can not open Font Installer in Control Center

2004-02-05 Thread LeVA
Hi! I have a big problem with the brand new kde3.2. I've compiled it from sources today, and installed it. It almost works perfectly ;) When I open the Control Center, and try to click on the System Administration / Font Installer, I get this message (in a new window):

Re: will WordPerfect8 clobber Debian Sid system?

2004-02-05 Thread Johann Spies
On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 09:16:25AM -0600, James Miller wrote: > I've been trying to use OpenOffice Writer for a project requiring a > multipage table. Unfortunately, OOWriter cannot make (or display!) > multipage tables, and apparently *will not* until version 2.0. This kind > of stinks, but now

Re: 2.6 Kernel, Strange System Lock (not kernel panic)

2004-02-05 Thread Brett Carrington
On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 09:54:15PM -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > Rebooting fixes it. I've only had it do this after idle time (but I'm > > probably always running spamassassin on incoming mail.) > > > > I'm running testing with no backports from unstable or anything like > > that. > > Power m

Re: 2.6 Kernel, Strange System Lock (not kernel panic)

2004-02-05 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 11:41:06AM -0500, Brett Carrington wrote: > On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 06:02:51PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 07:07:11AM -0500, Brett Carrington wrote: > > > A few days after I upgraded to the 2.6 tree (using debian's precompiled > > > packages) somet

Re: anti-virus software for Gnu/Linux

2004-02-05 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 10:09:32PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > If you consider getting an email from someone else on the net as a > > personal intrusion, you probably don't belong on the net. 8:o) > > > > I wasn't paying terribly close attent

Re: dselect and custom compiled package

2004-02-05 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 09:17:53PM -0800, bob wrote: > Thank you. Worked perfectly. No problem, glad to be of assistance. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian - when you ha

Re: anti-virus software for Gnu/Linux

2004-02-05 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-06, Paul Johnson penned: > > On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 10:28:14PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: >> Hopefully Rick forgives the personal intrusion. > > If you consider getting an email from someone else on the net as a > personal intrusion, you probably don't belong on the net. 8:o) > I wasn

Re: Kernel upgrade breaks PCMCIA

2004-02-05 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Tue, 06 Jan 2004, Jonathan Melhuish wrote: > I have a fully-working Debian install on my laptop 8-) but every time I > (or rather, the beautiful apt-get) upgrades the kernel, pcmcia card > services break. Thus breaking the PC card network interface, thus > breaking my connection to the Inte

Re: flash plugin

2004-02-05 Thread Adam Aube
On Wednesday 04 February 2004 10:44 am, Daniel Ferreira wrote: > Em Tue, 3 Feb 2004 14:31:18 -0500 > Adam Aube <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > > If you do have it, you could try running ldconfig as root to see if > > that makes Mozilla Firebird find it. If not, you could just create > > it as a sym

Re: debian ... can't get it to install

2004-02-05 Thread Marc Wilson
On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 10:59:04AM +0100, David Baron wrote: > Try a knoppix CD (you can download the image and burn one yourself). Use this > and in 15 minutes you have a fully configured Debian system. Painless. Apparently this bears repeating again and again and again, since clueless people re

Re: problem with scsi emulation

2004-02-05 Thread Adam Aube
On Thursday 05 February 2004 11:16 pm, j smith wrote: > i have Debian 3.0 and CD-Writer, so i have to use scsi > emulation. i compile the kernel and cdrecord works, > but with scsi emulation i can't use CD-Writer to read > CD. i enter the command: > > mount /dev/scd0 /cdrom > > it complains that /d

Re: Reboot a distant server with a new kernel

2004-02-05 Thread Adam Aube
On Thursday 05 February 2004 11:03 pm, Thomas wrote: > I am about to upgrade the kernel of a distant server remotely. There > are massive changes and i am scared that it won't boot anymore. > I was wondering if there is a way to reboot just for once on the new > kernel and if it doesn't work then

dpkg-deb error when using multi-gnome-terminal

2004-02-05 Thread Florentin Ionescu
I encounter a weired error while trying to install (dia) - if command is ran multi-gnome-terminal fails like this : dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/dia-common_0.91-10.1_i386.deb ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/dia-common_0.91-10.1_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess d

Re: kernel question

2004-02-05 Thread Adam Aube
On Thursday 05 February 2004 05:44 pm, Matt Richardson wrote: > Sorry to ask such a silly question, but I haven't found a good answer > for it on google. I've got a Dell GX115 box running a basic Debian > system from the 3.0r2 installation cds, with kernel 2.2. I tried the > bf24 install, but it

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

2004-02-05 Thread Johann Koenig
On Thursday February 5 at 03:24pm Paul Tietjens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sender: news <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I hit the "Reply" button and sent this email with Thunderbird. > Apprently, it's smart enough to figure it out. :) Apparently you're using gmane, which is a whole different story. -

Re: anti-virus software for Gnu/Linux

2004-02-05 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 10:28:14PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > Hopefully Rick forgives the personal intrusion. If you consider getting an email from someone else on the net as a personal intrusion, you probably don't belong on the net. 8:o) - --

Re: kernel question

2004-02-05 Thread Johann Koenig
On Thursday February 5 at 02:44pm Matt Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry to ask such a silly question, but I haven't found a good answer > for it on google. I've got a Dell GX115 box running a basic Debian > system from the 3.0r2 installation cds, with kernel 2.2. I tried the > bf24

Re: First Install problems

2004-02-05 Thread Johann Koenig
On Thursday February 5 at 03:44pm Mike Adolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also, I have no sound from my CrystalSound card. Alsa-base is > installed but doesn't seem to detect the card. Tried to use alsaconf > to configure for CS4236B (which worked on Mandrake) but don't know > what many of the

Re: USB devices and usb-storage module.

2004-02-05 Thread Adam Aube
On Thursday 05 February 2004 01:24 pm, Adam wrote: > Aha. I thought I was supposed to edit only the /etc/modutils/* but it's > OK to edit /etc/modules too; just not /etc/modules.conf because that > one is generated by update-modules. Right? Right. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Soundcard probs and total novice

2004-02-05 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-06, Steve penned: > OK - I'm pretty much a complete novice - and need walking by the hand. > > I have an onboard soundcard that should conform to the ac97 module. I > can insmod ac97, and the associated modules. Soundcore is also > installed - but /dev/dsp is still not available (either

Reboot a distant server with a new kernel

2004-02-05 Thread Thomas
Hello, I am about to upgrade the kernel of a distant server remotely. There are massive changes and i am scared that it won't boot anymore. My problem is that this machine has no video card or keyboard (otherwise i could use Lilo to choose between the new kernel and the old one that works perfe

problem with scsi emulation

2004-02-05 Thread j smith
i have Debian 3.0 and CD-Writer, so i have to use scsi emulation. i compile the kernel and cdrecord works, but with scsi emulation i can't use CD-Writer to read CD. i enter the command: mount /dev/scd0 /cdrom it complains that /dev/scd0 is not valid device. Please help!

Re: Anyone had any luck with gift-fasttrack on unstable?

2004-02-05 Thread Johann Koenig
On Friday February 6 at 01:24am Joseph Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Somebody pointed me at a port that seemed to be for woody (deb > http://hal.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/debian/ gift/), however, it doesn't > quite work because of a dependency on libvorbis0, which has been > replaced by libvo

Re: Printing

2004-02-05 Thread Adam Aube
On Thursday 05 February 2004 06:37 am, Michael W. Cole wrote: > I am reading the Print HOWTO. If lpd is listening to port 515, does > this mean that I can send a file to be printed over this port and it > will be seen by lpd as something that needs to be printed? Normally you send the file to a l

Re: gcc & the kernel, supermount (?)

2004-02-05 Thread Marc Wilson
On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 06:50:04PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > Change the CC variables, too. But why are you doing this at all? 2.4.24 > should compile fine with gcc 3.3.3, and all previous 2.4 kernels have > critical security flaws. The fact that 2.95-4 is still the recommended kernel compiler by p

Re: Multi-head (non-Xinerama) window managers

2004-02-05 Thread Marc Wilson
On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 11:20:50PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.02.02.1826 +0100]: > > If EWMH compatability is important to you, I'd use fvwm. > > Otherwise, I'd use blackbox. Actually, I'd use blackbox anyway... > > blackbox CVS supports EWMH.

Re: anti-virus software for Gnu/Linux

2004-02-05 Thread David Clymer
On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 22:28, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 21:18, Paul Johnson wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 10:42:09AM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > > > On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 22:51, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > On Mon, Feb

Re: is debian right for me?

2004-02-05 Thread David T-G
Mark -- ...and then Mark Roach said... % % On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 13:07, David T-G wrote: % % > I need to be able to build and install the system in slice hda3 while % > running from hda2 and then I'll do a test boot and eventually set hda3 as ... % > Can debian be installed in this manner, much

Re: anti-virus software for Gnu/Linux

2004-02-05 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 21:18, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 10:42:09AM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 22:51, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 08:51:03PM -0800, MJ Inabnit wrote: > > > > I have

Re: Unidentified subject!

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Re: sftp sources?

2004-02-05 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 20:20, Jens Rantil wrote: > Hi Colin, > > On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 00:11:20 + > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I don't believe there are any such official mirrors. You could set one > > up, though ... > > I'm just curious (as I am planning to perhaps put a serv

Re: debian sucks aka i cant get it to install

2004-02-05 Thread Dave Thayer
On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 12:39:13PM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: > At 2004-02-05T03:15:29Z, Ian L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I posted it yesterday i think around 6pm pacific time. > > It never showed up here or in the list archives. Methinks you're mistaken. > Google tells me he posted it

Re: Toshiba Tecra S1

2004-02-05 Thread David Lloyd
Leonardo, > Has anybody tried to run Debian on a Toshiba Tecra S1? > I'm thinking over removing the old OS and placing a 'real' one. I ran Knoppix on one two weeks ago and it picked everything up quite well. You could try doing the same thing too :-) DSL -- "And this do I hear, Denethor son of

Re: Kernel 2.6: swap file or partition?

2004-02-05 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 07:41:08PM +, M.Kirchhoff wrote: > Under the 2.6.x kernel, is it advisable to just create a swap file > (via dd) rather than using an actual partition, perhaps with swapd > to keep things safe? Just use the partition. It's

Re: Install Questions

2004-02-05 Thread Kent West
Arthur Schafer wrote: I have installed Woody 2.4 some of the gnome control windows are oversized. I can't reach the control points to shrink them, stop them or execute them. All fonts seem abnormally large. Sounds like your resolution is set too low. Try getting out of X and running "dpkg-re

Re: problem with X

2004-02-05 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 11:15:22AM -0700, Justin Guerin said > On Thursday 05 February 2004 10:41, Bytor the Destroyer wrote: > > > The (EE) line indicates X can't find the GLcore module. Mine is in > > > /usr/ X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a Do you have that file? > > > What are its pe

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

2004-02-05 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 10:30:30PM +, Pigeon wrote: > But if you're not put off... you're right that it doesn't require > much. If you're using exim (which is the default MTA with Debian), > create a file ~/.forward containing the following (note t

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

2004-02-05 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 03:24:31PM -0700, Paul Tietjens wrote: > I hit the "Reply" button and sent this email with Thunderbird. > Apprently, it's smart enough to figure it out. :) Or, they had their Mail-Followup-To: header set, and Thunderbird knows

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

2004-02-05 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 05:58:59PM +, Joseph Jones wrote: > It really bugs me. I know this may seem unnecessary to some people, but > it wouldn't require much. The list is not what is bugging you. Join us in the third millennium already and swit

Re: building from source advice

2004-02-05 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 12:21:00AM +, cyril said > Hi > > as a Debian newbie (recent redhat convert) I could do with a bit of advice on > handling any source builds on my server. What kind of issues should I be > aware of if I choose to build some software from source on a stable Debian > e

Re: sftp sources?

2004-02-05 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 02:20:55AM +0100, Jens Rantil said > Hi Colin, > > On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 00:11:20 + > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I don't believe there are any such official mirrors. You could set one > > up, though ... > > I'm just curious (as I am planning to perhaps

Virus found in e-mail attachment!

2004-02-05 Thread Lance Blair, PhD
Attachment file : document.exe Virus name: W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Action taken : Deleted... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: anti-virus software for Gnu/Linux

2004-02-05 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 10:42:09AM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 22:51, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 08:51:03PM -0800, MJ Inabnit wrote: > > > I have read several opinions regarding AV for Gnu/Linux. The last >

Toshiba Tecra S1

2004-02-05 Thread Leonardo Custodio
Has anybody tried to run Debian on a Toshiba Tecra S1? I'm thinking over removing the old OS and placing a 'real' one. Appreciate your response. Leo Custodio [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.rogers.com/aliensprite/ -BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- Version: 2.6.2 mQCNAz/nyswAAAEEAM1Jl14YqNlr

Re: Booting from 2nd HD with raid1

2004-02-05 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya frederic On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Frédéric Dreier wrote: > Hi, > > I can't make lilo booting from my 2nd HD on my RAID1 installation > (simulating 1st hd failure).. normal booting and booting from 1st HD is ok. > > lilo hangs after: > LILO 2.22 .

Kernel upgrade breaks PCMCIA

2004-02-05 Thread Jonathan Melhuish
I have a fully-working Debian install on my laptop 8-) but every time I (or rather, the beautiful apt-get) upgrades the kernel, pcmcia card services break. Thus breaking the PC card network interface, thus breaking my connection to the Internet. Thus generally pissing me off :-( I have booted

Re: Soundcard probs and total novice

2004-02-05 Thread Sam Halliday
Steve wrote: > I have an onboard soundcard that should conform to the ac97 module. I > can insmod ac97, and the associated modules. Soundcore is also > installed - but /dev/dsp is still not available (either doesn't exist > or permission denied - it tends to vary). > > What the hell do I need to

Re: automating apt-get

2004-02-05 Thread Graham Williams
Received Fri 06 Feb 2004 5:18am +1100 from Deryk Barker: > I think I'm on the verge of persuading our technical people that we > should be using debian in our labs rather than RH. > > One thing that would tip the scales is if it were possible to > *completely* automate the upgrade process. > > F

Soundcard probs and total novice

2004-02-05 Thread Steve
OK - I'm pretty much a complete novice - and need walking by the hand. I have an onboard soundcard that should conform to the ac97 module. I can insmod ac97, and the associated modules. Soundcore is also installed - but /dev/dsp is still not available (either doesn't exist or permission denied

Re: sftp sources?

2004-02-05 Thread Jens Rantil
Hi Colin, On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 00:11:20 + Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't believe there are any such official mirrors. You could set one > up, though ... I'm just curious (as I am planning to perhaps put a server in near future) Anyone who knows how much harddrive space such

Re: people with forcedeth issues

2004-02-05 Thread Joseph Jones
Subject: Re: people with forcedeth issues Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 01:25:19 + From: Joseph Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Monique Y. Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Monique Y. Herman wrote: Debian's 2.4.24-2 (unstable) added an experimental forcedeth option ... dunno if

Anyone had any luck with gift-fasttrack on unstable?

2004-02-05 Thread Joseph Jones
Somebody pointed me at a port that seemed to be for woody (deb http://hal.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/debian/ gift/), however, it doesn't quite work because of a dependency on libvorbis0, which has been replaced by libvorbis0a. Anyone else seen any better offers? Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Leveled megjelenésérõl a moderátordönt.

2004-02-05 Thread SYMPA
chat listára küldött leveled a szerkesztő(k)höz lett továbbítva -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ntpd connection problems

2004-02-05 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
I have ntp-simple installed on one debian woody server syncing time from a few external servers. I have several other debian woody servers trying to use ntpdate to set their local clocks from the server. It doesn't seem to be working. Here is what I have tried: # ntpdate -q 172.17.0.1 server 172.1

Re: using SUDO in bash script

2004-02-05 Thread Rick Weinbender
Micha Feigin wrote: > On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 01:41:43PM +0100, Michael Rauch wrote: > > Rick Weinbender wrote: > > >Adam Aube wrote: > > > > > >>On Wednesday 04 February 2004 03:23 pm, Rick Weinbender wrote: > > >>>Can I use SUDO within a bash script? > > >> > > >>Absolutely, though be aware that

building from source advice

2004-02-05 Thread cyril
Hi as a Debian newbie (recent redhat convert) I could do with a bit of advice on handling any source builds on my server. What kind of issues should I be aware of if I choose to build some software from source on a stable Debian environment. For example I usually choose to build php / apache fr

people with forcedeth issues

2004-02-05 Thread Monique Y. Herman
Debian's 2.4.24-2 (unstable) added an experimental forcedeth option ... dunno if that has any bearing on the questions at hand, but hope that helps ... -- monique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: linux 2.6, df: `/mnt/nfs': Value too large for defined data type

2004-02-05 Thread Corey Hickey
Steven Romanow (1) wrote: > Thanks for the reply. Some gentoo users are also reporting having this > fixed. I understand the mm-sources are based on vanilla + andrew morton > patches, and I saw a LKML post (referred to in my bug report) stating a > relation to a statfs64 patch. I havn't looked y

Re: sftp sources?

2004-02-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 11:14:40PM +, Sam Halliday wrote: > unfortunately all of the would-be-converts are in a university network > which has bandwidth allocation caps on FTP and HTTP. for example: a > typical FTP download (to a machine 5 miles away) goes at ~2K/s, even > when the undergrads h

Re: KDE 3.2 - Anyone know when its going to hit unstable?

2004-02-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 10:28:18AM +1300, Paul William wrote: > Does anyone know when KDE 3.2 is going to hit unstable? The plan (I believe and sincerely hope) is to get KDE 3.1.5 completely into testing first, so that it stops being a blocker to the sarge release. -- Colin Watson

Re: dselect and custom compiled package

2004-02-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 11:42:59AM -0800, bob wrote: > I have custom compiled and installed the midnight commander package to > include mcserve. My version of the package is 4.5.55-1.2woody2. I > used the latest sources from security.debian.org. Now, whenever I run > dselect, it wants to install

Unexpected signal: 11

2004-02-05 Thread Barameswari Thoreraj
hi, I am running debian 2.2.19. I had been receiving the message below in my logs and sendmail has not been able to send or receive mail, although it didn't crash. Daemon.log: Feb 5 06:19:16 logan xinetd[875]: {general_handler} (875) Unexpected signal: 11 (Segmentation fault) Feb 5 06:19:16 log

Audio Advice

2004-02-05 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
I've got an integrated AC'97 audio chip in my laptop that uses the i810_audio kernel driver or ALSA's snd-intel8x0 driver. The problem is that Woody's latest kernel (2.4.18) is too old to support my particular audio chip (first supported in 2.4.20). So I've got three options, I believe: 1. Bui

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Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

2004-02-05 Thread Steve Lamb
Steve Lamb wrote: Paul Tietjens wrote: I hit the "Reply" button and sent this email with Thunderbird. Apprently, it's smart enough to figure it out. :) In fact it still was on the wishlist on Thunderbird's Bugzilla the last time I checked (and voted for it). In fact, I decided to take a look

Install Questions

2004-02-05 Thread Arthur Schafer
I have installed Woody 2.4 some of the gnome control windows are oversized. I can't reach the control points to shrink them, stop them or execute them. All fonts seem abnormally large. Also, I don't know how to use SU to change from user to root in the gnome desktop. Arthur -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: is debian right for me?

2004-02-05 Thread Mark Roach
On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 13:07, David T-G wrote: > I need to be able to build and install the system in slice hda3 while > running from hda2 and then I'll do a test boot and eventually set hda3 as > my default slice in lilo. I'll eventually move back over to hda2 since > it's next to the swap space,

Re: Booting from 2nd HD with raid1

2004-02-05 Thread Darik Horn
LILO does not automatically maintain the MBR on disks that are part of a RAID-1 array that are contained within partitions. You can make your secondary disk bootable by doing this... 1. Open the '/etc/lilo.conf' file and change "boot=/dev/hde1" to "boot=/dev/md0". This tells LILO to install it

Re: First Install problems

2004-02-05 Thread John Chang
Mike Adolf wrote: I am new to debian, was using Mandrake until 9.2 update trashed all. Anyway, I installed Woody and can't get the modem or sound to work. My modem is internal ISA (hardware controlled) with jumper settings of (port=02F8, IRQ=3) = COM2. Modem works in Windows and also in Mand

Tevion/Aldi 6-in-1 card reader/writer: What kernel option in 2.4.22?

2004-02-05 Thread Joseph Jones
I've seen it mentioned in mailing list archives online, but none of them mention what kernel option(s) it uses. Anyone know what the options are? Many thanks. Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: First Install problems

2004-02-05 Thread Fiodar Bandarenka
Hi, On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 03:44:34PM -0800, Mike Adolf wrote: > I am new to debian, was using Mandrake until 9.2 update trashed all. > Anyway, I installed Woody and can't get the modem or sound to work. > My modem is internal ISA (hardware controlled) with jumper settings of > (port=02F8, IRQ=3

Re: will WordPerfect8 clobber Debian Sid system?

2004-02-05 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 at 11:17am, Andrew Schulman wrote: :> I've been trying to use OpenOffice Writer for a project requiring a :> multipage table. Unfortunately, OOWriter cannot make (or display!) :> multipage tables, and apparently *will not* until version 2.0. This kind :> of stinks, but now I'm

kernel question

2004-02-05 Thread Matt Richardson
Hi all, Sorry to ask such a silly question, but I haven't found a good answer for it on google. I've got a Dell GX115 box running a basic Debian system from the 3.0r2 installation cds, with kernel 2.2. I tried the bf24 install, but it failed with a bad eic value, which after some searching seems

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

2004-02-05 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Tietjens wrote: I hit the "Reply" button and sent this email with Thunderbird. Apprently, it's smart enough to figure it out. :) Then apparently you have one from the future (nope Thunderbird/0.4RC1) as I know 0.3, 0.4 and now at least 0.5a do not reply to list by default. In fact it s

sftp sources?

2004-02-05 Thread Sam Halliday
hello there, i am trying to convert a bunch of friends to using Debian GNU/Linux as opposed to the unmaintained Redhat... a major selling point being the constant maintenance and security updates by FTP and HTTP. unfortunately all of the would-be-converts are in a university network which has ban

Re: gnome without evolution?

2004-02-05 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-05, Alex Malinovich penned: > On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 02:29:25PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: >> I installed the gnome package on my machine. This sucked in a bunch >> of packages, including evolution. >> >> I like evolution, but I have zero use for it on this machine, and >> it's h

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

2004-02-05 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 07:12:02PM +0100, Rico -mc- Gloeckner wrote: > On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 05:58:59PM +, Joseph Jones wrote: > > It really bugs me. I know this may seem unnecessary to some people, but > > it wouldn't require much. All the other mailing lists I'm on set the > > reply-to to

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

2004-02-05 Thread Paul Tietjens
Rico -mc- Gloeckner wrote: On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 06:18:29PM +, Joseph Jones wrote: Hopefully someone'll make an extension for Thunderbird to handle it. Whilst rereading the document once again, i noticed that for example mutt has three functionalities: - (r)eply - reply to reply-to

Re: Minicom problem

2004-02-05 Thread Kent West
Bobby Dunlap wrote: I don't really know if I am communicating with anyone or not, but here goes I am using Red Hat 8, start minicom, and immediately after the message "initializing modem" appears, the cursor hangs up, will not accept any keyboard input and never recieve the "OK" prompt to

Re: gnome without evolution?

2004-02-05 Thread John Hasler
Monique writes: > What are the drawbacks of just uninstalling the gnome package and keeping > the packages on which it depends None. The sole function of the Gnome package is to pull in those packages by depending on them. Once it has done so you can safely dispense with it. -- John Hasler [EMA

Re: Unable to boot from HD - or make boot floppy

2004-02-05 Thread Daniel Miller
Pedro M. wrote: Daniel Miller wrote: Hullo the group! I've a got machine that I've been fighting with to make a usable router. Debian Woody installed just dandy - but I cannot get it to boot using either LILO or GRUB - I get errors going to stage 1.5 from GRUB and LILO usually hangs up with

First Install problems

2004-02-05 Thread Mike Adolf
I am new to debian, was using Mandrake until 9.2 update trashed all.  Anyway, I installed Woody and can't get the modem or sound to work.  My modem is internal ISA (hardware controlled) with jumper settings of (port=02F8, IRQ=3) = COM2.  Modem works in Windows and also in Mandrake. Command #

Re: Kernel 2.6: swap file or partition?

2004-02-05 Thread David T-G
M -- ...and then M. Kirchhoff said... % % Under the 2.6.x kernel, is it advisable to just create a swap file (via dd) % rather than using an actual partition, perhaps with swapd to keep things safe? In general a swap partition is ever so slightly more efficient than a swap file because one needn

Re: linux 2.6, df: `/mnt/nfs': Value too large for defined data type

2004-02-05 Thread Steven Romanow (1)
Thanks for the reply. Some gentoo users are also reporting having this fixed. I understand the mm-sources are based on vanilla + andrew morton patches, and I saw a LKML post (referred to in my bug report) stating a relation to a statfs64 patch. I havn't looked yet to see if my kernel contains th

Re: gnome without evolution?

2004-02-05 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 02:29:25PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > I installed the gnome package on my machine. This sucked in a bunch of > packages, including evolution. > > I like evolution, but I have zero use for it on this machine, and it's > huge. Unfortunately, if I try to remove it, ap

Re: Booting from 2nd HD with raid1

2004-02-05 Thread Frédéric Dreier
Fiodar Bandarenka wrote: Hi, On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 02:20:53PM +0100, Fr?d?ric Dreier wrote: Hi, I can't make lilo booting from my 2nd HD on my RAID1 installation (simulating 1st hd failure).. normal booting and booting from 1st HD is ok. lilo hangs after: LILO 2.22 ...

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

2004-02-05 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 05:58:59PM +, Joseph Jones wrote: > It really bugs me. I know this may seem unnecessary to some people, but > it wouldn't require much. All the other mailing lists I'm on set the > reply-to to the address of the mailing list, apart from this list. Here's hoping that t

Re: linux 2.6, df: `/mnt/nfs': Value too large for defined data type

2004-02-05 Thread Corey Hickey
Steven Romanow (1) wrote: > Hi Cory, > I'm having same problem with my gentoo install. Worked fine with > 2.4 > kernel. Lemme know if you get a resolution. > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39516 > > Thanks, > Steve This has been fixed for me for quite a while; I really can't remem

Re: set-language-env and utf-8

2004-02-05 Thread Fiodar Bandarenka
On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 09:59:42PM +0100, Christian Schnobrich wrote: > Where does one set all the LC_WHATEVER locales to make them stick? I >From my ~/.profile: LANG=be_BY.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=C -- Be happy! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: usb cd-rw not found by cdrecord

2004-02-05 Thread Brian
Hi all, thank-you for pointing me in the right direction. It appears the modules have changed recently, as I don't recognize some, but here is what I think I need for usb cd-rws' ( kernel 2.4.22-1-386 Debian stock testing ): ide-core (not familiar with this one), usb-storage, usbcore, scsi_mod,

Re: prioritizing deb locations

2004-02-05 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-05, Thomas Hood penned: > On 04 Feb 2004, Monique Y. Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Is there any way to tell my system that I only want certain packages >> to come from this source? I guess my fear is that someone will put a >> bleeding-edge version of a package into the repositor

Re: dselect and custom compiled package

2004-02-05 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-05, bob penned: > > I have custom compiled and installed the midnight commander package to > include mcserve. My version of the package is 4.5.55-1.2woody2. I > used the latest sources from security.debian.org. Now, whenever I run > dselect, it wants to install the binary from security

gnome without evolution?

2004-02-05 Thread Monique Y. Herman
I installed the gnome package on my machine. This sucked in a bunch of packages, including evolution. I like evolution, but I have zero use for it on this machine, and it's huge. Unfortunately, if I try to remove it, aptitude whines and cries and "fixes" things in the name of gnome. I guess gno

Re: Alternative to VMware?

2004-02-05 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 03:24:14PM -0600, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > Massimiliano wrote: > >Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > > > >>I really want to get a copy of VMware, but I don't have $140 for the > >>student version. So I'm looking for alternatives. I just want some > >>kind of sandbox where I ca

Re: copy knoppix sound card config to debian install

2004-02-05 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 10:05:09AM +, David Turner wrote: > Hi debian gurus, > > My first post to the list, so go easy on me. I am still a debian newbie. (and > apologies if this message appears twice, I posted in yesterday, but I havent > seen it arrive.) > > I have installed debian, and I

Re: 2.6 Kernel, Strange System Lock (not kernel panic)

2004-02-05 Thread Brett Carrington
On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 10:45:31PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > I am not sure if its going to catch anything but you may try running > top in a visible window when you leave your computer. > If you computer locks up you will get a list of the active processes > (probably not all since there will be

Re: linux 2.6, df: `/mnt/nfs': Value too large for defined data type

2004-02-05 Thread Steven Romanow (1)
Hi Cory, I'm having same problem with my gentoo install. Worked fine with 2.4 kernel. Lemme know if you get a resolution. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39516 Thanks, Steve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PRO

KDE 3.2 - Anyone know when its going to hit unstable?

2004-02-05 Thread Paul William
Hi all, Does anyone know when KDE 3.2 is going to hit unstable? Thanks, Paul -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system http://www.debian.org";>debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: automating apt-get

2004-02-05 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 10:05:48AM -0800, Deryk Barker wrote: > I think I'm on the verge of persuading our technical people that we > should be using debian in our labs rather than RH. > > One thing that would tip the scales is if it were possible to > *completely* automate the upgrade process. >

Re: prioritizing deb locations

2004-02-05 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-05, Philipp Weis penned: > On 04 Feb 2004, Monique Y. Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Is there any way to tell my system that I only want certain packages to >> come from this source? I guess my fear is that someone will put a >> bleeding-edge version of a package into the reposito

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