Re: aptitude trap: 'hold' directives not honored.

2004-05-23 Thread Marc Wilson
On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 01:03:22PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > There are apparently three package selection databases. These should be > either unified or cross-validated: > > - dpkg > - apt > - aptitude > > Anyone else running into this? Karsten, don't bother. Every time someone bri

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Re: have used only 4904 out of 9729 cylinders, but "No free sectors available"

2004-05-23 Thread Travis Crump
James Sinnamon wrote: Command (m for help): Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 522 4192933+ c W

RE: have used only 4904 out of 9729 cylinders, but "No free sectors available"

2004-05-23 Thread Michael Bellears
> Partition check: > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 p4 < p5 p6 p7 p8 Did you create all the partitions as "primary" by chance? (i.e. No "Logical") Regards, MB

Re: have used only 4904 out of 9729 cylinders, but "No free sectors available"

2004-05-23 Thread James Sinnamon
On Mon, 24 May 2004 01:47 pm, James Sinnamon wrote: > Dear Debian users, > > During my installation of a 'testing' (I think) system I partitioned > my 80Gig hard disk drive. I have been told that I have not provided enough information. My apologies to all. I installed Debian 'testing' from a 11

Re: [OT] Yahoo's Antispam proposal

2004-05-23 Thread David P James
On Sun 23 May 2004 12:39, Pigeon wrote: > > And who would provide the money to pay for all the emails that > debian-user sends out? You'd exempt it when you signed up. It would probably have to be made a condition of signing up in fact. Likewise, sending email to the list would have to be restri

Re: [OT] Yahoo's Antispam proposal

2004-05-23 Thread David P James
On Sun 23 May 2004 18:56, Katipo wrote: > David P James wrote: > >On Sat 22 May 2004 14:07, John L Fjellstad wrote: > >>David P James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >>Not everybody has the same buying power. A few pennies might not > >> be much for someone living in the Western World, but it m

Graphical-Installation

2004-05-23 Thread Umar Draz
Hello Dears Debian Members, yesterday I try to install graphical debia first time and I succeeded during installation i face lot of questions now I want to clear my concept about questions which I faced during installation. 1st Question: After choosing my VGA driver i faced this question.

Re: have used only 4904 out of 9729 cylinders, but "No free sectors available"

2004-05-23 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sun, 2004-05-23 at 22:47, James Sinnamon wrote: > Dear Debian users, > > During my installation of a 'testing' (I think) system I partitioned > my 80Gig hard disk drive. > > I think I recall having used a Debian front end to fdisk. I deliberately > did NOT use an option which caused the chan

Re: apache/php/mysql help

2004-05-23 Thread Jacob S.
On Sun, 23 May 2004 19:48:25 -0400 Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been running apache/php/mysql successfully for a very long > time. Suddenly this morning my php web pages return > > Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mysql_connect() > > I can process the web page from

have used only 4904 out of 9729 cylinders, but "No free sectors available"

2004-05-23 Thread James Sinnamon
Dear Debian users, During my installation of a 'testing' (I think) system I partitioned my 80Gig hard disk drive. I think I recall having used a Debian front end to fdisk. I deliberately did NOT use an option which caused the change to be permanent, nevertheless, it seems possible that the chan

Re: upgrading kernel 2.2.20-idepci

2004-05-23 Thread S.D.A.
On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 10:03:10PM -0400 or thereabouts, Adam Aube wrote: > sda wrote: > > > OK, did the upgrade and I am booted into a new 2.4.x kernel. The only > > problem is that the new kernel, doesn't recognize my ethernet card eth0, > > so I don't have a network on the Debian box. > > > >

Re: upgrading kernel 2.2.20-idepci

2004-05-23 Thread Adam Aube
sda wrote: > OK, did the upgrade and I am booted into a new 2.4.x kernel. The only > problem is that the new kernel, doesn't recognize my ethernet card eth0, > so I don't have a network on the Debian box. > > Is there any way to fix this? I did modprobe for Realtek (which I believe > is my card)

lost open in new active tab in firefox context menu for links

2004-05-23 Thread Micha Feigin
I just lost the open in new active tab option in firefox after the last upgrade today (don't know if it is related). I have tab extensions installed, and I looked in the context option in the settings, under expert it seems to have an open in ... option but its grayed out. Any ideas anyone? --

kernel panic

2004-05-23 Thread developer
I am dual booting xp and linux on a single harddrive. I got both booting with xp controlling the mbr and I added my linux grub bootsector to the xp boot.ini in order to get linux to boot. I installed debian off the sarge net install cd using the 2.6 kernel. The kernel that came with it runs fine

mingetty refuses to run on /dev/tty[1-6]

2004-05-23 Thread Lorenzo Prince
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am using mingetty to run login in my virtual terminals. As of last night, whenever I boot the system, mingetty refuses to allocate the virtual terminals. I tried using rungetty, and it will open the ttys, but it refuses to run login or any other pr

[Solved] Re: X can't find synaptics driver

2004-05-23 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 01:50:10AM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > I tried installing the xfree86-driver-synaptics (up to a spelling > mistake here) for unstable. I then added Load "synaptics" to > XF86Config-4 as the docs say. > When trying to start X I then get a message that the synaptics driver >

Re: upgrading kernel 2.2.20-idepci

2004-05-23 Thread S.D.A.
On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 02:41:30PM -0600 or thereabouts, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from S.D.A.: > > I've seen that warning before, and perhaps I'm slow, but what goes there > > exactly, and where in my liloconf do I put it? initrid=(name of my kernel image?) > > This is my grub kernel stanza

apache/php/mysql help

2004-05-23 Thread Rick Pasotto
I have been running apache/php/mysql successfully for a very long time. Suddenly this morning my php web pages return Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mysql_connect() I can process the web page from the command line but not from apache. OK, I've found the problem but I don't know how t

Re: USB card readers that work?

2004-05-23 Thread richard lyons
On Sunday 23 May 2004 14:33, SJ Straith wrote: > richard lyons wrote: [...] > > "PC-line". I recollect it cost 7 GBP. I also use one > > of the same brand for SD cards. The only problem is > > the need to reboot when switching between types of media > > (though I am told the usb can be reset with

Re: upgrading kernel 2.2.20-idepci

2004-05-23 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from sda: > OK, did the upgrade and I am booted into a new 2.4.x kernel. The only > problem is > that the new kernel, doesn't recognize my ethernet card eth0, so I don't > have a > network on the Debian box. > > Is there any way to fix this? I did modprobe for Realtek (which I believe

Re: Kernel Realtime Capabilities

2004-05-23 Thread Chris Metzler
On Sun, 23 May 2004 19:02:37 -0400 "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am trying to get Jackstart working and get a message "cannot get > realtime capabilities, current capabilities are =ep cap_setpcap-ep > Probably running under kernel with capabilities disabled, a suitable > ker

Kernel Realtime Capabilities

2004-05-23 Thread Thomas H. George
I am trying to get Jackstart working and get a message "cannot get realtime capabilities, current capabilities are =ep cap_setpcap-ep Probably running under kernel with capabilities disabled, a suitable kernel would have printed something like =eip" My current kernel is 2.6.3 compiled with Preem

Re: Linksys Router Setup Failed - Fixed

2004-05-23 Thread Thomas H. George
The victory is not particularly satisfying as I don't know how we fixed the problem. On the plus side,the Linksys tech support was alway immediately reachable and worked tirelessly in four long phone sessions to find and fix the problem. On the negative side I had to do all this on my gr

X can't find synaptics driver

2004-05-23 Thread Micha Feigin
I tried installing the xfree86-driver-synaptics (up to a spelling mistake here) for unstable. I then added Load "synaptics" to XF86Config-4 as the docs say. When trying to start X I then get a message that the synaptics driver was not found. I checked and its in the right place with the right permi

Re: Question about installing nvidia driver

2004-05-23 Thread JohnOfArc
On Sun, 23 May 2004 20:13:54 +0200, LeVA wrote: > 2004. május 23. 18:19 dátummal Alexander Schmehl ezt írta: >> * LeVA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040523 16:25]: >> > You must have the compiled(!) kernel sources, if you are using 2.6.*. >> >> Shouldn't kernel-headers be sufficient? >> > When I've compile

Re: upgrading kernel 2.2.20-idepci

2004-05-23 Thread sda
OK, did the upgrade and I am booted into a new 2.4.x kernel. The only problem is that the new kernel, doesn't recognize my ethernet card eth0, so I don't have a network on the Debian box. Is there any way to fix this? I did modprobe for Realtek (which I believe is my card) but there aren't any modu

Re: OT - trivial programming language

2004-05-23 Thread richard lyons
On Sunday 23 May 2004 12:35, Joachim Fahnenmueller wrote: > Hi Richard > > On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 02:55:35PM -0400, richard lyons wrote: > > I'm asking for a bit of advice here. > > > > I wish to convert a kaddressbook database to abook format saving > > as many fields as possible. [...] > I did a

Wrong characters displayed in console

2004-05-23 Thread csj
Since I upgraded to the 2.6 kernel series, I noticed that extended characters like the German "umlauted" vowels are being displayed wrong on my framebuffer console. If I open, say in Emacs, the same file in an xconsole the characters are displayed right (so I know the problem isn't an Emacs charac

Re: [OT] Yahoo's Antispam proposal

2004-05-23 Thread Katipo
David P James wrote: On Sat 22 May 2004 14:07, John L Fjellstad wrote: David P James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Now suppose you could demand a payment whenever someone sent you an email. It would only need to be a few pennies in all probability. Not everybody has the same buying pow

In Reply of thread dated of Sun, 2 May 2004 05:49:13 -0300 (ART)

2004-05-23 Thread Ly Chiang
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Re: upgrading kernel 2.2.20-idepci

2004-05-23 Thread S.D.A.
On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 02:41:30PM -0600 or thereabouts, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from S.D.A.: > > On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 01:36:26PM -0600 or thereabouts, s. keeling wrote: > > > You'll need to move kernel modules out of the way if the new kernel's > > > /lib/modules/`uname -r` exists already

Re: upgrading kernel 2.2.20-idepci

2004-05-23 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from S.D.A.: > On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 01:36:26PM -0600 or thereabouts, s. keeling wrote: > > Incoming from S.D.A.: > > > > > > I originally installed woody, then upgraded to testing. Consequently I never > > > upgraded my original woody kernel. > > > > > > I would like to upgrade my ker

Inconsistency detected by ld.so

2004-05-23 Thread messmate
Hi, when i try to run aptitude i've this error : Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dynamic-link.h: 62: elf_get_dynamic_info: Assertion `! "bad dynamic tag"' failed! Anything else runs fine, what about that ? Thanks for your help.(woody) mess-mate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: upgrading kernel 2.2.20-idepci

2004-05-23 Thread S.D.A.
On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 01:36:26PM -0600 or thereabouts, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from S.D.A.: > > > > I originally installed woody, then upgraded to testing. Consequently I never > > upgraded my original woody kernel. > > > > I would like to upgrade my kernel to 'kernel-image-2.4.25-1-386'.

Re: upgrading kernel 2.2.20-idepci

2004-05-23 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from S.D.A.: > > I originally installed woody, then upgraded to testing. Consequently I never > upgraded my original woody kernel. > > I would like to upgrade my kernel to 'kernel-image-2.4.25-1-386'. Is it a simple > manner of just 'aptitude install 'kernel-image-2.4.25-1-386' or are th

Re: Kernel Realtime Capabilities?

2004-05-23 Thread Chris Metzler
Before I start to reply, I want to recommend to you the linux-audio-users and linux-audio-developers mailing lists. The djcj.org link you cite below *comes from* the homepages for these two mailing lists; "LAU" in the URL stands for linux-audio-users. Not to put this list down, but that's a bett

upgrading kernel 2.2.20-idepci

2004-05-23 Thread S.D.A.
Folks: I originally installed woody, then upgraded to testing. Consequently I never upgraded my original woody kernel. I would like to upgrade my kernel to 'kernel-image-2.4.25-1-386'. Is it a simple manner of just 'aptitude install 'kernel-image-2.4.25-1-386' or are there additonal steps one nee

Re: Question about installing nvidia driver (no version for "struct_module")

2004-05-23 Thread Niels L. Ellegaard
LeVA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I've compiled my 2.6.5 kernel, and installed the nvidia > drivers, it was ok. But after the make clean in /usr/src/linux > (symlink to linux-2.6.5) the installer didn't work. And that was > because it couldn't find the version file, which contains the kernel

Re: postgres ident error

2004-05-23 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 14:46:34 -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > >PostgreSQL doesn't care about /etc/passwd. The default client > >authentication settings care about what user is connecting to the > >database server through a UNIX socket. > Gee I must have missed something

Unidentified subject!

2004-05-23 Thread Saygon
I have a rather unusual problem. When I want to instal Debian (Sarge) i have an ( when the instalation reaches 70 %)debootstrap error( debotstrap returned 1) . The whole sytuation is more strange beceuse this is the second time I instal debian( the first ended with sucses). If anybody has a

Re: Which disk device driver

2004-05-23 Thread Bob Proulx
John Smith (a.k.a Jan, apparently) wrote: > installed a new 3.0r2 box with (obviously) 2.4.18-bf2.4. > Tried to upgrade to 2.4.26 by installing the kernel-image but Exactly what kernel did you install? 2.4.26 is not part of 3.0r2. Where did you get it from? > The root= option in /etc/lilo.

Display Catch-22

2004-05-23 Thread Thomas H. George
My Belkin UPS probably saved my computer from the power surge but its internal programming is probably fried. I reinstalled the software from the Linux tarball changing all the ownerships to root:tom and all the permissions to 770. This allows me to display the monitor but I cannot change the

Re: Howto install Debian Sarge kernel 2.6.3 on Software RAID1?

2004-05-23 Thread Lucas Albers
Joost Kraaijeveld said: > Hi, > > Is there someone that has Debian Sarge with kernel 2.6.3 (from the > installer > beta 4) installed on a software RAID1 and is willing to hare his/her > knowledge with me how to do that? > > I have followed the procedures as described in: > > 3. http://alioth.debia

Re: postgres ident error

2004-05-23 Thread Tom Allison
J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 19:36:38 -0400, Tom Allison wrote: I created a user in psql but now I can't log in as that user. I get an error psql: FATAL: IDENT authentication failed for user "dbmail" This implies that I need to have all my users for pgsql listed in both the

Re: Escputil --raw-device and CUPS

2004-05-23 Thread richard lyons
On Sunday 23 May 2004 08:44, Nick Croft wrote: > * Jens Simmoleit ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > ... you might also check if this has something to do with the > > bios settings. AFAIK all modern printers (from 3-5 years back) > > use bidirectional settings to communicate. Maybe it's turned off? > >

Re: USB card readers that work?

2004-05-23 Thread SJ Straith
richard lyons wrote: On Wednesday 19 May 2004 15:52, Walter Tautz wrote: I would imagine almost anything would work but I'd like a list of models people have used with debian and which they may have also used with their digital cameras. My intent [...] As far as I can see, anything does work. I

Kernel Realtime Capabilities?

2004-05-23 Thread Thomas H. George
I am trying to get Jackstart working and get a message "cannot get realtime capabilities, current capabilities are =ep cap_setpcap-ep Probably running under kernel with capabilities disabled, a suitable kernel would have printed something like =eip" My current kernel is 2.6.3 compiled with Preem

Mose Wheel Scroll and less.

2004-05-23 Thread Egor Tur
Hi folk. How can I use wheel scrolling for man (less)? Thanx. -- Зарегистрируйте бесплатный почтовый ящик @inet.ua -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Question about installing nvidia driver

2004-05-23 Thread LeVA
2004. május 23. 18:19 dátummal Alexander Schmehl ezt írta: > * LeVA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040523 16:25]: > > You must have the compiled(!) kernel sources, if you are using > > 2.6.*. > > Shouldn't kernel-headers be sufficient? > When I've compiled my 2.6.5 kernel, and installed the nvidia drivers, i

cd ejects on its own

2004-05-23 Thread Micha Feigin
My cdrom has started to eject cds on its own lately. Any ideas on what may be causing it or how to check it? Its a cd writer on a laptop mounted using scsi emulation with kernel 2.4.27-pre1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL P

/cdrom0 and /dev/cdrom*

2004-05-23 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Using sid, kernel 2.6.6, udev, hotplub, discover. I noticed from the start (new install) I got a dev/hdc /media/cdrom, and 0 and a /dev/hdd /media/cdrom1 in fstab. I do not use mount point /media so I changed them to /cdrom and /cdrom1, deleting the entry for cdrom0. I have only /dev/hdc (

Re: [OT] Yahoo's Antispam proposal

2004-05-23 Thread John Hasler
Pigeon writes: > And who would provide the money to pay for all the emails that > debian-user sends out? Yahoo Groups would, of course, be exempt. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: OT - trivial programming language

2004-05-23 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
Hi Richard On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 02:55:35PM -0400, richard lyons wrote: > I'm asking for a bit of advice here. > > I wish to convert a kaddressbook database to abook format saving as > many fields as possible. > > (...) > > But it seems to me most rational to use the opportunity to begin

Re: [OT] Yahoo's Antispam proposal

2004-05-23 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 08:07:17PM +0200, John L Fjellstad wrote: > David P James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Now suppose you could demand a payment whenever someone sent you an > > email. It would only need to be a few pennies in all probability. > > Not everybody has the same buying pow

Re: [OT] Yahoo's Antispam proposal

2004-05-23 Thread Lee Braiden
David P James wrote: On Sat 22 May 2004 14:07, John L Fjellstad wrote: David P James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Not everybody has the same buying power. A few pennies might not be much for someone living in the Western World, but it might mean a meal for someone from Somalia or Vietnam.

Re: [OT] Yahoo's Antispam proposal

2004-05-23 Thread Bill Moseley
On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 12:21:50AM +1000, Darryl Luff wrote: > On Thu, 20 May 2004 10:35 am, Steve Lamb wrote: Trade offs, no doubt. > - I have a few email addresses. When I send email from home that is work > related, I set my From: address to my work email. When I send > sourceforge-relate

Re: Question about installing nvidia driver

2004-05-23 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* LeVA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040523 16:25]: > You must have the compiled(!) kernel sources, if you are using 2.6.*. Shouldn't kernel-headers be sufficient? Yours sincerely, Alexander signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [OT] Yahoo's Antispam proposal

2004-05-23 Thread John Hasler
David P James writes: > As an economist, I look at the billions of dollars, resources and > manhours wasted on dealing with spam and think of all the investments, > jobs and other more useful spending and activities that didn't take place > because of it. The same goes with Microsoft's monopoly ren

Re: Which disk device driver

2004-05-23 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* John Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040523 13:14]: > My conclusion is that the disk device driver is not compiled > or loaded in at the 2.4.26, so I probably need to build a new > kernel. My questions are wether my logic is right and how I can > find out which device driver is being used in the 2.4

Re: [OT] Yahoo's Antispam proposal

2004-05-23 Thread David P James
On Sat 22 May 2004 14:07, John L Fjellstad wrote: > David P James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Now suppose you could demand a payment whenever someone sent you an > > email. It would only need to be a few pennies in all probability. > > Not everybody has the same buying power. A few pennies mig

Re: postgres ident error

2004-05-23 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 19:36:38 -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > I created a user in psql but now I can't log in as that user. > > I get an error > psql: FATAL: IDENT authentication failed for user "dbmail" > > This implies that I need to have all my users for pgsql listed in both > the /etc/passwd

Re: Question about installing nvidia driver

2004-05-23 Thread LeVA
2004. május 24. 00:16 dátummal James Ng ezt írta: > Hi all, > > I have upgraded my kernel to 2.6.5, and try to install the > nvidia driver. I have tried to use the nvidia-installera and doing > extracting the driver and then make install, but both methods fail. > > Here is the log file when I

Question about installing nvidia driver

2004-05-23 Thread James Ng
Hi all, I have upgraded my kernel to 2.6.5, and try to install the nvidia driver. I have tried to use the nvidia-installera and doing extracting the driver and then make install, but both methods fail. Here is the log file when I install through nvidia-installer. nvidia-installer log file '/

ISDN

2004-05-23 Thread Weaver
Hello, I'm switching from 56K dial-up to ISDN. I've just been to the 3Com site to check out the situation as far as ISDN modems are concerned, and came across a couple of advisories that told me I'm employing the wrong O.S./Browser combination to be classified as an acceptable human being, so I

Re: Which disk device driver

2004-05-23 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya "john smith" howz jane doe doing ?? On Sun, 23 May 2004, John Smith wrote: > "VFS: Cannot open root device "805" or 08:05 > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:05" it means the kernel you are booting cannot find oyur / partitio

Re: Escputil --raw-device and CUPS

2004-05-23 Thread Nick Croft
* Jens Simmoleit ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > ... you might also check if this has something to do with the > bios settings. AFAIK all modern printers (from 3-5 years back) use > bidirectional settings to communicate. Maybe it's turned off? > > So you can send the signals to the printer but it

Re: Escputil --raw-device and CUPS

2004-05-23 Thread Nick Croft
* richard lyons ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > H 0.00 > > On Thursday 20 May 2004 03:08, Kristian Niemi wrote: > > Nick Croft wrote: > [...] > > > $ escuptil -i -r /dev/lp0 is > > > 'Cannot parse output from printer'. > [...] > > > I wonder if it could be as easy as telling escputil that you h

Livres anciens : Nouveautés et informations

2004-05-23 Thread Librairie LACF
La librairie annonce ses nouveautés :http://www.livres-anciens.com.fr/acatalog/nouveautes.html    La catalogue de Mai 2004 disponible en Acrobat PDF:http://www.livres-anciens.com.fr/acatalog/livres-anciens_Catalogue.pdf    Recherchez un ouvrage parmi nos nombreux titres :http://www.livres-an

Which disk device driver

2004-05-23 Thread John Smith
Hi All, installed a new 3.0r2 box with (obviously) 2.4.18-bf2.4. Tried to upgrade to 2.4.26 by installing the kernel-image but booting with it aborts with "VFS: Cannot open root device "805" or 08:05 Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on

Re: D-I to SATA (hda) but move to 2.6 kernel (sda) fails

2004-05-23 Thread Cristi Banciu
Graham Williams wrote: The current beta 4 debian-installer will install to SATA okay, but treats the disk as IDE (/dev/hda). In moving to kernel 2.6.6 from sid this uses SCSI (/dev/sda) and the reboot fails. Is there a migration path one needs to follow? You have to edit and modify /etc/fstab an

Shuttle WLAN Dongle

2004-05-23 Thread Matthias Hentges
Hello list! I've been thinking about buying a shuttle barebone PC, namely the XPC SB62G2 [1]. It features two (wired) LAN ports which is important to me. Additionally i need to have built-in WLAN. Shuttle offers a USB WLAN Kit [2] but beside the fact that it is connected via USB i haven't been ab

Re: /dev/md0 and udev

2004-05-23 Thread John L Fjellstad
Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Whats the udev email list location? > Is there any irc channel for udev, by udev developers, or experts? http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net (I know it says hotplug, but udev seems to share it with hotplug for this list). I really don't know any IR

Re: Samba and network printing

2004-05-23 Thread John L Fjellstad
Please don't cc me. Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > joining in the middle ... lets see > > am assuming, "root" on the linux box can print to the printer connected > to it Just to clarify again. I'm using CUPS and Samba. I have no problem printing from either Windows or Linux. My prob

Re: /dev/md0 and udev

2004-05-23 Thread John L Fjellstad
Richard Weil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sorry to be stupid, put I can't find much > documentation on the udev/links.conf file. Would I add > the following to links.conf in order to create > /dev/md0? > > M md0b 9 0 Probably M md > I'm not sure of the distinction between L, D, M in the >

Re: [OT] Yahoo's Antispam proposal

2004-05-23 Thread John L Fjellstad
David P James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now suppose you could demand a payment whenever someone sent you an > email. It would only need to be a few pennies in all probability. Not everybody has the same buying power. A few pennies might not be much for someone living in the Western World,

Re: OT Shell tricks: I'll kill you later

2004-05-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Karsten M. Self wrote: > while sleep 600 > do > ps aux | awk '/[w]hois/ {print $2}' | ( sleep 30; xargs kill ) > done Clever. I like the concept. But I don't like the ps side of the implementation. The format is slightly different depending upon the state of the process. Al

Re: Ctrl+Alt+F1 not working?

2004-05-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 22 May 2004, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2004-05-21 10:03:43 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I started a thread on this a few weeks ago. The consensus was that if > > you are using xmodmap the above command doesn't work. I have to live > > with it at present. > > Or you can add > >

Re: postgres installation question

2004-05-23 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Sat, 2004-05-22 at 22:19, Tom Allison wrote: > I'm doing a -testing installation of postgresql. > > I have the user postgres in the passwd file. > I don't know what the password is. > > I'm wondering: > > Should I know it? I can always su posgres from root, but I don't always > want to have