how to find trace of attacks

2008-12-29 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Hi, I fear that an attack or an entry in my PC has occured, how to find the trace of the attacks. thanks a lot

Re: Bug#474033: But I don't use parport, so don't load it

2008-12-29 Thread maximilian attems
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 06:14:59AM +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > > Does one just write something in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist as a last > resort? Is there a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.local or better place to > write that something? > yep, search for blacklist in man modprobe.conf -- maks

Re: emacs-cvs (23) thru aptitude

2008-12-29 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Harry Putnam wrote: > I just started working with debian recently, I'm a long time gentoo > user. > > I want to install the latest cvs emacs but do not see it in an > aptitude search. See Romain Francoise's emacs-snapshot repository: http://emacs.orebokech.com/ - Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

how do I make a cron segfault produce a core file?

2008-12-29 Thread Clayton
Hi, I am trying to fix a problem with cron[1] (cron is segfaulting for some [all?] of using libpam-mount to unlock an encrypted home directory). Basically cron is not working, and I see in my logs multiple repeating segfaults. strace is not telling me anything, so my next thought is, get a core fi

emacs-cvs (23) thru aptitude

2008-12-29 Thread Harry Putnam
I just started working with debian recently, I'm a long time gentoo user. I want to install the latest cvs emacs but do not see it in an aptitude search. I have only a very basic sources.list. #deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Lenny_ [...] deb ftp://ftp.uwsg.indiana.edu/linux/debian/ lenn

Re: USB-to-PS/2 adaptor: mouse works, keyboard doesn't

2008-12-29 Thread Daniel Cliff
(I see this message never reached the list...) On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Daniel Cliff wrote: >> I use a PS/2 keyboard and a USB mouse that I connect to the laptop >> thru a (generic) USB to PS/2 adaptor. The mouse works, but the >> keyboard doesn't. I have no ide

Re: USB-to-PS/2 adaptor: mouse works, keyboard doesn't

2008-12-29 Thread Daniel Cliff
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Daniel Cliff wrote: > On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >> Daniel Cliff wrote: > >>> I use a PS/2 keyboard and a USB mouse that I connect to the laptop >>> thru a (generic) USB to PS/2 adaptor. The mouse works, but the >>> keyboard doesn't

Re: Fonts messed after using old xorg.conf. Clear cache? How?

2008-12-29 Thread A. F. Cano
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 04:13:37AM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 11:37:56PM EST, A. F. Cano wrote: > > [..] > > > Everything is way too big now, including the password field in kdm (I > > use KDE), everything displayed in the status bar is too big, the font > > in the konsol

Re: k3b won't burn, nerolinux will

2008-12-29 Thread A. F. Cano
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 09:33:20AM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > ok, let me ask this again in a simpler way. > I've not been able to burn a DVD in a while with brasero or K3b. Errors.. Well, you're not alone. I spent days and wasted an untold amount of blanks until I finally gave up. k3b uses

Re: how to convert latex to html

2008-12-29 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 03:23:17PM +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Until now, I used latex2html to create html from latex/lyx, > but recently, with the last release ot texlive I tried it but image are not > generated > and we know that developpement latex2html is stopped since 2002, so I nee

Re: need help with net configuration

2008-12-29 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 07:48:15PM -0500, raman narasimhan wrote: > me and a friend of mine had installed debian etch together. i configured my > Internet while installing itself but my friend didn't. both of us have ADSL > broadband connections. i'm now able to browse the net freely but his net >

Re: Best File System for Cross-Platform backup

2008-12-29 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 02:17:34AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 12/25/08 01:47, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > >Also, what other file systems should I use? Do you need a filesystem at all? What about just writing a tarball to the drive? Can other OS's tar read in from a raw device? This save

Re: memory problem

2008-12-29 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 09:35:40PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2008-12-27 11:02:41 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > True enough. But, sometimes, throwing h/w at an issue does actually > > solve (or, at least, hide) the problem. :) > > I use several very different machines, such as a person

Re: how to convert latex to html

2008-12-29 Thread Stefan Schwarzer
abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Until now, I used latex2html to create html from latex/lyx, > but recently, with the last release ot texlive I tried it but image are not > generated > and we know that developpement latex2html is stopped since 2002, so I need > another more recent converter probab

Recompile a custom kernel

2008-12-29 Thread debianista . deb
Hey folks, I have a big doubt ... I would like to recompile my custom kernel without always start from 0, I mean I got the files created before (/debian/) and now I just pretend to add a single Module to my config, do I have to recompile all of it again ? or can I just update the old one ? I u

Re: Getting b43 driver to work on hp compaq 6910

2008-12-29 Thread debian azul
you could install the broadcom 802.11 Linux STA driver... it works for me. http://jomcode.com/fadhil/?p=59 http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php 2008/12/29, Alex Samad : > On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 09:37:54PM +0100, oneman wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I'm running Lenny on a HP Compaq 6910p

Re: live-helper upgrade question

2008-12-29 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,29.Dec.08, 16:33:49, Thomas H. George wrote: > > Could you please post the exact error message? > > > I don't know how to recover the information. I tried apt-get > --reinstall install live-helper and got an almost immediate response > "setting up live-helper". All I can report is that t

Re: Getting b43 driver to work on hp compaq 6910

2008-12-29 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 09:37:54PM +0100, oneman wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm running Lenny on a HP Compaq 6910p. It has a broadcom wireless card > that uses the b43 driver. I installed the needed proprietary firmware. It > doesn't work however. The card is enabled and subsequently disabled. From >

Re: live-helper upgrade question

2008-12-29 Thread Thomas H. George
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 09:12:20PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon,29.Dec.08, 14:08:59, Thomas H. George wrote: > > I ran update and dist-upgrade. The live-helper set up complained about > > duplicate files in /usr/share/live-helper/includes.debian directory. > > Checking I found the directo

Getting b43 driver to work on hp compaq 6910

2008-12-29 Thread oneman
Hi All, I'm running Lenny on a HP Compaq 6910p. It has a broadcom wireless card that uses the b43 driver. I installed the needed proprietary firmware. It doesn't work however. The card is enabled and subsequently disabled. From the syslog: Dec 29 20:34:36 mrorange kernel: [ 27.364410] b

grip encoding to mp3 when ogg selected?

2008-12-29 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Greetings, I have a Samsung yp-u3 mp3/ogg player (which sadly does not appear as mass storage drive but rather as mtp). I use grip to rip to wav and encode my CDs to ogg. The ripper is set to "grip (paranoia)" and rips to wav: #file test.wav RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 1

Re: live-helper upgrade question

2008-12-29 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,29.Dec.08, 14:08:59, Thomas H. George wrote: > I ran update and dist-upgrade. The live-helper set up complained about > duplicate files in /usr/share/live-helper/includes.debian directory. > Checking I found the directory contained soft links from etch to sid and > lenny to sid both dated 2

live-helper upgrade question

2008-12-29 Thread Thomas H. George
I ran update and dist-upgrade. The live-helper set up complained about duplicate files in /usr/share/live-helper/includes.debian directory. Checking I found the directory contained soft links from etch to sid and lenny to sid both dated 2008-06-16 and a soft link from squeeze to lenny dated 2008-1

Re: need a past release of Debian

2008-12-29 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 2008 December 29 11:19:17 ttmann wrote: > I am in need of a past release which i have misplaced the originals > > this is the DVD iso release I require > Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 2007 > > can you please point me in the direction of a possible download link (You didn't specify an architect

Re: need a past release of Debian

2008-12-29 Thread Robert Hodgins
On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 12:19 -0500, ttmann wrote: > Hello > > I am in need of a past release which i have misplaced the originals > > this is the DVD iso release I require > Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 2007 > I'm assuming that you are interested in the i386 version I found this site by googling

Re: need a past release of Debian

2008-12-29 Thread Michael Shuler
On 12/29/2008 11:19 AM, ttmann wrote: I am in need of a past release which i have misplaced the originals this is the DVD iso release I require Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 2007 You should be able to find some older images in the cdimage archive area: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/ -

Re: need a past release of Debian

2008-12-29 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-12-29 18:19 +0100, ttmann wrote: > I am in need of a past release which i have misplaced the originals > > this is the DVD iso release I require > Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 2007 Why do you need software with known security flaws? What's wrong with using 4.0 r6 instead? > can you please po

need a past release of Debian

2008-12-29 Thread ttmann
Hello I am in need of a past release which i have misplaced the originals this is the DVD iso release I require Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 2007 can you please point me in the direction of a possible download link thank you dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: NIS tuning

2008-12-29 Thread Mag Gam
andy, thanks for the response. I may try this. On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Mag Gam wrote: > Hello All, > > We are using NIS for our university's mechanical/computer/civil > engineering lab. We have near 4000 clients and 1 NIS server. We have 4 > global NIS servers, which is used thru out t

NIS tuning

2008-12-29 Thread Mag Gam
Hello All, We are using NIS for our university's mechanical/computer/civil engineering lab. We have near 4000 clients and 1 NIS server. We have 4 global NIS servers, which is used thru out the university, but I replicate 1 NIS server nightly to be used for the 4000 clients. Obviously, we will get

Re: k3b won't burn, nerolinux will

2008-12-29 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008, Paul Cartwright wrote: ok, let me ask this again in a simpler way. I've not been able to burn a DVD in a while with brasero or K3b. Errors.. K3B either says it burs, ejects, and it is empty, or it stops burning about 27-31% through and just stalls. I've tried cranking down

k3b won't burn, nerolinux will

2008-12-29 Thread Paul Cartwright
ok, let me ask this again in a simpler way. I've not been able to burn a DVD in a while with brasero or K3b. Errors.. K3B either says it burs, ejects, and it is empty, or it stops burning about 27-31% through and just stalls. I've tried cranking down the speed to 4X ( 16X burner). I installed the

Re: 64-bit Flash Player

2008-12-29 Thread Cassiel
oh, apologize if I mislead you, my isp is .it so I can not try iplayer for bbc videos... I can only say that flashplayer now works fine on amd64. sorry r 2008/12/29 Girish Kulkarni > On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Cassiel wrote: > > There's also http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.

Re: 64-bit Flash Player

2008-12-29 Thread Cassiel
I can confirm it works perfectly on lenny amd64 I didn't try on etch but I will when come back to work... but I guess etch it's a little bit older, great improvements have done in lenny and surely flashplayer rely on latest libraries. regards 2008/12/29 Girish Kulkarni > On Sun, Dec 28, 2008

Re: Using old diskless machine as X terminal

2008-12-29 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 11:53:55AM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > On Fri, 2008-12-26 at 23:07 +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > > I've seen several suggestions for ways to make diskettes that will > > > either boot from CD or network. > > > > http://rom-o-matic.net/ is a useful service here. > I used th

HELP - Problem with Debian (password of root)

2008-12-29 Thread Manuel Gómez
Hi, i would like to install Debian (19 December) but i have a problem: The root password doesn't works, i have tried to install Debian two times but it happens the same. My installation is this: 35 gb for "/", 15 gb for "/usr" with /nodev, 5 gb for "/tmp" with /nodev and /nosuid, 6 gb for "/var" w

Re: tesseract: ocr that works

2008-12-29 Thread Rainer Kluge
Hugo Vanwoerkom schrieb: Hi, Recently there was a post mentioning tesseract. Turns out that is an award winning opensource OCR that works! Hugo I use it with the gscan2pdf frontend and it works perfectly (at least for documents in german language) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: Intel GM965 on Etch

2008-12-29 Thread Nishita Desai
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Did you also try the etchnhalf (2.6.24) kernel? On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 5:18 AM, paragasu wrote: > i have the same problem as you last time. the xserver-xorg-video-intel > do not work with etch kernel. after i upgrade the kernel to lenny >

work and live in canada

2008-12-29 Thread Brenda Berreth
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the installer didn't find the iso file

2008-12-29 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Hi, I used the kernel from hd-media and put the cd1 iso in the usb. I followed the directions to install linux from usb, it ran correctly , I mean the boot, choice of keyboard , language, the iso file. Then the system couldn't continue it searched for the CDROM !!!?? It seem that the path for p

Re: Dell bluetooth Broadcom BCM2045B2, lenny

2008-12-29 Thread pierpaolo
sorry, this is the patch link: http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2008/3/7/1106944/thread#mid-1106944 On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:53 AM, pierpaolo wrote: > Hi all! A little help... > Cannot get to work BCM2045B2 MiniPC bluetooth module found in my Dell > Vostro 1400. Various pages stat

Dell bluetooth Broadcom BCM2045B2, lenny

2008-12-29 Thread pierpaolo
Hi all! A little help... Cannot get to work BCM2045B2 MiniPC bluetooth module found in my Dell Vostro 1400. Various pages states it "work out of the box" but not for me... I installed all the stuff bluetooth, bluez-utils, bluez-firmware (BCM203x), bluez-audio, bluez-pcmcia, python-bluez, kbluetoot

Re: keyboard becomes inactive

2008-12-29 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Hi, > > when I leave my laptop inactive a long time, more than one hour, the > keyboard becomes inactive, whereas the mouse continues to run correctly > > thanks for help > bela Is it USB and which kernel version / distro version do you use. I've experienced a s

Re: extract date information from nef file (nikon raw)

2008-12-29 Thread thveillon.debian
Micha Feigin a écrit : > is it possible with linux tools to extract the date information from a nef > file? I know it's there because head file.nef shows it and ufraw has the > ability to store it in the converted jpg, but I couldn't find an option to > ufraw to just print it to the command line (I

Urgent respond

2008-12-29 Thread Martin Dent
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Re: how to bypass a init script

2008-12-29 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
lovecreatesbea...@gmail.c0m wrote: > > If this happenes on Debian, what can we do to bypass the erroneous > init script during boot? If I understand you right you are asking for the init kernel boot option try init=/bin/sh or something else to be run instead of init regards -- To UNSUBSCR

Xen domU tap:aio problem

2008-12-29 Thread Andrey
Hello, I installed Xen 3.2.1 on Debian Lenny from packages. Then created image files with 'xen-create-image --size=2Gb --swap=128Mb --dhcp --dir=/xen --hostname=test'. Now I'm trying to run Debian in PV mode using the following configuration file: kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-xen-686" ra

Re: 64-bit Flash Player

2008-12-29 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 29 Dec 2008, Girish Kulkarni wrote: > On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Cassiel wrote: > > There's also http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html > > just put libflashplayer.so into the mozilla plugins dir > > This doesn't work on Etch. Can you confirm? > > -- Doesn't work on my Thi

Re: Fonts messed after using old xorg.conf. Clear cache? How?

2008-12-29 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 11:37:56PM EST, A. F. Cano wrote: [..] > Everything is way too big now, including the password field in kdm (I > use KDE), everything displayed in the status bar is too big, the font > in the konsoles is way too big. What's the output of: $ xdpyinfo | egrep 'dimens|resol

Re: Epson EPL-6100L

2008-12-29 Thread Koh Choon Lin
>>> My box is using, or rather, unable to use an USB printer Epson >>> EPL-6100L. Searching for the driver led me to the epsonepl Project. As >>> there is .rpm but no .deb available, I tried to install using alien >>> but the printer, though detected, failed to print at all. Anyone has >>> luck wit