course has a simple tool in the Control Centre to do this) but mainly use the Bitstream Vera font sets which are Free and free and look very good.
Syd
I don't have a Windows install anymore :-) But the fonts are nice, so I got them from here - http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/ I built an RPM from there (no use on Debian I know) but you could use Alien to convert - http://www.kitenet.net/programs/alien/ Holler if you want a copy... Matt -- http://www.mpcontracting.co.uk Experts in Java development and website design
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 11:15:32AM +0100, Matt Parker wrote:
I built an RPM from there (no use on Debian I know) but you could use Alien to convert - http://www.kitenet.net/programs/alien/
adam@dylan:~$ apt-cache search msttcorefonts openoffice.org - high-quality office productivity suite msttcorefonts - Installer for Microsoft TrueType core fonts Adam -- jabberid = quinophex@jabber.earth.li AFFS || http://www.affs.org.uk/ || Not a filesystem
On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 04:07:30PM +0100, Richard Lewis wrote:
I've recently installed Debian "testing" on my laptop over the Internet.
Its all very shinny and nice (with kernel 2.6, KDE 3.1.5 etc.) and I've almost got everything I want working.
There are one or two things that I hope someone might be able to help with though:
1) When the system boots it attempts to connect to the network through eth0. This is fine when I'm on campus and plugged into the network, but when I'm at home it adds about a minute onto the bootup time and achieves nothing (I've not network at home). Is there a way of making this optional at bootup?
I use "ifplugd" to do this; apt-cache show ifplugd
2) One of the packages didn't configure properly at installation time: noflushd. I tried # dpkg-reconfigure noflushd and got this:
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Kde debconf: (Can't locate Qt.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.3 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.3 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Kde/Wizard.pm line 7.) debconf: falling back to frontend: Dialog /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: noflushd is broken or not fully installed
Any ideas what might be wrong? Or if it matters? (I'm not even sure what its for; $ apt-cache search noflushd gives: "allow idle hard disks to spin down").
Looking at the "Suggests:" line for "apt-cache show debconf" I suspect you might want to install the libqt-perl package. I don't use KDE myself though, so that might not be right.
3) The last distro I was using was MDK9.2. My new Debian system seems to be quite short of fonts in comparison; particularly ones that work well as KDE fonts (for menus, buttons etc.). Where do linux fonts come from and how do they work? Are there any sources of free fonts?
You possibly want to look at all the packages starting xfont- and ttf-. J. -- /-\ | 101 things you can't have too much |@/ Debian GNU/Linux Developer | of : 13 - Holidays. \- |
On Monday 19 April 2004 11:51, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 04:07:30PM +0100, Richard Lewis wrote:
1) When the system boots it attempts to connect to the network through eth0. This is fine when I'm on campus and plugged into the network, but when I'm at home it adds about a minute onto the bootup time and achieves nothing (I've not network at home). Is there a way of making this optional at bootup?
I use "ifplugd" to do this; apt-cache show ifplugd
It seems I've already got ifplugd installed and configured. I checked its docs and it said to remove the line "auto eth0" from /etc/network/interfaces which I did. It then didn't work at all, so I went back and had a closer look at the docs (one large portion of humble pie for me) and it seems that it may conflict with hotplug and said to remove the call to "ifup" from /etc/hotplug/net.agent. I went and had a look at this script and found it to be one of those immensely complicated and clever shell scripts which are quite beyond my capability to understand (note to self: learn bash one day!). Any suggestions? (Its not really important BTW, it would just be nice ;) Cheers, Richard
Richard Lewis wrote:
It seems I've already got ifplugd installed and configured. I checked its docs and it said to remove the line "auto eth0" from /etc/network/interfaces which I did.
It then didn't work at all, so I went back and had a closer look at the docs (one large portion of humble pie for me) and it seems that it may conflict with hotplug and said to remove the call to "ifup" from /etc/hotplug/net.agent. I went and had a look at this script and found it to be one of those immensely complicated and clever shell scripts which are quite beyond my capability to understand (note to self: learn bash one day!).
Any suggestions? (Its not really important BTW, it would just be nice ;)
I haven't got a net.agent fle on my debian box, but if you send it (off-list) I'll have a look if ya like. BenE
Richard Lewis wrote:
Dear ALUG,
I've recently installed Debian "testing" on my laptop over the Internet.
Its all very shinny and nice (with kernel 2.6, KDE 3.1.5 etc.) and I've almost got everything I want working.
There are one or two things that I hope someone might be able to help with though:
1) When the system boots it attempts to connect to the network through eth0. This is fine when I'm on campus and plugged into the network, but when I'm at home it adds about a minute onto the bootup time and achieves nothing (I've not network at home). Is there a way of making this optional at bootup?
have a look at /etc/network/interfaces There might be a line that says something like 'auto lo eth0' If so, remove eth0 from it. If that line doesn't exist, then...erm... /me wanders off, whistling BenE
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