Re: Experimental (temporarily)

John Hasler wrote: M. Lewis writes: Given I'm running Lenny and I would like to test out the new Chrony (announced today) which is in Experimental, how can I do this without upgrading my entire system to Experimental? Easily. chrony_1.23-6rt1, the new version in Experimental, is just chrony_

Re: LVM reorganization [follow-up]

Rick Thomas wrote: On Dec 22, 2008, at 1:52 AM, M.Lewis wrote: e2fsck -f /dev/curley/home# check consistency before starting (may be required by resize2fs?) resize2fs /dev/curley/home 30G# change the size of (fs) /dev/curley/home from whatever it is, to 30GB lvreduce

Re: Bug Buddy doesn'r know about firefox/iceweasel

On 12/23/08 17:32, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; Everytime, which is often, Iceweasel crashes it runs Bug Buddy but B-B doesn't know where to send the dump, etc. My iceweasel [1] never crashes. It's your addons. [1] Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.

Re: iPod

Jeff D wrote: > On Tue, 23 Dec 2008, JoeHill wrote: > > > lostson wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 11:24:28PM -0500, JoeHill wrote: > > > > Daryl Styrk wrote: > > > > > > > > > >> and bookmarks them for transfer to the ipod on next connect, etc. > > > > > >> etc. > > > > > > > >

Re: Con[cat]enate two video files

On Wed, 2008-12-24 at 03:04 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2008-12-23 13:28:50 -0600, Anoop Aryal wrote: > > It might have already been mentioned but, I've been using ffmpeg and > > mencoder > > What package? "apt-file search bin/mencoder" finds nothing. > do you have debian multimedia in

Re: iPod

On Tue, 23 Dec 2008, JoeHill wrote: > lostson wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 11:24:28PM -0500, JoeHill wrote: > > > Daryl Styrk wrote: > > > > > > > >> and bookmarks them for transfer to the ipod on next connect, etc. > > > > >> etc. > > > > > > > > > > ...and will also pull down the _entire

Re: No sound on a Thinkpad T61 w/ ALSA and AS1984 sound card (redux)

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 07:31:12PM -0800, Kyle Barbour wrote: > A while back (http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/01/msg02415.html), > I was having trouble getting sound to work on my Thinkpad T61. > Although that was resolved and everything worked wonderfully, a few > days ago sound stopped

Re: How to stop squirrelmail temporarily

> On Wed, 2008-12-24 at 11:38 +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > > > I need ports 143 and 993 for another test. I suspect SquirrelMail > > taking up those ports. > > Your imap server will listen on those ports; Squirrelmail will > connect > to one of those, but not listen on it. Hi Richard, Thanks

Re: iPod

lostson wrote: > On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 11:24:28PM -0500, JoeHill wrote: > > Daryl Styrk wrote: > > > > > >> and bookmarks them for transfer to the ipod on next connect, etc. > > > >> etc. > > > > > > > > ...and will also pull down the _entire_ KDE desktop with it. > > > > > > > >

Re: iPod

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 11:24:28PM -0500, JoeHill wrote: > Daryl Styrk wrote: > > > >> and bookmarks them for transfer to the ipod on next connect, etc. etc. > > > > > > ...and will also pull down the _entire_ KDE desktop with it. > > > > > > > > > > > kde must be pretty small then.. th

Re: iPod

Daryl Styrk wrote: > >> and bookmarks them for transfer to the ipod on next connect, etc. etc. > > > > ...and will also pull down the _entire_ KDE desktop with it. > > > > > > kde must be pretty small then.. there are some libs that come with it, > but not the entire environment package

Re: iPod

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >> and bookmarks them for transfer to the ipod on next connect, etc. etc. > > ...and will also pull down the _entire_ KDE desktop with it. > kde must be pretty small then.. there are some libs that come with it, but not the entire environment pa

Re: How to stop squirrelmail temporarily

On Wed, 2008-12-24 at 11:38 +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > I need ports 143 and 993 for another test. I suspect SquirrelMail > taking up those ports. Your imap server will listen on those ports; Squirrelmail will connect to one of those, but not listen on it. Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: iPod

Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Raquel wrote: > > Okay, I've gotten rid of the Creative Zen and ordered the iPod Nano > > as a gift to Trish, my spouse. What do I need to manage the iPod Nano? > > I'd just as soon not use a command line to do it,

Re: How to stop squirrelmail temporarily

--- Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 08:02:02PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > > > Debian Etch > > Postfix > > SquirrelMail > > Apache2 > > > > > > Please advise how to stop squirrelmail, the webmail, running > > temporarily. TIA > > Stop apache? Add a tempor

No sound on a Thinkpad T61 w/ ALSA and AS1984 sound card (redux)

Hello everyone, A while back (http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/01/msg02415.html), I was having trouble getting sound to work on my Thinkpad T61. Although that was resolved and everything worked wonderfully, a few days ago sound stopped working again, and I haven't been successful at fixin

Re: Con[cat]enate two video files

On 2008-12-23 13:28:50 -0600, Anoop Aryal wrote: > It might have already been mentioned but, I've been using ffmpeg and > mencoder What package? "apt-file search bin/mencoder" finds nothing. -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog:

Re: Conditional mounting from fstab

On Tuesday 2008 December 23 19:48:28 Micha Feigin wrote: > Is it possible to get conditional mounting from fstab? No. > I'm trying to setup an nfs server that exports it's root as read only for > nfsroot to other systems. For that to work I mount var,tmp,home etc from > each machines local disk b

Re: Using old diskless machine as X terminal

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 12:47:02AM EST, Ross Boylan wrote: [..] > All my options seem to involve work! Sounds more like _fun_ to me ... ! :-) > So far, I've spent a lot of time with nothing to show. Not really ... at least you've gotten me (yet again) interested in this issue. And yes, it

Conditional mounting from fstab

Is it possible to get conditional mounting from fstab? I'm trying to setup an nfs server that exports it's root as read only for nfsroot to other systems. For that to work I mount var,tmp,home etc from each machines local disk by mounting the local disk to /local and then mounting them using mount

getting pbs_mom to send files back to server

I'm trying to setup a pbs system (torque + maui). My current problem is that processes leave their input/output/error files on the host they ran on instead of copying them back to the server. Is there a way to instruct them to copy the files back to the server or do I need to setup shared home ove

Re: Bug Buddy doesn'r know about firefox/iceweasel

Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; Everytime, which is often, Iceweasel crashes it runs Bug Buddy but B-B doesn't know where to send the dump, etc. My iceweasel [1] never crashes. It's your addons. [1] Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092816 Iceweasel/3.0.4 (Debia

Re: Instructions for upgrading from Etch to Lenny?

On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:17:29 -0500 Ken Heard wrote: > I had so many untold miseries upgrading from sarge to etch that I > promised myself never to upgrade again -- only to do a completely fresh > installation. > > - From this thread I now see three *-upgrade commands men

Re: Instructions for upgrading from Etch to Lenny?

On Tuesday 2008 December 23 16:17:29 Ken Heard wrote: > From this thread I now see three *-upgrade commands mentioned for > aptitude: dist-upgrade, safe-upgrade and full-upgrade. Only > dist-upgrade is mentioned in the aptitude man page and in Debian > Reference. Does any Debian documentation ref

Re: Instructions for upgrading from Etch to Lenny?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ken Heard wrote: > I had so many untold miseries upgrading from sarge to etch that I > promised myself never to upgrade again -- only to do a completely fresh > installation. > > - From this thread I now see three *-upgrade commands mentioned for > ap

Re: Instructions for upgrading from Etch to Lenny?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I had so many untold miseries upgrading from sarge to etch that I promised myself never to upgrade again -- only to do a completely fresh installation. - From this thread I now see three *-upgrade commands mentioned for aptitude: dist-upgrade, safe-up

Re: shortcuts sought for mutt

On Sun,14.Dec.08, 22:08:19, Bernard wrote: > properly. On my Desktop with Sarge, I already had an unwanted upgrade > about 8-9 months ago : willing to type '#apt-get update", I had > carelessly typed "#apt-get upgrade". It took several hours until I > could do anything. Then, quite a few thing

Re: Making sure eth interfaces are numbered consistently

On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:36:12 + Bob Cox wrote: > On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 11:26:34 -0600, Ron Johnson (ron.l.john...@cox.net) > wrote: > > > On 12/09/08 11:22, Micha Feigin wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> i have 4 network interfaces in my machine all using the e1000e driver. > >> > >> Can I be a

Re: my debian system *flickers*

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 08:07, BLANC JOEL wrote: > (please cc me for I'm unsuscribed) > > Since I have upgraded my system, it *flickers*. > The boot happens normally (the GRUB file mentions linux 2.6.7-1-386), > the ``come up" seems to well happen also. But when I come to the GNOME > screen, > thi

Re: Using old diskless machine as X terminal

On Mon, 22 Dec 2008, Ross Boylan wrote: I switched to trying to get a 100Mhz Pentium with 64MB of RAM working. Unfortunately, it can't boot from CD-ROM (maybe something broke--the CD ROM is still readable, though). Nor does it directly support network booting. Its disks are basically full; it'

Re: Instructions for upgrading from Etch to Lenny?

Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Rick Thomas wrote: >> 1. change distribution in your sources.list to 'lenny' or 'testing' (latter >>works until official Lenny release); >> 2. 'aptitude update' >> 3. 'aptitude install dpkg apt aptitude' >> 4. 'aptitude full-upgrade' > ...`aptitude safe-upgrade' before

Re: Con[cat]enate two video files

On Tue, 2008-12-23 at 20:01 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > >> [...] I tried to `cat' a file with no audio in it with another with audio > >> in > >> it, and what happens is that the audio of the second one is shifted back at > >> the beginning of the `total' file (cat

Re: Instructions for upgrading from Etch to Lenny?

Rick Thomas wrote: >> Are there step-by-step instructions somewhere for doing a dist-upgrade >> from Etch (current stable) to Lenny (soon-to-be stable)? "Eugene V. Lyubimkin" writes: > Near-official recommended procedure follows: > > 1. change distribution in your sources.list to 'lenny' or '

Re: Hypervisor on an existing system?

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > I run the vmware server. > Downloaded from their homepage. > Then I run XP. > Samba makes it easy to share home directories. > > But I'd like to run, let's say Lenny. > But I've never figured out how to share home dirs. with that. > You can use samba, if you install it

Re: Con[cat]enate two video files

Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> [...] I tried to `cat' a file with no audio in it with another with audio in >> it, and what happens is that the audio of the second one is shifted back at >> the beginning of the `total' file (cat file1 file2 > total). Apart from >> that, it's fine. But, how to avoid th

Re: Hypervisor on an existing system?

Ron Johnson wrote: I don't know enough about the subject to be able to intelligently Google, so I thought I'd ask first. My system is a fully-kitted out Sid system, and I'd like to experiment with virtual machines. Is this possible, or do I have to start from bare metal? I run the vmwar

Re: Nit-query

On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:24:54 + Tzafr irCohen wrote: > On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 11:17:41AM -0600, Jack Schneider wrote: > > > > Hi,all > > I have just used CLI 'users' command. I get two(2) entries for > > myself. Re: > > j...@speeduke:~$ users > > jack jack > > See also: > > w > who >

Re: cannot boot after update

Simon Kranz wrote: What happens if you disable gdm to get it to boot and then run: Xorg -configure That gets you an xorg.conf. What happens if you use that xorg.conf? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact li

Re: Nit-query

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 11:17:41AM -0600, Jack Schneider wrote: > > Hi,all > I have just used CLI 'users' command. I get two(2) entries for myself. > Re: > j...@speeduke:~$ users > jack jack See also: w who finger It also depends on your terminal. Some terminals don't register each new t

Re: Nit-query

On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 09:43:50 -0800 Raquel wrote: > On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:17:41 -0600 > Jack Schneider wrote: > > > > > Hi,all > > I have just used CLI 'users' command. I get two(2) entries for > > myself. Re: > > j...@speeduke:~$ users > > jack jack > > > > Is this normal??? > > --- > > Le

Re: Nit-query

On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:17:41 -0600 Jack Schneider wrote: > > Hi,all > I have just used CLI 'users' command. I get two(2) entries for > myself. Re: > j...@speeduke:~$ users > jack jack > > Is this normal??? > --- Let's see, I have 9 "raquel" because I have 6 windows open and 3 terminals, using

Re: Release Cycle

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 08:28:43PM +0800, Koh Choon Lin wrote: > Dear all > > Anyone has an idea what is the release cycle for Debian? I understand > six months is the standard for Ubuntu. > The operative rule for all recent releases is that each release happens when the release manager decides

Re: Nit-query

Jack Schneider wrote: > Hi,all > I have just used CLI 'users' command. I get two(2) entries for myself. > Re: > j...@speeduke:~$ users > jack jack > > Is this normal??? > --- $ users jackyf jackyf jackyf jackyf jackyf jackyf jackyf jackyf jackyf jackyf jackyf jackyf jackyf jackyf jackyf jackyf ja

Nit-query

Hi,all I have just used CLI 'users' command. I get two(2) entries for myself. Re: j...@speeduke:~$ users jack jack Is this normal??? --- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: How to install chinese fonts for ps output file?

Not sure if this is exactly what you're looking for, but there is a TrueType font package freely available from Arphic which can be installed using apt*. Please see: http://isis.poly.edu/~qiming/chinese-debian-mini-howto.html#Installing_Fonts I'm away from my Debian box and don't have a printer

Re: How do I get the japanese font back that is broken since the last update? (2)

On Tuesday 2008 December 23 09:45:42 Osamu Aoki wrote: > The document by Estival Guillaume found by Dirk is about Etch (i.e., old > stable) as it is written there. It links to updated page for Sarge > (current stable) at: > > http://dspnet.fr/~lonewolf/LinuxJapan/Howto_English_Japanese_woody.html

Re: E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

On 2008-12-23 17:07 +0100, Zaki Akhmad wrote: > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 5:06 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: >> Exactly. FWIW, I kind of expected that, it's a rather common error >> when installing linux-image packages because >> >> - they are rather large and dump everything into the root partition >>

my debian system *flickers*

(please cc me for I'm unsuscribed)   Since I have upgraded my system, it *flickers*. The boot happens normally (the GRUB file mentions linux 2.6.7-1-386), the ``come up" seems to well happen also. But when I come to the GNOME screen, this one lasts only for an instant (the _login_ window doesn't d

How to install chinese fonts for ps output file?

With Emacs, I correctly open a file including chinese characters. The characters are correctly displayed in the text file, but when I try to create the ps file, with `C-u M-x pr-ps-print-buffer-preview' or `C-u M-x pr-ps-print-buffer-print', they are not displayed. I know I miss some fonts. Can

Re: E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 5:06 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > Exactly. FWIW, I kind of expected that, it's a rather common error > when installing linux-image packages because > > - they are rather large and dump everything into the root partition > > - old

Re: How do I get the japanese font back that is broken since the last update? (2)

Hi, On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 03:11:43AM +0100, Dirk wrote: > found it.. myself(!).. > > http://dspnet.fr.eu.org/~lonewolf/LinuxJapan/Howto_English_Japanese.html > > Thanks for nothing! Hmmm... Not too fast. I do not think your search was through enough and I do not want people to think this is th

Re: Hypervisor on an existing system?

On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 08:12:36 -0600 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: > On Monday 22 December 2008, Ross Boylan > wrote about 'Re: Hypervisor on an > existing system?': > >All I really wanted was to run MS Windows to watch TV online and > >maybe play games; I'm thinking maybe qemu is the way to go

Re: SOLVED: Udev idling on startup

I didn't find that information, Tzafrir. How do I get that? I couldn't really read the udev log messages during startup because they just flashed too fast. The only thing I was able to discern was the *settle* part. André > On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 12:22:34AM -0200, André Neves wrote: > > Setting

Re: Hypervisor on an existing system?

On Monday 22 December 2008, Ross Boylan wrote about 'Re: Hypervisor on an existing system?': >All I really wanted was to run MS Windows to watch TV online and maybe >play games; I'm thinking maybe qemu is the way to go for that. Some games are not going to be playable under an emulator (kvm, qem

Re: Release Cycle

Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 08:28:43PM +0800, Koh Choon Lin wrote: Dear all Anyone has an idea what is the release cycle for Debian? I understand six months is the standard for Ubuntu. When its ready. Generally every couple of years or so. Mark Allums wrote: > Relea

Re: Experimental (temporarily)

M. Lewis writes: > Given I'm running Lenny and I would like to test out the new Chrony > (announced today) which is in Experimental, how can I do this without > upgrading my entire system to Experimental? Easily. chrony_1.23-6rt1, the new version in Experimental, is just chrony_1.23-6, the versio

Re: Release Cycle

Koh Choon Lin wrote: Dear all Anyone has an idea what is the release cycle for Debian? I understand six months is the standard for Ubuntu. Also, when can binary for 4.0r6 be expected to be released? Binary for 4.0r6 should be out any day now. Might already be out. Release schedule for De

Re: Release Cycle

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 08:28:43PM +0800, Koh Choon Lin wrote: > Dear all > > Anyone has an idea what is the release cycle for Debian? I understand > six months is the standard for Ubuntu. > When its ready. Generally every couple of years or so. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ..

work and live in canada

You're invited to "work and live in canada". By your host Brenda Berreth: Date: Tuesday December 23, 2008 Time: 5:00 am - 6:00 am (GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central) Will you attend? RSVP to this invitation at: http://calendar.yahoo.com/advert4.omini?v=12

Release Cycle

Dear all Anyone has an idea what is the release cycle for Debian? I understand six months is the standard for Ubuntu. Also, when can binary for 4.0r6 be expected to be released? -- Regards Koh Choon Lin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "un

Re: phone simens ME45 and obexftp via USB

Sorry , it seems , mailserver droped first answer , and - buy the way - i had to reinstall my system , so i write again. And it drops mails from Opera-mail , so i write from web. < It's actually a sync hell I should admit and advise you 1. backup your phones on a windows machine as I did

Re: Parallel GZIP --> speed instead of 2 CPUs running

On 12/23/08 00:28, Osamu Aoki wrote: [snip] PS: I did not understand intent of "Total" time written in Ron Johnson's post. I added up real+user+sys, but suddenly I realize what a stupid mistake that was. -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA I like my women like I like my coffee - purchas

SOLVED Re: DPT2044W SCSI adaptor with disk installed but no /dev/sd* devices created

Arthur Marsh wrote, on 2008-12-09 00:53: lee wrote, on 2008-11-29 04:07: Hm, I've always been using the kernels from kernel.org without problems. How do you make .deb's of kernel.org kernels under Debian (kernel-package, checkinstall, ???) Arthur. To make the DPT SCSI card work, I need