Re: Email programs that work.

2006-08-31 Thread Derek Martin
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 01:16:02AM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > Also, how do you set the encoding of the message, as otherwise it gets mangled > along the way. Normally this is handled automatically by your terminal ($LANG) settings. If your environment is not configured properly you may have a p

Re: Email programs that work.

2006-08-31 Thread Wulfy
Derek Martin wrote: On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 02:28:24AM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: Right now, on my system, t-bird is using 76MB RES & 200MB VIRT memory. :( And I thought that sylpheed-claws-gtk2 is using too much at 17MB resources and 38MB virtual. Reminds me why I stopped using T-bi

Re: Email programs that work.

2006-08-31 Thread Derek Martin
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 05:15:25PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Michelle Konzack wrote: > > You read more then One message at a time? > > Yes. Person A says Person B said something important while talking > to Person C. So you have Message A open so you can find what is > referenced in Message B.

AMD 64 Dual Core questions

2006-08-31 Thread Marc Shapiro
The MB on my primary box just died and I am going to have to replace it.  The old MB has/had an Athlon 2400+ CPU in it.  The box was running Sarge (kernel 2.6.8).  I had also just installed Etch (kernel 2.6.16) in a seperate set of LVM partitions. Yesterday's paper had a Fry's add for an ECS C51GM

Re: Email programs that work.

2006-08-31 Thread Derek Martin
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 02:28:24AM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > > Right now, on my system, t-bird is using 76MB RES & 200MB VIRT > > memory. :( > > And I thought that sylpheed-claws-gtk2 is using too much at 17MB > resources and 38MB virtual. Reminds me why I stopped using T-bird > and a bunch of

Re: mv files by date

2006-08-31 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Miles Bader wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Or, explicitly: >> $ RENAME/LOG/BEFORE=YESTERDAY *.LOG;* [.NEW_DIR] > > I was gonna try that, but my shift key wore out before I reached the end > of the command. Shift key? That's what

Re: Accessing a 3rd HDD under grub

2006-08-31 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
BTW, I have Grub 0.97, WinXP on the first HDD, and Debian Etch with a real-time kernel on the 2nd HDD. On 9/1/06, Chuckk Hubbard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi. A friend's computer died, and she'd like to retrieve her files. Before setting up my dual-boot system this would have been a piece of ca

Accessing a 3rd HDD under grub

2006-08-31 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
Hi. A friend's computer died, and she'd like to retrieve her files. Before setting up my dual-boot system this would have been a piece of cake. Now, though, if I replace the Windows drive, it can't boot, and if I replace the Linux drive it reads the MBR but can't reach the GRUB options. Is there

Re: How do I replace lilo with grub?

2006-08-31 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 31 August 2006 16:23, Mathias Brodala wrote: > Hello Joseph. > > > I just installed Debian. Grub failed to load but lilo worked. Now > > that everything is installed, how do I replace lilo with grub? > > Just install it. It will force lilo to be removed. > > Before you do that you sho

Re: How do I replace lilo with grub?

2006-08-31 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 31 August 2006 14:08, Joseph Smidt wrote: > I just installed Debian. Grub failed to load but lilo worked. Now > that everything is installed, how do I replace lilo with grub? # dpkg --purge lilo # apt-get install grub Double check /boot/grub/menu.lst *before* you reboot. Your situa

How do I configure acpid?

2006-08-31 Thread Joseph Smidt
I am trying to get uswsusp to work on my Unstable Laptop.  I was told this by a uswsusp dev:>But the usual (all Toshibas do this AFAIK) power-button event after resume>is not ignored by your userspace.  Try integrating s2ram into your acpid >configuration or just shut acpid down before suspend to v

Re: [OT] carriage return/line feed characters

2006-08-31 Thread Bill Marcum
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 06:18:04PM -0700, noc wrote: > sorry about the office topic. > > At one point I used a command shell (?) to display whether a file had an > extra CR-LF characters. For some reason I'm drawing a blank :( > > can anyone enlighten me. > cat -v ? -- The person you rejecte

apt-move: single local repo for different Releases

2006-08-31 Thread Joseph Le-Phan
Hi, I currently have a single local apt-repo (created by apt-move) that serves (via http) my sarge box. The apt-move.conf on that sarge box is fairly default except for a LOCALDIR= that points to an nfs mount. My network also consists of several etch boxes, and I would like to sync those boxes to

Re: gdm (or somethnig) goes deaf when changing virtual consoles

2006-08-31 Thread hendrik
On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 12:36:02AM +0200, Mathias Brodala wrote: > Hello Hendrik. > > > I'm using gdm as my login manager. I have six virtual consoles > > configured. Graphics is an AIT-Raden-all-in-wonder 8500 card. RAM is > > 1G. CPU is an athlon. > > > > a few months ago, I started exper

[OT] carriage return/line feed characters

2006-08-31 Thread noc
sorry about the office topic. At one point I used a command shell (?) to display whether a file had an extra CR-LF characters. For some reason I'm drawing a blank :( can anyone enlighten me. tia, regards, /virendra -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: How do I replace lilo with grub?

2006-08-31 Thread Matej Cepl
Mathias Brodala wrote: > Before you do that you should backup the config file from lilo (never used > it so don’t ask me which one it is) and after the installing you should /etc/lilo.conf > check grub’s menu.lst to make sure that all entries were migrated > correctly. Just to be sure, run also

Re: aptitude vs. debfoster

2006-08-31 Thread Miles Bader
T <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is unacceptably to me. These packages should be automatically purged > as well. Or I'm doing something wrong? You're probably doing something wrong. One possibility that comes to mind is that you've _already_ got those packages installed, having using some oth

Re: How do I replace lilo with grub?

2006-08-31 Thread Edward Shornock (debian ml)
On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 01:23:28AM +0200, Mathias Brodala wrote: > Hello Joseph. > > > I just installed Debian. Grub failed to load but lilo worked. Now > > that everything is installed, how do I replace lilo with grub? > > Just install it. It will force lilo to be removed. > > Before you do t

Re: mv files by date

2006-08-31 Thread Matej Cepl
T wrote: > Why not something like (please test before use): > > find ./ -type f ! -mtime -2 -exec mv {} ../ \; Of course, that's the best. Silly me. Matěj -- GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 23 Marion St

Re: aptitude vs. debfoster

2006-08-31 Thread Matej Cepl
T wrote: > What? All the apache2-common, apache2-mpm-worker, & apache2-utils that get > automatically installed are not touched: It is weird -- works for me. Can you go to aptitude and check these packages which should be removed, whether they have A to the left of the name of the package? Somethi

network problem

2006-08-31 Thread Rocky Ou
Hey list,   I'm using Debian Sarge on my Desktop. Last night the network still works perfectly. This morning I could not connect to the internet anymore.   I have a a router serve as Gateway as well connect to my internet service. Because we have a few computers, I connect to the router through a

Re: mv files by date

2006-08-31 Thread Miles Bader
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Or, explicitly: > $ RENAME/LOG/BEFORE=YESTERDAY *.LOG;* [.NEW_DIR] I was gonna try that, but my shift key wore out before I reached the end of the command. -Miles -- (\(\ (^.^) (")") *This is the cute bunny virus, please copy this into your sig so it can

Re: Dial-up modem terminal........

2006-08-31 Thread M-L
On Friday 01 September 2006 11:11, M-L shared this with us all: >--> Using pon to dial my external Maestro Woomera modem, I don't know how to > bring --> up a terminal to talk to it in Debian etch. >--> >--> When using KPPP I could get into a modem terminal window. With pon, I > have no --> idea. >

Dial-up modem terminal........

2006-08-31 Thread M-L
Using pon to dial my external Maestro Woomera modem, I don't know how to bring up a terminal to talk to it in Debian etch. When using KPPP I could get into a modem terminal window. With pon, I have no idea. I need this so that my phone line can be checked, apparently. Thanks in advance, Charli

Re: cdrecord / ATAPI

2006-08-31 Thread Paul Dwerryhouse
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 11:11:37PM +0200, ciol wrote: > # cdrecord -v dev=1,1,0 speed=10 dl/debian-31r2-i386-binary-1.iso I've found that it's possible to just use the device name; whether this is good or bad, I don't know, but it works for me: cdrecord -v dev=/dev/hdd(etc etc) C

Re: mv files by date

2006-08-31 Thread T
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 13:51:44 -0700, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > find ./ -type f ! -mtime -2 -exec ls -al {} \; | xargs mv ../ > > in order to move the files found in the script up one directory? Why use xargs? find -exec deals with file one at a time. Why not something like (please test before use

Re: cdrecord / ATAPI

2006-08-31 Thread Rage Callao
Hi, On 9/1/06, ciol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: # cdrecord -v dev=1,1,0 speed=10 dl/debian-31r2-i386-binary-1.iso This works for me. Instead of dev=1,1,0 try dev=ATA:1,1,0 Regards, Rage -- Free Software :: empower :: educate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Re: Use of dpkg --set-selections is brain-dead?

2006-08-31 Thread T
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:57:10 -0400, Michael S. Peek wrote: > ... If I specify: lpr- and cupsys-bsd+ (which conflicts w/ lpr), > then apt-get chokes on cupsys-bsd, saying that it can't proceed because it > conflicts w/ lpr (duh, that's what the lpr- on the command line was for). It should work.

Re: Email programs that work.

2006-08-31 Thread Steve Lamb
Michelle Konzack wrote: > You read more then One message at a time? Yes. Person A says Person B said something important while talking to Person C. So you have Message A open so you can find what is referenced in Message B. Hell, I do it all the time just on debian-user. Surely you with yo

aptitude vs. debfoster

2006-08-31 Thread T
Hi I used to use debfoster to install/uninstall packages. My recent reading hinted that aptitude can be as smart as debfoster now. So I gave it a try. But I found that aptitude doesn't even come close to debfoster: % aptitude install apache2 The following NEW packages will be automatically ins

Re: Re: can't apt-get install

2006-08-31 Thread Michael Noisternig
E.g. apt-get install xmms: , then says that 4 new packages must be installed, these are libglib1.2, libgtk1.2, xmms and (I don't remember) , then the last line is 99% [Working] That's all. Eventually I figured the problem is that the packages apt-get hangs on are those that are just not in th

Re: When Debian 3.1 update r3 ?

2006-08-31 Thread Joey Hess
Account for Debian group mail wrote: > I think that is the point. I never install first version of a new release > but wait till r1 comes out, too many bugs. So it is nice to have the > current version up to date. Except that's not true for Debian. Look at the list of changes between Debian 3.1r0

Re: When Debian 3.1 update r3 ?

2006-08-31 Thread Account for Debian group mail
I think that is the point. I never install first version of a new release but wait till r1 comes out, too many bugs. So it is nice to have the current version up to date. Ken On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Glen Yu wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 12:33:20PM -0700, Account

Re: How do I replace lilo with grub?

2006-08-31 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hello Joseph. > I just installed Debian. Grub failed to load but lilo worked. Now > that everything is installed, how do I replace lilo with grub? Just install it. It will force lilo to be removed. Before you do that you should backup the config file from lilo (never used it so don’t ask me wh

cdrecord / ATAPI

2006-08-31 Thread ciol
Hello, I have got a problem with cdrecord. My CD-writer is an 'ATAPI'. So I followed these instructions : /usr/share/doc/cdrecord/README.ATAPI.setup # cdrecord dev=ATA: -scanbus I get : scsidev: 'ATA:' devname: 'ATA' scsibus: -1 target: -1 lun: -1 Warning: Using badly designed ATAPI via /dev/hd*

How do I replace lilo with grub?

2006-08-31 Thread Joseph Smidt
I just installed Debian.  Grub failed to load but lilo worked.  Nowthat everything is installed, how do I replace lilo with grub?-- -    Joseph Smidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to disable cursor help text in gnome?

2006-08-31 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hello Russel. > I found another entry: > > /apps/panel/default_setup/applets/window_list/tooltip > > but the only thing I can edit on it is the "value" field, and when I > right-click on the value field, the dialogue window is blank, so I have no > idea what value or string is expected. Just r

Re: mv files by date

2006-08-31 Thread Jeff D
Curtis Vaughan wrote: Ok the following line finds all the files that I want to move out the folder: find ./ -type f ! -mtime -2 -exec ls -al {} \; So, now it's the next part that scares me. Should I do this? find ./ -type f ! -mtime -2 -exec ls -al {} \; | xargs mv ../ in order to move the

Re: gdm (or somethnig) goes deaf when changing virtual consoles

2006-08-31 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hello Hendrik. > I'm using gdm as my login manager. I have six virtual consoles > configured. Graphics is an AIT-Raden-all-in-wonder 8500 card. RAM is > 1G. CPU is an athlon. > > a few months ago, I started experiencing this problem. Sometimes, when > changing virtual consoles with ctrl-a

Re: mv files by date

2006-08-31 Thread Matej Cepl
Curtis Vaughan wrote: > Should I do this? > > find ./ -type f ! -mtime -2 -exec ls -al {} \; | xargs mv ../ You can but you are doing it too much complicated -- find by default prints on stdout found filename. And concerning xargs -- I don't use it that much (it always confuses me to no end), but

Re: Sid: Recorded audio CD is just an hour of nothing

2006-08-31 Thread Christopher Richard Nelson
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 03:15:47PM -0400, Curt Howland wrote: > Hi. Up to date Sid, using K3b to record an audio CD. > > Unfortunately, the CD is dead air. When I listen to the mp3 before > it's burned, in K3b, it's fine. When I stick the resulting audio CD > into the drive, the auto-sense routi

Re: how to disable cursor help text in gnome?

2006-08-31 Thread Russell L. Harris
"Mumia W." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 08/31/2006 06:31 AM, Russell L. Harris wrote: >> On the Gnome desktop, whenever the cursor pauses for more than a >> second ever a menu item or pushbutton, a small window containing >> descriptive or help text opens near the cursor. For example, when >>

Re: When Debian 3.1 update r3 ?

2006-08-31 Thread Glen Yu
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 12:33:20PM -0700, Account for Debian group mail wrote: Has anyone heard when r3 update will be released? It probably does not matter. If you have been keeping up with security updates, then you likely have nothing to update it is offic

Sid: Recorded audio CD is just an hour of nothing

2006-08-31 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. Up to date Sid, using K3b to record an audio CD. Unfortunately, the CD is dead air. When I listen to the mp3 before it's burned, in K3b, it's fine. When I stick the resulting audio CD into the drive, the auto-sense routings recognize it as an au

Re: mysqldump and special characters in the password

2006-08-31 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 08:06 -0500, Mumia W. wrote: > > mysqldump -u root [EMAIL PROTECTED] web8_db1 > >> /home/backup/web8_db1.sql > > > > This fails. But I can log in with mysql -u root -p and then type the > > password in, and that works. > > > > How do I get mysqldump to deal to deal with t

Re: When Debian 3.1 update r3 ?

2006-08-31 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 12:33:20PM -0700, Account for Debian group mail wrote: > > Has anyone heard when r3 update will be released? > It probably does not matter. If you have been keeping up with security updates, then you likely have nothing to update it is officially released. I think that t

Re: mv files by date

2006-08-31 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matej Cepl wrote: > Curtis Vaughan wrote: > >> Can someone tell me the correct command line for moving a bunch of >> files between directories that are, say, older than yesterday while >> preserving their time stamps? > > find . \ > while re

Re: Use of dpkg --set-selections is brain-dead?

2006-08-31 Thread Michael S. Peek
T wrote: On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 10:11:58 -0500, Kevin Buhr wrote: Which begs the question: Why doesn't 'apt-get dselect-upgrade' install the package? Does your package have any unsatisfied dependencies? They need to be scheduled for install via "dselect --set-selections", too. If you

Re: mv files by date

2006-08-31 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Ok the following line finds all the files that I want to move out the folder: find ./ -type f ! -mtime -2 -exec ls -al {} \; So, now it's the next part that scares me. Should I do this? find ./ -type f ! -mtime -2 -exec ls -al {} \; | xargs mv ../ in order to move the files found in the scr

Debian on SunMicrosystem's box

2006-08-31 Thread Ishwar Rattan
Is anyone running Debain (or derivative) on the AMD64 based box from SunMicrosystems: it is running Solaris-10 and identifies itself (uname -a output): SunOS cps203 5.10 Generic_118855-14 i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris -ishwar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

debian meets HP Proliant DL320

2006-08-31 Thread Micha
Hello there! If anyone is running Debian on an HP Proliant machine I would appreciate information about how to solve the problem that the "virtual keyboard / mouse" is registering as usb device in a neverending loop. My solution will look like: blacklisting the uhci_hcd module - but to be ho

gdm (or somethnig) goes deaf when changing virtual consoles

2006-08-31 Thread hendrik
This happens on etch, which I try to keep up-to-date. sarge is, as usual, pefectly stable, quite boring, and very useful. I'm using gdm as my login manager. I have six virtual consoles configured. Graphics is an AIT-Raden-all-in-wonder 8500 card. RAM is 1G. CPU is an athlon. a few months

Re: mv files by date

2006-08-31 Thread Matej Cepl
Curtis Vaughan wrote: > Can someone tell me the correct command line for moving a bunch of > files between directories that are, say, older than yesterday while > preserving their time stamps? find . \ while read FILE ; do mv $FILE other-directory/$(basename $FILE) done Read fi

Re: Serious problem: text disappeared everywhere

2006-08-31 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 12:04:59 -0400, Edward Shornock (debian ml) wrote: > On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 06:00:38AM -0400, Yang Sheng wrote: > > Yeah, I checked my xbase-clients , it's 1.7.1-ds3... > > > > But I fixed the problem now. > > > > Thanks to Edward. I closed anti-aliasing, the problem rem

mv files by date

2006-08-31 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Can someone tell me the correct command line for moving a bunch of files between directories that are, say, older than yesterday while preserving their time stamps? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Use of dpkg --set-selections is brain-dead?

2006-08-31 Thread T
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 10:11:58 -0500, Kevin Buhr wrote: >> Which begs the question: Why doesn't 'apt-get dselect-upgrade' install >> the package? > > Does your package have any unsatisfied dependencies? They need to be > scheduled for install via "dselect --set-selections", too. If you're > going

When Debian 3.1 update r3 ?

2006-08-31 Thread Account for Debian group mail
Has anyone heard when r3 update will be released? Thanks, Ken -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: can't apt-get install

2006-08-31 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Le jeudi 31 août 2006 à 18:26 +0200, Michael Noisternig a écrit : > Hi... > > Thibaut Paumard wrote: > > Le jeudi 31 août 2006 à 12:52 +0200, Michael Noisternig a écrit : > > [problems installing xmms... initially] > > > > I'm not sure in the end whether libvorbisfile3 and cdrdao are finally > >

Re: KDE being removed?

2006-08-31 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Thursday 31 August 2006 08:36, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2006-08-28 11:53:54, schrieb Kent West: > > It's been my experience than when running unstable, packages get > > b0rken and things like this sometimes happen. As a general rule, if > > I'm paying attention, I can stop the upgrade and tr

Re: KDE being removed?

2006-08-31 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-08-28 11:53:54, schrieb Kent West: > It's been my experience than when running unstable, packages get b0rken > and things like this sometimes happen. As a general rule, if I'm paying > attention, I can stop the upgrade and try again in a day or two and > things go well. If I'm not payin

Re: Email programs that work.

2006-08-31 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-08-29 16:13:05, schrieb Dmitri Minaev: > If you pardon my jumping in, gentlemen, I would say that Mutt does not > work with IMAP. False > Mutt can read mail stored in IMAP folders, but working with IMAP takes > more than that. Folder manipulation (create/share/delete), moving Mutt creat

Re: mozilla-firefox keeps crashing

2006-08-31 Thread Edward Shornock (debian ml)
On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 03:23:51AM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > It turns out that it's any page that contains flash (I tried both the nonfree > and the regular (free ???) plugins) What are the contents of /etc/firefox/firefoxrc? signature.asc Description: Digital signature

File corruption with 2940U2 SCSI card and aic7xxx driver.

2006-08-31 Thread Ethan .
I recently installed an Adaptec 2940U2 controller and two disks in myDebian Sarge system.  Prior to this installation, the system had beena rock-solid IDE only system.  The card and drives are correctlydetected and identified by the kernel at boot.  Unfortunately, I am experiencing consistent corru

Re: [Solved] Re: Reconfiguring Xorg

2006-08-31 Thread hendrik
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 04:08:36PM -0400, Andr? Allavena wrote: > On Tue, Aug 29, 2006, Owen Heisler wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 15:52 +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: > > > On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 10:34:11 -0400 > > > Andr? Allavena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Hi list, > > > > > > > > d

Re: Re: can't apt-get install

2006-08-31 Thread Michael Noisternig
Hi... Thibaut Paumard wrote: Le jeudi 31 août 2006 à 12:52 +0200, Michael Noisternig a écrit : [problems installing xmms... initially] I'm not sure in the end whether libvorbisfile3 and cdrdao are finally inbstalled. They are. I thought you could understand it from the captured apt-get outpu

Re: texlive and tetex tools

2006-08-31 Thread Carlos Moffat
On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 16:04 +0200, T wrote: > On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 22:59:08 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 03:41:03AM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > >> What is the difference between the two latex implementations available > >> under debian? > >> > > I think the main

Re: Serious problem: text disappeared everywhere

2006-08-31 Thread Edward Shornock (debian ml)
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 11:59:58AM -0400, Edward Shornock (debian ml) wrote: > On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 05:30:29AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Edward Shornock (debian ml) wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 09:29:43PM -0400, Yang Sheng wr

Re: Serious problem: text disappeared everywhere

2006-08-31 Thread Edward Shornock (debian ml)
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 06:00:38AM -0400, Yang Sheng wrote: > Yeah, I checked my xbase-clients , it's 1.7.1-ds3... > > But I fixed the problem now. > > Thanks to Edward. I closed anti-aliasing, the problem remains. But when I > reopen it, I found the problem was fixed. > > And this only appeare

Re: Serious problem: text disappeared everywhere

2006-08-31 Thread Edward Shornock (debian ml)
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 05:30:29AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Edward Shornock (debian ml) wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 09:29:43PM -0400, Yang Sheng wrote: > >> Hi > [snip] > > You'll see lots of posts about this problem with GTK applicatio

Re: Use of dpkg --set-selections is brain-dead?

2006-08-31 Thread Kevin Buhr
"Michael S. Peek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Which begs the question: Why doesn't 'apt-get dselect-upgrade' install > the package? Does your package have any unsatisfied dependencies? They need to be scheduled for install via "dselect --set-selections", too. If you're going to go this route

Re: mysqldump and special characters in the password

2006-08-31 Thread Mumia W.
On 08/31/2006 06:04 AM, Hans du Plooy wrote: Hi guys, I'm setting up a script to backup the mysql databases on a web server. For example: mysqldump -u root [EMAIL PROTECTED] web8_db1 /home/backup/web8_db1.sql This fails. But I can log in with mysql -u root -p and then type the password i

Re: how to disable cursor help text in gnome?

2006-08-31 Thread Mumia W.
On 08/31/2006 06:31 AM, Russell L. Harris wrote: On the Gnome desktop, whenever the cursor pauses for more than a second ever a menu item or pushbutton, a small window containing descriptive or help text opens near the cursor. For example, when the cursor is pointing at the "Desktop" menu item

Re: Use of dpkg --set-selections is brain-dead?

2006-08-31 Thread Michael S. Peek
Michael S. Peek wrote: Kevin Buhr wrote: "Michael S. Peek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I've traced my problem down to the use of 'dpkg --set-selections' command. As an example, I have a package named tiem-nis-client-cfg that sets up NIS for generic workstations. If I understand correctly

Re: Use of dpkg --set-selections is brain-dead?

2006-08-31 Thread Kevin Buhr
"Mumia W." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The man-page for dpkg suggests that Michael's method should have > worked: > >> dpkg --set-selections >>Set package selections using file read from stdin. > > Notice that additional parameters are not required, and the input > comes from stdin. I

Re: mozilla-firefox keeps crashing

2006-08-31 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Micha Feigin wrote: On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 01:46:46 +0300 Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 08:42:34 -0500 Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: edwardsa wrote: I am having similar problems. My benchmark is trying to look at the Doonesbury cartoon on the nytimes.c

Re: Use of dpkg --set-selections is brain-dead?

2006-08-31 Thread Michael S. Peek
Kevin Buhr wrote: "Michael S. Peek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I've traced my problem down to the use of 'dpkg --set-selections' command. As an example, I have a package named tiem-nis-client-cfg that sets up NIS for generic workstations. If I understand correctly, I should be able to do

Re: solicitação - FAZ

2006-08-31 Thread Antonio Felipe
Olá Richard! Comece bem no mundo e Debian e se cadastre na lista em Português. debian-user-portuguese@lists.debian.org http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/HOWTO_start_list.pt.html Lá com certeza alguém poderá te enviar o CD, isso já aconteceu algumas vezes. Parabéns pela escolha e boa sorte! --

Re: Email programs that work.

2006-08-31 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 07:20:12AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 05:51:27PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > >> I've yet to fathom a need for a 2 million message mailbox. Not to > >> mention > >>

solicitação - FAZ

2006-08-31 Thread richard martins costa martins costa
Caros amigos: Meu nome é Richard e no dia 1º de julho próximo passado, fui presenteado com um computador completo, porém sem Sistema Operacional instalado, tendo em vista que eu gosto de Linux. Como ainda não tenho nada instalado nele, e como ouvi comentários super favoráveis ao Debian,dizendo que

Re: Email programs that work.

2006-08-31 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 05:51:27PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: >> I've yet to fathom a need for a 2 million message mailbox. Not to >> mention >> the support structure behind it since 2 million would break or strain both >

Re: can't apt-get install

2006-08-31 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 12:52:17PM +0200, Michael Noisternig wrote: > cdrdao: Depends: libvorbisfile3 (>= 1.1.2) but it is not installable > > Any ideas? Thanks for all feedback! Download libvorbisfile3.deb and cdrdao.deb, put them in a directory, and do dpkg -i -R dirname -- Carl Fi

Problems with `autoreconf -sfi'

2006-08-31 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Hi. In order to install opensync with syncml support, I'm following a tutorial at http://blog.dukanovic.com , but during the opensync installation step I get the following output: $ autoreconf -sfi configure.in:21: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_DISABLE_STATIC If this token and o

Re: can't apt-get install

2006-08-31 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Le jeudi 31 août 2006 à 12:52 +0200, Michael Noisternig a écrit : [problems installing xmms... initially] I'm not sure in the end whether libvorbisfile3 and cdrdao are finally inbstalled. Can you launch aptitude and find the packages that are marked "broken"? (IIRC, hitting "t" will allow you to

how to disable cursor help text in gnome?

2006-08-31 Thread Russell L. Harris
On the Gnome desktop, whenever the cursor pauses for more than a second ever a menu item or pushbutton, a small window containing descriptive or help text opens near the cursor. For example, when the cursor is pointing at the "Desktop" menu item in the upper panel of the screen, the text which app

Re: Email programs that work.

2006-08-31 Thread hendrik
On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 05:51:27PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > I've yet to fathom a need for a 2 million message mailbox. Not to mention > the support structure behind it since 2 million would break or strain both > maildir and mbox. Perhaps reiserfs? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: can't apt-get install

2006-08-31 Thread Michael Noisternig
Thanks for giving a try at the testing branch. Whatever feedback you can give will be greatly appreciated by the Debian developpers. Great! :-) Thanks for your reply. Took a long time as the ISP hat some problem, losing a lot of packets, as I would figure out later. Finally, when it rebooted,

mysqldump and special characters in the password

2006-08-31 Thread Hans du Plooy
Hi guys, I'm setting up a script to backup the mysql databases on a web server. For example: mysqldump -u root [EMAIL PROTECTED] web8_db1 > /home/backup/web8_db1.sql This fails.  But I can log in with mysql -u root -p   and then type the password in, and that works. How do I get mysqldump

Re: Serious problem: text disappeared everywhere

2006-08-31 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Edward Shornock (debian ml) wrote: > On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 09:29:43PM -0400, Yang Sheng wrote: >> Hi [snip] > You'll see lots of posts about this problem with GTK applications > and Nvidia cards too... Really? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA US

Re: Serious problem: text disappeared everywhere

2006-08-31 Thread Yang Sheng
Yeah, I checked my xbase-clients , it's 1.7.1-ds3...But I fixed the problem now. Thanks to Edward.  I closed anti-aliasing, the problem remains. But when I reopen it, I found the problem was fixed. And this only appeared in the gtk program.Thanks for help! On 8/31/06, David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: NFS takes up local disk space

2006-08-31 Thread Jens Tobiska
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 11:33:21AM +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > On 31.08.06 15:27, Jens Tobiska wrote: > > I have a weird problem with NFS on Debian amd64. It appears to take up > > the same amount of space on the local disk as on the remote nfs-mounted > > one. > > > > Only noticed this

Re: Creating custom deb package with conffiles overrides

2006-08-31 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Le mercredi 30 août 2006 à 15:39 -0700, Atle Veka a écrit : > On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Thibaut Paumard wrote: > > > I am trying to create a custom configuration package which among > > > other things installs an snmpd.conf into /etc/snmp/. Is there a way in my > > > package declaration to tell apt to

Re: NFS takes up local disk space

2006-08-31 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 31.08.06 15:27, Jens Tobiska wrote: > I have a weird problem with NFS on Debian amd64. It appears to take up > the same amount of space on the local disk as on the remote nfs-mounted > one. > > Only noticed this when my root partition was filling up (the nfs > mountpoint is on /mnt/nfs which is

Etch: OpenOffice 2.0.3 - Base: wizard don't work

2006-08-31 Thread Mirto Silvio Busico
He all, anyone have this problem? In OO Base, when you try to add a form using the wizard, all seems to work but when you click on the edn button nothin happens. The only thing that is accepted is clicking the cancel button. I tried the 2.0.3-2 from Etch and 2.0.3-6 from unstable (but in this cas

Re: Serious problem: text disappeared everywhere

2006-08-31 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 31 August 2006 04:29, Yang Sheng wrote: > Hi > > These days I found I almost can't work with my KDE, because it seems there > are some terrible error with text rendering engine(pango?). Just when I > writing this post, the text I inputed would disappear after I changed lines > or insert

NFS takes up local disk space

2006-08-31 Thread Jens Tobiska
Hello, I have a weird problem with NFS on Debian amd64. It appears to take up the same amount of space on the local disk as on the remote nfs-mounted one. Only noticed this when my root partition was filling up (the nfs mountpoint is on /mnt/nfs which is on the root partition). There is probably