Re: Links2

2007-11-17 Thread Jeff Grossman
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/18/07 04:24, Jeff Grossman wrote: I am running Debian Testing. I currently have Links installed, but noticed there is a Links2. I only run my machine as a server so I do not have any X11 applications installed. When I

Re: help exporting files from guest to host in QEMU....

2007-11-17 Thread Scott Lair
Michael Fothergill wrote: > > Dear Debianists, > > I have a few questions about QEMU. I posted a query a while back about > loading cdrom image files into Windows 98 (guest) running under QEMU with > Debian Etch r1 (AMD64) as the underlying OS. > > I followed the helpful recipes and I l

Re: Problems posting with Pan.

2007-11-17 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:50:08 -0800, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > On Nov 16, 2007, at 8:38 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > >> Every now and then instead of posting, Pan tells me >> >> There were problems with this post. >> Warning: Unknown group "sci.physics.research" >> >> It seems to be group-specific.

Re: X server on lenny - broken after today's dist-upgrade

2007-11-17 Thread Charlie
On Sun, 18 Nov 2007, David Fox shared this with us all: >--} On 11/17/07, David Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >--} > I am having a problem and I've only got a minimal xfce4 setup right >--} > now, enough to press alt-f2 to run iceweasel. I've basically lost the >--} > ability to start x into my no

strange problem with USB mouse

2007-11-17 Thread Serena Cantor
I use sarge and its default kernel 2.4 and USB mouse. USB mouse works fine with hotplug package. But after I remove hotplug, USB mouse refuse to work even after I follow instruction on page below: http://www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide/x194.html Mostly I modprobe input, hid and mousedev. Then I use

Re: unsed .deb packages??

2007-11-17 Thread Marc Shapiro
joseph lockhart wrote: --- Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Andrew Reid wrote: On Friday 16 November 2007 22:02, David Fox wrote: On 11/16/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think OP is looking for aptitude clean or

Re: Links2

2007-11-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/18/07 04:24, Jeff Grossman wrote: > I am running Debian Testing. I currently have Links installed, but > noticed there is a Links2. I only run my machine as a server so I do > not have any X11 applications installed. When I try to install Link

Re: help exporting files from guest to host in QEMU....

2007-11-17 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 09:49:43PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > Dear Debianists, > > I have a few questions about QEMU. I posted a query a while > back about loading cdrom image files into Windows 98 (guest) > running under QEMU with Debian

Re: X server on lenny - broken after today's dist-upgrade

2007-11-17 Thread David Fox
On 11/17/07, David Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am having a problem and I've only got a minimal xfce4 setup right > now, enough to press alt-f2 to run iceweasel. I've basically lost the > ability to start x into my normal KDE environment. I get some errors > on the controlling terminal - thes

Re: Followup to my last posting

2007-11-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/18/07 04:20, David Fox wrote: Please give such files a .txt suffix so that Tbird knows what to do with them. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA %SYSTEM-F-FISH, my hovercraft is full of eels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.

Re: X server on lenny - broken after today's dist-upgrade

2007-11-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/18/07 04:08, David Fox wrote: > I am having a problem and I've only got a minimal xfce4 setup right > now, enough to press alt-f2 to run iceweasel. I've basically lost the > ability to start x into my normal KDE environment. I get some errors > o

Links2

2007-11-17 Thread Jeff Grossman
I am running Debian Testing. I currently have Links installed, but noticed there is a Links2. I only run my machine as a server so I do not have any X11 applications installed. When I try to install Links2 it wants to install a bunch of X11 stuff because Links can be run as a graphic web bro

Followup to my last posting

2007-11-17 Thread David Fox
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X server on lenny - broken after today's dist-upgrade

2007-11-17 Thread David Fox
I am having a problem and I've only got a minimal xfce4 setup right now, enough to press alt-f2 to run iceweasel. I've basically lost the ability to start x into my normal KDE environment. I get some errors on the controlling terminal - these error messages are strange to me. startkde never gets to

Re: Filesize limit exceeded on ext3

2007-11-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/18/07 00:28, Sam Leon wrote: > André Wendt wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm running a benchmark program on Lenny that writes into a file and >> repeatedly exits once the filesize reaches 2,099,204 bytes. This is on >> ext3. >> >> $ ulimit -f >> unlimited

Re: Why ext3 doesn't need defragmentation ?

2007-11-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/17/07 22:10, Sam wrote: > Hi Kamaraju, > > I am also not an expert in filesystems, however, I do know that the new > native linux fs ext3 has what is called "journaling". Linux keeps track > of where everything goes, so it doesnt get disorganize

Sylpheed has started segfaulting

2007-11-17 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Strange problem. In the middle of reading the list and replying Sylpheed started to segfault everytime I sent out mail. I have it setup to put a copy into the "sent" folder so each time it tried it crashed. Any ideas ? Cheers Frank -BEGIN PGP

Re: unsed .deb packages??

2007-11-17 Thread joseph lockhart
--- Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Reid wrote: > > On Friday 16 November 2007 22:02, David Fox wrote: > > > >> On 11/16/07, Andrew Sackville-West > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>> I think OP is looking for aptitude clean or > auto-clean. Check the man > >>> page. I

Re: Filesize limit exceeded on ext3

2007-11-17 Thread Sam Leon
André Wendt wrote: Hi, I'm running a benchmark program on Lenny that writes into a file and repeatedly exits once the filesize reaches 2,099,204 bytes. This is on ext3. $ ulimit -f unlimited $ uname -a Linux think 2.6.22-2-686 #1 SMP Fri Aug 31 00:24:01 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux This doesn't se

Re: Is there a "quick" how-to or "getting started" for exim?

2007-11-17 Thread s. keeling
Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 02:42:02PM -0800, David Brodbeck wrote: > > > > On Nov 16, 2007, at 2:32 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > > >On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 04:04:00PM -0600, Bob Goldberg wrote: > > >>running etch in console (no X); > > >> > > >>I just wa

Re: Sound initialization (alsaconf) difficulty

2007-11-17 Thread Russ Cook
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 13:21:32 -0600, Russ Cook wrote: [...] You were right on all counts. Killing esd restored sound on my system. I don't log in via gdm. I start up in text mode, and run 'startx' to start X11. Gnome comes up with it. Now I need to learn what t

password on screensaver

2007-11-17 Thread Paul Cartwright
I have 2 logins on this box ( Debian Lenny). mine continually requires a password after the screensaver cuts in, or going from user to user. The other login doesn't. Since it is only the 2 of us, I don't want it to require a password on restoring a session. I have turned off screensaver and scre

Re: Installing a new Linux build on a Debian distro

2007-11-17 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:39:04 -0600 Owen Heisler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2007.11.10 18:49, Celejar wrote: > > On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 20:50:42 -0600, Owen wrote: > > > start with /boot/config-2.6.18-4-486 as your config. Be sure to > > > include the initrd option when compiling the kernel

Re: Why ext3 doesn't need defragmentation ?

2007-11-17 Thread Sam
Hi Kamaraju, I am also not an expert in filesystems, however, I do know that the new native linux fs ext3 has what is called "journaling". Linux keeps track of where everything goes, so it doesnt get disorganized. Once in a while you could run fsck if your really concerned about it. On 11/17/07,

Re: Deprecated "/etc/network/options'

2007-11-17 Thread gianca
Felix Karpfen ha scritto: When booting Debian Etch, one of the displayed messages reads that the use of "etc/network/options" is now deprecated and the entries should be transferred to "/etc/sysctl.conf". As from "/usr/share/doc/netbase/README.Debian", you have to put something like this in "/et

Deprecated "/etc/network/options'

2007-11-17 Thread Felix Karpfen
When booting Debian Etch, one of the displayed messages reads that the use of "etc/network/options" is now deprecated and the entries should be transferred to "/etc/sysctl.conf". Which I did and failed. I now get the following additional error messages: [EMAIL PROTECTED] log]# cat boot | grep er

corrupted double-linked list?

2007-11-17 Thread xpol
Launching a script (from zsh) that simply starts the rxvt terminal emulation and executes vim from there, i got the apparently serious message, here included. I wasn't able to reproduce that behaviour. Yet i think it would be important to figure out what might be the origin. Any ideas? Thank you

help exporting files from guest to host in QEMU....

2007-11-17 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Debianists, I have a few questions about QEMU. I posted a query a while back about loading cdrom image files into Windows 98 (guest) running under QEMU with Debian Etch r1 (AMD64) as the underlying OS. I followed the helpful recipes and I loaded some software on to Windows 98 and

Re: What path is iceweasel using to find Java plugin?

2007-11-17 Thread Kent West
Patrick Wiseman wrote: On Nov 16, 2007 12:26 PM, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (It would be SO much simpler if the Firefox devs would simply put the full path to the filename in "about:plugins"; this sort of thing has bit me before, and a full path would have helped then, too.)

Re: Sound initialization (alsaconf) difficulty

2007-11-17 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 13:21:32 -0600, Russ Cook wrote: [...] > You were right on all counts. Killing esd restored sound on > my system. I don't log in via gdm. I start up in text mode, > and run 'startx' to start X11. Gnome comes up with it. Now > I need to learn what the pros and cons are

moving files from guest environment to host using QEMU.......

2007-11-17 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Debianists, I have a few questions about QEMU. I posted a query a while back about loading cdrom image files into Windows 98 (guest) running under QEMU with Debian Etch r1 (AMD64) as the underlying OS. I followed the helpful recipes and I loaded some software on to Windows 98 and

Re: Sound initialization (alsaconf) difficulty

2007-11-17 Thread Russ Cook
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 06:51:33 -0600, Russ Cook wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 16:30:44 -0600, Russ Cook wrote: [...] Trying to run speaker-test gives a series of errors of the form: Alsa lib pcm_dmix.c:866:(snd_pcm_dmix_open)

Re: When I try to save html pages, nothing happens

2007-11-17 Thread tom arnall
On Monday 29 October 2007 13:05, tom arnall wrote: > When I try to save html pages or whatever with firefox, nothing happens. (i > recently screwed up the permissions on my system.) but if i start it as > root ('sudo'), or use iceape, all is ok. > > tom arnall > arcata removing downloads.rdf fixed

Re: firefox seems to be going nuts

2007-11-17 Thread tom arnall
On Saturday 17 November 2007 03:17, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > tom arnall wrote: > > firefox seems to be going nuts. it's very often hogging 95% of cpu, with > > no let up. and when i do a 'ps' for it, i get: > > > > Etch, Lenny, Sid? Etch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: firefox seems to be going nuts

2007-11-17 Thread tom arnall
On Friday 16 November 2007 19:46, Russell L. Harris wrote: > * tom arnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071116 14:21]: > > firefox seems to be going nuts. it's very often hogging 95% of cpu, with > > no let up. > > I've noticed the same on my system within the past month or so. > > RLH so far, starting in

Re: How to set Sun-JVM as the default compatible JVM for eclipse?

2007-11-17 Thread David Baron
The last time I installed Eclipse, it brought in IBM's JVM as well. It took me a while to get Sun accessible again, ended up starting over. BTW, IBM's OpenOffice-Lotus-Symphony uses a lot of Eclipse stuff, is consequently a huge download. How might one get this to use the Debian Eclipse install

Re: What path is iceweasel using to find Java plugin?

2007-11-17 Thread Patrick Wiseman
> On Nov 16, 2007 12:26 PM, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (It would be SO much simpler if the Firefox devs would simply put the > full path to the filename in "about:plugins"; this sort of thing has bit > me before, and a full path would have helped then, too.) In about:config, set plugi

Re: unsed .deb packages??

2007-11-17 Thread Marc Shapiro
ISHWAR RATTAN wrote: On Sat, 17 Nov 2007, Marc Shapiro wrote: many package .deb files exist which are not installed, or are duplicated in the archives. It then gives options for deleting them with, or without prompting. I don't know of any packaged program that does this, however. That's

Re: What path is iceweasel using to find Java plugin?

2007-11-17 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Nov 16, 2007 12:26 PM, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got an app (Banner) that needs a specific version of the Java > plugin (a 1.4 variant). I've got it installed on my Sid box, but can't > get Iceweasel to recognize it instead of the 1.5 version. > > No matter what I do to disable

Re: How to set Sun-JVM as the default compatible JVM for eclipse?

2007-11-17 Thread Tobias Nissen
Hi Michael! Michael Yang wrote: > One another thing: I put the variable JAVA_HOME in /etc/profile or > $HOME/.bash_profile file, but I can't get the value in terminal until > manually source the file: > # source /etc/profile > # cat /etc/profile > > > JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0

Re: Filesize limit exceeded on ext3

2007-11-17 Thread André Wendt
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 11/16/07 10:36, André Wendt wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 11/16/07 09:04, André Wendt wrote: Hi, I'm running a benchmark program on Lenny that writes into a file and repeatedly exits once the filesize reaches 2,099,204 bytes. This is on ext3.

Re: unsed .deb packages??

2007-11-17 Thread ISHWAR RATTAN
On Sat, 17 Nov 2007, Marc Shapiro wrote: many package .deb files exist which are not installed, or are duplicated in the archives. It then gives options for deleting them with, or without prompting. I don't know of any packaged program that does this, however. That's why I wrote my own. T

Re: Lenny (testing) : installation on an existing LVM ?

2007-11-17 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le Saturday 17 November 2007 16:35:36 Bruno Costacurta, vous avez écrit : > Hello to all, > > I'm planning to install lenny on a LVM partition. > As I started the installation (via a recent netinst ISO image), the LVM > disk is correctly detected but however it seems I cannot work > with it as the

Lenny (testing) : installation on an existing LVM ?

2007-11-17 Thread Bruno Costacurta
Hello to all, I'm planning to install lenny on a LVM partition. As I started the installation (via a recent netinst ISO image), the LVM disk is correctly detected but however it seems I cannot work with it as the installer suggest to format the partition as it doesn't recognize anything on it

Re: Sound initialization (alsaconf) difficulty

2007-11-17 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 06:51:33 -0600, Russ Cook wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 16:30:44 -0600, Russ Cook wrote: [...] >>> Trying to run speaker-test gives a series of errors of the form: >>> Alsa lib pcm_dmix.c:866:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave >>> Playback

Re: Why ext3 doesn't need defragmentation ?

2007-11-17 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 13:46:56 +0100, Bruno Costacurta wrote: > Hello, > it appears that ext3 doesn't need a real defragmentation operation (by > 'real' I mean a specific tool that need to be run sometimes related to > disk usage). > > Is it correct ? > If so how it works ? I am not a file system

Re: NFS File-server Oops

2007-11-17 Thread Jamin W. Collins
Strake wrote: > Hi, > > I am running Debian 4.0 on a file-server, called bender, using NFS to > serve the files, and a little while after I start to copy files to my > server, my server's kernel oopses and the process on the client doing > the copying hangs. > > Using stock kernel. > > The kerne

NFS File-server Oops

2007-11-17 Thread Strake
Hi, I am running Debian 4.0 on a file-server, called bender, using NFS to serve the files, and a little while after I start to copy files to my server, my server's kernel oopses and the process on the client doing the copying hangs. Using stock kernel. The kernel according to `uname -r`: 2.6.18-

Re: Sound initialization (alsaconf) difficulty

2007-11-17 Thread Russ Cook
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 16:30:44 -0600, Russ Cook wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 14:39:47 -0600, Russ Cook wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 13:34:00 -0600, Russ Cook wrote: [...] My mothe

Why ext3 doesn't need defragmentation ?

2007-11-17 Thread Bruno Costacurta
Hello, it appears that ext3 doesn't need a real defragmentation operation (by 'real' I mean a specific tool that need to be run sometimes related to disk usage). Is it correct ? If so how it works ? Related to ext3 standard setup (see tune2fs) the disk is check by default every 30 boots or 30 da

Re: unusual network installation problem

2007-11-17 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Willie wrote: I'm trying to install debian at work from a local mirror (we have no external internat access), but I need to set my ethernet MAC address just before the installer accesses the mirror to allow me through the cisco switch between me and the mirror. It looks like the busybox version o

Re: How to set Sun-JVM as the default compatible JVM for eclipse?

2007-11-17 Thread Michael Yang
Tobias Nissen wrote: Hi Michael! Michael Yang wrote: I had both gcj java and sun java installed on my system Lenny/Sid, and I have set the sun java as my default jvm. # update-alternatives --config java But when launching my eclipse, it always uses the gcj java as its default vm, and in co

nano: rebinddelete for root

2007-11-17 Thread Florian Lindner
Hello, in /etc/nanorc I've set this option ## Fix Backspace/Delete confusion problem. set rebinddelete to fix the problem described. It works for users but not for root. What to do to have it fixed for root too? Thanks, Florian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

unusual network installation problem

2007-11-17 Thread Willie
I'm trying to install debian at work from a local mirror (we have no external internat access), but I need to set my ethernet MAC address just before the installer accesses the mirror to allow me through the cisco switch between me and the mirror. It looks like the busybox version of ifconfig does

Re: browser oddities

2007-11-17 Thread Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 08:20:49AM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > Change the user-agent string from Iceweasel to Firefox (You can find it in > about:config, search for useragent. Hi, I am using Epiphany and see the same thing as the original poster, that is, there is no arrow to fill out the s

Re: How to set Sun-JVM as the default compatible JVM for eclipse?

2007-11-17 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 11:25:23 +0100 Tobias Nissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Michael! > > Michael Yang wrote: > > I had both gcj java and sun java installed on my system Lenny/Sid, > > and I have set the sun java as my default jvm. > > # update-alternatives --config java > > > > But when lau

Re: firefox seems to be going nuts

2007-11-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
tom arnall wrote: firefox seems to be going nuts. it's very often hogging 95% of cpu, with no let up. and when i do a 'ps' for it, i get: Etch, Lenny, Sid? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to set Sun-JVM as the default compatible JVM for eclipse?

2007-11-17 Thread Tobias Nissen
Hi Michael! Michael Yang wrote: > I had both gcj java and sun java installed on my system Lenny/Sid, > and I have set the sun java as my default jvm. > # update-alternatives --config java > > But when launching my eclipse, it always uses the gcj java as its > default vm, and in consequence, retu

Re: Sound initialization (alsaconf) difficulty

2007-11-17 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 16:30:44 -0600, Russ Cook wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 14:39:47 -0600, Russ Cook wrote: >>> Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 13:34:00 -0600, Russ Cook wrote: [...] >>> My motherboard is an ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe, with integrate

How to set Sun-JVM as the default compatible JVM for eclipse?

2007-11-17 Thread Michael Yang
Hi All: I had both gcj java and sun java installed on my system Lenny/Sid, and I have set the sun java as my default jvm. # update-alternatives --config java But when launching my eclipse, it always uses the gcj java as its default vm, and in consequence, returns with some exceptions that I

Re: [debian-users] minicom or ISP? - No urgency - answer if you have time.

2007-11-17 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 05:40:34PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 03:08:11PM -0700, Ted Hilts - Thunderbird Acct. wrote: > > When dialing up my ISP in an interactive mode providing user name and > > password I get a third prompt with the prompt message "AiiNET". So now

Re: unsed .deb packages??

2007-11-17 Thread Marc Shapiro
Andrew Reid wrote: On Friday 16 November 2007 22:02, David Fox wrote: On 11/16/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think OP is looking for aptitude clean or auto-clean. Check the man page. It will remove debs that aren't current. or something like that. Actual