Re: Useful GUI apps on low-mem computers?

2005-11-06 Thread Seeker5528
On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 10:56:00 -0500 Mitch Wiedemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My question is, if you had a computer with 64 MB of RAM, and you wanted > to give the novice user the ability to browse the web, use e-mail, > instant messaging, create documents and spreadsheets, etc. What window >

Re: Linux stickers

2005-11-06 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun November 6 2005 11:04 pm, Aaron Hall wrote: > On Sun, 6 Nov 2005, Scarletdown wrote: > > Give these guys a chance: > > > > http://scotgold.com/acatalog/ScotGold_Catalogue_Linux_Tux_Stuff_2.html > > Apropos of which, Copyleft (R.I.P.) used to carry some Debian case > badges with the swirl log

Re: about properties

2005-11-06 Thread Seeker5528
On Wed, 2 Nov 2005 06:03:51 -0800 (PST) Nevruz Mesut Sahin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I bougth new computer which Linux is installed on it. how can I see the > hardware properties of the computer by terminal comands > > > - > Yahoo! FareChase -

Re: Abiword-Gnome, save as PDF, does not support italics?

2005-11-06 Thread Andy Gower
> From: Patrick Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Do italics print properly? If so, you might try installing cups-pdf and the= > n > "print" to a PDF file. Thanks for the response Patrick. I don't have a printer installed on this machine yet, so I can't check and see if it prints properly. I install

Re: Linux stickers

2005-11-06 Thread Aaron Hall
On Sun, 6 Nov 2005, Scarletdown wrote: Give these guys a chance: http://scotgold.com/acatalog/ScotGold_Catalogue_Linux_Tux_Stuff_2.html Apropos of which, Copyleft (R.I.P.) used to carry some Debian case badges with the swirl logo and "Debian" lettering. Does anyone still sell something simila

Re: gmailfs wont work !

2005-11-06 Thread Maxim Vexler
On 11/7/05, Zouari Fourat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > am trying to work with gmailfs > did this : > > apt gmailfs with fuse-utils and source > module-assistant prepare > module-assistant build fuse > module-assistant install fuse > modprobe fuse > > it's all working except this : > > four

Re: grub kernel parameter

2005-11-06 Thread Kancha .
This is the output of uname -a Linux kancha 2.6.8-2-386 #1 Thu May 19 17:40:50 JST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux and the output of meminfo shows MemTotal: 906736 kB I'm using sarge and I selected linux26 for the installation. Do I need to build (compile) a custom kernel or can the memory parameter

Re: which debian version to host VMWare?

2005-11-06 Thread Lubos Vrbka
VMware Workstation 5 is running fine for me under Sarge on an AMD64 box. I've had zero problems with compiler versions and such. Also, which kernel version? I'm running a 2.6.8 kernel built from Debian sources. Configuration is stock except for turning off most sound support (I installed ALSA

Re: Problems with kinput2

2005-11-06 Thread Leonel Duran
I'm no expert on these things, so take my advice with a bit of salt, I use kinput2 sometimes and I've found some apps just won't take it, also my own configuration for kinput2 uses a different LC_CTYPE value anfd somewhere (I don't remeber where) I read that kinput expects to work with EUC or SJIS

unsubsrcibe

2005-11-06 Thread Frank Greulich
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Re: What to do with attackers?

2005-11-06 Thread Steve Lamb
Gnu-Raiz wrote: > People like me rely on the ISP for their dhcp ip address, so > why would a ISP allow their routers to forward port scans to > their own ip address net blocks? Becausee, strictly speaking, port scans are harmless. Ooooh, you have open ports. Scary! Furthermore define a

Re: how to regress to stable

2005-11-06 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 07:45:49PM -0800, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > I've been using etch/testing on my laptop since the change over.. > > I would like to know of an easy way, short of a re-install, to revert > back to stable. There are no good ones, and Sarge is really very easy to install. Bite

Re: Subversion repository permissions

2005-11-06 Thread Joey Hess
Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > I've investigated further, and it definitely has nothing to do with > logrotate or postrotate. This is clear because the problem occurred in > a period when logrotate was not run. > > The problem is not _that_ strongly connected to Apache. The real problem > is the user

how to regress to stable

2005-11-06 Thread Rodney D. Myers
I've been using etch/testing on my laptop since the change over.. I would like to know of an easy way, short of a re-install, to revert back to stable. Thanks -- Rodney D. Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Registered Linux User #96112 ICQ#: AIM#: YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5

RE: backups RE: ATA 80GB disk recommendation

2005-11-06 Thread David Christensen
Alvin Oga wrote: > - i see you haven't been hit with a power surge that took out > everything connected to the power supply ... Thankfully, no. I've also heard that if a voltage regulator chip goes out in the power supply, then the results can be the same. It would be nice if my other box with

Re: which debian version to host VMWare?

2005-11-06 Thread D. Michael McFarland
Mark Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can anyone recommend which version (stable, testing, unstable) I should > use as a host OS with VMWare 5? Debian will be the host OS and I'll > have a number of guest OS instances running under VMWare. VMware Workstation 5 is running fine for me under

lots of Permision denied errors (Prev: Re: symlink errors while installing java)

2005-11-06 Thread Albretch Mueller
I tried to troubleshoot these problems myself to no avail in a previous note you suggest to run make-jpkg as root. However when I try it I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED] make-jpkg jdk-1_5_0_05-linux-i586.bin You are real root -- unfortunately, some Java distributions have install scripts that directly

Re: DVR software for linux

2005-11-06 Thread Colin Ingram
Ron Johnson wrote: On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 05:31 -0600, Colin Ingram wrote: Does anyone know of any DVR software for Debian (or even just GNU/Linux). Im looking for something like this proprietary software. http://www.snapstream.com/products/beyondtv/ MythTV & Freevo. cool thanks -- To

Re: DVR software for linux

2005-11-06 Thread Colin Ingram
Heimdall Midgard wrote: 2005/11/6, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 05:31 -0600, Colin Ingram wrote: Does anyone know of any DVR software for Debian (or even just GNU/Linux). Im looking for something like this proprietary software. http://www.snapstream.com/products/be

Re: chmod mistake

2005-11-06 Thread Seeker5528
On Wed, 2 Nov 2005 12:49:39 +0100 David Dorward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Something along the lines of: > > chmod -R 700 ~/ > find ~/ -type f -exec chmod 600 {} \; > > might do what you want. Would it be better to do this? find ~/ -P -type d -exec chmod 700 {} \; find ~/ -P -type f -exec ch

Re: WIreless connectivity at boot

2005-11-06 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Angelina Carlton wrote: Curtis Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Here is my interfaces file: auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp auto eth1 iface eth1 inet dhcp name Wireless LAN card wireless-essid CCCP wireless-key * maybe comm

Problems with kinput2

2005-11-06 Thread Bryan Donlan
I'm trying to configure kinput2 for Japanese text input, but as of yet I've had no success. I have the following lines in my ~/.Xdefaults and have merged them using xrdb: *KinputProtocol.XlcConversionStartKey: Shiftspace *ConversionStartKeys: Shiftspace *inputMethod: kinput2 I also have the foll

Re: which debian version to host VMWare?

2005-11-06 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
I've been running VMWare Workstation 5 under testing without any problems myself. The only issue is making sure gcc version used to compile the kernel matches so you can compile the modules necessary. At the current time I'm actually looking to get rid of VMWare except for running Windows XP an

Freezing, SMP Kernel and P4

2005-11-06 Thread David R. Litwin
I have a Pentium Four processor with 3.06GHz speed. As far as I can tell, this means that I am eligible to use a 686-smp kernel. Though in comparison to the non smp kernel it seems to be much faster, an odd thing is also happening which I can only attribute to the smp (since I have not really seen

Re: Comfortable with Debian,but 4 points...

2005-11-06 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
On 2005-11-06 16:48:38, nuno romano wrote: > After some months with Debian(3.1PowerPC)I´m > generally comfortable with it: > > -compiling software,and dealing with the different > aspects of the package management system(good stuff!) > > -Connections to the Internet. > > -Printing system: my 7

which debian version to host VMWare?

2005-11-06 Thread Mark Hansen
Can anyone recommend which version (stable, testing, unstable) I should use as a host OS with VMWare 5? Debian will be the host OS and I'll have a number of guest OS instances running under VMWare. Also, which kernel version? Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: symlink errors while installing java (Sun's jdk)

2005-11-06 Thread Albretch Mueller
Well, I noticed the site wasn't online to begin with ;-) sh-3.00# ping http://non-us.debian.org ping: unknown host http://non-us.debian.org do they have such thing as mirrors? Thansk Albretch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EM

Re: gmailfs wont work !

2005-11-06 Thread Joe Smith
"Zouari Fourat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message gmailfs.py:Gmailfs:named mount options: {'username': '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', 'password': 'gmailpassword'} what should i do to get it working ? Use a real account name and password? ;) Actually my best guess is that one of the many gmail cha

Re: Linux stickers

2005-11-06 Thread Scarletdown
On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 02:39 +0100, Zouari Fourat wrote: > Hello > am a computer reseller, i provide debian sarge preinstalled for free > on new computers, am seeking where to get a donation (free) of > stickers to put on my computers. > thanks > Give these guys a chance: http://scotgold.com/acat

gmailfs wont work !

2005-11-06 Thread Zouari Fourat
Hello, am trying to work with gmailfs did this : apt gmailfs with fuse-utils and source module-assistant prepare module-assistant build fuse module-assistant install fuse modprobe fuse it's all working except this : fourat:/mnt# mount -t gmailfs none /mnt/gmailfs -o [EMAIL PROTECTED],password=gm

Linux stickers

2005-11-06 Thread Zouari Fourat
Hello am a computer reseller, i provide debian sarge preinstalled for free on new computers, am seeking where to get a donation (free) of stickers to put on my computers. thanks

Re: symlink errors while installing java (Sun's jdk)

2005-11-06 Thread Albretch Mueller
hi, and my /etc/apt/sources.list (without the totally commented out sections) looks like this: // - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - # /etc/apt/sources.list for Knoppix # If you want to do a "full upgrade", you should first # upgrade the Packages from Debian/unstable (KD

Re: Comfortable with Debian,but 4 points...

2005-11-06 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 16:48 -0800, nuno romano wrote: --snip-- > -Java: I don´t know which Java Runtime Environment,SDK > is the most effective,the blackdown.org or the > Gnu classpath,gcj,or other.For example,I want to > compile and run JGR a frontend for R(the statistics > software),which nee

Re: Comfortable with Debian,but 4 points...

2005-11-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 04:48:38PM -0800, nuno romano wrote: > After some months with Debian(3.1PowerPC)I´m > generally comfortable with it: > > -compiling software,and dealing with the different > aspects of the package management system(good stuff!) > > -Connections to the Internet. > > -Pri

Re: Can't write to external 160 gigs usb hard drive

2005-11-06 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 06:58:44PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 09:57 -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 11:11:48PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 23:39 -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > > > > Writing to NTFS partitions is frau

Re: unsubsrib

2005-11-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 06 November 2005 05:15, Karim Friha wrote: >* Thats not going to work. First 'unsubscribe' is miss-spelled, and second, such requests do not goto this list, but to: To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] The probl

Re: symlink errors while installing java (Sun's jdk)

2005-11-06 Thread Albretch Mueller
// __ Your (Peter's) instructions broke at 4) 2.4 "apt-get update" and 5) because of the previous problem 4) 2.4 Run apt-get update >apt-get update to update the lists of the available packages. // __ sh-3.00# apt-get update E: Type 'non-free' is not known on line 40 in source list /etc/apt/s

Network Interfaces Not Initialized On Boot

2005-11-06 Thread Cloaked Hunter
I'm running the testing release of Debian. I recently updated my Debian packages, and I also built and installed a new 2.6.14 kernel. Now, regardless of what kernel I boot, none of my network interfaces will initialize during boot, not even the loopback interface. If I manually start them using ifu

Comfortable with Debian,but 4 points...

2005-11-06 Thread nuno romano
After some months with Debian(3.1PowerPC)I´m generally comfortable with it: -compiling software,and dealing with the different aspects of the package management system(good stuff!) -Connections to the Internet. -Printing system: my 70 dollars inkjet prints documents,photos with quality nearly

Re: Can't write to external 160 gigs usb hard drive

2005-11-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 09:57 -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 11:11:48PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 23:39 -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > > Writing to NTFS partitions is fraught with risk. If you need to > > share data with MSFT systems, reform

Re: Firefox throbber problem

2005-11-06 Thread Andy Streich
On Sunday 06 November 2005 06:19 am, John Hasler wrote: > I don't like to have to restart my browser.  I lose all my tabs. > > > the list saved me from adding to the already long list of bugs for > > firefox > > It's still a bug. The development team knows that good bug reports are like gold. Joh

nVidia kernel drivers not working

2005-11-06 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
I tried to compile nvidia kernle module using both m-a and the binary package from nvidia site. The building always fails in the same way. I have: Kernel 2.6.14-1-k7 gcc (GCC) 4.0.2 (Debian 4.0.2-2) NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7667 I have the right kernel headers installed I cannot compile kernel modu

lyx and k3b absent from testing: is this permanent?

2005-11-06 Thread Alexandru Cabuz
Alright, I have searched through and through the mailing lists and cannot find why lyx, k3b and opera are not in testing. It seems like this transition away from kdelibs4 to kdelibs4c2 was done about two months ago. So what I am wondering is if lyx and k3b are gone from etch for good or if this

Re: Abiword-Gnome, save as PDF, does not support italics?

2005-11-06 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
On 2005-11-06 21:34:02, Felix C. Stegerman wrote: > On 2005-11-06 12:01:43, Andy Gower wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > I am using abiword-gnome 2.4.1-2 on Debian Testing and am trying to > > save a ABW document as a PDF file. The ABW document has items in > > italicized font. For some reason when I

Re: corrupted sources.list

2005-11-06 Thread Cal Paterson
Is this possibly dependancy hell? Have you tried another version of your sources.list? Could you post your sources.list here? -- www.gnu.org

Re: mini.iso: Boot from network

2005-11-06 Thread bem80email
Thanks for the support, now i find in forum the response. - Original Message - From: "Hugo Vanwoerkom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 8:18 PM Subject: Re: mini.iso: Boot from network bem80email wrote: but i can't to add this driver to iso? I don't kno

Re: corrupted sources.list

2005-11-06 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On søndag 06 november 2005, 23:53, Sam Rosenfeld wrote: > W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems Have you tried this? (it does the trick for me when I get this error) Best, Kjetil -- Kjetil Kjernsmo Programmer / Astrophysicist / Ski-orienteer / Orienteer / Mountaineer [

corrupted sources.list

2005-11-06 Thread Sam Rosenfeld
My version of debian 3.1 was downloaded via the net, and the original files, which contained the info for the sources.list file, have been lost. When I try to install package pkg with "apt-get install pkg" I get the following message: W: Couldn't stat source package list http://security.debian.org

Re: DVR software for linux

2005-11-06 Thread Heimdall Midgard
2005/11/6, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 05:31 -0600, Colin Ingram wrote: > > Does anyone know of any DVR software for Debian (or even just > > GNU/Linux). Im looking for something like this proprietary software. > > > > http://www.snapstream.com/products/beyondtv/ > > M

Re: WIreless connectivity at boot

2005-11-06 Thread Angelina Carlton
Curtis Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Here is my interfaces file: > > auto lo > iface lo inet loopback > > auto eth0 > iface eth0 inet dhcp > > auto eth1 > iface eth1 inet dhcp > name Wireless LAN card > wireless-essid CCCP > wireless-key * maybe comment out the et

Re: How to restore IMAP mailboxes

2005-11-06 Thread Daniel Nilsson
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 08:46:28PM -0500, Aaron Stromas wrote: > Greetings, > > Somehow during my Debian upgrade I managed to trash my Cyrus 2.1 IMAP > server, it no longer boots. I ended up rebuilding the system on the second > drive and, luckily, I can mount the old /var filesystem which contain

Re: Thunderbird and deleting msgs in threaded display

2005-11-06 Thread Oliver Lupton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adam Hardy wrote: > I'm using Thunderbird 1.0.2 which is the latest available Debian > packaged release, and I'd like to know if anyone else sees this bug, > which is giving me grief at the moment due to my heavy use of the delete > button. > > I wond

Re: 2.6.14 Problems (was Re: sarge: 2.6.14 kernel panics on boot)

2005-11-06 Thread Hendrik Sattler
David Baron wrote: > On Sunday 06 November 2005 19:32, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Thats because devfs is creating the nodes in kernels < 2.6.14. >> With 2.6.14 DEVFS is no longer supported in the kernel, so you have >> to use another method to create device nodes like udev (the new way) >> or M

Re: Thunderbird and deleting msgs in threaded display

2005-11-06 Thread M-L
On Mon, 7 Nov 2005 07:29 am, Adam Hardy wrote: ---> I'm using Thunderbird 1.0.2 which is the latest available Debian ---> packaged release, and I'd like to know if anyone else sees this bug, ---> which is giving me grief at the moment due to my heavy use of the delete ---> button. ---> ---> I wonde

Re: Abiword-Gnome, save as PDF, does not support italics?

2005-11-06 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 11/6/05, Andy Gower <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi there,I am using abiword-gnome 2.4.1-2 on Debian Testing and am trying tosave a ABW document as a PDF file.  The ABW document has items initalicized font.  For some reason when I view the PDF file, the items are not in italics anymore.  Is there

Re: Subversion repository permissions

2005-11-06 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On søndag 06 november 2005, 10:54, Simo Kauppi wrote: > Check your /etc/logrotate.d/apache2 (or /etc/logrotate.conf). I've investigated further, and it definitely has nothing to do with logrotate or postrotate. This is clear because the problem occurred in a period when logrotate was not run. T

Re: Abiword-Gnome, save as PDF, does not support italics?

2005-11-06 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
On 2005-11-06 12:01:43, Andy Gower wrote: > Hi there, > > I am using abiword-gnome 2.4.1-2 on Debian Testing and am trying to > save a ABW document as a PDF file. The ABW document has items in > italicized font. For some reason when I view the PDF file, the items > are not in italics anymore. I

Thunderbird and deleting msgs in threaded display

2005-11-06 Thread Adam Hardy
I'm using Thunderbird 1.0.2 which is the latest available Debian packaged release, and I'd like to know if anyone else sees this bug, which is giving me grief at the moment due to my heavy use of the delete button. I wonder whether this is a bug on all platforms, or is it just in Linux Debian

Re: Why I use "stable"... was: Re: k3b not available

2005-11-06 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 06 November 2005 21:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > If you want to help test the next release(s) of Debian, or want the > > newest packages (with the potential for some occasional aggravation) use > > "testing" or "unstable".  If you want nice, boring consistency, and > > predictability

Re: symlink errors while installing java (Sun's jdk)

2005-11-06 Thread Peter . Robinson
On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 04:20:36PM +, Albretch Mueller wrote: > Hi *, > > while installing java on an external drive using knoppix I got symlink > errors each time a symlink was tried out: > > ./jdk-1_5_0_05-linux-i586.bin > file 2>&1 > > after spacing out of the License Agreement and start

Re: New kernel does not install

2005-11-06 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
On 2005-11-06 16:51:19, John Plate wrote: > Hi Felix > > > Probably the initrd. > > > > Try > > # make-kpkg --rootcmd fakeroot --append-to-version -jp --revision 01 > > --initrd kernel_image > > Yes - you was right. > > I didn't use the --initrd option as I got a warning from make-kpkg. > In

Re: need older version of kcachegrind (due to upgrade mess in Testing)

2005-11-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 02:12:47PM -0500, H.S. wrote: > > Hi, > > I wanted to install valgrind a couple of days back and noticed that > Testing is undergoing a major transition (to KDE 3.4?) and if I try to > install valgrind, I am also suggested the kcachegrind package. If I try > to install kca

Re: Temporary failure in name resolution (PPPoE)

2005-11-06 Thread Bob Hutchinson
On Sunday 06 Nov 2005 17:14, Masatran (Rajasekaran Deepak) wrote: > I am using PPPoE to connect to the internet. For a few minutes after > booting the computer and running "pppoe-start", I get this error: > > $ ssh research.iiit.ac.in > ssh: research.iiit.ac.in: Temporary failure in name resolution

Re: quake4 installation

2005-11-06 Thread Darryl Clarke
On 11/5/05, debianista.deb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello > > I'm run the quake4 for linux and it gives me this: > > Verifying archive integrity... All good. > Uncompressing Quake > IV.

need older version of kcachegrind (due to upgrade mess in Testing)

2005-11-06 Thread H.S.
Hi, I wanted to install valgrind a couple of days back and noticed that Testing is undergoing a major transition (to KDE 3.4?) and if I try to install valgrind, I am also suggested the kcachegrind package. If I try to install kcachegrind, then a whole lot of packages are to be removed and a whole

Re: php _SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"] is fixed ip address

2005-11-06 Thread Darryl Clarke
On 11/6/05, 高勇KevinGao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use debian sarge version > now I found a problem in php > when using > getenv("REMOTE_ADDR") or > _SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"] > return a fixed ip address,not my real internet ip address > but the same code is ok in an freebsd server > anyone can tel

Re: Does famd interferes with PostgreSQL?

2005-11-06 Thread Elton Algera
On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 05:14:40PM +0100, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone know if famd (the file alteration monitor, which is > installed standard (?) by Debian Sarge) interfere with PostgreSQL? > > I am having major problems with the performance of PostgreSQL on my > machine...

Re: Why I use "stable"... was: Re: k3b not available

2005-11-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 01:32:36PM -0500, Colin wrote: > Mitch Wiedemann wrote: > > >If you want to help test the next release(s) of Debian, or want the > >newest packages (with the potential for some occasional aggravation) use > >"testing" or "unstable". If you want nice, boring consistency, an

Re: Why I use "stable"... was: Re: k3b not available

2005-11-06 Thread Colin
Mitch Wiedemann wrote: If you want to help test the next release(s) of Debian, or want the newest packages (with the potential for some occasional aggravation) use "testing" or "unstable". If you want nice, boring consistency, and predictability, use "stable", and take a couple of steps back fr

Re: grub kernel parameter

2005-11-06 Thread Colin
Kancha . wrote: I have a system running sarge. The system had 1GB RAM and I recently upgraded it to 2GB. The bios shows 2GB RAM but on booting the system the OS shows just 1GB. I tried passing mem=2048M kernel parameter but that didn't work either. Recompile the kernel. You have to select the

DMA hangs IDE bus (cdrecord or driver?)

2005-11-06 Thread Enrico Colombini
I have on the secondary IDE bus a DVD-ROM (hdc) and a DVD-Writer (hdd); both work fine under Windows. The primary IDE bus is unused, the HD is SATA (sda). With Etch (2.6.12-1, up-to-date) I can mount CDs and read them from both drives. However, if I try cdrecord (e.g. blank or record) the proces

2.6.14 Problems (was Re: sarge: 2.6.14 kernel panics on boot)

2005-11-06 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 06 November 2005 19:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thats because devfs is creating the nodes in kernels < 2.6.14. > With 2.6.14 DEVFS is no longer supported in the kernel, so you have > to use another method to create device nodes like udev (the new way) > or MAKEDEV( the old way, before

Re: symlink errors while installing java (Sun's jdk)

2005-11-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 04:20:36PM +, Albretch Mueller wrote: > Hi *, > > while installing java on an external drive using knoppix I got symlink errors > each time a symlink was tried out: > > ./jdk-1_5_0_05-linux-i586.bin > file 2>&1 > Have you considered using java-package? I am not sur

Re: Subversion repository permissions

2005-11-06 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Sunday 06 November 2005 10:54, Simo Kauppi wrote: > Check your /etc/logrotate.d/apache2 (or /etc/logrotate.conf). > You should have something like: [snip] > create 640 root adm < change the mode 664 Ah, right. It isn't actually the apache logs that get the wrong permissi

WIreless connectivity at boot

2005-11-06 Thread Curtis Vaughan
There has been this problem with my wireless connectivity that is getting on my nerves. Every time I reboot I have to go through a series of procedures just to get my wireless card to connect to my wireless router. Unfortunately, I have never been able to pin down what exact procedure I need to

Re: how do I reinstall Mozilla?

2005-11-06 Thread Lars Roland
On 11/6/05, Mark Grieveson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello. Mozilla is not working properly on my computer. How do I > completely remove it (including the configuration files) and then > reinstall it? When I've tried via synaptic, I'm told that all of gnome > will be removed with it. Is ther

Re: how do I reinstall Mozilla?

2005-11-06 Thread [KS]
Kent West wrote: > > This will not purge the user files, which may be where the problem lies. > > Rather than reinstalling moz, try starting it as a different user, or > try renaming your~/.mozilla directory to get it out of the way; then see > if Mozilla works properly. > > Also, you're not out

crossfire crashes

2005-11-06 Thread Alexandru Cardaniuc
Hi All! I decided to give a try to crossfire. I installed crossfire-client and crossfire-client-x11. Running $ cfclient opens a window and starts the game but when I choose the server to connect to - it crashes with errors: $ cfclient [ INFO ] (Version::common) $Id: rcs-id.h,v 1.2 2004/01/30 2

Temporary failure in name resolution (PPPoE)

2005-11-06 Thread Masatran (Rajasekaran Deepak)
I am using PPPoE to connect to the internet. For a few minutes after booting the computer and running "pppoe-start", I get this error: $ ssh research.iiit.ac.in ssh: research.iiit.ac.in: Temporary failure in name resolution How can I avoid this problem? -- Masatran (Rajasekaran Deepak)

Re: sata_sis on 2.4.27 vs 2.6.8

2005-11-06 Thread mikepolniak
On 16:18 Sat 05 Nov , Facundo Ariel Perez wrote: > I'm running a debian sarge on PIV / asus motherboard / using the 181 > chipset for my serial ata 80 gb drive. > It installs and runs ok using kernel 2.4.27 - but when I upgrade to > kernel 2.6.8 the systems crash on while booting just after sh

Re: grub kernel parameter

2005-11-06 Thread Dave Ewart
On Saturday, 05.11.2005 at 21:52 -0800, Kancha . wrote: > I have a system running sarge. The system had 1GB RAM > and I recently upgraded it to 2GB. The bios shows 2GB > RAM but on booting the system the OS shows just 1GB. I > tried passing mem=2048M kernel parameter but that > didn't work either.

symlink errors while installing java (Sun's jdk)

2005-11-06 Thread Albretch Mueller
Hi *, while installing java on an external drive using knoppix I got symlink errors each time a symlink was tried out: ./jdk-1_5_0_05-linux-i586.bin > file 2>&1 after spacing out of the License Agreement and starting the installation I got a total of actually 4 symlink errors, each and every

Does famd interferes with PostgreSQL?

2005-11-06 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
Hi, Does anyone know if famd (the file alteration monitor, which is installed standard (?) by Debian Sarge) interfere with PostgreSQL? I am having major problems with the performance of PostgreSQL on my machine... -- Groeten, Joost Kraaijeveld Askesis B.V. Molukkenstraat 14 6524NB Nijmegen te

Re: sarge: 2.6.14 kernel panics on boot

2005-11-06 Thread mikepolniak
On 15:41 Sun 06 Nov , Alex Teclo wrote: > >> Here is the entry in /boot/grub/menu.lst on machine A: > >> title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.14 > >> root (hd0,4) > >> kernel/vmlinuz-2.6.14 root=/dev/ataraid/d0p7 ro > >> initrd /initrd.img-2.6.14 > >> savedefa

Re: External SCSI Hard Drive Not Auto-mounting

2005-11-06 Thread mikepolniak
On 00:45 Sun 06 Nov , Scarletdown wrote: > I just recently installed an Adaptec AHA-2940UW SCSI adapter, so I could > make use of this spare 4.3GB external SCSI hard drive. Anyway, I > partitioned the drive and used mkfs to create an ext3 file system on it. > > I then created a mount point fo

Re: openoffice 2.0 fail on start (debian unstable)

2005-11-06 Thread yzhh
Thanks, Rene. I found the l10n-zh-cn package was deselected by dselect some time before. So I apt-get it again, and it's ok. I often use oowriter to open MS doc files. The default chinese font used in those docs is "SimSun", which is mapped to some unrecognized font in oo, making many chars displa

Re: sarge: 2.6.14 kernel panics on boot

2005-11-06 Thread Alex Teclo
>> Here is the entry in /boot/grub/menu.lst on machine A: >> title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.14 >> root (hd0,4) >> kernel/vmlinuz-2.6.14 root=/dev/ataraid/d0p7 ro >> initrd /initrd.img-2.6.14 >> savedefault >> boot >> >> But, when I boot machine A with this 2

Re: Can't write to external 160 gigs usb hard drive

2005-11-06 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 11:11:48PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 23:39 -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Writing to NTFS partitions is fraught with risk. If you need to > share data with MSFT systems, reformat the disk as FAT32. > Solution: connect it, start parted $ parted

Fw: root partition (reiserfs) mounting read-only on boot

2005-11-06 Thread Pablo Santiago Blum de Aguiar
The other day I received a message from another user with the same problem, I hope it will be useful to anyone who will come to face the read-only boot mounting issue. == Begin forwarded message == Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 22:17:59 -0900 From: Gunnar Hallgren To: pabloaguiar at brfree.com.br Subje

Re: Firefox throbber problem

2005-11-06 Thread John Hasler
KS writes: > I have unstable on my box. But I think the problem I was experiencing is > done now. I'm seeing the bug here on 1.0.7-1. > I created a new profile and tried to reproduce the problem. The problem > was not there in the new profile. I think it was possible due to the fact > that Firef

Re: how do I reinstall Mozilla?

2005-11-06 Thread Pooly
2005/11/6, Mark Grieveson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello. Mozilla is not working properly on my computer. How do I > completely remove it (including the configuration files) and then > reinstall it? When I've tried via synaptic, I'm told that all of gnome > will be removed with it. Is there a way

Re: php _SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"] is fixed ip address

2005-11-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 08:44:11PM +0800, KevinGao wrote: > I use debian sarge version > now I found a problem in php > when using > getenv("REMOTE_ADDR") or > _SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"] > return a fixed ip address,not my real internet ip address > but the same code is ok in an freebsd server > an

Re: how do I reinstall Mozilla?

2005-11-06 Thread Kent West
Philippe Grenard wrote: >Le Dimanche 06 Novembre 2005 09:13, Mark Grieveson a écrit : > > >>Hello. Mozilla is not working properly on my computer. How do I >>completely remove it (including the configuration files) and then >>reinstall it? When I've tried via synaptic, I'm told that all of gn

php _SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"] is fixed ip address

2005-11-06 Thread 高勇KevinGao
I use debian sarge version now I found a problem in php when using getenv("REMOTE_ADDR") or _SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"] return a fixed ip address,not my real internet ip address but the same code is ok in an freebsd server anyone can tell me why? --

Re: DVR software for linux

2005-11-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 05:31 -0600, Colin Ingram wrote: > Does anyone know of any DVR software for Debian (or even just > GNU/Linux). Im looking for something like this proprietary software. > > > http://www.snapstream.com/products/beyondtv/ MythTV & Freevo. -- ---

DVR software for linux

2005-11-06 Thread Colin Ingram
Does anyone know of any DVR software for Debian (or even just GNU/Linux). Im looking for something like this proprietary software. http://www.snapstream.com/products/beyondtv/ thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PRO

Fw: root partition (reiserfs) mounting read-only on boot

2005-11-06 Thread Pablo S. Blum de Aguiar
The other day I received a message from another user with the same problem, I hope it will be useful to anyone who will come to face the read-only boot mounting issue. == Begin forwarded message == Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 22:17:59 -0900 From: Gunnar Hallgren To: pabloaguiar at brfree.com.br Subje

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Exim4 & TLS

2005-11-06 Thread Marco
Hi all, I have a problem with exim4-daemon-heavy (v 4.50-8) and TLS support. I have this error on my exim mainlog: 2005-11-01 00:00:00 TLS error on connection from ..IP. ([.IP]) [...IP.] (gnutls_hand shake): A TLS packet with unexpected length was receive

Re: sarge: 2.6.14 kernel panics on boot

2005-11-06 Thread Simo Kauppi
On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 11:43:06PM +0100, Alex Teclo wrote: > I am having problems with a 2.6.14 kernel. [snip] Probably not relevant, but is the typo only in the mail or in the actual menu.lst file as well? > Here is the entry in /boot/grub/menu.lst on machine A: > title Debian GNU/Li

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