Re: Search for string in files

2007-08-25 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Johannes Tax wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to figure out how to find a certain string inside a bunch of > files. If I, for examples, look for a certain function in a large source > tree, I could do > > cat `find . -name '*.c'` | grep 'a_certain_function' > > but this seems quite awkward, furtherm

Re: Just flaming....

2007-08-25 Thread Jose Paulo Matafome Oleiro
Sáb, 2007-08-25 às 12:46 +0700, Ms Linuz escreveu: > http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/compare/default.mspx Microsoft simply trying to cheat. Okay $2,499 maybe a little, but when they say "Free" they are trying to include Linux itself and not only Red Hat to be the Target but specially Linux

Re: Good fdisk Practices

2007-08-25 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 11:59:02AM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: > On Aug 25, 2007, at 5:23 PM, s. keeling wrote: > >Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> On 08/24/07 11:16, David Brodbeck wrote: > >>> > >>>Also, is there any good reason to have a separate /boot on a modern > >>>system? I always th

Re: Good fdisk Practices

2007-08-25 Thread John Hasler
David Brodbeck writes: > I'm thinking no. To alter any of the kernel files you'd need root > privileges, and if you have that, you can do 'mount /boot'. True for an intelligent cracker, but a trojan trying to patch the kernel isn't going to know to mount anything. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSC

Re: Good fdisk Practices

2007-08-25 Thread David Brodbeck
On Aug 25, 2007, at 5:23 PM, s. keeling wrote: Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On 08/24/07 11:16, David Brodbeck wrote: Also, is there any good reason to have a separate /boot on a modern system? I always thought /boot was just a kludge to get around old BIOSes that couldn't load anythin

Re: big brother yahoo

2007-08-25 Thread David Brodbeck
On Aug 25, 2007, at 11:29 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: I am able to watch videos athttp://video.yahoo.combut that might be because I changed general.useragent.extra.firefox to Firefox/2.0.0.6 I think the ultimate point is that we shouldn't have to emulate some other software to browse the web.

Re: Pcmcia express card

2007-08-25 Thread Wayne Topa
[L]ash([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Il giorno Sat, 25 Aug 2007 09:56:24 -0400 > Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > > > Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3cXFEM656C 10/100 LAN+Winmodem > > CardBus [Tornado] > > > > 3Com Megahertz 10/100 LAN Cardbus > > > > but ar

Re: How to create like-official CD from list of packages

2007-08-25 Thread Owen Heisler
On Thu, 2007.08.23 21:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Owen Heisler wrote: > > On Tue, 2007.08.21 10:00, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > >> you want to create CD exacly like the Offical CD, same arborescence, > >> pool/main/a, pool/main/b, ... packages and son on, > >> i

Re: Cannot open root device "hda1" or unknown-block(0,0)

2007-08-25 Thread Wayne Topa
Francois Duranleau([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On 8/24/07, Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Francois Duranleau([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > [snip] > > > It's an old system: AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1.1GHz with 1.25GB RAM and > > > an 80GB Western Digital

Re: Cannot open root device "hda1" or unknown-block(0,0)

2007-08-25 Thread Wayne Topa
Francois Duranleau([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On 8/24/07, Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Francois Duranleau([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > [snip] > > > It's an old system: AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1.1GHz with 1.25GB RAM and > > > an 80GB Western Digital

Re: what is /command directory?

2007-08-25 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 12:52:30AM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > I just noticed with a sinking feeling that my root partition is 96% full. > I do wish I hadn't let the installer use LVM and choose its own sizes. > Now I am stuck trying to work round its choices. I also notice a number > of directo

Re: Re: Re^4: Lenny, X, dead mouse

2007-08-25 Thread Peter Easthope
Andrei, ap> Did you ever restart this machine? I mean after installing with debootstrap. If yes then try a 'dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-2.6.18-4-686' and then reboot (BTW you should upgrade to 2.6.18-5-686). Thanks. A look in deselect elaborated the problem immediately: no kernel package. I

Re: Cannot open root device "hda1" or unknown-block(0,0)

2007-08-25 Thread Francois Duranleau
On 8/24/07, Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Francois Duranleau([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: [snip] > > It's an old system: AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1.1GHz with 1.25GB RAM and > > an 80GB Western Digital drive, for sur not SATA, I bought this > > computer in december 2000. The

Re: Search for string in files

2007-08-25 Thread - Tong -
On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 17:37:05 -0500, Neil Gunton wrote: >> I'm trying to figure out how to find a certain string inside a bunch of >> files. If I, for examples, look for a certain function in a large source >> tree, I could do >> >> cat `find . -name '*.c'` | grep 'a_certain_function' >> >> but t

Re: what is /command directory?

2007-08-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/25/07 18:52, Richard Lyons wrote: > I just noticed with a sinking feeling that my root partition is 96% full. > I do wish I hadn't let the installer use LVM and choose its own sizes. > Now I am stuck trying to work round its choices. I also noti

Re: Networking problem (SOLVED)

2007-08-25 Thread Krzysztof Lubański
On Sat, 2007-08-25 at 16:40 -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > Im sorry, i looked closely at the packages and i see > now that theres a new version of the driver package to > go with the new kernel. I would have expected that > there would be some kind of automatic update, or some > way of letti

Re: Networking problems

2007-08-25 Thread Krzysztof Lubański
On Sat, 2007-08-25 at 14:13 -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > > Please don't Cc: me, I am subscribed to the list. > > Sorry, on some other lists im on its considered polite > to cc the posters. No problem - different places, different rules. Here they are as on http://www.debian.org/MailingLi

Re: fresh kde install

2007-08-25 Thread Joris Huizer
--- "L.V.Gandhi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have installed etch base system and then > installed xorg. I was > trying to install kde > apt-get install kde kdm > I get msg saying > . > the following packages has unmet dependencies > kde:depends on kde-core(>=5.47), but it not going to

what is /command directory?

2007-08-25 Thread Richard Lyons
I just noticed with a sinking feeling that my root partition is 96% full. I do wish I hadn't let the installer use LVM and choose its own sizes. Now I am stuck trying to work round its choices. I also notice a number of directories I've never heard of before under root: command, package, servic

Re: Networking problem (SOLVED)

2007-08-25 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
>>What is your Wi-Fi chip? Maybe you don't have the >>driver module >>installed for the newer kernel version. > >Its an Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG. From my dmesg in >the 2.6.18-4 kernel: > >--- >ipw3945: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945 Network Connection >driver for Linux, 1.1.2dmpr >ipw3945: Copyright(

Re: using a remote IMAP server and smarthost

2007-08-25 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 22:09:58 +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Sat, August 25, 2007 18:56, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 17:30:12 +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > [...] > >> I have an IMAP server on a remote vm. I access it with mutt because it > >> sucks least. But when I wan

Re: Search for string in files

2007-08-25 Thread Neil Gunton
Johannes Tax wrote: Hi, I'm trying to figure out how to find a certain string inside a bunch of files. If I, for examples, look for a certain function in a large source tree, I could do cat `find . -name '*.c'` | grep 'a_certain_function' but this seems quite awkward, furthermore it doesn't he

Re: Unsolved Scanner Problem

2007-08-25 Thread Felix Karpfen
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 08:43:31 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: SNIP > > Thinking about this I have concluded that it is not the scanner, it is > unlikely that its the sane backend (Iscan uses the sane backend so it is > in play for both scanners), it is unlikely that both Iscan and Xsane > have t

Search for string in files

2007-08-25 Thread Johannes Tax
Hi, I'm trying to figure out how to find a certain string inside a bunch of files. If I, for examples, look for a certain function in a large source tree, I could do cat `find . -name '*.c'` | grep 'a_certain_function' but this seems quite awkward, furthermore it doesn't help that much because I

Re: Networking problems

2007-08-25 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
> Please don't Cc: me, I am subscribed to the list. Sorry, on some other lists im on its considered polite to cc the posters. And i know im breaking threading by responding now with a new message. I have to stop the digest subscription, sorry > On Sat, 2007-08-25 at 11:08 -0700, Dr. Jennifer

Re: using a remote IMAP server and smarthost

2007-08-25 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sat, August 25, 2007 18:56, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 17:30:12 +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: [...] >> I have an IMAP server on a remote vm. I access it with mutt because it >> sucks least. But when I want to send mail, I have to open a webmail [...] > Can you log in on the

Re: Search for string in files

2007-08-25 Thread Mike Bird
On Saturday 25 August 2007 14:34, Johannes Tax wrote: > On [Sat, 25.08.2007 13:15], Mike Bird wrote: > > grep -l 'a_certain_function' $(find . -name '*.c') > > That's exactly what I need. It also shows that I have to investigate the > grep command a little bit further ... BTW, unlike backquote, do

Re: Search for string in files

2007-08-25 Thread Ken Irving
On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 11:16:37PM +0200, Johannes Tax wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to figure out how to find a certain string inside a bunch of > files. If I, for examples, look for a certain function in a large source > tree, I could do > > cat `find . -name '*.c'` | grep 'a_certain_function' >

Re: Search for string in files

2007-08-25 Thread Jeff D
On Sat, 25 Aug 2007, Johannes Tax wrote: Hi, I'm trying to figure out how to find a certain string inside a bunch of files. If I, for examples, look for a certain function in a large source tree, I could do cat `find . -name '*.c'` | grep 'a_certain_function' but this seems quite awkward, fur

Re: Search for string in files

2007-08-25 Thread Johannes Tax
On [Sat, 25.08.2007 13:15], Mike Bird wrote: > > cat `find . -name '*.c'` | grep 'a_certain_function' > > > > but this seems quite awkward, furthermore it doesn't help that much > > because I don't know in which file the string was found. Maybe there's a > > tool that makes it possible to find a st

Re: Networking problems

2007-08-25 Thread Krzysztof Lubański
Please don't Cc: me, I am subscribed to the list. On Sat, 2007-08-25 at 11:08 -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > I hadnt done anything intentionally to use this--i > wanted to be using NetworkManage for everything. How > do i go back? To let NetworkManager configure your network (both wired an

Re: hda: DMA timeout error, is it a problem ?

2007-08-25 Thread Frank McCormick
On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 22:06:34 +0200 Shams Fantar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Shams Fantar wrote: > > Frank McCormick wrote: > >> > >>As I recall: fsck -n -c -v /dev/hda1 > > > > Ok. > > > > > > After a "fsck", I have still the problem. > > What do you think about it after some tests ?

Re: The install Command is not happy with my Syntax.

2007-08-25 Thread Frank McCormick
> > On Sat, 25 Aug 2007, Martin McCormick wrote: > > > >> I am installing a special version of KNOPPIX (sure wish it was > >> Debian.) from a CDROM to a hard disk. > >> > >>The mounted hard disk is quite writable and the CDROM > >> directory, is as one would expect, read-only. I am trying to

Re: Search for string in files

2007-08-25 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hi Johannes. Johannes Tax, 25.08.2007 23:16: > I'm trying to figure out how to find a certain string inside a bunch of > files. If I, for examples, look for a certain function in a large source > tree, I could do > > cat `find . -name '*.c'` | grep 'a_certain_function' > > but this seems quite a

Re: Search for string in files

2007-08-25 Thread Mike Bird
On Saturday 25 August 2007 14:16, Johannes Tax wrote: > I'm trying to figure out how to find a certain string inside a bunch of > files. If I, for examples, look for a certain function in a large source > tree, I could do > > cat `find . -name '*.c'` | grep 'a_certain_function' > > but this seems q

Search for string in files

2007-08-25 Thread Johannes Tax
Hi, I'm trying to figure out how to find a certain string inside a bunch of files. If I, for examples, look for a certain function in a large source tree, I could do cat `find . -name '*.c'` | grep 'a_certain_function' but this seems quite awkward, furthermore it doesn't help that much because I

Stumble Upon

2007-08-25 Thread John K Masters
May be coincidence but I recently signed up to Stumble Upon with Iceweasel mainly in response to a post that had problems signing up. Since I signed up the address I used has seen an increase in spam from average of 1 per month to 5 per day and increasing. I have now cancelled my Stumble Upon sub b

Re: hda: DMA timeout error, is it a problem ?

2007-08-25 Thread Shams Fantar
Shams Fantar wrote: Frank McCormick wrote: As I recall: fsck -n -c -v /dev/hda1 Ok. After a "fsck", I have still the problem. What do you think about it after some tests ? -- Shams Fantar (http://snurf.info) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

Re: The install Command is not happy with my Syntax.

2007-08-25 Thread Jude DaShiell
A guess is that the parameters need reversing. On Sat, 25 Aug 2007, Ishwar Rattan wrote: Use the knoppix-installer utility (run in a terminal window) -ishwar On Sat, 25 Aug 2007, Martin McCormick wrote: I am installing a special version of KNOPPIX (sure wish it was Debian.) from a CDROM

Re: The install Command is not happy with my Syntax.

2007-08-25 Thread Ishwar Rattan
Use the knoppix-installer utility (run in a terminal window) -ishwar On Sat, 25 Aug 2007, Martin McCormick wrote: I am installing a special version of KNOPPIX (sure wish it was Debian.) from a CDROM to a hard disk. The mounted hard disk is quite writable and the CDROM directory, is as

Re: Just flaming....

2007-08-25 Thread Paul Johnson
On Aug 25, 12:10 am, Mike Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 24 August 2007 22:46, Ms Linuz wrote: > > >http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/compare/default.mspx > > The first case study (Illinois) purportedly comparing Linux to > Windows actually compares Notes+Groupwise+Windows to Wind

Re: big brother yahoo

2007-08-25 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Richard Lyons wrote: It is amusing -- or not, depending on your viewpoint -- that clicking on a video clip at yahoo.com from a standard etch install is met with a page of error messages, starting: We have checked your operating system: It does not meet our

Re: big brother yahoo

2007-08-25 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 13:15:15 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 08/25/07 10:47, Richard Lyons wrote: > > It is amusing -- or not, depending on your viewpoint -- that > > clicking on a video clip at yahoo.com from a standard etch i

Re: boot error

2007-08-25 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 12:09:34PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > Took your advice here and re-installed Hal...at least the error > message goes away. I have no idea which package was still referring > to Haldaemonhow would I track that down ? > I suppose the brute-force method would be a

Re: big brother yahoo

2007-08-25 Thread Paul Johnson
On Aug 25, 11:20 am, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We have checked your operating system: It does not meet our > > minimum requirements > > If you are having difficulties, please upgrade or switch your > > operating system. > > I am able to watch videos athttp://video.

Re: big brother yahoo

2007-08-25 Thread Paul Johnson
On Aug 25, 10:00 am, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Richard Lyons wrote: > > It is amusing -- or not, depending on your viewpoint -- that clicking on a > > video clip at yahoo.com from a standard etch install is met with a page of > > error messages, starting: > > > We have

Re: big brother yahoo

2007-08-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/25/07 10:47, Richard Lyons wrote: > It is amusing -- or not, depending on your viewpoint -- that clicking on a > video clip at yahoo.com from a standard etch install is met with a page of > error messages, starting: > > We have checked your

Re: using a remote IMAP server and smarthost

2007-08-25 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 17:30:12 +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > I've been trying to solve this for about three years now. Every few > months, when I have a moment, I try again. It is not a specifically > debian issue, but someone here must have a similar setup. > > I have an IMAP server on a remo

Re: cannot logoff/shutdown properly

2007-08-25 Thread s. keeling
Manu Hack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 8/24/07, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I would still like to know whether your system hangs if you try to > > switch to a terminal without shutting down gdm. > > If I have a graphical login prompt and press CTRL + ALT + Back I can > go to

Re: Networking problems

2007-08-25 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
> On Sat, 2007-08-25 at 07:20 -0700, Dr. Jennifer > Nussbaum wrote: > > Im on a wireless network now. I had a system > freeze, > > and when i rebooted, no networking interfaces came > up > > at > > all. I was unable to get anything recognized, but > then > > again im not sure how to do this anyway

The install Command is not happy with my Syntax.

2007-08-25 Thread Martin McCormick
I am installing a special version of KNOPPIX (sure wish it was Debian.) from a CDROM to a hard disk. The mounted hard disk is quite writable and the CDROM directory, is as one would expect, read-only. I am trying to write the distribution on that CDROM to the / file system on the HD and th

Re: Good fdisk Practices

2007-08-25 Thread s. keeling
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On 08/24/07 11:16, David Brodbeck wrote: > > > > Also, is there any good reason to have a separate /boot on a modern > > system? I always thought /boot was just a kludge to get around old > > BIOSes that couldn't load anything that wasn't on the first part o

Re: Disadvantages of Iceweasel instead of Firefox

2007-08-25 Thread s. keeling
Stefan Monnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > As you all know, Debian Etch released with Iceweasel instead of > > Firefox. This is totally okay, but some applications (like X-Chat or > > Gaim/Pidgin) still uses "firefox %u" command instead of "iceweasel %u" for > > Never had this problem. The only pro

Epson Perfection 1270 error

2007-08-25 Thread wanderlust
Hello, everybody. I've just tried to make some scan with Xsane, and discovered, that scanners' lamp is not returning on it's place, after making preview or scanning. It's suddenly stops in (I suppose) the same place. Can you advise me where I have to send bug-report? Sincerely, wanderlust. --

Re: Hardware vs Software RAID 10 performance?

2007-08-25 Thread Neil Gunton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Neil Gunton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: (First of all, I apologise if anyone sees this twice - I first posted to the AMD64 list, but then thought that the more general debian users list might get a broader response)... I'm curious as to whether anyone has experience o

Re: Hardware vs Software RAID 10 performance?

2007-08-25 Thread michael
Quoting Neil Gunton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: (First of all, I apologise if anyone sees this twice - I first posted to the AMD64 list, but then thought that the more general debian users list might get a broader response)... I'm curious as to whether anyone has experience of software RAID in Linux g

Re: Just flaming....

2007-08-25 Thread Klein Moebius
* Mike Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-08-25 00:00:23 -0700]: > The giant slurping sound > you're hearing is Illinois taxes be sucked off to Redmond > instead of going to build roads and schools in Illinois. Ah, yes, good ole Illinois crony politics. A little better than the hoary old days of "

Re: big brother yahoo

2007-08-25 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Richard Lyons wrote: > It is amusing -- or not, depending on your viewpoint -- that clicking on a > video clip at yahoo.com from a standard etch install is met with a page of > error messages, starting: > > We have checked your operating system: It does not meet our > minimum requirements

Re: Getting W: mdadm: -- Actually should be apt-get or aptitude question SOLVED

2007-08-25 Thread J
SOLVED. You have to use _ command in aptitude which "purges" configuration data or you won't get the link installed. My machine used to not see a mouse or even boot to X windows. My machine now boots to X but not to KDE. J wrote: > Actually should be apt-get or aptitude question > So it reboots wi

Re: Good fdisk Practices

2007-08-25 Thread Klein Moebius
* Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-08-24 16:40:08 -0500]: > Or go out on Ebay and buy some replacement RAM chips. If the chips > on your Hell aren't soldered onto the mobo. > Yep, good point. -- Regards, Klein. Hey, what do you expect from a culture that *drives* on *parkways* and *par

using a remote IMAP server and smarthost

2007-08-25 Thread Richard Lyons
I've been trying to solve this for about three years now. Every few months, when I have a moment, I try again. It is not a specifically debian issue, but someone here must have a similar setup. I have an IMAP server on a remote vm. I access it with mutt because it sucks least. But when I want

Re: Any way to stop dist-upgrade from upgrading tetex to texlive

2007-08-25 Thread Sven Joachim
Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Holding the various tetex packages (tetex-bin, tetex-common, > tetex-extra, tetex-doc) "should" work -- but I wouldn't be surprised > if they get dragged in by dependencies anyway. aptitude holds don't > prevent versioned dependencies from forcing an

Re: Getting W: mdadm: -- Actually should be apt-get or aptitude question

2007-08-25 Thread J
Actually should be apt-get or aptitude question So it reboots with old since the link /initrd.img /vmlinuz both point at the old kernel 2.6.8-3-386. I've tried aptitude with the L command over the newer desired kernel which should reinstall but it didn't fix /initrd.img adn /vmlinuz links to poin

aptitude dist-upgrade and tex dependencies

2007-08-25 Thread - Tong -
On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 08:39:17 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: >> Is there any way to stop dist-upgrade from upgrading tetex to texlive? > > Holding the various tetex packages (tetex-bin, tetex-common, > tetex-extra, tetex-doc) "should" work -- but I wouldn't be surprised Unfortunately, no. Thanks

Re: boot error

2007-08-25 Thread Frank McCormick
On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 15:42:45 +0200 Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 08:46:01 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > > On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 10:23:54 +0200 > > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > [...] > > > > > > On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 21:25:29 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > >

Re: harddisc errors

2007-08-25 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Cassiano Bertol Leal wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joris Huizer wrote: --- "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Alright, a small update here. I booted in rescue mode and did the `e2fsck -f -c -c` on the root partition. It seems to fix something (giving a

big brother yahoo

2007-08-25 Thread Richard Lyons
It is amusing -- or not, depending on your viewpoint -- that clicking on a video clip at yahoo.com from a standard etch install is met with a page of error messages, starting: We have checked your operating system: It does not meet our minimum requirements If you are having difficultie

Re: hda: DMA timeout error, is it a problem ?

2007-08-25 Thread Shams Fantar
Frank McCormick wrote: As I recall: fsck -n -c -v /dev/hda1 Ok. I guess you know not to run it on a mounted partition. Yes, of course. :-) That way it won't do anything to the file system, I still am not sure whether the -c option means it won't add bad blocks to the list, bu

Re: hda: DMA timeout error, is it a problem ?

2007-08-25 Thread Shams Fantar
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 03:28:02PM +0200, Shams Fantar wrote: I also think this is a bug.. but I don't understand why (if it's a bug) the problem happens suddenly! Maybe after an update ? I am not sure. I use debian etch and the version of the Linux kernel is : 2.6

Re: Any way to stop dist-upgrade from upgrading tetex to texlive

2007-08-25 Thread - Tong -
On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 12:38:52 +0200, Mathias Brodala wrote: > You just could take my hint for further research if it doesn’t work directly. > (You could have come up with the idea to put everything tex-related on hold, > for > example.) Thanks for the hint, as you may have already discovered from

Re: Any way to stop dist-upgrade from upgrading tetex to texlive

2007-08-25 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 11:44:28PM +, - Tong - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Is there any way to stop dist-upgrade from upgrading tetex to texlive? Holding the various tetex packages (tetex-bin, tetex-common, tetex-extra, tetex-doc) "should" work -- but I wouldn't be surprised if

Re: aptitude unintuitive behaviour (bug resolving dependencies?)

2007-08-25 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 05:29:40PM +0200, Klaas Gadeyne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > I notice that aptitude isn't actually installing apache -- it looks > >like something is dragging in libapache-mod-php4, which depends on > >apache-common.

Re: Networking problems

2007-08-25 Thread Krzysztof Lubański
On Sat, 2007-08-25 at 07:20 -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > Im on a wireless network now. I had a system freeze, > and when i rebooted, no networking interfaces came up > at > all. I was unable to get anything recognized, but then > again im not sure how to do this anyway. > > I rebooted aga

Re: aptitude unintuitive behaviour (bug resolving dependencies?)

2007-08-25 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 12:19:34PM +, "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 12:34:32PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 05:29:40PM +0200, Klaas Gadeyne wrote: > > > > So one of the recommends must be depending on or recomme

Re: Pcmcia express card

2007-08-25 Thread [L]ash
Il giorno Sat, 25 Aug 2007 09:56:24 -0400 Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3cXFEM656C 10/100 LAN+Winmodem > CardBus [Tornado] > > 3Com Megahertz 10/100 LAN Cardbus > but are this pcmcia express card? My notebook don't have the support for norma

Adobe SVG viewer plugin

2007-08-25 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
Hi Debianists, I have a strange problem with the SVG viewer plugin from Adobe [1]. I use XFCE. I installed the plugin, then went to test it. An EULA was displayed, I accepted it, and from then on, SVG graphicvs were displayed correctly. However, my wife uses Gnome. When she tried to check S

Re: Pcmcia express card

2007-08-25 Thread Wayne Topa
[L]ash([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hi all > > I need to buy a ethernet pcmcia express card for my notebook (its > integrated ethernet card is broken). > Can anyone suggest me a device that work with linux!?? > > Thanks in advance > > > > Im sorry for my bad english > What

Hardware vs Software RAID 10 performance?

2007-08-25 Thread Neil Gunton
(First of all, I apologise if anyone sees this twice - I first posted to the AMD64 list, but then thought that the more general debian users list might get a broader response)... I'm curious as to whether anyone has experience of software RAID in Linux giving better overall performance on RAID

Networking problems

2007-08-25 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Im having some big network problems all of a sudden and am not sure why. This is running an up-to-date Etch. I dont do anything fancy. Im on a wireless network now. I had a system freeze, and when i rebooted, no networking interfaces came up at all. I was unable to get anything recognized, but the

Re: boot error

2007-08-25 Thread Frank McCormick
On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 15:42:45 +0200 Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 08:46:01 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > > On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 10:23:54 +0200 > > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > [...] > > > > > > On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 21:25:29 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > >

Re: hda: DMA timeout error, is it a problem ?

2007-08-25 Thread Frank McCormick
On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 15:28:02 +0200 Shams Fantar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank McCormick wrote: > >I've been following this thread for quite a while - I have been > > getting DMA timeout errors on boot for about a year - i am also running > > SMART and every test I have done shows no probl

Re: boot error

2007-08-25 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 08:46:01 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 10:23:54 +0200 > Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] > > > > On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 21:25:29 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > > > For the past few weeks I've been seeing an error message fly by > > > > > (doesn't see

Re: Possible LKM Trojan installed

2007-08-25 Thread Mike Bird
On Saturday 25 August 2007 00:43, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Very easily. The very first thing the trojan did after installing itself > was to call home. Home has the address of the trojaned machine. Home can > then check up on its trojan and maintain it and activate it or repair it > as necessary.

Re: hda: DMA timeout error, is it a problem ?

2007-08-25 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 03:28:02PM +0200, Shams Fantar wrote: > I also think this is a bug.. but I don't understand why (if it's a bug) > the problem happens suddenly! Maybe after an update ? I am not sure. > > I use debian etch and the version of the Linux kernel is : 2.6.18-4-486. > I still

Re: Possible LKM Trojan installed

2007-08-25 Thread Carl Fink
Note: top posting fixed. Please don't do that. Also overquoting trimmed. On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 02:43:41AM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Mike Bird wrote: > > >On Friday 24 August 2007 17:59, Jude DaShiell wrote: > >>how these trojans survive is by surviving operating syst

Re: hda: DMA timeout error, is it a problem ?

2007-08-25 Thread Shams Fantar
Frank McCormick wrote: I've been following this thread for quite a while - I have been getting DMA timeout errors on boot for about a year - i am also running SMART and every test I have done shows no problem. Booted with the install disk and run fschk so many time I have lost track. Do you

Pcmcia express card

2007-08-25 Thread [L]ash
Hi all I need to buy a ethernet pcmcia express card for my notebook (its integrated ethernet card is broken). Can anyone suggest me a device that work with linux!?? Thanks in advance Im sorry for my bad english -- Andrea Corradi | Debian User | www.debian.org Fingerprint: A41E F6B0 DBDB F04C

Re: boot error

2007-08-25 Thread Frank McCormick
On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 10:23:54 +0200 Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 20:46:22 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:07:49 +0200 Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > n Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 21:25:29 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > > For the past few we

Re: aptitude unintuitive behaviour (bug resolving dependencies?)

2007-08-25 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 12:34:32PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 05:29:40PM +0200, Klaas Gadeyne wrote: > > So one of the recommends must be depending on or recommending apache > > 1.3, right? I've played a bit around with apt-cache --recurse depends > > but I couldn't f

Re: ipod mount error

2007-08-25 Thread Richard Lyons
OT and hijacking my own thread... Does anybody understand the error I am getting from gpod: Failed to remove watch SOunds like a text message from a pickpocket to me. But it seems to indicate a problem that prevents unmounting/ejecting the ipod. I suppose, therefore that I am risking corru

Re: Any way to stop dist-upgrade from upgrading tetex to texlive

2007-08-25 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hi. - Tong -, 25.08.2007 05:51: > On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 02:03:42 +0200, Mathias Brodala wrote: > >>> Is there any way to stop dist-upgrade from upgrading tetex to texlive? >> See the manpage of aptitude and look for "hold". > > […] > > Please be *responsible* with what you said. Do you know that

Re: aptitude unintuitive behaviour (bug resolving dependencies?)

2007-08-25 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 05:29:40PM +0200, Klaas Gadeyne wrote: >> Do you get different results if you pass --without-recommends as a >> command-line option? > > Yes, that seems to do the trick! [...] > So one of the recommends must be depending on or recommending apache > 1.3, right? I've play

Re: hda: DMA timeout error, is it a problem ?

2007-08-25 Thread Shams Fantar
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 08:12:28PM +0200, Shams Fantar wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Try shutdown, disable DMA in the bios, and reboot into single-user mode (avoids mounting the drive rw). See if the messages show up in dmesg. Then reboot into normal mode and

Re: USB..... detected not working since upgrade...

2007-08-25 Thread Charlie
On Friday 24 August 2007 18:32, Bert Schulze shared this with us all: >--} On 24 Aug., 08:40, Charlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >--} > The USB ports are detected, and the lights go on and someone is home. > Then the --} > lights go off as every USB port leaves. >--} > >--} > tail /var/log/messages

Re: boot error

2007-08-25 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 20:46:22 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:07:49 +0200 Florian Kulzer wrote: > > n Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 21:25:29 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > For the past few weeks I've been seeing an error message fly by > > > (doesn't seem to affect anything) a

Re: Any way to stop dist-upgrade from upgrading tetex to texlive

2007-08-25 Thread Sven Joachim
- Tong - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there any way to stop dist-upgrade from upgrading tetex to texlive? > > I just upgraded from Etch to Lenny, and have loads of things to fix, > keeping tetex from upgrading to texlive will sure ease the transition for > the moment. You should put your te

Re: cannot logoff/shutdown properly

2007-08-25 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 21:05:27 -0400, Manu Hack wrote: > On 8/24/07, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 10:46:13 -0400, Manu Hack wrote: > > > On 8/24/07, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 22:38:27 -0400, Manu Hack wrote: > > > > > On 8/23/07, Florian Kulzer wro

Re: Possible LKM Trojan installed

2007-08-25 Thread Jude DaShiell
Very easily. The very first thing the trojan did after installing itself was to call home. Home has the address of the trojaned machine. Home can then check up on its trojan and maintain it and activate it or repair it as necessary. On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Mike Bird wrote: On Friday 24 Aug

Re: Just flaming....

2007-08-25 Thread Mike Bird
On Friday 24 August 2007 22:46, Ms Linuz wrote: > http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/compare/default.mspx The first case study (Illinois) purportedly comparing Linux to Windows actually compares Notes+Groupwise+Windows to Windows and surprise surprise finds Windows is cheaper than Windows plus