Re: Re: lost dhcp on boot up

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 09:11:39PM -0700, Paul Schwartz wrote: > >Try dhclient(8) manually from the command line. If that doesn't work, > >try spying on the connection using tcpdump(8). Punch your firewall > >properly. That's what I'd do. And please post the useful bits verbatim > >(e.g. that i

Re: lost dhcp on boot up

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 11:23:06AM +1300, Edward Murrell wrote: > Check your /var/log/messages file. The most likely error is that you > didn't enable Socket Filtering in the networking options. You will need > to recompile for this option to work. /usr/src/linux-2.4.23/Documentation/Configure.hel

Runaway X process

2004-01-01 Thread Bradley Alexander
On my home workstation, I have an intermittent problem with X running away. The machine is a 1GHz Athlon-C, 768MB RAM, GeForce4MX/64 MB. It has been occurring for the past several months. Basically, what happens (normally, after the screen blanks) is that the XFree86 process starts eating 97-100% o

Re: References headers missing in debian-user-digest

2004-01-01 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 06:30:11PM +, Pigeon wrote: > Thanks for the correction... but the In-Reply-To: headers have gone missing > too, from the same date. Before Nov 21, both sets of headers were present in > the digest messages; after then, neit

Re: Unsuccessful unsubscribe request

2004-01-01 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 08:11:14AM -0600, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ah-ha! You're subscribed to debian-user-digest. You need to email [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : `. `'`

Re: Unsuccessful unsubscribe request

2004-01-01 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 06:17:22AM -0600, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > I cannot see the headers at this stage and when I can see them there is no > way to copy them. I subscribed via [EMAIL PROTECTED] > and obiviously I am still getting the list. OK, are you

Re: xfree 4.3 in sid anytime soon?

2004-01-01 Thread Nano Nano
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 11:22:49PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > > > Hi Nano Nano (are you from Mork's planet?), > I'm using 4.3 from experminatal. Are you aware that 'expermintal' is not > a complete distro like stable/testing/unstable. So you only get the > package you need and when you update, you

Re: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device`

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 08:04:47PM -0800, Steven Yap wrote: > On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 19:28, Jan Minar wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 07:32:45PM -0800, Steven Yap wrote: > > > /dev/cdrom is a symbolic link to hdc. Is your CDROM drive really on hdc? > > > Try using the full path (/dev/hdc). > > >

Re: xfree 4.3 in sid anytime soon?

2004-01-01 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 05:03:22PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > what's holding up x 4.3 from going into sid? > > There's some xv-enhancements for my old C&T chip I need. > I did it manually once. I don't feel like messing with experimental. > Hi Nano Nano (are you from Mork's planet?), I'm using 4.

Re: Is there another way to do apt-get dist-upgrade with a slow internet connection?

2004-01-01 Thread Rishi Gangoly
On Thursday 01 Jan 2004 8:04 pm, Johann Koenig wrote: > Isn't that what apt-zip is for? WOW.. this sounds great... I'm going to try this out today and see how it works. Thank you everyone for responding. I love Debian / GNU and the entire open source community. ;-) Regards Rishi -- To UNS

Re: Why I can't install totem?

2004-01-01 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 10:14:32AM +0800, Hongzheng Wang wrote: > Hello, everyone. > > I wanna install totem on my debian/testing system, but some strange > errors occured. That is, the debian package system complained some > dependencies problems, however, they are not problem at all. > >

Re: Fw: 2.6.0, ppp, devfs

2004-01-01 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 10:07:17PM +0300, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > On Wednesday 31 December 2003 23:31, Andrew Morton wrote: > > when i modprobe ppp_generic, i get this error in dmesg: > > PPP generic driver version 2.4.2 > > devfs_mk_cdev: could not append to parent for ppp > > failed

Re: ssh to NATed box fails

2004-01-01 Thread Greg Norris
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 11:47:36PM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > > At least then a script kiddy won't simply find port 22 open and > > start to bruteforce your ssh password. He has to scan higher than > > normal to find your SSH which he/she is less likely to do. > > This is a ``security by obscurity'

Re: The Darkness

2004-01-01 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 05:30:42PM +0100, Philippe Marzouk wrote: > On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 02:07:23PM +, Antony Gelberg wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 12:25:32PM +0100, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > > > On Wednesday 31 December 2003 11:58, Antony Gelberg wrote: > > > > The back label mentions "

Re: Problem

2004-01-01 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 09:54:16PM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 03:36:10PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > > On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 20:57:10 +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 09:43:46PM +0300, Haytham AL Samkari wrote: > > >> Additional Information: The type o

Re: Warning -- mounting ext3 as ext2

2004-01-01 Thread Nano Nano
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 12:44:27PM +0800, Katipo wrote: [snip] > I don't know if this relates at all, but the head of the Knoppix effort > is very shortly going to be working with the Debian development team to > get Knoppix' hardware recognition into the Debian programme. Gee, that's not obviousl

Re: Problem

2004-01-01 Thread Katipo
On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 17:08:00 -0500 Paul Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 15:24:01 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > > > > > My printer just asked me if I want an aperitif... I am not used to > > this... I usually only speak with it through port 631... What do I > > say?

Re: Warning -- mounting ext3 as ext2

2004-01-01 Thread Katipo
On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 17:13:07 -0500 Paul Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 16:36:16 -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > > > > As you are using knoppix, and you also persist in emailing me > > personally despite my request for you not so to do, I will spend no > > more of my time on

Re: Problems w/ Debian firewall and Windows VPN

2004-01-01 Thread Stephen Touset
Probing around more, the last packet being sent is a TCP Zero Window packet. However, the few prior packets show its window being 65535. How can its window go from 65535 to zero that quickly? On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 19:53, Stephen Touset wrote: > I've recently set up a firewall in our house, running

Re: Re: lost dhcp on boot up

2004-01-01 Thread Paul Schwartz
Try dhclient(8) manually from the command line. If that doesn't work, try spying on the connection using tcpdump(8). Punch your firewall properly. That's what I'd do. And please post the useful bits verbatim (e.g. that interfaces entry--who says it's not malformed?). The error messages are dm

Re: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device`

2004-01-01 Thread Steven Yap
On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 19:28, Jan Minar wrote: > On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 07:32:45PM -0800, Steven Yap wrote: > > /dev/cdrom is a symbolic link to hdc. Is your CDROM drive really on hdc? > > Try using the full path (/dev/hdc). > > There's no difference between an absolute and a relative path here.

Re: References headers missing in debian-user-digest

2004-01-01 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 11:54:10PM +, Pigeon wrote: > Hi, > > Just catching up with several weeks' worth of list traffic (or trying to :-) ) > and it seems that all the debian-user-digests dated after November 21 are > missing the References: headers from the messages contained in them. The >

Re: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device`

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 07:32:45PM -0800, Steven Yap wrote: > /dev/cdrom is a symbolic link to hdc. Is your CDROM drive really on hdc? > Try using the full path (/dev/hdc). There's no difference between an absolute and a relative path here. The symlinks are relative to the directly they reside in

Re: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device`

2004-01-01 Thread Steven Yap
On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 18:42, root wrote: > note I'm having the same issue > it says > lrwxrwxrwx for access 1 root root 3 (date) /dev/cdrom -> hdc > I had a harddrive hooked up to the same place previously could this be > the reason it isn't mounting? /dev/cdrom is a symbolic link to hdc. Is your

Re: Problems w/ Debian firewall and Windows VPN

2004-01-01 Thread Stephen Touset
On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 20:36, Adam Barton wrote: > I don't see the attachment... was it stripped by the list server or did > you forget ;) *slaps self* Edit: I attached the files to this email, but it seems the email was filtered by the list. I've uploaded them to https://touset.org/packets.ext

Re: ssh to NATed box fails

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 01:24:43AM +, Adam Barton wrote: > Do you agree that perhaps there is some wisdom in my advice? Simple setups tend to contain simple weak points. Obscure setups tend to contain obscure weaknesses which are often hard to spot from your side of the barricade. See Sun Tz

/dev/cdrom is not a valid block device`

2004-01-01 Thread root
note I'm having the same issue it says lrwxrwxrwx for access 1 root root 3 (date) /dev/cdrom -> hdc I had a harddrive hooked up to the same place previously could this be the reason it isn't mounting? * To: debian user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Subject: Re: cdrom not valid block device?

Debian Software Raid FAQ

2004-01-01 Thread Lucas Albers
I finally finished my software raid FAQ for converting an existing system to a one using software raid as it's root partition. http://www.cs.montana.edu/faq/faqw.admin.py?query=Convert+Root+System+to+Software+Raid&querytype=simple&casefold=yes&req=search It took me a few weeks of research and tria

Why I can't install totem?

2004-01-01 Thread Hongzheng Wang
Hello, everyone. I wanna install totem on my debian/testing system, but some strange errors occured. That is, the debian package system complained some dependencies problems, however, they are not problem at all. The original error message is: ... The following packages have unmet dependen

56K Modems

2004-01-01 Thread Jacob S.
Is it just me or is it hard to find a good external hardware modem (non-win/linmodem) these days? I'm looking for one for a friend that's using Linux and not ready to pay for broadband yet. He needs a non-pcmcia, preferably external but PCI will work as well, 56k call waiting modem. Any suggestio

Re: [Solved]Re: Problems with apt-get update

2004-01-01 Thread Joseph A. Nagy, Jr.
Antony Gelberg wrote: On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 05:09:27PM -0600, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: Yes, I am using packages from experimental (not many, but a few) because testing and stable are too far behind (sorry, GAIM .58 and .64 are really old news) for me (I use Yahoo, MSN, ICQ and AIM, as well a

Re: [Solved]Re: Problems with apt-get update

2004-01-01 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 05:09:27PM -0600, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: > Yes, I am using packages from experimental (not many, but a few) because > testing and stable are too far behind (sorry, GAIM .58 and .64 are > really old news) for me (I use Yahoo, MSN, ICQ and AIM, as well as > really old p

Re: Woody - lpd terminates after printing one file

2004-01-01 Thread Jack Dodds
Jan Minar wrote: Not that I knew ``Running Linux'' by heart, but you seem not to have the lpd set up properly. Seems like either /etc/init.d/lpd (or what the name really is) is missing, or the /etc/init.d/rc*.d/ symlinks (or equivalent) are. Did you install lpd as a Debian package? Did it config

Re: Problems w/ Debian firewall and Windows VPN

2004-01-01 Thread Adam Barton
Stephen Touset wrote: I've recently set up a firewall in our house, running Debian. It's using iptables to do packet filtering. When I installed it, my mother started [snip] If anyone could help me discover what the problem is, or point me in the direction of someone who could, I would be *extrem

Re: update from stable to testing ?

2004-01-01 Thread Stephen
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 08:10:03PM -0500 or thereabouts, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 07:58:16PM -0500, Stephen wrote: > > Hello Friends, > > > > I understand that there are substantial changes in the configuration > > files between Exim3 and Exim4. Will the upgrade script be

Re: ssh to NATed box fails

2004-01-01 Thread Adam Barton
Jan Minar wrote: On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 06:06:34PM -0500, Johann Koenig wrote: On Thursday January 1 at 11:47pm Jan Minar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 09:42:09PM +, Adam Barton wrote: At least then a script kiddy won't simply find port 22 open and start t

Re: Outdated package, is it possible to help?

2004-01-01 Thread Toshiro
On Tuesday 23 December 2003 12:47, Felix C. Stegerman wrote: > Toshiro wrote: > > I like krusader (a very nice file manager, like mc) and I'd like to have > > the latest version; unfortunately the Debian version is very outdated > > (almost a year old) > > Same here. > > > I've sent a couple of e-m

Re: update from stable to testing ?

2004-01-01 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 07:58:16PM -0500, Stephen wrote: > Hello Friends, > > I understand that there are substantial changes in the configuration > files between Exim3 and Exim4. Will the upgrade script be able to adjust > the present Exim3 configuration to whatever syntax etc., that will be > re

xfree 4.3 in sid anytime soon?

2004-01-01 Thread Nano Nano
what's holding up x 4.3 from going into sid? There's some xv-enhancements for my old C&T chip I need. I did it manually once. I don't feel like messing with experimental. Should I just do it manually? Is it going to be a long time? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

update from stable to testing ?

2004-01-01 Thread Stephen
Hello Friends, I understand that there are substantial changes in the configuration files between Exim3 and Exim4. Will the upgrade script be able to adjust the present Exim3 configuration to whatever syntax etc., that will be required for Exim4 to work properly as b4? -- Best wishes for 2004

Re: ssh to NATed box fails

2004-01-01 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 10:02:36PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 07:30:39PM +, Pigeon wrote: > > On the following setup: > > > > Local end Remote end > > InternetLAN > >

Problems w/ Debian firewall and Windows VPN

2004-01-01 Thread Stephen Touset
I've recently set up a firewall in our house, running Debian. It's using iptables to do packet filtering. When I installed it, my mother started having problems connecting through VPN to her company (MAPICS). The connection starts fine, but after 5-10 minutes, it disconnects. I do not have this pro

Re: Not using apt-move to share local packages

2004-01-01 Thread Paul Morgan
On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 22:08:09 +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 02:03:42PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 04:12:27PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: >> > On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 12:48:38 -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: >> > > BTW -- IIRC, someone posted a way to trim /var

Re: ssh to NATed box fails

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 06:06:34PM -0500, Johann Koenig wrote: > On Thursday January 1 at 11:47pm > Jan Minar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 09:42:09PM +, Adam Barton wrote: > > > At least then a script kiddy won't simply find port 22 open and > > > start to brutefor

Re: ssh to NATed box fails

2004-01-01 Thread Johann Koenig
On Thursday January 1 at 11:47pm Jan Minar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 09:42:09PM +, Adam Barton wrote: > > What would do in this case, is, rather than forwarding port 22 to > > port 22 on an internal host, do say forward 10001 to internalhost1, > > 10002 to internalh

Re: lost dhcp on boot up

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 01:48:02PM -0700, Paul Schwartz wrote: > dhcp is specified for eth0 in the interfaces file. nothing seems to happen. > Where do I look for an error message? Try dhclient(8) manually from the command line. If that doesn't work, try spying on the connection using tcpdump(8)

[Solved]Re: Problems with apt-get update

2004-01-01 Thread Joseph A. Nagy, Jr.
Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: W: GPG error: http://http.us.debian.org stable Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY B629A24C38C6029A W: GPG error: http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US Release: The following signatures couldn't be

Re: NB package screw up

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 10:00:12PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 09:11:56PM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > > There ain't any. > > There certainly are (see 'dpkg --force-help'), but none of them apply to > the case when a maintainer script fails. s/any/& relevant/ That's what I m

Re: ssh to NATed box fails

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 09:42:09PM +, Adam Barton wrote: > What would do in this case, is, rather than forwarding port 22 to port > 22 on an internal host, do say forward 10001 to internalhost1, 10002 to > internalhost2 etc. as required instead. Then leave 22 open for > connections to the bo

Re: Warning -- mounting ext3 as ext2

2004-01-01 Thread Paul Morgan
On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 16:36:16 -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > As you are using knoppix, and you also persist in emailing me personally > despite my request for you not so to do, I will spend no more of my time > on this. > I was mistaken: you didn't email me personally on your last post. I withdra

Re: Problem

2004-01-01 Thread Paul Morgan
On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 15:24:01 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > My printer just asked me if I want an aperitif... I am not used to > this... I usually only speak with it through port 631... What do I say? Ask it if it's trying to get you drunk, and what are its intentions. --

Re: php4-gd2 debian package problem

2004-01-01 Thread Joerg Rossdeutscher
Hi, Am Do, den 01.01.2004 schrieb Robin Kilpatrick um 21:16: > /usr/sbin/apache: relocation error: /usr/lib/php4/20020429/gd.so: > undefined symb > ol: gdFreeFontCache > > This was installing the php4-gd2 package, the php4-gd package installs > fine. Very frustrating! This problem exists for s

Re: lost dhcp on boot up

2004-01-01 Thread Edward Murrell
On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 05:49, Paul Schwartz wrote: > I just made and installed my first kernel [2.4.18]! and booted too! > One problem is that the network initialization that used to occur > [2.4.18-bf24] doesn't. > The ether net card is recognized but my machine no longer does an > inquiry to the

Re: nVidia Control Panel?

2004-01-01 Thread Ing. Vladimir M. Kerka
On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 22:29, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Scarletdown wrote: > > Anyone here know how to install or otherwise access the nVidia Control > > Panel that is supposedly part of the nVidia video drivers? > > > > I saw it mentioned in the Linux forums on nVidia's site, and someone > > ther

Re: Not using apt-move to share local packages

2004-01-01 Thread Bill Moseley
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 10:08:09PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 02:03:42PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 04:12:27PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > > > On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 12:48:38 -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > > > > BTW -- IIRC, someone posted a way to t

Re: Please suggest a mobo for >4 IDE drives.

2004-01-01 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 09:57:47PM -0500, Johann Koenig wrote: > On Wednesday December 31 at 06:47pm > Scarletdown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: > > > Paul, > > > > > > the worlds of RAID as opposed to leading to 5+drives on the same > > > mobo. To make sure that

Re: Warning -- mounting ext3 as ext2

2004-01-01 Thread Edward Murrell
On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 10:43, David Baron wrote: > On Thursday 01 January 2004 21:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > You need to be using a kernel that either has ext3 compiled in > > or has ext3 module available on its initrd. > > > > I'm not aware of a debian kernel 2.4.22-xfs, so I assume that y

Re: Kernel 2.6 and module-init-tools

2004-01-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 02:21:18AM +0530, Deboo said > Debian Woody system, compiling 2.6 time and again keeps giving a "VFS: > Kernel Panic: Unable to mount root fs" error, however many times I > recompile. I do not have module init tools installed. Then you can't use modules AT ALL with your 2.

Re: usb pendrive strangness

2004-01-01 Thread Edward Murrell
On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 06:48, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > On a stock debian sarge, fresh install, I can enter these two lines into > fstab: > > /dev/sda /mnt/pendrive autodefualts,user,noauto,umask=002 0 0 > /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usbdrive auto defualts,user,noauto,umask=002 0 0 > > I can then

Re: Not using apt-move to share local packages

2004-01-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 02:03:42PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 04:12:27PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > > On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 12:48:38 -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > > > BTW -- IIRC, someone posted a way to trim /var/cache/apt/archives > > > to the most current one (or two) ver

Re: Problems with apt-get update

2004-01-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 02:32:49PM -0600, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: > W: GPG error: http://http.us.debian.org stable Release: The following > signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: > NO_PUBKEY B629A24C38C6029A > W: GPG error: http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-

Re: Not using apt-move to share local packages

2004-01-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 12:48:38PM -0800, Bill Moseley said > This old topic again... > > I'm not really interested in creating a local hierarchy and maintaining > another set of sources on my machines, but I would like a system where > when a I do a dist-upgrade that before fetching the remote pa

Re: Problem

2004-01-01 Thread Katipo
On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 15:24:01 -0600 Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jan Minar wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 03:36:10PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > > > >>On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 20:57:10 +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > >> > >> > >>>On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 09:43:46PM +0300, Haytham AL Samkar

Re: Not using apt-move to share local packages

2004-01-01 Thread Bill Moseley
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 04:12:27PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 12:48:38 -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > > > > > BTW -- IIRC, someone posted a way to trim /var/cache/apt/archives to the > > most current one (or two) versions and purge the rest. Anyone remember > > that? > > apt

Re: Problems with apt-get update

2004-01-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 02:32:49PM -0600, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. said > W: GPG error: http://http.us.debian.org stable Release: The following > signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: > NO_PUBKEY B629A24C38C6029A > W: GPG error: http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US

Re: ssh to NATed box fails

2004-01-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 07:30:39PM +, Pigeon wrote: > On the following setup: > > Local end Remote end > InternetLAN > Local box:ppp0---ppp0:NAT box:eth0---Other boxes

Re: NB package screw up

2004-01-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 09:11:56PM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 02:09:04PM -0500, Kenneth Dombrowski wrote: > > On 04-01-01 18:52 +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 10:29:46AM -0700, Tony TJ Previte wrote: > > > > subprocess pre-removal script returned error

Re: Unable to apt-get install gnome on Debian Woody

2004-01-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 02:00:22AM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said > I get a lot of dependency problems reported by apt-get when I try to > install gnome-core or gnome-session. Can someone tell me what do I need to > do to make apt install gnome? Which version of Debian is this? I don't see anything

Re: Warning -- mounting ext3 as ext2

2004-01-01 Thread Paul Morgan
On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 22:43:52 +0100, David Baron wrote: > On Thursday 01 January 2004 21:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: >> You need to be using a kernel that either has ext3 compiled in >> or has ext3 module available on its initrd. >> >> I'm not aware of a debian kernel 2.4.22-xfs, so I assume th

Re: Problem

2004-01-01 Thread Ing. Vladimir M. Kerka
On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 22:24, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Jan Minar wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 03:36:10PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > > > >>On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 20:57:10 +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > >> > >> > >>>On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 09:43:46PM +0300, Haytham AL Samkari wrote: > >>> > Additi

Re: Kernel 2.6 and module-init-tools

2004-01-01 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 21:51, Deboo wrote: > Debian Woody system, compiling 2.6 time and again keeps giving a "VFS: > Kernel Panic: Unable to mount root fs" error, however many times I > recompile. do you have everything you need compiled in? Filesystems of root/boot partition, IDE controller etc?

sarge exim4 2004-01-01 pam auth fails if shadow passwd is used

2004-01-01 Thread hanasaki
Just updated the exim4 package in sarge. It is now unable to authenticate using PAM if shadow passwd is being used. Looks like a perimission issue of some type (possbly coupled with now running as Debian-exim) is this a bug or is there a configuratiom missing? thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: nVidia Control Panel?

2004-01-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Scarletdown wrote: Anyone here know how to install or otherwise access the nVidia Control Panel that is supposedly part of the nVidia video drivers? I saw it mentioned in the Linux forums on nVidia's site, and someone there even posted a screenshot... http://web.njit.edu/~dpw2/nvidia-settings.j

Re: Problem

2004-01-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Jan Minar wrote: On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 03:36:10PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 20:57:10 +0100, Jan Minar wrote: On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 09:43:46PM +0300, Haytham AL Samkari wrote: Additional Information: The type of the printer is Ink-Jet What about the torches? However:

Re: ssh to NATed box fails

2004-01-01 Thread Adam Barton
Pigeon wrote: On the following setup: Local end Remote end InternetLAN Local box:ppp0---ppp0:NAT box:eth0---Other boxes From the local end, I can ping the remo

Re: Not using apt-move to share local packages

2004-01-01 Thread Paul Morgan
On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 12:48:38 -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > > BTW -- IIRC, someone posted a way to trim /var/cache/apt/archives to the > most current one (or two) versions and purge the rest. Anyone remember > that? apt-get autotrim -- paul Programming without a hex editor

Re: Problem

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 03:36:10PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 20:57:10 +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 09:43:46PM +0300, Haytham AL Samkari wrote: > >> Additional Information: The type of the printer is Ink-Jet > > > > What about the torches? Howeve

Re: [OT[UnOfficial Unsubscribe FAQ

2004-01-01 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Thursday 01 January 2004 16:49, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: > 2. But what if I send it to just debian-@lists.debian.org? > > I'll shoot you. I have a confession to make: I once managed to send an unsubscribe to debian-security. Background: I had just gotten into a situation where I had to run

Re: Warning -- mounting ext3 as ext2

2004-01-01 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 01 January 2004 21:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You need to be using a kernel that either has ext3 compiled in > or has ext3 module available on its initrd. > > I'm not aware of a debian kernel 2.4.22-xfs, so I assume that you compiled > your own.  Did you ensure that it has ext3 sup

Re: Problem

2004-01-01 Thread Paul Morgan
On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 20:57:10 +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 09:43:46PM +0300, Haytham AL Samkari wrote: >> Additional Information: The type of the printer is Ink-Jet > > What about the torches? However: > > It's clear then your inkjet uses an dehumidified ink powder, whic

Re: libc6-dev depends from linux-kernel-headers ?

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 12:11:50PM +0100, Axel Burwitz wrote: > I am using Sarge/testing, and all I can find from my install DVD is a > "kernel-headers-2.4.22-bf2.4" that fits to my kernel version. I have > installed that, but still that message appears.. Hi, Axel! As it seems you're not going to

Kernel 2.6 and module-init-tools

2004-01-01 Thread Deboo
Debian Woody system, compiling 2.6 time and again keeps giving a "VFS: Kernel Panic: Unable to mount root fs" error, however many times I recompile. I do not have module init tools installed. Installing module-init-tools says that it conflicts with modutils ... the doc for 2.6 says that they can c

Not using apt-move to share local packages

2004-01-01 Thread Bill Moseley
This old topic again... I'm not really interested in creating a local hierarchy and maintaining another set of sources on my machines, but I would like a system where when a I do a dist-upgrade that before fetching the remote package it first checks another source for the .deb. In other words for

Re: lost dhcp on boot up

2004-01-01 Thread Paul Schwartz
Jan Minar wrote: On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 09:49:00AM -0700, Paul Schwartz wrote: I just made and installed my first kernel [2.4.18]! and booted too! One problem is that the network initialization that used to occur [2.4.18-bf24] doesn't. The ether net card is recognized but my machine no longer

Re: Problem

2004-01-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Jan Minar wrote: On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 09:43:46PM +0300, Haytham AL Samkari wrote: Additional Information: The type of the printer is Ink-Jet What about the torches? However: It's clear then your inkjet uses an dehumidified ink powder, which must be properly watered to became a real ink.

Re: woody: devpts, pppd, and kernel-2.6: failed connection to /dev/pts/0

2004-01-01 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 19:39, Jan Minar wrote: > pppd printing out those ``ppp0 <-> /dev/foo'' lines doesn't mean > /dev/foo is OK. It happily printed these when running over a serial > port, wile it wasn't able to establish a connection. Interesting. Though in my case (debug option on) it prin

Re: NB package screw up

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 06:52:00PM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 10:29:46AM -0700, Tony TJ Previte wrote: > > subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 > > > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 > > Hi, Tony! > > Apparently, ther

Problems with apt-get update

2004-01-01 Thread Joseph A. Nagy, Jr.
W: GPG error: http://http.us.debian.org stable Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY B629A24C38C6029A W: GPG error: http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public

Re: Problem

2004-01-01 Thread Paul E Condon
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 09:43:46PM +0300, Haytham AL Samkari wrote: > Additional Information: The type of the printer is Ink-Jet > > > -Original Message- > From: Haytham AL Samkari [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 12:17 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject:

Unable to apt-get install gnome on Debian Woody

2004-01-01 Thread deboo
I get a lot of dependency problems reported by apt-get when I try to install gnome-core or gnome-session. Can someone tell me what do I need to do to make apt install gnome? I'm attaching the apt-get install log file alongwith. Regards, DebooReading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... S

php4-gd2 debian package problem

2004-01-01 Thread Robin Kilpatrick
Using unstable/testing... The log file shows this problem, while the page half renders and stops half way through. /usr/sbin/apache: relocation error: /usr/lib/php4/20020429/gd.so: undefined symb ol: gdFreeFontCache This was installing the php4-gd2 package, the php4-gd package installs fine.

Re: NB package screw up

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 02:09:04PM -0500, Kenneth Dombrowski wrote: > On 04-01-01 18:52 +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 10:29:46AM -0700, Tony TJ Previte wrote: > > > subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 > > > subprocess post-installation script returned

rpc.statd: Received erroneous SM_UNMON request

2004-01-01 Thread Arno van Amersfoort
This week I'm moved our homedirectories, which were previously stored on a RedHat7.3 machine, to a (new) Debian Woody 3 machine (intel). The homedirectories are exported with NFS, and used from the main servers which are Sun Sparc's, running Solaris 2.6(SunOS 5.6). Now my problem, it concerns 2

Re: [OT[UnOfficial Unsubscribe FAQ

2004-01-01 Thread Scarletdown
Paul Morgan wrote: I propose that this quiz be sent to all would be subscribers, requiring a minimum score of 11/20 to be allowed to subscribe (yes, I know it's old): LIST SUBSCRIPTION TEST -- DEBIAN-USER VERSION Time Limit: 3 WEEKS 1. What language is spoken in France?

Re: Problem

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 09:43:46PM +0300, Haytham AL Samkari wrote: > Additional Information: The type of the printer is Ink-Jet What about the torches? However: It's clear then your inkjet uses an dehumidified ink powder, which must be properly watered to became a real ink. The way this is

Re: ssh to NATed box fails

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 07:30:39PM +, Pigeon wrote: > debug1: Connection established. It's not a NAT problem you've got through. You may find nc(1) and nmap(1) useful in debugging. -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed." x 4 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP si

RE: Problem

2004-01-01 Thread Haytham AL Samkari
Additional Information: The type of the printer is Ink-Jet -Original Message- From: Haytham AL Samkari [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 12:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Problem Importance: High Dear Sirs, I would like you to give us a hand to solve th

ssh to NATed box fails

2004-01-01 Thread Pigeon
On the following setup: Local end Remote end InternetLAN Local box:ppp0---ppp0:NAT box:eth0---Other boxes From the local end, I can ping the remote end OK, but

Re: [OT[UnOfficial Unsubscribe FAQ

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 01:35:53PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > If they are unable to follow the simple instructions to unsubscribe, > chances are they are also unable to repeatedly place one foot in front of > the other quickly enough to actually run. Although they can't read (cf. the high rate of

Re: [OT[UnOfficial Unsubscribe FAQ

2004-01-01 Thread Paul Morgan
On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 11:13:01 -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > Suggestion to listowner: set up a challenge-response system to > subscribe to Debian lists. In order for your subscription to become > active, instead of the usual "respond to this email" gimmick, the > person must answer a one-question quiz

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