Mumia,
At Sun, 08 Oct 2006 13:24:21 -0500 you said,
What are you trying to do?
Just for interest, I want to understand how startx,
via several stages of indirection, starts xfce. I
appreciate the various suggestions but none have
been completely consistent with the system here.
To be convinced
Chris Bannister wrote, On 2006-10-09 12:34:
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 01:15:49PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote:
After another day or two of searching, I stumbled upon a link to
www.softwaregarden.com, which site belongs to Dan Bricklin.
It turns out that Dan has written in Perl an RSS feed gener
On 10/9/06, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 09:28:29PM +0800, Deephay wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
> I had a little problem with the sound control in gnome today with my
> newly installed debian (sid, using debootstrap):
> The Volume Control button in gnome is invalid (
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 12:37:34PM -0400, Matt Price wrote:
>
> ah. I hadn't realized this needed to go in my startup scripts -- I'd
> read about it on a suspend2 mailing list and included it in my
> hibernate script, but I don't actually know how to include this
> permanently in the startup scri
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 01:15:49PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> After another day or two of searching, I stumbled upon a link to
> www.softwaregarden.com, which site belongs to Dan Bricklin.
>
> It turns out that Dan has written in Perl an RSS feed generator program
> called "ListGarden"; it
On Sunday 08 October 2006 8:43 pm, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 08:02:03PM -0400, Richard wrote:
> > This is odd, (VERY)
> > when surfing its okay, however, when downloading like new iso image
> > files, or ftping... the ethernet connection seems to come to a crawl,
> > then
On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 03:15:27PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> I have just started experimenting with LDAP. Yesterday I (re)configured
> an LDAP server on my network. THis one had been setup before, but
> unused. I had one client which I also reconfigured and another which
> had not been
On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 08:02:03PM -0400, Richard wrote:
> This is odd, (VERY)
> when surfing its okay, however, when downloading like new iso image files,
> or ftping... the ethernet connection seems to come to a crawl, then stops
> (cold) (please note: in Window XP (oops) there was never a probl
On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 09:28:29PM +0800, Deephay wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
> I had a little problem with the sound control in gnome today with my
> newly installed debian (sid, using debootstrap):
> The Volume Control button in gnome is invalid (with a red cross on
> it), I then googled and found
This is odd, (VERY)
when surfing its okay, however, when downloading like new iso image files,
or ftping... the ethernet connection seems to come to a crawl, then stops
(cold) (please note: in Window XP (oops) there was never a problem in
downloading.
Here is my snap of ifconfig -a
>I think there has been a fork from the original cdrecord, and its author,
>because of some licensing issues. Debian has decided that it should remain as
>open source software and has removed any code that conflicts with this aim.
>So it is in flux I believe?
This is not true:
The original cdr
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Brad Brock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I've just installed a CD-Writer to my computer. I want
>to burn an ISO image, but I have problems with
>cdrecord. Can anybody show me how to use cdrecord
>properly since cdrecord doesn't seem recognize my
>CD-Writer? (It fails
On Sunday 08 October 2006 22:26, Clive Menzies wrote:
>
> I thought this was a wind up :) and so I did 'man shred' and
> whadayaknow, it exists and is pretty groovy.
I did not know that the shred command could remove subdirectories, only files.
That is why I only mentioned 'wipe'. Neither tool w
On (08/10/06 20:59), pete wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 08:19:24PM +0100, Jonathan Roberts wrote:
> > I'm not certain but I think you can use this command:
> >
> > rm -R [folder name]
> >
> > check the man page...you can also remove files that begin/end with specific
> > strings.
>
> I someti
On Sunday 08 October 2006 21:49, Alan Ianson wrote:
> On Sun October 8 2006 07:24 am, Brad Brock wrote:
> > Wodim helps me burn my ISO files to CDs. But I'm still
> > curious with cdrecord. Is it imposible to use cdrecord
> > in my computer..??
>
> wodim is a debianised cdrecord. It's new and that'
On Sun October 8 2006 07:24 am, Brad Brock wrote:
> Wodim helps me burn my ISO files to CDs. But I'm still
> curious with cdrecord. Is it imposible to use cdrecord
> in my computer..??
wodim is a debianised cdrecord. It's new and that's about all I know about it.
> By the way, is there any GUI f
hello fred,
to read the info about the dvd :
dvdbackup -i /dev/hdx
to copy all the dvd :
dvdbackup -M -i /dev/hdx -o /dvb-backup
then to make the .iso
mkisofs -dvd-video -o /image-name.iso /dvb-backup
then burn the .iso image
On Monday 09 October 2006 00:24, Brad Brock shared this with us all:
>--> Thanks to M-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>-->
>--> Wodim helps me burn my ISO files to CDs. But I'm still
>--> curious with cdrecord. Is it imposible to use cdrecord
>--> in my computer..??
I think there has been a fork from the or
On 8-okt-2006, at 22:38, Cees en Ilnaat wrote:
PPC versie Debian 3.1
Heeft iemand inmiddels de nodige ervaring met de installatie en de
werking van Debian 3.1 op een Apple powerbook G4 (titanium)? Ik ben
betrekkelijk nieuw in Linux land maar heb inmiddels mindere
ervaringen met Ubuntu 6.
Hi Cees,
You've posted to an enlish mailinglist. Please use that language in
future requests. Thanks.
On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 09:38:43PM +0100, Cees en Ilnaat wrote:
> Heeft iemand inmiddels de nodige ervaring met de installatie en de
> werking van Debian 3.1 op een Apple powerbook G4 (titani
"Fred J." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: HiI am using dvdbackup under testing, it is giving some errors I did not expect and don't know whats the fix.[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dvdbackup -i /media/cdrom0 -IFloating point exception[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dvdbackup -M -i /media/cdrom0 -o /home/fred/dvdback/Can't
On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 08:19:24PM +0100, Jonathan Roberts wrote:
> I'm not certain but I think you can use this command:
>
> rm -R [folder name]
>
> check the man page...you can also remove files that begin/end with specific
> strings.
I sometimes use the 'shred' command, typically like this :
PPC versie Debian 3.1
Heeft iemand inmiddels de nodige ervaring met de installatie en de
werking van Debian 3.1 op een Apple powerbook G4 (titanium)? Ik ben
betrekkelijk nieuw in Linux land maar heb inmiddels mindere ervaringen
met Ubuntu 6.06 en Yellow dog 4.1 wat betreft WiFi en mijn
netwer
I'm not certain but I think you can use this command:rm -R [folder name]check the man page...you can also remove files that begin/end with specific strings.-- Jon
HiI am using dvdbackup under testing, it is giving some errors I did not expect and don't know whats the fix.[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dvdbackup -i /media/cdrom0 -IFloating point exception[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dvdbackup -M -i /media/cdrom0 -o /home/fred/dvdback/Can't read title from DVD device /media/cdr
Am Sonntag, 8. Oktober 2006 20:07 schrieb Florian Kulzer:
> You probably still have a package pin for the backported version in your
> /etc/apt/preferences. This can keep apt-get from installing the current
> Etch version. Check the output of "apt-cache policy firefox".
Thanks, Florian.
That hit
I have just started experimenting with LDAP. Yesterday I (re)configured
an LDAP server on my network. THis one had been setup before, but
unused. I had one client which I also reconfigured and another which
had not been configured at all to use LDAP. Now, when I reboot any of
the workstations w
On 10/08/2006 10:08 AM, Peter Easthope wrote:
Mumia, Clive, Nyizsnyik and others,
Incidentally, I've not monkeyed with any of the
scripts. They are just as installed.
At Mon, 25 Sep 2006 09:56:38 -0500 Mumia W. Paduille said,
Debian uses its "alternatives" system. Startx (probably) invokes
/u
On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 10:26:08AM -0700, Peter Easthope wrote:
> Now I have three questions about VNC.
>
> 1. The documentation for a VNC client instructs,
> "To start a Unix VNC/X-Window server:
> vncserver -geometry 620x730 -depth 24"
>
> Why wouldn't this be started as a background process?
On Sunday 08 October 2006 18:14, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 18:06:50 +, Pollywog wrote:
> > On Sunday 08 October 2006 17:56, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I upgraded from sarge to etch today. Seems that firefox is gone:
> >
> > try 'mozilla-firefox' instead
Manuel Souto Pico wrote:
$ java -version
java version "1.5.0_05"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_05-b05)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_05-b05, mixed mode, sharing)
Does that look like I've got J2SE installed?
It does. To make sure, check also "javac -v
On (08/10/06 08:08), Peter Easthope wrote:
> Incidentally, I've not monkeyed with any of the
> scripts. They are just as installed.
>
> At Mon, 25 Sep 2006 09:56:38 -0500 Mumia W. Paduille said,
> Debian uses its "alternatives" system. Startx (probably) invokes
> /usr/X11/.../xinitrc which (prob
On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 18:06:50 +, Pollywog wrote:
> On Sunday 08 October 2006 17:56, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I upgraded from sarge to etch today. Seems that firefox is gone:
>
> try 'mozilla-firefox' instead of just 'firefox'
mozilla-firefox is obsolete in Etch and only serv
On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 19:56:12 +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I upgraded from sarge to etch today. Seems that firefox is gone:
>
> topsi:~# apt-get install firefox
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Package firefox is not available, but is referred to
On Sunday 08 October 2006 17:56, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I upgraded from sarge to etch today. Seems that firefox is gone:
try 'mozilla-firefox' instead of just 'firefox'
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Hello,
I upgraded from sarge to etch today. Seems that firefox is gone:
topsi:~# apt-get install firefox
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Package firefox is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obso
Hi,
I'm trying to install the fglrx driver for my
ATI card on my Etch system with Xorg 7.
After installing the packages
module-assistant, fglrx-driver and fglrx-kernel-src
and running 'aticonfig --initial' the fglrx driver
seem not to work:
notebook:/usr/lib# fglrxinfo
display: :0.0 screen: 0
O
Now I have three questions about VNC.
1. The documentation for a VNC client instructs,
"To start a Unix VNC/X-Window server:
vncserver -geometry 620x730 -depth 24"
Why wouldn't this be started as a background process?
vncserver -geometry 620x730 -depth 24 &
2. Is there any advantage in having
On Sunday 08 October 2006 14:41, Richard wrote:
> Lets say I have a folder that has about 400 items,
> from mp3 to xls sheets, to mpeg movies to .pdf files, all kinds of media
> types..
>
> What command in Linux, can shred the whole folder and ALL of its contents,
> without me going into the folder
Hi, I am using netcat to help
me send backups to and from machines with different operating systems.
I am using:
To Backup...
dd if=/dev/"Device" | gzip -9 | nc "Destination"
"Port"
Assumes nc -l -p "Port" >"Image File
Name" is running on Destination Host.
To Restore...
nc -l -
On Sun, 08 Oct 2006 17:00:15 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
>
> I think these messages indicate that there is something wrong with the
> setup of your X (the basic graphical environment infrastructure which is
> needed by all GUI applications). Updating from Sarge to Etch means going
> from XFree8
On Sun, 08 Oct 2006 17:00:15 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> One of your problems seems to be that you have debconf configured to use
> the KDE frontend, which means that it will not be able to ask you any
> configuration questions if KDE is not running. If you cannot get KDE to
> work then you sho
On 10/08/2006 04:23 AM, . wrote:
The download of the debian-31r2-i386-binary-1.iso crashes at 91%
downloading by http. I tried it two times with differents downloaders.
With jigdo was not possible, I tried but it crashes always with error
code -3.
What's happen??
Best regards.
Jose
Perhaps
At Sun, 01 Oct 2006 20:05:03 +0200 Mathias Brodala said,
> Really on the desktop or only in the panel? ...
> If you want it on the desktop, maybe torsmo can help you.
OK; I got the panel back and it has a clock.
That is sufficient. Thanks,
... Peter E.
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Roberto, Miles and others,
At Wed, 27 Sep 2006 20:45:14 -0400 Roberto C. Sanchez said,
It is not a bug. It simply clears the $LANG environment variable before
going into the chroot. ...
OK, thanks.
At Thu, 28 Sep 2006 10:15:46 +0900 Miles Bader said,
Maybe it would be slightly less confusing t
Hi, I am using netcat to help
me send backups to and from machines with different operating systems.
I am using:
To Backup...
dd if=/dev/"Device" | gzip -9 | nc "Destination"
"Port"
Assumes nc -l -p "Port" >"Image File
Name" is running on Destination Host.
To Restore...
nc -l -p "
Mumia, Clive, Nyizsnyik and others,
Incidentally, I've not monkeyed with any of the
scripts. They are just as installed.
At Mon, 25 Sep 2006 09:56:38 -0500 Mumia W. Paduille said,
Debian uses its "alternatives" system. Startx (probably) invokes
/usr/X11/.../xinitrc which (probably) invokes /us
On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 11:51:46AM +0800, bowen wrote:
> (Why mysql or system do not automatic free some of
> the loaded data from memory, Just use a little swap space to sawp out
> a little memory).
> shell# free
> total used free sharedbuffers cached
> Mem:
On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 15:29:23 +0200, Richard in Paris wrote:
> Thank you so much Andrew!
> Your solution worked perfectly!
> I changed hda to hde in grub and fstab and I rebooted right into X!
> Now I have a new problem: after two minutes the display got corrupted and I
> had to reboot again, a
Andreas Berglund wrote:
Richard wrote:
Lets say I have a folder that has about 400 items,
from mp3 to xls sheets, to mpeg movies to .pdf files, all kinds of
media types..
What command in Linux, can shred the whole folder and ALL of its
contents, without me going into the folder and hand dele
On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 13:40:19 +0200, Christian Christmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> after installing a fresh Sarge system, I wanted to upgrade
> to Etch. However, the installation of package ttf-opensymbol
> fails with the error message:
>
> debconf: unable to initialize frontend: KDE
> debconf: (Can'
On Sun, 8 Oct 2006 07:24:54 -0700 (PDT)
Brad Brock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks to M-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Wodim helps me burn my ISO files to CDs. But I'm still
> curious with cdrecord. Is it imposible to use cdrecord
> in my computer..??
Have you tried Ernst-Magne's suggestion yet?
Hi (probably) Jeffrey!
I've used recently diap-up to isp, so
there is a chance to help you, if you
say what the problem is.
Some readings are necessary to understand
deus ex machine behind the whole stuff.
I would start at manual pages for pppd
and chat. Then you could find out what
to change in "p
Richard wrote:
Lets say I have a folder that has about 400 items,
from mp3 to xls sheets, to mpeg movies to .pdf files, all kinds of media
types..
What command in Linux, can shred the whole folder and ALL of its contents,
without me going into the folder and hand deleting items by group type.
Lets say I have a folder that has about 400 items,
from mp3 to xls sheets, to mpeg movies to .pdf files, all kinds of media
types..
What command in Linux, can shred the whole folder and ALL of its contents,
without me going into the folder and hand deleting items by group type.
Just looking for
Thanks to M-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Wodim helps me burn my ISO files to CDs. But I'm still
curious with cdrecord. Is it imposible to use cdrecord
in my computer..??
By the way, is there any GUI for wodim?
Thank you everybody.
__
Do You Yahoo!?
Tired
herebelow please find tail -30 of strace startx:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ tail -30 xorg_problema_strace
stat64("/usr/bin/deallocvt", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=5632, ...}) = 0
stat64("/usr/bin/deallocvt", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=5632, ...}) = 0
stat64("/usr/bin/deallocvt", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0
i use etch, it is now at least 4 to 5 days that xorg starts and immediately
crashes.
i did not do anything special to the system a part from upgrading daily.
when i launch startx the grey screen appears and immediately X crashes, but i
do not receive any clue of what has caused
it in Xorg.0.log:
Deephay wrote:
Greetings all,
I had a little problem with the sound control in gnome today with my
newly installed debian (sid, using debootstrap):
The Volume Control button in gnome is invalid (with a red cross on
it), I then googled and found some threads about this mentioned that
you have to
Greetings all,
I had a little problem with the sound control in gnome today with my
newly installed debian (sid, using debootstrap):
The Volume Control button in gnome is invalid (with a red cross on
it), I then googled and found some threads about this mentioned that
you have to check if you are
Hi, All!
I have Exim configured similar to http://koivi.com/exim4-config/ and
this is content of my /etc/exim4/virtual/example.com file:
yura: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
abuse: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
buh: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [
I'm receiving a lot of those messages from squid. Does anyone knows what
do they mean?
phoenix:~# tail -f /var/log/squid/cache.log
2006/10/05 12:36:43| sslReadServer: FD 26: read failure: (104)
Connection reset by peer
2006/10/05 13:04:14| sslReadServer: FD 26: read failure: (104)
Connection r
Hi,
after installing a fresh Sarge system, I wanted to upgrade
to Etch. However, the installation of package ttf-opensymbol
fails with the error message:
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: KDE
debconf: (Can't locate Debconf/FrontEnd/KDE.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
/etc/perl /usr/local/lib/p
Hi,
just in case somebody else experiences a similar problem.
I have an onboard sound chip: NVidia CK804 with ALC850
and a TV-card with a CX881 audio chip.
After
[UPGRADE] linux-sound-base 1.0.11-5 -> 1.0.12-1
[UPGRADE] udev 0.093-1 -> 0.100-1
linux-image-2.6.15-1-amd64-k8 -> linux-image-2.6.17-
cga2000 wrote:
Only feature that I'm missing is vertical screen splits and resizing
because this would make gnu/screen the perfect text-mode tiling window
manager.
I haven't tried it yet, but
http://people.nas.nasa.gov/~kolano/projects/screenwm.html looks
promising :-)
--
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The download of the debian-31r2-i386-binary-1.iso crashes at 91%
downloading by http. I tried it two times with differents downloaders.
With jigdo was not possible, I tried but it crashes always with error
code -3.
What's happen??
Best regards.
Jose
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Hello,
after upgrading from sarge to etch, my bluetooth network was broken. Not a big
surprise, it used hotplug and hotplug is gone in etch.
In sarge, I had an USB bluetooth dongle integrated in the sarge hotplug system
by adding a hotplug script, which basically detects that the dongle was
at
On 07.10.06 13:08, Fred J. wrote:
> I run my debian testing with 2.6.15 and fire a script to mount the floppy
> and it works, after compileing a new one "debian way", I fired the same
> script and it gave me
please set up your mailer to wrap lines up to 80 characters (72-75 is even
better)
>
On 07.10.06 11:22, Wolfe, Robert wrote:
> I have a course management package here that that requires at least
> version 4.1 of MySQL. However, I noticed that the current stable release
> of Debian only has 4.0.x. Does anyone know of a site that has at least
> 4.1.x available in .deb format for th
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