PXE management suite

2006-11-10 Thread Tim Post
Good day list - I'm looking for a web based (perl/php) manager for pxe driven networks. I'll explain some of my setup, and hopefully someone can point me to a good project. I've got a bunch of (nearly) identical nodes that will need to access various installs and kernels via pxe. Sometimes this w

Re: Installing KDE didn't pull in all dependencies - A bug?

2006-11-10 Thread Amit Joshi
On Saturday 11 November 2006 02:33, Kevin Mark wrote: > Hi Amit, > No, its not a bug but a feature! You can instll xorg (the current X), by > using 'apt-get install xorg' which, just like 'kde', is a meta-packge > that makes things easier for users. I forget the exact reason, but it > has to do wit

Re: maildrop "lockfile" error with maildir

2006-11-10 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061110 22:00]: > On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 10:53:53PM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > Please forgive the cross-post, but I have gotten no response on this > > matter from the mutt list or from the maildrop list. I have read all > > You received at least

Re: ia64

2006-11-10 Thread Bill Wohler
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 11/10/06 05:55, Michael Fernández M wrote: >> Hi.. >> >> In the company we are thinking to buy a server IBM x3850 with 2 INTEL MP >> XEON DUAL CORE. But this works in 64 Bits. >> >> The web site says... >> >> -

Re: Installing an i386 OS on an ia64 system

2006-11-10 Thread Bill Wohler
Wackojacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hopefully the OP is still reading the thread anyway. ;-). Thanks for all the feedback. So with 64 bit comes a larger address space. I suppose throughput should be faster two, no? Anyway, as it turns out, the proper keyword is amd64. I should install the

Debian repository server

2006-11-10 Thread Hartmut Tigges
When checkibg for updates of debian testing I received an offer to update these unauthorized package updates from ftp2.de.debian.org/debian/: libavahi-client3, libavahi-common3, libavahi-common-data, libavahi-compat-libdnssd1, libavahi-glib1, libavahi-qt3-1, libcaca0, libcucul0, libxmmsclient0,

Re: ca-certificates

2006-11-10 Thread David E. Fox
On Thu, 9 Nov 2006 23:12:16 +0100 Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > can nevertheless run "apt-get install -f" or "aptitude install -f" in a > terminal and copy/paste the entire output into an email.) Having the same issue here for sometime... rw-r--r-- 1 root root 93040 2006-10-27 10:

Re: xorg 7.1.1 upgrade problem

2006-11-10 Thread Wayne Topa
Sjoerd Hardeman([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Commend in /etc/X11/xorg.conf the following line out: > Load "dri" > As the output shows an error concerning dri. > If it still doesn't work, look at the lines with (EE) in front, look if > you can find something matching in /et

Re: maildrop "lockfile" error with maildir

2006-11-10 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 10:53:53PM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote: > Please forgive the cross-post, but I have gotten no response on this > matter from the mutt list or from the maildrop list. I have read all > the relevant man pages and have been searching without success on Google > for a sol

meaning of dependency score?

2006-11-10 Thread Jason Dunsmore
What does "Score is -19" mean in this context? ... # aptitude dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done Building tag database... Done The following packages are BROKEN: php4 php4-mysql php4-s

Re: mysql upgrade broke server [solved!]

2006-11-10 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 07:01:26PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 06:57:28PM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > > > dpkg -i --force all mysql-common-4.1_4.1.11a-4sarge7_all.deb > > dpkg -i --force all mysql-client-4.1_4.1.11a-4sarge7_i386.deb > > dpkg -i --force all mysql-s

Re: apt-get mysql-server

2006-11-10 Thread Tom Brown
On Friday 10 November 2006 15:46, Kevin Mark wrote: > Hi Tom, > if you used apt-get with the above sources, you couldnt install version > 5. So it must have been a download from maybe backports.org or someother > location. Thats my guess. You can certainly try to remove any mysql > software and the

Re: mysql upgrade broke server [solved!]

2006-11-10 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 06:57:28PM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > dpkg -i --force all mysql-common-4.1_4.1.11a-4sarge7_all.deb > dpkg -i --force all mysql-client-4.1_4.1.11a-4sarge7_i386.deb > dpkg -i --force all mysql-server-4.1_4.1.11a-4sarge7_i386.deb > Be careful telling dpkg to force all. I

Re: How to enable/use Hyperthreading?

2006-11-10 Thread Colin
Rogério Brito wrote: > I bought recently a new computer with a Pentium D processor (which is > supposed to have two cores, if I understand it) and one of the first > things that I did with it was to enable SMP. > I don't think Pentium D processors are suppose to have two cores. Some of them have

Re: apt-get mysql-server

2006-11-10 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 03:32:42PM -0700, Tom Brown wrote: > Hello, > > I apt-got mysql-server on two debian sarge machines. On the first machine, > mysql-server 5 was installed. The second machine, mysql-server 4 was > installed. They both have the same sources.list. Any ideas why this would >

Re: mysql upgrade broke server [solved!]

2006-11-10 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 12:25:39AM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 17:54:10 -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 11:20:50PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 16:39:23 -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > > > If you still need a "real" 4.1

Re: mysql upgrade broke server

2006-11-10 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 05:57:13PM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: > On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 05:43:53PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 04:39:23PM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > > I just tried to upgrade mysql-server which replaces 4.1 with 5.0. The > > > upgrade aborts because ther

Re: xorg 7.1.1 upgrade problem

2006-11-10 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Commend in /etc/X11/xorg.conf the following line out: Load "dri" As the output shows an error concerning dri. If it still doesn't work, look at the lines with (EE) in front, look if you can find something matching in /etc/X11/xorg.conf and comment it out. That should do it. Good luck!

Re: apt-get mysql-server

2006-11-10 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 03:47:04PM -0700, Tom Brown wrote: > On Friday 10 November 2006 14:50, Kevin Mark wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 03:32:42PM -0700, Tom Brown wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I apt-got mysql-server on two debian sarge machines. On the first > > > machine, mysql-server 5 wa

Re: mysql upgrade broke server

2006-11-10 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 17:54:10 -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: > On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 11:20:50PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 16:39:23 -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > > I just tried to upgrade mysql-server which replaces 4.1 with 5.0. The > > > upgrade aborts because ther

CDROM music read

2006-11-10 Thread Christophe TROESTLER
Hi, I own a Dell D820 with a SATA disk (but ATA CDROM handled through the "sr_mod" and "cdrom" modules) and a HDA audio card: ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0xBFA8 irq 15 scsi1 : ata_piix ata2.00: ATAPI, max UDMA/33 ata2.00: configured for UDMA/33 Vendor: SONY

xorg 7.1.1 upgrade problem

2006-11-10 Thread Wayne Topa
Hi all. Has anyone else upgraded Etch in the last few days and had a problem with X? Took me a few days but finally got the 100+Meg update completed and now find I don't have a working X anymore. Actually it 'might' be working but I can't see it working because the screen is black but the log s

RE: Kernel compile the old way

2006-11-10 Thread Mike Kuhar
I went to compile a vanilla kernel from kernel.org, and so read the directions at the Debian site. They seem to me to be needlessly complicated. Is there something in Debian which would prevent me from compiling a kernel the good old fashioned way -- make menuconfig make && make modules_instal

List packages by releases

2006-11-10 Thread T
Hi, Somehow I get a mixed system, mixed packages from testing/unstable are mingled in my system. Is there any way to list which packages are from unstable or testing? thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: mysql upgrade broke server

2006-11-10 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 05:43:53PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 04:39:23PM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > I just tried to upgrade mysql-server which replaces 4.1 with 5.0. The > > upgrade aborts because there are supposedly MyISAM files and so I should > > reinstall 4.1 to fix

Re: Boot problem

2006-11-10 Thread Gerard Robin
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 12:14:27PM +, Roelof Wobben wrote: From: Roelof Wobben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Boot problem X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on murphy.debian.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.5 required=4.0 t

Re: mysql upgrade broke server

2006-11-10 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 11:20:50PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 16:39:23 -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > I just tried to upgrade mysql-server which replaces 4.1 with 5.0. The > > upgrade aborts because there are supposedly MyISAM files and so I should > > reinstall 4.1 to f

Re: apt-get mysql-server

2006-11-10 Thread Tom Brown
On Friday 10 November 2006 14:50, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 03:32:42PM -0700, Tom Brown wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I apt-got mysql-server on two debian sarge machines. On the first > > machine, mysql-server 5 was installed. The second machine, mysql-server 4 > > was installed. They

Re: Package installation history.

2006-11-10 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 22:09:42 +, Dave Ewart wrote: > On Friday, 10.11.2006 at 12:40 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 12:33:21PM -0500, Bob Bosiljevac wrote: > > > >On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 12:12:13PM -0500, Bob Bosiljevac wrote: > > > >>Is there a way to tell wh

Re: apt-get mysql-server

2006-11-10 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 03:32:42PM -0700, Tom Brown wrote: > Hello, > > I apt-got mysql-server on two debian sarge machines. On the first machine, > mysql-server 5 was installed. The second machine, mysql-server 4 was > installed. They both have the same sources.list. Any ideas why this would >

Re: apt-get mysql-server

2006-11-10 Thread Tom Brown
On Friday 10 November 2006 14:32, Tom Brown wrote: > I apt-got mysql-server on two debian sarge machines. On the first machine, > mysql-server 5 was installed. The second machine, mysql-server 4 was > installed. They both have the same sources.list. Any ideas why this would > happen? How would I fi

Debian for Dell inspiron 640m (Intel core 2 duo T7400)

2006-11-10 Thread Christian Escalante
I just bought a Dell Inspiron 640m T7400 that has an Intel core 2 duo processor and I want to install debian. Could anyone let me know what ISO images should I download? i386? or 64_x86? Where can I find the right ISO images. Thank you in advance for your help and time. Christian -- To UNSUB

apt-get mysql-server

2006-11-10 Thread Tom Brown
Hello, I apt-got mysql-server on two debian sarge machines. On the first machine, mysql-server 5 was installed. The second machine, mysql-server 4 was installed. They both have the same sources.list. Any ideas why this would happen? How would I fix this? Thanks, Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: mysql upgrade broke server

2006-11-10 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 04:39:23PM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: > I just tried to upgrade mysql-server which replaces 4.1 with 5.0. The > upgrade aborts because there are supposedly MyISAM files and so I should > reinstall 4.1 to fix them then try the upgrade again. > > The problem is that mysql-ser

Re: mysql upgrade broke server

2006-11-10 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 16:39:23 -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: > I just tried to upgrade mysql-server which replaces 4.1 with 5.0. The > upgrade aborts because there are supposedly MyISAM files and so I should > reinstall 4.1 to fix them then try the upgrade again. > > The problem is that mysql-serve

Intel network adapter (was: Re: which driver provide support for Intel 82557/8/9 network adapter)

2006-11-10 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Serena. On Nov 09 2006, Serena Cantor wrote: > I have sarge and a Ethernet Pro 100 card (see Subject). Which module > should I use? Thanks I think that the best maintained driver for this card is the e100, even though you have the option of using Donald Becker's eepro100. BTW, since you have

Re: Package installation history.

2006-11-10 Thread Dave Ewart
On Friday, 10.11.2006 at 12:40 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 12:33:21PM -0500, Bob Bosiljevac wrote: > > >On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 12:12:13PM -0500, Bob Bosiljevac wrote: > > >>Is there a way to tell when a particular package was installed or upgraded > > >>or a way to

Re: Is a kernel upgrade necessary ?

2006-11-10 Thread David Whelan
I've just done almost exactly the same thing as you are contemplating (upgraded to sarge, then from 2.2.20idepci to 2.6.8-3-386). I used aptitude to install the new kernel and seemingly everything went well, but when I rebooted, it gets to the boot message "Starting periodic command scheduler

Re: Wireless interface stopped working in Etch

2006-11-10 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 20:46:11 +, Chris Lale wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: > >On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 16:38:50 +, Chris Lale wrote: > > > >>My Edimax EW-7108pcg PCMCIA wifi card (rt2500 driver) works perfectly in > >>my constantly upgraded version of Etch (Testing). I installed the rt

mysql upgrade broke server

2006-11-10 Thread Rick Pasotto
I just tried to upgrade mysql-server which replaces 4.1 with 5.0. The upgrade aborts because there are supposedly MyISAM files and so I should reinstall 4.1 to fix them then try the upgrade again. The problem is that mysql-server-4.1 *depends* *on* mysql-server-5.0 (which doesn't make any sense) s

Re: Installing KDE didn't pull in all dependencies - A bug?

2006-11-10 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 02:10:17AM +0530, Amit Joshi wrote: > I installed Debian Sarge from my CDs and then did a dist-upgrade to Etch. > I installed a very basic system with the required packages etc. > > Then came the time to install KDE (The GUI

Re: Wireless interface stopped working in Etch

2006-11-10 Thread Chris Lale
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 16:38:50 +, Chris Lale wrote: My Edimax EW-7108pcg PCMCIA wifi card (rt2500 driver) works perfectly in my constantly upgraded version of Etch (Testing). I installed the rt2500 driver some weeks ago. The same driver, built in the same way, wil

Re: Continuing internet oddities

2006-11-10 Thread H.S.
cothrige wrote: * H.S. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Okay. I was actually thinking that maybe your modem is set to 'dial on demand' and the Windows laptop may be sending some packets intermittently to keep the connection up (it does weird things you know, not that I know much about all of them). L

Installing KDE didn't pull in all dependencies - A bug?

2006-11-10 Thread Amit Joshi
I installed Debian Sarge from my CDs and then did a dist-upgrade to Etch. I installed a very basic system with the required packages etc. Then came the time to install KDE (The GUI Interface I was dying for ;-) ) But, apt-get install kde ..i thought would pull in all the dependencies related to

Re: Kernel compile the old way

2006-11-10 Thread Amit Joshi
On Saturday 11 November 2006 00:56, Ed wrote: > I went to compile a vanilla kernel from kernel.org, and so read the > directions at the Debian site. They seem to me to be needlessly > complicated. Is there something in Debian which would prevent me from > compiling a kernel the good old fashioned

Re: apt-proxy

2006-11-10 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Friday 10 November 2006 11:29, Rodrigo Castro wrote: > 2006/11/10 18:24 BRST [-] twisted.internet.error.CannotListenError: > Couldn't listen on 192.168.1.11: : (98, 'Address already in use'). There is your problem right there: there is already a program listening on port , so it couldn

Re: apt-proxy

2006-11-10 Thread Rodrigo Castro
-> Client errorsapt-get updateErr http://192.168.1.11 testing Release.gpg  Connection failedIgn http://192.168.1.11 testing Release Ign http://192.168.1.11 testing/main PackagesErr http://192.168.1.11 testing/main Packages  Connection failedFailed to fetch http://192.168.1.11:/debian/dists/tes

Re: Continuing internet oddities

2006-11-10 Thread cothrige
* H.S. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Okay. I was actually thinking that maybe your modem is set to 'dial on > demand' and the Windows laptop may be sending some packets > intermittently to keep the connection up (it does weird things you know, > not that I know much about all of them). Looks like

Re: Kernel compile the old way

2006-11-10 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ed wrote: I went to compile a vanilla kernel from kernel.org, and so read the directions at the Debian site. They seem to me to be needlessly complicated. Is there something in Debian which would prevent me from compiling a kernel the good old fashioned way -- make menuconfig make && make m

Re: apt-proxy

2006-11-10 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Friday 10 November 2006 10:58, Rodrigo Castro wrote: > I'm experiencing trouble to put apt-proxy to work. In the > apt-proxy-v2.confI didn't change many things, only the server Ip (like > 192.168.1.11) and the backends. And the client's source.list would be like > deb http://192.168.1.11:/de

apt-proxy

2006-11-10 Thread Rodrigo Castro
I'm experiencing trouble to put apt-proxy to work. In the apt-proxy-v2.conf I didn't change many things, only the server Ip (like 192.168.1.11) and the backends. And the client's source.list would be like deb http://192.168.1.11:/debian woody main for example. Is there anyone who could point a

Re: Continuing internet oddities

2006-11-10 Thread H.S.
cothrige wrote: > * H.S. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> Does the same 'blackout' period occur on your computer when your wife's >> laptop is also connected to the linksys router? Or does it occur only >> when your computer is ON. > > Initially I noticed this when her computer was not being used or

Kernel compile the old way

2006-11-10 Thread Ed
I went to compile a vanilla kernel from kernel.org, and so read the directions at the Debian site. They seem to me to be needlessly complicated. Is there something in Debian which would prevent me from compiling a kernel the good old fashioned way -- make menuconfig make && make modules_insta

Re: laptop display

2006-11-10 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Mark Grieveson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061110 08:13]: > > > Hello Chris. Thanks for your reply. I did finally get this solved, in > a subthread, "laptop display CORRECTION", where a user suggested to me > that I change the depth from 24 to 16, and to alter the HorizSync to > 31.5-57.0 from what

Re: Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 updated

2006-11-10 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri November 10 2006 08:18, Yuriy Padlyak wrote: > Hi All! > > How can I update to sarge to http://www.us.debian.org/News/2006/20061106 > without CD? An installed copy of debian is always upto date, if you've updated with apt-get / dselect / aptitude. There are also gui apps to keep updated bu

Xen doesn't start

2006-11-10 Thread ccostin
Hi When I try to start xend, I get the following error in /var/log/xen/xend-debug.log: Link veth0 is missing. This may be because you have reached the limit of the number of interfaces that the loopback driver supports. If the loopback driver is a module, you may raise this limit by passing it

Re: Boot problem

2006-11-10 Thread Kent West
Roelof Wobben wrote: But can't i be done with the boot-only cd from Sarge. Yes, but I'm unsure of the steps; I'm sure Google has it somewhere though. I want to use lilo instead of grub. Then instead of running grub-install, run lilo, once you're chroot'ed into your system. However, Windo

Re: Wireless interface stopped working in Etch

2006-11-10 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 16:38:50 +, Chris Lale wrote: > My Edimax EW-7108pcg PCMCIA wifi card (rt2500 driver) works perfectly in > my constantly upgraded version of Etch (Testing). I installed the rt2500 > driver some weeks ago. The same driver, built in the same way, will not > work in a fr

Re: multiseat laptop?

2006-11-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 07:15:44AM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > > Or, for $700, you can just buy ANOTHER LAPTOP, a very nice one with a dual > core processor and 1 gig of RAM. I just did, is how I know. show-off ;-P A signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Free space on USB drive incorrect

2006-11-10 Thread Alan Ianson
When I mount a usb stick the free space is incorrectly reported as 112KB when it is actually around 400 MB. I can write a small file to the drive but I'd like to be able to write some larger files. Maybe my fstab needs fixing. I've been using the following for some time. I'm pretty sure I have w

Re: Package installation history.

2006-11-10 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 12:33:21PM -0500, Bob Bosiljevac wrote: > >On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 12:12:13PM -0500, Bob Bosiljevac wrote: > >>Is there a way to tell when a particular package was installed or upgraded > >>or a way to look at the install/upgrade history of a package on a > >>particular mach

Re: Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 updated

2006-11-10 Thread Chris Lale
Douglas Tutty wrote: On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 05:20:55PM +, Chris Lale wrote: Yuriy Padlyak wrote: Why aptitude dist-upgrade shows some packages to update, while apt-get dist-upgrade - don't?. [...] I believe that this is because aptitude maintains its own record of which

Re: Package installation history.

2006-11-10 Thread Bob Bosiljevac
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 12:12:13PM -0500, Bob Bosiljevac wrote: Is there a way to tell when a particular package was installed or upgraded or a way to look at the install/upgrade history of a package on a particular machine? If you are using aptitude, then check /var/log/aptitude. No I do no

Re: How to make Firefox to show unicode text?

2006-11-10 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 19:31 -0800, Shrini wrote: > I installed the tamil ttf fonts. > > Now the firefox shows the tamil sites. > > But, the fonts are displayed correctly. > They are seen splitted. > > Any way to show them correctly? I'm not sure what you mean. Maybe you could provide a screensh

Re: Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 updated

2006-11-10 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 05:20:55PM +, Chris Lale wrote: > Yuriy Padlyak wrote: > >Why aptitude dist-upgrade shows some packages to update, while apt-get > >dist-upgrade - don't?. > > > >[...] > > > > I believe that this is because aptitude maintains its own record of > which packages you hav

Re: error on security update

2006-11-10 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 09:54:30AM -0500, Stephen wrote: > Good Day: > > Just attempted a security update for Sarge (PHP4-PEAR). > > I received the following (I'm using aptitude in CLI); > > (Reading database ... 47570 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to replace php4-pear

Re: Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 updated

2006-11-10 Thread Clive Menzies
On (10/11/06 08:31), Raquel wrote: > If that machine is connected to the Internet and you have been doing > "aptitude update" and "aptitude dist-upgrade" then you're altready > there. Question, is "aptitude dist-upgrade" necessary for a point release? Regards Clive -- www.clivemenzies.co.uk ..

Re: Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 updated

2006-11-10 Thread Chris Lale
Yuriy Padlyak wrote: Why aptitude dist-upgrade shows some packages to update, while apt-get dist-upgrade - don't?. [...] I believe that this is because aptitude maintains its own record of which packages you have installed automatically and manually. If you ever use a different package man

Re: Package installation history.

2006-11-10 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 12:12:13PM -0500, Bob Bosiljevac wrote: > Is there a way to tell when a particular package was installed or upgraded > or a way to look at the install/upgrade history of a package on a > particular machine? > If you are using aptitude, then check /var/log/aptitude. Rega

Re: Etch and Kde PDF printer

2006-11-10 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 13:10:02 +0100, Mirto Silvio Busico wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm not able to use the virtual printers defined in Kde. > > Going to the control center -> devices -> printers if I select the > predefined pdf printer and I click on the "print test page" button, I > obtain a CUPS

Package installation history.

2006-11-10 Thread Bob Bosiljevac
Is there a way to tell when a particular package was installed or upgraded or a way to look at the install/upgrade history of a package on a particular machine? Bob. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: which driver provide support for Intel 82557/8/9 network adapter

2006-11-10 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 06:24:36 -0800, Serena Cantor wrote: > > I have sarge and a Ethernet Pro 100 card (see Subject). Which module > should I use? Thanks I think that should be "e100" or "eepro100". -- Regards, Florian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Debian in Dell PowerEdge

2006-11-10 Thread Deepesh singh
Hi all,   What kernel version will support Debain  Dell powerEdge installation with aic79xx card?   Brgds, Deepesh Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

Re: Continuing internet oddities

2006-11-10 Thread cothrige
* H.S. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Does the same 'blackout' period occur on your computer when your wife's > laptop is also connected to the linksys router? Or does it occur only > when your computer is ON. Initially I noticed this when her computer was not being used or was completely shut d

Re: error on security update

2006-11-10 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 09:54:30 -0500, Stephen wrote: > Good Day: > > Just attempted a security update for Sarge (PHP4-PEAR). > > I received the following (I'm using aptitude in CLI); > > (Reading database ... 47570 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to replace php4-pear 4:

Re: Mirroring a failing HDD

2006-11-10 Thread Shri Shrikumar
Douglas Tutty wrote: On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 12:38:43PM +, Shri Shrikumar wrote: There is a server(sarge) that I maintain that used to be mirrored and all was well. However, the mirror was recently broken and when trying to rebuild, I run into an interesting problem. The array rebuilds t

Re: Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 updated

2006-11-10 Thread Yuriy Padlyak
Why aptitude dist-upgrade shows some packages to update, while apt-get dist-upgrade - don't?. Raquel wrote: On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 18:18:03 +0200 Yuriy Padlyak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi All! How can I update to sarge to http://www.us.debian.org/News/2006/20061106 without CD? Thanks in

Wireless interface stopped working in Etch

2006-11-10 Thread Chris Lale
My Edimax EW-7108pcg PCMCIA wifi card (rt2500 driver) works perfectly in my constantly upgraded version of Etch (Testing). I installed the rt2500 driver some weeks ago. The same driver, built in the same way, will not work in a fresh install of Etch in a new partition on the same machine (Think

Re: Mirroring a failing HDD

2006-11-10 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 12:38:43PM +, Shri Shrikumar wrote: > There is a server(sarge) that I maintain that used to be mirrored and > all was well. However, the mirror was recently broken and when trying to > rebuild, I run into an interesting problem. > > The array rebuilds to about 80% and t

Re: Why root fs "read-only" on shutdown?

2006-11-10 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 01:39:55PM +0100, Daniel Haude wrote: > On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 00:47:14 +0100, Douglas Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >Before power off, the filesystem has to be unmounted or it risks > >corruption. Since its being used (is busy) by the very scripts trying > >to unm

Re: multiseat laptop?

2006-11-10 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 12:53:57AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 04:09:19PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > >Probably cheaper yet (and certainly simpler) is one "heavy duty" box and a > > >cheap (perhaps diskless) box as an X terminal. > > > > Actually I was after cheap *and

Re: Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 updated

2006-11-10 Thread Raquel
On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 18:18:03 +0200 Yuriy Padlyak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All! > > How can I update to sarge to > http://www.us.debian.org/News/2006/20061106 without CD? > > Thanks in advance. > > Regards, > Yuriy Padlyak > If that machine is connected to the Internet and you have bee

Re: Continuing internet oddities

2006-11-10 Thread H.S.
cothrige wrote: > I knocked around a bit in a browser and it appears that 192.168.15.1 > is my Linksys router, and 192.168.1.254 is the DSL modem. I would Yup, that makes sense. I was expecting it to be 192.168.15.1 though, in which case I would expect the router to get the nameservers from the

error on security update

2006-11-10 Thread Stephen
Good Day: Just attempted a security update for Sarge (PHP4-PEAR). I received the following (I'm using aptitude in CLI); (Reading database ... 47570 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace php4-pear 4:4.3.10-16 (using .../php4-pear_4%3a4.3.10-18_all.deb) ... Unpacking rep

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 updated

2006-11-10 Thread Yuriy Padlyak
Hi All! How can I update to sarge to http://www.us.debian.org/News/2006/20061106 without CD? Thanks in advance. Regards, Yuriy Padlyak -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] M$ collaborates with Suse

2006-11-10 Thread Mike McCarty
Stephen Yorke wrote: To each their own BUT... No need for a "BUT". To each his own. Full Stop. [snip] Just remember this...your OS is only as secure as you are and if you do not know how to secure it you shouldn't be using it. The only real security is physical security. Anyone who wants t

Re: multiseat laptop?

2006-11-10 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 07:29:22AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Carl Fink wrote: > >Or, for $700, you can just buy ANOTHER LAPTOP, a very nice one with a dual > >core processor and 1 gig of RAM. I just did, is how I know. > > Which one? Sound - sensors - modem work OK? HP DV6000 series. Sou

Re: Dirty spam

2006-11-10 Thread Matthew Krauss
Michelle Konzack wrote: Hello *, Am 2006-10-20 08:28:01, schrieb Andrew Sackville-West: If you are using t-bird to get mail directly from a pop server, then I think you're stuck. But you COULD, setup fetchmail to get your mail, reconfig exim to use spamassassin and whatever else you want) an

Re: [OT] M$ collaborates with Suse

2006-11-10 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 08:10:08AM -0500, Stephen Yorke wrote: > > M$'s OS is ready...if you want some WWW Sites or servers which you think > you can hack or take down let me know and I will setup a couple and let > you go at it. If you hack them cool tell me how I can better my > security if not

Re: Weird system clock problem...

2006-11-10 Thread David Hart
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 08:35:36AM -0500, Louis-David Perron wrote: > David Hart wrote: > > Disabling APM cured the symptoms. > > Up to now, it seems to work perfectly! I guess that this IBM desktop machine > has some similarities with a laptop. Thanks for your reply and I'm glad it seems to ha

Re: laptop display

2006-11-10 Thread Mark Grieveson
On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 02:15:38AM -0500, Mark Grieveson wrote: > >The file /etc/X11/xorg.conf, reads: > > > >Section "Screen" > >Identifier "Default Screen" > >Device "Trident Microsystems Cybyer 9397" > >Monitor "Generic Monitor" > > > >Default Depth 24 > >Subsection "Display" > >Depth 24 >

Re: Boot problem

2006-11-10 Thread Clive Menzies
On (10/11/06 12:14), Roelof Wobben wrote: > Oke, > > I understand how to fix it. > > But can't i be done with the boot-only cd from Sarge. > I have used this one to download and install Sarge. > > I want to use lilo instead of grub. I'm not sure if you can get to grub from the sarge disk but if

Re: what's up with all the attitude

2006-11-10 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 04:32:10PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > > You haven't asked why you can't simply do a "Reply" because the > list server doesn't automatically put in a "Reply-to:" field > for the list :-) In case you don't understand this posting, this is an issue which surfaces frequentl

Re: multiseat laptop?

2006-11-10 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Kevin Mark wrote: On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 04:09:19PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: John Hasler wrote: Andrew Sackville-West writes: well, if you've got the processing power, why not? surely 1 box with heavy duty hardware is cheaper power-wise tha

Re: multiseat laptop?

2006-11-10 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Kevin Mark wrote: On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 04:09:19PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: John Hasler wrote: Andrew Sackville-West writes: well, if you've got the processing power, why not? surely 1 box with heavy duty hardware is cheaper power-wise tha

Re: Installing an i386 OS on an ia64 system

2006-11-10 Thread Wackojacko
Hans du Plooy wrote: On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 10:29 +, Wackojacko wrote: Hans I'm not the OP :), but that's good advice. I already use a self compiled kernel with 64 bit options. Wackojacko Hi, you did CC me in your reply, and I saw your mail before I checked my list mail Sorry.. Han

Re: multiseat laptop?

2006-11-10 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Carl Fink wrote: On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 11:50:34PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 12:53:57AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: Hi H, I had a thought: some of the new micro-atx systems like the shuttle xp? shuttle,2 mice, 2 14" lcds, 2 kbds. about $700-800?(a guess). Small,

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-11-10 Thread Kent West
Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2006-10-28 17:47:55, schrieb Kent West: > > >> I have just 30 minutes ago tried to use three 3.5" floppies on two >> different machines, and can't get anywhere with them. I decided to put >> it on the back burner and read my email when I came across your post. >> >>

Re: multiseat laptop?

2006-11-10 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Kevin Mark wrote: On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 04:09:19PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: John Hasler wrote: Andrew Sackville-West writes: well, if you've got the processing power, why not? surely 1 box with heavy duty hardware is cheaper power-wise than two less powerful boxe

RE: [OT] M$ collaborates with Suse

2006-11-10 Thread Stephen Yorke
To each their own BUT... This is only my 2 cents and I am sure most on this list will take it with a grain of salt. M$ gives me a job, pays the bills and I enjoy working with it and teaching people proper ways of using it but I also love the Debian world and am liking it more and more every day.

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