Weird /dev2/root2 errors trying to boot 2.6.4

2004-03-28 Thread Nacho de los Ríos Tormo
I have installed kernel 2.6.4-1-686-smp using apt-get install, but I have not managed to get it to boot. It gets stuck with these messages (quoted below from the moment thing start to go wrong): mount: /dev2/root2 is not a valid block device mount: /dev2/root2 is not a valid block devic

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2004-03-28 Thread Diag PC
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Weird /dev2/root2 errors trying to boot 2.6.4

2004-03-28 Thread Nacho de los Ríos Tormo
Hi there! I have installed kernel 2.6.4-1-686-smp using apt-get install, but I have not managed to get it to boot. It gets stuck with these messages (quoted below from the moment thing start to go wrong): mount: /dev2/root2 is not a valid block device mount: /dev2/root2 is not a valid

Re: Kernel Panic Boot Crisis HELP!!

2004-03-28 Thread Jason A Whittle
On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 02:03:15AM -0500, Christopher J. Noyes wrote: > I just installed the 2.4.16 686 kernel image and now when I boot I get these messages > > request_module[block-major-3]: root fs not mounted > VFS: cannot open root device "hda8" or 3:08 > Please append a correct "root=" boot

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Kernel Panic Boot Crisis HELP!!

2004-03-28 Thread Christopher J. Noyes
I just installed the 2.4.16 686 kernel image and now when I boot I get these messages   request_module[block-major-3]: root fs not mounted VFS: cannot open root device "hda8" or 3:08 Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel Panic: VFS Unable to mount root fs on 3:08   What do I do? H

Debian Installation Questions...

2004-03-28 Thread users
Hello, I m preety new to Linux and having some problems installing properly, Hopefully some in the group can help me out or suggest simple solution. Here is the scenario -- My currect system configuration is 80GB internal HDD (Primary), I have WinXP already installed on my this HDD. I bought a n

Re: [ARIN-20040329.92] Re: Order

2004-03-28 Thread hostmaster
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Re: standalone home desktop user virus

2004-03-28 Thread Katipo
Wanda Round wrote: I use Debian 3 testing as a standalone home user machine, with only dialup connection. Since I get a lot of email from Microsoft users, I just avoid anything suspicious looking so I don't pass it on to someone. I know how to use F-Prot and Clamav as command-line scanners, but

what can I do about md5 sum gave malformatted output on a number of packages

2004-03-28 Thread John Covici
Hi. On my last upgrade on one of my systems (not both of them which is suspicious) I have been getting a lot of md5sum gave malformatted output: followed by a hex string during configure of a number of packages. How do I trouble shoot or fix this? There are differences in the hardware between th

Problems with latest Apache2 update

2004-03-28 Thread John Foster
I recently updated my apache2 from SID. Now when it tries to start I get a message that it can not find the fully qualified domain name of my network server. I have recently used the newest Debian network installer from SID to set up this system. I am not sure why apache2 is having this issue.

Re: About Mplayer

2004-03-28 Thread Rajesh Menon
yeah, you would want to look at: mplayer-mozilla, and mozilla-mplayer. On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, [GB2312] 赵晓阳 wrote: > dear friend: > I come from Beijing China,I have a question about Mplayer,Can Mplayer use > in the flash or Mozilla?just like flash plugin use in the Mozilla. Thank you ve

Re: Window-manager question

2004-03-28 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 28 March 2004 06:56 pm, Adam Aube wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > When installing the OS, how do you know what window manager to > > use??? I've bee told to install icewm, wms, twm, and I thing > > something called "debconf." > > Debcon

Re: Goodbye stable?

2004-03-28 Thread Paul William
hi, dist-upgrade to sarge or unstable. I run unstable and find it more stable than other 'stable' dists. Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote: Hello, I just discovered the recent increase of the numer of release-critical bugs and was shocked. The RCB diagramm seems to suggest that sarge will hardly ever b

About Mplayer

2004-03-28 Thread 赵晓阳
dear friend: I come from Beijing China,I have a question about Mplayer,Can Mplayer use in the flash or Mozilla?just like flash plugin use in the Mozilla. Thank you very much!!! Wesker [EMAIL PROTECTED]   2004-03-29

Re: Window-manager question

2004-03-28 Thread Adam Aube
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > When installing the OS, how do you know what window manager to use??? > I've bee told to install icewm, wms, twm, and I thing something > called "debconf." Debconf isn't a window manager - it's a configuration utility used by dpkg. The answer to your question is "which

Re: how to measure netork bandwidth

2004-03-28 Thread Adam Aube
j smith wrote: > Thanks!!! > however, iftop is not included in Debian 3.0, right? No. You didn't mention which version you were using. I'm using Sarge (the current Testing), which does have it. Again, you could try sites offering free speed tests (Google on that to find some). Adam -- To UN

Window-manager question

2004-03-28 Thread users
When installing the OS, how do you know what window manager to use??? I've bee told to install icewm, wms, twm, and I thing something called "debconf." Better yet, does anyone know what window manager Debian recommends and/or uses by default?? :? :? Thanks in advance. Message posted via www

Re: What e-commerce with debian ?

2004-03-28 Thread Joseph
Your best option is OSCommerce (GPL). http://www.oscommerce.com/ We have a Debian backup box running OSC, very easy to install. http://www.sysconcept.ca -- Regards, Joseph On Sun, 2004-03-28 at 06:22, .- pavel sokol -. wrote: > Hallo, > > What e-commerce would you recommend to install under deb

Re: how to measure netork bandwidth

2004-03-28 Thread j smith
Thanks!!! however, iftop is not included in Debian 3.0, right? --- Adam Aube <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > j smith wrote: > > > i have cable modem connection. is there Unix > command > > that can tell actual netork bandwidth? > > iftop is a tool that will give you per-connection > and total t

Re: standalone home desktop user virus

2004-03-28 Thread Adam Aube
Wanda Round wrote: > Since I get a lot of email from Microsoft users, I just avoid > anything suspicious looking so I don't pass it on to someone. A Windows virus will not run on Linux. Even if it did, your mail client wouldn't let you execute it (if it would, switch mail clients). You would fir

Re: how to measure netork bandwidth

2004-03-28 Thread Adam Aube
j smith wrote: > i have cable modem connection. is there Unix command > that can tell actual netork bandwidth? iftop is a tool that will give you per-connection and total throughput stats. You could run this will doing a ping flood (ping -f) against your upstream router. Both iftop and the ping f

Re: Manual pages and UTF-8

2004-03-28 Thread Michael D Schleif
* Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004:03:28:21:06:03+0100] scribed: > On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 09:41:42PM +0200, Per Olofsson wrote: > > I'm running with an UTF-8 locale and this causes minus signs (dashes) > > in many manual pages to become garbled. It only seems to happen in > > text in the "it

standalone home desktop user virus

2004-03-28 Thread Wanda Round
I use Debian 3 testing as a standalone home user machine, with only dialup connection. Since I get a lot of email from Microsoft users, I just avoid anything suspicious looking so I don't pass it on to someone. I know how to use F-Prot and Clamav as command-line scanners, but is there any way t

fehlerhafte Linux-Installation

2004-03-28 Thread Christian Mancosu
Sehr geehrtes Debian-Team,   ich muss wahrscheinlich leider einen etwas seltsamen Fehler melden. Ich habe heute mit einer neu gekauften Festplatte versucht Debian-Linux zu installieren. Nach dem Installieren aller, zum Booten erforderlichen Teile von Linux, wird der User zu einem Neustart auf

how to measure netork bandwidth

2004-03-28 Thread j smith
i have cable modem connection. is there Unix command that can tell actual netork bandwidth? __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: ATI driver dependency hell

2004-03-28 Thread Jeff Layton
On Sun, 2004-03-28 at 05:42, Nicos Gollan wrote: > After installing the ATI fglrx driver and modifying the xlibmesa-gl-dev > package not to depend on a specific version of xlibmesa-gl, each time I > want to dist-upgrade, a new version of xlibmesa-gl-dev is to be > installed and apt wants to remove

Re: Debian (Woody) [bf2.4] Default FTP Server

2004-03-28 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Andrew Gilberto wrote: > Hi, > > I've installed Debian (Woody) [bf2.4] Default, I recall that it stated it > would install an FTP Server as default. Anyone know what its' details are? > E.g. Package name, location of key files (e.g. config file) etc > > Is the default one any good? Is it se

vfat and sync support as mount option

2004-03-28 Thread jjluza
Hello, Is there a way to mount a fat filesystem with option sync ? I read in the manpage of mount that only ext2, ext3 and ufs can use sync, but I need it on an usb stick which, of course, works only with vfat. I already try to force the use of sync over vfat, but I get a kernel oops. Thanks.

Re: Some sox questions.

2004-03-28 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 01:28:57PM +, Adam Funk said > On Wednesday 24 March 2004 07:40, Rob Weir wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 11:23:03AM +, Adam Funk said > >> (I'm running sox 12.17.4 on Debian testing.) > >> > >> sox -h and the man page suggest mp3 support, but > >> > >> $ sox

Major Hair Loss After apt-get upgrade

2004-03-28 Thread Scarletdown
Okay, yesterday, I decided to do a mass package upgrade, so from a command prompt I did an su to root and issued the apt-get upgrade command. Nearly 600MB later, everything seemed to have gone well except for some error (that I can't recall exactly) about libgimp1.3. Anyway, I can now no longe

Re: ut2004full installer

2004-03-28 Thread John Spray
Thomas G wrote: Well since Atari or no one does Tech Support on UT I have a question... When I start installing ut2k4 everything goes ok. When it asked me for the second cdrom. I cant unmount the cdrom. I cant force unmount it and if I force lazy unmount it it unmounts but then the cdrom refuses

Re: how to find dev. of fs root?

2004-03-28 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 03:16:08PM -0600, hugo vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi Debian! > > How do I find inside a script what the device is of the filesystem root? mount | grep ' \/ ' | cut -d ' ' -f 1 -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0

Re: Inline PGP signatures

2004-03-28 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 03:51:12PM -0500, Richard Hoskins wrote: > Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I can cope :-), by connecting/disconnecting manually. But for the > > Windoze convertee, the requirement is for a clone of OE's > > "Send/Receive" button. > > But you're setting up the mach

Re: Goodbye stable?

2004-03-28 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 06:10:52PM +0200, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote: > Am Sonntag, 28. M?rz 2004 19:04 schrieben Sie: > > [...] > > > You don't really run workstations directly on the internet do you? > > I do. > > > You might consider getting yourself some kind of hardware based > > firewall/NAT b

How to emulate having server 1 serving files off server 2?

2004-03-28 Thread Mauricio
Let's say I have a solaris 8 box (server 1) which has been serving directories using automount (for NFS) and samba. It is also the current imap server, with mailboxes being currently based off each user's home dir. I would like, for now, to move those files to server 2, a debian 3 box, for

Re: Inline PGP signatures

2004-03-28 Thread Richard Hoskins
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Richard Hoskins writes: >> But you're setting up the machine, right? A send/receive clone is a four >> line bash script started by clicking a purty icon on the desktop. > > What does the "Send/Receive" button do that gpppon doesn't? I don't know what gpp

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2004-03-28 Thread doctor
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Re: Inline PGP signatures [was: Re: email signatures]

2004-03-28 Thread Wesley J Landaker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 28 March 2004 12:21 pm, Werner Mahr wrote: > Am Samstag, 27. MÃrz 2004 21:19 schrieb Brad Sims: > > On Saturday 27 March 2004 6:06 am, Werner Mahr wrote: > > > Do I need both lines, or is one for Woody and one for Sarge? > > > > I /think/ one

Re: Inline PGP signatures

2004-03-28 Thread John Hasler
David writes: > If you have things configured to be sent immediately, your mail client > could be dialing everytime you send a mail, and if you are an active > participant on a list like this, your phone bill could send you to the > poor house. Not when local calls are unmetered, as the are in mos

Re: Debian (Woody) [bf2.4] Default FTP Server

2004-03-28 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Andrew Gilberto: > > I've installed Debian (Woody) [bf2.4] Default, I recall that it stated it > would install an FTP Server as default. Anyone know what its' details are? dpkg -l | grep ftp -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*)

Re: how to find dev. of fs root?

2004-03-28 Thread Alexis Huxley
ROOT_DIR=`df / | xargs echo | awk '{ print $8 }'` echo $ROOT_DIR Alexis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Inline PGP signatures

2004-03-28 Thread Katipo
John Hasler wrote: Paul Johnson writes: No, however, you really are a fool if you take the net too personally. What is personal about asking if your statement was meant as a criticism of PPP? I don't think Paul meant it that way. If you are on dial-up, it can be a lot more economic to s

Re: Goodbye stable?

2004-03-28 Thread Tom Allison
Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote: Am Sonntag, 28. MÃrz 2004 19:07 schrieb Colin Watson: [...] I fear that sarge is too unstable for my daily work, and I've heard really bad things about debian-installer. You should test it for yourself and send reports, please, rather than going on really bad things you h

Re: xtree for Linux

2004-03-28 Thread Mathias Winkler
On 25.Feb.2004, Thomas Dickey wrote: (damn late response, I know..., don't know why I've overlooked this) > [...], yes, it's cute - but I don't (for example) see a way to navigate > above the home directory. I assume there must be a way to fold up subtrees. There is a concept of "nodes", the de

Re: Inline PGP signatures

2004-03-28 Thread John Hasler
Richard Hoskins writes: > But you're setting up the machine, right? A send/receive clone is a four > line bash script started by clicking a purty icon on the desktop. What does the "Send/Receive" button do that gpppon doesn't? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elm

Warning about your e-mail account.

2004-03-28 Thread staff
Dear user of e-mail server "Debian.org", We warn you about some attacks on your e-mail account. Your computer may contain viruses, in order to keep your computer and e-mail account safe, please, follow the instructions. Please, read the attach for further details. Kind regards,

Re: removed apmd but it still seems to be there

2004-03-28 Thread Lorenzo Prince
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thus spake Rajesh Menon: # did you remove the apm packages? u have removed the apm argument from # lilo, and since you have built it in as a module, is it still there in # /etc/modutils (i'm not sure how this would make a difference if apm is # removed

Re: How to start network _after_ pcmcia drivers load?

2004-03-28 Thread Randy W. Sims
J.D. Hood wrote: I recently did a reinstall of Debian (3.0r1 kernel 2.4.18-686). I must have done something different this time as the network is trying to come up before the pcmcia driver is loaded which is where the network card is. The first time I installed on this laptop everything worked fine

Re: Inline PGP signatures

2004-03-28 Thread Richard Hoskins
Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I can cope :-), by connecting/disconnecting manually. But for the > Windoze convertee, the requirement is for a clone of OE's > "Send/Receive" button. But you're setting up the machine, right? A send/receive clone is a four line bash script started by clickin

how to find dev. of fs root?

2004-03-28 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Hi Debian! How do I find inside a script what the device is of the filesystem root? Thanks! Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Goodbye stable?

2004-03-28 Thread Richard Kimber
On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 18:07:02 +0100 Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > KDE I use is a backported one and it runs quit stable, too. I fear > > that sarge is too unstable for my daily work, and I've heard really Fear not. I've been using sarge since 3.0 came out and have never had stabili

Re: How to start network _after_ pcmcia drivers load?

2004-03-28 Thread J.D. Hood
> I recently did a reinstall of Debian (3.0r1 kernel 2.4.18-686). > I must have done something different this time as the network > is trying to come up before the pcmcia driver is loaded which > is where the network card is. The first time I installed on > this laptop everything worked fine (after

Re: How to start network _after_ pcmcia drivers load?

2004-03-28 Thread Randy W. Sims
Stephen Patterson wrote: On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 12:10:11 +0100, Brian Brazil wrote: On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 04:10:29AM -0500, Randy W. Sims wrote: I recently did a reinstall of Debian (3.0r1 kernel 2.4.18-686). I must have done something different this time as the network is trying to come up befo

Re: Manual pages and UTF-8

2004-03-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 10:25:42PM +0200, Per Olofsson wrote: > On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 22:21 +0200, Per Olofsson wrote: > > I also see that you consider it a bug when manual pages use "-" > > instead of "\-". > > Not in every case of course - only when they really mean dashes and > not hyphens.

debfoster vs aptitude

2004-03-28 Thread Jeremy C B Nicoll
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, you can. And aptitude will treat packages the same way as > apt-get if you adjust the settings. Can you give an example of how? -- Jeremy C B Nicoll - my opinions are my own. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: Manual pages and UTF-8

2004-03-28 Thread Per Olofsson
On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 22:21 +0200, Per Olofsson wrote: > I also see that you consider it a bug when manual pages use "-" > instead of "\-". Not in every case of course - only when they really mean dashes and not hyphens. -- Pelle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Manual pages and UTF-8

2004-03-28 Thread Per Olofsson
On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 21:06 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > (a) Please see /usr/share/doc/groff/README.Debian; I had missed that one, but I had read a mailing list discussion about it. > (b) it shouldn't actually garble them, merely display Unicode > HYPHEN-MINUS, Yes, I know. > so what versions

Re: Inline PGP signatures

2004-03-28 Thread Paul Johnson
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Paul Johnson writes: >> No, however, you really are a fool if you take the net too personally. > > What is personal about asking if your statement was meant as a criticism of > PPP? No, no. I thought you meant I was criticizing you. No, PPP isn't a bad

Re: Manual pages and UTF-8

2004-03-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 09:41:42PM +0200, Per Olofsson wrote: > I'm running with an UTF-8 locale and this causes minus signs (dashes) > in many manual pages to become garbled. It only seems to happen in > text in the "italic" style, i.e. the ".I" macro. It also only happens > to bare minus signs; i

Re: Recognize the NTFS file system?

2004-03-28 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 18:00:11 +0100 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Recognize the NTFS file system? > Resent-Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 11:01:07 -0600 (CST) > Resent-From: [EMAI

Manual pages and UTF-8

2004-03-28 Thread Per Olofsson
I'm running with an UTF-8 locale and this causes minus signs (dashes) in many manual pages to become garbled. It only seems to happen in text in the "italic" style, i.e. the ".I" macro. It also only happens to bare minus signs; if they are written as "\-", it works fine. Try, for example, "man jed"

Re: Inline PGP signatures

2004-03-28 Thread John Hasler
Paul Johnson writes: > No, however, you really are a fool if you take the net too personally. What is personal about asking if your statement was meant as a criticism of PPP? -- John Hasler You may treat this work as if it [EMAIL PROTECTED] were in the public domain. Danc

Re: Inline PGP signatures [was: Re: email signatures]

2004-03-28 Thread Werner Mahr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Samstag, 27. MÃrz 2004 21:19 schrieb Brad Sims: > On Saturday 27 March 2004 6:06 am, Werner Mahr wrote: > > Do I need both lines, or is one for Woody and one for Sarge? > > I /think/ one is for Woody and one is for Sarge, but as I play with Sid... >

Re: Goodbye stable?

2004-03-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 08:45:52PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 05:45:29PM +0200, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote: > > What about security? I'm online all the time my computer is on. Are the > > sarge versions of iptables and ssh stable enough to give me good security? > > If yo

Re: Goodbye stable?

2004-03-28 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 04:46:27PM +0200, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote: > Hello, > > I just discovered the recent increase of the numer of release-critical bugs > and was shocked. The RCB diagramm seems to suggest that sarge will hardly > ever be released as stable. > > I'm asking myself what the im

Re: removed apmd but it still seems to be there

2004-03-28 Thread Rajesh Menon
hi, i can't seem to find your previous mails on the list page, and i had deleted them from my account, so ... did you remove the apm packages? u have removed the apm argument from lilo, and since you have built it in as a module, is it still there in /etc/modutils (i'm not sure how this would make

Re: removed apmd but it still seems to be there

2004-03-28 Thread Lorenzo Prince
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thus spake Alexis Huxley: # How did you remove apm? (precise commands please). apt-get --purge remove apmd # How do you know that the system is still trying to use apm? apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16ac) apm: overridden by ACPI

Re: Goodbye stable?

2004-03-28 Thread Wolfgang Jeltsch
Am Sonntag, 28. März 2004 20:45 schrieb Micha Feigin: > [...] > > What about security? I'm online all the time my computer is on. Are the > > sarge versions of iptables and ssh stable enough to give me good > > security? If you have a non-Debian distribution, you may get quick > > security updat

Re: aol voicemail

2004-03-28 Thread ChubbyBaby2010
its not fair why cant i optain voicemail???  

Re: Goodbye stable?

2004-03-28 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 05:45:29PM +0200, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote: > Am Sonntag, 28. M?rz 2004 18:32 schrieb Jody Grafals: > > I think for the most part many running debian on the desktop are already > > using sarge or sid, and I must say I am run several servers with woody, > > I like it just the w

DVD-R burning problems - solved! :-)

2004-03-28 Thread Jonathan Melhuish
As so often happens, I'm composing a message to the list and think of one last thing I could try which then fixes it. I thought I'd post anyway, just in case someone is Googling for a solution to the same problem! Basically on trying to burn a DVD in my Pioneer 105 on my linux box, I got the e

Re: Goodbye stable?

2004-03-28 Thread Niels L. Ellegaard
Wolfgang Jeltsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Were the gaps between releases ever so large as the gap between woody and > sarge? Wikipedia says that the distance between Potato and Woody was somewhat similar: 3.1* -- sarge, expected in 2004 3.0 -- woody, July 19th, 2002 2.2 -- potato, Augu

Re: What e-commerce with debian ?

2004-03-28 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Sun, March 28 at 8:58 AM EST Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >".- pavel sokol -." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> What e-commerce would you recommend to install under debian ? > >What is an e-commerce tool, other than a buzzword? You

Re: removed apmd but it still seems to be there

2004-03-28 Thread Lorenzo Prince
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thus spake Andreas Janssen: # What exactly does "still trying to use apm" mean? Well, I am guessing that's what it's doing when it prints to the console and dmesg the following error message: apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16ac) a

Re: Inline PGP signatures

2004-03-28 Thread Paul Johnson
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Paul Johnson writes: >> Yeah, and it waits until you need to do other network activity to do so, >> just spools the mail and moves on with it's day until the PPP daemon >> kicks exim to send the spool and fetchmail to grab fresh mail. > > I wrote: >> Unles

Re: Inline PGP signatures

2004-03-28 Thread John Hasler
Paul Johnson writes: > Yeah, and it waits until you need to do other network activity to do so, > just spools the mail and moves on with it's day until the PPP daemon > kicks exim to send the spool and fetchmail to grab fresh mail. I wrote: > Unless you configure it to send mail immediately. Paul

Re: Goodbye stable?

2004-03-28 Thread Travis Crump
Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote: Were the gaps between releases ever so large as the gap between woody and sarge? Alexis Wolfgang Potato=8/14/2000, Woody=7/19/2002: Debian has three more months before it matches the last gap... signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: How to change my e-mail address

2004-03-28 Thread Paul Johnson
"stoyan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anyone know how to change my e-mail address in this list without > unsubscribing? You don't. You subscribe the new address, then unsubscribe the old. -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user

Re: Goodbye stable?

2004-03-28 Thread Paul Johnson
Wolfgang Jeltsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Am Sonntag, 28. März 2004 19:06 schrieb Colin Watson: >> [...] > >> The release team is likely to remove unimportant packages with >> release-critical bugs once the installer is ready. > > When is the installer expected to be ready? Real Soon Now...w

Re: Goodbye stable?

2004-03-28 Thread Andy Firman
On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 11:32:56AM -0500, Jody Grafals wrote: > I think for the most part many running debian on the desktop are already > using sarge or sid, and I must say I am run several servers with woody, > I like it just the way it is, thank you very much. YES exactly. I don't understand

XFree Cursor Themes

2004-03-28 Thread Simon Watson
Hi, I'm having great problems using the different themes of cursor in XFree86. I'm using the update-alternatives method to change to "whiteglass" theme - and this works to a point. When gdm loads, all is fine - but when I log into Gnome - the icons become "huge", sort of 32x32 as opposed to 24x24.

Re: Goodbye stable?

2004-03-28 Thread Wolfgang Jeltsch
Am Sonntag, 28. März 2004 18:40 schrieb Alexis Huxley: > > I'm asking myself what the impacts of this are? Will Debian lose a lot > > of users since the current stable release contains software which is > > somtimes terrible old? What are the reasons for sarge taking so long to > > become stable?

Re: Goodbye stable?

2004-03-28 Thread Wolfgang Jeltsch
Am Sonntag, 28. März 2004 19:16 schrieb Colin Watson: > On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 06:13:19PM +0200, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote: > [...] > > When is the installer expected to be ready? > > There will be a schedule posted to debian-devel-announce in the next > couple of days. Thanks for the info. > Coli

Re: multiple inputs... one computer... math teacher

2004-03-28 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 12:34:47AM -0700, Dave Thayer wrote: > On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 09:36:01AM -0800, Wilson Morris wrote: > > > I envision having 32 to 36 wireless keyboards (only) on students desks, > > attached to one computer, with input going into an Access or Excel > > file Seeing access

Re: Re: important document

2004-03-28 Thread lusker
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getting all messages twice ?

2004-03-28 Thread J.F.Gratton
Anyone got stuck with this problem .. ? I subscribed today to this list. I received two confirmation requests, and since then I receive the same posts twice. I then unsubscribed, figuring I might have goofed in the subscription process; waited; re-suscribed and the same thing happens. Oh well :

Re: Some sox questions.

2004-03-28 Thread Adam Funk
On Friday 26 March 2004 14:50, Chris Metzler wrote: >> Some other WAVE files that XMMS won't play are described thus: >> RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, ITU G.711 A-law, mono 8000 Hz >> But they can be converted to usable version: >> sox foo.wav -w foo-w.wav > > Right. 8000Hz A-law and u-

Re: removed apmd but it still seems to be there

2004-03-28 Thread Alexis Huxley
> I am using acpi in place of apm because it allows me to press the power button > to shutdown the computer. I can easily accidentally press the power button, so > it is good to have it go through the shutdown sequence or even do nothing instead > of powering down without performing the shutdown a

How to change my e-mail address

2004-03-28 Thread stoyan
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Re: ut2004full installer

2004-03-28 Thread Thomas G.
Raiz-mpx wrote: My suggestion is to wait, because UT2004 under GNU/Linux has some serrious bugs. Especially if you look at this bug; https://bugzilla.icculus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1413 I know you really do not want to hear that, but it is really unplayable at the moment. My game crashes all th

Re: Goodbye stable?

2004-03-28 Thread Wolfgang Jeltsch
Am Sonntag, 28. MÃrz 2004 19:07 schrieb Colin Watson: > [...] > > I fear that sarge is too unstable for my daily work, and I've heard really > > bad things about debian-installer. > > You should test it for yourself and send reports, please, rather than > going on really bad things you hear. I re

Re: Goodbye stable?

2004-03-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 06:13:19PM +0200, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote: > Am Sonntag, 28. März 2004 19:06 schrieb Colin Watson: > > The release team is likely to remove unimportant packages with > > release-critical bugs once the installer is ready. > > When is the installer expected to be ready? There

Re: Goodbye stable?

2004-03-28 Thread Alexis Huxley
> I'm asking myself what the impacts of this are? Will Debian lose a lot of > users since the current stable release contains software which is somtimes > terrible old? What are the reasons for sarge taking so long to become > stable? Were there any such release problems with the previous rel

Re: Goodbye stable?

2004-03-28 Thread Wolfgang Jeltsch
Am Sonntag, 28. März 2004 19:06 schrieb Colin Watson: > [...] > The release team is likely to remove unimportant packages with > release-critical bugs once the installer is ready. When is the installer expected to be ready? > [...] Wolfgang

Re: Recognize the NTFS file system?

2004-03-28 Thread Paul Johnson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Does Debian "woody" recognize the NTFS file system after a regular > installation? If not, what can be done so that it will? In a read-only fashion, I think. If not, it's really not hard to compile a kernel the Debian way. http://ursine.ca/cgi-bin/dwww?type=file&loca

Re: Goodbye stable?

2004-03-28 Thread Wolfgang Jeltsch
Am Sonntag, 28. März 2004 19:04 schrieben Sie: > [...] > You don't really run workstations directly on the internet do you? I do. > You might consider getting yourself some kind of hardware based > firewall/NAT box. Either buy an appliance, of cobble together a PC for > ip-cop or similar. Isn'

XFree Cursor Themes

2004-03-28 Thread Simon Watson
Hi, I'm having great problems using the different themes of cursor in XFree86. I'm using the update-alternatives method to change to "whiteglass" theme - and this works to a point. When gdm loads, all is fine - but when I log into Gnome - the icons become "huge", sort of 32x32 as opposed to 24x24.

Re: Goodbye stable?

2004-03-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 05:45:29PM +0200, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote: > Am Sonntag, 28. März 2004 18:32 schrieb Jody Grafals: > > I think for the most part many running debian on the desktop are already > > using sarge or sid, and I must say I am run several servers with woody, > > I like it just the w

Re: Goodbye stable?

2004-03-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 05:36:27PM +0200, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote: > Am Sonntag, 28. März 2004 18:25 schrieb Colin Watson: > > On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 04:46:27PM +0200, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote: > > > I just discovered the recent increase of the numer of > > > release-critical bugs and was shocked. T

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