Re: Release cycle

2006-03-10 Thread Michael M
On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 22:23 -0600, David Berg wrote: > I don't know if there's a good way to ask this question, and am very > tempted to just hit cancel now... > > I'm curious to know when etch might freeze. Now, before you all jump > on me and tell me "its ready when its ready", let me clarify.

Re: VNC client/server combo doing VNC over HTTP

2006-03-10 Thread Mark Fletcher
nullman wrote: 2 short infos to clarify : 1. VNC over http doesn´t exist Is that strictly true? Both [EMAIL PROTECTED] and RealVNC Personal Edition offer a version that allows access through a web browser on the client side, specifically to be more firewall-friendly; what are they doing i

Printer queue not getting flushed

2006-03-10 Thread TAC Forums
Hi We have a HP 1200 printer connected to an Debian GNU/Linux workstation/server (Terminal Server) The printer works fine, however occationally, the queue in the printer suddendly shows 2000+ odd jobs to be pending, wheras these jobs do get executed. Its just that the cache does not get cleared.

Re: Windows won't boot!

2006-03-10 Thread Kent West
Gregory Seidman wrote: By installing Sarge I have somehow rendered my friend's Windows system unbootable. The original configuration was two 200GB drives, hda and hdb. Windows XP was on hda and the other drive was apparently empty. I repartitioned hdb as part of the Sarge install, removing the

Re: APT -- if I do this will I screw the pooch?

2006-03-10 Thread Mark Fletcher
Andrew Cady wrote: On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 12:36:39AM -0500, Mark Fletcher wrote: I have all the packages downloaded in my /var/cache/apt/archives directory. I don't want the notebook to have to download them all again [...] After reading the man pages on apt, apt.conf, aptitude

Crash with XFS file system -> random empty files

2006-03-10 Thread Joel Johnson
I'm running debian unstable with the latest 2.6.15 kernel with my root on the XFS filesystem and had a system crash last night (working on debugging S3 suspend with ehci-hcd). When I tried to load it this morning it had problems with modprobe (and, come to find out, other critical binaries). This

Windows won't boot!

2006-03-10 Thread Gregory Seidman
By installing Sarge I have somehow rendered my friend's Windows system unbootable. The original configuration was two 200GB drives, hda and hdb. Windows XP was on hda and the other drive was apparently empty. I repartitioned hdb as part of the Sarge install, removing the unused NTFS partition and

Re: Release cycle

2006-03-10 Thread Steve Lamb
Marc Shapiro said: > Personally, my theory on the REAL reason that the release cycles have > been getting so long is that we are running out of "Toy Story" character > names. What do we do when there are no more characters left? Start working through Monsters, Inc.? I mean what's cooler than

Re: Release cycle

2006-03-10 Thread Marc Shapiro
David Berg wrote: I'm curious to know when etch might freeze. Now, before you all jump on me and tell me "its ready when its ready", let me clarify. I'm not looking for a date, or a month, or even a year necessarily as I realize they would all be guesses. Perhaps I could get the best answer b

Re: Release cycle

2006-03-10 Thread Justin Guerin
David Berg wrote: > I don't know if there's a good way to ask this question, and am very > tempted to just hit cancel now... > > I'm curious to know when etch might freeze. Now, before you all jump > on me and tell me "its ready when its ready", let me clarify. I'm not > looking for a date, or

Re: Release cycle

2006-03-10 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 10:23:48PM -0600, David Berg wrote: > I don't know if there's a good way to ask this question, and am very > tempted to just hit cancel now... > > I'm curious to know when etch might freeze. Now, before you all jump > on me and tell me "its ready when its ready", let me cl

ITE 8212 INSTALL

2006-03-10 Thread Forrest Fuqua | JRWR | Woody
im trying to install debian on a hardrive that is on a ite 8212 card in IDE/ATAPI mode, so far ive had no luck at all, i whant to install debian testing if i can, (with the linux26) --

Re: Release cycle

2006-03-10 Thread John Schmidt
On Friday 10 March 2006 21:23, David Berg wrote: > I don't know if there's a good way to ask this question, and am very > tempted to just hit cancel now... > > I'm curious to know when etch might freeze. Now, before you all jump > on me and tell me "its ready when its ready", let me clarify. I'm

Release cycle

2006-03-10 Thread David Berg
I don't know if there's a good way to ask this question, and am very tempted to just hit cancel now... I'm curious to know when etch might freeze. Now, before you all jump on me and tell me "its ready when its ready", let me clarify. I'm not looking for a date, or a month, or even a year necessa

Hardware

2006-03-10 Thread William Roca
Hi, my name is William.  I am about to install Debian Operating System, but I have a problem.  While trying to install, I got a message that said: “no Ethernet card detected”.  Could you help?   Thank you.   WRoca  

Re: Re: Direct Rendering not working on my system

2006-03-10 Thread paul . dale
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Xvnc does not run with "wait = yes"

2006-03-10 Thread wolfgang pauli
Hi, Sorry for forgetting the subject in the previous mail. I hope someone can help me with this. I am trying to run a vncserver with xinetd, it works fine as long as I use wait=no, but I really need the functionality of it with wait=yes. I think it worked with inetd, so it

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2006-03-10 Thread wolfgang pauli
Hi, I hope someone can help me with this. I am trying to run a vncserver with xinetd, it works fine as long as I use wait=no, but I really need the functionality of it with wait=yes. I think it worked with inetd, so it should not be a problem of the vncserver but a configuration pro

Re: Direct Rendering not working on my system

2006-03-10 Thread cga
Abhishek Verma wrote: Hi, I am using a Compaq Presario System. Don't know this machine It has a 915 Chipset. .. or the chipset.. Direct rendering is not working on my system, even though it was working earlier when I had Fedore Core 3 installed on my system. good news.. so it's possi

dial isp

2006-03-10 Thread mess-mate
Hi, i've configured a debian-router with dhcp on eth0 -> internet and eth1 to the LAN. The dhclient search (on eth0) results in a link down. and of course there isn't any connexion to the internet. What have i omitted or misconfigured ? route is ok eth1 is ok but there is no 'inet addr' on eth0 (

Re: problem in BOINC compiling

2006-03-10 Thread Chris Lale
Marco Calviani wrote: Hi list, i'm trying to compile from source the BOINC infrastructure program. During the compiling process it claims that it needs the GLUT libraries and that wxWidgets package is not enough new. However i have both freeglut3 and freeglut3-dev installed and also libglut3 a

Re: URGENT: slamr.ko for Sarge (2.6.8-2-386)

2006-03-10 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 01:40:31PM -0300, Fernando Cacciola wrote: > Can anybody please just send me a compiled slamr.ko for Debian Sarge kernel > 2.6.8-2-386 (arch i686)? > > (I got lots of modules precompiled for other kernels/distros but insmod > refuses to install any of them) > > TIA > U

Re: new user

2006-03-10 Thread Chris Lale
Dion wrote: I love sarge , having trouble connecting BBand to my linux box , wish my sarge box would run wifi to my windows laptop . advice? For broadband, the best solution is to use an ethernet ADSL modem rather than a USB one. It sound as though you would want a combined wifi modem/r

problem with ISA SB16 sound card

2006-03-10 Thread Serena Cantor
sarge's default kernel can't use my SB16! I have used my SB16 ever since kernel 2.0, 2.2, and 2.4 in woody. They all work. But with sarge's kernel 2.4, it can't work. When I modprobe sb, it says: isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: SB audio device quirk - increasing port range isapnp:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] using this so called ant spam syste

2006-03-10 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] has an atni spam system that asks you to "confirm" the sending of the email, to certify that you are a real person... ok the idea may even be nice, but it is inacceptable on a mailing list, I think. What if anyone that subscribed the list had such a system? PAolo if you have a m

/dev/snd/seq doesn't exist

2006-03-10 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
So i have two sound cards [modules snd_ens1371, snd_ac97_codec and relatives], the /dev/snd/seq doesn't exist. How can i get it back? If it can be of any help this is lsmod [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lsmod Module Size Used by isofs 33400 1 udf7

Re: Mathematica scroll problem

2006-03-10 Thread Jason Clinton
On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 13:08 +0100, VSJ wrote: > When I load a large Notebook (i.e., large enough to have an enabled vertical > scrollbar) or Help topic, and I scroll down and then up, the window > contents become unreadable/trashed. The only way to remedy this is to > maximise and then restore the

Re: Dell Inspiron 4000: Linux Install Fails

2006-03-10 Thread Kent West
Paul Romero wrote: I have not been able to completely install Debian Linux successfully on a Dell Inspiron 4000 laptop. The main hindrance seems to be the video chip/card which is an ATI RAGE MOBILITY M3 AGP 2X LF. The installation was attempted with the Potato 2.2 CD set. Almost everything exc

Re: VNC client/server combo doing VNC over HTTP

2006-03-10 Thread Oliver Jato
i use nxserver (freenx), it's in apt, plus the official client from www.nomachine.com, available for windows, macintosh and linux (rpm and deb). all traffic runs over ssh, so sshd must be running, and it's much faster than any vnc. i didn't keep an eye on this project during the last months, but i

Re: "alsaconf" successful. No sound!

2006-03-10 Thread Felix Karpfen
On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 20:22:55 -0800, Mark Fletcher wrote (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>): > > > --- Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Francesco Bochicchio spake thusly on 03/07/2006 >> 02:54 PM: >> > Il Tue, 07 Mar 2006 21:50:14 +0100, Felix Karpfen >> ha scritto: >> >> >> >> However when checking th

Re: import/convert apple address book?

2006-03-10 Thread Oliver Jato
since i don't own a mac anymore i asked a friend to export my address book file as a single vcard. somehow evolution didn't accept it, but i found a small java app that converts vcf to ldif (vcf2ldif.jar) and it did this very good. the ldif file was accepted by evolution :) thanx! olli Am Freitag

debian base system install problem

2006-03-10 Thread Oğuz Yarımtepe
Now a days i have been encountering a Debian installation problem on laptops. The problem happens at the disk prtitioning step while installing from a netinstall cd. No disks found. After trying expert modes and installing with kernell 2.4 it founds the disc. Today the installation system couldn

Re: Dell Inspiron 4000: Linux Install Fails

2006-03-10 Thread news
Salve Paul! On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 11:55:48AM -0800, Paul Romero wrote: > Dear User Group: > > I have not been able to completely install Debian Linux > successfully on a Dell Inspiron 4000 laptop. The main > hindrance seems to be the video chip/card which is an > ATI RAGE MOBILITY M3 AGP 2X LF.

Re: Dell Inspiron 4000: Linux Install Fails

2006-03-10 Thread chouck
I have put 2.6 on a DEll 4000 including sound. I don't have the directions or laptop any more. If I recall I got the sound working with ALSA and changing permissions on sound objects in /dev. > Dear User Group: > > I have not been able to completely install Debian Linux > successfully on a Dell In

Dell Inspiron 4000: Linux Install Fails

2006-03-10 Thread Paul Romero
Dear User Group: I have not been able to completely install Debian Linux successfully on a Dell Inspiron 4000 laptop. The main hindrance seems to be the video chip/card which is an ATI RAGE MOBILITY M3 AGP 2X LF. The installation was attempted with the Potato 2.2 CD set. Almost everything except

Re: Telnet mailserver 110

2006-03-10 Thread Paul Johnson
On Friday 10 March 2006 10:07, Jonathan P. Mwakijele wrote: > Dear Brian, > > I am Redhat Linux user. > > I can telnet to my server normally, BUT I can't > telnet mailserver 110. > > What might be a problem. Anything. Ask a smarter question? http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html --

Telnet mailserver 110

2006-03-10 Thread Jonathan P. Mwakijele
Dear Brian,   I am Redhat Linux user.   I can telnet to my server normally, BUT I can't  telnet mailserver 110.   What might be a problem.   Thanks for any kind of help.   Jonathan

Re: Telnet mailserver 110

2006-03-10 Thread Pol Hallen
> I can telnet to my server normally, BUT I can't > telnet mailserver 110. ok :-) what do u do 4 connect? Check where your mailserver listening (loopback only? or in which interface) Which mailserver do u use? which error message appear? Pol -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: chattr maildir

2006-03-10 Thread Andrew Cady
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 11:12:36PM +0100, Eric Persson wrote: > As I'm just trying it out, I figured, if I chattr -R +A on a folder, > will it apply to new files as well? # lsattr -a - ./. - ./.. # chattr +A . # touch x # lsattr -a ---A- ./. ---

Re: FontForge-20060209.pkg

2006-03-10 Thread Brian Dumont
I am trying to open a FontForge download I received from Debian, but my MAC does not seem to know what application to open the file with. What do I need to do to make the application work? Brian >> >>Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: >> >>> Your message didn't have a Package: line at the start (i

Re: gcc change from 4.0 to 3.4

2006-03-10 Thread Andrew Cady
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 02:56:45PM +0100, Marco Calviani wrote: > Hi list, >i'm asking if there is some way to change the default compiler > and related variables in a consistent way to another version. In > particular i would like to change it, due to some incompatibilies, > from 4.0 to 3.4. I

Re: Page crashes mozilla: BadAlloc

2006-03-10 Thread Winston Smith
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 09:39:38AM -0500, Ralph Katz wrote: > Maybe it's #335708: mozilla-firefox: Firefox crashes with BadAlloc > Tags: confirmed; Merged with #330396, #331673, #334654, #345866; 135 > days old. > > Please check the bug reports, sounds very familiar to me. > > Regards. > Thanks

Re: Wireless interface fails to initialize fully; still need to get DHCP manually

2006-03-10 Thread Robert Glueck
Mark Fletcher wrote: > I had exactly the same problem -- with different hardware. > The cause was that PCMCIA services are started in the boot > / startup sequence AFTER networking is set up, so at the > time the startup procedure is trying to connect to your > network PCMCIA services are not runn

Re: Hard disk failure?

2006-03-10 Thread Andrew Cady
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 10:52:33AM +0100, Jim MacBaine wrote: > Hello, > > one of my hard drives seems to be dying. To me as a layman this looks > as if the disk should be returned to the shop where I bought it. Is > this right? > > ata1: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/40 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0x3/1

Re: Creating a journal as an afterthought

2006-03-10 Thread Andrew Cady
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 08:11:45AM +1100, Felix Karpfen wrote: [...] > The second paragraph suggests that this should have happened > automatically when I updated my (very aged) Woody to Debian 3.1r1 (the > installed kernel image is now "kernel-image-2.6.8-1-386") and changed > the entry in /etc/

dhcp restart problem

2006-03-10 Thread Krassen Deltchev
Hello everyone! i have the following odd problem: i must change the mac adress for an user pc and refresh the dhcp.conf file: i'm currently running debian sarge 3.1: -i did so:changed only the mac adress and replaced it with the new one, -made an archive of the old dhcpd.conf file as dhcpd.conf~10.

Re: apt pinning options?

2006-03-10 Thread Andrew Cady
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 02:36:57PM -0700, Scott wrote: > I've decided I'd like to try pinning. > > I read through apt_preferences(5) and the howtos on the web and I've > still got a question. > > In the following example. I got "Unofficial Multimedia Packages" from > the release file (http://ft

Re: definition of global variables

2006-03-10 Thread Bob McGowan
These look like environment variables. The FILES section of the man pages for 'bash' and 'csh' both refer to 'global' initialization files found in /etc: /etc/profile for 'bash'; and two files: /etc/csh.cshrc and /etc/csh.login for 'csh'. IIRC, these are also sourced by all the related shel

Re: php won't connect to postgresql

2006-03-10 Thread Casey T. Deccio
On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 10:22 -0600, will trillich wrote: > on debian i'm trying to get php to connect to postgres, with no luck. > no error messages, no log entries (that i can find), no clues. argh! > Did you uncomment this line in /etc/php5/apache/php.ini ? extension=pgsql.so Casey -- To U

php won't connect to postgresql

2006-03-10 Thread will trillich
on debian i'm trying to get php to connect to postgres, with no luck. no error messages, no log entries (that i can find), no clues. argh! Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-

Re: X.org / deal head problem

2006-03-10 Thread jef e
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: System: Dell Optiplex GX270 with an additional old ATI Rage PCI video card. X-Window System Version 6.9.0 (21 dec 05) Relevant(?) xorg.conf sections pasted at end.. > I hadn't run a "dist-upgrade" for some time, but one afternoon, with > some spare time, decided to do

RADEONDRIScreenInit failed because of a version mismatch

2006-03-10 Thread Kai Sandsengen
I have recently installed etch 32 bit version on a asus a8v-x(754) with Athlon64 and dist-upgraded to sid. Still running the 2.6.12 kernel. My problems are that the screen freezes, seems to me that the radeon.o module is wrong, anyway it doesn't load. I have gathered error messages and info ab

Re: Partitioning RAID5 disks into 2 Filesystems

2006-03-10 Thread Andrew Cady
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 10:42:07AM +0100, . wrote: > Pabla,Balbir [Ontario] wrote: > > > I thought, the process should be fdisk followed by mkfs. > > Use cfdisk to create partitions; using fdisk is afaik deprecated. > *Always* reboot after creating partitions or changing the partition > table befo

kacpid 100% processor usage

2006-03-10 Thread Ivan Glushkov
Hi all, after 8-10 of working kacpid starts using 100% processor time, and gives constant mesdages in kernel.log: Mar 10 16:59:18 h1siglushkov kernel: ACPI-0213: *** Error: Method reached maximum reentrancy limit (255) Mar 10 16:59:18 h1siglushkov kernel: ACPI-0508: *** Error: M

Re: gpg keys on multiple machines

2006-03-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 09:41:59 + Doofus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Willie Wonka wrote: > > > > >On the web I found this; > > > > > >Bug#302692: gnupg-agent: Don't use (undocumented) max-cache-ttl switch > > > >Package: gnupg-

Re: gpg keys on multiple machines

2006-03-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 09:41:59 + Doofus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Willie Wonka wrote: > > > > >On the web I found this; > > > > > >Bug#302692: gnupg-agent: Don't use (undocumented) max-cache-ttl switch > > > >Package: gnupg-

Re: Is anyone using wake-up on A7N8X deluxe *with* 2.6.15 ?

2006-03-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 09:14:11 +0100 Dominique Dumont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Which wake-upmethod are you using? I'm using nvram-wakeup on my > > knoppmyth box with kernel 2.4.27-?? and it works great. Haven't > > tried it on a 2.6 kernel

Re: Partitioning RAID5 disks into 2 Filesystems

2006-03-10 Thread Andrew Cady
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 01:15:40PM -0500, Matthias Julius wrote: > Andrew Cady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > RAID devices typically are named /dev/md0 for the first, and so on; or > > /dev/md/0 for the devfs naming scheme. (md stands for multi-disk; the > > software RAID driver in linux is cal

Re: Using setenv DISPLAY

2006-03-10 Thread Andrew Cady
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 02:30:06PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > Andrew Cady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > As others have pointed out, sudo does not by default preserve its > > environment when starting privileged processes. To get X working, you > > will want to have sudoers retain both DISPL

RE: VNC client/server combo doing VNC over HTTP

2006-03-10 Thread Yu,Glen [Ontario]
Interestingly enough, I was just looking into a similar thing yesterday. I have yet to try it out, but here's the info: Server: Use apt-get install vcnserver to get vcnserver Run vncpassword to setup a password which will be encrypted and saved in ~/.vnc/passwd Run vncserver Client: On a linu

Re: import/convert apple address book?

2006-03-10 Thread Mladen Adamovic
It would be probably good idea if you could use your Mac OS software to export it into more readable format for Linux. In case that is impossible I would suggest to try to see is it possible to import it into Yahoo, Gmail , Gmx, Hotmail, etc. account and afterwards to export it into Netscape for

new user

2006-03-10 Thread Dion
I love sarge ,   having trouble connecting BBand to my linux box , wish my sarge box would run wifi to my windows laptop .   advice?   thank you debian people everywhere    

Re: VNC client/server combo doing VNC over HTTP

2006-03-10 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 10 March 2006 09:29, nullman wrote: > 2 short infos to clarify : > > 1. VNC over http doesn´t exist > 2. Port-Numbers can be altered with any version > > Solution would be : ssh on Port 443 ... with that you can trick most > proxies with the "connect" method to use any proxy-capable ssh-c

import/convert apple address book?

2006-03-10 Thread Oliver Jato
hi, i'm trying to find a way to import an apple "AddressBook.data" file. i'm using evolution so importing it straight would be great. but some way of converting it to csv or whatever is usable with a texteditor would help too. any experience with this? cheers, olli -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Page crashes mozilla: BadAlloc

2006-03-10 Thread Ralph Katz
On 03/09/2006 02:50 PM, Winston Smith wrote: > Could someone check if this link crashes mozilla and firefox as it does > for me? Thanks. Win > > $ mozilla > 'http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=charlottesville+va' > >>The program 'Gecko' received an X Window System

Re: VNC client/server combo doing VNC over HTTP

2006-03-10 Thread nullman
2 short infos to clarify :1. VNC over http doesn´t exist2. Port-Numbers can be altered with any versionSolution would be : ssh on Port 443 ... with that you can trick most proxies with the "connect" method to use any proxy-capable ssh-client (putty for example) -> after ssh-connection is ok .. you

Re: Problems with loop-aes?

2006-03-10 Thread Willie Wonka
Jan Johansson wrote: > (Not sure if this is a loop-aes problem or a "genral platform problem) > > Hello! > > I used the instructions on > http://deb.riseup.net/storage/encryption/loop-aes/ to create a encrypted > area. But when I get to the 'dd' stage (using /dev/loop1 and /dev/md2), > weird thi

Re: gcc change from 4.0 to 3.4

2006-03-10 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Marco Calviani wrote: Hi list, i'm asking if there is some way to change the default compiler and related variables in a consistent way to another version. In particular i would like to change it, due to some incompatibilies, from 4.0 to 3.4. I've tried the "brutal" way changing the symlink of

gcc change from 4.0 to 3.4

2006-03-10 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi list, i'm asking if there is some way to change the default compiler and related variables in a consistent way to another version. In particular i would like to change it, due to some incompatibilies, from 4.0 to 3.4. I've tried the "brutal" way changing the symlink of gcc to gcc-4.0 to gcc-3

Re: ls -l gives "?---------" and root has no permission

2006-03-10 Thread Jon Akers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have also seen this particular result with PVFS2. Our solution (since the filesystem was just scratch in the first place) was to reformat the filesystem. Justin Guerin wrote: > hanasaki wrote: > >> Below is the output from root doing an ls -l of a s

Re: ls -l gives "?---------" and root has no permission

2006-03-10 Thread Justin Guerin
hanasaki wrote: > Below is the output from root doing an ls -l of a specific file and of > the directory... Anyone ever seen this before? a rebuild tree from a > booted knoppix disk fixed things for awhile and now this is showing up > again. thanks > > uname = 2.6.15.4 > partition is reiser3.6

Website: I/O error: Attempt to load network entity failed

2006-03-10 Thread Tapio Lehtonen
I can't build by website anymore because this error: xsltproc --nonet --catalogs --output Porixi/Opiskelu.html --stringparam output-root Porixi ./porixi.xsl Opiskelu.xml Variable $SGML_CATALOG_FILES not set I/O error : Attempt to load network entity http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/websit

VNC client/server combo doing VNC over HTTP

2006-03-10 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hi I'm looking for a VNC server to run on my home Debian setup that will allow me to connect to it from work. Trouble is, work is behind a (justly) paranoid corporate firewall which will allow me to connect out on HTTP/HTTPS on the usual web ports and not a lot else. So I'm looking for a solu

Re: Wireless interface fails to initialize fully; still need to get DHCP manually

2006-03-10 Thread Mark Fletcher
Tim Beauregard wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Glueck wrote: Adam Porter wrote: I'm not an expert, and I have no experience with ndiswrapper, but I'll try to help. Please post your /etc/network/interfaces file. I may have missed the entire point o

Direct Rendering not working on my system

2006-03-10 Thread Abhishek Verma
Hi, I am using a Compaq Presario System. It has a 915 Chipset. Direct rendering is not working on my system, even though it was working earlier when I had Fedore Core 3 installed on my system. Here is the output of glxinfo. Could some one tell me whats wrong with my configuration, or how can

Re: copying a 12GB file

2006-03-10 Thread .
Mike McCarty wrote: Is splitting the file up into pieces, and doing MD5 and SHA1 sums on the pieces out of the question? Well, I thought of that, but I would have had to use pieces smaller than 2 GB. The way to split it would have been using something like mimeconstruct and send it by mail, li

Re: copying a 12GB file

2006-03-10 Thread .
Sinan Nalkaya wrote: if the server is debian, the nfs daemon provided by nfs-kernel-server packet should do fine, i wrote and read 40 gb daha to nfs server without any problem, didnt measure the time/speed. The server I wanted to to copy the file from is running Debian Woody, kernel 2.4.20. The

Re: copying a 12GB file

2006-03-10 Thread .
Josh Battles wrote: I regularly transfer ~9GB files across my [100mbit] network from a Sarge server to any number of Linux workstations as well as a Windows MCE set top box. Everything is stored on Samba shares using CIFS. I've never gotten any errors and my transfer times are usually very rea

Re: copying a 12GB file

2006-03-10 Thread .
Neil Dugan wrote: If you really want to know how fast the transfer was, you could copy again but pipe the file to /dev/null instead of putting it on a disk. Yeah, but as long as the speed is reasonably with the expectable limits, it's ok. I only wanted to get the file copied because I needed i

Re: copying a 12GB file

2006-03-10 Thread .
Patrick Ouellette wrote: Have you thought about netcat? No, never heard of that before :) GH -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: definition of global variables

2006-03-10 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-03-10, 12:49:57 (+0100) skrifaði Marco Calviani: > Hi list, >i would like to define global variables for all the user of a > Debian system, for example the following: > > CERN=/usr/local/cernlib > CERN_LEVEL=2005 > CERN_ROOT=/usr/local/cernlib/2005 > PATH=/usr/local/cernlib/2005/bin

Re: gpg keys on multiple machines

2006-03-10 Thread Dave Ewart
On Friday, 10.03.2006 at 10:34 +, Jon Dowland wrote: > At 1141903950, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Thu, 9 Mar 2006 19:03:51 + Dave Ewart > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > where N is the number of seconds to cache for. I don't remember > > > where this was documented! > > > > pe

definition of global variables

2006-03-10 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi list, i would like to define global variables for all the user of a Debian system, for example the following: CERN=/usr/local/cernlib CERN_LEVEL=2005 CERN_ROOT=/usr/local/cernlib/2005 PATH=/usr/local/cernlib/2005/bin LDPATH=/usr/local/cernlib/lib Where do i have to put them? I was thinking

problem in BOINC compiling

2006-03-10 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi list, i'm trying to compile from source the BOINC infrastructure program. During the compiling process it claims that it needs the GLUT libraries and that wxWidgets package is not enough new. However i have both freeglut3 and freeglut3-dev installed and also libglut3 and libglut3-dev with lib

Re: Page crashes mozilla: BadAlloc

2006-03-10 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
It crashed my firefox, 1.0.7-1 running on sid. File a bug report I would say. Oli Þann 2006-03-09, 14:09:22 (-0500) skrifaði Winston Smith: > Could someone check if this link crashes mozilla and firefox as it does > for me? Thanks. Win > > $ mozilla > 'http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/find

problem with SATA on 945p motherboard

2006-03-10 Thread Javier Bernal
Hello debian-user, I have a server with a Giga-byte 8i945p-g motherboard and 2 Maxtor 200Gb SATA disks. I have the backports' 2.6.15 kernel installed. The server is running fine, but suddenly, it writes errors on dmesg and it locks. I thought the problem was the disk, but lspci poorly ident

Re: gpg keys on multiple machines

2006-03-10 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1141903950, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Thu, 9 Mar 2006 19:03:51 + Dave Ewart > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > where N is the number of seconds to cache for. I don't > > remember where this was documented! > > perfect, thanks, and afaict, its not documented, or at > least not very we

Getting phpmyadmin to work with auth_type = 'cookie'

2006-03-10 Thread N . Pauli
Dear All, I've just installed Mysql5, Apache 1.3.34, Php5 and phpmyadmin4:2.7.0. I've had experience of using these together on Sarge and I've got Apache running okay and I've set up a root user for mysql and filled out /root/.my.cnf. When I got to phpmyadmin, I noticed that the configuration p

Re: Hard disk failure?

2006-03-10 Thread Duncan Anderson
On Friday, 10 March 2006 11:52, Jim MacBaine wrote: > Hello, > > one of my hard drives seems to be dying. To me as a layman this looks > as if the disk should be returned to the shop where I bought it. Is > this right? > > ata1: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/40 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0x3/11/04 > ata1

Re: gpg keys on multiple machines

2006-03-10 Thread Doofus
Magnus Therning wrote: On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 09:49:44PM +, Doofus wrote: Does anyone know if there's a preferred method for setting up the same gpg profile (keys) on multiple machines? I'm surprised I haven't been able to find much on the web about this. Surely there must be thousands

Re: gpg keys on multiple machines

2006-03-10 Thread Doofus
Willie Wonka wrote: On the web I found this; Bug#302692: gnupg-agent: Don't use (undocumented) max-cache-ttl switch Package: gnupg-agent Version: 1.9.15-5 Severity: normal Hi! If one wants to set default-cache-ttl to a la

Re: Qemu and Kqemu on Sid

2006-03-10 Thread Byron Hillis
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 01:37:43AM -0600, Adam Porter wrote: > Metrics wrote: > > > I'm using gcc-4.0 to build the kqemu kernel module. > > When I ran ./configure on QEMU 0.8.0 and kqemu, it warned me that there are > known problems with gcc 4.0. I compiled it with gcc 3.4. I believe you > can

Hard disk failure?

2006-03-10 Thread Jim MacBaine
Hello, one of my hard drives seems to be dying. To me as a layman this looks as if the disk should be returned to the shop where I bought it. Is this right? ata1: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/40 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0x3/11/04 ata1: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } ata1: error=0x40 {

Re: ls -l gives "?---------" and root has no permission

2006-03-10 Thread Raymond A. Meijer
On Fri 10 Mar 2006 7:20, hanasaki wrote: > partition is reiser3.6 > debian etch > > > ls: /usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-utils-2.0.mo: Permission denied > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31475 2006-01-12 17:38 totem.mo > ?- ? ?? ?

Re: Is anyone using wake-up on A7N8X deluxe *with* 2.6.15 ?

2006-03-10 Thread Dominique Dumont
Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Which wake-upmethod are you using? I'm using nvram-wakeup on my > knoppmyth box with kernel 2.4.27-?? and it works great. Haven't > tried it on a 2.6 kernel yet, but would be willing to try. I also use nvram-wakeup. Until 2.6.11, the automatic

Re: setting xterm title with -T doesn't work

2006-03-10 Thread Andras Lorincz
The PS1 is set to show "[EMAIL PROTECTED] # "On 3/10/06, Tony Godshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: According to Andras Lorincz,> So now I commented out from ~/.bashrc the line that was setting> PROMT_COMMAND, and now I can set the title with the -T option, but if I> start mc then reappears the title