Re: apt-get question..

2008-05-12 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 04:10:38PM -0400, Ishwar Rattan wrote: > > > On Mon, 12 May 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 05/12/08 13:48, ISHWAR RATTAN wrote: >>> >>> I have a debian system installed and want to dist >>> upgrade it, BUT I want apt--

Re: Apt pinning suspect?

2008-05-12 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jaime Tarrant wrote: > Rich Healey wrote: > Hi List, > > I've got a Lenny/Unstable/Experimental laptop that I use for work (yes, > i realise that precariously mixing 3 releases is stupid.. but I'm > committed now so oh well.) > > Anyway, the point is

Re: exim bug

2008-05-12 Thread Jaime Tarrant
Todd A. Jacobs wrote: On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 01:06:26AM +0200, Sia Neriman wrote: how can i fix it? I had the same problem. Running dpkg-reconfigure didn't help, either, so I replaced exim with postfix. I did not, however, file a bug...sounds like someone may need to do that. :) I have vers

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Re: apt pinning confusion

2008-05-12 Thread Jaime Tarrant
Alex Samad wrote: On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 01:59:19PM +1000, Jaime Tarrant wrote: Alex Samad wrote: On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 11:08:38AM -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: [snip] [snip] yeah new about that, my meaning was more along the lines of if you are trying to follow testing then the number h

Re: Apt pinning suspect?

2008-05-12 Thread Jaime Tarrant
Rich Healey wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi List, I've got a Lenny/Unstable/Experimental laptop that I use for work (yes, i realise that precariously mixing 3 releases is stupid.. but I'm committed now so oh well.) Anyway, the point is that my pure unstable/experimental

Re: Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome

2008-05-12 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/12/08 19:28, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: > [snip] >>> Maybe you're a Starving College Student, or maybe things cost more >>> in India (tariffs on imported Chinese goods?), but 17" LCD monitors >>> are prett

Re: Debian or Ubuntu?

2008-05-12 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
On 12/05/2008, Todd A. Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That said, my personal opinion is that you should run commercial servers > on Debian stable, with the (very) occasional must-have package imported > from sid. Unless you need the commercial support, the stability of Etch > is probably y

Re: Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome

2008-05-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/12/08 19:28, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] > >> Maybe you're a Starving College Student, or maybe things cost more >> in India (tariffs on imported Chinese goods?), but 17" LCD monitors >> are pretty darned cheap. And you

Re: [OT] Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome

2008-05-12 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/12/08 18:47, Rich Healey wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 05/12/08 09:35, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: I have a 15" monitor at home running at 1024x768. I find that for most >>> Maybe you're a Starving College Student, or

Re: [OT] Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome

2008-05-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/12/08 18:47, Rich Healey wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 05/12/08 09:35, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: >>> I have a 15" monitor at home running at 1024x768. I find that for most >> Maybe you're a Starving College Student, or maybe things cost more >

Re: Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome

2008-05-12 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/12/08 19:50, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: [snip] Thank you and to all others for their suggestions. I shall try alternate WMs, but the problem appears to have more to do with gtk than with gnome. The panels take up a tiny portio

After update perl ,apt-cacher won't work

2008-05-12 Thread 刘建才
Hi, I updated My Debian 4.0 server yesterday,but forget exactly which package upgraded,only remember perl related things,then apt-cacher didn't work ,after i referenced the line 12 in /usr/share/perl5/HTTP/Date.pm,Every thing seems OK,is it a bug? related information: error messages in /var/lo

Re: Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome

2008-05-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/12/08 19:50, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: [snip] > > Thank you and to all others for their suggestions. I shall try alternate > WMs, but the problem appears to have more to do with gtk than with > gnome. The panels take up a tiny portion 2x24 px, bu

Re: adding a module to an initrd.img

2008-05-12 Thread David Witbrodt
> I generated a module called v86d which is in /sbin > > I want to add that to initrd.img-2.6.25-1-686 > > No amount of fiddling does it. > > When I do: > > zcat initrd.img-2.6.25-1-686 | cpio --list > > the module never appears. > > I tried adding a file to /etc/modprobe.d and > adding v86d

Gnome display fonts have disappered

2008-05-12 Thread A. Lester Buck III
Hi, I had a bit of corruption appear on the system disk for my Debian testing system. The file systems all check fine now, but the Gnome display shows no text fonts. Everything else is fine, I can login (it doesn't show my username as I type), and as I mouse over the menu bars, various tooltips

Re: 2.6.25 + vga=791

2008-05-12 Thread David Witbrodt
> On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 08:39:20PM +0200, Gilles Mocellin wrote: > > Le Monday 12 May 2008 15:52:15 Hugo Vanwoerkom, vous avez écrit : > > > Hi, > > > > > > In installing linux-image-2.6.25-1-686 I find I can no longer use > > > vga=791 on the kernel commandline. I get "undefined videomode numbe

Re: 2.6.25 + vga=791

2008-05-12 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 08:52:15AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > From my machine : $ uname -a Linux brahman 2.6.25-mas #2 SMP PREEMPT Sat Apr 19 07:43:57 IST 2008 i686 GNU/Linux Using vga=795 on my system. > In installing linux-image-2.6.25-1-686 I find I can no longer use > vga=791 on the

Re: exim bug

2008-05-12 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 01:06:26AM +0200, Sia Neriman wrote: > how can i fix it? I had the same problem. Running dpkg-reconfigure didn't help, either, so I replaced exim with postfix. I did not, however, file a bug...sounds like someone may need to do that. :) -- "Oh, look: rocks!" -- D

Where does apt store its arch?

2008-05-12 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
I've recently installed a 32-bit chroot on a 64-bit system with the "--arch=i386" flag to debootstrap, but I can't quite figure out how apt knows that I want to continue downloading i386 debs instead of amd64 debs. Where is this information stored? -- "Oh, look: rocks!" -- Doctor Who, "De

Re: apt-get question..

2008-05-12 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
ISHWAR RATTAN wrote: I have a debian system installed and want to dist upgrade it, BUT I want apt--get dist-upgrade to upgrade only the installed debs and not to download everything under the sun! 'apt-get dist-upgrade' does exactly that. It tries to update as many of the installed packages a

SATA hotplug in Etch?

2008-05-12 Thread Owen B. Mehegan
I'm running Etch on a SuperMicro 6024H 2U server. Specs on it can be viewed here: http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/2U/6024/SYS-6024H-T.cfm The system has a Marvell 88SX6081 8-port SATA controller attached to a 6-port backplane. I currently have two drives in it, using _software_ RAID 1 an

Re: Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome

2008-05-12 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 08:05:08PM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: I have a 15" monitor at home running at 1024x768. I find that for most apps, very little screen estate is left for the actual stuff and most of it is eaten up by the menubars, toolbars, and othe gu

Re: Incomplete downloads

2008-05-12 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 12 May 2008 19:08:58 +0200 Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > KDE's Konquerors default downloader doesn't have resume support (unless > that's > changed), and is why I Use Kget. Firefox's default downloader doesn't have > resume support (as far as I can see, and have observed

Re: Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome

2008-05-12 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/12/08 09:35, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: I have a 15" monitor at home running at 1024x768. I find that for most Maybe you're a Starving College Student, or maybe things cost more in India (tariffs on imported Chinese goods?),

Re: apt-get question..

2008-05-12 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
ISHWAR RATTAN wrote: > > I have a debian system installed and want to dist > upgrade it, BUT I want apt--get dist-upgrade to upgrade > only the installed debs and not to download everything > under the sun! > > Is such a thing possible? You might be looking for apt-get update apt-get upgrade

Re: [OT] Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome

2008-05-12 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/12/08 09:35, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: >> I have a 15" monitor at home running at 1024x768. I find that for most > > Maybe you're a Starving College Student, or maybe things cost more > in India (tariffs on imported Chinese g

Apt pinning suspect?

2008-05-12 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi List, I've got a Lenny/Unstable/Experimental laptop that I use for work (yes, i realise that precariously mixing 3 releases is stupid.. but I'm committed now so oh well.) Anyway, the point is that my pure unstable/experimental box at home has pull

exim bug

2008-05-12 Thread Sia Neriman
hi i use lenny and have this error The following partially installed packages will be configured: exim4-daemon-light 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y Writing ext

Re: /usr busy after aptitude operations?

2008-05-12 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 08:53:06PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > and had it remounted rw, no problem. Right. It only locks when unlinked files are in use do to a running application during an upgrade. This is mostly a userland problem, I think, since most daemons are restarted by their install

Re: Debian or Ubuntu?

2008-05-12 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 12:30:43PM -0400, Tenant wrote: > Debian Sarge. Some people we know have suggested we take a look at > Ubuntu, which is based on Debian. Is there anywhere a balanced Disclaimer: I'm a Debian user, not an Unbuntoid (or whatever they call themselves). While there's an Ubuntu

Re: Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome

2008-05-12 Thread Kevin Monceaux
Ron, On Mon, 12 May 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: Then why use XFCE? Because of the window managers I've tried so far XFCE seems to cooperate the best with the way I like to do things. Some that I've tried didn't handle new window focus the way I prefer, didn't handle keyboard shortcuts for sw

Re: [SOLVED] Notebook Latitude D630 don't shutdown properly after update

2008-05-12 Thread Marcelo Luiz de Laia
Hi, Today I did an upgrade and notebook came back shutdown correctly. I have compared the programs brought up to date today with the brought up to date ones with the time where appeared the problem and found the following one: 14/04/0811:17:06upgrade libexempi3 1.99.9-1

Re: Kernel panic: initramfs problem?

2008-05-12 Thread Bill
On Mon, 2008-12-05 at 09:01 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Sid, Etch, Lenny? > 2.6.25 is out in Sid. Etch. Production. b. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cupsys does not print: update

2008-05-12 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Damon L. Chesser wrote: Damon L. Chesser wrote: Damon L. Chesser wrote: Two systems: amd64 and i386. Both ran Sid. printer is networked with 192.168.200.150. Added printer via localhost:631 as a network (LPD) printer url is lpd://192.168.200.150/lpt1. The printer comes to life, the data

Re: 2.6.25 + vga=791

2008-05-12 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 08:39:20PM +0200, Gilles Mocellin wrote: > Le Monday 12 May 2008 15:52:15 Hugo Vanwoerkom, vous avez écrit : > > Hi, > > > > In installing linux-image-2.6.25-1-686 I find I can no longer use > > vga=791 on the kernel commandline. I get "undefined videomode number: > > 317" t

Re: Kernel panic: initramfs problem?

2008-05-12 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 09:49:17AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 01:14:04AM -0700, Bill wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > Begin: Running /scripts/init-bottom > > mount: mounting /dev on /root/dev failed: Invalid argument > > Done. > > run-init: making initramfs contents: D

imagemagick convert command discard orientation exif info?

2008-05-12 Thread H.S.
Hi, On a Debian Lenny system, if I use the convert command to resize an image taken with a digital camera, the resulting image file most of the exif information but the orientation: $> convert -resize 1024 -quality 75 img_6696.jpg img_6696_small.jpg $> exif img_6696.jpg | grep -i orienta Orie

adding a module to an initrd.img

2008-05-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I generated a module called v86d which is in /sbin I want to add that to initrd.img-2.6.25-1-686 No amount of fiddling does it. When I do: zcat initrd.img-2.6.25-1-686 | cpio --list the module never appears. I tried adding a file to /etc/modprobe.d and adding v86d to /etc/initramfs-too

Re: Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome

2008-05-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/12/08 09:35, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > I have a 15" monitor at home running at 1024x768. I find that for most Maybe you're a Starving College Student, or maybe things cost more in India (tariffs on imported Chinese goods?), but 17" LCD monitors

Re: Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome

2008-05-12 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/12/08 15:09, Damon L. Chesser wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: SNIP Then why use XFCE? Ron, that is obvious! So he can run his game UNDER his console and his boss will not "see" it! Geeze! Try it, open a

Re: Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome

2008-05-12 Thread Micha
On Mon, 12 May 2008 10:10:12 -0500 John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Raj Kiran Grandhi writes: > > Are there any other configuration parameters that can be tweaked in my > > gtkrc (or elsewhere) to reduce/remove the extra space around the toolbar > > icons and make better use of screen spac

Re: Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome

2008-05-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/12/08 15:09, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > SNIP >> >> >> Then why use XFCE? >> > Ron, that is obvious! So he can run his game UNDER his console and his > boss will not "see" it! Geeze! - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jeffers

Re: apt-get question..

2008-05-12 Thread Ishwar Rattan
On Mon, 12 May 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/12/08 13:48, ISHWAR RATTAN wrote: I have a debian system installed and want to dist upgrade it, BUT I want apt--get dist-upgrade to upgrade only the installed debs and not to download everything unde

Re: Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome

2008-05-12 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Ron Johnson wrote: SNIP Then why use XFCE? Ron, that is obvious! So he can run his game UNDER his console and his boss will not "see" it! Geeze! -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome

2008-05-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/12/08 12:31, Kevin Monceaux wrote: > On Mon, 12 May 2008, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > >> Are there any other configuration parameters that can be tweaked in my >> gtkrc (or elsewhere) to reduce/remove the extra space around the >> toolbar icons a

Re: apt-get question..

2008-05-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/12/08 13:48, ISHWAR RATTAN wrote: > > I have a debian system installed and want to dist > upgrade it, BUT I want apt--get dist-upgrade to upgrade > only the installed debs and not to download everything > under the sun! > > Is such a thing poss

Re: ALSA dumping to term

2008-05-12 Thread i'll teach you to turn away.
Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: FK> On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 22:24:12 +, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote: FK> I don't know how to turn this off without a recompile. (I don't know too FK> much about DEBUG_DETECT.) FK> Maybe it is possible to recompile only the stuff in "sound" and ke

Re: Realtek ALC662 microphone on Etch?

2008-05-12 Thread Maciej Rutecki
Did You try model=3stack-dig option or similar? E.g.: modprobe snd-hda-intel model=3dstack-dig -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

apt-get question..

2008-05-12 Thread ISHWAR RATTAN
I have a debian system installed and want to dist upgrade it, BUT I want apt--get dist-upgrade to upgrade only the installed debs and not to download everything under the sun! Is such a thing possible? -ishwar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: Realtek ALC662 microphone on Etch?

2008-05-12 Thread Kum Gabor
On Monday 12 May 2008 05:45, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 09:15:06PM +0200, Kum Gabor wrote: > > Hi All! > > > > I've got an Asus M2N-MX motherboard, and sound works well with 2.8.22 > > kernel from backports. Only I've got one problem: microphone doesn't want > > to work for me. > >

Re: 2.6.25 + vga=791

2008-05-12 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le Monday 12 May 2008 15:52:15 Hugo Vanwoerkom, vous avez écrit : > Hi, > > In installing linux-image-2.6.25-1-686 I find I can no longer use > vga=791 on the kernel commandline. I get "undefined videomode number: > 317" that's 791 hex. > > I've been using vga=791 on kernels since time immemorial,

Re: Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome

2008-05-12 Thread Kevin Monceaux
On Mon, 12 May 2008, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Are there any other configuration parameters that can be tweaked in my gtkrc (or elsewhere) to reduce/remove the extra space around the toolbar icons and make better use of screen space? Hit :-) I do as much as I can via the text console. For

Re: Shutting off graphical ssh agent popup?

2008-05-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 10:38:56 -0400, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > > I'm running Lenny with Gnome on my ThinkPad. Previously, and > on all my other machines, when I launch an ssh command from > the command line, I would get an ssh password request on the > command line like > > Enter passphrase

Re: problem occurs after upgrading to lenny

2008-05-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 08:55:49 +0800, Pete Kay wrote: > Hi, > > I tried to upgrade to Lenny because Lenny has the latest Lua 5.3 version, > but after I did the upgrade, not only Lua 5.3 is not installed, but apt-get > starting to pop up errors every time I use it: [...] > Setting up exim4-daem

Re: Kernel panic: initramfs problem?

2008-05-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Bill wrote: Hi folks, I have to compile a vanilla kernel 2.6.25 to access a new wireless module and keep things as small as possible on this old laptop. So far so good. Everything compiles and all but I can't reboot with the new kernel. Everything is fine using the 2.6.18.6 stock kernel but the

2.6.25 + vga=791

2008-05-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, In installing linux-image-2.6.25-1-686 I find I can no longer use vga=791 on the kernel commandline. I get "undefined videomode number: 317" that's 791 hex. I've been using vga=791 on kernels since time immemorial, what's wrong with it now? There is an alternative to that parameter: h

Re: Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome

2008-05-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
John Hasler wrote: Raj Kiran Grandhi writes: Are there any other configuration parameters that can be tweaked in my gtkrc (or elsewhere) to reduce/remove the extra space around the toolbar icons and make better use of screen space? You could dump Gnome entirely. good suggestion. I use fvwm a

Re: ALSA dumping to term

2008-05-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 22:24:12 +, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: > FK> On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 04:55:21 +, i'll teach you to turn away. > wrote: > >> hi guys. i just upgraded to kernel 2.6.25 & am now seeing a ton of > >> garbage from ALSA dumping to m

Re: Incomplete downloads

2008-05-12 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Rodolfo Medina wrote: I have a slow internet connection, and with large downloads it often happens that the download sticks before it is complete. Does anyone have any experience with this problem, and is there a way to solve it? And, why does it happen? I'd be curious to know. Thanks for any

Re: Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome

2008-05-12 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: I have a 15" monitor at home running at 1024x768. I find that for most apps, very little screen estate is left for the actual stuff and most of it is eaten up by the menubars, toolbars, and othe gui elements. I have my gnome preferences set to small icons for the toolba

Re: Incomplete downloads

2008-05-12 Thread Nigel Henry
At the risk of this reply being received by the list twice, I'm sending again, as more than 2 hrs have passed since my first reply was sent. On Monday 12 May 2008 14:01, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > I have a slow internet connection, and with large downloads it often > happens that the download stic

Re: HTMLVIEW to read mutt HTML email from browser

2008-05-12 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 09:41:11AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > the benefit to Andrei's method (which I use as well **) is that you > don't have to change windows or wait for a browser to start up (well, > okay, technically you do...). The html just pops up rendered right in > the frame.

Shutting off graphical ssh agent popup?

2008-05-12 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
I'm running Lenny with Gnome on my ThinkPad. Previously, and on all my other machines, when I launch an ssh command from the command line, I would get an ssh password request on the command line like Enter passphrase for key '/home/login_id/.ssh/id_rsa': (If I ran ssh-agent myself, I might go

Re: Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome

2008-05-12 Thread Felipe Rocha
Hi, I found this link, it may be helpfull to you, the only 'cons' is it is in portuguese (PT), but the image is in english. http://sofotec.blogspot.com/2007/04/gnome-panel-full-autohide.html Felipe Rocha 2008/5/12 Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I have a 15" monitor at home running at

Re: Kernel panic: initramfs problem?

2008-05-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 01:14:04AM -0700, Bill wrote: > Hi folks, > Begin: Running /scripts/init-bottom > mount: mounting /dev on /root/dev failed: Invalid argument > Done. > run-init: making initramfs contents: Directory not empty > kernel-panic: not syncing : attempted to kill init! I would foc

Re: Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome

2008-05-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 08:05:08PM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > I have a 15" monitor at home running at 1024x768. I find that for most > apps, very little screen estate is left for the actual stuff and most of > it is eaten up by the menubars, toolbars, and othe gui elements. I have > my

Re: HTMLVIEW to read mutt HTML email from browser

2008-05-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 03:42:26PM +1000, hce wrote: > On 5/10/08, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 08:57:20PM +1000, hce wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > In FC6, it automatically launches the browser when I open an HTML > > > email in mutt. I've just learned be

Re: Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome

2008-05-12 Thread John Hasler
Raj Kiran Grandhi writes: > Are there any other configuration parameters that can be tweaked in my > gtkrc (or elsewhere) to reduce/remove the extra space around the toolbar > icons and make better use of screen space? You could dump Gnome entirely. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: Kernel panic: initramfs problem?

2008-05-12 Thread Mike Bird
On Mon May 12 2008 01:14:04 Bill wrote: > run-init: making initramfs contents: Directory not empty > kernel-panic: not syncing : attempted to kill init! > > Can anyone be of help diagnosing this problem. Any pointers > links or suggestions as to the cause much appreciated. First thing I'd check is

Re: Incomplete downloads

2008-05-12 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 01:01:33PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > I have a slow internet connection, and with large downloads it often happens > that the download sticks before it is complete. > > Does anyone have any experience with this problem, and is there a way to solve > it? And, why does i

Re: Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome

2008-05-12 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Are there any other configuration parameters Sure; autohide your panels. Cybe R. Wizard -- Nice computers don't go down. Larry Niven, Steven Barnes "The Barsoom Project" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome

2008-05-12 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
I have a 15" monitor at home running at 1024x768. I find that for most apps, very little screen estate is left for the actual stuff and most of it is eaten up by the menubars, toolbars, and othe gui elements. I have my gnome preferences set to small icons for the toolbars without text. Are the

Re: cupsys does not print: update

2008-05-12 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Damon L. Chesser wrote: Damon L. Chesser wrote: Two systems: amd64 and i386. Both ran Sid. printer is networked with 192.168.200.150. Added printer via localhost:631 as a network (LPD) printer url is lpd://192.168.200.150/lpt1. The printer comes to life, the data light blinks (Samsung ML-

Re: Proftpd and Debian

2008-05-12 Thread sadsjon
I managed to cobble something together. I used the lenny unstable build for my source "rules" I needed to add "--enable-openssl" to cure the build "sanity" over OPENSSL_cleanse. Then I did debian/rules clean Which failed miserably. Then debian/rules build this passed fine. make was fine.

Re: Clearing SWAP

2008-05-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/11/08 20:47, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: [snip] > > I do think that this whole "whatever is profitable is moral" mentality "*Whatever*" is too strong a word, just as you called me out on the use of the word "all". > to be strongly USian, bu

Re: Clearing SWAP

2008-05-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/11/08 19:49, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 11:31:48AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> I've SEEN the future. Do you know what it is? It's a 47-year-old >> virgin sitting around in his beige pajamas, drinking a >> banana-broccoli s

Re: Clearing SWAP

2008-05-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/11/08 19:43, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 11:27:32AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 05/11/08 06:57, Chris Bannister wrote: >>> On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 11:04:33AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/10/08 10:07, Chris Bannis

Re: Clearing SWAP

2008-05-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/12/08 03:34, Christofer C. Bell wrote: [snip] > > As for OpenVMS, it is still actively developed and supported by HP. > We have several OpenVMS systems where I work. I still next to the guy > that supports all of them. ;-) We've got 7 of vario

Incomplete downloads

2008-05-12 Thread Rodolfo Medina
I have a slow internet connection, and with large downloads it often happens that the download sticks before it is complete. Does anyone have any experience with this problem, and is there a way to solve it? And, why does it happen? I'd be curious to know. Thanks for any help Rodolfo -- To U

Re: prevent dpkg from (re-)starting services

2008-05-12 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 09:21:35PM +0200, Olaf Leidinger wrote: > On a file server I installed several debian(-based) distributions into > an exported directory using debootstrap. These are used as root > filesystems for diskless clients. To install new packages/updates I > chroot into the director

Re: Can't play any youtube videos

2008-05-12 Thread Alan Chandler
On Monday 12 May 2008, Coolness wrote: > I am still in etch. But, I'll take a shot. > > If you upgraded from lenny, and flash was working, perchance you had > the mozilla-flashplayer (I think) pkg instead of the > flashplayer-nonfree (I think)? Because flashplayer-nonfree is broken > in lenny. If m

[solved] Re: How to install a font?

2008-05-12 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I was a Mandrake Linux user, a couple of years ago, I used to put the > file `simsun.ttf' in the directory `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF', then add > the following lines to the files `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/fonts.dir' and > `/usr/X11R6/lib/X1

Re: VNC / Vino / tightVNC question

2008-05-12 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 05:04:49PM -0700, Jeff wrote: > Asuka Langley wrote: > >Short: How can I connect 2 Debian Lenny PC with VNC? (Join to the server > >from mine).. both of them is 32bit, not amd64..ah..and ..the two Lenny > >have Gnome. > > > >ps.: Sorry for the long explanation .. I hope y

Re: cropped fonts

2008-05-12 Thread Micha
On Sun, 11 May 2008 16:50:00 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 05/11/08 10:31, Micha wrote: > > I have an issue with my friends laptop that I'm trying to set up with debian > > (unstable). For some reason the fonts are cropped fr

Kernel panic: initramfs problem?

2008-05-12 Thread Bill
Hi folks, I have to compile a vanilla kernel 2.6.25 to access a new wireless module and keep things as small as possible on this old laptop. So far so good. Everything compiles and all but I can't reboot with the new kernel. Everything is fine using the 2.6.18.6 stock kernel but the new one - no

Re: Clearing SWAP

2008-05-12 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 8:42 AM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks, > > I had a look at the wikipedia article for OpenVMS. It seems that the > Open is a misnomer. > > Is anybody working on an OpenOpenVMS? There is a community effort to duplicate OpenVMS on x86 hardware ca