Re: Mini-HOWTO: Outgoing BSMTP with exim

2008-08-10 Thread Johann Spies
On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 12:12:40PM -0700, Julian Gilbey wrote: > I've just had to create outgoing BSMTP files, upload the results to > another server and then send the mail from there. I've written a > mini-HOWTO, which you can find at > http://people.debian.org/~jdg/bsmtp.html > > I hope this is

Re: what's the best IDE for C programming in Debian?

2008-08-10 Thread Johann Spies
On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 10:09:32PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > I have used just enough emacs to learn that it is an amazing tool. I'm > not downplaying vim. I use vim daily. It is my editor of choice for > config files. I don't know why, it just is. > Years ago I was editing a file of

Re: rsync backup to ext3-formatted usb flash drive?

2008-08-10 Thread Rick Thomas
On Aug 10, 2008, at 2:12 AM, Brian Wells wrote: Hi. I'm using svn-fast-backup (in the subversion-tools package) to make rsync backups of my subversion repository. The place I'm backing up to is on an ext3-formatted usb flash drive, and I'm wondering if this is a wise thing to do. I know

Re: Slow video[SOLVED]

2008-08-10 Thread Nick Lidakis
Ron Johnson wrote: On 07/12/08 02:00, Nick Lidakis wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: The "inner" scroll region? No sluggishness or slowdown. Noticeable CPU usage by /usr/bin/X11/X when I rapidly jerk the scroll bar up and down, but that's normal.

Re: APT recommendations/suggestions not obvious

2008-08-10 Thread Shachar Or
On Monday 11 August 2008 07:53, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 07:35:18PM -0500, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > TTBOMK, neither apt/aptitude/synaptics stores explicit "this is why > > package A is recommended" data. If it did, I'd immediately convert to > >

Re: APT recommendations/suggestions not obvious

2008-08-10 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 07:35:18PM -0500, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > TTBOMK, neither apt/aptitude/synaptics stores explicit "this is why > package A is recommended" data. If it did, I'd immediately convert to > that app. The problem is that this information isn't st

Re: APT recommendations/suggestions not obvious

2008-08-10 Thread David Fox
On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 5:35 PM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > TTBOMK, neither apt/aptitude/synaptics stores explicit "this is why package > A is recommended" data. If it did, I'd immediately convert to that app. In times like these, then aptitude why or whynot may be useful. I've only

Re: How can populate local pkgconfig paths to other packages?

2008-08-10 Thread hce
Please ignore it. I figured out. Thank you. On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 9:48 PM, hce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I like to build FFMPEG and QT4 to my local directory and to compile > VLC based on those local packages. But my PKG_CONFIG_PATH is pointing > to /usr/lib/pkgconfig. How can I pass

Re: Benefits (and risks) of using Sid

2008-08-10 Thread Wayne Topa
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat,09.Aug.08, 17:04:47, Ron Johnson wrote: On 08/09/08 08:57, Damon L. Chesser wrote: On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 01:05 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] I put this at the bottom of my family members' .bashrc files. Works like a charm. if [ "$TERM" == "linux" ]; then

dpkg oddities

2008-08-10 Thread Jude DaShiell
Has anyone on this list running lenny succeeded in installing any or all of the following packages who is not running any of the speakup distributions? I'm trying to find out if what happens here is speakup specific or not. The packages could be installed using a command line like: aptitude -

Re: can't configure networking for static IP address

2008-08-10 Thread Mike Bird
On Sun August 10 2008 16:35:02 Vwaju wrote: > > > I am running Debian sarge, because that is the version that was used > > > in the book I am following to learn how to build an internet server. > > > I realize this raises security issues, but I am not building a > > > production server, only a *tra

Re: can't configure networking for static IP address

2008-08-10 Thread Vwaju
On Aug 10, 5:20 pm, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun,10.Aug.08, 12:48:48, Vwaju wrote: > > [...] > > > I installed Debian on my Dell Dimension 4100 and, with networking > > configured for DHCP, I am able to connect to the Internet, ftp, http, > > etc. > > > I am building an intern

Re: can't configure networking for static IP address

2008-08-10 Thread Vwaju
On Aug 10, 5:20 pm, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun,10.Aug.08, 12:48:48, Vwaju wrote: > > [...] > > > I installed Debian on my Dell Dimension 4100 and, with networking > > configured for DHCP, I am able to connect to the Internet, ftp, http, > > etc. > > > I am building an intern

Re: home network problem - router is smarter than me

2008-08-10 Thread tyler
Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu,07.Aug.08, 11:13:56, tyler wrote: > > [...] > >> My router is a Siemens Speedstream 6520 and I'm running Lenny on both >> machines. Access to the internet is fine for both machines. When my wife >> connects to the same router via wireless from he

Re: VGA modes for the supported resolutions

2008-08-10 Thread peasthope
Andrei, Richard & others, At Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:02:51 +0300 Andrei Popescu wrote, ap> That's a shot in the dark, but try booting with vga=788 Thanks. I have a little progress. On the Toshiba 4000 CDS this weekend, "vga=788" gives a display. Also I found that a vga/vesa number which is fau

Re: can't configure networking for static IP address

2008-08-10 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,10.Aug.08, 12:48:48, Vwaju wrote: [...] > I installed Debian on my Dell Dimension 4100 and, with networking > configured for DHCP, I am able to connect to the Internet, ftp, http, > etc. > > I am building an internet server, so I need to reconfigure networking > to use a static IP addres

Re: can't configure networking for static IP address

2008-08-10 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 12:48:48PM -0700, Vwaju wrote: [snip] > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > - > I edited /etc/network/interfaces to look like this: > > # The loopback network interface > auto lo > iface lo inet loopback > > # The primary network inter

Re: wlan0 fails to obtain dhcp lease at startup

2008-08-10 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,10.Aug.08, 21:05:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ~# dmesg > Linux version 2.6.22-4-686 (Debian 2.6.22-6~bpo40+2) First thing I would try to upgrade the kernel. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Desc

Re: grub in my sid system broken

2008-08-10 Thread Paul Scott
Andreas Janssen wrote: > Gilles Mocellin (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > >> Le Thursday 07 August 2008 15:41:25 chris, vous avez écrit : (snip) >>> It looks as if there is no /sbin/update-grub on your system. >>> If so, you might want to reinstall grub. >>> >> I remember

wlan0 fails to obtain dhcp lease at startup

2008-08-10 Thread x_debian-user_x
Hi, I have a problem with wlan0 failing to get a dhcp lease at startup. At startup, the following messages are issued: Sun Aug 10 20:20:07 2008: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3 Sun Aug 10 20:20:10 2008: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8 Sun

Re: Nvidia GeForce FX5200 problems

2008-08-10 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 14:15:45 -0700 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 23:08 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > > On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:18:47 -0500 > > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> Is this: > > > >>

can't configure networking for static IP address

2008-08-10 Thread Vwaju
My problem may sound familiar to some of you, because I have raised it before in this forum. I still haven't solved it, so I am going to present it again (trying to be more systematic and methodical this time). For those of you tried to help me before: Thank you. If you will try again, I will b

Re: swappiness of 2.6 kernel

2008-08-10 Thread thveillon.debian
Paul Johnson wrote : On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 08:28 +0100, thveillon.debian wrote: On a Desktop workstation (multimedia edit, 4Gb ram, timer freq being set @ 1000HZ) I've been using 20 for a long time, no problem whatsoever and no swapping at all. How sure are you on that? I've 2GB of RAM¹ and

Re: Kernel oops on Lenny, when opening tabs in Firefox

2008-08-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On 08/10/08 12:36, Carl Fink wrote: On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 12:00:51PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Presumably this is repeatable? It repeats, but I don't know exactly what triggers it, except that so far it seems to happen when at least five FF tabs are open. Any 5 URLs, or specific URLs? IO

Re: Kernel oops on Lenny, when opening tabs in Firefox

2008-08-10 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 12:00:51PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Presumably this is repeatable? It repeats, but I don't know exactly what triggers it, except that so far it seems to happen when at least five FF tabs are open. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog

Re: Debian Sid first time user

2008-08-10 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 03:08:52AM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Hi to all the Debian users community. > > I've been using Debian for a couple of years now (coming from Mandrakelinux) > and have been happy with stable versions, Sarge and then Etch. Now for > particular needs I want to try to use

Re: ftp.au.debian.org down?

2008-08-10 Thread Ron Johnson
My first thought was, "Yes, ftp.au.debian.org *is* down... under!" On 08/10/08 06:20, Daniel Dalton wrote: Does anyone else have problems when trying to connect to ftp.au.debian.org. As of this moment, mtr sees it. But that's almost 7 hours after your original mail. -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Je

Re: Kernel oops on Lenny, when opening tabs in Firefox

2008-08-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On 08/10/08 11:29, Carl Fink wrote: The Firefox part might be a coincidence, of course. In an rxvt, I see: Oops: [1] SMP Then a few seconds later I get: CR2: 5a In syslog, I find this: Aug 10 11:22:47 NitpickingHP2 kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at

Kernel oops on Lenny, when opening tabs in Firefox

2008-08-10 Thread Carl Fink
The Firefox part might be a coincidence, of course. In an rxvt, I see: Oops: [1] SMP Then a few seconds later I get: CR2: 5a In syslog, I find this: Aug 10 11:22:47 NitpickingHP2 kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 005a RIP: Aug 10 11:22:

Re: Debian Sid first time user

2008-08-10 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I edited sources.list as follows: > >>> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main >>> deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main > > > , then connected to internet and did: > > # apt-get update > # apt-get dist-upgrade > > , but s

Re: [Debian-User] Debian + non ose virtualBox

2008-08-10 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 1:20 AM, Nyizsnyik Ferenc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 9 Aug 2008 20:06:20 -0600 > "Javier Vasquez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I installed the non ose virtualBox, and I got a XP image running under >> it with bridged ethernet. However I haven't be

D-Installer: GRUB fails to install boot loader

2008-08-10 Thread Ariel Garcia
Hello, i am trying to perform a network install with Debian Installer, which is failing when installing the GRUB loader with "Unable to install GRUB in (hd0)" Executing 'grub-install (hd0)' failed. and in the console i see: Cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/sdq2. Check our device.map.

Re: Benefits (and risks) of using Sid

2008-08-10 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,10.Aug.08, 12:46:51, Andrei Popescu wrote: > And eventually it will return the prompt. I think most cases will be > covered by something like: > > , > | if [ "$TERM" = "linux" ]; then > | if [ ! -f /tmp/X0-lock ]; then > | startx > | exit > | fi > | fi

Re: Creation of custom debian-cd

2008-08-10 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 01:23:58PM -0400, André Yves wrote: > Hi, I am wondering where can I find the better documentation about debian-cd. > I > am trying to make my own custom debian-cd. If you have any other tool for or > any idea about the process of building custom debian-cd, it will be reall

Re: Problems with an "old" nvidia 6100 GO

2008-08-10 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sat August 9 2008, Nicolas FRANCOIS wrote: > The script seems to add a few option (besides installing the driver) to > the xorg.conf file, in the driver section. I don't remember those > options, because I'm not on my laptop now. on the box, you will probably find it saved the old xorg. If you

RE: ftp.au.debian.org down?

2008-08-10 Thread James Harper
> > Does anyone else have problems when trying to connect to > ftp.au.debian.org. > I can't even ping it however, I can ping the Us one ftp.us.debian.org. Me too. It doesn't appear to be reachable via IPv4 or IPv6. > If the server is down, could a debian developer fix it if possible? ftp.debian

How can populate local pkgconfig paths to other packages?

2008-08-10 Thread hce
Hi, I like to build FFMPEG and QT4 to my local directory and to compile VLC based on those local packages. But my PKG_CONFIG_PATH is pointing to /usr/lib/pkgconfig. How can I pass those local pkgconfig paths to other packages? One solution I can think of is to copy all local installed packages /ho

Re: home network problem - router is smarter than me

2008-08-10 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,07.Aug.08, 11:13:56, tyler wrote: [...] > My router is a Siemens Speedstream 6520 and I'm running Lenny on both > machines. Access to the internet is fine for both machines. When my wife > connects to the same router via wireless from her laptop (running XP) it > shows up on the router pag

ftp.au.debian.org down?

2008-08-10 Thread Daniel Dalton
Does anyone else have problems when trying to connect to ftp.au.debian.org. I can't even ping it however, I can ping the Us one ftp.us.debian.org. If the server is down, could a debian developer fix it if possible? Thanks, -- Daniel Dalton http://members.iinet.net.au/~ddalton/ <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: How do I enable UUID in Debian? (Thanks!)

2008-08-10 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,07.Aug.08, 00:01:30, Aniruddha wrote: > Thanks all for the help! I've added the following line to my grub.conf and > all works fine now :) > > > > title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.25-2-686-bigmem > > root(hd0,1) > > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.25-2-686-bigm

Re: Aptitude oddity

2008-08-10 Thread Shachar Or
On Sunday 10 August 2008 11:56, Bob Cox wrote: > Gabriel - thank you very much for your extremely useful reply. It all > worked perfectly and having now successfully applied the patch, I can > confirm that I cannot reproduce the bug. Ahuh! Great. This is what we are made of. Very good job every

Re: Dúvida sobre cds de i nstalação.

2008-08-10 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,06.Aug.08, 19:02:19, consultores1 wrote: > El mié, 06-08-2008 a las 06:28 -0700, wagner Duarte escribió: > > Bom dia! Nos site Debian.org, na seção de obter os cds de instalaçao > > me surgiu uma duvida. Tem um post da nova versao do Debian em cd para > > I386 onde as ultimas ISO sao do dia

Re: Fwd: Re:how to make a boot disk and ...

2008-08-10 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,06.Aug.08, 00:46:18, darren naidoo wrote: > ...Which important directories to tar/gzip. Want to make a custom system > image on dvd for me. Thanks Your question is not very clear [1], but I think you need Debian Live [2]. [1] http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html [2] http:

Re: Benefits (and risks) of using Sid

2008-08-10 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,09.Aug.08, 17:04:47, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 08/09/08 08:57, Damon L. Chesser wrote: >> On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 01:05 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > [snip] >>> I put this at the bottom of my family members' .bashrc files. Works like >>> a charm. >>> >>> if [ "$TERM" == "linux" ]; then >>>

Re: FireGPG

2008-08-10 Thread Dale
Hi, 2008/8/10 Zaki Akhmad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello, > > Anybody using FireGPG[1] here? I am having problem. I've created the > gpg file with gpg. No I have not used it, but below is what I see happening from the error. > > Here's my .gnupg directory consist of: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/.gnupg$

Re: Aptitude oddity

2008-08-10 Thread Bob Cox
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 09:11:18 +0200, Sven Joachim ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On 2008-08-10 01:41 +0200, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > > Aha. The aptitude resolver isn't touching those packages at all, but > > think maybe I see what *is* happening. The code that I wrote to use the > > apt re

Re: Aptitude oddity

2008-08-10 Thread Bob Cox
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 04:46:36 -0300, Gabriel Parrondo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Come on, the debian people made patching software a children game. These > are the simple steps you should follow: > As root: > aptitude install build-essential fakeroot > apt-get build-dep aptitude > > As nor

Re: Aptitude oddity

2008-08-10 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
El dom, 10-08-2008 a las 07:35 +0100, Bob Cox escribió: > On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 16:41:40 -0700, Daniel Burrows ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > > On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 10:56:22AM -0700, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > > No, it'll spew large amounts of debuggin

FireGPG

2008-08-10 Thread Zaki Akhmad
Hello, Anybody using FireGPG[1] here? I am having problem. I've created the gpg file with gpg. Here's my .gnupg directory consist of: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/.gnupg$ ls -l total 32 -rw--- 1 za za 9154 2008-08-10 14:08 gpg.conf -rw--- 1 za za 636 2008-08-10 14:10 pubring.gpg -rw--- 1 za z

Re: DebConf8 video streams

2008-08-10 Thread Zaki Akhmad
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > in seven hours DebConf8 will officially begin, you can participate by watching > the live video streams as described on > http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf8/Streams - have fun! Have a great conference out there!

Re: [Debian-User] Debian + non ose virtualBox

2008-08-10 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Sat, 9 Aug 2008 20:06:20 -0600 "Javier Vasquez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I installed the non ose virtualBox, and I got a XP image running under > it with bridged ethernet. However I haven't been able to get USB > working on the guest, neither shared folders... > > I've search

Re: Aptitude oddity

2008-08-10 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-08-10 01:41 +0200, Daniel Burrows wrote: > Aha. The aptitude resolver isn't touching those packages at all, but > think maybe I see what *is* happening. The code that I wrote to use the > apt resolver as a fallback option is accidentally resetting every hold > state in the database. D