Re: Trouble trying to find Kernel source...

2008-02-25 Thread tony mollica
I hate to stick my neck out here only because my solution to this problem was just to keep banging away at the keyboard until all the errors went away, and I don't keep notes. There has also been quite a bit on the list about this in the last week or so. Seemed complex. BUT, here is what I remem

gcl symbol help

2008-02-25 Thread Alexandru Cardaniuc
Hi All! I have gcl and gcl-doc installed. In gcl when I invoke (help) it says "(HELP symbol) prints the online documentation associated with the symbol. For example, (HELP 'CONS) will print the useful information about the CONS function, the CONS data type, and so o

mounting CD1 is not enough for mirroring and net install

2008-02-25 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Thanks for reply, I put in the server as it is described in the doc, the netboot, and used the tftp, it runs correctly, and started nice, when it asked for the mirror, If I declare an official mirror, it runs correctly, and installed, when I declare my own mirror, I fails. I mean by my own mirror

Re: Ice Weasel

2008-02-25 Thread Jean-Louis Crouzet
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/25/08 08:36, Jean-Louis Crouzet wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/25/08 03:37, Jean-Louis Crouzet wrote: [snip] To all, I went through a number of check with the latest 2.0.0.12 running on my customized Linux GX200 2.6.22j

Re: exim4 configuration errors - more details

2008-02-25 Thread Bruno Costacurta
On Tuesday 26 February 2008 02:53:02 Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:15:51AM +0100, Bruno Costacurta wrote: > > On Monday 25 February 2008 23:38, Bruno Costacurta wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I have following errors when sending email to en external email > > > address. Note

Re: exim4 configuration errors

2008-02-25 Thread Bruno Costacurta
On Tuesday 26 February 2008 01:17:20 Alex Samad wrote: > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:38:23PM +0100, Bruno Costacurta wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have following errors when sending email to en external email address. > > Note: pc34ghz.org is the local domain, [EMAIL PROTECTED] the address to > > test

Re: Iceape

2008-02-25 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:01:12PM +0900, Bret Busby wrote: > > In the last week, Debian etch (4.0) advised me that updates were > available, the updates on a particular occasion, being Iceape. > > So, being a good linux user, I did the upgrade, to keep my system up to > date, and as stable and

Re: unable to login on the console with xwindows

2008-02-25 Thread Michael Habashy
okay..i killed gdm and went to the console prompt. I logged in and started startx. The session started fine. I do not know what the issue is? i think it is heavily related that i get the permissions error to /bin/bash. thanks mjh On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 7:06 PM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROT

Re: Unable to su as a user, I get: Cannot execute /bin/bash: Permission denied

2008-02-25 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Habashy wrote: > sorry..i lost you on that...you think that someone changed the permissions > on /bin/bash ??? > they are set to 766 to root.root > > can you try to phrase things differently ??? > thanks > mjh > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:1

Re: Unable to su as a user, I get: Cannot execute /bin/bash: Permission denied

2008-02-25 Thread Michael Habashy
i am familiar with that switch. But that is not my issue. I just unable to switch to any user with or with the switch "-" used. thanks mjh On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 9:10 PM, Chris Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 2:31 AM, Michael Habashy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > I

Re: Unable to su as a user, I get: Cannot execute /bin/bash: Permission denied

2008-02-25 Thread Michael Habashy
sorry..i lost you on that...you think that someone changed the permissions on /bin/bash ??? they are set to 766 to root.root can you try to phrase things differently ??? thanks mjh On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Rich Healey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Has

Iceape

2008-02-25 Thread Bret Busby
In the last week, Debian etch (4.0) advised me that updates were available, the updates on a particular occasion, being Iceape. So, being a good linux user, I did the upgrade, to keep my system up to date, and as stable and secure as it can (reasonably) be. Now when using Iceape, each time

Re: Unable to su as a user, I get: Cannot execute /bin/bash: Permission denied

2008-02-25 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Habashy wrote: > i agree - > > this issue seems to be affecting a couple oof other things on the server as > well. > For instance, on the xconsole screen..it lets me login and then bounces me > back out. > I uninstalled gdm package, i am left

Re: [OT] Goodbye Debian

2008-02-25 Thread Cousin Stanley
> > I can't live without find and grep and xargs and ... > well, a lot of good grep will do me in a world > full of Word documents.. ;-) Haven't tried Windows Grep myself, but it might at least be worth a look http://www.wingrep.com/ -- Stanley C. Kitching Human Being

Re: Unable to view gcc manpages on Debian 4.0 r3 i386

2008-02-25 Thread Jude DaShiell
try info gcc and see what happens. On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, Michael Madden wrote: I'm having problems viewing manpages for gcc on Debian 4.0 r3 i386. Other manpages work just fine. :~$ man gcc No manual entry for gcc See 'man 7 undocumented' for help when manual pages are not available. :~$ man

gnome on lenny finally installed

2008-02-25 Thread Jude DaShiell
I got gnome installed on a debian speakup-kernel and when I boot I go into gdm and get the login beep. I try keying in my credentials and get blown out. Now if I crash the gdm session and log in as a command line user with the exact same credentials there's no problem logging in and this is w

Re: unable to login on the console with xwindows

2008-02-25 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Michael Habashy wrote: Hi Raj - This issue seems to be affecting a couple of other things on the server. For instance, on the xconsole screen..it lets me login and then bounces me back out. I uninstalled gdm package, i am left with kde ---when i login in with that...i get an xterm window pop up

Re: [OT] Goodbye Debian

2008-02-25 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Dan H. wrote: Well, I guess the subject caught your attention after all. Of course I'm not saying goodbye to Debian, at least not voluntarily and certainly not at home. But I just changed jobs, and so moved from a self- administered Debian box to a locked-up, preinstalled all-M$ Dell thing. M$ O

Help with man page display in Etch

2008-02-25 Thread Paul E Condon
I'm trying to set up samba on etch in the USA. When I type man smb.conf I get a page which has strange multibyte sequences in it, e.g. “ and ” I think they are supposed to be quotation marks, but not completely sure. How do I get man to display what the author intended. I've tried reconfiguring lo

Re: exim4 configuration errors - more details

2008-02-25 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:15:51AM +0100, Bruno Costacurta wrote: > On Monday 25 February 2008 23:38, Bruno Costacurta wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have following errors when sending email to en external email address. > > Note: pc34ghz.org is the local domain, [EMAIL PROTECTED] the address to test

Re: unable to login on the console with xwindows

2008-02-25 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 02:08:07PM -0500, Michael Habashy wrote: > I get the following error: > > Cannot start session due to some internal error. > > then i click on ok, i get the following error: > > your session lasted less then 10 seconds, this could be due to not enough > diskspace or some

Re: Trouble trying to find Kernel source...

2008-02-25 Thread dann frazier
[Off-topic for debian-kernel, moving to debian-user] On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:26:56AM +1100, Frank Charles Gallacher wrote: > Greetings, > > I am trying to install the driver for NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT graphics > video adapter on my PC, running Debian GNU/Linux 40rl i386: > > kernel version: >

Re: unable to login on the console with xwindows

2008-02-25 Thread Michael Habashy
Hi Raj - This issue seems to be affecting a couple of other things on the server. For instance, on the xconsole screen..it lets me login and then bounces me back out. I uninstalled gdm package, i am left with kde ---when i login in with that...i get an xterm window pop up and it states the same th

Re: [OT] Goodbye Debian

2008-02-25 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 25/02/2008, Elf & Dmitryi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Portable Apps allow running everything off the flash drive and have the > app/user data saved on the flash drive, too. So basically it's what it > says - e. g. Firefox is portable on a flash drive with all the > bookmarks, history and set

Re: Unable to su as a user, I get: Cannot execute /bin/bash: Permission denied

2008-02-25 Thread Michael Habashy
i agree - this issue seems to be affecting a couple oof other things on the server as well. For instance, on the xconsole screen..it lets me login and then bounces me back out. I uninstalled gdm package, i am left iwth kde ---when i login in with that...i get an xterm window pop up and it states t

Re: unable to login on the console with xwindows

2008-02-25 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Michael Habashy wrote: I get the following error: Cannot start session due to some internal error. then i click on ok, i get the following error: your session lasted less then 10 seconds, this could be due to not enough diskspace or some other problems look to .xsession-errors file.. ..but i d

Re: [OT] Goodbye Debian

2008-02-25 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Dan H. wrote: On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 09:15:47PM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: Remember everything you've noted when the Microsofties remind you that Linux "is not ready for the desktop". I must admit though that I was pretty annoyed when my wife wanted to use sound on our home Debian box and

Re: exim4 configuration errors

2008-02-25 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:38:23PM +0100, Bruno Costacurta wrote: > Hello, > > I have following errors when sending email to en external email address. > Note: pc34ghz.org is the local domain, [EMAIL PROTECTED] the address to test > > > echo "my test" | mail -s "test exim4" [EMAIL PROTECTED] > .

Re: mounting error USB stick

2008-02-25 Thread Adam Hardy
Florian Kulzer on 25/02/08 17:39, wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 00:05:44 +, Adam Hardy wrote: Florian Kulzer on 24/02/08 23:05, wrote: On Sun February 24 2008, Adam Hardy wrote: Using xfce, Thunar used to pick up on the new usb storage device and put an icon in its tree pane for me with t

Re: apt is killing my machine

2008-02-25 Thread x_debian-user_x
I run Sarge on an openz vps with strictly allocated 64MB RAM. apt-get upgrade will fall over with dpkg malloc errors. So instead I have a script which effectively does: apt-get update apt-get upgrade --download-only -y dpkg -Ri /var/cache/apt/archives/ apt-get clean So far this has always worke

Re: USB pendrive mobility (fat32)?

2008-02-25 Thread Bob McGowan
Wackojacko wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:51:00PM -0800, Bob McGowan wrote: The difference is that, for Linux at least, it will also work with multiple primary partitions on a disk. I don't recall ever having problems with Windows and multiple primary partitions (an

Re: exim4 configuration errors - more details

2008-02-25 Thread Bruno Costacurta
On Monday 25 February 2008 23:38, Bruno Costacurta wrote: > Hello, > > I have following errors when sending email to en external email address. > Note: pc34ghz.org is the local domain, [EMAIL PROTECTED] the address to test > > > echo "my test" | mail -s "test exim4" [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ... > 1JTluY

Re: Unable to su as a user, I get: Cannot execute /bin/bash: Permission denied

2008-02-25 Thread Jeff D
Nuno Magalhães wrote: Cannot execute /bin/bash: Permission denied Er... have you by any chance tried checking out the permissions for that file? It'll be executed by the user, not root. Try 766. That should probably be 755 , not 766, you really dont want /bin/bash writeable by anyone but

Re: [OT] Sun Solaris 10 Manual. Is it done in LaTeX?

2008-02-25 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
> It doesn't look like it is: > > $ pdfinfo 820-0176.pdf > Title: > Subject: > Keywords: > Author: > Creator:XPP > Producer: Acrobat Distiller Server 6.0.1 (Sparc Solaris, Built: > 2003-11-03) > CreationDate: Mon Jul 2 06:56:53 2007 > ModDate:

exim4 configuration errors

2008-02-25 Thread Bruno Costacurta
Hello, I have following errors when sending email to en external email address. Note: pc34ghz.org is the local domain, [EMAIL PROTECTED] the address to test echo "my test" | mail -s "test exim4" [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... 1JTluY-0001YG-5o <= [EMAIL PROTECTED] U=bruno P=local S=337 1JTluY-0001YG-5o **

Re: [OT] Goodbye Debian

2008-02-25 Thread Yuriy Kuznetsov
This link appeared on gmail page. Kind of Micro$oft about Micro$oft propaganda. Nice one ;o) http://www.microsoft.com/ireland/getthefacts/default.mspx

Re: vanishing desktop menu and background pattern.

2008-02-25 Thread peasthope
At Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:28:47 -0800 Andrew Sackville-West wrote, "... sometimes, on upgrades, xfce *unchecks* the "Allow xfce to manage desktop" option ..." The setting is in the Desktop Preferences. Easily switched and it solves the problem. Thanks, ... Peter E. Desktops.OpenDoc

Re: Unable to su as a user, I get: Cannot execute /bin/bash: Permission denied

2008-02-25 Thread Nuno Magalhães
> Cannot execute /bin/bash: Permission denied Er... have you by any chance tried checking out the permissions for that file? It'll be executed by the user, not root. Try 766. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Sun Solaris 10 Manual. Is it done in LaTeX?

2008-02-25 Thread Andrew Perrin
It's not out of the question that they would have used distiller to build the PDF from PS output from laTeX, but I agree it's more likely some other structured format. XML is a good bet. -- Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at)

Re: [OT] Sun Solaris 10 Manual. Is it done in LaTeX?

2008-02-25 Thread Jochen Schulz
Amit Uttamchandani: > > I am curious, do you think this is done in LaTeX? -- snip > http://dlc.sun.com/pdf/820-0176/820-0176.pdf It doesn't look like it is: $ pdfinfo 820-0176.pdf Title: Subject: Keywords: Author: Creator:XPP Producer: Acrobat Dis

[OT] Sun Solaris 10 Manual. Is it done in LaTeX?

2008-02-25 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hey guys, I had to set up solaris 10 on an old sun workstation that we have. I gotta admit this is quite an impressive release (in terms of technology, ease of installation, etc.) Anyways that aside. I had to read up on the Solaris 10 install guide from Sun and wow it is beautifully and profes

Re: nvidia driver breaks when rebooting (was: reinstalling/redoing network)

2008-02-25 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Mon February 25 2008, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > and KDE then starts. > > what is wrong and why doesn't xwindows work when I reboot? > > needless to say I have an NVIDIA GEforce 7300 card.. > > You probably tried to use the Debian nvidia packages at some point and > you did not purge them from yo

Re: reinstalling/redoing network

2008-02-25 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Mon February 25 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > allow-hotplug eth0 > > iface eth0 inet dhcp > > > > why does it show auto lo and NOT auto lo eth0 ? > > Why would it? 'lo' is the loopback interface. sorry, I just assumed that eth0 along with lo would come up automatically.. I guess

Re: [OT] Goodbye Debian

2008-02-25 Thread Elf & Dmitryi
Portable Apps allow running everything off the flash drive and have the app/user data saved on the flash drive, too. So basically it's what it says - e. g. Firefox is portable on a flash drive with all the bookmarks, history and settings. A properly set-up flash drive with all the portable apps doe

Re: reinstalling/redoing network

2008-02-25 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 12:46:37PM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > mine looks like: > # cat interfaces > auto lo > iface lo inet loopback > > allow-hotplug eth0 > iface eth0 inet dhcp > > why does it show auto lo and NOT auto lo eth0 ? Why would it? 'lo' is the loopback interface

Re: [OT] Goodbye Debian

2008-02-25 Thread Dan H.
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 09:15:47PM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > Remember everything you've noted when the Microsofties remind you that > Linux "is not ready for the desktop". I must admit though that I was pretty annoyed when my wife wanted to use sound on our home Debian box and it took me qui

Re: [OT] Goodbye Debian

2008-02-25 Thread Dan H.
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 07:15:27AM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > Well, you have just begun. Wait till you experience the real horrors of > windows, aka viruses, spyware, adware, etc, though with your unix like > browsing habits, you may be less prone to be fooled by malware sites. Yeah, ther

Re: [OT] Goodbye Debian

2008-02-25 Thread Dan H.
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 04:18:03PM -0600, Elf & Dmitryi wrote: > Here's a couple things... > > http://mcnlive.org/ - MCN Live, a live CD that can also be installed on > a flash drive. There's Knoppix, too. http://www.knopper.de > > http://www.sysresccd.org/ - another live CD that can edit Windows

nvidia driver breaks when rebooting (was: reinstalling/redoing network)

2008-02-25 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 13:27:42 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Mon February 25 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > You only need to edit one file, /etc/network/interfaces and my guess is > > your setup should just work like this: > > > > ---[ /etc/network/interfaces ]--- > > > > allow-hotplug eth0

openoffice.org: fonts different on a printout (PDF print works)

2008-02-25 Thread H.S.
Hello If a document containing some Indic fonts is printed, those fonts come out to be different on paper. English fonts are okay though. However, if the document is saved first as a PDF file and then that PDF printed, all fonts come out okay on the printout. This is on Openoffice.org 2.3 on

unable to login on the console with xwindows

2008-02-25 Thread Michael Habashy
I get the following error: Cannot start session due to some internal error. then i click on ok, i get the following error: your session lasted less then 10 seconds, this could be due to not enough diskspace or some other problems look to .xsession-errors file.. ..but i do not htink that sounds r

Re: libpcre3 security update on lenny not installed

2008-02-25 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 01:35:20AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 01:08:30PM +0100, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: >>> As far as I know there is a security update available for the package >>> libpcre3 >>> currently installed in lenny. But on my system th

Re: SOLVED - mail headers with exim4 using ISP smarthost

2008-02-25 Thread Richard Lyons
Oops. Sorry for the noise. On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 06:47:58PM +, Richard Lyons wrote: > I am slightly puzzled by the following headers in mail I send out [...] > co-ho.net, which is resolved by zoneedit. But in place of the domain > name, it says 'config' -- see below. What do I have misc

mail headers with exim4 using ISP smarthost

2008-02-25 Thread Richard Lyons
I am slightly puzzled by the following headers in mail I send out from this home network on DSL via the ISP's smtp server. I think this is something my exim4 is writing, and it looks odd (though it does no obvious harm). The box has hostname scatola and the domain name is co-ho.net, which is reso

Re: mkinitrd and glibc version problem in etch

2008-02-25 Thread Richard Lyons
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:13:48AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 10:14:54PM +, Richard Lyons wrote: [..] > > > > As I said, I am at home with fdisk and parted. And can boot from > > knoppix and copy a whole partition off when I need to, whereas knoppix > > doesn't

Re: Unable to su as a user, I get: Cannot execute /bin/bash: Permission denied

2008-02-25 Thread Michael Habashy
I am logged in as root, and i try to su as a user : user1 ; I get the following error: rmachine:/home/user1/Maildir/cur# su user1 Cannot execute /bin/bash: Permission denied

Re: reinstalling/redoing network

2008-02-25 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Mon February 25 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote: > You only need to edit one file, /etc/network/interfaces and my guess is > your setup should just work like this: > > ---[ /etc/network/interfaces ]--- > > allow-hotplug eth0 > iface eth0 inet dhcp ok, now I reboot and the network works. but now I ha

Re: Nvidia to Intel

2008-02-25 Thread Andrew Barr
Frank McCormick wrote: > > I just went back to the straight Intel video driver for the > on-board video on my Sid installation. I was running an older Nvidia > card but got tired of trying to keep the driver up to the kernel. > > What I didn't realize was how slow the Intel video is - in Firefox

Re: how to get pulseaudio working?

2008-02-25 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 3:51 AM, Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You don't need to cc me, I'll see it on the list. > I've been somewhat curious about using pulse, but there have been several > emails on this list suggesting that it isn't as easy as just removing esound > and installi

Re: how to get pulseaudio working?

2008-02-25 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:51:53 +, Magnus Therning wrote: [...] > I've been somewhat curious about using pulse, but there have been several > emails on this list suggesting that it isn't as easy as just removing esound > and installing some pulseaudio* packages. Something that I did a few m

Re: mounting error USB stick

2008-02-25 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 00:05:44 +, Adam Hardy wrote: > Florian Kulzer on 24/02/08 23:05, wrote: On Sun February 24 2008, Adam Hardy wrote: > Using xfce, Thunar used to pick up on the new usb storage device and put > an > icon in its tree pane for me with the usb stick's name.

Re: reinstalling/redoing network

2008-02-25 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Mon February 25 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > ii  network-manager                        0.6.5-3                       > >     network management framework daemon > > ii  network-manager-gnome                  0.6.5-3                       > >     > >   > I would get rid of those two, and also

Re: reinstalling/redoing network

2008-02-25 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:42:42AM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > I have 1 network card, and my PC is connected to my netgear router ( > 192.168.10.1) > ii network-manager0.6.5-3 > network management framework daemon > ii network-manager-gno

Re: [OT] Goodbye Debian or Microsoft going open source

2008-02-25 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 12:22:58PM +0100, Misko wrote: > Now that MS is going open source (it was on evening national TV news in my > country) things are surely going to be better :) > As mentioned news was not very clear can somebody explain what did > MS actually made available? Is it source code

Re: PRINTER ON FIRE, HELP!!

2008-02-25 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 10:10:53PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 02/24/08 21:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > PLEASE HELP, when I tried printing debian told me that my printer > > is on fire. Upon inspection I found no signs of fire but I fear >

Re: Ice Weasel

2008-02-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/25/08 08:36, Jean-Louis Crouzet wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 02/25/08 03:37, Jean-Louis Crouzet wrote: [snip] To all, I went through a number of check with the latest 2.0.0.12 running on my customized Linux GX200 2.6.22

reinstalling/redoing network

2008-02-25 Thread Paul Cartwright
I want to redo my network setup, as it seems to be hosed beyond my capacity to fix it. This is my day-to-day home system, so I'm afraid to delete everything and NOT have network access. Last time we talked ( and I hijacked a thread on newuser-network) the suggestion was made to remove a

Re: USB stick umount locks up machine

2008-02-25 Thread postid
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/24/08 15:11, postid wrote: Greetings: When I unmount a USB memory stick my machine becomes completely unresponsive. I can't access a console and even the sysreq key sequences don't work. I end up shutting it down with t

Re: USB stick umount locks up machine

2008-02-25 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 09:11:34PM +, postid wrote: > When I unmount a USB memory stick my machine becomes completely > unresponsive. I can't access a console and even the sysreq key sequences > don't work. I end up shutting it down with the power button. > > My /etc/fstab has this line: >

Re: mkinitrd and glibc version problem in etch

2008-02-25 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 10:14:54PM +, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 04:25:02PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > > What warnings did you get about LVM? It is rather nice to be able to > > resize partitions, but also migrate partitions of of failing drives. On > > all my o

Re: Bug ?! (System bootup in progress - please wait)

2008-02-25 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 11:44:34PM -0800, Hadi Nejati wrote: > Newly I understand Our Sarge servers doesn't allow user connect via > ssh except root. After inspecting the problem I found something > strange. In /etc/nologin (I didn't create this file) there is > something like that "System bootup

Re: missing serial script in /etc?

2008-02-25 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 10:47:59PM +0100, eric s wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 07:14:04PM +0100, eric s wrote: > >>Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >>>On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 02:31:52PM +0100, eric s wrote: > the serial port do not get created at start up? > > > > >>>To w

Re: HELP! MY PRINTER\'S ON FIRE!!

2008-02-25 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 08:26:24PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > HELP! When I printed debian said my printer\'s on fire but upon > inspection I can\'t find any signs of fire on or in my printer, I fear > that if I don\'t find the fire soon my printer may die. PLEASE HELP!!! Its a generic er

Re: DSL in Linux - direct setup?

2008-02-25 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Original Message: - From: Brian McKee [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:22:40 -0500 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: DSL in Linux - direct setup? -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 23-Feb-08, at 11:38 PM, Zach wrote: > I

Re: Ice Weasel

2008-02-25 Thread Jean-Louis Crouzet
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/25/08 03:37, Jean-Louis Crouzet wrote: [snip] To all, I went through a number of check with the latest 2.0.0.12 running on my customized Linux GX200 2.6.22jlcv010 #1 Thu Feb 14 10:22:42 CET 2008 i686 GNU/Linux basically bas

Re: PRINTER ON FIRE, HELP!!

2008-02-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/25/08 08:09, David Fox wrote: > On 2/24/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I\'m not sure, usually Bill Gates pays for someone to print for me but that >> person is out right now and I\'m lost. Linux is making my head hurt, too

Re: [OT] Goodbye Debian or Microsoft going open source

2008-02-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/25/08 05:22, Misko wrote: > On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 04:12:31PM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: >>> Boy, what a piece of crap. It boggles the mind. This is how the world's >>> office workers get their work done? Or do they? >> It seems implausible,

Re: [OT] Goodbye Debian or Microsoft going open source

2008-02-25 Thread Misko
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 04:12:31PM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > > Boy, what a piece of crap. It boggles the mind. This is how the world's > > office workers get their work done? Or do they? > > It seems implausible, doesn't it? > I used to be fairly efficent on Windows, but it took a lot of twe

Re: DSL in Linux - direct setup?

2008-02-25 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 23-Feb-08, at 11:38 PM, Zach wrote: I have the DSL modem, plugged the ethernet cable between ETHERNET port on modem and my NIC, I attached the phone line into the DSL port on the modem but I still don't see any network connection.>

Re: PRINTER ON FIRE, HELP!!

2008-02-25 Thread David Fox
On 2/24/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I\'m not sure, usually Bill Gates pays for someone to print for me but that > person is out right now and I\'m lost. Linux is making my head hurt, too bad > I have to use it to find \"new\" things to implement in Windows 7. : > > - St

Re: Modifying Keyboards for Special Characters

2008-02-25 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 23-Feb-08, at 4:33 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 03:30:32AM +0100, s. keeling wrote: Man, and I thought the Dvorak keyboard nuts were weird. :-) Do they require a "special" spanner? :-) Well, since the problem is almost a

Re: windings and acroread

2008-02-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/25/08 03:39, Ulrich Scholz wrote: [snip] > >> v7.0 is *really* old. Unless you are using it for a specific reason >> like "my machine is too slow to handle newer bloatware versions", >> you really should get v8.1. > > That's acrobat's version

Re: Ice Weasel

2008-02-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/25/08 03:37, Jean-Louis Crouzet wrote: [snip] > To all, > > I went through a number of check with the latest 2.0.0.12 running on my > customized Linux GX200 2.6.22jlcv010 #1 Thu Feb 14 10:22:42 CET 2008 > i686 GNU/Linux basically based on 2.6.22

Re: The Debian Way-NVIDIA

2008-02-25 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sun February 24 2008, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > >> It appears you are using the stock kernel. There is a precompiled nvidia > >> driver available for this kernel. It is in the non-free section. You > >> might want to try that. > > > > what driver would that be?? > > apt-get install nvidia-kerne

Re: The Debian Way-NVIDIA

2008-02-25 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sun February 24 2008, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > >>> so as a NORMAL user you cd to the folder, then MAGIC, you are root to > >>> run a command.. > > Please forgive my naivety in not recognizing the sarcasm in that. sorry, would I meant to say was, there must be a step or two left out. Obviousl

Re: how to get pulseaudio working?

2008-02-25 Thread Magnus Therning
On 2/23/08, Kelly Clowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 1:00 AM, Bruno Boettcher > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello > > > > am trying to get the replication of audio working, no success so far... > > > > i read through the docu at the pulseaudio pages, which i can't r

Opera problem

2008-02-25 Thread hce
Hi, I installed Opera 9.26 in debian, but got following errors, how can I fix it? opera: [java] There seems to be a preloaded version of Xt. There is a workaround for this problem in the opera startup script. If that workaround fails, opera will most likely crash every time

Re: Unable to boot on encrypted root after upgrading testing

2008-02-25 Thread Kjo
I booted on an install CD ins rescue mode and tried this tuto : http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Rescue/Crypto # cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/hda2 sda2_crypt works # vgchange -a y [vg] works # mount /dev/[vg]/root /target fails, and outputs : # mount: Mounting /dev/[vg]/root on /target failed

HELP! MY PRINTER\'S ON FIRE!!

2008-02-25 Thread zomgapenguin
HELP! When I printed debian said my printer\'s on fire but upon inspection I can\'t find any signs of fire on or in my printer, I fear that if I don\'t find the fire soon my printer may die. PLEASE HELP!!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: windings and acroread

2008-02-25 Thread Ulrich Scholz
Thanks for your replies. Yes, I ment "Wingdings". Sorry for that typo. > It's probably "Wingdings" and you should get it when installing > msttcorefonts which can be found in contrib. I've installed msttcorefonts but that did not help the problem. > v7.0 is *really* old.  Unless you are using

Re: Ice Weasel

2008-02-25 Thread Jean-Louis Crouzet
dick thompson wrote: No problem with partition space. I am using a 20GB partition with a 4 GB swap space. Will try the other suggestions when I get back on Debian tomorrow. Kent West wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/24/08 17:00, dick wrote:

need fsplit utility

2008-02-25 Thread Anthony BERGER
Hello, I try to find fsplit fortran utility. Somebody know where i can find the package...? Tkan you Anthony -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug ?! (System bootup in progress - please wait)

2008-02-25 Thread Hadi Nejati
Newly I understand Our Sarge servers doesn't allow user connect via ssh except root. After inspecting the problem I found something strange. In /etc/nologin (I didn't create this file) there is something like that "System bootup in progress - please wait".I think there is the bug in my servers