How to disable ipv6 in Lenny to avoid 1.0.0.0 error in name resolution for AAAA type queries

2007-12-14 Thread Amogh Hooshdar
I am using Debian Lenny. $ uname -a Linux mylappy 2.6.18-4-486 #1 Wed May 9 22:23:40 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux I changed the "alias net-pf-10 ipv6" line to the following two lines. alias net-pf-10 off alias ipv6 off After rebooting, I checked: lsmod | grep ipv6. Sure enough it is gone and the com

Re: Network (LAN) 'lost'

2007-12-14 Thread Sudev Barar
On 11/12/2007, Benjamin Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you have udev installed and it recognizes a ethernet adapter with a > unknown mac address, it will assign a new eth*-reference. So maybe you > used a mac changer or some updates deletes a udev specific file. I don't > know. > > The con

Re: FAQ about encrypting harddrive using key on USB key?

2007-12-14 Thread s. keeling
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On 12/08/07 01:30, Peter Kay wrote: > > > > I'm trying to set up my laptop with debian on an encrypted / partition > > (and I'll have encrypted swap, too). I would like the encryption key > > http://luks.endorphin.org/ > > Install cryptsetup and read /us

Re: ac adapter serious problem

2007-12-14 Thread Jude DaShiell
This needs to be put on a complaint form over at consumeraffairs.com as soon as possible. On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, Benjamin Schmidt wrote: roberto wrote: hello unfortunately, i encountered a bad problem in my laptop (Dell Latitude D600) very frequent on these models: sometimes, the BIOS does no

cpan doesn't work after etch upgrade

2007-12-14 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Greetings, I just did an upgrade on etch and got perl 5.8.8 and when I do cpan -v I get /usr/local/bin/cpan script version 1.9, CPAN.pm version 1.9102 When I try to run cpan by any method, ie. either just cpan or perl -MCPAN -e shell I get the following: - - - - - -

Re: Network is unreachable email error

2007-12-14 Thread hce
On 12/15/07, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 09:54:17PM +1100, hce wrote: > > > Could it be the problem of ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem and > > ssl-cert-snakeoil.key? Should I manually to create them by openssl > > (and how?)? > > > > smtpd_tls_cert_file=/etc/ssl/certs/

Re: How Linux becomes Windows

2007-12-14 Thread Jude DaShiell
Good on you! Reason I write this is larger code and more complex code by its increased size and complexity is inherently more likely to fail more often. Figuring out how to do as much as possible with C.L.I. tools puts what may be those essential backup tools in your pack that may get you aro

Re: Anyone using Debian on notebook?

2007-12-14 Thread Jose Luis Rivas Contreras
André César de Sá wrote: > I've been using Debian on my Dell Latitude D520. > > Everything is working almost properly.. I'm just having problems with > - USB mouse(only works if I disable touchpad) > - Intel Wireless system(simply can't install IPW3945) I got it working easily... Be sure to hav

Re: Preferred Backup Method?

2007-12-14 Thread David
David Brodbeck wrote: On Dec 14, 2007, at 8:16 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: No. There's a fundamental difference between FreeBSD and OpenBSD. FreeBSD seems to have an attitude to Linux as Linux has to Windows. Try to be like them and convert users by making configs easy. OpenBSD does nothing

Re: OT: clicky keyboards

2007-12-14 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:32:00 -0800 David Brodbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello David, > Didn't Microsoft sell a data wristwatch for a while that was > programmed by rapidly flashing the screen? I remember thinking at I've no idea, TBH. I do remember that software was sent by radio wave

Re: OT: clicky keyboards

2007-12-14 Thread Kent West
David Brodbeck wrote: Didn't Microsoft sell a data wristwatch for a while that was programmed by rapidly flashing the screen? I remember thinking at the time that it was rather short-sighted to come out with a product that required the user to have a CRT monitor. There was such a watch, but

Re: OT: clicky keyboards

2007-12-14 Thread David Brodbeck
On Dec 14, 2007, at 11:58 AM, Brad Rogers wrote: On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:49:13 -0500 "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Douglas, opto-isolator for it. So I used the TV screen. I covered the top half with photo-sensors. Had my program put black blobs on the appropriate spot

dhcdbd and network errors

2007-12-14 Thread Paul Cartwright
my network doesn't come up right now when I reboot. I looked in message and found this, not sure what it means or if it is an issue (I'm using the nv device driver , not nvidia ): Dec 14 16:01:25 paulandcilla dhcdbd: message_handler: message handler not found under /com/redhat/dhcp/eth0 for sub-p

Re: ac adapter serious problem

2007-12-14 Thread roberto
On Dec 14, 2007 4:34 PM, Benjamin Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > roberto wrote: > > hello > > unfortunately, i encountered a bad problem in my laptop (Dell Latitude > > D600) very frequent on these models: > > sometimes, the BIOS does not recognize the ac adapter and this > > seriously prev

Re: Cannot install skype

2007-12-14 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 04:31:01PM +0100, Dan H wrote: > Maybe there's some advanced, brute-force and possibly dangerous option > to dpkg that forces an install. Just wait a bit for more suggestions > on this list. 'dpkg --force-help' has more info. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it

Re: aptitude update "BADSIG" error

2007-12-14 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 02:28:29AM +, Nick wrote: > While I'm looking at aptitude, it seems worth mentioning a problem I've > been seeing since Etch was released: that is 'aptitude update' downloads > the updated package lists (or not, if they haven't changed), and then > reports that the GPG s

Send stderr to variable, but send stdout to screen?

2007-12-14 Thread Tony Heal
I have an error handling function that traps, reports and exits on an error. My problem is that I want to do all of that and I want to still see stdout. Can anyone help with this? Here is the function. If I change sources.list to have an invalid source it reports, but I do not see the progress whe

Re: OT: clicky keyboards

2007-12-14 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 08:05:48 -0800 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Andrew, > On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 08:37:42AM +, Brad Rogers wrote: > > AKA the Sinclair ZX-81, in the UK. First computer I owned. > I remember those (US). THere was a lot of competition between all of >

Re: OT: clicky keyboards

2007-12-14 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:49:13 -0500 "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Douglas, > opto-isolator for it. So I used the TV screen. I covered the top > half with photo-sensors. Had my program put black blobs on the > appropriate spot on the screen and that did whatever to the Tha

Re: Cannot install skype

2007-12-14 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 14/12/2007, Mitja Podreka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Maybe you should try Skype repository: > deb http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/debian/ stable > non-free > > > apt-get easy :) > It would be nice if that info were on the skype download page! Thanks. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what

Re: Preferred Backup Method?

2007-12-14 Thread David Brodbeck
On Dec 14, 2007, at 8:16 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: No. There's a fundamental difference between FreeBSD and OpenBSD. FreeBSD seems to have an attitude to Linux as Linux has to Windows. Try to be like them and convert users by making configs easy. OpenBSD does nothing to convert users;

Re: Recording PCM output to file

2007-12-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 13:13:06 +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 06:05:43PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > Are you sure that you have tried all possible configurations for setting > > the capture controls? Post the output of the "amixer" command. > > Yes, I am sure. > > He

Re: How to start KDE from a console prompt?

2007-12-14 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 06:36:19PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > startx uses ~/.xinitrc to start up the X session. In case it doesn't > exist, then debian has some default stuff that starts whatever the > default window manager is. Look at `update-alternatives --config > x-window-manager`

Re: Network is unreachable email error

2007-12-14 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 09:54:17PM +1100, hce wrote: > Could it be the problem of ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem and > ssl-cert-snakeoil.key? Should I manually to create them by openssl > (and how?)? > > smtpd_tls_cert_file=/etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem > smtpd_tls_key_file=/etc/ssl/private/ssl-ce

Re: FreeAgent USB HDD (update)

2007-12-14 Thread andy
Wim De Smet wrote: On Nov 29, 2007 9:18 PM, andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I rebooted and then once I went into the filesystem I saw that the system recognised it, but did not automount it. This is something that I have noticed in the last while - USB data sticks are not being automounted th

Re: OT: clicky keyboards

2007-12-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 08:05:48AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: Sorry, I got off track there. The Timex... hmmm... some kid had one > but I don't think anyone ever got it to do anything interesting. I > remember that the keyboard was hideous though. I had a model submarine. I didn't want

Re: Resolving apt-get unmet dependencies

2007-12-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On Friday 14 December 2007 08:26:04 am [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > I'm sure this is pretty simple, but I can't get it to work... > > Can somebody explain how I can install libc6-dev ? > I keep getting an error message from apt-get, which I do not > know how to solve: > #apt-get install libc6-

Re: Network (LAN) 'lost'

2007-12-14 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:11:57 +0100, Benjamin Schmidt wrote: > The configuration file you need, is: > /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules > > delete the entry with "eth0" and rename the other entry from eth2 to > eth0. Ok, now reboot (or only restart udev, don't know) and you will > have et

custom kernel boot problem: can't access tty

2007-12-14 Thread Robert Key
Hi, I compiled a debian custom kernel 2.6.18 to boot a USB flash drive. The stock kernels work perfectly, but my custom kernel mounts the root fs and then gives the error message: /bin/sh Can't access tty; Job control stopped The booting process stops. The console , tty devices are all there,

Re: FreeAgent USB HDD (update)

2007-12-14 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 11:01:54PM +0100, Wim De Smet wrote: > On Nov 29, 2007 9:18 PM, andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I rebooted and then once I went into the filesystem I saw that the > > system recognised it, but did not automount it. This is something that I > > have noticed in the last wh

Re: Preferred Backup Method?

2007-12-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 10:53:05AM -0800, David Brodbeck wrote: > > On Dec 6, 2007, at 6:40 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > It is BSD not Linux. Linux is a bit of SysV and a bit of BSD. > > Permission of files inherit a bit of the directory they're in (I > > forget the details). Init

Re: Preferred Backup Method?

2007-12-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 09:21:30AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 12/07/07 07:45, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 07:55:55AM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > >> On Thu December 6 2007, Bill Smith wrote: > >>> I am pleased to announce LiveCD/LiveDVD image updates: ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

Re: Latest kernel security update wont boot resolved

2007-12-14 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 09:54:49PM -0500, Marc Auslander wrote: > The problem is operator (that's me) stupidity. > > I have an overloaded find so I can say find foo and have it mean > find . -name foo -print > > mkinitramfs uses find . | cpio to build the initrd.img > ooh, interesting. I wouldn't

Re: OT: clicky keyboards

2007-12-14 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 08:37:42AM +, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:57:15 -0500 > "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Douglas, > > > Anybody remember the Timex/Sinclair 1000? It has a pure membrane > > AKA the Sinclair ZX-81, in the UK. First computer I ow

xfce4-battery-plugin and kernel 2.6.24-rc4

2007-12-14 Thread Celejar
Hi, I'm using the plugin mentioned in the subject. It works correctly with all Debian packaged kernels that I've tried, but when I use 2.6.24-rc4 (vanilla from kernel.org), it erroneously reports "AC off-line" and "28%" (always!), even though the adapter is plugged in and the battery is fully cha

Re: ac adapter serious problem

2007-12-14 Thread Benjamin Schmidt
roberto wrote: > hello > unfortunately, i encountered a bad problem in my laptop (Dell Latitude > D600) very frequent on these models: > sometimes, the BIOS does not recognize the ac adapter and this > seriously prevents the system performance: the CPU works at 600MHz > (instead of 2000MHz); if the

Re: Cannot install skype

2007-12-14 Thread Dan H
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:47:39 +0200 "Dotan Cohen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I cannot install skype: > dpkg: error processing skype_1.4.0.118-1_i386.deb (--install): > package control info rmdir of `usr' didn't say not a dir: > Directory not empty Errors were encountered while processing: > s

Resolving apt-get unmet dependencies

2007-12-14 Thread axelle_apvrille
Hi, I'm sure this is pretty simple, but I can't get it to work... Can somebody explain how I can install libc6-dev ? I keep getting an error message from apt-get, which I do not know how to solve: #apt-get install libc6-dev ... The following packages have unmet dependencies: libc6-dev: Depends:

Re: Cannot install skype

2007-12-14 Thread Mitja Podreka
Dotan Cohen wrote: I cannot install skype: myhome:/home/zeev# dpkg -i skype_1.4.0.118-1_i386.deb (Reading database ... 65303 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace skype 1.4.0.118-1 (using skype_1.4.0.118-1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement skype ... dpkg: error proce

Re: Re: Debian on PCs

2007-12-14 Thread John Talbut
And then one gets started! http://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn -- John Talbut Use Open Source Software: http://why.openoffice.org/ http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/products/ Why pay Microsoft when you can get excellent software free? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Cannot install skype

2007-12-14 Thread Dotan Cohen
I cannot install skype: myhome:/home/zeev# dpkg -i skype_1.4.0.118-1_i386.deb (Reading database ... 65303 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace skype 1.4.0.118-1 (using skype_1.4.0.118-1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement skype ... dpkg: error processing skype_1.4.0.118

about the mount point "/media/disk"

2007-12-14 Thread Deephay
Greetings all, I have a question with the auto-mount-point "/media/disk" (if you have gnome-volume-manager is installed), I grepped in the /usr/share/hal/ and also the gnome-mount and gnome-volume-manager source dirs, I also searched the the gconf database and had a quick glance in the gnome-mount

Re: ac adapter serious problem

2007-12-14 Thread Benjamin Schmidt
roberto wrote: > hello > unfortunately, i encountered a bad problem in my laptop (Dell Latitude > D600) very frequent on these models: > sometimes, the BIOS does not recognize the ac adapter and this > seriously prevents the system performance: the CPU works at 600MHz > (instead of 2000MHz); if the

Re: emacs keys in other applications

2007-12-14 Thread Pavel SRB
just an addon. From manual page i have changeed in my ./mc/ini to editor_key_emulation=1 but after off/on mc or mcedit, it is back to editor_key_emulation=0 and emacs keys do not work. Pavel SRB wrote: hi all debian xterm or konsole, has default key settings like in emacs. It also work

Re: emacs keys in other applications

2007-12-14 Thread Pavel SRB
just an addon. From manual page i have changeed in my ./mc/ini to editor_key_emulation=1 but after off/on mc or mcedit, it is back to editor_key_emulation=0 and emacs keys do not work. Pavel SRB wrote: hi all debian xterm or konsole, has default key settings like in emacs. It also work

Re: Network is unreachable email error

2007-12-14 Thread hce
On 12/14/07, Mihira Fernando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu December 13 2007 9:16 pm, hce wrote: > > $ sudo apt-get install sasl > > E: Couldn't find package sasl > > > > What is the SASL package name? > > Thank you. > > Kind Regards, > > Jim > > $apt-cache search libsasl E: Couldn't find pac

Re: Compile boinc for amd64

2007-12-14 Thread Magnus Therning
On Dec 13, 2007 8:58 PM, Fabio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Magnus Therning wrote: > > Fabio wrote: > >> Someone of you have ever compile this package? do you think that is > >> possible to increase the power of boinc? > >> there is some guide and so on that you can suggest me? > > > > Any particul

ac adapter serious problem

2007-12-14 Thread roberto
hello unfortunately, i encountered a bad problem in my laptop (Dell Latitude D600) very frequent on these models: sometimes, the BIOS does not recognize the ac adapter and this seriously prevents the system performance: the CPU works at 600MHz (instead of 2000MHz); if the battery is not at 100% the

emacs keys in other applications

2007-12-14 Thread Pavel SRB
hi all debian xterm or konsole, has default key settings like in emacs. It also work in other console applications like centericq, python shell and others. Please is there a way to set this also for mcedit or others like thunderbird, mozilla, or gui appplications. thank you pavel srb -- To

Re: OT: clicky keyboards

2007-12-14 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:57:15 -0500 "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Douglas, > Anybody remember the Timex/Sinclair 1000? It has a pure membrane AKA the Sinclair ZX-81, in the UK. First computer I owned. Sinclair followed it with the Spectrum, a colour machine (the '81 was B

Re: KDE doesn't connect to HAL

2007-12-14 Thread Gebhardt Thomas
Hi, On Wednesday 12 December 2007 18:11, Florian Kulzer wrote: > Run > lshal --monitor > and plug in the usb drive. Post the output that you get. (You might have > to wait a few seconds; CTRL-C stops the monitoring.) great hint! Thanks! I get: # lshal --monitor Start monitoring devicelist: ---

Re: import in kino from screen recording tools (avi, mov, ?)

2007-12-14 Thread Darko
Paul Csanyi wrote: Hello! 2007/12/12, Peter Werner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 10:36:41PM +0100, Paul Csanyi wrote: But I can't to import them on Debian Etc with kino. I get an error message: Failed to load media file "/dfat32/Iskola/SketchUp video folveteleim/sketchu