Re: apps Re: Question on backups using rsync

2005-12-21 Thread Daniel Webb
Alvin, Thank you, you have answered my question. I apologize for being rude, I should not have worded it that way. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

video card problem

2005-12-21 Thread akoman
Hi! I have an onboard video card (82915g) and I could not configure the x windows properly. I tried to find driver on the internet but It seems there is no that kind of driver. Or actually i found one but it is an rpm packet which is for the suse not for the debian! help me! :) Thanks a

Re: apps Re: Question on backups using rsync

2005-12-21 Thread Alvin Oga
hiya daniel On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, Daniel Webb wrote: > That's exactly what I'm saying: your tar | gpg methodology has not accounted > for the chance of a few flipped bits, because if it had, it wouldn't lead to > massive data loss, which it does. Compressing/encrypting after archiving is > infer

VPN client to Windows network

2005-12-21 Thread Bob Hynes
Is there a commonly used VPN client for Debian? I'd like to vpn to a windows network at work, but I'm not sure if there is something that works like the VPN client built in to XP (which is what I currently use). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

post install tidbits? [was Help with Linux selection please?]

2005-12-21 Thread Chinook
post install tidbits? [was Help with Linux selection please?] Well, you-all steered me right :-) for my needs - thank you. I feel so much cleaner now that there is no Windoze system in the house. If one does their homework and has decent supported hardware, it's a piece of cake :-P Though bein

ALSA keeps going away

2005-12-21 Thread John and Holly Klug
Every time I run alsaconf, ALSA comes back. When I reboot, it goes away. Sounds from the gnome desktop always work fine. I tried manually doing "alsactl store" as suggested in the archives, but it did not help. I have driver cs46xx, which I have manually put in /etc/modules, since the hotp

can't load fglrx

2005-12-21 Thread ericradt
i am install ati driver 8.20.8 in my system,kernel2.6.14 patch with ' vesafb',but now i can't loadthe fglrx modules,    when i run modprobe fglrx with bash,there are    this error in terminal    "FATAL: Error inserting fglrx     (/lib/modules/2.6.14/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.ko):    Operation n

Re: Remote Desktop to Windows server

2005-12-21 Thread Kent West
Bob Hynes wrote: > Can anyone tell me exactly what I need to do to a remote desktop > session from a Debian workstation to a Windows 2000 server? I can do > it easily from Windows XP, but I don't really know the steps for > Debian or the syntax involved. I tried looking this up in the KDE help > f

Re: apps Re: Question on backups using rsync

2005-12-21 Thread Daniel Webb
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 06:36:23PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > if you don't trust find|tar ... you have major problems with the machine's > reliability and these brand new commands nobody used for 30 yrs :-) > > using any other "favorite backup programs" will suffer the same fate of > losing "huge

Remote Desktop to Windows server

2005-12-21 Thread Bob Hynes
Can anyone tell me exactly what I need to do to a remote desktop session from a Debian workstation to a Windows 2000 server? I can do it easily from Windows XP, but I don't really know the steps for Debian or the syntax involved. I tried looking this up in the KDE help file, but it's pretty use

Re: X 7.0 .debs????

2005-12-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 21:59 -0600, Miguel Enrique Cobá Martínez wrote: > Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > >> So, X.org 7.0 is out? When will it be in Etch? Tomorrow, right? > >> > > > > Ron, > > > > I know that you know better than that :-) > > > > You've been around long e

Re: Help with Linux selection please?

2005-12-21 Thread Arafangion
On Thursday 22 December 2005 15:13, CaT wrote: > On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 10:31:56PM +1100, Arafangion wrote: > > Personally, I feel that if one says that they are willing to _pay_, the > > test should not recommend Debian, but rather the commercial > > distributions, that > > How is being willing t

RE: [SPAM] Re: Internet Connection

2005-12-21 Thread Ed Paris
Hi Arden, I can ping my ISP from the laptop. I cannot ping my ISP from Linux through the laptop. I never configured Linux to go directly to the ISP. I will try to set this up so I can try to ping directly from Linux. Thanks for your time. Take care, Ed -Original Message- From: arden

Re: Help with Linux selection please?

2005-12-21 Thread CaT
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 10:31:56PM +1100, Arafangion wrote: > Personally, I feel that if one says that they are willing to _pay_, the test > should not recommend Debian, but rather the commercial distributions, that How is being willing to pay for something because you feel you have to (for exam

Re: A Question

2005-12-21 Thread David Parker
> When you boot up with the promise card in, does it show on your > screen > (the next page after it shows all your drives)? This is one of the weirder parts of the problem. The Promise BIOS comes up after the POST, but it says no drives are detected. However, when Debian booted, the drive was

Re: X 7.0 .debs????

2005-12-21 Thread Miguel Enrique Cobá Martínez
Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > >> So, X.org 7.0 is out? When will it be in Etch? Tomorrow, right? >> > > Ron, > > I know that you know better than that :-) > > You've been around long enough to know that it takes a while for things > to happen in Debian. Now, I do know that Da

Re: Mozilla 1.5 download directory

2005-12-21 Thread Richard
2005/12/22, Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi all > > I am using Sid and it seems i found a bug in de latest mozilla > package. I am not sure if this is a mozilla bug or a debian package > bug so i ask here if more people can confirm this. I am also using KDE > and every time when i download somet

Mozilla 1.5 download directory

2005-12-21 Thread Richard
Hi all I am using Sid and it seems i found a bug in de latest mozilla package. I am not sure if this is a mozilla bug or a debian package bug so i ask here if more people can confirm this. I am also using KDE and every time when i download something it is dropped in de /home/user/Desktop director

apps Re: Question on backups using rsync

2005-12-21 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, Daniel Webb wrote: > On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 02:16:29AM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > One nit to pick here: > > > - find | tar | gpg meeets all of my requirements for most all possible > > potential disasters and recovery > > As I describe on my backup page, that's a te

Re: X 7.0 .debs????

2005-12-21 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Ron Johnson wrote: So, X.org 7.0 is out? When will it be in Etch? Tomorrow, right? Ron, I know that you know better than that :-) You've been around long enough to know that it takes a while for things to happen in Debian. Now, I do know that David Nusinow (I believe that is how you spe

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Re: Limited sudo access

2005-12-21 Thread Steve Kemp
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 07:42:44PM -0500, T wrote: > But it doesn't work. I must have syntax errors. Can you help please? Does visudo not give errors? This is what I use and have working: --- # User alias specification User_Alias FULLTIMERS = steve # Cmnd alias specification Cmnd_Ali

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Limited sudo access

2005-12-21 Thread T
Hi, I want to give myself limited sudo access to a selected list of commands, without specfiying the sudo passwords. This is what I put into the visudo: - - - - >8 - - - - # Cmnd alias specification Cmnd_Alias DISK= /bin/mount, /bin/umount, /usr/bin/eject, /sbin/fdisk # User privilege

Re: Promise card

2005-12-21 Thread Tom Pfeifer
FWIW, I have the same Promise card as you (Ultra 133 TX2). The module (driver) it needs is included in the 2.4 and 2.6 kernels (at least) and should show up as 'pdc202xx_new' when you run the 'lsmod' command - if it is, in fact, loaded and compiled as a module. It can also be compiled directly into

Re: binutils bug (Debian bug 336022 )

2005-12-21 Thread NZG
Ok, after all my badmouthing I finally get it. The new binutils fully supports 16 bit operations so it has become pickier when it comes to syntax. saying movl when you mean movw no longer cuts it because it really will try to move a long. I guess this makes sense. I wish it would have been annou

custom debian install cd

2005-12-21 Thread jack
Hola, I need to create a custom install cd using a 2.6 kernel that has support for extra sata raid drivers. I've found a few sites on how to tackle the issue: (for example: http://public.www.planetmirror.com/pub/debian-netinst/kveton/) ...though all HOWTO's i've found are using the same tech

Re: linux-image/ramdisk/boot problem

2005-12-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 14:52:09 +0100 Torquil Macdonald Sørensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have tried with and without forcing yaird to include the piix and/or > ide_generic drivers on the ramdisk. Didn't get a chance to try myself, but you should need the ide_generic and ide_disk HTH Andrei

Re: binutils bug (Debian bug 336022 )

2005-12-21 Thread NZG
Ah, there they are, the mythical seg patches. I just needed to follow the thread into the bug report. http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils/linux-2.4-seg-4.patch http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils/linux-2.6-seg-5.patch Sorry if I've seemed OT here, but anyone who builds the k

X 7.0 .debs????

2005-12-21 Thread Ron Johnson
So, X.org 7.0 is out? When will it be in Etch? Tomorrow, right? -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA "Yes, indeed, C isn't 'trendy' enough in the same way gas lighting isn't trendy enough: it's dangerous and it's completely ob

binutils bug (Debian bug 336022 )

2005-12-21 Thread NZG
Hmm, it appears the the debian testing binutils "works fine" but all previous kernel versions have invalid assembly code, which binutils just now decided to start noticing. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-binutils/2005-04/msg00152.html It would be funny if I wasn't breaking all my stuff.

Re: udevstart

2005-12-21 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello, this is a bug, and I have just reported it. Jerome Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List, I work on a daily updated Testing box: I have just realised that `udevstart' is no more there. Is it a bug ? is a it feature ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- Jerome BENOIT jgmbenoit_at_mailsnare_dot_n

Re: Gdesklets Doesn't Connect to Daemon

2005-12-21 Thread Mike Ward
I think that's probably what I did, since it just sort of started working after a dist-upgrade. Thanks for the reply :)On 12/8/05, Jorge Filipe Custódio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Hi Mike, I had the same problem. Its seems that this is a python bug because thegdesklets daemon is always crashing wit

Re: root can not delete a directory ,why?

2005-12-21 Thread Robert Brockway
On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, Gene Heskett wrote: Humm, you weren't perchance cd'd into the directory? Actually unix will let you delete a directory that is in use. Harley Hahn once described this as sawing off the branch you are sitting on. Eg: $mkdir /tmp/foo $cd /tmp/foo $rmdir /tmp/foo $pwd /t

Re: Editing textareas in opera/firefox with external editor

2005-12-21 Thread Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragao
Michael Ott wrote on Dec, 21: [...] > > Would anybody know if Opera or Firefox have something equivalent to the > > mozex > > extension for Mozilla ? I used mozex heavily for editing textareas with vim > > and spawning mutt to handle mailto links. I'm trying to switch from Mozilla > > to > >

Re: Editing textareas in opera/firefox with external editor

2005-12-21 Thread Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragao
Richard Hector wrote on Dec, 22: > > Would anybody know if Opera or Firefox have something equivalent to the > > mozex extension for Mozilla ? I used mozex heavily for editing textareas > > with vim and spawning mutt to handle mailto links. I'm trying to switch > > from Mozilla to Opera or Firef

Re: NIC PnP

2005-12-21 Thread Dave Whelan
I had no loopback network device enabled in /etc/network/interfaces (found and corrected courtesy of an old email in this list by Karen M. Self: much obliged Karen) and IRQ10 was configured for pci/pnp in my pre-boot hardware set up (now changed to isa/eisa); The latest state is that now at least t

Re: cyrus21-imapd: Tell cyrdeliver to deliver not only to INBOX

2005-12-21 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, Jim MacBaine wrote: > However cyrdeliver seem no longer to be able to put mail in mailboxes > other than the INBOX. Postfix invokes Procmail for local delivery and Make sure the ACLs allow posting from *anyone* on all incoming folders. Make sure no Sieve script is doing anyth

Re: Editing textareas in opera/firefox with external editor

2005-12-21 Thread Michael Ott
Hello Paulo! > Would anybody know if Opera or Firefox have something equivalent to the mozex > extension for Mozilla ? I used mozex heavily for editing textareas with vim > and spawning mutt to handle mailto links. I'm trying to switch from Mozilla > to > Opera or Firefox but have just realize

Re: Subscription

2005-12-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 21 December 2005 13:00, Solis, Mirna wrote: >Good morning. > At risk of being flamed for top posting, I have to ask if you really, truely, intended to send this to the debian-user mailing list. It really, truely has nothing to do with your problem that I can conjure up. > >Back in

Re: dev address of serial ata

2005-12-21 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Wednesday 21 December 2005 16:08, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > The disk I ordered turned out to be SATA. I thought I ordered ATA. I > was wrong. > > If the master in IDE0 is /dev/hda and the master in IDE1 is /dev/hdc, > the master in SATA1 is /dev/hde? > > Thanks! > > H Mine shows up as /d

Re: root can not delete a directory ,why?

2005-12-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 21 December 2005 12:53, Realos wrote: >hi, > >I am completely at loss. I can not delete following empty directory > as root. > >drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 8192 Dec 21 18:14 kolab > >I tried "rm -rf kolab", "rmdir -f kolab", "rm -fd kolab" but nothing >works. >Error message is: > >rm: c

Mailman

2005-12-21 Thread Raquel Rice
I just ran into a problem with Mailman archives. I have Mailman 2.1.5 installed on Sarge. Private archives weren't working properly and so I got to digging around, plus asking questions on the Mailman user list. Come to find out, one of the files, "private" has been renamed to "private.bad", I a

Re: installing amd64 kernel

2005-12-21 Thread Wackojacko
Aaron Stromas wrote: Greetings, I received a number of advices on installation of my AMD Athlon 64 machine. This far I only was successful with (K)ubuntu. At one time I thought I got the Debian daily installer to detect my built-in nVidia Ethernet, but I was wrong. I've burned too many CDs

Re: cyrus21-imapd: Tell cyrdeliver to deliver not only to INBOX

2005-12-21 Thread Chuck Norwood
> Hello, > > yesterday I upgraded my email server at home from Woody to Sarge. The > mails are stored on an cyrus imap server which got upgraded as well to > cyrus21-imapd. The transition as described in the upgrading script > worked pretty good and all mails and folders are still accessible. > How

Kernel hangs trying to speak to DVD-ROM

2005-12-21 Thread David Dasenbrook
Hello, I have this weird problem, and I would appreciate if someone could give me a hint on how to solve it: Whenever I connect a DVD-ROM drive (ANY DVD-Drive, not just a specific one) to my computer via the onboard IDE-connector, I cannot boot any more. The last message the kernel prints (actu

Re: Question on backups using rsync

2005-12-21 Thread Daniel Webb
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 02:16:29AM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: One nit to pick here: > - find | tar | gpg meeets all of my requirements for most all possible > potential disasters and recovery As I describe on my backup page, that's a terrible idea. One corrupt bit and you lose *huge* amounts o

Re: Re: Help with Linux selection please?

2005-12-21 Thread Daniel Webb
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 01:31:19PM -0500, Frye, David CIV wrote: > > >Once you've tried these for a week or so, then slide to a Debian > >install. Debian stable will work well - but "feels" very old > >to some people. > > > I prefer Debian stable. I just want my laptop to work without having t

dev address of serial ata

2005-12-21 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, The disk I ordered turned out to be SATA. I thought I ordered ATA. I was wrong. If the master in IDE0 is /dev/hda and the master in IDE1 is /dev/hdc, the master in SATA1 is /dev/hde? Thanks! H -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Re: bug 336022 closed but not fixed(broken binutils)

2005-12-21 Thread moonunit
I had this problem when compiling kernel 2.4.27. The fault, as you have found, was with binutilts. I applied a patch from kernel.org for 2.4 kernels. Just gone there and noticed there is, or so I assume, a patch for 2.6 kernels. Anyway, here they are... http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/bi

cyrus21-imapd: Tell cyrdeliver to deliver not only to INBOX

2005-12-21 Thread Jim MacBaine
Hello, yesterday I upgraded my email server at home from Woody to Sarge. The mails are stored on an cyrus imap server which got upgraded as well to cyrus21-imapd. The transition as described in the upgrading script worked pretty good and all mails and folders are still accessible. However cyrdeli

Re: unsubscribe

2005-12-21 Thread Björn Lindström
bilbo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As it was said before. They still manage to read that you should type > unsubscribe as a subject. So how to teach them to read 'til the end..? How about putting a link to the web interface for unsubscribing in the footer, instead of the current instructions?

Re: Promise card

2005-12-21 Thread David A. Parker
Did you have to get any special drivers for your cards? I thought it might be a driver issue, but I was unable to locate any. Thanks, Dave uniqx wrote: I, too, am using a Western Digital 120 BG w/8 buffer. Also, an 80G WDdrive (both 7200). Both in one system. In another system (sarg

Re: NIC PnP

2005-12-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
Dave Whelan wrote: Thanks Andrew. I should have written "...but cannot access the nic". I do have the driver installed, but the syslog files don't show the NIC. I know, but sometimes its the really simple things... actual conversation follows wife "I can't get the car door open" me "did y

Re: Shutdown w/o root password.

2005-12-21 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 11:19:45AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: [...] > if I log in CLI as non-root user, run startx, then what does gdm run as? > root again? just curious. Running startx should not start gdm at all - unless you have a very odd .xinitrc indeed. signature.asc Description:

Re: unsubscribe

2005-12-21 Thread bilbo
> All my siblings here are based on the assumption that people actually > read And that's clearly not a reasonable assumption. I mean, how > many times do you just want to respond RTFM instead of actually helping? As it was said before. They still manage to read that you should type unsubscri

Re: unsubscribe

2005-12-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
David Kirchner wrote: On 12/20/05, Almut Behrens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sometimes I'm wondering whether it's that very "REQUEST" being capitalized that's confusing people -- and whether simply using "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" would make it appear more like a regular email address after all. I

Cannot connect to internet or printer

2005-12-21 Thread Ken Heard
I have sarge in a P3 computer. For months I have been able from it to connect to the internet and also to print through a print server using CUPS. Since boot-up on Sunday morning 18 December I was able to connect to the internet and print. Suddenly, by Sunday evening was unable to do either.

Re: centericq and sarge

2005-12-21 Thread Mike
> On 6 Dec 2005 03:32:01 -0800, David A. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I use centericq on unstable. > > I also use it on unstable. If you use sarge, you could install the > version that comes with unstable. > >> I know MSN protocol has changed recently. And althogh I am online on >> MSN I see no MS

Re: Shutdown w/o root password.

2005-12-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
Glenn English wrote: On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 21:15 -0300, Gabriel wrote: So you mean that whenever I use Gnome I'm running with root permissions? No. When you log in, you're you. It's gdm that runs as root. Do 'ps aux | grep gdm' and look at the username. if I log in CLI as non-root u

Re: OT: Leet-speak WAS:[Help with Linux selection please?]

2005-12-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 06:44:27AM -0200, Rog?rio Brito wrote: Ah! I see. We should have a debian-user-leet list. For native leet-speakers, of course. now that's just darn funny. A -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Question on backups using rsync

2005-12-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
Joey Hess wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: I have, in the past, with rdiff-backup to my fileserver (located in the same room), but that is not a great solution as the fileserver is subject to the same failure modes as my main machine (fire etc), but worked fine for recovering from my own

Re: Mailing list question

2005-12-21 Thread Eduardo Gargiulo
You can check the status of some variables (myposts) sending a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] putting set in the subject. You can force the value using "set myposts on" in the subject. Try putting help to get a list of available commands of mailman for your subscription. regards, --ejg @sf.net --

Re: Mailing list question

2005-12-21 Thread Michael Marsh
On 12/21/05, Steve Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 01:15:24PM -0500, David A. Parker wrote: > >When I post to this list, I do not currently get a copy of that message > >back from the list, but I would like to. Other mailing lists I am on do > >this, and it is handy beca

Re: Re: Help with Linux selection please?

2005-12-21 Thread Frye, David CIV
>Once you've tried these for a week or so, then slide to a Debian >install. Debian stable will work well - but "feels" very old >to some people. I prefer Debian stable. I just want my laptop to work without having to spend time trying to figure out problems that pop into unstable and testing.

Re: bug 336022 closed but not fixed(broken binutils)

2005-12-21 Thread Hendrik Sattler
NZG wrote: > I'm having the same problem described in bug 336022. > After upgrading binutils to the most recent testing version I cannot > compile any kernel other than 2.6.14. > This bug was closed with the recommendation to upgrade you binutils and/or > use a more recent kernel. > > I have done

Re: Mailing list question

2005-12-21 Thread Steve Block
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 01:15:24PM -0500, David A. Parker wrote: Hello, When I post to this list, I do not currently get a copy of that message back from the list, but I would like to. Other mailing lists I am on do this, and it is handy because I know the message actually got posted, plus I

Subscription

2005-12-21 Thread Solis, Mirna
Good morning.   Back in october, I sent you a subscription requisition under Saul Orbezo’s name attaching the credit card information for the payment, but I did not receive the invoice for this subscription.  Would you, please, send it to me?   Please send it to the following address:

Mailing list question

2005-12-21 Thread David A. Parker
Hello, When I post to this list, I do not currently get a copy of that message back from the list, but I would like to. Other mailing lists I am on do this, and it is handy because I know the message actually got posted, plus I can sort messages by thread and mine are included in there. Does

Re: linux-image/ramdisk/boot problem

2005-12-21 Thread Paul Scott
Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: Greetings! After a linux-kernel-2.6.14-2-686 upgrade a couple of weeks ago (snip) ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx /bin/cat: /sys/block/hda/dev: No such file or directory Waiting 1 seconds for /sys/block/hda/

Re: root can not delete a directory ,why?

2005-12-21 Thread Realos
hallo, > Realos wanted us to know: >I am completely at loss. I can not delete following empty directory as root. > >drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 8192 Dec 21 18:14 kolab Well, it was a mountpoint for some partition. umounting the partition allowed rm operation. regards, -- Realos -- To UNSUB

Re: Promise card

2005-12-21 Thread David A. Parker
Thanks for your reply. It's probably not worth having you switch out your cards right now, but the offer is appreciated. What kind of drives do you have connected to your Ultra 100 cards? I should have mentioned before that this was a Western Digital 120 GB drive w/ 8 MB buffer, connected to

bug 336022 closed but not fixed(broken binutils)

2005-12-21 Thread NZG
I'm having the same problem described in bug 336022. After upgrading binutils to the most recent testing version I cannot compile any kernel other than 2.6.14. This bug was closed with the recommendation to upgrade you binutils and/or use a more recent kernel. I have done both, but the problem r

root can not delete a directory ,why?

2005-12-21 Thread Realos
hi, I am completely at loss. I can not delete following empty directory as root. drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 8192 Dec 21 18:14 kolab I tried "rm -rf kolab", "rmdir -f kolab", "rm -fd kolab" but nothing works. Error message is: rm: cannot remove directory `kolab': Device or resource busy There i

udevstart

2005-12-21 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, I work on a daily updated Testing box: I have just realised that `udevstart' is no more there. Is it a bug ? is a it feature ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- Jerome BENOIT jgmbenoit_at_mailsnare_dot_net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

nVidia and the Black Screen Problem

2005-12-21 Thread moonunit
Hello I have just recompiled my kernel, now running 2.4.27. I compiled the nvidia kernel from source 0.7174 (I have a TNT card) and the module installation went smoothly, nvidia-glx for 0.7174 was also installed. However, I now have a black screen whenever I try to run X with the nvidia dri

Why is OpenOffice.org help in contrib?

2005-12-21 Thread Paul van der Vlis
Hello, Why are the help-packages for OpenOffice.org 2 in contrib, and not in main? I don't see dependencies for non-free software. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/doc/openoffice.org-help-en-us With regards, Paul van der Vlis. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

RE: [SPAM] Re: Internet Connection

2005-12-21 Thread Ed Paris
Hi Johannes,   I have worked on /etc/network/interfaces and so will check to see if I messed up there.   Many thanks.   Ed   -Original Message- From: Johannes Wiedersich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 2:08 AM To: Ed Paris Cc: debian-user@lists.

RE: [SPAM] Re: Internet Connection

2005-12-21 Thread Ed Paris
Hi Arden,   I have only one dial-up line.  The Linux machine is intended to be an in-house server with only occasionally being used to go outside.  One of the outside purposes being to get updates.    I will try to ping the outside from Linux and let you know the results.   I will tr

Re: Mdadm raid1 "broken" after kernel upgrade.

2005-12-21 Thread Clive Menzies
On (21/12/05 15:47), Jonathan Opperman wrote: > Hi All, > > Can someone please point me in the right direction with this? I've > looked on > google etc but can not find a solution to it, I will really appreciate > it if I can get > this working as before I did a kernel upgrade... > > Before ke

Re: [OT] Gmail POP fails

2005-12-21 Thread Steven Wheelwright
On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 02:55:58AM +0200, roach wrote: > Hi, > > Anybody got any ideas how to get mail out of a POP account that claims to > have When you do get it all worked out, there is a setting in GMail to make all mail accessible through POP. I would also try disabling POP for your aount

Re: debian print server

2005-12-21 Thread Sarunas Burdulis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Arafangion wrote: > On Wednesday 21 December 2005 01:53, Clive Menzies wrote: > > >>Well, you don't need X; use lynx as a browser and use cups and if you're >>serving windows clients, samba. > > > I have a suspicion that windows no-longer requires

Promise Ultra133 TX2

2005-12-21 Thread David A. Parker
Hello, Has anyone ever gotten the Promise Ultra133 TX2 IDE controller card to work well in sarge? I tried, but I/O with the drive attached to it was unstable at best, and eventually it just didn't work at all. I ended up with all sorts of CRC errors in my logs, and the drive would only mount

Re: How to bring HD activity to a minimum

2005-12-21 Thread Alvin Oga
On 21 Dec 2005, David A. wrote: > Hello, > > since spring I run Debian on a EPIA PD-6000E, a complete fanless > system. Noise is a big issue since it's running in my bedroom. network boot, booting off compact flash, booting off usb will make that box "quiet", or boot a distro off /boot and no o

Re: installing amd64 kernel

2005-12-21 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Aaron Stromas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 12/21/05, Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Aaron Stromas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Finally, assuming I succeed in setting up the system the way I > like, can I > > simply edit the sources fil

cyrus authenication problems

2005-12-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I had some problems with authenication on my computer after update (I am running testing). Now authenication works fine, but cyrus authenication doesn't work correctly. If I am tring to test: # testsaslauthd -u vadim -p xx 0: OK "Success." but # imtest -u vadim -w xx localhost S: * OK kutsyy.c

Re: PAM Authenication problems

2005-12-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
coping these files from /var/backups to /etc/ fixed the problem. Thanks, PS: I still have no idea what happened, and somehow cyrus authenication is brocken. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to bring HD activity to a minimum

2005-12-21 Thread David A.
Hello, since spring I run Debian on a EPIA PD-6000E, a complete fanless system. Noise is a big issue since it's running in my bedroom. I use "noflushd -n 5" to spin down hd, noflushd is "aptable". I also use ext2. "man syslog.conf" - there are some options here to sinlence syslogd. "man syslogd"

Re: How to bring HD activity to a minimum

2005-12-21 Thread Adam James
On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 22:40 +0100, MrVanes wrote: > Can anybody tell me where to look or how to find out what process is writing > to (or reading from) the HD that makes spindown in a single HD system > impossible? > I use a homebrewn kernel (2.6.14). Is or are there kernel option(s) that > check t

strange behaviour

2005-12-21 Thread Nikhil Prabhakar
Hi, I created a link on my GNOME desktop and when I tried to select a custom icon,icon did not change.What could be the problem? Regards Nikhil

Editing textareas in opera/firefox with external editor

2005-12-21 Thread Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragao
Would anybody know if Opera or Firefox have something equivalent to the mozex extension for Mozilla ? I used mozex heavily for editing textareas with vim and spawning mutt to handle mailto links. I'm trying to switch from Mozilla to Opera or Firefox but have just realized that mozex is just too

Mdadm raid1 "broken" after kernel upgrade.

2005-12-21 Thread Jonathan Opperman
Hi All, Can someone please point me in the right direction with this? I've looked on google etc but can not find a solution to it, I will really appreciate it if I can get this working as before I did a kernel upgrade... Before kernel: Partitioning scheme: RAID1 mdadm -Q /dev/md0 /dev/md0:

mdadm raid1 not working as before kernel upgrade.

2005-12-21 Thread Jonathan Opperman
Hi All, Can someone please point me in the right direction with this? I've looked on google etc but can not find a solution to it, I will really appreciate it if I can get this working as before I did a kernel upgrade... Before kernel: Partitioning scheme: RAID1 mdadm -Q /dev/md0 /dev/md0:

Debian Libraries and Broken Systems

2005-12-21 Thread Martin McCormick
I rebuilt my Debian sarge system last june from the installation image and the network. It is one of the most stable and healthy-looking installations I have ever had. I recently tried to install an emulator for the PIC microcontrollers which needs a number of libraries in order to build.

Mdadm raid1 "broken" after kernel upgrade.

2005-12-21 Thread Jonathan Opperman
Hi All, Can someone please point me in the right direction with this? I've looked on google etc but can not find a solution to it, I will really appreciate it if I can get this working as before I did a kernel upgrade... Before kernel: Partitioning scheme: RAID1 mdadm -Q /dev/md0 /dev/md0:

Re: installing amd64 kernel

2005-12-21 Thread Aaron Stromas
On 12/21/05, Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Aaron Stromas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:> Finally, assuming I succeed in setting up the system the way I like, can I > simply edit the sources file to return back to the Debian fold?You are assuming wrong.You will run into several probl

Fwd: [PATCH] solution: Fails to close session for DVD+R on some PIONEER drives

2005-12-21 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Forwarded from debian-user, just to make sure the maintainer sees this. -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: [PATCH] solution: Fails to close session for DVD+R on some PIONEER drives Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 09:10 From: T <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Hi, Sor

Re: Wordpress

2005-12-21 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 10:16:03AM -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > I'm trying to install Wordpress on a Debian 3.1 system. Make sure you make regular visits to wordpress.org, if you are using their tarball, in order to find out about security releases. They have an announce list that they do not us

linux-image/ramdisk/boot problem

2005-12-21 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Greetings! After a linux-kernel-2.6.14-2-686 upgrade a couple of weeks ago something went wrong with yaird, and it failed to generate a ramdisk. Thougtless as I was, I forgot to fix the problem before I rebooted, and my computer was then unbootable. After that, every attempt I have made to instal

Re: (no subject)

2005-12-21 Thread Arafangion
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please advise on removing AOL art from my computer Thank you A rasor blade should suffice. Just be careful not to scratch the screen too badly. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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