Re: Debian testing repository broken?

2006-06-02 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 10:38:48PM +, Zach wrote: > > I have copied this to the debian-testing group since this may be a > problem with apt. > I think it's an apt config file - see below. > Fetched 7401B in 16s (441B/s) > Failed to fetch > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main

Re: Changing floppy0 ownership

2006-06-02 Thread Chris Walters
George Langford wrote: > I originally groaned: > > >>I use the following line in my fstab file: >> >>>/dev/fd0/media/floppy0 msdosrw,user,noauto 0 0 >> >>Then (as george) I mount the floppy disk thusly: >> >>>sudo mount -t msdos -o owner /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 >> >>But when I

Re: floppy disks for netinstall

2006-06-02 Thread Juha Tuuna
gustavo halperin wrote: > This is a page with not any link, did you check this link or just wrote > it ?? > > Thank you any way, > Gustavo Halperin Look closer, there IS a link. You'll find a manual and installation floppies for your system (what ever that may be) -- -=[JT]=- -- To UNSUBSCRI

Totem-gstreamer on a fresh install

2006-06-02 Thread Bill
Hi folks, I have a fresh install of sarge stable and am trying to get totem to work. I've successfully run the script /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/examples/install-css.sh to install css. I've installed gstreamer0.8-plugins. I've set up symbolic links for /dev/dvd and /dev/cdrom. The package

Re: floppy disks for netinstall

2006-06-02 Thread gustavo halperin
George Borisov wrote: gustavo halperin wrote: Do you know where are floppy disks images for netinstall ? http://www.debian.org/distrib/floppyinst This is a page with not any link, did you check this link or just wrote it ?? Thank you any way, Gustavo Halperin -- To UNSUBSCRIB

why does malloc call free?

2006-06-02 Thread hendrik
Not looking for you to analyse my debugging session (I'll do that myself), but I'm really curious -- why does malloc call free? Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x2ac2faab in free () from /lib/libc.so.6 (gdb) bt #0 0x2ac2faab in free () from /lib/libc.so.6 #1

Re: Configuring CUPS over the LAN

2006-06-02 Thread Clive Menzies
On (02/06/06 18:05), Paul E Condon wrote: > I've installed cups on a small computer that I intend to use as > a print server. I want to be able to configure over the LAN from > my desktop computer. Servers name is 'cmn'. When I try using firefox, > I get a messaage > "Fprbidden You don't have per

Re: Changing floppy0 ownership

2006-06-02 Thread George Langford
I originally groaned: > I use the following line in my fstab file: > > /dev/fd0/media/floppy0 msdosrw,user,noauto 0 0 > > Then (as george) I mount the floppy disk thusly: > > sudo mount -t msdos -o owner /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 > > But when I attempt to write to the floppy, it

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-06-02 Thread Paul Johnson
On Friday 02 June 2006 15:53, Steve Lamb wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > That's fair. OTOH, we don't want people moving here, just spend money > > and remember to go home when your done visiting. > > How about I just gas up on the Cali line and spend all the exhaust in > your craphole on the

Configuring CUPS over the LAN

2006-06-02 Thread Paul E Condon
I've installed cups on a small computer that I intend to use as a print server. I want to be able to configure over the LAN from my desktop computer. Servers name is 'cmn'. When I try using firefox, I get a messaage "Fprbidden You don't have permission to access the resource on this server." Whe

Re: trying to get the ethernet card working on a Dell Latitude

2006-06-02 Thread tom arnall
On Friday 02 June 2006 12:55 pm, Andrew Perrin wrote: > On Fri, 2 Jun 2006, tom arnall wrote: > > I'm trying to get the ethernet card working on a Dell Latitude c600. From > > information on the itnernet, the driver for the card is '3c59x'. I am > > able to load this with modprobe. But when I do 'i

Re: What is in openoffice.org-core04u?

2006-06-02 Thread Marc Shapiro
Liam O'Toole wrote: On Fri, 02 Jun 2006 08:53:22 -0700 Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Liam O'Toole wrote: On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 14:10:11 -0700 Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Apt-cache depends shows openoffice.org-core04u as being dependant on kdelibs4, which is

Re: How to change text and screen colors in framebuffer console

2006-06-02 Thread cga2000
On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 04:01:46PM EDT, 46kmz5j02 wrote: > I use framebuffer console mode by appending "vga=787" to kernel line > in /boot/grub/menu.lst. I would like to know if possible to change color > of console text and background color also. > > I have googled and not found this info. > tr

Re: debian menu not updating and a few games issues

2006-06-02 Thread Dimitar Vukman
On Fri, 12 May 2006 14:40:06 +0200 Dimitar Vukman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I believe it's some config somewhere, I'll have to find out which > one :) Thanks, > Aloha all, Looks like updating libsdl1.2debian-alsa from etch has fixed things up. So if anyone's got similar problem I suggest to

Re: 4TB filesystem

2006-06-02 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Friday 02 June 2006 15:22, Mike Dresser wrote: > On Fri, 2 Jun 2006, Koos Meijering wrote: > > I am trying to create on a nfs file server a partition with the size of > > 4TB every time after a reboot the system reports there is only a 2 TB > > partition and an unused part of the disk. > > I hav

Re: 4TB filesystem

2006-06-02 Thread Mike Dresser
On Fri, 2 Jun 2006, Koos Meijering wrote: I am trying to create on a nfs file server a partition with the size of 4TB every time after a reboot the system reports there is only a 2 TB partition and an unused part of the disk. I have a 15 x 300 array under ext3 on the 3ware 9550SX-16ML. You nee

Debian testing repository broken?

2006-06-02 Thread Zach
Never gotten this error before. I am running Debian testing and I am doing an 'apt-get update' as it instructs but I still get the error: I have copied this to the debian-testing group since this may be a problem with apt. netrek:~# apt-get update Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org testing Release.

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-06-02 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Johnson wrote: > That's fair. OTOH, we don't want people moving here, just spend money and > remember to go home when your done visiting. How about I just gas up on the Cali line and spend all the exhaust in your craphole on the way to Washington where I'll gas up on the other side of t

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-06-02 Thread Katipo
Steve Lamb wrote: Curt Howland wrote: It hasn't been a republic since at least the time of a large number of people being forced at gun point to become "citizens" against their will, 1865. Most would also cite when the states lost their representatives in the Federal government.

Re: Changing floppy0 ownership

2006-06-02 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 14:32:59 -0700, George Langford wrote: > > I use the following line in my fstab file: > > /dev/fd0/media/floppy0 msdosrw,user,noauto 0 0 > > Then (as george) I mount the floppy disk thusly: > > sudo mount -t msdos -o owner /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 > > B

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-06-02 Thread Paul Johnson
On Friday 02 June 2006 15:00, Steve Lamb wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > OK, stay in the regressive hellhole you live in and avoid infecting > > Oregon, then. > > What you call regressive I call fair, equitable and just. None of > which the hellhole you live in can claim. That's fair. OTOH,

Re: /etc/hosts.deny how to use it?

2006-06-02 Thread Brad Sims
On Thursday 01 June 2006 11:59 pm, Chuck Payne wrote: > Hi, > > I am being hit by some ips that I like to block. I like to know how can > I use hosts.deny for the ALL statement After all the comments, aka lines that look like this: # This is a comment, after these put ALL: EXCEPT LOCAL -- Tele

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-06-02 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Johnson wrote: > OK, stay in the regressive hellhole you live in and avoid infecting Oregon, > then. What you call regressive I call fair, equitable and just. None of which the hellhole you live in can claim. >> Environmental issues are a joke. > Spilled gasoline creates groundwat

Changing floppy0 ownership

2006-06-02 Thread George Langford
I use the following line in my fstab file: > /dev/fd0/media/floppy0 msdosrw,user,noauto 0 0 Then (as george) I mount the floppy disk thusly: > sudo mount -t msdos -o owner /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 But when I attempt to write to the floppy, it turns out to be write- protected.

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-06-02 Thread Paul Johnson
On Friday 02 June 2006 13:11, Steve Lamb wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > If good ideas did spread, sales tax would be unconstitutional in more > > than Oregon and New Hampshire, > > Uh, sales tax is better than the alternative which is the income tax > which, correct me if I'm wrong, Oregon ha

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-06-02 Thread Paul Johnson
On Friday 02 June 2006 13:12, Liudmila Yafremava wrote: > don't you people think this discussion is just a little outside the scope > of the mailing list? The stated scope for this mailing list is "Debian's users." I'd say we're still well within the realm of that. -- Paul Johnson Email and IM

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-06-02 Thread Rich Johnson
On Jun 2, 2006, at 4:14 PM, Steve Lamb wrote: Curt Howland wrote: It hasn't been a republic since at least the time of a large number of people being forced at gun point to become "citizens" against their will, 1865. Most would also cite when the states lost their representatives in

Re: How to change text and screen colors in framebuffer console

2006-06-02 Thread Derek
Sure,use settermfor examplesetterm -background greenOn 6/2/06, 46kmz5j02 <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:I use framebuffer console mode by appending "vga=787" to kernel line in /boot/grub/menu.lst.  I would like to know if possible to change colorof console text and background color also.I have googled

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-06-02 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Jun 02 15:19 -0500]: > Curt Howland wrote: > > It hasn't been a republic since at least the time of a large number of > > people being forced at gun point to become "citizens" against their > > will, 1865. > > Most would also cite when the states lost t

Re: 4TB filesystem

2006-06-02 Thread Koos Meijering
Bart Schelstraete said the following on 06/02/06 22:02: >> >> I am trying to create on a nfs file server a partition with the size of >> 4TB every time after a reboot the system reports there is only a 2 TB >> partition and an unused part of the disk. >> The system is an AMD Optron server, with Deb

Re: how to detect if a jpeg file is progressive or not

2006-06-02 Thread Wayne Topa
H.S.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hi Wayne, > > I tried your way and converted all the image with quality 25. You are > right, I couldn't notice any perceptual difference at normal size. The > different is noticable only if you magnify the image. > > I had a total of 14 images o

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-06-02 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Liudmila Yafremava wrote: > > don't you people think this discussion is just a little outside the > scope of the mailing list? > I think you are right. The problem is that the mailing lists and forums that are dedicated to discussions about politics and religion always degenerate into flamefest

How to change text and screen colors in framebuffer console

2006-06-02 Thread 46kmz5j02
I use framebuffer console mode by appending "vga=787" to kernel line in /boot/grub/menu.lst. I would like to know if possible to change color of console text and background color also. I have googled and not found this info. Thank you very much. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-06-02 Thread Liudmila Yafremava
don't you people think this discussion is just a little outside the scope of the mailing list? On Fri, 2 Jun 2006, Steve Lamb wrote: Curt Howland wrote: It hasn't been a republic since at least the time of a large number of people being forced at gun point to become "citizens" against their

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-06-02 Thread Steve Lamb
Curt Howland wrote: > It hasn't been a republic since at least the time of a large number of > people being forced at gun point to become "citizens" against their > will, 1865. Most would also cite when the states lost their representatives in the Federal government. 17th Ammendment, 1913.

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-06-02 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Johnson wrote: > If good ideas did spread, sales tax would be unconstitutional in more than > Oregon and New Hampshire, Uh, sales tax is better than the alternative which is the income tax which, correct me if I'm wrong, Oregon has. I much prefer my state of no income tax and a sales ta

Re: 4TB filesystem

2006-06-02 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Friday 02 June 2006 11:55, Koos Meijering wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to create on a nfs file server a partition with the size of > 4TB every time after a reboot the system reports there is only a 2 TB > partition and an unused part of the disk. > The system is an AMD Optron server, with Deb

Re: 4TB filesystem

2006-06-02 Thread Bart Schelstraete
I am trying to create on a nfs file server a partition with the size of 4TB every time after a reboot the system reports there is only a 2 TB partition and an unused part of the disk. The system is an AMD Optron server, with Debian Sarge installed and de generic amd kernel image The raid controll

Re: 4TB filesystem

2006-06-02 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 6/2/06, Koos Meijering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I am trying to create on a nfs file server a partition with the size of 4TB every time after a reboot the system reports there is only a 2 TB partition and an unused part of the disk. The system is an AMD Optron server, with Debian Sarg

Totem-gstreamer on a fresh install

2006-06-02 Thread Bill
Hi folks, I have a fresh install of sarge stable and am trying to get totem to work. I've successfully run the script /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/examples/install-css.sh to install css. I've installed gstreamer0.8-plugins. I've set up symbolic links for /dev/dvd and /dev/cdrom. The package

4TB filesystem

2006-06-02 Thread Koos Meijering
Hello, I am trying to create on a nfs file server a partition with the size of 4TB every time after a reboot the system reports there is only a 2 TB partition and an unused part of the disk. The system is an AMD Optron server, with Debian Sarge installed and de generic amd kernel image The raid co

Re: trying to get the ethernet card working on a Dell Latitude

2006-06-02 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Fri, 2 Jun 2006, tom arnall wrote: I'm trying to get the ethernet card working on a Dell Latitude c600. From information on the itnernet, the driver for the card is '3c59x'. I am able to load this with modprobe. But when I do 'ifconfig 3c59x eth0' I get 'eth0: Host name lookup failure'. My ke

trying to get the ethernet card working on a Dell Latitude

2006-06-02 Thread tom arnall
I'm trying to get the ethernet card working on a Dell Latitude c600. From information on the itnernet, the driver for the card is '3c59x'. I am able to load this with modprobe. But when I do 'ifconfig 3c59x eth0' I get 'eth0: Host name lookup failure'. My kernel is 2.6.9 installed via Knoppix. I

Re: non-free nvidia driver on etch?

2006-06-02 Thread Jonathan Pearce
Now I've got a new weird problem. The NVIDIA TLS links are not being created on boot. X refuses to start; it crashes on the Loading GLX line. When I do invoke-rc.d nvidia-glx force-reload; invoke-rc.d gdm restart, X starts successfully. Where do I check to make sure that /etc/init.d/nvidia-glx i

Re: checkinstall

2006-06-02 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Simone Soldateschi wrote: > Is there a way to inform checkinstall that the package I'm building from > sources, and going to install, it's a library which can be used to > resolve dependencies? > > I've compiled sdl 1.2.10 from sources but obviously it's not seen by apt > like a substitute of lbsd

checkinstall

2006-06-02 Thread Simone Soldateschi
Is there a way to inform checkinstall that the package I'm building from sources, and going to install, it's a library which can be used to resolve dependencies?I've compiled sdl 1.2.10 from sources but obviously it's not seen by apt like a substitute of lbsdl-1.2.10Thanks in advance.// SS-- "In t

Re: fsck on ext3, lost files

2006-06-02 Thread Linas Žvirblis
Gary Parker wrote: > I've searched every file in lost+found with a few different tools: gqview, > nautilus, lde, find with file. Although I found some of my files in various > directories in lost+found, there are a couple of directories whose files are > nowhere to be found there. [...] > Is it

Logrotate skips a log number

2006-06-02 Thread Anthony Simonelli
For some reason, my logrotate script skips a number every week. As you can see, the date is sequential but the name of the file skipped one. I'm not losing any logs but I would like to know why it names it like this. Any idea why? 2006-06-02 09:53 /var/log/mail.log 2006-06-02 03:30 /var/log/mai

Re: What is in openoffice.org-core04u?

2006-06-02 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Fri, 02 Jun 2006 08:53:22 -0700 Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Liam O'Toole wrote: > > >On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 14:10:11 -0700 > >Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > >>Apt-cache depends shows openoffice.org-core04u as being dependant > >>on kdelibs4, which is, of cou

Re: What is in openoffice.org-core04u?

2006-06-02 Thread Marc Shapiro
Liam O'Toole wrote: On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 14:10:11 -0700 Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Apt-cache depends shows openoffice.org-core04u as being dependant on kdelibs4, which is, of couse, dependant on libarts1. I have OpenOffice 2 installed from the tarball at openoffice.org, and t

Re: fsck on ext3, lost files

2006-06-02 Thread Gary Parker
Linas Žvirblis <0x0007 gmail.com> writes: > What I mean, is that if files were in a certain directory, they can no > longer be in that one directory. You will probably need to check all of > them to find what you are looking for. Thanks for your advice. File confirms the identities of files I wa

Re: Quad Monitor nVidia on Etch -- UNSTABLE

2006-06-02 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 13:50 -0400, James Wiggs wrote: > Folks, > >I am trying to get a quad-monitor system running using the PNY > Quadro NVS 440 PCI Express x16 video card. Here are the system > specs: > > Motherboard: ASUS A8N-SLI > P/S: Aspire ATX-AS520W Blue 520 Watt > CPU: AMD Athlon(

Re: ppp multi provider

2006-06-02 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Lawrence Nahum wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a computer with a two 56k serial modem that serve internet > connectivity to my lan. > I have different providers (ISP) and I sometimes I need both > connections UP. > Is the first time i use ppp on linux, i've checked some howto and yes, > i'm a littl

Re: /etc/hosts.deny how to use it?

2006-06-02 Thread s. keeling
Chuck Payne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I am being hit by some ips that I like to block. I like to know how can > I use hosts.deny for the ALL statement Have you looked at the contents of hosts.deny? I find this in there: # Example:ALL: some.host.name, .some.domain -- Any techno

Re: floppy disks for netinstall

2006-06-02 Thread George Borisov
gustavo halperin wrote: > > Do you know where are floppy disks images for netinstall ? http://www.debian.org/distrib/floppyinst -- George Borisov DXSolutions Ltd signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: floppy disks for netinstall

2006-06-02 Thread Henrique G. Abreu
I don't think it exists! you can see all installing options on debian site: http://www.us.debian.org/distrib/ -- Henrique G. Abreu [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ppp multi provider

2006-06-02 Thread Lawrence Nahum
Hi all, I have a computer with a two 56k serial modem that serve internet connectivity to my lan. I have different providers (ISP) and I sometimes I need both connections UP. Is the first time i use ppp on linux, i've checked some howto and yes, i'm a little confused. pon, poff, chat, and

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-06-02 Thread Stephen
On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 12:00:24PM +0300 or thereabouts, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Heck even some republics have a figure head of state, France for example > > has a Prime Minister and a President. If memory serves, the Prime Minister > > is the defacto head

Re: is it a bad idea to use unstable on a server ?

2006-06-02 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1149178775 past the epoch, Felix C. Stegerman wrote: > Do you think that security support for unstable is good > enough for this? Or should I just go with stable + > backports? I don't use unstable on servers anymore so I don't know if security support is good enough, although I know it is sig

Re: LAN

2006-06-02 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1149233095 past the epoch, Peter Vandenabeele wrote: > If want to add the security of ssh/scp to it, try sftp > (but that may slow down the transfer speed due to > encryption/decryption). Or speed it up, with compressible data, by supplying the -C command. I think you can also ask SSH to use a

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-06-02 Thread Andrei Popescu
Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Heck even some republics have a figure head of state, France for example > has a Prime Minister and a President. If memory serves, the Prime Minister > is the defacto head of state, but the president has the power. It might be > the other way around, but you

Re: LAN

2006-06-02 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 6/1/06, Francesco Pietra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My system consists of two machines, one running debian 32 testing and equipped with KDE, the other one amd64 debian testing with no GUI (undesired) and only X-system and window manager twm. Both operated by single user. Both are connected A

Re: What is in openoffice.org-core04u?

2006-06-02 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 14:10:11 -0700 Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In my continuing effort to remove as much of KDE and GNOME as > possible from my system, I have come across scite to replace kate, > and galculator to replace kcalc. Since I only use konqueror to read > html documentatio