Re: strange /etc/network/interfaces behaviour

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 09:35:39PM +0300, Mario Spinthiras wrote: > Possible ifupdown bug? Yes it doesn't sound right to me either. If you do not receive any further replies then I suggest to file a bug report against ifupdown. Otherwise post your entire /etc/network/interfaces verbatim in case

Re: strange /etc/network/interfaces behaviour

I'm a newbie, so i cannot help you understand it. i just talk about some experience. if the pc use static ip, the router should not provide dhcp service to keep consistent. i once used a dhcp router and a static configured network card, it doesn't work. On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 2:35 AM, Mario Spint

Re: How to update bios to support 64-bit cpu in Debian?

thanks, using the amd64 cd, i can install now. :)

Re: [WORKS in Minefield]iceweasel 3: favicon while tab is loading

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, In sid's iceweasel 3 I notice a difference with iceweasel 2: when a tab is loading the favicon shown would slowly rotate in version 2, but in version 3 it stays stuck at the beginning. Searching bugzilla.mozilla.org I find nothing under "favicon", but it clearly

Re: Total confusion with aptitude. Help, please!

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 02:44:58PM +, Alan Mackenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 07:57:45PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 07:22:24PM +, Alan Mackenzie <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > > > #Broken: 12 Will fr

Fwd: Fail event on /dev/md0:phreaque

Hi. I've been fiddling with a RAID5 on usb pendrives plugged into usb hub. Usually, it works great, but this doesn't tell me very much. What do you wizards make of it, please? Thanks, appreciated. :-) It's Etch, btw. - Forwarded message from mdadm monitoring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - >

Re: How to Boot a Dell Optiplex 320?

Chris Burkhardt wrote: I may be misunderstanding, but when the grub menu comes up can you not press 'e' to edit. If so select kernel line and press 'e' again and add option there. Hit the 'Return' key and then 'b' to boot. No, there's not so much as a grub menu; it's like the grub menu has be

Re: off-line dictionary (gnome)

* Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080620 20:49]: > In GNOME Dictionary Preferences, what dict server is it looking at? edit -> preferences -> source = localhost But no specifics are displayed. The only way I have found to view or add details is to click the "+add" button, whereupon the "add dic

Re: Warning in syslog

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/20/08 20:54, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > I noticed this is my syslog today---what does driver 'sd' needs updating - > please use > bus type methods mean ??? What does Google say? > > Jun 20 21:44:38 debian kernel: [9.917343] hda: cache

Warning in syslog

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I noticed this is my syslog today---what does driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus type methods mean ??? Jun 20 21:44:38 debian kernel: [9.917343] hda: cache flushes not supported Jun 20 21:44:38 debian kernel: [9.919560] hda: cach

Re: off-line dictionary (gnome)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/20/08 20:13, Russell L. Harris wrote: > I have complied with all the recommendations posted in this thread > thus far, but Dictionary 2.14.0 still is going out to the web > (dict.org ?) for definitions. I know that this is so, because my DSL > s

Re: off-line dictionary (gnome)

I have complied with all the recommendations posted in this thread thus far, but Dictionary 2.14.0 still is going out to the web (dict.org ?) for definitions. I know that this is so, because my DSL service went out a night or two ago, and I could not retrieve definitions. Is there a reliable "off

Re: configuring shell autologin

On Friday 20 June 2008 12:20:12 am Mumia W.. wrote: > On 06/20/2008 12:43 AM, Lee Glidewell wrote: > > > > I have so far tried two autologin solutions: [ failed solutions snipped ] > > Try this instead: > > 13:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -l /usr/local/bin/auto-login.2 -n 38400 tty13 > > ---auto-log

Re: How to update bios to support 64-bit cpu in Debian?

thanks, i will try soon On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 9:00 AM, Dylan Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try the amd64 disk. The IA64 disk is for Itanium CPUs, which are different > from most 64-bit CPUs. > > > On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 8:53 PM, Star Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I have a inte

Re: How to update bios to support 64-bit cpu in Debian?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/20/08 19:53, Star Liu wrote: > I have a intel dual-core cpu which supports 64-bit mode, and I want to > install a IA64 etch on it, so i burn the etch IA64 iso CD, but i cannot > boot from it! I guess it's caused by my bios not supporting 64-bit m

Re: How to update bios to support 64-bit cpu in Debian?

Try the amd64 disk. The IA64 disk is for Itanium CPUs, which are different from most 64-bit CPUs. On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 8:53 PM, Star Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a intel dual-core cpu which supports 64-bit mode, and I want to > install a IA64 etch on it, so i burn the etch IA64 iso

How to update bios to support 64-bit cpu in Debian?

I have a intel dual-core cpu which supports 64-bit mode, and I want to install a IA64 etch on it, so i burn the etch IA64 iso CD, but i cannot boot from it! I guess it's caused by my bios not supporting 64-bit mode, it's a ami bios v02.57 which has neither information about 64bit nor hyper threadin

Re: How to Boot a Dell Optiplex 320?

Robin wrote: 2008/6/20 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Apparently the Dell Optiplex 320 is one odd piece of computer; the 'Net is full of people having trouble installing Linux on it. So I tried going the route of doing a network install via http://www.goodbye-microsoft.com, but it ins

Re: How to Boot a Dell Optiplex 320?

2008/6/20 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Apparently the Dell Optiplex 320 is one odd piece of computer; the 'Net is > full of people having trouble installing Linux on it. And I've just spent a > day and a half trying to find a version of Windows that would install on it > so I could update the B

Re: cut and paste with the screen program

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 06:55:11AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > more specifically, use "ctrl-a [" to switch to copy mode. Then use > the cursor keys to move to the text you want to select. Use the spacebar > to mark the beginning of the selection, cursor keys to move to the end of the Th

Re: Root sending messages to users

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/20/08 17:09, Dotan Cohen wrote: > 2008/6/21 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 20:20 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: >>> Additionally, should I have a dotan account on that machine I will >>> habitually back it up, and always wo

Re: CAD software for PCB engineering and routing

On 20/06/2008, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Motivate the people that you know to let the software houses know that > we want their software. And we want it with freedom. - Jordi G. H. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: Root sending messages to users

2008/6/21 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 20:20 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> Additionally, should I have a dotan account on that machine I will >> habitually back it up, and always worry that there are files there >> that I need to know about, and set up the environment ju

Re: can't print from adobe reader

On Fri June 20 2008, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > I changed it to custom. With my printer selected, it showed: > > > > Status: lpq: Epson 880:unknown printer > > > > with custom selected, the printer command showed: > > > > /usr/bin/lp > > [...] > > > I changed it to custom and used /usr/bin/lpr a

Re: Root sending messages to users

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/20/08 16:38, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 20:20 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> Additionally, should I have a dotan account on that machine I will >> habitually back it up, and always worry that there are files there >> that I need to

Re: mixing unstable with testing just for nvidia: good practices?

On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 13:02 -0400, H.S. wrote: > Is this good enough for an "aptitude update" and "aptitude safe-upgrade" > such that only those package will be pulled from Unstable which are > necessary for nvidia related packages? Or should I now just remove the > unstable sources' repos from

Re: Root sending messages to users

On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 20:20 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > Additionally, should I have a dotan account on that machine I will > habitually back it up, and always worry that there are files there > that I need to know about, and set up the environment just how I like, > and and and... I don't need any

Problems booting Debian on an external USB disk on a MacBook

Hi! I am trying to install Debian Lenny on my MacBook, by way of an external USB hard disk and Refit. I have followed the instructions given in http://ghaint.no-ip.org/~k2/debian/mbp-usb.html and succeeded in booting from the i386 net-install for Lenny Beta 2, created partitions and installed

How to Boot a Dell Optiplex 320?

Apparently the Dell Optiplex 320 is one odd piece of computer; the 'Net is full of people having trouble installing Linux on it. And I've just spent a day and a half trying to find a version of Windows that would install on it so I could update the BIOS to the most recent version, hoping that'd

Re: CAD software for PCB engineering and routing

2008/6/20 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Couldn't agree more. Unfortunately Michelle said that she needed the > software "now". > L > I was speaking in the general sense. Even if the company in question cannot produce a 'today' solution, Michelle and others will benefit from a 'next version' solution. T

Re: New version of fglrx broke my system

El vie, 20-06-2008 a las 19:29 +0200, Jonathan Kaye escribió: > It installed with no problem and after rebooting (yes, I have to do > this; starting and stopping the the Xserver doesn't get the new driver > working correctly) About this, have you ever tried this?: 1- Stop the X server; 2- 'rmmod

Re: New version of fglrx broke my system

El vie, 20-06-2008 a las 19:29 +0200, Jonathan Kaye escribió: > Gabriel Parrondo wrote: > > > > > I've been googling for hours trying to figure out how to solve this > > problem that arised from the last upgrade: > > > > I use lenny and the fglrx driver. With the last upgrade all fglrx > > packa

Re: mixing unstable with testing just for nvidia: good practices?

> Florian Kulzer wrote: > >> >> Both ntp and ntpdate are not in testing right now (a licensing issue >> IIRC), so they have to come from unstable. When in doubt, use "apt-cache >> policy ...": >> >> apt-cache policy ntp ntpdate >> > > Thanks for the tip. To avoid such updates, I have removed the un

Re: CAD software for PCB engineering and routing

> 2008/6/20 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> Did you write to the companies that provide the cheaper, XP-based >>> solutions and tell them that you are interested in buying their >>> software, but that you need a native Linux version? If we don't get >>> off our butts and tell the companies that we exist,

Re: can't print from adobe reader

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 20:03:49 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Thu June 19 2008, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > I changed it to custom. With my printer selected, it showed: > > > Status: lpq: Epson 880:unknown printer > > > with custom selected, the printer command showed: > > > /usr/bin/lp [...

Re: CAD software for PCB engineering and routing

2008/6/20 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Did you write to the companies that provide the cheaper, XP-based >> solutions and tell them that you are interested in buying their >> software, but that you need a native Linux version? If we don't get >> off our butts and tell the companies that we exist, then

Re: How do I find my local sub-net, to broadcast NTP

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to get NTP to broadcast the time on my local subnet. I have the ntp.conf uncommented in the proper place. I put 192.168.1.255 as my sub-net but I am not sure. I have a cable modem>Linksys 4 port router>my computer. My computer's IP address is 192.168.1.100

Re: mixing unstable with testing just for nvidia: good practices?

Florian Kulzer wrote: Both ntp and ntpdate are not in testing right now (a licensing issue IIRC), so they have to come from unstable. When in doubt, use "apt-cache policy ...": apt-cache policy ntp ntpdate Thanks for the tip. To avoid such updates, I have removed the unstable sources from

Re: Total confusion with aptitude. Help, please!

Hi, Eduardo! On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 01:40:55PM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > Alan Mackenzie escreveu: > >My /etc/apt/source.list now looks like this: > ># > >#deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib >

Re: How do I find my local sub-net, to broadcast NTP

> I am trying to get NTP to broadcast the time on my local subnet. I have > the ntp.conf uncommented in the proper place. I put 192.168.1.255 as my > sub-net but I am not sure. I have a cable modem>Linksys 4 port > router>my computer. My computer's IP address is 192.168.1.100 and my > router is

How do I find my local sub-net, to broadcast NTP

I am trying to get NTP to broadcast the time on my local subnet. I have the ntp.conf uncommented in the proper place. I put 192.168.1.255 as my sub-net but I am not sure. I have a cable modem>Linksys 4 port router>my computer. My computer's IP address is 192.168.1.100 and my router is 192.1

Re: mixing unstable with testing just for nvidia: good practices?

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 14:44:21 -0400, H.S. wrote: > Jonathan Kaye wrote: > >> particular package was already unstable by an earlier choice). To get the >> unstable version I do this: >> #aptitude -t unstable install >> This is called "pinning", I believe. >> Works for me. >> Cheers, >> Jonathan

Re: mixing unstable with testing just for nvidia: good practices?

Jonathan Kaye wrote: particular package was already unstable by an earlier choice). To get the unstable version I do this: #aptitude -t unstable install This is called "pinning", I believe. Works for me. Cheers, Jonathan Ah, the pinning. I took your example and tweaked it a bit (after consu

Re: killall firefox-bin

Ron Johnson wrote: > You don't tell us which Debian branch and version of IW you are > using. I am using Sid, but I still use the "testing" version of IW (2.0.0.14). The Sid version is at the moment a little bit *too* "unstable" (for systems with an ATI video card: see bug 485917). So my experienc

strange /etc/network/interfaces behaviour

Greetings, I recently setup a server which I had originally assigned a DHCP address from the interfaces file using the line "iface eth0 inet dhcp" . After I had put the machine on the rack I simply changed the addressing to static and restarted the networking. This all went well for a while. Today

Re: CAD software for PCB engineering and routing

> Hello Larry, > > Am 2008-06-18 11:35:04, schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> Michelle >> My (no defunct) company went through a similar search as you. What we >> found was some very good and very expensive software, primarily ported >> to >> Suns, and some reasonably good and reasonably inexpensive so

Re: killall firefox-bin

Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > At least once a day I have to give the command "killall > firefox-bin", because the systems just about freezes (at least the > browser does), and weird things happen to the X display. Do others > have the same experience? > > "Iceweasel" as is it now unwisely called by

Re: mixing unstable with testing just for nvidia: good practices?

H.S. wrote: > Hello, > > Yesterday I made the jump and put in unstable sources in sources.list in > on testing machine solely to get nvidia working again in Testing (what > is wrong with testing regarding nvidia anyway?). > > I have this for my policy: > $> cat /etc/apt/apt.conf > APT::Authentic

Re: CAD software for PCB engineering and routing

> 2008/6/18 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> My (no defunct) company went through a similar search as you. What we >> found was some very good and very expensive software, primarily ported >> to >> Suns, and some reasonably good and reasonably inexpensive software, >> unfortunately ported to XP. Perhaps

Re: CAD software for PCB engineering and routing

> Hello Larry, > > Am 2008-06-18 11:35:04, schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> Michelle >> My (no defunct) company went through a similar search as you. What we >> found was some very good and very expensive software, primarily ported >> to >> Suns, and some reasonably good and reasonably inexpensive so

Re: New version of fglrx broke my system

Gabriel Parrondo wrote: > > I've been googling for hours trying to figure out how to solve this > problem that arised from the last upgrade: > > I use lenny and the fglrx driver. With the last upgrade all fglrx > packages were upgraded from version 8.4.1 to 8.5.1. As with every fglrx > upgrade,

Re: Root sending messages to users

2008/6/20 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Even if, in this instance, there's no "harm" (she's you're wife, > after all), it's still Bad Practice, and that makes for Bad Habits. > > In 15 seconds you can create user "dotan" on that machine, and log > in as it, then sudo or su to do whatever you n

Re: CAD software for PCB engineering and routing

2008/6/18 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > My (no defunct) company went through a similar search as you. What we > found was some very good and very expensive software, primarily ported to > Suns, and some reasonably good and reasonably inexpensive software, > unfortunately ported to XP. Perhaps others ca

mixing unstable with testing just for nvidia: good practices?

Hello, Yesterday I made the jump and put in unstable sources in sources.list in on testing machine solely to get nvidia working again in Testing (what is wrong with testing regarding nvidia anyway?). I have this for my policy: $> cat /etc/apt/apt.conf APT::Authentication::TrustCDROM "true"; A

Balsa's "Gnome editor?"

I have Xfce4 runningl, and I'm trying out Balsa in it. Balsa looks for its external editor in a var described as "the Gnome editor," which, in Xfce4, is evidenctly mousepad. Far be it from I to cast aspersions (as the saying goes) on mousepad, but I would like something more exciting for my exter

Re: Total confusion with aptitude. Help, please!

Alan Mackenzie escreveu: Hi, again! On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 10:48:02AM +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: To know what is going on with your system, we would need to see your /etc/apt/sources.list and /etc/apt/preferences files. #/etc/apt/sources.list: ###

Re: Total confusion with aptitude. Help, please!

Hi, again! On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 10:48:02AM +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > To know what is going on with your system, we would need to see your > > /etc/apt/sources.list and /etc/apt/preferences files. > #/etc/apt/sources.list: > #

Re: CAD software for PCB engineering and routing

Hello Larry, Am 2008-06-18 11:35:04, schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Michelle > My (no defunct) company went through a similar search as you. What we > found was some very good and very expensive software, primarily ported to > Suns, and some reasonably good and reasonably inexpensive software, > un

Re: dhcpd is screwing with me...

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/20/08 10:39, Forsaken wrote: > On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:17:16 -0400 > Forsaken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Nevermind, I'm just being retarded. Here's the guilty culprit right > here: > >> subnet 192.168.2.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 { >> r

Re: dhcpd is screwing with me...

On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:17:16 -0400 Forsaken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nevermind, I'm just being retarded. Here's the guilty culprit right here: > subnet 192.168.2.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 { > range 192.168.2.100 192.168.3.200; Looked over it ten times and didn't see it until *after* I sp

Re: dhcpd is screwing with me...

Forsaken wrote: > This is what my dhcpd.conf looks like: > > ddns-update-style none; > option domain-name "boo.local"; > option domain-name-servers 192.168.3.7,192.168.1.1; > default-lease-time 600; > max-lease-time 7200; > log-facility local7; > subnet 192.168.3.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 { >

Re: eth0: no IPv6 router present - resolved, thanks

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 09:31:30AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 12:00:50PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 01:44:40PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:57:35AM -0500, W Paul Mills wrote: > > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MES

dhcpd is screwing with me...

Ok, here's the situation - I have a router and a switch. The switch is chopped up into 4 different vlans, only two of which are relevant to this discussion - Topology looks something like this: Router | Vlan1 Switch --- Vlan2 Vlan1: 192.16

Re: where is xmms?

Nuno Magalhães wrote: Yes I saw that, xmms2 and wmxmms2. And having tried them, they are totally unlike xmms and wmxmms. Completely command-line driven. Well yes, the server is command-line driven; the clients are not. I've used esperanza but it lacked ramdom playing so i'm using a plugin fo

Re: where is xmms?

>> Yes I saw that, xmms2 and wmxmms2. >> > > And having tried them, they are totally unlike xmms and wmxmms. > Completely command-line driven. > Well yes, the server is command-line driven; the clients are not. I've used esperanza but it lacked ramdom playing so i'm using a plugin for gKrellm. xmm

Re: Iceweasel 3 UI color (Solved)

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Benjamí Villoslada (me) wrote: > $ iceweasel --safe-mode > > starts the program with the KDE the dark colors. Seems that the because the > default theme doesn't works at 100%, but is not possible uninstall the > default theme. Sorry, I've descovered this: $ firefo

Re: (Mishap?) upgrading from Woody to Etch

On Fri Jun 20, 2008 at 15:13:59 +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: > What's the 'virtual console provided by the screen program'? Some sort of > bolt-on to ssh? "screen" is a program which allows you to run commands in "windows" even on a text console. See here for a reasonable introduction: ht

Re: text file from Linux to windows.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/29/08 20:28, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 05/29/08 19:35, Paul Johnson wrote: >> >>> On Thursday 29 May 2008 05:26:43 pm L.V.Gandhi wrote: >>> I have made a text file in Linux using echo and cat commands. When I >>>

Re: text file from Linux to windows.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/29/08 20:28, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 05/29/08 19:35, Paul Johnson wrote: >> >>> On Thursday 29 May 2008 05:26:43 pm L.V.Gandhi wrote: >>> I have made a text file in Linux using echo and cat commands. When I >>>

Re: Total confusion with aptitude. Help, please!

Hi, Daniel! On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 07:57:45PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 07:22:24PM +, Alan Mackenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > was heard to say: > > #Broken: 12 Will free 16.7MB of disk space DL Size: 6215kB > > . Using the aptitude command `find broken', it

Re: Root sending messages to users

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/20/08 09:12, Dotan Cohen wrote: > 2008/6/20 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> Well, it is a one-user box, >> No it's not. Unix hasn't just had "meat" users in 30 years. If you >> don't believe me, cat her box's /etc/passwd. >> > > I meant,

Re: where is xmms?

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Nuno Magalhães wrote: Or, You can use xmms2, which works as a daemon, and use some xmms2 client (i'm currently using gKrellm plugins). Both are on the mirrors. Yes I saw that, xmms2 and wmxmms2. And having tried them, they are totally unlike xmms and wmxmms. Complete

Re: (Mishap?) upgrading from Woody to Etch

Sven Joachim on 20/06/08 15:06, wrote: On 2008-06-20 15:58 +0200, Adam Hardy wrote: Those upgrade instructions warn: "Important! You should not upgrade using telnet, rlogin, rsh, or from an X session managed by xdm, gdm or kdm etc on the machine you are upgrading. That is because each of those

Re: where is xmms?

* Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 Jun 20 08:48 -0500]: > On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 11:04:52PM +0100, Michal R. Hoffmann wrote: > > On 19/06/08 22:34, Mark Allums wrote: > >> Ivan Glushkov wrote: > >> > Hi all, > >> > I have a sid x64 installed. I am wandering why there is no possibi

Re: Root sending messages to users

2008/6/20 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Well, it is a one-user box, > > No it's not. Unix hasn't just had "meat" users in 30 years. If you > don't believe me, cat her box's /etc/passwd. > I meant, the only human user. >> but she is that user! When I SSH in I SS

Re: killall firefox-bin

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/20/08 08:09, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > At least once a day I have to give the command "killall > firefox-bin", because the systems just about freezes (at least the > browser does), and weird things happen to the X display. Do others > have the

Re: Root sending messages to users

2008/6/20 Brian McKee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Darn it, now you've got me digging. I'm sure on an old box I had > (Redhat 7.2 maybe?) wall messages were posted in X as well > automatically. But I can' t figure out how now > It seems my Fedora box is running kwrited which can display messages

Re: (Mishap?) upgrading from Woody to Etch

On 2008-06-20 15:58 +0200, Adam Hardy wrote: > Those upgrade instructions warn: > > "Important! You should not upgrade using telnet, rlogin, rsh, or from > an X session managed by xdm, gdm or kdm etc on the machine you are > upgrading. That is because each of those services may well be > terminate

Re: Root sending messages to users

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/20/08 03:12, Dotan Cohen wrote: [snip] > > Well, it is a one-user box, No it's not. Unix hasn't just had "meat" users in 30 years. If you don't believe me, cat her box's /etc/passwd. > but she is that user! When I

Re: (Mishap?) upgrading from Woody to Etch

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 06:38:59AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 04:51:25AM -0700, Adam Hardy (debian) wrote: > > If I put 'sarge' in all the sources.list urls, I should be able to upgrade > > to sarge OK? Or is it too late? > > you

Re: Total confusion with aptitude. Help, please!

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 10:48:02AM +, Alan Mackenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 08:47:35PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > > I suspect that your attempt to upgrade python broke your system. If you > > are not an expert with Debian, it is best to stick with a sin

Re: (Mishap?) upgrading from Woody to Etch

Andrew Sackville-West on 20/06/08 14:38, wrote: On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 04:51:25AM -0700, Adam Hardy (debian) wrote: [snipped tales of woe regarding mixed systems] I have a 5 year-old system hosted on Xen by a hosting company, which I only use for Java and mysql - currently it's running Woody

Re: cut and paste with the screen program

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 08:21:46AM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 05:34:17PM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm using screen. (So I can have many terminals in one text-console). > > How can I cut and paste between screen terminals? (using the keyboard) I'm > >

Re: killall firefox-bin

The only ill-experience i have so far is when viewing a particular website, fixefox messes up the window completely, it's barely usable. But all i need to do is close that tab; no freezes. I am using the unstable branch though. -- Nuno Magalhães

Iceweasel 3 UI color

In KDE (and Sid) I've dark interface colors. gtk-qt-engine package was fine with Iceweasel 2, but makes strange tabs in Iceweasel 3, and I've unistalled gtk-qt-engine. No problem: after gtk-qt-engine uninstall, Iceweasel 3 have the same dark interface that KDE. But yesterday Iceweasel 3 have

Re: Root sending messages to users

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 4:12 AM, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/6/20 Brian McKee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Does 'sudo wall' work for you? I don't have a machine handy to try - > No, wall is inappropriate because she is in KDE, not a terminal. >> but it used to pop up in X too IIRC >

Re: where is xmms?

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 11:04:52PM +0100, Michal R. Hoffmann wrote: > On 19/06/08 22:34, Mark Allums wrote: >> Ivan Glushkov wrote: >> > Hi all, >> > I have a sid x64 installed. I am wandering why there is no possibility >> > to install xmms? >> > >> >> If I understand correctly, xmms is no lon

Re: minimalist window managers [was Re: Preferred applications: IDE, text-editor, music player.]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 12:01:59AM -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Andrew Sackville-West > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I started with wmii, played with some others, and then stumbled on > > xmonad and got hooked. to each their own. Just like > > vimperator... tried

Re: killall firefox-bin

2008/6/20 Jan Willem Stumpel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > "Iceweasel" as is it now unwisely called by Debian It's not entirely unwise. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naming_conflict_between_Debian_and_Mozilla Sam

Re: (Mishap?) upgrading from Woody to Etch

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 04:51:25AM -0700, Adam Hardy (debian) wrote: [snipped tales of woe regarding mixed systems] > > I have a 5 year-old system hosted on Xen by a hosting company, which I only > use for Java and mysql - currently it's running Woody and being slap-dash, I > tried to install a

Re: eth0: no IPv6 router present

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 12:00:50PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 01:44:40PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:57:35AM -0500, W Paul Mills wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > Thomas H. George wrote: > [snip] >

Re: where is xmms?

Nuno Magalhães wrote: Or, You can use xmms2, which works as a daemon, and use some xmms2 client (i'm currently using gKrellm plugins). Both are on the mirrors. Yes I saw that, xmms2 and wmxmms2. Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

killall firefox-bin

At least once a day I have to give the command "killall firefox-bin", because the systems just about freezes (at least the browser does), and weird things happen to the X display. Do others have the same experience? "Iceweasel" as is it now unwisely called by Debian (although according to ps aux t

Re: where is xmms?

Or, You can use xmms2, which works as a daemon, and use some xmms2 client (i'm currently using gKrellm plugins). Both are on the mirrors. -- Nuno Magalhães

Re: SOLVED: Re: Xorg broken in Lenny

Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2008-06-20 12:31 +0200, Chris Lale wrote: > >> The diverted files were "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/libwfb.so" and >> "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so". I removed them with >> dpkg-divert >> and upgraded xserver-xorg-core successfully. My X Window System is restor

Re: where is xmms?

Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/19/08 21:20, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/19/08 21:02, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Ivan Glushkov wrote: Hi all, I have a sid x64 installed. I am wandering why there is no possibility to install xmms? lili2:

Re: Monitoring Net Traffic From the Console or Another Comptuer

Hal Vaughan schreef: I have a workstation and several other computers on my LAN, all running Linux -- either Debian or Ubuntu (Kubuntu for the workstation, Sarge on the rest -- please don't start on the version, I'll be updating it in my copious amounts of free time one year). I am connecting

Re: (Mishap?) upgrading from Woody to Etch

>On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 07:34:22PM +0100, Chris Austin wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have had a Debian system working very well since 2003, when I installed >> it >> from the Stable system, which was Woody at the time. Recently I wanted >> to > >... snipped woes of a partial upgrade ... > >> hit an err

Re: lynx and mutt

Daniel Dalton: > > Does anyone know how to make mutt use lynx when I enter on a url? aptitude install urlview. J. -- I throw away plastics and think about the discoveries of future archeologists. [Agree] [Disagree] sig

lynx and mutt

Hi, Does anyone know how to make mutt use lynx when I enter on a url? Thanks, -- Daniel Dalton http://members.iinet.net.au/~ddalton/ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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