Re: [solved] Re: ps2pdf resizes page size to wrong format

2007-10-25 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 09:56:13AM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Kevin Mark wrote: > > I'd try to investigate every file in /etc that deals with pdf or ps or > > the reverse depends of ps2pdf. Maybe there is some value that is > > different

Re: Listing packages

2007-10-25 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 11:37:33AM +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > In the manual the description of the '%t' says > "The archive in which the package is found." > > And aptitude seems to list the archive with the lowest priority. > So my advice about the aptitude

Re: getting scim to work on KDE

2007-10-25 Thread Wei Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 H.S. wrote: > Kelly Clowers wrote: >> On 10/24/07, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I tried with xcim: >>> $> cat .xinput.d/en_CA >>> # >>> # Use "X input Method" for all applications >>> # >>> # Per Ming's Documentation in SCIM, XIM Input Method is

Re: Open Office 2.0 Writer craks

2007-10-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/25/07 16:38, Pantor wrote: > Hi lads, > > Start Open Office 2.0 Writer, > press File then New, > go to Templates and Documents, > then press Templates icon, > then choose any from the list, > and get shit instead of document. Run it from an xte

Re: Open Office 2.0 Writer craks

2007-10-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
Pantor wrote: Hi lads, Start Open Office 2.0 Writer, press File then New, go to Templates and Documents, then press Templates icon, then choose any from the list, and get shit instead of document. Andrius Seems to be working OK here. Using 2.0.4. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To

Re: getting scim to work on KDE

2007-10-25 Thread H.S.
Kelly Clowers wrote: > On 10/24/07, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I tried with xcim: >> $> cat .xinput.d/en_CA >> # >> # Use "X input Method" for all applications >> # >> # Per Ming's Documentation in SCIM, XIM Input Method is activated >> # not only for old X-applications but also for GTK and

Re: Web cam Philips 0471:032d not seen

2007-10-25 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 01:11:15AM +0200, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > > > > Have you grepped that USB ID from the source to confirm it's in there? > > Despite what the website says, if the USB ID isn't in there, then it > > won't get loaded. Also, it looks like you're installing the module > > from t

Log Messages

2007-10-25 Thread Jeff Grossman
I am getting the following lines in my /var/log/secure file: Oct 25 20:10:01 apple CRON[5511]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user news by (uid=0) Oct 25 20:10:01 apple CRON[5511]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user news Here is my syslog.conf setup: *.info;cron.none

Re: Debian Sid, Xorg - mouse doesn't work

2007-10-25 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 08:36:24PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > MRH([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > Hi, > > > > I have a problem after I apt-upgraded Debian Sid a couple of days ago. It > > seems that some xserver-xorg-* or hal* packages broke my mouse in X. The > > result is I hav

Re: fetchmail authorization failure

2007-10-25 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 10:22:33PM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > I replaced the stock nv driver under Etch with the nVidia proprietary > driver, and logged out and back in. When I did so, fetchmail was no > longer able to get authorization from my mail server. I should note > that it has been months

Re: Silly question: Where's eth0?

2007-10-25 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 10:35:10PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 01:23:38PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 08:48:39PM +0100, Joe wrote: > > > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > > >> Now, if you actually had a piece of hardware that _was_ fully

Re: boot process hangs on init of mysqld

2007-10-25 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 12:07:18PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 10:17:22AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Thanks Keith! Unfortunately, this machine uses Lilo instead of Grub. Can > > something similar be done to enter 'single user mode' when booting using >

Re: Silly question: Where's eth0?

2007-10-25 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 01:23:38PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 08:48:39PM +0100, Joe wrote: > > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > >> Now, if you actually had a piece of hardware that _was_ fully supported > >> by the linux kernel without this mess, then you would get a

fetchmail authorization failure

2007-10-25 Thread Haines Brown
I replaced the stock nv driver under Etch with the nVidia proprietary driver, and logged out and back in. When I did so, fetchmail was no longer able to get authorization from my mail server. I should note that it has been months since I've logged out, and the graphics driver change is probably irr

Re: boot process hangs on init of mysqld

2007-10-25 Thread Mumia W..
On 10/25/2007 11:17 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Keith! Unfortunately, this machine uses Lilo instead of Grub. Can something similar be done to enter 'single user mode' when booting using Lilo? -- Mark Please don't top-post. How you get into runlevel 1 (system maintenance) with LI

Re: Set up fcitx in VNC ?

2007-10-25 Thread Michael Yang
Hi Appreciated of your suggestions. I tried some other key for calling fcitx app, but can't get it invoked. Now I'm not sure if there is any problem on the setting of fcitx. However, it works fine on the local display with CTRL_SPACE. Is there any leads to check where could the problem arise fro

Re: Debian Sid, Xorg - mouse doesn't work

2007-10-25 Thread Wayne Topa
MRH([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hi, > > I have a problem after I apt-upgraded Debian Sid a couple of days ago. It > seems that some xserver-xorg-* or hal* packages broke my mouse in X. The > result is I have no working mouse in X - it displays cursor, that's it. I > managed to

Re: Can't Remove Files

2007-10-25 Thread Telly Williams
> It looks like your USB device has gotten corrupted (did you pull it > out without unmounting first?). I would suggest running > "fsck -r /dev/sde1" to fix the problems -- you might lose some files, > but odds are they aren't accessible any more anyway. > > Daniel Daniel, Thanks.

Re: HELP! apache2 won't start

2007-10-25 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 06:59:54PM -0500, Sergio Cuéllar Valdés wrote: > 2007/10/25, Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > When I try to start apache all I get is > > > > # /etc/init.d/apache2 start > > Starting web server: apache2 failed! > > > > The syntax checks ok. How can I determine what the

Re: HELP! apache2 won't start

2007-10-25 Thread Raquel
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:55:45 -0400 Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I try to start apache all I get is > > # /etc/init.d/apache2 start > Starting web server: apache2 failed! > > The syntax checks ok. How can I determine what the problem is? > > The config was working fine until I

Re: HELP! apache2 won't start

2007-10-25 Thread Sergio Cuéllar Valdés
2007/10/25, Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > When I try to start apache all I get is > > # /etc/init.d/apache2 start > Starting web server: apache2 failed! > > The syntax checks ok. How can I determine what the problem is? > > The config was working fine until I had to reboot. Hello, check th

HELP! apache2 won't start

2007-10-25 Thread Rick Pasotto
When I try to start apache all I get is # /etc/init.d/apache2 start Starting web server: apache2 failed! The syntax checks ok. How can I determine what the problem is? The config was working fine until I had to reboot. -- "Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start

Re: Web cam Philips 0471:032d not seen

2007-10-25 Thread Thierry Chatelet
> > Have you grepped that USB ID from the source to confirm it's in there? > Despite what the website says, if the USB ID isn't in there, then it > won't get loaded. Also, it looks like you're installing the module > from the build tree instead of from the usual > /lib/modules/... location, maybe y

Search for debian package for m560x kernel module package

2007-10-25 Thread Jabka Atu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Good evening,. Does any one have a m560x kernel driver as a debian package ? since im new to packgaging and i didn't had any relevent experiance with kernel module i would like to ask that some one will package it. How can i create a source package t

Re: Web cam Philips 0471:032d not seen

2007-10-25 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 10:41:14PM +0200, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > On Thursday 25 October 2007 21:14, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > where did you get these drivers? if they are from debian stable, > > they're probably just not up-to-date enough. Either pull the source > > from upstream or f

Solved: HS: printer HP Deskjet F4180 All-in-One

2007-10-25 Thread Thierry Chatelet
This printer is working, printing and scanning. If you are under Etch, download the latest hplip sources, install it, and that's it!!! Scan and printing are OK. ( As on October 25 2007) Thierry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMA

Debian Sid, Xorg - mouse doesn't work

2007-10-25 Thread MRH
Hi, I have a problem after I apt-upgraded Debian Sid a couple of days ago. It seems that some xserver-xorg-* or hal* packages broke my mouse in X. The result is I have no working mouse in X - it displays cursor, that's it. I managed to operate the mouse with keyboard 'emulation', but it's ver

Open Office 2.0 Writer craks

2007-10-25 Thread Pantor
Hi lads, Start Open Office 2.0 Writer, press File then New, go to Templates and Documents, then press Templates icon, then choose any from the list, and get shit instead of document. Andrius -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: 1GB RAM is missing.

2007-10-25 Thread Wakko Warner
Again, please do not top post. Also, keep list mails on the list. Pawe?? G??ga wrote: > i have a kernel compiled fod 4gb , can this be the reason of these lacks ? The way it works, there are 3 memory models. 1gb, 4gb, and 64gb. This is NOT the amount of memory in your machine. 1gb will give y

Re: About bluez-pin package

2007-10-25 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 04:36:02PM +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > With Sarge there was a package named bluez-pin, not available in Etch. Does > anyone know what will the correspondent Etch package be? I wish to pair my > phone with the PC without any desktop applets. i think they have removed the

Re: wireles /wpa_supplicant - where to start?

2007-10-25 Thread Adrián Ribao Martínez
El Jueves, 25 de Octubre de 2007, Tyler Smith escribió: > Hi, > > I'm trying to set myself up on my University's wireless network. I can > successfully connect to my home wireless using: > > iwconfig ath0 key 676bd87bc0dd5315f1cd8de794 > dhclient ath0 > > and to unencrypted public access points usi

Re: OT: laser printer: HL-5250DN or another one?

2007-10-25 Thread David Brodbeck
On Oct 24, 2007, at 4:48 PM, Scott Lair wrote: OK, now I'm wondering what the differences are between genuine Postscript and BR-script.and if those differences may cause trouble later on. In the past, when I've run into trouble with off-brand implementations of Postscript, it's always

Re: Web cam Philips 0471:032d not seen

2007-10-25 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Thursday 25 October 2007 21:24, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > If you Google a bit, I think that you shall find that others have > experienced difficulty with the gspca driver. > > If you are able to return the unit and purchase another, get a Philips > SPC900NC/27. It has glass optics (not plast

Re: Web cam Philips 0471:032d not seen

2007-10-25 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Thursday 25 October 2007 21:14, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > where did you get these drivers? if they are from debian stable, > they're probably just not up-to-date enough. Either pull the source > from upstream or from lenny/sid and rebuild it. > > > A As said I am indeed running Etch!!! I

Re: Silly question: Where's eth0?

2007-10-25 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 08:48:39PM +0100, Joe wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> Now, if you actually had a piece of hardware that _was_ fully supported >> by the linux kernel without this mess, then you would get a functioning >> eth0 which would then work just fine with the standard Debian netw

Re: 1GB RAM is missing.

2007-10-25 Thread Pasi Oja-Nisula
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 04:04:59PM -, pgega wrote: > I just installed AMD64 Debian, put 4th RAM stick, but new sysytem does > not see the memory, even if I set mem=3900M in grub. Well, the mem-parameter is mainly used in limiting the available memory, not the other way round. I would use that

Re: file system on / grew over night?

2007-10-25 Thread Owen Heisler
On Thu, 2007.10.25 10:08, Michael A. Miller wrote: > I came in this morning to find that the / filesystem on a machine > is at 100%. This is on a stable machine installed with one > partition as per the installer suggestions. I've cleared off > enough space to be able to get log in and find that t

Re: Silly question: Where's eth0?

2007-10-25 Thread Joe
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 07:00:39PM -0700, francisco wrote: El mi??, 24-10-2007 a las 10:11 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty escribi??: On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 10:02:31AM +0200, Matthias Feichtinger wrote: I had the same problem. The mistake was made while installing. It is not p

Re: Sendmail Problem

2007-10-25 Thread Jeff Grossman
> I just set up a Debian system using testing as the source. I moved from a > Gentoo Linux system. I installed Sendmail. I am able to send and receive > e-mail outside of this box with no problems. But, cron is not able to > send any e-mails from within the box. Here is the error message: > >

Re: Waiting for root file system... ...

2007-10-25 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 04:17:33PM -0300, Cassiano Bertol Leal wrote: > Hi > > I am trying to make a smooth transition fom windows to Debian in my work PC. :) > > I needed to be sure that not having win on this machine wouldn't affect > my work, since unfortunatelly we use many windows-based ap

Re: aptitude upgrade through proxy

2007-10-25 Thread Sven Joachim
Javier Vasquez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I configure apt.conf.d/proxy, then things work... I use apt-get > and aptitude with sudo as a non root user. Might be the the > environment variables are lost with sudo? Exactly that. If you want to preserve them, you should add a line with De

Re: Web cam Philips 0471:032d not seen

2007-10-25 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Thierry Chatelet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071025 07:35]: > Hi, > I just got this webcam, according to gspca maintener' site > (http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html), it should work 'out of the box', > unfortunately, I cannot get mine to work. > It is suppose to use module gspca. > Here are the outpu

Re: Faster source of random numbers for blanking harddrives

2007-10-25 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 09:27:50AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 04:46:08PM +0800, Bob wrote: > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > >On 10/25/07 01:19, Bob wrote: > > > >>Is there a faster source or random or pseudo-random numbers because at > > >>4MB/s it'll take a lng time to

Re: Web cam Philips 0471:032d not seen

2007-10-25 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 02:33:48PM +0200, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > Hi, > I just got this webcam, according to gspca maintener' site > (http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html), it should work 'out of the box', > unfortunately, I cannot get mine to work. > It is suppose to use module gspca. > Here ar

Re: file system on / grew over night?

2007-10-25 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 10:08:14AM -0400, Michael A. Miller wrote: > I came in this morning to find that the / filesystem on a machine > is at 100%. This is on a stable machine installed with one > partition as per the installer suggestions. I've cleared off > enough space to be able to get log in

Re: boot process hangs on init of mysqld

2007-10-25 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 10:17:22AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks Keith! Unfortunately, this machine uses Lilo instead of Grub. Can > something similar be done to enter 'single user mode' when booting using > Lilo? > I *think* you can just add kernel commands after specifying the ima

Re: wireles /wpa_supplicant - where to start?

2007-10-25 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 04:41:35PM +, Tyler Smith wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to set myself up on my University's wireless network. I can > successfully connect to my home wireless using: > > iwconfig ath0 key 676bd87bc0dd5315f1cd8de794 > dhclient ath0 > > and to unencrypted public access po

Re: wireles /wpa_supplicant - where to start?

2007-10-25 Thread Martin Marcher
Forgot :) to me the wpa config file looks ok. this is what I have there: # WPA-PSK/TKIP ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant network={ ssid="the_essid" #key_mgmt=WPA-PSK #proto=WPA #pairwise=TKIP #group=TKIP scan_ssid=1 psk="geheim" }

Re: wireles /wpa_supplicant - where to start?

2007-10-25 Thread Martin Marcher
2007/10/25, Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > I'm trying to set myself up on my University's wireless network. I can > successfully connect to my home wireless using: in /etc/network/interfaces my eth0 looks like this: iface eth0 inet dhcp wpa-driver wext wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant

Re: Waiting for root file system... ...

2007-10-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Cassiano Bertol Leal wrote: > Begin: Mounting root file system... ... > Begin: Running /scripts/local-top ... > Done. > Begin: Waiting for root file system... ... > And from there, I can only Control-Alt-Delete or do a cold reset. > The machine is a Dell Optiplex GX280 P4-HT with 2GB RAM and a 80

Waiting for root file system... ...

2007-10-25 Thread Cassiano Bertol Leal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi I am trying to make a smooth transition fom windows to Debian in my work PC. I needed to be sure that not having win on this machine wouldn't affect my work, since unfortunatelly we use many windows-based applications. For that, I thought of first

Re: ping www.yahoo.co.uk - connect: Invalid argument

2007-10-25 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 11:02:14AM +0100, Charlie Grosvenor wrote: > Does anybody know why I would get a response of connect: Invalid argument > when I: > > ping www.yahoo.co.uk > I also get this error when I run commands like apt-get upgrade. Please post the *exact* output (use copy-paste) inclu

Re: boot process hangs on init of mysqld

2007-10-25 Thread Keith Christian
Quoting Keith Christian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > - Original Message > From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 8:17:58 AM > Subject: boot process hangs on init of mysqld > > When my boot process starts mysqld, it han

Re: Alpine and Maildir

2007-10-25 Thread Jeff Grossman
> Jeff Grossman wrote: >> Thank you. I noticed it said that a Maildir patch exists for the Pine >> package on Debian. I did a search on packages.debian.org and did not >> see >> Pine listed. Is that still a package that is available? > > http://packages.debian.org/pine-tracker > > Pine itself ha

Re: Alpine and Maildir

2007-10-25 Thread Joey Hess
Jeff Grossman wrote: > Thank you. I noticed it said that a Maildir patch exists for the Pine > package on Debian. I did a search on packages.debian.org and did not see > Pine listed. Is that still a package that is available? http://packages.debian.org/pine-tracker Pine itself has to be built

Re: Alpine and Maildir

2007-10-25 Thread Jeff Grossman
> Jeff Grossman wrote: >> I am using Debian testing. Is it possible to set Alpine up to use >> Maildir >> instead of mbox style mailboxes?=20 > > Not until #405762 is fixed. Thank you. I noticed it said that a Maildir patch exists for the Pine package on Debian. I did a search on packages.debia

Re: file system on / grew over night?

2007-10-25 Thread Wayne Topa
Michael A. Miller([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > I came in this morning to find that the / filesystem on a machine > is at 100%. This is on a stable machine installed with one > partition as per the installer suggestions. I've cleared off > enough space to be able to get log in and

Re: file system on / grew over night?

2007-10-25 Thread Ralph Katz
On 10/25/2007 10:08 AM, Michael A. Miller wrote: > I came in this morning to find that the / filesystem on a machine > is at 100%. This is on a stable machine installed with one > partition as per the installer suggestions. I've cleared off > enough space to be able to get log in and find that the

Re: Alpine and Maildir

2007-10-25 Thread Joey Hess
Jeff Grossman wrote: > I am using Debian testing. Is it possible to set Alpine up to use Maildir > instead of mbox style mailboxes? Not until #405762 is fixed. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Alpine and Maildir

2007-10-25 Thread Jeff Grossman
I am using Debian testing. Is it possible to set Alpine up to use Maildir instead of mbox style mailboxes? If not, I guess I can connect to the inbox using imap, but how do I set up Alpine to also see my folders in the ~/Maildir directory? Thanks, Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: aptitude upgrade through proxy

2007-10-25 Thread Javier Vasquez
On 10/25/07, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 08:51:44PM -0600, Javier Vasquez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > was heard to say: > > I've used http_proxy/ftp_proxy to enable apt-get to download packages > > through a proxy server whenever required. > > > > However I've tri

Re: Silly question: Where's eth0? (followup)

2007-10-25 Thread p
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 06:57:40AM -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > I wanted to thank everyone who responded to my > questoin. Fortunately or unfortunately i was forced to > reboot the machine for other reasons, and upon > rebooting eth0 was there. Repeated suspends had no > effect, i.e. eth0

wireles /wpa_supplicant - where to start?

2007-10-25 Thread Tyler Smith
Hi, I'm trying to set myself up on my University's wireless network. I can successfully connect to my home wireless using: iwconfig ath0 key 676bd87bc0dd5315f1cd8de794 dhclient ath0 and to unencrypted public access points using: ifconfig ath0 down iwconfig ath0 key off ifconfig ath0 up iwconfig

Re: boot process hangs on init of mysqld

2007-10-25 Thread debian-guy
Thanks Keith! Unfortunately, this machine uses Lilo instead of Grub. Can something similar be done to enter 'single user mode' when booting using Lilo? -- Mark Quoting Keith Christian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: - Original Message From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debia

Sendmail Problem

2007-10-25 Thread Jeff Grossman
I just set up a Debian system using testing as the source. I moved from a Gentoo Linux system. I installed Sendmail. I am able to send and receive e-mail outside of this box with no problems. But, cron is not able to send any e-mails from within the box. Here is the error message: - Th

Re: DNS CNAME question

2007-10-25 Thread Michael Shuler
On 10/25/2007 07:51 AM, Rogelio wrote: > Not sure if this is the best place to ask this question (and if so, > please point me to a better listserv), but is there anything "wrong" RFC > or best practice wise with pointing a CNAME record to a DNS server? > > (I'm using EveryDNS.net, and I'd like t

Re: boot process hangs on init of mysqld

2007-10-25 Thread Keith Christian
- Original Message From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 8:17:58 AM Subject: boot process hangs on init of mysqld When my boot process starts mysqld, it hangs. How can I get it unstuck? I cannot ssh into the mac

Re: Can't Remove Files

2007-10-25 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 04:56:39PM -0600, Telly Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > I mounted to device as: "mount -t vfat /dev/sde1 /mnt/usbdisk". > I tried mounting as "-t usbfs" but I only got four files in > there: 001, 002, 003, devices. I also manually unmount

Re: aptitude upgrade through proxy

2007-10-25 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 08:51:44PM -0600, Javier Vasquez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > I've used http_proxy/ftp_proxy to enable apt-get to download packages > through a proxy server whenever required. > > However I've tried the same environment variables with aptitude with > no luck...

Re: mouse emulation with X

2007-10-25 Thread westk
> How to move the pointer across the screen, using keyobard combinations? > I remember there were X deafult keys. Any hints? > How to customize keys? > > Thank you > Shift-Numlock should turn your numeric keypad into a "mouse". I don't recall the clicks off-hand, but the pointer will move with the

Re: cobol compiler/gui dev enviroment

2007-10-25 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 09:00:39AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 10/25/07 08:01, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 09:56:03PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 10/24/07 18:03, Chris Parker wrote: > >>> Thanks for the responses. We do now use microfocus, but that is running > >>>

Re: xkb settings messed up, seems to be two keyboards installed

2007-10-25 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:13:13 -0400 Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:57:20 +0200 > Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have two keymaps that I used to switch between with xkb alt_shift_toggle. > > At some point it stopped working. xfce xkb applet shows that t

About bluez-pin package

2007-10-25 Thread Rodolfo Medina
With Sarge there was a package named bluez-pin, not available in Etch. Does anyone know what will the correspondent Etch package be? I wish to pair my phone with the PC without any desktop applets. Thanks Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: 1GB RAM is missing.

2007-10-25 Thread pietia
Wakko Warner pisze: pgega wrote: Please do not top post. I just installed AMD64 Debian, put 4th RAM stick, but new sysytem does not see the memory, even if I set mem=3900M in grub. I completly do not know what to do now. I'm using i386 debian with a custom kernel. I'm running on

boot process hangs on init of mysqld

2007-10-25 Thread debian-guy
When my boot process starts mysqld, it hangs. How can I get it unstuck? I cannot ssh into the machine because the boot process hasn't progressed far enough. So, I cannot edit the init scripts to remove mysqld. Is there some key-stroke sequence I might be able to try to interrupt the in

mouse emulation with X

2007-10-25 Thread xpol
How to move the pointer across the screen, using keyobard combinations? I remember there were X deafult keys. Any hints? How to customize keys? Thank you -- Pol -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

file system on / grew over night?

2007-10-25 Thread Michael A. Miller
I came in this morning to find that the / filesystem on a machine is at 100%. This is on a stable machine installed with one partition as per the installer suggestions. I've cleared off enough space to be able to get log in and find that the disk seems full: /dev/hda1 71G 65G 3.0

Re: cobol compiler/gui dev enviroment

2007-10-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/25/07 08:01, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 09:56:03PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 10/24/07 18:03, Chris Parker wrote: >>> Thanks for the responses. We do now use microfocus, but that is running >>> on SCO. I was looking

Re: Silly question: Where's eth0? (followup)

2007-10-25 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
I wanted to thank everyone who responded to my questoin. Fortunately or unfortunately i was forced to reboot the machine for other reasons, and upon rebooting eth0 was there. Repeated suspends had no effect, i.e. eth0 was still there (meaning that suspending isnt what caused it to vanish). Since i

Set up fcitx in VNC ?

2007-10-25 Thread Michael Yang
Hi All: I want to access my linux box with vncserver installed - Debian lenny/sid But I couldn't use my fcitx in vncviewer, the CTRL_SPACE key is conflicted with the windows input methods. I have installed the vnc4server and vnc-common package, the xstartup script is as follows: #!/bin/sh #

Re: cobol compiler/gui dev enviroment

2007-10-25 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 09:56:03PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 10/24/07 18:03, Chris Parker wrote: > > > > Thanks for the responses. We do now use microfocus, but that is running > > on SCO. I was looking for a Linux version less expensive. Licensing > > for Microfocus on Linux is $500,000 f

Re: Faster source of random numbers for blanking harddrives

2007-10-25 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 04:46:08PM +0800, Bob wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > >On 10/25/07 01:19, Bob wrote: > >>Is there a faster source or random or pseudo-random numbers because at > >>4MB/s it'll take a lng time to blank a 60GB drive let alone a 500GB > >>job? > >> > >>What other options ar

Re: Silly question: Where's eth0?

2007-10-25 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 09:45:54PM -0700, francisco wrote: > El mi??, 24-10-2007 a las 22:27 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty escribi??: > > On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 07:00:39PM -0700, francisco wrote: > > > El mi??, 24-10-2007 a las 10:11 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty escribi??: > > > > On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 10:

DNS CNAME question

2007-10-25 Thread Rogelio
Not sure if this is the best place to ask this question (and if so, please point me to a better listserv), but is there anything "wrong" RFC or best practice wise with pointing a CNAME record to a DNS server? (I'm using EveryDNS.net, and I'd like to make my CNAME records ns1-> 4.myDomain.com corre

Web cam Philips 0471:032d not seen

2007-10-25 Thread Thierry Chatelet
Hi, I just got this webcam, according to gspca maintener' site (http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html), it should work 'out of the box', unfortunately, I cannot get mine to work. It is suppose to use module gspca. Here are the output of what I tried: lsusb: Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0471:032d Philips

grub boot problem with md

2007-10-25 Thread Greg Vickers
Hi all, I've got a Dell PowerEdge 830 that I've set up md raid1 on. grub was installed as part of the installation process and I recently installed grub on sdb with the following commands: grub> device (hd0) /dev/sdb grub> root (hd0,1) grub> setup (hd0) The root partition is 1 on both these

ftp.us.d.o/http.us.d.o updated

2007-10-25 Thread Josip Rodin
Hi, I just wanted to let people know that we changed the ftp.us.debian.org and http.us.debian.org aliases to match, and include five mirrors (up from two and four, resp.). If anyone notices problems with apt-get or something, let us know at at the debian-mirrors list or at [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: Listing packages

2007-10-25 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
David Fox wrote: > On 10/24/07, David Clymer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 11:28 +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > >>> aptitude can do that: >>> >>> aptitude -F '%p %t' search '~i' > > That produces (imho) misleading output. It is telling me that I have > many more packages

Slow scp/graphics connection.

2007-10-25 Thread Rosin, Angela
Apologies if you are seeing this twice: for some reason my account started bouncing the group yesterday and I had to resub. I have a suite of 11 computers running debian etch (2.6.18-3-686 server, 2.6.18-4-686 on the nodes). We use Condor and nfs to manage user accounts from a central server.

Re: Faster source of random numbers for blanking harddrives

2007-10-25 Thread Bob
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/25/07 01:19, Bob wrote: if you type dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/null count=10 10+0 records in 10+0 records out 5120 bytes (51 MB) copied, 14.0076 seconds, 3.7 MB/s whereas dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null coun

Xorg keyboard and mouse problems (was: Strange X problem--right mouse kills X)

2007-10-25 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 10:59:12 -0700, javi78 wrote: > > Today after upgrade my debian Sid, many keys of my keyboard didn't work > properly. For example, Alt-Gr key had the enter function, when I pushed "up" > direction key the Ksnapshot was launched, etc. > Then I saw in this forum that the pack

Re: Strange X problem--right mouse kills X

2007-10-25 Thread Magnus Therning
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 10:59:12 -0700, javi78 wrote: > >Today after upgrade my debian Sid, many keys of my keyboard didn't work >properly. For example, Alt-Gr key had the enter function, when I pushed >"up" direction key the Ksnapshot was launched, etc. Then I saw in this >forum that the package

[solved] Re: ps2pdf resizes page size to wrong format

2007-10-25 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kevin Mark wrote: > I'd try to investigate every file in /etc that deals with pdf or ps or > the reverse depends of ps2pdf. Maybe there is some value that is > different. Also are the reverse depends the same versions? Thanks! It turned out to be /et

Re: Faster source of random numbers for blanking harddrives

2007-10-25 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 02:19:59PM +0800, Bob wrote: > if you type > dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/null count=10 > 10+0 records in > 10+0 records out > 5120 bytes (51 MB) copied, 14.0076 seconds, 3.7 MB/s > > whereas > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null count=10 > 10+0 records in >

Re: ps2pdf resizes page size to wrong format

2007-10-25 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 09:27:41AM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello all, > > I have two etch machines with practically very similar configuration. > Due to some mechanism that is rather mysterious to me, if I convert the > very same ps-

ps2pdf resizes page size to wrong format

2007-10-25 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, I have two etch machines with practically very similar configuration. Due to some mechanism that is rather mysterious to me, if I convert the very same ps-file the page size is changed on one of the two machines, while the same command work

Re: Faster source of random numbers for blanking harddrives

2007-10-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/25/07 01:19, Bob wrote: > if you type > dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/null count=10 > 10+0 records in > 10+0 records out > 5120 bytes (51 MB) copied, 14.0076 seconds, 3.7 MB/s > > whereas > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null count=10