Re: Uninstall (nearly) everything installed after spacific date

2007-03-26 Thread Bob
Joe Hart wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bob wrote: 8< Snip original thread, to see it in all it's glory go here http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.user/browse_frm/thread/d273b566e1a761d5/3bb0f539cdd82281? Thought I'd update the list on my progress on this, *W

Re: Uninstall (nearly) everything installed after spacific date

2007-03-26 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bob wrote: > 8< Snip original thread, to see it in all it's glory go here > http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.user/browse_frm/thread/d273b566e1a761d5/3bb0f539cdd82281? > > > Thought I'd update the list on my progress on this, > *WARNING THI

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

2007-03-26 Thread Mike McCarty
Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/26/07 21:04, Mike McCarty wrote: [snip] This is untrue. If power fails during a write, and the drive scribbles on the disc in a spiral pattern as the head moves toward the parking area, that particular disc is hosed. Does that happen anymore? Drive manufacturers eng

Re: CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND=y, ACPI, and uswsusp

2007-03-26 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
> I am attempting to get uswsusp working on my Debian Sid machine. After > reading the docs, a couple of SuSe web pages > (http://en.opensuse.org/S2disk) regarding s2ram and s2disk I am stuck on > one detail: CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND=y. I can not find this kernel option > anywhere when attempting

Re: CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND=y, ACPI, and uswsusp

2007-03-26 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:29:40 -0400 Nick Lidakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am attempting to get uswsusp working on my Debian Sid machine. After > reading the docs, a couple of SuSe web pages > (http://en.opensuse.org/S2disk) regarding s2ram and s2disk I am stuck on > one detail: CONFIG_SOFT

Re: apt-get update & upgrade

2007-03-26 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 22:32:54 -0500 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Hyslop wrote: > > I've seen several people on this list recommending that we run 'apt-get > > update' and 'apt-get upgrade' on a regular basis. What are your thoughts > > on setting up a cron job to do it automatically,

Re: Uninstall (nearly) everything installed after spacific date

2007-03-26 Thread Bob
8< Snip original thread, to see it in all it's glory go here http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.user/browse_frm/thread/d273b566e1a761d5/3bb0f539cdd82281? Thought I'd update the list on my progress on this, *WARNING THIS WILL BRAKE YOUR INSTALL* but the reasons are interesting # make a l

CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND=y, ACPI, and uswsusp

2007-03-26 Thread Nick Lidakis
I am attempting to get uswsusp working on my Debian Sid machine. After reading the docs, a couple of SuSe web pages (http://en.opensuse.org/S2disk) regarding s2ram and s2disk I am stuck on one detail: CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND=y. I can not find this kernel option anywhere when attempting to confi

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

2007-03-26 Thread Mike McCarty
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Mike McCarty wrote: This is untrue. If power fails during a write, and the drive scribbles on the disc in a spiral pattern as the head moves toward the parking area, that particular disc is hosed. This is a device issue, no filesystem m

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

2007-03-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/26/07 21:04, Mike McCarty wrote: [snip] > This is untrue. If power fails during a write, and the drive > scribbles on the disc in a spiral pattern as the head moves > toward the parking area, that particular disc is hosed. Does that happen anymo

Re: apt-get update & upgrade

2007-03-26 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: Jim Hyslop wrote: Kent West wrote: [...] In short, there's too much that can go wrong if you don't pay attention, so I personally would not go the route of automation. Others may disagree. I was wondering if there would be any issues like that. Can you elaborate a litt

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

2007-03-26 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Mike McCarty wrote: > This is untrue. If power fails during a write, and the drive > scribbles on the disc in a spiral pattern as the head moves > toward the parking area, that particular disc is hosed. This is a device issue, no filesystem may fix it. Not that I expect even

Re: apt-get update & upgrade

2007-03-26 Thread Kent West
Jim Hyslop wrote: Kent West wrote: [...] In short, there's too much that can go wrong if you don't pay attention, so I personally would not go the route of automation. Others may disagree. I was wondering if there would be any issues like that. Can you elaborate a little on the kinds of

riped dvd menu

2007-03-26 Thread gustavo halperin
Hello I need change the DVD region of my DVDs, What I do is: 1: make a dvd backup with 'dvdbackup'. 2: change the region with a rubi's script that I found in the net. 3: make a dvd image with 'mkisofs'. 4: try to burn the dvd with 'growisofs'. The problem is that the image is to big to be bu

Re: apt-get update & upgrade

2007-03-26 Thread Jim Hyslop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 11:27:41PM -0400, Jim Hyslop wrote: >>[automating apt-get] > > cron-apt Oh, cool. See? I know even less now! Isn't that wonderful? :-) - -- Jim Hyslop Dreampossible: Better software. Simply. ht

Re: apt-get update & upgrade

2007-03-26 Thread Jim Hyslop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kent West wrote: [...] > In short, there's too much that can go wrong if you don't pay attention, > so I personally would not go the route of automation. Others may disagree. I was wondering if there would be any issues like that. Can you elaborate a l

Re: gdm and intel G965

2007-03-26 Thread Kent West
Henrique G. Abreu wrote: I just bought a dell dimension e520, and after some struggle, I finally installed it. You probably have integrated video; check your BIOS to make sure you have more than 1MB of RAM allocated to video. This bites me quite often with Dell machines. -- Kent -- To UNS

Re: apt-get update & upgrade

2007-03-26 Thread Kent West
Jim Hyslop wrote: I've seen several people on this list recommending that we run 'apt-get update' and 'apt-get upgrade' on a regular basis. What are your thoughts on setting up a cron job to do it automatically, say once a month or once a week? You might be "safe" to do that on a stable system

Re: apt-get update & upgrade

2007-03-26 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 11:27:41PM -0400, Jim Hyslop wrote: > Hi, all > > The more I learn, the less I know :-) > > I've seen several people on this list recommending that we run 'apt-get > update' and 'apt-get upgrade' on a regular basis. What are your thoughts > on setting up a cron job to do i

gdm and intel G965

2007-03-26 Thread Henrique G. Abreu
I just bought a dell dimension e520, and after some struggle, I finally installed it. But still got a problem, X11 is not coming up. I'm a little tired of searching and solving installation problems, and that's why I'm looking for help without many search about this one. Copied the log here: X W

apt-get update & upgrade

2007-03-26 Thread Jim Hyslop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, all The more I learn, the less I know :-) I've seen several people on this list recommending that we run 'apt-get update' and 'apt-get upgrade' on a regular basis. What are your thoughts on setting up a cron job to do it automatically, say once a

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

2007-03-26 Thread Mike McCarty
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 11:59:18AM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: [snip] FYI, *any* filesystem has the potential to lose data on a sudden power outage. Umm, no. I suppose you haven't worked in telecomm. I've supported file systems which neve

Re: Where to put modules to load at boot?

2007-03-26 Thread mike
On Monday 26 March 2007 18:39, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 06:29:07PM -0700, mike wrote: > > Thanks Roberto, > > The Debian packages (lirc-modules-source) won't compile. Not sure if it's > > a bug with the 2.6.20.x kernel or lirc itself. > > I've bee through it, it won't wor

Re: Where to put modules to load at boot?

2007-03-26 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 06:29:07PM -0700, mike wrote: > > Thanks Roberto, > The Debian packages (lirc-modules-source) won't compile. Not sure if it's a > bug with the 2.6.20.x kernel or lirc itself. > I've bee through it, it won't work. > Thanks, > Mike Oh. I did not realize you were running a

Re: Where to put modules to load at boot?

2007-03-26 Thread mike
On Monday 26 March 2007 18:24, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 06:19:23PM -0700, mike wrote: > > Thanks, Kevin, I am tearing my hair out... Yes they do show up in lsmod, > > but LIRC isn't working. This doesn't make sense to me. > > > > I have found in order to get LIRC working

Re: Where to put modules to load at boot?

2007-03-26 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 06:19:23PM -0700, mike wrote: > > Thanks, Kevin, I am tearing my hair out... Yes they do show up in lsmod, but > LIRC isn't working. This doesn't make sense to me. > > I have found in order to get LIRC working after a reboot, I have to go to the > LIRC directory and do "

Re: pthread has error on Etch

2007-03-26 Thread Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Folkert wrote: > On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 20:32 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 08:27:36PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: >>> On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 10:59 +0330, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote: My problem was solved.Since i re

Re: Where to put modules to load at boot?

2007-03-26 Thread mike
On Monday 26 March 2007 18:13, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 05:58:41PM -0700, mike wrote: > > Still struggling trying to get LIRC to start properly at boot. > > > > Other systems, like Fedora, Ubunto, etc, seemingly can put this > > in /etc/modprobe.conf, or /etc/sysconfig/modules/,

Re: Where to put modules to load at boot?

2007-03-26 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 05:58:41PM -0700, mike wrote: > Still struggling trying to get LIRC to start properly at boot. > > Other systems, like Fedora, Ubunto, etc, seemingly can put this > in /etc/modprobe.conf, or /etc/sysconfig/modules/, > and my Debian doesn't have those places. > I try in /

Re: pthread has error on Etch

2007-03-26 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 08:32:20PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 08:27:36PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 10:59 +0330, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote: > > > My problem was solved.Since i reinstall pthread library,My program has > > > been working fine

Where to put modules to load at boot?

2007-03-26 Thread mike
Still struggling trying to get LIRC to start properly at boot. Other systems, like Fedora, Ubunto, etc, seemingly can put this in /etc/modprobe.conf, or /etc/sysconfig/modules/, and my Debian doesn't have those places. I try in /etc/modules to no avail. The file /etc/modules.conf says "DO NOT E

Re: pthread has error on Etch

2007-03-26 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 08:53:18PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 20:32 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > > I'm not sure if you follow the debian-devel list, but apparently a kind > > Debian Developer on the c++-pthreads list recommended the Moshen > > reinstall his libc6-

Re: pthread has error on Etch

2007-03-26 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 20:32 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 08:27:36PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 10:59 +0330, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote: > > > My problem was solved.Since i reinstall pthread library,My program has > > > been working fine. > > >

Re: pthread has error on Etch

2007-03-26 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 08:27:36PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 10:59 +0330, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote: > > My problem was solved.Since i reinstall pthread library,My program has > > been working fine. > > - --Mohsen > > I hate to tell you this, but you have contradicted you

Re: pthread has error on Etch

2007-03-26 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 10:59 +0330, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote: > My problem was solved.Since i reinstall pthread library,My program has > been working fine. > - --Mohsen I hate to tell you this, but you have contradicted yourself three times now. You are not dealing with Windows where "Remove and

Re: Reconnect to a specific TTY session?

2007-03-26 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Jim Hyslop wrote: > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > Not even screen -rda worked? > > Woohoo! That's got it, thanks. Then the dropped ssh connection had not caused the ssh daemon to terminate yet, and the screen session was still "attached"... usually screen only offe

Re: pthread has error on Etch

2007-03-26 Thread Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 My problem was solved.Since i reinstall pthread library,My program has been working fine. - --Mohsen Kevin Mark wrote: > On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 05:33:07AM +0330, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote: >> Wackojacko wrote: >>> Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote: Jha

Re: getmail configuration (How to run fetchmail as daemon at startup)

2007-03-26 Thread Paul E Condon
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 10:54:11AM +0200, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > Andrei Popescu schreef: > > Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> 1.) What is 'reinjection in a mail queue'? Where can I learn how this > >> differs from whatever is being done by fetchmail as an example case? > >> O

Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

2007-03-26 Thread Owen Heisler
On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 21:25 +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > Roberto wrote: > > That's not really a fair characterization. The Debian project (release > > managers, developers, et al) value the target dates. However, they > > value completeness and stability *more* than the calendar. > > There should be

Re: Apt-listbugs Problems

2007-03-26 Thread Owen Heisler
On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 13:54 +0200, David Baron wrote: > I can get reports for one (count 'em) upgrade at a time. Attempts at more > will > time out with a failed HTTP Get. Single package failed for me, although it was an install instead of an upgrade. signature.asc Description: This is a digit

Re: pthread has error on Etch

2007-03-26 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 05:33:07AM +0330, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote: > Wackojacko wrote: > > Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote: > >> Jhair Tocancipa Triana wrote: > >>> Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh writes: > >>> > void *task1(int *counter) > { >

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-03-26 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 07:04:40PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > Waitaminnit! > > We all know "creation and evolution are processes running under EMACS!" > Ahh, but something must have been used to design Emacs (it did not evolve by itself), and so clearly vi is [the tool of] the intelligent de

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-03-26 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 04:00:41PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 02:32:09PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > > > I am wondering what some cultural anthropologist will have to asy about > > this in a few centuries' time :-) > > Easy: > > "Anybody know what th

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-03-26 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 16:00 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 02:32:09PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 01:26:10PM -0500, dave wrote: > > > on Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 08:17:23AM -0500 Kent West wrote: > > > > > > > but it's all > > > > archiv

setting up an upload environment...

2007-03-26 Thread Rodrigo Vivi
Hi, I'm doing a personal distro based on debian for an specific embedded device... I'd like to set my own packages upload environment using katie scripts and all debian scheme Is there any manual or tutorial that helps me? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-03-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 02:32:09PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 01:26:10PM -0500, dave wrote: > > on Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 08:17:23AM -0500 Kent West wrote: > > > > > but it's all > > > archived if you're really curious. > > > > > > > It started with "Debian, Icewea

Re: Reconnect to a specific TTY session?

2007-03-26 Thread Jim Hyslop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Is there any firewall between the server and the client? If so, the firewall > might be switching off the idle ssh connections. If this infact is your > problem, to keep the ssh connections alive use ServerAliveInterval o

Re: deleting content of /tmp

2007-03-26 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 10:06:00PM +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 09:07:50PM +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > > Yes, but that's just and only address space for one process. CPUs with PAE > > > extension can have 64GB of REAL memory, so they can have at l

Re: Reconnect to a specific TTY session?

2007-03-26 Thread Jim Hyslop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Not even screen -rda worked? Woohoo! That's got it, thanks. Now I just have to remember to use screen whenever I'm about to do anything I don't want disconnected :-) - -- Jim Hyslop Dreampossible: Better softwar

Re: getmail configuration (How to run fetchmail as daemon at startup)

2007-03-26 Thread Paul Stolp
* Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-03-26 17:00]: > Benedict Verheyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Andrei Popescu schreef: > > > Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> 1.) What is 'reinjection in a mail queue'? Where can I learn how > > >> this differs from whatever is b

Re: dvdbackup: undefined symbol: UDFFindFile

2007-03-26 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 21:49 +0200, gustavo halperin wrote: > I am getting this error when I try to backup my video dvd or just get > info of my video dvd, see below: > > linux: dvdbackup -Mi /dev/dvd -I > dvdbackup: relocation error: dvdbackup: undefined symbol: > UDFFindFile > [snip] >

Re: Any feedback on Icedove?

2007-03-26 Thread Ed G
On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 13:36:11 +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > but for usability it's irelevant... Unlike for iceweasel, which was completely useless to me (with broken session management) for many weeks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: remove from list please

2007-03-26 Thread Andrei Popescu
Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There do seem to be some problems with that unsubscribe link at the > bottom of every posting from debian-user list though. I use Kmail, > and that link would not unsubscribe me. > > This is not a rant, just an observation. I think [EMAIL PROTECTED] would

Re: fvwm vs. fvwm-crystal

2007-03-26 Thread Michael Pobega
> > So tell me, Why did you decide Window Maker was better than fvwm-crystal > and what about other managers like blackbox or XFCE. All of them are > lightweight according to what I have read. > > Personally I like KDE because it is so configurable and has a very > constant look with it's apps,

Re: [Almost solved]Re: pppconfig "command not found"

2007-03-26 Thread Andrei Popescu
eklektik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ppp *is* included on the xfce disk, but not pppconfig. This will > probably not change on the final version because packages are included > by popularity. > > Regards, > Andrei > Actually, Andrei was right the cd includes not only the ppp but both > packages

Re: Perl LibZip problem

2007-03-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/26/07 16:17, Rob Wright wrote: > On Monday 26 March 2007 15:48, Ron Johnson wrote: >> Is the Debian freeradius package too out of date? >> > Nope, I'm neither saying nor implying anything of the sort. OK. I was just curious why you aren't using

Re: Problem with mouse in X [WAS: Re: a dumb query? pls humor me]

2007-03-26 Thread Kent West
William Mok wrote: I installed X windows system under Debian 3.1.r2, I typed 'startx' but I got the following error: xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice No such device Generic Mouse: cannot open input device PreInit failed for input device "Generic Mouse" Does anyone k

Re: getmail configuration (How to run fetchmail as daemon at startup)

2007-03-26 Thread Andrei Popescu
Benedict Verheyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrei Popescu schreef: > > Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> 1.) What is 'reinjection in a mail queue'? Where can I learn how > >> this differs from whatever is being done by fetchmail as an > >> example case? Or does fetchmail also

Re: /dev/tty perms for xlinks2

2007-03-26 Thread Kent West
Cassiano Leal wrote: Try 'links2 -g'. Since I've never used xlinks2, I can't say wether they're the same thing. Worth a shot, though! [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /usr/bin/xlinks2 #!/bin/sh links2 -g "$@" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: deleting content of /tmp

2007-03-26 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
1. It is a lot faster for a lot of stuff, as long as your kernel has proper swapping behavior. This happens because tmpfs can avoid a great deal of costly operations that other filesystems with backing store need to perform (such as the need to keep metadata in sync on the backing store). 2. It

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-26 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Does anyone have experience in using either of these? How much is the performance different than the current init? I use Initng. Is is running perfectly. In fact, a bug I had (where Esound would not start on booting as it should) was solved by moving from Sysvinit to initng. The perf

Re: /dev/tty perms for xlinks2

2007-03-26 Thread Cassiano Leal
Kent West wrote: Michael Pobega wrote: On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 02:15:21PM -0500, Kent West wrote: A few days ago xlinks2 was mentioned on this list and I decided to give it a try. When I try to run it from within X as a normal user, no problem. When I try to run it outside of X as root, no

Re: Perl LibZip problem

2007-03-26 Thread Rob Wright
On Monday 26 March 2007 15:48, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Is the Debian freeradius package too out of date? > Nope, I'm neither saying nor implying anything of the sort. > > If there's a Perl zip library that might solve my problem I'm certainly > > open to suggestions. I have already installed libarc

Re: fvwm vs. fvwm-crystal

2007-03-26 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Pobega wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 06:40:56AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Having always had fvwm as window-manager, I decided to look at >> fvwm-crystal and installed it. >> >> Fvwm-crystal may be *based* upon fvwm but it s

Re: /dev/tty perms for xlinks2

2007-03-26 Thread Kent West
Michael Pobega wrote: On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 02:15:21PM -0500, Kent West wrote: A few days ago xlinks2 was mentioned on this list and I decided to give it a try. When I try to run it from within X as a normal user, no problem. When I try to run it outside of X as root, no problem. When I

Re: /dev/tty perms for xlinks2

2007-03-26 Thread Michael Pobega
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 02:15:21PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > A few days ago xlinks2 was mentioned on this list and I decided to give > it a try. > > When I try to run it from within X as a normal user, no problem. > > When I try to run it outside of X as root, no problem. > > When I try to run

Re: Perl LibZip problem

2007-03-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/26/07 15:17, Rob Wright wrote: > On Monday 26 March 2007 13:31, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > >>> Cpan goes through the process of downloading and unzipping the file, >>> starts the make and then errors out with the information I've included >>> b

Re: fvwm vs. fvwm-crystal

2007-03-26 Thread Michael Pobega
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 06:40:56AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > Having always had fvwm as window-manager, I decided to look at > fvwm-crystal and installed it. > > Fvwm-crystal may be *based* upon fvwm but it sure is not in the > *tradition* of fvwm. > > In fvwm the centerpiece is t

Re: Apt-listbugs Problems

2007-03-26 Thread Michael Pobega
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 08:22:16PM +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 13:54 +0200, David Baron wrote: > > I can get reports for one (count 'em) upgrade at a time. Attempts at more > > will > > time out with a failed HTTP Get. > > > > Worked last week. What gives? > > Bug repor

Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

2007-03-26 Thread Michael Pobega
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 11:35:02AM -0700, Michael M. wrote: > On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 15:28 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 05:37:00PM -0700, Michael M. wrote: > > > All that is to say that Ubuntu serves a purpose, and it's a valuable > > > one, IMO. It's not for everybody;

Re: remove from list please

2007-03-26 Thread Nigel Henry
On Monday 26 March 2007 21:09, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > 2007/3/25, les shartle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >please remove me from mailing list my email is [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > thanks a lot les shartle > > On 25.03.07 22:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > To subscribe to or unsubscribe from

Re: What is this kernel error?

2007-03-26 Thread Micha Feigin
[snip] > > Look, after checking further I realized that I wasn't even *home* when > the second message occurred. I had left about 15 minutes earlier. The > machine was not really doing anything. There was nothing in the apache > logs. Nothing in the exim4 logs. The nearest entry in syslog was at >

Re: Reconnect to a specific TTY session?

2007-03-26 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 22:42:38 -0300 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 25 Mar 2007, Jim Hyslop wrote: > > Yes, that's what I did. I started an ssh session, ran 'screen', and > > launched a program (man screen, IIRC). I got two or three screens > > running, and was able

Re: Perl LibZip problem

2007-03-26 Thread Rob Wright
On Monday 26 March 2007 13:31, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > Cpan goes through the process of downloading and unzipping the file, > > starts the make and then errors out with the information I've included > > below. Any ideas what I'm missing? I've tried using both 'force' and > > 'notest', but ei

Re: deleting content of /tmp

2007-03-26 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> > On 26.03.07 14:35, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > With a 32-bit CPU, you are limited to 4 GB address space no matter what. > > > Usually, it is 1 GB for the process and 3 GB for the kernel. There are > > > patches available that make a 2/2 split possible. However, there are > > > performance

Re: question about firefox and iceweasel

2007-03-26 Thread KS
Joe Hart wrote: > Zbigniew Wiech wrote: >> What is the reason to split Firefox and Iceweasel ? Technical >> differences or something with copyright ? > >> What do I lose using "genuine" firefox from Mozilla ? > >> regards >> zb > > A bit of searching would lead you to the answer, but I will sum

Re: remove from list please

2007-03-26 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> 2007/3/25, les shartle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >please remove me from mailing list my email is [EMAIL PROTECTED] thanks > >a lot les shartle On 25.03.07 22:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > To subscribe to or unsubscribe from a mailing list, please send mail to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with the

Re: Clone my Display

2007-03-26 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Ott wrote: > Hi! > > I want to clone my display from my Thinkpad T43 to an external monitor. > Both have the same size (1400 x 1050) > > I add a few lines into my xorg.conf but it does not do anythine. > Who can help me? > > Section "Device"

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/26/07 14:20, steef wrote: > Arnt Karlsen wrote: >> On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:59:47 -0400, judd wrote in >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> >> >>> On 23 Mar, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> >>> >> snip<.> >> ..another way is consider the military effect, suc

Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

2007-03-26 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roberto � wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 11:35:02AM -0700, Michael M. wrote: >> The schedule that the release team puts together. It contains target >> release dates. Debian missed its December target for Etch. It remains >> to be seen whether it

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-03-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/26/07 13:26, dave wrote: > on Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 08:17:23AM -0500 Kent West wrote: > >> but it's all >> archived if you're really curious. >> > > It started with "Debian, Iceweasel, Firefox!" and has been running for > almost 6 months now.

/dev/tty perms for xlinks2

2007-03-26 Thread Kent West
A few days ago xlinks2 was mentioned on this list and I decided to give it a try. When I try to run it from within X as a normal user, no problem. When I try to run it outside of X as root, no problem. When I try to run it outside of X as a normal user, I get an error about opening /dev/tty0

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-26 Thread steef
Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:59:47 -0400, judd wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 23 Mar, Ron Johnson wrote: snip<.> ..another way is consider the military effect, such as Norwegian gas turbines emitting CO2, causing some heat up and sea level rise, flooding low Pacifi

Re: deleting content of /tmp

2007-03-26 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 09:07:50PM +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > On 26.03.07 14:35, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > With a 32-bit CPU, you are limited to 4 GB address space no matter what. > > Usually, it is 1 GB for the process and 3 GB for the kernel. There are > > patches available th

Re: deleting content of /tmp

2007-03-26 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 08:27:22PM +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > is virtual memory a problem on 32bit OS? I think even 32bit CPUs do have > > support for much larger _virtual_ memory. On 26.03.07 14:35, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > With a 32-bit CPU, you are limited to 4 GB address spa

Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

2007-03-26 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 11:35:02AM -0700, Michael M. wrote: > > The schedule that the release team puts together. It contains target > release dates. Debian missed its December target for Etch. It remains > to be seen whether it will make the new target of 2 April 2007. > > Call it what you wa

Re: deleting content of /tmp

2007-03-26 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 08:27:22PM +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > is virtual memory a problem on 32bit OS? I think even 32bit CPUs do have > support for much larger _virtual_ memory. With a 32-bit CPU, you are limited to 4 GB address space no matter what. Usually, it is 1 GB for the pro

Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

2007-03-26 Thread Michael M.
On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 15:28 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 05:37:00PM -0700, Michael M. wrote: > > All that is to say that Ubuntu serves a purpose, and it's a valuable > > one, IMO. It's not for everybody; nor is Debian, nor any other distro > > in particular. Ubuntu at l

Re: pthread has error on Etch

2007-03-26 Thread Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh
Wackojacko wrote: > Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote: >> Jhair Tocancipa Triana wrote: >>> Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh writes: >>> void *task1(int *counter) { while(*counter < 5 ){ printf("task1 count: %d\n",*counter); (*counter)++; }

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-03-26 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 01:26:10PM -0500, dave wrote: > on Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 08:17:23AM -0500 Kent West wrote: > > > but it's all > > archived if you're really curious. > > > > It started with "Debian, Iceweasel, Firefox!" and has been running for > almost 6 months now. Fascinating. > I am

Re: Perl LibZip problem

2007-03-26 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 12:32:57PM -0500, Rob Wright wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm trying to install the LibZip module into perl on Debian Etch. Perl 5.8 > was > installed via apt with just the basic install, no changes made. > > When I run CPAN and do: > > install LibZip > > Cpan goes through

Re: deleting content of /tmp

2007-03-26 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 25.03.07 23:32, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, 24 Mar 2007, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > > What is the performance impact of mounting /tmp in tmpfs? Some thoughts: > > 1. It is a lot faster for a lot of stuff, as long as your kernel has proper > swapping behaviour. This

Clone my Display

2007-03-26 Thread Michael Ott
Hi! I want to clone my display from my Thinkpad T43 to an external monitor. Both have the same size (1400 x 1050) I add a few lines into my xorg.conf but it does not do anythine. Who can help me? Section "Device" Identifier "ATI Technologies, Inc. M22 [Radeon Mobility M300]"

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-03-26 Thread dave
on Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 08:17:23AM -0500 Kent West wrote: > but it's all > archived if you're really curious. > It started with "Debian, Iceweasel, Firefox!" and has been running for almost 6 months now. Fascinating. Ciao, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Apt-listbugs Problems

2007-03-26 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 13:54 +0200, David Baron wrote: > I can get reports for one (count 'em) upgrade at a time. Attempts at more > will > time out with a failed HTTP Get. > > Worked last week. What gives? Bug report here, the maintainer haven't responded yet though, http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-

Re: Apt-listbugs Problems

2007-03-26 Thread Wayne Topa
David Baron([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > I can get reports for one (count 'em) upgrade at a time. Attempts at more > will > time out with a failed HTTP Get. And when it doesn't timeout it takes longer to get the bug list then the files. I just removed it. WT -- Real softwar

Perl LibZip problem

2007-03-26 Thread Rob Wright
Greetings, I'm trying to install the LibZip module into perl on Debian Etch. Perl 5.8 was installed via apt with just the basic install, no changes made. When I run CPAN and do: install LibZip Cpan goes through the process of downloading and unzipping the file, starts the make and then errors

Re: How to: Mount NTFS filesystems RW

2007-03-26 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Thanks, that is a perfect solution to my problem. Esp. since I am not > having much luck getting ntfs-3g installed and running. Odd. For what it's worth I don't use ntfs much, but I tried ntfs-3g the other day, and it was trivial: apt-get install ntfs-3g, then mount. Stefan -- To U

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-26 Thread KS
Ron Johnson wrote: > > Run "ls -1 /etc/init.d" and post it here. That will tell us what you > can deinstall. > Hmmm, init ... I was wondering what is the status of the init daemon replacements upstart and initng. I was checking up in on initng on debian website and the changelog shows that the l

Re: Cannot write file > 1GB to DVD-RAM : any way to fix?

2007-03-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Frank Miles wrote: > I changed how I was backing up my system, and now need to write larger > files > to my Panasonic LF-D521 DVD-RAM (backup drive). Unfortunately it chokes a > bit over 1GB, reporting that the file size is too large. 'umount'ing takes > a really long time as well. > > The disk[

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